a former royal marine — charged with assisting hong kong intelligence — is found dead in unexplained circumstances. that dexterity is just amazing — to use your phone, to hold the hand of your child. and the uk conservative mp returning to parliament with new hands and feet — after a life—threatening episode of sepsis. hello, and welcome to the programme. we begin here in singapore — where 131 passengers and 12 air crew have finally touched down, after a traumatic flight from london. severe turbulence forced the pilots to make an emergency detour and land in thailand. one passenger — 73—year—old geoffrey kitchen, from gloucestershire — is dead.

he's believed to have had a heart attack. more than 30 people are injured, seven critically. monica miller has been following the story for us from changi airport. well, we saw some of the passengers that had gathered their belongings and were greeted by members of the singapore air staff here. one by one, they took them out and we saw them reunited with theirfamilies. there were some real emotional moments and some big hugs after such an arduous trip — as my colleague jonathan head explains. shaken by their ordeal, the passages were met by an army of ambulances after they landed in bangkok. they had just been served breakfast when the boeing airliner plunged without warning. a shot taken inside the cabin after the aircraft had landed gives us a sense of the absolute chaos on board. another passenger, jerry, was travelling with his family to a wedding in australia. a bit of turbulence and

suddenly, the plane plunged, i don't know how far, but they said it was 6000 feet. it didn't seem like 6000 feet. but it was a long way and so sudden. there was no warning at all. and i ended up hitting my head on the ceiling. my wife did. some poor people were walking around and ended up doing somersaults. it was instantaneous, it really was. and horrible. the aircraft had been on the last stage of the flight from london to singapore when it dropped a staggering 6000 feet, experts believe, throwing any passengers not wearing seat belts up into the ceiling. many were injured, and one, 73—year—old british man, geoffrey kitchen, died. the pilot then declared an emergency and asked to land at bangkok, the closest airport. translation: we currently have

seven cases of critical _ injuries, 23 cases of medium injuries including a flight attendant. the rest are minor injuries. occasional air turbulence is a risk that people know comes with modern day flying. but the singapore airlines crew told passengers that this was the worst turbulence they had ever experienced. it will take an investigation now to find out whether this was something that came out of the blue, or whether there were other factors involved. these images showjust how powerful the forces were that those on board flight s0321 were subjected to. a rare occurrence, certainly — but a very frightening one too. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. well, one of the things that we did see here is that the members of the family had waited for quite some time to get information — they were in a very secured

room, quite far away from where the media was as they were getting announcements. and also, there was mental health assistance — there was one particular woman who seemed very shaken by the day's events, and they had offered her help and a place to go. but again, seeing these passengers finally reunited with their families at the end of a very arduous journey. now we are told by singapore officials that they are working with thai authorities — and really, the main priority still is the well—being of the passengers in the crew. for a better understanding of what happens when an aircraft experiences turbulence, i spoke to cat burton, a former british airways pilot and now a flight instructor. can ijust clear up one point before we start? the aeroplane didn't plunge 6,000 feet. once the event was over — it's quite clear from the trace that once the event was over, the crew descended in a very controlled way at about 2,000

feet a minute, 6,000 feet. they went from a cruising height of 37,000 feet to 31,000 feet. but that happened after the event was finished. the event itself was typical of turbulence, whether that be mild, moderate or severe, and that it was all speed changes. was all speed changes that caused the effects. it feels like the aeroplane is plunging. sometimes it feels like the aeroplane is being thrown upwards. what it is is g effects of the aeroplane trying to maintain speed when there are huge changes in the wind speed around it. now, those changes in the wind speed might be the difference between headwinds and tailwinds, or they might be up and downdrafts in convective action, either in orjust above thunderstorm—type clouds. today's event happened just as the aeroplane was coasting in from the bay of bengal to myanmar, and in fact,

the monsoon is just arriving in that area. the monsoon — the leading edge of the monsoon is currently just about on the border between bangladesh and myanmar. and that means there are huge areas of convective clouds, thunderstorm clouds all the way up that coast. now, it's entirely possible that the weather radar was telling the crew that they were above the main body of whatever clouds were there, because the weather radar shows water droplet size and water droplets, speed of movement. and if the area above the cloud isn't showing any water droplets, it can't sense the up and down drafts in that clear air. so it's entirely possible that the crew thought they were safely above whatever thunderstorm clouds were around — when in fact, they went into the top of the convective action above the clouds. and that's what caused this terrible disaster. i'm not trying to belittle

the comments that other people have made, but that 6,000—foot descent was very definitely a controlled action by the crew after the turbulence event was finished. myanmar is a country in the grip of a war largely forgotten, by the outside world. and today we have a special report from the front line. rebel forces there are fighting an intense battle against the military regime. in the past seven months, a country—wide insurgency has made gains conquering large swathes of territory. the fighters — among them, a group known as kndf — are now presenting the myanmar military with the biggest threat to its rule in years. press freedom in the country is restricted, hundreds of journalists have been jailed, and getting into myanmar to report first—hand is tough — but a bbc team has managed to do it. our correspondent quentin sommerville spent a month with the rebels at theirjungle bases and on the front line. a revolution is rising across myanmar, hidden from

the world by its remoteness. few countries are more isolated. few conflicts more unseen. we spent a month with the insurgents on back roads and jungle tracks in karenni state, where they are winning against the army. they've driven the military out of most of their territory. but main roads are mined and we're still in range of army warplanes, so we have to take the long way round. a steep opposition hilltop above one of the last four military bases remaining in the state. gunfire that sniper, can they see us from here? sniper can see. sniper men can see here.

the insurgents come with a message, a chance to surrender for the soldiers in the base below. this man defected to the resistance after 12 years with the army. he says he speaks the soldiers�* language. for now, they don't appear to be listening. there are 80 men still holding out in the base below. cease fire! cease fire, please. translation: i do not wish to fight against you, - because i think of you as my brothers. i'm fighting against the system. we have surrounded you. this is your last chance. all of your lives will be spared.

i will not let you die. few of these young fighters expect he'll be successful. so the men there... boom as you can hear, they still have plenty of weaponry, despite the fact that they've been stuck in that base for a month. so these men have sent their message. they've had the response. it doesn't look like they're surrendering today, so they're withdrawing. hedonic sometimes i think the war has forgotten about us. the focus on ukraine and israel, and they forget us. it's a war from another age with close—quarter combat, and casualties run high. the karenni nationalites, defence force has taken its fair share.

their leader, marwi, seen here, has led from the front and paid the price. more than 350 of our brothers and sisters already sacrificed their life. more than 200 sacrificed for their body parts. at the same time, as you see this morning, hundreds of people are willing to join with us and willing to fight against the burma army. so those are our friends. it's a slow and ferocious conflict. in shan state at this base, a counter—offensive against the kndf. mortars start landing around us. none of these fighters have body armour or helmets. and neither do we, so we head for the only available cover. there's another one.

so that's, i think, three shells have come in in the last five minutes. and you really get the sense of what this conflict is about, because that is a professional, professional military over there, firing artillery, firing mortars. these men are irregulars. they're a strong alliance, a ragtag of rebel groups. and they've had a lot of success, but they've taken on a professional army. and that army is edging closer. beyond these banana trees, the military are crawling through the undergrowth. so you see now, it's not safe. so better we go back and later we can decide again and we can come back any time. all right, let's go. let's go fast. the kndf are used to sneak attacks, but this is unexpected. let's go, let's go. let's get out of range. go, go, go. so it looks like as we arrived

here, a military squad was coming in and they've been training their guns on this area. the commander said it's not safe, we have to get out of here and head back to the second line, which hopefully is out of range of their weapons. go, go, go, go. directly ahead of us, a fresh mortar strike. they're narrowing in on the vehicles. bleep. that's another one just slightly behind us. just keep driving, philip, fast as you can. it seems like they're trained on the road. just checking to see if there are other vehicles that made it. behind us, more near—misses. 0h, bleep! bleep!

you know, very quickly, they have a drone. so it's dangerous. they have drones following us. you don't have enough ammo to mount the assaults that you need to take these final bases. the military rulers in this country have everything. how are you going to defeat that advantage? they have the artillery, they have the aeroplanes, they have the mortars. we do have enough heart. we do have enough morale. we do have enough humanity. that's the way how we're going to defeat them. even though we don't have physical material and not enough, but this is enough. and now they have record volunteers. # i am a soldier and i'm pushing on. their ranks have never been stronger, their victories never greater.

# i am a warrior and this is my song. the ballot box failed them. their peaceful protests were met with force. so they're taking the fight to the military. myanmar�*s new revolutionaries are on the march. # if that don't bring you fear, i swear you'll hear these marching feet... quentin somerville, bbc news, karenni state, myanmar. and you can see the second of our special reports from inside myanmar on thursday. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

a former royal marines commando — charged with assisting the hong kong intelligence service — has been found dead in unexplained circumstances,

in a park west of london. matthew trickett, who was 37, and a home office immigration officer, appeared in court last week, accused under the national security act. daniel sandford has more. matthew trickett was charged last monday, along with two other men — the allegation was that they were assisting the hong kong intelligence service, and they were doing that by agreeing to carry out surveillance, information—gathering, deception, and even breaking into a residential house on the 1st of may. he's a royal marine, as you said, and also recently been working for the home office as an immigration enforcement official. and on monday, when he appeared at westminster magistrates�* court — monday last week — his lawyers argued for bail, and the prosecution opposed that on the grounds that he needed to be kept in custody for his own welfare, because he'd attempted to take his own life after he had been arrested. but, despite that, he was granted bail, he was due to appear at the old bailey for the first time this friday. but on sunday, a member of the public found him at around 5.15pm in grenfell park, in maidenhead, and he was

pronounced dead at the scene. thames valley police are describing it as an unexplained death and awaiting for a postmortem examination. matthew trickett�*s family said they were "mourning the loss of a much—loved son, brother and family member," and the police have reported themselves to the independent office for police conduct — that's a mandatory referral — because they were in regular contact with matthew trickett as part of his bail conditions. the british conservative mp craig mackinlay will return to parliament tomorrow, after losing his hands and feet to sepsis. he was given just a 5% chance of survival when he went to hospital in september, and put into an induced coma as his organs began to fail. now back home and using prosthetic limbs, he's been speaking to helen catt — and a warning, her report features images of mr mackinlay while gravely ill in hospital. what do you think, darling, have they been clever? craig mackinlay and his family have had to adjust to a lot of change in the last eight months. over the course of 1a hours

in september, he went from feeling slightly unwell to finding himself in hospital. within about half an hour, i went this very strange blue from top to bottom, ears, everything, blue. it's when you're having a very severe sort of septic event. they knew what it was and they pretty much immediately put me into an induced coma. and the next 16 days, i was in dreamland, really. my wife was told within a few hours, he is one of the illest people we have seen in this hospital, and prepare for the worst. but surviving was just the start. i can remember coming to, and all this discussion was happening about these arms and legs, because by then, they had turned black. they were like a plastic. you could almost knock them, and just looked dead. i probably shouldn't have survived this far. i've never seen anything like it in my life, but they say frostbite is a bit like that. but you get frostbite

in a few fingers. i had frostbite that was effectively up to elbow and just below my knee. how do you cope with that psychologically? i was surprisingly stoic about it, actually. i don't know why i was. again, probably the cocktail of various drugs i was on. i wasn't upset about it, i was sort of... acceptance that these things are dead and they're going to come off at some time. craig's hands and feet were amputated on the 1st of december. this year brought more surgery and learning to use his prosthetic legs. i was never worried about the legs, always the hands. because you don't realise how much you do with your hands. that dexterity is just amazing. to use your phone, hold the hand of your child, touch your wife, do the gardening. it's all these things — cooking, i love cooking.

i'm hoping with these amazing things, i'll get somewhere towards it. but it's never going to be the same, obviously. craig only got these hands this week and he had to go outside the nhs to get them this quickly. he plans to campaign for faster access to similar prosthetics for others and to raise awareness of sepsis. if i can get at least one person to recognise that and not end up like this, i would say that is a job that's well done. but also, having been now a multiple limb loss person, of which there are not many, no more than half a dozen a year around the country, the nhs hasn't really been properly geared up to look after people with multiple limb loss, particularly on the prosthetic front. can you open them? i can, and close them. i want to be the bionic mp. so i've got a unique position and i want my voice to be heard. israel has reversed its decision to confiscate broadcasting equipment belonging to newsagency

associated press. israeli officials used powers under a new foreign media law to seize the belongings — a move the un described as "shocking". the camera provided a live feed looking from southern israel into gaza. israel had said ap had been providing images to aljazeera, which was this month banned by israel. funeral rites for iran's president have begun in the north—west of the country. ebrahim raisi was killed in a helicopter crash near the azerbaijan border on sunday. his body is expected to be buried in his birthplace, mashhad, on thursday. this funeral procession in the city of tabriz was packed with mourners — but not all iranians supported the president, and many on social media have been celebrating his demise. iran's government has declared wednesday a public holiday, and a large funeral is expected to be held in the capital,

tehran, where the supreme leader ayatollah khamenei will lead prayers. donald trump's defence team has rested its case in the former us president's hush—money trial in new york. mr trump was not called by his lawyers to testify. next week, both sides will present their closing arguments. nada tawfik has been following the day's hearing. both sides have now rested their case — the defence early tuesday, after calling two witnesses, and donald trump deciding not to take the stand. that had been the major question looming over this weeks—long trial, because donald trump had said publicly that he would — though legal analysts doubted throughout that he would actually take the risk, given he would be opening himself up to damaging questions by prosecutors, and ultimately it is his fifth amendment right not to be compelled to be a witness against himself, the burden of proof is on prosecutors here. and the judge will instruct the jury not to hold it against donald trump.

now donald trump said he thought his team presented a great case. he wasjoined in court by a large entourage of republican politicians and his eldest son, donjr. outside of court, don jr was asked why his father didn't testify — he said that he wouldn't subject himself to it, that there's absolutely no reason and no justification for him to, slamming the case as a scam and a farce — repeating very much his father's talking points throughout this entire trial. well, both sides will now have the long weekend to prepare for their closing arguments next tuesday after the long holiday weekend. they spent tuesday afternoon debating how the instructions to the jury would be formulated with the judge. so the judge, after closing arguments, will instruct thejury, and then, it'll be down to those 12 new yorkers to look at the evidence

and decide, is donald trump guilty or not guilty of falsifying business records? that's all for now — stay with bbc news. hello, thanks forjoining me. we had some wet weather today, but wednesday for some of us is going to be a wash—out. persistent rain, heavy at times, on the way, and it's starting this evening. now, here's the forecast. it's already been quite wet in east anglia and the south—east. the rain will spread into the midlands through the night. it'll nudge into the peak district and then spread into northern england by the early hours of wednesday morning. could reach eastern parts of wales too. but scotland and northern

ireland, apart from a few showers here and there, actually looking generally dry. so tomorrow's forecast, then. this is the morning, a widespread area of rain. we'll zoom in and see what's happening around 3pm or 4pm in the afternoon. now, by that stage, i think the heaviest of the rain will have cleared east anglia, the south—east, and along the southern counties, blustery winds and occasional showers. so here's that persistent rain from the midlands, wales, the north of england, pretty much almost everywhere. that rain's just nudging into southern scotland. more showery, though, across the highlands. but look at northern ireland — escapes most of the rain. if anything, that rain should reach you later in the afternoon, probablyjust into the east of northern ireland. now, this is an area of low pressure that's parked itself in the north sea, and that weather front willjust spiral around the centre of the low. so in some areas, the rain will keep falling in the same place for a couple of days. so, really, a substantial amount of rainfall is possible. now, by thursday, the rain will be, well, not quite as heavy and it'll be more patchy, but i think a lot of cloud and at least the chance of encountering some rain on thursday. best of the weather in the south, the south—east,

as well as east anglia. infact, in norwich, london, portsmouth, plymouth, it could actually end up being a fairly bright, if not sunny, day, but cool. now, how much rain are we going to get? well, through wednesday and thursday, a lot. now, these teal colours here across the pennines and generally northern england could indicate as much as a0 to 50 millimetres of rain. but the met office is suggesting that in some spots, in the extreme case, we could have as much as 100 millimetres of rain or more, and that will lead to some flooding. now, here's the good news. as we head towards the end of the week and into the weekend, the weather will slowly settle down. and there are indications that as we go through the weekend into bank holiday monday, we are going to have primarily dry and bright weather with just a scattering of showers, so some good news for you there. bye— bye.

another record day on wall street, as investors await ai—darling nvidia's quarterly report card. with the country's top travel agency. hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. it was another strong session on wall street with both the s&p 500 and tech—heavy nasdaq closing at record highs, which means a lot of focus will

be on nvidia's quarterly report card which is due on wednesday. our north america business correspondent michelle fleury filed this preview. yes, the nasdaq and s&p rose by wrinkled highs. —— record highs. some big retailers shed light on how american consumers are faring. shares in the department store chain macy's close up 5% as its turnaround plan does appear to be working. however, it did still see a drop in sales as shoppers continue to pull back on spending. that's been a big worry that they are feeling under pressure from rising prices. investors are turning their attention now to the giant chip—maker nvidia. it is expected to post another strong set of earnings after wednesday's us market close.

the stock soared more than 90%