this is bbc news. the headlines at ten. three, two one, zero. ignition, lift off. spacex's falcon rocket blasts off into orbit from floridas kennedy space centre , it's on a mission to show nasa it can carry astronauts into space labour's internal row over anti—semitism has deepened with two of the party's most senior figures clashing over how to handle complaints. reports from the disputed region of kashmir say there's been a new violation of the ceasefire along the line of control between india and pakistan. britain's golden girls — katerina johnson thompson takes gold in the pentathlon and laura muir defends her 3000 metres title at the european indoor championships in glasgow.

and coming up at 10:30, this week's travel show, which delves into latvia's soviet past with a visit to riga. there's been a major space rocket launch in the united states this morning. it's paving the way for america to send astronauts into orbit for the first time in eight years. three, two one, zero. ignition, lift off. the spacex falcon blasted off from the kennedy space centre on an uncrewed test—flight to the international space station. nasa says it's a critical mission and, if successful, will be a major step forward in space travel. 0ur science correspondent pallab ghosh has more. three, two, one, zero. ignition, lift off.

up and away. spacex's mighty falcon rocket, and on top, the dragon space capsule. designed to take four astronauts into space, but not just yet. instead, just a solitary crash test dummy, wired with sensors, is in one of these seats. this uncrewed test is part of an ambitious nasa project to send astronauts into space from us soil once more. we're doing things that are really risky, that most normal human beings don't do. and the designs and the complexity of what we have to do — you know, we're strapping human beings on top of rockets with millions of pounds of thrust and hurling them into orbit, to go attach to a space station, to do world—cutting research, and that isn't trivial. it has been eight long years since the country that won the space race has been grounded.

the shuttle was withdrawn from service because it was unsafe, and nasa had to pay the russian space agency to send its astronauts to the space station on its soyuz rockets. but, in 2014, nasa awarded spacex and boeing a combined £5 billion contract so that each could build their own spacecraft. if they work as planned, nasa hopes to use the vehicles to send astronauts into space by the end of the year. let's talk now to our science correspondent, jonathan amos. you excited by this? we've been waiting for this for eight years and it's a very important moment not just because the americans come onto their own astronauts into spacex is

essentially going to operate private taxi service into lower earth orbit so taxi service into lower earth orbit so other nations around the world can purchase seats. you will see for example the russians purchasing seats, they will do that and also the european space agency as well so they can purchase seats for their member states' astronauts like tim peak from the uk. and it's going to the international space station, what is the purpose of that destination? this isjust a demonstration mission. they want to know the system is safe obviously so it will do a mock run. it's going to be station, it will attach automatically, we have our on board —— astronauts on board the station checking. they will go in, check out supplies, put out some rubbish, and the capsule will depart and come through the earth's atmosphere and touchdown on friday. we want to see

the system worked perfectly all the way, there is bound to be some issues and probably well but if they can see at a safe and secure, nasa will approve it for routine flights from later this year. there was nobody on board today, just test with sensors... i'm afraid, jonathan... with sensors... i'm afraid, jonathan. .. for with sensors... i'm afraid, jonathan... for regular with sensors... i'm afraid, jonathan. .. for regular use. we just lost you there so we will leave this rather dodgy line but we caught most of what you had to say there for thanks forjoining us. let's talk to libby jackson, human space flight and microgravity programme manager at the uk space agency. she is in our salford studio. thanks forjoining us. what particularly are you excited about in this space mission? it is hugely exciting as jonathan in this space mission? it is hugely exciting asjonathan was saying to see a return to two different ways

to get grew up to the international space station if it all goes to plan and we temper astronauts on the flight and we temper astronauts on the flight later this year. spacex is pa rt flight later this year. spacex is part of commercial contracts set up that will also be part hopefully of getting back to the moon it is part of the space agency. we are keen to see this moving forward. what can the uk contribute to this? we contribute to the international space to think about we have experiments up there helping to understand all kinds of things that will affect everything that happens in everyday life to humans here. as we go to the, we are looking for communication equipment, that will be part of the mission on an international stage. interesting to talk about the moon because the chinese, very flamboya ntly, talk about the moon because the chinese, very flamboyantly, landed on the far side of the moon just a few weeks ago and they have got in

several more missions including manned missions, is there is kind of space race going on? space is an international collaborative effort. the uk and european space agency work with the tiny space agencies and nasa and the russian counterparts. —— chinese space agencies. we will look to see how the different space agencies comes together, as we look to the gateway then humans are back to the moon as a stepping stone to get to mars. we heard about a turn into a kind of, we didn't say everyday private taxi service but we talked about it like a regular, predictable, available to many. to be expected see a lot of these vehicles going up and down in these vehicles going up and down in the next ten or 20 years? these will be providing a regular service to the international space station. a cruel go there every few months were two orfour or six months. —— a cruel go there.

see people buying tickets, commercial companies will look for delegate to other people. in spite of this move in exploration to offer commercial services and we will see that in the uk perhaps one day, we have legislation in place to bring spaceport here and that may include tourism flights one day. everyone is in obviously quite a celebratory and excited mood but there is a risk attached to this kind of travel? spaceis attached to this kind of travel? space is always risky, you put humans on top of what could be a giant explosion if it goes the wrong way. everybody works to make sure it isa way. everybody works to make sure it is a safe as possible, safe and reliable. the astronauts are aware of the risks at all time. everybody is working to keep them safer com plete is working to keep them safer complete the missions. thanks for joining us. —— keep them safe and com plete joining us. —— keep them safe and complete the missions.

two senior labour figures have clashed over how the party handles anti—semitism. the general secretary, jennie formby accused the deputy leader, tom watson, of using a "vague parallel process" by asking labour mps to forward complaints to him. mr watson said people had lost trust in labour's ability to investigate allegations. 0ur political correspondent, nick eardley reports. chanting: enough is enough. allegations of anti—semitism have not been easy for the labour party — protests byjewish groups outside parliament, mps quitting the party accusing the leadership of failing to act, rows over whether it is even a problem. chris williamson, an ally ofjeremy corbyn, was suspended this week for claiming the party had been too apologetic. but now, a public row has broken out right at the top. this week, i've had 50 complaints... this man, deputy leader tom watson, wants labour to do more to address the issue. he wrote to mps urging them to contact him with complaints. last night, the party's general secretary issued a scathing reply. in a letter to mr watson, sent to every labour mp and peer, jennie formby said...

she suggested mr watson could undermine the work labour's staff are doing to deal with complaints. for labour, agreeing on how to tackle anti—semitism is proving farfrom simple. 0ur political correspondent, tom barton is here with me. it is immensely confusing to the public eye thing. is labour getting on top of this or isn't it? the party would say, jennie formby said in her letter yesterday that there very much arthur. they have put in new processes to make sure that everything is being dealt with —— they very much are. they have recently started publishing statistics on the number of the place they received what the outcome

is those complaints, and yet another very seniorfigure in is those complaints, and yet another very senior figure in the labour party tom watson, the deputy ‘s leader, second most senior elected politician, thinks they are not doing enough. he doesn't trust the process which is right he wrote to mps and peers asking them to essentially copy him in —— which is why. as he put it, he could log and monitor the process. the party, the party machine says they are handling this but there are senior figures elsewhere in the party who don't necessarily have confidence that they are doing enough. what puzzles me about it all is that these two big figures in the party must have each other‘s phone number, why don't they have a talk to each other rather megaphone in tonal party politics? —— internal party politics. rows like this happen all the time in politics inside parties,

between big important people, but normally they have abide closed doors. the way that this is being conducted is absolutely extraordinary. —— they happen behind closed doors. it shows the degree of tension in the top ranks of the labour party on this issue. tom watson afterjennie formby‘s e—mail yesterday essentially double down, he put out another statement saying that the opacity and delay in the pa rty‘s process had that the opacity and delay in the party's process had led to a breakdown of trust. they have the ability to talk in private but are choosing to carry out this conversation in public. that is puzzling. the other thing that puzzles me is ten days ago we had people —— nine people leaving and then talk of making friends and going people back in so it is

exploding let again? it risks others leaving, i suppose i was getting too? one of the mps who received this e—mail yesterday from jennie formby, drew attention to the tone of it. it wasn't an e—mail which looked like it was designed to be especially conciliatory. there was a risk in the labour party at moment where it is a free bar —— a difficult time across politics. there is very much a risk of mps looking at this process and deciding to walk away, equally there is of course a risk within the labour party at the moment. mps that they are seen as party at the moment. mps that they are seen as not telling the coming party line and they could find themselves deselected and losing

theirjobs themselves deselected and losing their jobs anyway. —— themselves deselected and losing theirjobs anyway. —— towing the party line. a girl thought to be 17 years old has been stabbed to death in east london. ambulance crews were called out to a park in harold hill in havering last night. no one has been arrested. police say the teenager's next of kin have been informed. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, said his thoughts were with the victim's loved ones. in a tweet mr khan also said he was ‘filled with anger that violent criminals are targeting young londoners with their whole lives before them'. reports from the disputed region of kashmir say there's been a new violation of the ceasefire along the line of control between india and pakistan. 0vernight, fighting appeared to have eased, following pakistan's release of the pilot of a downed indian fighter jet. wing commander abhinandan varthaman was handed over to indian officials on friday and is being hailed as a national hero. 0ur correspondent yogita limaye is injammu — in indian administered kashmir.

this breakdown in the ceasefire, is it confirmed and if so do we know who is responsible? yes, we do know that there was a ceasefire violation in the sector that is about 100 kilometres from where i am. i was there to days ago and even add time there to days ago and even add time there was intense shelling going on. after late last for about 12—14 hours there was a calm returned to the line of control dividing india and pakistan. from the indian side they said pakistan fired and provoked an indian responded. these kinds of claims of what we have seen happening the last few days, there have been multiple ceasefire violations along the line of control. people have died in those as well. yesterday we had here on the indian side, we had one woman and owed to children who died in shelling because the mortar shell

landed on her home —— and two children. after the return of the pilot last night, tensions might ease between india and pakistan. but you have to remember that this is a very long running issue. we have had the dispute of cashmere going odds ever since 19117. this particular its beauties about india saying that there are terrorist groups operating from pakistan with the help of pakistan authorities who are attacking india and their air strikes in pakistan well response to that. pakistan is denying that they are helping eddie mair into groups on the ground. fake —— that they are helping any militant groups on the ground. 0urfate you. the headlines on bbc news... spacex's falcon rocket blasts into space from floridas kennedy space centre , it's on a mission to show nasa it can carry astronauts into space labour's internal row over anti—semitism has deepened with two of the party's most senior figures

clashing over how to handle complaints. reports from the disputed region of kashmir say there's been a new violation of the ceasefire along the line of control between india and pakistan. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's mike bushell. good morning. the british team hope to build on their brilliant start to the indoor athletics championships at glasgow. they want to top the medal table by tomorrow night at katarina johnson—thompson. figs after a good start in the pentathlon. victory was emphatic, messy on a two seconds, finish it —— mystically one rattled by two seconds. the world champion collapsed over the line but she picked up a silver medal and joined johnson thompson on the podium. i can't really ask for

more but i did want a little bit more but i did want a little bit more but i did want a little bit more but it's a really high level to try and do what i've done today so i'm really happy with the performance i gave. for thousand 900 points is a really good school, my second best ever. i'm very happy i got to go away. laura mui did a brilliant performance in a home crowd. what even more impressive is that muir had less than three hour two recovered from a sheet. you can watch that tomorrow on the bbc. how software brilliantly! hats off, she read brilliantly. this is my home track, i can't not come away with the gold today. leeds united are back on top of the championship after their biggest win of the season against their promotion rivals west palm. nothing like an early goal to settle

the nerves. it takes only seconds for hernandez to get the leeds crowd roaring. they went on to win 4—0. scotland's women's coach shelley kerr says her side must overcome higher ranked teams after losing to canada in the algarve cup. a late penalty dashed dreams of a draw against them. they are outside to avoid finishing bottom of their group. england face the world number one side the usa in the sea believes cup. they can win the tournament if results go their way. quite a challenge lies ahead. we know what the game brings, we know playing in america will be ably crowd at the glasgow be against us probably but with a big game, it is what we look forward to these days. we want to play bingo is because we have a chance of willing them because we

can compete and play against these teams. castleford tigers have gone top of the super league following a 32 is— top of the super league following a 32 is -16 top of the super league following a 32 is — 16 win against hull kr. at the other end of the table, leeds rhinos's dire start continues after being beaten. they have won just one of their five matches so far. 11 yea rs of their five matches so far. 11 years after their last victory at gloucester, bristol have ended that drought. they won 28—24 ashton gate do climb up to ninth in the premiership, the best try was this effort from the scrum—half earlier in the second half. that's all your support for now. you can keep up—to—date with all those stories and the latest from the european indoor athletics in glasgow on the bbc sport website. i will have more for you after 11 a:m.. thank you. the son of former al-qaeda leader 0sama bin laden has been stripped of his saudi arabian citizenship. it comes a day after

the united states offered a $1 million dollar reward for information on the whereabouts of hamza bin laden. it's believed he is now the leader of the terror organisation, which is blamed for carrying out the september 11th attacks. professor fawaz gerges is the author of a book on al-qaeda and joins us in the studio. actually as i understand it, the citizenship was revoked at the end of last year? yes. and hasjust been announced. what is going on here? what we need to understand is there is so much we do not know about him. we don't know his well get telemark whereabouts, is he on the afghanistan pakistan border? is he under house arrest? what kind of role does he play on al-qaeda? is it inaccurate to say he is the leader of al-qaeda? the current leader has

been the leader since 2011 when 0sama bin laden was killed by an american operation in pakistan. here is what we know about hamza bin laden. the is around 32 years old. asa laden. the is around 32 years old. as a boy, he spent many years with his father in afghanistan. he was terribly influenced by his father and by his father plasma confinement journey. this is a historical dialectic of fathers and sons. —— by his father's journey. he dialectic of fathers and sons. —— by his father'sjourney. he is following in the footsteps of his father. since 2015, hamza bin laden is called on his al-qaeda followers to avenge the murder of his father and brother who were killed in pakistan during the american operations. so interesting, thank you for the biographical sketch. can you for the biographical sketch. can you explain to me why he even had saudi arabia citizenship in the

first place? obviously since 2017 hamza bin laden was designated as a global terrorist by the united states. by stripping him of his nationality, it took place after 2017 when the americans made the decision to say he is a global terrorist. the question is why now? why put a bounty on his head for a $1 million? your viewers, 1 million american dollars is not big money. it's big money to me! the current leader of al-qaeda has $25 million on his head. american dollars. the leader of isis, islamic state, has $10 million on his head. the effect is $1 million sales beat that he is a medium fish, he is not a big one. --1 a medium fish, he is not a big one. —— 1 million says he is. a medium fish, he is not a big one. -- 1 million says he is. but he might be emerging as a potential leader of al-qaeda as opposed to the

operational leader of al-qaeda now. fascinating insights, thanks for joining us. the number of smokers in england and wales has fallen, while the number of visits to sexual health clinics has gone up, according to a report on council—run health services. the local government association is warning tough budget cuts are undermining future efforts on improving health care. but the government says authorities received more than £3 billion of funding this year. our health correspondent, dominic hughes explains. since 2013 in england, it is your local council that has been responsible for public health. that involves everything from helping people to quit smoking to treating sexually transmitted diseases. giving councils responsibility for public health was controversial, but today, the local government association says the evidence shows it has been largely successful. bar for example, the overall number of adult smokers has fallen by 1.6 million since 2011. teenage pregnancies are down by almost a quarter since 2013. and since 2012, the suicide rate has steadily decreased, and among men is now the lowest it

has been since 1981. since public health has come over to local government, in 2013, we've seen 80% of the key indicators either remain the same or improve. we're showing real success. that's despite a £531 million cut in the public health budget and 50% reduction in government funding for local government. so, overall, i can say that public health in local government is a success. one of the main tasks of public health is to prevent illness in the first place by encouraging a healthy lifestyle. today's report shows the positive impact an effective public health service can have. but there are warnings that without it, in the face of rising demand, an already hard—pressed nhs will struggle to cope. the largest cruise ship to be christened in the uk has sailed into southampton ahead of its star—studded naming ceremony tomorrow.

the msc bellissima was built in france at a cost of £752 million. the huge vessel is 315 metres long and 65 metres high. the surface of the deck is equivalent to the size of 63 football pitches. in the aftermath of the second world war, many british families were sent to germany to help it rebuild. it was a difficult time, and there was still much anger and resentment between the two sides. now the memories of one young boy who moved from wales to berlin, have been turned into a film. tomos morgan reports. rachel. hello. i remember it very surprisingly vividly. kim brook was only eight years old when his family moved to germany in 19117. his father, captain walter brook, was charged with rebuilding the shattered city after the second world war. starring jason clark and keira knightley, the aftermath is a film loosely

based on kim's memories. my dad used to talk about it a bit. he used to say, a number of times, you know, it's not about revenge, or anything like that, or retribution, myjob is to rebuild. this house is requisitioned for british use by order of the control commission. and despite advice to the contrary, kim struck a close friendship with his seven—ear—old german housemate, heike. earning himself the nickname ‘der eisbrecher‘ — the icebreaker. and it was the children that broke down the barriers between the two families. there was a very, very important turning point which happened the following christmas. we decided that all the children, all six of us, would get together and pretend we were a choir. and we saying silent night, and we all did it in german so it was stille nacht.

and it was a very moving moment for my parents and for them. tears were rolling down their face by the time we'd done it. the love affair between kim's mother and the german father is fictional, but it's a key element in both the film and the novel that inspired the screenplay which was written by kim's son. it is a strange feeling, but it's exciting too, you know it's nice that this story, the essence of the story, which is really about forgiveness and reconciliation, is there, you know all the way through in the dna of the film. the production team have stayed in close contact with the family throughout before making process. and meeting the stars has been one of the highlights of this artistic journey. what was it like to see

keira knightley portraying your mother? it was great. i gave her a peck on the cheek and said, "hi, mum." tomos morgan reporting there. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. some wet and windy weather especially on sunday as storm freya lives from the atlantic. some sunshine for eastern areas but wind and rain for northern ireland is pushing into scotland and westernmost parts of england and wales. strong and gale force winds, even at the rain 10—11d, mostly dry, 13 or 1a even at the rain 10—11d, mostly dry, 13 or14 in even at the rain 10—11d, mostly dry, 13 or 1a in the midlands. 0vernight windy and wet for the north—west of scotla nd windy and wet for the north—west of scotland and rain clings on to southern parts of england. plymouth clearer skies, with with averages 3-4. clearer skies, with with averages 3—4. rain in southern parts of ingrid and wales moving northwards, perhaps toward southern scotland

heavy rain, drawing in. we have warnings for the met office covering much of wales, much of a good too, just as high 60—70. —— much of england two.