this is bbc news. the headlines at 15:00. a 17—year—old girl has been stabbed to death in park near romford, east london — the 18th person killed in the capital this year. got a daughter who was 17. many people around the country will have children and were no people young and it could have been one of our children that lost their lives last night. america's ambassador to the uk urges britain to embrace us farming methods to help secure a post—brexit trade deal, dismissing fears over chlorine—washed chicken and hormone—fed beef. labour's internal row over anti—semitism has deepened with two of the party's most senior figures clashing over how to handle complaints. 3,2,1,0 ignition, lift off.

spacex's falcon rocket blasts off into orbit from florida's kennedy space centre it's on a mission to show nasa it can carry astronauts into space. and coming up in half—an—hour — the click team report from mobile world congress in barcelona. good afternoon. a 17—year—old girl has been stabbed to death at a park in east london. the victim was found in harold hill in romford last night. police have launched a murder investigation — no arrests have been made so far and the victim has not yet been formally identified. katy austin reports. police forensic teams have been examining this park in a quiet

residential area of romford today, paying particular attention to the children's playpark. it was just before 9:30 last night that emergency services arrived to find a 17—year—old girl who had been stabbed. she was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. a woman whose house overlooks the park told me herfamily heard a commotion last night and she rushed out. she said there was a small group of young people and she was told one of them had been stabbed. she tried to help the girl as she lay bleeding. an ambulance arrived, but the teenager could not be saved. i'm quite shocked, to be honest, that someone died here, because i can with my baby quite often to this part, and i thought it safe. but, from now, i don't think i am ever going to come ever. the london mayor, sadiq khan, said today he was devastated by the fatal stabbing. i've got a daughter aged 17 years old. many londoners, maybe around the country, will know people who are young and but for the grace of god, it could be one of our children who lost

their lives last night. there are people who know who are responsible and the message to them is to please contact the police. it is really important that justice is done. the teenager has not been formally identified and no one has been arrested. but murder squad detectives are investigating the death of the first female to be stabbed to death in the capital this year. katie austin, bbc news. a little earlier, katie austin sent this update from the scene. there has been a huge disbelief and sadness in this community at the death of someone so young at a time where concerned there has and violence in the capital. no one has been arrested yet over the death of their 17—year—old but police this afternoon gave this update about the knife crime it's days like these that's really to highlight how we must continue to it's days like these that really to highlight how we must continue

to with our partners and the public to tackle tackle knife crime. the victim was fatally stabbed at 9:25pm last night, friday the 1st of march the victim was fatally stabbed at 9:25 p m last i'm urging any witnesses, anyone who saw any thing suspicious or have any information to contact the police and share what they know. there will be additional police patrols in the coming days. anyone with any information should please speak with those officers. when i have spoken to neighbours and people who live near here today, they said their thoughts are very much with the family of the 17—year—old girl who's died here and late this morning, some flowers were laid at a tree, not far from where i'm standing. one of the cards on those flowers says, we love you forever in our hearts. meanwhile, police continue to investigate how a young girl came to lose her life here at this park.

the american ambassador in london has urged britain to embrace us farming methods — to help secure a post—brexit trade deal , saying fears over chlorine—washed chicken and hormone—fed beef — were "myths". in a newspaper article woody johnson, compared food production in the eu to a museum of agriculture. our business correspondent, rob young has been explaining the reaction to the ambassador's comments. us chicken washed in chlorine and beef produced with growth hormone have proven controversial in europe by the us has been clear that bigger agricultural access in the uk is one of its main aim is when it enters into trade. talks with us ambassador has written that he thinks there has been a smart campaign against us for reducing production techniques in europe are like a museum of agriculture. the uk government has said that high standards will not be compromised in the pursuit of trade deals but the nationalfarmers union

has said it says consumers want to maintain the current standards of food production here, but they say there is a huge risk that farming standards could be sacrificed as trade talks began because the us has insisted on various trade negotiations that it wants to sell more food around the world. 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. our 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. the us space agency nasa

and the private company, spacex, have successfully launched an astronaut capsule — from american soil — for the first time in eight years. the spacex falcon blasted off from the kennedy space centre on an uncrewed test—flight to the international space station. spacex founder elon musk says it could be the first step towards opening space travel to commercial customers. pallab ghosh reports. three, two, one, zero, ignition, lift off. up and away, the spacex mighty falcon rocket. and on top the dragon space capsule. designed to take four astronauts into space, but notjust yet. instead just a solitary crash test dummy wired with sensors in one of the seats. this uncrewed test is part of an ambitious nasa project to send astronauts into space from us

soil once more. what today really represents is a new era in space flight, an era where we are looking forward to being one customer as an agency and as a country. 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. we believe in the future of space and it is important that we be up there among the stars. we want the things that are in science fiction novels and movies not to be science fiction for ever. we want them to be real one day.

nasa hopes to use the vehicles to send astronauts into space by the end of the year. pallab ghosh, bbc news. earlier i spoke to dr david whitehouse —— space expert and the author of "apollo 11: the inside story". he told me that the space x rocket launch this morning was a milestone in space exploration. since the shuttle was retired, because of its safety record and the fa ct because of its safety record and the fact that it cost too much, united states only had one way to put astronauts into space and that's via astronauts into space and that's via a soyuz russian rocket. having won avenue into space is obviously not very good and there have also been recent worries about the quality control and stability of russian rocket production lines. so, having another way to get into space is important and this spacex launch of the dragon crew vehicle is the first of two different crew vehicle is

going to be launched on the other is by boeing called the star liner. so hopefully by the end of the year, and subsequent to this flight and the first flight of the star liner, there will be crewed missions and crude attempts so by the end of the year, nasa will have two ways to send astronauts to and from the international space station. that's important for their autonomy and also important as we said earlier that this crude vehicle has other uses that this crude vehicle has other uses and can go further into space than just to the space station. so it knows that gets what it once, essentially, and from the spacex side of it, we had elon musk talking about it being a huge step for commercial space. he's not talking about tourists, commercial tourists, what are the commercial opportunities in space? in a way, he is talking about space. the dragon capsule and the star liner could seat up to seven people and the star

liner is going to have won extra seats available for a fair pay and that could be the case was spacex. you could as opposed to state which in branson‘s flight which just goes into space and come straight back, you could have people paying to go into orbit or to the space station with these two vehicles. but you are right, and they sent it's not new and that nicer when it wanted a capsule, when it wanted a space vehicle always went to a company and said, built it for us, we will give you a lot of money and they have been over $8 billion given to spacex and boeing to build these two spacecraft. in a sense, nasa has done what it has always done and reached out to other companies to build their rockets but spacex and boeing are a new space companies. they are faster, leaner, much more quick and they use modern technology and not rely on tweaking and improving rockets that have been around for decades. so, this is an upping of the pace i think of

getting people back into space and nasa has is that he wanted to go back to the moon. it's really got the bit between its teeth but it saysis the bit between its teeth but it says is not going to do it like it in any part, it wants to do it much, there's been a fresh violation of the ceasefire along the line much quicker. the ceasefire along the line of control between india and pakistan, in the disputed region of kashmir. 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. she said the shelling is still going on. we do know that there was a ceasefire violation, in the sector that is about 100 kilometres from where i am in the city ofjammu. i was there two days ago, and even at that time, i was witnessing intense shelling. late last night, we had a relative

calm after 12 or 1a hours, returning to the line of control between india and pakistan. the indian side say that it was pakistan that fired up and india responded, but these kinds of claims, there have been multiple ceasefire violations along the line of control. people have died in those, as well. yesterday, on the indian side, we had one woman and her two children who died in shelling, because the shell landed on her home. of course, there are expectations, that after the return of the pilot last night, that tensions might ease between india and pakistan, but you have got to remember that this is a very long running issue, and we have had the dispute of kashmir going on since 19117. this particular dispute is about india saying

that there are terrorist groups operating from pakistan, with the help of pakistani authorities, who are attacking india, and that their air strikes in pakistan were a response to that. pakistan, of course, denying that they are helping any militant groups on the ground, there. well the rising tensions between india and pakistan in the past week have led to the evacuation of people who live in the border areas of kashmir on both sides. 0ur correspondent shumaila jaffrey went to muzaffar—abad in pakistan administered kashmir to speak to people who have been caught up in the conflict. another family has arrived at this temporary camp set up in a campus of this university. they are residents of border villages, on the pakistani side of the disputed kashmir region. the families were uprooted from their homes, a cross—border shelling started on the line of control. this family also arrived here last night. we heard a loud explosion, first

we thought that it is raining, then there was another bang. we realised it was shelling. everybody got up and started running to save their lives, but i could not walk. it was so difficult to reach here. the centre was set up by the local authorities, where free food and shelter being provided to the displaced. as a0 families had been registered here so far at many are also going to their relatives' homes. people are still coming in, the situation is tense. they are moving out of the troubled area. since morning, i have registered around 50 people and more are coming. this man is a retired school teacher, he has sheltered 50 displaced people in his home. he says that he is hosting these people with the help of the community. there are four to six villagers with a population of around 10,000, they ran out of their homes

and spent the night in the bunkers. they came down next morning, some children did not have their shoes on. here, there is nervousness in the air but many are still hope that sanity will prevail and that both the countries will refrain from a full—scale war. shumaila jaffrey, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news... a 17—year—old girl has been stabbed to death in park near romford, east london — the 18th person killed in the capital this year. america's ambassador to the uk urges britain to embrace us farming methods to help secure a post—brexit trade deal, dismissing fears over chlorine—washed chicken and hormone—fed beef labour's internal row over anti—semitism has deepened with two of the party's most senior figures clashing over how to handle complaints.

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