welcome to bbc news — i'm james reynolds. our top stories: an engine on a passenger plane bursts into flames above the us state of colorado, scattering debris on to homes below. passengers describe the heartstopping moment you could just feel it like, boom! you could hear it and we started shaking. gunshots mark the escalation of violence in myanmar. the military faces mounting international condemnation — after reports that two protesters are shot dead. unrest on the streets of barcelona as thousands of people protest for a fifth night

against the jailing of a rapper for controversial tweets. president biden has declared a major disaster in the state of texas where severe winter weather has disrupted power and water supplies we will talk to a family who has been without power, heat and and the 21—year—old brit who has become the youngest woman to row solo across the atlantic. a united airlines passengerjet has scattered debris over a residential area near denver in colorado after one of its engines failed on take—off. the boeing 777 was able to return safely and land. no injuries have been reported, but a number of properties in the denver subburb of broomfield have been damaged. these passengers describe their emotions in those uncertain moments when it first became clear that the plane's engine had begun to fail. the pilot came on with the typical "keep your..."

sorry i can't think of the word. .."keep your seatbelt fastened because of turbulence", which is usual when you go over the rockies and then literally not more than a few seconds afterwards you heard a �*boom!’ and i was wondering if it was planned because it came so soon after his announcement. obviously something was not right because the plane was vibrating hard and constantly, a severe vibration. my youngest is a ten—year—old and he was scared. you hear that, you hear he was terrified in his voice and wanting to know what would happen. you cannot answer those questions because i didn't know. it isjust scary. investigators have now begun to remove debris from the outskirts of broomfield. we

heard a big _ outskirts of broomfield. - heard a big bang and we looked at each other and did not think much of it and the next thing we heard another big bang and looked out our front window as the engine cowl rolled into the tree. it landed straight up and down on the bed of my truck, smashed the truck and then fell out of the truck and landed against the tree right there right now. so... it was pretty weird to see that happen. marc sallinger is a reporter for 9news network in colorado. he gave us this update from denver airport. i was speaking with passengers who were on that harrowing flight as it took off from denver on its way to hawaii and many of them were going there for vacation. they said a few minutes after takeoff they heard a loud bang and they looked out the window and immediately knew that something was wrong. they saw that the engine, the top of the engine had blown off and there was fire as well as smoke.

wejust saw pictures of the debris on the ground and that is where it was flying over at the time where this happened. it landed safely here moments later and passengers now are here at denver international airport, they are booked onto another flight to hawaii later this evening and those who do not wish to continue, there are some people i spoke to were just going home and saying i am not getting on another plane right now and i don't think you could blame them. after the incident happened, did the captain speak to them over the intercom to explain what was going on? i spoke with several passengers and one thing they all tell me is how grateful they are to the crew, the united crew flying the plane on its way to hawaii for how calm they help to keep everybody on board. many passengers i spoke to say they grabbed each other�*s hands. one woman said she grabbed a rosary that she flies with and began to pray. but they said over the loudspeaker that the captain as well as the crew

trying to keep everyone calm and say that it was under control but when you looked out the window it did look scary. did they think that they were going to crash? some people did. some people did not know if they were going to make it back to land and once they did step foot on land here at the airport they were very excited. one person told me he was trying to send text messages to his family members to tell them what was going on. he tried to send them a video from the airjust in case he did not make it down. and what about the officials. what are they saying? officials are still investigating. as you heard earlier, broomfield police department is now investigating a large area of debris neighbourhoods and soccer field, everything and they continue to investigate. we've not heard a lot from the ntsb other than they continue

to investigate. emergency medical workers in myanmar say at least two people have been killed and several others injured, at an anti—coup protest in the city of mandalay. witnesses said police used live ammunition as they tried to disperse the crowd in myanmar�*s second city. it's an escalation in the military�*s response to the daily demonstrations across myanmar. they began when the burmese army seized power on the first of february and detained the elected leader aung san suu kyi. our south—east asia correspondent, jonathan head reports. the military has promised patience with those protesting against its coup, but there was little sign of it here in mandalay. the police had gone in to disperse striking ship workers and moved quickly from using tear gas and rubber bullets to live rounds. gunfire. the shooting was caught on camera by this terrified bystander.

"please don't shoot! don't let it happen!" she says. two people were killed. several more sustained gunshot injuries. is this an escalation by the military junta? that isn't clear. in yangon, protesters were mostly left alone by the security forces today as they pressed their demands for the elected government of aung san suu kyi to be released and reinstated. they've been holding memorials, too, for 20—year—old mya thwate thwate khaing. she was the first protester to die, adding fuel to a wave of public fury against the military which is still sweeping across myanmar. the coup leaders, though, seem prepared to wait them out, while going in at night to arrest increasing numbers of those organising and funding the movement. "we young people have our

dreams," said this 27—year—old. "but everything is gone now. everything we hoped for is being destroyed." they're trying to cripple the military�*s authority with these protests to show that they cannot govern, but how much longer can they keep this up? jonathan head, bbc news. tom andrews, the un special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in myanmar has expressed his dismay at the death of protesters. iam i am outraged, horrified. these were peaceful protesters, young people out on the streets and saying loudly and clearly that they reject with millions of their fellow countrymen and women. these protests have been very peaceful and to escalate the tactics that the military and the police are using against

them, is unconscionable and unacceptable.— them, is unconscionable and unacceptable. are you in any contact with _ unacceptable. are you in any contact with the _ unacceptable. are you in any contact with the generals - contact with the generals ruling myanmar? we contact with the generals ruling myanmar?- contact with the generals ruling myanmar? we are in no contact whatsoever. _ ruling myanmar? we are in no contact whatsoever. so - ruling myanmar? we are in no contact whatsoever. so how i ruling myanmar? we are in no| contact whatsoever. so how do ou aet contact whatsoever. so how do you get this — contact whatsoever. so how do you get this message - contact whatsoever. so how do you get this message across? l you get this message across? you said how abhorrent you found things. are they listening to you? we found things. are they listening to you? found things. are they listeninuto ou? ., ., listening to you? we are doing everything _ listening to you? we are doing everything we _ listening to you? we are doing everything we can _ listening to you? we are doing everything we can to _ listening to you? we are doing everything we can to make - listening to you? we are doing everything we can to make it l listening to you? we are doing| everything we can to make it as clear as we can that the international community is very serious about this and of course there has been a round of condemnation from throughout the world including from china who issued a very strong statement, relatively speaking, for china, it also countries from asean and the uk, eu, united states and so forth. even more important at this point is to respond with action and targeted economic sanctions and targeted economic sanctions and an arms embargo are very much in need right now. those sanctions need to tighten, increase and have a collective punch by co—ordinating them, one to the other, to make sure

that this is not going to be tolerated by the international community. d0 tolerated by the international community-— tolerated by the international community. do you really see china taking _ community. do you really see china taking part _ community. do you really see china taking part in _ community. do you really see china taking part in these - community. do you really see | china taking part in these kind of sanctions? to china taking part in these kind of sanctions?— of sanctions? to be honest, i do not. of sanctions? to be honest, i do not- as — of sanctions? to be honest, i do not. as we all— of sanctions? to be honest, i do not. as we all know, - of sanctions? to be honest, i | do not. as we all know, china has always been a protector. they have provided the generals with weapons and trade. but statements coming from china have been unusual in that they call for the release of political prisoners standing down of the military in this coup. that is an unusual public statement so we are hoping that behind—the—scenes china as being very clear with myanmar that they do not want a conflagration over their border, instability over their border. so we hope that the voices of the people that they listen to, from china to major businesses that they seek to do businesses that they seek to do business with, that they will be listening to them and looking at the actions of the international community and refraining from this kind of outrageous attack.

the russian opposition leader, alexei navalny, has been found guilty of defaming a second world war veteran in his second court appearance of the day. mr navalny had called the case a smear campaign. he'd already been sentenced to more than two years in a prison camp. from moscow steve rosenberg reports. back in court. the kremlin�*s most vocal critic, russia's most famous prisoner. alexei navalny tried to be upbeat. but his appeal was rejected. the result? 2.5 years in prison for fraud and parole violations — charges widely seen as politically motivated. this was mr navalny a month ago, flying home after recovering in germany from being poisoned in siberia. he was arrested on arrival. that sparked nationwide protests, but the russian authorities were in no mood to listen. and there's been a cold response here to international criticism.

this week, the kremlin rejected a ruling by the european court of human rights that mr navalny should be freed. as for talk of more western sanctions, the kremlin has been exploiting that to its own benefit. in vladimir putin's russia, this is how it works. western criticism over the jailing of mr navalny, western pressure, western sanctions, the kremlin takes that and holds it up to the russian people and says, "look, we told you so, the west has got it in for russia." in other words, the authorities try to use this to bolster their claim that this is a country under siege. and that is precisely the message in the russian state media. basically, west is not interested in navalny. west is just willing to see russia destroyed. and that's the major idea that we have in russia. blaming the west is an attempt to distract attention from problems here.

we are not... yes, of course, we have our problems. but they cannot be even compared with the problems that you have. the kremlin will be hoping that this problem of a rival and a challenger has been dealt with once and for all. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. protests have continued in spain for a fifth night in support of pablo hasel, a catalan communist rapper. he's been sentenced to two jail terms for glorifying terrorism and slandering the crown and state institutions. police officers have been injured in the clashes with demonstrators. shops and banks were looted and arrests have been made. mark lobel reports. fire and fury on the streets. looting in spanish shops. police stations and banks all under attack. with anger felt since tuesday at the jailing of

a cattle in communist rapa. —— but over 100 people have been arrested. translation: they don't let us express how- we feel or what we want. it's no longer about democracy, because we don't have it, and does not getting enough exposure to the rest of the world. we believe that if young people don't protest, who will? on tuesday, the 32—year—old spanish rapper was taken away from here at the university of lleida after barricading himself in to avoid his nine—month jail term. shouting, as he was led away, "they will never silence us." "death to the fascist state." he was imprisoned for glorifying terrorism and insulting royalty in his music and on twitter. his case has ignited a national debate about free speech, with amnesty international and over 200 spanish celebrities and artists, saying they are afraid of the chilling effect the rapper's jailing is having on what

people can say. but if you want the thousands marching in protest are causing unwelcome damage. translation: this is no good. this can't continue. everything is destroyed, everything is burned. helicopters are up every night. we are a bit fed up with it, to be honest. people think of the rambla as a place to express their opinions, but it should be peaceful. because last night nobody remembered why they were protesting. barcelona's mayor has been appealing for calm, and spain's ruling socialists have condemned the violence and back the security services. but theirjunior coalition partner has refused to condemn the violence, inflaming tensions here. all the while, it is the protesters who say it is they who are under attack. prince charles has visited his father, the duke of edinburgh, who's being treated in hospital in london.

prince philip was admitted to the king edward vi! hospital on tuesday evening, after feeling unwell. our royal correspondent, daniela relph, gave us this update from outside the hospital. when the prince of wales came to see his father this afternoon, he was driven from his highgrove estate to central london. that's a journey of around 90 miles. he spentjust over half an hour inside the hospital before leaving again and heading back to gloucestershire. now, this is a private hospital, and the covid guidelines here at the moment do say that family visit shouldn't happen except in exceptional circumstances. but at this stage, we don't have any update on the health of the duke of edinburgh. he is spending his fifth night in hospital here, and today, buckingham palace have reiterated their most recent statements, saying that he's being kept in hospital out of an abundance of caution and that he remains in good spirits. the british prime minister has pledged that all uk adults will be offered their first coronavirus jab by the end ofjuly — rather than september.

borisjohnson says the mid—summer target would allow vulnerable people to be protected "sooner" and would help to further ease lockdown rules. more than 17 million people have been given a jab since the uk's covid vaccine rollout began in december. this is bbc news — our main headlines. an engine on a united airlines passenger plane bursts into flames above the us state of colorado, scattering debris on to homes below. an escalation of violence in myanmar. emergency workers say at least two people have been killed in the city of mandalay. president biden has approved a major disaster declaration for texas. it'll pave the way for more us federal funds to be spent on relief efforts, including assistance for temporary housing, home repairs and low—cost loans, after the state suffered widespread power blackouts and water shortages caused by a severe freeze. alvin migues is the emergency disaster services director for the salvation army

in texas. he says it could take 18 months for things to return to normal. right now it is a huge relief force because we have got to this whole year and it has created a lot of challenges for folks and with theyjust don't have a lot to give right now, so having that threat revised to focus on getting those home repairs done quickly, and efficiently, so that people can get their houses back to normal and get their lives back where they need to be. i expect it will start our case management work within the next couple of weeks but i anticipated taking up weeks but i anticipated taking up to a year or a year and a half until everybody is back to normal. because this event started early on that last week the salvation army has been working to open up all of our facilities and there are a lot of folks running out of food, water is definitely becoming a huge issue for us and we have done everything we can from our

main harbour to start supplying as many folks as we can with water, food products and of course warm clothes, blankets w—league are working diligently right now to try and secure food boxes for people, across the state, we are helping to receive 20 truckloads of food in the next week or so that we can get out of folks immediately. we can now speak tojohn seidlitz from irving texas who along with his family were without heat and electricity earlier this week and are still without running water. john, good to see you. how have things been for you and your family? things been for you and your famil ? �* , , ' . family? it's been difficult. other families _ family? it's been difficult. other families have - family? it's been difficult. other families have had . otherfamilies have had it harder than us, our power went out late sunday night, early morning and we didn't get full power restored until friday, and we still don't have water. how did you get heat? actually,

we have a _ how did you get heat? actually, we have a dig — how did you get heat? actually, we have a dig behind _ how did you get heat? actually, we have a dig behind our- how did you get heat? actually, | we have a dig behind our house, and i have two sons, three sons, but the older two, we went in the back behind the dates, and we didn't have a sore, we used a shovel to chop wood and outward and basically reduce the wood we gather to heat our fireplace to get coffee, and to warm up food for at least the first three days of the week.— at least the first three days of the week. ~ ., , ., ., of the week. was that enough? not towards — of the week. was that enough? not towards the _ of the week. was that enough? not towards the end. _ of the week. was that enough? not towards the end. we - not towards the end. we actually left and drove to oklahoma on wednesday, and stayed across the border, the grid was a lot better, we were in a hotel with power, and my other daughter, she is on a really restricted diet and we had no food for her, and even though there was ice on the road, we drove 90 minutes to oklahoma and called our neighbours who were able to

bring back some of our neighbours milk and water, and stuff like that, the walmart, everything like that, there is no bottled water at the stores, and a lot of folks don't have water. we don't know why we don't have water, we have a plumber coming from the city hopefully on monday. did plumber coming from the city hopefully on monday.- hopefully on monday. did you feel abandoned? _ hopefully on monday. did you feel abandoned? i— hopefully on monday. did you feel abandoned? i didn't- hopefully on monday. did you| feel abandoned? i didn't think about it. feel abandoned? i didn't think about it- i— feel abandoned? i didn't think about it. i was _ feel abandoned? i didn't think about it. i was angry - feel abandoned? i didn't think about it. i was angry when - feel abandoned? i didn't think about it. i was angry when i i about it. i was angry when i had heard some of the things that had happened with politicians, but we were so busy just trying, just trying to keep the kids fed and warm, and i think i felt scared at some point, and right now i feel very grateful, we have power, i had never been gratefulfor power, i had never been grateful for all that electricity before but it was more scared.— more scared. what sort of conversations _ more scared. what sort of conversations did - more scared. what sort of conversations did you - more scared. what sort of l conversations did you have? more scared. what sort of. conversations did you have? i was angry against... i heard about how in 2011 there was an ice storm and i remember that

because my son peter had just been born, and nothing has been done since that first time, and this was totally unnecessary, and when i heard an 11—year—old boy had frozen to death in his mobile home, i just felt very sad and angry, and we were driving on dangerous roads, i was very sad and i'm so grateful we got through this, and we got through it right now, but there was no reason for all of this to happen. we are really — for all of this to happen. we are really glad _ for all of this to happen. we are really glad your family are ok, thank you for speaking to us. let's get some of the day's other news. more than a thousand people have been forced to leave their homes in indonesia's capital, jakarta, due to severe flooding. in the south and eastern areas of the sprawling mega—city, home to more than ten million people, residents were forced to flee after floodwaters reached up to 1.8 metres high in some areas. the top official from the international atomic energy agency is visiting iran today, in a diplomatic effort to get tehran to return to an international nuclear deal.

it comes amid threats from iran to restrict the activities of un nuclear inspectors if the us doesn't lift sanctions imposed by president trump by sunday. russia has registered the first case of a bird flu strain passing from poultry to humans. a consumer health official said seven workers at a poultry plant in the south of the country had been infected during an outbreak. other strains of bird flu occasionally infect humans and have led to deaths, but this is the first report of this strain — known as h5—n8 — being passed on. a rare cactus that has attracted interest from around

applause. the 21—year—old is the youngest female to row solo across the atlantic ocean. and for that matter, the youngest female to row solo across any ocean. welcome to antigua, jasmine! applause. when she stepped off the boat, she wasn't going to let her sea legs get in the way of celebrating. you did it in a time of 70 days, three hours and 48 minutes! cheering. after taking up rowing just two years ago, jasmine completed the 4800—kilometre journey from the canary islands to antigua in her appropriately named boat, rudderly mad. i loved it. there's nothing like actually getting away from everything, from social media, from bad news, from literally everything. so i'd ring my friends up and they'd just say, "oh, we're in another lockdown for, like, three weeks," and i'm, "uh, i don't know, i don't care." she makes it sound easy, but jasmine battled 20—foot waves, was circled by sharks, narrowly avoided a collision with a tanker and at one

point even capsized. now, after relying on peanut butter—fuelled energy for weeks, she says she's looking forward to a decent meal before thinking about her next challenge. sophia tran—thomson, bbc news. well done to jasmine, who is in antigo, and is therefore missing what has happened here in the uk, a rare cactus attracted interest from around the world has begun to bloom. there it is, the moonflower, originating from the amazon rainforest, typically flowering at sunset, and is all finished ijy at sunset, and is all finished by sunrise, but this cactus at the cambridge university botanic garden started to flow on 3pm saturday afternoon, and there is this footage that we have speeded up, the team believes it is the first time the flower has bloomed in the uk itself. is best memorised ——

the specimen are raised in cambridge two weeks ago. more on our website, and i am on twitter. to stay with us. hello there. the very mild south—westerly winds which we've had during the start of this weekend have also brought a lot of rainfall across some western parts of england, wales, northern ireland and western scotland. we have seen some local flooding in places, river levels running very high. and as a consequence from all the recent rain, the number of flood warnings has increased. but the good news is for part two of the weekend, it looks a bit drier across the board. we should see quite a bit of sunshine around. it's going to stay mild, but there will still be some rain around but not as much as what we had on saturday. now, the rain will be courtesy of this weather front, which will start out across more southern and eastern parts of england. low pressure to the north—west of the uk will bring fairly breezy conditions to northern ireland and scotland, where we'll start off for sunday with a few showers here. cloudier skies with outbreaks

of mainly light and patchy rain across the south east will slowly work their way westwards. parts of the north and west midlands, into wales and the south west could see some heavier rain, but not as heavy as what we had on saturday. and it'll be brighter into the afternoon across the south east, where it'll be very mild, but even mild further north and west, too. now, through sunday night, that weather front persists across much of england and wales. that's going to bring cloud, outbreaks of rain, some of it could pep up to be heavy again across wales and the south west, so we'll have to just watch that. across the south east, it'll be drier, and drier across the north west. a bit cooler here, but much milder for england and wales to start monday morning. we still have that weather front lingering across parts of england and wales, but through the day, it'll start to push northwards and eastwards and begin to fizzle out. so conditions will improve here. one or two showers across the north west of scotland, but otherwise a good deal of bright and sunny weather around. a little bit cooler, you'll notice, across the north and the west,

but very mild again across the midlands and the south and east. now, as we head on into tuesday, we see a new area of low pressure push in off the atlantic. that's going to bring renewed weatherfronts with more rain, stronger winds here as well. but it'll also be drawing up some extremely mild air off the near continent around the middle part of the week, certainly for england and wales. and that really will be noticeable around the middle part of the week. i showed you 17—18 degrees possible in the south east. some rain in the north and the west, and then there's signs of it by the end of the week, high pressure building in, which will turn things drier and brighter for all of us.

this is bbc news, the headlines: an engine on a united airlines plane burst into flames, showering large chunks of debris onto homes and drivers in the us state of colorado. despite the fire, pilots on the boeing 777 which had 241 people on board managed to land safely at denver airport. security forces in myanmar have opened fire on protesters in the city of mandalay. at least two people were killed and more than 20 were injured. it's the most serious escalation so far in the military�*s response to protests against the coup in the country.