this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. nasa says it will be several weeks before it makes another attempt to launch the artemis moon rocket, after blast—off was aborted for a second time. the european union says the bloc is ready to react if russia doesn't resume gas deliveries through a key baltic pipeline. thousands of people have paid their last respects to mikhail gorbachev — the man who brought the cold war to an end. the death of mikhail gorbachev really does mark the end of an extraordinary era in history, a rare period when russia was opening up to the world. and a warning of a rise in water—borne diseases in pakistan, as the country struggles to cope with the aftermath of devastating monsoon floods.

hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. nasa tried and failed again on saturday to get its space launch system vehicle to lift off from florida's kennedy space center. the countdown had to be halted because of a fuel leak — the second postponement in a week. the artemis programme aims to return humans to the moon in 2025, but the nasa team have suggested that there may now be a significant delay to the project. our science editor, rebecca morelle, gave us the latest from kennedy space center, in florida. there is a real sense of disappointment here at the kennedy space center, but the problems started earlier on today. while the rocket was being fuelled, a large hydrogen leak was detected. and this is not a good thing. so the team tried to fix it three times but their

troubleshooting did not work and the launch was stopped. over the last few hours, they have been poring over the data to find out what went wrong, and they have announced the rocket will need significant repair work. this mission was nasa's first return to the moon in more than 50 years, and the idea was that the rocket was going to launch a small spacecraft called orion, it is perched at the top of the rocket, and take it orbiting around the moon before it it returned to earth. the whole thing was going to take five or six weeks. it was a test flight so no people were set to be on board but for the next mission, astronauts were going to join the ride and they would go in orbit around the moon but the ultimate aim was to land astronauts on the moon, and nasa wanted the first woman and the first person of colour walking on the lunar surface. this will take a bit longer now because now the first step to all this getting this test flight, getting this rocket off the ground.

it is important to remember, though, that this is a new rocket. rockets are incredibly complex machines and this is the one is the most powerful that nasa has ever built so they are learning about it, they are learning about it with every attempt to get this thing to lift up off the ground, so setbacks and delays aren't uncommon. but it does appear that nasa's ambitions to get back to the moon are going to be delayed by a little while. here's the artemis mission manager describing the options for repairing the rocket. the first option was to simply remake the umbilical pad, hoping that the soft goods would seal the leak up but our confidence level, given the size of the leak that we saw today, was fairly low that that would solve the problem. the team lead towards a removal and replacement of the soft goods in the quick disconnect,

and the options were basically do it at the pad or do it back in the vehicle assembly building. either of those options do not preserve our ability to fly before the end of this launch period which expires on the 6th. leroy chiao is a former nasa astronaut and commander of the international space station. he says technical problems like this are nothing new. well, this brings me back to my first days and nasa in the early 1990s when we were having all kind of hydrogen leakage issues with the space shuttle and it seemed we would never be able to launch shuttles again. we had delay after delay on different vehicles but we finally got that solved and i am sure the technical team here will get these problems are solved. this is a new leak that hadn't been seen previous tanking. in other words, the small leaks seen on monday's attempt were from a different area.

but, yeah, the options going forward are just to go ahead and fix this problem and try to fly as soon as we can. there are other constraints, of course, the availability of the range over at the launch facility and so i think we are looking at, it was said earlier, if it's not going to be in the next week or so, it will be in the next several weeks or if we have to roll back it will be a month or so. this is a new vehicle and these things happen, unfortunately. it is using heritage hardware, the space shuttle nain engine is very well understood, it is using the backbone, if you will, of the external tank of the shuttle, also very well understood, as are the solid rocket boosters, so i am a little surprised that there have been the issues there have been but, you know, wejust have to deal with it and flight when we are ready. the main pipeline bringing gas from russia to europe has remained shut after what was intended to be a three—day closure. russian state energy firm gazprom said it had found an oil leak in a turbine on nord stream 1, meaning it

would be closed indefinitely. the pipeline was initially shut for what gazprom described as maintenance work. the extended closure is likely to put further pressure on gas prices. already it's feared that people across europe will not be able to afford the cost of heating this winter. our correspondentjessica parker in brussels explained the anxiety being faced in the eu. well, look, every day that there is less gas flowing into europe, the greater the squeeze on supply that threatens to hit people's pockets, the economy as well, notjust here but in the uk as well. now, the russian pipeline operator has said it is an oil leak that has led to this prolonged closure. they do not believe that here, and they weren't taken by surprise by last night's announcement. eu countries have spent summer trying to build up their gas reserves but i think the last 2a hours, there really has been an added sense of urgency, governments looking at ways to try and protect people, protect businesses from the worst effects of this energy crisis. energy ministers are meeting here in brussels next week to look at ideas around market

reform, gas price caps, but not everybody is of one mind. the eu knew that this winter would be a collective test of its resolve to support ukraine. it feels like that test is already under way and it is only early september. will kennedy is executive editor for energy at bloomberg. he says this move will speed up the energy crisis in europe. it is worth saying that the pipeline was operating at vastly reduced levels already. it can carry about a third of russia's usual gas supply intto europe but it was operating atjust 20% of what it should be. but that 20% was useful to fill up gas storage before winter and now that is not going to happen, so it is going to be harder to fill up our gas storage, it is going to raise the risk of energy shortages this winter, and it really sharpens the dilemma for european politicians as they plan for what could be a very difficult situation over the next few months. we have reduced gas consumption, although it is worth saying that has come

at the expense of closing many factories, high—energy using factories like metal smelters and fertiliser plants which will have an impact on the european economy. and we have also managed to increase our imports of gas by tanker, especially from the united states. but it is likely, especially if it is cold this winter, there is still going to be a bit of a gap, and if it is very cold and we have that gap in demand with supply it is hard to see how this is going to be filled with no gas coming through nord stream at all. ukraine's first lady says she recognises that people are concerned about the soaring energy bills caused by russia's invasion of ukraine, but she has urged the public to remember the casualties her country is suffering. in an interview with the bbc, olena zelenska said she knew it was tough but said if support for ukraine was strong the conflict would be shorter. translation: we hear that energy is getting pricier, - that life is getting pricier. but people should understand that that is not coming through the west support

to ukraine, but through the actions of russia. there is no comparison to the suffering of people here. but at home in the united kingdom, as you acknowledge, people are facing very painful choices because of the soaring cost of energy that's going to make things very tough for people. what would you say to our viewers watching at home who feel desperately sorry for what's happening to your people, but also who feel desperately worried about their own ability to pay their bills, to keep a roof over their head? what would you say to them? well, of course, i understand the situation is very tough. but let me recall that at the time of the covid—i9 epidemic, and it's still with us, when there were price hikes, ukraine is affected as well. the prices are going up in ukraine as well. but in addition, our people get killed. so when you start counting pennies in your bank account or in your pocket, we do the same and count our casualties.

these days, a woman was killed walking in a park in kharkiv. many people were injured. if the support is strong, this period will be shorter. and viewers in the uk can watch that full interview at 9am on sunday with laura kuenessberg on bbc one. she'll also bejoined by both liz truss and rishi sunak ahead of the conservative leadership result. aid agencies are warning of food shortages in pakistan, after the devastating floods washed away nearly half of the country's crops. around 1,200 people are known to have been killed, but unicef says many more children could die from the rapid spread of diseases such as cholera and malaria. orki village in the southern area of lasbela in balochistan was cut off from the rest of the country for more than ten days. it's one of the least developed parts of the country. people there say they have largely been left to fend for themselves.

police in the us state of mississippi have charged a man with grand larceny and making terrorist threats after he threatened to crash a twin—engine aeroplane into a branch of the discount store, walmart. the man — named by police as cory patterson — was arrested after landing in a field, having circled erratically for hours near the city of tupelo. the walmart and other shops nearby were evacuated during the emergency. the funeral has taken place of mikhail gorbachev — the last president of the soviet union, who helped bring the cold war to a peaceful end. he died on tuesday at the age of 91. russian president vladimir putin did not attend due to — what he described as — constraints on his schedule. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. in the columned hall of moscow's house of unions, a last farewell to the man who changed the world. mikhail gorbachev had let the iron curtain crumble, he had ended the cold war but saw his own country,

the soviet union, fall apart. there was a guard of honour but no state funeral — a sign that vladimir putin's kremlin has little interest in honouring mr gorbachev�*s legacy. president putin didn't even come today. many russians blame gorbachev for the collapse of their superpower. but out on the streets, muscovites, young and old, were queueing up to pay their respects. gorbachev had given many here their first taste of freedom and democracy. in today's russia, both those things are under attack. these people came to gorbachev to say... ..to thank him, to say, "thank you, mr gorbachev. "you gave us a chance, and we lost this chance." the end of an era.

we hear that phrase so often, its meaning has almost been diluted. but the death of mikhail gorbachev really does mark the end of an extraordinary era in history, a rare period when russia was opening up to the world, when people here were being given freedoms, and when east and west pledged to live together in peace. as mr gorbachev�*s coffin was carried from the building, a final round of applause... ..before his finaljourney. most soviet leaders were buried in red square, but for the last leader of the soviet union, his final resting place is this moscow cemetery. mikhail gorbachev�*s wish was to be buried beside his wife, raisa. he loved power but he loved her more. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow.

earlier, i spoke to the former moscow correspondent for the times, michael binyon, and asked what he thought of mr gorbachev not receiving a state funeral. it is sad but inevitable, there would have been such an obvious contrast between what mr gorbachev stood for and what russians think is now the new atmosphere, in other words, a return to pre—gorbachev repression and the lack of freedom and the fact that young russians don't now look forward to the kind of openness that gorbachev brought into the system. it is complicated, though, what individual russians feel about mr gorbachev, isn't it? as steve rosenberg was reflecting on a place, a lot of them very angry with him for the reforms he brought in and what the implications of them were, what it ushered in. in terms of how his legacy, how is he in general viewed by russian people?

well, i think a lot of people who were young in mr gorbachev�*s heady early days will remember him with enormous affection and incitement because those were days when suddenly everything was changing, —— excitement. but other people, not middle classes are not the intellectuals, but ordinary russians, perhaps don't remember the excitement of that, all they remember is the fact that shelves were completely empty and there was nothing to eat and the communist system wasn't delivering at all and gorbachev wasn't doing much about it and providing what ordinary people wanted so they don't remember him with much affection. and nationalist russians, and there are more and more of those, see him as a person who gave away the empire so they don't remember him with much affection either. what you think he would feel about president putin not going to his funeral? i think he would be a bit hurt, not surprised, he had a fairly difficult relationship with putin. he was after all a sponsor

of the only opposition paper which was closed down at the beginning of the ukraine war, and he had a very difficult relationship with putin in that he supported some of mr putin's more nationalist remarks, he did feel that the west had treated russia rather shabbily. but i think he felt that putin was actually closing the door to the outside world and that he would not have liked. his interpreter who i think you know well said gorbachev was shocked and bewildered by the ukraine conflict recently, he had said that. yes, i am sure that is true, and his interpreter had been with him all his working life, really, well, particularly since he became party secretary. very smart guy who was really head of the arms control section in the foreign ministry and therefore an invaluable interpreter and aid during gorbachev�*s summit meetings when arms control was usually the main

subject with reagan, but he also understood what gorbachev was trying to do, and he remained there at the gorbachev foundation which was set up to promote democracy. well, it didn't have much effect, i'm afraid. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines nasa has called off the planned launch of its new moon rocket — for the second time in a week. officials say it's likely there won't be another launch attempt for several weeks. the european union says it's ready to react if russia doesn't resume gas deliveries through a key baltic pipeline. moscow has blamed maintenance problems for the extended closure. the international atomic energy agency says ukraine's zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has again lost connection to its last remaining external power line. the head of the agency has said that military activity has violated the physical integrity of the plant several times. zaporizhzhia, in southern ukraine, is europe's largest nuclear plant.

it was occupied by russia soon after it invaded ukraine in february — there's been heavy fighting close by and the plant has been rocked by shelling. six members of the iaea team remain at the plant and have carried out a second day of inspections. our security correspondent frank gardner is in zaporizhzhia and told us more about the comment by the iaea that the plant's physical intergity has been violated several times. well, what it means is that it's taken incoming shell and mortar and artillery fire. nobody knows exactly for certain by whom. the russians say it wasn't them, it was the ukrainians. the ukrainians say vice versa. but that incoming fire has affected... potentially, it can affect the electricity power line. so there was an interruption to the power supply previously. backup generators kicked in. but the power supply is the key here because it's not just the physical danger from shells coming in. and remember that this is a power plant right in the middle of a war zone.

it's the threat to the power supply that keeps the reactors cool. interrupt that for long period of time and there is the risk of overheating and the accidental release of radiation. so i'm speaking to you now from just outside a medical facility on the edge of zaporizhzhia in southern town in southern ukraine. and they're going to be handing out potassium iodide tablets here as a precaution to the population against any radiation poisoning. nobody�*s suggesting it's about to happen. it's a precaution. you take it for 2h hours and it helps protect the thyroid gland from radiation poisoning. the fact that the monitors are in there now essentially acts as the eyes and ears of the world, of the international community on what is going on inside that nuclear facility. because up until now, nobody has known for certain. the ukrainian technicians have been keeping it going, the russian military are in control, but nobody�*s been getting a really clear idea of it. that's changed in the last 48 hours. that's a plus.

but it's not a guarantee against future attacks because, as i say, it's the middle of a war zone. and rafael grossi, the director general of the international atomic energy agency, is quite sanguine about this. he's saying, look, great that we've got them in there, but there is still the possibility of future violations, of physical violations. because up until now, nobody has known for certain. really, a nuclear plant is not the place to be firing mortars and rockets and artillery. this plant is relatively well protected. it's much more modern than the chernobyl one that blew up in 1986. it's got protective shields around the reactors. but the biggest threat is really the interruption of the electricity supply. and ukraine has been accusing russia of doing what it calls nuclear blackmail, of worrying the world and the west in particular that there is a risk that there could be a huge, great, big accident. nobody�*s talking about a mushroom cloud of an explosion, but the accidental release

of radiation. let's take a look at some other top stories today. an estimated 70,000 people have been taking part in anti—government demonstrations in the czech capital prague amid soaring energy prices. protesters, from the political left and right, demanded the resignation of the centre—right coalition, accusing it of paying more attention to ukraine than its own citizens. organisers say prague should be militarily neutral in the conflict. and china has warned it'll take "counter measures" unless the united states revokes a one point one billion dollar arms deal with taiwan. it comes amid rising tensions between washington and beijing over the island. the deal includes anti—ship missiles, air—to—air missiles and support for taiwan's surveillance radar programme. the us senator lindsey graham has told the bbc that the current fbi investigation into classified documents found at donald trump's mar—a—lago home last month will not be a factor in the upcoming

mid—term elections. he's been speaking to hardtalk�*s stephen sackur. do you find it in any way difficult to explain what donald trump was doing with 33 boxes of secret, top secret, highly confidential information that he had taken out of the white house which we now know thanks to federal filings that investigators found in various different points in the mar—a—lago estate including in his personal office? can you explain all of that? no, i haven't talked to him about it but i don't think that's going to be the issue that decides the 2022 election. he is under investigation. hillary clinton was under investigation. after all the things she did nothing happened with her. we'll see what happens with him. she cooperated. people want to know what you're going to do about inflation

what you're going to do about crime. what are you going to do about the border. and the question is trump fit to serve — that will be a question. is biden capable of serving another term? that will be a question. but the 2022 election is going to be about congress so we'll see how that shakes out. mrtrump mr trump denies any wrongdoing. you can watch the full programme on the bbc news channel and bbc world news on sunday, that's hardtalk. in the us a massive wall of dust has moved across arizona, consuming several neighbourhoods. the wall of dust, which is sometimes called a �*haboob�*, was around 80 kilometres wide and almost 2000 metres in height. winds around the dust storm reached over a hundred kilometres an hour. there were many reports of zero visibility on the ground, and the storm and winds left many in the area without power.

starting with football, and it has been a busy day in the english premier league with eight games. defending champions manchester city missed out on going top, held to a 1—1

draw with aston villa, erling haaland opened the scoring for city, and then leon bailey got a point that takes aston villa out of the relegation zone. england boss sarina wiegman was pleased to see the lionesses performing at their best, after a break since becoming european champions in july. again, a hard game, but coming out of the euros, not having that much rest, some of the players were in the champions league, other players didn't play many minutes, i think austria had that same problem a little bit, but i think after all that, i am very proud of the team that we came out like this and we just won the game. it looks so easy but i think it was pretty hard. max verstappen delighted his fans to claim pole for his home race — the dutch grand prix, for the second year in a row. sergio perez crashed his red bull on the final corner leaving britain's lewis hamilton unable to improve on fourth on the grid. i'm really happy that the cars finally felt alive this weekend. to be going through 01 and q2 and only be a tenth behind a red bull was a great feeling and it really gave me a lot of hope that i could fight for the front row. but obviously the yellow flag at the end was a bit unfortunate but that's motor racing. and that's all

the sport for now. hello. the second half of this weekend continues with this mixed picture across the uk, warm sunshine for some, heavy rain for others, the heavy rain tied in with this slow—moving area of low pressure which stays with us as we go into the new working week. and we start sunday with some heavy rain initially across northern ireland and northern england, pushing its way north and eastwards across scotland, not reaching the northern isles until much later in the day. the showers elsewhere will fade through the morning, some spells of sunshine, but likely to see some heavy showers developing across south—west england through the afternoon. showers are likely to crop up almost anywhere, could be heavy and thundery where we do see them but quite well scattered, east anglia and south—east england staying mainly dry. quite a breezy day, particularly for irish sea coasts where we could see stronger gusts for a time, but a warm day for most of us,

especially across east anglia and south—east england where we see the best of the sunshine, 2a, 25, maybe even 26 celsius here, and the low to mid 20 celsius for many of us. through sunday night, we see another band of heavy rain pushing up from the south, and that is likely to affect a large swathe of the uk. heaviest across england and wales, perhaps not reaching the far north of scotland until much later in the night. once again, it is a warm and muggy night with temperatures not much lower than 1a or 15 celsius. so, then, we start the new week still with this area of low pressure to the west of the uk, it is going nowhere fast. notice the squeeze on the isobars, so still some stronger gusts of wind, particularly across south—west england and for irish sea coasts, and further showers as well on monday. the rain initially heavy across northern england and scotland through the morning, it will be easing away, and actually behind it, a good deal of sunshine but there will be some showers cropping up, and where we see them, again they could be heavy and thundery, somewhat hit and miss, some will have a largely dry and warm day, again temperatures in the low if not

mid 20 celsius as we start the new working week. this area of low pressure really isn't going to go away through much of next week, slow—moving eastwards across the uk and it is going to bring showers or longer spells of rain on most days, some much—needed rain, but we need to keep an eye on the south of england because we could see some very heavy rain here for a time through the week. one way or another, most of us are going to see some showers or some longer spells of rain in the week ahead, and the temperatures will be slowly coming down, too. bye— bye.

this is bbc news, the headlines... the us space agency nasa has called off the planned launch of the artemis mission to the moon for the second time in a week. the lift—off of the giant rocket was postponed after the discovery of a much larger fuel leak than the one that prevented the first launch. the european union says it's ready to react if russia doesn't resume gas deliveries through a key baltic pipeline. moscow has blamed maintenance problems for what was intended to be a three—day closure. brussels has also accused moscow of using energy supplies as a weapon. the burial of the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, has taken place in moscow. the 91 year old, who died on tuesday, was buried next to his wife, raisa. the funeral was not a state event and president vladimir

putin did not attend.