welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... as ukraine retakes more territory — we have an extended report on the areas being abandoned by russian forces — and the high price being paid. russian army uniforms and boots. all of this cast aside by russian troops what happened here wasn'tjust a defeat for president putin, it was a complete humiliation. international condemnation after north korea fires a ballistic missile over japanese territory — its fifth weapons test in 10 days.

hundreds of thousands of people in somalia are facing extreme hunger — after the worst drought in a0 years. 300,000 people are living in famine conditions with another 2 million on the brink of famine. it's hard to imagine the situation more desperate, more urgent, more compelling. twitter confirms that the world's richest man, elon musk, is going through with his bid to buy the company. reaching for the sky. the man who spent 16 years building his own spit fire from scratch and finally taking off. live from our studio in singapore — this is bbc news. it's newsday.

hello and welcome to the programme. we start in ukraine where the country's forces have retaken more territory from the russians — in the south. the focus is near the city of kherson — in one of the regions unlawfully annexed by russia last week. ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky says his troops are making rapid and powerful advances against russian forces. in his nightly video address, he asserted that in the past week alone, dozens of settlements had been recaptured from the russian military in the south and east. over the weekend — ukraine re—took the strategic eastern town of lyman — which the russians had been using as a logistics base. but both sides paid a heavy price for the fighting there. 0ur senior international correspondent 0rla guerin sent this report which includes some distressing images. driving into lyman — now liberated soil. ukraine is clawing

back territory. it has the momentum. but among the ruins, victory can look bleak. further in, the wreckage of war. and among the pines, there is death. along the roadside, evidence of the human cost of russia's defeat. ukrainian volunteers keep watch over the dead, trying to help identify the remains. unknown soldiers in vladimir putin's war. left behind when his forces retreated. once, they were someone�*s husband or someone�*s son. a few steps away, a soviet book for teenagers entitled "adventure library".

and something else russian troops left behind. anti—tank mines — barely visible. the dead were zipped into body bags. well, there's evidence here notjust of fighting, but also of the desperate attempt russian troops made to get away. here on the road there is discarded bedding, backpacks, russian army uniforms and boots. all of this cast aside by russian troops. what happened here wasn'tjust a defeat for president putin. it was a complete humiliation. last friday, he announced to the world that he was annexing territory, including lyman. he said it would be forever russia's. well, looking around here, you get a very different picture. especially from the top of a captured russian tank. we are going to win. i feel very good, very great. but lyman may never be as it was before.

these deserted streets were once home to 20,000 people. including the cyrillic letters for the soviet union. lena and her ten—year—old son are out looking for water, and hoping their ordeal is over. "the hardest thing was surviving the bombing", she tells me. "the shells were exploding." "we prayed as we stayed down in the cellar." "we didn't eat regularly and we couldn't even make tea." deprived of school, her son has learned lessons of war. "well, war is very bad", he tells me, "because people are dying, so the population is being reduced." and how do you feel now?

"my heart is more at peace", he says. back at the edge of town, ukrainian forces head for new battles. they know they need to move fast. soon, freezing winter weather could slow their advance. 0rla guerin, bbc news, lyman. the united states, japan and south korea have all conducted military drills in response to north korea's first test—launch of a ballistic missile overjapan in five years. south korean and us aircraft fired at a mock target on an uninhabited island in the yellow sea, while the us and japan also jointly carried out drills over the sea of japan. the north korean missile was launched tuesday morning korean time. it travelled about

4,600km before falling into the pacific ocean. there have been no reports of damage or injuries. the range is believed to have been the longest distance ever travelled for a north korean test flight. yuki tatsumi, the director of the japan programme at the stimson centre explained why north korea resorted to such a missile test at this time. north korea as a country, they really would like the world to pay attention to what they do. with everything else going on in russia, ukraine and between china and taiwan, they have kind of gone unnoticed by the international community. they would like to, they would not like to be forgotten. and that is usually when they resort to these kinds of provocative actions. at this time, they chose the opportune time to do so, which seems to have coincided with the vice president visit to south korea.

the us, japan and south korea have launched military exercises in response to the missle launch. what other measures do they have to prevent a nuclear attack? nuclear attack, they rarely, if north korea decides to launch a nuclear missile, i'm sure one of those three countries radars will detect movement on the ground in one of theirfacilities. at that point, it would be subject of whether they would preemptively attack, strike what they consider to be a source of the attack that they were about to launch, but three countries right now are desperately trying to deter north korea so that they don't have to go there.

the billionaire elon musk has said he will go ahead with buying twitter after all. just months ago, mr musk tried to quit the deal — saying the social media platform was full of bots — or fake accounts. now, just weeks before both sides were due in court — he's agreed to pay the price he previously had offered. i'm joined now by our news reporter tom brada. thank you forjoining us on the programme. what's the latest you can tell us?— you can tell us? this is the bad tempered _ you can tell us? this is the bad tempered business - you can tell us? this is the i bad tempered business saga which has been rambling on for months now. will elon musk the world's richest man by twitter or won't he? while coming out seems most likely that he will buy twitter. he sent a letter to twitter in which he said he will pay 44 billion dollars to take over the company, and that is interesting because that is the original price which he

agreed to pay for the company. when he made his original offer, for context, back in april, he made that offer, and then in the subsequent months tried to wriggle his way out of it. the reason they gave her wanting to pull out of the deal is that he says there are far too many bats on twitter. based on the around 5% of spam accounts. elon musk claims the real number is in fact much higher. this is important because the number of genuine users affects the overall value of the company and the advertising sales. and if this deal does go through, that none of that will matter. mb?

deal does go through, that none of that will matter.— of that will matter. why did he chan . e of that will matter. why did he change his _ of that will matter. why did he change his mind? _ of that will matter. why did he change his mind? he - of that will matter. why did he change his mind? he was - of that will matter. why did he i change his mind? he was due to be deposed _ change his mind? he was due to be deposed this week _ change his mind? he was due to be deposed this week in - be deposed this week in delaware, and the consensus seems to be among analysts that he was facing an inevitable loss in a court of law, and that it was most likely he would lose and therefore going through a protracted court battle, he's chosen to go through with this deal. it's unclear. if he would've faced a more complex outcome if he'd gone to court and lost, for example. you've got to remember, the turmoil and uncertainty caused by his offer and then not offer actually cause the shares and twitter to really face a lot of challenges, essentially two tanks. this latest news that he may honour his original offer has actually cause the share price to soar, so twitter investors and twitter layers are inevitably going to be very happy if it does indeed go through. d0 happy if it does indeed go throu~h. happy if it does indeed go through-— happy if it does indeed go throu~h. . ., through. do we have any idea how this will _ through. do we have any idea how this will change - through. do we have any idea how this will change the - through. do we have any idea how this will change the user| how this will change the user experience? 50 how this will change the user exnerience?_ experience? so i think you referenced _ experience? so i think you referenced a _ experience? so i think you referenced a little - experience? so i think you referenced a little earlier i referenced a little earlier that there has been a tweet from him, he's written "buying twitter... " is redness in the last half hour, "buying twitter

is the first story to creating the everything app." he's the richest man in the world he's got ambitious plans for the app. 0f got ambitious plans for the app. of course we don't know exactly what that means. he's usually quite mysterious and quite provocative in his tweets. this is in keeping with that. one thing we do know is he is an advocate of free speech. 0ne he is an advocate of free speech. one of the names on everyone's lips will be donald trump. he was of course permanently banned from the app last year in the wake of the capital riots. many people will be asking that in line with elon musk�*s believe in allowing people a platform whether donald trump will be allowed back on. as usual, elon musk is clearly in provocative and mysterious mood. so there's a lot that we do not know still. thank you very much for the update. now to one of the most severe humanitarian crisies — anywhere in the world right now. we have an extended report from somalia — where hundreds of thousands of people — many trapped by conflict — are facing extreme hunger and death —

after the worst drought in a0 years. 0ur africa correspondent andrew harding reported on somalia's last famine in 2011 — in which a quarter of a million people died. he sent this report from bydoa — a city at the heart of the current crisis. ina in a crowded hospital, two—year—old mohammed clings to life, limp with hunger. this is the worst drought we've ever been through says his mother. i worry for all my children. another child is brought in with swollen limbs, a sign of severe malnutrition. two of his sisters have died in the past fortnight. already in this unfolding catastrophe, the hospital is struggling to cope. sometimes we have lack of supplies. sometimes we have lack of suwlies-— sometimes we have lack of sun-lies, ., , ,, , supplies. you lack supplies, that must — supplies. you lack supplies, that must be _ supplies. you lack supplies, that must be incredibly - that must be incredibly

frustrating.— that must be incredibly frustrating. that must be incredibly frustratina. ,, , frustrating. sure, sure, when it happens. — frustrating. sure, sure, when it happens, it's _ frustrating. sure, sure, when it happens, it's actually - it happens, it's actually terrifying because people are dying and you cannot support them. , , , ., , them. on the dusty plains around the _ them. on the dusty plains around the city, _ them. on the dusty plains around the city, more - them. on the dusty plains - around the city, more families arrive each hour and set up camp, bringing little with them but stories of dead cattle, debt crops and a railroad way of life that a changing climate will no longer tolerate. 0fficially, no famine has been declared here yet in somalia, but today, right now, 300,000 people are living in famine conditions with another 2 million on the brink of famine. so it is hard to imagine a situation more desperate, more urgent, more compelling. there is help arriving here, and plans for much more, but it's too slow. plans for much more, but it's too slow— too slow. the things we are doinu too slow. the things we are doing now _ too slow. the things we are doing now we _ too slow. the things we are doing now we needed - too slow. the things we are doing now we needed to - too slow. the things we are doing now we needed to do| too slow. the things we are - doing now we needed to do three months ago. in reality, we are behind. i think something catastrophic will happen.

catastrophic evening famine spreading? catastrophic evening famine spreading?— catastrophic evening famine sreadina? . ,, ., spreading? famine spreading. the drought — spreading? famine spreading. the drought is _ spreading? famine spreading. the drought is not _ spreading? famine spreading. the drought is not the - spreading? famine spreading. the drought is not the only - the drought is not the only challenge. somalia is at war, along fight against an islamist insurgency is limiting access to many vulnerable communities. this woman managed to escape from the conflict, but her ten—year—old son died of hunger soon after reaching this area. he is buried here beside the family's makeshift camp. "i cannot grieve for my son. there's no time. i need to find work and food to keep my other children alive." listening to her is her 11—year—old son, the mention of his brother is too much for him. one family among millions now wrestling with drought, war, dark climate emergency. andrew harding, bbc news.

let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines.... the uk prime minister will use a major speech on wednesday to defend her approach since taking office. lee's trust is expected to say that whenever there is change, there is disruption. —— liz truss. she is facing mounting pressure from some within her own party over the refusal to commit to increasing benefits in line with inflation. protesters have blocked the roads in burkina faso in an apparent effort to stop the arrival of the delegation from the west african regional body, ecowas. it's due to hold talks with the country's new military leader, ibrahim traore, who seized power on friday. donald trump has asked the us supreme court to intervene in his legal disputes over classified documents removed from his florida state fbi investigators in august. the former president monson a court to read repeal a decision which block the appointment of an

independent arbiter to review the documents. researchers in spain have found that the saliva and wax worms can break down some of the toughest types of plastic. scientists found that enzymes and the worms mouth can degrade polyethylene at room temperature is. the research shows that exposure to the saliva has had the same impact on the plastics as years of outdoor weathering. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme... for filling forfilling a for filling a childhood forfilling a childhood dream. we need the man who spent 16 years building his own spit fire from scratch. this was a celebration by people who where relishing their freedom. they believe everything is going to be different from now on. they think their country will be respected in the world once more as it used to be

before slobodan milosevic took power. the dalai lama, the exiled spiritual leader of tibet has won this year's nobel peace prize. as the parade reaches its climax, two grenades exploded, a group of soldiersjumped from the military truck taking part in the parade and ran towards the president, firing automatic rifles. after 437 years, a skeletal ribs of henry viii's - tragic warship emerged, i but even as divers worked to bouy her up, the mary rose went through another- heart stopping drama. i want to be the people's governor. i want to represent everybody. i believe in the people of california. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm monica miller.

0ur headlines... ukrainian authorities say fighting is continuing in a number of areas fighting is continuing in a number ofareas in fighting is continuing in a number of areas in the east as the country forces retake more territory from the russians in the south. north korea faces international condemnation after firing ballistic missiles overjapanese territory, it over japanese territory, it states overjapanese territory, it states weapons test in ten days. australia's biggest telecoms firm telstra has become the latest tel—co affected by a data breach, after thousands of employee names and email addresses were uploaded to the dark web. it comes less than two weeks after its rival 0ptus was hit by a similar cyberattack affecting nearly 10 million people. for more on this i am joined now byjeffrey foster — a cyber security expert and lecturer at macquarie university in sydney.

thank you very much forjoining us on the programme. do we have any sense of how many people were impacted this time? sure. in this breach, _ were impacted this time? sure. in this breach, we _ were impacted this time? sure. in this breach, we are _ were impacted this time? sure. in this breach, we are looking i in this breach, we are looking at about 300,000 records. 0ut at about 300,000 records. out of the customers, it was about 30,000 of them. 50 of the customers, it was about 30,000 of them.— of the customers, it was about 30,000 of them. so what do we know exactly _ 30,000 of them. so what do we know exactly about _ 30,000 of them. so what do we know exactly about who - 30,000 of them. so what do we know exactly about who is - know exactly about who is responsible?— know exactly about who is responsible? sure, well, we don't really _ responsible? sure, well, we don't really know— responsible? sure, well, we don't really know who - responsible? sure, well, we don't really know who it - responsible? sure, well, we don't really know who it is l don't really know who it is exactly. it's a bit more of an established hacker who did this on this occasion. this person went on and posted these data, at least the sale of this data on the same darknet forum that the baptists reach had done. they are trying to exploit off of this hack to try to make more money off of this data set. it's interesting and a bit different because all indications and from what has been confirmed, this data is about five years old. what we don't know yet is it whether or not this is a breach that occurred five years ago and nobody knew about it until now

and they are using this time to get more money out of x, or if this company was sitting on this company was sitting on this data for five years that they didn't need and just sitting there waiting to be attacked. neither of which looks very good for the company. looks very good for the company-— looks very good for the coman. ~ , ., ., company. some australian officials have _ company. some australian officials have been - company. some australian officials have been saying l company. some australian . officials have been saying that that country is a decade behind other countries when it comes to cyber security measures. what are some other countries during that have been a bit more successful in protecting data, people's privacy? sure, it's not so _ data, people's privacy? sure, it's not so much _ data, people's privacy? sure,j it's not so much cybersecurity is behind, we've got some of the best. the issue is our policy can our government policy can our government policy about data security. as other countries, a gdp pr throughout europe, most recently, the pdp bail in indonesia and other countries are taking data security much more serious as a regulation that forces companies to actually go through, consider data practices, we don't really have that in australia. our

punishments for even the most severe of data neglect is very small relative to other countries. 2.2 million is the maximum that they can reach with the effective one third of the country, that's nothing in terms of the amount of money they have. so we really need to improve regulation and to be able to tell the companies you have to remove data after you don't use it any more and to be more concerned about keeping it secure. , ' , more concerned about keeping it secure. ' , ., ~' more concerned about keeping it secure. ' , . ~ y secure. jeffrey, thank you very much for _ secure. jeffrey, thank you very much forjoining _ secure. jeffrey, thank you very much forjoining us _ secure. jeffrey, thank you very much forjoining us on - secure. jeffrey, thank you very much forjoining us on the - much forjoining us on the programme. australia has announced plans to halt its extinction crisis and save more than 100 species. it's the first time a federal government has announced a zero extinctions target for australia's plants and animals. the 10—year plan also aims to protect an additional 50 million hectares of land and sea area by 2027. conservationists have welcomed aspects of the plan, but were critical that australia's identified only 110 species when almost 2,000 are listed as threatened

under national laws. here's australia's environment minister tanya pliber—sek threatened species action plan is ambitious and specific to stop further extinctions in australia. we learn from the state of the environment report which was released some months ago that the state of the australian environment is bad and getting worse. we are the mammal extinction capital of the world. 18 around 100 species lost in the time since colonisation. ——we've seen around 100 species lost in the time since colonisation. we absolutely have to turn that around. if we keep doing what we are doing, we both keep getting the same results. the spitfire — the iconic fighter plane used during world war two. but this one is different. it is not from decades past. this spitfire is actually brand

new — and built from scratch by a man who desperately wanted one — but who couldn't afford an original. now it is finally taking to the skies — as duncan kennedy reports. what do you do when a childhood ambition takes off in your dreams. steve markham always wanted to have his own spitfire. but instead of buying one, he built one. the spitfire to me is the best aircraft that has ever been built. i just love flying it. it's a copy of a world war two spitfire photo reconnaissance aircraft. and it took steve more than 11,000 hours to make. has this been a labour of love? there were times when i did have some deep despair. it would be untrue to say not, but most of the time i just loved doing it. steve was inspired as a boy by this film about wartime fighter pilot douglas baader

and fell in love with the spitfire's graceful lines. he began the project in 2006 and, bit by bit, from airframe to avionics, he and his wife, kay, spent 11 years making it down the years. steve did try and buy a spitfire, but was often outbid. 0ne already made would cost between £2 million and £4 million. the civil aviation authority has cleared steve's plane to fly. it may be a replica, but this is one man's tribute to an iconic original. duncan kennedy, bbc news in hampshire. that's all for now — stay with bbc world news. you can always keep updated on the latest news by visiting our website. i am that monica

miller, goodbye for now. hello. wednesday gets off to a windy start. a wet start in northern and western areas. we've got an area of low pressure which is spinning up across the uk, will quickly move on towards scandinavia. a trailing weather front from it, though, that will take rain southwards to those parts that will actually begin wednesday dry. and then, following on behind, it will be sunshine and blustery showers. this is how things look at 6am — it'll be a wet night in northern ireland across much of scotland. some heavier rain at this stage, wales, northwest england. look how mild it is, though, through wales and england in particular as the day begins. now, quite quickly, the rain out of northern ireland, it'll be out of much of scotland by the end of the morning.

brighter sky's following on behind with scattered showers, some heavy and maybe thundery, moving through quickly on gusty winds. wales, northern and western england should be turning drier into the afternoon with sunny spells, chance of a shower. and through the afternoon, a brief spell of rain moving through east anglia and the southeast. after what is a dry start to the day here, maybe a few sunny spells. it is a windy day, these are some of the wind gusts — there'll be stronger ones through irish sea coast in particular, north wales, northwest england very windy to begin the day. and temperatures actually come down a bit once the rain has moved on through, so it will feel cooler and particularly fresher into the afternoon — of course, that's helped by that gusty wind. and we continue with some showers moving in overnight, wednesday into thursday, particularly towards the northwest of the uk, mayjust merge to give a longer spell of rain moving in here. it will become mainly dry the further south you are, through wales and england. lower temperatures, so a cooler start to the day on thursday. high pressure to the south, keeping many southern areas essentially dry on thursday, whereas another set of weather fronts are coming close to northern ireland and scotland. so here, there'll be a few showers around to begin the day, but the idea will be that it will tend to cloud over, and we'll start to see

some outbreaks of rain coming back into northern ireland and pushing parts of scotland — by the end of the day, some of this could be quite heavy in places. notice further south, though, it is mainly dry and, in fact, there'll be quite a bit of sunshine around here. more heavy rain in parts of northern ireland and scotland overnight and into friday, then pushing through wales and england on friday — very slowly, mind you. behind it, the further north you are, you're back into the sunny skies, brisk wind still. there'll be some showers around, some of them could be heavy, maybe with a rumble of thunder. an area of high pressure nosing in across the uk to give many places a dry start to the weekend, before we see further outbreaks of rain, mainly to the north and west, as we go on through sunday.

this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, as newsday continues — straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. as the war in ukraine rages on, we speak to a russian rock legend whose life and career have mirrored his motherland's journey from the soviet era, through the break—up of the soviet union, to putin's authoritarian state. my guest is boris grebenshchikov. he last played in russia

the day before putin invaded ukraine in february, and is now living in london.