good night, i'm tulsen tollsett, and here's your latest sports news. newcastle beat10—man southampton in 1—0 in the league cup semifinal first leg. it leaves them in a good position in their hunt for their first domestic trophy since 1955. jim lumsden was watching. both sides had waited so long for silverware. for the saints it was the fa cup in 1976 and newcastle hadn't won a domestic trophy since 1955. they had most of the possession to no avail. shortly before the break they appeared to have gone ahead but it was decided the ball made contact with his arm and a pattern emerged. newcastle would escape

the saints defence before sending the ball into the sky joelinton missed his turn. an hour to go, and che adams had a chance to put southampton ahead but nick pope was equal. joelinton made amends to put newcastle ahead. a few minutes later armstrong thought he had struck back for the saints but handball was the eventual decision. 1—0 it remained and newcastle will be favourites to book a wembley trip. the lowest ranked team left in the fa cup have been knocked out this evening. boreham wood took accrington stanley to extra time in their replay, before losing 1—0. it took until the seventh minute of extra time for league one side accrington to get the better of the national league side. accrington will now host

premier league side leeds united this saturday lunchtime with the match live on bbc tv. three men have been arrested for alleged homophobic chanting during liverpool's draw with chelsea on saturday. one was arrested inside anfield and two outside the ground on suspicion of homophobic intentional harassment, alarm or distress. the fa can now also charge clubs if their fans use a homophobic chant that has been aimed at chelsea players and supporters. staying with football — chelsea manager emma hayes has called for the women's super league to be provided with the same access to undersoil heating as teams playing in the premier league and the championship. it's after chelsea's game against liverpool at the weekend was abandoned a few minutes in because of a frozen pitch. if this is the top division for women's football then we should be afforded exactly the same opportunity.

so as faras... this is not about chelsea this is about women's football and being in a place where we are working hard to build a fan base, to build a business, to build all of this without many many years without equal access to things. two—time olympic gold medallist mikaela shiffrin is now the most successful woman in world cup alpine skiing history. she claimed her 83rd victory in the giant slalom in kronplatz. the win takes her clear of the record previously held by fellow american lindsey vonn. it leaves herjust three wins behind legendary swedish skier ingemar stenmark who has won the most world cup events ever. greece's stefanos tsitsipas is through to the semi—finals of the australian open for the fourth time. the third seed maintained his unbeaten record in grand slam quarterfinals claiming a 6—3, 7—6, 6—4 victory over 21—year—oldjiri lehecka.

the czech had defeated britain's cameron norrie to make he's now made the last eight in a major, on six consecutive occasions. england netball missed out after losing to. australia will play new zealand in the final series. england have left the door open for ben stokes to return to the one day international format of the game should he choose to with the world cup in india later this year. england are currently in south africa preparing for a three match series against the proteas starting on friday. head coach matthew mott says he's happy to wait and give the 31—year—old who led the hosts to victory in 2019 time to think about a possible u turn after last year announcing he was quitting the 50 over format. that's all the sport for now.

three, two, one, zero, lift off.. it's the new frontier... and lift off of artemis i. ..to reach for the stars and become a global player in space... release. ..and the uk wants to be up there with the best. there's an attempt to make history trying to launch to space from british soil. but there are challenges along the way and heartbreak when things go wrong. sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want it to. there were tears, and it was very upsetting. but there's excitement, too, from new factories making rockets from scratch, and a flourishing high

tech satellite industry, to building launchpads in the most remote parts of the british isles. this is the uk's race to space. five, four, three, two, one. lift off! at newquay in cornwall, the children of the bishops learning academy are having a lesson in rocket science. among this class could be the engineers of the future uk space industry. they're taking a special interest in rockets because a launch is about to happen just down the road from them. i'm just excited because we might actually get the chance to see it over newquay, and there's going to be

like probably lots of people there watching it. i am very excited about it, even though it's very late, i'm going to beg my mum to watch it because i'm really excited about it. and this is the rocket arriving in cornwall in october 2022. it will attempt to deliver satellites into orbit. if it succeeds, it will be the first time this has been done from british soil — marking the start of a push to make the uk space flight central. for the maiden mission, newquay airport has been transformed into spaceport cornwall, and melissa thorpe is running the show. well, it's been eight years ofjust really hard work. the blood, sweat and tears of the team. i really, truly think that at the end of the day, it will create something that the rest of the world will want to come and use. but it's a launch with a difference — instead of taking off vertically from the ground, the rocket is hitching a ride on a jumbojet for a mid—air blastoff. this is the rocket, it's called

launcher one and final preparations for its launch are under way. after it detaches from the plane, it fires its own engines and begins its journey to space. release, release. copy. release, release. until now, the company behind the rocket, virgin orbit, has been carrying out these launches from california. the drop happens at 35,000 feet, but now they're going to try and do the same in the uk. it's been a huge team effort to get to this place. we are the guinea pig. it is the first time any of us have done this. so it's been quite a learning experience, and it's something that we're really proud of, but something we want to look at how do we make it more efficient going forward and share the lessons learned. but the uk's been here before. 50 years ago, britain saw the space sector as a big opportunity and started a programme called black arrow.

a rocket was built here and tested in the isle of wight before being taken to australia and eventually launching a british satellite into space. but with growing costs, the programme was scrapped. the government decided it was cheaper to use american rockets instead. while home—grown launches hit the pause button, the production of british satellites grew, but over time, their size has shrunk. so we absolutely knock it out of the park when it comes to small satellite manufacturer. we've already had a history of that. and we have more than one capability. you know, ee have resilience, we have flexibility across supply chains. we really, really lead the world in small satellite manufacture. and satellites are used in almost all aspects of modern life, from communications to navigation to weather forecasting and crucially, monitoring climate change from above. but until now, british ones were shipped abroad to get into space. where we're seeing tremendous

capability from these smaller satellites, they're often way back in the line for launch on one of these bigger vehicles. often they might be launched into an orbit, which isn't ideal for them because they're just the piggyback ride, so now is the time to develop a dedicated small satellite launch service, and that's exactly what we're going to have in the uk. and this unassuming box is one of the small satellites heading into space on this first launch. it belongs to a start up company called space forge, which is based in cardiff in wales. their satellites are mini factories that will make new materials while in orbit. in space, with the absence of gravity, you can mix together any different material you kind of want, and so if you take the whole period table and start putting things together, like lead aluminium, rubidium, einsteinium, there's billions of new alloys that you can now make that you couldn't make on earth. now, 99.9% of them won't be useful,

but there will be a small fraction that are really useful, can be used in next generation, more efficient electric cars, planes, aircraft, faster computing, materials we are crying out for right now. the ability to launch british built devices from british soil could make a big difference. the fact that we can just drive down the road for a couple of hours to get to our space port is a huge impact on our carbon emissions, and just the speed and flexibility of being able to come here. i mean, if the number of launches that we want to be doing in a few years' time means that we're going to have to be using all the different rockets that are available to us. so the more that there are available, the better, and the closer they are to home, even better. the aim is to have several sites in the uk to launch rockets from, not just cornwall.

and one is in an unlikely place in one of the most remote parts of the country. here in unst, one of the shetland islands, where sheep outnumber people and shetland ponies look on. this is the saxavord spaceport, which should see the uk's first ever vertical rocket launch. i think the first response from the locals was probably maybe it was an april fool or something like that. and then just as they've seen the progress and the development since we've been going, there's been real excitement about what we've been doing. but there's a good reason they've chosen the northernmost tip of the uk. so the site was identified five years ago by the government, you know, looking for the uk's capability to launch, which was which is the missing part of the space puzzle. and shetland — we are so far north, no centres of population, you know,

and that's the crux of it. it's the safety element for us that what we're doing needs to be as far away as possible from population centres, so that when the rocket leaves, you know, there's no real danger to people nearby. there's a hive of activity at the site to get it space ready. and the concrete�*s just set on a vital structure. this is the first launch pad that's been constructed, and there will be at least another two on this site. by the time everything is up and running, there will be up to 30 launches a year. it's only when you get here that you really get a sense of the scale of this project and just how remote this place is. but shetland isn't the only site in scotland. more spaceports are planned in sutherland on the north coast and benbecula in the outer hebrides.

the hope is these could all give a big boost to the local economies, and that's especially important here in unst. this island has suffered quite badly from depopulation over the last 20 or 30 years. there's a small airfield here, used to be the third busiest heliport in the uk, and then they also had an raf station here. when that left, it's about half the population of the island, and clearly that had a massive economic impact. so, you know, we're helping with the sort of rejuvenation of the island. we're hoping here, as we run it as a spaceport, we'll have more and more servicejobs, doing the fuelling of the rockets, putting liquid oxygen into the rockets. and those, of course, are going to be high paid, high skilled jobs. there's still some way to go and more launch pads to complete. the next step, though, is to start testing rockets before the first shetland blastoff to space scheduled for 2023.

back in newquay, the launch is fast approaching. virgin orbit�*s team, usually based in california, have decamped to cornwall, and they're setting up a new mission control here. it's quiet now, but on the night of the launch, it will be bustling. it's the nerve centre of a complex operation. we basically have three different launch systems out there. we have our ground hardware, we have an entire aeroplane and a rocket. and so we have people that kind of specialise in each area of expertise here in the control room. so they're kind of looking at the data, making sure everything's healthy, consistent check ins throughout the day to make sure everything's going really well. and then we kind ofjust take it from there. the jumbo jet used to be a passenger plane, but now it's got a rocket fixed under its wing.

and we've been given a rare chance for a look inside. on the lower deck, everything has been stripped out to save weight, because a fully fuelled rocket is a heavy load. upstairs is where the flight engineers will sit, monitoring the launch, but it's at the front where a small modification will make a big difference. here in the cockpit are all the usual controls that you need to fly a plane. but there is one big difference, and it's this, this red square is a release button, and about an hour into the flight, the pilot will press this to drop the rocket. matthew stannard, or stanny for short, is an raf test pilot on secondment to virgin orbit. he'll be at the controls. the big part of the mission is flying out there. we call that captive carry the point where the rocket is just under wing. we're getting it to the right place. we're monitoring the rocket, making sure it's healthy all the way out. and then we enter what's called a terminal count procedure.

and that's where we say to the rocket, we want you to go now. we want you to get ready. and that's where for us, things certainly get more interesting as we go through that sequence of pressurising the tank, trilling the lines, at the end of that 15 minute terminal count. the rocket says, "i'm ready to go now." and it's myjob to make sure the aeroplane is at the right bit in the sky and the right position. so when the rocket says, "i'm ready to go", away she goes. but there's already a big player in this field. and liftoff. elon musk�*s company, spacex, is now dominating the launch market, with their reusable rockets, they've massively cut the price of sending satellites into space. so is there a place for the uk? this company, skyrora, is banking on it. their new factory is based just outside of glasgow, and they're building

rockets from scratch. this is a prototype rocket. and as you can see, it's almost complete. and its launch will test the design, the manufacture and the technology to see if it works. if it does, the team will go bigger. over here are some of the components that will sit inside the larger rocket. it's called skyora xl, and these spheres are actually fuel tanks that will help it get into orbit. this is the nose cone that sits at the very top of the rocket. it's been undergoing testing to see if it can withstand the forces of a launch. that worked, but the team pushed it even further to see where its limits are to the point of destruction. that's all part of the process of building a rocket. it's a new industry that's creating jobs for science and engineering graduates. you do a full design on paper,

or theoretical design, and then you start building it. you build prototypes, you do tests and stuff. you go back to the drawing board and see what needs to be fixed. you grow up looking at rockets and stuff. you want to work with them. but when you actually get into it, it is quite different than you imagine. but nevertheless, it's a lot of fun. challenging, it takes a lot of time, a lot of thinkings, a lot of manual labour as well. but at the end of the day, it is huge fun. the technology is undergoing onsite testing and is constantly being refined, and once their rocket is complete, the plan is to launch it from the shetland islands. but they're not the only ones doing this. around the world, more and more rocket companies are starting up. the founder of skyrora thinks there's room in the market and that the uk is well placed to fill it. i think that the most difficult business on the planet is actually the rocket business, which make it more attractive for people who like challenges.

and we found that there is a gap here in europe, right now, the uk and a number of other european nations in the new space race. so everyone wants to be the first and the only european launcher, right? we believe that scotland, particularly in uk has one of the best geographies, place to launch from, one of the best, of course, economy and engineering skills. so will all of these new companies succeed? space is already a big contributor to the uk economy. it's worth 16 and a half billion pounds a year and employs almost 50,000 people. the uk government says it wants to push the sector and is investing in research and development. but dr alice says to really give the industry a boost, it's going to need more sustained support. the government has been really clear in its ambition that it wants to be a global space player.

you will not become a global space player by investing in r&d alone. there has to be some kind of government commitment to our ongoing operational capability. i don't mean fully covering the costs, but we need to think a little bit creatively, industry and government working togetherjust to get us off the ground here. back at spaceport cornwall. on a cold january night, the final preparations are under way for the launch. the plane and rocket are ready to go. 2,000 people have come to watch what they hope will be a moment of uk space history. it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. it's good for cornwall, we're local. it'sjust going to be awesome, isn't it? so, blessed to be down here and see it. i am so excited! she will probably be | in mars somewhere.

she jumped that high. go for take off. and there it goes, it's lift off for the plane. but this is just the beginning. the next step is to release the rocket and start a new era for uk space. godspeed voyager one. godspeed cosmic girl on this - historic european and uk mission to open space for everyone. an hour into the flight, the rocket fires its engines after being released from the plane. so far so good, but then this... it appears that launcher one has suffered an anomaly, which will prevent us from making orbit for this mission. a second engine burn had failed and the mission was over. all of the satellites lost. the remains of the rockets were captured on camera,

coming back down to earth off the coast of the canary islands. for the team who'd spent so long trying to make this happen, it was heartbreaking. just absolutely devastated. you know, we put our heart and soul into this, and it's such a personal journey for me as well, and my family were here. so, yeah, it was pretty, pretty rough. but i feel ok, i feel 0k. and i think it willjust be a few days ofjust kind of letting it sink in a little bit. the crowds went home disappointed as the jumbo jet returned to spaceport cornwall. so much had been riding on this, but it wasn't their night. the team is certain, though, that this isn't the end and they'll try to launch again. we're a resilient team. we've this isn't the first time we've been knocked. it's the biggest, definitely. but i feel 0k. i think a big sleep, and we'll get up and we'll go again. my team are ok, and i think virgin, the same thing, you know they're all like everybody keeps saying "we'll go, we go again. we go again." so we'll go again.

it's a well—known saying that space is hard, and what happened in cornwall shows just how challenging it can be. britain's space industry is still waiting for the boost it needs from a successful launch. only then will the uk's race to space really take off. but the hope is that high risk will eventually bring sky high rewards. hello. tuesday brought some huge temperature contrast across the uk.

it was —9 in oxfordshire in the morning and then 16 degrees in the afternoon in aberdeen. but i think over the next few days, the temperatures will balance out a little bit more — it'll be closer to the seasonal norm. we'll also lose the frosts in the south of the country where, recently, it has been very cold, and here's an example in the south of the uk. those temperatures won't be quite so low overnight as we head into next week. ok, let's get into the forecast, then. here's wednesday's weather map, and a cold front is moving across the country, introducing a little bit of rain early in the morning across northern parts of the uk through scotland and northern ireland. little bits and pieces of rain and murky conditions further south as well. there will be a touch of frost first thing anywhere from east anglia through the southeast down towards the west country, but the vast majority of us will have temperatures above freezing first thing. also the possibility of some mist and fog in the midlands, west country, possibly east anglia as well for a time.

so, let's have a look at the forecast, then, for wednesday. here's that weather front as it moves from the north southwards, perhaps reaching northern wales, the peak district, early in the afternoon — lincolnshire, too. behind it, the skies actually clear, so some sunshine later in the day for belfastjust before sunset. belfast, glasgow, 10 degrees here. then notice that weather front sinks southwards and there will be some rain towards the rush hour, i think, in the south of the country, and then eventually clearing the kent coast late wednesday evening. thursday, we've got an area of high pressure building across the uk nosing in, and that spells a lot of sunny weather — it really is going to be a fine day for many of us on thursday. a little on the cool side, i think, on the north sea coasts, so with that northerly breeze, perhaps one or two showers, i think beautiful weather out towards the west and those temperatures close to the norm for the time of the year — around 9 in belfast, not far off that elsewhere across the country.

then the outlook as we head into the weekend, you can see temperatures actually recovering to around double figures as we head towards sunday, and we're talking about generally dry weather. that's it from me, bye—bye.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... new zealand has a new prime minister, as the education and covid response minister, chris hipkins, takes over from jacinda ardern. the taliban confirms more than 120 people have died in afghanistan due to freezing temperatures. we'll have a special report as several regions are cut off entirely by snow. we've been out just we've been outjust for minutes and my eyebrows are frozen in my face feels like it's going to fall off. imagine if you lived today and, date out in conditions like that —— day in,

day out.