announced in the past instagram, has announced in the past few minutes that donald trump is to have his social media account to be understated. they were suspended two years ago shortly after the attacks on the us capitol. they said at that time the accounts were breaking their rules over incitements to violence. there will be more detailed from that decision on the bbc news channel and on bbc news online coming up very soon. time for a look at the weather. here's matt taylor. burns night tonight and the banks and braes of central scotland set fresh and fair, but a day of contrasts across the uk, you could barely see the pier and weston—super—mare. but things will even out over the next few days, clearing away the greyness and the

extreme cold, there has been wet weather in the southeast this evening which will be gone by midnight, clearskies for evening which will be gone by midnight, clear skies for many, a touch of frost possible anywhere, ice macro, showers, temperatures not as low as recent mornings. the loads will always beat through western areas, sunshine elsewhere but northern scotland will see a few showers and south—east scotland is at few showers on quite a brisk breeze. east anglia and the south—east, much brighter than today even with the wind making it feel a bit cool. temperatures will be up. we are evening things out across the country on thursday, temperatures widely around six to 9 degrees, average for late january. chilly thursday night into friday, the coldest conditions of scotland and northern ireland, there could be ice macro around, overnight showers in north—eastern england, most of you having another dry day but changes

to the north west of scotland and northern ireland, the breeze picks up, rain for northern ireland, the breeze picks up, rainforthe northern ireland, the breeze picks up, rain for the western isles to end the day. into the weekend, this weather front will bring more cloud and one or two spots of rain but more significant rain into sunday in the north—west of scotland with tales of nuts severe gales, but the weekend looks largely dry, brightest conditions on saturday, more cloud in the north and west on sunday. thanks, matt. and that's bbc news at ten on wednesday the 25th of january. there's more analysis of the day's main stories on newsnight, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. it is my colleague kirsty presenting tonight. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it's time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, but from the ten team it's goodnight. thanks, huw, and welcome to bbc london. good evening i'm tulsen tollet and this is your sports news where we start with football. manchester united remain on course

for their first trophy since 2017 after a 3—0 win over nottingham forest in the first leg of their efl cup semifinal. jim lumsden watched the action. forrest finds would have flinched at the memory of manchester united last visit. united were now in the running forfour visit. united were now in the running for four trophies. visit. united were now in the running forfour trophies. marcus running for four trophies. marcus rashford running forfour trophies. marcus rashford with 20 goes to his name made it 21. forrest were strangers to the ball for a while until they scored on the brick. va are beg to differ. i disallowed gold let the forest fire. united are a better side since the new dutch manager and they were brought into the comfort zone with a second goal. they got

three past forrest at old trafford and looks likely to marry that feat and looks likely to marry that feat and it was bruno fernandes who added and it was bruno fernandes who added a third and fired his side to uphold trip to wembley. uefa are planning to introduce some changes to the nations league to make it �*a more compelling' competition. europe's football governing body hopes that the introduction of quarterfinals and promotion play—offs will make it a better tournament. the new expanded format will begin in september 202a. four spectators at the australian open have been questioned by police after russian flags were waved and security guards allegedly threatened. russian and belarusian flags have been banned by the tournament. 0n the court, nine—time champion novak djokovic is into the semi—finals, after sweeping aside russia's andrey rublev in straight sets. the serbian channelled his emotions into a ruthless win over his fifth seeded opponent in melbourne. djokovic was the only major champion in the men's quarterfinals, and is favourite for the title as he chases a record—equalling 22nd grand slam.

poland's magda linette is a name that keeps hitting the headlines in melbourne. the world number a5, had never previously been beyond the third round of any grand slam, and is into the semi finals. she beat karlolina pliskova to continue her dream run.. and alfie hewett reached the semi—finals of the men's wheelchair singles by beating gordon reid before the british pair made a winning start to the defence of their doubles title. there's a familiar tale of penalty heartbreak. england are out of the hockey world cup after they blew a two goal lead to lose to germany in a shoot—out in their quarterfinal in india. they led the quarterfinal quite come to live up until a final two minutes but the german came back to take the game to penalties and and so mist in

the penalty shoot—out in germany in advance to the semifinals where they will play australia. memories of the world cup are just about still with us, and maybe it feels like football is everywhere. but what if i told you there was still one country left on the planet without a team? it's the sunny marshall islands but they've been left in the dark when it comes to football, until now. sanny rudra—vajhala has more... welcome to football's final frontier. halfway between australia and hawaii, slap bang in the middle of the pacific ocean, lie the marshall islands, population 60,000, and out of 195 nations on earth, they are the last without a football team. but all that is about to change and it is being spearheaded by a man from oxford. this has been a whirlwind, so, for me, it only started in december, so i haven't been out yet, but the good thing about it is that the fa staff board have been fantastic. newsreel: the s-szs - with the hydrogen bomb tucked in its belly is airborne.

to many, the marshall islands are familiar for one reason. the legacy of nuclear testing in the 1940s and �*50s remains, but its people are keen to look towards the future. young kids have gained so much interest in sport. it's just sad to see that there's no league being developed and no training. facilities especially. we just need a lot of funding in order to get soccer balls, uniforms, the basic stuff that you should have. their surroundings may be idyllic but they may also have a say. this is a nation most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. by 2050 most of the islands may disappear. the safety of my children and yours hangs in the balance. this will be the decade that determines the rest of human history. maybe football can change the world but it could bring the worlds gaze

to the marshall islands. we want to be part of world cup, what we want to be part of mainstream football. i think in ten years there's no reason that wouldn't happen. the locals are dreaming big and a new dawn is on the horizon. the horizon. sanny rudravajhala, bbc news. 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 0rbit, 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 you know, we 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 0rbit�*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. 0n 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 0rbit. 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. it's time for the mission to start. 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 0ne. 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.

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night of rest as possible going thursday night into friday. the risk of showers with rates are risk of eyes especially in eastern parts of england some of the coolest conditions in parts of central and southern scotland as we start friday morning. friday should be a dry and bright day with sunshine and rain pushing into the western as. a lot more cloud on saturday with sunny spells before a windy sunday in store.

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