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welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... 100 people are confirmed dead at a mosque in pakistan. nine people have been pulled out alive from the rubble after monday's suicide bomb attack. saudi arabia almost double the number of executions it carries out despite promises to reform.

auckland has been hit with another wave of heavy rainfall, just days after record—breaking rain left parts of the city underwater. a month's worth of rain fell on new zealand's largest city overnight, triggering landslides and flooding homes once again. the latest deluge has forced motorways and railway lines to close. weather presenter chris fawkes has more. you will remember the scenes of devastation that we had in auckland on friday following extreme rainfall, when 261 millimetres of rain was recorded in just 2a hours, smashing the previous 24—hour rainfall record. well, we have just seen another 71 millimetres of rain in auckland over the last 2a hours and this represents another month's worth of rain falling on those areas that have experienced all that flooding over recent days. the latest batch of thunderstorms, you can see them piling in across the auckland area here on the satellite picture, for hour after hour after hour. and again, those storms were powered by a rich vein of tropical moisture that got pulled down from the north and focused across the north island

and particularly around the auckland area by a zone of convergent winds. and those winds squeezed together to create a line of thunderstorms thatjust happened to go straight across the auckland area bringing that torrential rain. there is slightly better news for auckland on the cards as we head through wednesday and into thursday because that same zone of convergence is going to be pushing east which means the heaviest rain, 100 millimetres, will be falling around the bay of plenty where we could see some flooding but at least through thursday it should be a little drier in auckland. well, we can speak now to rachael kelleher, who's the duty controller at auckland emergency management in auckland. great to get you on the programme in the first instance but give us a sense of how the operations, the effort to rescue people, is going right now where you are? we were fortunate overnight _ right now where you are? we were fortunate overnight that _ right now where you are? we were fortunate overnight that the - right now where you are? we were fortunate overnight that the rain i fortunate overnight that the rain that we had was not as bad as what we saw last friday, which certainly has been devastating. but what we had overnight moved through from the

north, down south, particularly in the early hours of the morning and caused some disruption to some of the rail network and road network and we have also had areas that have been again flooded and land affected by slips and tree falls. in been again flooded and land affected by slips and tree falls.— by slips and tree falls. in terms of what kinds — by slips and tree falls. in terms of what kinds of _ by slips and tree falls. in terms of what kinds of help _ by slips and tree falls. in terms of what kinds of help people - by slips and tree falls. in terms of what kinds of help people need, l by slips and tree falls. in terms of l what kinds of help people need, the kind of assistance people need, what are they saying to you right now? this has been a regionwide event for so it is not like others we have had in the past that have been quite localised but we are feeling the effects right across the auckland region. guess one of the things that demonstrates the devastation for our communities has been the impact on building infrastructure, particularly residential homes. at the moment, we have building inspectors on the ground doing what we call a rapid assessment process when they check homes for safety and sanitary conditions. from that process, we are still not quite

through it but over 138 of those have been deemed not able to be inhabited. . ~ have been deemed not able to be inhabited. ., ~ , ., ., inhabited. indeed. thank you for 'oinin: inhabited. indeed. thank you for joining us- _ it was one of the biggest football stadium disasters of all time. in 1989, 97 liverpool fans died in a crush at an english fa cup semifinal game at the hillsborough ground in sheffield. now — some 3a years later — the police forces in england and wales have issued an apology for what they say was their "profound failings" in the aftermath of the disaster. the bbc�*sjudith moritz has the story. i can't stress enough the serious nature of what's happened in hillsborough today. park sharp the horror of hillsborough continues to be felt almost 3a years after the crush on the terraces that

killed 97 liverpool supporters. the police were to blame but it has taken until today for them to say 110w now i did it sorry at a national level. policing is apologising and recognising that policing was the primary cause of the disaster, tragically. but policing is also apologising for the now nearly 3a years that the families have had to wait to have their questions answered, to have justice. the fans were wrongly blamed for hillsborough and the families have had a lengthy legaljourney. in 2016 they celebrated when fresh inquests returned verdicts of unlawful killing. their experience was the basis for a government commissioned report. it was written by the former bishop of liverpooljamesjones in 2017. he has backed a law to protect bereaved families in future tragedies. today's police response doesn't call for that and the government is yet to respond. the national police chiefs' council is limited in what it can do. it's already expressed its support for a duty of candour. but the npcc can't bring that about in law. that's something that only the government can do. let's hope that's only the beginning

of what's going to be done. margaret aspinall, whose son james aspinall was killed, is one of those who has campaigned on behalf of hillsborough families. she is critical of the time it has taken to hearfrom government. i am hoping now that government come out and say something and respond to the families, to the victims, to the survivors. it should not be the police, it should be the government. today's response from the police amounts to the first from a major public authority. but when bishop james jones wrote this report in 2017, he made 25 recommendations, all of them directed at government. they remain unanswered. the timing of the government's response has been impacted by the need to avoid the risk of prejudice during any criminal proceedings which are related to hillsborough. though the issue was raised today, no date has been given for a full ministerial response. the government remains

absolutely committed to responding to the bishop's report as soon as practicable. lessons learned from the hillsborough families report are now used to train police officers, but the fact finding isn't over. the police watchdog, the iopc, is yet to report back on its decade—long investigation into the disaster. the hillsborough journey continues. judith moritz, bbc news. the official launch of this year's eurovision song contest has taken place in the english city of liverpool tonight. ukraine won the contest last year but can't host the event because it's too dangerous there. instead it is being staged in the uk in may. i should warn you — this report from our arts correspondent david sillito contains flashing images. live from liverpool, - it's the handover ceremony... welcome to the official launch of liverpool's eurovision moment. with a ceremonial handshake from last year's host, turin. it's going to be quite some party. cheering and applause.

there are around 10,000 hotel rooms here in liverpool, but if you want one on the eurovision weekend, well, good luck. and some of the prices to rent a flat over that main weekend? you really have to love eurovision. but while some are hoping for a very lucrative weekend, the city itself is in the midst of a £73 million round of cuts. but nevertheless, it and the city region are still spending £4 million on the contest. is that money well spent? oh, gosh, yeah, it's absolutely money well spent. you canjust see, i mean, 160 million people watching your city on the television, doing what it does best, which is culture, you know, showing its compassion, its hope, its humanity to the rest of the world. that is money absolutely well spent. meanwhile, the flag flying above the eurovision banner is a reminder that while eurovision is being held in the uk, it is being held for... ukraine!

this is a partnership. there will be ukrainian artists, who will by themselves bring the culture, the music, the spirit, and i hope they will convey it to the whole world. and so for liverpool, the eurovision countdown begins. yeah, we'll be out, out here, giving it loads. laughter for eurovision! however, not everyone has caught the fever just yet. the eurovision song contest is coming here. yeah. is in — i didn't know, sorry. laughter so this is news to you? this is news! it is - breaking news. yeah. well, prepare yourself, you're... it's going to be like a party here. i can't look shocked _ because i've had too much botox! david sillito, bbc news, liverpool.

something to look forward to! that's all for now — stay with bbc world news. hello there. on tuesday, most of us did see some sunshine, but there were certainly quite a few showers across the northwest of the country and, generally for northern areas, it started to get quite windy through the afternoon, and those stronger winds were all tied in with this area of low pressure that over the next few hours will be crossing around about the faroes. but there will be some very strong winds just buffeting northern scotland. now, so far, the strongest wind gust i've seen is south uist, 76 mile an hour gusts here. but the winds will probably pick up a little bit further across orkney and shetland where we could see gusts of around 70, maybe even 80 miles an hourfor a time over the next few hours. so certainly very, very blowy conditions for northern scotland with those severe gales and with that comes the prospect of some localised transport disruption.

so, bear that in mind. now away from those very strong winds just running across northern scotland, we also have plenty of showers for northern ireland, a few for the north—west of england and wales, but drier weather further south. because it's quite windy though, it's not that cold a start to the day as we head into the first part of wednesday. frost free for most with temperatures around three to five degrees. now for wednesday's charts, that area of low pressure is going to be weakening and moving over towards norway. what follows is quite a gusty flow of north westerly winds and a warm front that's going to make its presence felt across northern ireland, the north west of england and wales and south west scotland. it's across these areas where the weather's going to turn damp, some sunshine for northeast scotland and the cloud probably will break to the east of wales, across the midlands, east anglia and southern counts of england. wherever you are, we're looking at a mild day with temperatures quite widely between nine and 11 degrees. now for thursday, we've got more rain on the way. this time across scotland, for the most part, the rain quite heavy. further southwards, i think you'll

notice the cloud tending to build in from the west, but there'll still be probably a few cloud breaks coming along. so, still a little bit of sunshine. the best of that likely across parts of central and eastern england. temperatures on the mild side reaching a high of 13 degrees or so. and really through the rest of the week, high pressure stays to the south of the uk. we continue to get this feed of mild air in until we get to the weekend where things start to get a little bit cooler. so, temperatures over the next few days will stay into double figures before we start to see that cooler but sunnier weather arriving into the weekend.

good evening i'm tulsen tollet and this is your sports news where transfer deadline day has come to an end. and taking it up to the wire were big spenders chelsea. they finally got their man enzo fernandez the world cup winner with argentina. the 105 million pounds offered will be the highest transfer fee paid by a british club. chelsea have already signed six players this month, and taken another on loan. it will take their spending past half a billion since the club's new american owners took over. dan roan reports. he may bejust he may be just 22 but enzo fernandez is already a world cup winner. the

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