welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines.. several people are killed in germany in a shooting at a jehovah's witnesses' centre in the city of hamburg. russian shelling temporarily cuts power at ukraine's largest nuclear energy facility — the un demands immediate action to avoid disaster. we are rolling the dice here. and there will be a day when our luck will run out. and there will be a day when our luck will run out. the australian prime minister visits india — on a mission to strenghten ties between the two countries. and, we meet michelle yeoh, nominated for a best actress oscar for her performance in everything, everywhere, all at once.

we start with news that's been breaking in the last hour or so. police in the northern german city of hamburg say several people have been killed in a shooting incident; several others have been injured. hamburg police said a large—scale operation was under way in the alsterdorf area. german media are reporting that the shooting took place at a jehovah's witnesses�* centre. ambulances are at the scene. police say they have no idea what might have motivated such a deadly act. earlier i spoke tojenny witt, a journalist based in hamburg — who gave us a sense of the situation on the ground.

the details are very scant, several people been injured and some have been killed they have not given a figure on the number of fatalities do know from police reports of the scene is that when officers arrived at the scene, they heard a shot inside the building and went inside and found several people injured and dead at the scene. whether the perpetrator was among these people is not clear at first. the police do not believe that nobody who is involved in this attack is on the run in this area. in the north of the city not far away from the city centre it's two miles away from where i'm standing and really this is something that is completely shocked anyone that you speak to the news is breaking it is late at night here but this is not as tight

the people of the kingdom of jehovah's witnesses have not attracted any history in the recent past that i know of. people in the area were warned by smartphone that there was an investigation under way and the police urged them to stay inside their homes and to avoid the areas and there is a major investigation going on right now at the scene and we are told that the emergency services staff brought people out of the building in order to treat them and it is mayhem at the scene. really, it's shocking people very deeply here. i really, it's shocking people very deeply here.— very deeply here. i can “ust imagine i very deeply here. i can “ust imagine jenny. * very deeply here. i can “ust imagine jenny. and i very deeply here. i can “ust imagine jenny. and as h very deeply here. i can just imagine jenny. and as you | very deeply here. i can just i imagine jenny. and as you are imaginejenny. and as you are speaking, i certainly don't want you to delve into the realm of speculation, but any sense about what authorities are saying right now about why this has happened or what their initial theories might be? none whatsoever. police have warned people about speculating on motive.

it's too soon. this happened at nine o'clock this evening. it's past midnight. so in the past three hours the scale of this horrific attack has emerged. the police now describe it as somebody running amok inside the hall where a meeting was taking place but as to why that is happened and who is behind it, if it was one perpetrator or more, and what is happened to that perpetrator or those perpetrators, that isn't clear yet and there is no indication officially, certainly, what may have been behind it. there is no speculation about that even in the tabloid media or in the media in general. that is something we simply don't know yet. i appreciate the candour there. in terms of what people are being told to do now, are officials saying stay indoors and wait for more information from us until you go about your business? there hasn't been a de—escalation since that warning. that warning was issued at around 20 past nine and there hasn't been anything to the contrary.

now as you say, we are now aware of a statement by the police that they do not believe that anyone is on the run or at large. so that in itself indicates that it is presumably a safer location than it would've been a couple of hours ago. but as i say it's fluid. most people will be taking precaution and being very careful not to enter into that area. eqwually, i assume the cordon will be well established and possibly widened in order to ensure that evidence can be gathered for the investigation and that no traces of anything relevant are lost to the authorities. lets turn to ukraine now, as the head of the un's nuclear watchdog has called for immediate action to prevent disaster at europe's biggest nuclear power plant after russian missile strikes once again cut off the facility's energy supply.

power lines to the zaporizhzhia plant have since been restored, but for some hours staff had to rely on diesel generators for essential cooling of radioactive material. missiles also struck other energy targets across ukraine in one of the largest such attacks in weeks. from kyiv, here's our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. this is what a cruise missile can do. a residential part of lviv in the far west of ukraine. homes turned to rubble, streets torn apart. lives turned upside down. in all, five people died here. this may be hundreds of miles from the fighting, but this morning, it's very much on the front line. in a residential area in north—west kyiv, cars were damaged by falling debris and shrapnel after a russian drone was shot down in the sky. two people were injured and taken to hospital. translation: there was an explosion in the sky. l i saw smoke and fire.

victor told us how his car was damaged and how he tried to help his neighbours. translation: cars were set on fire. . we took fire extinguishers from our vehicles to try and put them out, but it didn't succeed and the fires spread. translation: i'm fed up| with it, can't stand all this. i don't have the strength any more. why are they doing this? they are scaring the children. these strikes might have been targeted against energy infrastructure, but here, not so much. as you can see, cars damaged, some of them destroyed and burnt out. all around me, the windows have been blown in and the residents' blocks, and over here debris litters this child ren's playground. smoke on kyiv�*s skyline — the aftermath of a strike on energy infrastructure in the south, one of many such attacks on similar targets across the country. for some hours, power

was cut to the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in europe, currently under russian control. the risks of overheating reactors all too evident for the un nuclear watchdog. each time, we are rolling a dice. and if we allow this to continue time after time, then one day our luck will run out. but for now, people are trying to get on with normal life after the most substantial air strikes for several weeks. they know they won't be the last. james landale, bbc news, kyiv. three people have been wounded in tel aviv in what police say was a suspected terror attack. the police say the attacker was — in their words — neutralised at the scene. it comes hours after the us defence secretary lloyd austin arrived in israel for talks. he told israeli leaders to take steps to reduce tensions in the west bank

amid an escalation in violence. let's turn to georgia now, because thousands of people have been demonstating in tbilisi, the georgian capitalfor a third night — despite the country's ruling party saying it would withdraw a contraversial law targeting organisations that receive foreign funding. the opposition says it will keep fighting against what it sees as russian—inspired attempts to derail the country's pro—european ambitions. our russia editor, steve roseneberg, reports from tbilisi. outside the parliaments, it was clear where most georgians see their country's future. clear too the results of people power. the protesters had won. they had forced a u—turn. the ruling party had withdrawn the controversial foreign agents bill that many here saw as a threat to civil society. and they accused their government of trying

to move georgia back into russia's orbit. we don't really want to be part of russia and everything they're doing. the whole georgia is against it actually. what do most georgians want? we want more integration in europe. this is our goal. this is our main request. we want to be part of europe. the scene earlier this week. pitched battles by the parliament building. water cannon and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators. but it didn't stop the protests. and along with the eu flag, out of solidarity, the flag of ukraine. the war there and events here have something in common. in many ways what's happened in georgia this week and what's happened in ukraine are part of the same picture. both these countries were part

of the soviet union and more than 30 years after the fall of the ussr, the consequences of that geopolitical earthquake, the collapse of the soviet superpower, are still being felt across the region. in ukraine, the kremlin launched a full—scale invasion to try to force the country back into russia's sphere of influence. it invaded georgia too, more than a decade earlier. there are thousands of russian troops on what is internationally recognised as georgian territory. russian aggression against georgia and russian aggression against ukraine are part of the same picture of putin's policy to restore his influence in his neighbourhood and restore some new version of the soviet union. this week, georgians have made it clear they want no part of it.

steve rosenberg, bbc news, tblisi. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines.... president biden has unveiled his budget plans for 2024, including increased or spending on infrastructure and social programmes and higher taxes for the rich and their companies. worth several trillion dollars. the plans may form the backbone of a presidential reelection bid. state media and north korea say armed forces had been ordered to intensify drills for a real war. the countries leader personally oversaw a fire or salt drill on thursday which reports say it said prove the armies ability to counter an actual war. the italian prime minister has outlined stiffer penalties for people smugglers after holding a cabinet meeting near the site where at least 72 migrants died

in a shipwreck last month. the un says it will buy a vessel capable of removing oil from a big tank or a bandage off the coast of yemen in 2015. there's been concern the decaying ship could cause a major oil spill. to india now, because that's where the australian prime minister anthony albanese is. he is trying to strengthen ties between the two countries through deeper trade, investment and defence relations. he is the first australian prime minister to visit india since 2017 and is headed for the us next, where he's expected to meet with us presidentjoe biden and uk prime minister rishi sunak about the aukus defence partnership. earlier i spoke to stuti bhatnagar, research fellow, strategic and defence studies centre, australian national university. the relationship has really soared over the last few years and this visit by the australian prime minister is essentially to showcase the developing relationship, kind of highlight

what areas of cooperation india and australia are heading into in the coming years, and also to kind of place india and position australia, india and australia as partners in multiple areas. i think this visit is aimed at that. so it has a lot of components to it. indeed. and one of those components, i wonder whether you agree is the role of china in all of this. of course. right? both of these countries have had difficulties or tensions. i think that's a diplomatic way of putting it. with china, how much do you think they'll be discussing beijing's influence in this part of the world when they sit down to have a chat? i think china is definitely a factor that has brought australia and india closer. and the way i like to present it is the stars have aligned for the two countries to kind of get together because of the chinese competition or the chinese threat

in whatever way they perceive it. and of course australia has been very open about the chinese threat and what is driving its indo—pacific policy, the direction. but india is a little more circumspect in mentioning china in forums like this. of course it is very much driving this need to develop an indo—pacific partnership along with other countries in the indo—pacific. so the next stop for the australian prime minister is the united states, isn't it? and he's due to meet withjoe biden and rishi sunak presumably to talk about that aukus deal. what do you think might come out of that meeting? i think that that meeting is particularly about aukus and the kind of engagements that australia has with the united states. it is an ally partner of the us, unlike india, which is still a partnership.

india doesn't do alliances in that manner. so the us—australia discussions are going to be more formal about military security, maritime cooperation in the pacific region, particularly about the aukus deal.. still, what the modalities of that, what kind of submarines, etc., that that are going to be discussed, i'm sure. a former television executive has been convicted of paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes over broadcasting rights to the world cup. hernan lopez was chief executive of fox international channels. he was convicted of bribing officials in south america to secure the rights to show world cup football. another former executive, carlos martinez, was found not guilty. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme... we will hear from the oscar nominee star of everything everywhere all at once.

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been married before. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani, in singapore. our headlines... several people have been killed in the city of hamburg inside a meeting hall forjehovah's witnesses. police believe a person found with fatal injuries on the upper floor of the building was a retractor. temporary cut power at ukraine's largest nuclear energy facility. un demands immediate action to avoid disaster. three people have been arrested in japan as part of investigations into an unhygienic craze that's become known as "sushi terror". video clips, showing restaurant diners tampering with food on conveyor belts,

have gone viral. owners say this method of dining, known as the �*sushi train', is under threat —— as our tokyo correspondent, shaimaa khalil reports. i want to apologise and warn our viewers, if you're eating, you might want to put your food down before you listen to this. this happened last month when a viral video came out of a man in a sushi restaurant, the kaiten—sushi, as it's called, the conveyor belt, showing him licking a soy sauce bottle on the sushi trail and also rubbing saliva on the sushi as it moved on the conveyor belt. this happened in a branch of a famous sushi chain restaurant called kura sushi. and since then, dozens of videos surfaced online of similar, unhygienic pranks. and of course, you can imagine the shock and the disgust that it provoked online among people and among customers.

remember, of course, this is horrible anywhere in the world, but this is japan. this is a country that is very, very particular about hygiene, about high standards of cleanliness. people still wear masks around, indoors and outdoors, even though the rules have been relaxed a little bit, you have to take off your shoes again for hygiene reasons. and so for this to happen here in a country with very, very particular and exacting culinary etiquette, you can imagine how shocking and horrible it was for people. today, three arrests have been made, one 20—year—old man and two teenagers. and we understand that they all admitted to what happened in the kura sushi restaurant, and one of them has reportedly apologized. but since then, really, sushi restaurants around the country have been trying to assure customers of their hygiene standards, some of them ——— one of the more known ones actually

around japan, sushi maru, said that its conveyor belts are going to grind to a halt. it's stopping the conveyor belt main attraction, really, of those sushi restaurants and now is resorting to order, direct orders where staff bring people sushi. it's the oscars on sunday — and, for the first time in history, this year's line—up includes a record number of nominees of asian heritage. one of the biggest films making waves this year is everything everywhere all at once — an outrageous sci—fi movie in which michelle yeoh plays the role of evelyn wang. if she wins, she'll become the first asian woman ever to receive the award. ahead of the ceremony, i spoke to michelle yeoh about what this all means to her. i'm very aware that it's beyond me. it's beyond me being

recognised as an actress. it's like a whole community of asians coming forward and saying you're going to do this for us. you have to do this for us. you will do this for us. and then you go, oh my gosh — this is really! and really yes, i will do my utmost. the character of evelyn, how much did she resonate with you? because as you point out, you have been fighting in some respects and parts of your career, and she's a fighter, isn't she? she fights for her family, she fights for her daughter, she fights for her universe, and ultimately she's fighting for herself. it's been a long time since i have even read something that resonated so deeply in me. i think so many of us, especially women, understand this. as your numbers get bigger, you get put in certain boxes. and especially as an actress, the roles got smaller. they get more insignificant. when we first got the script,

a lot of people said to me, this is a big risk. you're going on to do a marvel movie. that could change a lot more things for you. but for me, life is about challenges and taking risks. because if not, you'll be doing the same thing over and over again. so, i ultimately became courageous. what we were watching on screen felt very real and relatable for so many people in this part of the world in asia. what do you think it says about the way the film industry is now? this whole community, this whole group of people have felt so unseen for such a long time. i think a lot of the times, asians tend to not really show so much emotion. and i think maybe perhaps that's a misconception that we just go about doing our own thing and we don't

need our stories to be told, which is not true. i think it is also how we tell the story that makes a difference. i think especially in hollywood, what i'm asking for is the privilege to compete, to show you that the audience wants hollywood to reflect on its community. to reflect on globally, because that's what it is. it is a global industry. it's no longerjust on one singular market. do you think that some people have to work harder than others, being asian, being a woman? we've always had to work harder. so many of us, actresses have face that problem before and will continue to do so. but look at some of my peers. what did they do? they become directors themselves. they become writers themselves. they become storytellers themselves. they make the opportunities. they create the doorways. and this is what we have to do.

i wish i was a writer, then i would've written a lot of my own scripts. so i do depend on the next generation of forward thinkers to write that script, like the daniels. they were bold enough to write the script about a very ordinary woman who was given an opportunity to be a superhero. now that you are in hollywood, is it still mecca for you? you know, i think hollywood will always be hollywood. that is always been the ultimate dream. but the world has evolved. the world keeps changing and there are other markets that will keep growing and growing. and that is good for hollywood, because it goes to show them that they have to evolve. they have to get better. they have to be more embracing with the rest of the world. thanks so much forjoining us.

stay with us and i'll be back with you at the top of the next hour. goodbye. hello there. disruptive snowfall has been affecting central and southern scotland, parts of northern england, north wales and northern ireland, and further heavy snowfall likely to continue across northern england, north wales and north midlands as we head into friday morning. so some disruption, likely roads will be treacherous in those areas. the snow clears away, though, fairly quickly from scotland. northern ireland early on friday and will slowly pull away from england and wales as well. but it will be a windy morning across england and wales, some drifting of that snow to eventually start to pull away into the north sea, allowing skies

to brighten up for many plenty of sunshine. scotland, northern ireland. but further snow showers affecting northern and northeast scotland. a colder day to come across the board, including southern england with temperatures range of around two to seven celsius. then as we head through friday night, we're under a ridge of high pressure, light winds. an area of cold air will sit across the uk. so, temperatures will take a tumble as we head through friday nights. clearskies, light winds, further snow showers across northern scotland. but ice will become a problem, particularly where we've got all that lying snow. don't be surprised if we see —10 celsius across the snowfields of northern england and —15 or so across the snowfields of highlands and grampians. so here's the pressure chart for saturday. we're seeing this weather front working its way in to southern and western areas through the day, but ahead of it it'll be dry, clear and very cold. so, we start crisp and sunny for saturday before skies start to turn cloudy. as this weather front works its way into the west, could see some sleet and snow over the high ground south west england, wales, northern ireland. it will be turning back to rain

as milder air moves in. should see up to ten degrees there in plymouth by the end of the day, but it's a much colder further north and east, but at least dry until after dark. that weather front works its way across the country saturday night, preceded by some heavy snow across northern england and scotland for a while. but it reverts back to rain as milder air moves in behind it. so, a milder day for sunday. the rain clears away from the north east of scotland, some sunshine around. otherwise it's windy, quite a bit of cloud, more rain piling into southern and western areas. some of it will be heavy at times, but look at the temperatures, much milder across the board, up to 13 degrees in the south.

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