live from london, this is bbc news: the russian operative opposition activist vladimir kara—murza is sentenced to 25 years for treason. fighting between rival armed factions in sudan intensifies — with nearly 100 people killed — and hundreds more injured. we'll hear from the uk health secretary live in the house of commons on the inductrial action being taken by health workers. 1,000,000,000-dollar 1,000,000,000—dollar defamation trial between dominion, the voting systems firm, and fox news has been delayed by a day. and no—go — elon musk�*s space x — has cancelled the launch — of its mammoth rocket starship.

welcome back to bbc news. we are keeping an eye on the health statement in the house of commons. sport now and a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. over from the bbc sport centre. to paul scott. we are starting with football and the premier league because liverpool manager jurgen klopp says his side have nothing to lose as they fight for a european spot in the final weeks of the season. this time last year the reds were pursuing an unprecedented quadruple, but by comparison this season has been a major disappointment with klopp�*s men 12 points off a champions league place, as they play leeds united later. we have nothing to lose, really, and we are in a position that we don't want to be in the table.

that means we have to act a little bit like this, we have to try new things, we have to fight for things, that's how it is. the things we have tried so far this season didn't work out properly, especially not consistently, and that's what we have to do. all the things are on the table, everything is clear, our home record isn't as bad as the away record but we play away. anyway, i'm looking forward to the game. it is day three of the world snooker championship in sheffield and a big shock already as the 2016 runner—up ding junhui is out. he led hossein vafaei 5—4 overnight but the world number 23 was in scintillating form winning the first four frames of the day on his way to a 10—6 victory. vafaei faces defending champion and world number one ronnie o'sullivan now in the second round. meanwhile, world number three mark alan has also been in action. he won the first five frames against a chinese debutant fan zhengyi before being pegged back to 6—3. that match resumes in the final

session of the day. let's ta ke let's take you to live pictures where you can see the first round match between mark williams, the welsh in, three—time champ and taking onjimmy robertson for a place in round two, and it's williams who is three frames away from a place in the next round as he goesin from a place in the next round as he goes in search of a fourth world title —— the welshman. follow the action on the bbc sport website. in the nba play—offs the los angeles lakers upset the second—seeded memphis grizzlies 128-112 in the opening game of their western conference first round series. lakers star lebronjames and anthony davis combined for 43 points but it was their team—mate who was the star of the show in memphis,

rui hachimura scored 29 points for the seventh—seeded visitors who only made the play—offs after winning a play in in game two visitors who only made the play—offs after winning a play. game two of the series which is also in memphis on wednesday. meanwhile the milwaukee bucks are sweating on the fitness of their star after he was forced off injured after a 130—117 defeat to miami heat in game one of the eastern conference first—round series. giannis antetokounmpo forward landed hard on his back in the first quarter. he will be assessed ahead of game two on wednesday. faith thomas, the first aboriginal woman to play cricket for australia, has died at the age of 90. thomas, renowned as one of the fastest bowlers in the women's game, played her one and only test for australia against england in melbourne in 1958. thomas, who was a survivor of australia's stolen generations, remainsjust

one of four indigenous players to have played test cricket for her country, alongside with jason gillespie, ash gardner and scott boland. they started the day on 386—4, and unbeaten centuries from dinesh chandimal and sadeera samarawickrama help them reach 591—6 before declaring. in response, ireland have struggled against the sri lankan spin. they have taken five wickets as they ended on 117—7 at the close of play. and that is all from the world of sport for now. back to you, matthew. thanks very much, paul. straight to the house of commons and the uk health secretaryjust taking an urgent question. thank you, mr speaker, i'm grateful to the honourable memberfor his question, and turning to the first

part of that question, we will not have firm figures on the number of patient appointments postponed until later today because the nhs guidance has been to allow trusts a full working day to collate the data on those impacts. we do know from the previous three day strike that 175,000 hospital appointments were disrupted and 28,000 staff were off. and an initial estimate that 285,000 appointments and procedures would be rescheduled. but it is premature to set out the full impact of the junior doctors' strike until we have that data but i'm happy, mr speaker, to commit to providing an update to the house in a ministerial statement tomorrow. and in the coming days i will also update the house on the significant progress that has been made on the successful action taken over recent months to clear significant numbers of 78 week weights which resulted from the

covid pandemic. it is regrettable that the junior doctors chose the period immediately after easter to cause the disruption, extending the strike to 96 hours and asking their members not to inform hospitals whether they intended to strike, making contingency planning much more difficult. mr speaker, let me put on record my huge thanks to all of those nhs staff, including those nurses and consultants who stepped up nurses and consultants who stepped up to provide cover for patients last week. i recognise that there are significant pressures on junior doctors, both from the period of the pandemic and from dealing with the backlog that has caused. and i do want to see a deal that increases junior doctors' pay, add that fixes many of the non—pay frustrations that they articulate. but the junior doctors committee co—chairs have still not indicated they will move substantially from their 35% pay demand, which is not affordable and

indeed not supported by the bench opposite. mr speaker, turning to the second part of his question on the steps we are taking to prevent further strike action in the nhs, we have negotiated a deal with the nhs staff council. it is an offer we arrived at together through constructive and meaningful negotiations. and one on which people are still voting, with the decision of the nhs staff council currently view on the 2nd of may. and on which the largest union, unison, has voted in favour by a margin of 74% in favour. so we have agreed a process with the trade unions which i am keen to respect, and we should now allow the other trade unions to complete their ballot ahead of that nhs staff council on the 2nd of may. thank ou, mr council on the 2nd of may. thank you. mr speaker. _ council on the 2nd of may. thank you, mr speaker, for _ council on the 2nd of may. thank you, mr speaker, for granting . council on the 2nd of may. thankl you, mr speaker, for granting this urgent _ you, mr speaker, for granting this urgent question. finally the

invisible _ urgent question. finally the invisible man appears. he was largely— invisible man appears. he was largely absent last week during the most destructive strikes in nhs history. — most destructive strikes in nhs history, almost as invisible as the prime _ history, almost as invisible as the prime minister who previously said he doesn't — prime minister who previously said he doesn't want to come and i quote, "get in _ he doesn't want to come and i quote, "get in the _ he doesn't want to come and i quote, "get in the middle of these disputes." what an abdication of leadership during a national crisis. an estimated 350,000 patients had appointments and operations cancelled last week in addition to the hundreds of thousands already affected _ the hundreds of thousands already affected by previous rounds of action— affected by previous rounds of action is _ affected by previous rounds of action is. and having failed to prevent— action is. and having failed to prevent nurses and ambulance workers striking. _ prevent nurses and ambulance workers striking. the _ prevent nurses and ambulance workers striking, the government is repeating the same mistakes all over a-ain repeating the same mistakes all over again refusing talks with junior doctors — again refusing talks with junior doctors. patients can't afford to lose more — doctors. patients can't afford to lose more days to strike, the nhs can't _ lose more days to strike, the nhs can't afford more days lost to strikes. — can't afford more days lost to strikes, staff can't afford more days _ strikes, staff can't afford more days lost — strikes, staff can't afford more days lost to strikes, so isn't it time — days lost to strikes, so isn't it time for— days lost to strikes, so isn't it time for him to swallow his pride, admit _ time for him to swallow his pride, admit he — time for him to swallow his pride, admit he has failed to come and bring _ admit he has failed to come and bring acas in to mediate an end to

the junior— bring acas in to mediate an end to the junior doctors' strike. mr speaker, _ the junior doctors' strike. mr speaker, last week also saw the rcn announced _ speaker, last week also saw the rcn announced new strike dates with no derogations and a new ballot. what does he _ derogations and a new ballot. what does he plan to do to avert the evident — does he plan to do to avert the evident risks to patient safety? government sources briefed yesterday that they _ government sources briefed yesterday that they are preferred to —— prepared _ that they are preferred to —— prepared to tough it out. that that they are preferred to -- prepared to tough it out. that is the labour— prepared to tough it out. that is the labour opposition _ prepared to tough it out. that is the labour opposition laying - prepared to tough it out. that is l the labour opposition laying down the labour opposition laying down the urgent question, describing the health secretary is the invisible man during last week the's strike by the junior doctors, man during last week the's strike by thejunior doctors, and man during last week the's strike by the junior doctors, and you man during last week the's strike by thejunior doctors, and you heard from steve barclay before thatjust updating in terms of the impact of thejunior updating in terms of the impact of the junior doctor strike, the 96 hours of strikes after easter, also referencing the fact that unison workers had last week accepted the government's pay offer, and of course the rcn, the nursing union, rejecting the same offer. they are reballoting, talking about further strikes right through until christmas, and thejunior further strikes right through until christmas, and the junior doctors are not ruling out some sort of

coordinated action with nurses which would be unprecedented. so that of the backdrop for that urgent question. let's bring in our health correspondentjim reed. the laying out of positions, we already knew, no real glimpse of any way forward on any of the real issues with the rcn orjunior doctors. especially withjunior rcn orjunior doctors. especially with junior doctors at the moment, it feels like this dispute as well and truly deadlocked and you heard the secretary of state for england steve barclay reference some important data that we are expecting around five o'clock this afternoon from the nhs. we should find out how many appointments, operations, scans, procedures were cancelled or delayed last week because of the junior doctor strike in england. there has been some speculation that number could be as high as 250,000, wes streeting, the labour shadow secretary of state for health said it could be as high as 350,000. steve barclay saying we don't yet have that figure, but we

should get that by about 5:30pm this afternoon. he also talked about how it would be premature to make any statement about where we go from here, about the impact of the strikes before we get that data. and wes streeting, as you heard, the shadow secretary of state for health, labour's representative, describing him as the invisible man and describing that he and the prime minister were absent from these discussions last week so it would be interesting to see what figures the nhs come out with around five o'clock when the data is published. jim, we will talk again when the figures are published. thank you for now. the uk prime minister rishi sunak is being investigated by pa rliament�*s standards commissioner. the bbc understands the investigation is in relation a childcare firm his wife has shares in. the commissioner said the investigation concerns a declaration of interest. downing street said they would be happy to assist the commissioner. our political correspondent nick eardley told us more about the rules

around declaring interests. there are complicated and it's an interpretation about what you have to declare, so the prime minister has previously said that the shares were properly declared to the cabinet office to the sort of engine room of the british government, where ministers tell the whitehall civil servants about their ministerial interests, but it wasn't declared publicly. and it was the fact it wasn't declared publicly that has raised some questions. the commissioner doesn't tell us much about his investigation, simply that they are happening. my understanding is that it is about koru kids, this childcare firm rishi sunak�*s wife has shares in. the question is whether that firm will benefit from the uk government's expansion of free childcare in england, something thatis free childcare in england, something that is not actually happening for a while, but something that was announced by the chancellor in the budget two weeks ago. at that time again that there were questions from

opposition parties asking about whether mr sunak should have made it clear in his public interests that his wife had the shares, whether potentially that firm, and thus his family, could benefit from the expansion of free childcare, whether they could make some money out of it, quite frankly. mr sunak has always insisted this was done properly, number10 insisted in always insisted this was done properly, number 10 insisted in the last half an hour they will assist this investigation and they are confident they play by the rules. nick eardley at westminster. a man extradited from pakistan has appeared in court in london over the murder of police constable sharon beshenivsky 18 years ago. piran ditta khan has been charged with her murder in 2005 after she had a colleague responded to a robbery in bradford. the married mother of three with two stepchildren was a probation of only nine months service when she was killed. her colleague was seriously injured.

live now to the old bailey in london and our home affairs correspondent tom symonds. this was the second appearance by piran ditta khan in connection with these allegations that he murdered sharon beshenivsky in november 2005 during a raid on a travel agent in the town in the north of england with bradford, and outside that travel agent was where sharon beshenivsky had been called to attend this incident. she was fatally shot in the raid. this man, piran ditta khan is accused of not just murder but also possession of a mac ten machine gun and a nine millimetre handgun. he is thought by prosecutors to have been involved in the organisation of that raid. a very short procedural hearing at the court, he appeared on a video link

from prison. and really the only major matter of discussion was whether the case should happen here at the central criminal court in london, the old bailey as it is better known, or whether it should better known, or whether it should be held at a court in the north of england nearer bradford where the murder happened. and the prosecutor has said that that would perhaps be preferable for them and for the police because it would make it easier for police because it would make it easierfor the police because it would make it easier for the police to police because it would make it easierfor the police to produce witnesses and to produce evidence in a case which dates back more than 17 years. not decided today, thejudge will decide that at a later date. no date set for trial but ditta khan remains in prison and has been told he will remain while these criminal proceedings continue. tom simon is at the old bailey, thank you for the update. around the world and across the uk, you're watching bbc news.

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has more surgery to come. - you're live with bbc news. let's return to that story we touched on earlier. spacex has been forced to postpone the first launch, of the most powerful rocket ever built. elon musk blamed a frozen valve. when it does launch, its hoped the starship could eventually usher in an era of inter—planetary travel. despite this setback the company might be able to try again in the next 48 hours. with more on this here'sjonathan amos. tell us a little bit more about what the glitch or the hitch was. yes, no go today. they had a very good countdown, in effect they had a wet dress rehearsal, as they call it in the industry, which is where you go through a dummy countdown, fill the

rocket full of fuel and then just before liftoff you say, thank you very much, and everybody goes home. that wasn't the actual intention today. the intention was to go all the way down to t0 and lift off. but they have discovered that they had a sticky valve in the pressurisation system. so as a rocket burns through its fuel you have to keep the tanks pressurised to make sure the fuel is pushing through. the big rocket engines at the base of the vehicle, and if you can't get your pressure and if you can't get your pressure and into those tanks then the chances are you could have some sort of hard start in your combustion chamber, in your rockets, and you don't want that as you try and lift skywards. they decided today was not the day and they will come back if they can sort this issue, at least 48 hours from now. so the earliest we are talking about is possibly wednesday, may be thursday. they have permissions from the federal aviation administration in the us to

keep the skies clear of aeroplanes and also keep the gulf of mexico where they are launching from to keep that clear of boats that might wander into a debris field. we will see what happens and see what the engineers have when they have gone through their data.— through their data. whenever it is the t through their data. whenever it is they try again. — through their data. whenever it is they try again. if— through their data. whenever it is they try again. if it _ through their data. whenever it is they try again, if it is _ through their data. whenever it is they try again, if it is successful, l they try again, if it is successful, how significant a step would it be in terms of the way we explore space, and the cost of it? this rocket potentially _ space, and the cost of it? this rocket potentially is _ space, and the cost of it? this rocket potentially is a - space, and the cost of it? try 3 rocket potentially is a total game change. fortwo rocket potentially is a total game change. for two reasons. rocket potentially is a total game change. fortwo reasons. one rocket potentially is a total game change. for two reasons. one is the immense lifting capacity. it would be capable of putting more than 100 tonnes in orbit in one go. the international space station is just over 400 tonnes, something like that, you will remember how long it took them to build the international space station with shuttle missions taking up ten tonnes here and ten tonnes there, over 100 tonnes in one go. the other thing is the rocket would be fully reusable, rapidly reusable. a bit like an aeroplane.

the history of rocketry has been that you throw rockets away after one use, or you throw most of it away and only use some bits again. the whole thing would be totally reusable. and then you are talking about, to operate it, just the cost of the propellant. so again, total game change for cost, but also that immense lifting capacity. john. immense lifting capacity. john, thank ou immense lifting capacity. john, thank you for— immense lifting capacity. john, thank you for taking _ immense lifting capacity. john, thank you for taking us - immense lifting capacity. john, j thank you for taking us through immense lifting capacity. john, thank you for taking us through all of that. perhaps we will talk again in a couple of days if they have another go. let's turn to a really important report that we have from jonathan head, our correspondent. more than two years after the military seized power in myanmar, deposing the government led by aung san suu kyi, the country is trapped in a civil war. its economy is collapsing and the army is increasingly reliant on the air force — to attack rebel—held areas. we were reporting last week on that appalling attack on a village, which is believed to have killed at least 168 people. our south east asia correspondent jonathan head has been

allowed to visit myanmar for the first time since the coup. his movements were restricted to a limited number of places, and he was barred from contacting anyone in the opposition. much of myanmar is off—limits to visitors these days, but the military government did allow us to come here to inle lake, in shan state — in normal times, one of the country's most popular destinations. it's very quiet now. interviewing people directly is risky. you can be arrested for saying anything deemed negative. but the boatmen we met told us times have never been harder. "we never dreamt it would get this bad," they said. "we used to have freedom, then it ended so suddenly." well, we've been to several places along the lake and so far, i've seen only three other foreigners. for an area that is so dependent on it, the collapse of tourism here has been catastrophic — the economy is in terrible shape.

and it's worse than that for people living around here, because they say they have a deep, abiding loyalty to aung san suu kyi. they don't like the military takeover — although they don't say that openly — and they're worried that the armed groups resisting the military regime are operating closer and closer to the lake. "what we need," said one of them, "is peace". but there's little peace in myanmar. gunfire south of the lake, anti—coup insurgents were battling the army just two weeks before we arrived. in retaliation, more than 20 civilians were lined up against the walls of this monastery and shot. we're passing through a village called tangtong and we know that there was a clash between a volunteer militia here, anti—military, and the armed forces earlier this year and a number

of people were arrested. it was the first time they'd had armed clashes in this pretty popular tourist area and it shows just how widespread this insurgency has become. no—one in the market wanted to talk about it, though. instead, they complained about rocketing inflation, of not enough people spending money. back in yangon, there is an air of normality. yet, barricades surrounding the city hall hint at the underlying insecurity. there are still occasional ambushes and assassination attempts. thousands of political prisoners are still being held, many behind this gate at insein prison. one of them, a veteran activist released last november, was the only person willing to speak to us openly. translation: if the right to protest was restored i today, people would fill the streets again tomorrow.

from past experience, we know the people of myanmar will never accept any form of dictatorship. while on the lake, we were taken to one of myanmar�*s most revered pagodas. in the past, it would've been packed with visitors praying for good fortune. the crowds are much thinner now. a woman approached me and warned me to be careful. "it's not safe since the coup," she said. "we wish we could go back to how it was before." it's a forlorn hope. their military rulers keep telling them that there is no turning back. jonathan head, bbc news, inle lake, myanmar. let me tell you what is coming up, we'll get the latest on the conflict in sudan, it is getting worse. taste in sudan, it is getting worse. we will talk to _ in sudan, it is getting worse. we

will talk to the eu's special representative for the horn of africa, talk of the increase in hostilities in the area, random bombing and shooting from house to house. that's the backdrop. we will talk to the eu's special representative for the horn of africa next. after what seemed like ceaseless rain at times last week, this week is by comparison looking a lot quieter. for many of us, nothing significant in the way of rain to come until the end of the week. it could get quite lively into the weekend ahead. but sunshine won't always guarantee you warmth this week. high pressure across scandinavia will bring dry weather but also mean easterly winds across the uk, and that's quite a chilly direction at this time of year. by the end of the week, you start to see things becoming a little livelier towards the south—east. for the here and now, though, the easterly breeze, bringing in a line of low cloud, mist and murk off the north sea,

through the night, some quite grey starts initially across the eastern half of the uk. brightest first thing in the west. overnight lows somewhere between four and eight. between four and eight degrees. here we are on tuesday, the high still across scandinavia, easterly winds still affecting the southern half of the uk, a little weather system out there in the north sea ushering in some thicker cloud later in the day but much of the early mist and murk will burn off and through the middle of the day, i think almost wall—to—wall sunshine. come the afternoon, the thicker cloud into the south—east could produce one or two scattered showers. why is that easterly wind so cold in particular at this time of year? down to the temperature in the north sea. you're basically feeding in air on shore from the top of the north sea and at this time of year that's pretty cold, temperatures in the water 8 or 9 degrees and those are the figures will see along some of the spots in the north sea coast.

are the figures we'll see along some of the spots in the north sea coast. towards the west in the sunshine, with some shelter from the easterly breeze, 16, 17 possible, and that will feel quite warm. high pressure still across scandinavia as we look at wednesday and thursday. still some bits and pieces of thicker cloud being picked up from the north sea. chance of some showers perhaps further south for southern counties of england on wednesday, and favouring the south—west later in the afternoon. but a lot of sunshine as we look further north. again on the cooler side along the length of the north sea coast but towards the west and with the shelter, top temperatures sitting in the mid—teens. then for the rest of the week, it's kind of all downhill from thursday onwards. becoming unsettled in the south through friday and then rain i think spreading to most parts of the uk in time for the weekend.

live from london, this is bbc news. the russian opposition activist vladimir kara—murza is sentenced to 25 years in prison for treason. fighting between rival armed factions in sudan intensifies, with nearly a hundred people killed and hundreds more injured. a billion—dollar defamation trial between dominion, the voting systems firm, and fox news has been delayed by a day. and no—go — elon musk�*s spacex has cancelled the launch of its mammoth rocket starship.