yalda hakim, bbc news. lost relatives at sea, help others learn safety basics. the shuttle challenger exploded soon after lift—off. there were seven astronauts on board, one of them a woman schoolteacher. all of them are believed to have been killed. by the evening, tahrir square, the heart of official cairo, was in the hands of the demonstrators. they were using the word 'revolution'. the earthquake - singled out buildings and brought them down in seconds. _ tonight, the search for any survivors. has an increasing desperation about it as the hours pass. i the new government is firmly in control of the entire republic of uganda. survivors of the auschwitz concentration camp have been commemorating the 40th anniversary of their liberation. they toured the huts, gas chambers and crematoria and relived their horrifying experiences. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: prince andrew demands a trial byjury, in an ii—page official response to sexual abuse allegations. the wait goes on in westminster for the re

yalda hakim, bbc news. prince andrew is demanding a trial byjury. denied all the allegations against him as he gave a court in new york his official response to allegations of sexual assault. virginia giuffre accuses the duke of york of forcing her to have sex more than two decades ago at the london home of the convicted sex trafficker ghislaine maxwell. the ii—page document sets out the duke's detailed response, strongly denying that he abused ms giuffre when she was 17. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell has more details. across 11 pages, andrew's lawyers have set out his defence — a denial of the central allegation of sexual abuse made by virginia giuffre and an assertion in respect of others that andrew lacks sufficient information to either admit or deny what's been claimed. he says, for example, in relation to the widely publicised picture of the two of them, that he doesn't have enough information to admit or deny that there exists photographic evidence of his alleged meeting with miss giuffre. elsewhere, his lawyers assert that virgin

now on bbc news, yalda hakim travels back to afghanistan to find out what the country is like under taliban rule. last year, after 20 years of war, the taliban retook afghanistan. over 100,000 people fled. now, with access to the new taliban government, i want to find out what the country is like under their rule. they face a country shattered by war. the economy is close to collapse and millions face starvation. every baby and child in here is in a critical state and we just don't know if they are going to make it. and this one—time terrorist group now faces a new terror threat of its own. can the taliban form a government that can put their violent past behind them and help rebuild this broken country? the last time i was in afghanistan, it was two months before the taliban took kabul. almost everyone i met then — members of the former government, human rights activist and journalists — have since led the country in fear of reprisals from the new taliban government. with routes into the country beginning to reopen, i decided to head back to afghanistan to see for myself what life was like

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now on bbc news...yalda hakim travels back to afghanistan to find out what the country is like under

yalda hakim, bbc news, afghanistan.*nicola faith�* left its home port of conwy in search of whelks off the north wales coast. the three crew on board would never be seen alive again. now the families of those men — alan minard, ross ballantine and carl mcgrath — are working with the lifeboat service to improve safety at sea. chris dearden went to meet them. man overboard. this is only a training course, but next time it might be for real. these men and women work as fishing crews around the coast of wales, and they�*ve come to fleetwood in lancashire to be shown how to survive if they find themselves in rough waters. a lot easier with a life jacket on? a lot easier. how was it the first - time round without one? hard work. did you expect it to be as hard? yeah, because there�*s a lot of weighty gear on. but i didn�*t expect it to be that hard, to be honest. you can relax a lot more, i you can breathe and you can just float around. just shows how well these life jackets actually work. i wouldn't like to be in the water w