All passengers and crew on a flight which crashed and overturned while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada have survived, the airport’s chief executive has said.
“We are very grateful there was no loss of life and relatively minor injuries,” said Deborah Flint of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority.
One child and two adults were critically injured in the crash, according to emergency services and images shared on social media show a plane flipped over and lying on its roof on the snow-covered tarmac. It appears to be missing at least one of its wings.
Toronto Pearson Airport said the crash involved a Delta Air Lines flight arriving from Minneapolis, and of the 80 people on board, 76 were passengers and four were crew.
Eighteen passengers have been transported to hospital in total.
Ontario air ambulance service Ornge said it haddispatched three air ambulance helicopters and two land ambulances to the scene.
The patients with critical injuries include a child, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 40s, it added.
Toronto Pearson Airport president and CEO, Deborah Flint, in an evening briefing, called the response by emergency personnel “textbook” and credited them with helping ensure no loss of life.
The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) said the plane involved was Delta Air Lines Flight 4819, being operated by one of its subsidiaries, Endeavor Air.
Delta confirmed that a CRJ900 aircraft was involved in the incident at about 14:15 ET (19:15 GMT) on Monday afternoon.
Twenty-two of the passengers are Canadian, the rest are “multinational”, Ms Flint said.
The airport was closed shortly after the incident, but flights into and out of Toronto Pearson resumed at about 17:00 local time, the airport said.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) said it was deploying a team to “gather information and assess the occurrence”.
Two runways will remain closed for several days for investigation and passengers have been told to expect some delays.
Toronto Pearson fire chief Todd Aitken said on Monday night that it is early in the investigation but they can say “the runway was dry and there was no cross-wind conditions”.
That contradicts earlier reports of wind gusts over 40mph (64km/h) and a crosswind.
Video footage shared on social media shows people clambering out of the overturned aircraft, with fire crews spraying it with foam.
“We’re in Toronto, we just landed. Our plane crashed, it’s upside down,” said one man as he filmed a video taken from outside the upturned plane.
The video shows passengers being helped out of the plane’s doors by airport staff, with some then running away from the plane’s entrance.
“Most people appear to be OK. We’re all getting off, there’s some smoke going on,” he can be heard saying.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said provincial officials are in contact with the airport and local authorities and will provide any help that’s needed.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said he was “grateful to the first responders and professionals on the scene”.
After the crash, the airport’s arrival and departure boards showed scores of delays and cancellations to flights.
Some passengers told the BBC that they were now stuck in Toronto for several days after their flights were cancelled, with none available on Monday or Tuesday.
James and Andrea Turner were in customs – located right before the departure gates – when they were suddenly told to evacuate.
“They got rid of everybody from customs to security, and then put everybody back to the general area,” James said, adding that the departures hall was packed as a result.
The couple had been due to board the plane that crashed on the runway. Their flight was then cancelled – the third delay to their trip, after their previous journeys were rescheduled due to bad weather.
Toronto Pearson Airport had been experiencing weather-related delays over the last few days, with heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures battering parts of Ontario.
Two storms – one on Wednesday and one on Sunday – covered the city with a total of 30-50cm (11.8-19.6 inches) of snow.
The BBC’s US partner CBS reports that there was light snow falling at the time of the crash.
Earlier on Monday, the airport warned that “frigid temperatures and high winds were moving in”.
It said a “busy day” was expected, with airlines “catching up after this weekend’s snowstorm which dumped over 22cm of snow at the airport”.
A “Wonderful Mum” balloon was left outside the pub among the tributes
A woman who was shot dead outside a Kent pub on Valentine’s Day has been identified by police as Lisa Smith.
Tributes to Ms Smith, 43, from Slough, have been left at the scene of the fatal shooting outside the Three Horseshoes pub in Knockholt shortly after 19:00 GMT on Friday.
Flowers and balloons – including one for “Wonderful Mum” – were accompanied by messages such as “rest in peace” and “fly high, pretty lady”.
Police said they found a vehicle containing a gun on the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, which crosses the River Thames, near Dartford.
Detectives are investigating the possibility that the suspect entered the water.
Officers are continuing to search areas of the River Thames, police added.
Meanwhile, detectives believe the suspect was known to the victim.
The force also said call handlers had received reports of a man “on the wrong side of the barrier” on the Dartford Bridge on Friday.
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The shooting happened outside the pub on Friday evening
Rev Tim Edwards, vicar of St Katherine’s church in Knockholt, told BBC Radio Kent how he heard about the shooting.
“I had a text message from one of my church wardens” he said, “and my immediate reaction was ‘no, that must be a misunderstanding, that doesn’t make sense.’
“As I’ve spoken to people, that sort of feeling has been replicated.
“There is a sense of shock, that is the word that every single person I have spoken to has used.
“It just doesn’t feel real, this sort of thing doesn’t happen. It’s the sort of thing you see on television, it’s not the sort of thing you see here in your own village.”
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Flowers, balloons, messages and energy drinks have been left at the scene
He added the community was “doing what village communities do” by supporting each other, “pulling together and looking after one another”.
Paul was told bailiffs were chasing an advertising debt
A man has described how criminals pretending to be bailiffs almost tricked him into paying thousands of pounds to settle a fictitious debt as part of an elaborate scam.
In what has been reported as a growing problem, people are phoned up and told bailiffs are on the way to their home to remove their possessions and that the only way to call them off is to settle the debt with a local court.
A convincing fake of the court’s phone service then tries to take payment with the criminals hoping the panic of the approaching bailiffs will persuade them to part with their cash.
“I answered the call and he then proceeded to say he was a bailiff and he was ringing because there’d been a county court judgment against me the previous summer in Worcester Crown Court and I owed £2,950 plus his fee of £970,” he said.
He was then told: “‘The boys and I are going to come round later today to collect furniture from your house to the value of the finding.'”
The man on the phone told Paul, who rents out holiday cottages on his farm, the debt related to unpaid social media marketing fees.
“I was astonished and terrified, actually, at the same time,” he said.
The man gave Paul a number to contact the court for details.
Although the number was bogus, Paul encountered the court’s genuine automated switchboard message – which the criminals had duplicated to make the scam more convincing.
When he was put through to someone, Paul was told he had unpaid “marketing expenses”.
He then received what looked like genuine court documents by email – which have been shared with the BBC – detailing the debts that had apparently built up.
Paul was emailed what was claimed to be official court documents
Paul was asked to transfer the money to the personal bank account of a “court appointed adviser” who was working as a freelancer.
“At this point, alarm bells were ringing loud and clear,” he said.
Paul then searched online for the correct contact number for the court, and realised the one he had been given was wrong, just as another email asking for payment arrived, from an unlikely-looking dot com email address.
“All the way through all of this, I keep having phone calls from the alleged bailiff wanting me to tell him that I had sent the money,” he said.
“He said not until the money has been sent will he call off the action of the guys with the fists who would come around and steal all my furniture.”
‘Panic mode’
Victoria, who lives in Cheshire, was also targeted with the scam.
When her phone rang, she was told the “enforcement officers” were 40 minutes away and were coming to remove items from her home.
“I kind of went into panic mode,” she said.
The man told her he couldn’t discuss details over the phone, but would give her the details of Chester County Court who she could call for an explanation.
“I was on the phone for ages,” said Victoria.
“I couldn’t get through. So because I couldn’t get through and the bailiff was on the way, I was panicking even more.”
She said she was able to get through to another man, also a scammer, who told her she had built up debt through Google advertising – and because she remembered speaking to Google several years ago, this seemed plausible.
Victoria, who works for a funeral business, had never actually bought Google advertising, but the man told her she had used a free trial and failed to cancel it.
Victoria was told she should have appeared in court and that there was a warrant out for her arrest.
“I just wanted to send the money over there and then,” she said.
“As I was on my computer setting it up another bailiff rang me and he was on his way and he was the nasty bailiff, he was the horrible bailiff.
“He was just saying that he was now 10 minutes away and he was coming to clear the property and to get the bank transfer done as soon as possible.”
As she set up the payment on her online banking, her husband had searched online for the correct number for the court and called it – but was number 30 in the queue.
“He was walking out the room saying he would never speak to me again if I sent the money,” she said.
“And I just wanted to stop the bailiffs.”
A warning on Victoria’s online bank that the details she’d been given were for a personal – not a business – account sowed the first seeds of doubt in her mind – just as her husband got through to the genuine court who told them not to pay.
‘Tip of the iceberg’
It was a near miss for both Paul and Victoria.
“They sort of almost had me,” said Paul.
“You go into a mode of shock where you’re not really thinking terribly clearly.
“And also there was sufficient plausibility in some of it because they claimed that I’d failed to pay marketing expenses for the holiday cottage business that I do actually run. And they’d rung me on my mobile number and they knew my name.
“There were a few question marks where it felt as though it could have been real – sufficient to make me terrified…”
The Ministry of Justice said it was a criminal offence to impersonate a bailiff, and that anyone receiving a similar call should hang up and find the correct number for the court.
Sarah Naylor, from the trade body for bailiffs, the Civil Enforcement Association, said there had been an increase in the number of reports her organisation received about these tactics, and that these were likely to be the tip of the iceberg as few victims would think to notify genuine bailiffs after being scammed.
“These scam companies work on the basis of urgency and fear,” she said.
Genuine enforcement officers will always reschedule and allow people time to check details, she said, and would never only offer one payment option.
“Take a breath and reflect,” she advised anyone receiving a similar call.
“Does this seem right? Is this the first you’ve heard about it? Does it seem suspicious? Keep calm and understand more about the debt and if that individual isn’t helping you with that, then it’s very likely that they’re not a legitimate enforcement agent.”
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Baftas 2025: Catch up on the big winners in 100 seconds
With two major musicals in the awards race this year, it was only right that host David Tennant opened the Bafta Film Awards with a tune of his own.
The Scottish star kicked off proceedings with a storming rendition of The Proclaimers’ 500 Miles, featuring contributions from Selena Gomez, Colman Domingo, Anna Kendrick, Hugh Grant and Camila Cabello.
The energy remained high throughout the ceremony, which saw Conclave and The Brutalist take the most prizes with four each.
Backstage, the stars were in equally good spirits, even if a few of them were jet-lagged, hungry, and remarking on how heavy the Bafta trophy is to carry around.
Here are eight highlights from the winners’ room:
1. Mikey Madison took Robert De Niro’s advice too seriously
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When Anora star Mikey Madison collected the best actress award, she started by admitting to the audience that she hadn’t prepared a speech.
Backstage, she jokingly blamed this on Robert De Niro, whom she recently appeared with on The Graham Norton Show.
“I just wish that I’d had a better speech,” she said.
“I was on a talk show and Robert De Niro told me not to write a speech and I thought, I should probably listen to him. And I forgot to thank so many important people.”
On The Graham Norton Show last week, Robert De Niro (left) advised Mikey Madison (right) not to prepare a speech
Madison was overwhelmed but overjoyed with the recognition from Bafta.
“I think I’m a little disassociated right now,” she says, “I love making movies, and being an actress is my dream, and for my film to be recognised like this is incredibly special.
“I don’t know if I’ll ever fully grasp the magnitude of being in a room like that, full of my idols, incredible creatives who I admire so much.”
2. Wallace and Gromit directors proud of ‘Anton Deck’
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Merlin Crossingham (right) said US audiences understandably didn’t get the film’s joke about Ant & Dec
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl won two prizes for its producer Richard Beek and directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham. The trio brought their famous characters along with them to the ceremony
Crossingham reflected on the fact that stories about a cheese enthusiast and his loyal but long-suffering dog always seem to go down so well in the US, despite the films firmly rooted in UK culture.
“It is remarkable that our very Britishness is embraced in America,” he told journalists.
He highlighted one particular reference in Vengeance Most Fowl: the TV presenter in the film is called Anton Deck, a reference to Geordie duo Ant & Dec.
“There are some jokes, like Anton Deck, which are very British. In the American screenings, there was complete silence apart from one Brit guffawing in the corner.
“But we’re very proud of that, we stick to our guns. Apart from one or two very specific gags like that, it seems to be embraced.
“And even if they’re laughing at us, not with us, if they’re laughing, we’re still happy about that.”
3. Jesse Eisenberg is embracing the UK
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Jesse Eisenberg, who won best original screenplay for A Real Pain, walked into the winners’ room carrying his Bafta and asking journalists: “Am I expected to hold this heavy thing the whole time?”
After being reassured he was allowed to put it down as he answered questions, he reflected on the fact that the screenwriting prizes he’s won for A Real Pain have both been in the UK.
“The other award I won for this was the London Film Critics prize, so I must be living the wrong country,” he joked.
“My background is playwright, and when one of my plays transferred to the West End it was far more popular. I don’t know what it is, maybe I’m a novelty here and in America I’m boring.”
Eisenberg was also asked about his relationship with co-star Kieran Culkin, who won best supporting actor. But, he said, it’s not as close as people might imagine.
“In terms of our dynamic, I’ll text him today and say, ‘hey you won the Bafta, I’m so proud of you’. And then three weeks later my phone will buzz and it’ll be [Culkin saying]: ‘Hey, I just got this, thanks’.”
“That’s the closeness with which you imagine we live.”
4. Zoe Saldaña enjoyed ‘jumping into the unknown’
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Zoe Saldaña continued her awards season sweep of the best supporting actress category with another win at Bafta, despite the recent controversies faced by her film Emilia Pérez.
Backstage, she reflected on her biggest number in the Spanish-language musical, El Mal, which is also up for best original song at the Oscars.
“Not getting in my own way was the challenge,” she said of shooting it. “Sometimes you can become very heady about something and you overthink it.
“What you have to do is trust the process… Rehearsing the dance was about reconnecting with a part of me I had missed so much but I had since let go of for more than 20 years.
“Reconnecting with that, dusting off all those cobwebs and jumping into the unknown was what needed to happen.”
Asked about the importance of performing the musical in Spanish, she replies: “It’s my first language, I was spoken to first, sung to first, in Spanish.
“We love we live, we fight, we work, in Spanish. And my art has [previously] only lived in a very English way. So that yearning to connect my culture with my art was meaningful to me.”
5. Warwick Davis thought he was being scammed
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Warwick Davis was the recipient of this year’s Bafta Fellowship, the British Academy’s highest honour.
“It’s very overwhelming, this whole thing,” he said. “You win the award and then you have to talk to loads of people, feeling very shiny.”
(Everyone was feeling sweaty backstage by this point.)
Asked about the moment he heard he was this year’s winner, Davis said: “I was on the toilet when I found out!
“[Bafta] notified me by email, and I do most of my administration work on the toilet. I might call it paperwork but then you’d get the wrong idea,” he jokes.
“Then I got an email from Bafta saying I’d won the fellowship, and I got all excited, and then it suddenly dawned on me, is this a fake email? Some sort of scam?
“So I clicked on the email address, and it really was Bafta. Then I finished up at the loo, you probably didn’t need that detail, and then went and celebrated with the kids.”
6. Adrien Brody reflects on career surge
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Adrien Brody’s reaction to winning best actor might have been slightly hampered by how hungry he is.
“I haven’t eaten anything yet, so I’m not sure how I’m feeling, but I’m so happy to be here,” he says backstage.
Brody is asked about the surge his career has enjoyed in recent months thanks to The Brutalist, more than two decades after his last awards run for The Pianist.
“The beauty of being an actor is that any life experience, and there have been many since [The Pianist], anything you’ve experienced is so valuable in shaping a sense of understanding,” he reflects.
“So the moments of triumph, loss, complexity along your path, they give you an ability to represent those more truthfully and authentically in your work.
“I’m just so grateful to have had this meaningful opportunity come my way, I’ve been yearning for this for a long time.
“I’ve been working very hard. It’s not for a lack of hard work, but there are so many magical things that have to happen for a film to achieve greatness and I’m so happy that all of those things conspired on The Brutalist.”
And with that, he’s off to have some supper.
7. Edward Berger likens Conclave cast to an orchestra
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Conclave won best film and best British film, becoming the first movie to take the top two prizes since 1917 (the film, not the year).
“I am so humbled and so grateful to be welcomed here so openly with such warmth and open arms,” its German director Edward Berger says of the UK. “Basically, I just want to live here, I’m never going to leave.”
He likens the cast of Pope drama Conclave, which includes Stanley Tucci, Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossallini, to an orchestra.
“No-one really knows [why a cast works so well], but you have a hunch, so there’s a lot of discussion – we put pictures up on the wall and it just felt like a good combination,” he explained.
“They were all believable cardinals, all different nationalities and accents, it just felt they were all different instruments in a big musical piece.”
8. Brady Corby is optimisitic for the film industry
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The Brutalist’s Brady Corbet might have won best director, but he said he was slightly too “jet-lagged and exhausted” to fully process it.
As much as he’s enjoying awards season, he notes: “It’ll be amazing when it’s done, I’m looking forward to getting back to work.”
Corbet is not shy of hard work – making the Brutalist was famously a labour of love which took several years. “We basically just didn’t sleep,” he says. “I haven’t had a day off in years.”
Now that awards campaigning is in its final phase however, with voting for the Oscars closing on Monday, he should finally get some down time. “The week leading up to the Oscars is actually pretty quiet, I’m looking forward to it.”
The Brutalist, a 3.5-hour film with an intermission, has been a relative box office success despite its intimidating duration.
“I’m not trying to teach anyone a lesson or anything,” he says, “but I do think it’s good for the ecosystem that a film like this which is completely uncompromised – I don’t like too many cooks in my kitchen – for that to have made $30m globally so far, that’s exciting.
“All the things you’re told not to do, when those films are proven to be commercially viable, and people want original, daring movies, it makes me feel more optimistic than usual.'”
At least nine people have died over the weekend, as torrential downpours drenched parts of the south-eastern US, submerging roads and houses.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said eight people had died in his state and suggested at a news conference on Sunday that the total could go up.
Hundreds of people stranded in flood waters, many stuck in their cars, had been rescued, and Beshear warned residents to “stay off the roads right now and stay alive”.
In Georgia, the ninth death was recorded after a man lying in his bed was struck by an uprooted tree that crashed into his home.
Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina were under some type of storm-related alert this weekend. Almost all of those states suffered catastrophic damage in September from Hurricane Helene.
Between the eight states, more than half a million households were without power on Sunday night, according to poweroutage.us.
A bulk of the death and destruction appears to have occurred in Kentucky, where a mother and her seven-year-old child and a 73-year-old man were among the dead.
Some parts of Kentucky received up to 6in (15cm) of rain, National Weather Service (NWS) figures show, resulting in widespread flooding issues.
The rapid influx of rain caused river levels to rise quickly and trapped vehicles in feet of water, images posted online show.
Governor Beshear wrote on X that there were over 300 road closures.
He also said that he had written to the White House requesting an emergency disaster declaration and federal funds for affected areas, according to the BBC’s partner CBS News.
President Donald Trump approved the declaration on Sunday, authorising the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), which he has suggested abolishing, to co-ordinate disaster relief efforts.
Officials have cautioned that the worst of the flooding is not over yet.
“The rivers are still going to rise,” Eric Gibson, director of the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management, said on Sunday.
Bob Oravec, a senior forecaster with the NWS, said: “The effects will continue for a while, a lot of swollen streams and a lot of flooding going on.”
In Obion County, Tennessee, heavy rains there caused a levee to break, “resulting in rapid onset flooding”, a local NWS account said on X.
“If you are in the area, GET TO HIGH GROUND NOW! This is a LIFE THREATENING situation,” the post said.
The town of Rives along the Obion River was deluged from the breached flood barrier.
Footage shows brown water rushing over rocks and past trees, as rescue workers in red boats pass flooded homes.
Steve Carr, the Obion County mayor, declared a state of emergency on Facebook and said there would be mandatory evacuations in Rives because of “the rising water, no electricity, and freezing temperature creating a life-threatening situation”.
Located north-east of Memphis, Rives has a population of roughly 300.
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey issued a state of emergency in 10 counties on Saturday and added another three counties to the list on Sunday.
“Please continue to be cautious,” Morrisey said on X.
Kristi Noem, head of the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Fema, said she had been in contact with both Governors Beshear and Morrisey, and left voicemails with Governors Bill Lee of Tennessee and Kay Ivey of Alabama.
“While emergency management is best led by local authorities, we reinforced that DHS stands ready to take immediate action to offer resources and support,” Noem said.
Meteorologists have also warned that a polar vortex is making its way early this week towards the northern Rocky Mountains and northern Plains in the middle of the country.
In Colorado, temperatures could drop to as low as 14F (-10C), with the city of Denver reportedly opening shelters for its homeless population this weekend.
It comes after a separate gold mine in south-west Mali (pictured) flooded in late January
More than 40 people, mostly women, were killed after an illegal gold mine collapsed in Mali on Saturday.
The collapse took place near Kéniéba, in Mali’s western, gold-rich Kayes region.
The victims had climbed into open-pit areas left by industrial miners to look for scraps of gold when the earth around them caved in, a gold miner’s union leader told Reuters.
Reports of the exact number who died in Saturday’s accident are conflicting.
A local police source told the AFP news agency that 48 people were killed in the collapse, while the head of an industry union told Reuters there were 43 victims.
“Some of the victims fell into the water. Among them was a woman with her baby on her back,” the local police source told AFP.
Mali is one of the biggest gold producers in the world. Accidents are common in the country as much mining activity is unregulated, with miners using unsafe methods to dig for gold.
A spokesperson from the country’s mines ministry confirmed to Reuters that the accident had taken place between the towns of Kéniéba and Dabia, but declined to give further details.
Ministry teams are drawing up a report at the scene, Reuters reports.
The collapse on Saturday occurred at an abandoned site formerly operated by a Chinese company, according to AFP.
Beijing is heavily invested in developing Mali’s mining industries, with the approval of its government.
Mali is currently engaged in a dispute over revenue sharing with one of the largest mining companies in the country, the Canadian firm Barrick.
Last month, the Malian government seized gold bars worth $245m (£194m) from Barrick and issued an arrest warrant for its CEO, Mark Bristow.
Mr Bristow said he had “no doubt” the conflict would be resolved in an interview with Bloomberg this week.
Crowds join deadly ‘stampede’ at New Delhi railway station
On Sunday morning, the New Delhi Railway Station in India’s capital looked much like it always does; bustling, with its many platforms full of eager, impatient passengers waiting to catch their trains.
According to officials, two trains had been delayed at the station, while a third – heading to Prayagraj city where the massive Hindu religious festival, Kumbh Mela, is being held – was waiting to depart as people pushed against each other.
The crush occurred after “a passenger slipped and fell on the stairs”, a spokesperson for Indian Railways said.
Opposition leaders have criticised the government, alleging that Indian Railways did not make adequate arrangements to manage crowds at the station.
An investigation has been launched, and authorities have announced compensation for the victims.
When asked by the BBC about safety and security at the station, Pankaj Gangwar, Principal Chief Security Commissioner of Northern Railway, said “let the investigation be completed first”.
Crowds at the railway station were also not unexpected – trains are by far the cheapest long-distance mode of transport in India and it is common for the number of passengers to far exceed the capacity of trains.
Shilam Devi (left) and Pinky Devi were among 18 people who died in the crush
Eyewitnesses and the families of victims have been recounting their ordeal. Many of them were angry at authorities and police officials at the railway station, who they say did not act in time.
Some eyewitnesses said the crush was not limited to one place but took place on the overhead bridge, staircases and platforms.
Bipin Jha was at the station to meet his wife Mamta, who was arriving on a train. She died in the crush.
“I met her at the platform and we were walking on the footbridge overhead when she was trapped in the crush. She died in front of my eyes. I will live my life with the guilt of not saving her,” he says.
“We were on the stairs, suddenly we felt a push from behind. We fell, along with many others, and were trapped under bodies. I was barely breathing,” said Seema, whose sister-in law Pinky Devi died on the staircase.
Usha Devi, who was travelling to the eastern state of Bihar for her nephew’s wedding, said chaos erupted the moment she reached the platform.
“Many people fell. Everywhere, there were scattered belongings, food items and clothes. I was on the verge of fainting. So many people were collapsing. The crowd was so dense that we couldn’t board our train.”
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Umesh Giri, whose wife Shilam Devi died in the crush, says the crowd was uncontrollable.
Umesh Giri’s wife Shilam Devi was among the victims.
“The crowd became uncontrollable,” he told BBC Hindi while waiting outside the mortuary at Delhi’s Maulana Azad Medical College.
“I saw several bodies already lying there. People were colliding with each other, and others started falling over them,” said Mr Giri, who was also injured.
He added that help took time to arrive and that he pleaded with officers for help.
Senior police and railway officials at the scene did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment.
The bodies were taken to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital in New Delhi
Most of the victims were taken to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital in New Delhi, where police and paramilitary forces were deployed, and railway authorities had set up a help desk to assist families. Journalists were not allowed to enter the hospital on Saturday.
Relatives of victims shared their grief with reporters waiting outside, while also expressing anger at the facilities in the hospital.
“Multiple people were crammed onto a single bed,” alleged Shobha, the sister-in-law of Shilam Devi.
Others coming out of the hospital also confirmed this. Hospital authorities did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment.
At Lady Hardinge Hospital, the grieving family of Riya, 7, completed the paperwork so they could receive her body.
“No child deserves to die like this”, her uncle Vivek said, wiping away tears.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is working in “full cooperation” with the US on a “common strategy” for Gaza, after talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Netanyahu praised US President Donald Trump’s “bold vision” for Gaza’s future and said he and Rubio had discussed ways to “ensure that future becomes a reality”.
Rubio said the plan may have “shocked and surprised” people, but that it took “courage” for Trump to propose an alternative to the “tired ideas” of the past.
Rubio is visiting Israel on his first tour of the Middle East as the US’s top diplomat. He also plans to meet Russian officials in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
Speaking at a news conference in Jerusalem after their meeting, Rubio and Netanyahu outlined areas of agreement, including a desire to eradicate Hamas’s governing capacity, prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, and to monitor developments in a post-Assad Syria.
Netanyahu also condemned what he called “lawfare” from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which he said “outrageously libelled” Israel.
He thanked the US administration for issuing sanctions against the ICC, which last year issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu over alleged war crimes in Gaza – which Israel denies – as well as a top Hamas commander.
The US and Israel had a common position on Gaza, Netanyahu said, as he warned that the “gates of hell” would be opened if all Israeli hostages were not released.
“Hamas can not continue as a military or government force,” Rubio added. “And as long as it stands as a force that can govern or administer or a force that can threaten by use of violence, peace becomes impossible.”
Rubio’s visit comes after a shipment of American-made heavy bombs arrived in Israel overnight.
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz said his country had received a delivery of MK-84 bombs from the US late on Saturday, after Trump overturned a block on exporting the munitions placed by his predecessor, Joe Biden.
Biden initially shipped thousands of MK-84s to Israel after Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack, but later declined to clear the bombs for export out of concern for their impact on Gaza. The powerful 2,000-pound bombs have a wide blast radius and can rip through concrete and metal, destroying entire buildings.
Katz said the shipment represented a “significant asset” for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and served as evidence of the “strong alliance between Israel and the United States”.
Fears had been high that the fragile ceasefire agreement in Gaza could collapse, after a dispute over a planned hostage release, which was nearly aborted but ultimately went ahead on Saturday.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds: We need guarantees on steel jobs and profitability
The UK and US have a “mutual interest” in negotiating an exemption for the UK from President Donald Trump’s planned export tariffs on steel, the business secretary has said.
Jonathan Reynolds told the BBC the impact of the 25% tariffs which could come into force in March “would be negative for ourselves, it would be negative for the US as well”.
He said the UK was in a different trading position to other nations and could offer “very specialised” steel and aluminium exports the US needs, such as Navy submarine casings that are made in Sheffield while tariffs would push up costs for US taxpayers.
Reynolds’ comments on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme came after the government promised up to £2.5bn in support for the UK steel industry.
President Trump has said the tariffs would be enforced “without exceptions or exemptions”.
However, Reynolds told the BBC he has had “some very constructive conversations with key people in the Trump administration recognising our relationship is different”, including the special envoy to the UK, Mark Burnett, and the director of the US National Economic Council, Kevin Hasssett.
He told the programme he thought there was a basis for “constructive engagement” between the UK and US but “I’m not saying it’s easy”.
He added: “I appreciate they have a mandate for changing how they approach the issues of trade, but we have got a different argument, a different story to tell, to the EU or to China in relation to our trading relationships,” he said.
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Reynolds was also asked about 2,000 jobs under threat at British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant, where there is a plan to close blast furnaces.
While he said he would expect some guarantees on jobs if the government was investing in the industry, he accepted that there would be a “reduction in head count” with the introduction of new technologies.
As the government committed to provide up to £2.5bn support, it also launched a consultation on the Plan for Steel to look at long-term issues facing the industry.
The government’s Plan for Steel will include measures that seek to bring down the cost of production and encourage the use of domestic steel in infrastructure projects.
Trump’s plan to impose a 25% tariff on all steel imports from 12 March is something the UK sector fears would cost it millions in trade.
Both countries report trade surpluses with each other owing to measurement differences, according to the UK’s Office for National Statistics. Trump had previously said tariffs would target countries that the US run a deficit with.
Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith said the “uncertainty” the steel industry faced due to US tariffs was something the government “has been entirely silent on when instead they should be talking to the US, our closest trading partner”.
The plan will address issues that have been “holding the industry back for too long”, the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) said.
These include:
Identifying opportunities to expand steel production
Encouraging the use of UK-made steel in public infrastructure projects
Improving scrap processing facilities
Investing in electric arc furnaces, which are less energy-intensive than blast furnaces and take out the need for high carbon-emitting coke
The consultation will also examine electricity costs for steel companies “to make the UK competitive globally”, and how to protect the sector from unfair trading practices abroad, such as cheap imports flooding the market, the DBT added.
However it did not make a firm commitment to reduce energy bills in launching its plan.
The government has already said it would not retaliate immediately to the tariffs announced by Trump.
UK Steel, which represents the industry, has said the tariffs would be a “devastating blow” that would damage the sector’s £400m-a-year contribution to UK-US trade.
The UK is not a big supplier of steel to the US, with the country accounting for about 10% of British steel exports.
But there are concerns within the industry the tariffs might not just hinder exports to the US, but also lead to excess steel being “dumped” in the UK.
This could occur if other countries no longer exporting to the US decide to offload steel at cheaper prices, which could potentially lead to UK steelmaking businesses being undercut.
Financial support could benefit Scotland and areas such as Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, Rotherham in South Yorkshire and Redcar in North Yorkshire “which have a strong history of steel production”, the DBT said.
Help will be available through the National Wealth Fund, which partners the government with the private sector and local authorities to finance infrastructure and other projects.
The UK steel industry has faced heavy job losses in recent years.
Tata Steel said it was replacing traditional blast furnaces with an electric arc furnace at its largest UK site in Port Talbot, Wales. Traditional steelmaking at the site ceased in September, resulting in 2,800 job cuts.
The GMB union said the government’s plan to support the “beleaguered” steel industry provided “desperately needed” funding after “years of dithering”.
“As the world becomes more volatile, primary domestic steel making capacity is vital for both our economy and domestic security,” the union’s national secretary Andy Prendergast added.
Gareth Stace, director-general of UK Steel, said the government’s commitment to the industry was “both vital and welcome”.
Information gathered in the consultation will be used to help form a “steel strategy”, to be launched in the spring.
Stace added a robust strategy “has the power to reverse the sector’s decline, particularly as we face increasing competition from imports benefiting from more favourable business conditions”.
Griffiths said he looked forward to seeing a detailed plan, but added “a clear part must be steps to reduce the cost of energy which is placing an intolerable strain on UK steel”.
The Liberal Democrats have said the government urgently needs to prepare for retaliatory tariff. The party’s deputy leader Daisy Cooper said the UK steel industry was being left “dangerously exposed to Donald Trump and the devastating damage his tariffs could do”.
Reynolds: No durable peace in Ukraine without European involvement
There can be “no durable peace” in Ukraine without European nations, particularly Ukrainians, taking part in talks to end the war with Russia, the business secretary has told the BBC.
Jonathan Reynolds downplayed divisions between the US and its allies over resolving the conflict, after concerns over the Trump administration moving ahead with peace talks that would lock out European countries, including Ukraine.
In response, European leaders, including Sir Keir Starmer, will meet in Paris on Monday, while US officials prepare to meet Russian negotiators.
Reynolds told the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme the UK could act as a “bridge” between the US and Europe to strengthen relations.
Reynolds also told the programme, hosted by Victoria Derbyshire, the UK and Europe had to respond to US demands for them to pay more towards their “collective defence” in the face of “greater threats”.
He said the UK government would set out a roadmap to increase defence spending from 2.3% to 2.5% of national output, but declined to offer a definitive timetable.
Pressed on whether the 2.5% figure would be sufficient, Reynolds said any decision would take threats to national security into account.
Asked if the threat had “just got bigger without the US”, he said there was “no doubt” it had.
Reynolds said he thought the UK could “play a constructive role” as a bridge between the US and Europe “as we adjust to this new era, and it certainly is a new era”.
But he added there had not been a “fundamental breach” in relations and there was “still a great deal of common ground”.
The business secretary did concede it would not “be it easy, there’s a very assertive agenda from the US.”
Asked what he made of the UK and European nations not being invited to the US-Russian talks, Reynolds said US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth had made clear “everything is still on the table”.
“We shouldn’t rule out potential outcomes,” he added.
He argued Europe and Ukraine would have to be involved for any peace settlement to be lasting.
“Ultimately [President Trump] is somebody who likes to win, and winning would not be rewarding a war of aggression,” he said.
On Saturday, Sir Keir said that the emergency summit in Paris was a “once-in-a-generation moment for our national security” and it was clear Europe must take a greater role in Nato.
He added that the UK would work “to keep the US and Europe together” and could not allow divisions between the two to distract from “external enemies”.
Plans for the summit came after Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said European leaders would be consulted but not take part in any talks between US and Russia over ending the war.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the meeting should not be “over-dramatised”.
Senior White House figures are due to meet Russian negotiators in Saudi Arabia in the coming days. US officials said that Ukraine was also invited – although President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country has received no such invitation.
Also talking to Victoria Derbyshire, Conservative shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel said it was “too premature to make assumptions” about the way Ukraine peace talks were heading.
“We all have to have very, very cold and calm heads right now, primarily because this conflict is still raging.”
She said Ukrainians should be the ones determining their future because the war was about their “independence and sovereignty”.
Asked if she supported President Trump’s proposal that Ukraine give up territory to end the conflict, she said: “We have to understand in more detail what they are saying, it’s too easy to generalise.
“It’s very early days in those talks, and I think right now, the United Kingdom, along with Nato allies, we must continue to be firm and solid and strong in that support we’re giving.”
Dame Priti added that as a priority, the UK needed to step up its spending on defence.
Dame Priti Patel says calm heads are needed with regards to the Ukraine-Russia war
Appearing on the same programme, Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice said it was “no surprise” Trump and his team were taking “a completely different” approach by putting “everything up for grabs” in terms of Ukraine.
He described it as a “massive wake-up call” for European leaders to take responsibility for their own defence.
Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay said Ukraine had to be “at the front and centre” of any peace talks.
He warned that the US moves could leave Ukraine and the rest of Europe “at risk of future Russian aggression”.
Karin von Hippel, former director at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), said she did not think Trump would “sell Ukraine down the river” and European nations should “stay calm”.
Meanwhile, Conservative former Prime Minister Sir John Major has warned democracy is under threat as the US steps back from its leading role in the world.
He told BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend Trump’s policy of “isolation” was creating a power vacuum which would embolden countries like Russia and China to fill it.
Sir John said: “Many of the gains we made over recent years, when the Soviet Union collapsed, are now being reversed and you see a very aggressive Russia again in Ukraine.
“And if they were to succeed with their venture in Ukraine, no doubt they’d be elsewhere before too long.”
The shooting took place outside the Three Horseshoes pub on Friday evening
Police are investigating whether a suspect wanted after the fatal shooting of a woman outside a pub on Valentine’s Day may have entered the River Thames.
The woman, who was in her 40s, died at the scene of the attack, which happened at the Three Horseshoes in Knockholt, Kent, just after 19:00 GMT on Friday.
Police later found a vehicle that contained a gun on the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, which crosses the River Thames, near Dartford.
The force said it was not ruling out the possibility the man may have entered the water after it received reports of a man “on the wrong side of the barrier”.
The woman has not been formally identified but police said her attacker was known to her.
It is thought both people were not from Kent but had connections to the local area.
A Kent Police spokesperson said: “Officers continue to work with the families of both parties involved to support them following this tragic incident.”
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Flowers have been left outside the pub in Knockholt where the woman died
BBC reporter Ben Schofield, at the scene in Main Road, Knockholt, on Sunday, said more information was “gradually becoming available” on what happened.
Villagers recalled hearing gunshots “ringing out” at about 19:00 GMT on Friday.
Police said they were looking for one suspect and did not believe there was an ongoing risk to the public.
Flowers have been left outside the village pub, located about five miles (8km) north-west of Sevenoaks.
In a statement posted on its Facebook page, the Three Horseshoes pub expressed its “sincere condolences to the victim’s family and friends” and reopened on Sunday.
BBC Reporter Ben Schofield is outside the pub in Knockholt
Meanwhile, local reverend Tim Edwards said prayers were being offered at St Katherine’s Church in Knockholt “for the family and all affected”.
He said the church would also be open for anyone who wanted “to pray or just sit quietly”.
A stabbing in Austria that killed a 14-year-old boy and wounded five others was an Islamist attack, the country’s interior minister has said.
The attack took place on Saturday at Villach, a town near the border with Italy and Slovenia.
A 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker was detained at the scene.
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said the attack was linked to the Islamic State group and the suspect appeared to have been radicalised online “within a very short space of time”.
Authorities previously said he had a temporary residence permit and was waiting for a decision on his asylum application.
Speaking at a news conference on Sunday, Karner said this was an “Islamist attack with IS links by an attacker who, according to the investigations so far, was obviously radicalised online, via the internet, within a very short space of time.
“So those in a position of responsibility, the police, the authorities, must draw the necessary conclusions from that.”
The attack took place around 16:00 local time (15:00 GMT) near the town’s main square.
Two of the five people injured were in a serious condition as of Saturday evening.
A delivery worker, also a Syrian man, who had driven his vehicle at the attacker helped prevent more injuries, police said.
The attack comes amid a national debate over asylum laws and an election last year that saw the far-right Freedom Party come out on top for the first time.
The party has failed to form a coalition government, leaving Austria’s President Alexander Van der Bellen weighing up whether to call a snap election, form a minority government or invite other parties or a group of experts to try and form an administration.
Herbert Kickl, the head of the Freedom Party, seized on the Villach attack, saying on Saturday that Austria needs a “rigorous crackdown on asylum”.
An outage which left thousands of BT customers unable to access their emails on Saturday morning has been resolved, the provider has confirmed.
Reports of the issue started spiking from 05:00 GMT according to outage-tracking site Downdetector, which received a peak of more than 5,000 complaints from customers.
In a updated statement shortly after 14:00 GMT, BT confirmed the issue had been resolved and apologised to customers who had been impacted.
Other services including Broadband, TV and mobile packages were unaffected.
The outage appeared to be nationwide with customers taking to social media to report issues from Aberdeenshire and Dumfries in Scotland to Warwick, Norfolk and Wakefield in England.
In an earlier statement, BT said that it was “investigating the cause” of the outage. They suggested those impacted could “switch off wi-fi and use mobile data to access their email”.
“Email is not working. What is problem? When will it be fixed?” wrote one user, Paul Hough, who tagged the provider in a post on X.
“Unable to login BT Email. Getting the message ‘BT Server Outage. Try again later’,” said another customer.
Meanwhile others reported they were able to access their emails after switching from wi-fi to mobile data.
Police were called on Friday evening to a report of a disturbance at the pub
A woman in her 40s has died in a Valentine’s Day shooting outside a village pub in Kent as a manhunt continues.
Kent Police said it was treating the shooting at the Three Horseshoes on Main Road, Knockholt, just after 19:00 GMT on Friday, as a murder inquiry.
The woman, who had gunshot wounds, died at the scene, officers said.
A vehicle recovered at the Dartford Crossing along with a firearm is being linked to the death, police have said.
The suspect, a man who is believed to be known to the victim, left the area and is currently outstanding.
Kent Police said it was working to identify and locate everyone potentially involved.
“It’s a really quiet area,” local resident Chris Warner told the BBC. “Everybody knows everyone.”
“It’s just so shocking that something like this could happen here.”
Steve Maines, a parish councillor in Knockholt, told the BBC he heard a “commotion” outside the venue and was told someone had been shot.
He said: “We were sitting having our Valentine’s Day meal when all of a sudden we heard this huge commotion outside in the car park.
“We were told someone had been shot so we had to leave.”
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Police forensic teams have been working at the scene
Villager Dorothy Wong said: “I heard around three to four bangs outside and loud shouting from a woman’s voice.”
Ray Picot has lived in the village for 30 years.
He said: “We looked out and saw the whole area cordoned off with ambulances, police and flashing lights.
“It’s hard to believe that something like this has happened in our village.”
A notice on the pub’s Facebook page said it would be closed on Saturday “following a tragic incident outside the pub last night”.
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The Three Horseshoes is located about five miles (8km) north-west of Sevenoaks.
BBC reporter Daniel MacLaren said on Saturday morning the area immediately around the pub was cordoned off with police tape.
Police officers were standing by at the scene to prevent access.
The woman at the centre of a case in which MI5 has admitted giving false evidence to three courts says she wants the service to give her a public apology.
Beth was attacked with a machete by her former partner, a neo-Nazi misogynist who used his MI5 role to coercively control her.
We revealed on Wednesday that MI5 gave false evidence to three courts over its handling of the man – a paid informant known only as agent X.
MI5 has now issued an “unreserved apology” describing what happened as a “serious error” – adding it took full responsibility.
But speaking for the first time since then, Beth – not her real name – says: “Where’s my apology?”
She believes she only matters to MI5 because she is “kicking up a fuss” by taking a legal case against the service and “throwing a spotlight on the way that they behave”.
“But otherwise, if I were to just go quietly away, they’d never think about me again,” she told the BBC.
Beth’s legal case claims MI5 breached her human rights by failing to protect her from agent X.
She is pursuing a formal complaint at an independent court, called the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT). Judges ruled much of the case should be held in secret after MI5 said it does not confirm agent identities – under a principle known as neither confirm nor deny (NCND) – and had not done so with X.
Secret IPT sessions would be closed to Beth and her lawyers, and therefore prevent her from knowing what MI5 says in response to her claim.
“It felt completely offensive to be told that my case would have to be held in private and that I wouldn’t be privy to any of the information because that’s how they operated, as if they’re allowed some special licence to completely breach my human rights.”
However, I revealed on Wednesday that I had been told by a senior MI5 officer that X was an agent. The disclosure happened when MI5 contacted me to try to stop a BBC story about his extremism.
The IPT was one of the three courts to which MI5 gave false evidence, including by stating it had never confirmed X’s agent status to me.
Beth says the false evidence “proves what MI5 are capable of”.
“[It] feels like all my worst suspicions have been confirmed,” she adds.
“Everything that I was told by X about them, at the time we were together, has actually been proven to be the case – that they are unscrupulous people who will stop at nothing to achieve what they want.”
X physically and sexually abused Beth, attacking her with a machete
Beth met agent X – a foreign national – on a dating site. But, over time, he became physically, mentally and sexually abusive.
After attacking Beth with a machete, in a case that was dropped by prosecutors after police failed to obtain the video of the attack, X left the UK while under police investigation and began work for a foreign intelligence agency.
“What concerns me so much is that, as far as we know, he is a free man,” says Beth. “I don’t want other women to have to put up with things like this. It’s disgusting.”
She believes MI5 has a particular type of power that enables it to avoid transparency like other organisations.
MI5 says it is conducting an internal investigation into the false evidence, which may result in disciplinary action. The senior MI5 corporate witness who gave false evidence says he thought he was telling the truth.
The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has also announced an independent external review of how MI5 gave false evidence. It is being conducted by Sir Jonathan Jones KC, former head of the government’s legal service.
‘I’ve lost years of my life’
Beth’s case will now head back to the specialist IPT court, which will reconsider the decision to rule that MI5 can refuse to confirm that X was an agent and therefore keep evidence secret from her.
Until this is decided, the full case will not be heard.
When I was first in contact with Beth, she had recently suffered a breakdown because of X’s behaviour towards her. She has come a long way in the years since.
The legal process is re-traumatising but necessary, Beth says.
“I’ve already lost years of my life to X and his abuse – there seems to be no end to it.
“But it seems like it’s the only way that I might, potentially, get some sort of reasonable justice.”
When asked about the wider implication of her case, Beth says it is “really important”.
She says there is “so much violence carried out on women by men,” adding, “whatever we can do as a society against it needs to be done”.
“I am one of the lucky ones because I’ve been able to speak about it and I’ve been listened to and so many don’t get listened to.”
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Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is laying off about 1,400 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, according to an internal email obtained by BBC News.
In the memo to staff, Blue Origin’s chief executive, Dave Limp, said the job cuts are part of a plan to trim managerial ranks and focus resources on ramping up rocket launches.
Founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, the company has been a key player in the private space race, but it is seen as lagging behind rivals such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
In the email to staff, Mr Limp said it had become “clear that the makeup of our organisation must change” to meet its present priorities.
“Our primary focus in 2025 and beyond is to scale our manufacturing output and launch cadence with speed, decisiveness, and efficiency for our customers.”
On top of some management roles, the company will also be eliminating jobs in research and development (R&D), and engineering.
In 2023, Mr Bezos gave Mr Limp, who until then had worked at Amazon’s customer-focused devices unit, the top job at Blue Origin.
The leadership overhaul was part of a change in strategy at the company that included an increased focus on developing the New Glenn.
Blue Origin has been dramatically outperformed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX but last month’s launch was an important step for Mr Bezos’ company.
The powerful New Glenn is able to carry large and heavy payloads including satellites into space.
Named after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth more than 60 years ago, the rocket is more powerful than SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
It can also carry more satellites, and Bezos wants to use it as part of his Project Kuiper, which aims to deploy thousands of low-earth satellites to provide broadband services.
That project would compete directly with Musk’s Starlink service.
West Ham boss Graham Potter said he “wasn’t in a good place” after he was sacked by Chelsea but that it made him a “stronger person”.
Potter was dismissed by Chelsea in April 2023, less than seven months after replacing Thomas Tuchel at Stamford Bridge in September 2022.
The 49-year-old returned to coaching after 20 months when he was appointed West Ham’s new manager in January, succeeding Julen Lopetegui.
“At the time you can imagine I wasn’t in a good place because you are disappointed to lose your job and it hasn’t gone very well, or clearly as well as you’d like,” Potter told Football Focus.
“It was a tough moment.”
Potter won just 12 of his 31 games in charge of the Blues in all competitions, having spent more than £550m on new players during the 2022-23 season.
Asked what advice he would give himself in hindsight, following his Chelsea departure, Potter said: “Everything will be OK. I think it makes you better, it makes you a stronger person, it makes you a better coach.
“The worst that can happen is you can lose your job and you can still be alright, you can still move forward, still have something to offer, still grow as a person.
“That bubble we’re in, it can be a little too far down the rabbit hole. Be grateful for the good and the bad, just deal with it.”
A 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd in the German city of Munich on Thursday, injuring at least 30 people, police have said.
Officers said they were treating the incident as a suspected attack.
Here’s what we know about the attack so far.
What happened?
Munich police said the car, a Mini Cooper, accelerated and ploughed into the back of a rally by the Verdi trade union during a strike by public sector workers. It happened in Munich’s city centre at the junction of Karlstrasse and Seidlstrasseat about 10:30 local time (11:30 GMT).
Employees of day-care centres, hospitals, sanitation facilities and public swimming pools had joined the strike, calling for higher pay and longer holidays.
At the time of the collision around 1,500 people were on their way to the rally’s final location a short distance away.
One shot was fired at the vehicle by police before the driver was detained at the scene.
Emergency services had been in the area because of the rally allowing the suspect to be quickly arrested and for the injured to be treated, police said.
It is unclear whether the suspect was injured.
A police spokesman told local public broadcaster BR that police were checking whether there was a link between the demonstration and the incident.
The crash happened hours before the US vice president and Ukrainian president were due to arrive in the city for the Munich Security Conference – but police say they don’t believe it’s related.
How many were injured?
At least 30 people were injured, including two seriously, German police said on Thursday.
The local fire service said some of those hurt were in a “life-threatening condition”.
Munich’s mayor Dieter Reiter said children were among those injured.
According to Bavarian media, injured people were being treated at multiple hospitals around Munich, including a children’s hospital and the Munich Red Cross Clinic.
Some of the injured included employees of the Munich city administration, Munich’s deputy mayor Dominik Krause said.
Several participants at the trade union rally had brought their children with them, “which makes the act even more heinous”, Krause said.
Who is the suspect?
The suspect, Farhad N, who we are not fully naming due to German privacy rules, is a 24-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan.
He resides in Munich, German police said, adding that his motive was unclear.
“It was probably an attack,” Bavaria state premier Markus Söder told reporters.
Bavarian interior minister Joachim Herrmann said the suspect had his asylum application rejected, but he had not been forced to leave due to security concerns in Afghanistan.
He later clarified that the suspect had a valid residence and work permit and that everything about him was legitimate.
According to the the German Press Agency, the suspect came to Germany in 2016 as a minor.
Herrmann said initially that the suspect had been known to police but later explained that he had previously worked as a store detective and had been a witness in several cases of shoplifting.
Bavarian state premier Markus Söder told German TV that counter-terrorism officials had taken over the inquiry but “previous extremist backgrounds are not so easily recognisable at first glance”.
The suspect was due to appear in court on Friday.
What have witnesses said?
The BBC’s Daniel Wittenberg, reporting from Munich, said there was a pram strewn across the floor at the scene, as well as half a dozen umbrellas and high-vis jackets.
A severely damaged white Mini Cooper could be seen at a pedestrian crossing in the middle of three lanes of traffic which had been cordoned off by police.
A woman working at an orthopaedic shop on the road where the incident took place told the BBC that half a dozen people came running into the shop.
“They looked panicked, and some people were crying,” she said.
Pedestrians reportedly sprinted for cover in shops and residential buildings that line either side of the thoroughfare.
One student, who didn’t wanted to give her name, said the driver of the Mini Cooper accelerated before hitting the crowd.
“It was fast enough to pull 10 to 15 people to the ground,” another witness said.
What have authorities said?
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the suspect “must be punished” and “must leave the country”.
“This perpetrator cannot hope for any leniency,” he told reporters, in a translation from Reuters news agency.
“If it was an attack, we must take consistent action against possible perpetrators with all means of justice.”
Markus Söder said authorities were working to “clarify all the details”.
“This is not the first case and who knows what else will happen,” he added.
“It is now even more important that, in addition to the processing of individual cases, in addition to the concern that we all feel, in addition to the sympathy and in addition to the great hope that many will recover, we also show the determination that something must change in Germany.”
