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BBC News Now
Friday 28 August 2026 · 12:00 BST · 30m · 3 stories · 15 annotated moments · 24 of 30 min on news stories (81%)
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Rescue teams in Nepal resumed searching for survivors after catastrophic floods and mudslides killed at least 547 people in Nepal and five in Tibet, with hundreds more missing across the border region. Troops pulled survivors from mud, and more than 100 people were trapped in a hydropower tunnel. Chinese state media said emergency teams reached the epicenter of the mudslide on the Tibetan side, where a barrier lake raised fears of secondary flooding before the situation stabilized. A Nepalese glaciologist attributed the disaster to a rock and glacier collapse, said climate change was increasing glacier melt in the Himalayas, and urged the establishment of early warning systems.
In the occupied West Bank, human rights groups warned that Jewish settler violence was set to reach record levels this year, with attacks spreading into new areas. The BBC counted more than 60 incidents in one week, including an amputee beaten with an iron bar, a 17-year-old Palestinian shot dead while filming settlers, and settlers torturing a donkey. Israeli settlements, illegal under international law, are expanding, while few settler attacks are prosecuted.
Norway has a new king, Haakon VIII, following the death of King Harald V at the age of 89. Haakon greeted government ministers at an extraordinary council of state, with his daughter Ingrid Alexandra now Crown Princess. Norway declared a period of national mourning, and tributes came from international figures. King Harald, Europe's oldest reigning monarch before his death, had been on the throne since 1991 and was remembered for his response to the 2011 terror attack and his remarks on diversity, despite recent scandals involving his family.
- 0:09 Story begins Nepal and Tibet flash floods kill over 700
- 15:27
- 19:13
- 19:13
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
King Harald of Norway died at age 89 after being hospitalized; he had reigned for 35 years.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 19:13-19:25
- 19:20
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
King Harald of Norway died at age 89 after being hospitalized; he had reigned for 35 years.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 19:20-19:25
- 19:20
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
King Harald of Norway died at age 89 after being hospitalized; he had reigned for 35 years.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 19:20-19:25
- 19:20
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
King Harald of Norway died at age 89 after being hospitalized; he had reigned for 35 years.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 19:20-19:25
- 19:20
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
King Harald of Norway died at age 89 after being hospitalized; he had reigned for 35 years.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 19:20-19:25
- 19:38
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
Haakon retained the motto 'Everything for Norway'.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 19:38-19:49
- 19:38
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
Haakon retained the motto 'Everything for Norway'.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 19:38-19:49
- 19:38
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
Haakon retained the motto 'Everything for Norway'.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 19:38-19:49
- 19:38
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
Haakon retained the motto 'Everything for Norway'.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 19:38-19:49
- 19:38
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
Haakon retained the motto 'Everything for Norway'.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 19:38-19:49
- 19:57
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
King Harald of Norway died at age 89 after being hospitalized; he had reigned for 35 years.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 19:57-20:03
- 20:28
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
King Harald of Norway died at age 89 after being hospitalized; he had reigned for 35 years.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 20:28-20:35
- 22:12
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
Marius Borg Høiby was convicted of rape and is appealing.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 22:12-22:20
- 22:12
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
Marius Borg Høiby was convicted of rape and is appealing.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 22:12-22:20
- 22:12
Claim King Harald V of Norway dies, King Haakon VIII succeeds
Marius Borg Høiby was convicted of rape and is appealing.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 28 August 2026, 22:12-22:20
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