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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service, coming to you live from London.

I'm Rob Young.

Later on in the programme, we will remember Kanye King, the founder of the British Mabo Awards,

which championed music of black origin and brought many black British musicians into the mainstream

after her death from cancer at the age of 57. That's at about 20 minutes time.

I will start, though, with a very dramatic situation on the International Space Station earlier on today when the astronauts on board

were ordered to take shelter and prepare for possible evacuation because of a worsening air leak.

This is how NASA's mission control alerted the ISS crew to the problem.

Station, Houston on Space to ground two for all U.S. OSOS crew members need you to execute

procedure, eMER procedure, 3, decimal 4, crew dragon established safe haven.

And if we need to suit up, we will do that once we're inside the dragon.

We will not shoot up prior.

Houston stationed on two. We copy all three decimal four. No suit up required. We will put that in work.

Well, two Russian cosmonauts have since completed the repair to one of the two leaks that had caused concern,

and those on board have been told they can resume their normal duties.

So how unusual is this? I've been speaking to Joey Roulette, a space reporter for the Reuters News Agency in Washington, D.C. Yeah, it's somewhat rare. I mean, it definitely doesn't happen a lot.

I think the last time there was a safe haven procedure might have been a few years ago. But definitely in this situation, I mean, a leak that warrants a safe haven procedure, you know, that kind of immediately screams something a little serious. And, you know, the crew had to prepare if they had to, to undock the spacecraft and potentially come home.

So that didn't happen.

But yeah, this definitely was not a normal day on the ISS.

Well, one of the two leaks has been fixed.

How serious is the second one?

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