Jared isaacman became the first non professional astronaut to walk in space. His first words as he stepped outside the Resilience Spacecracft were beautiful world. He used the first privately funded spacewalk to do Mobility Tests of the new type of spacesuit that will be at the forefront of the next generation of space exploration. Our Science Correspondent Pallab ghosh has the story. Back at home we all have a lot of work to do but from here, earth sure looks like a perfect world. Historic words for an historic moment. Out comes the first private Sector Astronaut to walk in space. Silhouetted in earths orbit, billionaire Jared Isaacman paid millions of dollars for this experience. Earlier, he was suiting up, as were the other three crew members. The capsulte has no air lock, so the entire spacecraft is in the vacuum of space once the doors opened. Then, the all important checks to make sure that the spacesuits dont leak. Theyd been upgraded for the spacewalk, stronger and more flexibl
as the organisation gives it official candidate status. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s six in the morning in singapore, and 2:30 in the morning in afghanistan where taliban officials say the main search for survivors from wednesday s devastating earthquake in the south east of the country has ended. more than a thousand people are thought to have been killed in the remote part of the country. doctors say many children may be among the victims. relief efforts have been hampered by the destruction of already poor road and communication networks in paktika province , the worst hit area. entire villages have been destroyed with survivors saying they are finding it difficult to bury their dead. our afghanistan correspondent secunder kermani is there and has just sent this report. homes reduced to rubble, lives reduced to memories. these were my son s shoes, says agha jan. his three young children were killed in t
Journalists have been bleeding in the last few days and we were told today that axis would not be permitted to suggest, the eastern based authorities are saying that the work of journalists based authorities are saying that the Work Ofjournalists is hampering Recovery Efforts in the time and interesting given that we are reporting on protest that happened in the city around about this time yesterday and also suggestions that some of the aid teams may be asked to leave. But is particularly noteworthy is that in the past couple of days, after this disaster, their rescue teams from the west who came across and helped. We do not know whether they will be asked to leave and there was a suggestion that they would be sent back to the west is an eastern based authority starts to get a little bit nervous about some of the tensions that are developing within the city because of that group of protesters blaming the authorities, there is saying that the head of the eastern based House Of Represent