The Billionaire Entrepreneur jared isaacman clambered out of Spacexs Dragon Capsule and performed a series of manoeuvres near the hatch. He was followed by sarah gillis, a Spacex Engineer who is part of the four person, all civilian crew. This is the image of Mr Isaacman emerging from the Spacecraft Silhouetted against a spectacular view of Earth. Heres our Science Correspondent Pallab ghosh. Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth 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. He remains partly in the capsule, so more Baby Steps than a walk in space, but a chance to move around in the newly developed spacesuit to test its mobility. The entire Operation End to end is two hours, so we just got to kind of see how everything progresses through it. But we dont need very long out t
Are in listening mode, they say. Has the balance shifted on the use of long range weapons . Very good evening. Senior republicans are bemoaning Donald Trumps performance Last Night in the first and potentially the only televised debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. Several times throughout the more than 90 Minute Debate in philadelphia, the Vice President Baited Trump on many of the issues she knew would get under her opponents skin. They sparred over the size of his rallies, his electoral defeat in 2020 and the World Leaders who she said were laughing at him. From the opening exchange, it seemed to work. The former president did land some blows, Drawing Attention to biden s record on the economy and immigration and, by association, Kamala Harris role in that. But Snap Polls suggested it was Ms Harris who came out on top. The more important poll, though, the one on election day, remains very much in the balance. From philadelphia, heres our north america editor, sarah smith. At a
Several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted including scientific research centers. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites, in the city of masyaf, was housing pro iranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. Israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Our middle east correspondent, hugo bachega has more on the reports from beirut. There has been a sharp increase in the n
Several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted including scientific research centres. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites, in the city of masyaf, was housing pro iranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. Israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Joining me is frank lowenstein, who served as united states special envoy for middle east peace under president barack ob
Vaccines. Hello, iam sarah campbell. The bbc has seen, First Hand, the desperate conditions civilians are enduring in sudan, in the brutal Civil War that has been ravaging the country over the past 16 months. Millions have been displaced and Aid Agencies are warning the Hunger Crisis is the Hunger Crisis is of historic proportions. Of historic proportions. The un team said the violations the un team said the violations by both sides since april last by both sides since april last year may amount to War Crimes year may amount to War Crimes and crimes against humanity. And crimes against humanity. We have found the sudanese we have found the sudanese warring parties, the armed warring parties, the Armed Forces and the our sf and their forces and the our sf and their suspected allies have committed suspected allies have committed an appalling range of an appalling range of violations and as my fellow violations and as my Fellow Expert will further detail, we expert will further detail, we