hello, i m anna.. anna foster. south africa s governing party has two weeks to form a coalition, after losing its outright majority for the first time in 30 years. with virtually all the votes now counted from wednesday s election, the anc stands at around 40% a sharp drop from almost 58% in 2019. the anc say the result has been a wake up call for the party. the anc has accepted the result and, as the anc, what is foremost now in our mind are two things. one is the fact that there was a clear protest from our people. our people are saying, we love the anc, but the anc must self correct. we have already started that programme of organisational renewal. i think we need to fast track that. we must no longer only speak about acting against corruption, we must be seen as doing that. we must be seen as giving our people the service. that is the message that our people have said to us and it s a message we have received loud and clear. let s go live to our correspondent cath
of technical issues and even today this capsule is launching with a very small helium link in the propulsion system and they think it is perfectly safe but itjust sort of speaks to the problem is that boeing have had in getting this system ready to fly, so they need a flawless ascent today and they need everything to go perfectly well and then the capsule, which is called starliner, canjoin a then the capsule, which is called starliner, can join a fleet of other vehicles which the space agency is used to take astronauts up to and down from the international space station so you mention space x and their dragon capsule but there is also still the russian soyuz capsule and this would make a third and you need redundancies because if there is a problem with one of the vehicles then another one can step forward so it is big for everyone concerned. taste forward so it is big for everyone concerned- forward so it is big for everyone concerned. ~ . ., ., concerned. we had a countdown timer o
criticising the rising cost of season tickets and subscription channels. champions again! there are still weeks to go of this campaign, but all parties hope these pledges will help them be victorious on lithjuly. ione wells, bbc news. the american aerospace giant, boeing, is to about to make another attempt to fly its first crewed mission to the international space station aboard a starliner spacecraft. these are the live pictures from the cape canaveral space force station in florida. that is what it looks like on the launch pad right now and it is due to take off in slightly less than 15 minutes time but we will take you live there when it happens and keep you up to date with that story as we continue to talk about other news. now to the middle east and hamas has indicated it
because about six years ago i made a programme for the bbc and i got to see the start line are being built and got to go inside the simulator where they train the crew and jonathan, as we were saying, it is a big moment because they are hoping that commercial crew is the future of space travel, isn t it? it is that commercial crew is the future of space travel, isn t it? of space travel, isn t it? it is a bi deal of space travel, isn t it? it is a big deal for of space travel, isn t it? it is a big deal for the of space travel, isn t it? it is a big deal for the us of space travel, isn t it? it is a big deal for the us space - of space travel, isn t it? it is a - big deal for the us space programme big dealfor the us space programme and a particularly big dealfor boeing. you can t have escaped the news in recent years that the company has had a number of difficulties with its aeroplanes and this vehicle too, the capsule on the top of the rocket has had problems and you talk about
screen, american aerospace giant boeing is to about to make another attempt to fly its first crew to the international space station aboard a sta rliner spacecraft. it is shortly due to be launched at the cape canaveral space force station in florida with two veteran astronauts onboard. a successful launch would make boeing the second commercial operator to ferry crews to the iss after elon musk s spacex. boeing s previous attempt was aborted just hours before liftoff. i now have two eminent mind joining me to talk about this. joining me now is our science correspondentjonothan amos and dr simeon barber, a space scientist at open university. iam i am particularly excited about this