And mine the gap sales are surging this morning and twitters jack dorsey soliciting advice to help improve the network. All that and more as Worldwide Exchange begins right now welcome to the show. Stock futures are higher this morning in deeper territory. The dow is up another 63 points. The 10year slightly higher 1. 555 lets go worldwide if you dont like the color green, turn your eyes away the major indices in asia, green across the board paced by the hang seng in honk con up by 1. 5 in europe, youll see more green there. Only turkey and greece are red the cac in france pacing france up by about 1 well look to other top stories this morning with rahel. Chinas economy last year grew at the slowest pace in 29 years. The worlds second largest Economy Group at 6. 1 revealing a country under pressure from trade. Weak Consumer Spending and follows the read of 6. 6 from the same time period a year ago. New investors interest this morning. Shanghaibased private equity firm held talks over w
With the british Bloodhound Team hoping to smash the Current Record of 763 miles per hour. Andrew harding was given exclusive access to the team on the salt flats of the Northern Cape of south africa. Well, the thing about the land speed record is it is the last of the amateur corinthian sports. It is done purely for the love, the fascination of it. Some people argue, well, the old cars are no more, but forget it is a car, we are pushing the boundaries of engineering to its absolute limit. Every day i go, why are we doing this . It may be the last land speed record as we know it. This is a story about stubbornness and ingenuity, and yes, about speed, too. It is the story of a quest to design and build the worlds fastest car, and then to find a place flat enough, long enough, to actually drive it. There are not many spots on this particular planet suitable for racing faster than the speed of sound. You cant just pick a straight stretch of road. At 500, 700, 900 miles an hour, the wheels
It happened in the port of mexicos island of cozumel. No serious injuries have been reported. At ten oclock, clive myrie will be here with a full round up of the days news. First, bloodhound, the story of the supercar aiming to break the land speed record. Well, the thing about the land speed record is it is the last of the amateur corinthian sports. It is done purely for the love, the fascination of it. Some people argue, well, the old cars are no more, but forget it is a car, we are pushing the boundaries of engineering to its absolute limit. Every day i go, why are we doing this . It may be the last land speed record as we know it. This is a story about stubbornness and ingenuity, and yes, about speed, too. It is the story of a quest to design and build the worlds fastest car, and then to find a place flat enough, long enough, to actually drive it. There are not many spots on this particular planet suitable for racing faster than the speed of sound. You cant just pick a straight str
To a remote corner of south africa, close to the borders of botswana and namibia, to a place called the hakskeen pan, on the southern edge of the giant kalahari desert. So here we are, we have come to the hakskeen pan. Beautiful, flat, miles and miles of dried mud, this lake bed, surrounded by these low, dark, red brown hills. A stunningly beautiful place. We are 800 metres above sea level here, a lake bed of mud and salt that floods briefly, once every year or two, and those white tents on the lake edge, well, think of them as ground control. There is something a bit mission to mars like about this whole project. Imagine trying to do something as complicated as this in a climate like this. Today, it is about 35 degrees centigrade. Yesterday it was touching a0. But there they are. Inside the tent, a quiet frenzy. At the centre of it, the bloodhound, flown out in pieces from the uk and now being reassembled. The aim, this year, to test the car at speeds beyond 600mph. Yeah, we have got
Now on bbc news its 22 years since a british driver broke the sound barrier and the world land speed record by driving a car across an american desert at 763mph. Today, the same man is trying to smash his own record with a new car, the bloodhound this time, in africa. Andrew harding has been following his progress. Well, the thing about the land speed record is it is the last of the amateur corinthian sports. It is done purely for the love, the fascination of it. Some people argue, well, the old cars are no more, but forget it is a car, we are pushing the boundaries of engineering to its absolute limit. Every day i go, why are we doing this . It may be the last land speed record as we know it. This is a story about stubbornness and ingenuity, and yes, about speed, too. It is the story of a quest to design and build the worlds fastest car, and then to find a place flat enough, long enough, to actually drive it. There are not many spots on this particular planet suitable for racing faste