parliament. and vardy versus rooney but this time in the high court. the so called wagatha christie trial gets under way. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 4.30am in sri lanka where security forces have been ordered to shoot anyone seen looting or damaging public property, in the latest attempt to stop anti government protests. since last month, the country has been rocked by demonstrations over soaring prices, power cuts, and a lack of medicines. demonstrators are calling for the resignation of president gotabaya rajapaksa. his brother, mahinda rajapaksa, stepped down as prime minister on monday following violent street clashes. protesters have defied an island wide curfew, and at least eight people have died and 200 have been injured as our correspondent rajini vaidyanathan reports from colombo. a capital under curfew. troops told to shoot at sight at anyone who damages public property or threatens lives. the
A warm welcome to the programme. We start in the us, where at midnight eastern time tomorrow the Us Government will run out of money to fund itself, unless congress can agree a last minute deal. If the story sounds familiar, well, it is. It would be the 22 time in the last 50 years, that Us Government services have had to be shut down because of a Budget Deadlock in congress. The last time in early 2019 saw a month of widespread disruption to the Worlds Largest economy. Erin delmore reports from new york. The clock is ticking. They will need to agree on a deal to fund the federal government passed september 13. The federal government passed september13. Right the federal government passed september 13. Right now the senate has bipartisan support for a bill but House Republicans have rejected it. Hardline conservatives calling for deeper cuts and tying any Government Funding Bill to the ongoing issue of immigration and security at the us southern border. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy has
If ijust raise my eyebrows, im making the carjump. And we look at how Generative Technology could revolutionise the movie going experience. It can make approximately 52 quintillion versions of the film. About 100,000 flights jet Around The World every day. Flying accounts for 2. 5 of all carbon emissions. Now, that might not sound like much, but if aviation was a country, it would be among the top ten most polluting nations in the world, and its impact is expected to rise. Now, theres a global race to get clean aviation off the ground. And some Companies Think theyre close to cracking it. Pretty soon, passengers will be flying in zero emission aircraft. But how did we get here . Archive The New Machine is called, optimistically, the flyer. Weve come a long way since the Wright Brothers first flight in 1903. That day, they lifted the world into a new dimension. Then we achieved bigger, faster planes. Great, but thats also how we ended up with all these emissions. Jet engines burn kerose
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Now theres a global race to get clean aviation off the ground. And some Companies Think theyre close to cracking it. Pretty soon, passengers will be flying in zero emission aircraft. But how did we get here . Archive The New Machine is called, optimistically, the flyer. Weve come a long way since the Wright Brothers first flight in 1903. That day, they lifted the world into a new dimension. Then we achieved bigger, faster planes. Great, but thats also how we ended up with all these emissions. Jet engines burn kerosene, which releases carbon dioxide, one of the main Greenhouse Gases causing climate change. The industry faces an enormous challenge to clean up its act, and that means coming up with new fuels. Lets take a look at some of the options. There are biofuels, which are made out of things like plants or vegetable oils, but they still produce some harmful emissions. Then theres electric. But although batteries are getting far more efficient, the size that youd need to power a pass