Hello and welcome to the programme. The richest person on earth has decided that earth itself is not enough. Earlier todayjezz bezos blasted into space, accompanied by both the oldest and youngest ever astronauts. The amazon founder was launched from the texan desert on a rocket developed by his own firm, blue origin. The craft travelled at nearly three times the speed of sound, reaching a height of nearly a hundred kilometres above the planet on a flight that lasted little over ten minutes. The bbc s sophie long begins our coverage. Boarding his 60 foot suborbital rocket. He was not nervous, he said, just excited. This was notjust about realising a lifelong dream, but expanding his ever growing empire beyond the grip of gravity. With him on this first fully autonomous flight, three other civilians. His brother, mark, 18 year old dutch student oliver daemen, and 82 year old trailblazing aviator wally funk. One of mercury 13, a group of women who went through astral testing and training
the middle of the island, is about 70% contained, and officials are also dealing with a third fire in up country maui, with no estimate on its containment. in just over four days, the fires have burned roughly 2,000 acres and have destroyed more than 1,000 buildings. these are images from the historic town of lahaina, which was hardest hit. local officials are allowing residents and tourists back into the town, but a nightly curfew is in place. we are now beginning to learn about the harrowing stories of survivors, like this one, where one family was forced to jump into the ocean to escape the flames. the ocean almost dragged my kids away a few times. but, yeah, we stuck together, we held on. i said, we re not going to die, and we re here, we re alive. an unprecedented logistical effort is underway from all over the united states as government agencies are mobilizing resources to send to hawaii. the state s national guard has chartered planes to help fly first responders an
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also on the programme. pretty sure we know which sidejoe biden is on. he is in south carolina this hour, pitching more money into solar and renewables. how does science respond? we will talk about the role of ai in all that. and whether uk scientists will have a seat at the biggest table. speculation today that britain might be ready to rejoing europe s multi billion dollar horizon project. brian taylor, former political editor of bbc scotland. he is pro indepence. maura gillespie, former deputy chief of staff and communications director for congressman adam kinzinger and former adviser to speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner. lets that with this debate over oil and gas production. the boss of energy giant shell says we need to continue to keep on dreaming. in an interview one speaker suggested we still need to discuss because we are not moving fast enough towards renewable energy. the reality is that the energy system of today continues to desperately need o