Complete the ship and be ready for launch in about five years. Five years seems like a long time to me. Applause mr musk is a serious person, but serious people can be seriously wrong. But is itjust possible that we are poised for a breakthrough in travel up there, that would incidentally also revolutionise travel down here on earth . Well ask Astronaut Chris Hadfield if he is an optimist about the future of space travel, or not. The chief executive of microsoft tells us what governments can do if they think tech giants pay too little tax . Any country can always throw any multinational out when they feel that theyre not creating value in their country. Its absolutely within their right. And mick fleetwood, he of Fleetwood Mac. We were a blues band and we were in the church of, in the presence of, playing music with our heroes in their home. Hello. Its a big friendly rocket. A giant one. Bfr is the name given to it, and according to the billionaire entrepreneur elon musk, its coming re
Have been stepping up efforts to stop the vote claiming that most voting stations have been closed. It follows a raid at the Catalan Governments i. T centre to disrupt electronic voting. The vote is considered illegal by the government in spain. The National Police have sealed off over a thousand schools which are intended to be polling stations. Its prompted the president of the Catalan National assembly to make this plea. Translation i want to make a plea to the police and appeal to their sense of responsibility and community. Well, this was the scene in madrid earlier people against the vote showing their support for a united spain. But many catalans say they are determined to vote. Heres our correspondent tom burridge who is in barcelona. This is how parents and people in this part of barcelona a scene repeated across the city and across the region of catalonia, are trying to keep this school open. They hope the police cannot get in if they organise activities with their kids and s
Of 16 22 year olds and asking how they see their future. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Theresa may says she plans to say sorry to activists at the conservatives annual conference for the partys performance in the snap election that she called earlier this year. The Prime Minister is also seeking to enhance her partys appeal to Younger Voters by outlining changes to student funding and has indicated that graduates wont have to start repaying loans until they earn £25,000 a year. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is at the conservative Party Conference in manchester. Mrs may has been speaking already this morning, what has she had to say . There are going to be more announcements, more initiatives targeted at young people and in particular students. Mrs may think shes going to look again at student financing. Now, we do not know what those announcements are, she was press today could the government consider a graduate tax, should he did not rule that out. I would think
We start with breaking news. One of britains best known holiday flight companies, Monarch Airlines, has collapsed, with all flights immediately cancelled it means more than 100,000 passengers are now stranded abroad. A cross europe and also in turkey. Its the uks largest ever airline to enter administration. The British Government says its helping to secure a fleet of thirty aircraft, flying to dozens of mediterranean resorts to bring stranded british passengers home. 300,000 future bookings have also been cancelled. The news broke in the last 30 minutes or so. A statement from the Civic Aviation Authority says. He added the scowl and challenge meant that some disruption was inevitable. The scale. Earlier my colleague Duncan Golestani spoke to our news correspondentjon donnison. He asked him what the uks civil Aviation Authority had said. They are beginning operations to bring back passengers. What about passengers booked on flights in the coming days . If you are booked on a package h
Monarch is the uks fifth Biggest Airline and the largest ever to collapse. Customers due to fly from the uk have been told not to go to the airport. If youre due to go there this morning then dont. The Tour Operator had been in last ditch talks with the Civil Aviation authority about renewing its licence to sell Package Holidays, but failed to reach a deal. Steph, failed to reach a deal. This happened in the early hours steph, this happened in the early hours of this morning and there were clear indications. Let me start by saying we knew this was on the cards. On in the background the Civil Aviation authority have been working out what to do. For those abroad already they will be repatriated back to the uk. We know theres more than 100,000 people abroad due to get on flights coming back to the uk, will be repatriated. If you are due to fly from the uk somewhere they say dont go to the airport because those flights have been cancelled. Theres no aircraft, you wont go . At the moment we