incarcerated at cornton vale women s prison, and i hope that provides assurance to the public presiding officer, not least to the victims in this particular case. at least nine palestinians are killed in an israeli raid in the west bank. the us secretary of state is to visit israel and the west bank next week. and in just over an hour s time, an asteroid the size of a bus is passing the earth on one of the closest approaches on record. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. in the united states in the last hour, president biden has called for calm, after five police officers were charged with murder of tyre nichols, a black man severely beaten after a traffic stop earlier this year. the officers in memphis, tennessee who are all black were fired last week, after being accused of using excessive force. their actions were caught on body cameras. that video will be released within the next 2a hours. here s what
Tegmark likens the situation to the plot of the popular Netflix movie, 'Don't Look Up,' where scientists are ignored despite having a plan to prevent an asteroid from hitting Earth
this doesn t happen every day. in just over an hour s time an asteroid the size of a bus is due to skim past the tip of south america, just 2,200 miles from the earth s surface. nasa says it will be one of the closest asteroid approaches ever recorded. experts say that while this space rock is too small to do any damage, it illustrates how little we know about the near earth environment. i m joined now by andy rivkin, planetary astronomer atjohns hopkins university from laurel, maryland in the us. it s great to get you on the programme. just to make sure we re all safe here. how unusual is this close encounter? yeah, this object is passing something like 1% as close as the moon. the moon is 100 times further
what s out there, and then sending their observations to get collated so that we can track anything. this is actually great news that we found something like this, found it early enough to show that we re finding things even this small on the way in. :, ,:, : things even this small on the way in. that is fantastic. just talk us throu . h in. that is fantastic. just talk us through what in. that is fantastic. just talk us through what you re in. that is fantastic. just talk us through what you re expecting i in. that is fantastic. just talk us| through what you re expecting to happen in terms of the movement of the asteroid today. 50. happen in terms of the movement of the asteroid today. the asteroid today. so, this asteroid goes the asteroid today. so, this asteroid goes around - the asteroid today. so, this asteroid goes around the i the asteroid today. so, this i asteroid goes around the sun, the asteroid today. so, this - asteroid goes around the sun, like basically everythi
sun. asteroids do this, they get tugged by the different planets that change their orbit sometimes, and that s why we have these objects passing close by. just that s why we have these ob ects passing close byfi passing close by. just briefly, is there an early passing close by. just briefly, is there an early warning - passing close by. just briefly, is there an early warning system | passing close by. just briefly, is i there an early warning system that you think would be helpful to keep watch on these sorts of things, or is the stuff that you have right now to detect asteroids of this size and nature sufficient? the astronomers and observers nature sufficient? the astronomers and observers and nature sufficient? the astronomers and observers and people - nature sufficient? the astronomers i and observers and people calculating orbits are all in good touch with one another, and have actually found three or four objects that did hit the earth. these were the size of a chair an