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 there s a global race to get clean aviation off the ground. and some companies think they re 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. we ve 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 that s 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 comin
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the baftas of the uk equivalent of the oscars unlike their cousins they have come into criticism for ignoring performers from ethnic minority group stop things seem to be changing. two thirds of the nominees in these years nominations come from those categories. no madland joined the 2021 shortlist. its most multicultural level, with seven nominations including one for its director and leading a first nod. hello. coffee. she is a big star. another nominee for the leading actress is not, yet. she had an eye catching performance in a beautifully observed film about growing up in east london that also sees ali shortlisted for best supporting. nominations also for directors and screenwriters. , , . screenwriters. did you expect that? no- screenwriters. did you expect that? no. bowled screenwriters. did you expect that? no. bowled over. - screenwriters. did you expect that? no. bowled over. we . screenwriters. did you expect i that? no. bowled over. we were hopeful. i think we
And, you know, i could really hear the vulnerability in her voice because my mum really feared death. Hello. Was it an announcement to which there was less than meets the eye . A ban on petrol and diesel cars to come into effect in 2040. It was designed as an answer to what you do about air quality, polluted by diesel fumes. As fumes are Killing Thousands of people a year now, 2040 is probably not the answer. Some think it is actually a distraction from the immediate problem. But there were other measures, too, and well discuss those shortly. And there is a sense that regardless of what government says, we may be in the latter days of oil driven cars. Assuming we can work out where we get all the electricity to Power Electric cars from. Our Technology Editor David Grossman has been looking at the prospects for Motor Transport and the air we breathe. This is what is done for Electric Cars up to now, the convenience of pumping 400 miles of range into a car in minutes at any one of 8500 S
Its 8am in singapore and 1am in london. There is new hope for thousands of families who live with the prospect of passing on inherited diseases to future generations. For the first time, scientists in the us, along with experts from china and south korea, have successfully repaired a faulty gene in Human Embryos. But critics are warning that the technique could, ultimately, be used to create so called designer babies. Our medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. The goal could not be more ambitious to eradicate inherited diseases. These scientists have taken an impressive first step on a long road, editing dna in Human Embryos. So how is it done . Inside the nucleus of each of ourselves is our genome, billions of pieces of dna. Its the Instruction Manual for life. The scientists were targeting a faulty gene that causes a serious Heart Condition. They fertilised a healthy egg with sperm from a man carrying the faulty gene. They then injected the Gene Editing System known as crispr. T