Latest on our top story. Jon, the 11 russian chinese warships near alaska represent the largest combined armada from both countries to ever sail so close to the United States and history. The pentagon says there is no interaction within the u. S. Military assets. General keane spoke earlier offer the following warning progress china has considerably warships vent our navy does they have more airplanes, they have more missiles we have got to catch up we have to move with a sense of urgency. Quickly u. S. Navy dispatch for warships in a pa Reconnaissance Plane to shatter the russian and chinese Flotilla Course the u. S. Military routinely does the same thing to both russia and china sailing warships and sending spy planes near both countries while keeping just outside territorial waters but we call that chinese Fighter Jet Buzz the u. S. Air force wsrc 135 Reconnaissance Plane in the South China Sea back in may wasnt exactly sightseeing russians and chinese are just returning the favor w
breaking news hello everyone. thanks for joining me on. alison chemla, radha, and for fredricka whitfield, we have an exciting program for you today because within the next half an hour, we expect to witness the first ever boeing starliner spacecraft launched from cape canaveral, florida to the international space station. this is not a practice run this its launch has to american astronauts on board but officials and spectators are holding their breath a bit because this mission was already postponed a few times, veteran nasa astronauts, butch wilmore and suni williams are on board. and boeing is trying with this to compete with its rivals space x as nasa tries to collaborate with private industry partners. if successful, suni williams would become the first woman aboard any crewed test flight like this years of work has gone into this moment and it has not been without setbacks, as i ve mentioned. so let s bring in space and defense correspondent kristin fisher. she
And leaders from most of the main parties have been taking part in a live tv debate on the bbc. Interestingly Prime Minister theresa may wasnt there she ruled out doing head to head tv debates and sent a senior minister, amber rudd, in her place. The main opposition labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had said he also wouldnt go if mrs may wasnt appearing but he had a last minute change of heart, and decided to turn up. Lets hear him clashing with amber rudd over payments to disabled people. We are a party who always supports those in most need. And the welfare bill for helping people on disabilities has gone up £7 billion in the last seven years. And is now at £50 billion. We will always provide that safety net. Amber, you tried to remove safety nets away from people on disabilities and turned around on that. You are not credible. I know there is no extra payment you do not want to add to, no tax you do not want to rise, but the fact is that we have to concentrate our resources on the peopl
way. but the scrub back in may wasn t their fault. and this one might not be too. we just don t know yet. also really important, important to point out here, allison, that scrubs are really common in spaceflight. they happen all the time. the current nasa administrator, bill nelson s his mission to space back on a space shuttle it s scrubbed four or five times, and that wasn t even a test flight. so these things happen and there s especially an added layer of scrutiny around a first crewed test flight like this one. and the us play they even said that that first ghraieb back in may if there hadn t been a crew on board, if they had just been setting analytes and payloads onboard like they normally fly they would have already been orbit, but because they were dealing with people on board instead of payloads and satellites they were taking extra precautions so that may be what happened here, but we re now getting official confirmation that they are
latest on our top story. jon, the 11 russian chinese warships near alaska represent the largest combined armada from both countries to ever sail so close to the united states and history. the pentagon says there is no interaction within the u.s. military assets. general keane spoke earlier offer the following warning progress china has considerably warships vent our navy does they have more airplanes, they have more missiles we have got to catch up we have to move with a sense of urgency. quickly u.s. navy dispatch for warships in a pa reconnaissance plane to shatter the russian and chinese flotilla course the u.s. military routinely does the same thing to both russia and china sailing warships and sending spy planes near both countries while keeping just outside territorial waters but we call that chinese fighter jet buzz the u.s. air force wsrc 135 reconnaissance plane in the south china sea back in may wasn t exactly