lam i am outside where the event will be taking place this afternoon but there has been growing opposition from protesters, citing the legitimacy and at the cost. and work begins to remove the tens of thousands of floral tributes left to honour the queen in central london. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it is newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. within the last hour, scientists at nasa have crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid destroying itself in the process. the mission was designed to test whether space rocks that might threaten earth could be nudged safely out of the way. i know we bring you a lot of harrowing news so have a listen to this. my my goodness! seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. my cosh! four, three, two, one. my gosh! awaiting four, three, two, one. my gosh! awaiting visual- gosh! awaiting visual confirmation. - gosh! awaiting visual confirmation. we - gosh! awaiting visual confirmation. we got gosh! awaiting visua
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and three passengers have been welcomed inside the international space station. they are due to spend eight days orbiting the earth. the flight is being hailed as a milestone in the commercialisation of space flight. to find out more about the implications this latest, privately funded mission may have for future space exploration, we can go to new york and speak to tariq malik, editor in chief of space dot com. thank you forjoining us. this is a significant moment for space travel, put it in some context? this mission arrived at the put it in some context? this mission arrived at the international - put it in some context? this mission arrived at the international space . arrived at the international space station today with four people on board. a former nasa astronaut and three paying passengers. we had an israeli entrepreneur, a us foreign investor and entrepreneur from canada. this is a ten day space
at the top of the hour president trump wraps up his tour in california by looking at the wall prototypes and what did the wife know in the miami nightclub massacre. happening now coming up. since going on a ventilator full time i have been to brussels, geneva, canada and california and hope to go to space. bill: that s the world s most renown physicist stephen hawking passing at the age of 76. managing editor of space dot-com inspired by stephen hawking at a young age. how d he change your life?