We love space news here on the context. And tonight, its the next step in chinas ambitious space programme. The countrys space agency has launched a rocket that its hoping will make history. This is the moment the change 6 mission blasted off from the Wenchang Space launch centre in southern hainan province. On board is a probe that will aim for the first time to collect samples from the far side of the moon. The spacecraft will attempt to make a soft landing on the South Pole Aitken basin, one of the largest known Impact Craters in the solar system. It then hopes to return the samples successfully to earth. The journey is expected to take 53 days to complete. Im pleased to say former nasa astronaut, who was once the commander of the International Space station, leroy chiao joins us now. Leroy, always a delight to talk to you. I love talking to you about space, and give me your sense of how significant this is not only that china has launched this probe that its been a successful launc
Its newsday. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 8 30am in pyongyang, where over the last our north Korean Leader kim meade has praised south korea as very impressive kim jong un. Said its important to boost the warm climate of reconciliation and dialogue with the south according to state media. He said. He also certain efforts made by seoul to prioritise the north korean teams visit to the Winter Olympics was very impressive and this came after his sister, kim yo jong, and other top officials returned from a landmark visit to the south for the winter olympic games. The South African president jacob zuma has reportedlyjust been given 48 hours to resign. Top officials from the governing anc have been discussing the future of the president , who is under pressure over corruption allegations. And local media have reported a late night visit by the partys new head Cyril Ramaphosa to mr zumas house. Our africa editor fergal keane has been monitoring events. Theres a sense of high P
Its 9 00am in singapore 1 00am in london and 9 30 in the morning in pyongyang, where the north Korean Leader kimjong un has praised south korea as very impressive. According to state media kim jong un also expressed satisfaction and gratitude after his sister and other top regime officials returned from a landmark visit to the south for the winter olympic games. Lets get the very latest from our correspondent Stephen Mcdonell in seoul. This seems to be a very optimistic sign. For those who would want greater dialogue between if; 7 7 it isgeeteve da ~~ it isgeeteve da ou f it isgeeteve da ou et it is; eve da ou et kim sign. It is not everyday you get kim jong un praising the south. Normally he is talking about the puppets of us imperialists and a sort of thing. Instead we are hearing him say south korea is very impressive. This came in the form of report from north koreas state run media which said the north korean delegation returned from the south green Winter Olympics and reported ba
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