and their our political neutrality, the principle is applied. but with china threatening to retaliate and other countries considering whether to join the boycott, the ioc may not get its wish for the athletes to take centre stage any time soon. lucy grey, bbc news. a japanese billionaire has become the latest space tourist. yusaku maezawa was welcomed on board the international space station, along with his assistant and a russian cosmonaut. he s due to spend 12 days orbiting the earth as the bbc s tim allman reports. for most of us, our holidays begin with us checking in to our hotel and making sure we ve got our room key. things were a little more complicated for yusaku maezawa, who had to contend with a carefully co ordinated docking 350 kilometres above the earth s surface. next is spaceflight participant yusaku maezawa. but he certainly got a friendly
killing of jamaal khashoggi suspicion of involvement of the killing ofjamaal khashoggi has been released. prosecutors say it was a case of mistaken identity. donald trump s former chief of staff has filed a lawsuit against the congressional committee with contempt over his refusal to testify in the investigation into the january capital riots. mark meadows specifically names the democratic leader of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi, in the suit alongside nine members. and talks on reviving the 2015 he run nuclear deal are due to in vienna on thursday. the us delegation will participate indirectly with the us special envoy arriving in vienna this weekend. last week saw the talks falter with european diplomat saying that tehran had, as they put it, backtracked on diplomatic progress. ajapanese billionaire has become the latest space tourist. yusaku maezawa was welcomed on board the international space station along
this is bbc news. our top stories: new covid rules have been announced for england, but the prime minister s accused of trying to deflect attention from a political scandal. pharmaceutical giant pfizer says a 3 jab course of their covid vaccine is effective against the omicron variant. the beijing boycott grows now canada and britain say they won t be sending officials to the winter olympics. and the japanese billionaire who s become the latest space tourist.
like solar panels, cat scanners, all that sort of stuff, we are trying to galvanise and push solutions forward. i think for me particularly, the idea that the space race is on at the moment, we have seen everyone trying to get space tourism going, it s the idea that we need some of the world s greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live. i think that ultimately is what sold it for me, is that that really is quite crucial, we need to be focusing on this one rather than giving up and heading out into space to try and think of solutions for the future. having said that, though, would you like to be a space tourist one day? do you know what? i have absolutely no interest in going that high. i m a pilot, but i m a helicopter pilot, so i stay reasonably close to the ground. i ve been up to 65,000 feet once in a plane and that was truly terrifying. and that s high enough. do you go weightless at that point? not quite, but t