This week Spaceport America. Superfast weather satellites. And using vr to understand Cancer Treatment and recovery. 50 years after the first humans landed on the moon, a new space race is under way. But today, it is notjust nations that are competing to put ships and people into space. Private companies are getting in on it as well. In fact, they are leading the charge. Elon musks spacex already delivers cargo to the iss and is now one of several Companies Exploring the notion of Space Tourism putting non professional astronauts into space. It has already signed up billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to take a trip around the moon. Amazon boss and the worlds richest man, jeff bezos, is also planning to take passengers to the edge of space by the end of 2019 with his company blue origin, and has ambitions to land humans on the moon by 202a. But there is one company that is further along the Space Tourism journey than any other, and now Virgin Galactic has opened the doors to its new hq and give
Business secretary Andrea Leadsom accuses the speaker, john bercow, of breaking parliamentary rules by allowing mps to take control of the commons agenda. Serena williams loses the us open final in straight sets to a teenager. In a gripping match, 19 year old Bianca Andreescu beat williams, whos now lost four majorfinals in a row. We have another largely dry day today with plenty of sunshine for england and wales. A bit more cloud for Northern Ireland and scotland later with a few showers, i will have all the details in about 15 minutes. Its sunday september the 8th. Our top story Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suffered a new blow to his authority after his work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, resigned last night. Ms rudd said she no longer believed the governments Main Objective was to leave the eu with a deal, and she described the sacking of 21 rebel tory mps as an act of political vandalism. Our political correspondent, jonathan blake, reports. Once tipped as a future pm, amb
Cold as the night we had last night. We have got this band of rain on monday so it hit of a soggy start of the new working week. Heavy in england and wales and rather chilly with temperatures of 111 to 16 degrees. Hello, this is bbc news with ben brown. The headlines after her resignation from the cabinet and the conservative whip in Parliament Amber rudd attacks borisjohnsons handling of brexit. Its the combination of the fact that there is not enough work going into actually getting a deal, which is not what the Prime Minister signed up to try to do, and secondly the expulsion of 21 of my colleagues, who are good, moderate conservatives. Shell be replaced as work and pensions secretary by the environment minister Therese Coffey business secretary, andrea leadsom, says the conservatives will break with precedent and field a candidate against the commons speaker, john bercow, at the next election. Peace talks between the taliban and the us are called off President Trump blames a deadly
Delivers cargo to the iss, and is now one of several Companies Exploring the notion of Space Tourism putting non professional astronauts into space. It has also signed up billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to take a trip around the moon. Amazon boss and the worlds richest man, jeff bezos, is also planning to take passengers to the edge of space by the end of 2019, with his company blue origin, and has ambitions to land humans on the moon by 202a. But there is one company that is further along the Space Tourism journey than any other, and now Virgin Galactic has opened the doors to its new hq and given marc cieslak exclusive access. Fire, fire. It is a little after 7 00am, and im heading into the desert in new mexico, about 20 miles past a place called truth or consequences. The reason for that really early start is that we are going to get a very rare glimpse inside that. It bills itself as the worlds very first commercial spaceport. Thank you very much. Welcome to spaceport. Thank you. The on
Behind it, we get more sunshine arriving, some showers across scotland but temperatures higherfor all of us. Hello. This is bbc news with martine croxall. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. First, the headlines. The government says its sticking to its brexit plans despite a new law against no deal and amber rudds resignation peace talks between the taliban and the us are called off. President trump blames a deadly attack in the afghan capital, kabul. Hours to go before British Airways pilots go on strike, affecting up to 300,000 passengers. Joy for australia. Theyve retained the ashes after bowling out england on the final day of the fourth test at old trafford. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are katherine forster, journalist at the sunday times and joe twyman, director at deltapoll. Will come to you both. Lovely to have you here. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. In the telegraph, Bor