Too. Quentin tarantino is under pressure after boomer thurman released this footage of her crushing during filming with him 15 yea rs crushing during filming with him 15 years ago, he has called the event one of the greatest regrets of his life. Uma thurman. The worlds most powerful space rocket has just taken off. Most powerful space rocket has just ta ken off. It most powerful space rocket has just taken off. It was built by spacex, called the falcon heavy launcher and this is the moment it left the ground. Building on the history of apollo. We are getting ready to throttle down. Cheering and applause. It took off from the same site nasa used when it carried out the Apollo Missions nearly a0 years ago so spacex has an eye for history. It looks like a success so far and if spacex can make the bigger rockets work it opens up all sorts of possibilities for what it can put into space. This animation gives more details on what happened during the take off. You can see that this particular operation is really three smaller rockets bolted together. These are actually from an earlier spacex model number capable of creating double the thrust of its rival rocket. We can get an idea of what is happening to these boosters, the smaller ones come off and this has already happened in the last few minutes. The central booster continues with the payload but it too will separate and it doesnt come down to Cape Canaveral, it has got to land on the drone ship out at sea so got to land on the drone ship out at sea so it is a hugely complicated operation. So far it is going to plan. The reason they are being ambitious is if you get the rocket down to earth it is a lot cheaper. Estimates are the launch cost around 90 Million Dollars as opposed to 350 for one of its competitors. Because of the high rate of failure, the payload isnt a real payload, normally you put whatever you want in there with an equivalent weight. Elon musk put one of his cars into space, apparently it will have a mannequin driving it and also david bowie playing as it goes about its business. Here is elon musk. Bowie playing as it goes about its business. Here is elon muskm bowie playing as it goes about its business. Here is elon musk. It is just forfun. Business. Here is elon musk. It is just for fun. What is the purpose of sending a card to mars, theres no point, it isjust sending a card to mars, theres no point, it is just for fun and to get the public excited. As you were saying, normally when a new rocket is tested they put something boring on likea is tested they put something boring on like a block of concrete. We were like, that is boring, what is the most fun thing we can put on because this is just most fun thing we can put on because this isjust a most fun thing we can put on because this is just a test flights. We dont want to put valuable satellites on board so the car is the most fun thing we can think of. This graphic helps us understand how it compares with other rockets. It lifts 6a tonnes into lower orbit, twice as much as its nearest rival, the delta four heavy Space Shuttle which used to lift around 2a tonnes but now decommissioned. This video is entitled how not to land a rocket booster. It has had its ups and downs over the years. You may remember this from 201a, just how difficult it is to do these things. Jonathan amos has been watching with interest, quite a sight, wasnt it . Elon musk had tried to draw spec drawdown expectations before the launch but it has gone pretty much to plan and we got spectacular views of the side boosters coming back to land at the Kennedy Space centre in unison touching down, very balletic. We are still waiting to hear of the central core stage, one of three, strapped together managed to land successfully on a drone ship in the atlantic. It looks like it has gone very well. It will be many hours before we know if that roadster with the mannequin is on its way to mars. The top part of the rocket has got to do cruising around earth and fire its engines a few times to put it on the path to the red planet but so far so good. These boosters when they come back down, the idea is they come back down, the idea is they are completely reusable. They have to do a brush and clean. He has got a new batch coming. This is kind of like the old batch he is using at the moment. The new batch, he wants to fly them ten or more times and thats how you get to this cheapness is offering satellite operators. He saying i have a rocket twice as powerful as the next one but a third of the price and thats how he intends to blow them out of the water. I was showing the graphic showing the different weight they can lift, then the hugejump showing the different weight they can lift, then the huge jump to the one that has taken off. What have his engineers done to allow them to do something twice as powerful as what has gone before . Theres a little bit of oranges and apples in that graphic in the sense you compared with the Space Shuttle which has more thrust off the path than the falcon heavy. It has 2a tonnes of usable payload. Of course it was lifting the orbiter off the ground as well, thats huge rocket plane that came back so its a little bit oranges and lemons. What we have seen today is pure lift. Yes, five double decker buses worth of payload. People have talked about doing this kind of thing before. Elon musk said ican kind of thing before. Elon musk said i can put three together, maybe i will put another two on the sites. The difficulty is then you have got to control all of those engines at the bottom and in some ways hes already gone past this. He is planning an even bigger rocket which he calls the bfr and is planning to fly it next year. I understand how this gets bigger kit into orbit, help me understand why it also helps us help me understand why it also helps us get further towards mars. You can put Something Like 16 tonnes on a path to mars. If you think of the curiosity rover running around mars at the moment, that weighs a tonne. It took about three and a half tonnes to get it there in terms of all the paraphernalia to cruise through space to get to mars inside a capsule to get to the surface. Now we are talking about 16 tonnes so imagine the rover you can put on the surface of mars with this particular rocket. Then you start to think what could i do . The biggest telescope in the world, the james webb telescope, the world, the james webb telescope, the successor to hubble, it has to be folded origami like. Now you have a big rocket, you think i can build a big rocket, you think i can build a really big telescope and launch it into space. Everything you put in spaceis into space. Everything you put in space is constrained by the size of the rocket you can put it up there with and if you have this extra capability, you can Start Playing with your imagination. Exciting, thanks for explaining it. Lets go straight to south africa because the Political Drama is developing by the minute. Jacob zuma is under severe pressure. South africas times live new service is citing sources on tuesday saying the president will resign once a list of preconditions have been finalised. We should say we dont know what the list of preconditions are and we are not able to stand the story up ourselves but local media is saying a deal is being worked on which would involve the new anc leader Cyril Ramaphosa becoming president. Stinging criticism although president zuma has always denied these allegations of corruption. Up until yesterday, the anc had been insisting that not only would the state of the nation address take place as planned, it would be given byjacob zuma address take place as planned, it would be given by jacob zuma who is still the president of the country. As you mentioned, there has been speculation over his future and it has reached pretty much fever pitch here. The opposition had been threatening to disrupt proceedings. We have seen them do that before but i guess the fear within the anc was it would be even more dramatic than had been seen. Certainly when the speaker of the house addressed journalists earlier today, that is what she said, that they wanted to avoid disruption. What we are being told here is that the internal machinery within the anc has clicked into place and really its not a question of if but whenjacob zuma will go so you can imagine with all of that happening in the background, it would have been a pretty awkward addressed to make, certainly at this time. The story is going to develop im sure. We will come back to it tomorrow but lets also tried to work out what happened on the stock markets on monday. The single biggest percentage fall since the financial crisis in 2008 so lets look at where we got it today and its been a topsy turvy day. This is the live feed coming from the dow jones in new york. It started the day with a fall of 2 so there have been big swings throughout the day, not just been big swings throughout the day, notjust in new york. Here are the figures for elsewhere in the world. Paris down over 2 , and look at what happened in japan and paris down over 2 , and look at what happened injapan and hong kong. This is the fourth day we have seen this volatility and primarily markets going down. If you are wondering, should i worry . We have been listening to lots of experts today, most have said no and here is one of them. Markets have become extremely expensive, notjust high valuation but earnings ratio. A lot of companies have become expensive, the price of their stocks relative to what they earn. As we saw asia follow suit, part of it is profit taking so they have already gained this match on the rise, maybe it is time to take a little bit out in case the market falls further. This is the tweet from james hughes who says the dow is back up, panic over. Hes right, there doesnt seem to be panic at the moment but i dont think we are back to normal yet. A broker called jason lawlor says traders paradise right now. Because they see it as a chance to make money. Curiously donald trump has not been tweeting about this. He has not been tweeting about this. He has not been tweeting about this. He has not turned to the subject in the last 2a hours. It is worth saying those things dont directly correlate, anyway the president hasnt been talking about this but his treasury secretary has. We are very focused on the long Term Economic growth and we believe the policies we have enacted including tax reform are very positive for long Term Economic growth. We are already beginning to see that in terms of corporate investments back into the us and the impact on corporate earnings. As you said the stock market is up significantly, over 30 since President Trump was elected. We are monitoring the stock markets, they are functioning well and we continue to believe in the long term impact of the stock markets. We spoke an hour ago and things were chopping and changing, where have we got to now . Markets just closed about ten minutes ago and the dow seems to have closed 567 points up. At the start of the day it had gone down 500 points, it made up it had gone down 500 points, it made up those losses and has closed higher and that seems to be the case with the other industries as well which means it has closed higher thanit which means it has closed higher than it closed yesterday. It has made up some lost ground but definitely not all because on friday and yesterday we saw the massive slide but essentially it is an indication of what people have been talking about on the stock market today which is volatility and they expect that wont go away so soon. Even though we have seen a relatively good day on the markets today, they believe this volatility we re today, they believe this volatility were last at least for the rest of the week. And how do we understand the week. And how do we understand the new york market is up whilst others have all gone down significantly . We will have to wait and see what the asian reaction is to what the us markets have done today because to some extent the asian markets were reacting to what happened in the us markets yesterday. How all of this is connected, the sell off started on worries Interest Rates would rise rapidly. If that happens essentially investors with money to spend could think of moving it to the us and away from other countries and thats the reason you have seen this domino effect on other stock market. Seeing what has happened today, we have to wait and see how asian markets react 110w. Wait and see how asian markets react now. 0k, thank you. In a few minutes we will talk about the premier league because it is considering a winter break, perhaps injanuary. League because it is considering a winter break, perhaps in january. We will bring you up to date on that. The former chairman of the Construction Firm carillion has said he takes full responsibility for its colla pse he takes full responsibility for its collapse and is devastated. Philip green was giving evidence to mps on a Committee Investigating why the firm went into administration. It will delay a hospital project in liverpool. Subcontractors are waiting to find out what sort of money they will secure when liquidation proceedings are finished with carillion. In the meantime they are struggling to make plans and commit resources to the royal liverpool. 0ur lead story is that in the last few minutes, spacex has launched the most powerful rocket from Cape Canaveral. Two of its boosters are already safely back down on earth. Some stories from world service, a judge in london has ruled the arrest warrant against the wikileaks founderjulian assange remains valid. He has been living in the embassy in london for five years. Morgan tsvangirai is reported to be critically ill at hospital. He is being treated in south africa, and was a vocal opponent of robert mugabe. And thousands of you have been watching this drone footage from missouri of a huge pile up that involved over 100 vehicles and several independent accidents. It happened on sunday but the video has only just been released. Happened on sunday but the video has onlyjust been released. You will find it on the most watched list on the bbc news app. Bps quarterly profits are quite something, for the last three months of last year the profits quadrupled to 6. 2 billion. Thats not unrelated to oil prices, they have hit a recent four year high of 70 per barrel. Here is one a nalyst high of 70 per barrel. Here is one analyst on what is going on, and on the ongoing impact of the deep water horizon disaster. This spill still casts a shadow over bb and its results. The net debt ratio is still high and that has been a stubborn problem for them and that weighs against them compared to some major oil peers. With oil prices up, that has helped them, but they announced to investors there was a 1. 7 billion charge last month and they cannot quite close the chapter on that. We often talk about electric vehicles on the programme, much less so about aeroplanes with electric engines. Here is a new report on this. Battery technology is one of the key thing is Big Companies around the world a re thing is Big Companies around the world are investing in today. I think we will see a progressive or electric power on the bigger aeroplanes and we will see this concept of hybrid electric. The way the Technology Works is similarto the way the Technology Works is similar to how the way the Technology Works is similarto how an the way the Technology Works is similar to how an electric car works. The batteries power an electric motor and in the case of the aeroplane it powers the propellers that get the aeroplane into the air. I think it isjust a question of when and not if really. We think in ten years there will be some very finalised design is available but then it will have to go through tough certification process. Lets look at this story in detail, the English Premier League is considering a winter break. The league is saying we are open to this in principle. 0ver christmas in england it is pretty much nonstop football, six games in 20 days is not unusual. Pep guardiola at man city says how many injuries will the players have to have, hes not happy about this. In february the Champions League starts and that puts more pressure on. Jose mourinho, he thinks english clubs are handicapped in the Champions League whereas other sides for example in spain are fresh because they have had a winter break. None of this will go ahead without support of the broadcasters which have spent 7 billion on the right. The reason this issue has come around now is the next round of broadcast rights are about to be auctioned. He was the bbc Sports Editor giving his thoughts, you can find that on the bbc sport website. They have been running a poll on this issue. 58 of people voting support the idea. Here is a tweet from the football fans federation saying. Soi so i guess it depends who you ask. Chelsea not having a great time at the moment, a couple of bad defeats including to watford last night. The Football Association will be thinking about the fact the England National team have got not been toa National Team have got not been to a world cup semifinal since 1990. This is the first time the premier league, who also have a massive say of course, have ever even considered it. They cannot bring it in straightaway and the main reason for thatis straightaway and the main reason for that is the current tv rights. Tv Companies Pay billions of dollars for the right to show premier League Football matches. If they do bring it in, it may have a big impact on the tiredness of england players, but at the same time the theory goes that if they do bring in a winter break, some of the Top Premier League clubs might use this as an excuse to make more money. In preseason, june and july, they often leave the country and go to the middle east, to china and america to make money through pre season tours. What the l