Asteroids have been hitting our earth for around four billion years. Most famously, the chicxulub asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs and transformed life on this planet. On 15 february 2013, a 10,000 ton asteroid entered the atmosphere over the russian city of chelyabinsk. It exploded with 30 times the energy of an atomic bomb, injuring 1,600 people. And we didn t see it coming. Professor alan fitzsimmons is an expert in the observation and measurement of asteroids. He s one of the scientists trying to make sure we don t miss the next big impact. Now, i want to start with some jargon busting, because there s a lot of stuff out there. There s asteroids, there s comets. Can you take us through that?. Sure. Asteroids, like good old bennu here, are objects, rocky objects that orbit the sun. We also have comets, of course. Comets have a lot of ice in them. Now, if that asteroid enters the earth s atmosphere, then we see it glowing as a meteor or shooting star. If they make it to the ground, t
Charged in connection with last week s riots. The prime minister is chairing a third emergency meeting ahead of more potential unrest. Nobel laureate mohammed yunus is sworn in to leave the new caretaker government in bangladesh, following weeks of deadly protests. two lead. And the eight day to space that could now last until next year. We ll talk to an astronaut. Let s start with the news that donald trump said he had agreed to three tv debates in september and we did a response from kamala harris s campaign. waking a response. I campaign. waking a response. I think it s important to have debates think it s important to have debates. We ve think it s important to have debates. We ve agreed think it s important to havel debates. We ve agreed with think it s important to have debates. We ve agreed with fox on the date debates. We ve agreed with fox on the date of debates. We ve agreed with fox on the date of september debates. We ve agreed with fox on the date of septe
The european championship, still 16 turned 17 on saturday. Moments later, spain took the lead. Deflecting in i think it stands as an own goal at the moment. Might get it back because it was on target, even without them trying to keep it out. Two onto spain and there is just over half an hour played. It is a thriller. England have arrived in dortmund ahead of their semifinal against netherlands. That s coming up against netherlands. That s coming up on wednesday. The squad trained at their team base before heading to 200 miles west. That s a fully fit squad. Gareth southgate is going to have to decide whether he sticks with that change of formation that he employed against the swiss. A defensive back three, in the quarterfinals. The dutch plans have been disrupted, their train to dortmund was cancelled, so they had to arrange a flight and arrived late, so cancelled their pre match news conference. But everything has gone to plan for england, even if it has been a fairly tortuous path to
Mandatory for care home staff to to be fully vaccinated. On twitter, it s @annita mcveigh or bbcyourquestions and most workers say they d rather not return to their offices full time according to new research and over a fifth would like to work from home for good. Also coming up this hour. Out of this world four amateur astronauts, including a billionaire will spend the next three days circling the earth in the latest milestone for space tourism. Hello and welcome to bbc news. After a ruthless day of firing and hiring, the prime minister is set to continue the biggest shake up of his government since he entered downing street. Yesterday he fired his education, justice and housing secretaries and demoted others as he reshapes his senior team. Dominic raab is no longer foreign secretary he s justice secretary and deputy prime minister with liz truss becoming only the second woman in history to hold the post of foreign secretary. Gavin williamson, widely criticised for his
Do that i think is just absolutely so essential to be able to give us the capacities to make this next essential step that micchio was talking about. 11 minutes 10 seconds away from launch. Let s just quickly go to poppy harlow and jim sciutto. Guys? good morning, everyone. What a morning. I m poppy harlow. And i m jim sciutto. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. 52 years to the day after those words were uttered by neil armstrong on the surface of the moon. Moments from now we will witness a new leap for mankind. Poppy, two private launches to space in the span of nine days. I mean, a remarkable new normal. Still a pricey ticket to space, no question, but does this over time become even more normal, more accessible? we re witnessing a moment of history right now. We certainly are. As one expert put it, the dawning of the public space age. What you re watching if you re just joining our coverage live here on cnn is the final count down. Literally, we are ten minutes fro