Conservative south korea. Choosing to become morticians. Welcome to do that you could join us. China launched a rocket today to the moon seeking to bring samples of new no rocks and dust back to the john 5 name for the ancient chinese moon goddess. Took off successfully from china. Its the 1st mission in 4 decades. And if successful, it would make china only the 3rd country to bring back samples from the morning after the u. S. And the former soviet union. And for more on this launch, im joined by mark mccall cohen, Senior Advisor for science, an exploration of the European Space agency. Mark, welcome rocks have been brought back from the moon before all. What is the scientific importance of this mission . Well, as you know, the Apollo Missions and also soviet Unmanned Missions brought back rocks in the sixtys and seventys. But the Chinese Mission is going is actually interesting. Its a much younger region of the moon than the Previous Missions have been to the top of a volcano, a very
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Up next testimony from dacts lien kraniger. She talks about her agencys role in protecting consumers during the pandemic. This hearing will come to order. This hearing is another remote video hearing. Ill go through quickly some of the standard reminders to remind everybody, once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your picture shows on the screen. To minimize background noise, please remember to click the mute button until it is your and if theres a technology issue, weve move on until it gets resolved. The fiveminute time still some senators say they dont seem to be able to find that. If you go to the righthand side of the screen and move your mouse, some options will show up. One of them is the grid view. If you click grid view, you will see a grid of everybody, and one of the things youll see is the clock. Ill try to gently remind people, because some senator have asked for the reminder because they cant see the clock. Again senator brown and i have agreed to go
On our intake of this is our 0 live from london also coming up corona virus infections spike in the philippines millions of people return to lock down medical workers say more must be done. Hundreds of prisoners remain at large after attackers affiliated with ice all stormed a prison in eastern afghanistan. And World Leaders bid farewell to the man who kept hope alive in Northern Ireland about peace prize recipient john hume dies age 83. Colors the race to find a corona virus vaccine continues the World Health Organization has warned there may never be a socalled Silver Bullet to end the pandemic its urging governments to enforce basic prevention measures rigorously including masks and social distancing as a way out of the crisis or than 18000000 coded 19 infections have been reported worldwide but the true number is thought to be much higher of those confirmed more than 680000 people are known to have died from the disease according to the u. N. Health body less than 10 percent of tho