Although there were problems on every mission we flew during the apollo program. If you could look at the entire report, it is a book about that thick. It is in the archives so you could get it through freedom of information. And as an appendix it lists the problems, we call them anomalies, some people call them funnies, that happened on the flights. And they listed them museum air cally by flight auditor and you ignore apollo 7 and 8, they only have one spacecraft, they didnt fly a landing aircraft. Apollo 13 had the second least number of problems of all of the flights. We almost aborted apollo 14 and apollo 16. They had pretty Serious Problems they were able to work around and allowed them to land. So that was the nature of the business. And as i said, the very theme of this movie that carried very well was the story of somebody in problem, with problems, with a challenge, challenges really to face. And showed a group of people, a team in this case of Mission Control and ourselves.
you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the travel show, and stay tuned for newswatch. this week on the travel show. we ve got the struggle of equality being queer, and we ve got the struggle of equality being indigenous people in this country. ..how pride reaches the world s oldest cultures. you ll see the smell is close, but then the lands in the mouth is different. ..and a teetotal tipple in the land of wine. it s good, actually. i don t like it. hello there from sunny paris, where later on in the show, i ll be finding out whether the city of love is ready to relinquish its favourite drink, but first. ..we re off to sydney, which is celebrating 50 years since its first gay pride week, and five since same sex couples were given the same marriage rights as everyone else. so that s made this year s pride events all the more special, as jacqui wakefield s been finding out. the summer season in sydney, and everyone s out on the streets. it s the time of year the parks and o
out in the dry and bright weather by the weekend. thanks ben. theres more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight with christian which is just getting under way on bbc two, the news continues here on bbc one, as now its time tojoin our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, but from the ten team it s goodnight. hello, i m 0lly foster with the latest from the bbc sport centre. the indian premier league is back. ben stokes and moeen ali were the first england stars on show, but their chennai super kings were beaten by reigning champions gujarat titans in the opening match of the tournament s 16th edition. michael redford reports. of the big stadium in the world to come of the biggest of occasions, so much more thanjust come of the biggest of occasions, so much more than just a cricket condiment, it s full of global stars and plenty of home grown talents. that was mohamed s 100 and plenty of home grown talents. that was mohamed s100 ipl and
to leave prison and move into house arrest. him, his brother and two romanian women are being investigated on allegations of rape, people trafficking and forming an organised crime group. they all deny wrongdoing. coming up on bbc news, the latest edition of newswatch. first, though, here s click. this is the uk s national centre for data science and artificial intelligence, the alan turing institute, named after the mathematician considered to be the father of computer science. artificial intelligence is the idea of notjust us programming computers, but them being able to learn for themselves and alter their own code. yeah. and, in fact, it was the big guy himself who came up with the idea of the turing test, suggesting a computer could be regarded as truly intelligent if it could chat to a human and fool that human into thinking they were talking to another human. now, you and i have both tried chatgpt and all the latest ai chatbots. do you think that test has been passed n
Surrounded by fume. America tonights continued investigation into the f 35. Thanks for joining us. Im joie chen. We begin tonight with the ongoing saga of the f 35, the most expensive weapons system in u. S. History. A pentagon leaked report, is it worth the 1. 4 trillion price tag . The Defense Department insists the answer is yes. With no more vigorous supporter than middle eastern. America tonights Sheila Macvicar spoke with an official that says thats premature. Reporter what does it mean if the marine corps declares ioc in 2015 . Its a sham what it means. Tom christie, from 21 to 2005 he was the Senior Advisor to the secretary of defense for weapons. The sham he says, is whether the marine corps should declare ready for combat or in military speak, ioc. The program has been embarrassing and theyre just at the point to say you know were going to take whatever we get. Do you think that this plane is combatready . No, absolutely not. That combat capability is years away in my vote. R