Behind on the international Space Station. Touchdown. That landing coming at 11 01am. This is the moment the capsule landed in the new Mexico Desert a few hours ago. It had developed technical problems, including helium leaks, shortly after its original launch and nasa decided it would be safer to leave the two astronauts on board the iss. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will return to earth next february in a spacex capsule, after spending eight months in Orbit Theyd only expected to be there eight days. Nasa says both astronauts are in good spirits. Nasa held a Press Conference shortly after and told us more about the mission. Lets take a listen. Happy to report starliner did really well today in the undock, Deorbit And Landing sequence. You know, we use the Nasa Docking system for the second time on the mission to to undock from the Space Station. That system performed really well. Its a derivative system will be used for orion down the road. So it was good to pave the wa
Spacecraft has successfully returned to earth, but the astronauts it was supposed to be carrying remain behind on the international Space Station. Touchdown, Star Liner is back on earth. This is the moment the capsule landed in the new Mexico Desert a few hours ago. It had developed Technical Problems, including helium leaks, shortly after its original launch and nasa decided it would be safer to leave the two astronauts on board the iss. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will return to earth next february in a spacex capsule, after spending eight months in Orbit Theyd only expected to be there eight days. Boeing have released this picture of the capshaw back on earth. Of the capsule. Nasa says both astronauts are in good spirits. Nasa held a Press Conference shortly after the capsule s safe return and told us more about the mission. Happy to report, starliner did really well today in the undock, the Orbit And Landing sequence. You know, we used the Nasa Docking system for the
a hundred and fifty two of the parliamentary seats declared so far, a simple majority. this will give the sheikh hasina her fourth consecutive term as prime minister, and herfifth overall. the election was boycotted by bangladesh s main opposition party, the bnp, which said the process wasa sham. our south asia correspondent samira hussain has been monitoring events for us in dhaka. the results of these elections come as no real surprise. prime minister sheikh hasina was all but guaranteed a win. but now there going to be some questions about whether the results actually reflect the will of the people. the country s main opposition party were boycotting the elections, saying that they didn t believe that the government could hold free and fair elections. they also encouraged their supporters not to go out and vote. then there was this general sense of apathy amongst voters because the main opposition party wasn t on the ballot. in terms of choices of who to vote for. you coul
of the busiest travel days with new year s eve just two days away. rob marciano with the forecast. police on high alert for new year s eve. ramping up security in times square for what it calls a heightened and dynamic risk environment, deploying thus of officers for an expected crowd of 1 million people. one day after being banned from the ballot president trump fighting another legal battle. our jonathan karl with three former staffers and their warning about a second trump-term pair reporter: the skies over ukraine were set ablaze after russia unleashed its largest attack since the start of their full-scale invasion. civilians sent running for their lives. at least 31 people killed and the u.s. shooting down a drone and a ballistic missile fired by iranian-backed militant tas. a urgent manhunt for a hurting her own children. and the new report from the cdc, high levels of respiratory illnesses, including flu covid and this is world news tonight with david muir. g
welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in thailand where there s huge uncertainty about the country s future direction. the two main opposition parties have agreed to form a ruling coalition. that s after they defeated their military backed rivals in a general election. but thailand s upper house the senate is dominated by the military and they could yet block a reformist prime minister. from bangkok, jonathan head reports. stunned by their success, thailand s youngest and most progressive party came to celebrate at the place they call democracy monument, built to commemorate a democracy that many thais say they have never had. today we have politics driven by hope in this country. they were told by an mp who, like so many in the party, has spent time in jail for his political views. this caught the public s imagination with the boldness and clarity of its manifesto. yes, the new era. you look very happy. yeah. i m startin