This hearing is called to order. Welcome. 50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, two astronauts, sitting atop a rocket the size of a navy destroyer, packing 7. 5 Million Pounds of thrust, took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. Roughly 1 Million People had gathered on the ground to watch this historic event. Including half of the United States congress. These three astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of the world. The year was 1969. The year before i was born. The astronauts were Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin, and michael collins. And the mission was apollo 11. Armstrong and aldrin went on to make history a little more than 100 hours later. When, with more than one third of the earths the earth watching or listening live, they became the first humans to ever set foot on the moon. The apollo 11 mission would go on to make history again. A little less than 100 hours after that, as the First Mission
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Relationship worsen, the Foreign Ministers on his way to meet senior officials in iran tomorrow to call foran officials in iran tomorrow to call for an urgent de escalation of tension. Well be speaking live to the husband of Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe, about the week long Hunger Strike outside the Iranian Embassy in london. Hes been doing it in solidarity with his wife who is still held in detention in iraq. The churches become safe spaces for children at risk of knife crime, priest in south london wants to open the doors vulnerable children. And at 130. At one thirty, Fiona Stalker investigates the spread of lyme disease looking at how one tiny tick under the skin can cause chronic illness but gps are often slow to diagnose. Hello, good afternoon. Police were called to the london home of Boris Johnson and his partner Carrie Symons after a neighbour reported a loud argument in the early hours of friday morning. The metropolitan police say all our clients were safe and well. This afterno
Across britain to honor the British Caribbean Community for National Windrush day the first time the day has been formally celebrated in the uk. Police were called to the london home of Boris Johnson and his partner, carrie symonds, after a neighbour reported hearing a loud argument in the early hours of friday morning. The Metrpolitan Police says all occupants of the house were safe and well. In the next hour, the first of a series of hustings events around the country will take place birmingham. Mrjohnson and jeremy hunt, the two surviving candidates for the leadership, will be questioned by conservative party members, who vote next month on which man will become their party leader and the countrys Prime Minister. Our Political Correspondent Helena Wilkinson reports. This morning, no sign of Boris Johnson at the london flat he shares with his partner carrie symons. The flat the police were called to by a neighbour concerned about the welfare of a woman inside. The couple have been in