Everybody at nasa basics. Let me introduce the panel and i will each one of them take some words. Steve is the director for the program here at counter arid and joel, the nasa manager of the space Center Program at houston. The deputy manager of Flight Operations director at johnson. The joining us is benji, senior director of human spaceflight programs at spacex. Nasa kurt costello, the program chief scientist and last but not least is arlena moses, the launch whether officer for our 45th weather squadron. I dont everybody is looking forward to hearing from them as well. I will turn it over to steve and let them take it from there. Thank you. Is great to be here following the launch readiness today. Since we talked on tuesday, we have put the falcon nine through a static fire, an important test for us to check out the rocket and make sure all of the systems are functioning as expected. We removed all of that over the last few days and the rocket is really good. Its important to do som
Parts of southern england that are inundated. At a quarter to eight, private eyes editor ian hislop joins the bbcs media editor to look back ona the bbcs media editor to look back on a fascinating year of front covers, cartoons, and satire. Good evening. Three and a half years after the uk voted to leave the eu, mps have resoundingly voted in favour of the government cosmic brexit bill. It paves the way for borisjohnson to deliver his promise that the uk will leave the eu at the end of next month. Well, the per minister won the vote easily by 358 votes to 234. Six labour mps rebelled and voted with the government. Now, the Withdrawal Agreement, now approved in principle by mps, says that the uk will leave the eu on the 31st of january and allows a transition period until the end of 2020. During which time, we will still abide by eu rules. It also says that we will pay the eu a divorce bill of around £33 billion, and it sets out a plan for dealing with the Northern Irish border with wh
This flight test aims to build on what weve learned from the previous flights while attempting a number of ambitious objectives. I would just like to direct you to the bbc website. We have a live stage at the moment which has reaction to this latest launch by spacex. And these are live pictures that are coming into the bbc newsroom from space. Lets return to our top story this error. This hour. The communities secretary, michael gove, has told mps that the governments new definition of extremism is more precise and rigorous, than the previous one. He said ministers had taken every possible precaution to strike a balance between protecting fundamental rights and safeguarding citizens. Critics have warned the change could inhibit free speech and unfairly target muslim groups. Lets listen to some more of what mr gove said in the house of commons. Across this house, i am sure that we would agree that organisations such as the British National socialist movement and patriotic alternative, w
Defence editor was on this flight and she talks about how the gps Satellite Signal was interfered with four 30 minutes, Satellite Signal was interfered with four30 minutes, mobile Satellite Signal was interfered with four 30 minutes, Mobile Phones could not connect to the internet. In this raf plane had to use alternative methods to determine its position. The key thing from the government, there was no threat to the safety of there was no threat to the safety of the plane and Downing Street say this sort of stuff does happen when you fly by kaliningrad. The difference is there were journalists on the plane so you can imagine this stuff happens all the time because what the russians want to do as they want to show, look what we can do, what we have done today as we have said, we can see what you do, but the uk is clearly playing it down. Thank you very much and lets look at the front pages, the guardian, the tories are urged to give back further £5 million. And at the bottom, children
Time for a look at the weather. Heres sarah keith lucas. A bit of spring sunshine. Of us. This is the picture in east sussex. A little bit hazy if you have blue skies. For most, sky is a little bit more like this, the picture in cumbria. A lot of cloud and for the rest of the day producing showery outbreaks of rain drifting east, but quite mild. Particularly in the south and south east. We could see 17 degrees this afternoon, down to the fact the winds are coming from the fact the winds are coming from the south westerly direction, so we have the warmer air mass and weather fronts continuing to produce rain particularly across parts of Central Scotland, quite persistent here, and Northern Ireland. Heavy showers across parts of england and wales. Temperatures, 16, possibly i7 across parts of england and wales. Temperatures, 16, possibly 17 in the east of england. Typically single figures in Central Scotland with more persistent rainfall. This evening, still got the rain in Central Scotl