Good Tuesday Morning to you. Craig melvin with my hallie jackson. Back with our special coverage of the blue Origin Rocket Launch and a new Space Race that just took One Giant Leap forward a short time ago. Jeff bezos carved out his own slice of history at the edge of space. Its part of the first Unpiloted Sub orbital flight with an all civilian crew and it came some 15 years to the day of that apollo moon landing. Any moment we expect to hear from bezos and the folks that went to space alongside him. His Brother Mark bezos and two others, 82yearold wally funk, she trained in the 1960s to show women could qualify for the Astronaut Core, but was Ult Patly rejected because shes a woman. And an 18yearold also along for the ride. He got his seat after an Auction Winner had had a scheduling conflict. They both just became the Old Est and younger people ever to make it to space again on the 52nd anniversary of that lunar landing. Lets get to Morgan Chesky on the ground. We should point out f
Had upped Its game followIng the rather patchy performance agaInst swItzerland last saturday. The tensIon gave way to Boundless CelebratIon as fans now look forward to the match agaInst Italy on sunday. Our correspondent Tomos Morgan reports from cardIff. A splash of Dutch Courage to go wIth a dash of song. Even after a cagey openIng game, the optImIsm was hIgh. ConfIdent, I reckon well go on today. We need to wIn so were goIng to wIn. The boys are goIng to pull It out of the bag, I reckon. I reckon Gareth Bale and. Whats hIs name agaIn . KIeffer moore. KIeffer moore Is goIng to score. WIth no offIcIal fan zones, thIs crowd of 250 odd In the capItal was one of the largest watchIng from home tonIght. And just before half tIme, elatIon. SecurIty doIng theIr best to keep the fans socIally dIstant, but so dIffIcult when the PassIon And PrIde of a natIon Is on the lIne. Good fIrst half, Ive got no nerves now, I reckon well hold It out. FeelIng pretty confIdent. That goal before half tIme ju
just about half an hour from now, president biden is scheduled to speak about his administration s next steps in the fight against the pandemic, including sending central medical teams to hospitals in six states where hospitals have been overwhelmed. as covid runs rampant through schools and child hospitalizations rise, we look at what can be done to keep kids safe and in the classroom. we re also watching the u.s. supreme court, could be a big day, justices might release more rulings any moment now, among those we could see, the biden vaccination rule for businesses. we re also keeping an eye on capitol hill, where later today, president biden will appeal to senate democrats to change the rules to pass voting rights legislation, which now is looking challenged, to say the least. meantime, american and russian diplomats are wrapping up several days of talks aimed at easing tensions between russia and ukraine, but has anything changed? and the biden administration says it
the husband of the detained british iranian aid worker, nazanin zaghari ratcliffe, is ending his hunger strike outside the foreign office after 21 days. hundreds of migrants remain trapped along the border between belarus and poland caught up in the middle of a political stand off. and, the conservatorship that s controlled britney spears life for 13 years has been brought to an end. welcome to glasgow and the cop26 negotiations which are now in overtime, as negotiators from nearly 200 countries try to strike a deal on tackling climate change. a new draft agreement was published this morning. let s bring you some of the main points. most crucially, the reference to phasing out inefficient fossile fuel subsidies is still in the agreement. even after some countries reportedly wanted to remove it. the deal also asks all countries to upgrade their climate pledges next year, and rich countries are asked to double their climate adaptation finance by 2025 from 2019 levels. with
i m joined now by david waskow, director of the global research non profit organisation, world resources institute. at the beginning of the summit, i spoke to one of your colleagues, and he was saying that it wanted the delegates gathered here, the leaders gathered here to have the same sense of urgency to dealing with the climate crisis as they have done in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. do you think they have? n pandemic. do you think they have? i think there has been a sense of urgency here and one of the outcomes we have most wanted is really on the table and we hope it gets over the finish line and that s for countries to come back in the next couple of years or even next year, to strengthen their targets for taking action on climate but in the text we saw this morning, once again, we do hope that that actually manifests when we see the final outcome. haw when we see the final outcome. how essential would when we see the final outcome. how essential would that