i can only imagine, peter, this is the combination for, for jeff bezos, of many years of ambition, and many billions of dollars invested. you could see him of sure while ago giving a thumbs up through the window of the new shepherd capsule and heard him several minutes before that saying the best day ever. so for somebody who's, you know, made 200000000000 dollars and change through his life to have this be the best day ever it's, it's probably been pretty thrilling for him. and for the other 3, i would imagine his brother, $82.00, you're 53 year old jeff, mark bay. those got a wonder what mark basis is going to what, what jeff bezos is going to buy his brother for his birthday. you know, after getting this kind of a present, a trip into the outer space and the, the, the other members of the team there. and you can see them about to come out,

i believe lots of thumbs up. lots of cheering on the ground there. and the door opened and there is the basis and it's, well that's, that's nice to look in in another way because when we were used to seeing the apollo pods splashing down in the ocean for the space shuttles coming back, there was always that moment when the people had been on the craft kind of secreted away because they had to go into oscillation. they had to have medical checks, but okay, they will and they just gone up to the corner and come back down again. but that's something that isn't happening here. they're not being taken away. no one's going to examine them and kind of, you know, put them into a doctor surgery for 24 hours to make sure they're ok. and landing of the new stuff or the right. i mean, some of the cause, the knots when they returned to the bike, a newer cars, but in conflict on after more than 300 days in space is very difficult for them to

actually get used to earth's gravity again. so they, they were put on stretchers and, and then treated medically until they were able to, to really cope with the, the g forces again, because they had been up for so many days in the state of waitlist. for these folks, it's only been a couple of minutes and wait list, this surely very unforgettable experience. and another thing that's different, peter, is that these, these 4 were not in pressurized suits. you notice they did not put on space helmets . they were wearing a kind of sort of star track looking kind of a body suit, but not a pressurized air filled suit because the capsule itself is pressurized. so they didn't need to worry about any of that. so that's another difference. and

another perhaps, i guess improvement you could say over the technology of the u. s. and the soviet union during the earlier days of the, the space race and space exploration. so you can see this crowd. now people on the, the, the floor there of the, the desert scrub land at west texas here, very remote area. lots of people crowding around the, the for new newly minted astronauts as they received their congratulations and i'm sure they're there. they're telling their friends and family what it was like 2 to send to the heavens at l. b at briefly in the nail biting 30 minutes or so rob before take off before the launch when they were thinking, you know, and they did pause the launch count down a couple of times because that it was scheduled to happen exactly 13 hours, gmc,

i guess there's, there's a reality which is always at the back of the mind of mission control people and also the people on board, the capture and space. if you're traveling at those speeds in a capsule like that, the distance between success and cancer, straw fake fatal failure is a nanosecond of time. and something goes wrong that somebody didn't think about, or somebody didn't deal with or something went wrong in the planning or the design . because looking at the capsule now, it looks like an incredibly simple design of a spaceship. yes, but it is absolutely packed with technology that, of course, was never available to john glenn or you are a good guardian or any of the early astronauts or cosmo knots. you're right. it was, of course, over in the skies over texas that the space shuttle columbia disintegrated

because one small piece of heat, heat shielding had been broken off during the take off of that space shuttle. and that proved to be, although it was just really a small area that proved to be a fatal flaw and led to the depths of the entire crew. so this is space is a dangerous business. as i mentioned before, this particular capsule have been tested on without humans aboard. more than a dozen times. there were there had been no flaws. so they, they were confident. there you see bays, those and 82 year old wallet bunk, a congratulating one another again. everybody, yadda, and it's a really on a, on a, on a high here an emotional high certainly. but you're right peter. i mean, it's a very dangerous business. lives have been lost in space and just as lives have

been lost in asian. and one must think, and he perhaps discussed this with your guest as well that if there were to be some kind of accident, you know, one hopes obviously that that never happens. but what would that mean for space tourism would? would these complex vehicles like new shepherd go the way of the hindenberg? you don't see a lot of people flying around in zeppelin these days because of that memorable accident. so we'll have to see it's not going to be 100 percent safe. nothing ever is. but at least in this instance, it looks like everybody came through in flying colors and the technology proved itself as well. rob, for the moment. thank you so much. robert reynolds, they're right in the middle of texas covering that launch of that space craft

containing walley funk the 82 year old kind of the space race. and also alongside mark bezos. jeff bases his brother, and he's an 18 year old student. of course, we will be hearing from jeff bezos later on. i don't know about you. the person i want to hear from is the 82 year old pensioner before she heads off to chevy pines in florida. wherever she's going to go with the rest of her life, she was promising that she would try to do weightless. some assaults in space. i want to see film of that taken on somebody's smartphone as the people there on the ground in texas, begin to process what they've achieved. and also, i guess the people who are interested in space exploration decide to give us a distilled version of whether this is really, really about space tourism, or about incredibly wealthy, profitable, well established business men going on and going into big intergalactic

business. when governments around the world decide to fund or engage with what we've seen, or what we've got today as a little taster, a little t z of what is possible. now that the private sector is wholly involved with international plans to get up into and stay in outer space. the other top stories, the taliban today, claiming responsibility for 3 rocket attacks in the afghan capital. cobble oh, well that could be heard as the afghan president asked ref ghani was leading, eat. i'll other prayers at the presidential palace one hit the cobbles, most popular mosque. another behind as big as shopping mall. and the 3rd near the

ministry of foreign affairs, there had been no reports of any injuries so far live now to cobble and diplomatic editor james space. so james, such a difficult day on such a significant day for the people of afghanistan. certainly there was a big shock for people in the very center of cobble, when they heard the bangs i was staying in the center of cobble at around 8 o'clock this morning. when this took place now in the immediate aftermath out, you are a spoke to a senior member of the taliban, who said that they were behind this attack, but the tongue about and then never made any formal statement. and i statement then came out from i saw saying that they carried out the attack. i've spoken now to the tell about an official spokesman, so hell shaheen. and he says that not put out a statement because the taliban didn't do it. that it is not the view of the african government vote. listen to what president connie had to say. in the

immediate aftermath. we have the willing determination for peace and we have also sacrificed for it. but the telephone do not have the will and simulation for peace. so we have to take a decision according clearly this comes with a very difficult time for the afghan government. they're saying lots of rural areas that are falling in to the taliban in recent weeks. and recent months, the same bullet points that have falling to the taliban. they could say that urban centers and particularly the capital will very much in that control. i think this shows the fragility of the african government right now. james, thank you very much. james bayes are diplomatic, added to the in cobble. molly's interim precedent as we go into has survived an attempt on his life in the capital bama co. his office says he's safe after a man tried to stab him during prayers and that his great mos going to took power in june after the country. second qu, in less than a year,

life not admitted risk monitoring developments from a boucher in nigeria. he presumably must have security, but if he was praying in the mosque, maybe they weren't immediately by his side. what basically usually here in africa, what do you notice when presidents go into a most, they go along with their own security. there is an adverse party, but what happened actually was from the reports we are getting on the ground, is that the attacker paused as an usher for the mosque. and that was when the military leader i some greater was passing by close. then he launched at him that why report saying that it was truck and the arm, but these are not confirmed yet. the presidency is saying that the head of state is safe, but the man has been arrested and taken to a military facility for detention and questioning. now this is coming up particularly difficult time for the african government and for the west africa regional book. remember me going to seize power to pause from

a president bible but can cater in august of last year. and after a month he set up a government where he was vice president. there was a president and a prime minister after negotiations with the regional book course, and then all of a sudden, 9 months into the government. he struck again in the 2nd military, co, deposed that government and assuming leadership role in, in i, in molly. so the transition now is although the ministry government dare promise that they will deliver on their transition, it's difficult to see how things will pan out in the next few months or so already . the echo is the regional blog. they can be committed to western state, said that they need to see election holding in money by february of next year. now with these developments, it's not clear whether or not that will go ahead. and remember, also french is the friendship announced their intention to reduce the number of

forces they have in the cell g 5 that's tackling, i'm groups have been bothering not only mildly but also countries like nisha and begin a fossil. so it's becoming a more, more dangerous situation in molly at the moment. and right now we're not clear whether the taca is a member of the groups of been operating in bali and across the board in class on these yet. oh, i just going to military officer, even a civilian, not happy with the government of military lead, actually greater. ok, thanks very much. just me address the report in life for us from a buddha chinese diplomats denying beijing's responsible for cyber thanks against western nations. the u. s u k and other allies are accusing china protecting hackers engaging and what they call malicious cyber activity, including a breach of the microsoft exchange email server. earlier this year, they say hacker groups, protected by bay ging were responsible, compromising tens of thousands of computers worldwide, is one of a range of cyber threats. china is being blamed for,

including ransomware attacks involving millions of dollars, a teacher and union leader petro castillo, will become peruse next president, winning the election by a slim $44000.00 votes. it ends 6 weeks of uncertainty with the official results delayed by his ations of fraud by the losing candidate keiko for modi. sheena facing trial on unrelated corruption charges to europe. now, the german, john's langley america, has been meeting people affected by devastating flooding in the west. of the country, the cleanup is underway. after germany's worst natural disaster in decades, waters have receded but sometimes still cut off by damage, roads, and bridges. almost 200 people had been confirmed dead in germany, belgium and the netherlands. such teams are expecting to find more victims live now 2 step boston, whose life 1st in bad munster rifle step. this is not just a clean up operation. this is

a massive clean up operation. yes, it's an unbelievable clean up operation. as you can see, these chains of people here be, i mean, fasting on buckets and all kinds of things that are coming from all the foyer houses were completely flooded. this has been continuing for these already, and this is exactly the place also in the box moved. so i for where i'm going back hold the chancellor was he was saying earlier today, just in the hour or 2 ago she was here and she was actually standing right there. and it was very interesting scene. i witnessed that she was standing right there, talking to officials, talking to journalists, but here on this bridge, the work continued all the time. well, she was there and people were actually angry and they said, why is she there? we need to work every. everything has to stop there, so they were kind of frustrated. and i find that you come here and i'm sorry some,

some nice and sympathetic worse, but we really need her to do more. we need that. she takes a lot of money. and why is she sort of hampering the clean up operations step? we can see those buildings behind you and we can see the guys involved in the clean up operation. but looking at the damage from this distance, it's impossible to know what was there before. the flood waters hit. i mean was that a road? was that a bridge or was that a river? this is a very old historic sound. it's a beautiful song. it used to be a to do it, a full song. you can see the reference over there, but everything that's mac, so it used to be a rose and that's completely disappear. you can see that the water was been so hot, swept the washing everything away, that the whole i saw that everything has disappeared. and what do you sell and see if you have been doing? because you don't really see many people from the authority services. i don't see

it from all over germany. actually trying to fill up what's been left behind you all these holes in the road to try to fill up with all this degree and rubble that they can fight. and you wonder if this is a responsible operation, but they said we need to really make sure that this city is sort of level both in the next few days or next week. that's what they hold. but of course, it's gonna take much longer than that helicopter politicians and other popular in a situation lately step. so when the german chancellor flies in and then flies out, i guess there's a desire there for that sense of accountability to last for a long time. as they in parallel to that carry on rebuilding and re making towns and cities around the region. yeah, exactly. you can really feel the frustration because they feel like you know, this is of course ultimate election campaign. i'm going to merkel smear with her possible creed assessors. i mean her success for lunch and she was also here. so

they are also thinking, are we part of an election campaign, or are we really seriously taking care of these people? because the people are very much taking care of themselves. of course, there are government services active, but the area is basically far too large and wide to be everywhere. but people now off for 5 days, i can sense are getting tired of getting frustrated and really, really hope that the government is stopping in at the very soon. now. ok step many things that bus and they report loafers from bad, much the rifle. the court in south africa has adjourned. the former president jacob's him as corruption trial until august. the 10th, mrsa is accused of receiving bribes from the french arms make a beginning back in 190909, which he denies his response. the worst poster party violence. the country has seen . his lawyers argued. the case should be delayed by 3 weeks because of the unrest recently and covered 19 thousands of palestinian muslims have gathered outside the

ox of mos compound and occupied in jerusalem to mount the 1st day of each other. many were chancing installer territory with other palestinians in garza, were also living on the israeli occupation for the 2nd year in a row. only a limited number of people have been allowed to islam holy a site in mecca to mark the beginning of lauder. it's usually one of the world's biggest religious gatherings that attracts more than 2000000 listens, but only 60000 vaccinated saudi residents are taking part in this he has heart pilgrimage because of corona virus restrictions. still to come here on the news for you, the sports teams, health experts, a warning the bubble has been broken at the tokyo olympic village. 3 days out from the start of the big gables. ah

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ah ah ah, plenty of sports news is far. peter. thank you so much. the head of the tokyo olympics organizing committee hasn't ruled out a last minute cancellation of the games 3 days away from the opening ceremony. corona virus cases continue to rise in tokyo, which will be under a state of emergency for the duration of the olympics. 71 people accredited to the games of now tested positive. that number includes athlete staying in the olympic village and others preparing across japan, leading health experts or warning that the bubble at the olympic village has already been broken. there is no way for them to attract the movement of the people . the wind. yeah. and there is no core on team for an acid and

janice for extended 14 days. so in theory, if they could have implemented oral measures which day advocated it could have been done, but they had his degree. the bubble is not working every day on tv and internet. bunch of videos. so just just i oh, see, president thomas bark has admitted that he has had doubts and sleepless nights. so with a postpone tokyo games. but he insist cancellation was never an option o the past 15 months. we had to take daily decisions on very uncertain grounds. we had doubts every day

we deliberated and we discussed there were sleepless nights. like every one else in the world. we did not know. i did not know what the future would hold. it was either cancelling the games or postponing the gains. cancellation would have been the easy way for us. we could have drawn on the insurance that we had at the time and moved on to paris 2024. but in fact, consolation was never an option for us. the u. c. never abandoned the athletes. the 1st major corona virus has for

organizers kind of come as soon as thursday, when the olympic football competition gets underway with japan playing south africa . but there are concerns south africa could struggle to feel the team after 21 members of their delegation were designated close contacts. those people now need to return daily negative p c r test, including 6 hours before the game settled. african coach says that means he doesn't know who will be eligible to play the thousands of athletes who will compete and tokyo continue to arrive in the japanese capital women's thomas world number one and wimbledon champion. ashley bardy is one athlete who won't be staying in the village. lustre, alien officials say she's still been coming in to meet with some of her teammates. they say they're confident and they co good 900 protocols that are in place. we have some simple strategies in place, and many of the ma scoring when we're out at all times i'm also social distancing. but obviously we, we have dedicated cars and drivers say, and it's just

a quick trip over here. so we're not too far life in the village, but, and then the daily saliva testing obviously, is critical to the integrity of the whole system. and so that's all being, you know, working and we're confident in the measures that are, and i feel a big table tennis stadium has, open 2 teams for the 1st time. china has concerns over the size of the playing area . some of their athletes complained of running into the board surrounding the table while they were training bahama. her mother has his eyes on the top can finish and the olympic weight lifting competition. the 19 year old is the 1st palestine to ever compete in the sports at the game. he came 8th at last years under 20 world championship. mother says he is proud of reaching the olympics and that competing and tokyo is a dream come true to yourself. it's an indescribable feeling to have qualified for the tokyo olympics, the biggest sporting event. this is an honor for any athlete to participate in the

olympic games. and i feel excited and proud. i hope god willing that i will appear in good shape and honor the besieged palestinian people on an unnamed premier league player has been suspended by his club, pending police investigations into suspicion of child sex offences. cobb said in a statement, they will continue to support the authorities with their inquiries. a player has been released on bail after being detained on friday. of the milwaukee bucks are on the verge of quenching their 1st and the championship title in 50 years. box star player yanis and ted's bo will lead his team against the phoenix suns and gang 6 of the finals. later on tuesday, they'll have the chance to seal the championship on their home court. the box of 13 games in a row to leave the best of 7 series, 3 games and it's hard not to get ahead of you. so, but this is the time that you got to be the most discipline, you know?

and that's what i'm going to do. i'm going to be as discipline as possible. don't get too excited to get to pumped out for the game. none of that can play the game right now throughout this entire playoff, right? this is our 1st and elimination game. i mean, so is through and i mean it's no looking back now. we've got to come out, be ready to play and, you know, see the want to go home. nashville predator is luke protocol has become the 1st active n h l player to come out as gay. riley's, the 19 year old canadian went to the 3rd round, pick in the 2020 draft. he posted the announcement on twitter on monday saying that he was proud to be gay and wanted to live an authentic life. last month. las vegas readers. carl nasa became the 1st active f l player to come at. okay, and that is all your support for now. back to you peter. sarah, thank you so much. when we come back on the other side of the break, we will take a live update from austin, texas. just based off of touch down with 3 astronauts,

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