we live in the wake of the sun. we are in the sun's empire.mosphere and our technology on earth. everything from the northern lights to power outages are a result of solar activity. if we are to probe what is happening inside the sun and the outer atmosphere, these are the moments where we can capture more data and untangle what is going on. all life depends. look at that, isn't it astonishing? absolutely stunning. amazing. back comes the blazing sun. nobody in their right mind would look at the sun in that way. you have to have all sorts of filters on cameras and your eyes. you do have a very big shift between that moment of totality when the sun's light is blocked and then when the sun has streamed back in its full intensity. even if it is 90% covered it is still too bright to see with your eyes. i don't know what the right script and of that is, a crescent sun? it is almost there. for some regions which are slightly outside the shadow path, if they are further north or south they will get something like this and that will be the best they w

the sun's shimmering atmosphere.ch we can see from earth during a total solar eclipse. this which we can see from earth during a total solar eclipse.— total solar eclipse. this new data from this very — total solar eclipse. this new data from this very incredibly - total solar eclipse. this new data from this very incredibly close i from this very incredibly close approach to the sun, just touching the surface of that corona is going to hopefully give us a lot more information about exactly what is going on in our beautiful, beautiful sun that heats up and gives us light. sun that heats up and gives us liuht. , , �*, ., . light. close up the sun's magnetic field twists _ light. close up the sun's magnetic field twists and _ light. close up the sun's magnetic field twists and lifts _ light. close up the sun's magnetic field twists and lifts its _ light. close up the sun's magnetic field twists and lifts its explosive l field twists and lifts its explosive surface. it's hoped the solar probe will shed light on the proc

europe's solar orbiter probe will make its first close pass of the sun today.ll track by a distance ofjust over 77 million km. the prone delete my probe was launched in february and it is ona probe was launched in february and it is on a mission to learn what makes the sun behave the way it does. chris, thanks very much for joining us. just talk us through the significance of what is happening today. actually, today is a landmark day for two reasons for those who are associated with the mission. first of all, we are on our first orbit after launch in february. we've reached a point in that orbit where we are closest to the sun. that's a big achievement. i've been watching my instruments getting warmer over the last few weeks. now i expect to see it start to get a little bit colder again. the other reason why it's an important day is today's actually formally the first day of our cruise space. we've spent the few months into launch checking out all the instruments making sure they are working, we completed that exercise. somewhat behind time because of the coron

because it's taking photographs of the sun and the sun is really bright, solar orbiter is not going asg a bit further back, 42 million kilometres away. and there it will use telescopes to take pictures through the heat shield, a heat shield which is partially made of baked animal bones. it's there to help solar orbiter withstand temperatures of up to 600 celsius. that is 1,112 farenheit. it's very important to keep solar orbiter and the instruments as clean as possible, and when there's dust on the lenses of the telescopes, when you expose that to the sun it effectively bakes those particles onto the lenses. once you start doing that you are losing science, so it's essential to keep those instruments as clean as possible. by measuring and capturing images at the same time, solar orbiter is really going to give us a good understanding of how the sun behaves, and how that can affect the technology we use here on earth. in today's world, with all our technology, a coronal mass ejection happens on the sun and affects us here on earth. it's going to have an impact on things like satellites,

we have never had a human—made object so close to the sun. has this heat shield that holds the instruments at room temperature and keeps the heat of the sun away, and these are just amazing feats, and so it's so amazing that we were so close and really getting to measure in detail this material up close. lift—off of the mighty delta iv heavy rocket... there have been many missions to study the sun but there's so much more we can learn — especially the sun's atmosphere, which we can see from earth shimmering during a total solar eclipse. this new data from this very, incredibly close approach to the sun, just touching the surface of that corona, is going to hopefully give us a lot more information about exactly what's going on in our beautiful, beautiful sun that heats up and gives us light. by getting so close, the probe will enable scientists to see how the sun's powerful magnetic field twists and lifts material to create solar flares. this may help them understand why the sun's atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface. and how it emits

an amazing achievement but so close to the sun. haw but so close to the sun. it not _ but so close to the sun. how did it not melt?! _ but so close to the sun. how did it not melt?! obviously, | but so close to the sun. how did it not melt?! obviously, it was designed not to melt. it has an experimental heat shield that keeps all the instruments at room temperature. quite where this room is on earth, one can only wonder! but it has worked. just because you build something, it doesn't necessarily mean it will succeed. it has succeeded, and this is a huge triumph for nasser, now, we are waiting for these results to show exactly how some of the processes of the sun work. what sort of temperatures are we talking about? it is not just the temperatures but the radiation as well. there are a whole string of numbers that are fairly meaningless, but it is extremely hot. the sun's surface is about 500 times cooler than the atmosphere, which can be up to 3 million celsius. why that happens, nobody knows. why the sun spits out charged particles called the solar wind, no o

into the sun's atmosphere.dle... the probe was named after the 91—year—old solar physicist eugene parker, who was at the launch. all i'm going to say is, wow, here we go, we're in for some learning over the next several years. it'll travel at 120 miles each second, faster than any other probe. even so, it will take three months to reach the sun, passing venus on the way. the spacecraft will spend seven years looping around the sun, and it'll get hot — 1300 degrees celsius. we have a wonderful heat shield that we keep oriented between us and the sun, and so it keeps everything in the main body of the spacecraft nice and cool and kind of creates a shadow. and it has a white coating on it that was specially designed for parker solar probe. very much like you'd prefer to be in a white car on a hot day instead of a black car on a hot day. the probe will study the sun's atmosphere, which can be seen from earth during a total eclipse. shimmering and beautiful from so far away, violent and tumultuous close up. this is

it appeared in yesterday's sun. why has the momentum built to this stage?f hillsborough and i think, we have got to be careful about saying that a backlash from social media represents widespread opinion, but what happened yesterday is the that the sun and news uk, the publisher of the sun came out and said this is something that we've got wrong. it is not just something that we've got wrong. it is notjust what kelvin mackenzie said, but it is when he said it. kelvin mackenzie is known to many people in liverpool and merseyside as the editor of the sun and he printed a controversial front page which led to the sun being banned in many parts of liverpool. liverpool football clu b many parts of liverpool. liverpool football club banned reporters from the sun and that's a legacy of what kelvin mackenzie said. it is not just the comparison of ross barkley whose grandfather was nigerian to a gorilla which kelvin mackenzie said he had no idea about. and the paper said that too. the only people paid as much as ross barkley in merseyside were drug dealers so he is

. , :: ., the sun._ the sun. we are past 20 million people, it looks like it's - the sun. we are past 20 million people, it looks like it's still - people, it looks like it's still full steam ahead with vaccinations, and of course, all that is the key to opening up in the summer and beyond and hosting the euros would beyond and hosting the euros would be economically a great uplift. so bring it on, i think. be economically a great uplift. so bring it on, ithink.— be economically a great uplift. so bring it on, i think. even though we aren't in europe _ bring it on, i think. even though we aren't in europe any _ bring it on, i think. even though we aren't in europe any longer. - bring it on, i think. even though we aren't in europe any longer. we - bring it on, i think. even though we j aren't in europe any longer. we will call it something else. let's talk about that later on. good to have you both on, thank you very much for this first look at the papers. you'll be back in about 40 minutes' time. good

about 3.8 million miles above the sun's l 3.8 million miles above the sun's service. know it sounds quite far away, but when we're 93 million miles, that puts it into perspective. we're not just closing the corona, we are beneath the surface. it's like sitting on the beach. and then you can see all the magic that is happening. can see all the magic that is happening-— can see all the magic that is haueninu. v . . ., , happening. it's all feat of itself of course. _ happening. it's all feat of itself of course, but _ happening. it's all feat of itself of course, but i _ happening. it's all feat of itself of course, but i wonder - happening. it's all feat of itselfj of course, but i wonder beyond happening. it's all feat of itself- of course, but i wonder beyond that, what are scientists hoping to achieve and what to more they want to learn? it’s achieve and what to more they want to learn? fl ., achieve and what to more they want to learn? �*, ., , ., ~ ., to learn? it's our star, we kind of taken for— to learn? it's our star, we kind of taken for granted. _ to learn? i

the closest ever approach to the sun. the uk government is being urged to send more prisoners to low—securityjails to help reduce reoffending and overcrowding. the prime minister of nepal says there are too many tigers in his country and wants to give some away. hello, i'm lucy hockings. azerbaijan airlines says that the preliminary results of the investigation into the plane crash in kazakhstan has found there was "external physical and technical interference". but the report has stopped short of accusing any group or country of being responsible, nor what the cause of that interference was. azerbaijan airlines had already suspended flights to several russian cities. it says it has to take flight safety risks into account. neither russia nor kazakhstan has confirmed the cause of the crash, but the head of russia's aviation authority says the plane had been unable to land at its planned destination in grozny because of a ukrainian drone attack which was taking place at the time. he added that thick fog had prevented two e

this probe will tell us about the sun's - tell us about the sun's magnetic field in very close proximityt. the sun's magnetic field is so important for us to understand, all of the planets of the solar system sit within the sun's magnetic field, it influences all of the planets, life on earth as well, it will sample the solar winds, this constant stream of charged particles emanating from the surface of the sun. we don't understand how the magnetic field of the sun is created, we don't know where it comes from, and we don't know how these charged particles start almost stationary on the surface of the sun and then are accelerated to 1 million the sun and then are accelerated to1 million mph, and we need to understand this, because they make up space weather. and the space weather impacts our life on earth, not just with the beautiful northern lights or the southern lights, the aurora which we have enjoyed so much this year, it also impacts our satellites. a really strong solar storm when we have a big explosion of material on the surface of the sun that barrels towards earth, that can ev

and setting course for the sun, nasa announces its first mission to fly directly into our sun's atmospherethe us military says it's successfully carried out a test to simulate the interception of an intercontinental ballistic missile aimed at america. it was the first such test of its kind, in response to the growing threat from north korea. the bbc‘s peter bowes has been following the story from los angeles. he described the significance of the missile test. on display for all to see, the conflict technology designed to halt a long—range missile in its tracks. the interceptor was launched on california's central coast. the target a mockup of the continental ballistic missile was fired from an island in the pacific more than 4000 miles away. the operation likened by a bullet hitting another bullet but at far higher speeds was successful. according to the director of the us missile defence agency it was an incredible accomplishment and a critical my milestone. a showed america had a credible deterrent to a real threat. earlier this week north korea carried out its ninth ballistic missile te

with the sun for many years.ars. standing up to him would take guts. iam hoping i will get years. standing up to him would take guts. i am hoping i will get an a nswer guts. i am hoping i will get an answer as to whether the editor of the sun was in on thursday night when this went out. he might have been away. but there has to be editorial responsibility beyond the columnist himself, and we have got to investigations, merseyside police dealing with the complaint on racial grounds, and the mayor of liverpool has also complained to the press ready later, and they will be keen to show that they are in touch with public opinion. there does need to be some sort of editorial responsibility, and is it worth having kelvin mackenzie, known to be controversial, it is single—handedly destroying the relationship between the sun and merseyside, at a time when the paper is keen to repair relations. a british student who was stabbed to death on a tram injerusalem has been named as hannah bladon from burton—on—trent. the 20—yea

so the surface of the sun is about 6,000 degrees or so.ing solar eclipses — that reaches millions of degrees, and that is further away from the sun. so how is that atmosphere getting hotter? the mission is also studying the solar wind — the constant stream of charged particles bursting out from the sun's corona. the probe's even recorded the sounds of the sun. three different types of solar wind. various tones dispersive chirping waves. langmuir waves. and doctor who—like whistler mode waves. when these particles interact with the earth's magnetic field, the sky lights up with dazzling auroras. but this space weather can cause problems, too, knocking out power grids, electronics and communication systems. the hope is the mission can help us to better understand this. but first, the spacecraft has to survive its burning—hot flyby. i will worry, but we really have designed that spacecraft to withstand all of these brutal, brutal conditions. it's a tough...tough little spacecraft. during this close approach, the spacecraft is out of communica

will itjust burn up, it will be so close to the sun?go to, it should survive fine with this big heat shield on the front. but that only works if you keep the heat shield pointing straight at the sun, so it's got some fuel on board to keep it pointing in the right direction, but eventually, after maybe ten years or so, it will run out of fuel, and at that point, it won't be able to keep pointing straight at the sun, it will gradually rotate round and at that point, it will burn up and eventually be destroyed. the headlines on bbc news... ten people are hospitalised after shots are fired in the moss side area of manchester. the government proposes a new law of death by dangerous cycling for cyclists who kill pedestrians. nasa's parker solar probe which will analyse the sun's atmosphere for the first time has successfully launched from cape canaveral in florida. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. good morning. starting with the news of joy good morning. starting with the news ofjoy and shop, dina asher—smith the firs

well, the i probe goes so close to the sun that it has no cameras to look directly at the sun, the amount protons, other things coming off the surface of the sun in the solar wind, the magnetic field, and also the magnetic field, and also the amount of energy it is receiving at different wavelengths from the sun. not taking pictures but measuring that energy. and then what we are actually doing at the european space agency with the mission called solar orbiter is measuring how that changes as it moves towards the earth. so measuring very close into the sun where, as in your piece, the energy rises enormously, the energy rises enormously, the temperature rises from only a few thousand degrees to millions of degrees in that very narrow range. how does that then propagate all the way out to earth where space whether there might be the issue? i whether there might be the issue? ~' ., whether there might be the issue? ~ ., , issue? i know in the peace there, rebecca's - issue? i know in the peace there, rebecca's piece, i issue? i know in the peace| there, rebecca's piece, we issue? i know in

we had some new allegations from the sun — story.ions from the sun newspaper _ story. we had some new allegations from the sun newspaper tonight - story. we had some new allegations l from the sun newspaper tonight which will appear in the paper tomorrow but let's start with what the sun has reported in the paper this morning. they allege that an unnamed bbc presenter was paying money to a 17—year—old for over a three—year period, so that person is 20 years old, money of £235,000 in return for explicit photos. the family of that person had spoken to the sun and say that the money received was being used for crack cocaine —— money of “p used for crack cocaine —— money of up to £35,000. the family say they complained in may and the allegation is that bbc did not properly investigate. the new allegations in the sun tamara cohen said the unnamed presenter, they claim is there was a picture of the presenter that the family of the teenager had seen with the presenter in his underwear —— the new allegations at the sun tomorrow said the unna

why is the corona hotter than the surface of the sun?of nature, it is like water flowing uphill. it should not happen. why in this region does the solar atmosphere suddenly become so energised it escapes from the poll of the sun and bathes the other planets? we haven't been able to a nswer planets? we haven't been able to answer these questions without taking a probe into the sun. we are going to be moving at blistering speeds. we will be moving at 430,000 mph. that's about 118 miles per second. wouldn't you all enjoy your morning commute at that speed? we are going to be seven times closer than any other mission has ever been. and, we will repeatedly sweep through the corona, making these measurements. so why has it taken 60 yea rs measurements. so why has it taken 60 years to be able to do it? honestly? the materials did not exist to allow us the materials did not exist to allow us to be able to do it. the first thing we had to do was make a heat shield, and we love our heat shield! 0ur heat shield was developed using nasa research mon

and setting course for the sun, nasa announces its first mission to fly directly into our sun's atmospherethe us military says it's successfully carried out a test to simulate the interception of an intercontinental ballistic missile aimed at america. it was the first such test of its kind, in response to the growing threat from north korea. the bbc‘s peter bowes has been following the story from los angeles. he described the significance of the missile test. this ground—based interceptor was launched from van der burgh for space on the central californian coast and this isn't the first time a test of this nature, as least as it applied to previous short range missiles, has been carried out. this is designed to intercept a long—range missile and in fact it successfully d id long—range missile and in fact it successfully did that with a mock missile, a mock long—range missile launched from an island in the pacific, more than 4000 miles away. so its significance is that and according to that responding to this, they say this shows it is, to use their words, an incredible accomplishment, a cr

we need to know how the sun operates. need to know how the sun operates-— need to know how the sun operates know why is the corona _ operates. we need to know why is the corona so _ operates. we need to know why is the corona so hot? _ operates. we need to know why is the corona so hot? you - is the corona so hot? you talked about that in your report. across america in indiana earlier this year we had a piece of corona and now they can examine that. further, it impacts birth to an space weather. we have had these northern lights that have actually dipped down into florida where i am this year because we are solar maximum. so we want to understand how that happens and predict a space weather because it can disrupt munication is in spacecraft and aeroplanes and disrupt power grids —— can disrupt power grids —— can disrupt communication. we need to fight against those disruptions.— to fight against those disruptions. to fight against those disrutions. . ~' , ., ., disruptions. thank you for takin: disruptions. thank you for taking the _ disruptions. thank you for taking the time _ disruptions.

the sun is very active.in the form of flares says whether it can affect us on earth like in may or october where we had big storms and our atmosphere. so the sun can impact our gps or atmosphere and effect astronauts when they are out of the earth's atmosphere. so understanding hours sun is extremely important for our existence and our progress going for it. —— understanding our son. h0??? our progress going for it. -- understanding our son. how do ou feel understanding our son. how do you feel that — understanding our son. how do you feel that the _ understanding our son. how do you feel that the progress? - understanding our son. how do you feel that the progress? wej you feel that the progress? we are fl in: you feel that the progress? - are flying this tiny spacecraft in a region of space that is extremely hot. we know very little about it but we orbited the sun 21 times so we are not nervous, we are very excited. tomorrow on christmas eve 2024, parker solar probe is going to make history for all of huma

but the opposite is true with the sun. the atmosphere around the sun is called the corona.un. the sun is already incredibly hot, it is 5500 celsius. but in the middle of this corona we believe it is “p of this corona we believe it is up to 1 of this corona we believe it is up to1 million of this corona we believe it is up to 1 million or 2 of this corona we believe it is up to1 million or 2 million celsius and we don't understand why, what is causing that to get so much hotter than the surface of the sun. the early results from the parker solar probe suggest it is to do with the magnetic field, it is all turned and twisted on the surface, which we see as sun spots which create these big solar flares that we get to appreciate here on earth as those gorgeous northern lights, the aurora we have had a lot of this year. but there is a lot we don't understand about how it works, how this could be fuelling this hot atmosphere around the sun and this new data from this very incredibly close approach to the sun, just touching the surface of the corona is going to hopefully give us a

. , ., w. ., denied any wrongdoing at the sun. , . ., ._ sun.tance of any liability but — sun. yes, no acceptance of any liability but a — sun. yes, no acceptance of any liability but a huge _ sun. yes, no acceptance of any liability but a huge number- sun. yes, no acceptance of any liability but a huge number of. liability but a huge number of claims previously have been settled, as you mentioned. a huge amount of money has been paid out by news group newspapers. mgn has always denied unlawful activity at the sun newspaper and if this trial goes ahead what is fascinating and interesting about this case in particular is that not only the claimants for a case, but also a generic case will be presented. the allegations in that will be there was a cover—up at the high levels within the organisation. we have heard repeatedly from prince harry, who has always said this is about accountability. he wants to bring this case to trial so people he alleges were involved in unlawful news techniques are held accountable. if he does settle, we will have to wa

., the sun.he billionaire businessman, mohamed al fayed, who went from selling soft drinks in egypt to owning harrods and the paris ritz, has died at the age of 94. his eldest son, dodi, was killed alongside princess diana in a car crash in paris, 26 years ago. never far from controversy, mr al—fayed revealed in the mid—1990s that he'd paid mps from the governing conservative party to ask questions in parliament. he also claimed that diana and dodi had been killed in a secret service plot — a theory that was rejected by the coroner and an inquestjury. the nobel foundation has reversed its decision to invite russian and belarusian ambassadors to this year's nobel prize award in stockholm. it follows a backlash with a number of swedish mps saying they would boycott the ceremony. however, the ambassadors are still invited to the awarding of the nobel peace prize in oslo, that's organised by the norwegian nobel committee. franak viacorka is chief political adviser to exiled belarusian presidential ca

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the most intense aurora is during the solar maximum, where you have got lots of sun spots on the sun,s quieter minimum period, where there are fewer sun spots. we are just coming out of the minimum period now, so how have we had such good aurora this winter without those sun spots? there is a different process on the sun which can lead to aurora. these are called coronal holes, and essentially what we get from coronal holes is a faster solar wind, and these are the charged particles which are pushed out from the sun all of time. and we get coronal holes, and faster solar winds, this reacts with the earth's magnetosphere and upper atmosphere. so we can actually see some geomagnetic storming and some aurora from these coronal holes. these are more frequent in solar minimum, theyjust aren't strong as from sun spots. there needs to be a strong geomagnetic storm to get the aurora across the uk, but you're most likely to see it in northern scotland, where lots our bbc weather watchers have been sharing pictures with us. in the arctic circle, however, weather permitting, it can be seen at mo

it's always a good time to remind people that we can be safe in the sun and we can enjoy the sun safely's good for us in lots of ways. but it really is just about enjoying the sun safely, and i think what we've seen is that, amongst younger adults, the rise in cases is lower. so we do think that awareness is growing and it's continuing to grow, which means people are being safer. beth vincent there. the sun was shining today in gloucestershire. gloucestershire's famous annual cheese—rolling competition has been taking place today in south—west england. dozens of competitors ignored warnings about the potential dangers of taking part in the event after is was declared "unsafe". they willingly threw themselves down the famous hill in a tradition that began two centuries ago. stay with us here on bbc news. hello, then. it's a bank holiday monday of sunshine and showers, but as we go through the afternoon the heaviest, most persistent showers are likely to be across eastern scotland. you can see rather threatening—looking skies in edinburgh just a few hours ago. this has been the shower dis

our sun in all its fiery splendour.ll so much we don't know about it. now the closest—ever encounter is set to finally shed light on our star. three, two, one, zero. nasa's parker solar probe blasted off in 2018, heading to the centre of our solar system. it's been orbiting our star, getting ever nearer, but this latest flyby is taking us to a new frontier — to touch the sun. even though we've had missions that have gone very close to the sun, that wasn't close enough to get into this sort of magic region where all of this physics and all of this — all of these processes are happening, and the the only way to be able to understand those processes is to fly through them and take the data right where all the action is happening. this mission is breaking records. parker solar probe hurtles past the sun at 430,000 miles an hour. no human—made object has ever gone so fast. it's the equivalent of flying from london to new york in less than 30 seconds. at its closest, it's 3.8 million miles — 6.2 million kilometres — from our

on its way to the sun.asa's space probe begins its ambitious, seven—year journey to reveal more about the solar atmosphere than ever before. police in washington have been out in force as white supremacists and far—right supporters held a rally across the street from the white house. organisers had said up to 400 people would attend, but farfewer did. they were outnumbered by cou nter— protestors. the event was staged for the first anniversary of racially charged violence at charlottesville in virginia. our washington correspondent chris buckler has more. the streets here in washington, dc have been filled today with counter—protesters. some of them with their face masked, as you can see, many of them wearing black. they are antifascist campaigners protesting the demonstration by a far—right group that calls itself unite the right. now, they said they were involved in what they call a white civil rights protest, but the reality is many people are deeply offended by that. not least because this white nationa

the phoenix suns owner. he - fan was? he is a fan. he is a fan... the phoenix suns owner.s? he is a fan. he is a fan... the phoenix suns owner. he is a i fan was? he is a fan. he is a fan... i the phoenix suns owner. he is a fan, isn't it? he cannot influence the game by holding the ball. he cannot influence the game by holding the ball. american wyndham clark says he dreamt about winning his maiden pga tour title since he was six years old after claiming a four—shot victory at the wells fargo championship. four birdies in six holes on the back nine at quail hollow pulled him clear of xander schauffele and earned him 3.6 million dollars in prize money — that's more than seven times the amount he's taken from any tournament previously. got on the lpga tour, thailand won their first international crown beating australia 3—0 in the the final. they were led by tournament mvp ariya jutanugarn who closed out herfour—ball with a chip in. thailand won 11 of their 12 matches in california. red bull's sergio perez admits he had no answer to the pace of teammate max verstappen, after

and aditya is the name of india's sun god. it's already on its journey to study the sun.of the sun when it reaches the 1.5 million km halo orbit. and that will help india decipher many mysteries of the sun. and it will also help protect india's 50—plus satellites. because when the sun gets angry, it can strike many satellites like we saw in the starlink constellation recently. so, india wants to prepare and be safeguarded against solar storms. it's beautifully put there when you talk about the sun getting angry. and i suppose that's something that that scientists have really had to consider, isn't it? if you're sending a piece of very technically sophisticated equipment towards the hottest thing that we know, how do you put in place mitigations to to protect it, to make sure it... well, notjust does its job, but survives? very simple, you don't send it all the way to the hot star. even though the sun is the nearest and largest star, the best thing is to stay away in the goldilocks zone, which is where the earth is situated, where life can flourish. so india is sending the

the real star of the show is the sun.nly will we understand how this wind is generated, and flares and coronal ejections occur, but we will understand better the environment of planets around other stars, planets that live very close to their own suns. briefly, if you would, it seems to be a very tight turnaround they are setting to get this thing off the ground? this mission has been under development now for more than five years. it was conceived of 60 years ago in a national academies report in 1958. so the mission is well under development now and we look forward to a launch in a year. over the last few days stargazers have been treated to a spectacular show as the ‘southern lights' swept across australia and new zealand. 0nlookers were treated to a stellar display on sunday when the phenomena appeared above tasmania and new zealand's south island. sarah corker has the story. pulsing beams of light danced across the skies over the 0tago peninsula in southern new zealand. known as the aurora australis or the southern l

the sun is constantly streamin: the world? the sun is constantly streaming out — the world?t a jet _ the world? the sun is constantly streaming out a jet of— the world? the sun is constantly streaming out a jet of particles, | streaming out a jet of particles, ions and electrons charged particles and these interact with our earth's atmosphere and when there is too much of that, it could add to the potentially knock out our satellites in the form of a geomagnetic storm, for example, so these are the things that we are hoping to understand how these processes work so are able to predict the solar weather better and understand how solar flares can also be predicted. fik. understand how solar flares can also be predicted-— be predicted. 0k. india has earned tuite a be predicted. 0k. india has earned quite a name _ be predicted. 0k. india has earned quite a name for _ be predicted. 0k. india has earned quite a name for itself _ be predicted. 0k. india has earned quite a name for itself for - quite a name for itself for cost—effective space research, doing things on a budget. what

i think this is quite _ wearing sin the sun. i think this is quite an_ wearing sin the sun.lopment. politicians never want to have the sun is an enemy, do they? no, they don't. the metro, they've got something similar. a quote from keir starmer, prime minister taking the public forfools was starmer, prime minister taking the public for fools was up a picture of allegra stratton who was at the centre of that video. a very, very tearful apology. centre of that video. a very, very tearful apology-— tearful apology. what did you make of that? it was _ tearful apology. what did you make of that? it was a _ tearful apology. what did you make of that? it was a tearful _ tearful apology. what did you make of that? it was a tearful apology - of that? it was a tearful apology and it did feel heartfelt to me as well. she very much did regret her words. i think what is interesting is she does seem to be the only money of the stake in the fall for this so far. if you see the video there were numerous people in the room all contributing to this mock press conference was up and she alluded

they told us one thing that effectively the story as reported by the sun is untrue and the sun's fronts is quite another. the parents say they stand by their account and in an interview they say, "we did this to help," and that the presenter has got into their loved one's head, as they put it. the stepdad says the claims tonight on behalf of that young person are not true and accuse the bbc of lying about what happened when they made their complaint. where does that leave us? not much clearer perhaps. here is my account of how the day has unfolded. the story has dominated the front pages for days, driven by the sun newspaper, which first reported it in its saturday editions. now a lawyer for the young person at the centre of the allegations has told the bbc that on friday, via whatsapp, they told the sun the statement by their mother was totally wrong and there was no truth in it, adding, "nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place and the allegations are rubbish". the sun newspaper has pushed back tonight, telling the bbc its story was about two concerned parents who made a com

the sun says it stands by its story.her inquiries, but there is currently no investigation underway. the male presenter, who has been suspended, has not been named. here�*s our media editor katie razzall. for the first time, we at the bbc have had contact with the lawyer acting for the young person in this case. they told us one thing that effectively the story as reported by the sun is untrue and the sun�*s front page tonight recently published this is quite another. the parents say they stand by their account and in an interview they say, "we did this to help," and that the presenter has got into their loved one�*s head, as they put it. the stepdad says the claims tonight on behalf of that young person are not true and accuse the bbc of lying about what happened when they made their complaint. where does that leave us? not much clearer perhaps. here is my account of how the day has unfolded. the story has dominated the front pages for days, driven by the sun newspaper, which first reported it in its saturday editions.

remind us why this need to get closer to the sun?ves all of life on earth, the light and heat helps us live, so we need to understand the sun to understand what it does. as we get more and more dependent on technology, for example, satellites in space, satellite navigation, we are more dependent on the sun's mood and it can accelerate particles to very high energies and damage astronauts as well and that is space weather and we want to study the sun to understand what it does and be able to predict space weather better. what is happening right now with the parker probe? at the moment, going to quite a long sequence moment, going to quite a long sequence of boosts by various upper stages on the rocket. the main rocket just fired for a few stages on the rocket. the main rocketjust fired for a few minutes and dropped away. we have a second stage running at the moment, that will drop away. then the third stage will drop away. then the third stage will make the spacecraft go faster and faster. it seems slightly strange but to get close to

hugely exciting to understand more about the sun and the role it plays in the solar system, the sun and the solar system, but it does also have an application on our every day, but doing that because by learning more about the solar wind, and how it is launched, we can learn how to predict solar storms, which have a big impact here on earth, because they can affect things like satellites, they can actually knock satellites, they can actually knock satellites off—line, and they are anxious reliant on satellite technology, and they can even affect our groups. let's take a look at what's making the news across the uk. a new app to help to tackle violence and intimidation towards women and girls has been launched in gloucestershire. the idea's to build a picture of how often — and where — incidents are happening, especially those which often wouldn't be reported. tracey miller reports. it was supposed to be a fun night out with friends but amelia is convinced her drink was spiked in a club. i don't remember a lot of it. i've kind of had to be filled in on all the details by friends who were

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they called it touching the sun. achievement by nasa. all the details therefore you are on the website. hello there. we're holding on to this very benign, gloomy weather across most of the country. winds are light, so there's nothing really to stirthe airaround. so it does stay cloudy and misty for most. some fog patches in places which could be stubborn to clear, and we'll continue to see patches of light rain and drizzle. this fog could be problematic across england and wales through the course of today, so just bear that in mind if you are heading out on the roads. so it's all down to this area of high pressure bringing these light winds, very stagnant air. we still have this weather front straddling parts of scotland, northern ireland, that will bring thicker cloud with outbreaks of rain here. but most of england and wales will be rather grey with that fog in places, although some sunshine certainly over the higher ground of wales, across the pennines, perhaps over the moors of south west england. but for most it