into the sun's atmosphere. ry looking good, right down the middle... 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 the 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, viol

into the sun's atmosphere. ood, right down the middle... 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 tumult

in one hundred fifty eight he theorized that a flow of particles accelerated into space from the sun and that proved to be true but scientists still don't know how this phenomenon occurs theoretically such particles should cool down and dissipate the further from the sun they get not speed up so the wind streams could impact satellites in space and g.p.s. radio waves and electrical grids on earth they also cause rural when they crash into the earth's magnetic field and the deflected the probe will begin its first approach to the sun in november as part of its seventy a mission we will go hotter than anything is being before we are in that three million degree plasma region in the corona well gradually will close it will take set of seven giant steps closer to the sun until we're in that final region and as it makes those dives towards the sun surface but palca so the probe will eventually become the fastest object ever created by humankind she. francisco diego's a senior research fellow at the department of physics and astronomy at the university college of london and joins me now in

a space probe the can approach the sun close enough to enter its atmosphere. the objective is to examine how solar flares formed. when currents of electronically charged particles hit the earth they threaten sensitive electronics and satellites that's why scientists want to be able to forecast devastating solar storms. the parker solar probe will gather the necessary data with four instruments this means coming closer to the sun than any other space probe as before. and to be successful it has to survive being showered by energy particles and extreme radiation this extremely hostile environment demands highly developed technology a carbon he chilled with the thickness of twelve centimeters when the probe enters the sun scorching atmosphere its surface will heat up to fourteen hundred degrees celcius the onboard computer has to continually readjust the heat shield so that electronic and measuring devices inside can remain at room temperature and keep working if the probe falters in some way unprotected parts will simply melt. with every approach to the sun the p

on its way to the sun. nasa's space probe begins its ambitious 7—year journey to reveal more about the solar atmosphere than ever before. from our studios in and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday this is bbc world news. it's newsday good morning. it's 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7am in the shanghai region which is being battered by a tropical storm. it's the third storm of the season to hit the shanghai area and will bring more heavy rain. already major rainfalls in different parts of china and southeast asia has left a trail of destruction. simeon paterson reports. a hillside collapses outside beijing. incredibly, no casualties were reported in the massive landslide which followed heavy rain across china. transport links were cut and large areas waterlogged as far south as guangdong province, where this car was rescued from a sinkhole that open up in the flooding. for parts of the country there is much more to come. after drenching the philippines, causing flash floods and causing th

a space probe the can approach the sun close enough to enter its atmosphere. the objective is to examine how solar flares formed. when currents of electronically charged particles hit the earth they threaten sensitive electronics and satellites that's why scientists want to be able to forecast devastating solar storms. the parker solar probe will gather the necessary data with four instruments this means coming closer to the sun than any other space probe as before. and to be successful it has to survive being showered by energy particles and extreme radiation this extremely hostile environment demands highly developed technology a carbon he chilled with a sickness of twelve centimeters on the probe enters the sun scorching atmosphere its surface will heat up to fourteen hundred degrees celsius the onboard computer has to continually readjust the heat shield so that electronic and measuring devices inside can remain at room temperature and keep working if the probe falters in some way unprotected parts will simply melt. with every approach to the sun the probe

far as the sun sets in the city of angels. hello there we've still got plenty of showers around the black sea at the moment the satellite picture is picking up those shower clouds very clearly you can see them here stretching their way across georgia and away across the caspian sea we have plenty of showers here for weeks now yet more showers expected as we head through the next few days and again some of them are likely to be rather heavy with the old rumble of thunder in as well elsewhere and it's just roll the whole to see much expect now beirut's not to hope we're at thirty one but further inland we're looking at thirty five force in kabul and force in baghdad all the way up at forty five i mean for the towards the south and it's not being quite so hot on the thermometer says recently here in doha because it's been so schumer but humidity is expected to stick around as we head through saturday but on sunday things will change we're expecting the winds to fire down from the northwest that's a drier direction for the winds s

on its way to the sun. sa'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 national

a space probe the can approach the sun close enough to enter its atmosphere. the objective is to examine how solar flares formed. when currents of electronically charged particles hit the earth they threaten sensitive electronics and satellites that's why scientists want to be able to forecast devastating solar storms. the parker solar probe will gather the necessary data with four instruments this means coming closer to the sun than any other space probe has before. and to be successful it has to survive being showered by energy particles and extreme radiation this extremely hostile environment demands highly developed technology a carbon he chilled with the thickness of twelve centimeters on the probe enters the sun scorching atmosphere its surface will heat up to fourteen hundred degrees celcius the onboard computer has to continually readjust the heat shield so that electronic and measuring devices inside can remain at room temperature and keep working if the probe falters in some way unprotected parts will simply melt. with every approach to the sun the pr

the mission will analyse the sun's atmosphere for the first time.re, has died aged 85. british sprinter dina asher—smith takes a second gold at the european championships with a stunning performance in the 200 metres. before the papers, sport and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, here's will perry. good morning.

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will itjust burn up, it will be so close to the sun? o 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 first

it's lift—off for nasa's mission to the sun. e shutters come down on seven more m&s shops as the retailer battles to improve its fortunes. do these september issue covers signal fashion‘s new diversity, or are they a one season wonder? paul pogba unveils... ...a new penalty technique. as manchester united open the new premier league season with a win over leicester. music: daddy cool by boney m and we meet the men making dad dancing cool. good morning, a chilly but sunny start, it will cloud over later and we'll see rain in wales and south—west england later. a full forecast in the next 15 minutes. good morning, it's saturday august 11th. our top story. nasa will today launch one of its most ambitious space missions — sending a probe into the sun's atmosphere. a rocket carrying the parker solar probe will blast off from cape canaveral, in florida, at around 9 o'clock. it will travel at speeds of more than 100 miles per second — that's the equivalent of london to sydney in 88 seconds — making it the fastest man—made object in hist

to collect data from inside the atmosphere the sun is designed to brave extremes heat of one thousand degrees speeds of seven hundred thousand kilometers per hour and a journey that will last seven years she has returned the reports. as you might expect the key to loitering in the sun's atmosphere is not melting nasa engineers have built a carbon heat shield for the park a solar probe that's just eleven and a half centimeters thick they say it will protect the equipment that will be surveilling the sun as it sweeps through its corona or outer out was found the real still gets up to about twenty five hundred degrees fahrenheit which we're not going to do today but we are going to get it under degree and i want to feel like. i see that on the temperature of the corona is just one of the counter intuitive mysteries that the pocket probe hopes to solve why is it so much hotter than the sun's core several hundred times hotter science would suggest that the further away from the sun surface the cooler the atmosphere should be the probe is named after eugene parker who formulated the theory

the sun bbc news. soon to come, checking up on china. n the south china sea. as the lines of fans became longer, the police prepared for a hugejob of crowd control. idi amin, uganda's brutal former dictator, has died at the age of 80. he's been buried in saudi arabia, where he lived in exile since being overthrown in 1979. two billion people around the world have seen the last total eclipse of the sun to take place in this millennium. it began itsjourney off the coast of canada, ending three hours later, when the sun set over the bay of bengal. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines — the saudi—led coalition has announced it will investigate its air strike in yemen which killed at least 29 children. the un security council has insisted it be credible and transparent. in romania, tens of thousands of anti—government protesters have taken to the streets over low wages and what they call entrenched corruption. police and protesters clashed in the capital bucharest. more than 200 people on both sides were injured. in the coming hours, n

think about birth, the opposite is true on the sun, the atmosphere is still i opposite is true on the degrees, and we don't know how. when it arrives on earth it interacts with the magnetic field of the earth, space weather can knock out satellites and even do damage to the service of the earth as well. we need to be able to make better predictions about one and wouldn't something to affect us. this is what the lunches are about. you are putting your faith in a piece of equipment just putting your faith in a piece of equipmentjust four and putting your faith in a piece of equipment just four and a putting your faith in a piece of equipmentjust four and a half inches thick which will somehow protect this probe from the power of the sun? that sounds almost unimaginable! it really does. the reason we have waited so long that the mission is that we didn't have the mission is that we didn't have the technology before. so you all right, there's a really high technology item as well and the front of it will reach about 1300 celsius. so the spacecraft sort of hides behind that and the craft i

for scientists it's a unique opportunity to study the is sun's corona, the outer atmosphere of the sun that is a million degrees hotter than the sun itself. the scientist who made that discovery in 1958 is professor eugene parker from the university of chicago. the parker probe is named after him. >>> what is it like to have a major nasa mission named after you? >> it's a bit of a thrill, i have to admit. >> reporter: dr. parker is 91 now. the theory he hopes to confirm that magnetic solar winds get hotter the further they extend from the sun. >> one needs now to get out there and see in detail, okay, what kind of waves is it, where do they come from on the sun. >> reporter: those magnetic explosions on the surface of the sun occasionally blast the earth, disrupting power grids and communications. >> why is that churning beautiful bubbling boiling you see on the surface back there actually heating up the plasma and then sometimes shoot ing it out towards us. >> reporter: the sun is the only star we can actually study up close. for dr. parker whose solar wind discovery was the first dis

in one hundred fifty eight he theorized that a flow of particles accelerated into space from the sun and that proved to be true but scientists still don't know how this phenomenon occurs theoretically such particles should cool down and dissipate the further from the sun they get not speed up so the wind streams could impact satellites in space and g.p.s. radio waves and electrical grids on earth they also cause rural when they crash into the earth's magnetic field and the deflected the probe will begin its first approach to the sun in november as part of its seventy a mission we will get hotter than anything is being before we are in that three million degree plasma region in the corona well crackly will close it will take set of seven giant steps closer to the sun until we're in that final region and as it makes those dives towards the sun surface but palca so the probe will eventually become the fastest object ever created by humankind. you're watching all just their arms the whole robin these are all top news stories turkey's president has written an opinion piece in the new york

the spacecraft will begin making its first brushes with the sun this fall. by the time it makes its last approaches to the sun in 2024 and 2025, it will be 3.8 million miles away from th that is seven times closer than we have ever been to our star. the parker solar probe is the size of a small carshade the sc instruments from temperatures as high as 2500 degrees fahrenheit. scientists hope to better understand the sun's nature so we can better protect satellites and astronauts in orbit and even power grids on the ground. >> why is the corona hotter than the surface of the sun? that seems really weird. normally when you get further from a fire, you get colder. the corona is millions of degrees but the surface is only thousands of degrees. we will go to the action to figure it out. >> reporter: the parker solar probe is named after eugene parker who dedicated his career studying the sun. it is the first time nasa ever named a spacecraft after someone still alive. in new news. >>> investigators in washington state are tryi t why and how an airporworker stole a

big moments in the life of a great mission designer. sun smart and. start september ninth w. this is the news line from berlin the u.s. city of charlottesville marks the first anniversary of white supremacist rallies that turned deadly students and activists commemorates the confrontation between white nationalists and protesters that left one person dead in the city last august we hear from all correspondent in washington where rallies are also taking things also coming up. book counting is underway in many of the presidential runoff election but many people say at home amid reports of attacks on polling stations we'll go live to bamako for the latest. and not so launches a groundbreaking mission to touch the sun the park solo probe blasts all from cape canaveral on its way to unlock the mysteries of all stars superheated atmosphere. i'm a diff kimani thank you for your company the u.s. has been marking one year since a violent white supremacist rally that claimed the lives of three people in charlottesville virginia white nationalist a gathering in washington for another so-

>> reporter: the sun is the only star we can actually study up close. for dr. parker whose solar wind discovery was at first dismissed by critics, vindication in a probe that now bears his name. >> that's the fun of doing serious science. >> reporter: serious science indeed. tom costello, nbc news, chicago. >>> still ahead tonight -- an alert for pet owners after two cases of dogs passing an infection to their owners. what you need to know. >>> we are back with a word of caution for pet owners tonight. bacteria transferred from the mouth of a dog or cat could lead to a serious blood infection in humans. as nbc's steve patterson reports, people with weakened immune systems are most at risk. >> reporter: a husband's heartbreak. >> i have 43 good years. >> reporter: dan larsen says his wife sharon got sick quickly and died in june from a rare infection. the unlikely source, a tiny nip from the family dog. >> i feel like i got robbed. >> reporter: the same condition struck a man who had to have his hands and legs amputated in order to save his life. just like larse

is so much hotter than the actual surface of the sun is this is lingering mystery that scientists hope this machine could answer and they all in the sort of intellectual can also see having says one of the practical reasons for having this information well understanding how this level of the sun's atmosphere works is really key to understanding how the sun's whether it works now on earth we are really susceptible to storms from the sun the satellites that we rely on or never gave for communications even some of our power systems can be affected when the sun has a major eruption the corona is where those coronal mass is these huge eruptions of solar plasma super hot gas just erupt straight out a million miles an hour and you know scientists don't really understand how that works how can they predict them to safeguard our systems on the earth the systems that we need every day to talk over skype like we're doing now and even for astronauts in space it can be an emergency if they don't know who storms are coming this mission could help make those predictions and credible stuff and so

destination — the neighbourhood of our nearest star, the sun. , though, a helium pressure alarm caused the launch to be delayed. due to weather conditions, the next opportunity is this morning. all being well, the probe will travel through our solar system for three months, before arriving at the corona, the atmosphere around the sun, which is hundreds of times hotter than the star itself. 0ver seven years, it will gather valuable data about how activity on the sun affects communications here on earth, and it will pick up speed as it goes, at its closest approach hurtling around the sun at 430,000mph. that is fast enough to get from washington dc to tokyo in under a minute. bit of a delay there, but actually, we hope there is no delay later. that was john mcmanus reporting. nasa say there was a 45 minute window. it starts at 8:31am and finishes at around 9:15am and brea kfast finishes at around 9:15am and breakfast finishes at 9am. let us think positive! we are hoping to bring you live images from cape canaveral within the next 15 minutes. my jus

>> reporter: the sun is the only star we can actually study up close. for dr.whose solar wind discovery was at first dismissed by critics, vindication in a probe that now bears his name. >> that's the fun of doing serious science. >> reporter: serious science indeed. tom costello, nbc news, chicago. >> incredible. >> fascinating. >> yeah, thanks for existing, man. >>> the 100th pga championship wrapped up over the weekend. in the end it was brooks koepka who was the fifth player to win both the u.s. open and pga championship in the same year, finished 16 under after he sunk this par putt, but the internet was buzzing over this guy here in the red shirt, tiger woods, after an impressive showing, a costly miss on the 14th hole caused woods to finish second at 14 under, but he's warming up. >> all right, thanks for starting your week with us, i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm phillip mena. be sure to follow us on facebook, itter, andtw /s >>> a handful of white nationalists showed up for demonstrations outside the white house as counter protesters far outnumbered the

nasa is just hours away from launching a probe to the sun. l get seven times closer than any spacecraft before it. an immigration reprieve for a 9—year—old chess prodigy. we meet the boy whose talents mean his family can stay in the uk. man charged with arson in california after a raging wildfire forces thousands of people from their homes. the un security council has called for a "credible" investigation into an airstrike on a bus in yemen that killed at least 29 schoolchildren. earlier, the saudi—led coalition — which carried out the attack on thursday — said it would investigate what it called "collateral damage". aaron safir reports. you may find some of the images distressing. preparing to bury the dead. nearly 10,000 people have died in more than three years of war in yemen, but thursday's attack stands out. children, apparently on their way back from a picnic, hit by an air strike. it happened near a market in the rebel—held province of saada. un officials called it "a new low" in the conflict. what happened on thursday will change the

and brave temperatures of a thousand degrees we look at the probe that's flying into the face of the sun. and wet weather gets the better of this mostly g.p. rider in austria will have that story and more with tatiana in sport. getting to the heart of the matter unless we have new generations growing up to understand better our relationship with a natural world then soon there will be nothing left facing reality or our friends and allies played a positive role and the phone thing and his commission for taking this hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. with bureaus spanning six continents across the globe. to. al-jazeera has correspondents living the stories they tell. us about it. al-jazeera fluent in world news. outers zero follows the lives of people in the heart of immigrant communities. in six major cities across europe. the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them. a brand new documentary series this is year a coming soon on al-jazeera. this was wrong to teach children away from their parents and herd them into a school against their will there was no room or t

remind us why this needs to get closer to the sun? the planet so we need to understand the planet so we need to understand the sun and what it does and actually as we get more dependent on technology, for example satellites, satellite navigation, we are more dependent on the sun, it can damage satellites and heart astronauts, it‘s called space weather so we need to study the sun to understand it more and what it does and be able to predict space weather better. so what‘s happening right now with the probe? at the moment it's going through quite a long sequence of buddhists by various stagers on the rocket so the main rocketjust fired for a few minutes and then drop the. then we have a stick on stage running and that will drop, then a third stage, the spacecraft will go faster and faster it seems strange but it has to go really fast so it will leave the earth ‘s system really rapidly, it‘s going through the burn sequence at the moment and then september at the spacecraft will fly past venus which will give ita will fly past venus which

the real challenge is getting that close to the sun. k we are on the earth, why doesn't the earth fall into the sun? the reason is the earth is in an orbit and travel extremely quickly around the sun. if you launch a rocket from the earth, it is also travelling at that speed, 67,000 mph. if you fire it at the sun it will miss because it has that velocity in that direction. you need to slow down, rocket in the other direction and match the speed of the earth in order to get it in. and thatis earth in order to get it in. and that is extremely difficult, and that is extremely difficult, and thatis that is extremely difficult, and that is why you need one of the largest rockets, possibly the largest rockets, possibly the largest rocket, a massive rocket, and even that is not enough. you need to fly by venus, it is going to fly by venus seven times and use the gravity of venus to slow down. it is like the world's most complicated pull shot, it will aim for venus and whizz around seven times over the course of the next six or seven years, gett

relief are ma ny after yesterday's closest star, the sun. lief are many after yesterday's planned launch was aborted with moments to go. trajectory looking good. travelling at speeds of up to 430,000 mph, it will be the fastest man—made object in history. and it is the first time the spacecraft has been named after a living person. 91—year—old solar physicist eugene parker, the first person to describe solar winds in the 1950s and he was at the launch. all i am going to say is wow, here we go, learning over the next several years. they will ta ke the next several years. they will take three months for the probe to get there and it will pass by venus on its route in six weeks' time. the closest we will have ever been to the sun, 4 million miles from the surface. it will stay in the outer atmosphere, the corona, spending seven atmosphere, the corona, spending seve n years atmosphere, the corona, spending seven years looping around the star. but it is hot, 1300 seven years looping around the star. but it is hot, i300 celsius. 0ne seven years loo

the mission will analyse the sun's atmosphere for the first time.land today, another sunday of disruption for thousands of passengers. cyclists could face a new charge of death by dangerous cycling if they kill pedestrians while riding. tthe department for transport is consulting on proposals. now on bbc news, how is formula e racing helping us to make the shift towards electric cars? newsbeat reporter ellie roper follows team ds virgin racing, as driver alex lynn takes his first year behind the wheel. these cars are definitely the future... we go green in mexico city! all the talking stops and it is all about business. 0ff goes alex lynn! not much to say. i think this is the future.

so this one will sample the sun. we are seeing, there is a very thick heat shield. it is carbon, similar to the carbon composite you would find in a golf club or a tennis racket. it is carbon foam which you can have at temperatures of 1500 celsius on one side, and 28 degrees on the other side. they literally have a blowtorch here and touch it on the other side and it doesn't transfer any heat. incredibly resilient, lots of applications on earth as well. 60 yea rs of applications on earth as well. 60 years in the making, you wouldn't wa nt to years in the making, you wouldn't want to launch for the sake of launching if they are not ready. what will happen between now and the new lunchtime? they will be checking everything. they might be checking the fuel tanks. you have to feel sorry for those at mission control because it is 3am it and they were planning to launch. they will probably have to work for another 3am launch tomorrow. why are they going to the sun? what do we learn? two reasons. there is the very near the s

and brave temperatures of one thousand degree we look at the probe that's flying into the face of the sun. a u.n. delegation has arrived in gaza for meetings with hamas it's a bid to lower the tensions with israel are expected to push for a more permanent sees far and their visit comes as funerals are held for three palestinians killed by israeli forces during friday's protest at the gaza border as the twentieth week that protests were held one of those killed was a medic since the protests started in march around one hundred sixty four palestinians have been killed. meanwhile an attempt by gazan fishermen to break israel's blockade off the territory has failed around thirty fishing boat sailed towards the restricted area three miles of gaza's coast that's part of a protest at restrictions on where they can fish. now our correspondent charles stratford joins us live from which is in northern gaza charles first let's begin by what's happening with the u.n. delegation what can you tell us about their meetings with hamas. we have to understand that this is the stella geisha in representing t

nasa's mission to send a spacecraft to the sun is under way. be blasted off from cape canaveral in florida this morning. it will fly within about four million miles of the sun and through its outer atmosphere. michael cowan reports. five, four, three, two, one, zero. nasa's parker solar probe taking off this morning from cape canaveral in florida. a daring mission to shed light on the mysteries of our closest star, the sun. it was a relief for many after yesterday's planned launch was aborted with moments to go. trajectory looking good. travelling at speeds of up to 430,000 mph, it will be the fastest man—made object in history. and it's the first time the spacecraft has been named after a living person. 91—year—old solar physicist eugene parker, he was the first person to describe solar winds in the 1950s and he was at the launch. all i am going to say is wow, here we go, we're in for some learning over the next several years. it will take three months for the probe to get there and it will pass by venus on its route in six weeks‘ time. it's th