originally from antigua in the caribbean, ana is currently studying physics at aberdeen university andto space. i we won! her mum won their seats on the rocket after entering a competition she saw advertised on a flight as they travelled to get ana's student visa ana believes it was written in the stars. had i not randomly chosen aberdeen university and had we not had to take a massive detour to get my visa, we wouldn't be going to space. this is cool! ana hopes her example will inspire promising young astronauts. like some young people at this event in aberdeen. i think it is really cool that people from aberdeen can go up into space. it's really amazing. how does it make you feel seeing the rocket and everything? it is great! because i see the earth and where i'm living, i can see my house on earth. you will be the first mother and daughter to ever go into space. how does that feel? it is so much more reassuring and so connecting to be able to do this with someone i love so much. the virgin space flight takes off from new mexico on thursday. that's it for the programme. thank you so

originally from antigua in the caribbean, ana is currently studying physics at aberdeen university andare going to space. ana, we won! her mum won the seats on the rocket after entering a competition she saw advertised on a flight, as they travelled to get ana's student visa. ana believes it was written in the stars. had i not randomly chosen aberdeen university and had we not had to take a massive detour to get my visa, we wouldn't be going to space. ana hopes her example will inspire aspiring astronauts, like some young people at this event in aberdeen. i think that's really cool that people, like, from aberdeen can go off into space. it's, like, really, like, amazing. how does it make you feel seeing the rockets and everything? it's great because i see the earth really well. i can see my house from the earth. you're going to be the first mother and daughter to ever go into space, how does that feel? it is so much more reassuring and so connecting to be able to do this with someone i love so much. the virgin space flight takes off from new mexico on thursday. louise hosie, bbc news.

an aberdeen university student, anastasia myers, has said she feels on top of the world as she preparestic spacecraft on thursday, they won this trip from a competition. in fact, they will be the first mother and daughter ever to make the journey. some other stories now, the first group of asylum seekers have boarded the controversial bibby stockholm, housing barge. to 500 people will eventually live on the vessel in dorset, they will stay there while they await the outcome of their asylum applications. some human rights groups have called the scheme inhumane, but ministers insist it is safe and will actually save money. and the new barbie film has just hit the billion—dollar mark. just 17 days after its release it will finish the weekend with £1 billion in ticket sales at the global box office. it means greta gerwig has become the first woman to reach the milestone as a solo director. time now than for ten seconds of a rare blackjaguar called inca arriving at chester zoo. she arrived from the cats sanctuary in kent as part of a special programme that aims to protect the species. and yo

. >> originally from the caribbean, anna is studying physics at aberdeen university and hopes to worka. >> you and your mother or to space. >> they won 80 seats after entering a competition advertise on the flight as they traveled to get anna's student visa. anna believes it was written in the stars. >> having not only ventures and it -- had i not been chosen at aberdeen and had we not had to take a massive detour to get my visa, we would not be going to space. >> anna hopes her example will inspire aspiring astronauts, like some young people at this event in aberdeen. >> it is cool that people from aberdeen can go into space. >> how does it make you feel seeing the rockets? >> is great -- it is great. i see the earth really well. maybe i can see my house. >> you will be the first mother and daughter to go into space. how does that feel? >> it is so reassuring and connecting to do this with someone i love so much. >> the version space flight takes off from new mexico on thursday. katrina: you can find more and on the website, bbc news.com. you can also narrator: funding for this prese

we have a student at aberdeen university and her mother who won tickets to go on board.n goodwin, from newcastle—under—lyme, he paid $250,000 for his ticket back in he paid $250,000 for his ticket back in 2005 he paid $250,000 for his ticket back in 2005 and subsequently has had his parkinson's diagnosis as i was worried for some time that he couldn't be able to take part but looks like he absolutely is going to be there this afternoon. i looks like he absolutely is going to be there this afternoon.— be there this afternoon. i think that is one _ be there this afternoon. i think that is one of _ be there this afternoon. i think that is one of the _ be there this afternoon. i think that is one of the really - that is one of the really interesting things is that width of the age of the people going up. we have a student right the way through to somebody with parkinson's. that's one of the things that virgin are really trying to push is the idea of making space more accessible for people. that transition from having astronauts and cosmonauts, professional people whose job i

originally from antigua in the caribbean, ana is currently studying physics at aberdeen university andd had we not had to take a massive detour to get my visa, we wouldn't be going to space. ana hopes her example will inspire aspiring astronauts, like some young people at this event in aberdeen. i think that's really cool that people, like, from aberdeen can go off into space. it's, like, really, like, amazing. how does it make you feel seeing the rockets and everything? it's great because i see the earth really well. i can see my house from the earth. you're going to be the first mother and daughter to ever go into space, how does that feel? it is so much more reassuring and so connecting to be able to do this with someone i love so much. the virgin space flight takes off from new mexico on thursday. louise hosie, bbc news. good luck to them on thursday. an amazing experience. extraordinary. i bet carol would like to go into space. bet carol would like to go into sace. ., . ., bet carol would like to go into sace. ., ., space. no, could you change it to the caribbean? _ space. no, cou

i spoke earlier to a lecturer in international relations at the university at aberdeen for look at whatok at what is next. the military has taken over and _ look at what is next. the military has taken over and they - look at what is next. the military has taken over and they have, i look at what is next. the military i has taken over and they have, time has taken over and they have, time has passed — has taken over and they have, time has passed enough for us to begin to conclude _ has passed enough for us to begin to conclude that it is becoming successful coup, no longer an attempt _ successful coup, no longer an attempt. we have seen quite a lot of senior— attempt. we have seen quite a lot of senior officials rested, a lot of celebration on the streets, a lot of jokes _ celebration on the streets, a lot of jokes made about the former president. so we are seeing some kind of— president. so we are seeing some kind of consolidation of a military coup _ kind of consolidation of a military coup at _ kind of consolidation of a military coup at the moment. it�*s kind of consolidation of a

and you are studying physics, and i right, the university of aberdeen?erience for you?- 0k, we _ was an unbelievable experience for you? yes. 0k, we are watching the ictures you? yes. ok, we are watching the pictures of— you? yes. 0k, we are watching the pictures of it _ you? yes. 0k, we are watching the pictures of it actually flying, what was it like inside the craft? was it big and what were you able to do? did you experience zero gravity? yes, the craft was a very decent size, it was very comfortable and enough space that you could move around. if you chose to want to do tricks, may be, back flips or something, you could do that in zero gravity, but we chose to just really enjoyjust gravity, but we chose to just really enjoy just looking gravity, but we chose to just really enjoyjust looking at our beautiful planet and just trying to see and capture everything that we could see out there, what is out there. so that was really beautiful to see with our own eyes and the zero gravity was amazing. it with our own eyes and the zero gravity was amazing.— w

yeah, so this was a university and they university of aberdeen and they they have investigated this and found that men on average take 108 days to say the words. i love you. >> that's very specific. >> that's very specific. >> it is. and women take on average 122 days. yeah. so men are more in touch with our emotions. that's where we're kinder. we're better. no, they just want men. >> just want something. that's why they're saying i love you. >> yes, we want love. >> no, they're trying get >> no, they're trying to get something else. >> n something else. >> i think >> what do you think? i think there's there's a saying that there's a there's a saying that i. >> i] >> i ..- >> i made .._ >> i made up i. >> i made up myself is that women need know everything women need to know everything about they love about a man before they love them. it takes long time. them. so it takes a long time. and men, we need know and men, we need to know everything woman before everything about a woman before we hate them. >> so that's the pearls of wisdom from our resident wisdom there from our resident miso