richard branson space tourism company crashed and i said wait a second. there's a british billionaire who owns the spaceship company that has a winged spaceship flying with test pilots on board and crashing and dying. the stakes seemed unmistakably high. it's on me was happening so that was the moment i went to my editor said we have to write about this. this is insane. his question was sounds cool but do we get real access is what he said. my next trip was to go to california to talk to the then vice president of the company and figure out if i could get real access. how could i embed with them? >> i'm curious about that. how did that conversation go? and access is a double-edged sword. were they excited, did they want assurances from you? how did that initial conversation go and were there other subsequent conversations? how much workdid this take ? >> it was a little bit of work. there were surprisingly receptive and i'll tell you they were receptive for a couple of reasons. one is that they had just come off this horrific crash and i said i wanted to

now richard branson is signaling that he may beat him to it. i mean, is there more at stake here than just bragging rights? at this stage it's a lot of bragging rights. to be honest, this was a very long relay race. branson gone to the game in 2004 when he purchased the technology around spaceship, one from the x prize, blue origin got start in 2000 and it's all been about space tourism for very long time. and they've all put a lot of work into this technology showing that safe, that it does what it supposed to do. and now it's about showing that it can be done and claiming that title for themselves. so i'd be hard pressed to look for another example at this stage that it's other than bragging rights. and of course everybody wants to be the 1st bullying or even the 2nd millionaire. now when we're talking about version galactic, it now has its approval from us regulators following a successful test run last month. they say they have over 600 reservations for 90 minute flights. that cost $250000.00 a ticket. do you see those prices being reduced

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it went public through a merger with the richard branson spac.up over 9% on its first day of trading. earlier i caught up with anne wojcicki, 23andme founder, who once told me she never wanted to be a public company. i asked why now. anne: i am a firm believer companies should not go public until the time is right and they are mature enough to handle it. it is a lot of pressure. as you know. you are on tv every day and people are watching your ticker and your price. you want to be public when you are mature enough company to manage that. 23andme is absolutely at that stage. we are also at a point where there is just an incredible opportunity on the consumer side of the business and the therapeutic side of the business and we absolutely want to build to scale. emily: now, i know part of the ambition here is to raise tax to double down on the therapeutic side of the business. you recently licensed your first drug developed in-house to another company. how many more drugs could we see, and when? anne: we have a large collaboration with gsk focusing

but branson is planning to jump into a spaceship to rocket plane over the july 4th weekend.e training hard to go to space >> i'm working to get a body that is nearly 70 years old into the fitness state into a a 20-year-old body we met up with both in february. >> what have you been flying >> i don't know, i would like to fly at some point, and i will -- >> he may not be the first, but he already won the race to get real astro naughts to the space station. they have all offered set backs including a test pilot in the end bezos versus branson might come down to bragging rights. >> for the news i'm symptom costello >> the political future of benjamin netanyahu will be decided on sunday. that's when part limit has agreed the new prime minister pushing netanyahu out of power for the first time in 20 years the question about which force won the kentucky derby has come down to millimeters of frozen horse pee. bob baffert the trainer argued the entire sample should be sent to the lab attorneys for the kentucky horse rating commission argue that the lab needs just two millimeters no

richard branson just want to take people into space. elon musk is targeting mars.the margin, they all end up having long-term different goals. guy: it is a big market. alix: it is a pretty big space. guy: i was going to try to avoid that. tourism is going to be massive, and that physically easy first step, but musk is way out in front on this stuff. alix: especially with starling, 5g, suborbital --guy: not suborbital, he is orbital. he is launching stuff up there, and he is a much bigger rocket, and as you say, he is taking people to the international space station from a very different big then what richard branson is up to, but i would be surprised whether richard branson wouldn't try to get there first, and with the plans are being accelerated. alix: this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ ♪ look, if your wireless carrier was a guy you'd leave him tomorrow. not very flexible. not great at saving. you deserve better... xfinity mobile. now they have unlimited for just $30 a month... $30. and they're number one in customer satisfaction. his number... delete it. i'm deleting it. so,

richard branson and jeff bezos compete bei to be the first.that the amazon mogul leapfrogged branson who many believed would win this race. >> sold, $28 million. >> reporter: and that is how much one unknown bidder is paying to take the 11 minute trip into space with bezos. >> it is what i wanted to do all my life. >> reporter: and he will also be joined by his brother mark bezos. >> i really want you to come with me. >> reporter: and a fourth unknown traveler. the journey is going just 100 kilometers into space allowing customers to have about three minutes of weightlessness. and while bezos is making all the headlines now, virgin ga lga l tag line is to be the first. does it sting a little bit? >> i will point out that we've spent seven people into space and made five new astronauts. we were the first of the spaes companies to get people up there. but we honestly don't see it as a race. >> reporter: branson tweeted his congratulations to bezos on their space flight plans. virgin galactic saying while they remain on track, they have not set a

— sheer elation of richard branson and _ sheer elation of richard branson and his - sheer elation ofc upset at euro 2020. switzerland have knocked the world champions of france out of the tournament. well, we have been telling you all about these dramatic results at the european championships but there is plenty more happening as well in terms of wimbledon and what is to come in euro 2020. so now it is over to the bbc�*s sport centre. hello i'm tulsen tollett and this is your sports news where we start at wimbledon as defending men's champion novak djokovic moved into the second round despite losing the first set to british teenagerjack draper. while another british player — andy murray's first appearance at wimbledon since 2017 ended with him beating nikoloz basilashvilli in four sets. having won the first two sets, the 34—year—old was 5—0 up in the third before losing it 7—5 and then taking the fourth, spending more than 3.5 hours on court. that has never happened to me before in my career, being three breaks a serve up and two sets to love up. never had that happened before, but..

a victory for richard branson.hat does it mean for jeff bezos as he prepares for his flight on july 20? we have the story. let's get a look at how crypto markets ended the week. the full picture and coming to us momentarily. >> another down day friday for bitcoin. hovering around $32,000. we broke out below $30,000 tuesday. we rebounded, copy trading. the main driver seems to be china. the crackdown on mining and financial institutions. what is interesting is the other asset classes that move with bitcoin. sliding heavily in the bitcoin currency. the index is 40% bitcoin. also down. also the crypto related stocks. down 5.5%. are investors treating it as a proxy? you see the symmetry and moves over the last 12 months. different disclosures from microstrategy, in terms of how much bitcoin they are buying, how much for issuing debt. that is the question. >> ed ludlow, thanks so much. microstrategy upbeat. the ceo confirming the company -- 13,000 more bitcoin, making their total more than 105,000. he will own one in ev

branson tweeted his congratulations but someplace blog parabolic arc reports branson is planning to jumpd branson about his astronaut plans. you are really training hard to go to space? >> i am working on getting a body that's nearly 70 years old, you know, into a fitness state of a 20-year-old. >> reporter: there are other billionaires. jarrett isaacman is paying elon musk for his own private trip. we met up with both in february. >> when are you going to fly? >> i don't know. i'd like to fly at some point. and i will. >> reporter: he may not be the first to fly himself, but elon musk has won the race to get real astronauts to the space station. they have suffered setbacks, including a test pilot who died flying an early version of the virgin galactic spaceship in 2019. it may come down to billionaire bragging rights and a spectacular ride for anyone who can afford a very quick joyride into space. >> i don't know. billionaire boys and their toys, right? by the way, a cool quarter million dollars is what it's going to cost you. big names have signed up like lawrence o'donnell, leonardo d

it's branson versus bezos.>> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> forget the last space race, neil armstrong and nasa won that hands down this space race is going to be much closer. in one corner, west texas, actually, amazon's jeff bezos, the founder of space tourism business blue origin, and the other corner, just upped road in new mexico, virgin galactic founder, richard branson both have done test flights. be bezos' blue origin will eventually carry up to six passengers remote control, rocketing into suborbit for three minutes of flying weightless >> virgin galactic is building an entire fleet of spaceships, piloted by astronauts, carrying six passengers for the ride of their lives and a spectacular view >> wow k look at that view, gorgeous but which billionaire will go first? this week, bezos announced he'll join the first passenger flight on july 20th, the anniversary of the first moon landing >> changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity. >> reporter: and he's brin

we start with richard branson. one of his companies is launching satellite orbit today. the other got cleared to take passengers to space. will he beat bezos into flight >>> we're speaking with the ceo of bed, bath and beyond. early returns are good, big jump in sells but can it return to highs >> while spac systems are down, ipos are back any abig way, china's didi going big they're all coming and they're waiting in the wings this week, but we begin with the end of the first half of the year and seema mody with here with those numbers for us >> can you believe it? halfway there, kelly, stocks on the final day of trading in june are higher with the exception of the nasdaq lower by 20 points. what is helping the dow outperform this hour, energy as oil climbs above $75 a barrel. opec leaders do meet tomorrow and they're expected to discuss whether to increase supply we're looking at crude up 75.20, wti up $73.88. let's talk about ipos, didi finally opening for trade. it's not just didis. we have sentinel one up 22% and clear secure up 34%. this week alone 18 companies have

it's a race between billionaires richard branson and jeff bezos to name to will explain . and have you been on a plane lately? have you noticed that some of the passengers may be a little heavier than they used to be? that's that might take relax. that's the f a. requiring airlines to update, passenger, and baggage, weight estimates that airlines used to keep each flight within airplane safety limits. natasha suite will be along and have that story times the balls work for scottsdale use on today's edition of news news use right here on our t america. ah . okay. on wednesday, pro public publish a story which included years of private tax return information on some of the nation's wealthiest individual. i'm talking about people like jeff pays those michael bloomberg. warren buffett the line must. the piece showed that these top earners paid virtually no federal income tax and they did it legally. now, whoever gave this confidential information to pro public and most likely did so illegally. and the us attorney general says the justice apartment will make finding that person

today facebook targets the vr market and tesla an ad and publicry sir richard branson's spac, and chairman to linkedin. check out the dow. underperforming. largest losing street since january. stocks put the braectkes on yesterday the slide. fifth straight weekly gain and tech the top performing sector. >> yeah. big tech regulation moves ahead. bipartisan bills targeting giants like amazon and google getten an extra boost with house judiciary chairman jerry nadler backing up colleagues on capitol hill the world's biggest company, opposed to many global efforts to curb their grove. apple's tim cook speaking yesterday. >> the current dma language that is being discussed would force side-loading on the iphone so this would be an alternate way of getting apps on to the iphone as we look at that that would destroy the security of the iphone, and a lot of the privacy initiatives that we've built into the app store >> cook there taking issue with the digital markets act, an eu proposal restricting data sharing and self-practicing. cook praised other efforts, like the digital services act, pushing

the spaceship landed safely with its 2 pilots on board branson along with amazon's jeff bezos and space. x founder elon musk are all vying to get into the space tourism business. that's a live look outside talking about all that traffic here at the bay bridge toll plaza. >> some folks no doubt heading into the city for the big giants. a series. yeah. baseball weather reset. yeah. it's looking great. in fact, we're tracking upper 50's along the coast and a little bit of a cool sea breeze, though. but. >> i mean, perfect baseball weather. nonetheless, here in the bay area can complain weather going to get even better tomorrow. 60 degrees for downtown san francisco. few degrees above average with mid 60's. for those of you in the marina district right along the coasts, widespread mid 50's from elgar not a but low 60's. for those of you in daly city and half moon bay weaker sea breeze as well. instead of seeing gusts upwards of 30 miles per hour less. we're going to see westerly winds 20 miles per hour. less millbrae and burlingame mid 70's. so very pleasant temperatures they're already sta

. >>> a major flex in the billionaire space race not musk or branson, but jeff bezos today announcedrst passenger flight from his space company, blue origin, and he won't be the only bezos on board. >> i invited my brother to come on this first flight because we're closest friends. i really want you to come with me would you? >> are you serious >> i am. i think it would be meaningful to have my brother there. >> just happened to have a camera there for that one. the new sheppard rocket, no relation, expected to blast off july 20th, two weeks after bezos is set to step down as chief executive of amazon. at least one other person will join the bezos brothers. blue origin is auctioning off that seat on board the spacecraft for charity so far the bidding is $2.8 million. cnbc's morgan brennan now. morgan, a bold move from bezos here. >> it is a bold move, shep and it's on a bold day, since july 20th is the 52nd anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing the bezos brother and the highest bidder of that online auction will have just three days to peep for this, quote, greatest adventure as

people and they've just added about six additional clubs the initial group was me, steph, richard branson and the joseph campbell foundation. now they've added roxanne, and i'm going to forget the other people, but you can choose whose group you want to be part of and if your group is reading a book either you don't want to read or maybe you've already read it, you could switch to a different one of the groups so it's kind of a great arrangement. it permits a lot of flexibility which is fantastic. >> the best-selling author and the library book staff writer for the new yorker. do you then manage the conversation? >> i do in the sense that the curator of the books and i am engaged at a level greater than one or the other members, but the conversations unfold the way it would. i am a part of the conversation but i don't manage it in who gets to speak or post. >> according to your book club called private collection and it showcases books from the personal library that encompass heartfelt stories about identity who were some of the books or authors that have been recommended? my pics so far

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they source and branson and developing short sub orbital flights. meaning they do not reach speeds required to remain in earth. orbit mosque wants to do multi day commercial space strips and has already st. astronauts to the international space station for now. phase also scheduled to be the 1st of the 1000000000, is to take the trip itself. charlotte bellis? out to 0? ah. type of quick check of the headlines here and algebra g 7 leaders meeting in the you k, have agreed on a global infrastructure plan to counter china's influence the details and how it will be financed or still unclear. did money get us a james bay's is after some it's in cornwall. this new u. s. lead initiative is coming 8 years after the belt and road initiative, which is well established around the world. us officials estimate there is a 4 trillion dollar infrastructure gap to be plugged between now and 2035. where though is huge amounts of money like that, gotta be found. it's a question with this stage, and certainly there won't be any funding in the final communique from the

investors have joined in recent years. phase also in competition with virgin collect takes richard branson in space. 6 is eland musk for the space tourism market. they sauce and branson developing short sub orbital flights, meaning they do not reach speeds required to remain in earth. orbit mosque wants to do multi day commercial space strips. and as already st. astronauts to the international space station. the for no phase also scheduled to be the 1st of the 1000000000 is to take the trip itself. charlotte bellis al jazeera man. ah, there are these stories. g 7 lead us meeting in the united kingdom have agreed on a global infrastructure plan to rival china's influence, but details on how it would be financed, unclear, or diplomatic, get us a james space is out the summit in cool. this new us lead initiative is coming 8 years after the belt and road initiative, which is well established around the world. us officials estimate there is a 4 trillion dollar infrastructure gap to be plugged between now and 2035. where though, is huge amounts of money like that, got to be found. it's a questio

they source and branson and developing short sub orbital flights, meaning they do not reach speeds required to remain in earth. orbit mosque wants to do multi day commercial space strips and has already st. astronauts to the international space station for now. phase also scheduled to be the 1st of the 1000000000, is to take the trip itself. charlotte bellis al jazeera. ah, this is out there. are these top stories, g 7 leaders meeting in the united kingdom of agreed on a global infrastructure plan to rival china's influence. with details on how it will be financed on clear james bay's is out the summit in cornwall. this new us.

richard branson in space 6 is eland musk for the space tourism market. mays austin branson, developing short sub orbital flights, meaning they do not reach speeds required to remain in earth. orbit mosque wants to do multi day commercial space trips. and it's already st. astronauts to the international space station. the, the for now phase also scheduled to be the 1st of the 1000000000 is to take the trip itself. charlotte bellis? oh, to 0. ah . let's take you through the headlines here. now just here, now g 7 leaders of declared 2021 should be a turning point for all planets in their final communicate. really to say they committed to what they call a green transition setting targets, the con gas emissions and boost funds to reach climate goals. our diplomatic get it to james base has more from nist and times in cornwell, not far from the summit venue from the communicate with regard to both cobit 19 and climate change, the g. 70 does say that this should be a turning point for our planet. they go on and communicate to say we commit to a green transition, cut emissions, we commit to ac

hospitals in branson, they're telling us they're seeing more people hospitalized right now because of this variant. like dr. gupta said, they said the patients they're seeing in the hospital because of covid-19 are a lot younger than they saw in previous months, and almost all the patients that are hospitalized right now in places like branson and this area, they are all unvaccinated. geoff? >> heidi, as we await president biden's remarks in about ten minutes from now, if he's running on time, i would suspect he will encourage young people to get vaccinated for all the reasons dr. gupta laid out. you, as i understand it, have exclusive reporting in the way the biden administration is trying to reach teens. tell bus it. >> reporter: that is because, geoff, they're looking across the pond and they're seeing that the primary vector for the spread of delta in the u.k. are the secondary schools. dr. fauci says we cannot let that happen here. it's hitting their teens particularly hard. but i will show you exactly why that could very well happen here. i'm in one of the biggest vaccination si

they source and branson and developing short sub orbital flights, meaning they do not reach speeds required to remain in earth. orbit mosque wants to do multi day commercial space strips and has already st. astronauts to the international space station for now. phase also scheduled to be the 1st of the 1000000000 is to take the trip itself. charlotte bellis algae? 0. ah, let's take you through some of the headlines here. now just here now is the 3rd and final day of the g 7 summit in the u. k. the hours ahead 7 world leaders are expected to outline plans to tackle climate change. john hall has mall from thomason cornwall.

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the said yes yet, but you know, it's very kind to me of, i've met him, branson, you know, i'd like richard because richard, you know, he's taken time now. he's, you know, he's going to go up, but he's waited for 5 or 6 successful missions to go up. so, you know, the fact that just announces last week is like, are you, i think i'll go up next month. you know, the 52nd university, the millennium, like really, ok will be there a great p r campaign or he's going to do it or he's not going to say, let me, let me ask you a question. let me ask you a question. how safe sure is all this private space stuff. i mean, how would would you go, should i go to, you know, my opinion is every space march the suicide mission and we go out. 17 men and women, space and 60 years. i mean, you know, out of the 13 or 1400 that have gone up. so those are, you know, those, you're pretty heavy. i mean, i'm blown away by people to get on their rocket and go into 0. gee, and go to the into the back in the space that is, that is what i do it. yeah, i would do it, but it would take some more thought. i'd have to really,

they source and branson developing short sub orbital flights, meaning they do not reach speech required to remain in earth. orbit mosque wants to do multi day commercial space strips. and as already st. astronauts to the international space station. the, the for now phase also scheduled to be the 1st of the 1000000000 is to take the trip itself. charlotte bellis? oh, to 0 romantic ton about you. but i'd love to go all that money though. i'd end up killing travel sec. i know it is. i'll send me back to update you with that. i stop stories next. i'll see you again. ah ah, ah, ah, ah. ah frank assessment isn't argument for suggesting that no ministrations, anything along the game. it's very much of a warm embrace, the iran nuclear deal because of us domestic politics informed opinions. schools and chelsea have been reduced to rubble. how do you think this shapes, the generation and the politics that life has been shape? why vitamin the in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on our jazeera, a city defined by military occupation, there's never been an arab state here wit

investors have joined in recent years. phase also is in competition with virgin galactic richard branson and space 6 is eland musk for the space tourism market. they source and branson and developing short sub orbital flights, meaning they do not reach speeds required to remain in earth. orbit mosque wants to do multi day commercial space trips and has already st. astronauts to the international space station the, the for no phase. also scheduled to be the 1st of the 1000000000 is to take the trip itself. charlotte bellis algae? 0. ah, let's take you through the headlines here. now just here, now g 7 leaders of declared 2021 should be a turning point for all planets in their final communique that lead to say they committed to what they call a green transition setting targets. the con, gas emissions and boost funds to reach climate goals out diplomatic out. it's a james base has more from nist and times in.

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point in recent years, phase also is in competition with virgin galactic richard branson in space. 6 is 11 musk for the space tourism market. they sauce and branson and developing short sub orbital flights, meaning they do not reach speeds required to remain in earth. orbit mosque wants to do multi day commercial space trips and has already st astronauts to the international space station the for now phase also scheduled to be the 1st of the 1000000000, is to take the trip itself. charlotte bellis? to 0. ah, let's take you through some of the headlines here now just here now is the 3rd and final day of the g 7 summer in the u. k. the hours ahead 7 world leaders are expected to outline plans to tackle climate change. john hall has moved from thomason cornwell. these leaders will here on sunday from the environment this david andrew, who will warn them that they face making some of the most important decisions in human history in the coming months. and to that end, we expect them to reaffirm commitments to keeping global warming to no more than one and a half degrees celsius. they'll b

>> give us the timelines is bezos still going to beat branson?n it yesterday, he really didn't give an indication one way or another the next flight test was supposed to be one with four members in the cabin to test the cabin experience, and then the second one was going to be branson's. there's been talk about pulling that flight up you know they're competitive they both probably want to get to space first the biggest thing now is deciding whether or not they can get it turned around in time for the next space flight, whether branson is on it or not. we looked into some of the numbers between the past space flights and the average turnaround time is somewhere in the ballpack of 60 days. that puts you past the july 20th date so they really have to pick things up it's not impossible, but at this point, you know, we have yet to see any indication. >> really quickly, the size of the move is up so large, i didn't even realize the faa had a role here. did they give a similar license to bezos, and are they in chacharge of the safety in these flights >>

sdplp no we heard from richard branson. we haven't heard from elon musk. he's competitive with jeff bezos we now know what is behind jeff bezos glow up a few years. he was training to become an astronaut. >> i don't know. i think he might had other motivations. what do you think? >> probably so >> it's going to fit into it >> i think it fits into the idea of a next act, in general, for bezos after building a $1.6 trillion company it seems to be fine. i agree that the idea, i'm trying to have think of an analogy of 100 years ago some ceo decided to take a cross country flight in plane when it was considered to be a risky proposition. hard to really find fault with that element of going some place that you are asking other people to go on the frontier here >> i'm probably going to get this wrong but i think teddy roosevelt did a cross country trip in cars to encourage people to see the country and trust this new method of transportation maybe i'm off by a few decades this is this technology ready for prime time what's been the catalyst to make four weeks fro

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the mission branson closer to the throne than prince harry that's true. virgin galactic rocket planes by the 4th of july. not to be gross but let's be honest have the people that will watch the spectacle will see if one of them becomes a human roman candle which likely won't happen but in rome. a lot is riding on the main voyage. more than leathery egos and boring bragging rights. space exploration could bring average consumers to exciting gear. space tech in the past has birthed a host of modern daily conveniences memory foam freeze-dried food folgers gps infrared ear thermometers l.e.d. lights 10. this generation of competitive cowboys already know how the free market works and they will manufacture and market the living spit out of flying cars and levitating robots to telepathic shopping. u.s. government is helping to harness this oils of the olympics to develop a rocket cargo that will utilize reusable rockets to send packages between 30 and 100 tons. you'll soon be able to send someone a train on a rocket or a sperm whale and don't count out to elon

>> there's been questions is branson going to one up bezos?nson try to go ahead. >> his people said, hold on. >> one more flight. >> one more flight. >> look. when astronauts go into space, they have to be healthy. there are many considerations for what it takes to go into space. what about taking -- i mean jeff bezos is not joe shmoe, who appeared on the show this week. he's not just anybody, but what's considered as far as his fitness? >> i've done the training. >> you knocked a huge hole in my -- >> well, i mean i've done the weightlessness thing. if you're relatively healthy and you don't mind being in an enclosed space for a period of time and you know where a few switches are, you should be able to survive it. the risk isn't whether you turn to your spouse and say honey, i want to sell the house for a five-m five-minute ride to space, that's a risk. >> you've talked we're lon musk. >> i know him, yes. >> how is he about it? >> the more who go off, the better. besides, his star ship, if you ask how regular folks are going to get into spac