kevin rudd, thank you very much indeed. good to be with you.ant step for women? nasa has outlined plans to send the first female astronaut to the moon in the next four years. the mission would be the first landing with humans in around 50 years. laura forczyk is the founder of the space analysis and consulting group astralytica. she gave me her reaction to the news. oh, it's fantastic, this a long time coming. we've been wanting to get back to the moon for decades now and, in a way, it's a perfect time because we're not only going as the united states of america, we're going as an international collaboration, and we're going with a more representation of the human body so it will be men and women this time. laura, why has it taken so long to get back? a lot of politics, a lot of deciding which ways to spend our money on, so in previous presidential administrations, there have been plans to go back back to the moon, however they've all been cancelled, they've been too expensive or congress has decided it wasn't worth the money and so this time a

i spoke to kevin rudd, former prime minister of australia and president of the asia society policy institute i think it is possible, and the reason i say so is because china does have a state planning system and, on top of that, china has concluded, i think, that it is in its own national interests to bring about a radical reduction in carbon over time, so the two big announcements coming out of xijinping at the un general assembly have been, a, the one you've just referred to, which is to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, and also for china to reach what's called peak greenhouse gas emissions before 2030. the international community would be pressuring them to bring that forward as much as possible, respectably, we hope, to close to 2050, and we hope close to 2025 as far as peak emissions are concerned, but we'll have to wait and see until china produces its 14th 5—year plan. i guess we can probably assume that president trump wasn't impressed, he's made his position pretty clear on these matters. how do you think other countries will respond or will they just say, "china can do that,

in an interview with bbc world news, kevin rudd, former prime minister of australia and president ofhina's commitment to carbon neutrality is feasible. these two big announcements coming out of president xi jinping at the un general assembly is that the one that you have just referred to, which is to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060 and also for china to reach what is called peak greenhouse emissions before 2030. the international community will be pressuring them to bring that forward as much as possible respectively, we hope to close to 2050 and we hope close to 2025 as far as big emissions are concerned. we have to wait and see until china produces its full five—year plan. nasa has outlined plans for the first woman to land on the moon in four years' time. it will be part of the space agency's $28 billion artemis programme that will see the first human lunar landing since 1972, as mark lobel now reports. this will be the first human moon landing during the lifetime of three quarters of the world ‘s population. nesa's fast tracked its exploration plans in the hope of establish

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