pallab ghosh, bbc news. that's quite exciting.galactic astronomer at fifth star labs, and the host of the awesome astronomy podcast.1. we will have to wait a while for some results as we were just hearing but tell us more about it and how exciting it might be. about it and how exciting it might be-_ might be. it's an extraordinarily i might be. it's an - extraordinarily exciting mission. i think for so long we have been focused closer to home in the search for life elsewhere, thinking of mars. the thing is we have been there for decades now and we haven't turned up anything. mars may have been habitable in the past. we certainly think it had a lot of liquid water billions of years ago. but now, not so much. we have to start looking further afield. and europa, with this global ocean, could be tens of kilometres deep, even may be up to 150 kilometres deep, compared to the earth's. our oceans are four kilometres down. there is so much water up there and it has interesting interactions with jupiter's magnetic field so they can be all

pallab ghosh, bbc news. what about the skies here?. h, ., ., pretty spectacular behind you, elizabeth. ,., ., ., ., pretty spectacular behind you, elizabeth. ., ., , , elizabeth. good morning, a pretty sunrise this _ elizabeth. good morning, a pretty sunrise this morning. _ elizabeth. good morning, a pretty sunrise this morning. we - elizabeth. good morning, a pretty sunrise this morning. we saw- elizabeth. good morning, a pretty sunrise this morning. we saw lotsj elizabeth. good morning, a pretty i sunrise this morning. we saw lots of clear skies last night but also high cloud and it's that that is reflecting the somewhat in all of these beautiful colours so step outside and take a look, you may be lucky. a different date of weather today, some sunshine, hazy for much of the time but dry and what you will really notice is it is feeling cooler and already a colder start of the day with many temperatures and low single figures but a bit of patchy frost, as cold as we thought it would be this time yesterday because of that cloud. it's l

here s our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. built, one cell at a time. it's one of the most ambitious research programmes in biology, and the potential benefits are enormous. if we knew how you can actually manipulate the skin from not ageing, we would have fewer wrinkles, enhance our heart, all of those things that can rejuvenate organs. you can then try to actually intervene and say, "how do i make the heart younger? how do i make the skin younger?" so it sounds like the human cell atlas was invented for someone like me. i think it was invented for all of us! humans and all plants and animals are made from cells. these develop in the womb and after we're born to make up every part of our body, such as our skin and our arms and legs. and this happens because microscopic genes inside each cell give instructions on which bits to grow and when. this is a slice of skin just a few millimetres in depth. you can see a hair follicle on the surface. now, if we zoom right in, you can see what look like fairy lights. these are in fact in

our science correspondent pallab ghosh explained the significance of this test launch.ell, in one word, wow. those pictures say it all. we have to say, this is not an animation, this really happened. so, sending rockets into space is hard enough but for the first time, the first stage always separates, the first stage is to give it that push up into space, and generally they are just kind of thrown away, but on this occasion, they did a bit of acrobatics, they turned the rocket on its head and they guided it back to the launch pad and then slowed it down with a couple of burns and then gently brought it back to the launch pad, and as we saw, captured it with a couple of prongs on the launch pad called chopsticks. and the whole idea is to reuse the booster. you talked about it being like a plane flight — just imagine you took a trip to the states on a plane and they threw the plane away and they had to build a whole new plane for your flight back. you and i would not be able to afford it. no. so that is the whole idea, to reuse the bits that are normally thrown away. and

pallab ghosh, bbc news.ng new" — 13 years after her last studio album. in a rare interview to mark the release today of an animation she's helped create for the charity warchild, the singer—songwriter says she has plenty of ideas. she's been speaking to the bbc�*s emma barnett about herfuture plans — let's take a listen to some of that interview. i've been caught up doing a lot of archive work over the last few years on all kinds of different levels, redesigning our website, putting a lyric book together. and i'm very keen to start working on a new album when i've got this finished. interviewer gasps i've got lots of ideas, and i'm really looking forward to getting back into that creative space. it's been a long time. really? is it something that you've been wanting to do for a while? yeah, yeah, it is, really. yes, i mean, ithink, particularly the last year, i felt really ready to start doing something new. what do you think it is now about potentially wanting to make more music, new music again? is there s

pallab ghosh, bbc news. been filming their daily lives. aya and herfamily are now displaced in southern gaza, while khalid has stayed in his home in the north. a new bbc documentary, life and death in gaza, has been made almost entirely from their footage and airs tomorrow across the bbc. it's a film put together by world service's bbc eye investigations for storyville. here's a first glimpse of it and if you want to continue watching the bbc news at 10pm, please turn over to bbc1, or you can watch on iplayer. next, it's newsnight.

pallab ghosh, bbc news. the world record for the women's marathon has been smashed, in chicago.and 57 seconds — shaving nearly 2 minutes off the previous world record. afterwards, she said it was "her dream — that has come true". stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. for the past few days we have had colder air across the uk the risk of some frost. but over this week, things are going to be very different, because that colder air is getting pushed away, the wind direction is changing, and in the next few days we will have a strengthening southerly wind. that will some mild air all the way up from spain,but it will also bring cloud and rain. we have got that around mainly through the midlands and eastern england early on monday morning. that should tend to move away, leaving cloudy skies behind, a little bit of dampness too. the far north of england, much of scotland and northern ireland though, having a good day with some sunshine, and temperatures widely reaching 12 or 13 in the afternoon, so a little bit higher than what it was on sunday. now if we look out in the atlant

pallab ghosh, bbc news.id meteor shower should be visible for the next few nights. the shooting stars will appear as streaks of light in the evening sky, just above the big dipper constellation, as long as skies are clear. meteor showers occur when the earth passes through the debris of a comet or an asteroid. the debris, usually chunks of rock or ice, hit the atmosphere and burn up, sending out light. time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich. the skies may not always to be clear i'm afraid. in fact low pressure is the name of the game for the next couple of days. and one of these areas of low pressure is this shield of cloud and this is actually an ex—hurricane, x hurricane kirk. a deep low which thankfully will stay to the south of us. we have our own area of low pressure to contend with, that will bring showers and then the two join forces, swing away eastwards and leave us with cold air for the end of the week. that is the broad picture for the next few days. 0ver broad picture for the next few da

pallab ghosh, bbc news. what kamala harris had to say about the us economy looking at all prices keeping you right up to date. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. a lot going on with our weather right now. we're going to see some heavy downpours for the next couple of days, then it will turn colder. we've got low pressure in charge — you can see areas of clouds circulating around that. there's also another deep area of low pressure in the mix. this is ex—hurricane kirk — this will stay to the south of us, but it will essentially join forces with our low. some heavy downpours over the next couple of days, then the whole lot shifts eastwards, leaving us with northerly winds and something significantly colder. but in the short—term for tuesday, still relatively mild, actually, with a mix of some sunshine, yes, but also some really heavy, thundery downpours. a band of cloud and rain moving slowly northwards across the far north of england, northern ireland, into southern scotland — some parts of south—east sco

here's our science correspondent, pallab ghosh.s. all this and these flies have a brain that's tinier than a pinhead. it may be small in real life, but magnified. life, but magnified, you can see just how beautiful and complex it is. if we take a closer look, we can see that it's a tangle of 130,000 separate wires and 50 million connections all packed in together. the scientists can isolate the separate circuits. this one is for movement, and this one is for vision. it's more complex, so requires more wires. it's a shape and structure of this intricate wiring that makes something so small, so incredibly powerful. with this map, we can see what neurones are connected to each other, how they connect, where, for example, their input from the outside world comes in. so, are they getting sort of just visual input, smell, taste? the researchers obtained the map by slicing up the fly brains using what's, in effect, a microscopic cheese grater. they photographed each of the 7,000 slices they cut and digitally put them together. and most im

pallab ghosh, bbc news.nd $1.6 billion. the magazine says her eras tour has been the biggest boost to her wealth. rihanna became a billionaire thanks to cosmetics and fashion brands. that's all for now — stay with bbc news. business today up next. hello. a lot going on with our weather right now. we're going to see some heavy downpours for the next couple of days, then it will turn colder. we've got low pressure in charge — you can see areas of clouds circulating around that. there's also another deep area of low pressure in the mix. this is ex—hurricane kirk — this will stay to the south of us, but it will essentially join forces with our low. some heavy downpours over the next couple of days, then the whole lot shifts eastwards, leaving us with northerly winds and something significantly colder. but in the short—term for tuesday, still relatively mild, actually, with a mix of some sunshine, yes, but also some really heavy, thundery downpours. a band of cloud and rain moving slowly northwards across the far

here's our science correspodent, pallab ghosh.ney to the outer frozen reaches of the solar system. it will passjupiter and head towards the ice—covered moon the spacecraft is named after. europa is almost the same size as our own moon, but that's where the similarity ends. it doesn't have any craters. instead, it has an icy surface because it's so far away from the sun. and you can see cracks and ridges which has been caused byjupiter�*s powerful gravity stretching and squashing it. and it's that movement that scientists believe has melted the ice underneath to create a vast, salty ocean which has got twice as much water than all the earth's oceans combined. and that's what makes europa the most likely alien world in the solar system to be capable of supporting simple alien life. these telescope pictures show what seemed to be jets of water spurting from europa more than a hundred miles into space. the hope is that the spacecraft might fly through one of the jets and discover what it contains. as europa clipper is making 50 differ

pallab ghosh, bbc news. amazing story there. that's all for now — stay with bbc news.rted to turn a little bit cooler. you might have noticed the change, and the trend is set to continue as well. well, here in north yorkshire, we had signs of the change, waves being driven onto the beaches here by the strengthening north to north—easterly wind. temperatures on tuesday in rhyl got up to 17 degrees, but it was just 12 on wednesday, a drop of some five degrees celsius. the drop in temperatures came as these northerly winds worked in. now, over the next few hours, we've still got some patches of cloud and rain to come across england and wales, with clearing skies further north in scotland and northern ireland. and it's here where we'll have the chilliest start to the day on thursday. temperatures low enough even for a nip of frost in sheltered glens in scotland. so starting the day on thursday, expect a bit of damp weather for southern parts of england and wales. that should clear out of the way as we go through the morning, and then elsewhere, loads of sunshine draped aro

pallab ghosh, bbc news.t about that. all the other top business stories as well here in a moment. hello there. it was the southern half of the uk that had the cloudy skies. there will be heavy rain. because the winds are coming in from the south, it will be very mild. it felt pleasant in the sunshine across northern areas on monday, especially in scotland, but here there may be frost before the cloud arrives by the morning. that cloud will hang around on tuesday, could produce drizzle in england and wales in the morning before it lifts and thins but the best of the sunshine will be in northern scotland. signs of rain in southwestern england and northern ireland. temperature wise, higher than on monday, generally 1a, 15 degrees, 17 or 18 in the south. it will be quite windy. it is a southerly wind bringing mild airfrom spain, france and towards uk but there is rain with that mild weather, a big low in the west and that will push rain our way on tuesday and wednesday. this could be quite heavy, the risk of thu

pallab ghosh, bbc news. well, in the next half hour well be joined by a planetary microbiologist. officials in zimbabwe have confirmed the country's first two cases of mpox. an eleven year old boy and twenty—four year old man who had both recently travelled outside the country are recovering in their homes. the world health organisation declared a global public health emergency in august after a new type of the virus spread from the democratic republic of congo to neighbouring countries. more than 7,500 cases have been reported in 16 countries in africa this year — with 32 deaths recorded so far. three scientists working on wealth inequality between countries have been awared the nobel prize for economics. daron acemoglu, simon johnson and james robinson's research found that european colonisation has led to significant differences in economic outcomes and prosperity of those once colonised nations. just a reminder that you can look at the bbc live page on the website or the app if you want to see more, for example, on our lead story, the conflict in the middle east. lots there in

pallab ghosh, bbc news. stay with us here on bbc news.ntin continuing coverage of the event in the middle east in the hours ahead. these are pictures of haifa, not buried, do forgive us there, this is haifa in northern israel. hezbollah is firing rockets at the northern israeli city there. this is bbc news. hello again. as we go through the next couple of days, essentially we're looking at a mixture of sunshine and showers, but like today, some of those showers will be heavy and thundery with some hail and gusty winds around them. you can see them moving across england and wales while we've got rain pushing across northern england into southern scotland and northern ireland, and for the rest of scotland, it's fairly cloudy, with showery rain in the north and a cold northerly wind. top temperatures today up to 18 degrees. now, its low pressure driving our weather and overnight it drifts a little bit further east, but we still have showers and rain rotating around it and this cold northerly wind. temperatures in the north falling away to se

pallab ghosh, bbc news, cambridge.pakistan at multan. after bowling out the hosts for 366, ben duckett hit a sparkling hundred, but the pakistan spinners then tore through the english batsmen. they finished the second day on 239 for 6, still 127 runs behind. time for a look at the weather. here's chris fawkes. rather warm today and wet, by the looks of it. a warm for some, wait for others. that sums up the weather. yes, we have seen some localised flooding today here in parts of shropshire, with the rain coming down really heavily. it's been particularly wet across parts of western england and wales. we had 67 millimetres of rain in parts of cornwall over the past 2a hours. but whilst it was chucking down in the west, in the east we had temperatures of 22 degrees in london and 7 degrees above average for the time of year. tonight, we have more rain to come, but it is moving its way northwards and eastwards. the rain is likely to be heavy and will be accompanied by some low cloud, so hill fog patches for a time. most of

pallab ghosh, bbc news.atchers on monday were treated to the rare phenomenon known as steve. steve — or to give it its full name — strong thermal emission velocity enhancement — is unpredictable and only lasts for a short time. little is known about its formation and why it can sometimes appear during an aurora display. while auroras happen in an oval shape, steve appears as a ribbon and lasts for 20 minutes to an hour before disappearing. hello. tuesday brought no shortage of heavy downpours to many parts of the uk, but over the next couple of days, things are going to be turning just a little bit drier — at the same time, though, as northerly winds develop, it will also turn colder. low pressure is still in charge of the scene right now, this low still bringing some outbreaks of rain for parts of the uk. this deep low, ex—hurricane kirk, thankfully staying well away to the south of us, bringing some very wet and very windy weather to northern parts of spain. back home, some outbreaks of rain, mostly quite

pallab ghosh, bbc news. gene regulation. the tiny rna molecules influence how genes — the instructions for life — are controlled inside organisms, including humans. abnormal regulation by micrornas can contribute to cancer and other conditions, including congenital hearing loss and bone disorders. remember you can find more on all the days more on all the day's news )at our website, bbc dot com slash news. plus to see what we're working on at anytime make sure to check us out on your favourite social media site. i'm caitriona perry. thank you for watching world news america. do take care, good hello. a lot going on with our weather right now. we'll see some heavy downpours for the next couple of days, then it will turn colder. we've got low pressure in charge — you can see areas of clouds circulating around that. there's also another deep area of low pressure in the mix. this is ex—hurricane kirk — this will stay to the south of us, but it will essentially join forces with our low. some heavy downpours over

here's our science correspondent, pallab ghosh.ices. better searches, summarising the mass of information on the web. 30 years ago, it was all very new. a lot of money is being spent developing neural nets... face recognition was one of the first practical things. they were a radical new way of doing computing. developed in the late 1970s and rewarded with a nobel prize today. i caught up with geoffrey hinton, ironically staying at a motel room without wi—fi. geoff, you have won the biggest prize in science, how do you feel? i am flabbergasted still. i haven't managed to get my head around it yet. and what are your fears about al? there is one thing in particular i'm most worried about, which is what i call the existential threat that it'll become more intelligent than us and decide to take over. we are people and what we care about is people and we would like people to stay in charge. the big breakthrough was to create a simple computer system that copied the human brain. if we take a closer look, we can see that there are signals

here's our science correspondent, pallab ghosh.is and these flies have a brain that's tinier than a pinhead. it may be small in real life, but magnified, you can see just how beautiful and complex it is. if we take a closer look, we can see that it's a tangle of 130,000 separate wires and 50 million connections — all packed in together. the scientists can isolate the separate circuits. this one is for movement, and this one is for vision. it's more complex, so requires more wires. it's a shape and structure of this intricate wiring that makes something so small, so incredibly powerful. with this map, we can see what neurones are connected to each other, how they connect, where, for example, their input from the outside world comes in. so, are they getting sort ofjust visual input, smell, taste? the researchers obtained the map by slicing up the fly brains using what's, in effect, a microscopic cheese grater. they photographed each of the 7,000 slices they cut and digitally put them together. and most importantly, they found out the

pallab ghosh, bbc news.ner katya jones made some viewers think he was making her uncomfortable. at one point, jones appeared to move evans' hand away from her stomach. both have dismissed the incident as a "very silly inside joke" and insisted there are no problems. our correspondent nickjohnson reports. strictly quicksteps into 2020 for its 20th anniversary year, and one of its veteran professional dancers is katya jones, who has appeared on the programme for the past nine series and took the glitterball home in 2017 with her celebrity partnerjoe mcfadden. it'sjoe and katya! this year, she's been paired with the welsh opera singer wynne evans, best known to many as the singer from the go compare adverts. but on saturday, four weeks into the current series, viewers noticed what appeared to be an uncomfortable dynamic play out between the pair following their tango to abba's money, money, money. katya appeared to ignore wynne's attempt at a high five, seeming to roll her eyes after doing so. later in the show

pallab ghosh, bbc news. the flight window opens at one o�*clock uk time.een called the "comet of the century" because of how bright and visible it can be. and this isn�*t the first time it�*s been spotted as it was also visible to the naked eye last month for the first time in a whopping 80,000 yea rs. nasa earth observatory predicted that it would come within about 70 million kilometres of earth on saturday and this an image taken by dr robert massey who was out comet—spotting. dr massey is deputy executive director of the royal astronomical society and he explained what it was like to view the comet. if you want to see it you don�*t have to go to bed particularly late, because it is visible up to sunset. so, not too bad a time of the night at all. and the answer is it is not bad. you go out, i think it is set to get a bit better in the uk, but you look, maybe half an hour after sunset, as the sky is darkening, you see this hazy glow, it helps to get a pair of binoculars, with a tail coming up above it, just as you would expect. i was out with various peo

pallab ghosh reports. two, one. ignition. and lift off.fter. europa is almost the same size as our own moon but that�*s where the similarity ends. it doesn�*t have any craters. instead it has an icy surface because it�*s so far away from the sun. and you can see cracks and ridges, which has been caused byjupiter�*s powerful gravity stretching and squashing it. and it�*s that movement that scientists believe has melted the ice underneath to create a vast, salty ocean, which has got twice as much water than all the earth�*s oceans combined. these telescope pictures show what seem to be jets of water spurting from europa, more than 100 miles into space. europa clipper is making 50 different flybys around the moon�*s surface, catching any particles that might have been thrown up into the atmosphere, and then it can do chemical composition analysis to find out, are there any amino acids? are there any sulphites? those really key building blocks that we know are essential for life here on earth. the results will take us a giant step forward in k

that was my colleague, pallab ghosh. on our bbc news website if you want to see more on that story and the latest pictures. now to the latest on the middle east — and my colleagues anna foster in beirut — but first lyse doucet is injerusalem. you join us youjoin us in you join us in jerusalem you join us injerusalem on a day when israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has issued a stark call to un secretary—general antonio guterres, telling him he must immediately pull out un peacekeepers known as uni fell from combat areas, hezbollah strongholds in southern lebanon and in effect said the un peacekeepers were being held hostage by hezbollah. mr secretary—general, get the unifil_ secretary—general, get the unifil forces out of harm's wax — unifil forces out of harm's wax this _ unifil forces out of harm's way. this should be done immediately.— way. this should be done immediatel . , immediately. idf came under fire from israeli _ immediately. idf came under fire from israeli forces - immediately. idf came under fire fr

pallab ghosh, bbc news.rmal emission velocity enhancement — which sometimes appears during the northern lights. it's a thin purply coloured ribbon of light which lasts for 20 minutes to an hour. as well as steve, the northern lights were spotted across the uk last night from northern scotland to kent. i still have never seen them. have you seen them, ben? i haven't and there is a much chance tonight because for many of us there is a lot of cloud and rain. this was cardiff earlier on. a soggy scene. there is this rash of downpours and thunderstorms

pallab ghosh, bbc news.her states where early voting is under way before the november fifth presidential election. with just 26 days until election day, both candidates have changed campaign plans because of the two hurricanes, milton and helene. kamala harris — in her role as us vice president? has been dealing with the federal hurricane response. former president donald trump has criticised the biden administration for its handling of the hurricane relief plan. trump is hosting a rally in scranton, pennsylvania — which isjoe biden�*s hometown — and harris is travelling to los angeles before an appearance at a univision town hall in las vegas on thursday. with me now is erik huey, democratic strategist and president of platinum advisers dc, and maura gillespie, republican strategist and founder of bluestack strategies. we're going to chat about what's going on in the two campaigns. it seemed to have crept up on us. erik, these hurricanes obviously the focus right now. what does that mean for the campaigns?

pallab ghosh, bbc news.t�*s all about celebrating local businesses who operate from smaller stations across england, scotland and wales. 48 were in the running, with the public making the final choice. it came down to three finalists — maghull station on merseyside, king�*s lynn in norfolk, and dorridge in the west midlands. around 100,000 votes were cast, and the winner, receiving 60% of them, was maghull. ben boulos has been to visit. forget the grandeur of grand central in new york and the majesty of king�*s cross—saint pancras in london — for the latest award—winning railway station, hop on a train to merseyside. your destination — maghull. .. cheering. ..the winner of britain�*s world cup of stations. i�*m overawed. this station has been looked after for nearly 20 years now and bit by bit it�*s gradually increased — more flowers, more planting, compost heaps, watering containers, and we all work together, which is wonderful. the green spaces looked after by volunteers were a big factor in the station�*s

pallab ghosh, bbc news, cambridge.tell us more about what you have done here. it is actually fantastic. it's just amazing to have a map in terms of the recipe in knowing how the skin is built essentially with dismounted and we learned how to grow the skin in the dish and added some immune cells in there which helped facilitate the skin to mature and it provides fantastic windows of opportunity of how hair grows after the original has stopped growing and have the skin heals without scarring and you're comparing it to the reindeer skin, the endless skin and the atlus skin doesn't scar as the others and you see the skin that doesn't scar and all of this is going to have huge implications and being able to grow skin in the dish for transplant purposes, burn victims and skin diseases in we can watch how the disease evolves and try to work out how to prevented or reverted. . , , ., reverted. incredible in terms of the potential here. _ reverted. incredible in terms of the potential here. what _ reverted. incredible in terms

here 5 our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. it's the largest, most powerful rocket ever built.argest, most powerful rocket ever built. one day, starship will take astronauts to the moon, two...one... maybe even to mars. but right now, it's still in its testing stage. maybe even to mars. this is what happened when starship was launched but right now, but there were cheers because spacex's development process involves making mistakes and learning from them, but there were cheers because spacex's development process so things go better next time — and they did. fast forward to its most recent test flight injune this year. a flawless launch. after its lower booster_ a flawless launch. after its lower booster rocket _ a flawless launch. after its lower booster rocket separated, - a flawless launch. after its lower booster rocket separated, it - booster rocket separated, it splashed _ booster rocket separated, it splashed down _ booster rocket separated, it splashed down safely - booster rocket separated, it splashed down safely in - booster rocket separated, it splashed down safely

pallab ghosh, bbc news. that is our programme at this hour.more on all the days news at our website, bbc.com/news. plus to see what we're working on at anytime make sure to check us out on your favourite social media site. thank you for watching world news america. hello. we've had some big contrasts in the weather throughout monday. across much of scotland, northern ireland, northern england, it's been glorious with plenty of sunshine — a bit of snow here on the tops of the scottish mountains. further south, though, for wales, midlands, east anglia, southern england, we've had extensive cloud, some heavy rain around in the morning, but most of that cleared off. just an odd patch of drizzle left over into the afternoon. but cloud was certainly reluctant to break up. and overnight, this zone of cloudier weather is going to be pushing back northwards across northern england into northern ireland. with that, there will be some hill fog patches and occasional spits of drizzle. as the cloud works in, well, it will become increasingly mild — tempera

it's all part of plans to protect the earth from any flying space rocks in the future, as pallab ghoshon its way to an asteroid system 7 million miles away to develop a defence system to protect the earth from being hit by dangerous objects from outer space. it is ob'ects from outer space. it is to objects from outer space. it is to follow an — objects from outer space. it is to follow an nasa _ objects from outer space. it is to follow an nasa mission which tried to deliberately deflect an asteroid. nasa's spacecraft crashed into dimorphism two years ago. the telescope captured the dust and debris that was hurled into space. hera is on a two—yearjourney which takes it past mars and eventually to its destination. it is going to take a closer look at the damage with a battery of instruments. the spacecraft will come with an 200m of dime office and deploy two shoe box size mini spacecraft that will look closer still.— spacecraft that will look closer still. ~ . ., ., closer still. what did it do to this asteroid? _ closer still. what did it do to this asteroid? is _ closer still. what di

pallab ghosh, bbc news. fascinating stuff. i will be back shortly with business today. hello there.or most of us should stay dry with a good deal of sunshine around, but nights will be chilly, with some mist and fog to greet us in the morning. so the next few days, then, largely settled. some welcome dry and sunny weather for most of us. here it is, our area of high pressure, pretty much dominating the scene right across the uk. we've lost those weather fronts across the southeast. could still just see the odd light shower towards east anglia and the southeast, but most places will be dry. lots of sunshine through the morning, a bit of fair weather cloud bubbling up into the afternoon. that could just herald the odd light shower. but most places will be dry and the winds a lot lighter too. a little bit fresher through the channel, across devon and cornwall. temperature—wise, doing pretty well. it will feel very pleasant in the sunshine — around 16 or 17 degrees in the south, mid—teens further north. now, as we move into thursday night, with clear skies, light winds, it's going to tu

pallab ghosh, bbc news., on an 18—dollar guitar, with a band called the rogues. in those days, he played at pizza parlours and drive—in movies. his new documentary, road trip, takes fans behind the scenes for the first time. mark savage has been to meet �*the boss'. the louder you can talk, the better, because i have played rock and roll for 30 years. # born in the usa #. you have been touring for decades now, so why this tour in particular to invite the cameras in? because i could be dead by the next one! he laughs. i'm 75 years old now. if i wait ten years... i've decided that waiting to do things, that part of my life is over. people are just so grateful for having his music. when you brought this tour to the uk earlier this year, you played a gig in sunderland, where you were in the driving rain for three hours and you lost your voice at the end of it. yeah! what makes you keep going in conditions like that? well, i'm there to have a good time. i'm going to insist on it, whether it is raining or sunshine

here's pallab ghosh. 3, 2, 1...nd it is about to make history. a perfect take—off. followed by a successful separation for the first and second stages. that is what normally happens during rocket launches but now, watch this. instead of crashing into the sea, the lowest stage makes its way back to the launch pad. it is falling at supersonic speed but its engines fire to slow it down. then, most of them are turned off so that it gently makes its way to the launch tower. then it's actually caught by two robotic arms. the process is called the chopsticks manoeuvre. there were so many things that could have gone wrong but they succeeded first time of asking. we watched it come down right behind us, watched it get caught. that broke my brain for a while. let's have a closer look at starship. it is 120 metres tall, 400 feet. as we saw, it has two main parts. the bottom is a superheavy booster which has 33 engines. on top is the spacecraft which can carry cargo and eventually have room for up to 100 astronauts. the aim of

make reusable rockets that are capable of reaching the moon and mars. 0ur science correspondent pallab ghoshas two main parts. at the bottom is a super heavy booster which is incredibly powerful with its 33 engines. on top, is a spacecraft which can carry a cargo or a crew of an astonishing 100 people. and what makes it really special is that in theory, both parts are reusable. i'm joined now by the space educator and youtuber scott manley. you were up at 4am watching — why? what is the keeping to understand about this achievement? it understand about this achievement?- understand about this achievement? , , achievement? it is basically -rovin~ achievement? it is basically proving that _ achievement? it is basically proving that is _ achievement? it is basically proving that is a... - achievement? it is basically proving that is a... (audio | proving that is a... (audio breaks up). proving that is a. .. (audio breaks up).— proving that is a... (audio breaks up). . breaks up). scott, can i check if ou breaks up). scott, can i check if you can _ breaks up). scott, can i check ifyou can hear— b

make resuable rockets that are capable of reaching the moon and mars. 0ur science correspondent pallab ghoshet has two main parts. at the bottom is a super heavy booster which is incredibly powerful with its 33 engines. 0n powerful with its 33 engines. on top, is a spacecraft which can carry a cargo or a crew of can carry a cargo 01’ a crew of an can carry a cargo or a crew of an astonishing 100 people. and what makes it really special is that in theory, both parts are reusable. eric berger is the senior space editor at the science and tech website ars technica. i spoke to him earlier about the significance of this test launch. ido i do have to say i was watching some of the live stream earlier and you can see screams in that spacex control room after that test success. what was your reaction? i5 test success. what was your reaction?— test success. what was your reaction? ., ., reaction? is someone who has been interested _ reaction? is someone who has been interested in _ reaction? is someone who has been interested in space - reaction? is someone who has been interested in space for i reac

make reusable rockets that are capable of reaching the moon and mars. 0ur science correspondent pallab ghosh's nearly 400 feet. the rocket has two main parts. at the bottom is a super heavy booster which is incredibly powerful with its 33 engines. on top, is the spacecraft which can carry a cargo or a crew of an astonishing 100 people. and what makes it really special is that in theory, both parts are reusable. it really is a remarkable feat. we leave you a newsday i want to show you our life pages up and running regarding our top story in taiwan where chinese lodging military exercises around the island and what it calls a stern warning against those seeking independence of the self ruled ireland. there is a lot more background and context to the story that island. we are keeping a close eye on this on bbc news. we will see you soon on business today. bye for now. hello there. for the past few days we have had colder air across the uk the risk of some frost. but over this week, things are going to be very different, because that colder air is getting pushed away, the wind direction is chang

pallab ghosh, bbc news. ryan caton, journalist at nasa—spaceflight.hen it actually happened live on my screen in front of me. this is something that has been dreamt of since the end of 2020. the idea of this launch vehicle of starship, it's always planned to be rapidly, fully reusable, but this chopstick catching system is something that has never been done before by anybody. mass is the most valuable thing you can have in a launch vehicle. so if you're launching... if your rocket is heavier, it means you can send less stuff into space. and if you want a rocket to be economical, you obviously want to be able to put as much payload inside the rocket as possible. so by taking landing legs off the vehicle, for example, you save that mass off the vehicle. and then if you put the catching system on the ground, it means you can have all of that mass on the ground, none of it on the rocket. it means you can throw more stuff into space. and this is, in my opinion, this is just so exciting. and it also looks really cool as well. like you can't you cannot deny

it's hoped can be used to make an increasing number of everyday items. 0ur science correspondent pallab ghoshce this, which is a bit like wood pulp but much stronger. it's processed and dyed to create a material that looks and feels like expensive leather. and because it's not made from cows, it's much better for the environment. what we're looking for is terrific jobs making products that will be much less polluting and much more sustainable than their current equivalents, that will generate greatjobs, good environments, and prosperity. does this excite you? i think it does. yes, it does, it does. it really excites me because i feel like, um, i feel like we are seeing the beginning of a big revolution. researchers in bedfordshire are using engineering biology it is 60 years since he played his first gig in a small club. since then, he has sold 140 million albums and has sold out stadiums across the world. now for the first time, he has allowed a documentary team to film his preparations for going on the road again. at the age of 75. our correspondent has been to meet 0ur correspondent has be

with me is our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. all of this into context right and out. we are showing those pictures of that incredible moment where it happened, and we can't show this enough because it is just an incredible thing to see, especially when you know that spacex hasn't always successfully had these sort of tests before and we've seen lots of disasters but here you are hearing cheers because of how monumental this moment is. could you just explain for us, palab, put this into context how difficult a feat it was. in how difficult a feat it was. in one how difficult a feat it was. in one word, wow, those pictures say it all. this is not an animation, it really happened. sending rockets into space is hard enough but for the first time, the first stage always separates and the first stage is to give its that push up into space and generally they arejust kind of into space and generally they are just kind of thrown away, but on this occasion, they did a bit of acrobatics and they turned the rocket on its head and they guide

pallab ghosh, bbc news. around the world and across the uk, this is the world today on bbc news.ey do. scientists in germany have found that elephants who lean towards left and right with their trunks are split almost evenly. and it�*s possible to determine which they prefer by examining the wrinkles on their trunks. yes, absolutely! let�*s speak to one of the authors of the study, dr andrew schulz. good to talk to you. what is it the study is telling us about elephants? why does it matter? it's elephants? why does it matter? it�*s awesome to be here. so, really, with the study is telling us is that elephants from their exley born with wrinkles, and as they interact and they explore their environment over time, they actually develop more and more of these wrinkles over time, and so there�*s some really, really fascinating biological insights. me as a mechanical engineer, some really fascinating engineering insights into this study as well. ~ ., , ., insights into this study as well. . . , ., ., insights into this study as well. . . , . . well. what is it that made you first talk

pallab ghosh, bbc news. sky—watchers in scotland and north east england were treated to a rare celestial phenomenon last night known as �*steve�* — short for strong thermal emission velocity enhancement — which sometimes appears during the northern lights. it's a thin purply coloured ribbon of light which lasts for 20 minutes to an hour. as well as steve, the northern lights were spotted across the uk last night from northern scotland to kent. i still have never seen them. have you seen them, ben? i haven't and there is a much chance tonight because for many of us there is a lot of cloud and rain. this was cardiff earlier on. a soggy scene. there is this rash of downpours and thunderstorms pushing northwards and eastwards across england and wales. we've also had this band of rain across southern and central scotland and northern ireland. that will weaken overnight. the showers will move eastwards in the south but still with the chance of localised flooding and transport disruption. it'll start to turn cold a

pallab ghosh, what is it going to do, it is going to be orbiting and looking for any potential signs and looking for any potential signs of life? as you said, somehow— potential signs of life? as you said, somehow this _ potential signs of life? as you said, somehow this little - said, somehow this little world, _ said, somehow this little world, so far from the sun, has -ot world, so far from the sun, has got water, _ world, so far from the sun, has got water, notjust world, so far from the sun, has got water, not just water but lots — got water, not just water but lots of — got water, not just water but lots of it _ got water, not just water but lots of it under his icy surface _ lots of it under his icy surface and of course where there — surface and of course where there is _ surface and of course where there is water, there may well be life — there is water, there may well be life. that is the really exciting _ be life. that is the really exciting about this. it may be the most _ exciting about this. it may be the most unlikely place in our solar— the most unlikely place in our