sarah toms, bbc news, singapore the founder of amazon, jeff bezos, says he and his brother will travelip. a third seat on the spacecraft is being auctioned off. 0ur science correspondent rebecca morelle reports. heading to the edge of space. this is the new shepard rocket. so far, it's only flown with mannequins. now it's ready for its first real passengers, and jeff bezos, who owns the spacecraft, has announced he will be on board, along with his brother. it changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity. it's one earth. i want to go on this flight because it's a thing i've wanted to do all my life. the rocket system will reach 100 kilometres above the earth, where passengers will experience about three minutes of weightlessness, and see the blackness of space and earth's covered horizon. in the future, anyone will be able to take a ride for around £150,000 a ticket. and it's not the only company to test if space tourism is commercially viable. sir richard branson's virgin galactic space plane is expected to carry paying customers by the end of the year. spacex. separation

sarah toms, bbc news, singapore. let's get some of the day's other news. chemical manufacturing plant near the city of pune. most of those killed are said to be women workers. local media reports said those killed in the incident were trapped following an explosion in a machine. airline bosses have called for a uk—us travel corridor to be opened up. nearly all uk passengers are currently banned from travelling to the us, while any us travellers are required to quarantine in the uk. the airlines say travel between the countries, which have some of the highest levels of vaccination in the world, is "essential to igniting economic recovery". the founder of amazon, jeff bezos, says he and his brother will travel into space next month on his rocket company's first sub—orbital sightseeing trip. a third seat on the spacecraft is being auctioned off. 0ur science correspondent rebecca morelle reports. this is the new shepard rocket. so far, it's only flown with mannequins. now it's ready for its first real passengers, and jeff bezos, who owns the spacecraft, has an

sarah toms, bbc news, singapore. well, do stay with us on bbc news.ics for you — why employees at apple are resisting plans to go back into the office to work. the day the british liberated the falklands. and by tonight, british troops had begun the task of disarming the enemy. in the heart of the west german capital, this was gorby—mania at its height. the crowd packed to see the man who, for them, has raised great hopes for an end to the division of europe. it happened as the queen moved towards horse guards parade for the start of trooping the colour. gunshots the queen looks worried but recovers quickly. as long as they'll pay to go and see me, i'll get out. there and kick 'em down the hills. - what does it feel like to be the first man to cross the channel by your own power? it feels pretty neat. it feel marvellous, really. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: the us vice president — kamala harris — has warned guatemalans against coming to the united states — saying they would be turned back at the border. the first new treatment for alzheimer

sarah toms, bbc news, singapore. family with his pick—up truck. the police say it was a premeditated attack. the victims haven't been named, but the oldest was 7a and the youngest 15years old. a nine—year—old boy survived. police in western india say at least eighteen people have died after a fire swept through a chemical manufacturing plant near the city of pune. most of those killed are said to be women workers. local media reports said those killed in the incident were trapped following an explosion in a machine. airline bosses have called for a uk—us travel corridor to be opened up. nearly all uk passengers are currently banned from travelling to the us, while any us travellers are required to quarantine in the uk. the airlines say travel between the countries, which have some of the highest levels of vaccination in the world, is "essential to igniting economic recovery". the founder of amazon, jeff bezos, says he and his brother will travel into space next month on his rocket company's first suborbital sightseei

sarah toms, bbc news, singapore let's get some of the day's other news: police in canada have arrestedy with his pick—up truck. the police say it was a premeditated attack. the victims haven't been named, but the oldest was 74 and the youngest 15 years old. a 9—year—old boy survived. police in western india say at least 18 people have died after a fire swept through a chemical manufacturing plant near the city of pune. most of those killed are said to be women workers. local media reports said those killed in the incident were trapped following an explosion in a machine. airline bosses have called for a uk—us travel corridor to be opened up. nearly all uk passengers are currently banned from travelling to the us, while any us travellers are required to quarantine in the uk. the airlines say travel between the countries, which have some of the highest levels of vaccination in the world, is "essential to igniting economic recovery". when will you be ready to go back into the office, if at all? different companies are working out different arrangements. apple's ceo tim cook has said worke

sarah toms reports.t school during the pandemic. during the lockdown i was worried about getting the virus and spreading it to other people. but even more children like kate or concerned like kate lau were concerned about how the lockdown would affect their studies. we weren't sure if we would do well in studies, especially after the lockdown, we are quite far behind. in singapore, academic workloads and expectations are extremely high at the best of times. during covid—19, these children have had even more to contend with. there is a lot of children spending a lot of time . doing their homework and less time in social activities - and sleeping less. those are risk- factors already for depression and anxiety. so, they are already- predisposed because of these factors in the menu - at the pandemic, they'll put them at more than i a little more susceptible. for many months last year the schools were closed, kids are now back in class but nothing is entirely normal. mental health is a tricky topic in much o

as sarah toms reports, the pandemic is partly to blame but many students also worry about rising violencee usa. he worked hard and got a coveted place at yale university to take computer science and economics. but the 19—year—old has had second thoughts. for a and economics. but the 19-year-old has had second thoughts.— has had second thoughts. for a lot of --eole, has had second thoughts. for a lot of people, especially _ has had second thoughts. for a lot of people, especially asians - has had second thoughts. for a lot of people, especially asians like i of people, especially asians like myself and my friends, you have seen the recent news of anti—asian racism and attacks especially in the us and other countries. it would be quite a deterrent to our dreams to pursue english education and it might be because of the pandemic, but beyond that i think there was some sort of racism that was already ingrained in a lot of people's minds.— a lot of people's minds. foreign student enrolment _ a lot of people's minds. foreign student enrolment at _ a lot of people's minds. foreign student enrolm

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but today, sarah and tom richford came to court to hear the nhs trust that failed them receive a records fined a record £733,000 forfailing to provide safe care and treatment to both harry and sarah. sadly, both individual and systemic errors are pushed aside for many years with no learning taking place. this failure to learn has led to the significant failings witnessed in harry's death, and no doubt countless others which are now being investigated. before harry richford's death, maternity problems were mounting. in 201a, the trust investigated eight neonatal deaths in just eight months. in 2015, an external review found maternity consultants didn't carry out ward rounds or review women. in 2017, management acknowledged problems in developing a safe patient culture in maternity care. following the fine, the trust apologised and said improvements were under way. learning lessons and efforts to improve should never stop, and we will work tirelessly to provide high quality maternity services which continually strive for improvement and are safe, effective and centred on the women and chi

sarah toms, bbc news, singapore.w them off to g7 leaders. take the seaside pool in penzance. most swimmers don't like the cold. so there's a new warm pool on offer, heated not by gas, but with clean energy from hot rocks underground. it's nice that you can harness something like that and use it for something like a pool of relaxing touristy feature. yeah. it's good for the environment as well, i think. you've got to use it. and here's a gull�*s eye view of other changes. cars will no longer dominate the penzance promenade, thanks to work over the past year. priorities have been given to visitors on foot or on bikes, in a move supported by the government. the green revolution has seen strict traffic restrictions on the high street. some love it. i think it's a step at a time, all in the right direction. bring it on. others think road closures haven't been thought through. we have so much traffic, we're gridlocked. to do what they've done now in the summertime, is ten times worse. but the green trend is growing. cornwa

but today, sarah and tom richford came to court to hear the nhs trust that failed them receive a recordeast kent hospitals trust was fined a record £733,000 forfailing to provide safe care and treatment to both harry and sarah. sadly, both individual and systemic errors are pushed aside for many years with no learning taking place. this failure to learn has led to the significant failings witnessed in harry's death, and no doubt countless others which are now being investigated. before harry richford's death, maternity problems were mounting. in 2014, the trust investigated eight neonatal deaths in just eight months. in 2015, an external review found maternity consultants didn't carry out ward rounds or review women. in 2017, management acknowledged problems in developing a safe patient culture in maternity care. following the fine, the trust apologised and said improvements were under way. learning lessons and efforts to improve should never stop, and we will work tirelessly to provide high quality maternity services which continually strive for improvement and are safe, effective and

tom: sarah house, have to leave it there with what is going on in the digital space.ry holds out, at home working on this, and i believe he attends us later this morning. he usually doesn't start his day until 9:15, maybe 9:20, he reports the new york times, bloomberg's back up, and the great distinction of this is aws, amazon web services, sort of versus everything else and particularly google. on twitter, and i have to be careful, the zeitgeist is the twitters off of a google platform and was fine, and a lot of others are off of aws and they were not fine. lisa: there's going to be a lot of postevent analysis. tom: yeah. lisa: and how the infrastructure is -- needs to be short up, given people's reliance on it. when you take a look at the market moves, the one consistent move that has stuck, you say we are seeing the retracement's in equity, bitcoin is still down. this stems from the idea, what does the digital currency danger if there is threat to the digital structure? tom: matt, weighing on that. lisa: i can feel the energy. [laughter] matt: i think lisa makes a

so tom, one, sarah, us, secretary of state antony blink and came here to central america to talk about climate change, security and migration. among other things. people here on the streets have more pressing concerns, primarily a surgeon corona virus. i'm gabriel is on doing san jose costa rica. that story coming up and uncovering the secrets of the soda systems hottest planet, nasa announces to new missions to venus. ah hello, we got plenty of summer heat across, not to hear her water was sunshine for some, but for many got some lava, live the showers around the longest, both france and what's the weather over towards the black sea area of low pressure across the peninsula. breeding some very a wet weather to just find a portugal over the next couple days that he will graduate with the showers a little further north with starts somewhere to weather up towards the northwest, but not too much because got high pressure here. squeezing the life out of any rain that we do have moving through here. so let's come back towards the southwest. we've got some winter, whether they're into spain,

tom: sarah malic of nuveen -- sarah malic -- sabre malic -- s -- saira malik of nuveen, thank you souch. what i love about the white sox, romaine, they still do the fireworks behind the scoreboard. i remove her that as a kid. romaine: i do, too. staying loyal to my white sox. tom: you know, they ruined it. let's save ourselves with a data check right now. futures up seven. dow futures go the other way. what do we make of the nasdaq? lisa: i think this is fascinating because it really does correlate with lower yields. saira was talking about inflation protection and the concern about higher inflation. what happens if yields go materially lower? i don't think we have analyzed that enough. i think that is the risk, that if something looks like perhaps the outlook sours a bit and yields go materially lower, then what happens? romaine: -- tom: at 1.5364%, let's be blunt, 1.49% is unimaginable. romaine: we actually had this conversation on "the close" last week. we have a lot of great conversations there, tom. to stay up a bit later. we talked about 1.50% being the bottom right now in term

tom: thank you very much. sarahunt with us, of alpine woods capital, on construction and the view forward. it is one thing to say, bible this, markets that -- to say econo babble this, markets that. lisa: you can't just sit on your hands and wait for something to happen. if someone was in triple leveraged all cash funds, they might have missed out. with respect to the financials, i thought it was really interesting, that jp morgan and jamie dimon came out and warned of a trading revenue drop. you saw a huge boom in trading off the heels of all the stimulus and the sudden reversal in the view of the markets, and the idea of a negative comparison or at least a deteriorating comparison year-over-year speaks to peak growth, peak earnings. have we crossed that rubicon? which industries have we crossed that with, and how much is that priced and? romaine: i sort of agree with lisa. i also think jamie dimon is a master of managing expectations, and you have to kind of talked on the street a little bit because folks are real

tom: george sarah vallas at deutsche bank writing about -- kailey leinz is with us on the equity markets company from sioux falls, south dakota, raven industries. kailey: a little m&a in the ag tech space, getting bought for $58 a share. in premarket trading, it is almost at that level right now, up about 49%. that price tag with a 50% premium to friday's close. another stock surging in early hours is torchlight energy. this is one of the new favorites of mima traders on ash of mima -- of meme traders. that stock is up around 40%. amc getting a little bit of a bid as well. remember, it fell 38% last friday after that poor efficacy data from its covid-19 vaccine trial. it was bought on friday and is being bought again this morning. whatever it is, bitcoin is moving lower. as a result, it is dragging on stocks tied to bitcoin in premarket trading. marathon digital, microstrategy, riot blockchain all down more than 8% at this point in early hours. coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange, down by about 3%. tom: thank you so much. right now, a very cogent note. everybody publishing over the wee

joining us, of course, is our director of transportation as well as staff members tom mcguire, our director of streets, sarah jones, our director of planning and tim doherty who will be presenting this item for the ssmta and i want to turn it back to director ginsberg before we go into further conversation. >> thank you, chair boarden. and members of both the m.t.a. board and recreation and park commission. i want to acknowledge vice chair mcdonald. thank you for chairing this meeting today. this is an exciting opportunity for our organization to work together. [phone ringing] i want to thank you for the opportunity today and there have been few silver linings resulting from the pandemic. but as our city has sought to create safer places for residents and run and stroll through their parks and streets, the past 14 months have offered the opportunity to experiment with our public spaces and re-examine the configurations and uses with an eye toward the future. admittedly, change can be hard and as we continue to work to balance both the present and future needs of all san franciscans, we do so with boldness an

i'll tell you what, sarah, i'm going to let you in on a secret. if i'm out there with tom and we're giving a presentation, you have to get me a coffee cup, i got to be honest with you, there's not tea in this coffee cup. >> i knew that. i knew that. it's a pretty big cup, i noticed. >> it's called "blood and treasure". >> there you go, "blood and treasure". thank you for tuning in, everybody. independent bookstore day is saturday. we appreciate your time and look forward to seeing you again. >>> weeknights we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on cspan3. tonight a look at the tonight a look at the relationship between president abraham lincoln and frederick douglass, who escaped slavery and through his writings, speeches and advocacy rose to become one of the most influential african-american leaders. watch tonight and every weekend on cspan3. >> sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on cspan, the 1919 case schenck v. united states, that allows the government, particularly in times of war to limit freedom of speech. the court up

we'll get out and and i tell you what sarah i'm gonna let you on a secret when i get out there. i'm out there with tom and we're giving a presentation and you're gonna have to get me a coffee cup that i got an audience with you. there's not tea in this coffee cup. it's at i need it and it's a pretty big cut. i noticed. blood and treasure there you go blood pressure. thank you so much. and thank you everybody for tuning in independent bookstore day is saturday, and we appreciate your tim our next speaker today is one of the newest faces at emerging civil war one of our emerging voices if you will john tracy has worked both at fredericksburg and spotsylvania national military park as well as gettysburg national military park. he's done some fantastic work on the website forest this year particularly focusing on gettysburg, but spreading his wings he's going to talk today. you can find a rabbit hole and really fall in and that's what today's topic is today. he's coming to us from the university of west virginia where he is just finishing up his master's degree in public history. ladies and gentlemen, joh

we'll get out and and i tell you what sarah i'm gonna let you on a secret when i get out there. i'm out there with tom and we're giving a presentation and you're gonna have to get me a coffee cup that i got an audience with you. there's not tea in this coffee cup. it's at i knew that and it's a pretty big cup i noticed. the blood blood and treasure. there you go blood pressure. thank you so much. and thank you everybody for tuning in independent bookstore day is saturday, and we appreciate your time and look forward to seeing you again. weeknights were featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span 3 tonight a look at the relationship between president abraham lincoln and abolitionist frederick douglass frederick douglass had escaped slavery and through his writings speeches and advocacy rose to become one of the most influential african-american leaders of the 19th century. watch american history tv tonight beginning at eight eastern and every weekend on c-span 3. on sunday military historian and journalist max hastings will be our guest on in depth th

tom: let's go to someone well groomed, carl weinberg joins us from high-frequency economics. george sarah bellows -- george from deutsche bank says it's a v-shaped pandemic recovery, but we are heading now to a steady state. does high-frequency economics see a v-shaped boom or do you see a steady state? carl: good morning. we have already seen a lot of the v-shaped that i think we are going to see. that low hanging fruit has been picked, the firms that are easy to reopen are reopening and people are coming back to the work place. households are putting their spending back towards services, away from the goods they have not been able to -- services they have not been able to buy. we are going to move to a steady state, but the question for the markets is if it is a steady state of inflation, or transition. do we go back to where we were before? >> everyone wants to know, but i have to ask you about the pacific rim boom i see priced to and so many places. does high-frequency economics believed in an enduring pacific boom? >> we have to look at the pacific as a medium-term proposition, that'

joining us, of course, is our director of transportation as well as staff members tom mcguire, our director of streets, sarah jones, our director of planning and tim doherty who will be presenting this item for the ssmta and i want to turn it back to director ginsberg before we go into further conversation. >> thank you, chair boarden. and members of both the m.t.a. board and recreation and park commission. i want to acknowledge vice chair mcdonald. thank you for chairing this meeting today. this is an exciting opportunity for our organization to work together. [phone ringing] i want to thank you for the opportunity today and there have been few silver linings resulting from the pandemic. but as our city has sought to create safer places for residents and run and stroll through their parks and streets, the past 14 months have offered the opportunity to experiment with our public spaces and re-examine the configurations and uses with an eye toward the future. admittedly, change can be hard and as we continue to work to balance both the present and future needs of all san franciscans, we do so with boldness an

joining us, of course, is our director of transportation as well as staff members tom mcguire, our director of streets, sarah jones, our director of planning and tim doherty who will be presenting this item for the ssmta and i want to turn it back to director ginsberg before we go into further conversation. >> thank you, chair boarden. and members of both the m.t.a. board and recreation and park commission. i want to acknowledge vice chair mcdonald. thank you for chairing this meeting today. this is an exciting opportunity for our organization to work together. [phone ringing] i want to thank you for the opportunity today and there have been few silver linings resulting from the pandemic. but as our city has sought to create safer places for residents and run and stroll through their parks and streets, the past 14 months have offered the opportunity to experiment with our public spaces and re-examine the configurations and uses with an eye toward the future. admittedly, change can be hard and as we continue to work to balance both the present and future needs of all san franciscans, we do so with boldness an

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