breaking news hello everyone. thanks for joining me on. alison chemla, radha, and for fredricka whitfield, we have an exciting program for you today because within the next half an hour, we expect to witness the first ever boeing starliner spacecraft launched from cape canaveral, florida to the international space station. this is not a practice run this its launch has to american astronauts on board but officials and spectators are holding their breath a bit because this mission was already postponed a few times, veteran nasa astronauts, butch wilmore and suni williams are on board. and boeing is trying with this to compete with its rivals space x as nasa tries to collaborate with private industry partners. if successful, suni williams would become the first woman aboard any crewed test flight like this years of work has gone into this moment and it has not been without setbacks, as i ve mentioned. so let s bring in space and defense correspondent kristin fisher. she
Business news live from singapore. Chinas one belt one road for it kicked off in beijing. Just how lofty are its Silk Road Ambitions and can they be filled . More victims are expected of the cyber attack as they return to work after the weekend. Hello and welcome to Asia Business report. Leaders from 28 nations are gathered in beijing to bring chinas grand plan to invest billions of dollars to improve its global trade links one step closer to reality. Called the one belt one road initiative, it was proposed in 2013 by president xi xin ping. Its ambitions span over 60 countries and the president has pledged billions of dollars for the scheme. There are sceptics that say it is an expensive exercise to extend chinas political and economic influence. We are joined by our asian Business Correspondence in the studio. 124 billion, no small number. Of course, this was an announcement that was made to all of the World Leaders that were gathered to listen to president xi. Why are the chinese mak
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that s reading the data wrong and that s what causes a scrub and that can lead to an automatic cold which may be what happened here. but again, we just don t know yet. and, you know, allison, i think big picture here. i m sure some folks are wondering, you know? why is it so important to have a second spacecraft that can take nasa astronauts up to the international space station. a lot of people say, hey, we already have the spacex its crew dragon doing that reliably for four years now and there s also a russian soyuz rocket that can do the same and is currently doing the same. despite these ongoing tensions between the us and russia over ukraine. so why do we need a third vehicle? the reason is, according to nasa they want a competitor to spacex. they want that redundancy. they want a backup in case something happens to the space x fleet of falcon nine rockets and crew dragon capsule. so this is about backup systems. it s about redundancy, it s
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