Fernando Rull News Today

donald trump was �*detached from reality.�* his former attorney—general, william barr, said he showed more interest in "crazy stuff" than facts. mr trump has called the investigation "a sham." now on bbc news, its hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. the rupture in relations between most of europe and russia since vladimir putins invasion of ukraine has left european governments scrambling to end their dependence on moscows oil and gas. it turns out there was another...

europes short—term space plans are now in disarray. my guest isjosef aschbacher, director general of the european space agency. is europe destined to be an also—ran in the space race? josef aschbacher, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, thank you for having me. lets start where i started in that introduction — your relationship with russia. it has exposed, has it not, the war with ukraine, the degree to which youve had to sever ties with the russian space agency? its exposed a dange...

which unionists dont like because it, in effect, puts a border down the irish sea. now on bbc news, heres hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. the rupture in relations between most of europe and russia since vladimir putins invasion of ukraine has left european governments scrambling to end their dependence on moscows oil and gas. it turns out there was another arena in which europe had become dangerously dependent on russia — space. without russian rockets and other spa...

are now in disarray. my guest isjosef aschbacher, director general of the european space agency. is europe destined to be an also—ran in the space race? josef aschbacher, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you for having me. lets start where i started in that introduction — your relationship with russia. it has exposed, has it not, the war with ukraine, the degree to which youve had to sever ties with the russian space agency? its exposed a dangerous overreliance on cooperation ...

In europe... im thinking of people like fernando rull, whos one of the leaders of the project. hes been working on this for years, and suddenly everything he had planned and worked for has been taken away from him. thats correct. i mean, how do you approach him and others on that team and say, "you know what, its all off"? that is... that is painful, i tell you. and i have a large team of the exomars project manager, the exomars team, there are several people in esa, but also in industry. and it...

Like fernando rull, whos one of the leaders of the project. hes been working on this for years, and suddenly everything he had planned and worked for has been taken away from him. thats correct. i mean, how do you approach him and others on that team and say, "you know what, its all off"? that is... that is painful, i tell you. and i have a large team of the exomars project manager, the exomars team, there are several people in esa, but also in industry. and it is true, they have been working fo...