ready for lift off again. nasa prepares to make a second attempt later to launch its most powerful rocket to the moon five days after technical problems scuppered its first attempt. (sot) it is not unusual for a rocket, it is not unusualfor a rocket, a new rocket to experience setbacks or delays but the team are confident they can overcome this and all eyes will be on the launch pad. we start in russia. mourners in moscow are queueing to pay their respects to the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev, who died on tuesday at the age of 91. later today, he will be buried in the city s largest cemetery, novodevichy, next to his wife raisa. russian president vladimir putin is not attending the funeral. the kremlin says mr putin has no space in his schedule. these are live pictures from moscow. mourners are gathering at the hall of columns. he left office in 1991 as the country crumbled around him. he had been the leader of reform but the forces and desire for independence among
china warns of counter measures after the us approves a $1 billion arms package to taiwan saying it s to maintain its self defence capabilities. millions of people in england and scotland will be invited for their autumn covid booster vaccine from monday with care home residents first in line for the jab. ready for lift off again. nasa prepares to make a second attempt later to launch its most powerful rocket to the moon five days after technical problems scuppered its first attempt. it s not unusual for a it s not unusualfor a new it s not unusual for a new rocket to experience setbacks and delays but the team is confident they can overcome this and all eyes will be on at the launch pad as the countdown clock ticks down. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. mourners in moscow are paying their last respects to mikhail gorbachev, the last soviet leader who brought the cold war to a peaceful end. he died on tuesday at the age of 91. later
nasa prepares to make a second attempt later to launch its most powerful rocket to the moon five days after technical problems scuppered its first attempt. now on bbc news, the travel show. coming up this week on the travel show i am uncovering ancient treasures amongst spain s moving sand dunes. this is a melting pot of cultures, and all of those peoples have left their archaeological site, which have been kept perfectly intact, down the millennia. cat s in the uk s northernmost city. here s a clue where. the site s really significant. it s had castles that have been burned, besieged, rebuilt. mary, queen of scots, robert the bruce have all had connections with this place. and why greenland is fast becoming a bucket list destination at the top of the world. we decided on greenland. a reason was to experience climate change at the hub of it, so to speak. the huge sand dunes of southern spain are some of the largest in europe and yet, they remain relatively unknown, even a
now on bbc news, click meets the comedians who are making the leap from being social media stars to the live stage at the edinburgh festival fringe. this week we are at the hospital that s using ai to try and cut waiting times for surgery. we are all at sea to see if sailing can go solar, we are finding our funny at the fringe festival to ask whether tiktok comedians can make it on stage. there is so much scope for error. and there s so much stuff that s not in our control. on tiktok it is actually all in our control. and talking of control, we ll see how trying to track the twitter bots is no laughing matter. i said no laughing matter.oh, never mind. you are back, we re back, everybody is back, and this august so was the edinburgh festival, the world famous celebration of the arts that takes over the city the whole month. it is a melting pot of theatre, music, dance and opera, and on the side, as its name suggests, is the edinburgh fringe. please, neverspeak to me again. fil
britain s new hong kongers over 100,000 people from hong kong moved to the uk in the past year and more are arriving every day. probably one of the biggest migrations of our generation. they ve got a one way ticket to a new life thousands of miles from everything they know. we can t go back to hong kong right now, but i think ten years or 20 years we can. if she is still in hong kong, then i think she sjust going to be brainwashed. i think they deep down know that i won t come back to hong kong. many are cash rich and are buying homes outright in towns across britain. they re bringing over on average, six, 700, maybe 800,000 into the uk economy. but are the tensions they were hoping to escape now in the uk? this is my bloody face after being attacked by those chinese people. i m elaine chong. over the past few months, i ve been following hong kongers who ve moved to the uk and i ve been finding out if their new life here is what they were hoping for. in 2019, violent clashes