It“s third time lucky for boeing. their starliner spaceship has now successfully launched on its first crewed mission from cape canaveral in florida today. on board, two veteran astronauts who are heading to the international space station. the last attempt was scrubbed in the final minutes of countdown when boeing s computer systems flagged a problem. but this was much smoother. only the sixth type of american spacecraft to take a crew into orbit. but it steps up competition with nasa“s other private contgrator, that is elon musk“s spacex who have a test flight of their own planned in the coming days. i m pleased to say the former nasa astronaut, who was once the commander of the international space station, leroy chiao, joins us now. this is the first time this is taken to people up in the space it was this the textbook launch? this will
Was that too far or not far enough? this is the ukrainian military. it s a bas e crimea. and the russians responded with missiles they got from north kore respondmissilesa. sale.is the israelis are facing a rising conflict with lebanonrl ,hezbollah and someone killed 100 people or more at a memorial in iranollah an, whih the iranians blamed on the israelis and us. still anians b no word of clotting cla data or credit. now is it me or does all this sound world war three ish? threeish i wonder how my assi. is coming with that bunker. the main chambe ther is 20 two feet below ground and i set up three bodies walker and ak an steel form to pour concrete. lot o there is still a lot of woo to do, but i am having a blast and enjoying sharing this project with you. such a hard worker. wasn t biden wondering where is defense secretarye secret wae all this was happening? doesn t he get briefings on thing on s other than who s e
Their barrister says the proposals are a step forward. throughout their time with awaab, they built up a bit of a distrust with authority because of their experiences. so i m pleased for them that they re now seeing awaab s law get the consultation stage, and it sjust really important now that awaab s law is able to have the intended bite. so for us, it s particularly important that people really do engage with this consultation. the process will last eight weeks, with the government promising to bring measures into force as soon as possible after that. more than three years on from the death of awaab ishak, his legacy moves another step closer to becoming law. rowan bridge, bbc news. let s take a look at some of the day s other news. there was little christmas cheer on the high street, according to the latest industry figures. total uk retail sales were up byjust1.7% in december compared to growth of 6.9% a year earlier. the british retail consortium, who monitor sales, warns
England have had to overcome, keira walsh getting injured, laurenjames being sent off in the nigeria game. we don t know whether sarina wiegman will pick her or not in her starting line up, she is available again, she will be desperate to play but sarina wiegman might stick to a winning formula. it s worth remembering that england women were not able to play football, they were banned for 50 years, just see how far they have come. they are in the final of a world cup. come. they are in the final of a world cup- come. they are in the final of a worldcu. , ~ ,., . world cup. absolutely. an historic came to world cup. absolutely. an historic game to come- we ll have lots of coverage of the world cup throughout the morning but now ben has today s other news. the british medical association is calling for hospital managers to be regulated in a similar way to medical staff following the case of the serial killer nurse lucy letby. she was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attemp
Day operations. so want to make sure you have, that director of election day operations. so check out how he answered this question. quote, where were you, mister roman on election day? roman, the fifth. he pleaded the fifth to where he was on election day when you are the director of election operations. i know the investigation of trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election can be mattering, because so much of it happened out there in the open. but drawing the connective tissue between everything that happened after the 2020 election, and trump himself in a way that is prove-able, and prosecutable in a court of law is actually a tall order. by offering these guys at the center of the fake elector plot limited immunity, in exchange for testimonial scenic act smith s try to connect the dots. and believe it or not, we are not done. we have a couple of major developments out of jack smith s other case tonight. you know the other one, the enactment of donald trump and his aide walter n