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BBCNEWS Click July 14, 2024

Afternoon, is it not . Yes, be patient, it is coming. Serena williams goes in search of a record equalling grand slam title shortly, when she faces simona halep in the button final. Our man is in position for us. What chance some rain help can stop williamson claim her own title, john . What chance simona halep can stop williams . We have been talking about this for a while, the alyssa 24th glance demand title. We know that she has had titles. The 24th grand slam title. She reached the final of the us open, when she was beaten by osaka and dramatic scenes in new york. But here we are, and yet another opportunity for subs Serena Williams herself said has felt much calmer throughout this fortnight. She has clearly benefited from the exit, extra court time playing alongside and a murray in the mixed doubles and, perhaps finally, this is the moment she will draw level with that record. Although, arena millions, speaking ahead of this big match, has said it is not that re cord match, has said it is not that record which is driving forward. Although, Serena Williams. I thought about it this morning and did not think about it since. Because it is really not about 24, 23 or 25. It is really not about 24, 23 or 25. It is really not about 24, 23 or 25. It is reallyjust about going out there and giving my best effort matter what. And no matter what i do, i will always have a great career. But as we know, simona halep will be attempting to stop her. Former french open champion. She has certainly hoping to prove something to those watching and to yourself or stop she went out in the early stages of wimbledon last year and this year, in defence of her french open title, went out on centre court. She will be desperate to prove that she can get that second grand slam. There are some british interests in action currently over in the wheelchair doubles. We can ta ke in the wheelchair doubles. We can take you to court three with gordon reid and alfie hewitt. They have won this title about three times, three consecutive years. You would imagine, perhaps, favourites once again to wind it next year, but they are up against it. They are up against the second seeds. They dropped the first set and are 5 2 down in the second, so that run looks as if it could be coming to an end. We told you yesterday about lap foreign winning in the quad wheelchair doubles. He is in action in the singles today. And lap foreign. He lost the final to his playing partner. Dylan alcott. He was comprehensively beaten in straight sets stop six life and love, six two. Disappointment after that success in the doubles yesterday in straight sets. 6 love and sex two. Yesterday in straight sets. 6 love and sex two. Comprehensive round up, thanks, john. Charles has gone quickest in third practice. The british grand prix ahead of qualifying later. The clerics at the fastest time, with ferrari team mate sebastien bedell just fastest time, with ferrari team mate sebastien bedelljust behind him. Home favourite Lewis Hamilton was the third fastest and will be confident ahead of the qualifying later this afternoon. And that is all the sport. Now, it is time for click. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. So said president John F Kennedy in 1962. On july the 16th, 1969, three astronauts, Neil Armstrong, edwin buzz aldrin, and michael collins, made ready to fulfil that promise as they prepared for apollo 11. The First Crewed Mission to land on the moon. Three men to represent the culmination of a dream. Here at nasa in houston, texas, Mission Control monitored every aspect of the moon shot. These days its used to monitor the International Space station, the actual control room used for the apollo 11 mission is undergoing a bit of a refurb in honour of the 50th anniversary. Marcos flores is one of the current Mission Controllers for the iss. There was no guarantee that apollo ii was going to be successful. I mean, it was really cutting edge, dangerous stuff, wasnt it . Yeah, definitely. There was a lot of risk involved in the missions themselves and how dangerous they were, but also a lot of unknowns in terms of being able to successfully land on the moon. The 36 storey tall saturn v moves out of its Huge Assembly building and heads for the launchpad. To build the launch vehicle, nasa contracted boeing, north american aviation, the douglas aircraft company, and ibm to help build a rocket that would end up being the biggest and most powerful ever built. Call that a rocket . This is a rocket. Inside here is the saturn v rocket. Stage i gets you off the launchpad and up to a speed of 6000 mph. Two and a half minutes later all of this fuel is burnt. You dont want to carry an empty casing into space so you ditch it to save on weight. Then five rocket engines in stage 2 ignite and send you into the upper atmosphere. At 115 miles up, all that fuel is gone, too. You ditch the second stage. And this rocket on stage 3 fires you around the earth and into orbit. Then it powers down and, a little while later, it restarts. This time it sends you to the moon. So heres the thing. That bit there. Thats where the people sit. All the rest of it is fuel. Laughter while the rocket was incredibly powerful, so, at the time, was the Computing Power required for the apollo programme. Even though in Popular Culture the computers of the day, which in this case were giant mainframes, are often compared unfavourably to contemporary technology. The 360 75 that we used was a i mip machine one million instructions per second. And it had i meg of real memory ori million bytes of real memory and 4 million bytes of auxiliary memory. The numbers you hearfor the iphone that i own are anywhere from 10,000 times as fast as that to even a million to maybe even i think ive seen one that was 100 million times as fast. Homer programmes the actual code used for the descent and ascent of the Lunar Landing module. And onjuly the 20th 1969 it kicked in, as Neil Armstrong piloted the lunar lander onto the moons surface. Music plays. Right, were go. Weve had shut down. The eagle has landed. At 0239 hours armstrong exited the landing module and uttered the immortal phrase. Thats one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. Now, as any good tourist knows, photos are a must. Armstrong and aldrin also left a plaque and a flag. And took a phone call from president richard nixon. Hello, neil and buzz, im talking to you by telephone from the oval room at the white house. And this certainly has to be the most historic phone call ever made. And what did we learn from the Apollo Missions that we still use today . We are leveraging a lot of the experience that we gained with the vehicles themselves in terms of the rocket design, the capsule design, and what it takes for us to safely, you know, send that body up to space and bring it back down. A recent poll suggests that one in six britons believe the moon landing was staged. In the age of the internet, conspiracy theories run rampant, and claiming the moon landings were a hoax is at the head of the pack. Companies like nvidia have tried to use technology to prove the moon landings did happen. They built a 3d render using a powerful graphics processing unit, which realistically represents how light behaves on the moon, debunking popular Conspiracy Theory about the lighting in the moon landing images being wrong. Well, we decided to do some digging on our own and examine the evidence that proves, yes, human beings have landed on the moon. Jonathan swift, the famous novelist, satirist reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion by which reasoning he never acquired. If someone has an unreasonable opinion about something, based on nonsense, it doesnt matter how much reasoning you do with them, youre never going to reason them out of it, because reason didnt get them there to begin with. There are the famous ones, that you know, the fact that they didnt actually go to the moon, actually launched the rocket and orbited the earth, for a few times, pretended they went to the moon, and came home. 0h, radiation, thats the other one. There is no way they could have gone through the deadly van allen belt that surrounds planet earth. Theres the anomalies with the photographs, all of which are ridiculous. Stanley kubrick directed it in a film set in area 51, somewhere in the desert. The technology to fake the moon landings did not exist in 1969. The technology did exist to get to the moon in 1969 just. Radio three feet down, 2. 5, picking up some dust. Big shadow, its different but its very pretty out here. The lunar surface cameras were based on our 500 el systems. We had many modifications. The viewfinders, and the mirror system, all of this was removed to save weight, which then locked into a chest bracket on the astronauts suit. And it was literally moving their body, tilting their body, to frame up the images. You cant see any stars because the contrast range of the surface images is too high. If its a bright day and you stand outside a house and open the door to the house and look in, you cant see any of the detail because its too bright where you are. So this is as close as a modern equivalent as we would have. It has a 100 megapixel sensor. If we took it to the surface today would not be able to capture stars and lunar surface detail in the same image. Radio oh gee, thats great. Is the lighting here decent . One of the issues of doing it in a studio is the dust on the moon. And when there is no atmosphere, dust behaves differently to when there atmosphere. So now you would have to have a studio that you evacuated and had a vacuum in. The Lunar Mission comes as a climax of the space race that the United States and soviet union have been competing in since the mid 1950s for technological and scientific supremacy. The soviets possessed advanced tracking capabilities of their own, and have used them to track icbm missiles as well as spaceflight. So their inability to detect a conspiracy of this nature seems unlikely. Moreover, they would have had every incentive to expose this in order to score a major propaganda victory. Apollo engineers were very well aware of the van allen belt. A, it wasnt in them for very long, and b, it charted a course actually where the van allen belt it is quite weak anyway. You would think that having moon rocks on the earth would be living proof that the conspiracy theories can be debunked. Those rocks are still being studied today. Some of them are sealed up, never yet been touched, because the scientists, even back in the 60s in the 70s, knew that technology would get better with time and they would be able to make new scientific discoveries. We have, left by the apollo astronauts on the moon, retro reflectors, these are passive experiments, where, a bit like cats eyes, we can fire a laser at them. Bounce lasers from the earth to the moon to understand the changing behaviours of the moon and its orbit. Bounce lasers from the earth to the moon to understand the changing behaviours of the moon and its orbit. It is sadly not enough for the deniers, they will always see conspiracy. While conspiracies have been around for decades, they certainly have a new lease on life in the age of the internet. Things like facebook groups, let all these disparate ideas where people come together and find each other in a way we have never had before. So the romans had conspiracy theories, theyjust didnt have the internet. Now we still have conspiracy theories, because we are humans and our brains are fallible, and we have the internet, its a perfect storm. That is it for the short cut of click. Theres loads more brilliant space stuff in the full length version. That is waiting for you on iplayer. And next week we will be back to look even further into space. Thanks for watching. And we will see you soon. The shadow chancellor has accused International Bodies including the world bank and imf is not being fed to tackle Climate Change. He has been speaking at the labour partys inaugural International Social forum this morning and has called for a shake up of international and institutions, arguing countries in the global south of the world have been shut out of decisions about the economy for far too long. Lets talk tojohn mcdonnell. Good economy for far too long. Lets talk to john mcdonnell. Good afternoon, thanks for breaking away from the forum to speak to us. You are talking about a new International Structure . Slipping talking about a new International Structure . Slipping away talking about a new International Structure . Slipping away these organisations . Possibly replacing. There has been a debate going on now for the last 18 months to two years. Gordon brown did an excellent speech last september in which he said, faced with Climate Change and the threat of trade wars, the power of multinationals over individual states, he expressed his view that may be the existing institutions at a global level, imf, world bank, elements within the un, are actually not up to the job of tackling those challenges and threats. The nobel economic prize member who is one of my advisers wrote something similar with a group of economists 18 months ago, and sol with a group of economists 18 months ago, and so i said that we would crawl together a group of economists, environmentalists, politicians, and leaders of social movements from across the world. We have got people from the four continents speaking this morning, talking about the challenges that they face, Climate Changes are key challenge because it is an existential threat. That is why we put through parliament a Climate Emergency also the issues around inequality, the trade wars that are being developed between china and america, and how the existing institutions dont seem fit for purpose and whether there is either a demand for reform or even a new body. Now, one of the ideas put forward byjoseph, the nobel prizewinner, was about a global coordination council, bringing towards dominant together many of the powers that the imf, world bank and the un powers so that we can work more closely together globally and cooperate more effectively together to tackle those threats. Is part of the problem not that many of these organisations are essentially member organisations and will never move any faster or, in your view, any more progressively than the slowest member . It is a lwa ys than the slowest member . It is always the slowest member sets the pace. That is one of the real issues that we face, but, you know, there isa that we face, but, you know, there is a Real Movement at the moment, i think a global movement, that is developing, saying we need to change and we need more decisive policy making and more decisive coordination. And yes, we always have that problem of individual countries not wanting to pull their weight, but the majority position 110w weight, but the majority position now is that there is a need for reform and action. The issue of Climate Change has focused the minds of politicians and people all over the world. This is an existential threat. If we cannot use global institutions to tackle that threat, we just will not exist. It is not just politicians saying that, it is oui just politicians saying that, it is our own schoolchildren coming out on strike to tell us. I believe there isa strike to tell us. I believe there is a mood for change, and, as i say, politicians, economists, environmentalists, but also social movements in individual countries that are increasingly linking up on a transnational scale. So i have convened this International Social forum to start the debate, to start the debate here. We are looking at a 12 Month Programme of work to come up 12 Month Programme of work to come up with the detailed proposals that we can then advocate. Apologies, there is a slight delay in the line so there is a slight delay in the line sol there is a slight delay in the line so i apologise if i seem to be interrupting. The Un Security Council is perhaps the most obvious example of a Global Organisation where you could argue that north of the globe is overrepresented. There are so many the globe is overrepresented. There are so many countries who are permanent members from the north, so little from the south. And this is not a flippant question, it is a serious one, do you think that britain should perhaps consider whether it any longer should have a permanent seat on the Un Security Council and perhaps make way for the global south . I think there is a real discussion that needs to be had about representatives of the nature of all our bodies. I dont want to get dragged into the un debate, because actually i think there is a move afoot in the discussions that we are having to almost bypass that debate, particularly around the need for Global Economic cooperation and coordination. That is whyjoseph came forward with those ideas which seem came forward with those ideas which seem to have caught the wind, about a new global body that would specifically look at Economic Cooperation and, of course, try to tackle the real existential threat of Climate Change. So, rather than get bogged down into the representative nature of the Un Security Council, which i agree is not representative, we want to look at maybe a new body that will tackle this specific problem. But it does mean that, yes, the global south needs to be properly represented. There needs to be fairer representation overall. I give the example, at the moment, it seems as though there is a gentlemans agreement, if you can call it that, of alwa

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