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i am outside where the event will be taking place this afternoon but there has been growing opposition from protesters, citing the legitimacy and the cost. and work begins to remove the tens of thousands of floral tributes left to honour the queen, in central london. in the last few hours nasa has successfully managed to test the world's first planetary defence system by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid. the dart mission is the first ever attempt to change the course of a large object — roughly the size of a football stadium. a live camera relayed the spacecraftï...

the pound remains under pressure — from market concerns about government borrowing to fund tax cuts. a state funeral is due to be held for the former japanese prime minister shinzo abe. leaders from across the world are expected to be at the service. the event will start in just under an hour but there has been growing opposition with detractors citing the cost. and honours even as engalnd and germany share six goals in their final game before the qatar, world cup. of an asteroid travelling at 14,000 miles per hour! it's the first time it's ever been done, and it's hoped that it'll...

hi, dodd. not seen you for a while. how have you been, you big giraffe? sally laughs. good morning. with one game to go before the world cup begins, how gareth southgate�*s future's the spotlight, a year after leading england to the euros final. good morning. we've currently got some rain in the south—east which will clear away and for all of us we are looking at a day of sunshine and showers and a noticeable wind too, and feeling chilly in that wind. i will have all the details about this mornings programme. good morning, everybody. it's monday 26th september. our main story. th...

Imagine a spacecraft seeing a bright point of light and intentionally flying toward it, just before it impacts, the bright point of light splits into two and the spacecraft had to choose on its own which one of those two things to hit and as far as we can tell, all of the autonomous targeting from the autonomous targeting from the camera to the processor, the camera to the processor, the computer and the programming everything worked absolutely perfectly. it hit head—on onto the men office asteroid and so this part of it was totally successful. what we don't know yet is whether it successful...

Reassured? yes, in the case of this object, the nasa dart— reassured? yes, in the case of this object, the nasa dart mission - reassured? yes, in the case of this object, the nasa dart mission is i object, the nasa dart mission is going to come and die amorphous, it's an asteroid moon going around a larger body and its about 160 metres wide, as we can see there, and if something like that were to hit earth it would cause regional damage, so over quite a wide area, something of a concern, so the mission is a half a tonne satellite which will smash into it around quarter past midnight tonight,...