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News channel choice? generally, the bbc, but i admire itm as well. and do you still read physical newspapers or are you now an app devotee? i am a bit of both. i do read print at home, a few newspapers in print but that i read the rest digitally. let's start, let's turn to how you ended up as one of the most seniorfigures in fleet street. you were born in south africa and moved to the uk as a child. what was it that drove you to become a journalist in the first place? well, when i was 19, i went to what was then southwest africa to work as a volunteer teacher. i was meant to go up to the borde...

Colonization. richard branson's virgin galactic seems to be the most tourism focused. >> i got frustrated the fact that i couldn't go up on a nasa spaceship or a russian spaceship, so decided to build a space line. obviously if you have your own space line, you certainly want to make use of it. >> right. >> i've always wanted to be an astronaut and i've always wanted to, you know, look back at our beautiful earth and marvel at it. >> reporter: the company had a successful test in february, sending its crude spaceship to 88 kilometers above earth, the company's second time to space. jeff bezos'...

>> i don't think the girl scouts are saying that a child couldn't go up and hug their family members, they want the girls to make the decision as to whether or not they want to hug that relative. generally it's the case where parents will say give uncle johnny or grandma alex a hug goodbye and what they're asking his parents to stay away from the conversation. >> mark: they feel slightly discombobulated so they don't want to hug their 87-year-old granny. is there a danger? >> i wouldn't say the 87-year-old grandmother is the issue. the issue is that one in every nine girls in the united states...

>> i don't think the girl scouts are saying that a child couldn't go up and hug their family members, they want the girls to make the decision as to whether or not they want to hug that relative. generally it's the case where parents will say give uncle johnny or grandma alice a hug goodbye and what they're asking his parents to stay away from the conversation. >> mark: that's because children are awkward and they feel slightly discombobulated by people. so they don't want to hug their 87-year-old granny. but the granny might t apprecia appreciated. is there a danger? >> i wouldn't say the 87-...

I thought was right. >> well, you are a fantastic mower. if i had a field i would call you. cobey, what did you think when said let's go for a plane ride? what did you think would happen. >> we had been talking about going up in a plane because he has been up in a little crop plane and he wanted to show me what it was like just to go flying around the area. and so it wasn't like spirksz like most people would probably think. the first time we tried to go we had some friends and he like -- he busy so he couldn't go up. the next time he was like hey, my friend can take us now. and so it happened...