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It's 9.15. I'm Victoria Derbyshire. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
British astronaut Tim Peake is preparing to blast off | :00:09. | :00:28. | |
He'll spend six months in space carrying out scientific experiments | :00:29. | :00:41. | |
When you see the Earth, it's a sensation that's incredibly hard to | :00:42. | :00:56. | |
grasp and quite emotional. It is really very impactful to see the | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
place where the entire human history has occurred below you, looking | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
quite a lot like it does on maps and globes but actually being real. | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
We'll be counting down to the launch at exactly 11.03 | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
In one hour and 46 minutes, the British astronaut Tim Peake, | :01:12. | :01:37. | |
a former army helicopter pilot from Chichester, | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
will blast off from earth in a rocket, headed into space. | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
You will be able to watch the launch life here on the BBC at 1103. This | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
is the scene live, lots of relatives... Oh dear, that's a bit | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
of a wonky camera shot. Lots of relatives of the three astronauts | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
going into space and lots of journalists there at the moment. He | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
will make history as the first official British astronaut to live | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
and work on the International Space Station and the first official | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
British astronaut in space for over 20 years. This moment is a rare | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
moment in history. Since Neil Armstrong became the first man on | :02:26. | :02:26. | |
the moon in 1969. The Eagle has landed. One small step | :02:27. | :02:58. | |
for man, one giant leap for mankind. Sometimes it's important to do a bit | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
for yourself at the end. Looking at the stars is just magical. I'm soon | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
to take over as the new space station Commander. Collaboration | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
between any group and countries is far more profitable for everybody | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
than reservation and competition and being antagonistic. Go ahead, Mr | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
President. This is Houston. Hello, I'm talking to you by telephone from | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
the Oval room at the White House. I just can't tell you how proud we all | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
are of what you have achieved, for every American, this has to be the | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
proudest day of our lives because of what you have done. The heavens have | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
become a part of man's world. For one priceless moment, in the whole | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
history of man, all the people of this earth are truly one. Thank you, | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
Mr President. It's a great honour and privilege for us to be here | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
representing not only the United States, that all nations and those | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
with interest and curiosity and with a vision for the future. The | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
International Space Station orbits 250 miles above the Earth. Tim Peake | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
is due to spend the next six months on board when the carry out a series | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
of scientific and medical experiments. | :04:37. | :04:37. | |
Tim Peake only became an astronaut in 2009 after being chosen | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
by the European Space Agency from 8,000 candidates. | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Pretty proud to be the first Brit going to the Space Station. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
I got into aviation at an early age and I was really focused on that | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
and passionate about it, but I never imagined at all I'd be | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
here weeks away from a launch in space. | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
I decided to be an Army helicopter pilot, had a career for 18 years | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
Have you been preparing a David Bowie cover? | :05:02. | :05:13. | |
We've seen astronauts give us songs, give us dances. | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
What have you got up your sleeve, Tim? | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
I'm not going to be playing the guitar and singing, | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
I ended up being a helicopter instructor and then a test pilot, | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
and then working for AgustaWestland as a test pilot, as well. | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
I saw the advert and realised that I was at the right age, | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
I had the qualifications the agency was looking for. | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
It was too good an opportunity not to apply. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
To be selected to be an astronaut for myself is absolutely | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Six month's deployment is not that long. | :05:45. | :05:54. | |
I know it sounds like a long time, but it's something that many | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
Tim Peake says the best advice he's been given so far is to "look out | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
Fewer than 600 people have seen that view - of Earth from space. | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
Former astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria talks us | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
When you see the Earth, it's a sensation that is incredibly | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
It's really very impactful to see the place where the entirety | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
of human history has occurred below you, looking a lot like it does | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
on maps and globes but actually being real. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
But there is a sense of the enormity of the Earth and the population | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
of humanity, compared to the seven or how ever many of us are onboard | :06:43. | :06:52. | |
You can absolutely see effects of human presence on the planet. | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
Because if pollution, contamination by a different hue | :06:56. | :07:05. | |
From my first flight in 1995 to my last in 2007, | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
a lot of bodies of water have noticeably become smaller. | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
I think it gives you a greater awareness of the fragility | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
of the planet and the ecosystem and gives you a better sense of how | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Tim Peake is taking off from Russia's cosmodrone | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
in Kazakhstan with a NASA astronaut, Tim Kopra, | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
and Russian Commander Yuri Malenchenko. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
They're all onboard the Soyez rocket, awaiting take-off. | :07:34. | :07:34. | |
A man who knows that feeling well is Gregory Olsen, | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
an American entrepreneur who paid for his own trip | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
to the International Space Station ten years ago, it cost him around | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
Hello. How do you think Tim Peake will be feeling right now? One hour | :07:45. | :08:00. | |
and a bit to go before take-off? If he's like me, you'll be anxious and | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
ready to go. It's something you work very hard for. I worked for over | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
seven months. He put in much more time and now it's the fruition of | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
all his labours, so he's going to be excited and ready to go. You were | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
only slightly anxious? Yes, I had a medical disqualification so I was | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
out of the programme and, rather than being afraid, to me, this was, | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
yeah, I'm finally going and the next ten days belong to me and no one | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
else. What was the training like? A typical day, up at 6am, eat | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
breakfast, I would start with a run. Classes, 9-4. Emergency procedures | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
in my case. Physical training. Dinner, homework. Like being a | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
college student. You make it sound so easy, actually. It's under ten | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
minutes to reach orbit and then about six hours or so to get to the | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
International Space Station. What did take off the like? Saying it's a | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
blast would be too obvious, but it was. The vehicle began to rumble and | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
all of a sudden I slowly felt myself being pushed back in my seat harder | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
and harder. We could not see anything outside because we had a | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
shroud around us. About 50 miles above the Earth, an explosion and | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
the shroud blew away and all I saw was this big sphere slowly receding | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
in the distance. Stay there, Gregory. I'm going to bring in Libby | :09:43. | :09:51. | |
Jackson from the UK space agency. How excited are you? Hugely excited, | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
an amazing day for Britain. As someone who's always enjoyed working | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
in this industry, I've been dreaming of this day since a child. Why is | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
this so significant for this country? It shows that the UK is | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
serious about space. We've only recently joined the International | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
Space Station programme, publishing the National space policy on Sunday. | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
The UK space industry is a hugely unsung hero, worth over 11 million | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
to the UK economy at the moment and that figure is growing. By bringing | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
Tim Peake today space station it's an inspirational thing. It will get | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
children involved, excited about science, and we need them, not just | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
for the space centre but for everything in the UK. You have been | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
involved in the preparations in his preparations. Tell us what they have | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
involved. Yes, I've been working in the human space flight visit with | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
Tim since he was selected. He's been training since 2013 when his flight | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
was announced and gone through all sorts of simulations to prepare for | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
this moment. Right now, here's strapped into the Soyez in his space | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
suit, going through his last couple of hours, focusing on the mission | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
ahead. In terms of the training, he spent time living in caves, | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
underwater. Yes, he's been doing all sorts of things for the Cave | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
training and going underwater, both of those prepare him for living away | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
from somewhere where it's not easy to get home. When he was working on | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
the floor of the sea bed of Florida, they will admit how an asteroid | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
mission might work. He has done training in, it where it you have to | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
get used to feeling weightless and he has been doing lots of training | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
in a big swimming pool. This has been getting him ready for a | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
spacewalk. OK. As close to weightlessness as possible but | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
obviously it can't absolutely replicate that on Earth. In terms of | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
the scientific side of this, what kind of experiments will he and his | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
colleagues be doing in the next six months? They will be doing over 200 | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
experiments on a space station while he's there. Over 30 are space agency | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
experiments, ranging from all sorts of things. A lot of them and medical | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
experiments looking at the effects of human body when Tim is | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
weightless. We have got things that lipid material sciences, how allies | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
working space, how plants grow, things like protein crystals, | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
experiments on the outside of the space station, there are so many | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
different aspects up there and it's a unique laboratory. You can't do | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
these experiments on Earth. By taking gravity out of the equation, | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
we can understand how these things work better and all benefits as back | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
here on Earth. Explain how it can benefit us because we don't have | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
weightlessness down here, so how can you apply what they discover 250 | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
miles above Earth to our lives here? For example, when astronauts go into | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
space, your bones dissolve back into your body and that's very similar to | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
osteoporosis. By understanding how we can counter those effects in | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
space, we are learning much more about how bones cope here on Earth | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
and not as direct impact to osteoporosis which, of course, fact | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
many people as they get older. Let me go back to Gregory. The space | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
station is as big as a football field, soccer field, you might call | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
it. Enough space inside, the same as a large six bedroom detached house. | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
Tell us more about the space station itself, Gregory. It is certainly | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
longer than a football field for the not quite as wide. But compared to | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
Soyez, which is very crowded, it is spacious. There's lots of room to | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
manoeuvre around. After Soyez, you will feel liberated. What was the | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
hardest thing to get used to? Probably, just not being able to put | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
something down. What will happen is eventually it will just crawl away | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
by weightlessness. I lost a camera up there, believe it or not. I had a | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
digital pocket camera and I lost it, couldn't find it, after I left, Bill | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
McArthur, an astronaut, founded and downloaded the photo to me. Tim | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
Peake 's wife has been talking about their husbands mission. We're going | :14:38. | :14:46. | |
to play it right now. I'm so happy to get to this point. We are really | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
excited to get to the stage in the game and I know he is and he looks | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
so ready for it. It's great. Thomas feels calm about it? Hugely | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
laid-back about it. He knows exactly what's going on. He's just ready for | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
lunch, I think. I buy, guys. -- bye-bye, guys. What you think the | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
biggest surprise awaiting Tim Peake is? The weightlessness. Even though | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
you train for it, when you are at equilibrium and you are weightless, | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
it's like magic. And it's wonderful. I loved it and most people do. | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
Libby, what are the risks were the mission like this? Anything goes | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
wrong on the launch pad, there is a risk. Soyez has an escape rocket on | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
top, so they have an extra level of security. But there are risks, | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
always risks to things like that, but the Russian record is excellent. | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
Libby Jackson, what would you say about the risks? | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
Libby, what would you say about the risks? Everybody is working hard to | :16:08. | :16:17. | |
reduce the risks. Whilst they are up in space the crew are very well | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
trained to deal with any emergencies that might crop up, such as fire. | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
The spacecraft they are launching today stays on the spacecraft with | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
them as a lifeboat, so they could get back to birth in an emergency. | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
Everybody is working really hard and we have procedures in place to make | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
sure everything is very safe. I know that you are at the science Museum | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
all morning, Libby Jackson. Also thank you to Gregory. There is major | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
Tim Peake in his space suit. Hopefully they will pull out a bit, | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
there is one of his colleagues. There is the Russian commander. | :17:04. | :17:15. | |
Away, they look really calm. If he spent two and a half years training | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
I bet he is thinking, come on, let's start. Major Tim Peake just taking a | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
moment. There are his relatives. I am assuming they are just sitting in | :17:29. | :17:38. | |
front of him. The Russian colleague is the commander and he sits in the | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
middle on the Soyuz rocket. The American and the Brit are on either | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
side of them. There are major Tim Peake's children with his wife | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
Rebecca. Are they on consoles? I am hoping they are taking pictures of | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
their dad, rather than playing on their PlayStation is! Let's see if | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
we can listen in to their conversation. | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
Relatives and journalists getting a last look at their loved ones before | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
they are taken to the Soyuz rocket and before a blast off at three | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
minutes past 11 which you will be able to watch live on BBC News. Do | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
not go anywhere. You will be able to watch history in the making. Libby | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
Jackson, I have to say major Tim Peake and his colleagues look | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
unbelievably calm. Maybe after two and a half years of training you | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
think, come on, let's get on with it. They will have run through this | :18:55. | :19:03. | |
many times in training. They were at the launch six months ago and they | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
have seen all of this. It is an astronaut's job to be prepared. They | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
are very cool, calm and collected. You will have seen Tim waving to | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
everybody before he gets into the spacecraft. They will be running | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
through their checklists and focusing on the moment and be very | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
calm, cool and collected. He is smiling away as his children take | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
photographs of him. Major Tim Peake is waving and looking incredibly | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
happy. It is just under an hour and a half until they blast off. All the | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
build-up throughout the morning. All the build-up | :19:47. | :19:47. | |
throughout the morning. For the latest live updates | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
on the mission, head to: A couple of messages. Alan and Morag | :19:50. | :20:01. | |
say, best wishes, we, the British public, are proud of you and your | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
courage to travel to infinity and beyond. | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
Kim texts is to say, ground control to Major Tim. | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
I am envious, I remember watching the moon landings when I was young | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
and I find this all amazing. I can barely contain myself, it is | :20:22. | :20:22. | |
I can barely contain myself, it is awesome. | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
We'll keep a close eye on the countdown to the Soyuz rocket | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
launch and Major Tim's lift off throughout the programme. | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
Final preparations are being made in Kazakhstan for the launch | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
of the Soyuz spacecraft which will carry the British | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
astronaut Major Tim Peake to the International Space Station. | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
The former army platoon commander, who joined the European Space Agency | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
six years ago, will be the first British member | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
The body which inspects police forces in England and Wales says | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
they're on the verge of being "overwhelmed" by a surge | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
It says Chief Constables should assign more officers to the problem | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
to ensure that investigations aren't delayed. | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
The American comedian, Bill Cosby, who's been accused of sexual assault | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
on more than forty women, has begun legal action | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
He says they've lied for financial gain and caused | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
Mr Cosby has repeatedly denied the accusations and has not been | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
Saudi Arabia says it's formed a military coalition of 34 | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
mainly Muslim nations to combat terrorism. | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
A joint operations centre is to be established in the Saudi capital, | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
Countries from Asia, Africa and the Arab world | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
are involved in the alliance but Saudi Arabia's main regional | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
With a march past of stormtroopers, and the robots C-3P0 and R2-D2 | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
rolling down the red carpet, the seventh Star Wars film has | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
The movie - The Force Awakens - stars many of the actors | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
who appeared in the original science fiction trilogy more | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
Let's catch up with all the sport now and join Ore and the poor form | :22:05. | :22:15. | |
continues in the Premier League for Chelsea. | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
Either a 20 points behind Leicester, I say with a big smile on my face. | :22:22. | :22:31. | |
Chelsea fans will have upside down smiles in disbelief at what is going | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
on in the Premier League. 2-1 for Leicester over Chelsea last night | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
and both clubs in complete contrast in positions. Jose Mourinho says he | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
is ashamed of the position the club is in. They are one point of the | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
relegation zone. He says there is no chance of reaching the top four at | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
the end of the season and he says the players have betrayed his work. | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
On the flip side Leicester are enjoying a fairy tale of a season. | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
Look back to this time last season and Chelsea were riding high at the | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
top of the table and Leicester were rock bottom. How about that for | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
changing fortunes? But in 2004 Claudio Ranieri was sacked as | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
manager and was replaced by Jose Mourinho. 11 years on his team are | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
now 20 points above Chelsea who look like relegation candidates at this | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
stage. I will give you this before I go. Leicester are having their best | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
start to a top-flight season in their 131 years as a club. Chelsea | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
have not lost more than nine games from their opening 16 games of the | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
season since 1978 and 1979 when they were relegated. Gary Lineker, | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
England and Leicester legend, says he will do the first match of the | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
Day next season in his underpants if Leicester win the Premier League. If | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
that is not incentive, I do not know what is! | :24:12. | :24:12. | |
We'll be live at the launch site as astronaut Tim Peake | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
makes his final preparations before take off. | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
It is now on our 24 point ten seconds. | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
A woman whose ex-boyfriend was the first man to be convicted | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
of "revenge porn" is calling for a change in the law to give | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
all other victims the right to anonymity in such cases. | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
At the moment the law automatically gives all victims of sexual offences | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
anonymity, but it doesn't include victims of revenge porn. | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
Keeley Richards-Shaw says she was left humiliated | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
when she was publicly named and pictured after her ex | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
was convicted of sending naked pictures he'd secretly taken | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
She's launching her campaign on our programme this morning | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
alongside Julia Mulligan, the Police and Crime Commissioner | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
Welcome to both of you. I wonder, first of all, for our audience, if | :25:07. | :25:20. | |
you could tell us how you came to discover your ex-boyfriend had these | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
images of view. We had been together all through school, so I thought it | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
was somebody I could trust and the relationship came to an end after | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
about a year and a half of getting back together after school and then | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
I received a text message of some pictures of myself which I did not | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
know he had taken and they were from his new girlfriend who said I needed | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
to be aware of what he was doing. When you first look at them, what | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
did you think? I was shocked because I had no idea the pictures had been | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
taken. He had had them on his telephone for some time. I felt | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
ashamed, degraded embarrassed. What did you do? I went to the police. | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
How did they treat you? They were brilliant, they were shocked at how | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
he had betrayed my trust. Did you know this was a crime? No, I had no | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
idea. He had been stalking as well, so it was the final thing with the | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
photographs and I'd told the police the whole story and they told me | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
there was a new law, revenge porn, so there would be two offences, | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
stopping and revenge porn. People will have heard of the new | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
legislation, but they might assume that for an offence to be committed | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
you have to load pictures to the Internet, but it is an offence for a | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
present to publish a private, sexual image of another person without | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
their consent where this disclosure causes distress to the person who is | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
the subject of the image. Interesting in this particular sense | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
how it has been used. During his court case I think you were trying | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
to keep what had happened to you privately, but that in the end was | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
impossible. Very few people knew what was going on. A few close | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
family friends, but I did not want anybody to know. Then the day before | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
we got through on court hearing and the day before sentencing I got the | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
message warning Meet the Press had got hold of it and it would be there | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
and it went from bad to worse. In terms of coverage of you and your | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
identification, what was out there? My picture, my job, they were | :27:48. | :27:57. | |
waiting on my doorstep the next morning, I had got letters. I had | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
gone from being stalked by him to being stalked by the media. I wanted | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
to forget the whole thing and left alone. If my name had not been out | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
there, I would not be doing this. I had the opportunity to do a lot when | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
it first started and I said no. But now to give victims the other | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
opportunity to get on with their lives, I feel it needs to be done. | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
Why do you think anonymity for victims of this kind of crime is | :28:29. | :28:37. | |
crucial? For them, their family and children, to keep their personal | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
life and their personal life. Even if people were allowing people to | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
take photographs of them, which I did not, even then it is personal | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
and it should not be shared. Julia, it seems to be beside that this is | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
broadly speaking sexual offences legislation, but yet victims do not | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
have a right to anonymity. It is odd. I think talking to people it | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
has been categorised more as a domestic abuse offence as opposed to | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
a sexual offence. If you look at it in the sexual offences category, | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
anonymity would have been thought about when the legislation was being | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
passed. We want ministers to hear what Keely has to say and take | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
action to change the law. Do you think you will get a reasonable | :29:26. | :29:31. | |
hearing? I cannot see what the downside is. You have heard her | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
story today and there is a precedent set and I would hope they would | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
listen. I wonder if you think the fact that is not automatic | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
anonymity, and I take the point that it is under domestic abuse | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
legislation, but maybe it is not being taken seriously enough yet. | :29:51. | :29:56. | |
Not enough people know about the offence. Anybody who is watching | :29:57. | :29:59. | |
today who thinks they are a victim of this type of offence, go to the | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
police because hopefully you will get the same service. It is also men | :30:04. | :30:11. | |
and women. That is the first thing. Secondly, it is important that | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
people have their privacy respected and some of the media have said we | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
will respect somebody's privacy, but in this case they did not. Some | :30:21. | :30:28. | |
newspapers are taking the decision upon themselves not to publish | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
victims' names, but it is not automatic and not across the board. | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
If there is somebody watching right now, a man or a woman, who is being | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
blackmailed or threaten or who feels like they are being stalked with the | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
threat of private pictures being loaded to the Internet or passed | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
around friends and colleagues, what would you say to them? Go straight | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
to the police and they have done nothing wrong, they should not feel | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
ashamed. I feel I have done something I have not. Why do you | :31:02. | :31:11. | |
feel that? Yes. Even though he has been convicted? I feel embarrassed | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
and degraded and I have no trust now. I wish you all the best with | :31:16. | :31:23. | |
your campaign. And remember to go and sign the petition. Of course, it | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
Still to come today, we'll be live from LA where fans | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
have been queuing for up to 12 days to get the first tickets to see | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
We'll be speaking to one hopeful a little later. | :31:39. | :31:46. | |
We will bring you the countdown to lift off as the final preparations | :31:47. | :31:53. | |
are being made for the launch of the Soyuz spacecraft which will carry | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
major Tim Peake to the International Space Station. He is the first fully | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
British member of the European Space Agency to visit the space station. | :32:02. | :32:11. | |
He beat thousands and thousands of other applicants. What does it take | :32:12. | :32:13. | |
to get to this point? It's about one hour to go. Let's | :32:14. | :33:56. | |
talk to our correspondence at the launch pad. Not far from it in | :33:57. | :33:59. | |
Kazakhstan at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Behind you, Major Tim | :34:00. | :34:05. | |
Peake and his two colleagues, what will they be doing right now? They | :34:06. | :34:12. | |
are behind me in the side the Soyez spacecraft, the top section of this | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
50 metre rocket which is on the launch pad behind me. This is where | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
you regard in blast off into space in 1961. Tim Peake and his two crew | :34:24. | :34:29. | |
members are about to follow in his footsteps on board that rocket so | :34:30. | :34:31. | |
huge moment of footsteps on board that rocket so | :34:32. | :34:39. | |
first flight into space. -- Yuri Gagarin the others are more | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
experienced. Tim Kopra has been up once and Yuri Malenchenko has been | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
on five previous space flight but still, this is a big moment. Most of | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
the final preparations have already been done. The crew are in their | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
spacesuits, said their farewells to their families and are now inside | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
the spacecraft. Just making their final checks to make sure everything | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
is in order. Liftoff will now take place in one hour. There are various | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
traditions going back years. 50 years. And possibly superstitions | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
you could say. Talk is through those. Yes, there's quite a few. In | :35:15. | :35:24. | |
fact, I think astronauts are pretty superstitious people as we have come | :35:25. | :35:25. | |
to understand and they basically superstitious people as we have come | :35:26. | :35:29. | |
follow the same rituals Yuri Gagarin first did in 1961 and that goes back | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
to things like the fact he planted a tree before he went into space, | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
that's one of them. He also had a haircut a couple of days before | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
gumming up an astronaut still do that today. Also, more | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
entertainingly, apparently he stopped the bus on the way to the | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
launch pad and had a wee on the back wheel. Even to this day, every | :35:50. | :35:52. | |
single male National going to space still does the same. They had to | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
take office space it from and to do that as well. It's all about making | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
sure if it was safer Yuri Gagarin, they believe if they follow this | :36:02. | :36:05. | |
list of rituals, it will be safe for them, too. Yuri Gagarin was a little | :36:06. | :36:10. | |
anxious and asked for a bid of music to be played to him, didn't he? Yes, | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
apparently when he was about at this point in preparations for the | :36:16. | :36:20. | |
flight, in the capsule, having done all the checks, he was feeling | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
nervous and asked for music and apparently what the Russians had at | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
hand was Russian love songs so they piped about into his headphones. The | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
crew actually get to choose songs these days they want played to them | :36:33. | :36:35. | |
and Tim Peake is chosen three. One of them is Don't Stop Me Now, Queen | :36:36. | :36:42. | |
and also song by Coldplay and another one by one of his favourite | :36:43. | :36:55. | |
bands U2. Beautiful Date. Tell us about the mission. The rocket behind | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
you, 80 minutes and 48 until it reaches orbit and then six hours to | :37:02. | :37:04. | |
the International Space Station. What do they do when they get there? | :37:05. | :37:12. | |
Yes, it's quite a long ride up but a lot shorter than it used to be. It | :37:13. | :37:16. | |
used to take two days to get there but they've chosen a different | :37:17. | :37:19. | |
flight path now and that should get them there within six hours from | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
blast off. A couple of hours from docking until they're actually enter | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
the space station. I've spoken to astronauts who made that journey | :37:28. | :37:30. | |
before and they said it is a real relief because it's pretty chilly | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
and cramped. After they reach there, they can have a warm meal, take off | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
their space gay, so a good moment of relief of course for everyone -- | :37:43. | :37:50. | |
space gear. Once they finally acclimatised to zero gravity, it's | :37:51. | :37:55. | |
down to work which is a very big programme of scientific experiments. | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
Tim Peake has more than 265 he will be conducting up that in | :38:01. | :38:05. | |
microgravity. Lots of them about health issues, people back on Earth, | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
but the kinds of experiments which should help to expand space travel | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
even further. If they can look into the impact of space travel on the | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
human body, they can look into possibilities for man to go back to | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
the moon to perhaps colonise it and eventually one day to fly to Mars. | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
Sarah, thank you very much for now for that we will talk to you now. | :38:31. | :38:33. | |
The American comedian Bill Cosby has filed a counter-claim against seven | :38:34. | :38:36. | |
of the women who accused him of sexually assaulting them. | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
According to the lawsuit his accusers set out to cause damage | :38:42. | :38:44. | |
More than 50 women have come forward in recent years to make allegations | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
against him, which he has repeatedly denied. | :38:51. | :38:58. | |
We are now taking steps in order to right a wrong and the burden of | :38:59. | :39:03. | |
proof is supposed to be on the people who are making the | :39:04. | :39:06. | |
accusation. The media has not required these accusers to have to | :39:07. | :39:08. | |
do. The lawyer Jo Camarada represents | :39:09. | :39:10. | |
all of the seven women. My seven clients and vigorously | :39:11. | :39:19. | |
proceed with their case, each confident their good name and | :39:20. | :39:25. | |
reputation will be restored at the end of the day. | :39:26. | :39:27. | |
Let's talk now to Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School | :39:28. | :39:30. | |
Good morning. Why is he is suing just seven? I think these are the | :39:31. | :39:41. | |
ones he wants to focus on because they are in Massachusetts where Bill | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
Cosby has his honorary degree and can claim he has had the most damage | :39:47. | :39:50. | |
from these declamatory remarks. So perhaps later he will bring other | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
lawsuits. These are the ones front and centre and probably has the | :39:55. | :40:00. | |
largest amount of damage. What chance does he have of success is to | :40:01. | :40:06. | |
mark this will all come down to a swearing contest, who do you | :40:07. | :40:09. | |
believe? His chances depend the same as they did in him being sued. Who | :40:10. | :40:17. | |
would you believe? Bill Cosby, who said these things never happen to or | :40:18. | :40:20. | |
the seven women who brought the lawsuit? No one can determine that | :40:21. | :40:24. | |
until there was testimony before a jury. Where is the police | :40:25. | :40:30. | |
investigation up to? There is a police investigation of criminal | :40:31. | :40:34. | |
charges, but this is not a criminal case. These are lawsuits and, for | :40:35. | :40:38. | |
the criminal charges, it's very difficult because these events | :40:39. | :40:42. | |
occurred two or three decades ago according to the plaintiffs. In | :40:43. | :40:50. | |
terms of the threshold, it will come down to who we believe, is it beyond | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
reasonable doubt? Is it probability? What is the threshold? It is | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
different depending on whether the women's case go forward or Bill | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
Cosby's. For the women, they just have to prove in fact he has made | :41:05. | :41:08. | |
false statements regarding them. But they also have to prove that there | :41:09. | :41:14. | |
was malice, because he is a high figure. So it's going to be | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
something along the lines of what we would call negligent behaviour. That | :41:20. | :41:22. | |
someone is intentionally making false statements, don't forget, | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
these are not case is about the actual sexual assault. The time has | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
elapsed for those, so everybody has changed these into defamation | :41:32. | :41:38. | |
actions. OK, thank you very much. It is coming up to ten o'clock. Time | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
now for a look at the weather. Considering it over one week until | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
Christmas, it is warmer. It certainly is. My heating is. I love | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
these conversations we have about your heating. You can keep it for | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
the rest of week. Next week, it will be on and off as the temperatures | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
change. Still quite chilly in Scotland and northern England but | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
over the next few days, this plume of milder conditions sweep across | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
us. Even warmer, not just by day, Victoria but by night as well. To | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
show you how confusing it must be for spring plants, here they are. | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
This picture came in from Egham. Look at this one. This is in | :42:22. | :42:27. | |
Somerset. Fantastic. We still have some snow in Scotland in contrast. | :42:28. | :42:31. | |
But this week, these are the temperatures, 16 in London. 13 in | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
Cardiff. Although today won't be anything like 13 in Aberdeen, in the | :42:38. | :42:44. | |
next few days, it will be. What do you think the average should be for | :42:45. | :42:48. | |
this stage of December in London? 11? Not far off, good guess. Nine | :42:49. | :42:59. | |
Celsius. Leeds, seven, Cardiff, nine, Aberdeen, seven, as well, so | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
we are way above but as we head into next week, we will flip-flop between | :43:05. | :43:07. | |
milder conditions and colder conditions. So for example the | :43:08. | :43:15. | |
moment, the jet stream is pseudo- stationery so there's still some | :43:16. | :43:17. | |
movement in it but it's basically oscillating like that which means we | :43:18. | :43:23. | |
are on the milder side of it. Next week, it moves a little bit more so | :43:24. | :43:26. | |
we will get onto the colder side at times and then we will come onto the | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
milder side and in the colder side. Pseudo- stationery, that was the | :43:33. | :43:37. | |
phrase, was it? Not many people will remember that. Well done. Today it a | :43:38. | :43:41. | |
different story for many of us. Starting off on a cloudy note. The | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
cloud will prevail through the day. Mild for some of us and we had some | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
rain and drizzle in the forecast. As we go through the course of today, | :43:51. | :43:54. | |
there's a weather front reduces showery outbreaks of rain moving | :43:55. | :43:58. | |
slowly northwards. Some drizzle moving out of the thicker cloud and | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
then the next cluster of fronts coming our way introducing wet and | :44:03. | :44:04. | |
windy conditions from the south-west. You can see it advancing | :44:05. | :44:09. | |
north eastwards nicely to the morning and into the afternoon. For | :44:10. | :44:13. | |
the rest of the UK, yes, some brighter breaks in north-west | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
England, south-west Scotland, a bit of sunshine here. That will continue | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
on and off as we go through the course of the afternoon with bits of | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
cloud flirting with those areas. Chilly in Aberdeen and also where we | :44:27. | :44:29. | |
have lying snow in Scotland but for Northern Ireland, northern England, | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
a lot of cloud, the rain knocking on the door of Southern Ireland and | :44:34. | :44:39. | |
then all this cloud, hill fog, across the Pennines, the peaks, and | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
then the rain in Wales, heading through Dorset and Somerset and some | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
of that is likely to be heavy. It will be mild for many this afternoon | :44:51. | :44:54. | |
and as we head to the evening and overnight, a band of rain sweeps | :44:55. | :44:58. | |
northwards to be replaced by another one coming in accompanied by gusty | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
wind. Very gusty across the South Western approaches. We could have | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
severe gale force over the Bristol Channel. I'm showing you the | :45:09. | :45:15. | |
night-time temperatures. 8-13dC. These temperatures are more | :45:16. | :45:18. | |
reminiscent of what we would expect to see overnight, mid July. Not as | :45:19. | :45:23. | |
we head into Christmas. At this time of year, overnight, we would expect | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
around about freezing all one Celsius to about four in the south, | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
so fastly different. For tomorrow, all this rain continuing, moving off | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
eventually into the North Sea. Leaving behind it, quite a lot of | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
cloud. Some drizzle and showery rain. Lighter wind tomorrow and a | :45:43. | :45:46. | |
greater chance of more of us seeing brighter spells than today. | :45:47. | :45:51. | |
Temperatures continuing to climb and the milder conditions pushing up | :45:52. | :45:54. | |
towards the north-east of Scotland but look at London, 15. As we move | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
into Thursday, we start off on a dry and bright note in the East. The | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
weather front comes in introducing some rain but it will also get that | :46:05. | :46:10. | |
of the low cloud and fog we have got and, behind it, a return to showers | :46:11. | :46:14. | |
but the temperatures predicted for this stage in December. -- pretty | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
good for the stage in December. I'm Victoria Derbyshire, | :46:19. | :46:24. | |
welcome to the programme. And liftoff. British astronaut Tim | :46:25. | :46:45. | |
Peake is preparing to blast off to the International Space Station. | :46:46. | :46:51. | |
Lift off is in one hour and two minutes. | :46:52. | :46:57. | |
How do you feel? We are ready to go. He will make history as he spends | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
the next six months in space carrying out scientific experiments | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
and looking at views like this. When you see the earth it is a sensation | :47:08. | :47:11. | |
that is incredibly hard to grasp and quite emotional. It is really very | :47:12. | :47:18. | |
impactful to see the place where the entire human history has occurred | :47:19. | :47:23. | |
below you looking a lot like it does on maps and globes, but being very | :47:24. | :47:29. | |
real. We will count down to the launch. At exactly three minutes | :47:30. | :47:32. | |
past 11 and you will be able to watch it live here on the BBC. | :47:33. | :47:39. | |
Final preparations are being made in Kazakhstan for the launch | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
of the Soyuz spacecraft which will carry the British | :47:44. | :47:45. | |
astronaut Major Tim Peake to the International Space Station. | :47:46. | :47:47. | |
The former army platoon commander, who joined the European Space Agency | :47:48. | :47:50. | |
six years ago, will be the first British member of the station's | :47:51. | :47:53. | |
The body which inspects police forces in England and Wales says | :47:54. | :48:02. | |
they're on the verge of being "overwhelmed" by a surge | :48:03. | :48:04. | |
It says Chief Constables should assign more officers | :48:05. | :48:12. | |
to the problem to ensure that investigations aren't delayed. | :48:13. | :48:15. | |
The American comedian, Bill Cosby, who's been accused of sexual assault | :48:16. | :48:18. | |
on more than forty women, has begun legal action | :48:19. | :48:20. | |
He says they've lied for financial gain and caused | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
Mr Cosby has repeatedly denied the accusations and has not been | :48:26. | :48:30. | |
New figures out this morning show inflation has returned to positive | :48:31. | :48:37. | |
territory for the first time in four months, | :48:38. | :48:38. | |
but remains close to zero, as it has for most of this year. | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
The mild weather drove a record fall in clothing and footwear prices | :48:43. | :48:46. | |
amid widespread discounting on the high street. | :48:47. | :48:52. | |
Saudi Arabia says it's formed a military coalition of 34 | :48:53. | :48:55. | |
mainly Muslim nations to combat terrorism. | :48:56. | :48:58. | |
A joint operations centre is to be established in the Saudi capital, | :48:59. | :49:01. | |
Countries from Asia, Africa and the Arab world | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
are involved in the alliance but Saudi Arabia's main regional | :49:05. | :49:07. | |
With a march past of stormtroopers, and the robots C-3P0 and R2-D2 | :49:08. | :49:17. | |
rolling down the red carpet, the seventh Star Wars film has | :49:18. | :49:20. | |
The movie - The Force Awakens - stars many of the actors | :49:21. | :49:25. | |
who appeared in the original science fiction trilogy more | :49:26. | :49:28. | |
Let's catch up with all the sport now and join Ore. | :49:29. | :49:40. | |
Thank you very much. Not many Chelsea fans will want to show their | :49:41. | :49:48. | |
faces in the office this morning. They suffered their ninth defeat in | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
the league last night, but the praise has to go to Leicester City | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
whose fairy tale season continues after an impressive 2-1 win. Jamie | :49:58. | :50:04. | |
Vardy bagged his 15th goal of the season. Loic Remy's late goals set | :50:05. | :50:15. | |
up a tense Nish, but Chelsea sit a point above the relegation zone and | :50:16. | :50:18. | |
Leicester return to the top of the table. For us it is important to | :50:19. | :50:27. | |
achieve five points more and we look how long it takes to the finish of | :50:28. | :50:33. | |
the Premier League and then it is another goal. This is the first | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
important goal for us. At this moment we are in a bad position, but | :50:39. | :50:44. | |
our urgency is to win points, to get out of this zone where we are not | :50:45. | :50:58. | |
afraid to be. So, Jose Mourinho is ashamed and Chelsea Towers are | :50:59. | :51:01. | |
embarrassed. Let's talk to Dan Levene. You watched the game last | :51:02. | :51:09. | |
night. Surely the writing is on the wall if it continues the way it is | :51:10. | :51:16. | |
going? I think last night felt like a watershed moment in terms of Jose | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
Mourinho's comments. He said for the first time that fourth place is | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
gone, which we have never heard before. It has been the death knell | :51:26. | :51:30. | |
for the Chelsea manager. He said he felt betrayed by his players. This | :51:31. | :51:35. | |
takes us into a territory where you have got a manager who may have lost | :51:36. | :51:40. | |
the dressing room. This is a difficult place for his comeback. | :51:41. | :51:47. | |
The problem they have got, well, they have got quite a few, but on a | :51:48. | :51:53. | |
weekday, on a midweek game in Europe they seem to do well and are through | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
to the knockout of the Champions League, but they cannot replicate it | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
at the weekend. What do you put that down to? It is a curious phenomena, | :52:03. | :52:11. | |
although Chelsea have had not very strong opposition in the Champions | :52:12. | :52:15. | |
League. They won over Porto and Porto did not come out and fight. | :52:16. | :52:20. | |
Teams have taken the game to them. They have seen the champions side | :52:21. | :52:25. | |
that is a wisp of what was last season. But Leicester attacked | :52:26. | :52:30. | |
Chelsea from the off and they had guile and ambition. Chelsea had very | :52:31. | :52:38. | |
little idea of what they were doing. Individual performances have been | :52:39. | :52:40. | |
wanting and there is no team at the moment and that is a big problem. | :52:41. | :52:46. | |
Dan Levene in Leicester, he follows Chelsea, thank you very much indeed. | :52:47. | :52:51. | |
Chelsea are a long way from where they were last season. They had 39 | :52:52. | :52:57. | |
points at this stage last season. It is a 50 point swing if you look at | :52:58. | :53:03. | |
where Leicester are now. They are top of the Premier League and | :53:04. | :53:12. | |
enjoying a fairy tale. Not long to go, within the next hour 43-year-old | :53:13. | :53:19. | |
father two called Tim Peake from Chichester will make history, | :53:20. | :53:24. | |
preparing to go to the International Space Station. He will spend the | :53:25. | :53:28. | |
next six months conducting scientific experiments which | :53:29. | :53:31. | |
potentially should lead to improvements in our lives on Earth. | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
In the next hour or so we will bring you all the build-up and you will be | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
able to watch the Soyuz rocket carrying him and his colleagues take | :53:41. | :53:49. | |
off at exactly three minutes past 11 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in | :53:50. | :53:55. | |
Kazakhstan. It will take under ten minutes to get into orbit and a | :53:56. | :54:00. | |
further six hours to reach the International Space Station which | :54:01. | :54:05. | |
orbits the Earth at 17,500 mph. It is something like 16 sunrises and | :54:06. | :54:14. | |
sunsets every day. We are going to spend the next hour talking about it | :54:15. | :54:17. | |
and build it up to the launch because it is history in the making. | :54:18. | :54:22. | |
While the astronauts are waiting to take off they can request music to | :54:23. | :54:27. | |
be played into their headphones, a tradition going back 50 years. Major | :54:28. | :54:34. | |
Tim Peake has asked for this. # And the world is turning inside | :54:35. | :54:46. | |
out, yes, turning around in ecstasy. # So don't stop me now, don't stop | :54:47. | :54:54. | |
me now. # Cause I am having a good time, | :54:55. | :54:59. | |
having a good time. # I am a racing car that is inviting | :55:00. | :55:12. | |
like Lady Godiva. I am going to go, go, because there | :55:13. | :55:18. | |
is no stopping me. # I can travelling at the speed of | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
light. He has also chosen Beautiful Day and | :55:23. | :55:33. | |
a Coldplay track. Mark Thompson is an author and contributed to the BBC | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
Stargazing live programme. Mark Thompson, what do you think of | :55:39. | :56:04. | |
his choice of music? I have got to say I am a bit envious of him. Tell | :56:05. | :56:12. | |
us what you know about his preparations and what he will be | :56:13. | :56:17. | |
most looking forward to. I know he has been training for six years to | :56:18. | :56:22. | |
get into space, a huge amount of training for anyone. He has had to | :56:23. | :56:27. | |
wait a long while for this day. But now it is in the hands of the | :56:28. | :56:31. | |
mission controllers and the engineers and the flight crew on the | :56:32. | :56:35. | |
ground. Tim will be saying goodbye to his family and preparing for the | :56:36. | :56:41. | |
trip ahead. You have got this event at the science Museum and various | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
schools will be watching it on TV. I have told my kids that I do not care | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
what lesson they have got, tell your teachers to put television on | :56:51. | :56:58. | |
because that will be inspirational for this generation. Yes, he will be | :56:59. | :57:05. | |
doing lots of scientific experiments, but he is very keen as | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
well to use his time to do teaching and he is doing lots of work with | :57:11. | :57:14. | |
schools and he is doing science experiments that schoolkids can get | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
involved in. That is one of the key things. Let me bring in Professor | :57:19. | :57:27. | |
David southward. Can we just pause for a moment. A British man blasting | :57:28. | :57:36. | |
off into space who, by the end of the day, will be on the | :57:37. | :57:40. | |
International Space Station. Oh, my goodness, it is history. It is. The | :57:41. | :57:44. | |
first British person was Helen Sharman back in 1989. I should have | :57:45. | :57:56. | |
said 20 years. It is the first British official astronaut. Eight | :57:57. | :58:00. | |
people born in the UK have been up, but this is the first British | :58:01. | :58:05. | |
astronaut. It must be the greatest day for the US gay as well. It shows | :58:06. | :58:12. | |
Britain stepping up to be one of the true space missions. -- USA. We have | :58:13. | :58:19. | |
always had a big space industry here, but we have been a bit | :58:20. | :58:22. | |
standoffish about the business of putting people into space. There was | :58:23. | :58:27. | |
a time when Britain thought and manned space flight was the future, | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
is that right? That is how it behaved, I am not sure that thought | :58:33. | :58:39. | |
was the right word. It is cheaper to do unmanned spacecraft that it is to | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
do human beings on board. When you take away the budget and put in a | :58:45. | :58:50. | |
patch of inspiration and a bit up British shoe winder vivre, you have | :58:51. | :58:55. | |
got a fantastic launch ahead. Can we talk about the money? Tax payers do. | :58:56. | :59:04. | |
The space station was $100 billion? No one is quite sure because it's | :59:05. | :59:08. | |
been concluded to buy a variety of nations that we don't know how much | :59:09. | :59:12. | |
it cost but it's an enormous sum of money until you divided by the | :59:13. | :59:16. | |
population of the countries in question and recognise that we did | :59:17. | :59:21. | |
it over 20 odd years to build. I mean, everybody got together to do | :59:22. | :59:27. | |
it. I think a lot of people will be saying, why are we spending so much | :59:28. | :59:30. | |
money up there when there is so much to do down here? But the amount to | :59:31. | :59:35. | |
spending divided over the number of people, the cost of the space | :59:36. | :59:43. | |
programme, we are putting into the European Space Agency is about | :59:44. | :59:47. | |
roughly the amount we spend on Mars bars in the UK. A tiny amount | :59:48. | :59:51. | |
compared to what we spend on other things. So what do we get back from | :59:52. | :59:57. | |
it? I got a list of space advances what space expiration has given us, | :59:58. | :00:02. | |
the kind of experiment Tim Peake will be doing. People usually throw | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
in nonstick frying pans, it's not just Teflon, is it? What have we | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
learned from space which has improved our lives on Earth? If you | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
ever use GPS, that came from a couple of American scientists | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
tracking Sputnik. It gave them the idea of using spacecraft. I'm sorry, | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
I'm going to pause because we're going to dip into the European Space | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Agency commentary. An astronaut is talking as to the pictures. -- is | :00:38. | :00:46. | |
talking us through the pictures. And so, this is, you get up in the | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
talking us through the pictures. And morning... After last night, yes. | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
Going through the door. Pictures. Residents in this room. There are | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
many people in the room. The tradition is to sign the door from | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
the very first space flight of Yuri Gagarin. How well do you sleep the | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
night before the launch? Is it that might not be perfect of course. A | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
lot of excitement going on. On the other hand, you want to get some | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
sleep because of course you have a busy day. It's important to get some | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
sleep but the important thing is I don't think they have a lot of sleep | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
shifts, so they might have had a better night. Today we are going to | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
the space station,. This is a blessing on the spacecraft. A more | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
recent addition. It is not the case before, by the way. This is the crew | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
leaving the hotel where they stayed last week. Last night on Earth. Yes, | :01:58. | :02:09. | |
yes, we hope so. They are still not in orbit. Yes, we should assume, | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
should we? We are going to leave that now because we're going to show | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
you live pictures from inside the capsule. Any second now. Let's have | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
a look. There we go. OK, can be recognise them? I'm trying to but | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
it's quite difficult, isn't it? Is that Tim on the left? I'm not sure. | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
Usually they have their names on their spacesuits. They are suited up | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
and are waiting a couple of hours waiting for it all to happen so, at | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
this stage, I mean, they are trained not to get too nervous and they have | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
been through it so many times. He must be apprehensive sitting there. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
You can't not be and be human, really. You are sitting on top of | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
tonnes of fuel knowing that there have been failures. I think it's | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
only human to be apprehensive, as we all are. But the Soyez is one of the | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
most reliable launches so I'm sure that's not on their minds. I think, | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
actually, they have been trained so well, you are not thinking about | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
that but thinking about making sure you've got your schedule right, and | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
thinking what you got to do next. The job in hand. This guy flew | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
helicopters. Could escape from helicopters, underwater, upside | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
down, he has got to keep his mind on what he's doing next to make sure no | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
mistakes. And so, I suspect he is not apprehensive at all. He is going | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
through his check list. Certainly, I had nothing like his kind of job. I | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
used to launch spacecraft. You know it's going to be a Rhyl disaster if | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
something goes wrong but you are thinking, what happens | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
next? Keeping my mind on the job. Mark, | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
you can see these live pictures, too. What's going on here? What I | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
can see it I had Tim Peake on the right-hand side of the picture. They | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
are going through their preparation, pre-flight checks, to make sure the | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
spacecraft systems are operating as a suspect and making sure things are | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
ready for launch just after 11am this morning. Let me read some | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
measures to you from some of our viewers. On Facebook, Ian says," why | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
are the BBC making such a huge story out of one man going into space?" I | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
think it's incredible. What it does show is that, although we've had | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
space flights for the last 50 years, we still can get inspired by people | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
like Tim Peake who are carrying the hopes and desires and aspirations of | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
the nation and it brings people together and it's a feel-good story, | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
as well. Ian goes on to say there are so many problems on earth to | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
sort out, rather than give a few people a six-month holiday, finding | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
out if you can grow cress in space, big deal expiration of David, what | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
kind of experiments will they do? Both scientific and medical? We are | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
human and we got to recognise the human race is evolving. We should | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
change, we should learn things. Going off the planet is something | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
one day maybe the whole race will have to do. It's more than just | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
taking rocket seeds up there. It's also about the human body. You can | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
do an awful lot and learn about osteoporosis and that a lot of the | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
medical research being done on the space station because the rate at | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
which your bones age is accelerated in space, so they have been able to | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
make an awful lot of progress in space to a disease which affects a | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
lot of people on earth. That's exactly right. So to Ian and Denise | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
on Facebook who say it's fascinating but should we send people up there | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
and over 40 is what has it gained us? Some things they will be doing, | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
his body will be studied to reveal changes in his bones that mimic | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
osteoporosis. Researchers on hope it develop them develop interventions | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
to help people with this condition and prevent bone loss. Research into | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
ageing. Astronauts skim often cracks and ages. We can now understand how | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
to better protect people's skin on earth. Research into body clocks and | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
human diet. He will be studied to see how he coped with 16 sunsets and | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Sunrise is a day and go on an 11 day diet to test how humans could | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
survive a mission to Mars. Probably not but useful to people down here. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
What has space exploration already given us? Laser eye surgery. GPS, | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
vaccines for bacteria, mobile phone cameras, one third use the | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
technology developed by Nasa engineers who first met quality | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
camera is small enough to fit on spacecraft, so there you go. Tom on | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
Facebook says, have a saver flight, mate. Justin says, is an | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
inspiration. Tepee on Facebook says this is amazing, bravo to the | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
scientists. Robin, tried to describe why this is a special occasion for | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
you and your society? You can see it in the sky. If it's not clouded | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
night, you can see it going over at about 5:15pm over the UK. It will be | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
visible over the next United -- cloudy night. Carol said by the | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
weekend we may well get a chance to have a look it. You can sit in the | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
sky and it unmistakable. A very bright object moving very steadily | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
with no associated noise or whatever. You can see it in the sky. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
We are going to interrupt and go back to commentary from the European | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Space Agency because Wigan hit a final chapter in the astronauts and | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
their family. That's because we can hear the final chat but in the | :08:40. | :08:52. | |
astronauts and the family. -- we are going to go back to the commentary | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
from the European Space Agency because we can hear the final | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
chatting between the astronauts and their families. He is either | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
concentrating or smiling. He is just a chronic, really, to astronauts. | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
And to the European Space Agency. -- here's a credit. When you are in | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
space, you are working a lot but you have a lot of public relations | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
events and also contacts with schools and children so you have to | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
be prepared to smile. This is our general director. These are really | :09:34. | :09:45. | |
final messages from families and from the agencies. Of course, they | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
will be able to speak to them every day in space. Yes, true. And there | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
are representatives from a different space agencies at the head of the | :09:55. | :10:09. | |
programme. And now, this is them walking out to the bus, again. | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
APPLAUSE Yes, their last trip to the rocket. | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
What are these bags they are carrying? Ventilation. A small bag | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
of ventilators, it's not that warm but inside the suit it is warm, | :10:27. | :10:27. | |
especially when walking. but inside the suit it is warm, | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
generally see them in this line-up with Tim Peake on the left-hand | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
side, Yuri Malenchenko in the centre seat as the Commander. And the other | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
Tim on the right-hand seat. If you look back at the pictures, that's | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
almost exactly how they always appear in every formal situation. | :10:51. | :11:04. | |
True. A final moment with family. Nearby, at least. So that is | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
commentary from Richard Holling and is astronauts guessed, from the | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
European Space Agency. Those images from earlier because the three | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
astronauts are strapped in to the Soyez rocket which is due to launch | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
at 1103 exactly. You will see a take-off live here on the BBC so | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
don't go anywhere. Here in the studio we have Professor David | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
southward who knows Tim Peake. Sue Nelson. And Robin, vice president of | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
the Society of popular astronomy. David, we heard Richard on the | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
commentary saying every picture you see of Tim Peake he's either smiling | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
or concentrating. You know him better than any of us. Is that | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
right? Yes, he is very focused about, at the same time, he has got | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
this very open, pleasant personality. He really knows how to | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
communicate, so the smile, absolutely helps get rid of that | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
feeling that he is an astronaut. He is going to be thinking very hard. | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
He is going to be very serious. He smiles and you relax. He is, I | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
think, a credit, as somebody said, to the astronauts. He hasn't | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
actually been a national for that long and sometimes, you can wait | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
years will become an astronaut to go on a mission like this, can't you? | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
You can. He's been an astronaut for six years. I think, in the fact that | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
he even got accepted as a Briton for the programme shows something | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
exceptional about him. He must've stood out of the crowd. For me, he's | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
always stood out of the crowd. When you meet him, he has got a | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
personality you warm to. So I think he is going up now for a long, long | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
time. This is a long trip for astronauts. I think that is a mark | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
of the confidence placed in him by the European Space Agency and by the | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
partners. It's a six-month mission although when they get there, three | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
of the guys already up there have been there for a year, isn't that | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
right? Almost. Two of the guys, Scott Kelly and the Russian, whose | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
name escapes me, they are doing a year-long in space so they can | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
really do these tests and see a long duration, and extreme length of time | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
compared to normal stays on board the station and particularly | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
interesting because Scott Kelly has a twin brother who is also an | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
astronaut and he's on the ground so you have got a control, somebody | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
with the same genetic make-up as you, so they can really check those | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
differences. That is fascinating. How much muscle wastage there's been | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
in the bone mass, the eyesight, as well, and compare it with the | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
astronaut twin the ground. I think you made a documentary recently | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
about the International Space Station and you spent time with | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
astronauts. What do they say about Tim Peake? They are all incredibly, | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
the entry. The wonderful Italian European astronaut who spent time | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
around six months, and came down in June, she said he is a fun guy, he | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
gets on with a team, which comes up a lot, he's a good team player and, | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
for national, that's important because if you are stuck in a tin | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
can effectively, even though it's quite spacious compared to the Soyez | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
capsule, psychological testing is also part of this. You don't only | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
need to be physically fit but mentally have the right stuff, as | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
well. Doug Millard is at the science Museum, the space curator at the | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
science Museum. Good morning. Must be tremendously exciting for you at | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
the Museum this morning? I have been working here a few years and I've | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
never seen anything like this before. Quite astonishing. In terms | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
of inspiring primary school children right now, this is the kind of | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
moment that is going to get them into doing the sciences, into | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
engineering? Well, we've got about 2500 kids in the museum as we speak | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
and this is something they will take away with them for the rest of their | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
lives. Actually being part of such an important national event, I don't | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
think we can underestimate the effect it's going to have on some of | :15:48. | :15:48. | |
them. In terms of view being inspired as a | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
young boy, do you recall what it was? I certainly can. It was Apollo. | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
These amazing television pictures from the moon and then thinking how | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
sad it was, Apollo 17, the final mission to the moon. We have moved | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
on since then. Why is that so significant? The UK, as we know, | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
does a lot of space activity, we build many satellites and our space | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
science is second to none, but we have always hesitated with human | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
space flight. Being the first time Britain has visited the ISS, it is | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
long overdue and it is a very special occasion and it is high time | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
we arrived at that top table. We can hear the kids cheering now. What are | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
they cheering for because there is half an hour to go? They are getting | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
very excited and we have got Brian Cox whipping them up as well. It is | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
to do with Brian Cox. We can see pictures of the International Space | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
Station. Sue, you have done a documentary on it recently. What are | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
we seeing now? It is 400 kilometres above the earth. It is travelling | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
around 17,500 mph. It is a wonderful piece of engineering. Let's listen | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
to the European Space Agency commentary. It weighs in at 6000 | :17:29. | :17:42. | |
?993. It is approximately ?110 that can be returned to Earth in this | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
module. It is the only portion of the Soyuz that returns to Earth. It | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
is a very different view compared to the cruise who went to the moon. It | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
is like being in a very high altitude are playing. But the speed | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
is nothing you can see on an aeroplane, it is much faster. And it | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
is compelling to watch. This is the control centre and we are in the | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
gallery overlooking that. We are live at Baikonur. The launch is on | :18:25. | :18:33. | |
the launch pad. It is a beautiful, clear day. We are coming up towards | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
the end of day. The launch is due an hour before dusk. We should get | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
quite a good view, particularly as the rocket disappears, assuming | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
everything goes to plan. You can see these towers around the rocket. Some | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
of them stay until quite near the last few seconds. Yes, because we | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
are still feeding the rocket stages. And the crew has no window, they | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
cannot seek out. Not yet, they will have windows after the jettison. | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
They will feel the launch in the first few minutes on their body and | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
then after four or five minutes, they will see the Earth finally. | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
That is if they are not in the dark, they might be in the dark at that | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
moment. They will see a black earth. Soon after they will see the light | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
because they are travelling very quickly around the Earth. Let's find | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
out more about the European Space Agency astronaut on board that | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
spacecraft, Tim Peake, and his training for that mission. We will | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
lead that therefore a second. A final thought, Doug. You have got | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
2500 children to look after. You are showing the launch and after that | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
what happens with all the children? Well, they have got so many events | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
to visit around the museum today. Some of them will be lucky enough to | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
go around the cosmonaut exhibition and have a look at a real Soyuz | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
spacecraft, just like the one that Tim Peake is squashed up in right at | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
this moment. They will be able to see what it is really like. Thank | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
you for talking to us. I know you have got a busy morning. Doug | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
mallard is the space curator at the science Museum. We will be talking | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
to Helen Sharman in the next few minutes, the first Britain and the | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
first woman to visit the mere space station, as the countdown to blast | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
off at three minutes past 11. Tim Peake and his fellow astronauts | :20:55. | :21:08. | |
are reportedly listening to music at the moment. | :21:09. | :21:09. | |
The inspectorate of police says forces in England and Wales | :21:10. | :21:19. | |
are 'close to being overwhelmed' by an increase in reports | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
It's praised officers for improving their handling of such | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
cases, but says more specialist staff are needed. | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
Saudi Arabia says it's formed a military coalition of 34 | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
mainly Muslim nations to combat terrorism. | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
A joint operations centre is to be established in the Saudi capital, | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
Countries from Asia, Africa and the Arab world | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
are involved in the alliance but Saudi Arabia's main regional | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
With a marchpast of stormtroopers, and the robots C-3P0 and R2-D2 | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
rolling down the red carpet, the seventh Star Wars film has | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
The movie - The Force Awakens - stars many of the actors | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
who appeared in the original science fiction trilogy more | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
Let's catch up with all the sport headlines now and join Ore. | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
Let's bring you some of the top stories, and Leicester have returned | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
to the top of the Premier League after a 2-1 win over Chelsea. They | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
are 20 points clear of the defending champions. This stunning goal | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
secured their victory last night. Chelsea are a point of the | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
relegation zone. England's cricketers have got the | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
winter tour against South Africa off to a stuttering start. The tourists | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
have been reduced to 90-3. Alastair Cook and Alex Hales were out for two | :22:47. | :22:55. | |
and eight respectively. Alex Bairstow has signed a new contact | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
with the county champions Yorkshire. And a trust fund has been set up to | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
support Jonah Lomu's children after it was revealed he had almost no | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
savings when he died last month. The New Zealand rugby players' | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
Association who started the plan said he had helped others at the | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
expense of himself and his family. We have Professor David southward, | :23:21. | :23:30. | |
who has worked with Tim Peake. Sue Nelson is a presenter of a pod cast | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
and we have the vice president of the society or popular astronomy. | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
Blast off is at three minutes past 11. Joining us from the science | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
Museum is Professor Lucy Green from University College London. How | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
excited are you on a scale of 1-10? About 15. I cannot describe how | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
excited I am also the thousands of other people here in the science | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
Museum. As a space scientist, what does this morning mean to you? This | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
morning means so much. This is about getting humans into space, getting | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
Britain to be a European Space Agency astronaut, and it is also | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
about doing research and science. There will be lots of experiments | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
that Tim Peake will be carrying out, looking at the conditions of the | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
human body in space, testing robotics and also looking at | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
something called space weather and the effects of high energy, | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
dangerous particles that come from the sun. What will it do for the | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
2500 children in the science Museum? What effect would you like it to | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
have on them? I would like it to showcase what is possible if you | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
study science, mathematics and engineering and if you work hard in | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
any area at school. If you are hard-working and determined, you | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
never know where it will take you. Zoo, David and Robin, what got you | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
interested as young children in this sector? In my case it was seeing | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
Jupiter and Saturn through a telescope. How old were you? I was | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
always interested and I know Lucy is the same. She was fascinated by | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
seeing things through a telescope as a kid. This mission will stimulate a | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
lot of those kids there and around the country to look up in the sky | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
and see things through a telescope. Looking at the moon in binoculars is | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
a fantastic sight. People will be inspired to maybe follow in the | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
footsteps of Tim Peake. Kids in the schools near and maybe we will have | :25:54. | :26:02. | |
more than one astronaut. For me it was Star Trek. Women scientists were | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
constantly featured on the programme. I had a huge crush on | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
Captain Kirk. That set me off. I even wrote to Nasser when I was | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
about 13, saying I love physics and I would like to be an astronaut, can | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
you recommend what to do? They wrote back and they said keep studying | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
physics, which I did, and for you here are some technical instructions | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
from our latest vehicle, and it was from the space shuttle. I have still | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
got it in the attic somewhere from the 70s. David, did you have a crush | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
on Captain Kirk? I managed to escape that. I am earlier than that. Dan | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
Dare was my hero, but he had a female scientist, Professor Peabody, | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
and this was in the 50s. It was absolutely the only female scientist | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
I have come across. See how important it is to have a role | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
model. The big shock to me was the Russians going into space first. I | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
can remember where I was on October the 4th, 1957. How old were you? I | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
was 12. Why was it a shock? Because I thought it would be the British or | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
the Americans. The Russians were so far away. I remember being at school | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
and looking out the window and thinking, I will never have anything | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
to do with space. And yet as it happens, in the end I launched | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
rockets from Baikonur. I never dreamt I could do it. It is the same | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
launch pad that Tim Peake is an that Yuri Gagarin, the first man in | :27:54. | :28:01. | |
space, was launched. If it ain't broken, do not fix it. Lucy, what | :28:02. | :28:11. | |
was your first inspiration? I remember going out and looking at | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
the stars. That was the inspiration for me and having a question about | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
what they were and what was happening in space. I turned to the | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
world around me to explore because I was curious. When I started learning | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
about physics at school that gave me a means to understand the universe | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
around me and that is something I have been passionate about ever | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
since and have never stopped doing it. I hope you enjoy the launch. | :28:36. | :28:42. | |
Professor Lucy Green, a space scientist at University College | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
London. A few moments ago we had this coming from the Soyuz rocket. | :28:48. | :28:57. | |
Have a listen. The music you are hearing right now is going on | :28:58. | :29:06. | |
inside, and it is being played to the astronauts in the Soyuz capsule. | :29:07. | :29:16. | |
A little bit of Queen being played for Tim Peake. That was one of major | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
Tim Peake's choices to be played. We also found out earlier he is having | :29:24. | :29:40. | |
Beautiful Day By U2. It Also Chose A Sky Full Of Stars by | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
Coldplay. And has said, it's addictive | :29:47. | :29:55. | |
television, all the Best wishes to Tim and his colleagues. Aaron on | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
text message says, wide of the missions take off in Kazakhstan? Any | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
specific reason? You referenced at the moment ago because it was the | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
Russians who went there first. Yes, because it's very far from anywhere | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
else. I'm sad to say the site is also used for intercontinental | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
ballistic missile is, so it secret, the location was secret and, in | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
fact, its location was first identified I think by people | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
tracking it from a school in England. Jeffrey Perry and to school | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
back in the 70s, I think it was. They tracked where the spacecraft | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
had come from using fairly simple equipment. The Russians did not want | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
the West to know where Baikonur Cosmodrome was. The name is an | :30:45. | :30:51. | |
illusion. It is near a lake and they deliberately chose the name which is | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
nowhere near this lake. And it was all part of a cover-up to try to | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
hide from the Americans with their sites where and of course, they have | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
to launch from rocket sites from such a site, so it takes us back to | :31:07. | :31:13. | |
the Cold War, which, happily, is now over. There's no space shuttle now. | :31:14. | :31:22. | |
And that, we haven't fully talked about that. This is an amazing | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
example of international cooperation, isn't it? Even though | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
the USA and UK and Russia may not be the best of friends when it comes to | :31:33. | :31:39. | |
diplomatic circles, the fact is the Russians are having the only | :31:40. | :31:41. | |
launcher which can get men into space at the very moment. It's not | :31:42. | :31:47. | |
their only trump card. The Russians have a credit for having an | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
excellent experience in long duration space flight and the | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
cooperation with the Europeans and Nasser and Russia. It puts the UN to | :31:58. | :32:04. | |
shame sometimes, I think. Let me read some more messages. What a | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
fantastic day, my kids are excited. I'm tired of people about people | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
moaning about how the money should be spent on other things. This will | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
lead to life-saving breakthroughs. The whingers should direct their | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
comments on countries the poverty spending millions on nuclear | :32:23. | :32:29. | |
weapons. Tim, don't forget to look for Father Christmas when you are up | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
there. Tim Peake will get a phone call on Christmas Day to his family. | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
Frank says, being ex-military, I wish him and his fellow astronauts | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
the very best. I'm very envious. Roger says the critics seem to be | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
saying forget the universe, what we're getting up to on earth is much | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
more important. We can talk now to the first Briton in space, who was | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
actually a former chemist, Helen Sharman who visited the mere space | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
station in 1991. That was made possible by a private programme, | :33:03. | :33:09. | |
paid for jointly by the USSR and a consortium of British companies. | :33:10. | :33:12. | |
Good morning to you. How are you feeling right now? Ten minutes to | :33:13. | :33:19. | |
take off. It's all getting very exciting here at the science Museum. | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
We got children, adults, people from all walks of life really supporting | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
Tim. I can't hear much of what's going on in the studio because | :33:30. | :33:33. | |
there's so much excitement here. You are the only person who can give us | :33:34. | :33:38. | |
an insight into how Tim Peake and has two colleagues will be feeling | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
just minutes from take-off. It ironically very calm right now. They | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
have been training for six years, preparing for this day over and over | :33:50. | :33:52. | |
again together and they know it's not just them but people below in | :33:53. | :33:58. | |
mission control in Moscow, teams and teams of people around the world | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
supporting them, so all they have got to do is get on with the job | :34:03. | :34:07. | |
they have been training to do now. They are listening to music and | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
every so often there will be a communication from the bunker saying | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
two minutes to go, five minutes to go. They will say, I heard you, and | :34:15. | :34:20. | |
then they just have to wait for the launch now. Does your heart beat | :34:21. | :34:27. | |
faster than near it gets? We have our hearts monitored during the | :34:28. | :34:30. | |
launch and breathing rates, so I'm sure everybody's heartbeat will beat | :34:31. | :34:35. | |
a bit faster. You are undergoing quite a bit of GeForce and it's | :34:36. | :34:44. | |
lumpy and bumpy. That journey to orbit is under ten minutes. That's | :34:45. | :34:52. | |
presumably a rough ride, is it? You feel the different rocket stages, so | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
as the fuel is used up, the rocket gets lighter so the speed increases. | :34:58. | :35:05. | |
When you jettison, you drop down to half a GB for the next stage kicks | :35:06. | :35:11. | |
in some of lumpy and bumpy. 3.5 G is the most you ever feel, being pushed | :35:12. | :35:16. | |
back into your seat. All of their physical training, it's all paying | :35:17. | :35:26. | |
for them. I think you go from North to 25 times the speed of sound -- | :35:27. | :35:36. | |
you go from North -- zero. The speed of sound is an interesting factor. | :35:37. | :35:41. | |
Its relative in some respects but you do eight: it is a huge speed. | :35:42. | :35:48. | |
Before you go, can you tried to describe weightlessness for us? The | :35:49. | :35:55. | |
most natural relaxing feeling you can imagine. Humans just adapt so | :35:56. | :36:01. | |
readily to being weightless. You can just float in nothing, in a swimming | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
pool, the water keeps you buoyant. If you're orbiting the earth, you | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
just float through the air and you forget what it's like to stand on | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
the floor, to feel the seats beneath you. Astronauts lose the hard skin | :36:16. | :36:19. | |
on the bottom of their feet when they are in space for a long time. | :36:20. | :36:23. | |
You quickly learn to move in a different way and people are trained | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
for this in an aeroplane but never for more than 20 odd seconds at a | :36:31. | :36:34. | |
time. Now you can experience that long time. Alan viewers are seeing | :36:35. | :36:41. | |
pictures of you experiencing weightlessness. You have a huge | :36:42. | :36:43. | |
smile on your face. It looks fantastic. Catching water? That's | :36:44. | :36:55. | |
right. Superb. What was the most stunning moment for you on your | :36:56. | :37:03. | |
trip? On your mission? For me, launches exciting but actually the | :37:04. | :37:06. | |
launch itself over quickly and the people watching on earth, for the | :37:07. | :37:12. | |
Arsenal, then continues. I spent two days on board Soyez and hopefully | :37:13. | :37:19. | |
Tim will only spend six hours before he gets onto the space station. It | :37:20. | :37:24. | |
is the docking when you open the hatch and float inside, that is so | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
beautiful. You know it's going to be your home for the next months. We | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
are getting nothing from the European Space Agency. They say that | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
the rocket at Kazakhstan is now standing without a service structure | :37:39. | :37:44. | |
attached to it. Ready to be blasted into orbit. Duelling is still | :37:45. | :37:49. | |
ongoing. What does that mean, it is standing without a service | :37:50. | :37:54. | |
structure? It basically means it's using its own electrical supply. | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
Essentially, it ready for the gantry to be pulled back and then it will | :38:01. | :38:05. | |
be free to launch so they are separating all other connections, | :38:06. | :38:08. | |
the fuel has been in there for some time now and it's going to be | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
working on its own. Helen, thank you very much. We have got about ten | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
minutes to go so I'm going to let you go. Thank you for talking to us | :38:19. | :38:23. | |
this morning. Helen Sharman, live from the science Museum. You can see | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
the joy on her fate as she is recalling what happened to her back | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
in 1991. It obviously clearly not something you forget in a hurry. | :38:33. | :38:36. | |
It's great to share hit brother centrifuge because I've been on a | :38:37. | :38:42. | |
centrifuge and experienced that GeForce Tim Peake is about to | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
experience. -- it's great to hear her talk about centrifuge. I did it | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
over three stages and they build it up over three times and to begin | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
with, it's like a fairground ride and you feel the pressure. By 3.5 G, | :38:56. | :39:02. | |
it's getting a little more uncomfortable. When the person in | :39:03. | :39:05. | |
the control room was saying try and move your hand, I sort of went like | :39:06. | :39:10. | |
that and I couldn't. I could barely move my hand. You feel that much | :39:11. | :39:18. | |
pressure. We now know what they look like when they look 75 because your | :39:19. | :39:23. | |
skin is pushed back. Does it feel like your stomach has detached from | :39:24. | :39:29. | |
the rest of your body? No, I was like, more, more, more, I loved it. | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
It starts to feel uncomfortable absolutely. Some more messages from | :39:35. | :39:44. | |
viewers. 10.4 by the way. This is inside. Hang on. | :39:45. | :39:52. | |
Obviously they are playing The Final Countdown. What else would it be? | :39:53. | :40:06. | |
The launch is at 11.03, so don't go anywhere, about eight minutes away. | :40:07. | :40:14. | |
There they are inside the capsule. They are breathing and their heart | :40:15. | :40:20. | |
rate is being monitored as we speak. I spoke to an astronaut and he said | :40:21. | :40:29. | |
his advice was make sure you enjoy it and look through the window. | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
Coverage on the space mission continues now on BBC News with Anita | :40:35. | :40:36. | |
McVeigh. You are watching our continuing | :40:37. | :40:49. | |
special coverage on BBC News of the build-up to the moment when Tim | :40:50. | :40:52. | |
Peake blasts off with his fellow crew members from the Baikonur | :40:53. | :40:58. | |
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on their mission to the International Space | :40:59. | :41:01. | |
Station. These images of course as you can see, coming to us live from | :41:02. | :41:08. | |
Kazakhstan. We are going to take you inside the capsule, the close | :41:09. | :41:12. | |
confines, certainly very cosy, where major Tim Peake and his colleagues | :41:13. | :41:19. | |
Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko, the Commander of this mission, | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
offsetting ready for launch. You may have been able to see the flag on | :41:24. | :41:33. | |
his arm. Very close confines for this six-hour journey as it will be | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
to the International Space Station. Tim Peake, the first official UK | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
astronaut. We are just under eight minutes to launch at 1103 GMT. | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
Exactly the length of time, eight minutes it will take them to reach | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
orbit and then, onwards on that six-hour journey to the IS S. 250 | :41:54. | :42:01. | |
miles above the Earth. We can cross now to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in | :42:02. | :42:08. | |
Kazakhstan and join Sarah. Take us through what is going on in these | :42:09. | :42:15. | |
final few minutes before launch. Well, really, these are the very | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
final checks and preparations before they blast. In the last couple of | :42:22. | :42:26. | |
hours, we have seen Tim Peake and his crew climb inside the capsule, | :42:27. | :42:31. | |
the top section of that 50 metre rocket behind me here in Kazakhstan. | :42:32. | :42:38. | |
Inside there, they have been running through their last checks. They have | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
had music played to them. They chose tracks themselves which would be | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
pumped into the capital for them to enjoy as they calm their nerves | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
ahead of this huge flight. Before that, they had their last farewell | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
to their family. They also put on of course their pressurised suits, | :42:58. | :43:02. | |
spaces, to make their way to the launch pad but we are now of course | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
in the final minutes before this flight. You could say it will be | :43:08. | :43:10. | |
nerve wracking moment but Tim Peake is shown himself to be an extremely | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
relaxed man right up until now and, as he walked out of a hotel this | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
morning, he said he felt fantastic and was ready to go. This is the | :43:21. | :43:25. | |
moment he had been preparing for, of course, for many years. For this | :43:26. | :43:30. | |
mission, he's been training for 2.5 years, so it is absolutely on top of | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
his game, he feels ready for liftoff, and he said to us before he | :43:35. | :43:37. | |
is extremely excited about this mission. I think you as close to | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
that market as it's safe to be because the force that come into | :43:43. | :43:46. | |
play when it launches are quite incredible, aren't they? They are, | :43:47. | :43:52. | |
and we have been told to expect a deafening roar as the rocket behind | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
me blasts off into space. It obviously needs huge power to make | :43:58. | :44:01. | |
it into orbit, so we are pretty much as close as you can safely get | :44:02. | :44:06. | |
although, in a bunker belief the launch pad itself are the people who | :44:07. | :44:10. | |
will control this blastoff, the ones who will press the button, who will | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
make this Soyez rocket begin its journey into space. As far as I | :44:16. | :44:18. | |
understand it, the people inside are pretty much on autopilot assuming | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
everything goes well until they reach the International Space | :44:23. | :44:26. | |
Station. It's going to be an exhilarating ride, nine minutes | :44:27. | :44:30. | |
almost until they reach orbit from here at ground level, nine minutes | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
before Tim Peake gets his first breathtaking view of Earth. That's | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
the moment, he said he's looking forward to most. The minute of a | :44:40. | :44:42. | |
breakthrough into orbit and he looks out the right window of his Soyez | :44:43. | :44:48. | |
capsule back down at birth. He said everyone told him it's the best | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
moment but obviously, it's not a moment you can ever prepare for but | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
it's the one he wants to experience -- birth. Bear with us as we look at | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
these live shots in closer detail of that rocket behind you -- planet | :45:02. | :45:10. | |
Earth. We saw him a few moments ago inside that capsule. We are going to | :45:11. | :45:14. | |
hear some of what mission controllers saying to the three | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
astronauts and a cosmonaut as they take off. As we watch this launch, | :45:19. | :45:27. | |
and watch the Soyez head towards orbit, we will, of course, tried to | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
keep our charter to the minimum and really take in what is an | :45:33. | :45:34. | |
awe-inspiring | :45:35. | :45:35. |