内容摘要：Speaking in the Commons on Tuesday, Foreign Office Minister Hamish Falconer said that 2024 had seen the "worst settler violence" in the West Bank in the past two decades and this year was "on track to be just as violent".

Speaking in the Commons on Tuesday, Foreign Office Minister Hamish Falconer said that 2024 had seen the "worst settler violence" in the West Bank in the past two decades and this year was "on track to be just as violent".

Those who back the proposals say the White House's budget has given Nasa a clear purpose, for the first time since the days of the Apollo Moon landings of the 1960s and 70s, when the aim was to beat the Soviet Union to the Moon.Nasa's critics say that, since then, the space agency has become a bloated, unfocussed bureaucracy which routinely

One of the most egregious examples of this is Nasa's new rocket for its plans to return American astronauts to the Moon, the Space Launch System (SLS). Its development has been delayed, and costs have spiralled such that it costs $4.1bn (£3.3bn) for each and every launch.By contrast, SpaceX's equivalent rocket system, Starship, is estimated to cost around $100m (£80m) per launch because it is designed to be reusable. Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin space company promises similar savings for its proposed New Glenn rocket.To no one's surprise, SLS will be phased out under the White House proposals, in the hope that Starship and New Glenn can take its place. But the past three development launches of Starship have been unsuccessful, and Blue Origin has only recently begun to test its Moon rocket.

"The worry is that Nasa may be jumping out of the frying pan, into the fire," says Dr Barber."The development of these alternatives to SLS is being bankrolled by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

"If they lose their appetite for this endeavor and SpaceX or Blue Origin say they need more money to develop their systems, Congress will have to give it to them."

Of greater concern, says Dr Barber, is the potential loss of 40 missions to explore other planets and to monitor the impact of climate change on Earth from space, many of which involve collaborations with international partners."I'm committed to doing one more year all in and seeing what we can achieve," he told BBC Sport.

"Everything feels right now to draw a line after the Olympics while my body's good. I'm still at the top of the sport and still able to compete with the best, I still feel I can go all in."I sit here with no niggles, no pains in my body, which is really rare in skiing.

"I don't want the legs to fall off, it's not fun if the legs fall off mid-season. So while I still can, I'll do all I can to be the best in the world."To date, Ryding has achieved seven World Cup podium finishes, capped by his historic gold in the Kitzbuhel slalom.