This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Jalil and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 12th of September,

these are our main stories.

A billionaire becomes one of two astronauts to conduct the first ever

commercial spacewalk. We look at what this means for the future of space travel.

The family of the jailed Belarusian opposition leader Maria Kolyesnekava

say they fear she is being slowly killed.

Also in this podcast,

Bananas are selected, peeled peeled sweetened and doused in yeast and

lemons to preserve taste they are then fermented to make wine the ingenious new way farmers in Malawi are using over-ripe bananas.

We start in space where shortly before we recorded this podcast a new frontier was breached about 700 kilometers above Earth, the world's first space walk by a private citizen.

Billionaire Jared Isaacman was first after the spacecraft.

He was then followed by fellow non-professional astronaut SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis. They were testing their next generation

spacesuits with the aim of eventually a mission going to the moon and

their Mars. This was a moment when Mr Isaacman emerged as a crew on Earth watched.

There is our first view of the forward hatch wide open to space.

Once again, this helmet cam, that structure we see is the spacewalker. This is Jared now egressing through the forward hatch of

dragon resilience. progressing through the forward hatch of Dragon Resilience.

I have a feeling the crowd is about to go wild.

We have faith that.

Back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, the work show looks like a perfect world.

The words of Jared Isakman as he emerged from that spacecraft.

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