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Monday 14 May 2018

Launch of F1 TV marred by ‘technical difficulties’

Associated Press
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) —
Formula One’s subscription
television service got off to
a slow start as some viewers
were unable to watch the
live broadcasts of practice
and qualifying at the Span-
ish Grand Prix on Saturday.
“We’re sorry to say that we
have experienced a few
technical difficulties with
F1 TV’s live broadcast,” F1
said. It said it was “aware
that this has impacted
customers with an F1 TV
Pro subscription and while
we are working hard to fix
these issues, we wanted
to let those impacted sub-
scribers know that we will
contact them by email
shortly to address this with a
partial refund.”
F1 said the “issues” affect-
ed customers only during
live playback but all ses-
sions from this weekend’s
Spanish GP were available Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany steers his car during the qualifying session for the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix at the
on demand, including all Barcelona Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, Spain, Saturday, May 12, 2018.
onboard cameras and F1 said the streaming plat- The service is expected drivers, as well as to broad- vary according to market,
team radio. form marks F1’s “biggest in- to give fans access to live casts of news conferences with the yearly service cost-
It didn’t say how many sub- vestment in its digital trans- feeds with access to on- and other interviews. ing $99 (83 euros) in the
scribers were affected. formation to date.” board cameras for all 20 Pricing and accessibility United States. q

China’s first home-built aircraft

carrier begins sea trials

Associated Press between Sunday and Fri- long durations. China has
BEIJING (AP) — China’s first day. the world’s largest navy in
entirely home-built aircraft The 50,000-ton carrier will terms of numbers of ships,
carrier began sea trials Sun- likely be formally commis- although it lags behind
day in a sign of the growing sioned sometime before the U.S. in technology and
sophistication of the coun- 2020 following the comple- combat capabilities.
try’s domestic arms indus- tion of sea trials and the It has been deployed to
try. arrival of its full air comple- assert China’s claim to vir-
The still-unnamed ship left ment. China’s first aircraft tually the entire South Chi-
dock in the northern port of carrier, the Liaoning, ar- na Sea and is increasingly
Dalian at 7:00 a.m. to “test rived as a mostly empty hull ranging farther into the
the reliability and stability of from Ukraine and was com- Pacific and Indian oceans.
its propulsion and other sys- missioned in 2012 along China last year established
tem,” the Defense Ministry with its flight wing of Chi- its first overseas military
said in a statement. nese J-15 fighter jets. base in the Horn of Africa
The Liaoning provincial State media reports say nation of Djibouti, where
maritime safety bureau China is also planning to rivals such as the U.S., Ja-
This May 9, 2018, photo released by China’s Xinhua News issued an order for ship- build a nuclear-powered pan and several European
Agency shows China’s aircraft carrier Liaoning at a shipyard in ping to avoid a section of aircraft carrier capable nations also have a perma-
Dalian. ocean southeast of the city of remaining at sea for nent presence.q