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NASA to reveal if Starliner can bring astronauts back to Earth

Two astronauts stuck in space - it's the plot of a Hollywood movie - but now, it's the reality facing Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. NASA says it will make a decision this weekend on how to bring the astronauts back from the International Space Station. They travelled there on a Boeing spacecraft called the "Starliner". It was a mission intended to work through any problems so that the Boeing craft could begin regular missions next year - but with a myriad of faults detected on it, that now seems unlikely, as Craig Boswell reports.

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