the, the, the, the we news line from rowland, germany's top diplomat warrants that gaza is on the brink of collapse. and the bulk or just is relatively, it's planned attack on the city of ruffled, but it's fine international pressure. benjamin netanyahu says he will press a head with israel defensive also coming up. because europe now need a nuclear deterrence. europe's defense is on the agenda at the nato meeting in brussels after donald trump says he would not defend nato allies who had not contributed enough money at one person instead, and many more injured after a mass shooting. during a kansas city chiefs super bowl parade,

police detain 3 people and are investigating a possible modem. and the race to the most is that privately owned to move lender, a. this is blast into space carrying up a load of nasa instruments its destination. the lunar self hope the article fairly welcome to the program. germany's foreign minister and the bulk has called for a ceasefire in the gaza strip, highlighting the worst and incremental period situation in the enclave during her latest trip to israel. germany's top diplomat also urged israel to hold off with this plan. defensive and rough, or israel is planning to move into the southern gauze and city to fulfill it stated goal of destroying her loss. a group considered a terrorist organization by multiple countries to see vacuum waiting the necessary

hospital. in con eunice palestinians carried their belongings in sacks, as they made their way out of the complex. the as rarely, military said it had opened to secure a route to allow civilians to leave the hospital while doctors and patients could remain inside. it also said troops had been ordered to prioritize the safety of civilians, patients, medical workers, and medical facilities. during the operation this footage shot from southern israel shows plumes of black smoke rising in con eunice after is rarely forces shall be area overnight. israel is facing growing international pressure to hold off on a plan to solved on rafa where more than a 1000000 palestinians have sought safety. during your visit to israel, germany's foreign minister warranty is real against pressing it's offensive into

the city. why don't calling for email? young people are stuck in a very confined space because they have nowhere else to go at the moment. so i'm not sure if the east really, um you where to launch and offensive on rough under these conditions would be a humanitarian. does off the in the make king and is really has about to fight on until later advocates from us and has made the return of the last hostages, held by them a priority. but how much says israel must 1st commit to ending the war and withdrawing from guys in so many countries warning against israel carrying out an offensive and rough i asked, i'm in east haven jerusalem, if nothing yahoo is likely to listen so far. there are no public signs that netanyahu was seated any of these warnings. he said, even as an o and a bare bach was in the country visiting that israel plans to go through with the

ground sold on rough. uh, so pretty hard perhaps behind closed doors, there are some signs that is real, is eating the warnings that it could have already staged and is sold on rafa. but publicly, israel has been a very defiant one of the conditions that germany put forward in order to support the ground. in a salt on russell was that more humanitarian aid the brought into garza? well, just yesterday the far right wing of israel's already right wing government succeeded in blocking a mass of shipment of aid into gaza that contains about enough food to feed a 1000000 gallons. and some much needed supplies in the dire conditions in rasa. but it's not getting into gaza and this is, even as germany in the us are urging this aid to get integrated for any assault on or off happens air off of course, garza's main lifeline. at this point. i mean,

why does that mean yahoo want to press ahead with this offensive on roughly smith in yahoo has stated goals from the beginning of this war, which began with a how mos attack that really shocked the nation was to completely obliterate a moss. and nothing has student israel's way a so far. i think nothing, you know, who believes that failing to essentially destroy ralph or the last real standing city in gaza would show a sign of weakness. and it has to be noted that after the shock of the terror attacks on october 7th is really is the public is very supportive of this, where there's little concern for what's happening and gaza to the civilians there. so nothing yahoo is not facing any pressure from this population despite the protests. there are minority of this really. so we're very concerned. but the vast

majority how are supporting nets and you all 100 a 100 percent. and it also should be noted that the warnings that come from germany, analynn voc, just yesterday saying that it is real, should hold off on this ground installed on rafa as well as a warning some of the us they don't have any teeth behind them just as the diplomats are telling, announcing, yahoo to be careful. these countries are sending massive weapons shipments to israel just earlier this week. the us approved a multi $1000000000.00, a military aid package to israel and germany's government is currently discussing, sending, sending tank shells to israel, which of course could be used any ground assault on rasa. that's the w, as i mean, ease of interest to them. thank you. so much and a quick look now at some of the stories making headlines today, the lebanese officials say at least 9 civilians and 4 hezbollah fighters have been killed by as really air strikes on wednesday. israel's military says,

rocket fire from lebanon, killed him, is really soldier, israel and lebanon's has the military group have frequently traded fire along their common border. since a mazda attacked israel on october 7th, germany overtook japan last year as the world's 3rd largest economy. data are released by tokyo, suggest that the re shuffle is due primarily to a sharp fall and the yen demand is now technically in a recession after its economy, contract it for the 2nd straight quarter tile authorities have issued a 2 day work from home order for bangkok, city employees over high smog levels and air quality index showed the amount of data is particles as 15 times higher than double year and show recommendations. the city smog is caused by chrome burning industrial pollution, and heavy traffic. us media are reporting that washington has worn european allies about russian efforts to develop space based nuclear weapons for public interior of

the house intelligence committee, mark mike turner has asked president vine to d, classifying the information related to what he called serious national security threat. nato defense ministers are gathering and brussels for talks on the biggest challenges facing the alliance. the war and ukraine and the companies in gauze are expected to be top of the agenda. a notable absence from the meeting will be the us secretary of defense, lloyd austin. he will not be attending due to health reasons. other meeting has been overshadowed by comments from republican presidential hopeful, don't trump, who seem to call into question america's commitment to its nato allies. that is ignited debate in europe about defense spending and a re think of its nuclear deterrent. this. this is a test of nato's nuclear deterrent fighter jet, seen here, trading to defend europe against the threats from bushel or other foreign powers. but there may soon be

a new test from within as one presidential hopeful questions us commitment to the western military alliance. no, i would not protect you in fact, which countries worldwide agreeing to nuclear non proliferation decades ago. much of europe has long comforted on an american nuclear shield. the u. s. is over $5000.00 nuclear bombs in total. all the numbers are classified. experts widely agree around 100 of them are deployed on european nature territory in belgium, benevolence, germany, western turkey, and a to a fellow nato members. fronts and the u. k. also have their own national nuclear arsenals. fronts has in the past, suggested more continental corporation. don't know what she would need to will always be there. autonomy means having your one destiny in your own homage may count depend on the us elections every 4 years. and american political bought to there's no solid offer of alternative security guarantees. any, you're quite new cleared to tyrants would require a whole raft as negotiations, new treaties,

and an infrastructure revolution. despite the calls from some germany, you parliamentarians, full of felons. the government says it's an old starter 5 yet essence. and i'm like, honestly for jim. hi. we have the american protective shield and we shouldn't questionnaire cabinets the on all own initiative. the new to the debate is really the last thing we need at the moment. it's an escalation in the discussion. we don't need to do any small eastern flag, nato nations nearest russia are calling on other european countries to be felt, no nuclear capabilities, like their armies and munitions supplies. i think what the presidential candidate in america says is also something to maybe wake up, but some of the allies who haven't done that much for no nuclear jewels across you or will continue. and so with the debate as well, a short while ago, i asked the w as brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena, how nervous the nato defense ministers were about. donald trump's controversial

remarks. well, i think what we can say is, of course, that donald trump's remarks are at the top of the agenda here. and we also know that they send a chill across allies in europe. and many governments across the european continent are working on contingency plans. should there be a 2nd, still not strong presidency yesterday, and today as well. we got a quite strong statement funds in stoughton. back at the nato secretary general, who butte donald trump, accusing him of undermine the credibility of nato's, determines that is at the core of the alliance. he said that says a deterrence is in the minds of nato's enemies. and prevent them from ms from any miscalculation. and we also have to say that ministers here who talked of course

about stuff from from ok. know that his statement, when he said that he would encourage russia to do whatever they wants to allies who don't pay their bills, is just misleading because there are no bills to be paid at nato. if there is no membership fee, but he also has a point pointing out that some nato allies still don't to meet the target of spending 2 percent of their gdp on defense allies agreed on that a decade ago about as well store back presented us with new numbers and according to them, more and more allies, the majority of them will need to discuss targets this year. mm hm. now you talk about contingency plans. and one idea is the proposal of european nuclear defense shield that has been rejected not only by germany's defense minister whom we heard in that report, but also by native secretary generally in stoughton berg. now i want to know from

you, is this the end of the discussion? you think? ok, so now, yes, i think that this discussion is dad's that it was motivated to may be by the beginning campaign he and the europe had of the european election. this thing is that as the german minister pointed out, there is no point about discussing a european nuclear umbrella right now. as far as europe, as long as you are up, has the u, as let nuclear umbrella at a new project would be so complicated. and probably logistically, so difficult that it could take years or even decades to establish a u flat nuclear umbrella from europe. that was due to be as brussels bureau chief alexandra phenomena to the united states. now in kansas city, one woman has been killed and more than 20 people injured, including

a children and a mass shooting during the superbowl victory parade. police have a rest of the 3 suspects and say they're investigating the incident in any potential motive. show spring out in a crowd of football fans sending them into panic. kansas city was hosting a parade on its team winning the super bowl. a day of celebration turned into tragedy. the only thing i really saw was a, become chaos here, down down, down everybody down. somebody's choking. you know, this is what i'm thinking about. and i'm like, okay, this might be your own. but yeah, basically everyone to both sign footage kept at the moment. police

apprehended the suspect, the no return. who am i the source, he's immediately quoted in just the area around the cities union street station where the shooting took place. the, i'm angry at what happened today. the people who came to this celebration should expect a safe environment. we had over 800 law enforcement officers, kansas city and other agencies at the location to keep everyone safe because of bad actors, which was very few. this tragedy occurred even in the presence of uniformed

law enforcement officers, who again ran towards them and took them into the investigation into who is responsible for the attack. and the motive is still ongoing or it could be history in the making a private admission to the moon has blasted off from the kennedy space center of cape canaveral and florida, 321 ignition and with the american aerospace company intuitive machines, a launch. it's a, this is lander, on iraq. it's made by a loan. most basic company is trying to become the 1st commercial spacecraft to successfully land on the lunar surface. the launch was originally planned for wednesday, but it was postponed due to a technical glitch. this time everything went according to plan, and if the landing also goes well, this is will search for water on the moon and what some are calling

a 2nd space for the american movie. then no just use for use up to set of into space. it's aim is to bring a camera and newly develop nice measuring equipment to them in its destination. is the luna south pole? there are this. here's what's called a spot to lend. softly on the moon. stuff is a new race to the moon. his own set of lights have discovered water and its poles, the most important resource for human space travel. this race is not driven just by scientific curiosity. it's a quest to develop the best technology, discover resources, and to secure future markets. nasa wants to build a station in the moon's albany and outpost on the surface that the space agency is

working together with european japanese and canadian partners. many u. s. companies are hoping for newport test contracts and income from space tourism china. russia and india also have moon tourism in this hides. in order for any of this to happen, it's mission critical to find a way to land safely. but this is no easy task and many help pay the rushes. lou now $25.00 commission, crushed into a luna cradle and power green. the 1st commercial at american movie landa software, the fuel leak and self destructed over the pacific ocean. japan slim rowboat actually landed upside down of the term. india was able to put

a robot on the vehicle on demand. meanwhile, china was the 1st nation to land on the far side of the me it's or this is mission is successful. us will be able to came the 1st commercial newsletter. nasa also plans to build a new schuman stepped station there in the darkness. the luna self cult bringing jo storage from the london school of economics. he's an expert in the politics, ethics, and law of space, exploration and exploitation. welcome to the w. now back in the 20th century, the space race was a contest between the united states and the former soviet union. now, private companies are getting involved. what is different in this new era?

first i'd like to highlight that of space commercialization has been around for a long time. so it's the 1970s we've seen, for example, the united states try and push some space development activity to the private sector. what's new here is the amount of commercial activity that we have going on, and that they're starting to participate in these really big and exciting projects like going back to the main. so it is something that's different, but there's also not so many similarities with the 1st space race. how concerned are you about governmental space agencies like nasa now relying so heavily on technology provided by private companies? again, i think it's not so much with concern because it's something that has been going on for a long time. and in a way it actually spreads out the risk of these technologies across different stakeholders. and so in some ways, i think it will sure up our abilities to access space. having said that, i think there's some interesting legal and ethical issues around even having more

commercial entities going into space. these entities are still largely getting their funding from government contracts. so i think sometimes we see it as a dichotomy between government and commercial activity, whereas in reality, it's much more blended than that. but we do start to see commercial entities that are able to place things on the moon. we've seen companies that are, are placing things that could be construed as advertisements on the moon. and so i think we also want to think about what we as a collective want to have placed on in space on celestial territory. and what all of that means for us. yeah, let's talk about the political, legal, and ethical questions. the ones that you focus on in your research, which are the most pressing ones, if we're setting our sites on the moon, okay? and there's some complicated legal questions that i think we're gonna see as having to deal with more and more. so there's a preexisting legal infrastructure for outer space that has existed all the way

back to the 19 sixty's which says that outer space is neutral territory. and that no country can lay claim to any celestial territory. now, these were written before we were engaging in and potentially establishing settlements on other planets. and so as we get to the technological capabilities of having potential bases on demand, they're going to be questions about, for example, the extraction of resources and who's allowed to do that. and also a simply who's allowed to occupies spaces without technically constituting ownership of those spaces. so has been some activity in trying to unpack these legal issues, such as the arguments of course, which was drafted by the united states and 2020, which is sought to overlay the preexisting infrastructure with some ideas about how we could use resources and set you and coordinate or activities across different bases,

but there is some controversy around that and there are some countries that have notably not signed out to the are to as a chord such as russia and china. space tourism is a big buzz word and it has been for a couple of decades, not as item is mission, plans to establish a permanent base on the moon. how much closer would that bring us to seeing people like you and i go to the moon and is that even a desirable goal? so again, space tourism actually started in the early 2, thousands but it's becoming more accessible now for 2 reasons. for one, initially people were going up to the international space station for huge ticket prices to stay on board for a long time. now we see these low orbital emissions that are only in, in and in outer space for a few minutes, as well as some that are, are going up to orbit and discussions about potentially bringing tourists, for example, the, the surface of them. and i think that these are probably a lot further away then we sometimes see the timelines projected as they're going

to be a lot of safety issues. and also it's going to remain the domain of the very wealthy, even as the price point comes down right now, these supp orbital flights are costing just under a $100000.00 per person. so it's not something that's going to take off, sorry for the bad pun too too quickly, but it is something that i think we'll see in the future. but i think i'll continue to be sort of extreme tourism. that's very expensive. encouraged with that some risks as tell story from the london school of economics. thank you so much for those insights. and before we go, here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you today. a germany stopped diplomats and the bad box has warned that gaza is on the brink of collapse without a ceasefire and an offensive on the city of rafa would be a humanitarian catastrophe. nato defense ministers have met

in brussels to discuss your defense strategies to end support for ukraine. the meeting comes in the wake of us, former president and republican front runner. donald trump's comment that he would not defense nato allies who hadn't paid enough money. at least one person was killed and more than 20 wounded and a shooting during the us super bowl victory parade. thousands of kansas city chiefs football fans were out celebrating. when gunfire broke out, 3 people are now in custody. the and the privately owned us, the moon lender. a dispute has lasted into space on its learn. our mission a launch had been delayed after our normal temperatures were discovered during the fueling of the crown,

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