the lure of i.s.i.l. on u.s. soil. three american residents are under arrest tonight accused of trying to join the group in syria. and they may not be the only ones. in ukraine. suddenly and surprising quiet. >> the guns are falling silent. you can listen. there is no sound of artillery here in donetsk for the first time in many many months. >> also sharp criticism from amnesty international. >> the united nations council was clear to protect citizens,

and they have lost faith. >> not doing fluff to stop violence against civilians around the world. and. >> if we want to start a colony on mars it is inevitable that we have to reproduce or else we just die out. >> mars 1's ambitious plan to send people to the red planet is starting to face harsh realities here on earth. welcome to al jazeera america's international if you hour i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm antonio mora. u.s. officials are on high alert tonight as concern gross of i.s.i.l.'s gathering of supporters in the west. one was arrested at jfk airport trying to board a plane to turkey. they say two of the men threatened to carry out attacks

inside the united states. meanwhile the head of the fbi said terror related investigations are going on in all 50 states. >> in iraq, i.s.i.l. fighters kidnapped more than 100 men and boys near tikrit. >> taken back a town of al baghdadi. >> the three men accused of helping i.s.i.l. are held without bail. if convicted each man faces a maximum of 15 years in prison. gabrielle elizondo has the story. >> two of the three suspects were arraigned a 22-year-old from uzbekistan and 19-year-old from kazakhstan. the third suspect a 30-year-old

from uzbekistan he was arraigned in the state of florida where he lives. now prosecutors claim that through investigation, that two of these people were going to go to syria to fight with i.s.i.l. but beyond that they were planning attacks here in the united states including prosecutors say a bomb attack in cony island here in new york. as well as they said they were talking about killing police officers and even trying to do some harm to president barack obama. now we did also hear after the arraignment from one of the public defenders the lawyer for the 19-year-old who said that there is a presumption of innocence here, he said there could be a rush to judgment by the government and the defense attorney also said that they will fight this case vigorously. but either way if these three individuals are convicted they could face up to 15 years in jail.

>> fbi director james comey says today's arrests in the u.s., only mag any nice the issue. comey says i.s.i.l. is increasingly using social media to recruit in the u.s. including slick messages to he be entice troubled young people to come to them. >> you will find a life of meaning here fighting for our so-called caliphate. and if you can't come, kill somebody where you are. that is a message that goes out to troubled souls everywhere. resonates with troubled souls. people seeking meaning in some horribly misguided way. those people exist in every state. >> federal officials say the three men arrested today were swayed by i.s.i.l. online videos and social media messages. u.s. officials say as many as 20,000 fighters from around the world have gone to syria or

iraq or the al qaeda linked el nusra front. at least 150 americans have made it to the battlefield without being caught. a separate group the international center for the study of radicalization recently estimated that 488 people have traveled from britain and 412 from france to join the fight. a disproportionately high number 296 have come from belgium and 240 from germany. 250 are believed to have joined from australia 70 from canada. many other countries from europe to west africa and asia have all seen a number of people leaving to join either i.s.i.l. or el nusra. >> one was the 22-year-old from florida who died last may carried out a suicide bombing on behalf of el nusra in syria. he was videotaped beforehand speaking broken arabic and

saying he looked forward to going to heaven. for more on today's arrest and the growing international threat from i.s.i.l. we're joined by cushingkurt vol xeri. general, it's good to see you. we heard the head of the fbi talk about counterterrorism investigations, going on in all 50 states. do you think counterterrorism effort is working? >> i think we are using the right tools the old tools about tracking down individuals who are planning to do bad things. the problem is that we are dealing with a technology driven terrorist threat. one that is reaching out to people through social media and we constant droll how people are affected by that. we are scrambling to catch up compared to the recruitment that's gone on. >> we gave the numbers just how successful that recruitment is.

thousands who have headed to iraq and syria to join el nusra or i.s.i.l. if they can get through eu countries without showing a passport? >> nate92ndnato is not the right one to bring up here. more importantly is that it's the local communities. it is places where these people live where they are being indoctrinated, where they are receiving radical information through the internet. they have a social community and a network where they live in. those are the ones that are going to be the most effective from preventing them from

becoming radicalized and becoming terrorists. engaging their own communities in order to make the attraction of islam the attraction of jihad and this fighting to become far less attractive. >> but nato is there to protect europe and turkey is a nato country that has hundreds of miles of borders with syria and with iraq. is turkey doing enough to stop people from reaching i.s.i.l? >> no, i don't think turkey is. turkey is an example with a border that is a nato country it has a lot of cooperation agreements with the eu and once you cross the turkish border you're into syria. that means you're into the zone of active fighting. i think here turkey as a nation, not because it is a nato nation, but turkey as a nation could do a lot to shut its border to screen its border to prevent the

flow of fighters into syria. for one important reason turkey fees isolated, while it believes assad should grow because -- should go because of the death and destruction he has reaped in his own country. it does not feel support from the u.s. for its position. turkey is going on its own as it were and the only effective force fighting against assad right now are the radical extremist groups so there's a disinterest on the side of turkey of preventing these people from getting to access those extremist groups because that is putting pressure on assad. >> there are calls for all countries to increase defense spending. i take it you agree those measures are necessary? >> they're absolutely necessary. they've been necessary for years but now we face two very serious very extreme threats that we

need to deal with. one of them is the i.s.i.s. threat that we've been talking about. the return of foreign fighters. the domestic security. and the possibility that conflict spreads in the middle east and creates wide areas of responsibility. beefing up its military flying bombers all around you know u.k. islands off the coast of cornwall. this is a serious threat at wul well. nato has drastically reduced its defense spending over a past couple of decades. time to thank you around. >> former ambassador kurt volker good to have you. >> thank you. >> this week twitter users there joked they were going to join i.s.i.l. to escape ordinary problems. joked, i'm going to join daesh. and another one saying, my

brother took my charger i'm going to join daesh. another one said, i want to lose weight i'm going to join daesh. and one writer told them to actually join them. i.s.i.l. kidnapped more than 100 syrian christians yesterday. zeina khodr reports. >> syria's kurds have been at war with the islamic state of iraq and the levant for months. i.s.i.l. fight rs were defeated in the border town of kobani now kurdish fighters are trying to force them from hasake. it is not an easy fight. u.s. led coalition aircraft have been helping the kurds by attacking the area from the air. home to kurds airbus and christians and where i.s.i.l.

controls pockets of territory. it borders territory controlled by the group across the border in northwestern iraq. and there is an important supply line that i.s.i.l. uses to move from its so-called capital in the syrian city of rikka to mosul one of its strongholds in northern iraq. >> what's happening now is that there's a real fight against i.s.i.l. in hazakke. it controls about 30% of the province. kurds are fighting on one front and regime fighters based in the province are also attacking them from another front. i.s.i.l. cannot afford to lose her because it needs to keep its supply license open. >> hazakke also borders sinjar, the yarabea crossing is in sinjar and it is being used by i.s.i.l. fighters. it seems the offensive against the group in hazzake is part of

a broader military plan. if i.s.i.l. is defeated it would severallyseverely restrict its contacts. need to cut the group's supply lines before any major military assault. hazzake is hundreds of kilometers from other i.s.i.l. strongholds in northern iraq but defeating them here would weaken them there. zeina khodr, al jazeera beirut. first time that happened since u.n. backed ceasefire went into effect ten days ago. our paul brennan is in the heart of the region and it appears the fighting has stopped. >> reporter: i've come to an area just to the west of donetsk city center which has been used by the separatist forces, to

launch attacks against the ukrainian forces in that direction. as you can see the debris is all around. let's have a look at this box here. this box would have held some shells for a 122 millimeter either the d-30 which is a towed field gun or the d-32, which is a howitzer. as you can see this whole area now is deserted and the scrapes are ready they haven't been filled in but there's no evidence that they have been used in recent days at all. and it does give strength to the idea that both sides do appear to be drawing back. the donetsk people's republic have staged photo opportunities. there is an important sticking point with that. the dpr people are not saying where those guns are being

withdrawn to. and according to the minsk deal the osce, the international monitors need to know that information in order to verify that the guns really are being withdrawn outside of this buffer zone athat was created by minsk. the osce wants three pieces of information. it wants to know where the guns are now ukrainian and separatist guns. and finally it needs to know where the final destination of those guns will be and without that information they cannot verify that a withdrawal has actually taken place despite the photo opportunities. the osce says it desperately needs that information but at least the guns are falling silence. as you can listen, there is no sound of artillery here in donetsk for the first time in many, many months and that in itself is room for some degree of optimism. >> paul brennan ukraine. meanwhile russia has sent as many as 2,000 troops to the

border with the baltic states, moscow says the troops are there to conduct army activities, a series of russian military drills in the area hatched after u.s. military vehicles par aired through anest estonian area. lithuanian forces have been conducting military exercises. they were sent as a precaution to strengthen security in nato nations that border russia. >> the top u.s. general in europe briefed congress today on the situation in ukraine and the limited options on the table for a response from u.s. and nato. jean jamie mcintire joins us. jamie what does general breedlove have to say?

>> nato's top commander general phillip breedlove ss it's going to take a combination of diplomatic military economic and information warfare to change putin's calculus in ukraine. >> clearly mr. putin is all-in when it comes to -- >> it was a sobering message supreme commander phillip breedlove had no amount of fire power defensive or otherwise the general told alabama representative mike rogers could turn battle in favor of ukrainian forces. >> i'm not sure they could stop a russian advance even if we supply aid. >> lethal aid? >> lethal aid that's correct. >> it was a message nato's top commander hammered for pentagon reporters, could provoke the russian president and not

providing weapons could embolden him. >> is there a red line that exists that if russia crosses it, nato would step in and help ukraine? have no. >> but at another house hearing secretary of state john kerry hinted that the red line for more sanctions and possibly more weapons would be if russian back separatists took the strategic city of mariupol which would bring the forces a land bridge to crimea. >> so the measurement now is are we on a downward track to actually seeing an implementation or is there now a mariupol or some other effort that may be taking place that would immediately merit a much more significant response? >> kerry session russia's creeping land-grabbing is ended. >> general breedlove says it's knot clear what vladimir putin

has in mind as far as a military objective, but he characterizes his goal of keeping ukraine out of russia and russia out of ukraine. >> a report suggests the taking over of crimea may be more premeditated than could tell, what can you report? >> one of the few independent voices left in moscow, it purports to have uncovered a memo from an unnamed russian oligarch that laid out the disunity in ukraine predicted the ouster of then president yanukovych and suggested it would be in moscow's advantage to annex crimea and parts of eastern ukraine remarkably similar to what has played out in the days ahead.

moscow insists had had no intention of doing that and says the memo was a fake. it's hard to know where the truth lies here, because as general breedlove said here, as he was outlining a number of cases where russia has simply not told the treus about what's going on in -- told the truth about what's going on in ukraine. >> jamie mcintire, thank you. >> a bad report card for the u.s. on the issue of human rights. >> the global community is paying lip services when it comes to helping the rights of civilians. >> avalanche buryies tourists and leaves dozens dead.

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>> 2014 was a catastrophic year for human rights, that's according to a influence report from amnesty international. today the watchdog group released its annual report on the state of human rights. >> every world power and the u.n. thomas drayton has the deadly evaluation. >> reporter: a serious assessment and a bleak forecast. amnesty international unleashing a torrent of criticism over the global response to human rights violations. a 415 page report covering 160 countries, detailing abuses in at least 35 nations or 1 out of every 5 in the study. it says world leaders have been shameful and ineffective in protecting civilians from oppressive regimes in heavily armed extremist groups. topping the list to the most serious human rights issue the

four year war in syria. nentinnocent men women and children caught in the cross fire. between bashar al-assad and the allied forces fighting the islamic state were faulted for allowing a cache of weapons into i.s.i.l. hands. boko haram leading to abuses and oppressive laws. the report also cited the deadly conflict of eastern ukraine as a hot spot of atrocities torture and mass killings on both sides of the battle. a battle that washington has tried to fight from the sidelines so far with little success. >> we have to be cognizant that if we arm the ukrainians it could cause positive results. it could cause negative results. but what we're doing now is not

changing the results on the ground. >> reporter: amnesty singled out the united nations security council saying it had quote miserably failed to protect citizens and warned the situation would only get worse without immediate action. >> russia and the u.s. using their veto to protect their own self interest instead of protecting civilians we believe if the security council members permanent members voluntarily renounce the veto there is some chance that the security council can start protecting civilians rather than their own political interests. >> the report highlighted more than 50 million refugees worldwide, the highest number since world war ii. the main cattle list behind the conflict is $100 million arms trade that is vowed in secrecy. regulating shipments of weapons to countries like iraq and syria. so far five of the world's top

arms exporters have ratified that treaty. it's been met with resistance from china canada and russia. thomas drayton, al jazeera. >> joining us is a policy advisor from amnesty international. thank you for your time. you call on the u.n.'s permanent security council members u.s. russia and china to renounce their veto power when it comes to mass atrocities. this is the first time your organization has called for that and why now? >> yes, this is the first time we're making this a major headline in our call to the united nations. the idea is not entirely new. it's been around since 2001. but we believe it's an idea whose time has come. france as one of the permanent members of the security council is already behind this idea.

the united kingdom already said yesterday it couldn't think of a time it would use its veto, former secretary kofe anan. and 40 countries are supporting this idea. we think this would be a really important step, would actually enable the u.n. and the international community to act swiftly in these case of mass atrocities and would show perpetrators they can't just get away with murder. >> do you think this is realistically going to happen, the fact that u.s., russia and china has blocked action he, in that regard? >> this is probably not going to happen overnight. but we will keep pushing on this. and as i said there's a gaining momentum behind this. you're absolutely correct that

especially last year saw some very shameful incidences where russia and china for example raised a veto to hinder an icc investigation into the mass atrocities in syria which would have enabled us to actually find out what's been happening and who and on which side of the conflict committed what war crime. it's the first time that china and russia have used their veto to put a major obstacle in coming to terms with what is happening in syria another shame full inact by the u.s -- >> russia splice arms to syria so they have strategic interests, besides the humanitarian ones that you have. what do you hope this report will accomplish? do you envision a time when human rights will realistically

be prioritized above geopolitical interests? >> well, human rights have to be prioritized over national interests. that may sound naive but that is basically at the core of the international system. the u.n. was formed to protect human rights and the atrocities after the second world war. especially the u.n. security council and the p-5 can't put their national interests ahead of global international responsibilities and other states have to keep pushing and civil societies and organizations like amnesty international have to keep pushing, even powerful states like russia, u.s. and china to finally accept this responsibility. >> shedding a lot of light on many issues. senior policy advisor for amnesty international, thank you

so much for your time. tension heat up over a planned speech by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> some questioning the prime minister's judgment. others calling it destructive. >> protests against the houthi takeover of yemen.

>> welcome back to al jazeera i'm antonio mora. >> i'm stephanie sy. in this half hour of international news, it used to be an issue in the united states, the forced sterilization of women. >> plus the extradition battle over oscar winning director roman polanski.

protesting the newly dominant houthi group forcing the president to resign last month leaving a political vacuum in the country. meanwhile fighters from the houthi militia fighting lasted about six hours. >> the satirical paper charlie hebdo, we're back, the first since the edition one week after the attack. they needed a break. a day after euro zone ministers agreed to an athens bailout. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu today says he

believes western powers have given up hope they can stop iran from building nuclear weapons. he says the west has accepted the country's nuclear capability. talking out against the talks in front of congress next week. >> voiced disapproval in an interview with charlie roast last night national security advisory susan rice expressed concern over the typing of -- timing of the visit. . >> what has happened over the last several weeks. by virtue of the invitation that was issued by the speaker of the house, in advance of his election, on both sides there has now been injected a degree of partisanship which is not only unfortunate i think it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship. >> secretary of state john kerry also spoke about netanyahu today. he told a house committee that

the prime minister was wrong about an earlier deal that halted iran's nuclear program and that his judgment of current talks may be misguided. >> mike viqueria is at the white house tonight. mike susan rice's comments seem to be escalating the situation between the administration and israel. >> it's remarkable antonio people watching this situation says it is worse than it has been in a generation between an american administration and the prime minister's office in israel. a lot of people very concerned. consider the fact that you've heard susan rice the national security advisor obviously a senior official in this administration saying the relationship itself is being threatened by the destructive behavior not only by john boehner but by prime minister netanyahu himself. couple what kerry has said, accusing prime minister netanyahu and the israeli

government of quote unquote cherry picking information from those negotiations with iran and the western powers and saying that the information is being used to cast the negotiations in the worst possible light. going so far as to say that the united states is not going to be sharing information with the closest ally, and that stands ogain or lose from that relationship. >> beyond that, netanyahu doesn't seem to be helping because he's rejected an opportunities to meet with capitol hill democrats. that might have been a peace offering. >> dianne feinstein and dick durban. brings the total of up to 30 members of congress, four senators who will boycott the

speech next thursday of prime minister netanyahu to the joint meeting of congress i should say. many of them jewish members of congress. one today jan shakowsky a long time member of congress. i support israel, support is in my dna but this decision could really damage bilateral negotiations. >> had some provocative things to say as well. >> it's remarkable, that senior officials would speak so much about this speech. prments benjamin netanyahu is trying to essentially have it both ways. >> i tell you israel is safer today with the added time we have given and the stoppage of the advances in the iranian

nuclear program than they were before we got that agreement which by the way the prime minister opposed. he was wrong. >> so president obama of course as we know not inviting prime minister netanyahu to the white house while he's here in washington citing the upcoming israel elections, the vice president has made plans to be overseas during that speech. normally he would sit behind the dais for a foreign leader as president of the senate, antonio. >> it will be interesting next week, mike viqueria, thanks. >> okay. >> a defense drill should serve as a warning to nations that might attack the country. revolutionary guard firing missiles and rockets at a full size replica of a u.s. aircraft carrier. the straight of hormuz, the u.s. navy says it's not concerned about the drill.

deadly avalanches, more than 120 people have been killed and that is expected to rise. north of kabul have been hit the hardest. officials say rescuers have been clawing through debris with bare hands and shovels to reach those who are buried. a fierce forest fire in the remote region of path goanian patagonia. >> thick smoke pollute the skies. destroying thousands of hectares of vegetation every day. never knowing which way the wind will blow, where the flames will ignite. alejo and daniel, discussing where to attack the blaze next,

what should have happened, what should be done next. firefighters planes and helicopters, many local residents say it's too little, too late. the damage in this drought-hit region is irreparable. >> translator: what we are losing here is four to 500-year-old vegetation. places that have had little human contact. many precious trees that will take generations to replace. >> there's no end in sight and the locals are increasingly desperate, wondering if the properties are going to be there the next day. >> we are crossing our fingers and doing rain dances but it's not doing well today. >> of the vegetation that was here the fire continues to rage very, very difficult to control always a case of which way the wind is going to blow. the local authorities say the blaze was started by a bottle of

lightning. many question that. some speculate that it was careless campers. daniel schwindler, al jazeera. mentally ill women from mexico to have children. >> forcing them to have sterilization. the motive may be more sinister. >> film director roman polanski, the effort to have him jailed for a statutory rape conviction nearly 40 years ago.

>> in our off the radar segment we look at forced sterilization in mexico. >> a washington, d.c. human rights group found that four out of ten mentally ill women in mexico are stripped of their reproduction rights. reporting sexual abuse at the hands of medical caretakers. >> her schizophrenia doesn't stop her painting, all wanting to leave a normal life. last year she started to try for children with her boyfriend. >> at first i felt good, excited, i thought the doctors would say i could have children. but they told me i had to be sterilized so i didn't pass on my schizophrenia.

i was devastated. >> 40% of women surveyed from a new report from disabled rights international said they had been coerced or forced into sterilization by doctors or their families. >> when the government forces women, it is argued that if they got pregnant however the government is not protecting them violating the rights. sterilization is not the solution. >> an organization of people with psychiatric disorders who campaign for the rights of fellow sufferers questioned over 50 women for the study. they found testimonies not just of sterilization but also physical and sexual abuse. the group surveyed mainly independent women living within the community but they feared that conditions could be far woorsworse, within individual psychiatric units like this one. >> in one institution we found

that every woman and girl that is admitted to it is forced to be sterilized. in our opinion this is to cover up the sexual abuse that goes on in the institution by preventing any pregnancy. >> doctors and nurses who spoke to al jazeera on condition of anonymity. >> then they sterilize whether they agree to it or not. >> doctors who justify disairlzsterilization, so far refused to be pressured into sterilization. >> translator: what is my life have to do with them? why the doctors getting involved in a decision that should be mine? >> if her condition worsens she could have that choice taken away from her. like many other women with psychiatric problems in mexico.

john holman, al jazeera mexico city. >> now u.s. has its own history of forced sterilization. historians say the eugenics organization, back in 1907 indiana was the first state to pass a law to prevent pro creation of idiots and others. days of sterilization were found up to five years ago at a california women's prison. researchers at various institutions put the total number of americans forcibly sterilized at 60,000. roman polanski appeared in court today. courts are deciding whether the oscar winning producer will be extradited to the u.s. the u.s. wants him to serve jail

time for raping a 13-year-old girl in los angeles in 1977. polanski has admitted to the crime. john terret looks back now on the buildup to polanski's appearance in court today. a very long-running saga. >> reporter: the drama that is director roman polanski's life is dramatic and some say distasteful at the same time. 88-year-old polanski is a huge star in his native poland, especially the city of krakov. against sending him back to face the music in the u.s. because he has paid a heavy price in the u.s. and apologized for it long ago. he is a pretty big deal in hollywood, he directed rosemary's baby and china town. but what polanski did made

headlines throughout the world 33 years ago. in 1977 he was arrested in the u.s. for statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. he pled guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse but skipped the u.s. for europe just as a final sentence was about to be handed down. he's been on the run from the authorities ever since paying off his victim in a civil suit filed in 1988. interpoll has an arrest out for him in 188 countries. in 2009 he was arrested in zurich and held under house arrest until swiss authorities decided not to extradite him. two years later he talked about his imprisonment while accepting a lifetime achievement word at the zurich film festival. >> it's a strange day for me. certain parts of it, i would rather forget. i would not only like to take

the opportunity of being here to thank all those people who supported me during this difficult, these difficult months. >> these days polanski avoids being arrested again by only traveling on french and polish passports. packing them into a krakow courtroom. there is no law that says can he or can't be. that is where the court comes in. it will decide in a few weeks. the polish justice minister having the final say. john terret, al jazeera, new york. >> the delicate task of producing history. >> the fine art of renovating centuries old buildings. >> and long after its launch the mars 1 dream of sending people

to the red planet may be in trouble.

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>> peru's mirch industry ofperu's ministry of culture unveiled a tapestry, looted from south america recently found in texas. other items on display on the museum is a 17th century manuscript. restoring old buildings including those with the recognizable pa goag pa pagoda style is a challenge. the earliest on record is from the first century ad. the stupa style is even older. some of them date back to 300 bc. it is a commonly used style for buddhist style.

>> hindu designs dates back to the 16th century. >> overrule hauling takes a delicate hand. at the same time trying to convince the mass he that preservation makes sense especially in the region around kathmandu where many buildings are centuries old. al jazeera's sabrina sreza. >> technical school is one of the few places where people can learn the traditional art of wood carving. >> my parents worked as carpenters but i trained to be a wood carver base because it's good work and i can earn enough to raise a family. >> magnificent buildings around this area in the kathmandu valley. many people call robin mad when he first started. >> 17 years ago that's how it

looked and they were the inhabitant of the house. >> the value of renovation, he built this house to serve as a showcase. >> the impact of this house is at the moment higher than i had thought. because whenever 9/11 who anyone who has a old house within a half an hour, this is a mistake and show us. >> the city's restoration started a few decades ago. in the early 1970s the german government gave a wedding present to the then king and queen by restoring this 15th century building, and until the late 1980s the germans continue to renovate many of the temples here. now that all of the temples have been restored, the municipality offers subsidies.

even with the subsidies many of the house he that have been built are concrete tower blocks with brick facades. for some of the old timers, the renovation couldn't make them happier. >> since it is an old style building you have to have a wooden netted window even if you can open it. >> so far he has restored more than 100 houses and is aiming at 1,000 in his lifetime but concrete and glass has already taken over most of the kathmandu valley and restoring will need the help of many people willing to reconstruct the past. >> so many beautiful structures. >> such a great assignment. >> headline from beirut and lebanon's daily star which is criticizing the lack of international response to the crisis in libya saying the

country has been, quote thrown to the dogs. >> our french newspaper lefig le lefigero, men as of terrorists, that's what the editorial says around the world multiplying opinion, says france needs to return to the strong military presence it had under charles de gaulle. >> the west would like to see vladimir putin replaced but with few options in that regard, replaced with the much more cooperative vladimir putin of the year 2000. >> particulars 1 the audacious plan to send people to mars in ten years may be in trouble long. its first launch. the organization has a short list of 100 candidates for trip to the red planet but neave barker has the story.

>> it's the most of audacious plan in history to make this most inhospitable planet home for humans within ten years. but that's exactly what mars 1 a private space exploration company, intends to do. with all the glitz and glamor of a hoimed hollywood movie. tens of thousands of people applied for the one way mission but only 100 n were short listed. including mage lu, a ph.d. student, who has -- maggie lu. a ph.d. student who has surround to be a mar mother. >> if we don't they would die out on mars. >> butter maggie and others could be in a long wait. the proposed time line's unfeasible. in only three years time mars 1

hose to send a stationery land. followed by a rover in 2020 and cargo missions two years after that and in only a decade by 2025, it's hoped the first four-man crew will arrive and live in pods, like these. and all of this for a meager $6 billion. >> it is unrealistic completely from every single point of view from the experience of the astronauts, from the experience of people organizing it on the budget on the time scale are completely unrealistic. >> the mars 1 crew will live in confined conditions. they'll need produce their own water, oxygen and grow their own food and that takes continued investment. mars 1 was also hoping to gain sponsorship from endemal, the makers of reality show big brother until they pulled out.

providing rockets for the mission, say no contracts have been signed. for team behind mars 1 remain firmly optimistic. >> it's a wig misconception that mars 1 -- a big misconception. we will finance the application from investments. it is not entertainment, it is inspiration, humans going to mars is the greatest story of the 21st century and we need the share that story with the world. >> the companies say they have now teamed up with the makers of their mission trailer to help finance and document the project and as mars 1 races to meet its goals it is a mission they hope soon will be on your screens. neave barker, al jazeera london. intelligence shady history became an issue in a scandal that has ensnared the country's president. >> still more questions than

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