herdsmen on a treacherous migration. is dangerous the ices of them as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life eat a little bit longer sometimes luser cattle there will die of cold water because of the storm risking it all mongolia at this time on al-jazeera. zira. hello there i'm chilling with donald this is the news hour live from london coming up a six point four magnitude earthquake hits taiwan bringing down a hotel and several other buildings here when calls for

a month long cease fire in syria's government and russian air strikes killed sixty six people in. a low. u.s. markets vala tile in early trading a day after steel also switch to sell off in asia and europe. and space x. prepares to launch the world's most powerful rocket and send along musk's a tesla roadster where no sports car has gone before. and i'm touching on the fun times with the latest sports news where three days ahead of the winter olympics train russia police begin to arrive in p.r. chunks while others are still fighting for the right to compete i'll have more on that story later. their warm welcome to the program a six point four magnitude earthquake has hit eastern taiwan bringing down a hotel and all the buildings the united states geological survey says it struck

near the northeast import city of lead several people are thought to be trapped inside the hotel that's it there it's the latest in a string of quakes that have hit the region in recent days time when their lies near the junction of two tectonic plates and is regularly hit by earthquakes well taiwanese journalist joyce wan joins me now on the phone from taipei hi there joyce what else do we know so far. yes it's two am in taiwan and the earthquake akamai going to measure is a magnitude six point zero has struck the eastern part of taiwan of folly c.t. and according to the latest confirmation from the national four agency under the ministry of interior that a total of four buildings have collapsed one of which is a hotel and downtown c.t. downtown. holly and and up to twenty nine people how was

strapped trapped inside a hotel by a local rescue worker have tried to get them out and so far it's hard to confirm or so for local media saying that a total of three people are still trapped in the rubble and another building has another in the structure of another nearby has also told to do in the earthquake also some roads in the city were all a damage and we've seeing. pictures of gapping holes and cracks and hopefully local governments are trying to get the traffic back on track and joyce just tell us a bit more about the pictures that we're seeing we're seeing the hotel on its side what's the region around where the quake struck like high tide densely populated in that. it's not a very densely populated area as alone the is to a strong coast of taiwan as

a fish and many fish in an agricultural based county and. and. most people there are. focused most most with their live in tourism and fish and i could cultural at this time of year as we are the chinese new year. ruler new year so there are tourists there that's so the hotel was as one of their one of the buildings many true is would choose to stay and joyce what about the strength of the air earth quake i know that you are of course inside pay which is slightly further right than the center of the quake but but what what did you feel will taipei is about four hours drive for awhile ian which is where the epic center of the earthquake is but still we in the past few days in the cup

past three days for example we have felt. tattoo's of aftershocks of the earthquake. this one that happened two hours ago was the one of the biggest in the past few days we can feel the jobs earlier people in taipei also feel the jobs of the year two hours ago joyce one there joining me on the line from taipei joyce thank you you an assertion the calling for an immediate polls in fighting in syria are asking for a month long ceasefire to allow them to get an aid and to evacuate the sick and wounded. we are trying to reach those most in need first so when we are able to reach those most in need for example in this situation those in beseeched areas who have seen no aid whatsoever for weeks and months east and in

for and can for we. we call from the rooftops if you like we are talking about it leap over a rut where we have about two million people of concern. and called it the other day it's like one huge refugee camp and that is essentially what it is there are hundreds or thousands of people who are internally internally displaced there on the run extremely vulnerable and they are being they come under attack and bombardment that is completely unacceptable well the un comes on a particularly deadly day in syria syrian government and russian forces have ramped up their attacks on the rebel held areas of the province in eastern there to force a pause a day escalation zones agreed by iran and russia last year sixty six people have been killed by airstrikes on eastern grew to a low on tuesday and at least six of it led bringing the total killed in the last

forty eight hours to more than one hundred thirty four u.n. war crimes experts say that the siege of eastern go to involves crimes of indiscriminate bombardment and deliberate starvation of the civilian population they're also investigating reports of chlorine gas being used against civilians but it's met as more. this is supposed to be a deescalation zone part of a russian troops still the territory held by anti-government forces in syria. but if anything the bombing is escalating here in eastern guta. obv out of google. un's head of the international commission of inquiry on syria says the government siege of the area involves the international crimes of indiscriminate bombing and deliberate starvation of the civilian population was. there are reports that at least three hospitals have been hit with the help of the russian air force on the rainy and back groups syria's president is pursuing the

last major pockets of territory held by his opponents in western syria. the offensive intensified after fighters from one rebel group shot down a russian aircraft and killed its pilot on saturday now the syrian army says it's deployed add offenses and anti aircraft missiles to its front lines in aleppo and to cover northern airspace i had there from the us four hundred a russian and they are controlled by the russian intelligence not the syrian regime so this is russia we need to understand there is an direct confrontation between the u.s. and russia it's dangerous because at the same time turkey is trying to force its presence in the area northwestern syria is where turkey is carrying out an operation to push kurdish forces out of afrin it's using syrian airspace and it's got russia's agreement to do so but at the same time the syrian government has

threatened to shoot down turkish jets turkey also wants to wipe e.g. out of another northern syrian town palm beach but there are u.s. forces there too much to the irritation of the turkish president. we can you produce all that you can why are you there go ahead and leave who did you bring there the y.p. g p k k you took them there and you're still telling us not to come to memory we would come to them to deliver the land to its true owners. as over across syria it's civilians who are caught in the middle the un wants fighting across the country to be suspended for a month to allow the sick and wounded to get out and aid to get in bernard smith al-jazeera shares on wall street have been seesawing rapidly between positive and negative territory after monday's sharp brasses which cost falls and markets around the globe the dow jones industrial average fell from two percent and add to

monday's fall of four and a half percent stocks then climbed back up of monday's close earlier as asian markets reacted to monday's news from home for new york hong kong's hang seng index fell by more than five percent japan's nikkei was down almost as much dropping by four point seven three percent well the falls were less severe in europe but london's c. one hundred index still closed down two point six percent well kate ellis on the has been watching the u.s. markets and sent this report from new york. the markets have been incredibly volatile opening on tuesday with a drop of five hundred points before regaining a lot of that back in the subsequent hours this comes after the dow had its worst point drop on monday in history coming after its worst week in two years and this is all built upon a bigger frame and that's that the markets have actually gained a lot over the last year that president donald trump has been in office so

a lot of people saying that this could be finally the markets cooling down after being overheated for a long time a lot of people looking at perhaps that there's no real answer to why there is this volatility looking at perhaps inflationary concerns also political concerns in washington d.c. with the russian investigators and not only continuing but heating up and the real fight between the trumpet ministration the f.b.i. potentially leading to institutional crisis markets don't like any uncertainty and what you're seeing right now is a lot of uncertainty in the u.s. on multiple fronts but beyond that it's important to remember that the stock market is not the real economy and the real economy in the u.s. is still doing very well with very record low unemployment right now and and so that is what the trumpet ministration is pushing over the last year they've been saying look at the stock market look how well it's doing but now that it's not doing very well they're saying no don't look at the stock market just look at the

fundamentals of the economy which are doing well so and a lot of ways that uncertainty you're seeing is partially because of the trumpet ministrations sort of speaking between speaking out of two mouths so to speak should americans look at the stock market or should they not set all that aside though and the reason the stock market is so important here in the u.s. is because it affects global markets as well you already saw a downturn at least slightly in markets in asia and europe let's talk more about the. with steve keen he's a professor in economics at kingston university steve a very well most of the program we've been sitting listening to gave haven't we in chatting about this and i guess the big question everybody always has when these moments happen and they are moments but what's behind the why well if you it's it's the same thing that's behind it it behind if you have a ball and you pumped up to the stars or the rock was about to explode and a bumble bee lands on it it will blow up these totally overinflated markets and but the unique thing about this particular bubble is that it's been caused by the

central banks themselves and it's been deliberate because they thought they were rescuing the financial sector that they could rescue the real economy so they started with quantitative easing buying bonds of all these financial companies within vote shares in the driven the share market up so to some degree is what we're seeing then just a correction it's a correction of an insane policy but at the same time it's not going to go anywhere near far enough because if you look at the not the just the process of the dow jones been completed the process of share is to the yearnings of those shares over the very long term before central banks started doing that the rush hour was about fourteen to one it's now thirty four to one it's that far above what it should base at least twice what the valuation would be but central banks are going to let it fall back down again what does that mean in terms of of the fred gelati of an economy like a giant economy like the united states wrote a book called coming aboard now the financial crisis of last year and will come it was with making exactly the same mistake japan made back in not in audi of allowing an asset bubbles of a and then trying to keep the it for the markets inflated by

quantitative easing the trouble is central banks who have an indefinite capacity to do this but what they're not doing is addressing the real problem there's too much profit in the world and i should be trying to reduce that instead following the lunacy of modern economics they're trying to increase the level of private and i think market process are a good thing too so we've then got a system in the states again where we've got these large corporate tax cuts how does that then feed. do they have the sanity or the policy or whatever we want to describe as well in fact they're going to probably go back and buy their own shares again the most of the money that's been created as being used with the bosch is all right she cancelled the shares by the company themselves driving up the share prices and making the owners look good and making the managers look good but doing many has almost no investment going on compared to what they would be if we reduce the level of profit and then encourage corporations to start investing again so when things get really bad who's big enough to bail out everybody else the central

bank this is one of the the things which we don't get a heads around the central banks can create as much money as they lock of their own currency they literally have no limits the amount they can create and if they would cause that directly into the financial markets that's why there's a bubble there and what they should be doing is directing into the into mind strayed rather than wall street and then we might get an economic recovery steve thanks very much fascinating to talk to thank you. coming up on the news hour three pro-democracy activists want free in hong kong after their on the office and the convictions overturned. the u.k. court rules against wiki leaks founder julian assange and his bid to have his u.k. arrest warrant dismissed and in sport the eagles have landed back in philadelphia after their super bowl victory but the hot seat isn't over yet more on that coming up we'll talk to.

the supreme court's of the mall days has an old its own order for the government to release a number of imprisoned opposition leaders this after the president accused of engineering a coup president. refused to comply with the order stead him post a fifteen day state of emergency and arrested two senior judges and a former president who is in fact his half brother or some a binge of it has the story. just hours after a state of emergency was declared in the island nation of maldives disport carries a prominent opposition leader to the country's main jail on a remote island. was arrested on charges of bribery which the opposition says this politically motivated. his family released a video earlier in which he urged his supporters not to lose hope when you heard. the news police came to arrest me i'm going with them i don't even know why they are arresting me i've done nothing wrong or unlawful i urge the people to be strong

and stand with us we will win. with the arrested but two judges for the deepening the political crisis. it all began on thursday when the supreme court called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians including exiled former president mohamed nasheed. also reinstated twelve m.p.'s who had lost their seats for supporting the opposition but president refused to comply with the. and celebrations turned into protests i mean yeah i mean also declared a fifteen day state of emergency and ordered the military to secure the parliament building for an indefinite period. and. the president. by me and. i will not function and this is. in addition to the two judges police raided the house of the administrative head of the supreme court the court says police didn't have enough

evidence to arrest a judicial executive president yemi who happens to be the half brother of the arrested leader abdul gayoom came to power in two thousand and thirteen that was a year after police and overthrew president mohamed nasheed but in the shaky democracy president ya mean has faced similar allegations of becoming authoritarian and being corrupt his government says that despite the state of emergency non functioning supreme court and military posted outside parliament it's business as usual for citizens and tourists that the supreme court was expected to do favorably on a petition to impeach i mean opposition leaders allege the president's loyalists made it clear that they would not comply with such a verdict and launched a crackdown. for now the country best known for its tranquil beaches is struggling to deal with yet another round of political turmoil some of the job i was there in south africa the president's state of the nation address has been postponed jacob zuma was shuttled to give us an e-mail address on thursday but the pot of misbehave

confirmed they've been a delay to the speech there's been growing pressure of course on zuma since he was replaced as leader of the a.n.c. by cyril ramaphosa in december it's created major deficiency in the ruling party we decided to upload the president off the map and to propose that we postpone that joins in or that aid room for establishing imagine more homes in the body tally up most here.

i thought the conversation was outraged there was cause for democracy over this i was why is it. the case centers on an incident in twenty fourteen which triggered almost three months of protests shutting down parts of central hong kong that were found guilty of unlawful assembly and inciting others after the storm government headquarters their own missionary sentenced to community service but the government intervened calling for

harsher penalties the court of appeal agreed and sentence them to up to moms in prison but the city's highest court unanimously agreed to overturn that ruling the three student leaders may be relieved to walk free tonight but they did express some concern about another ruling delivered in the final court of appeal the five judges agreed that from now on top of god lines would be on doest on future unlawful assembly is in hong kong the student leaders believe that ruling will impact the right to protest. if we make. you sick a day before. the right off the course say the right to. an out of three say they'll campaign for the pro-democracy candidates running in next month's byelection in the seat of disqualified law michael knife in law the result of this bush will be

a real test of public sentiment and support for the movement one that will be closely watched in milan china sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong bush courts has send in a request by the wiki leaks founder julian assange to have his arrest warrant cancel assange has been living in the ecuadorian embassy in london since twenty twelve lawyers say they'll continue to fight in the courts and seek assurances he won't be sent to the u.s. a case against them goes back to august. in t twenty twenty ten when swedish prosecutors issued a warrant for his arrest on suspicion of rape he was arrested in britain in november that gear and released on bail whilst extradition well listeners said he feared being sent to the u.s. to face charges relating to the leaking of military secrets but then in june twenty twelve after the supreme court ruled he must be extradited to sweden skipped bail and took shelter in the embassy ecuador granted him asylum in may last year swedish

prosecutors dropped their investigation into a songe british police said the warrant for jumping bail still stooge. well let's go to ne fokker who's been following the story from outside the door and say hi danny so what this. bill in the short run for a little exchange for june in a cell and she still remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy where he's been for more than five years is westminster magistrate's court rejected initial appeal by his defense team to have this warrant for his arrest overturned that warrants there in place he's alleged of course to have jumped to bail back in two thousand and twelve the defense team argue that there's no need for this warrant to remain in place after swedish investigators abandoned their attempt to see him extradited to sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual misconduct but the judge ruled that service warrant should be opcode so the defense team of no issued

a second attempt to have it revokes they say that it's not in the public interest to carry on with this arrest warrant the judge came back and said that she's not going to rule on this appeal now that she's going to wait until february of thirteenth to give her a verdict it does appear as if she's legal team will be mulling over their options that could be several boer attempts to have this warrant revoked but for now though at least one has been rejected the second one is being mulled over by the judge. revoking this warrant that doesn't simply mean he'd be able to leave there's a bigger context of this isn't there. there's a much wider much more serious context of all of this even if assad was to leave the ecuadorian embassy tomorrow even if he was to face charges and be found guilty of skipping bail he would only need the long run probably face about

a year in prison possibly even less than that six months or so what he's really concerned. it's the possible existence of a secret u.s. indictment that would see him extradited from the united kingdom over to the u.s. to face very serious charges indeed including possibly charges of espionage that could lead to a very very lengthy prison sentence for tuna's songe what he wants now is assurances from the british government that the extradition would not take place and that there is not an indictment being prepared of the u.s. to see him sent over there and possibly see him behind bars his walk his lawyer said at the end of today's hearing at westminster magistrates court. this case it isn't has always been about the risk of extradition to united states and that risk remains real nobody can credibly deny that race we've had the head of the cia declare wiki leaks a hostile in on say intelligence agency which had the u.s.

attorney general say that prosecuting join a songe is a priority in these circumstances it is time to provide an assurance against extradition to that base untenable situation. jennifer robinson and julian assange his lawyer that we're likely to hear much more from her in the coming days as the second appeal is considered by the judge judy in a son like fear the ecuadorian embassy remains very much the same there are concerns about his health both physical and mental for now though his fate remains the same he still remains very much income through his own choice but he is very very concerned about the possibility of leaving here and then being up facing a very lengthy prison sentence across the other side of the atlantic. back there live from central london with the latest on the story any thank you still to come on out. for seven thousand people displaced by conflict in

a single mum to again we meet the families who are seeking refuge in case they get in providing a lifesaving service and free to all where on board one of the dishes volunteer from the ambulance and stuff and it's more tatiana will tell us how the world's best cyclists gough's in the opening stages of the didn't buy tour. hello doesn't feel quite like when to iran even b.r.s. in the caucasus moment the cold air is round and it will probably prompt wanted to show us in the southern caspian just catch in the northern shores of iran but to iran remains in the sunshine twelve degrees and back are still eight trees they are real cold you catch up on touch counts next is zero minus eleven but look at levant

and look at iraq baghdad at twenty four was only three degrees off its february maximum warm to twenty seven so it's a warm spot at the moment and the sun is not much of a breeze but a cloud of form not the temps are back a bit but to be honest this is warmer than you might expect compared with the average on this an argument that's also sure the eastern part of saudi bahrain and qatar but not by much reference to the middle if you're lucky the high twenty's newswoman still in the west and saudi but there's nothing much else in scott's some clouds or forms and torsional clouds with the don't drop and the rain we did see some pretty high temperatures in capetown yes yes they actually often the clouds form when the temps really high brings a bit of rain nothing in the forecast of the fray but if there are any showers in south africa they're likely to be further east all over the city.

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i don't mind at the top stories here on out is either a number of people off or to be trapped after an earthquake caused the hotel to collapse in the city of wanna be six point four magnitude earthquake rocked east in taiwan just before midnight local time un's call for a month long truce in syria to get aid to civilians trapped by fighting the sixty six people killed on tuesday in airstrikes on rebel held and stick to. and u.s. stocks appears to have bounced back in a volatile trading session after posting their biggest falls in more than six years monday. israeli army has shot dead a palestinian man who was wanted over the death of a settler last long twenty one year old. was accused of killing rabbi ross in

a drive by shooting at an illegal israeli outpost last month one com has more now from the occupied west bank the israeli army says this is a mature roles body they've been looking for him since general you know he was accused of killing a settler rabbi from an illegal settlement outpost in the. in the early hours of tuesday morning around seventy jeeps and two bulldozers and this village. and focus their attention on this at that building you saw some of the keyboard almost look at exactly four thirty am i heard an explosion and we heard an exchange of gunfire and then it quieted down for about five minutes and then they started shouting surrender but there was more shooting and then they brought in a robot that searched the room for about two hours. the killing is taken on a heightening significance because the settler was a religious leader. after the killing of the rabbi from

a nearby settlement the israeli army mounted almost nightly raids in a village of the game and they eventually found him they say in the yemen a massive reacted saying the palestinian resistance continues. this courageous martyrdom asserts that resistance in the west bank is still going in all its forms led by al qassam military armaments and the resistance and fighting palestinian all the security measures of the israeli occupation the security organizations or israeli military cannot break the will of resistance and the palestinian youths resisting this intifada will continue the jerusalem intifada will continue the palestinian people go on to freedom or martyrdom huge crowds are gathered outside of the mother's house and would mean. to be even. but it's not just my son he's the son of all of palestine he died his dignity fighting the occupation he

has made his people proud. on the seventeenth of january they thought they killed but that turned out to be a case of mistaken identity and an innocent man was killed the killing of the settler led prime minister benjamin netanyahu to declare the settlement outposts legal under israeli law and bring it under official protection the bodies of the two palestinians killed in the israeli raids still haven't been handed over to the families imran khan al jazeera moon village occupied west. poland's president says he'll sign into law a bill that makes it illegal to blame poland for crimes committed by nazi germany but he also said he'll send the legislation to the constitutional court for clarification's it imposes fines of prison terms of up to three years for those who call auschwitz a polish death camp israel and the u.s. is strongly opposed the new law saying it whitewashed the will play by the poles in the holocaust but under is to just says poland can't be blamed for what happened

after the nazis invaded in one nine hundred thirty. you do or not this is the old joke of the polish state which did not exist about time and polish institutions did not take part in the german industry of destruction polish institutions did not collaborate with germans in many countries the world government supported nazis and many countries that were puppet governments appointed by nazi germany no such situation happened in poland poland struggled against germany the humanitarian crisis caused by given civil war is going more desperate every day the un says forty seven thousand people have been displaced in the past month alone while humanitarian access is improving many families are still living life on the edge doing whatever they can to overcome food and water shortages mohammed judge of reports. with the only available drinking water located miles away the children carry what they can collect on the backs of donkeys but the rough terrain makes an

already difficult situation even more arduous violence caused these families to flee their homes in the village of your yes in southern yemen as of bought governorate another reminder of how the conflict in yemen is deepening what the u.n. calls the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in the world. who said we're now living in caves as a result of the will we are facing harsh living conditions especially the ferocious cold homes have been destroyed. hardship has become the norm for these yemenis the adults worry the children will suffer the worst and in this makeshift camp hope is dwindling as temperatures drop that it gets a little bit i mean i said it well this year's winter is the worst in years the temperature is hit minus five degrees the displaced families are living through harsh conditions and most of them took shelter and it is a humanitarian crisis they need immediate shelter and relief aid in a country where children have been at higher risk of contracting cholera and diptheria this boy is suffering from severe pneumonia and hoping the hospital will

have enough medication to help him recover. even the internally displaced who managed to escape to a nearby town are still living in extremely harsh conditions constantly searching for water and always seeking warmth. the humans top envoy to somalia has appealed for more support for a volunteer ambulance service that's at the forefront of saving lives in mogadishu somali capital has experienced numerous deadly bombings of the government's medical services struggled to help those injured in the attacks for me to miller has worn out from a goodish. it's ten am and the seventh emergency call of the morning comes through you know it's from this call center in market issue that the only free ambulance service in the city is run it's not a huge operation but the staff are kept busy of the followers of the right we are

very busy when explosions happen when they do i have to do more than just drive i have to help the nurses with patients twelve years ago up to carter had them used all these savings to buy his first ambulance today he has a fleet of ten they may be old and some on their last legs but they get the job done or actually want to somalia in two thousand and six there was a war going on when they to have been fishing come into somalia and there was a lot of people was dying in front of my clinic i was half in a clinic in a car market and descendants of people was dying and getting injured then i asked myself how can i help my people workers are not well trained but they have the basic skills they can start bleeding and give patients painkillers but that's about all but transporting patients to hospitals quickly and safely is often the difference between life and death the ambulance service needs more equipment and

its staff better troll more training it's often the leading emergency service most recently when two blasts went off last october killing more than five hundred people and injuring hundreds of others for years many people were brought into hospitals using wooden wheelbarrows often being pushed as far as five kilometers to get help many wouldn't make the journey i mean ambulances are helping to improve mogadishu's health services especially as the few were available ambulances are unaffordable for most people this is mogadishu. largest hospital its director mohammad yousuf haas and says while they are able to do more surgeries than ever before they can treat everyone some of them you need some sophisticated investigation that you cannot do because you don't have that if you have it in the genes scorpius old this is new but.

hopeless we have. from outside now that help is increasingly coming from within the somalia adam runs the service using his own money and donations he says he dreams of one day having ambulances helping people not just in mogadishu but across somalia from al-jazeera mogadishu management at the louvre museum in paris have opened an official investigation into the ruble of qatar from this lady and one of its museums the map was published by the united arab emirates hoover abu dabi museum now the head of the national committee for human rights in qatar says that the louvre museum has apologized for the matzoh tensions though have been high in the region since the u.a.e. saudi arabia egypt and bahrain cut ties with qatar a french judge has ordered a prominent swiss islamic scholar to be remanded in custody over allegations of rape tariq ramadan was arrested in paris last week and is facing

a possible investigation and trial over claims he assaulted two women he denies those allegations. the new space x. jumbo rocket is preparing to blast off for its first test flight in the next hour or two while the falcon heavy is set to become the world's most powerful rocket in use which would double the liftoff power of their ships she's these launches considered a key turning point for billionaire entrepreneur a long mosques private the own space exploration technologies well the rocket has twenty seven m. in engines and it's carrying mosques tesla roadster convertible as a mock payload minutes after takeoff the two i was to do stars will attempt to land at the nearby cape canaveral air force station the sense of possibility and excitement here is really got me quite giddy actually this is the source go wrong i hope all goes right let's get more now from syria dalla is live at the kennedy space center in cape canaveral florida hi there say or so is another more powerful

rocket for a long lost this time tell us more about it. well if and when found in heavy takes on it would not only be able to carry satellites potentially more cheaply into war but it would also be a building block for this new rocket in development to really serve as this version future rocket that's in development would be a future version of this it would help carry people to the moon potentially even mars but all of that is kind of right up in the air right now and that is because of strong wind shear in the upper atmosphere it has now pushed the launch back ninety minutes the window we're starting to see the end of it so there is the possibility that the launch may not happen today they have already reserved tomorrow for backup just in case even when it does take off it will be the most powerful rocket in the world with five hundred five hundred five million rather

pounds of thrust onboard right now there are some pretty precious cargo it is a cherry red tesla roadster it's going to play david bowie's song space oddity on repeat as it hopefully enters orbit around the sun like i said if all goes well it's going to be used to launch satellites and service this building block food to help revolutionize space travel julie and say well how important is it that when this does get on the way that it goes well for a long. well he's really been managing expectations about this launch he has never guaranteed anything but an exciting show even telling n.b.c. news that he thinks the chances for success on this demonstration are about fifty fifty he says really his main goal he hopes it doesn't blow up the launch pad because then they have to rebuild it so like i said this is a task they've never promised anything more than that and we want to stress this is

an on demand test mission saver there live from cape canaveral say we're. well astrophysics david clements is from london's imperial college and he joins me live in the studio david i notice you were laughing there and sarah was saying about let's just hope it doesn't you know blow up the launch pad and then we have to start again if it's about just how one wheel the technically speaking our attempts like this well but the first time we launch a new launch vehicle it's always a risk my mind goes back to the first launch of the ariane five rocket back in one thousand nine hundred eighty five which famously exploded very shortly after leaving the private. what you're doing with a launch vehicle like this is you have several thousand tons of high explosives. high explosive has to go off in the right order for it to be a successful launch and not a giant firework and needless to say making sure that it all goes off in the right

order is not an easy thing when we call this you know a massive rocket why is it important that this is bigger than the rest and just how big is a well the crucial figure for going to heavy is that it can launch about sixty four tons into low earth orbit now that it's almost a factor of three more than the current running biggest launch vehicle delta four heavy. the only launch vehicle that's ever been more powerful is the saturn five which launched or the apollo the apollo missions to to the bone so we're in that scale of things but give you an impression of what sixty four tons means that it's a fully loaded passengers crew luggage fuel seven thirty seven aircraft and putting one of those of norwood about four hundred kilometers above the the surface of the earth ease effectively what four can heavy can do how important is

it not just for a lawn musk as an individual but but for everybody for all of us that we that private space companies are allowed to make progress in in this way or the crucial thing about for can have the. the private space programs from from space x. and in fact several other companies like blue origin is that they're driving down costs a large factor. for can heavy assuming it works and goes into full operations it costs about ninety million dollars for a launch delta four heavy cost about three hundred fifty million dollars for launch launching about a third as much so if you look at those those economies of scale in terms of reducing your launch costs why factors of zero four five six that means that you can do a lot more inspired you could put it from my point if you can put bigger telescopes up for less money you can put bigger satellites monitoring the earth's environment

up for less money and monitoring the environs very important thing for everybody down here. and you can put bigger longer lived communication satellites up which are more powerful and can cover more of the earth giving t.v. the radio mobile phone etc reception we heard leon must saying earlier he was giddy with excitement so let's see what happens later david thank you thank you. fans of luxury cars flats cars on earth not in space well you may want to look away now porsches to see these jagger's and corvettes were among more than two dozen cities luxury vehicles crushed in the philippines present rodrigo's eternity ordered the description of the second hand vehicles to deter smoke that's almost three million dollars worth of smuggled vehicles were intercepted by the country's customs bureau . one hundred forty member on suit from north korea has arrived in south korea to perform during the winter olympics the group traveled by ferry to the east and

south korean port of morkel they were met by crowds of protesters holding a large force of north korean leader kim jong un with black crosses drawn through them which it will perform at a time when host city taking advantage of rare sanctions exemptions. and we've got more on the winter olympics sport. which is the traditional. we have.

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that's. thank you very much julie there are just three days to go until the winter olympic games begin n.p.r. chang but a number of banned russian competitors aren't giving up their fight to compete thirty two athletes of appeal to the court of arbitration for sport including champion speed skater victor and herring will likely be held on wednesday this follows a decision by the court last week to overturn the lifetime elim pick bands of twenty eight russians due to doping claims one hundred sixty nine competitors while cleared to compete. in a neutral olympic athlete from russia's team and the issue was central at a meeting of the international olympic committee on tuesday your huge amount of work has gone into making sure that we can ensure that it will be a clean pass a clean athletes from russia to compete in these games here so i think we await the

decision as everyone else does but with the most important we're very confident of opposition some of the russian athletes cleared to take part in the games are already touched down in south korea including these men's ice hockey players they arrived earlier on to say they'll begin competing under the olympic flag on february fourteenth. when the winter olympics get underway one of the strangest ball to look out for is curling stones a swept along the ice britain is strong in men's and women's curling and the secret of their success lies in the sport's history in scotland well in these reports. while some prepare for a winter olympics by hurtling down a ski slope others give a gentle throw a watch a giant slab of granite like it's why a lawless. what used to be known as house work and that a giant stone settles closest to the center scoring points this is curling and scotland is home to some of the world's best colors even your head is the skipper of the multi medal winning british women's to a bronze medalists in such

a four years ago the mia heads are a culling family has sheep brothers thomas and glamour in the men's team who won silver in such a father competed in the sport before it became an official olympic event in one nine hundred ninety eight one of the advantages and he was a couple disappointed as well of being followed out of intense competition at the olympic games i think it's. just it's like and support each other and we're there for each other and do whatever for each team and i think what's really been this kind of. going really well there's this family members going i was going to cause you know a few locals are going. to see their faces when we go here to culling is traditionally an outdoor sport but the ice has to be thick enough and siphon off and that last up and hair like of went south in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine and i kind of the grand lodge there's a legendary in scotland the great thing about curling is not so much the actual

game of the imagine sweeping that always accompany the games popularity having been part of life in scotland for hundreds of years is about to get another push for the winter olympics and the precious stones come from an island off the west coast of scotland by the name of. granite. that mean. to be used. yes the world curling faith edition pervades their use for all world championships and olympic games heavens yes this. is certainly. but it's in this forum on a street paisley abbey make glasgow that evidence of colleagues origins could be found. the piers that in the early part of the sixteenth century. a monk from the abbey here settled a wager by throwing a stone on ice. doesn't call it curling but to all intents and purposes it involved

ice and throwing stones so that sounds very like a basic form of curving nearly five hundred years later the british team will love history on its side in china canada sweden and switzerland just some of the teams who may provide formidable opposition as they gently nudge their way to what they hope will be god the wellings al-jazeera standing. antonio conti will remain as tells the manager for now anyway that's despite his side being thrashed four one by what fed in the english premier league on monday after having team sent off in the first half and going a goal down at an equalized with eight minutes to go but while third then scored three goals in six minutes to condemn chelsea to a second defeat in a row their fourth in the table nineteen points behind leaders at man city in all the football news former everton boss ronald koeman has been appointed as the new

manager of the netherlands coleman who was sacked by everton in october will take charge for the first time in a friendly against england in march he replaces fellow dutchman dick advocaat who resigned after the netherlands failed to qualify for the twenty eighteen world cup . the eagles have landed back in philadelphia after their first ever super bowl when dozens of fans gathered outside the fence of philadelphia international airport to see the team's return from minneapolis with the vince lombardi trophy the ingles be the new england patriots forty one thirty three on sunday and celebrate a re parade will be held in philadelphia on thursday. and one man missing from the philadelphia arrivals with eagles quarterback nick foles the super bowl m.v.p. could be found in florida instead at disney world where a parade was thrown in his honor. south africa's cricket team have had it all to do in their six match one day international theories against india going into

wednesday is that maj in cape town the hosts all ready to kneel down after the first two matches they've also been hit by injuries to several players but south africa have a very good record in cape town winning twenty eight of their thirty three one day internationals played there and they believe they can bounce back despite the impressive form shown five fall by the indians the most important things for us to stay positive and not really. seek too many questions or too many answers rather we are winning you don't ask yourself any on any questions so great . so you just have to stay positive keep trying to change a moment. don't think so the ego is going to come visit and. it's a big cities for us because we got played very well indices saw the leg do. as hard as possible and play to win. whatever games come in over.

cyclist dylan groene a vegan won the opening stage of the device or on tuesday going to break and hit the front of the pack with one hundred fifty meters of the one hundred sixty seven cover climate of course remaining beating magnus court nelson and viviana to the line those three finishing well clear of the other sprinters the second stage takes place across the u.a.e. on wednesday. something a bit different to end with the roller derby wild card has been taking place in manchester over the last three days the thirty eight teams and thousands of spectators in attendance the sport could be described as a combination of roller skating and wrestling this was the first time the event was staged outside of north america the united states meet australia in the final after the aussies took the lead the americans fought back to edge in front and since the players are all women the cheerleaders may as well be men right following the halftime show in the usa would go on to secure the title. ok what's all this ball for now back to julian langton thank you now you can find

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