sixteen states are trying to contain the fires local officials are warning that strong winds are expected to make the fires even more dangerous over the weekend nothing has announced the first nine astronauts who will head into space on rockets built by aerospace companies boeing and space x. the flights are shuttled for next year to take the food to the international space station and will restore the u.s. is ability to send its own us journalists to space for the last seven years nasa is had to buy flights on russian soyuz spacecraft if you wanted to get to the space station be a part of this crew flying with erik and furry and they have a wealth of experience and so i'm looking forward to training along these two gentlemen and flying in space and i plan to learn a lot from them and we'll bring that back to nasa and then hopefully apply that to our future space program tony monica is an asteroid journalist and a managing editor space dot com he's joining us now on skype from husin texas thanks very much indeed for being with us why is it so important for the u.s.

to have its astronauts launched in u.s. vehicles from its own soil. this is like a major key to ability that nasa has been striving to restore since its spatial program retired in two thousand and eleven now as you mentioned earlier nasa has been dependent on russia so used base craft to launch its own astronauts to the international space station and the space agency has some big plans to trump administration here as directed nasa to you know not only splash rested speciation would you reach farther to the moon. would be on and to do that they need the ability to launch their own astronauts into space instead of paying you know tens of millions of dollars to russia per seat to fly these these missions but if i understand it correctly as you rightly say of course it's been paying i think it's eighty two million dollars per seat on average to get on to us a soyuz craft but it's also been spending a huge amount of money to space x. and boeing to develop these craft so i'm just wondering where the cost saving is

and what the ultimate goal is. well printed it is to you know have a reliable american made transportation system then nasa does hope that when when these systems are ready they will be paying much less per seat then than they would have for for the soyuz spacecraft now those soyuz seats have been rising over the years from something like forty million or so just you know a decade ago all it's eighty two now and they could be going up in the future if nasa is kind of pinched and they don't have these vehicles in time for that now that's had to renew that agreement over time now the space x. you know these flights from space x. is crew dragon vehicle and boeing starliner they can carry more astronauts per flight they can reach built to maybe fly up to seven people per flight these earlier test flights will carry two maybe three in the starliner case with nicole

man that you showed earlier. you know by being able to fly more astronauts at a time more regularly and from u.s. soil where they don't they're rushing to try and you know will cut down a lot of time and a lot of costing us is this just another way of getting the astronauts up to the s.s. or other stuff that they can do find their. well so one of the core missions that nasa wants these these vehicles to do is to fly its astronauts to and from the their national space station and you know that that is the main your destination for nice astronauts right now and without the space shuttles which retired seven years ago you know nasa can't get its own ashes there and it also has partners in europe in japan in canada you know to to fly those astronauts to and when it's time for them to fly and nasa has to pay for them to fly on the the russians soyuz as well so they want to be able to fulfill those obligations with their own spacecraft

in addition to these companies could be open to using these vehicles once they're proven for their own means no bowings chris ferguson a former nasa astronaut who will be on that first starliner test flight is a corporate action and a private astronaut if you will now. and you can see they could use these vehicles for space tourism for commercial space station missions boeing is now working with a private space station manufacturer and a big goal air space for that type of thing meanwhile nasa hopes to build another vehicle orion to go into deep space and so there could be a lot of versatility for these missions tag mike thank you very much indeed for your time thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera in sport brooke anderson takes the direct route she stays in touch with the leaders of the british open.

once considered a war criminal now an aspiring presidential candidate in the democratic republic of congo. after his conviction was overturned by the international criminal court in the hague jumpier bamba talks to al-jazeera. conservation is helping kick his stove to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests they're more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international list of threatened species.

it's time for the sport has peter. thank you very much it said he one's game in birmingham where england and india have closed play on the third day of the first cricket test match ishant sharma blitz the english passing order at the start of the day to leave the home team struggling at lunch sam curran hit sixty three from a nice sixty five balls to help the home side reach one hundred eighty all out but india's bet's men did not have it all their own way as they set off in pursuit of the victory target of one hundred and ninety four here's a look at the school called at the close of play on the third day stuart broad has taken two wickets in india's second innings the top score so far is captain very

out kohli who is unbeaten on forty three when play resumes england will need five wickets the indians will need eighty four more runs and they'll be hoping captain kohli can lead them there oh yeah i think he's he's somebody you know he's someone who's always give you the positive energy i think that's. really a big thing as a captain because you know he always want to do something special for the team india is not he knows that everybody knows that hope of personally i think it's pretty good to have. we five wickets this is interesting we need him fairly quickly otherwise you don't get the runs so. yeah like so if we're just going to give it everything we've got in the morning for the first fifteen twenty overs leave nothing absolutely nothing out just give it everything we've got. there was an emotional win in washington for former world number one andy murray the scot is continuing his comeback off the hip surgery murray broke down in tears after

beating remaining in mario's copple to reach the last eight of the washington open the thirty one year old came back from a set down to eventually close out the match six seven six three seven six at three am local time that he's latest ever finish mary will play alex the minority of australia in the quarter finals he's first lost a tie since wimbledon twenty seventeen this is just he's food tournament since he had surgery in january. younger brother alexander very have came out on top against older brother and defending champion mischa's very even washington to progress to the quarter finals the twenty one year old is seeded number one at the tournament winning six three seven five against these big bro. venus williams the highest remaining seed left in the silicon valley classic in san jose has progressed to the quarter finals of former world number one and seven time grand slam champion be great britain's heather watson in three sets the thirty eight year old winning

a six falls four six six love world under fourteen williams will go on to face greece's muddier sakari in the last eight. the second round of the w.d.c. invitational in akron ohio has teed off and already there's a crowded leaderboard england's ian poulter who was the overnight leader is tied for first place with countryman tommy fleetwood as well as american justin thomas rory mcilroy is further back after he's second round failed to match his first round of five under par and fourteen time major champion tiger woods has also quietly gone about his business as he looks to move into contention ahead of the weekend and try and catch poulter and co. i don't think the course played any different very light breeze out there is only half the club wind. and that's why you see in the scoring you're seeing guys a go in low i knew they would go low but obviously you know around was yesterday

and i just had to oversee you know personally read numbers on the board as i could . there was a satisfying hole in one for canada's brooke henderson at the women's british open the ball bouncing high and slamming straight in the cup still far shots behind leader palm and on the part of thailand who's a shot clear on ten under with two grounds the player. and a great goal to show you from the south american club football competition the copper suit amerikana now check out this one from brazilian club flamin in say junior. school in directly from the corner to give them a two to win over defense or sporting of europe why in the first leg of the second round. lost of a first leg at home thanks to what looked like a fine strike from call on xm r.t.s. for its low it turned out to have taken a big deflection those self hollows prospects for the second leg in argentina were

not helped by the sending off of substitute presented. for me we're now in red bull driver daniel ricardo is leaving the team to join renault next season your straightens move comes as a surprise just before if one's august break he's currently fourth in the championship and has been with red bulls twenty three. danny pedrosa will say goodbye to motor g.p. at the end of the season having never been world champion but he could still edit to use tell you of race wins the spaniard was fastest in open practice at the czech grand prix in bern no victory in any of the last ten races will mean he's talked at least one podium in twelve consecutive seasons meanwhile moto three championship leader jorge martin is unlikely to race on sunday after fracturing his hand the number one ranked players in both the men's and women's draw have been knocked out of the badminton the world championships in men joining women's number one ties

unit last for only the second time in thirty seven matches this year china's he'd been just denying the taiwanese and sealing a first world semi of her career it was ties fourth quarter final defeat in a row at this level. denmark's defending champion victor axel son lost his quarter final to chane long axelsson her defeated chinese player to win the crown last year no such luck at this time around twenty one nineteen twenty one eleven defeat for the dane long going for his. title. the boston red sox have extended a season high game leader barrage rivals the new york yankees in major league baseball boston in our six and a half games ahead in the american league east but they got there the hard way on thursday coming from an early deficit they were down for nothing in the second inning but started a comeback in the food steve pearce hit three home runs and knocked in six r.b.i.'s to help take boston to an eventual fifteen seven victory. and that's all sports for

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a school against their will there was no mother no father figures they put us in the big clearing and we sort of looked after so i don't remember the children's names. it's kind of it is dark secret on al-jazeera. world health organization calls for a cease fire in yemen to help it stop another cholera outbreak. that there are a tile this is out there a live from doha also coming up some ball boys opposition leader nelson chamisa says he does not set amazon mind back with election victory. china says it's ready

to impose sixty billion dollars worth of tariffs on the u.s. in an escalating trade war. doesn't spain resort to traditional methods to try to avoid forest fires. aid agencies are demanding a cease fire in yemen a day off to astronauts in the port city of data killed at least fifty five people while health organization what's in the level of a million cholera vaccine to the north of the country it says there is a risk of an outbreak. has more from neighboring djibouti that come to buy fish and then the whole plane skate doesn't that i cannot i am mr strout so right we went to the hospital right away and found a disaster a criminal disaster there are twenty six people dead twenty six martyred and we counted thirty five to forty wounded that's not even counting the many wounded we

sent to private hospitals and we're still nursing the wounded and dealing with those killed a second strike at the busy market question this rescue work is. conducted the night i was saving people in the second airstrike happened its impact and shrapnel hit my face and i can you played a little i couldn't feel my hand because of the shrapnel. the fish market was just twenty meters from the whole hospital the largest on one of just full of medical facilities still open in the city of but they both the saudi and u.a.e. led coalition as well as who the flights as did my cutting all the talks they hope and does the u.n. special envoy for your minimalist who will hold talks between the government until the rebels in geneva on the sixth of september these consultations will provide the opportunity for the park use among other things to discuss the framework for

negotiations. to agree on relevant confidence building measures and specific plans for moving process for next month's planned talks could come too late for some the world health organization is warning yemen could be on the brink of a new put them in with even more deaths up to now the choice calling for. yemen to allow for bugs initial campaign to be cut it we have requested as the u.n. three days is tranquility associated with the first oral color of vaccine campaign across fourth fifth and sixth in the north of the country you recall that we were able to start to see the campaigns in the south of the country previously but we've never before been able to do it in the north and we are planning with almost three thousand health workers to vaccinate more than five hundred thousand individuals of the age of one year the world's worst humanitarian crisis may be

about to become dramatically was the u.n. humanitarian coordinator in yemen is warning that any attacks in her day that could be coupled with the human toll extending far beyond the limits of the city although seventy five percent of food imports into yemen go through the ports of the day that which is essential for imports such as fuel medicine and essential supplies. to boot. james fall as a senior fellow at the middle east institute in washington d.c. he says previous talks failed because of the complexity of what's happening in yemen. well you know last row only had united nations a couple of years ago the un has been pressuring the parties to come to a cease fire the attacks today that would pretty five and wounded one hundred forty four coming on top of a war that has killed ten thousand people arguably fifty thousand children have died of disease and starvation is putting

a lot of pressure when the united arab emirates and the saudi launch their attack on a data base over confidently predicted they would be able to oust who they say out numbered because it hasn't worked out that way and the problem that you have is that the impasse in which the who the steps teaching interest and holding. they've been accused of go for it supplies that are intended for civilians on the other hand the saudis in the end the u.a.e. of finding the fighting much tougher to go and i think that the problem that you have is the one that we have which is that you have parties with different interests and driven by a very emotional response the fighting and how data has become so bad that thousands of people a flaying every day save children estimates three hundred fifty thousand have left in the past few weeks attacks he also believes three thousand children leave the area every day trying to make it to safer regions. the situation for days is

already quite dire medical services are scarce in fact actually i was in for they thought the hospital a few days ago and at that time they also complained that there had been an air attack airstrike that was about two hundred meters south to the hospital and that had created some damage in the doctors' residence on the truck and went into the hospital they were very concerned at the time they were saying that actually people were scared. one person has been killed during protests along the gaza israel border palestinian officials say one hundred twenty other people have been injured as israeli soldiers fired live ammunition at demonstrators since the thirtieth of march they have been protest against israel every friday more than one hundred fifty palestinians have been killed since they began. at least twenty five people have been killed in an attack on a share mosque in afghanistan police say two suicide bombers targeted west is worshippers during friday prayers in god is south of the capital kabul i opened

fire inside the mosque before blowing themselves up more than eight c. other people were injured so all of us has more from kabul. president danny has come out he issued a statement he very rarely does that after bombings and attacks but this time with it being a shia mosque he has come out condemning the attack saying afghanistan will not be divided sunni shia we stand together and we're unified against attacks of this nature taleban has said this is not they work eisel is suspected they have targeted shia many times especially over the last year there were two attacks here in kabul in march thirty nine people killed both suicide attacks last year there were four quite significant attacks all in kabul suicide attacks and more than one hundred people died in those again i say took responsibility parliamentary and district elections are coming up on october the twentieth security is a big issue the presidential elections are announced for april next year and it is

everyone's mind not just day to day attacks we've had a couple of attacks on civilians and then province. its operations there and then she put a few attacks between the taliban and i saw this so this is attacks across the country and civilians really taking the hit and being in the crossfire on those attacks in recent months and of course prison gone is mind he's is really concerned about the setting up to the elections to the point that he seemed in the national army to afghanistan's fifth biggest city in jalalabad to take control from the police to try and shore up security for civilians. leader of zimbabwe's main opposition party says there's been fraud in the election on monday in which president i was in just over fifty percent of the vote now the results were manipulated he's promising to go to court over it says the election is credible that his calling for peace and unity harmony has more from harare. riot police

disrupt a press conference about to be given by the bobbies main opposition leader nelson chamisa the order the journalist to leave saying they have no permission to gather at the hotel. some suburban say scenes like these reminded them of the days when robert mugabe was in power. when freedom of speech was stifled and media reporting was districted the country's information minister eventually tells the police to leave. when allowed to speak to me so i didn't hold back on his words if you wanted it. if you call it wind yes of britain if you want a long and you know that's. shortly afterwards the president elect a missile managua himself spark criticizing the police's heavy handedness but insisting the vote was free and fair to nelson's

a. while to see. all the debris in zimbabwe's president. this unfolding future. hold for this slim unity you know island harare is still getting back to normal after wednesday's violence but something that tensions could rise challenges the results in court. but then god will has to be a president for all zimbabweans but many zimbabweans will need convincing he was robert mugabe's defense minister during the massacres when thousands were killed in the land the fact that. it's false some of the issues of this. it's. just it's. supporting.

the president elect is promising a fresh start but changing decades of in change or patient in state institutions will take time. and when i go we'll have to persuade the international community that scenes like this and now a thing of the past so as to not promise a political and economic reforms. are. china says it may impose tariffs on a further sixty billion dollars worth of american goods its foreign ministry says the new levies will go into force if the u.s. follows through on its threat or impose more types of his own u.s. accuses china of unfair practices trade. says it's using types to pressure china to reform. but the us is already imposed a twenty five percent on chinese goods with thirty full billion dollars it's mainly talking industrial goods china has responded with its own twenty five percent levy on the same amount of ice since it imports from the u.s.

the top administration is now preparing to up the ante with a twenty five percent tariff on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods the u.s. says chinese firms still technology and benefit from one fact government subsidies well that's because as a senior international economist at the economic policy institute he says china can limit the impact of u.s. tariffs china does hold the ace in the hole in this case it does control its own currency and the currency moves that we've seen to date will offset not just the tariff so trump has already imposed on thirty four billion dollars worth of imports but on all two hundred billion dollars worth of goods that he's threatening to put tariffs on so. currency movements can overwhelm the effect would be having these very broad tariffs and that's the core problem and that's the issue which we should be addressing what is the appropriate level of china's currency it's falling .