al-jazeera up north in syria a saudi woman who fled to thailand saying she feared her family would kill her is on her way to canada after being granted asylum this is according to the head of immigration in thailand raf muhammad had barricaded herself in an airport hotel room and launched a social media campaign that received global attention the canadian prime minister has confirmed that asylum request has been granted canada has been unequivocal that we will always stand up for human rights and women's rights around the world but this is part of a long tradition of canada engaging constructively in positively in the world and working with our partners allies and with the united nations and within the united nations made a request of us that we grant is. asylum we we we accept. to people including a chinese businessman have been arrested in poland on suspicion of spying polish

media say the chinese suspect is a director at the polish offices of the tech giant huawei the well second largest maker of cell phones if convicted the pair could face ten years in prison u.s. intelligence agencies have previously accused huawei of being linked to the chinese government which they say uses its technologies for espionage katrina you has more now from beijing. the man arrested is a chinese national who reportedly works for huawei which is a major technology firm here in china and he's been living in poland for more than ten years not many details so far from poland's intelligence agency but they do say that this is an operation that has been planned for a long time in that which was implemented very carefully now huawei is a technology company that's no stranger to controversy they have very close ties to the government and they work to develop telecommunications mobile foreigns internet technology now they've always denied that they funnel any information back to the

chinese government that they work directly with the chinese government but still there are many fears that qual way technology is being used as a back door for information or intelligence for the chinese government a so much so that japan for example has blocked while away from being used in the government contracts the u.k. australia new zealand has blocked while way from participating in any five g. network trials and long one joe who is an heiress and executive of quali was arrested in canada late last year at the request of washington for allegedly violating u.s. sanctions now at the moment the story isn't receiving much here in china actually the opposite any reports of the arrest are being very quickly removed from chinese social media which is indicating that this is not a good news story for china and there are already some fear is of what this might mean going forward of course after among wonder was arrested in canada there were two canadians who were detained here in china the chinese government denies that they're related but still there are fears of what could happen to polish nationals

moving forward now if this chinese national is found guilty of espionage he could face ten years in prison and at the moment he's already looking at about three months in detention. news from macedonia the parliament there is approved a change in the constitution which will effectively alter the country's name to the republic of north macedonia that is despite three days of protests in the capital it will end a dispute with its southern neighbor greece which dates back to the nation's independence twenty seven years ago and opposition to macedonia joining nato and the european union says the historic region of macedonia in the north of that country. i have for you on the program eight hundred thousand government workers mr first paychecks as the u.s. shutdown reaches its twenty first day also. i'm down there in the northeast the brazilian states where drug gangs have been defying government efforts to bring

them under control we speak to the state governor at the heart of the bottle. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast for more snow is on the way here for central parts of europe we've been dealing with snow all week long it has been deadly in some locations because of the avalanche threat which will continue to stay quite high over the next few days but i want to show you what you can expect to see through the weekend because by the time we get to sunday that is when we are expecting to see our next really big shot of snow across much of the area here up to the north you see the rain but that is going to turn to snow as it makes its way down here towards the south across much of the elves that is going to add at least another sixty to ninety centimeters of snow on top of what has already fallen so a very dangerous situation there down towards the southeast watch an area of low

pressure and that is going to make anywhere across the eastern part of the med very very unstable over the next few days here on saturday we are looking at that area of low pressure bringing some rain here to tripoli as well as over here towards been gusty winds are going to be a problem as well and then as we go towards sunday that storm makes its way more towards the east bringing more heavy rain across parts of the lebanon as well as syria a lot of the refugee camps have been flooded because of the situation here across northern parts of egypt it is going to be windy as well benghazi you'll continue to see more rain in your forecast and tunis it's cloudy day for you with a temperature of fourteen. to survive in twenty first century america i live off my credit cards when i don't make enough money the last couple months but minimum balances can only keep their heads above water in a tough economic climate companies have had to lay off thousands of workers if you

want to go to school he'll be pain for his classes and books and all of that he can do that on the walgreen's down. just zero. welcome back just a quick look at top stories now opposition candidate for unity says he won a landslide victory in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election with sixty one percent of the vote his rival felix tissue katie has been declared the winner though is saying he got just eighteen percent. sudanese security forces

have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of people protesting against the government in khartoum rights groups have accused them of using excessive force even attacking protesters in the hospital. and the u.s. military says it started pulling equipment but not troops out of syria coalition's folks northeast revealed further details of that withdrawal including when the two thousand american troops will leave. now the democratic controlled u.s. house of representatives has voted to restore funding for several federal agencies have been shut down by a fight with president donald trump a total funding but it's unlikely to lead to a full resumption of government operations the shutdown is now into its twenty first day and around eight hundred thousand employees a missing their first paychecks some have been temporarily laid off their jobs without pay also known as a photo while others away from nothing it's the nineteenth shutdown since one thousand nine hundred seventy six when new budget rules were enacted giving

congress more power most have been brief but the current shutdown now matches the previous longest one in one thousand nine hundred five to ninety six when president bill clinton battle with the republicans of a cuts to medicaid and a gallup has been speaking to some of those affected in the east and us city of baltimore and joins us now tell us more about some of those who are missing their paychecks or who have been impacted by this shutdown. will light departments plus the department of homeland security are affected by this so think about those essential services provided by people like t.s.a. agents at this nation's airports who provide security at shafik controllers who also control the air space across the nation who say the longer this goes on the more dangerous it may be to fly and also because the dot department of homeland security's affected border guards along but u.s. southern border are also affected but it really goes beyond those departments the effects of this government shutdown and those people not being paid being felt

widely and in the city of baltimore baltimore we looked at the human cost of what a partial government shutdown means. this government building in the heart of downtown baltimore is normally a hive of activity its doors are now closed its workers furloughed and the impact on the streets close by is clear over the last few weeks mohammed olo marie has seen his business declined sharply make choices. he tells us who leave the area if things don't return to normal soon if you see you know. it's one o'clock like nothing here you know it's like you're only as good of the business. as the bin you know is the only. general but it's been a federal employee for decades this isn't the first government shutdown he's lived through but the longer it lasts the harder it gets for his family for drop again in the car today or do our way to the week do. buy groceries today or from the way

to enough to be a fare on some things that can get a little bit cheaper in all twenty three thousand federal employees across maryland are either working without pay or of been furloughed it's one of the worst affected states and the impact is widely felt when this partial government shutdown ends there's a good chance that the eight hundred thousand federal workers will get back pay for those contracted by the government to rely on federal resources to provide services that can mean the difference between life and death the future is less certain nevertheless we've met people here so committed to what they do that continuing to work not knowing where their next paycheck will come from native american life lines receives federal funding from a now closed government department staff to provide support for addiction mental health and vital but equal services not that i can save everyone but at least being here they know that they have a home and a safe place to be and we won't be able to provide that. new worries me if there's

no resolution by saturday this will be the longest government shutdown in u.s. history it's a prospect that many here and across the u.s. consul for to face. hundreds of thousands of people to be facing their first day now without a paycheck means that the stakes are very high do they at least feel as though that might add a greater sense of urgency to fixing. yes. well i mean among these people that have not received their paycheck today there's not really anger at the moment because they're more concerned about the hard decisions they're going to have to make you heard one of the interviewees are saying does he put gas in the car or food on the table but to a person everyone we've interviewed over the last couple of days says that they feel like a political pawn and i asked each person we've met what their message to washington d.c. and the president and the democrats would be in the message is very simple we don't want to be pawns anymore we don't want to feel like we're stuck in between this argument we want politicians to sit down and sort this out because the longer this

goes on the tougher those decisions get you've got people applying for unemployment people going to food banks here in baltimore to get food and people in a desperate situation and it's not just the federal employees it's also those contracts and all those who depend on federal employees some talking about restaurants close to federal buildings taxicabs airports and federal buildings it really goes a long way and it goes wide and is affecting a deep amount of people so there is a growing anger but overall the worry here is the decisions they're going to have to make and just how long they can survive without the money coming in thank you very much from baltimore an economic. to political developments in venezuela now opponents of nicolas maduro staged a protest in caracas as he begins his second term as president the duro is sworn in on thursday but his election victory has been denounced as fortune and an opposition it is a discussing ways to remove him an opposition rally was held outside the

headquarters of the organization of american states ahead of the opposition run congress says that the nation's backing he is ready to take on the do as presidential powers and call for new elections. meanwhile the governor of say our state in brazil is refusing to back down on his prison reform aspire tally ation from the region's drug lords criminal gangs have been split between different prisons and phones have been confiscated to curtail the power of jailed gang leaders a state governor in the capital has been explaining his crackdown to daniel. the authorities at the state security headquarters daily plan their next steps in the battle they know has only just begun. the monitoring for further violence from drug gangs which launched a wave of attacks across sierra after moves to curtail the power of their leaders serving time in jail. president jail sentence national troops they were welcomed by

the sara state governor camille santana although he's from the opposition workers' party. this is a moment of union in this country brazil should work together with the national government to tackle this problem there are painful consequences but we must work in that direction to win the fight against organized crime in brazil it was the governor's initiative to tackle the growing strength of the drug gangs starting in the prisons. as soon as we started reorganizing the prison system the tax took place on the streets gang members reacted by trying to intimidate the state government trying to make us back off but we are doing exactly the opposite we are tightening our actions removing any kind of communication from inside the prisons isolating and transferring some of the prisoners to other states the two main drug gangs are the cell paolo base first capital command or p.c.c. and the rio based red command their fight for supremacy often coordinated and

fought within these walls the irony is that these prisons were built to contain the captured drug members instead they've become recruiting and training grounds and even power bases the author it is said that that must end. that are an issue priority is their fight in the jails however the state is also dealing with the gangs on the streets while implementing social programs to try to lure youngsters away from the lucrative but deadly trade. resort criminal groups born inside the prisons so for decades we didn't have a proper policy to debrief or improve the penitentiary system that was never prioritized not only here but in the whole of brazil so when that stayed the site it to act against these gangs didn't react as strongly but the street is even stronger the violence affects many layers of brazilian society the attacks and said frightening away investment especially in the vital tourist industry why do. i see

a reduction of fifty percent of the about the shrimp i'm selling these days the beach is quite empty especially for this period of summer holidays of brazil. the focus now is back behind these walls but few expect to stay there for long than usual in their al-jazeera for to listen high court judges in myanmar rejected an appeal by two reuters journalists serving seven year prison sentences while. convicted of breaking the official secrets act by reporting an army massacre of rangar villages reporters say they were framed by police who gave them classified documents reuters has condemned the ruling person has called on the unsung sea change to look at whether jew process was followed in the case scott haida has this update now from bangkok. the high court in yangon announced that it had rejected this appeal in the afternoon on friday they said that there was not enough evidence that these two gentlemen were innocent so they were saying that the conviction was

upheld and also is when it comes to how long they would spend behind bars they were sentenced to seven years back in september there was a possibility with the appeal that that sense could be reduced but the court's on friday the high court in yangon saying that there was a suitable punishment of seven years because of the severity of what this case was about that it threatens to harm national security so these gentlemen for now will stay behind bars according to the high court in yangon for seven years now very soon after the word came out about this on friday the editor in chief of reuters made a statement today's ruling is yet another in justice among many inflicted upon why lone and just so do they remain behind bars for one reason those in power sought to silence the truth reporting is not a crime until may and mar writes this terrible wrong the press had me on mars not free and in march commitment to rule of law and democracy remains in doubt now for the future what could happen to these two journalists now that their appeal has

been rejected the defense can appeal to the supreme court in myanmar's capital neighborhood or there's no indication or word that they will do that yet and then the only other option for them is unsung suchi the state council the leader of myanmar issues a pardon but again there's no word if that's going to happen either finally china has released a photograph taken on the fos side of them in this panorama was created by joining together eighty pitches taken from a camera mounted on the chang the full moon upright it's the first manmade object to land on the side of the moon that's always facing away from us the picture also shows that jade rabbit rover exploring the previously unknown to reign. more in everything we're covering right here there's the address al jazeera dot com.

just a quick recap of the top stories this hour defeated opposition candidate. says he won a landslide victory in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election with sixty one percent of the vote on thursday the electoral commission declared his rival felix dishy k.d. the winner of the long delayed poll but citing catholic church observers fi use says to only manage to get eighteen percent of the vote it will not challenge the results in the constitutional court. nor has the right to steal victory from the congolese people do you accept that your victory be stolen no one no one has enough breath bush greens to steal your victory the victory of the congolese people. eight members of the same family have been killed in yemen in an artillery bombardment by who's the rebels before women and four children were killed in the government held village of shalala close to the border with saudi arabia it comes as the saudi led coalition says it destroyed a goofy drone control center that was used in an attack on

a military parade on thursday. a saudi woman who fled to thailand saying she feared her family would kill her is on her way to canada after being granted asylum this according to the head of immigration in thailand raf mohammed out of the new moon had barricaded herself in an airport hotel room and launched a social media campaign that received global attention the canadian prime minister has confirmed that her asylum request has been granted sudanese security forces have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of people taking part in anti-government protests in the capital hard to him and other parts of the country rights groups are accusing sudan's government of using excessive force against demonstrators including injured protest is receiving medical treatment at a hospital in under a mum. and the u.s. military says it has started pulling equipment but not troops out of syria a coalition spokesman refused to reveal further details of the withdrawal including when some of the two thousand american troops might leave the secretary of state my

pompei is in the region at the moment to reassure allies following donald trump surprise announcement of a troop withdrawal more than three weeks ago well that brings out speed with all of our top stories it will be more news a bit later on in twenty five minutes time off to techno which starts now. it's the fust day of school in bob an elementary school in mosul. this school is a military base firing rocket propelled grenades and multiples of nearby and out it falsus. most helpful good then what it is like to be in school up to three years war. six year old that was house of sub i've been as like his home and almost wiped

out his entire family he now lives in the popular destroyed house with his father and grandfather. solace for the protests his son for the first day in school is hopeful new friends would hope is that a company. on counting the cost of blame it on breaks one trillion dollars worth of assets shifted out of the u.k. change is in the aviation plus small and creepy the latest consumer gadgets connected to the internet on show in las vegas counting the cost on al-jazeera. this is techno a show about innovations that can change lives the science of fighting wildfires we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity we're doing it in unique way. this is a show about science lol all are not nice scientists. tonight

techno investigates shrimp safety the seafood by nature is a high risk commodity for americans love their shrimp but most of it comes from countries that use extensive antibiotics that could make you ill now techno goes inside the federal testing program american. that's supposed to protect the food supply doctors should do some more is mechanical engineer she will share the results of her investigation into how dangerous is that for human beings and i'm still taurus i'm an entomologist visitor shrimp farm in the middle of indiana yes indiana that could revolutionize the industry. this is like a little laboratory here yes it is. a terrorist santa maria it is a neuroscientist. imagine that you are one of the first to take a trip to mars. this is the definition of pioneering that's what makes it exciting

events our team now let's do some science. yes. and welcome to techno on phil tours joined by dr showed you some aura and. one of my favorite things is shrimp soon ruling away on a hot grill but i also have a fair amount of hesitation when it comes to actually knowing where that shrimp comes from then you may not realize it but shrimp raised overseas can have high levels of antibiotics and other additives that don't always pass american safety standards and america imports a lot of ira billion pounds so we asked the food and drug administration the agency responsible for policing u.s. ports if we could follow them while they test the unsafe shipments. that america has a jumbo appetite for shrimp you know it's

a little piece of flesh that they could be easy it's kind of like popcorn of the sea americans it's an average of four pounds. at fred sixty two. chefs fred eric says a lot of shrimp and. very difficult as a chef or restaurant or to buy shrimp with the confidence that what you're serving them is going to be good type of rush which. americans taste comes with a price. ninety percent of the shrimp eaten in the u.s. is imported. much of it from countries like india thailand and indonesia sometimes trip is raised overseas using production drugs like antibiotics that are approved for use in those countries but not approved for use in the u.s. johns hopkins microbiologist david love surveyed federal data on drugs found in

imported shrimp some of the top drugs that we found in shrimp were here and chloramphenicol tetracycline itself on a meds and instructor meissen what does it mean for the consumer to be exposed to antibiotic resistant bacteria if you get an infection from these bacteria it can be hard to treat using antibiotics especially if these bacteria are resistant to the antibiotics that your doctor would prescribe you see shroom bombs that use antibiotics often farm with overcrowded pawn diseases are a big deal in shrimp farming can be a high mortality rate in some shrimp farms. the food and drug administration polices shrimp imports. five point five billion pounds of sea think it is imported into the united states every year

and much of it ends up in a cold storage facility like this one in southern california but only a tiny fraction of all of that seafood is actually inspected so we've come here today to find out exactly how the f.d.a. . emily morrison is a veteran f.d.a. inspector collected one subsample out of fifteen random boxes and now in the process of bagging them. put them in coolers. and ship it to the lab a computer system red flags imports believed to pose the greatest risk based on country of origin and the company's past history of violations seafood by nature is a high risk commodity dance elise has inspections at the ports of los angeles so there are many boxes here and they're all packed full what percentage of the sample

gets chosen to be taken to the lab so f.d.a. reviews all electronic transmissions and the utilize things like foreign inspection domestic inspection whether it was sampled and another for all that information's gather within the predict application and then that shipment will be given a risk or the higher the risk or the more chances one of these officers will sample that much or. once the f.d.a. inspector picks some pills for inspection they're sent to an f.d.a. lab like this one in california. you make your movie i'm working. i can imagine. that the ship is mixed with a chemical solvent dried and liquefied again run through and on and.

is an f.d.a. chemist the results are written from the tests what are they showing us in this post the compound fourteen forest monster storms and how dangerous is that for human beings virtual current is dangerous for human beings because it's costs. are certain level organizer for the star one the building or one cause the building of this equipment or working for one so you know its size swimming. so how many parts per billion is this result i was one to true cost of building so two grains and so in the olympic sized pool when you've managed to find it in that bio it's incredible so that batch of strand is not allowed in this country is this not going to be along with the f.d.a. simply isn't testing enough on the imported market to really find all of these violet of residues dr rangan had a study of imported shrimp for the june two thousand and fifteen issue of the

influential magazine consumer reports of the two hundred five imported farm samples that we found a leaven of those actually had illegal residues of antibiotics on them and that comes out to about five percent of the imported farm shrimp samples being contaminated with an illegal antibiotic residue the fact that the f.d.a. only tests about point seven percent of all the shrimp in this country for. for those antibiotic residues suggests that the agency is not actually testing enough shrimp to catch the amount of illegal residue products that may be coming into the market however many of the countries that export the shrimp permit the use of antibiotics when you feed low levels of antibiotics every day you're not feeding them enough to necessarily kill bacteria those bacteria can become resistant to those antibiotics and that can make those antibiotics less effective in people if

we're infected by those bacteria just as worrisome was the number of shrimp that tested positive for bacteria we found about a third of the shrimp that we had had vibrio contamination vibrio is one of the few food borne illnesses on the rise seven of the samples we found had mercy that's concerning too and that's probably primarily associated with the amount of processing that goes on the shrimp production both have the potential to cause illness to the cooking process they can be killed we do know that there are shrimp farms and shrimp production practices that are doing a lot more to address those issues that are addressing hygiene and addressing other issues so that they aren't heavily reliant on drugs or other chemicals. six hundred miles from the nearest ocean. windmills and soybean and corn fields. home to. mom and pop indoor salt water shrimp for.

their own they're over and i'm struggling now welcomed r.d.f. travis county. dear old brown accidental shrimp farming pioneers are you going down at six pounds with thirty two dozen backyard pools is growing takes the perfect indoor system with zero waste no chemicals in the ninety percent survived. that's a third higher than traditional outdoor shrimp farms well this is like a little laboratory here yes it is in the short form yes it is we do nine tests every single day we do temperature design oxygen night shite c o two salinity alkalinity ph ammonia and flop as you can see our water is brown the test for doing here right now is we're trying to see how much bacteria is in our water and we call the settling so you're basically waiting for all those bacteria to go to the bottom and that tells you how much is in how much we have an exact like air for over

a certain level then we have to get it out of the tanks otherwise it's going to start suffocating the strap that's very important that has to be done every day basically we're not even farmers anymore we ask ourselves guardians of water as long as the water does what it's supposed to be doing the trick to just fine we add no antibiotics no hormones are ever added into our tanks you heard that right no antibiotics no hormones just fish food salts and baking soda it's called head root troop it bio flux system a process that revolves around bacteria no it looks very room what is this room that i'm seeing the ground is the bacteria and the bacteria is why they sell their way so that they can survive without a major filter here's what's happening below the surface the shrimp eat their feed in excrete bemoan the bacteria turns that into talks ignite troitsky other bacteria turn that into benign i treat it as the water's air raided the nitrates turn into

a harmless gas going around and around how long have you had this water for years and how does it compare to other short forms most some don't have water that law we by mistake actually kept our water it's like it's maturing it's like one now does and we just found out of the older it gets the better it gets and so too for the shrimp the growing process starts every month with about two hundred fifty thousand newborns cold post laurels nicknamed pos. now we're going to show you about r p l's and when they come in they're the size of an eyelash so it's hard to see inside this water but how many shrimp are actually in here we stock about seventeen thousand each one of my six tanks there so what are all these tubes coming down those are airlines that adds the oxygen and their oxygen and keeps everything in suspense in because if this stuff settles i'll have twenty minutes and then twenty minutes limits me that everything here seems so precise it has to be it's mother

nature will it is mother nature but with a lot of help from a mother in indiana i notice there's foam on top what is this foam foam is mostly c o two mixing with their feed that just comes to the top and it will actually disappear so it's part of the process is part of the process. yeah it's wrong. because. this is what you see in the supermarket when you get assurance now as i said they can be present with a hat on their very translucent and one of the characteristics we actually look for mine say the long and ten is one thousand they're happy. in their intent is the start there fast now they begin seeing here this is their only protection and these mad right now that mouthpiece have these very angry at me as well horn yeah that if you can look right where your thumb is that that's where the part is that. you can see it start being. a month later they're promoted to the production team with the

turn in to dinner they are. already you know you have to keep going do it after. you get sick. or you say a number of beds are brown so about five hundred pounds directly to walk ins each month at eighteen dollars thank you very much i think they. told their know how to too doesn't stir. forms in the u.s. as well as ones in switzerland and spain these companies are really innovators they're trying out new technology johns hopkins microbiologist david love studies shrimp production he gives the production like the browns a high grade with one caviar one that could ultimately make or break in the business world a lot of these farms my start out with a bang but then fizzle after a few years because they don't make money for the browns shrimp farming is paying off no financial fizzle only sizzle as the business continues to grow as it

already is just a bad but the proof of their success is what ends up on the plate in this case innovation tastes pretty good when served with the profits that are so good. i still can't get over the fact that possibly the cleanest and arguably the best shrimp in the world may come from the middle of indiana so you get some. in the table it looks a little gross i get that but it's chemistry in there and that good in results is really good there's a global problem with using a lot of antibiotics in farming the more antibiotics used the more we're going to start seeing antibiotic resistant superbugs it happens in agribusiness here in the us it happens overseas and it even happens in medical practice you know a lot of people ask why should we care if there's some superbug that can infect

shrimp how does that affect us but what they found is that bacteria can actually swap genes so potentially if the bacteria that infect shrimp becomes resistant it could swap the gene into a bacteria that infects us and so that resistance me passed on and the amounts of you know millions of pounds of antibiotics are being used around the world not just in trim but in cattle and poultry as well that is going to catch up to us when it hits our health care system ads. it's called a spillover event it's not a confection it's an infection that happens in an animal species and then just like that a human can get infected too and it's been the source of most deadly diseases that medicine can't keep up with and that's where you look at the numbers could we have a billion pounds getting imported here only two percent actually gets inspected what about the other ninety percent it's important to have confidence in the system moving forward if we're going to keep eating shrimp and the inspection process the same brand i mean the amount of shipping that came investors will actually made it

into a lab is tiny care what you have co-wrote for us next you have really interesting story now imagine that you are one of the first pioneers to take a trip to mars but also imagine that you're not allowed to come home it's a one way trip which you guys do at. i met a woman who is already signed up and she's raring to go. for decades humanity has been fascinated with a manned expedition to mars. this is. the definition of pioneering. that doesn't scare here that's what makes it exciting robotic pioneers like mars curiosity rover have been crawling around the cratered landscape uncovering clues. about whether this distant planet can sustain life as we know it do you have the right stuff i have that right stuff

jamie del rosario is a twenty seven year old entrepreneur and c.e.o. of the international metal source a raw materials company that supplies metals to aerospace companies like space x. and lockheed martin she is one of one hundred candidates that has been selected by mars one a private company that wants to colonize the red planet the catch there's no return flight home what do you say to people when they say jamie this is a suicide mission why are you doing it call it as i said mission but it's something that i chose i'm creating my own destiny for myself and and if it's a destiny that would help humanity. i'm all for it. according to mars one one of the main goals of the project is to establish an interplanetary species to preserve the human race. i want to contribute directly to me in kind of scoffed at the expansion of the solar system which we have to look

for point destroying the world she made it to the top one hundred the third round of a selection process mars one says started with two hundred thousand online applicants ultimately twenty four crew members will be chosen. do you think that anybody with enough training could be. common astronaut i believe that if you have. the motivation and it's terminations of wanting to do it you can a mission to mars is obviously no simple matter pasadena california is home to the mars program at nasa is jet propulsion laboratory nasa has taken the man to the moon and back but they've approached this journey with a much more deliberate and rigorous training program. i'm now on the base on mars and i will give you a little tour in two thousand and fifteen six volunteer scientists walked out of a dome on the side of a hole why in volcano after being locked away by nasa for eight months this was

a simulated experiment of what life on mars would be like coexisting is one challenge getting there and surviving is an entirely different endeavor landing on mars is still pretty well sometimes it can be quite a terrifying play. dr richard zurek is the chief scientist for the mars program at nasa jet propulsion laboratory a lot of things have to happen right right know we fly into the atmosphere we have would he choose the protection but we're also trying to slow down so that we can land softly. we're talking about a very different scale of endeavor we're landing a metric ton down on the planet today we think for human missions to get stuff down on the surface that they can use that they can be there for a long period of time that means forty fifty metric tons that's a lot of material today we don't know how to land the mars one has come under

critical fire for their project primarily due to funding issues and for reports of recording the mission for reality television show. in march two thousand and fifteen c.e.o. basilan store took to you tube to respond they are currently selling our documentary series to international brawls costs or there's no deal in place yet but it's looking very promising there's a lot of interest of course when we really fell you a good criticism about our mission because at helps us to improve our mission also tells tecno quote there are less serious critics who are only interested to sabotage our mission for example by lying but even if. this nonprofit's mission never launches nasa is laying the groundwork today this is very much in the mode there are going to be humans on mars we're in the first stages of trying to understand what it takes to actually be able to explore with humans on the surface

of the planet we've made a good start for everybody program first it's to get down there see what the planet is like with those first explorers out there on the surface in that we can see what the future holds not in a million years but i want to go and colonize mars i mean there's so many risks it's so frightening to me what is the value that's different from me and probably from most of the people living on this planet who are afraid to go some people just have different goals and missions i want to do something that would change the world or help the world so if you are selected to go to mars do you foresee yourself getting married on mars having children i'm saying. is you know interesting because it will happen do you think that's going to be a part of your training i would think so i mean that's something that we cannot shying away from because we're the new frontiers of colony and i think another part in the solar system are you scare leaving earth behind i will miss it everybody is

trying to get to mars and i think what stands out with my swan is a permanent settlement and i think this is the time now. so i'm really interested you guys would you sign up for a one way mission to mars i wouldn't you wouldn't mind. possibly but i don't think i would sign up for this one way mission to mars jewelers through history so many pioneers and explorers were to be fair a little bit crazy and sometimes they succeeded but other times they didn't but it always will push progress forward just a little bit through how i think the merit of this project is the fact that they go live to try to be able to achieve living on mars and the result of having a go at night which is extremely ambitious is the amount of technology that's going to be developed you know just crazy inventions and innovations that are going to come out of a kind of pie in the sky it's your doubts have you know i think we've talked

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opposition candidate monitor for you lou says he won with a landslide sixty one percent of the vote citing catholic church election observers he said the declared when a rival opposition candidate felix to shake a day got just eighteen percent for you says he will challenge the results of the constitutional court and his urged his supporters to contest then. no one has the right to steal victory from the congolese people do you accept that your victory be stolen no one no one has enough breath nor strength to steal your victory the victory of the congolese people well there is our metastasize more now from can charter. monson five according to his own tally and the tally from the catholic church he should have won the election but he has to provide the evidence and explain how he got to these numbers so what is he planning to do he's planning to go to the point on saturday where he will present his evidence or his numbers to

judges who will then decide whether he has a case if they say he doesn't have a case they will throw him out which means felix the kid he will be declared president elect and he'll be sworn in on january eighteenth on the ground it's been fairly quiet on friday throughout the countries people wait to see how this court outcome is going to hand out there are fears that if you lose a petition is rejected in court he may call on his supporters to come out onto the streets and protest and if he has that there could be violence it what is clear is that he is adamant that he won this election and some people in the also feel that he should have won this election all eyes are now on the court and how independent they going to be meanwhile the catholic church in the day the u.n. security council to urge the election commission to publish the data from the vote but the aussies ambassador to the u.n. has warned the international community not to interfere in the electoral process. the d. or c.

as is the case with any sovereign state has established institutions under the constitution to settle disputes. a number among you have advised to be tapped into that being said it is perhaps not wise for the international community in the place of the d r c to set out demands that may lead to those institutions being supplanted. it is important for us to urge partners and friendly countries not to add fuel to the fire with these results. well sudanese security forces have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of people taking part in anti-government protests in the capital hard to him and other parts of the country rights groups are accusing sudan's government of using excessive force against demonstrators including injured protesters receiving medical treatment at a hospital in under a man. eight members of the same family have been killed in yemen in an artillery bombardment by hoofy rebels before women and four children were killed in the

government held village of shalala close to the border with saudi arabia a saudi woman who fled thailand saying she feared her family would kill her is on her way to canada after being granted asylum. and had barricaded herself in an airport hotel room and launched a social media campaign that received global attention the canadian prime minister's confirm the asylum request has been granted. canada has been unequivocal that we will always stand up for human rights and women's rights around the world but this is part of a long tradition of canada engaging constructively and positively in the world and working with our partners allies and with the united nations and when the united nations made a request of us that we grant. asylum we we we accept and the u.s. military says it has started pulling equipment house to syria but not yet troops a coalition spokesman refused to reveal further details on the withdrawal including

when some of the two thousand american troops might leave secretary of state might pay zero is in the region to reassure allies following donald trump surprise announcement of a troop withdrawal within three weeks. and as your top stories coming up next on al-jazeera it's hard earned more news in about twenty five minutes stay with us. companies have had to lay off thousands of workers people can't afford to keep up with the cost of housing and food five families were close wage jobs in twenty first century america. at work and at home they look for the strength to keep going no retire my family's look and it's still like there's no way i'm going to go through student loan daycare credit cards can these americans young and old

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