accompanied by the canadian foreign minister the size of the media contingent a reflection of the massive public interest generated state you know that everyone . else oh. i'm hearing free media towns from want need you to leave it seems arrive at home but she's proud very funny and they are. and so she would prefer not to take questions today so please that she's experienced crazy coming through a lot and she is now going to go see her new home then run. through the doors to begin the first phase of the new life her wish to go to college and study architecture. the canadian decision to grandson tree is likely to worsen already fractured relations with saudi arabia back in august saudi arabia severed diplomatic ties following canadian criticism of the kingdon's human rights

policy then in october the murder of jamal khashoggi saw an upsurge in demands for canada to counsel a multibillion on's deal with saudi arabia this deal is now being reviewed the foreign minister though insists that the protection of human rights is more important than diplomatic relations or any trade deal with any c.r. . to. replace this time when. we were involved in those conversations as trees and standing on this planet don't mean for evil to. see my friend you see. she blessed you any care and offerings two percent in a sling. here it was this message from a hotel room in thailand that. couldn't century the power of social media confirms

and an example perhaps for others seeking their freedom. mike hanna al-jazeera toronto. a weather update next here on al-jazeera then braced for. forces prepare for an expected offensive in northern syria. and we'll tell you how south africa's president is trying to reverse the ruling class he's forming popularity. from the sunsets if you disproving savan. to summarize atop a nation metropolis. halloa can promise you much more rain or snow for afghans and that's it for the time being there's a huge amount of cloud cascading out of southeastern europe through through the caucasus and the caspian a moment to think development is going to be further south and that this is the picture of something we've got rain coming into lebanon as you can see pharaoh

breeze that's familiar a massive cloud syria saudi arabia and iraq and then catching the rising grab of the western side of iran you see rain and you see snow and that is going to carry on falding throughout sunday night into monday a huge amount of snow is possibly right up to azerbaijan and then it tails off further east more case of cloud but all this time although there's been rain in lebanon touching northern syria it's not really come further inland have the reach much beyond the bekaa valley it's called the still have to say size of the cloud those different matter because of what they see is it's drawing air out from the science that this is the empty quarter it's not been raining his dusty's are pictures like to be a fairly warmonger have to say twenty six riyadh twenty four and ha but also quite dusty was a strengthening wind but by the look of it it's just going to be clad as is the case at the moment no blue sky but no rain. the weather sponsored by qatar

and nice. it's very difficult alison a chef or restaurant or to buy shrimp with the confidence that what you're serving is going to be good seafood by nature is a high risk money sometimes trump is really using production drugs. that are not approved for use in the u.s. the f.d.a. simply isn't testing enough on be imported market to really find all of these violent threats to take no one else is in. the again this is al jazeera a reminder of the main news this hour the runner up in the democratic republic of

congo's presidential election is challenging the official result loss and fail to appeal to the constitutional court describing the voters as fourteen of. the u.s. president has been accused of concealing details of his face to face meetings with russia's leader washington post alleges donald trump took notes made by his interpreter after a meeting with vladimir putin in hamburg and twenty seven. the saudi teenager who fled from a family of fears for her life in the kingdom has arrived in her new home country. plume flew from thailand to canada after all asylum. turkey has carried out military exercises of the border war with syria out of an expected offensive a little them city of man beach it's currently held by u.s. backed kurdish fighters u.s. secretary of state michael says he's hopeful an agreement can be reached with ankara to protect goodish troops. as american forces prepare to leave syria so the

reports. preparing for battle these men are members of the free syrian army as hamza brigade their allies of the turkish military are on a war footing and preparing for an offensive on the kurdish out city of human bridge in northern syria these fighters say they will not be left behind to mom and ask with or without the u.s. withdrawal we will complete this military offensive we are ready for a leadership's order. men be just controlled by the u.s. backed kurdish why p.g. turkey considers as the syrian branch of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it recognizes as a terrorist group. enduring some of this brigade are syrian kurds who say the white cannot be at the kurds legitimate representative in the war in syria. most of the kids fled to germany iraqi kurdistan because of the y.p.

g.'s oppression they force you even girls for military service on the front lines they charge an affordable taxi. many people support the military offensive surrounded by the p.k. cambridge and forces in the populations living in fear of more places a liberated in the white pigeon is gone we can have a better business life this is our came out and it is one of two military bases which will coordinate the expected upcoming offensive on the eastern side of the euphrates river and the city of. turkey stays kurdish civilians will not be targeted but some people in members are not convinced nad funny. since we learned the us will withdraw many of our friends volunteered to join managed military council to defend our city will protect ourselves. of course we have for years now we live in peace with really perform our religion but when. other groups coming up there will be corruption. day and night the turkish army continues to

strengthen its forces inside syria sending a message that the offensive could start soon. al-jazeera northern syria south africa's ruling african national congress has unveiled its manifesto for elections in may at the launch in durban president cyril ramaphosa promised to create more jobs and address racial inequality mase votes is seen as a test of whether one oppose it has reversed a decline in the a.n.c. his popularity since taking over from jacob zuma last year for me the miller reports from dublin. south africa's president and leaders of the african national congress aim to shore up support. at the climax of a week of unofficial election campaigning at the launch of the party's manifesto cyril ramaphosa continued to play out the idea of a new dawn for south africa. as the african national congress we launch

our twenty nine thousand. election manifesto we do so at a crush of moment in the history of our nation. after a period of died out in uncertainty we never minded a moment of oath and the promise of a new beginning for a party modest not only by corruption scandals but infighting between rival factions aligned to either romney or former president jacob zuma the a.n.c. has used this event to highlight some of its achievements as the last election and its future plans for south africa but for many here it's much of the same from a new party president competing with the formal eda he's popular in this province there were concerns about how reports i would be received was in a tall is the home of former president zuma who resigned last year during various corruption scandals involving him in the a.n.c.

thunderous applause greeted zuma as he entered the stage with distinctly few a cheers for the president from up north as presidency however appears to have regained some support nationwide one survey shows sixty one percent support for the ruling party its closest competitor the democratic alliance trails with fourteen percent the manifesto appears to continue previous government policies including free university education for students from poor and working class backgrounds and promising a more inclusive economy but a closing loop being the big one how they are led to the bible was the raw data bieber was how they're probably given access to health and education but the emphasis on what has gone wrong but particularly with quality to me by all citizens is what is wanted. from a force or acknowledge that corruption has weakened south africa's public institutions and went on to say it would not be tolerated as the a.n.c.

winds up its one hundred seventh birthday celebrations and the launch of its plans ahead of the general election in may delivering results such as improving the economy and creating jobs remains a priority so does a united front with factionalism remains a major threat to the agency's election success. al-jazeera been president to tell . france's interior ministry says that more than eighty thousand people took part in the ninth saturday of so-called yellow vest protests across the country it was violence in central paris where tear gas and water cannons used against protesters threw rocks and. police demonstrations began in november over plans to increase taxes on fuel before the measure was shelved by president in money in response to widespread protests reports from paris. thousands of protesters marched across paris and they've congregated here the arc de triomphe just behind me which

has become something of a symbol of this yellow vests movement and police are at the moment firing tear gas they're trying to move people away from this area dispersed the crowds if you look behind me you can see the police that there are eighty thousand police deployed across the country security has been boosted as the government tries to crack down on what they say some of the most violent elements in the protests so far they have been peaceful most of the protesters are of course peaceful and that's why the police saying it to try and control and manage the situation but it has been very difficult for them over the past few months to see these protests have been very unpredictable now the government's response has been politically to try to offer protesters more concessions more financial concessions they don't think the big national citizens dictate to get people move of course in politics next week but people here say that's not enough what they want are more taxes to be scrapped they

say they want to move to be done for poor people they say the president only cares about the rich. with just three days before the u.k. parliament votes on prime ministers to promise such a reason is briggs a deal the country remains deeply divided over leaving the european union protesters marched through london demanding a general election but in sheffield in the north of england a rally heard calls for a second referendum paul brennan reports. well. with just days to go and so teresa mayes breck's a deal is voted on the volume and the tension is cranking up. this demonstration in london attracted a wide array of left wing protesters with a wide range of political grievances this was anti austerity not a brics it rally at all but it certainly bret's it which has brought matters to a head. after eight years of ashes starting they want to push us over the age into our present foreign montijo pricey ritual signage our economy

southwards up of it services so the solution is very straightforward on shoestring we want to treat maize. was labor is not seeking to overturn bricks it's simply to try to deliver a different rex's i what is clear and f a size by all the different events taking place across the u.k. this weekend that there is still no single coherent principle everybody can unite behind. in the northern city of sheffield campaigners for another referendum have been pressing their case you have the right to be heard and they must listen to the voice of the people as people now look at the exit understand what it means and realize that this great country in truth has made a terrible mistake and at the same time government minister chris grayling warned that the biggest mistake would be not to go through with grex it we risk

a break with the british tradition of moderate mainstream politics that goes back to the restoration in six hundred sixty he told the daily mail newspaper it will open the door to extremist populist political forces in this country of the kind we see in other countries in europe. opposition figures quickly denounced grayling's comments as guts of politics but the route illustrates the pits a divisiveness of the current political climate and the uncertainty of how this will be resolved. brennan al-jazeera central london. for israeli settlers on the house arrest in connection with the killing of a palestinian woman three months ago i shall robbie died after rocks were thrown through the windscreen if a car a fifteen ager is in police custody violent crimes by settlers against palestinians have risen sharply in the past year as harry force that reports now from the occupied west bank. yes robbie is finding comfort where he can mainly it comes from

his family he and his wife i raised eight children together he says they always planned once the kids had finished their schooling to devote more time to each other to travel together about future was shattered in october last year when driving home past an illegal settlement outposts in the occupied west bank their car came under a hail of rocks and stones enough so. there was a huge explosion in the car the glass fell in my wife and i have been talking in the rocket on the side of her had she fell on me but came out from her ears and nose my daughter was screaming i didn't know what to do the car was swerving right and left it was the longest three seconds of my life three months on the israeli security services have arrested five students from a religious school at the outpost in connection with a shower robbie's death saying that they collected evidence of extremist and anti zionist religious ideology consistent with what's referred to in the israeli media as jewish tara the suspects are reported to be from the illegal settlement of utah near the palestinian city of nablus for all the attention is raised this attack is

not an isolated one it's part of a patent a surge according to recently published figures of attacks by settlers on palestinians in the occupied west bank in july twenty fifteen a husband wife and their toddler son were killed in the fire bombing of a palestinian home in the west bank village of duma a crackdown by israel's security services saw a reduction in settler violence but last year the numbers rose sharply again it's reported there were four hundred eighty two and the palestinian crimes a three fold increase on the previous year the incidents include assaults vandalism of vehicles and property as well as threatening graffiti israeli human rights group ph d. and recorded twenty five such incidents in just one day last month after two israeli soldiers and one baby were killed in palestinian attacks it says too many settler crimes against palestinians go unpunished we've had about over twelve hundred investigation falsely documented and monitored since two thousand. five in eight percent of those indictments were served and in

a mere three percent were any convictions served we also noted that eighty two percent of investigation files are closed in circumstances that suggest police investigate a failure to israeli police call those figures misleading and incorrect robbie says he is finding some solace in the fact that suspects have been arrested in connection with his wife's killing he hopes that any eventual punishment will act as a deterrent to others but whether the freed or jailed for one hundred years he says nothing will bring back his wife hari forsett al-jazeera in the occupied west bank . it is good to have you with us adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines and i was here at the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election is challenging the official result not in favor to appeal to the constitutional court describing the vote as for you and i'm hoping that the

court we call the electoral commission to. the ballot box because that's what. we are totally disagree we did is that. announced that. they had fabricated nothing to do with the truth and that one day it's really the truth as to come from the recount of the people the u.s. president has been accused of concealing details of his face to face meetings with russia's leader the washington post alleges that donald trump took back notes made by his interpreter after a meeting with vladimir putin in hamburg in twenty seventeen. a saudi teenager who fled from her family of affairs for life in the kingdom has arrived in her new home country prophet muhammad ali clune flew from thailand to canada after an offer of asylum the eighteen year old won international attention when she launched

a social media campaign for motel room in bangkok pleading for help turkish backed forces have carried out military exercises at the border with syria ahead of an expected offensive a little the city of miami beach it's currently held by u.s. backed kurdish fighters u.s. secretary of state says he's hopeful an agreement can be reached with ankara to protect goodish troops as american forces prepare to leave syria there's been more violence in france during the night saturday of yellow vest protests to gas and water cannon we used to push back anti-government demonstrators in paris and protests as of march through london calling for a general election just three days before the british parliament votes on prime minister's reason makes briggs it deal to leave the european union south africa's ruling african national congress has launched its manifesto for elections in may presidents are on bozak promise to create more jobs and to address racial inequality at the launch. and those are the headlines more news for you on his era

of the techno next. how much more are we going to invest in the elusive notion that military is on national security and poverty destitution and the sense of funds and this of actually being at the heart of virtually every civil conflict in the last twenty years. head of the u.n. development program to al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks in a poll just out sixty five percent of people said that they think it will do a great or a good job with detailed coverage is the second time to see a doctor has walked out on strike the government is funded by a single suspension. from the around the well to the increased warning level columns as a blow to the thousands of people displaced by the tsunami of wanting to return home. whether online i want to start here on my laptop with

a tweet or if you join us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has codebase i may go protest i will start to police students force to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice and for votes lots of different reasons what's the difference types of bricks join the global conversation on out is iraq. this is techno innovations that can change lives the science of fighting wildfires we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and we're doing it a unique way. this is a show about science though now that i signed to just. 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 from. that's supposed to protect the food supply doctors should do some more is mechanical engineer she will show the results of her investigation and how dangerous is that for human beings and i'm still taurus i'm an entomologist visitor shrimp form 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 . team no let's do some science. yeah some.

techno on phil tours joined by dr shu some laura 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 over seas can have high levels of antibiotics and other additives that don't always pass american safety standards in 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 unsafe shipments. 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. chef fred eric says a lot of shrimp. it's 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 fewer 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 the shrimp farms that use antibiotics often farm with overcrowded pom diseases are a big deal in term farming can be a high mortality rate in some farms. the food and drug administration polices shrimp imports. five point five billion pounds the thing 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 we utilize things like foreign inspection

domestic inspection whether it was sample than 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 samples for inspection they're sent to an f.d.a. lab like this one in california. you may be assured they are all. good i can imagine. that the sugar is mixed with a chemical solvent dried and liquefied again run through an analyzer. is an f.d.a. chemist the results are written from the tests what are they showing us in this post or compound fourteen forest monster programs and how dangerous is that for human beings virtual current is dangerous for human beings because it's costs that

. are certain level for nurture for this are one the building or one cause of this improvement or more than one so. good size swimming. so how many parts per billion is this result i was one hundred true building or so two grains and so in the olympic sized pool when you've managed to find it out by now that's incredible so that batch of strength is not allowed in this country this is not going to be how long does the f.d.a. simply isn't testing enough on the imported market to really find all of these violent 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 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 those antibiotic residues suggests that the agency is not actually testing enough shrimp to catch the amount of 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 through 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 as tiny indiana 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

now 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 survival. 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 these 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 shrimp do 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 salt and baking soda it's called hetero 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 demonio the bacteria turns that into talks ignite troitsky other bacteria turn that into benign niger treats and as the waters air raided the nitrates turn into a harmless gas and around and around how long have you had this water for years and how does it compare to other short forms most of 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 that 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 called post large bulls nicknamed. 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 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 suspension because if this stuff settles i'll have twenty minutes and then twenty minutes i meant maybe 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 a shrimp down as they said they can be frozen 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. and they're intended to start their fest 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 also 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 on the

bed or brown so about five hundred pounds directly to walk ins each month at eighteen dollars thank you very much thanks dave. the postal sold there know how to do two dozen. 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 true 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 is it already it is that bad but the proof of their success is what ends up on the plate

and in this case innovation tastes pretty good when served with the profit motive so you would. know 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 getting any 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 that 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 adds. 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 missing brandon 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 to 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 mean kinds call for the expansion of the solar system which we have to look for points rather than the one she made it to the top one hundred the third round of the 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 tearing a should have 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 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 hawaiian 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 as 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 on 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 are good criticism about our mission because it helps us to improve our mission also tells techno 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 if 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 shied 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 know where i would possibly but i don't think i would sign up for this one way mission the 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 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 jets have you know i think we've talked sustaining life on other planets versus sustaining life here on earth is really interesting topics today guys so thank you for them we'll have a lot more of these stories next time here in techno we'll see you then dive deep

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al jazeera. and for your. headlines warn the streets of melbourne australia are by. its citizens under threat by african gangs. but how real that these claims. one east investigates and how does the. u.s. president of all trump is accused of concealing details of his face to face meetings with russia's leader vladimir putin. hello i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election goes to the

country's top cause to demand a recount alleging widespread electoral fraud. it was a pleasure for me to need. to welcome the new. age theory brain new me a saudi teenager who fled from her family and feared for her life if she was deported back to riyadh gets a warm welcome in canada. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah the test is called for britain's prime minister to step down and for a general election with deep division in the u.k. just days before a crucial brigs it flows in parliament. u.s. president donald trump has been accused of concealing details of his face to face meetings with russia's leader vladimir putin according to a report in the washington post the paper alleges that trump hasn't released notes

made by his interpreter after meeting with putin in hamburg in twenty seven team the us president reportedly instructed the translator not to tell anyone in his of ministration what the two leaders had discussed the post says the transactions are part of a broader pattern of behavior it says there are no detail records from five of their encounters over the past two years heidi joe castro reports from washington. we know of at least five private meetings between u.s. president donald trump and putin during trump's presidency and the reporting in this washington post article focuses on the twenty seventeen g. twenty meeting in hamburg germany we know that during this meeting president was also then the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson and trump's personal interpreter now tillerson following this meeting told reporters that a wide variety of topics were discussed and that among them trump had pressed who

wouldn't whether russia had meddled in the u.s. elections which putin denied than target or told other senior administration officials that trump responded with the words i believe you but since then the lips of that interpreter have been sealed and we may know the reason why now what into this reporting in the washington post with which cites former and current u.s. officials they say that trump instructed the interpreter not to reveal details of this meeting not even to four other not even to other administration officials and the reporting says that trump took possession of the notes of the interpreter and the result is that not only is there no detailed record of what was discussed between these two leaders in the public arena there may not even exist records in classified records either all of this would which would handicap us foreign policy

experts which may have weighed in and influence the president's policy decisions into the future regarding russia and perhaps the biggest threat of all to the u.s. is giving putin extra leverage to manipulate the president earlier president trump attacked the new york times reports the f.b.i. opens with inquiry to find out if he was secretly working on behalf of russia against u.s. interests. paper the investigation began in may twenty seventh team of the trump fire then f.b.i. director james comey counter intelligence investigators were assigned to evaluate whether trump was a potential threat to national security the f.b.i. also sought to determine whether the president was deliberately working for russia or heard unintentionally been influenced by moscow with bruce fein is a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general at a constitutional lawyer he says this revelation could lead to more investigations.

and no other president has ever done anything that skates close to the line of acting on behalf of foreign intelligence service or a foreign country it would necessarily constitute treason which under the united states constitution requires a leving of war but certainly the evidence that was accumulated suggesting that there was some kind of collaboration between president trump and russia because the house democrats you know now control the house of representatives they can undertake an investigation issue subpoenas to those at the f.b.i. and even though this wasn't you know a crime necessarily it certainly bears on the fitness of the president for office and which means impeachment covers actions that are short of criminal activity but where does this go next and i can guarantee you that the house government affairs and oversight committee will probably issue subpoenas on monday to get the bottom

of this why did the f.b.i. think the evidence was credible enough to suggest that mr trump was actually spying on behalf of the country of russia the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election is challenging the official results saying that there's been widespread fraud most unfair you knew his appeal to the constitutional court and called for a recount the electoral commission gave his rival felix thirty eight percent of the vote four percent ahead of so you knew. how to toss a reports from. martin for you to c.c.'s evidence to prove he won last month's election by a landslide sixty one percent of the votes and the presidential run is challenging the results in the constitutional court. to the courts we call the electoral commission to. propose because that's what.

we. i am totally disagree with the result that has announced that if they are fabricated nothing to do with the truth provisional results released by the election commission on thursday declared felix just a kitty the winner with nearly thirty nine percent of the vote his supporters if i should accept the result i'm calling on all of my colleagues more than thirty guys stop with it's done we want it we don't she didn't she did we didn't make an arrangement regime arrangement this is just the result of the polling station and we make sure what. we do or we don't want to go into a fight unlike previous elections voting day at the end of last month was relatively peaceful but growing suspicions over the count could derail congress' first democratic transfer of power since independence from belgium in one thousand sixty constitutional court judges like you to meet on monday and tuesday to go through what martin firey says is evidence which proves he won last month's

election if the judges say he has no case in felix's the katie will be sworn in as president of the influential catholic church is rejecting the official result so too is france and former colonial power belgium the african union and the southern african development community regional body are appealing to the people of congo to respect the eventual decision of the constitutional court judges and avoid a violent reaction. is or can just. turkey has carried out military exercises of the border with syria ahead of an expected offensive from the northern city of miami beach it's currently held by u.s. backed kurdish fighters u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or says that he's hopeful of agreement can be reached with ankara to protect kurdish troops as american forces prepare to leave syria seven course meal reports. are. preparing for battle these men are members of the free syrian army is homs a brigade they are allies of the turkish military are on

a war footing and preparing for an offensive on the kurdish out city of human bench in northern syria these fighters say they will not be left behind right the moment i ask with or without the u.s. withdrawal we will complete this military offensive that we are ready for leaderships order. men which is controlled by the u.s. backed kurdish to i.p.g. turkey considers it the syrian branch of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it recognizes as a terrorist group. in the ranks of this brigade are syrian kurds who say the white cannot be of the kurds legitimate representative in the war in syria. most of the kids fled to germany iraqi kurdistan because of the y.p. g.'s oppression they force you even girls for military service on the front line they charge an affordable taxi. many people support the military offensive

surrounded by the p.k. cambridge and forces and the populations living in fear of more places the liberated in the white pigeon is gone we can have a better business life this is our came out and it is one of two military bases which will coordinate the expected upcoming offensive on the eastern side of the euphrates river and the city of. turkey stays kurdish civilians will not be targeted but some people in members are not convinced not funny. since we learned the us will withdraw many of our friends volunteered to join man military council to defend our city will protect ourselves. of course we have fears now we live in peace with really perform our religion but when other groups can there will be corruption. day and night the turkish army continues to strengthen its forces inside syria sending a message that the offensive could start soon. al-jazeera northern syria

a saudi teenager who fled from her family because she fears for her life in the kingdom has arrived in her new home country. flew from thailand to canada after an offer of asylum the eighteen year old one global attention when she launched a social media campaign from her hotel room in bangkok pleading for help as mike hanna reports from toronto. the long and arduous journey from saudi arabia over the eighteen year old step through the arrival doors accompanied by the canadian foreign minister the size of the media contingent a reflection of the massive public interest generated take you. now. and we're in free media and want media and t.v. season right at home but she's very funny and they are interesting and so

she would prefer not to take my students today so you can see the syrian free army life and see if he'll go and. see. then run couldn't step back through the doors to begin the first phase of her new life her wish to go to college and study architecture the canadian decision to grant sanctuary is likely to worsen already fractured relations with saudi arabia back in august saudi arabia's severed diplomatic ties following canadian criticism of the kingdon's human rights policy then in october the murder of jamal khashoggi saw an upsurge in demands for canada to council a multi-billion arms deal with saudi arabia this deal is now being reviewed the foreign minister though insists that the protection of human rights is more important than diplomatic relations or any trade deal.