passenger on this demo one mission is a dummy named ripley carrying with him four hundred pounds of supplies for the space station it's expected to arrive on sunday and if all goes well the next mission could put two astronauts in space as early as this july nasa wardy contract to space x. and boeing to develop cheaper methods of going to space since retiring it shuttles in two thousand and eleven thus ending its reliance on russia so use spacecraft which cost more than eighty million dollars a seat what it means for the space program is it's really opening up much more regular access to the space station redundancy right now relying on just one system the russian soyuz system we also have boeing starliner vehicle coming later this year so so we really will see a lot more capability in terms of our ability to launch humans into space space x. and boeing own and operate the spacecraft and will be leasing them out to nasa and other clients one struggles and regular peroration i think we will we will. see

commercial customers. best mr and that national journal has been very supportive of that of that idea so but we've been very focused on just making sure that the vehicle worked and backed by using secure liability. elon musk's ambitions go far beyond shuttling astronauts he says it won't be long before the dragon starts taking commercial customers to space some of the d.c. al-jazeera. analysts take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now high level talks between the u.s. and taliban have resumed in doha u.s. envoys. says an earlier round ended with unprecedented progress also jabari has more. the meetings are continuing and one of the main points up for discussion at

the moment between the two sides is the withdrawal of fourteen thousand u.s. troops that are currently in afghanistan the taliban of course want them to leave as quickly as possible the americans say they want a slow withdrawal over the next three to five years at least seven people have died in cross border shelling between india and pakistan in the disputed kashmir region indian officials say pakistani artillery fire killed a woman and two children kurdish forces in syria say they expect the battle to retake isis last held areas to be over soon u.s. backed syrian democratic forces launched the final push against eisel in the village of babus on friday u.s. president. to lift all tariffs on american agricultural products he says it's because trade talks are going well trump also pointed out he didn't impose twenty five percent tariffs on friday and see the originally planned. well as well as opposition leader is now in argentina he's on a diplomatic mission to shore up latin american support for the removal of

president nicolas maduro one guy though will meet argentinean president after visiting public why on friday why though is seeking international backing for a transition of power in venezuela. in france yellow vest demonstrators are marching for the sixteenth weekend in a row calling for president emanuel my call to resign the protest began in november over to raise fuel taxes space x. is launched its astronauts capsule into space for the first time it's. nasa has asked space x. and boeing to come up with technology to allow it to resume manned space flights. there's your headlines it's techno now stay with us. monch al-jazeera. maggi house on debates discusses and dissects the big issues of our times and head

to heads five years after the revolution coaches in ukraine will have a chance to offer a verdict on what's come since. in a powerful new film residents of occupied east jerusalem share their thoughts on its past present and future. leaders will gather for the thirtieth arab league summit in china ziad join us for coverage and reexamined the development of an unusual alliance between radical buddhist monks and the military in million mom march on i'll just sierra. this is the fact the smallest pokus on the planet among the could soon be lost. with an international team of scientists is determined not to let that happen now it's a race against time to try and save a species without intervention how long do you give the big i would say to about us

to this is the hail mary or is. this is technically a show about innovations that can change lives we're going to explore the intersection of heart and humanity i'm a doing it in a unique way this is a show about science by scientists. the vecchi tie is the most endangered marine mammal is a naturally elusive this has never been captured tagged was studied up close by marine biologists. techno is married to davison and chris would deal with take a crisis that's an emergency plan to stave off extinction the gulf of california one of the most beautiful marine sanctuaries in the world it is here in the target gulf waters at the edge of the baja california desert the world's smallest cetacean

has found a home power when all the money that one of the earth everybody does yes. america because of the motive. what you have and the wreckage that is found nowhere else right this is the only place that it exists yes exactly this is the only place this is and they make these issues. whether someone is with ok only we can find it here on the place in the war mexico we are so lucky to have these as these. belongs in mexico you know if i get a book here if you are. given us in a hole is an acoustic researcher for mexico's government sponsored iraqi to rescue project today to stop when his team plan to deploy several submerged will see pods or underwater listening devices the pods are used to track but keep us his research picked up the early warning signs that indicated the bucky the population was crushing the data is sent to researchers in san diego crystal dilworth has that

part of the story tell me what is that the key to and why do you love them so much the keepers are especially i think a lovely part because they have a nice paint job they have sort of like black mascara black lipstick survive a coffee going. view scientists have studied the key to as intended. barbara taylor she heads up in advance genetic laboratory based at the u.s. national oceanic and atmospheric administration in san diego california her main partner there renzo rowe has braccio who heads up the mexican project is equally passionate about saving the key to losing the key to know in a way this just a minute eunice a masterpiece if someone destroys the chick on the or. whatever the world be expecting is that nothing is going to change you're going to wake up in the morning you're going to help two of the world is going to be poorer in many

many ways and i think that's a situation. i think where enzo and i always thought we could save them you know we knew it was one issue it was throughout was and we thought we could change it yeah and it's. it's a hard thing to to see you know hot it's not happening. so what is killing the vicky according to scientists the main culprit is gill nets used to capture another endangered species found the gulf of california a fish named the twelve cording to the environmental investigation agency demand for to can be traced to china burgess sold illegally and we got a tip off about this. which is also in southern china is on the coast which is said to be a major center for trade in terms of the fish more some chinese believe the dry swim bladder at the to twelve improve skin in liver conditions and figure

a circulation and stops bleeding none of this has been proven medically but the illegal trade into twelve is extremely lucrative to twelve a fishing in the gulf is illegal because the same nets used to catch and snare the keita they have decimated that the key to population. techno is merida davidson was shown how. the proof is that there were no but they believe this was in their work for the broker they're working for can you get in time with their hair here or order to order the freedom so obviously the markets are going to revert to the sort of place and then they get things so they just get stuck here with you and they perish they're going to. found three adult dead vikki does since we started operation milagro and two new

nets pre-born vikki this and i don't actually think it's all of them were neck crops see and the results of the examination show that they all die of asphyxiation and all had leg marks of nets under skin so they dying because of that's a two hour that is for sure you know leo is captain of the sea shepherd a marine conservation group that voluntarily patrols the upper gulf for twelve minutes five dead rocky to us were found in the gulf from january to may two thousand and seventeen it's a horrific to see how much sea creatures are trapped on those nets it's heartbreaking for this protected marine mammals are dying for no reason they're just died mr to lie about it it's horrible.

the story of the vaccine is a classic collapse of a species scientists began tracking back in the late one nine hundred ninety s. and we determined twenty years ago that the fishing ban was unsustainable for bakita bay would we predicted that they would be declined in about this problem for twenty years. well i mean the people who originally found them found them dead on the beach. from fishing nets and said hey here's a porpoise nobody's ever found a porpoise here it can't be very common and it's dying in fishing nets and so yes he's was discovered because it was dying yeah it was found dead on beaches and in fishing dubs you know it's sort of odd that people wouldn't see it but the more you get to know this shy animal the more you understand that you really have to know what you're looking for and you really have to look for them to see them because they avoid any motorised vessel and they're really small they're only in groups of one or two so they're really difficult to see they aren't like the flashy dolphins

and come up and ride your bow and you know you get to see every aspect of their lives and porpoises are very shy they move away and so you really have to look for them with like really big binoculars with bucky just on the brink of extinction the team made a decision that was as bold as it was all day ships in order to save the bucky the remaining population now numbering less than thirty would have to be taken into captivity the plan was implemented in november two thousand and sixteen at the eve of service the international committee to save the bucky the only option is separate. from the main respects were very skilled and. for twelve again it's at this point in time and also i mean there are of knowns but what we really know is that if we don't take them out they wouldn't get so this is the lesser of two evils you know so it's black or white and techno was given preliminary plans that

spell out how to capture the elusive but keep us and bring them to the northernmost cove in the gulf where they would be held in sea pens and kept under guard twenty four hours a day seven days a week there are also plans for land based tanks systems and support apparatus to keep the captured porpoises alive in case of emergency where we've brought in this amazing team we're going to have about forty people from all over the world all with different levels of expertise and we have specialists and capturing harbor porpoises from denmark and the netherlands we have better narry and have worked with porpoises from hong kong to to the netherlands we have people who have specialized in taking capturing so we have that that team that we have the team of people who i work with that are experts in finding them will be using both acoustics and visual and we're even going to be bringing in maybe dolphins to help

us try to track this really elusive species the u.s. navy's marine mammal program utilizes bottlenose dolphins to locate underwater sea mines little is known about the vacuum no one has ever tagged them or been able to study them up close the problem of how to capture them and large but during a scientific team meeting a breakthrough from a scientist who works with the navy program in here that you can ever think of using maybe don't fence or miller and i mean that's completely out of my. when i told books and i'm sure there will be you know if they can find. diverse and objects in the water i'm sure they could find a q. next day we went to the navy facility years they trained the dolphins they took them to the golden gate in san francisco where they have harbored part of a swimming in the dolphins were able to find it so when we sold that part who seem

to be the most difficult one to say well. there we are there. i'm floating in the middle of the bucket the refuge area here in the gulf of california now this refuge was set up by the mexican government to protect the fact that the populations are what's left of them they've set up here because over the past several years through observation and through acoustic recordings this is where the rocky does really tend to hang out at least recently we've been out here for a while trying to see if we can find any wreckage that's no surprise to me that we haven't seen any and that really underscores how difficult and complex this mission is really going to be stuff as data analysis indicates the remaining bucky the population may be concentrating across three sections in the upper part of the gulf today's sea pod drop we'll try to confirm those locations so we've just arrived at one of the points where they're going to drop down a moring and attach to that is going to be potus so it's the acoustic measuring

device that they leave for four months here to measure and and pick up the sounds of the vacuum clicks so that's what we've done we've we've navigated here via via g.p.s. it's a really vast area and they've set up at the touching base eighty seven they're going to put out eighty seven of the c. pods right now we're putting up the last eight. later back on shore double showed us a computer program that allows us to hear the bucky humans can hear the clicks this is are too high frequency but there's a way for you to modify them so that we actually could have you listen to this of course michael walker oh my. bees in more than five. and. wow for. the buck at the refuge measures in area sixty four by nearly one

hundred kilometers along the upper third of the gulf of california when you are in it the refuge seems vast and problematic to police effectively. since two thousand and five gill net fishing has been banned here but the real story is much different especially at night it is pretty dramatic and crazy every night so busy it never stops we have radars on our bridge of the time time when and if. and under us radars we can see the new activity at nights because poachers really go out at night the night of march eleventh two thousand and seventeen was busier than most of the sea shepards farley mowat here on patrol for poachers spotted a small fishing boat in the back of the wreckage. and when we see a target of a piece we get our ship as close as possible and then the drone team is going to be ready to drop the drone was able to film is illegal fishermen with what appeared to

be a boat load of. the fishermen noticed the trone and began hurling objects at it then we get the fourth age. fisherman retreating to two odd minutes getting to a two hour bus i call the authorities tell them to position. tell them what we're seeing at the same time and and then they calm and they tried to arrest them the next day the ship caught another seemingly bolder group fishing in broad daylight this was the first time the drone was able to capture full daylight images of a boatload of coached and. can the big problem is money just like always. illegal fishing activity for to two hours brings out a lot of money because china is opening the black market that is attracting a lot of organized crime says the two of us and batteries sold out for more than

twenty thousand dollars a kilo of course when you come to those fishing villages where the minimum wage is so low and they can make five thousand dollars a kilo locally with a with one kill bladder the mexican government has invested so far over a billion barrels in compensating fishermen unfulfilled lunga forts isn't a scientist but he co-chairs the bucket the rescue program in mexico he created a plan to use economic incentives to keep gill nets out of the gulf for the past two years mexico has paid fishermen not to fish until.