the same way as we had if you could not receive the adult humans from the us list without a clue she. told us that the soul it would happen to their loved ones was a crime. in the world just as. something was who also did not. follow i'm. watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes an internet black house an armored vehicles back on the streets of me and my western governments the military to refrain from violence against civilians. authorities in guinea are on high alert after an outbreak of ebola in the southeast

3 people have died. a day since donald trump's acquittal in the senate questions now turn to his political future and that of the republican party. and the image that marks a major milestone in the race for the red planet. i'm german ash with sports manchester united have lost ground in the premier league title race and defending champion they have a joke of it just as the quarter finals of the australian open. come to the news hour we begin in may and ma where there is a near total internet blackout and military tanks are back on the streets of the commercial capital young gone still to be the 1st time on the vehicles of patrol the city since a military coup 2 weeks ago the u.s. is now warning its citizens that to stay at home and there's also been a joint statement from western embassies urging the security forces to refrain from

the use of violence this as large demonstrations continue to take place around the country. all good it was. these are some of the scenes further north in catchin state security forces there firing shots to disperse the crowds hundreds of protesters were outside a power plant in the city of neot kena it's not clear from video streamed on social media whether the officers used rubber bullets or live ammunition while the country's generals are giving themselves new powers to monitor search and detain the protesters many people though continue to defy the orders with crowd spending a 9th day demonstrating against the military coup florence louis reports i causes of people gather in different parts of god but all with the same demands they want a leader aung san suu kyi and others detained since the coup to be released and for

the military to hand back control. was. there i. was working out some of the. immigration that i was. in mandalay students on and a young protester shot by police during a protest in a dorm last week she remains in critical condition this is the 9th consecutive day of mass demonstrations across the country. some protesters held signs that read stop kidnapping people at night a reference to nighttime raids by police when activists and protesters are arrested in some neighborhoods people have banded together to form watch groups to warn each other when security forces of coming but also to look out for criminals in this neighborhood of yangon residents say they court 4 men they suspect of planning to carry out an attack. they believe the men are recently released prisoners freed

under an amnesty announced by the military on friday. we think the military intends to cause violence with these extra minerals by getting them to infiltrate the peaceful protests in the military will have a reason to extend their power to crackdown on violence. his claim cannot be independently verified a group that advocates for political prisoners in myanmar has expressed concerns that the pardon for more than $23000.00 prisoners is too clear space for the detention of detainees during the current protests the military is also bringing back repressive laws used by the previous military giunta including a requirement for people to report overnight guests in their homes to authorities around $360.00 people detained since the coup are still being held but neither the risk of arrest no fear of a crackdown on nuff to deter these protesters from taking to the streets florence

li al jazeera. now the world health organization is planning a rapid response to an ebola outbreak in guinea the 1st resurgence of the disease there in 5 years 8 people have tested positive for the virus in the country's southeast 3 people have died in neighboring liberia health authorities are on heightened alert with the government ordering surveillance and prevention measures at least 11000 people died during the about an epidemic in west africa between 20132016 because haq has this update now from dakar in senegal. there is an outbreak of ebola in guinea following test made on one individual these tests were made blood tests. machines that we usually use for the current outbreak were used to confirm that person had died from a bowl of that all started that person is

a nurse that fell ill in january and she was taken to hospital and zurich or a she was suffering from vomiting bleeding diarrhea and a week later she was buried nearby in a town nearby and it is jury that funeral that 8 other were infected with the virus now the minister of health says that it has dispatched at least 30 health workers to investigate and to try to find contact cases to trace and try to contain this outbreak meanwhile neighboring liberia has put its health authorities on a higher alert because that funeral happened just very close to the border of liberia and worth remembering during the 20132015 bull outbreak in the region well it all started in that very region and and these funerals that were super spread were 60 percent of all infections came from funerals and that's because of the practices that happened during those burials of. people washing their hands in

common basins and then touch the body of the deceased and then there is the washing of the body itself which favors the transmission of the virus. yappin is the regional representative at be sent to africa the research project doctors without borders he says it's not clear how the outbreak started. it's important to highlight that the same cause will produce the same effect we know that in those forests in their career around there they have those and you multan most likely the past work carrying those viruses so we never will have contact between the human and the animal though for this very hour break we don't know yet how it happened whenever there would be contact there will be a transfer between the animals and a human being so that might explain why we have the religions of the hour what is happening in india see we are trying to figure out if there is

a link between the latest outbreak into temple because the lady the 1st one who had was a kid was the wife of a survival and we also know that the brothers can stay for a long period of time in the cement so is it the reason why it's happening we don't know yet but with something that we'll be able to rule to figure out. well now to yemen where dozens of people have been killed in fighting in the north of the country whose the rebels have intensified their attacks against forces from the internationally recognized government retore gate and the reports. yemeni soldiers fire at taking positions west of. these are trying to seize the city the internationally recognized government's last stronghold in the north. their spokesman says that only targeting government forces but residents dispute that over the. night and we call for an immediate cease of the belligerent war against civilians and more there are no military barracks or

posts in the city there are no militants or fighters in mark it's only home to civilians students and displaced yemenis. yemen's government has been locked in a power struggle ever since the he captured the capital sanaa in 2014 it's called on the people in america to help the army defend the city yemeni commanders say they're determined not to lose control of it. will always remain steadfast standing as high as the so mountains by virtue of its brave men the men of the national army in popular resistance along with the on astroids who were all standing in defiance defending the city it is and will always be the heartland of our republic saudi arabia has invested heavily in the recent is the saudi coalition has intensified strikes to stop the hit these from seizing the city i think it goes to show that you know there's much work to be done you know on behalf of the

yemenis to advance peace and shows that you know what the who these have made and the men you know they have a lot of momentum militarily but you know the international community needs to do what it needs to do to support diplomacy in a peaceful ceasefire negotiation. the upsurge in violence calms is the you. this is due to lift its terrorist designation for the youth these on tuesday. president joe biden the united nations and aid groups say the designation is worsening an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis the u.n. says 400000 children in yemen could die from starvation this year if they don't get help victoria gate and be al jazeera here at the news hour live from london still ahead. taking no chances suits gloves and masks of the order of the day as votes are counted in catalonia as regional elections. and in sport things

need to go very wrong for one yacht in the america's cup challenge a series final. a day after the united states senate acquitted donald trump in his 2nd impeachment trial debate has turned to the future for the former president and the party represents the senate voted 57 to 43 falling short of the 2 thirds majority required to convict of inciting the insurrection of the capital on january 6th republicans including their senate leader mitch mcconnell condemned trump but most of them of course did not vote against him citing constitutional reasons but trump does have major support in the party and also in the general public senior figures within the republican party and out looking ahead to the midterm elections in just under 2 years time have been giving their reaction today. i spoke to him last night

he was grateful to those lawyers he appreciated the help at all of us provided you know he's ready to move on and rebuild the republican party he's excited about 2022 this maggot movement needs to continue we need to unite the party trunkless is the way back in 2022 he's mad at some folks but under stand it my goal is to win 2022 to stop the most radical agenda seen coming out of the democratic presidency of joe biden we can't do that with donald trump so he's ready to hit the trail a number of he to work with. let's cross live in west palm beach florida near where donald trump is away he is at the moment and i guess you'll be pleased by the response that we've had from the likes of lindsey graham. well it's not an unexpected response from someone who has such a close ally but there are other factions within the republican party saying look

we need to move away from trump ism we can't cast a wide net in attract new people to the party with this man having so much influence of course the only thing we've heard from trump since he was cleared in the 2nd impeachment trial is a written statement that says my journey would to make america great again is only just begun and with the next few months i'm going to share lots of new things with you but this is a silent president and some people would say someone has been very damaged indeed and because of he is now tied to that january the 6th insurrection thanks to the democrats and the arguments they put forward during the 2nd impeachment trial but the question is what is the republican party going forward is this the party of trump ism or or is the party of more moderate people moderate people like adam kinzinger for instance who who voted that he was guilty so there are swirling questions here and there's no doubt that trump still casts a long shadow over the republican party but it's important to remember i think in the time that trump was president many people have now left the republican party in

record numbers in states like arizona or in georgia which both flipped blue so while he does still loom large there's also the fact that criminal charges may be coming is why there's also a couple of investigations already being opened in new york and that one in georgia after the hour long phone call with brad raffensperger the republican secretary of state when trump asked for a specific number of votes so there are all sorts of questions swirling meanwhile trump staying very quiet here in florida but when you say that he has suffered damage reputational damage as a result of the details in the count that emerge from the impeachment trial. that is if that's not going to include his make america great again base. probably not i mean it's important to remember more than 70000000 people voted for him in november's presidential election and they are extremely loyal to the man

although some may not like the way he carries himself personally or barly they like the policies that he stands for but 4 years or even 2 years to the midterms is a long time in politics you've got people like governor haley a former governor of south carolina you know trying to push yourself away from him and she's definitely go rise on the prize for 2024 so i mean 24 hours is a long time in politics 2 years to limit is even longer. thank you very much for now from west palm beach florida and gallica thanks andy. now early exit polls in the course of our election suggest there will be a major political change in the country with victory for the anti establishment that don't see party counting is now well underway and polls say the left wing party led by former prime minister albin kirti should win just under 42 percent of the vote because he is promising to fight corruption but also take a hard line in relations with neighboring serbia which does not recognize kosovo's

independence. well anya is following events for us from the voting stations have closed tell us more about what we're learning from these early results. well as you said before by a 1st preliminary salt. determination movement of 42 percent of votes today but as you probably can hear and maybe see behind me the supporters are already celebrating despite these are the preliminaries. they are on the streets of the british and they are celebrating but. until be a long and probably complicated process as a parliament has 120 seats and one these leaders to form a government so i'll drink or to feel probably. will probably need to have.

that be it's too early to say in this very moment but so far is that he's lost the government of the tolbert 2019. majority by this agreement with the coalition partner in the time democratically of course of all on the issues of dealing with the coronavirus upon them but also the issue of. serbia. right so what might the future hold then for the relationship with serbia. well the projections are that this outcome would probably complicated. the. course beyond their future relations as said before and underlines today that for whom course of all is done in the pendants things it is that there is no proof there is no space for negotiating on the other hint serbia are saying is that

they are revealing to negotiate on almost every issue except to recognize the course of all as the states all right thanks very much onions r.h. for joining us there from pristina. now in spain exit polls are showing the 3 main separatist parties a jointly winning a majority of seats in an election in the catalonia region the vote that could reshape the political landscape is pointing now to separate his party are c. coming in 1st while the far right vox party will likely game representatives and the catalan parliament for the 1st time will support catalonia succession as for instance the 2017 referendum a survey last month by the center for opinion studies found $44.00 and a half percent of respondents were in favor of independence or 37.7 percent or opposed in 2017 the same survey showed support for independence at 48.7 percent

46.3 percent opposed the 2017 referendum found 92 percent of voters wanted independence only 8 percent though said no but many people are against succession again secession refused to vote because the election was declared on lawful. well a glare is a professor of constitutional or parsimony university joins me now by skype from barcelona what could this result mean for the independence movement will evening. angle to having me here to this balkan mean for independent east people or voters it means that they could the majority view the seeds of the cut on parliament hill that means that they're not moving on. the socialist party leader wanted to we're going you are saying that we needed to move on and many people

things that we need to move on here in catalonia about the fact that more than 50 percent of the seats of the cut on parliament still or who are independent these parties that means that can only us not very great to move on without talking about . the kind of 92 where she. prying about as parties that are on course to win a majority of seats by it's a very mixed picture in terms of public opinion with divisions about whether independence should take place on not what about it's a very disparate movement have all these parties have they ever they tackle their differences are they managed to overcome their divisions. yes that the thing is that seems 20th 2017 before previously in 2017 all parties were sticking together but right now there are a lot of divisions because independent this movement here in catalonia it's

a very diverse movement it comes from the. far left to the right so there are all types of in the brain that this party so that means that all these the visions have brought. different seeds different parties drawing now we have 9 different parties at the catalan parliament and 5 of them are independent this and all of them there are more than 50 percent of the seats but this has meant also that we have no catalan parliament and a string strewn right wing party that was not previously representative here at the catalan parliament but i think it's also a reaction to the fact that all this independent is more meant that wants to do to get out from a strain this has been or action from the part of the. population that doesn't want these independents but even if they were when a majority of seats how they're going to agree on

a strategy to achieve independence to get succession because there will be some parties that will want a more negotiated strategy and others that might want to take a more aggressive approach. and to think that the discussion has been merry birth control our show and actually like your see sport never see a show but then to put them on who it who is the also the president of qatar onya who is right now in an example in belt you. and his party they are for more direct action so this is the thing that they think one is betraying the other because there is no unity in the way but i think all of them agree on a referendum like all of them would agree with the respond they agreed in talking to it and we in this sense there is an agreement on here even for the most

common ones parted they would agree or are all in a referendum and gorani up on the situation under to retore out situation. of course there has been. a coronavirus pandemic since this issue 1st arose a couple of years ago has that impacted sentiment about independence is this rate i mean is the people feel as though the says the right time to be debating and exploring the issue. i think yes that people that is independent is they are still independent is and we can we can see that it's showing in the results so the fact that we have been suffering a pandemic doesn't. it has not changed people mind even at the beginning no to the pandemic we had all these emergency estates the lammas think the crow about by the

spanish government by the central government and here there was a reaction to these these the seizures by the central government taking decisions are on how not which normally you start off the power of one of them he saw even during the pandemic people that built independent this party. that in the mean that they were moving on from their way of thinking or what they were going to war because we still have all these cattle and only they are seen example or we have discovered only there seem jail there is stealing jail for calling an illegal referendum and they have been in jail for many years they are still in jail they are talking about amnesty and this that are socialists central party they were talking about. a solution for all this.

politically that are scuttled politically the worst that there are still in jail and then there are many others who will be brought in front of a court order they have to be in there she was taught we have a situation with all these leaders that have been prosecuted for calling for an election right thank you very much why are glare joining us there from now thank you very much. now the former president of argentina carlos menem has died at the age of 19 he won 2 elections and that the country from 1809 to 1909 than your shine a look at the life of a flamboyant and often controversial figure. all the polls men in war so many argentines a man from another time another place he was born in the remote mountainous northwestern province of larry aka the syrian immigrant parents the.

man and became governor of his home province in 1973 representing the peronist party founded by the former president one pair on he took to the star with his geltrude dress and white sideburns of 19th century rural heroes and brought to one of cyrus flamboyance impending mixing with show business sporting celebrities and driving fast cars he came to power in 1909 as argentina was suffering hyperinflation seek for justice with his influential economics minister domingo he implemented the plan credited with ending the economic crisis along with large scale privatization of state industries his 2nd term in office however still rising unemployment and increasing social discontent and a prisoner during military rule he helped steer argentina from brutal repression although some criticized him for making too many concessions to those same represses you are seeing in iraq he failed to change the argentine constitution

limiting him to 2 consecutive terms in office that ran for the presidency again in 2003 standing down before the 2nd round of voting when it became clear it lose to the eventual president mr kitchener many was no stranger to controversy convicted of smuggling weapons to crew a show in ecuador and investigated him various corruption charges will be remembered with mixed emotions by argentines who lived through the 1990 s. one thing they'll all agree on however life with carlos menem is president was never dull. still ahead for you on this news hour from london. sharing that love for political prisoners a modern times day protest for crime and critic alexina round. a popular uprising or high level ballot play haiti's foreign minister tells us what he thinks is behind the country's political crisis. and in sports a remarkable in which comrie. races somehow avoided

a nasty crash of world championships in italy. we've got signs of an end to europe's long cold winter tumbling in from the atlantic is because through the next couple of days the pale face it will turn increasingly wet and windy we've got plenty of cold at the moment because central pass nasty little slow him down towards that eastern side of the mediterranean just running across greece and into turkey a fair bit of snow on this one here's that moderate started to push in as we go through the course of sunday and on into monday the yellows continue to strive their way further east was just turn increased to coat it has to be said of course at least the sort if you have moscow minus 15 minus 16 as we go on through cheese

day and into where to stay that cold air still in place but many western and central parts should be a good deal malda by the time we come to the middle of next week ahead of that there's that snow moving across the achaean easing across a good part of turkey we've seen some heavy snowfall in istanbul recently plenty of snow into west and central parts of turkey as we go through the next couple of days and that will continue just push his way further east was so very wet weather windy weather the weather really across that eastern side of the medicine go through tuesday but milder wetter and windy towards the west. but. hidden away in their rooms a 1000000 japanese shun the outside world 101 east investigates why so many young men all feel lost in japan on al-jazeera.

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i'm back in watching the news hour live from london our main story ever growing fear is in me and maher after a convoy of military tanks was seen on the streets of yangon on residents have told the reuters news agency the internet has been shut down across much of the country while in catching state security forces fired shots to disperse protesters. and all the headlines the world health organization is planning a rapid response to an ebola outbreak in guinea the 1st resurgence of the disease there in 5 years 8 people have tested positive for the virus while 3 people have died and then a day after the united states senate acquitted donald trump in his 2nd pietschmann trial debate has now turned to the future for the former president and the party represents publicans including senate leader mitch mcconnell condemned but most of course did not vote against him citing constitutional reasons for that. so

joining me now by skype from the us is lenny mcallister he's a republican strategist and former congressional candidate for the party so let me start by asking you as a republican party supporter and a former congressional candidate what is or is your reaction to the way in which republican senators voted in the trial i'm not surprised that it broke down the way it broke down those that are generally looking to phase out to retire after their last term has expired voted to impeach and those that are looking to maintain political control whether it's over the next 4 to 6 years over the next 10 to 20 years voted to acquit i'm not shocked by their vote at all and it kind of seems to highlight exactly where the republican party has been ever since donald trump won the nomination in mid 2016 and it's still the same conundrum that republicans from coast to coast find ourselves moving forward and where is that. basically that's

looking at where do we want to be as a party what type of principles do we want to purport and who do we want to to evangelize when it comes to our message when it comes to getting our base rallied up when it comes to having a republican party moving forward for the next 2 to 10 years are we trying to expand the base and go after more urban communities more minorities in order to win elections in those swing states or are we trying to solidify what has become that 35 to 45 percent of the country or the electorate that is behind donald trump but seems to be against the rest of the country i mean again people forget that donald trump won the nomination with a plurality of republican votes not a majority a republican votes and that is basically carried the day and even if you look at what's transpired whether it's the midterm elections the 2020 elections or some of the tone between the lincoln project and trump worse you see that same type of dynamic playing out when you contrast that with the rest of the american electorate

rights and would you say that what we that the reaction that we have seen for example the immediate backlash against a 7 senators that program with the party and voted to convict former president donald trump does this in some way the way in which they have been treated what does that mean for the policy going forward for infighting for division does it seem donald trump's influence over the party. i don't know if it seals it forever but it does it does indicate where we are now again it's very easy to rail against people that that that that portion of the base has been railing against for quite some time it's also very easy to rail against senators that are on their way out now richard burr somebody it's over for example foreign relations and. over things such as military intelligence were sticking around for another 6 years and was running for re-election in 2022 let's say he ends up winning now he's going to be

around for another decade that ends up leading to a different type of influence that you have to deal with him maybe a little bit of messaging that you have to scale back versus to me bur sas when those individuals and even susan collins who just won but will probably retire after this term when you take that collection of individuals it's a lot easier for people to push back against them especially when they're getting cover from holly and rand mcconnell and cruz right do you do you still identify with the republican party yes absolutely i do because identify with the principles and i also realize that you're going to have to have that tug and that back and forth tug of war in regards to ideology tone an image versus some of the worst that you've seen from the conservative movement not just from donald trump but i mean remember all the obama witch doctor signs that we saw he wanted are in full effect a majority of the senate has failed to convict him some people have argued that

that vote is a huge historical significance it represents an incredible failure to. not condemning racism white supremacist the sort of behavior that we still on january 6th that something that could impact the future of the policy on the country itself . those are individual senators again you can look at the votes you saw in the 1950 s. and sixty's with the democratic party voting against civil rights and then within a very short period of time you had african-americans that were being elected as democrats as mayors congressmen and the like and then before you knew it we ended up having democratic presidential nominees and jesse jackson al sharpton and then you had a democratic president and barack obama roughly within 40 years between democratic senators voting against rights for african-americans to that point in time in 2008 we have to keep in mind that those senators are not the whole republican party that

silent majority there are people that were disgusted with what trump has been doing over the last 5 years again if you hold on to the republicans in georgia you hold on to republicans in michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania donald trump wins reelection those people faded away not just in 2020 but in 28 teams as well as a result the house swung back over to the democrats you now have 5050 in the senate because again republicans were able to hold on to those folks as well donald trump is no longer president you know he's very callous and he has not shake getting else thank you. thank you take care now supporters of jailed russian opposition figure legs in a valley of ignored police warnings and held vigils across the country are using valentine's day to bring attention to his detention of ali's allies have suspended their street protests because of mass arrests that have taken place in the past few weeks and he. wants them on valentine's day they gathered in small

groups in various parts of russia again to show solidarity with opposition leader alexina valmy who's currently in jail in playgrounds and courtyards they place candles in the shape of a heart and show lights for mobile phones the coordinated action came in response to a call from a man called lead vocals now based in lithuania he's a close ally of alexei navalny too he wants russians to copy tactics used by pro-democracy activists in the neighboring better routes our force is that we are more. sophisticated than them that the more creative and we have to think about other forms of protest and the over the in the psalms and folk of urge people to post pictures of sunday's gatherings all social media using the slogan love is stronger than fear the aim was to avoid large demonstrations of the type that seemed fouls of people arrested across russia in recent weeks among them alexei

navalny his wife who's now reportedly in germany and his spokes person kira yarmulkes they were among the women activists being honored in the 2nd city some pieces berg around 100 women formed a human chain near a monument to victims of political repression can do much i think it will have an impact at least we'll show the while that we're here that those people are not alone that we stand in solidarity with them in the valley was arrested in january immediately after flying back to moscow he spent many months in germany recovering after he was poisoned with a nerve agent an attack that nearly killed him on friday he was in court facing slander charges which he's dismissed as politically motivated has already been sentenced to nearly 3 years in jail for parole violations while he was convalescing abroad after the recent crackdown his team perspired mass rallies until at least the spring and just a few days ago president putin suggested the street protests were not really about novell me it was let each of you you know what this person under investigation is

gene used precisely at the moment you went and countries all over the world including with our own people are tired irritated and discontented about the conditions in which they live and the income of my family if you are married but if the authorities continue to go after political activists this type of event could well gain momentum the barber al jazeera. haiti's foreign minister is alleged that politicians and all the guards are using illegal means to try to claim power in the country al-jazeera spoke with quote joseph after weeks of protests demanding the resignation of president of an elm ways to raise a small. clashes between protesters and the police have been ongoing in haiti for the past weeks. your position in the country says precedence of an illinois mandate ended on february 7th while the government says it has one more year left. the discussion is over when he's time began and maurice took office in

2017 because of the political instability in the country but protesters say the constitution says something else a deceiver spoke to foreign minister. over the political crisis in the caribbean nation very large sectors in the country about that say that what's happening now is illegal and the president said that there was an attempt on his life that are cool it was being set up in haiti 3 judges from the supreme court were removed one of them was detained so if haiti is democracy at risk he is not a democracy at risk what the government is trying to do and we are doing our utmost to keep it is to preserve the marcos in haiti. we have seen over and over how of are some politicians in some oligarchs or 'd trying to lose all illegal means

to actually claim power in haiti so this is exactly what is going on now but foreign minister you're talking about oligarchs and about how they handle power in haiti but when you look at the streets of haiti the people of that are on the streets demanding change demanding action criticizing the president are actually demanding that their lives improve i mean they're not oligarchy so i mean what do you say to them no they are not oligarch and all democracy it's not only here in the united states of great democracy how you can call it you have people of. testing and some of them are not i should say use of violent means but the entrusting thing here is that the government is paying attention to what the people or asking they are asking for they live to be improved

those are legitimate concerns and we agree and the government is a walking on the president says he will call for a referendum that would lead to the reform of haiti's constitution and says legislative and presidential elections will happen this year the international community including the oh yes and the us seem to support the president's move on the streets discontent is on the rise and people say they will make sure they won't be annoyed. now the united arab emirates has released the 1st image of mas taken from its hope probe which arrived in the red planet's orbit on shoes day it's a busy time around mars hope was the 1st of 3 missions to arrive in quick succession china's tionne 11 rover arrives the following day and the u.s. nasa rover perseverance will touchdown on thursday. well the journey to laws began

more than 60 years ago with the then soviet synergy in a series of probes but success would take some time on july 14th 1965 now says mariner 4 flew past mars capturing the 1st close up photographs of another planet revealing the impact of craters on the surface on november 27th 1971 the soviet mars to land a crash landed on the planet becoming the 1st manmade object to reach the surface it was a string of mars programs after that but the next major success came on july 4th 1997 when the mavs part find a landed a base station with a roving probe the robotic rover named juno was the 1st to operate on the surface well now spacecraft and 3 nations are in the planet's orbit the u.s. mission perseverance is due to land on thursday china's town when one in may and hope from the ice dam it's as we were saying hope hope probe from the u.a.e. sent back this image on sunday it's also the 1st our country to have

a presence there joining us now by skype is dr keith smith the editor of science magazine who's been following these mars missions closely is the sudden. ramp up in ambition around mas. what has been an increase in the number of different space agencies are spending probes to mars in the in the last few years and part of that is the fact that the cost a lot has come down because of commercial. entities being able to provide long launches but also there has been an increase in the number of different countries around the world who see value in doing this sort of science in sending spacecraft to to other planets to learn more about them and part of that is to do with the scientific things we can learn and we can search for signs of life on mars and we can understand how it's climate change and things like that and some of it is to do

with generating our high tech industry for their economies and investing in basic knowledge based. pastor of their economy and gaining skills in highly technical areas at spaceflight which can really put. their. workers in good stead for quite a source of highly technical projects like this always very different countries are talking about china the u.s. russia just recently the u.a.e. who has has had the most sophisticated mission so far is it still nasa. at the moment yes although the gap is now in particular with the european space agency. the difference there is that the u.s. and russia especially when we look at nasa as you assign they've been sending probes there for 40 years the u.a.e. space agency was only set up in 20 quarter in and this is its 1st mission anyway

and it's extremely ambitious of them to have gone straight for a mission to mars a large number of. probes sent there by a much more established place and seas have not completed their missions the various reasons and so far they the race is doing extremely well and part of a is they collaborated with other countries on this as well they've worked with. people in the u.s. to help build the spacecraft and they worked with the japanese who provided the launch vehicle and so forth and as a result they've been able to learn a lot of the skills and necessary transfer them over and this is the benefit of doing it this way is that you can learn how to operate a spacecraft that way much more quickly than if you're having to do the un charter now right so it's about gaining knowledge and skills and investing in these industries and certain kinds of technologies but the key question when will we know

about signs of life. well there are at there are 2 related questions about life on mars that the people get confused that there is the possibility of whether there is life on mars now and there's also the question of was there life on mars in the past now the 2nd one in actually far more likely there is plenty of evidence on the surface that mars once had oceans of water and we know it was warmer in the past and so the climate was much more amenable should we say to life get it going in the same way as it got started on earth now the climate then changed and it's possible that some forms of life forms adapted and evolved to live for example who are underground or in private belief ross lakes or something like that so there might still be life somewhere but it is a bit difficult to work out where those prices would be at the moment and so

a lot of the work is being done is looking for evidence of past life of life that may have been billions of years ago that would have left behind organic signatures in the rocks through example and how the way you do that is by looking at where. water would have flown in the past and so that's where for example the perseverance bible is going to land is on it is an old river delta and we can see in the orbital imagery that there wells you know what an interest thank you so much i really appreciate it dr kay said who knows maybe one day and you'll get to visit yourself . still within the hour. so you know when he and i reach is a quarter finals of the australian open at general allen the best action and. now. the las. halfway between tokyo not where she was then relatively sleepy place

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gemma's and now the sport i am thanking i am the founding champion and i've got to have it has reached the quarter finals of the australian open in melbourne well number one issue off injury facets of the met us around it on sunday jonica skier wraps up the action from day 7. it was touch and go as to whether novak djokovic would even play this match up to picking up an abdominal injury on friday the defending champion lost the 2nd set to canada's militia damage and a major upset look possible in melbourne. but djokovic fought back to clinch it in for becoming just the 2nd player to reach 300 grand slam match wins he'll face germany's alexanders there even the quarterfinals if he

can play on if it's any other tournament than a grand slam i would retire from withdraw from the from the event that's for sure. but because it's a grand slam and you know i want to give my best. another painful joke of it has been australian player nick carey else he's maintained their feud throughout this tournament this time curial smocked joke which is celebration before his 2nd round doubles exit exams and won't walk my back i'm sure doesn't like me or we both have respect for each other who are all about him at all so it's fun but. there was less drama in the women's competition as rina william stayed on course for a record equalling 24th grand slam singles title she had to work hard to be telling us about 3 sets. but up next for williams's moda halep who edged out french open champion take to reach have 5th quarter final at melbourne park. serenus your next

to play into. this she is the best if serena can get past hallett she's on track to face new areas soccer in the semifinals the japanese player had to save 2 match points against binion regrowth or osaka won the australian open in 2019 and now she's back into the last 8 next up for her as she is to wait and soccer's excited to face her have you for a few working she is one of those players for me it feels a video game i would when i select her character just to players here because in my mind can't fathom like the choices she makes when she's on the court but it's so fun to watch it's not fun to play but it's really fun to watch the real life shay seaway beat market of under so over just over an hour to reach have 1st call to finals in melbourne joining al-jazeera. manchester united have lost ground

in the race for the english premier league title they were held to a one or draw up by west brom on sunday and by daniel got an early goal for west brom before burn off and as equalized just before the break the result at leeds united 2nd in the table 7 points behind leaders manchester city and they've played a game all no one will give it away these early of course no one knows this season how it's predictable life is so in unpredictable and if you cannot prove cause you're not going to present can of course you're not. making his 1st start in almost a month pm scored his 1st premier league cap trick for arsenal he went for the left against leeds their opponents put a couple of goals back but it finished $42.00 as arsenal ended their 3 game win this run well we know that a big part of our future success is related to your being that his best underscoring as many goals as possible if you perform we're going to be closer to

winning for months is to say now in the america's cup challenger series final has been perspiring and because oakland's been put into a higher level of cave with 19 locked down the announcement was made after sunday's races which saw the italian team luna rossa take a commanding for the lead even british team in the us u.k. in the also very nearly capsized at one point and the need to improve rapidly luna rossa need just 3 more wins to make it into the main america's cup against new zealand in march wednesday's races have been cancelled with a lock downs only set to last 3 days which means they could very well be back on the water as early as friday india's cricketers have taken control of the 2nd test against england in chennai after making a 329 in their innings they ripped through england's batting line up. as the 1st to go for a duck and they collapsed after that capped injury it could only manage 6 as england were all out for 134 that 249 runs behind india. this is very

challenging so that's that's one of that's what i'm going to i think. to make comments on the picture i think that's if someone above me. so look up but it's it's on the slate taken. early in the guy minutes said it was very cute to win the battle and i want. fronts have gone top of rugby's 6 nations standings off to a narrow $1513.00 win over ireland france called the only try of the 1st half to lead $103.00 at the break they went over again on 55 minutes to extend their advantage before island got a try of their own as they got back to within 2 points france how dominant for their 1st one in dublin for 10 years. to the world championships now an austrian vincent krishna has won his 2nd gold medal of the week he picked up the super g. title on thursday and then on sunday he took victory in the downhill as well just north point north one seconds to 29 year olds only the 3rd male scare after

american very similar. in my it with both the safety and downhill at the same world championships one of the other races i had a lucky escape on his run it's not to lose a child i lost control over a bump but somehow recovered it landed back safely down the mountain pretty incredible when you think he was going around 112 kilometers an hour he didn't complete his round at least he avoided and nasty crash. and a kenyan runner has broken the women's 5 kilometer road world record their trysts check which clocked 14 minutes 43 seconds the monaco run on sunday battled the cold and windy conditions to beat the previous best that was set by safe and sound at the same events 2 years ago is pretty astonishing as i was happy if i can do a 5 k. in about 30 minutes so that's another that is only i wouldn't i really wouldn't attempt it anyway thank you so i watched it for the news hour by will be back in

a couple of minutes for the full but isn't for you to see that. romania's ancient forests some of europe's most pristine they are crucial for all society a crucial fall battle against the climate crisis but illegal logging by a ruthless timber mafia is destroying both the landscape and people's lives being in the main areas are what are gong violence killing was a rolls amidst claims of corruption and the role of powerful multinationals the

people in power investigates rumania wynkoop the far east on al-jazeera the latest news as it breaks human rights groups are questioning why people are taken to this isolation senators on the treatment they receive one fare there with detailed coverage beyond graves now control the villages that we can see on the other side of the river people who live on this side they can hear gunfire when they're fighting from around the world months after that will cain eruption they say their harvest right now back to normal. in india identity politics on the rise what we're seeing is the construction of partitions and cuts and loads of new ones of the across the country and there's the docks i can do is reduce the grid from his office to niger street of the him fix into something more like the team i didn't see of the british today i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in

search of india's soul on al-jazeera. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the bomb so no matter how you take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. an internet blackout in armored vehicles back on the streets of me and western governments the military to refrain from violence against civilians. oh i maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program authorities in guinea are on high alert after an outbreak of ebola in the southeast 3 people have died. a day since.