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i say that this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up an experiment aim that avoiding mcgayden, nasa space cross crashes into an asteroid. calls for justice in mexico's capsule is protesters. mark is from 43 students. when they are public anger grows the criminal mistakes while mobilizing the service, the fight in your price. ah, japan is preparing to hold a state funeral for former prime minister. sions. ave. some people are laying

flowers in tribute, while others are finding protests in the streets of tokyo. monday's public ceremony is controversial, largely due to the cost. the japanese government says it's spending nearly $12000000.00 on the venue security, transportation, and accommodation for guests. all bay was assassinated in july. spring in rob mcbride is standing by near where the protests are happening. so how those protests building up their rob that's right, a day of commemoration, but also protest surrounding this controversial state funeral. here in tokyo have been a few protest already staged ahead of the day of the funeral itself. there are 2 more protest taking place on this day. people initially were largely in favor of giving the honor of a state funeral. but gradually, opinion has turned against it partly because of the cost,

but also because of the device if nature of shins or politics. if i stand back and we have a look at some of the panels here, a lot of them talk about no to constitutional change. no to war, should be, is regarded by many on the left of politics here, of having steer japan away from. it's the traditional role of pacifism, of, of trying to change and amend the constitution of sending, allowing japan to deploy troops abroad. and so in which all has echoes of the last centuries, militarism which is a very troubling for many people here. so we do have protest probably protest numbering in the 100, just a few kilometers from here though. literally thousands of people have turned out to give that floor real tributes along lines making around the blocks close to the venue of the stake. funeral at people laying their flowers as one woman pointedly came up and said to us, we all of the silent majority. i think there is

a people that there is a very large following force. base, a type of politics mainly from an older generation, possibly more conservative leaning, but you talk to people in that line and coming to pay their respects and they do talk about should be making japan feel good about itself once more and making japan strong, strengthening the aligns with the americans being more assertive in asia standing up to china. so there is certainly a groundswell of opinion here. still that should be should get this on which will take place today with dignitaries from around the world. the 1st time the japanese prime minister has been given. i state the funeral since 1967. all right, thanks so much. rob mcbride, updating us on how things are putting out there in japan. joining us now from tokyo is michael to check. he's an assistant professor of asian studies at temple university in japan. good to have you ever so why does chin so our base legacy

remain so controversial? first of all, the civil ave came into power saying, i want to end the post war regime, making it seem like the post war prime ministers before him had been some kind of illegitimate force. and he tried to pro japan in a direction that a lot of japanese were not wanting to go. and still, as we saw at the protesters, lot of japanese still think that what he has been doing in terms in were, have been doing in terms of security changes. the, establish him a national security council. the ability to work with a prime minister to make decisions based on matters of security. these things are dangerous and he managed to push these changes through but over a large degree of resistance. well, the decision by the current prime minister to hold

a state funeral just add to the frustrations with inflation with the economy is going to undermine him. well the, the prime minister key should have made a snap decision to without going around and checking out how people felt. ok, should we do a state funeral? the circumstances, of course, prime minister, former prime minister be, was shot and killed something that is extremely rare. gun violence is almost unknown in this country. in fact that gun had to be factored by the government. it was such a shocking and, and bizarre situation that he just quickly said, yes, let's do the state. but when people started to say, well, you know, this was last time in 967, everybody at that time believe that you'll see that she gave the be prime minister, was honored with his state to that statement was truly a great man, but we have

a lot of opinions about abe's legacy. this process that would have helped for mr. kesha assess whether he should have done this and not teachers didn't do that. instead, the invitations were sent out, world leaders were invited. it was a done deal, but domestically he had not won the people's understanding and yes that because he didn't try and didn't do that and indeed doesn't have it today. he is in a precarious political position. i you mentioned sions. abi wanted to change the direction of postwar japanese policies, to what extent is his protege because she the continuing that all succeeding in continuing in that sort of direction and legacy or our machines did set up during his time in office some concepts that prime minister kisha is continuing now. he was not really a protege. i have to take it. i can't agree with that bracing because he is

a member of a different faction. agression of the, of a faction now called the former of a faction to say, what is a very different creature than the faction that backs a prime minister kesha, the prime minister kishi those fraction is seen as the fraction of doves of cooperation internationally working through international institutions and also for japan to take a lower stance. but from mr. casey, to inherited from the more hawkish, say, well, more hawkish, mister ave, a whole bunch of new ideas, including vast alliance structures like the quad involving india and australia, together with japan's usual ally, the united states. in fact, only real allied, the united states. kesha isn't inheritor of these and he's working through these. whether he's his heart is really bad in them is very difficult. time is very difficult to assess. all right,

thank you so much. been good talking to you. all right, thank you. now it's one for the history books that's it has deliberately smashed a space, crossed into an asteroid, and the world got to watch it happen in real time. it was all done in the name of humanity survival. browse explains. 11000000 kilometers from earth. the spacecraft hurtled closer and closer to the rocky asteroid. that was its target. and then bull's eye oh, scientists and engineers at mission control cheer as the spacecraft smashes into a far off asteroid hold die more full. so it's a key step toward defending the world from future devastating impacts by massive space rocks, we are showing that planetary defense is a global endeavor, and it is very possible to save our planet. this is double

asteroid re direction test or dart was launched in november last year. it's entire mission was to ram into, to more force at a speed of more than 6 kilometers per 2nd, or 3600 kilometers an hour. the result, it's hoped a gentle nudge pushing the asteroid on a new path over many years. the change in trajectory will grow larger, while di morpho itself is not on a course to collide with earth. space rocks like the one that flashed across the sky in russia 9 years ago, hit the planet all the time. and the big ones can change the course of life on earth. 65000000 years ago, a huge object crashed near the yucatan peninsula, causing global devastation. scientists believe the impact is directly linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs. getting rid of t rex and their kin was a good thing for us, mammals, but another collision of the same magnitude won't be,

it could destroy us all. so the international consortium behind dark hopes to defend the earth from potential catastrophe, by combining careful observations to identify asteroid threats, years or decades ahead of time, along with the ability to knock them off their collision course. yet there are no known astride breadth by when we find one in the future. maybe we'll have the technologies to potentially preventive di morphis's, new trajectory will be studied for years to come. the information gleaned from the test will hopefully help prevent humanity from suffering. the same fate as the dinosaurs rob reynolds al jazeera. i'm a time ago, she is chair of the science operation, working group at nasa's mars exploration rover mission. he explains why this mission is sample heat. re i'm of the we are very advanced, i think, and civilization. we don't have the capability to stop up astrid, right?

if it was heading towards up. and by, by this i mean, even for the smallest of esther i was raised, which is like this is like a 500 feet ester right and done. the dangerous thing is that thinks of collided in the solar system from whenever it was formed, which was 5.54.5000000000 years ago. so the are all the asteroids essentially formed because of collisions. so even a 100 years ago, the collision collision in glasgow which was $1212.00 and they got us which is like the powder times bigger than the heater few matter. so and it, it flattened the video for 800 square miles. so it is really important for us to have this capability. and what the approach here is, see all these popular movies that go there and blow it up with

a ball. but that doesn't work because if you think of the physics that the industrial will disintegrate and still keep, keep coming at to the approach should be to nudge it ever so slightly so that it misses up. and so this is what this mission is testing. so can you dress something into an asteroid, such that it in but some momentum to it, such that its velocity and its direction changes just very slightly. now the 10s of thousands of people have rallied in mexico cities mazda 8th anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students. some of the protesters clashed with police, and 5 is called from the president for a peaceful rally. families of the victim demonstrate every year the pressure government into solving the case group was kidnapped from 2014 and haven't been

seen alive since john homan has more from the valley and mexico city. there must be tens of thousands of people that are marching down in mexico is main avenue, sales reformer. and they have because it's kind of the story of an event soaked mexico and continues to reverb right around the country. when $43.00 students would disappeared on a rainy night, while in the southwest of the country and their parents, that family members, and many of us still campaign for justice on their behalf. this is one of the fathers of the disappear, told us about that campaign for justice and where it's on right now. is it? i'm disappointed that's the word as a father because well, the government was campaigning. they committed to deal with this. and those words are just hot air. we know the government had the political will do something, but that will, has disappeared. what he's talking about is the fact that this government said that

they were gonna get to the bottom of this, that they were going to solve it after an investigation by the previous administration that was denounced in the end is a complete cover up. but the original empathy seems to be dying. a bit political factors may have got in the way arrest warrants that were awful. have now by the same attorney, tourney general's office reportedly being canceled, it would have gone off to some powerful people. and this is really sobering. the fact that this takes of the 43 students with all of its problems. it's actually probably the ones in which they've been most pressure on authorities to solve it. there's more than 100000 people that disappeared in this country. many of them, the families say that they simply search alone. we talk to a brother of another, dissipated people whose own mismatch in solidarity. and my brother disappeared on the 4th of july 2014 in plain daylight, outside of secondary school. and all of these people have

a relative that has disappeared. brother, a son. we're here showing our support for the parents of students. we empathize because we've looked through the same thing as the violence continues in mexico, and it hasn't really shown any signs of slowing down in nevis going to be more cases like the 43 students who disappeared other cases, other families. we've also lost their loved ones and more people across this country, searching for their relatives trying to find them dead or alive. still, i had an al jazeera campaign. what it means for venezuela, i'm columbia, to reopen the border. it's been shop so 7 years. ah, ah

hello, welcome to look at the international forecast and we will start with hurricane and it has now been upgraded to a hurricane passing across that western side of the caribbean while away from jamaica. but it has already brought some very heavy rain in. at the moment we're looking at winds of around a 120 kilometers per hour. so it's just made that how recon status making is when a general northwesterly will normally direction over the next couple days. life threatening threats, big storm search to watch out for him, maybe 3 or 4 meters of storm surge as we make our way into. we're where the state is, system just runs up towards that western side of keyboards or said it is moving away from jamaica in that she hit jamaica. but we already had around $53.00 millimeters of right in 24 hours, which is around half the september average rainfall. so a lot of wet weather coming through here, keeper, we'll see around 4, maybe 5 times that amount of rainfall as a system makes its way through. with that large storm surge, large ways,

we are likely to see a good deal of flooding for that western side of cuba pushes through quite quickly . and please say as we go on into wednesday, it does stagger up that western side of florida. so big concerns here as we go on through the next couple of days. and again, we are likely to see was but flooding and wind damage. ah, the new year, new lessons and murals. this is the time when you get to choose, your english teacher is for the next 2 years meet the teacher is empowering their students, my tech, and michael. it's all about read and we're gonna be looking at perspective. i want you to develop the skill with which you speak by letting them choose the lessons they learn. ready revocation, democratic schooling, united kingdom on al jazeera oh,

i go back to watching. i'll just time to recap, headlines now. japan is preparing to hold a state funeral for form of prime minister mission. so our base, some people are laying flowers in tribute, while others protesting the ceremony in the streets in token by it was assassinated in july, massa has achieved something. humanity is never done before. they agency deliberately crush the space cross into an asteroid, millions of columbia his way or the test, whether humans to stop objects from hitting earth by slightly changing the trajectory. tens of thousands of people rallied in mexico city to my 8th out of us

3 of the disappearance. the 43 student group is kidnapped in 2014 and hadn't been seen alive, said investigation. say the students were handed over to a drug cartel, like the kremlin is admitting it made mistakes in its mobilization of hundreds of thousands of reservists to fight in ukraine to move sparks, anger protests, and an exodus of russian men. demonstrations have been held across the country, how much val has more from moscow. so this is an army enlistment center in siberia . a young man opens fire, reportedly upset that his best friend had been called up to fight was still in school, is more than 6000 kilometers from ukraine, but the war is no longer distant here. the rest of on done is much closer to the fighting. just across the border from ukraine. the emotion here,

sadness, fear and defiles. if everybody is scared, the main thing is for him to come back alive and healthy. i'm positive. i will come back alive and healthy. it's going to be okay. i massaging in the reserve as the reservists leave for the front line in admission from the kremlin that it has made mistakes, implementing the draft. when you're on the hood. oh, i'm not in long grove, want you to the legendary menu, and then when you have shoot me in touch, you don't want to say most of those who don't want to fight,

haven't protested. they simply left thousands of cars queuing at the border with georgia. ah, frustration breaking out among those stuck to the 20 kilometer long q. those who have made it to george's capital to believe say they feel safe here. the more geared are you, by you said the last north broke of law, say raleigh v. like many others feel that against our will. they could draft us to go and kill peaceful people in ukraine. we are completely against this war. i can recall it for what it is. it's not an operation. it's a war which russia is conducting on the territory of ukraine for us, like for others, but scary to die and to kill others. and for what? we don't understand. therefore, we decided to flee at this time. what i need is the child ah, back in russia,

sporadic protests continue. jaqueline is the capital city of the sorry, public. these people choose traditional dance to demonstrate their opposition to the draft. 24 of them were reportedly later arrested. recognition by the kremlin, that mistakes have been made that after may or may not be enough to calm the protests. but that may be beside the point if russia and next is large parts of eastern ukraine, with the redrawing of the frontiers, enabling moscow to use enemies, to defend what will be the motherland mohammed one, a da, 0 moscow. at least 17 people have been killed in a school shooting in the central russian city of is just the victims include 11 children as well as teachers, a security guards, at least 24 others were wounded in the attack. the gunman has been identified as a former pupil. the motive for the attack remains unclear, but investigators say they are looking into possible neo nazi links natasha buck

winchell. so the attacker committed suicide, though it has been established that he was wearing a black t shirt with nazi symbols anabolic lava. he had no documents on him, but his identity is currently being established in columbia. and venezuela reopened cargo commerce on monday potentially enabling billions of dollars in trade. after years of closure. people along the shad boyd a hope it will boost the economy in an area deeply affected by the conflict between the 2 nations of asunder on piazza reports from the columbia and border town of co kuta. i adorned with flags from those countries, the 1st cargo trucks cross the border between colonial venezuela. after years of political conflict i. it's a highly symbolic moment, as delegations from both governments smith in the middle of the simone believe, a bridge, colombia, new left wing precedent with several pay through had made the reopening of the

border. a key campaign promise. good. okay. years on the a story. i think today's a historic day for the region for the country for south america and globalization is 1st and foremost, the relationship between neighbors. anyone who measures the flows of trade, cultural change and population movement will always find that the greatest amount is between neighbors. that is how it was here before, secretary madness to over hearts and brains. the 1st struck scratching from columbia were loaded with toilet paper, plastic, and medical supplies. the one from venezuela with rolls of aluminium ministration. believe that friendly with i'm free as well. reads a 1000000000 us dollars by the end of the year, and possibly for 1000000000 us dollars by the end of his administration for years from now. and they hope that most will benefit the 1000000 people the live along the border legacy. and then if,

hopefully this will help with the shortages in venezuela and reduce contraband. and the extortion as we were subject to to cross, i think it will make life easier with i will ask them in relations between the 2 countries had reached rock bottom in 2019. when former colombian president yvonne duka spearheaded efforts to force regime change in venezuela, the shut down worse in security along the border, emboldening crime gangs that control smuggling and drug trafficking. local entropy nurse say the border should never have been shut. jamante at the i think it's been 7 years without vehicles passing through here, right? greatly affecting the cultural, social, and economic reality of the region through millions of people had to learn dangerous crossing were ending up victims of violence of his appeared in the way. but it, but what's coming in is it different, borden or federal hopefully generate employment for a while to reopening is a welcome. first step,

everybody here agrees much more needs to be done to overcome the economic security and humanitarian crisis affecting this border region. allison that i'm get the i'll jesse archuleta, the 1st strong winds and heavy rain from hurricane ian of started to hit. the southern tip of cuba. officials have been working for hours to evacuate thousands of people and protect home winds of up to 155 kilometers per hour, are expected along with a storm surge of over 4 meters. the international space station really satellite images of the massive storm as it moves towards cuba. it's expected to strengthen into a category 3 hurricane or higher as it has north of florida. the little known pauline is the world's most illegally traffic mammal. the world wildlife fund estimates more than a 1000000 of the creatures were traffic in

a decade. but some conservation is sa, dedicating their lives to rehabilitate them in south africa. emily anglin reports the south african penguin is nicknamed bumper. he was confiscated during an undercover operation. and is one of many brought to vet debbie english. so a lot of people say so i don't know they exist and they don't really understand how endangered these little animals all by the time they get to these cleanings. the penguins are in desperate need of medical treatment. more often than not, they may say 50 hydrated and most of them have monia when we, when we receive them. the animals kept in pulling conditions before they tried it. on the black market. they left in car boots bags and plastic drums for days, or even weeks. one penguin can fetch up to $15000.00 us dollars. their maids and scales, which are made of keratin,

a used in traditional african and asian medicine. it's the most traded of the legal wildlife animals currently, and that's why it's taken out from there. i know it's in a big way these undercover agent for the african tangle and working group poses as a buyer. and once we put the deal together, we'll set up a time and location where we do the transaction. and this is where the sting operation will go down. wildlife traffic is faced up to 10 years in prison in south africa. the penguins had confiscated and taken to a rehabilitation center at a secret location. it takes a long time medically to get them back into a position where we can release them. for some animals are here for a month and then some nearly a year. it's a labor intensive process. the challenge with rehabilitating these animals is not just the enormous cost that's involved, but it's also the time it's required. south african penguins 118 captivity. and so they need to forage for food for up to 6 hours a day. image jaga has

a team of staff and volunteers, and while getting back into the wild is the ultimate goal. conservation is say, it's not enough in every one that we say if and time that we save that hundreds and thousands of being poached in that times. we're not talking a matter of 10 years, so be extinct. we're talking a year. they are shy and secretive. they don't hurt anybody. but yet we're destroying them. the clinic receives nor government funding. the undercover agent also works to frame it's for each and every person, every citizen, every person to actually protect the wildlife, because we are protecting that, not for ourselves, but for future generations. as for bumper, he's been released back into the wild. one of the few success stories in this campaign to save the penguin, emily anglin al jazeera, the main south africa ah.