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ah, i'm sam is a dan. this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up, my gosh. a nasa space craft crashes into iraq in space all for the benefit of humanity calls for justice in mexico is protest is mark 8 years since 43 students went missing pan trading again. what it means of venezuela and columbia to reopen their border. ah, japan is holding a state funeral for former prime minister sions. obey. you're looking at life pictures of the controversial ceremony happening in tokyo right now. some people

laid flowers and are taking the day to pay tribute to obey. he was assassinated as be now in july, but others bear protesting on the streets of toko angry, over the cost of hosting the event. and the leaders controversial legacy. and i, spring in rama drive is in tokyo, so how things picking up there. now, rob it is a day of commemoration, but also a day of protest as we are just observing now this state funeral finally, getting on the way we've just seen since obvious remains being carried by his wife, a kia arriving at the venue and then being led into this hole by the current prime minister from your sheet as this event gets under way there are set to be well over 4000 people attending this state funeral, but it is highly controversial. in fact,

the public broadcast h k here has just produced an opinion poll sewing apparently 57 percent of people are against staging this state fuel only 32 percent are in favor that have been some protests, a prior to today's event. there are protest taking place as we speak. there will be another protest later on today, tuesday, outside the japanese parliament, just about the cost of this, but also about the controversial figure options of a himself. whether he should be honored in this way. i've also sent to the fascination there have been various revelations coming out about links between shins and also many members of the ruling l d p party here with the controversial unification church, the so called moonies. so it is highly controversial, but there have been thousands of people coming out, showing the response that supports and showing their respects lining up the long

lines will around central tokyo of people coming from all parts of japan to lay flowers in the public part of this event, but we are now actually into the state funeral itself. let's talk a little bit about the legacy. how is his legacy being reflected upon on this day? the bennett, the security abd nomics quite a lot to go through. he is, i mean he comes from a political dentist a, his, a, he has a grandson, a prime minister. he is the son of a foreign minister. he is, if you like, almost a political royalty here considered in that way. yes, he was the longest serving prime minister, but he was very conservative. he credited by his followers and supporters of putting a japan back on the map. it was okay to be japanese,

wants more to feel good about it. he says, as credited with giving pride back to the country, giving it a more of a prominence on the world stage making get more asserted. and he is also responsible for improving relations with the united states, both in terms of diplomacy economically. it's also, militarily, japan has emerged, is probably the most important since the united states allies on this side of the pacific and is seen as a counter to the expansion of by china. so he is extremely. ringback important in that sense, however, the flip side of bass is that he is regarded by others here in japan, especially more liberal leaning political parties, people on the left as being too militaristic. he was suspected of wanting to change japan's pacifist constitution. in particular article 9,

which says that japan will never go to war again unless it is in, in actual self defense. he's also credited with a changing the rules here so that japanese forces could be deployed overseas once more. now will the vis, has very uncomfortable echoes of the militarism of the last century. so we have seen protested out around tokyo holding panels saying no to war, no to bill, a tourism no to constitutional changes. so there are quite a lot of opposition here to ship out a economically he is credited with the so called up and all bits of tried to restructure and develop the japanese economy, which continues on in the form of whom you see that the current prime minister and the ruling l d p party are still adopting and carrying on those same policies. however, as part of his efforts to rejuvenate the economy, he's credited with the ill fated 2020 summer olympics. he managed to secure the

olympics as a way of trying to help japan recover rest of the devastating earthquake in 2011 at fukushima. and as we know, we've got overtaken completely by the pandemic. thanks so much from a bribe. talking. 6 through the legacy of sins. so i'll be watching life pictures coming in from tokyo in this funeral procedure that's going on. moments ago we saw the box on stand carrying the ashes of shins ave japan's long serving prime minister, the playing them. and they'll be holding a minutes of silence before we hear from the prime minister casita one, it's one for the history books. nasa has deliberately smashed the spacecraft into

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the dangerous thing is that thinks of collided in the solar system from whenever it was fun, which is 5.54.5000000000 years ago. so the are all the asteroids essentially formed because of collisions. so even the 100 years ago though, the collision collision and doug gusto which was $1212.00 and they got us, which is like a 1000 times bigger than the heat a few matter. so and it, it flattened the video for 800 square miles. so it is pretty 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 new p, 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 magic ever so slightly so that it misses up. and so this is what this mission is testing. so can you press something into an asteroid such that it in but some momentum to it such that its velocity and its direction changes. just moving slightly strong winds and heavy rain from hurricane ian has started to hit. the southern tip of cuba officials have been working for hours to evacuate thousands of people and protect homes. winds of up to 155 kilometers per hour expected, along with a storm surge of over 4 meters. international space station release, satellite images of this massive storm as it moves towards cuba. it's expected to strengthen into a category 3 hurricane or higher as it heads north to florida. typhoon nori was left the philippines but 9 people have died after the storm. tor,

across the country's north, several people are missing on a below. as in manila where people are beginning to return to their homes, serafina is kill, your junior has had difficulty moving since suffering the stroke last december. he can't walk up the stairs in his home. so in flood waters rosen, sandy, he and his family had to evacuate it on that. so bit of a porn. they said it was her supervisor born. we thought then we'd get flooded for sure. so we left the party for a ground up through enough. the flood game, a not super typhoon, nor road damped. torrential rains as it crossed the philippines. largest island liaison. fortunately for people in manila to tell poor stopped justice rivers began to overflow. by monday morning, those who had fled to safety were back cleaning up their homes. while government

workers cleared their streets, there were fears the philippine capital would suffer catastrophic flooding, reminiscent of that of typhoid kits on a back in 20 o 9. but it was largely spared the local environment. the officer, dis, manila suburbs says that dredging of waterways also made a difference. yeah. auto auto. i mean, i did that. it's not, you know, we were dredging every day. so that gave dirty bar the capacity, the whole more reasonable president, ferdinand marcus junior, also praised the preparedness of the government and of the people. i think i, i don't, it's clear for all know this. so from what we did this last few days is that the very, very important is replaced on ah, get people out of the areas of danger, of both all of your assets that you are going to use. despite those preparations, norwood was destructive. several rescue workers became the 1st known victims of the

storm in entire villages in the countryside remained flooded. many fear, the full extent of the damage is only just starting to become clear. ordinary low al jazeera manila. i was taking you back now to tokyo, where a state funeral is underway for japan's longest serving. mr. shins ave listen in. ah, i last spring and rob mcbride, the standing my frost antagonist talk us through what's going on in the state funeral right now. so they stay. funeral is

underway. we've been hearing the national anthem of japan being played as well over 4000 people in attendance at this funeral, including many dignitaries, v i. p. 's from abroad. the remains of chicago abbey will brought into the hole by his wife and also led by for me. okay, shita and now he's the current prime minister. he will be speaking at this address . that's what we are waiting for. that will be, it's really largely his coal that this, this state funeral has gone ahead and it is very controversial decision. we know from opinion polls that the majority of people in japan don't actually want state funeral to go ahead and do not believe it seems that she is a title to a state funeral. but around a 3rd of those who have been asked to do support him. having this on seeing

thousands of people descending on tokyo, had to give their own tribute lining up in the line in the streets around central take care to lay a flowers their own floor. you have because he does have a very large following in this country. he's credited by many people in helping japan recover after the devastating fukushima earthquake and synonymy of 2011 by introducing economic policies by bringing the fated olympics to japan, japan to try to stimulate the economy. and also by making japan more assertive on the world stage, improving relations with the united states that is recognized by the fact that the vice president commer harris is in attendance. she is the most important of the g 7 leaders to, to come here to japan. and so he is credited with allowing japan to

become for certain, for the, on the other side of that he is the suspected of trying to change the constitution of wanting to change the constitution away from the traditional path of pacifism that japan has followed. since the end of world war 2. so he is linked with being something of a militarist of trying to return to some of the old days of japan's militarism of the last century robin. they were playing the national anthem a moment ago as you were talking there. clearly, this and i was got a speech about to begin with. i believe it'll be for me because she who be speaking shortly, rob till that begins. why was it so important for me? oh, because she the person, it seems like it pretty much was his decision that this needed to be a state funeral despite, as you mentioned, the unpopularity of that decision. it wasn't

unpopular at the start when it was 1st announced that they were going to hold this state funeral a give should. so ave, this owner was actually got wide approval in the opinion polls. people were all in favor of it. chance op is probably about the most recognizable face, jim politics, both in japan also overseas. so he is respected as coming from this incredible political dennis de, he, his grandfather was a prime minister. his father was a foreign minister from the town of yum a gucci in western japan. in fact, after this, the ceremony, his remains will be returned. we understand to the family plot in yeah, i'm a gucci. so it was actually a popular decision to begin with. people said yes, he has probably on a since then that have been all sorts of revelations coming out about the cost of

this event. a, some estimates put it as more expensive than the state to funeral for queen elizabeth the 2nd, which unfortunately, timing wise is a happens of just over a week ago. and all sorts of comparisons are being made between the 2 events. and people are really questioning whether a political figure election so ave, should be getting this kind of treatment to this kind of reward and so, and so forth from your sheet. it, it is, it have turned out to be a very unpopular decision that the public opinion has turned against this funeral. there have also been very embarrassing revelations about the links to the unification church, the so called mooney say this is a right wing organization. very conservative that some people regard as being a more like a cult i did emerge the after the assassination that the suspect involved apparently with motivated because he had

a grudge against sion. so ivy because of his connection to the unification church. and since then, various, no revelations that come out about the connection between sions ave other members of the ruling party and the unification church, which is all made being very embarrassing for me. okay, shita. so he would probably, in some ways, probably regret having made this decision, but he is going ahead with this state funeral. we're waiting to see what he will say. presumably he will obviously talk about, talk about his life, his career. but at the same time, you get the sense that he will probably be using that speech to try to salvage something of this popularity. because some opinion polls has said that his popularity is dipped by 20 points since announcing this controversial state funeral . all right, thank you so much. rob mcbride,

now tens of thousands of people have rallied in mexico cities marks the 8th anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students. some of the protests as clashed with police in spite of calls from the president for a peaceful rally. families of the victims demonstrate every good fresh of the government into solving the case. the group was kidnapped in 2014 and haven't been seen alive since john holman, has more from mexico city. there must be tens of thousands of people that are marching down. met carries main avenue paseo de la re former, and they're here because it's the 8 front of a story of an event shot to mexico and continues to reverberate around the country . when 43 students with disappeared on a rainy night. while in the southwest of the country and their parents and their family members, and many others still campaign for justice on their behalf. this is one of the

fathers of the disappear, told us about that campaign for justice where it's not 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 to me and is a complete cover up. but the original impetus seems to be dying. a bit. political factors may have got in the way arrest warrants that were asked for have now by the same attorney, attorney general's office reportedly being canceled. it would have gone off to some powerful people. and this is really sobering, the fact that this case of the 43 students with all of its problems is actually probably the one 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 talked to a brother of another, disappear people who told me this much in philadelphia take. 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. the brother, son will hear showing no support for the parents of students. we empathize because we've lived through the same thing as the violence continued to match. and it hasn't really shown any signs of slowing down. they didn't never to play going to be more cases. like the 43 students who disappeared other cases of a family who so lost their loved ones and more people across this country, searching for their relatives trying to find them dead or alive. columbia and venezuela reopened congo commerce on monday potentially enabling billions of

dollars and trade off for years long closure. i listened to reports from the columbia and bought a town of kuta adorned with flags from both country is the 1st cargo trucks cross the border between colonial venezuela. after years of political conflict, 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 president gustavo pedro had made the reopening of the border . a key campaign promise. good, oak, your years soon, the story. i think today's a historic day for the region for the country for south america. globalization is 1st and foremost, the relationship between neighbors. anyone who measures the flows of trade and cultural change and population movement will always find that the greatest amount is between neighbors. that is how it was here before securing madness to over hearts and brains. the 1st struck crossing from columbia were loaded with toil

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, to cross. i think it will make life easier. layla tallahassee, them in relations between the 2 countries had reached rock bottom in 2019 when former colombian president divan duke his spearheaded efforts to force regime change in venezuela. the shut down worse in security along the border,

emboldening crime gangs that control smuggling and rock trafficking. local intro partners, say the border shouldn't never have been shut ramos yet. they agnostic it's been 7 years without vehicles passing through here, right? greatly affecting the cultural, the social and economic reality of the region for millions of people had to land dangerous crossing were ending up victims of violence in his appeared in the vapor . but what's coming it is a different border 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 jessie a cooper, the little lone panko and is the world's most illegally trafficked mammal. the world wildlife fund estimates more than a 1000000 of the creatures with traffic in the decade. but some conservationists are dedicating their lives to rehabilitating 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 know they exist and they don't really understand how endangered these little animals all by the time they get to these cleaning. the penguins are in desperate native medical treatment. more often than not, they all, i may say 50 hydrated and most of them have pneumonia when we, when we receive them. the animals are 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 pango, and 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

illegal odd life 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 penguin 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 this thing opperation will go down. wildlife traffic is faced up to 10 years in prison in south africa. the penguins 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. and so 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 costs that's involved, but it's also the time it's required. south african penguins 18th in captivity. and so they need to forage for food for up to 6 hours a day. emma de jaga has a team of staff and volunteers,

and while getting the back into the wild is the ultimate goal. conservation is say, it's not enough in every one that we say for and the time that we saved that hundreds and thousands of being poached in that time. 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 dement, the undercover agent, also works for free. 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 a 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, it's inane, south africa. ah .