this is news live from berlin russia cracks down on the opposition as anti-government protesters ramp up police to arrest opposition leader you know bali and more than a thousand others are protesting against president vladimir putin the rallies around the country come two days before putin is to be some mornings. also on the program. it's a blast off for a new mission to mars nasa launches an unmanned spacecraft to appear under the red planet's prospects and look at how mars was formed. and volcanic eruptions put

hawaii on high alert hundreds of back to it as. spews lava and a powerful earthquake shakes hawaii's big island. welcome to the program russian opposition leader alexei no volley has been detained along with more than a thousand other anti kremlin demonstrators according to monitors fully seized him in moscow after he called for protests across the country ahead of president vladimir putin's inauguration for another term as president. down with the czar the rallying cry that brought together thousands of russians opposed to president vladimir putin they gathered in city squares across the

country voicing their dissent and holding signs denouncing corruption. because they at night i think that every responsible citizen should express their opinion that's my duty as a citizen of the russian federation because i love my country and i want something here to change yet stable i'm fighting for democracy because today's russia is an authoritarian monarchy with an element of totalitarianism and i think we need to fight against that in every possible way so soon with a woman she should follow i want to defend my home country because it has been taken over by some sort of intimate monsters who are stealing our money and our freedom. was it was opposition leader alexei navalny who had called them on to the streets. and they had been banned from standing for office in the recent presidential elections. i was chaos the crowd exists the city that belongs to putin i know they respond. me had just begun

his speech when he was grabbed by waiting police arrested for disobedience and organizing and unsanctioned rally. novelli was only one of many people arrested by police in a weekend of unrest that mas the start of putin's fourth term in office. he spoke with our correspondent in moscow emily short when earlier asking her what the atmosphere was like at these protests today. atmosphere i would say was was tense from the beginning even as the demonstrators assembled on pushkin square in the center of moscow there were actually putin supporters waiting for them who basically started a shouting match with them they were shouting for putin and the demonstrators assembling there were shouting for russia without putin and were shouting against putin and soon after that the arrests started there were groups of riot police out

in force basically grabbing people out of the crowd and putting them into police vans now there was some defiance among the protesters as well after the police cleared the square some of them kind of returned to the square and kept assembling around the pushkin monument on the on the center at the center of the square as police kept arresting them as well now police here say that three hundred people were arrested just in moscow observers say the number is more likely to be around six hundred now it's worth noting that the protest here wasn't authorized but protests also took place in several other cities in fact around ninety cities today people came out in support of not me and some of those protests were authorized but there were arrests across the board. that was emily sherman reporting from moscow there the u.s. space agency nasa has launched its latest probe to mars

a powerful atlas five rocket is propelling the mars insite lander to the planet's surface as we speak the journey is expected to take six months upon arrival the probe will be sent deep under the planet's crossed for clues about how it was formed for the launch is two years too late due to equipment problems the delay also ramped up project cost for more than eight hundred million dollars the solar and battery powered lander is designed to operate for twenty six earth months which is just one mars year. the inside lander will be the first to examine the internal structure of the planet mars scientists have been eager to gather data on the red planet's interior for decades. we know a lot about the surface of mars we know a lot about its atmosphere and even about its saw on a spear but we don't know very much about what goes on a mile below the surface much less two thousand miles below the surface down to the

center this heat probe should be able to fill in some of those gaps developed by scientists at the german aerospace center it will measure the temperature of individual underground layers and determine how efficiently these layers conducts heat to do this the probe will have to burrow deeper into mars surface than any previous drill just. another instrument will monitor how much mars north pole wobbles as it orbits the sun. and for the first time a seismometer will measure seismic five gracious on mars surface caused by earthquakes and meteor strikes the data acquired by all three experiments will make it possible to make new suppositions about the inner structure of mars and the information will help scientists to reconstruct the early development of rocky planets such as the earth mars venus and mercury.

this will allow them to look back in time to when the super heated elements separated according to their densities and formed layers in the young planets. the structure of the planets consists of a dense missile core less dense mantles and a rocky outer crust formed as the planets cooled. on mars this process appears to have been faster and ended earlier than on earth there even today we can see the traces of this. early development phase on the earth these traces have been almost completely obliterated. now some of the other stories making news around the world a trench will flood has swept through a district in the turkish capital ankara injuring six people a powerful water cools down stream through the streets dozens of homes and offices were also flooded authorities say crews have already started cleaning up the

affected neighborhoods. police in paris have fired tear gas at some protesters during a day of largely peaceful demonstrations across the country thousands of people took to the streets to protest government policies a year after president emanuel election critics say his economic and social reforms favor the wealthy and corporations by abolishing worker protections and increasing police powers. voters in lebanon are gearing up for their first parliamentary election in almost a decade hopes are high that the vote on sunday will end prolonged political gridlock but forming a government could take months or even longer partly because of the country's complex party system. locals in china captured the moment when a huge chunk of mountain collapsed in a landslide the rubble buried a road and blocks part of

a river it happened in the southwestern province no casualties have been reported. now earthquakes have struck hawaii's big island where the killer whale ball keno has been spewing lava into a residential area this has forced hundreds of people to flee their homes aftershocks from a series of earthquakes have also been rumbling across the island the u.s. geological survey measured the largest tremor at a magnitude of six point nine the strongest in decades so far there have been nor reports of injuries or major damage earlier we spoke with john thompson who is a lab a tour guide on the island so we're on the east side of the big island of hawaii and right now we're going through a period of time where we differed through massive swelling of the volcano and it's starting to really hurt the record. in the last couple days what we've seen is lots and lots of earthquakes i think in the last three to four days there's been

a little bit of powder and in the last couple days in particular they've gotten more intense today they got a little bit were and we got some massive ones like a six point nine that was just described there are measures that are opening up. on the views drift i believe that at the meeting tonight in the whole there had been somewhere between six and eight active scissors that had opened up in the last twenty four hours you know the last time something like this happened in hawaii in one thousand fifty five in that particular event lasted about three months so they want everybody to understand that this is something that's going to be intense if it shut off tomorrow or it could last for a really long time so everybody really just needs to make the proper preparations whatever that means. last weekend russia's first floating nuclear reactor i'm barred from st petersburg it's now crossing the baltic sea at nine kilometers per hour headed for the arctic it's meant to generate power for around two hundred

thousand people in eastern siberia but many fear it could be an environmental time bomb. environmentalists say the reactor represents a floating chair noble and they fear it could become a nuclear titanic russian authorities say the academic is safe and unsinkable the one hundred forty four metre hull carries two modified naval reactors the fuel rods and on board yet they'll be added in more months. to harden their support we are escorting this ship at the moment to attract attention to it we want to urge the baltic states and also the nordic countries to do everything possible to stop this project from going any further. security forces on the russian escort ships letting these environmental activists out of sight for a moment and have tried repeatedly to push the greenpeace ship away.

naturally it's uncomfortable for the operator when we say quite clearly that this is not an order that it's dangerous and it's dangerous for the environment and a step in the wrong direction they don't want that in the. bush you know. starting next year the could you make lemon or soft would generate seventy megawatts of electricity but russia has no experience with such an atomic power station and it's exactly that which worries greenpeace in the east siberian sea there are icebergs and reefs an accident with the reactor could contaminate large parts of the arctic . to sports now after the penultimate round of matches in the bundesliga here in germany hamburg are still in grave danger of being relegated after losing three nil to frankfurt while spurs are also in trouble after a heavy defeat in leipzig four one freiburg are also not safe they went down to

gladbach mines have secured their place in the bundesliga by shocking dortmund are now guaranteed the runners up spot they want in oxford two one off and i'm lost stood cartoon l while laver coups then only managed a draw and braman and champions winners. relegated cologne three one and hanover beat her to berlin three one. take a look at the table with one round of matches left to go next saturday byron are forced champions and can't be caught and second meanwhile dortmund still haven't secured a champions league spot and they'll face a tough test against hoffenheim next week leverkusen alive but they are also gunning for a chance at champions league football next season down the bottom half mines are safe freiburg could still be dragged into the drop zone after that loss to god bok hamburg must win their last game to avoid being directly relegated and wolfsburg

remain in deep trouble but they'll play already relegated cologne in their last game next week. to moto g.p. and now in cow crunch low will start on pole for tomorrow's spanish grand prix and had as the british riders set a lot of records on his way to claiming first pole position since two thousand and sixteen is four in the standings after he won the argent time grand prix last month reigning champion mark mark as full of five and fifty players for his home run three. outs the two hundredth anniversary of karl marx's birth and in the german town of where the father of socialism was born dignitaries have unveiled a massive statue of him a bronze likeness of the philosopher is a gift from china and the german town had grappled with the decision to accept the president for several years marks remains a divisive figure as critics say he is to blame for the crimes committed by social

revolutionaries in russia china and elsewhere in the name of communism. and watching the news live from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour and over get you know all the latest on our web site w dot com abby quite often thanks for watching. we make up of what we want tells of our focus the end of the ticket we all of the civil services. they want to shape the continent's future to be part of it and join the youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges the seventy seven percent platform for africa sure.