suman the position to which it was always entitle to it if you believe. the bronze star and james determining. the be . the best. this is the revenues live from berlin a curses or jet went down in kazakhstan killing at least 12 people shortly after take off the back airplane crashed in the city of el monte slamming into a tourist 2 story building bracco sleep dozens made it out alive also coming up no load out australia continues to battle wildfires raging in much of the country

people are bracing for mixed stream of heat wave and strong winds this weekend authorities are calling in the army to help contain the flames and now sub presenting its newest mars probe the unmanned vehicle is scheduled to blast off for the red planet next summer will find out what's so special about this mission. on my arctic you so much for your company everyone we start in kazakhstan a thought is there are trying to determine what caused an airliner to crash shortly after takeoff from the city of el monte the becker jet was bound for kazakhstan's capital nor seoul time with $98.00 passengers and crew on board 12 were killed in the crash more than 50 happened hospitalized the aircraft's black box has been found and is being analyzed. searching for signs of life in subfreezing

temperatures the plane was ripped into pieces after losing altitude during takeoff it crashed into this house which was vacant due to construction the airliner was destined for the capital nor seoul town but it fell off the radar just minutes after departing from almaty airport on friday morning 98 people were on board. friends and family of the passengers waited anxiously for updates the hospital revealed the extent of the injuries. on the national mall the patients all seriously traumatized 11 people hospitalized in the intensive care unit and 6 patients and the wind surgery. unfortunately 2 people died due to very serious injuries psychologists are on hand to assist relatives and patients. kazakh authorities immediately grounded the country's fokker $100.00 models and

launched an investigation they say the plane had difficulty during takeoff. he'll be taking the aircraft touched the runway with its tail twice a technical commission will establish whether this was pilot error or for technical reasons because if you know the. young men have a government of kazakhstan i would like to express my condolences to the families of the victims but nobody will be left without the support of the state of the above. board the plane was 23 years old and officials say it passed safety checks in may the president has declared saturday as a day of mourning. our let's get you more on this want to turn now to aviation specialist julian bray he joins us from the u.k. a very good day mr brit because excel flight was carrying 93 passengers and

5 crew sadly 12 people were killed in the crash but what is so remarkable that all the other passengers just walked away from the from the wreckage so to speak how is that possible. yes gravely and it's interesting because the front end of the aircraft separates did not say call it she went into the side of this building and the rear tiles section also separated leaving the hole in the middle intact and so people were actually able to walk off that particular aircraft another thing about the fokker of course is that it has 2 engines and they're right at the rear of the aircraft and this is to be relevant because there was no fire involved in this crash it came down it spits out unfortunately some people died but it didn't catch fire all right so that was kind of the saving grace for those

passengers you didn't make it out alive i understand now the black the plane's black box recorders have been located they're being analyzed the investigation has begun can you help us walk us through the process now yes there are either one or 2 black boxes on board depending on the variant of the aircraft and what this is this is a data recorder and the data on the voice recorder and what it does it records everything that happens on that aircraft on a continuous loop so. the ils forward to the investigations will be able to put together the exact. pictures not short if you like a what was happening on not mine before it finally crashed the point is they will actually have all the conversations between the pilots and the control time. the talk between the pilots and then the other noises inside the aircraft they will

also have a trial trying to try out every switch every relay and the thing that moved mechanically or electronically that will be recorded as well so they can actually play it and they can find out exactly what's happening to that aircraft. and that was julian gray there speaking to us he's an aviation specialist who's talking to us from cambridge in the u.k. want to give you now an update on some of the other stories making news around the world. in the gulf of oman iran has begun naval exercises with us russian and chinese allies the drills are taking place near a vital transit route for the world's oil tankers and iranian admiral says the drill show the country cannot be isolated on the seams. the death toll from a christmas day typhoon in the philippines has risen to at least 28 and authorities say the number of victims is likely to rise tyson's hands are forced many families

to spend christmas sheltering in the open air and has left scores of travelers stranded. muslims in indonesia have been protesting outside the chinese embassy in jakarta demanding an end to detentions of ethnic wego muslims an estimated $1000000.00 readers are believed to be detained in camps and china subject to political indoctrination and misha has the world's largest muslim population. the australian army has been called up to help fight wildfires burning out of control near the country's largest city sydney other words are bracing for an extreme heat wave this weekend following a few days of cooler weather eye has consumed millions of hectares of land across the country over the past 6 weeks at least 9 people have been killed. not just what you might expect at one of australia's most popular tourist sites visited

to the blue mountains west of sydney are forced to wear face masks as a smoke from nearby bushfires fills the air the iconic rock formations are barely visible in the haze. it's really disappointing to really looking forward to seeing if you always want to see the flame out in search such a shame that when we've kind of all over this. but that problem is small compared to the challenge firefighters in new south wales are set to face at the weekend. after a brief response right securing a few days of damp weather over christmas temperatures are again expected to soar bringing new risks. that's going to bring not just the heat have a central australia we're going to see the temperatures up into the larger mid forty's across a lot of areas but it's going to be a very dry year as well so that's going to elevate far by edges and we know the winds are going to start turning around to the west in the northwest which is war so much work is going going on over this last week walking visions of more more out

. some 70 fires are burning near sydney new south wales more than 1000 firefighters and now the military are in action across the state trying to contain the fires and prevent them from reaching more and habited areas. where just putting it back in time and law in detroit prevent the far from hitting towards coastal villages already more than $850.00 homes have been razed a new south wales. authorities are also working to protect infrastructure surrounding a vital dam west of sydney that provides water to around 4000000 people in the city but which could be at risk if the fire spread. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has won a landslide victory in a leadership contest for his ruling likud party with just about half the party's members voting in that now who took 72 percent of the vote fending off a challenge by the former interior minister gideon stark well the leadership

challenge comes ahead of a general election in march it will be israel's 3rd in a year and earlier we spoke with israeli political columnist a key eldar he explained why to fail attempts to build a government and a number of corruption charges have occurred it's been that you know support within his right wing likud party 1st of all because he was very attractive to the people who are much more then he goes he's under sorry when he comes to selling people. and respect. he is very very professional. he doesn't have to talk about this he just have to use his charm and convince people that he can is about them and indictments and peace. in the best carries.

you know was. completely irrelevant and that was political analysts to keep the elder who joined us earlier from tel aviv want to turn our attention now to california where nasa is showcasing a spacecraft that scheduled for a launch to mars next summer while the u.s. space agency wants to send the unmanned rover to the surface of the red planet partially to look for signs of past life on nasa says the rover has already passed its 1st driving test if all goes well that craft could land on mars by early 2021 all this one of 4 launches to the planets slated for next year we're so happy they have keith cowing from washington d.c. joining us he's an astrobiologist formerly with nasa an editor of nasa watch dot com keith before we start can you tell us what does an astrobiologist do. well we

study the origin evolution and distribution of life in the universe are and then i tell them now that we've established that nasa already of course conducted over a dozen successful missions to mars what sets this one apart well this is an upgrade of the sort of improved version of the mars 12 of them are science lab which has been on mars for some years this rover is going to get down and actually see you know with the right test whether there was life on mars possibly even if there could still be some life on mars so it's asking the big question is asking the big question now china the european space agency and the united arab emirates are also sending spacecraft to mars next year this is a crowded field as i started saying how much do the objectives differ for these missions and when you get better off to pull all the resources together well they are actually pulling things together the u.a.e. spacecraft will be looking at mars whether china is going to be launching an

orbiter but also is going to be putting a small plane or that will be looking for something called bio signatures evidence of biological molecules on mars your europe's rosalind franklin rover from excell mars will be on the same thing as will the mars 2020 rover so those 3 rovers plus the mars science laboratory going for rovers on mars all of them are looking for evidence of past and possibly present life so it's going to be sort of in astrobiology festival you know in 2020 but it remarks very exciting indeed how these missions focused primarily on studying the conditions on the red planet how can their findings be applied on earth. well it's interesting you know mars at one point had conditions very similar to earth since because of solar activity and whatnot dried out lost a lot of its atmosphere and so the process of how it cooled and how its climate changed it can house a relevance to earth the earth is a planet too we seem to forget that but you know the one way you can best

understand planets is you can study more than one of them and you look at earth you look at venus and you look at mars you get an idea of why we're so special and perhaps how we should be paying a little more attention to take care of this planet what is the most challenging part of this mission. a landing and it's of it's a giant it's the size of the last 2000000 means is a big rover and once it lands you have to test it out and so forth and then the real you know question is do we look in the right places for the stuff that we want to find that's ends up being the most challenging thing because we've never been to these places before and we're just like looking down from orbit say looks like a good spot let's check out. our eye to keith cowing asser biologist a formerly with nasa an editor of nasa watch dot com talking to us from washington d.c. search thank you for weighing and greatly appreciate it my pleasure. and a zoo in the u.s. state of michigan has been showing off its latest attraction b.b. right now all the talf of the endangered black rhino species was born christmas eve

in the potter park zoo in the state capital lansing or the calf which has yet to be changed shares an enclosure with its mother dop sea and the 2 are set to be bonding well there are about 5000 black rhinos in the wild today. so coming up in just a moment is our africa biz of date with kate ferguson also bring you the latest on a german airline facing streets in the upcoming days of my life or rock n roll and on behalf of all of us thank you for spending this part of it with us. it's interesting the famous naturalist and explorer. you seen the bridge of clicks on the from the books 250. morning before your discovery. expedition he believed. to be.

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