it was always entitled to believe it is losing. the bronze star in january to determine. the to. the but . this is it every news live from berlin a passenger jet went down in kazakhstan killing at least 12 people shortly after take off the back airplane crashed in the city of all muddy slamming into a 2 story building puracal asleep dozens made it out alive also coming up noah let out australia continues to battle wildfires raging in much of the country people

are bracing for an extreme heat wave and strong winds this weekend authorities are calling in the army to help contain the flames good good it pedal to the metal may soon be a thing of the past on germany's motorways close to the bottom of the latest attempt to clamp down on a privilege available only on the autobahn and the rings to mars is feeding i'll tell you nasa has presented its newest crew to the red planet is just one of 4 missions said at last count to 2020. 2 our viewers in the united states on p.b.s. and our viewers around the world thank you so much for joining us authorities in the central asian country of kazakhstan are trying to determine what. calls an

airliner to crash shortly after takeoff from almighty kazakhstan's largest city while the evac air jet was bound for the capital supercell time with 98 passengers and crew on board 12 sadly were killed in the crash more than 50 had been hurt the aircraft's black box has been found and is being allies. it's amazing that anyone survived this and it's a miracle that most of those on board made it out alive seconds after takeoff something went terribly wrong on this early morning back after lie passenger side the plane struggled to gain altitude and soon came crashing down there grew up with the plane hit the ground hard then the light came flooding in. i didn't know if i was dead or alive i cried out then i saw a man next to a door yes i told him to open. and we got out through that through the

roof of the jet. but many went that lucky passengers at the front of the plane suffered the worst injuries for their loved ones the white outside the emergency room was agonizing. both families and survivors a traumatised. psychologists are working with both relatives and patients we don't have any unnamed patients all of the names have been identified. with the scale of this disaster has touched kazakhs. many have stood in long lines to give blood at clinics and hospitals with people donating on behalf of the injured. the government has also responded with a moment's silence. and promises to help survivors and the victims' families

deserve the from the families of the deceased and injured will receive financial assistance the government will deal with this issues. but many concepts want to know how this accident could have happened that's the task of investigators to find out they'll be looking at whether pilot error or mechanical fault caused this plane to plummet out of the sky on a key a sunny morning or let's get you more on this want to turn now to specialists julian bray he joins us from the u.k. a very good day mr brit now 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 good evening larry it's interesting because the front end of the aircraft separates you did not see coffee that 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 and now the thing about the pocket of course is that it has 2 engines and they're right at the rear of the aircraft and this is the relevant because there was no fire involved in this crash it came down it spit out fortunately 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 so 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 slower to the investigations will be able to put together the exact. pictures snapshot if you like a what was happening on that plane before it finally crashed the point is they will actually have all the conversations between the pilots and the control tower and the top between the pilots and then the other noises inside the aircraft they will also have electronic trail 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. special speaking to us earlier from cambridge the u.k.

want to turn our attention now to australia where the army has been called up to help fight wildfires burning out of control of the country's largest city sydney all authorities are bracing for an extreme heat wave this weekend following a few days of cooler weather fire has consumed millions of hectors 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 visitors to the blue mountains west of sydney are forced to wear face masks as the smoke from nearby bush 5 fills the air. the iconic rock formations are barely visible in the haze. it's really disappointing syria looking forward to seeing if you. want to see the day not insert such a shame when we kind of all know. that that problem is small compared to the challenge firefighters in new south wales are set to face at the weekend. after

a brief for spite 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 of a service 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 air as well so that's going to elevate far by inches 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 fallout from getting towards coastal villages already more than 850 homes have been raised in new south wales.

authorities are also working to protect infrastructure surrounding a vital dam west of sydney that provides mortar to around $4000000.00 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 netanyahu took 72 percent of the vote sending off a challenge by the former interior minister gideon sark of a leadership challenge comes ahead of a general election in march it will be israel's in a year. and the earlier we spoke with israeli political columnist akiva eldar he explained why 2 failed attempts to build a government and a number of corruption charges have not heard benjamin netanyahu support within his right wing likud party 1st of all because he was very attractive

to the people much more then goes sour is an adversary when it comes to selling people. love and respect. he is very very professional in. he doesn't have to talk about stuff because he just have to use his charm and convince people that he cares about them and indict friends and peace. in the best carries in the back burner you know worst case they are completely irrelevant. that was political analyst akiva eldar joining us from tel aviv earlier want to give you round up now some of the other stories making news around the world. in the gulf of oman iran has begun naval exercises with this russian and chinese allies the drills

are taking place near a vital transit route for the world's oil tankers an iranian admiral says the drills show the country cannot be isolated on the seas. muslims in indonesia have been protesting outside the chinese embassy in jakarta demanding an end to the detention of an estimated $1000000.00 ethnic neither muslims in government run and tongue the camp's charter calls these prison camps reeducation facilities and the nisha is home to the world's largest muslim population. 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 fan phone forced many families to spend christmas sheltering in the open air and has left scores of travelers stranded. japan says it's delaying a cleanup plan for the room to superhuman days she nuclear plant by up to 5 years

well that means removal of spent radioactive fuel inside the facility won't begin before 2024 the plant suffered meltdowns at 3 of its 6 reactors in 2011 after a devastating earthquake and tsunami. lacks speed limits could become could become a rather to the auto bad germany's famous highway system if the country social democrats get their way the party's new leadership says a majority of germans support putting on the brakes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve road safety germany is the only european country without speed limits on most of its highways the subject has long been a contentious issue here people come to germany from all over the world to hit the highways and step on the gas germany is the only country in the e.u. without an overall speed limit. but an uproar ensued after chancellor merkel's

coalition partner the social democratic party made a u. turn the new party leader wants an overall speed limit of 130 kilometers per hour the transport minister a conservative is against it we have far more outstanding tasks than raising up this highly emotional topic again and again for which there is no majority support . in october a parliamentary majority voted against a speed limit. the issue has been debated in germany for decades. lobbyists for motorists and the auto industry have always triumphed but their opponents have another argument climate protection a general speed limit would reduce c o 2 emissions that's part of the social democrats recommendation to the transport minister. that he could win a point this way just by doing something small and easily achievable for climate protection it would increase road safety improve traffic flow and we'd be in line with all of europe and most countries in the world. the social democrats want to

continue government discussions about a speed limit but for now more than 2 thirds of german highways will remain full speed ahead. full speed ahead to go usefully to correspondent. joins me to talk more about this very emotive subject here in this country because arguably how the dutch feel about their bikes and the americans feel about their guns this country cherishes its unrestricted speed autobahn explain to us why does the lack of speed limit or maybe potentially speed limits still so many emotions in this country well you've stated it's a very contentious issue here in germany it is a nation of car drivers it says so a nation where car industry is very deeply rooted in german germany's economy and it says so very emotional absa government level 2 days ago we had a transports i mean is there and i asked saying we are far more. standing taz than

putting these highly emotional topic over and over on the table for which there are no majorities outsold and indeed he indeed he's right to german parliament has so far voted against speed limits especially in coalition government the conservative party as well as the liberals and the far right which have which are traditionally against such a thing it ok so that so politically there is not really doubt my. support but how do sons feel about this measure well a survey has been conducted in 40 percent of the people general public here in germany is actually in favor of a speed limit of 130 kilometers per hour that's 81 my eyes. and only 31 percent of the people are against a strict speed limit now the most contentious point when you talk to germans is way to fix that speed limits now the recommended speed because there is such

a thing is 130 kilometers per hour 81 miles per hour us so people working in the tourism sector i was so affected by such measures because for example tour operators are actually favoring germany when it comes to trying out new cars and for data for their clients it would mean they couldn't come on germany's model ways to try out their their new toys and just as i mentioned earlier there's 60 to 70 percent of the geminis highways on which you can drive and with no speed limits whatsoever. it's mind boggling because in other countries of course you don't even have that privilege to talk to us about on a serious note germany's track record when it comes to accidents related to speeding well that's bringing one of the deputy leader off to german police officers union said michel i met him he's on the front line when it comes to judging traffic traffic accidents you say that studies show that one in 4

a road deaths could be prevented with a speed limits and he has no say deaths reducing the speed 230 kilometers per hour 81 miles per hour would prevent serious traffic accidents now if you look at figures in 2018 we recorded 3275 deaths in traffic accidents that's what it was in. then and only $424.00 deaths happen on the highways the rest on national roads rouer and urban areas which is also an argument for people against the speed limits not to implement on the highways cars so that really doesn't measure up either now another argument that's being used is that of course climate talk to us about how that is affecting this argument this measure well driving fast does affect climate in that the higher you

drive the most gas your car emits so in a bid to cut nitrogen oxide emissions some country have decided to implement a lower speed limits for example the netherlands in november decided to implement a daytime speed limits on dutch highways they would cut that down to 100 kilometers per hour and such measures are supposed to help cut down those gas emissions hollers of course really tiny and there's not many places where you can go really france and germany is so huge and you've got long stretches where you can. feed thank you so much i mean what it says greatly appreciate it. and highways without speed limits the perfect backdrop for germany's fast cars opponents of autobahn speed limits worry about the impact on the car industry why build automobiles that can top 250 kilometers an hour when the law sets a limit of 138 our next report looks at some of 29 to automotive stories and starts

with one car that is definitely not made for speed limits. is this what the world was waiting for. ladies and gentlemen that knew or should tai-chi. the 1st fully electric porsche starting price $105000.00 euros the porsche take on is the biggest competition the tesla model s. has seen yes. yes the tesla in november testone baled their latest number and electric truck with apparently don't break the windows at least that's what it said in the cyber truck brochure yeah it didn't work out quite that way. mike but well. maybe i was a little too hard or was this for demonstration purposes or was the cyber truck still a work in progress. garnering fewer headlines was the ingenious invention of a ukrainian beekeeper in june he presented the world's 1st homemade electric car

that he drives to his beehives every day. not one for the big car shows like the annual geneva motor show here french luxury manufacturers' bugatti presented what is supposedly the most expensive car in the world complete with handmade wheel rims it will set on a buyers back 16000000 euros what makes this race race is one of watch this is for sure. at the completely opposite end of the spectrum is v.w. 1st purely electric car the id 3 which is aimed at the mosque marcus. the idea 3 is opening a next chapter. bishan to become machine 0 emission brands by 2050. this year 0 emission goal had already been achieved in january by a russian schoolteacher. exactly one horsepower for 0 emissions.

the horse drawn car stands for a global trend making new out of old. also in london was this morris minor built in 1953 which used to run on petrol but is now always plugged in at night it hails from a startup that makes its money by retrofitting old cars. why scrap them when there isn't actually anything wrong with them except for the power train. the only thing classic cars can't do yet is fly other inventors are working on this maybe 2020 will be the year the flying car goes into mass production. maybe not in california nasa is showcasing a spacecraft that's 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 mass it says the rover has already

passed its 1st driving test if all goes well that craft could land on mars i earlier 2021 well it's one of 4 launches to the planet slated for next year are 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 always study the origin and evolution and distribution of life in the universe are and in a nutshell that 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 20 of them our 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 as 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 say how much do the objects is different for days and missions and when you get we're better off to pull all the resources together well they are actually pull 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 lander 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 doing 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 an astrobiology festival you know in 2020 but it remarks very exciting it is now 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't has 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 a size of the last 2000000 means is a big rover and once it lands are 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 i pleasure. russia's anti doping agency has filed an appeal against the world anti-doping agency wada for its 4 year ban on russian participation in international sporting events while earlier this month were such as board voted in favor of appealing the court of arbitration for sports in switzerland so your russian political figures including president vladimir putin and indicated they wanted an appeal filed following the water. arts of football news for you now just coming in a veteran strikers locked on abraham of h. is returning to his former club ac milan now that he has contract with l.a. galaxy has and while the 38 year old swede signed

a deal with the italian outfit until the end of the season with the option to extend for another year if only it were him of each played a key role in the lions 2011 sciri a title he scored 56 goals for them in 85 appearances while the club is currently stuck in 11th place. now 2 is 0 in the us state of michigan which has been showing off its latest attraction of baby rhino all the calf of the endangered black rhino species was born christmas eve in the potter park zoo in the state capital lansing while the calf which has a yet to be named shares an enclosure with its mother dobson and the 2 are said to be bonding well there are about $5000.00 black rhinos left in the wild today. all right coming up in just a moment is eco india but before that we want to show you.

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