but i thought going on what they're doing fine to. say. this is the deadly knees lock them for the touchdown on mott's nasa's robotic science rather the reaches the red planet after 7 month journey perseverance will drilling into the surface collect rock samples and bring them back to work so that scientists can determine whether life once existed on. also coming up to explain things a 3rd not a fire and fury following the jamming of

a controversy as protesters take to the streets once more to demand the release of the public has said he was convicted of glorifying terrorism and in sort of inciting insulting the royal family also coming up. delivers the center young journalist to prison for reporting from anti-government protests that comes as president alexander lukashenko widens his crackdown on critics of his government's . i'm anthony held welcome to the show nasa space rose perseverance has safely touched down on the surface of mas a short while ago the 1st signals were beamed back to with from the probe. this was the jubilant scene as. yes as mission control as the tank confirms

a successful landing and this is how it looks like the 1st image sent back from oz about 400 and i think 1000000 kilometers away a 7 month journey was followed by what scientists call 7 minutes of terror on the part of executed its delicate landing when they vote without help from earth a robotic vehicle will make history by collecting samples of martian soil which will be brought back to with a could help scientists of the time and if life once existed on the red planet earth well joining me now from washington they say is esther biologist and journalist case callen case an exciting day how difficult was this landing. will they've done something like this before but it was difficult when they did it the 1st time and it was equally just difficult this time but you know as you just showed it weighed it exactly where it was supposed to land and the 1st thing it did

was send back the actions. incredibly nessa's curiosity rover has been operating since 2012 on models what can the new one find out that the old one couldn't well it's interesting since i'm talking to a german television imagine of looks wagon beetle from like 15 years ago and one you could buy today similar shoot for wheels gets you from point a to b. but if you look at what's under the hood it has much more scientific instrumentation and the earlier version better wheels better tires better sound system the whole thing and sort of the inspiration for this keep you a fairly john grunsfeld who was the head of nasa science at the time where they wanted to build upon these lessons so to your question how difficult was it a little bit less in that they knew kind of what would happen and what might happen right for the 1st time in history of spice this time nasa and the european scientists plan to bring moss and rocks back to with how do we get the samples back

. as the kids say these days it's complicated this rover is going to drive around to do some science and then send that information back to us while it's also going to be drilling to the surface and over the next couple of years at a collect a series of little tubes that they will then put you know location and weight and then europe and america will launch a another mission to mars which will land nearby but a day european rover will drive really fast read those samples bring it back to the american rocket which will launch into orbit and then another spacecraft that europe has sent will meet up with it where the samples and bring them back to earth if it sounds complicated it is going to say that sounds simple enough they've the big question when will we know if there is evidence of life on miles well there's 2 ways you could get that answer one is if some of the instrumentation that's on this rover finds evidence that there had been life on mars and again the lineages

are of crater which is very much like locations on earth where you could find fossils that are upwards of 34000000000 years old so it would be straight for if those fossils on earth where mars this rover would find them and it would probably be pretty definitive that something living had been there now is there currently life in mars this rover might stumble over it but some of the future rovers we do that but the samples that we bring back may give additional answers so it serves stepwise process learn something in the next couple of years but then it depends on how fast we get all those other complicated pieces to mars and back to probably be towards the end of this decade as the biologist and journalist keith cowing thanks so much. looking at some other world news now. drug has cleared the final hurdle to become italy's new prime minister probably want to confidence vote in the lower house after already being approved by the senate a day earlier the former european central bank chief now has to make italy out of

the devastation caused by the pandemic. germany has warned iran that it's quote playing with fire by violating the nuclear deal german foreign minister. accused to run tehran of jeopardizing the return of the us to the deal the trumpet ministration withdrew from it in 2001 thing. the no been german city of flynn's book has reacted to the rapid spread of highly contagious coronavirus variants by imposing and not. a town in the danish border has also introduced stricter social distancing rules and says it will not follow the rest of the region in reopening schools light of this month. pakistan says its most celebrated client is presumed did mohamed al the sad part of disappeared when summiting k 2 along with us lands john snorri and she lays on public more an intensive search has been underway for the trio since they went missing in haas winter conditions 2 weeks ago

. spanish cities are saying if not of unrest as anger grows over the conviction of a spanish rapper protesters in barcelona have set up burning barricades there are also demonstrations in valencia to protest again on tuesday not after public has so was sentenced to 9 months in jail for tweets and lyrics that prosecutors say glorified terrorism and slanted the monarchy demonstrators say the conviction is an attack on free speech dozens of people have been arrested. for more on this joined by journalist stephen bergen in boston lunna stephen it's the 3rd not of clashes are there any signs that the anger and frustration is dwindling. well i think it probably will have to fade because they're basically demanding. so be

acquitted. you know it's not going to happen because the judiciary. has has. since found him guilty in the government it would not be in their interest to override that. i think we may have another night of those. there's not much to do it night here because the restaurant so close. but i think it doesn't have much to share particularly as it's increasingly emerging that this is not really an angel and. you know for or ok it's true that the sending him to jail for his tweets was perhaps excessive. things he said you know. and says komisar is perhaps justified in being jailed he wasn't today sentenced to

a further 2. years in jail with nothing to do with free speech but because he intimidated a witness in a trial and also video evidence emerges him attacking a journalist at a meeting so he isn't his at some point the sort of saint of free speech that some people would make him out to be. that the center left coalition government at the national level isn't the strongest as it is what do you think could be the political fallout from this. there already is a political fall in the coalition which is between the mainstream socialist party and the somewhat more to the left what they most need a party. i've been calling for has to be

basically. to give him his for his sentence to be dropped. which has created tremendous rift between the socialist. and. for the for the it's it's sort of put in perspective public places the leader has been made to look a little bit ridiculous because videos emerge of him saying some years ago or. so people like him should actually inside the jails stephen bergen in boston london many thanks according bella vs jailed 2 journalists for reporting from a protest against president alexander lukashenko the court ruled that the pair had incited on breast by live streaming the event for the polish funded bell set. for the government has been moving more aggressively to target critics out there

cracking down on mass protests that pose the greatest threat to his government indicates. in mid november 2020 in this residential area in minsk protesters rally following the death of an activist journalist katrina entered camerawoman geria trials of a live stream 3 event also filming security forces the 2 were then arrested and later put on trial today the court sentenced them to 2 years in prison for violating public order. under the pretext of journalistic activity and without accreditation the defendants took to the streets and blocked traffic some. carrying his grandfather can only shake his head he says the 2 women are now hostages of the belorussian regime but. nothing at all absolutely nothing in this case that deserves punishment the more. that you can.

decide this verdict our colleagues were just doing their jobs and exercising a global have a fundamental right to school namely freedom of press of this if i had journalists and dello russo are under pressure on tuesday police again raided the homes and offices of journalists and human rights activists confiscating computers and cash. facebook has blocked news content from its platform in a strive yet the latest twist in the hate a dispute with the government as camera considers legislation to force take companies to pay for the journalism by kerry facebook and google have been fighting the proposals which they say don't reflect the why the internet works but facebook's action came just hours after google bridge the deal with the news companies. many australians woke to a surprise this morning facebook friend of them suddenly they couldn't access local and international news through the social media site it's a dramatic escalation of a conflict over australian efforts to force tech giants to pay for journalism. i

think i still play nice is terrible actually i did say 43 get your man and i can get all my needs in the one spot say it will be the impact me. congress said the ban on news had a huge community impact a $17000000.00 australians visit facebook every month it's even being called an assault on democracy. facebook was wrong. facebook sections were unnecessary they weigh heavy handed and they will damage its reputation here in australia frydenberg said facebook gave no warning of the new shutdown. camber wants to table a law that would require online giants to negotiate payment for news outlets content or have fees set for them some experts have their doubts about the law and say it needs to be reevaluated the story is a bit more complicated than just so that's what forms of content. and they

benefit from it it's going to mucho benefit so then you probably would also need to ask whether. you. need to pay facebook and google. or through them to their pages google initially also refused to pay for news content and threatened to pull all services from australia then in a surprise move the internet giant struck deals with australian media firms such as channel 9 rupert murdoch's news corp and 7 west media. australian social media users will be hoping that facebook has a similar change of heart. and before we go a surreal winter wonderland from the deep south of the us cypress trees growing in the louisiana swan plants are always a face to the eyes and now there's a canopy of ice because of the deep freeze.

before we go i've reminder of the top story we're following for you this hour. perseverance has landed successfully on mars for the next 2 news the astrobiology the burra tree we use it to drill into the surface and collect rock samples to determine where the life once existed on the grid. so for now i'll next is news africa stay tuned for that i'll have more headlines for you at the top of the offer now for me and the rest of the team here in berlin thanks what. we've got some hope to explore your bucket list. for some. some great cultural mores to boot. double trouble. trying to succeed. because i want

to see a gemini with me the last few years have been quite over. and i've learned to love him but when it comes to. perhaps the biggest the new $100.00 on the river and i love to be in the news there are pros and there are a punk but when you feel the giving you realize it's called just another way of living you read to me at 730 right just do it. this is news africa coming up on the program coming to terms with nigeria's school attack as families awaits the rescue of your loved ones comments made by nigeria's minister of defense half sparked controversy and also coming up. an ebola outbreak in the midst of it and then make as many consent we meet a man who was infected 2 years ago and has tested positive i guess.

i am. welcome to the program now we've been following events in nigeria after gunmen attacked a school in the country's and i just state on wednesday killing at least one student and abduct and more than 40 people including students and teachers now while the government is trying to ensure the assy for 10 it's this response by nigeria's defense minister that has angered people. to keep a lack. of t.v. when necessary. i don't know. when it is. religious. defenders.

now that has not gone down well with many nigerians on social media. of. their minister of defense said we should stand up to bandits understand ourselves what exactly did we do to deserve leaders like this. and such as in the strive to provide food clothing shelter proper education. and other means of livelihood for themselves and now the government demands we rise to defend ourselves from terror why do we have a government in the 1st place our correspondent has been following the story and joins us now from abuja nigeria hello how have people been responding to the statements by the defense minister this techmeme by the national security adviser comes with mixed action from nigerians especially those from the areas that are affected by these inside jancee some see it as

a pawn in because at that time when people are creepy and. loved ones that were taken out we. picked it from the government use any kind of. a 5 nation that yes we're going to rescue these not pushing it to the nigerian people this is distribution but. if it did on find themselves in that kind of teaching of despair what do they do because did look up to the pope in full protection. not to since not to get in now what could be the implications of such a statement. the implication is telling people to find a way out of what they can do because this isn't the 1st time i can remember it for my nigeria's president. and for my nigerian general thank you my mate such as to mean in the past that nigerians have been pushed to the world food

implication peace many people would now find solution of how to defend themselves because apparently it's like daddy's good luck and decide of the government to come and help them come on probe i disputed for them and now you are telling them that the despair. who's in pull on what is happening. now and this is the 2nd can nothing else school kids in 3 months how safe are our schools not. in reality and what we have seen in many schools and what see if you had to look at what happens in. this type of dot school schools in nigeria i did just face to front each well get back to the bush you can opt to do universities as an abduction even if you use idea which is one of the 1st class universities in nigeria debacle doc universities completely open to the bush so

many schools yeah some i sin no i'm not going to send my child to go to school because i'm not sure how safety. health authorities in guinea on democratic republic of congo are trying to stop the spread of the need to break guinea house reports at 7 cases with 5 bets by the country suspected to receive more than 11000 scenes this weekend wow he was already begun vaccinations so what's the situation on the ground our correspondent. from the. smelly drug the. gentleman being the contracted ebola 2 years ago he spent 6 weeks in the hospital doctors gave him encourage mend but he had little hope here by thinking of him. i thought i was going to die.

i was knocked out. i was not in a normal state anymore. you know why didn't eat once and i vomited every day and i thought i was dying only. but he survived a month after being released from the hospital he was considered cured but during his last test a month ago it was a different story his sperm is equal a positive again it was a shock for. going to shows game o.c. in 94 i've not yet grasped it. it's been 2 years i did check ups until they told me your sperm is negative you can now do what you want but then they called me again saying you have to come back for verification of your result no one wore a very bad it came out of my sperm showed positive again and miss the. teeth

. eastern congo early february a woman dies of ebola marking the beginning of the latest and now the 12th it will outbreak in the democratic republic of congo according to the health minister she is believed to have contracted the disease from the infected semen of her husband who was himself an able our survival the woman who was considered to be the 1st place our favorite outbreak was admitted to this hospital you're right behind me half of us are proud to mistaken could save the spread as soon as possible but experts warn that these back to back him alone brakes and also cold at night seen have stretched from bus stop system to the limits our interview requests to the ministry of health is denied due to time constraints nurse mohmed berry muki has experienced past ebola outbreaks in this temporary ward alternate keita tumor hospital in suspected able cases will be isolated upon arrival they have 4 rooms

here no more. when beara fears the outbreak could be difficult to contain the government did not make the outbreak public until 4 days after the ebola patient died. down as. if the government had released the result on the same day. and locked down all contacts with the disease wouldn't have spread. but. instead the highly infectious body was buried in the traditional manner which in congo means many relatives touching the body more than 70 contacts have been tracked by the ministry of health since then. for nurses like more bear it means extreme caution contact with the infected body fluid of an able or suffer a means infection for him too and the mortality rate is up to 70 percent. and

we risk our lives we here at the frontline because we take care of all the sick people who are arrive when we were told that the 12th epidemic had started we were so frustrated and so concerned and were afraid to do so. is also afraid of the new outbreak he thought he had finally been able but his new positive test worries him from mondas i am now joined by mari kate are easy technical officer for the world health organization mari many thanks for your time now. recently declared ebola over so why is there another outbreak. it will be a cure is a. little to the context jeweler fickle contacts or. engineer in india the. this region is are you know a very we have little if you. use only or so even

when we control. too big we expected to have an hour to break any time so the most important thing is to be prepared for this one. at least . ok so valuable of vaccines now so should we not panic about the latest outbreak. yeah absolutely because you know of. any one outbreak in on wages could. do kids look at the kids i think you wait. how about the review of 24216 rick in west africa. grants. look to me just. in terms of prevention now as you might know we

have an effective blacks in there as well we have all 3 commands. already by the f.d.a. so we have. to be able to respond properly to any young ok that's always been an issue when it comes to people being vaccinated how willing api people to receive these docs nations. if it i think an example from guinea even of actual people in guinea before using it was it by yes of course there will always be. people who view libby you can't you know for even for 44 minutes less but you know it for a minute that is but for anybody but we for some of these communication in a community engagement we manage. to question it or. you can type so early thank you to people in this area and there we are expecting

nearly $20000.00 it's sunday in geneva and normally only i'm going to be made under seal so vaccination will start on monday ok dr mari cate our technical office out with a well how this nation thank you very much for your time. and now it's all we have for now for more boss stories go to de dot com slash africa you can also visit our facebook and twitter pages we leave you today with these pictures from can shot and see where another mysterious monolith up yet starts a popping up last year fast in the u.s. than in turkey and romania now indio see on iran about. much of that. destroyed it didn't care i've been up.

to the point. the pain is clear position the international perspective. can anybody still china's surge to global dominance is perhaps the biggest foreign policy challenge facing a new u.s. president joe biden so how would he respond there would be communication or

confrontation find out onto the point to shoot right to the point. of being 60 minutes on d w. what secrets lie behind. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage site. b.t.w. world heritage 360 get the map now. airbus posts a mass of losses of pandemic batters the aviation industry global travel os x. down still it's very tough for us local governments or it was in the center of the air both as chief financial officer dominic and sound speaks to details view about one of the toughest years in his company's history meanwhile plane makers are

also grappling with another crisis climate change we'll show you how innovations in bio fuel could make aviation more sustainable. and from hedge fund managers to the chief executives of directors on the ground and put u.s. lawmakers grill the parties involved in the game stops recent of wild ride trading spectacle. this is business i'm kate ferguson thanks for joining me to size and 20 has been a disastrous year for the aviation industry today airbus announced a $1300000000.00 losses pandemic restrictions cost air travel to collapse last year airbus delivered a 3rd of fewer planes than in 2019 turning out a total of $566.00 u.s. rival boeing has also been struggling it lost over a half its i quote year on year only delivering $157.00 planes. seeing

its results earlier today airbus said it was not expecting to return to 2019 production rates this year this just flight plans to run out of its popular a 320 single aisle aircraft shares in airbus fell following the news. let's bring in dominic financial officer us air bus mr sam i think it's fair to say that 2020 was the toughest year in airbus's history will 2021 be any better well what we've guided today is that for 2021 in terms of deliveries we expect to at least to deliver the same number of aircraft as in 2020 we've also guided that or profit should recover to a level of about 2000000000 euros that's 2 bids adjusted and all the free cash flow that we're not going to burn any case on the free cash flow before him an a and customer financing anymore so yes i can say the worst is behind us but still

times are very challenging they certainly are this pandemic isn't going away any time soon airlines around the world are collapsing who is going to be buying airbus planes at the moment oh alone customers have to really weigh the near term. struggle for preserving cash making sure that operationally they can could continue them at very low levels you know in 2020 we had only one 3rd of the passenger revenue kilometers we had in 2019 but they also have to consider how they are positioned competitively as they move all of the crisis and with the vaccines coming into play we think that traffic will recover gradually over the course of this year and from that perspective given that we have a very strong product portfolio and a very strong backlog we still see that the normal customers are also preparing now for the ramp when the vaccines are spread and then travel activity will recover that vaccine mobilize is anything but straightforward overall how would you assess

the response of governments to the crisis in aviation. frankly it's very tough for us now as governments are acting not always in a coordinated manner there's of course a lot of routes to fuck to shut down we see the activities being depressed especially in europe it's a very different region by region other regions are doing much better so you would appreciate a war synchronized approach of course but you also understand that safety goes 1st and. hygiene measures to be implemented so that's why we think that the vaccine implementation will be crucial and we see some promising pictures here and also in surveys only had one customers see customers requesting planning going forward to resume travel activity and of course the pandemic isn't the only crisis we're facing right now let's talk about the climate as well what progress has made towards making aviation more sustainable we think that we have a huge opportunity on that front because by replacing old aircraft but new aircraft

you can shoot for reductions in emissions to about 20 to 25 percent so that's very material on top of that you know starting really developing 0 emission aircraft without any c o 2 emissions including hydrogen technology so we want to be the pony on that front too and i think the combination of removing removal of fleets and then also in the longer term maybe the middle of next decade introducing the 1st hydrogen aircraft you can make a significant contribution to a lower carbon footprint and decouple position of the planet from make us some tea financial officer of us thank you very much. and as mr sam mentioned there playmakers are increasingly focusing on making flying more sustainable this has led to developments in so-called climate neutral fuel boeing for example has announced that its planes will fly exclusively on bio kerosene by 2030 if you don't use donkeys fast reports. almost 7000 liters of aviation fuel have been pumped into the

wing tanks of this cargo plane and they're not even half full yet the flight from frankfurt to shanghai in china is a long one but this flight is something special because the cargo subsidiary of germany's largest airline is operating. using kerosene. it's a plant based fuel that the c o 2 fuel. has been. a plane using bio kerosene emits 80 percent less greenhouse gases the only problem is that the climate friendly fuel cost between $3.00 and $6.00 times more than normal jet fuel in spite of that many customers want to improve the carbon footprint left behind by transport like logistics company which chartered the flight c e o u s p's for a climate neutral flight to china every week. we

also talked about this project. for the project in the summer flight schedule those who are with the extra cost. the climate kerosene is produced at this refinery in port of finland and hours drive from has inky for more than 10 years. has been working on replacing kerosene free. with sustainable materials. type stuff. that's for the future we are exploring new. $100000.00 tons of bio kerosene per year. produced here a drop in the ocean compared to the 300000000 metric tons that the world's airline

operators burn annually yohane in believes that a breakthrough in climate friendly aviation fuels is a matter for policy makers. what we need is for the government to create the market either to create the requirements for a for industry to. become more sustainable. in addition to loved ones or many other airlines such as japan's a in a kill them air france and american airlines are already buying sustainable kerosene more and more passengers and freight clients alike see the advantage in climate neutral flight. in the united states the c.e.o.'s of reddish robin hood as well as some big name hedge fund managers have been facing a grilling from lawmakers over the recent wild trade and against top stock shares in the company searched 1600 percent in january before promising again the

volatility was driven by small scale retail investors getting together on reddit robin-hood to target shares professional investors were betting against. retail investors took to the streets in january they would have kept buying games don't stock but overnight trading up robin hood froze purchases of game stop it was only possible to sell it robin hood boss flood tenet defended the move in a hearing before congress saying it was necessary for technical reasons he denies any collusion with hedge funds. in the securities pool the restrictions in place in an effort to increased regulatory deposit requirements not to help. we don't answer the hedge funds we serve the millions of small investors who use our platform every day. this retail investor watch the hearing live his reaction. if you. go to the market so i want to. get their

standing and you're. going to and. it's one of the biggest stock market scandals of all time on the online platform read it small investors organize themselves and bought shares in the folding computer merchandise and games provide a game stop while hedge funds were betting on the company's demise game stock share prices went through the roof only to collapse again hedge funds and small investors alike lost billions but who's to blame the reddit website operator denies any responsibility wall street bets made lotsof more or chaotic from the outside but the fact that we're here today means they've managed to raise important issues about fairness and opportunity and our financial system and probably it's relatively small it's the 1st time social media has moved markets with such power the evaluation of what happened has only just begun. our financial correspondent jose luis a hero has been following this story for us jose do you think this hearing is

likely to result in tougher regulation. well so far we haven't learned anything really new from prime day on going here in and we need to to having consideration that regulations normally move at a much slower pace dan dan reality but even if the game stocks did not pose as systemic risk for their financial system there are plenty of issues that to tackle from a regulatory perspective especially as more and more retail investors keep coming to to the to the markets one of them and maybe the most important one is that game if occasion of trading and maybe the need for more a stronger investment literacy before engaging in trading activities and the other one could be that relationship that can sometimes could be tricky or even a skill as sketchy between broker brokers market the makers and those payments for

order flows have a link with the higher thank you very much. and that's all from me thanks so much for watching where you can check out our web site t w dot com slash business we're on social media as well to check us out there for me on the team it's goodbye and take care. how's your view of the world. where i come from but always that's good to cisco just like this chinese food does measure of where i am it's believed reminds me of home after decades of living in germany chinese food is one of the things i miss the most but that taking

a step back i see something new to the difference you know. men have for its 1st as a medical nation that exists to other parts of the world haven't been implemented in china that's what you put on the top chinese people wondering if they're going to say that but if you have a right to learn ready it is this is their job a job none of them are how i see it and the supply i have enough of my job because i tried to do it exactly the day. my name is the name tool and i work at g.w. . why are people forced to hide in trucks. the simplest.

answer. and there are many stories. yes. make up your own mind. w. made for mines. a legal battle for control of britney spears career and personal life take center stage as a new documentary shifts the conversation about the pop star and her troubles with her father the tabloids and the courts coming up on arts and culture. and israeli filmmaker guy

a little re-using confronts her own family secrets in germany. but 1st since me on mars a military coup earlier this month hundreds of thousands of people have been protesting for democratic freedoms for the country's artists like the indie band side effects its freedom of expression that's at stake from an darco sea remembers the days before democracy when me and mars military would only let the band play songs approved by state censors since the army seized back power they have been fighting to keep their voice. we all are shocked. coming you don't believe it was strange. yes we did not take it. but now you know all of these like turkish. folk at the rising. sea is

a musician and record producer who lives in yangon he's part of me on mars sub culture scene which is taking a brave stance against the military the protesters are young angry and.