this is the deadly news live from birds they touch down on mott's nasa's robotic science rover reaches the bread planet after a 7 month just perseverance will drill into the surface collect rock samples and bring them back to work so scientists can determine where the life of one thinks this today also coming up the governor of texas says the state's power plants are back online after a deadly winter storm triggered widespread down to just hundreds of thousands of homes still lack electricity.

a matter how i'd welcome that's the spice road that perseverance has touched down on the surface of mars landing safely inside a large price up the road but i think vehicle will make history by collecting samples of mosman soil which will be brought back to earth that could help scientists to determine if life once existed on the red planet. at. the moment scientists have he could be a way to. get. that final the 1st and this is what it looks like the 1st images beamed back from os high quality images will be sent. in the coming hours and days. i

feel relieved happy excited ready to get to work or the science team let's go do some science it's been a long 8 years and we're ready to go. it was a high risk landing. president about one kilometer 2nd at an altitude of about 6000 kilometers from the surface of mars. a 7 month journey followed by what scientists call 7 minutes of tarot. president without regard to subsonic and they think there had been separated. when the probe executed its delicate landing maneuver without help from the hospice mission control. over the next 2 he is perseverance will make history by collecting samples of martian soil. scientists believe that around 3500000000 years

ago this crater was home to a rebound just float into a lake making it a good location to start looking for signs of life. this mission is amazing on its own science technology and catching samples back to earth but it's also part of our bigger exploration plans for right which involve really understanding mars and the evolution of mars and whether there was life and life but also preparing for eventually human missions to mars. bringing the samples back to earth would be another long time complicated journey. involving several other rocket launches and spacecraft meeting up with perseverance in space to pick up its cargo hold. if all goes according to plan those precious samples without drive back on for as good as 2031.

washington. test and journalist case callan case an exciting day how difficult was this landing. well they've done something like this before but it was difficult when they did 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 pictures. incredibly nessus 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 a volkswagen beetle from like 15 years ago and one you could buy today similar shape 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 it sort of the inspiration for this came from 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 a spice like that 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 and send that information back to us while it's also going to be drilling to the surface and over the next couple of years it 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 ascent will meet up with it where the samples and bring them back to earth if it sounds complicated it is going to say that sound simple enough they've the big question when will we know if there is evidence of life on mouse 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 a 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 straightforward 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 may do that but the samples that we bring back may give additional answers so it's sort of a step wise process will 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 kate callan thanks so much. ok looking at some other world news now. thousands of rally begin in myanmar's largest city go to protest against this month's military coup that ousted the civilian government. and she demanded that she be freed and the democratically elected government be restored jointer said it took over because november's elections were time to buy voting irregularities. in spanish saying a 3rd not of unrest is anger grows over the arrest of rap a problem has still the protests began on tuesday night after he was jailed for tweets and lyrics that prosecutors say glorified terrorism and slanted the monarchy in stride as he was conviction is an attack on free speech. mario draghi has cleared the final hurdle to become italy's new prime minister druggy want

a confidence vote in the lower house after already being approved by the senate earlier a former european central bank chief now has to lead absolutely italy out of the devastation caused by the pandemic. germany has warned iran that it's playing with fire by via life in the nuclear deal german foreign minister. accused tehran of jeopardizing the return of the u.s. to the deal the trumpet ministration withdrew from it in 20. energy companies in texas have restored power to most households following an extreme winter storm that brought the lowest temperatures in decades to some regions but hundreds of thousands of 100 remain without energy because of downed power lines and other issues and millions of people still lacks drinking board. to ferocious winter storm has subsided but the problems it heaped on the state have

to know what the power is back on some form where we don't have any water so i'm here to get water i've been to several different stores now and as. he stood in residence collect packs a book called for to distributed by a christian charity to many households with running water it's still not safe to drink texas authorities told 7000000 people to boil tap water before consuming it during the coming days because the power outages have affected more to treatment plants. drenched when water pipes froze and then people are sharing videos like this one on social media. as we don't have the cleanup crews for this kind of snow for this kind of ice like they do up north i hope the from now on we have something in place. so we don't have to go through. as many texans struggle to clean up the damage to their homes

texas senator ted cruz flew into a few aurora he took a trip with his family to the mexican resort of can coons. you know he. yesterday my daughter said if they can take a trip with friends. here and i'm headed back. to new into work to try to get a power. many ordinary texans a few areas. i just think he needs to he needs to show them the keep you know how could he go on vacation like this is ridiculous right when people are suffering you don't get enough money in the plate you step up to the plate and you say what can i do to help you write. states authorities are promising to help they have pledged to reform the agency that manages the state's electricity supply to be

better prepared for the next time texas is hit by extreme winter weather. let's bring in journalist jenny hoff from austin texas hi jenny this emergency situation has been going on now for 5 days how are people like you coping at this point. well it's definitely been a long slog for a lot of people especially those who lost power 5 days ago and they were told it was only going to be about 45 minutes or an hour because of a rolling blackout it ended up being 5 days during the coldest weather we've ever experienced or we've experienced in 120 years and for the longest duration and so now as you mentioned a lot of people are getting their power back on but just down the street from me i got a message from someone who says they lost their power a few minutes ago so clearly they're still outages happening as you mentioned downed power lines and other issues but now the really big issue is water so water

treatment facilities especially the biggest one in austin is no longer functioning flights of 1st there's that overconsumption and people are going out into the snow with buckets filling their bats up with that snow boiling it now that they have power they can boil it in order to drink it in order to cook with it so it's a incredible situation that we're facing this is unprecedented i've been reporting here for more than 15 years we've never seen anything like this but i will say the community has really come together so texas is very neatly and neighbors who have your calls that can get on these roads out delivering water firewood food transporting those who are most vulnerable to homes that have or still people are opening up their homes so it's definitely been a crisis situation that the community has come together with but people are tired they want to see the state take action they want to see this resolved and they want to get back to their normal lives i guess they also want an answer as to why the texas power grid has been unable to cope with the severe weather.

absolutely and the texas governor says he will be launching an investigation into that whether they winterized properly but showing they probably didn't we knew this cold front was coming in a couple of weeks ago we've been talking about it so there was definitely time to prepare but we've got kind of the perfect storm that happened we had this under preparation we had these long stretch of freezing temperatures and then on top of that you have all of the different sources of energy freezing got in the pipes so coal natural gas some wind turbines are freezing up so the power is not able to get to the grid which is what caused the problem and in fact the agency who runs the power grid which by the way is separate from the rest of the country the rest of the country is on 2 national grids texas has its own grid but the agency that runs this bridge says if they would not shut power off when they did for as long as they did we were minutes away from losing power in the state for months so it's definitely a lot of questions need to be answered there's going to be i'm sure a big shakeup within that agency and hopefully answers will come in the coming

weeks just quickly jenny ted cruz has been on the 5 heading south to mexico away from the cult has serious as the backlash against him there's definitely been an out war on social media people are very angry now he's not the one in charge of manicuring situation it's the governor and mayors but he's still a federal representative for the state and to leave to mexico while everybody else is without power and water was a huge political blunder and he's admitted it now so he has returned to texas how drastic the repercussions of that decision will be for him i guess we'll find out at the next election jenny hoff in austin texas thanks so much. a reminder of the top story we're following for you this hour masses robotic science rather perseverance has landed successfully on the mas of the next to use the master biology of the bard treat it will use its arm to drill into the surface and collect rock samples to determine whether life once existed on us.

that's all for now though with more news coming up for you at the top of the out of next hour documentary china's gateway to europe stay tuned for that for now but for me and the team here in berlin thanks for watching. young german and jewish just on jewish so what. does that mean in daily life and at school 11 teenagers 11 stories. i'm jewish and so. john berman and jewish starts february 22nd on d w. i

am. it's china's maker project the new. still grow a trade network between china and the rest of the world which could turn the old world order on its head. with chasing. hugo going to our credit problems with.

some of the issues it seems a good job we haven't seen the. barrier to open fire we're. going to. china is investing in bridges ports railway tracks and roads around the globe. over 70 nations are already part of the new silk road. europe sees the chinese as welcome investors the port of paris has been under chinese ownership for several years and the chinese are now also showing interest entry yest in italy. you don't end up in chile is of great importance for china but again it's at the center of the mediterranean just off the coast of africa and a strategic point for the new silk route to bend to ireland. the fish if you or the chinese and i get here a is the emerald of the mediterranean always my god if you measure you critics warn that china is using the new silk road to cement its power around the world and

divide europe when they say you make an economic agreement with a country that doesn't respect human rights you are dealing with human rights because it means that you don't care much. the coronavirus pandemic has brought life in grotto a resort in northeastern italy to a virtual standstill. but even though few people visit his beach bar ricardo rocky also is still glad to be back at work. he and his family with a burst people in the resort to be infected with coded 19. like on the principle of something we felt like lepers when the site it's a small community with them up because. this in summer it's a well known resort but we locals are all alone on the island in winter and resorts

to so of course on an island everyone knows everyone else i mean it's that's why it was such a serious issue for me at 1st having an illness when i know what he knew what it would bring it to the end of the rican but you know something about passing. but help coming in from china gave ricardo and his family the feeling that they weren't alone. china sent 31 tons of urgently needed equipment ventilation machines personal protective clothing masks and medication and also medical staff. soft power from china some called it the silk road of help. me some 70 thought you see clearly felt more safe because china came to help us it's. obvious the site look if someone has already faced the same problems before you found solutions but you maybe haven't yet but it does give you a feeling of security

a sort of cynic it to me when i should let it remain full to the queen's cuisines when the because you see these problems building up and you don't know how to solve them in the recycle many sort of. china as the savior in times of need. whether it was politically motivated or not the symbolism worked for ricardo and his family. in the early stages of the pandemic no help was forthcoming from the european union. my middle east all want to cheat not good but a prima we saw a china that really experienced a catastrophe in the beginning she thought the pandemic in china was real. devastated the remaining so close so new but still they offered us help us and it showed us that they were prepared i don't know but they're a power some of the most and they're afraid of nothing and nobody the economic power of the need to be soon all.

the way as is greece's most important port it's been known by the chinese since 2016. china started investing in the border after the 2008 financial crisis and has made it an economic success over the last 12 years congo handling has increased 10 fold but dock workers here on pier one were here before the chinese arrived and saw the changes 1st hand. and it down to the dock worker it's an honest job and with it i've managed to feed my family that i'm satisfied with the. forty's panaji or top of those has been working at the port since 2005 like

everyone else here he demonstrated against the takeover of the port by the chinese state company costco. a lot of the only good everything has been amassed since the privatization and you had to get him on ever since the investor got involved here and is only interested in profit and nothing else our situation has changed before the board was privatized our work was much better and easier the more we worked in fixed groups back then he always has a team of 2 at this now we don't have enough people so that's no longer possible now we're forced to do the work of 2 men that. one shipped in 6 was canceled. new jobs were created but hardly any of them offered the same social protections as the workers previously had. these proud greek god workers now work in a port which is no longer their own. got that big number in my

state that we think it was a strategic mistake to privatized the biggest port in the country or that greece is a country with a huge number of violence and the ports are essential not only economically but socially they keep people connected easily the way families face you know he had to be his will. greece was forced to privatized the port as part of the new demands to tackle the greek debt crisis. georgios go-go's and his men still blame germany and the e.u. for it. is now trying to save what he can and is fighting to protect his people's rights. love the most is. probably the best plan of my wedding go to state pension. yes because they calculated how long you would work for the poor when it was still stay don't know what will happen to us now. the longest serving workers so not are ranked. no i'm telling you my

best man got a state pension what will happen when everything because he had already retired right know. what we did will be like that at all. but goes union no longer represents all the dock workers so it's hard for him and his men to fight against the threats of outsourcing or temporary contracts. digital foreshock of the day to show that i don't know how much longer we can keep this working model with permanent staff dignified work and job security. we request an interview with the ports. chinese managers. but it's the greek press officer who explains to us why paris is so important for china's new silk road. that. is the furthest the laird's utopian port after the crossing of.

this is very important for the sipping combine means in order to receive the port and to use it. so they're very large vessels the mother vessels as we call them starting their route from east asia. europe we see the port of. leave here the cargo whatever it is contain their cars and then. a smaller vessel is there with all of them feed their vessels take that cargo and they redistribute it to many other ports of make it there in. the dock workers are skeptical. only 70 to 80 percent of the containers are transshipped which won't create any new jobs. the profits stay with the owner of the port. the chinese state company costco. none of it goes to

the greeks. got a big moment for us in. 2 i think it's all about the expansion of chinese capitalism rather stay here the chinese state has a lot of money and this is its way of expanding it and asserting its status. its position in the world the fish if you can china is a world power you can't overlook that or be indifferent to it.

if you walk in the streets in easily in the new industry in shanghai you don't need to do any analysis to understand why foundries a girl acted 0 percent like here and why some other countries girl 8 percent i see in the past in china you just see immediately and i've been weaknesses in years all the really important social and economic changes under my eyes i've come back to europe but and i don't see any changes the next time i go to shanghai after a few months so i will look at the underground map because there will be new lines the caliber of she is known as mr china after working as an investment banker and spending 10 years in shanghai as a professor of economics he became undersecretary of state and italy's ministry of economic development and negotiate the silk road deal with china he used to commute constantly between china and italy but now the coronavirus has forced him to do

business with the chinese via video calls. i hope so too i'm so silly and. i'm pinning my hopes on china that the cooperation with china will help the tourist industry to grow in sicily. for a day. last year we had president xi jinping here sicily wants to see more chinese tourists the chinese are very curious about italy. graci no longer holds political office the government he was part of only lasted for 15 months but the letter of intent that he negotiated with china is still valid. when i came in i took on these projects and actually delivered it. so accelerated the process made final agreements chinese counterparts and we implemented them we signed it and i do

think this is the base the economic opportunity. to cooperate with china doing to get. this deal with china alarmed europe. italy is after all one of the e.u.'s founding members as well as part of nato. many saw the signing of this contract as a break with the old alliances. the logic of the a time government back then was purely economic. they said everyone else was doing business with china too even if they had no official agreements. there is absolutely no contradiction and no conflict with you would be a strategy if someone worries about. china in. the u.s. to give them back to. china. germany holland belgium france

spain malta. and. all ports in europe have the chinese on a ship. right in the city is a psychologist and author lived in china for 6 years and observed the abend surround the new silk road development with the critical. she thinks the italian government was trying to create an economic advantage for itself but underestimated the plant's political dimensions. but a lot of thought there you recall he acknowledgment of this political project by a member of the g 7 had a great propaganda value also in china itself i think a propagandist figuring that an offer of this the new silk road is quite clearly an economic project and like growth projects in history in china and the usa it's not it's an act of charity they are pursuing their own interests which are embark on the end there.