this is news coming to you live from berlin good news from the red planet. to the. masses perseverance rover touches down after a 7 month journey for a quest to find out whether life once existed on mars also coming up a 3rd night of violence in several spanish cities of the jailing of a controversial rapper supporters of pablo how cells say his arrest is a byelection of the right to free speech and after days of rolling blackouts

triggered by extreme winter weather the power is slowly coming back on in texas but millions are told to boil their water after frigid temperatures damaged treatment plants and pipes. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us nasa is celebrating the successful landing of its most advanced spacecraft yet on mars its space rover perseverance touched down safely inside one of the planet's craters after a nailbiting descent the robotic vehicle will make history by collecting samples of martian soil to be brought back to earth that could help scientists determine if life ever existed on the red planet. at.

i don't think even the top prize at. the moment scientists had he could be a way to. describe not just that that's one of the 1st and this is what it looks like the 1st images being back from os small high quality images will be sent back in the coming hours and days. feel relieved to be excited ready to get to work or a part of the science team to do some science it's been a long 8 years and we're ready to go. it was a high risk landing. presidents are going about one comic or 2nd at an altitude of about 6000 kilometers from the surface of mars. this 7 month journey followed by what scientists call 7 minutes of tarot.

president on our road to subsonic and they think there has been separated. when the executed it's delicate to landing maneuver without help from the isis mission control. but 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 that's flowed 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 right which involve really understanding mars and the evolution of mars and whether there was life ancient life but also preparing for eventually human missions to mars. bringing the samples back to earth would be another complicated journey.

involving several other rocket launches and spacecraft meeting up with perseverance and space to pick up its conduct. if all goes according to plan those precious samples would have arrived back on earth as early as 2031. so it worked out some of the other stories making headlines around the world today thousands have rallied against again rather in the city yang gone to protest against the military coup 2 weeks ago they called for the cheese democratically elected government to be reinstated meanwhile doctors say a protester who was shot in the head with a lot bullet last week has died. germany has warned iran that it's quote playing with fire by violating the nuclear deal the german foreign minister accused tehran of jeopardizing the return of the us to the deal the trumpet ministration withdrew

from it in 2018. pakistan says its most celebrated climber is presumed dead muhammad ali's son disappeared while somebody in k 2 along with iceland's john snorri problem or an intensive search has been underway for the trio since they went missing in harsh winter conditions 2 weeks ago. spanish cities have seen a 3rd night of under-estimate anger over the detention of a controversial rapper more than 80 people have been arrested and at least 100 injured so far the most violent confrontations were again in barcelona where demonstrators set up burning barricades there were also clashes in the capital madrid and other cities the protest began on tuesday night after the rapper pablo house was arrested prosecutors accuse him of inciting terrorist. and insulting the king in his lyrics and tweets. well for

more on this story we're joined now by journalist stephen bergen he's in barcelona stephen it's the 3rd night of clashes what's giving this outpouring of of anger or such momentum. well last night was seen to be particularly volatile certainly particularly destructive but the numbers of people taking part is holding out on tuesday and estimated 4 and a half 1000 people were involved in last night police say it was more like 500 but you know there isn't business under. the cover of frustration and anger among young people about unemployment about government and generally poor opportunities here and then of course there is the free speech issue a lot of focus has been put on the far. as and souls of the case you call them and i feel so but he also you know said to him out of his lyrics that he wished that

continues daughters would. suggest. there is all the decisions of public figures who would be good targets of terrorist attacks so if you know his language is as extreme and he has his personal life quite violent he's just been jailed for the viewers for threatening a witness in the trial. but you know this is the underlying thing of free speech this isn't the 1st case there's a program for a couple of years ago it was also said mr prison for his lyrics. there been there have been numerous cases and there's a perception that the stage is heavy handed and hypocritical. some of the lyrics as you mentioned and posts post a lot on the social media too. they're quite incendiary judges determined that he was indeed inciting violence to people they're not think that inciting violence

is is a crime that should be punished. well i think that the problem here is that the laws there isn't really clearly for example a hate speech war and and i think the problem i think. broadly speaking in this country is that the judges seem to interpret the law. and her brother the free freeway a way that is perceived as being prejudicial toward some people let's all this all for her i think you know certainly the things he's been birds injury included he said that he hoped to particular a right wing politician would die in the gas chamber. you know the command much of it goes beyond what you would expect from. steven thank you very much for filling us in there that was journalist stephen bergen in barcelona 3

. now to the coveted 19 pandemic trying to vaccinate people against that disease has as quickly as possible it's turned into an undignified scramble for vaccines in syria every country in the world should have access to safe cheap vaccinations through an organization called kovacs which is backed by the world health organization although distribution to poor countries started this month the plan is not on target. as it's built some on the big idea back speller is founded on the principle of equitable access this means any country or guard lists of their ability to pay has the same access to vaccines but in reality the big idea is struggling as countries race and at times fight to get that populations vaccinated fast. the head of the world health

organization which can lead to the kind of facts program put it bluntly. box of nationalism might set short term political goals. but it's ultimately short sighted and self-defeating we will not the pandemic anywhere until. every were. part of the problem is that wealthy countries have joined the kovacs initiative but have also made separate deals with vaccine manufacturers this is created an imbalance while poor countries are completely dependent on kovacs richer nations are accused of using it as an added extra. and there's another issue the astra zeneca oxford university vaccine accounts for almost all the doses that the kovacs program wants to start distributing later this month but south

africa is delaying the rollout over concerns that the drug may not be effective against the new variant which 1st emerged there. to end up with a situation that in a certain 1000000 people or 2000000 people that seem to me not be effective in preventing hospitalization and severe disease other countries are now stepping in china has only recently joined kovacs it's now offering the program 10000000 doses but beijing has already sold all donated large quantities of its 3 vaccines to countries around the world. 50000000 doses are being bought by turkey alone. and moscow to profess to do its own deals. iran just the latest to get russia's sputnik the vaccine. the kovacs program still hopes to deliver more than $2000000000.00 vaccines by the

end of the year scientists warn if that fails the world will pay the price it's not about $1.00 country versus another it's about one world protecting. extreme freezing weather in central and southern states in the u.s. has been blamed for the deaths of at least 40 people texas has been severely hit energy companies there have gradually restored heat and electricity to households following a winter storm that left the power grid crippled for days but millions of texans have been told to boil their drinking water and freezing temperatures caused damage to infrastructure pipes. to for osha sweden to storm has subsided but the problems it heaped on the state have not the power's back on so the floor we don't have any water so i'm here to get water into several different stores and now one. houston residents 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 best 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 that 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 cook. he had no heat until.

yesterday my daughters asked if they could take a trip with friends. here and i'm headed back. to new to work try to get power. many ordinary texans a few areas. i just think he needs to he needs to show them how keep your home up to go on vacation like this is ridiculous right when people are suffering don't get afraid and don't fight you step up to the plate and you say what can i do to help you right now. state 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. well the freezing temperatures have had

a stunning effect in the neighboring state of louisiana the cypress trees growing in the louisiana swamp lands are always a feast for the audience and no exceptionally cold weather has left them under a canopy of ice. so your news for now business is next with monica joe's fun terry wash and thanks for watching. why are people forced to hide in trucks. there are many reasons. there are many cancer.