this is news coming to you live from berlin good news from the red planet. i'm. now perseverance rover touches down after a 7 month journey and her quest to find out whether life once existed on mars also coming up as countries race to get their populations immunized 1st

a look at how baxi nationalism is diminishing the dream of protecting the world against kobe 19. plus the search for answers continues after a racist attack in the german town of qana left 9 people dead close enough to prevent it and could it happen again. after days of rolling blackouts triggered by extreme winter weather the powers slowly coming back on in texas but millions are told to boil their water after frigid temperatures damaged treatment plants and pipes. blowing terry martin good to have you with us now is celebrating the successful landing of its most advanced spacecraft yet on mars its space rover perseverance touched down safely. side one of the planet's craters after

a nail biting descent the robotic vehicle 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. the game of. the moment scientists happy could be a way to. identify 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. i feel relieved and happy excited ready to get to work or i'm part of 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. presidents are going about one kilometer per 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 that he still has been separated. when the probe executed its delicate landing maneuver without help from the us mission control. over the next 2 years perseverance will make history by collecting samples of martian soil. scientists believe that around 3500000000 years ago this crater was home to a river 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 ancient life but also preparing for eventually human missions to mars. bringing the samples back to earth would be another complicated journey. involving several of the rocket launches and spacecraft meeting up with perseverance in space to pick up its cargo. if cold goes according to plan those precious samples without a pride back on earth and he has 2031. more on this let's bring in early from the d.l.r. institute of planetary research here in berlin good to have you with us this morning to tell us just how difficult was this landing maneuver. it's the

most difficult landing with no room to solar system far and when you think you have experienced everything and you had done so the same thing 8 years ago 9 years ago with. that you wrote a book it was still the same the heart goes it goes up to 67 minutes. the nasa has already it already has as you mentioned curiosity rover up there on mars it's been roving around since 2012 what does nasa hope that its new rover will find that its old one has not. well this research station this mobile research station is really able to detect bio signatures so we could go one step further one step beyond that blast machines and say we will be able to detect lights this time and the crown of everything that chokingly. gold so to say what you mentioned already to collect samples to put them down for

a future mission and get them at the end of the decade and returns and to us that's unparalleled now this rover is in a crater were it's believed that a lake used to be so is there an assumption that there really was water where this rover has put down yes there's no doubt about that it's so obviously superior to the formations we have at the mouth of the degree of us and in the world here at the mouth of the mississippi or at the fat faced river and so on that's quite obvious it's only a question where at the delta you have to look for and focus the location of the landing site we have already reconstructed this night it's very very good said the base of the sediments and what they have to most fine grained how disappointed sediments and have probably least are 6 inches of very likely ok now at the end of

this mission the we're supposed to see rocks coming back from mars to earth how tough is that going to be. well we have not said done so before and the history of space flight and it's very ambitious and therefore it's also a chunk european and nasa effort so the european space agency who sent a set sure overall design to collect the samples at 3 different sites then return it to a base in from the base that will fly back into martian orbits and from the martian orbit they will return to that so it's really complex well let's all hope that works out dr kirby thank you very much for talking with us this morning that was early. from berlin's d.l.r. institute a planetary research. now let's catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today doctors in myanmar say a protester who was shot in the head with a live bullet last week has died and it's the 1st confirmed death of

a demonstrator since mass rallies broke out in early february protesters are demanding the military restore the democratically elected government after. spanish cities are seeing a 3rd night of unrest as bangor grows over the arrest of rapper pablo how sad the protests began on tuesday night after he was jailed for tweets and lyrics that prosecutors say glorified terrorism and slander the monarchy demonstrators say his conviction is an attack on free speech. mario druggy 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 a day earlier the former european central bank chief now has to lead italy out of the devastation caused by the pandemic. trying to immunize people against kevin 19 as quickly as possible has turned into an undignified scramble for vaccines in theory 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 and the u.s. is finally on board the plan is not on target for. the big idea. is founded on the principle of. this means any country. has the same access to vaccine but same 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 code leads the kovacs program put it bluntly quote vox emotionalism might serve short term political goals but it's ultimately short sighted and

self-defeating we will not pandemic anywhere until we ended 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 want 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 with the situation vaccination 1000000 people or 2000000 people back in that may 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 it own deals. iran just the latest to get russia's sputnik v vaccine. kovacs program still hopes to deliver more than $2000000000.00 vaccines by the end of the year scientists warn if that fails the well will pay the price it's not about $1.00 country versus another it's about one form protecting.

and here are some other developments in the pandemic worldwide japan says a new variant of covert 9 has emerged in the country's east or the 90 cases of the buriat have been found concentrated mainly in tokyo brazil's health ministry says the country has surpassed more than 10000000 coronavirus cases it's the 3rd nation to reach the milestone after the u.s. and india the dutch parliament has approved an emergency nighttime curfew law after a court banned the measuring with us this morning but many had hoped that the hunt to attack would mark a turning point in germany's approach to porat violence was a turning point. now i fear it was not a permanent turning point we will always feast right wing extremists we will always have extremists in our country. which should be a turning point is how we deal with this how a sardi's deal with this and there are still so many questions even of

a year later we still have all these questions that i don't have any answers you know like why wasn't police really able to be reached why couldn't there be help. why wasn't door locked still all these questions that really give the families so much. i don't really know how to say it it's so much grief you know it's really. that situation in itself in your opinion is democracy in this country under threat by the. well actually we saw it in the u.s. and we see it also in germany it is a threat to every country but we have it here in a way that we really have to act against it and i think it's so important that people who have a migrant background i mean we call my own still people of certain force generation

and if we do this we have to do something also that they don't lose confidence in the authorities and the government and the parliaments so this means yes we have to deal with it yes there is a threat of right wing extremism in this country we saw these people in front of the parliament i mean for in front of the buddhist taco already and we know exactly that there are not really accepting people like me and all the millions of others who have parents who came from turkey or other countries as german state just don't accept us and we have to show we need the rest you know like everyone who really fence democracy belong together and we stand together and i think we do it but it's not sufficient we also need answers of course to questions like in this case. thank you very much for talking with us that was other member of the buddhist talk for germany's s.p.d.

party thank you. now let's look at some other world news germany has warned iran that it's quote playing with fire by violating the nuclear agreement german foreign minister has accused tehran of jeopardizing the return of the u.s. to the deal the trumpet ministration withdrew from it in 28. a new u.n. report says the world needs to make dramatic changes to end what it calls humanity's suicidal war on nature report outlines concrete steps that governments should take like changing what is taxed how power is generated and how people travel what they eat. pakistan says its most celebrated climber is presumed dead mohammed. disappeared when summiting k 2 along with iceland's john snorri and chile's on problem or an intensive search has been underway for the trio since they went missing in harsh winter conditions 2 weeks ago. facebook c.e.o.

mark zuckerberg has held talks with the australian government amid a dispute over the a law that requires tech giants to pay publishers for content this comes after the social media company blocked news content from its platform in australia in response to the proposals the australian government condemned the move and said facebook should follow the example of google that company reached a deal with australian news outlets just hours before the blockage. leaver has been following this controversy he's a professor of internet studies at curtin university in perth western australia and vice president of the international association of internet researchers thanks for joining us professor lieber what do you make of facebook's actions. so facebook because i just put out the big try to prove a point by blocking all news content on facebook in australia but in doing so they

also wiped out a lot of web sites that were on facebook accidentally so they don't get emergency services and object health departments and i think if they were trying to make a political point about the importance of news on facebook that i think they lost the p.r. battle before he began because in accidentally deleting a whole lot of other things that how is the nature of this band really set a strategy is uses on the wrong foot i think that they actually angry with facebook than they would have been before they spend again tell us more about these other outlets that facebook has blocked because as you say you're talking about access to public information also health information charity information all sorts of things why are they blocking that while facebook claims that it was an accident so when they knocked at the news ban they clearly used an outrigger more tool simply to wire the set up but if that was what they did so they for example where i live they block all of the emergency services information on facebook and we've just been

through a bushfire so really a lot of people who have relied on facebook are the ones you add to that information were quite distressed i do think it was accidental but at the same time if they were trying to make a political point i wouldn't doubt it very badly. facebook argues that the australian government has failed to grasp how the internet really works does facebook have a point facebook certainly does bring value to a strategy in news companies there's no argument about that whatsoever and i think the real question is. does the value that news brings to facebook also matter and to what extent and i think if you look at the amount that people look at news on facebook as being the last facebook to gather data about people and i think you can only say both sides get value in this this arrangement and it just depends where you think a lot about you is as to whether you think this is

a reasonable more or not for us a leader thank you very much for talking with us that was tom a leader from curtin university in western australia and he. to the u.s. where extreme freezing weather in central and southern states 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 after freezing temperatures caused damage to treatment plants and pipes. to for osha sweden to storm has subsided but the problems it heaped on the state half not the power is back on so much for our food don't have any water on here to get water i've been to several different stores and now one 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 with water pipes froze and then people are sharing videos like this one on social media. is 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 when. he had

a no he didn't know how. yesterday my daughters if they could take a trip with friends. probably here and i'm headed back. to new into work to try to get the power of. many ordinary texans a few areas. i just think he needs to he needs to show them how keep your home how could you go on vacation like this is ridiculous and right when people are suffering don't get enough money and don't fight it step up to the plate and you say what can i do to help you right now. the state authorities are promising to help they have pledged to reform the agency that manages the state senate christie supply to be better prepared for the next time texas is hit by extreme winter weather. well freezing temperatures have had a stunning effect in neighboring louisiana of the cypress trees they're growing in

the louisiana swamplands are always a feast for the eyes now exceptionally cold weather has left them under canopy. just reminder of the top story we're following for you here today on d w news nasa's rover perseverance has leather successfully on mars over the next 2 years the robotic space level uses forms of religion the surface and collect rock samples to determine whether life once existed on the red planet. you're watching news coming up next to the point if the u.s. and china are in a struggle for supremacy so after a short break i'm terry martin thanks for watching.

to the point sean the clear position of international perspective such. can anybody still of china's surge to global dominance was perhaps the biggest foreign policy challenge facing a new u.s. president joe biden so how will he respond the beach music a shoot only confrontation find out onto the point show tonight to the point that the next took on a w l. america is back the new president's words to the war on clear but is. america too damaged to leave a lot has changed in recent years and the big question is how our old allies position sounds richard walker explores stassi is america's moment of global

dominance simply coming to an end. 60 minutes d.w. . 1700 years of jewish life in germany our series this week on arts and culture we journey from berlin to music to meet cultural leaders commemorating the past taking creative risks and building community 700 years of jewish life in germany. this week on culture on t.w. . who can stop china's surge to global dominance it's one huge question i mean one

huge challenge that is facing the new u.s. president joe biden. biden has inherited a divided and to tell driven america from his previous answer donald trump meanwhile she gin things china is both expensive under foreign terry and it's 2 rival systems apparently on collision course so want to the point we are asked by prince america again she's china struggle for supremacist.