this is delia news coming to you live from berlin good news from the red planet. nasa is perseverance rover touches down after a 7 month journey for a quest to find out where the life once existed on mars also coming up this country's race to be the 1st to get their populations immunized if we take

a look at how back scene nationalism is diminishing the dream of protecting the world against code 19. and the search for answers continues for year after a racist attack in the german town of qana now left 9 people dead was enough done to prevent it and could it happen again. also after days of rolling blackouts triggered by extreme winter weather the power is slowly coming back all 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 to determine if life ever existed on the red planet. at that adventure that. became. the moment scientists had he could be a way to it's. such a tragedy that one of the 1st and this is one of the 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. this 7 month journey followed by what scientists call 7 minutes of tarot. president without regard to subsonic eve and that he care has been separated. when the probe takes a cue to its delicate landing maneuver without help from the isis mission control. over the next 2 he is perseverance will make history by collecting samples of mushin soil. scientists believe that around 3500000000 years ago this crater was home to a river this 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 a long and complicated journey. involving civil all the rocket launches and spacecraft meeting up with perseverance in space to pick up its caucus. if all goes according to plan those precious samples without a ride back on earth as it would he has 2051. 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 dr tell us just how difficult was this landing maneuver. it's the most difficult landing with no room to solace to see so far and when you think you

have experienced everything you had done so the same thing 8 years ago 9 years ago with. that you wrote it was still the same hot beat goes up to 67 minutes the nasa has already it already has as you mentioned a 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 it takes bio signatures so we could go one step further one step beyond that last missions and say we will be able to detect life this time and the crown of everything that champions league. goal so to say spock 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 similar to 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 set face 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 participative consumptive sediments and they have probably east or 6 inches of very likely now at the end of this mission the were 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 spaceflight and it's very ambitious and therefore it's also shown to european and nasa efforts 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 slide back into martian orbits and from the martian orbit they will return to that sounds really complex well let's all hope that works out dr carla thank you very much for talking with us this morning that was early. from berlin's d.l.r. institute a planetary research. sketch up on some of the 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 it's the 1st confirmed death of a demonstrator since mass rallies broke out earlier this month protesters are

demanding the military restore the democratically elected government after the 2. spanish cities have seen a 3rd night of on rest amid growing anger over the arrest of rapper pablo how sell the protests began on tuesday night after he was jailed for tweets and lyrics that prosecutors say glorify terrorism and insult the monarchy demonstrators say his conviction is an attack on free speech. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has held talks with the australian government to mid dispute over a law that requires tech giants to pay publishers for content this comes after as the social media company blocked news content from its platform in australia in response to the proposals. for trying to immunize people against kobe 19 as quickly as possible has turned into an undignified scramble for back scenes 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 in a reversal of the previous administration's policy u.s. president joe biden has now agreed to donate $4000000000.00 to the program that will help boost the distribution of back seems to poorer countries under a plan that's currently far short of saying. on the big idea the kovacs pillar is founded on the principle of equitable access this means any country regardless 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 code leads the kovacs program put it bluntly called vaccine nationalism might serve short term political goals but it's ultimately short sighted and self-defeating we will not the pundit make anywhere

until we ended everywhere. 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. and up to the situation vaccinate a 1000000 people or 2000000 people that's 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 it being bought by turkey alone. and to moscow to profess to do its own deals. iran just the latest to get russia's sputnik v 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 well we'll pay the price it's not about $1.00 country versus another it's about one world protecting.

and here a few other developments in the pandemic japan says a new variant of coverage 19 has emerged in the country's east more than 90 cases of the variant 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 day sion to reach that milestone after the u.s. and india the dutch parliament has approved an emergency nighttime curfew law after the core of her court banned the measure earlier this week a curfew led to rioting when it was introduced in january. now despite the crowd of hours pandemic north america's basketball league the n.b.a. has confirmed its all-star game will take place next month the plan has attracted criticism from top players le bron james is among those who have questioned why the exhibition games are still going to head the n.b.a. said this year's event which features its $24.00 best players will be slimmed down

to a single night players will be isolated in their hotels and no fans will be able to attend the game. well germany is marking a solver anniversary today it's exactly a year since a gunman went on a racially motivated attack and killed 9 people before shooting dead his own mother and taking his own life the tragedy sparked a debate over whether more could and should have been done for bennett. it was a night that left a community in shock grief and anger. shortly before 10 pm shots rang out in the center of ha now a gunman entered 2 bonds where he counted 3 people. the attacker then drive to another town where he continued his rampage here and in a kiosk next door shooting another 6 people. within 12 minutes 9 people one left for dead 7 more were injured some seriously. the police were

quickly able to identify the kana who lived in the area. a few hours later they searched his home and found he had shot his mother and himself. his motive for the attack hatred of foreign as the 43 year old shooter had posted a manifesto and videos online full of conspiracy theories and racist rants. his victims all had a migrant background. in the wake of the attack there was an outpouring of solidarity across the country. and strong condemnation from the german government. yes this was racism is a poison hate is a poison and this poison exists in our society and is responsible for far too many crimes we stand with all our strength and determination against all those who try

to divide germany and schloss night. one year on from the attack the women still run deep and for many questions remain over whether more could have been done to prevent the events of that terrible night. for more now i'm joined by eid on earth as she is a social democrat member of germany's parliament a buddhist talk and a former government commissioner for migration refugees and integration thanks for being with us this morning was there are those in many had hoped that the honey attack would mark a turning point in germany's approach to paul right by lance was it a turning point. no i fear was not a permanent turning point we will always feast right wing extremists that we will always have extremists in our country. which should be a turning point is how we deal with this how 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 was the 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 ok with that investigation of course is continuing yesterday the head of the central council of jews in germany use of shows to he said that many of those affected by the shootings are still suffering the attacks consequences he also noted that that the perpetrator did not become radicalized in a vacuum now that last point he made there suggests an enabling environment what do

you see as the main problems facing germany today in its effort to address bottom of radicalization on the far right. well we have to say that this person was known as someone who was radical he had said this you know everybody heard this before he still had a gun for example he still could walk around and give his hate to others we i don't really know where see personally head is he from but we still know that his father is acting you know he's not murdering people but he's still talking in this way in the same place where all these people live and all the families live and you know we have a society that kind of i mean like also societies you have extremism of course you have people who hate others the biggest question is what does the rest

do against us and i must i am a little bit. how can you say you know i'm i was shocked when i heard our minister for interior affairs just a few weeks ago talking about extremism in germany and he mentioned islamists he mentioned clan limit criminality and he meant an arab clamp criminality which is a case of course but he said no word to right wing extremists and i think that this is a real problem that we don't address it directly here for him to horse as a horse of course how big of a threat is par right extremism to germany itself in your opinion is democracy in this country under threat by the. well actually we saw it in the us 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 all these people in front of the parliament i mean 40 in front of the buddhist taka ready 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 france 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 here's weather news stories making headlines the u.s. says is ready for talks with iran on the 2015 nuclear deal the ministration has also moved to restore policies that were reversed under former president trump iran repeated calls for president biden to lift all nuclear sanctions saying it would immediately reverse its retaliatory actions. germany has warned iran that it's playing with fire by violating the nuclear deal german foreign minister has accused tehran of jeopardizing the return of the u.s. to the deal and trump ministration withdrew from it in 2018. a new u.n. report says the world needs to make dramatic changes to and what it calls

humanity's suicidal war on nature the report outlines concrete steps that government should take like changing what is taxed how power is generated how people travel and what the. pakistan says its most celebrated climber is presumed dead mohammed such disappeared when summiting k 2 along with iceland's john snorri and chile's on public more and intensive search has been underway for the trio since they went missing in harsh winter conditions 2 weeks ago. well the stream freezing weather in central and southern states of 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 in most places and electricity to households following a winter storm that left the power grid crippled for days but millions in texans have been told to boil their drinking water after freezing temperatures caused

damage to infrastructure and pipes. the ferocious winter storm has subsided but the problems it heaped on the state have not the power's back on sunday morning 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 bowl filled full 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 gerri in the coming days because the power outages have affected more to treatment plants. drenched when water pipes froze and then bust 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 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 cook in. a little heat. yesterday my daughters if they could take a trip. here and headed back. to new into work to try to get the power. many ordinary texans a few areas. i just think he needs to he needs to show up and i couldn't hear well how could he go on vacation like this is already right when people are suffering you don't get enough money and don't play it kept 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 senate christie supply to be better prepared for the next time texas is hit by extreme winter weather. some people there have been struggling with water and power for up to 5 days now we spoke to journalist jenny hoff in the state capital austin and asked her how people are coping 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 for 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 somebody 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 pipes of 1st there's that overconsumption and people are going out into the snow with buckets filling their bout 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 you know calls that can get on these roads have been 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 result and they want

to get back to their normal lives. tough conditions there in texas well in neighbors in the neighboring state of louisiana the freezing temperatures have had a stunning effect on nature the cypress trees growing in the louisiana swamplands are always a feast for the eyes but now that exceptionally cold weather has left them under canopy of ice. when how the crocodiles are that alligators and we just reminder the top story we're following with you for you today or indeed every news nasa's robotic science rover perseverance has landed successfully on mars over the next 2 years thief astrobiology laboratory will use its arm to drill into the surface and collect rock samples to determine whether a life once existed on mars. the

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