dani give us a sense of why there's a meeting was so significant. i think that to think through said about the meeting he said the 1st one there's been a very long term attempt by the vatican to reach you know bromine and few years and this is one of the most prominent if not the most prominent figure inside the shia community they in roads to the sunni community in the conversations with sunni for years has been actually fostered for years bed these this prove the shia community has been much more inclusive in the one hand and the other hand i mean you know the shia community of iraq and particularly. the more important few years constitute something of a of a. of a softy shoe in the connection to iran which of course looms large in question suffer geopolitics in relation to the christian community of course a lot of the buy it and so against christians in iraq and syria now comes from.

from shia militants so this is sort of the few year that it's understood to be could become the very core of if not critical in trying to fend off violence against christian communities you know the optics of this visit are obviously remarkable but what can the pope realistically achieve as far as real interfaith dialogue. i think that by and large these vatican functions seen a fairly regular fairly rare with a fairly regular method which is to both arrives puts. on the table and highlights the issue for public opinion it's across really across the world and then there isa large body of you know taken diplomats and people on the ground that and sort of taking care of the details and of course you know both god and the devil are in the

details so i think that a lot of what will come out of this is not something that we will see immediately after the meeting but it's something that will sort of progress simply being rolled over the months to come and it will be reflected of course in what the situation for the great scheme community and there are yes thanks to safe we see fewer attacks and we really see a push to reconstitute the community off of iraq which as you have said in the report points out the task to angel then we can assume that actually to to some degree the strip has been successful. religious affairs correspondent much thanks. to mean more now where the un special envoy there has called for a robust international response after this week's violence against protesters she made the remarks during a closed door meeting of the u.n. security council in new york but the council's unlikely to pass a resolution on miramar because of china and russia's veto wielding seats more than

50 people have been killed over the past 7 days as protesters keep up their calls for a return to democracy and. the march for democracy perseverance in me and maher despite brutal crackdowns by the military authorities. demonstrations are regularly dispersed by tear gas to violence has escalated in the last week. with radio free asia published this c.c.t.v. footage it allegedly shows authorities beating up medical volunteers in yangon on wednesday the broadcaster says they were then taken to prison the video follows reports that police opened fire on medical workers in the city where several protesters died was. self-styled front line protesters keep the

demonstrations going they equip themselves with shields helmets and gas masks and it's their job to assist anyone injured. but they're a little dinner through those who died in the revolution had families of the original where they had their whole lives ahead of them want to release some of them were younger than me it makes me very angry but we can't do anything so we're protesting peacefully and have to fight until the end goal here the old farming was. hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of 25 year old our carmo he was one of men. he died on wednesday. oh. the revolution must prevail when mourners chant to get her. journalist ayman sanders joining me now from young gone a people are back on the streets today after tough crackdowns from the military

this week do you think it will get even worse this weekend it's quite possible there's quite a number of sort of confluence in offense that are happening right now the committee representing elected officials have made an announcement that government workers have until the 7 midnight to join the civil disobedience to put or face essentially sanctions from the public and the government the military has also ordered all thanks to open. and you know they're in a sense losing control of government workers as well as institutions with over 600 police who have now left military controlled ministries as well as over 10 diplomats or at least 10 diplomats who have publicly stated that they will not obey orders from the hunt so it's quite likely that you will see further escalation as the military loses more control. well clearly the military has exhibited no signs

of backing down if anything they've shown an even firmer hand do protesters believe they have a chance of making any difference yes so if you listen to any of the protests are happening or watch what's happening by chance are still very aggressive about what they think they're very optimistic about the chances of winning almost all the chants are about how they will not lose how this is the last fight and in fact the songs that people are singing are about the sort of final battle so i think we're in a situation in which protesters have decided that you know there's no future except a democratic one. well according to reports the military has jailed many journalists how do you and your fellow colleagues manage she would continue working . so most of the general so happen the rest of have been taken while they are working so what number of journalists started doing is not identified

themselves as press and then the sort of physical way while they're doing their work so my helmet right now doesn't say press and this jacket while it does save press i do take it off if i feel like i've been danger of being targeted as a member of the press and also one journalist was taken from his home and one thing that many journalists are doing right now is not sleeping and they're. sure that they stay at least half a step ahead of security officials amundsen journalists and young dawn thanks so much. police and conservation officers in south africa are searching for an unknown number of young crocodiles they escaped from a large breeding farm earlier in the week and it's believed they went into a nearby river authorities have told people living nearby to be vigilant and not to panic. it's funny veil a picture ask country town in the cape wind that is but the only thing everyone is

talking about here now these residents the crocodiles at a commercial grade in farm camps to make money from their leather and to meet but on wednesday some revolted against their destiny and broke through one of the fences so we just talked to the owners they did not want to talk to us on camera but they've been into this business for more than 20 years they say something like that never happened before they were clearly stressed out they looked a bit overwhelmed and they are hoping that the remaining crocodiles will be found soon. more than 30 were found here already inside a close by rivers usually a popular spot for tourists and locals. but i'm a bit scared because you don't 2 know what a. good day at least it is very scary. so if. something like you can stay. would you go in the river again no no

no. no no. i think. i will always be my mind is going to try his you know the night is just starting him bunny vale and apparently that is the best time to catch the crocodiles dozens of them that have escaped over here you can see one of the traps that were set up with a bait inside a huge piece of meat but they have not been so helpful not many crocodiles were actually caught with this once that is why there is now another focus the police brought in boats and they're going out on night patrols trying to locate the crocodiles together with the community and local authorities they try to find the crux that are not indigenous to this area of south africa. with crocodiles it's much much easier. especially if the river. we'd be in right period here is in future theismann so during the day they normally hard with

the invitation at night to eat so forth is fairly easy to make i. said low broad trade. with spotlights on the water with the boats we are not allowed to film the operation but he has several gunshots shortly afterwards many people here don't believe that the authorities will be able to go after all crooks up until now it is not even clear how many are missing. well by munich and your dortmund in one of the bundesliga is biggest fixtures in the past years the 2 titans have been closer in the standings and they are now league leaders biron are facing a dortmund side at risk of missing out on next season's champions league. one of the biggest think its biggest attractions also features the league's top strikers byron's robert levin dusky means alan holland both scored a goal when they met earlier this season but it was buyers. that left the

pitch with 3 points. on the speedo. it's fair game again storm and it's always special for us that's been shown in recent years the games are on a high level. byron haven't lost a dog men in the bundesliga since 2018 and dog men are in need of a win now more than ever with champions league contention hanging in the balance dortmund will need to bring their a game. we just have to hold on to the things that we do well and except they will be phases where we have to suffer and that's simply part of football when you play in munich any change but that doesn't mean that you can't be brave and still be dangerous and we've shown that in the past and be a good sized in a forgotten height. a few seasons back captain marco royce netted 2 goals in dorman's last win over buyers in the league. but that was endorsement. for them to

get one step closer to the champions league they'll need to defeat by iron in munich dortmund last visit didn't go so well in 2019. byron barry dortmund for me. well that's it for now up next is reporter please you stay with us watching t.v. . happiness fears for everyone shimon penises are very different from primates you know we have very little in predicting was a man sized view of nature david and this is climate change crisis sex happiness and grief books you get smarter for free you know when you cooks. children to come to them it's. one giant problem and when you're

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controlled pleading. burns and blisters. it can even lead to bone marrow failure even today anyone who ventured too close to fukushima as reactor core wouldn't survive long. 10 years after the triple core meltdown radiation is still extremely hazardous today some 7000 people are working on decommissioning the power plant but due to high contamination they are only allowed on site a few days a month on march 11th 2011 a tsunami struck japan's coast and caused the nuclear plants to fail but how can we clean the radiation zone we can't even access. with robots. but it's actually not that simple not even all robots can withstand the radiation they're exposed to in fukushima is this asters own with more and that's later energy provider tepco in tech giant to shiva teamed up to develop robots that could help clean up fukushima's radioactive rooms the challenges they have to face are relentless some pass the test others not quite here are 3 of the most exciting robots from the last

decade. of the biggest questions in the fukushima cleanup remains. where to start. parts of the buildings were destroyed when the reactor exploded the blast caused walls and floors to collapse and reduced sensitive equipment to twisted hunks of metal the situation varies in each building but over consumption ated when radioactive material was vented from the reactor containment vessels. this is where so current and rosemarie come into play the robots joe was developed in 2015 to inspect the buildings but that's easier said than done some floors can only be accessed through extremely narrow and steep stairways no simple feat for robots but that's exactly what rosemary and security were built to do. in addition rosemary was fitted with

a gamma camera that can detect and display radioactivity. you can see that here in the colored images the recordings were to be shared on a wireless network and that's when engineers faced the next challenge. nuclear power plants are designed with a number of safety measures and built to withstand extreme conditions. wireless signals barely make it through the thick concrete walls of the reactors that's where scurrah comes in the robot functions as a signal transmitter and helps rosemary relay its recordings to the outside world. both robots were partially successful in their mission they enabled authorities to get their 1st overview of the reactor after the fall out. the scorpion was the great hope for fukushima and 2017 it was meant to inspect the spots where radioactive lever 1st lete out of the reactor vessel joining the 2011

disaster the nucular fuel rods had heated up to 1200 degrees celsius causing them to melt through their metal casings the japanese government invested a lot of money in developing this little robots it was named for its appearance the cameras mounted on a retractable arm that hangs over the robots body like a scorpion stale it was tested and improved for months until it was tiny enough to squeeze into the containment chamber. the only way to get inside was a 14 centimeter wide hole in the concrete wall created just for the robots but before the scorpion could set out on its mission in units to the exploration suffered major setbacks one week prior to the robots designed to clear the way for the scorpion failed its comrades the cold and to the extreme radiation. nevertheless the scorpion was slated to deploy unlikes occur and rosemary wireless data transfer wasn't an option because the robots had to crawl to deep instead it

was left dragging a heavy cable along if successful it would locate the radioactive waste that had leaked out of the reactor vessel so it could be salvaged in the future. everything went smoothly at 1st. the scorpions recordings were transmitting with i would say hitch. and it was getting ahead well. but then. just 3 meters before it's the station the scorpion simply stopped what happened we still don't know for sure maybe it got stuck or maybe the radiation was too much to handle. in the end the researchers decided to cut the scorpion loose and abandon the mission sorry little guy but. after the scorpion had failed researchers had to come up with another solution to find the leaks material they gave up on units 2 for the time being and concentrated

on reactor 3 instead but there are a whole new set of challenges lie ahead when the reactors exploded in 2011 for containment chambers were flooded to cool the reactors course the perfect parts would have to be small enough to maneuver through a tight hole in the wall strong enough to drag along a cable that could transfer images and survive as an emergency rescue line and swim . quite a tall order but the japanese engineers found a compact solution little some fish after losing the scorpion they were in staking anymore chances they tested little some fish for months and pools fitted with a camera and a tiny propeller powerful enough to navigate it through the dark then it was time to send little sunfish out. the mission was nerve wracking. a pilot student through the water with a controller reminiscent of a video game. on day one none of the material transmitted was any good. but then on

the 2nd day of the mission the little robots bumped into a waxy mass on the floor of the containment chamber the radioactive core of congealed into a solid lump and dropped to the bottom of the floated structure success. is now secure rosemary scorpion until some fish were just a few of the robots built to understand and repair the ruins of fukushima in the last 10 years their main objective was to explore thanks to them we have a rough idea where the radioactivity is highest and where the radioactive waste has settled in the coming years the challenge will be to. coverage this waste here to robots will be dispensable robo diggers are already being tested for their missions in the hopefully not too distant future. japan lies along the ring of fire making it a hotspot for natural disasters to save lives researchers are developing new rescue

technology. made the snake bot its 36 joints make it incredibly flexible. this lets that we go across tough terrain slither through pipes and even climb a ladder should disaster strike the snake robot could be a lifesaver it's been developed by a team of researchers at kyoto university. they can i took it all 1st of all these robots are used in places humans cannot enter where it's not sure whether it's safe to enter. robots can help to measure of concentration or c o 2 levels. of the vatican hope to evaluate whether rescue workers can be sent in the sewer to move to a cup of coffee this or the new year how can we not consider places that may be in

danger of collapsing but there are clues there are a lot bots can go in and got their information. so in broad terms these robots unable access to places where it's too dangerous for humans to enter. the united will hide these are applications where robots can play an active part. about them whether surgical procedures or everyday situations snakes have often served as models for industrial design their flexible bodies are the perfect blueprint for agile robots. save in the heavy sticks are interesting creatures they can move without legs that's the 1st aspect about this mysterious. animal that maybe it's my curiosity. to see now go to war mop aim isn't simply to imitate snakes. we want to create a snake like inspired robots that's better to who sleeps. with whom we or more of our sleek robots can climb of ladders and has

a very even and slick surface and the more there are no protruding cords the can slip into the wall that wouldn't cover this new door to get fit into each other because the torch got small so many could actually change of to cool those on the cool model lets it bend still more smoothly because so you design them and that is vital to rescue missions japan is prone to natural disasters earthquakes are common in the country must be prepared for typhoons tsunamis and mechanical rupture ever since the kobe earthquake in 1905 let's you know it's been developing technologies to help. that that so regionally i worked on space exploration robots. but then one of my students died in the great hunch an earthquake. that's when i decided to focus my research on disaster and response robots. to go the snake that

is operated using a controller and comes equipped with a camera and numerous sensors engineers considered many different scenarios when creating the robot for instance when searching for survivors after a natural disaster the bot might need to be able to climb up a pipe. outside or inside. ladder. or even slip their its way through pike. courage to ask people to use who will at 1st i wanted to create robots that rescue people hope. but then i changed my mind. when disasters strike an urban area it's incredibly hard to find victims buried under the rubble when you go out on the snow the modest or so rescue workers will dig around here

and there we don't have much success in the little store not up to what's going to trial and error process in fact wastes a lot of valuable time during which people might dully more not this month but. that's more for me tashi matsunaga also designed this rescue robot the prize winning. its 4 legs and tank like treads let it go places humans kept a multi-functional arm effortlessly opens doors and retrieves objects. these robots are still under development but soon they could be sent out on rescue missions and help save lives.

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