oh. oh. but moments later police disparaged the peaceful protest with tear gas and rubber bullets. amid the escalation of police brutality injuries like these are becoming commonplace healthcare workers and volunteers who raced to bring them out of the line of fire. witness footage from friday in yangon shows police beating 3 men accused of breaking a nighttime curfew they were dragged from their homes and beaten with sticks on the street. 7 in the distance the sound of gunfire. attending to another episode of violence in the city. now earlier i spoke to david an activist who is full name we won't be using to protect his identity he was at

one of the demonstrations in mandalay and i asked him to describe what he saw. was close to the printer and as we were peacefully sitting and chanting or versus our security force were more like. on terror is really the inner city it's very it was very coordinated and systematic the we became they didn't come to us to disperse the crowd they came to us they came to kill and as soon as they got tool near our protest area they raided 6 story building and 2 snipers get on the roof and they started shooting random people and right in front of my eyes i could count up to 20 people were shot directly vides my 1st it was really heartbreaking moment. and and use less and less teargas and more and more alive and unishe and it was something really really

close to a battleground and the violate every single aspect of human rights david this is some incredible incredible brutality that you are describing to us tell me what it's like when you were in that situation i mean people must be terrified on the streets you know we we were. at 1st we didn't think it would be this so we were still staying and form and backing off quite snowed me and then right at the edge of the cruel civilian was shot in the head and we knew that there are snipers and everybody started to move quite quickly and the police became really chaotic and. the military took advantage of the situation and the took their time and shot

down you know everyone the police it and it was more like a video game for them do it is aiming at the heads and shooting on and on and on and i had to run i had to look after the women right there right beside me and my knee and had to flee as far we have possible and still and it was there were also hundreds of students who were also trapped and we also had 2 men each really hard to get out and still hundreds of students were captured and they were tickin true. taken to a prison. david thank you so much for sharing your insights with us it must be extraordinary times and all this they are all showing incredible bravery and say thank you so much for your time. time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world at least 8 people

have been killed and dozens wounded by a powerful car bomb in western afghanistan the blast targeted a police station in the city of paris at the government blamed the taliban but a spokesman for the group has denied responsibility. sri lanka has announced plans to close more than $1000.00 islamic schools and ban the wearing of the burka the garment worn by some muslim women that covers the body and face the measures still need to be approved by the cabinet. russian police have arrested about $150.00 opposition politicians and municipal deputies at a conference in moscow accusing them of links to an undesirable organization organizers said participants from all over russia were discussing plans for parliamentary and local elections in september several prominent opposition figures would you to take part. in the u.k. a serving police officer has been charged with the kidnapping and murder of

a 33 year old woman wayne cousins who is 48 years old made his 1st appearance at a london court this saturday morning sarah ever odds body was found hidden in woodland more than a week after she went missing it's a believed she was attacked while walking home from a friend's house in south london her disappearance and killing of caused a nationwide outcry and prompted a global discussion around women safety. and for more let's bring in our correspondent charlotte pill in london charlotte good to see you this isn't the 1st murder of a woman in the u.k. what is it about sara ever a case that's triggered such a passionate reaction and debate about women's safety. well i think that's all you'd have to mention some of the chilling details about this case which are still managing of course you described in there just now about the man who has been

arrested in connection with police on the daily and alarming developments bought in this case is something that every woman certainly in the u.k. has been able to relate to she was walking home from a friend's house when she went missing and women can all relate to that they can relate to the fear of walking home alone at night women everywhere on social media or on television in parliament here in the u.k. now sharing stories of that fear that they experience everyone sharing how they would carry keys in their hands as they're walking home how they've sped up in the parts if they like someone else is following them how they've changed their route home and that is a conversation now that is happening on a national level so much as this tragic story gripped the nation there was a vigil planned for this evening that's now been counseled you to coronavirus restrictions but it is his dad donations are coming in they can foster women's

charities and of course this hasn't just affected women in the u.k. this is a global issue those now global conversation with women sharing just how they felt in the cost as they will climb and of course part of that conversation is now women saying there's got to be a shift in the conversation from women to be cautious to changing men's behavior. right there is a conversation happening about refocusing the lens here not just looking at why are women getting harassed on the street was sexually harassed but why is this being perpetrated by by some men now men are joining in this conversation seen a lot of posts on social media where their offspring how can they help how can they make women feel more comfortable if they are do find themselves on a street with a woman who is on their own so this is something that met on now participating in but this is about figuring how we look at cases like this i think

a lot of men coming out on social media saying they once aware of this scale of this is a lot of women on a regular basis all right charlotte silver flitting from london thanks so much. to german states go to the polls on sunday it's a regional election that's being watched very closely ahead of germany's national elections in september and that's because this will be the 1st chance voters will have to make their voices heard about the government's handling of the current virus pandemic the candidates all putting all their energy into this campaign but because of the pandemic things feel decidedly different. campaigning in times of a lockdown. it's a strange state election where voters only get to see the politicians on posters online instead of meeting them face to face it helps if you're already well known. at the headquarters of the social democrats granlund plats let's current state come your fire is getting ready for daily life stream. that because of corona i can

travel to all the constituencies to have my usual big campaign events where the candidates are the invited all the candidates to come here and i try it we try to convey our political messages young was a fad and i want to end the common milo's digital and it looks relaxed but it's actually a well practiced routine over the past few weeks kyra has hosted 52 individual s.p.d. candidates from the various constituencies the live streams are broadcast why you tube facebook and instagram small tenuously what is missing is face to face interaction with the voters. of tolleson where of course the kind of that still meet people but in a very limited way them i do that from time to time and i meet individual people but try to keep my distance and you carry a basket full of flyers which you try to hand out without touching the other person and it's all a bit tedious but it's my ass because you get actual feedback and lack of feedback

is the big disadvantage of the online campaign it. but digital campaigning also opens new doors get china general secretary of the opposition christian democratic union sees the digital campaign as an opportunity he and his party have the more difficult job of making their relatively unknown top candidate more popular very hard for i don't know when we advertised an event in the past there was always a relatively high reluctance to attend you had to have a really good speaker for people to say i've never gone to see do you party event but i'll go to this one that meant that we often had about 100 people at these events and that was fine but we all. when you all of them are on social media it's different the reluctance to just watch a live stream as much and very little. because. most importantly though says china is the relatability of the candidate which is why in his instagram live talk with a startup founder china focuses more on his gift and only highlights his own

political ambitions at the end of the live soft skills one might say. back in the social democrats living room chat up to 300 people have queued in the numbers far cry from those of a big name influencer but the politicians are satisfied after all these are regional elections and for many a purely digital campaign is new territory. some sports news now and in the bundesliga. looking to get their ambitions for european qualification back on track as they travel to uk spoke to open match day 25 but the hosts proved too strong for club but holding 3 to one out spokes under a han sealed the victory with the best of the goals in the 89th minute was full of now looks safe from relegation while blood without a win since january. and in skiing the freestyle world cup aerials crowned a new king and queen and almaty kazakhstan on saturday perny van of switzerland

clinched the top spot after scoring 121.72 points for his 1st world cup medal also capturing her 1st aerial gold was canadian freestyle skier marion tenore she won the women's event with a score of $89.00 points. and same. in the many porcelain. throne in the world climate very different story this is my place it went from just one week. if we're going to really get. with the how time to work i'm going. to.

now this is a small but 1st title planets it's a generous planet it's always given us what we need to survive and grow. today there are nearly 8000000000 people in the world and we still dream of abundance. our use of digital and green technologies has skyrocketed as a result we devour gigantic quantities of metals but what if we've gone too far in our exploitation of the us. in the 21st century scarcity is threatening. perhaps it's time to seek all metals elsewhere.

we're the 1st generation that can look at the planets including the stars and see we can be there we can do that. we can touch the stalls we can touch the planets. in the. image on to scullion is just 23 years old after expelling in his studies of international trade he founded the asteroid mining corporation in the british city of liverpool it's far from being a multinational corporation he has a few colleagues across europe clearly rent office space when they need it what mitch hunter scullion is selling is an. idea we are on a planet which is 56000 kilometers in diameter and we had a position whereby use the resources with a growing population our deductively depleting. our solar system comparable to the sources our society needs to explain chile for at least 100 years. you can find

almost every the source you can find on air for an asteroid just inviting quantities to give you some approximate figures for all the mains on air could only mean 200 tons of platinum on a single one kilometer diameter asteroid of metallic composition we can reasonably expect to faint at least $100.00 photos and tons of platinum paired asteroids unit of possession where one asteroids can provide more platinum and then every male in human has to be combined. deep space industries. chum to scully and isn't the 1st to bet on the idea of space results says nearly a decade ago deep space industries and planetary missile appeared on the scene to great p.r. fanfare with his german dr peter. seattle april 25th the vision of planetary resources is to make the resources of space available to humanity both in space and here on earth the earth is feeling

a resource pinch and ultimately we have the ability to turn that which is scarce into abundant and so now is the time that we need it most both us companies were created thanks to major private funding eric anderson we also have been fortunate enough to to include in our company 2 of the key people at google so we have larry page from google eric schmidt from google this is smart money investing one of the largest commercial opportunities ever going to space to gain resources for the benefit of humanity. these me play is flaunted their final. it says and their ambitions and that was enough to get the blogosphere excited about their potential .

in the history of astronomy the existence of asteroids was unknown until recently yet without realizing it we've always encountered them thanks to the fragments that fall to us as meteorites. or god of sand you look at the sky you don't see rocks for getting used to the idea that rocks could fall from the straw it took until the late 18th century onwards you timson. nail is a professor at the national museum of natural history in paris he's responsible for the meteorite collection. but not through the sentiment it's all through the 17th and 18th centuries there was an idea that meteorites might be thunderstorms or lightning which don't even assume the god of a some scholars who could conceive of rocks falling from the heavens but they couldn't think of anything beyond the atmosphere. in 794 german mathematician and shred me was the 1st to propose that their origin was

outside the atmosphere little by little the entire scientific community accepted the idea that meteorites come from bodies of rock traveling through the soda system . in 1801 italian astronomer drew seppi p.s.c. mapped the stiles on january 24th he detected the shadow of a planet his calculations told him should exist between mars and jupiter. in fact he had just discovered ceres the largest. asteroids in our solar system other discoveries followed palace do you know vesta in 868100 objects were detected. today we've counted nearly a 1000000 asteroids which all bit between mars and jupiter in the so-called

asteroid belt. the only fire 100 solo of stores across the asteroid belt with my eyes closed and the asteroids are numerous but small in an infinitely large space saw the probability of a country 100 still very low as to if it. patrick michel is an astrophysicist at the nice observatory he's an asteroid specialist who's taken part in the largest solar system exploration missions of nasa and other big space agencies in 2012 planetary resources asked him to join their team of top flight consultants the still asteroids contain resources similar to what's found on earth because they're

the remains of the building blocks which formed the earth and other planets in the beginning 4.5 or 6 or 7000000000 years ago our solar system was a disk of gas and dust and circling the storm when this doest began to come together into clubs some of which ended up as planets heart of this material never managed to form a planet and that of the 2 in mars and jupiter in the asteroid belt these are still support for all his old it is probably the case that nearby jupiter with its gravitational force prevented these asteroids from gathering was working. in other words every time these asteroids tried. unite jupiters gravitation would disperse them again they would give us only far from jupiter's influence billions of asteroids did manage to collect little by little they formed the earth as it grew its composition changed celeste all celestial bodies and asteroids and planets are

like a hot inside because of radioactive decay. on the temperature rises they melt and one of the made up of rock and metal melts the denser metal tends to be found at the center of the body or the rocks are found on the outside got at the sea for me when earth was formed aren't pulled out of the elements which tend to bond with aren't enough you need gold and platinum for example that he will feel so all the precious elements went into the core so that one remains in the mantle comes from impacts that took place after earth formed plentiful mice in that we call later heavy bombardment the abundance of rare metals we have of the mantle can only be explained by the collision of asteroids of book when you wear a piece of jewelry much of what you heard of comes from celestial matter the asteroids. in that case the riches of the earth's crust are only a tiny fraction of what's in the asteroid belt. after studying the characteristics

of meteorites that came from there we can sort asteroids into 3 main types. one that is a type objects are mostly silicates richard rocky material resistant and formed near the sun c c type or carbon type asteroids which in water there form to beyond jupiter where water can condense then there's a kind that contains your telescope tracks going to kill them type them for metal. these are also the rarest type. one of them is psyche a metallic mammoth more than 200 kilometers in diameter it's a product of the solar system's intense phases of formation many planetary embryos have formed but unlike earth these massive bodies with iron cause never reached

a sufficient size to withstand collisions. according to space miners fragments of these metal cause would contain much higher proportions of rare metals than those found on earth they travel through space more than 250000000 kilometers away they can't be accessed without the help of so less deal mechanics. between mars and jupiter there are unstable regions in which celestial bodies orbit the sun on a lengthening trajectory that's lengthening can reduce the minimum distance from the song and make them intersect with earth's trajectory in terms of the thrust needed to reach them from earth some of them are more accessible than the moon. these asteroids that sometimes pass very close to our planet are known as near earth objects. there are more than $20000.00 of

them. and they are the main targets of space minus. many corporation as the field can go good not to the utilization of species or seas . we're looking to prospect explore and extract with use mustering. our 1st project is to essentially peter pace of devotion asteroids. this type of database already exists the most famous one is asked to rank the numbers found that can make the head spin but for the most part they're merely estimations based on the tight and size of the asteroids observed to accurately assess the solar system's resources space minus the developing their own observation methods. to achieve this mit chanter scullion is working with john moore's university in

liverpool. prefer say ian steele is an astronomer who specializes in studying meteorites using spectroscopy. was. spectroscopy is simply the process of splitting light into its colors takes the light and one of them passing through a drop of water that we have a rainbow we pass it through a piece of glass so either a prism or grating shot lots of lines ruled on it or not to the same option it splits the light into a different color so we can observe it if we just look at something like assume that has a more all the colors of the rainbow in it because the sun is made of lots of different gases if we look at the spectrum of a single element like new york or let me just get a few different colors. like a fingerprint patterns of different wavelengths of light different colors of light which is unique to that element. could be in theory can determine any element

because all the elements of all different chemical signatures and all their own different patterns of light asteroids are a long way away in space so obviously we can't sample them directly so instead we have to look at the life of the bits of asteroid which we call me to write to the fall to the ground on earth. the steel compares the light spectrum that the meteorites with that of the asteroid he observes from earth and combines the 2 he's then able to estimate the composition of each asteroid that the observation process for an earth is no seizing. the light from them is very faint. we need the biggest telescope to observe them to collect as much light as possible and that makes it more precise but it will still never be as good as we can record here on the poetry on the earth to round the earth we obviously have no atmosphere around us so

there's nothing blocking the different wavelengths of light so we can make a more fine discrimination between different types of asteroids because remember what we're trying to do here is not necessarily just find asteroids that are iron in them we want to find us troy's at our platinum group and where we're metals the signatures are much more subtle so the challenge with the project we want to do with e.m.c. is taking the spectrograph that we've built for telescopes on the earth so we operate a telescope out of the palm a big to me telescope that weighs 20 tons and i suspect a graph on it with 10 kilograms what we've got to do is try militarize that down into something it will fit in a cube sat it's only the size of a cereal packet must only we have a few kilograms. i'm ready. i'm so ready wait wait a minute let me read just go pro. for cubes.