vote counting is underway in the democratic republic of congo after it pulled marked by widespread which is to go problems. the bangladeshi prime minister with a record third consecutive term and coins the results farcical. they demanded a new vote. anald trump israel evaluating quick pullout of u.s. troops from syria according to republican senator lindsey graham.

we start with the democratic republic's long delayed election that took place relatively peacefully on sunday but there were many logistical problems. one opposition candidate to slack -- describing election d y is a mess. its present of the country with its first chance for a peaceful transfer of power since independence in 1960. joseph kabila can't run again but critics say that he likes to rule through the camtek government candidate. there were tens of thousands of local observers on election day. >> in several centers of the countries the voting machines didn't work. these irregularities will surely have a negative impact on the process. coalition will determine the cocourse of action when the tite comes.

>> i am satisfied, we started several years ago. i think that victory is on my side and that tonight i will be president. >> following the election for us, we have more on what we can expect this week. >> thehe electoral comommissions supped to a announce papartial january,,on ththe sixth of whicich is next sunday. the presisident of the e electol commission alwlways said that ty would be able to give a first idea of the resesults only two days after the vote.e. which means that maybe already on tuesday thehe electoralal commission will announce that they already have an idea of the results. but these, , the governmentnt ad the site of f the governme candidate set up a a compilingg

nd announcnced that theyey would be able to annnnounce partial results on monday already. we will have to keep an eye on thatat. it wouldld be a prettyty big ife governmentnt already announced some results on monday. obobously, thehe results might cause trouble inin this country, all the canandates are e convind ththat theare gogoing to win.. one of the opposition leaders already pointed out soso irregularitieses in the voting yesterday. on s sunday he said that many of his observers for example work kick out of polling statioions right before counting. he even said that in some polling stations in some prprinces of t the congo when yu typed number four into ththe voting machihines, wch w was his , the majoritity turned outut

onon the screen. according to him there were irregularities and we will have to keep an eye on what happens on monday and tuesday and the next following days as s the reresults are anannounced. >> now, the bangladeshi prime minister has won a record third consecutive term. our taking about the 200 and 88 parliamentary seats after the 300 contested seats. election was marred by violence, with 17 people killed in clashes on sunday. brian quinn has more. the landslide victory for ruling party, the election committee congratulating on a third term in office. abroad know that elections must be inclusive.

i think that over there you have over r revenues. >> thehe opposition n nationalay front alliance reportedly picking up just a handful of parliamentary seats and for them the election was farcical. they are calling on the national election commission to declare it void. can beeituation created done t through holding a proper election under the administration and we are looking for permission to cancel this election and hold anotother as early as possible. consolidating a decade-long stint at the head of government, she's credited with improving the economy but has been accused of authoritarianism and human rights abuses that she denies. the election campaign has been tainted by allegations of government repression. the main rival has been in jail since february on charges that she says are politically motivated.

authorities shut down the high-speed internet in the run -- run up to the vote to prevent the spread of rumors. during theence campaign spilled into clashes between ruling and opposition supporters as the voting took place. police say 17 people died in election related violence on sunday. >> donald trump israel validating the quick withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria but remains committed to the pullout that he announced on n december9 accocording to republican senatr lindsey graham. critics say that withdrawing some 2000 troops could lead to the resurgence of the islamic state group. >> lindsey graham's strategy meeting with donald trump prompted another change of heart. the withdrawal from syria is not the disaster that lindsey graham first feared. >> i like what i have heard. wewe still have some difference, but i will tell you that the president is thinking long and

hard about syria and how to withdraw the forces and at the same time achieve the national security interests, which are to make sure that isis is destroyed , that they never come back, that our allies are protected. announcement that the united states will be withdrawing its troops from syria was met with surprise amongst allies. secretary, jim mattis, and brett mcgurk, the special l envoy to thehe global coalition of the islamic state resigned in the wake of the news. graham had initially called for an immediate withdrawal being an obama like mistake that would engender national -- in danger national security. it would be of a trail of the u.s. backed kurdish whoters of the militia would be left the honorable to neighboring turkey. this afterer his meetinglilindsy graham indicating that trump will be managing a slot -- smart

anand slowed down pullout. to help protect the kurds, military commanders are recommending that fighters be allowed to keep their weapons. >> the former nissan c chairma's detention is extended until january 11. arrested in november for allegedly misusing funds and hiding millions of dollarsrs of income. eaearlier this month the court rejected a request by the prosecution to extend his detention but he was rearrested on a new charge of aggravated breach of trust. preparations are underway in paris for tonight's new year's eve celebrations. security will b bparticulararly tight. on top of terrorism f fears thee is a good chance that yellow vests protesters will be a part of the crowd and after several weeks of demonstrations there has been a call for a nonviolent gathering.

>> the palace will soon welcome in the new year. as usual, hundreds will descend on the street for celebrations. this time they may be joined by the yellow vests. on a facebook event page, thousands have said they will be coming out despite the possibility of clashes and on sunday they said they would not be deterred from attending the celebrations. >> it doesn't frighten us. we are here to take part in whatever happens, whatever the fear. >> we say no, honey, don't worry about this. police have taken steps to make sure that it's as trouble-free as cross about. will be banned within the blue perimeter. after weeks of protests marked by violence and rioting, police have advised business owners to put away their seating areas on the terrace.

this restaurant tour has gone further. >> i hired to guards it will stand outside. we will have to pay for it ourselves. >> the city hall decided to go ahead with the fireworks and light show last year. this time to access the area, visitors will have to pass to barriers, everyone will be searched, yellow vests or not. if someone is stopped like we have seen with improvised weapons, paving stones, metal bars, hammers or would, it means that you appear to be potentially violent and at that point you will of course be arrested. to 143,000 officers will be on duty to ensure that the celebrations go off without a hitch. in n other news, the spokesperson for the vatican and his deputy have resigned. it's not clear why. the resignation of greg burke

came several weeks after an italian journalist and personal friend was appppointed to become the editorial director of the vatican communications. now, four brazilians on tuesday marked the start of a new year and a new presidency. this, two months after the presidential runoff. during the campaign the far right politician was stabbed, tomomorrow there will be no fewr than 3000 police officers and troops at the swearing-in ceremony. >> a reversal for the military band and brazilian security forces. tuesday the new president of brazil will be the one walking through the e honor guard, cheed on by over 250,000 of his supporters, who are expected to

attend the inauguration. >> we hope that everything goes well and nothing bad happens to our president. >> a divisive figure, bolsononao nearly died, stabbed while campaigning in september. his inauguration will see security measures put on par for the olympic games in brazil. the e military will deploy the antimissile systems and fighter jets, while 3000 uniformed guards secure the ceremony area, with the public prevented from ringing in backpacks. beautifulis hosting a presidenterving of a elected by 58 million votes. >> the military pomp and circumstance should soothe his taststes. the former he army captain has named tex military men to the post his cabinet. also the brutal military

dictatorship that led brazil to the mid-1980's. including fellow right-wingers and picture or bond. >> the spacecraft is zooming towards the furthest and oldest cosmic body ever studied by humans. is about 6d that billion kilometers away. sweeping alongside the target on new year's day at 14 colombo's per second. -- kilometers per second. >> and object the size of the city beyond the orbit of neptune. now they are collecting data from probes, moving past it at 61,000 kilometers per hour.

it will be the furthest object ever explored by humankind. there are 4.1 billion miles from earth, which is 6.6 kilometers. >> it may be a piece of the early solar system that we studied. pieiece of ththe early solar system that we studied. you can't get that from early solar system objects. >> first spotted in 2014, the object was nicknamed to mean beyond the known world. the comes 13 years after new horizon was lalaunched and three and a half years after it had an on pluto. 1.5 billion kilometers closer to earth. frontier oft the our solar system at the edge of the planetary system. and we think it is going to be more than justst a scientific bonanza. this kind of exploration shows .s what humans are best at

understanding the world around us. >> scientists will be able to use it, thehe data coming back o earth, and analyze the size, shape, and orbit in the next couple of years. >> that is it for this edition. thanks for watching. >> "france 24," four news , oneels and four languages hundred 60 bureaus around the world. a global reach. 355 million households in 180 countries can watch france 24. 61 million viewers watch the channel every week and the numbers are constantly growing, with audience figures up by 31%. is also forging

ahead, 80 million visitors per month on france 24.com. videos viewed online, with a millionn youtube, 137 twitter followers on social media. two are constantly growing community of viewers, thank you. ♪ >> hello, welcome. we have a special edition of our tech show today. are we alone in the universe? coming up, artificial intelligence could be the best shot for scientists at intercepting signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. this as protective data is

collected by satellites. the director of the winston project in california is our guest. he tells us how his team discovered 72 new ai. for ththe ufo loverers out there will take a look at apps that can teach you momore about the universe and its mysteries and also help you to identify celestin bodies in the sky. most famous method to intelligent life in the universe is the so-called drake equation, written by france drake in 1961. not so much to precisely nail down the number of alien civilizations but more as a way to stimulate scientific dialogue at their first meeting. here is a closer look at t the drake equation. >> are we alone in the universe? and if not, what are the odds of finding intelligent life

a legitimate question considering the age of the universe and the mind are going number of planets that could possibly sustain life. in 1961 the founder of the seti institute france drake try to untangle that paradox. by setting up a formula now known as the drake equation. here's how it goes. the rate of star c creation in e galaxy, the fraction that have planets orbiting them, the number of exit planets capable of supporting life, theraction ththat undergoes intntelligent , the number of civilizations that can be developed with communication, and how long the communication n could be detect. the problem is that t there are estimated values for several factors that remain highly speculative. in 1961, drake made the educated guess that there were 10 alien

civilizations out there ready to make contact with earth. answer the question of whether or not we are alone in the universe, we have been scouring the nights sky for signals from the cosmos. --entists are now on sick concentrated on intercepting signs of advanced tecechnologies or t techno signatures. >> scientists have been searching for evidence of life on mars since the 19th century. but what about intelligent beings elsewhere in the numbers? that is what seti is all about. the aim isis not to detect intelligent life, but prove it to the existencece of intelliget technologies. the basic ascension is that aliens are out there and are trying to contact us. the key question is how.

scientists believe the search should be for electromagnetic's or waves that can travel across the universe at the speed of light. the world's first seti program 1971et up by the u.s. in using a radio telescope known as big year. the program looked the same in 1977 after they noticed an unusually strong signal. on the printout it looks like a string of letters and numbers. but for them it was an extraordinary discovery. today is known as the wow signal because that is what he must -- wrote in the m margin as he spotted it. despite several accounts, it's never been protected -- detected again, but it is the strongest evidence for alien radio transmissions to this day. many oer projects have used increasingly refined telescopes and data processes. anduse of the limited time

funding, scientists have only been able to study a handful of frequencies out of the billions. >> one of the problems is to make sense of all the data created by satellite telescopes around the world. artificial intelligence could be the key. for the first time the breakthrough listen project moveed these attempts to through old signal data. what came out of it was 72 fast new radio bursts. for more on this i'm joined by dr. andrew. thank you for joining us. walk us through the latest experiment the you conducted. >> we developed a machine learning out a rhythm to investigate a data set that we had previously collected in west virginia here in the united states. we designed the algorithm to be able to detect a new radio transient source that we just last 10about over the

years or so-called fast radio bursts. we had previously detected 21 such bursts. after applying the machine our we were able to detetect 72 additional burststs, bringing te total number to just less than 100. the greatest number of bursts ever seen in a single observation. >> are these signatures of extraterrestrial technology? know what fast radio bursrsts are. they are a mystery and that is one of the things that make them so exciting. there are a a lot of ideas, most of them have to do with natural explanations. what we see is just a single burst of radiation that lasts a oflisecond, or a couple milliseconds. most of the ideas have to do with some type of massive object, perhaps colliding with another massive object and resulting in a large

astrophysical explosion that releases a bright burst of radiation. one idea that we have not yet been able to completely move out is that these bursts are somehow related to an extraterrestrial technology. i emphasize that this is a remote possibility. don't yet know what the sources are, so we want to keep our options open. in the search for extraterrestrialal intelligencn, we are ultimately looking for anomalies. looking for some thing strange in the data. a radio signal o or an optical sisignal that t we didn't expec. machine learning and a artificil inintelligencece, as we have led from other fields is very, very good at finding anomalies. so, what we would like to do is develop machine learning algorithms that will make our searches sensitive to the signals that w we can't predict.

the so-called unknown unknowns. >> dr., thank you for that. welcome ourime to tech expert. good to have you. many of you out there probably don't know this, but they have so-called planetary protection officers to protect earth from alien harm and contamination. like men in black? primary objective is to avoid biological contamination from other worlds with the potential for life in the past or in the present. this is done by applying extremely rigorous procedures for the technical centers and launch sites to be launched and even for the spacecraft. now, some of the sites are cleaner than the standard operators in the hospital.

there is always the chance that these microbes are moving through these conditions as we saw in 2007 and 2009, where scientists discovered a new genus of bacterium next to a in 2007. and as we mentioned this to avoid the contamination of the from extraterrestrial life if it exists. >> thank you for that. we are going to move on. help us is going to spot aliens. it's not a joke. given in the past when we see a strange phenomena in the sky, what should we do? who should we contact? >> in france you should contact the division of the national

space agency that specializes in aerospace phenomena. this division was established in 1977 and it has been 41 years since they have been analyzing all of these inexplicable sightings and they have had around 8000 such sightings reported. they found that the majority of them can be attributed or are astronomical phenomena. could be a planet, could be a satellite. they collaborate with psychologists to get to the root of these phenomena. does a lot of questions about the timing a and the escape ima.

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