twenty four i'm from thirty four .com. the self proclaimed leader of the coup in mali said the country can afford no more aris canelo what's out spoke in bamako the coup was beenen condemned by the african union. and the u. n. security council. division code threatens a tougher crackdown on the peaceful protest is. to o say he ririgged the election of belarus you might the issue says it doesn't recognize the results of the v vote on. the ninth. the bottle of democracy itself is on the line. but he speaks later to a deal struck by. the democrat conventions being held. because of the pandemic

the speaker after speaker blaming president t trump for mishandlining backed. thank you very much for joining us colonel i see me glatter has been seen for the first time he's the self proclaimed leader of the military coup in mali. he declared that the country can afford no more ariz this came as the u. n. security council met to condemn the coup the u. and the spending one point two billion. dollars each year peacekeeping mission in the african state.. the african union has suspended mali's membmbership meanwhile the imam mahmoud dicko the key leader in the e protests amount in the run up to the coop says through a spokesman that he's not stepping back from p politics. this after meeting with the two leaders on tuesday. the situation and moving in the money that's being a friend now says cal murphy. former senior u. s. government africa analyst and policy makers. a currently with the center for strategegic and international studies. in washington college on is like getting to you sir. can you throw any more light on the

situation in model for uss please. so i think what we're seeing now as much as you described it there has been a month now of. the public voicing its displeasure w with the government but though particulularly in the south h of the e countrtry but now this isa different turn and there's a lot t of questionsns still t tbe ananswered in these e early day. very clelear that this is goinge to. d disrupt a numumber of importanant activities that are ongoing in the countryry that te government. was charged with carrying out even thohough the population was. displeased with how they're doing it there are real security challenges economic challenges and also health challenges with the ongoing pandemic he's- a colonel lassie meek water can you tell us sosothing abouout h. unfortunatelyy i know relatively little about him i thinknk this is fromm the best that we can tell this is and action led by a sort of the middle of the military you might call the colonel's grew as opposed to. junior officers that we came

earlier and in mali in twenty twelve. there seems to also have the feeling of something that at least was planned somewhat in advance it was executed. rather quickly actions were taken to grgrab senior officials in government inincluding the president- and it's clear platforms weree were put out on twitter by this group that's- saying it speaks on behalf of the public but nonetheless it i is a mililitary orgaganization. that has tataken power-r- intelligent way outside of the c constitututional authoy and- so f far they have e not signaleded. thahat they wouldld follow typical constitutional pro with the resigngnation of fe bangkok. anti was seein n images coming out of bamako of people- speakingg up inn favavof what's happened. it's difficult to say with any real certainty that this is a balanced viewpoint of what people are. thinking and feeling out there at the moment. can i ask you what the future could be for president ibrahim. boubacar keita than. again difficult to say i think one of the things that i'm looking at very closely though is the emphasis

that. the leader of the military leaders are placing on corruption and accountability in their public statements. they have been very clear that they are frustrated and angered over what they hear specific instances in which- political leaders are using the- the levers of the state to benefit themselves and to gain money and sometimes at the expense of the military and this is. a game that we can always across decades wherere. military leadership and all the way down into the lower levels of the military can be quite frustrated with political leaders. when they feel as though they are encouraging themselves at the expense of. troops and families who are losing their friends and their loved ones and not the battle against insecurity and final extremism so. i t think. whahat we're considering accountability for potential corrupt act by. the president or others in his cabinet. this is something to be concerned about and i think also not knowing exactly what his disposition isn't. recognizing that no one has yet from the outside community humanitarian committee been able to.

establish contact with it with you become it's unclear what the prospects are for him personally. so h how delicate te situation then is it now fofor france. r regarding. france's relationship with momolly. i think difficult or not for but all for the next day to where i am also for regional. they're still. what we've seen over the last several months is this increasing frustrationon in the south of the couountry with. the government and obviously longstandiding grievanceces in other parts of the country withh the centntral government bombebr co. and the initial forays into mediation by the r regional partners including echo lost- supported by others the you and the and eight year contract. they were not successful and so i think there's a legititimacy question fortiti outsidede actors- that ththey will need to be seen. a as supporting the wil of the moment people but there's a again a delicatate balance betweween also wanted to ensure the constitutional order three stylistic. civilian

control is restored. cometh the pharmacy the u. s. k. half analysts policy may currently with the center for strategic and international studies in washington thank you sir for joining us. thank you show your analysis on the situation in mali watchet coastal developments from that. store thanks very much indeed. next issue says it doesn't recognize the election results and belarus. meanwhile the controversial president reelected. is threatening a tougher climb down if protest continues. neither free nor fair that's the assessment by the e. u. s. officials rejected the results of belarus's contested presidential election is- give thrill one sides making of this appears not this kind so i put on this is must see theigger f fish gruesomee but inviting be given how. divivisive o on vita vea lo fi those are common the exit the cities of on an organised i know i can during an e emergency susummit the block in ansted

sperm support for belarus's protesters ass it steps up the pressure on president alexander lukashenko. is you wouldn't force shortly sentience on a substantial number of individuals responsible for violence repression and election fruit we tool on the belarussian authorities to find a peaceful way out of the crisis by endicott and by ending the violence. distillate intentions ain't lotion and inclusive. national dialogue. the e. u. also now fifty may your in. support for the belarusian people close ally russia says there's no need for mediation as it blasts foreign interference i in belarus callig it unacceptable. we've got the spores o of its who voted india solution is to scuttle the mischief open was a dealer who's billalable skew metal billable skittle costa got those double. of mission would

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the bottom of my heart thank you all. world and me and my family. so i'm. day two of f the virtual convention was filled withth celebrity endorsements including from grammy award winner john legend the night also featured political heavyweights john kerry and former president bill clinton who took a swipe at donald trump and smalall businesses lon trump says we're l leading the world well we are the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triples. at a time like this. the oval office should be a command center. instead it's a stororm center. is only c chaose biden with handful of high profile republicans like former secretetary of state colin powel were a also invited to speak while cindy mccain window of republican senator john mccain. invoked her late husband's friendship with biden which- meanwhile first lady hopefulul jill biden also gave a poignant speech evoking the deaths of

joe biden's first wife and daughter in nineteen seventy two. and if their son beau in twenty fifteen edition whole. the night also featutures lesser known democrats like jacqueline britney a security guard for the new york times building who's starstruck encounter with biden in the buildlding elevator last year went viral. joe biden will formally accepts the party nomination on thursday when the convention concludes before that though day three is shaping up to be just as high profile. hillary clinton barack obama and biden's vice presidential pick kamel harris are all slated to speak. barackobama and hitting clinton has s shot youou'll to speak ate dedemocraticic convention being held of course virtually because covered nineteen- later on the half of the c. reaction and analysis he fully on france twenty four. more than to stay with us. hello welcome to the

frost twenty four interview this weeeek our speciaial guests thee french aerospace engineer pilots and european space agency astronaut. thomas press gay who's to be the first european to fly on board the new space x. dragon to which it yoyou to take e off from. cape cacanaveral inn florida in the spring o of twenty twenty o one time of p penn state t thankou for being with u us it's great o have y you on from twenty four. right of first question to pretty simple one. he spent six and a half months in space- between november twenty seventeen in june. november twenty s sixteen and junune twey seseventeen are you excited to e going back- yes i'm excited i've i've misissed the t thrillf being- on board the international space station to view is braced taking the- and just- the general atmosphere- the teamwork. the camaraderie- and a feeling of belonging to you know say mission having the same goal- i've been missing

all this over the last few years- so i've couldn't be more excited. to go back now if i'm not mistaken the first time round you had a seven year training program this time round seems to go a lot quicker how come it's so much faster now well what of hopefully because i've i've managed to retain some information from my first training for my first flight. also because there's a lot of skills you have to build from scratchch had to learn russian you know starting from zero- and this time around i just have to maintain. my russian off obvioususly try to improve as much as i can but i don't have to start from scratch so that's why the second time around. you can be much more efficient and things go faster so last time around it was called proxima this timie round it's cold alfa where did that name come from- so it comes from- i we were actually asked to people during the day- does does hard times that we've had in spring. everybody was at home you know- sheltering at home and- and so we invited suggestions from the public. eye we had twenty seven thousand i think different suggestions. and off i iame

back quite a a number of times into me first of all it's kinda twin sis. trude approx. price and tore office in tory today both belong to the same constellation- so there's a parallel to my first mission. and also it's the closest star system system to the earth- means so it's- it's a metaphor of space exploration that's where we'll go- to find exoplanetsts in. you know i dont know if you've t. a hundred years two hundred years who knows- those that produce images also because we're doing things in space. four pepeople n earth- and so to me it kind of ticked all the boxes to be a perfect mission name. so the countdown is going to wait. what is the aim of this mission will youe doing when you're up there in space so mostly every single mission on board the iss it we're doing two things. and one of f em i is really exploration dd i says he's a step on the path. you know to. bigger goals in space we want to go back to the moon we want to go to mars. but to be able to do this we have to

learn how to live and work in space and that's what the i. sixty four- but at the same time. it opens the door- for resource that cannot be performed on the grounds that the same time we doing research. and we're bringing the benefits of signs back- to yours so my first mission i think there were. almost two hundred seats- science experiments and i'm expecting this one's gonna be pretty much the same. so anything from material science- medicine and you know cancer drug delivery- physiology andnd that's why so. that's why it's so interesting to me. because you couldld do. thinings verery different thingn the- toto can. day soo one niney seven days in space also around emily the next time around. i don't know exactly because there's so many factors obviously- you know doug doug technology to specifics of those new capsules their news so. i would have to. get the data from the first test flight which they still haven't landed- so this this is this is going to come into playy weather

is a bigig factor for. you know precisely deter determine when we're landing- so i call give you exact n number but he should be in the same ballpark six each. month on board do you ever get scared. yeah we do we do get scared all the time- i think if you don't feel apprehension for anything then. then your brain is dysfunctional it's a normal self protection reaction. and courage is actctually. not d. is not not being scared is actually being scacared but stil doing what you what you want to do and i think. everybody's care when you climb on the rockets it's impressive maybe. a little bit less so the second time around the first time around i can tell you. it is very scary when the rocket launchers but you still have to performance you have to focus- doing a space walks the same can be very very scared to move down and let go. you know if they're d. i.i.ays you're alwaysys tetheredut so you're scared but but you fight through it and you do your job and to me i tests esta

estimates you can dispose it must be a sort of a puritan boost every t time yeah it has o go out. takeoff and- this place called. even coach the same quality times that. life on earth iss much more complicated. life is strange is that correct and what is not the case. how complicated a space rocket aids yeah you think it was the other way around. not really actually because even though it's- technically is the most complex. man made object ever. in the history i'm convinced of this and it's any didn't any flies i in the mostt hosost thad varmint knownwn to man- but it s being said. life on space station is pretty simple in in terms of what you're trying to achieve. in terms of to gold the only one goal that you have in terms of. you know all the help that you getting to achieve these goals so. so it's really i think like being on a sports team and your only goal is to win the championship and all the rest is managed by all the people. so to that extent it's actually very simple life-

and when i came back to worse i've- i've realized that certainly. has a lot of people to interact with a lot of different expectations- that's more difficult to manage to me so that's why you know way being on an expedition. is simple i know you have a lot of. physical training when your- own bold. and also back on if you also very sporting a is that. very essential to be abable to do t the job well. its it is part of the job definitely you'll have to be a world class athlete i'm pretty far from being one- but but you have to. like sports and you have. to enjoy it because you're going to have to. being good health and i includes physical space environment is harsh- deep sense of the effects of yourr weight. weightlelessness it's going to take a toll on your body you gonna lose muscle mass you lose bone mass- are you going to be d. condition is the equivalent. of fuel aging by ten years- they say is reversible i i'm-

hoping that it i is reallyly god i'm goining back- and so you hae to be in thehe top physical shae that y you can attain for yourself- because you're gonna you're gonna lose. some of your fitness during the mission so not. work to do. homework the american space agency nasa said he wants to get back to the moon by a twenty twenty four. why is the moooon so importantt because they've already been there in nineteen sixty nine. and we know what it's like why is the moon the place they want to go back to is it not just to stick the flag in thee ground to actually use it as a place to go and explore further afield. yes actually exactly that i think i think this time around- and we don't want just to win ththe race t to stick a flag ano back we want to stay a little bit longer we want to use the resources. i want to make it more sustainable we want to reuse our descent and ascent marjorie fuel it. make the fuel from whatever's available on the surface of the moon- that have scientific objectives not just you k know political- objective so that's one part

and the second part is. we know mars is much more interesting in terms of science in the moon the moon is interesting but mars. is the golden ticket- but we can't get to it right now we're not in a position to do it technically. so we have to improve we have to learn and the only way we can do this- is by going to the moon it's like crossing the atlantic- by plane you know that's that's you know that's what you want to do ultimately but you're not. able to do it until you cross. you know channel and you css the mediterranean and then your technology is ready and you can go for it because we thought. that wrong. rumors that. the landing on. shuttle for. twenty thirty three the thing is gonna happen we'll have and all. all in all i think. actually go to that you know. i don't know it's's actually crazy because when i started my career. at a very young *-*- and all that that that the youngest of the bunch. onn top of it- i decide somebody told me are you too old to go to mars as shocked as like wait a minute that's that's only just been started- and but that might be true i

don't know how much time it's going to take i think we'll see during a lifetimime i'm convincd of that. is if it is some mistaken i think the jury to also be very interesting because like the comparison can be made b. b. between what is happening on. earth with the environment with the- with the app and- the moisture around us the most hatton- mall some of that is a ththreat that could also. affect us late so absolutely so you can see you can really see mars and the earth has twin sisters. are in terms of position are respected to the sign in terms of shape. weight except we're not exactly but- and they were much. closer at some point in time in the past we know there's been- liquid water on the surface of mars and it's gone we know marches lost its atmosphere- so it's got i interesting question could it. happen to us is very much linked. to what's happening nowadays w we're destroying our envnvironment could be pushed to the point where we make. ours on habitable- and is it what happened on mars i mean it's extremely interesting and that's why i want to go back. okay one last question you

become a hero for so many millions of people. all over the world and even here in france especially- with forty being cool the pesky asian operation of young people. was that one of your- aims or is that something that happened as a result of a see you in space the images you've been posting- giving the impression you were just a normal guy enjoying yourself up in space and- and maybe giving people a vocational so. thank i it was nt somethining i try t tachieve years really one thing i wanted to do is to share the adventure because i was. i think as a kid it was starved of information and you know there was. that was not. much i to date it was no source network backing a- they were we're going. live and reading. you know it seems. anancients but i've had was- soo wish there were more. there was more and- so i've i made kind of a promise to myself that the data woods dedicate to time and the effort and the energy to share the adventure. and then we realize that space appeals to people i didn't make them

dream- and then the expiration appeals to people they wanna they won the adventure- so i think that's what. works pretty well and also i was. i think i was i was trying to tell things like they are you know people askingng me like you did are you scared like yes i am i was and then i will be again the second time around. and maybe people can relate to this a little bit more than in the past. tongass game thanks very much indeed for coming to france twenty four. and with that we come to the end of this edition. of the interview thanks for watching more news coming. right up. today more than ever else seeds of honorable. against diseases and a changing environment. many of them seeds that sprout. the food. we ate. the sweet down to earth looks at how wild

cousins about crops. could safeguard. the security. i am chris cocktail and we're sitting in front of the seed vault at the millennium seed bank password because place. what's different about the millennium seed bank is that we store the wild species surveys species that perhaps are not conserved elsewhere. a small collections in many cases and in some cases they are actually species in the banks that are extinct in the wild we have. a six minus twenty cold stores where the seats are stored and the idea is to prolong the life off the streets to allow them to remain in a stable condition so that they can be turned back into plastic. blackrock bottles if can be thought of as the as a cousin of our domesticated crops. sir pushing all the foods that we should be domesticated to some extent. many of these. crops are already suffering from. issues

with meals and susceptibility to certain diseases that we need to face sooner rather than later. these wild relatives happy living on the margins surviving in hostile conditions and so they've adapted in the process of evolution to cope with these pressures the coopererativee projects inspectg the productions of twenty nine domesticated crops such as- wheat. rice barley oats are things like that too but nana potatoes. seven seventeen challenges that our opponents have had to face a dealing with leeches in the poll- dealing with crocodiles in costa rica and nigeria they haveo deal with- boko haram insurgents. we're not a- a museum for c. we actually won't be able to use them. humans are already relying on a very limited number of crops for the

majority of what we ate of the six thousand plant species cultivated for food consumption. just nine of them accountt for two thirds of what legal rights which means that any threat to them through disease or extreme w weather. threat to our food security it leaves us with two options increase the variety of what we ate all my favorite cops strong. type of insurance policy if or when disaster strikes. and she became- i work at the university of nottingham. and breeding wait but he was in the wild relatives- to. introduce new tricks into the weight so we take wait we just cross six to a wide relative so we take the male gamete and we put them on

toto the weight and to make a nw seseat which will l be a hybridr a cross between the two we take a a sort of scraggly looking wie relative- but because we only transferred to very smamall bits of it. then it only has a very small effect we take the seat well we takee the dna from thee past into the lab. and we look at the chromosomes on the microscope we look at them using mock as add to see if we have a segmentnt how many segments hello what size the segment is. none of our work is gmo because all of what we do can actually happen in nature our biggest success story would be where one of our collaborators have screen just. to the first twenty plants that we made available and i have to just those twenty. he's highland- rest resistance so with the hundreds that that coming along. it's still in the pipeline we hope to find a lot more i like being able to make

things i like being able to see the results of what we do and also a major driving force is. that the codes. that we could do at the end of. in reality we've already lost thousands of varieties of everyday foods including potatoes carrots and apples and with a unique tastes. part of this the loss is not only a problem for food security but also our cultural heritage. hold on a second chance they fit in the u. k. hi i'm larry nichols i'm group executive chef with grayson's- when you case meeting sustainable caterer one of the things that is important to us is that is that we do preserve- bridge out british heritage of food heritage so it takes is a global program so students which all from a particular area but for certain risk of dying out- i'm s so we have fuly found some of those products- around the world- a nine hundred and sixty countries.

this is a reckless to philly- not all of them are absolutely going to die tomorrow but they're old re going to be in a dying out very soon sorry here we got the right to topple she talked about it's dying out because it doesn't. take a peaceful paranoid we really love it and it looks fantastic committee's going to really lovely kind of rustic crusty brown color so initially just visually it looks amazing- the taste is really crisp really shop delicious flavor so by getting- archetypes products into our supply chain. onto our menus who- so using that as a process of education from customs as well s so people cann actually physically tasted anyway these things continue civilians i'm gonna read this now please to enjoy.

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