hedley three year bombing campaign which is ongoing in yemen britain supports saudi arabia's right to defend its national security against missile attacks from yemen many of which have targeted the kingdom cities including riyadh any solution to the conflict must ensure that saudi arabia no longer faces this cross border security threat roughly four hundred people gathered to protest the royal visit activists condemning the war in yemen and slammed u.k. arms sales to the kingdom a similar concerns were also raised in parliament by the leader of the opposition the humanitarian disaster is now taking place in yemen million his face starvation six hundred thousand children have cholera because of the saudi led bombing campaign and the block a germany has suspended arms sales to saudi arabia but british arms sales of sharply increased and british military advisers are directing the wall it cannot be

right that her government this is big cannot be right that her government is true looting in one of the united nations is evidence of war crimes some came out in support of the saudi crown prince his visit and to ensure a warm reception a promotional ad campaign was launched the princess face said on the sides of black bands and so as well as billboards throughout the city center these ads though had to contend with a red double decker bus ride carrying banners branding the saudi crown prince a war criminal some of those we spoke to see the pro saudi ad blitz blatant propaganda. but is it convincing anyone in the u.k. that the abuses of human rights the saudis are doing good is just propaganda for them back at home to say oh look look how look at what this great well it's just a blatant propaganda display say it comes back to reflect badly on saudi arabia.

that they're trying to manipulate this public opinion on the eve of the visit saudi arabia's foreign minister tried to ease the concerns of critics saying that the war in yemen had been quote imposed on riyadh yeah that it was a justified war backed by international law although unicef calls it the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in history. ethnically motivated hostility and crime against germans in berlin is becoming more common place that is according to the capitol security chief artie's peter all of it takes a close look at the berlin interior minister has had some pretty unexpected things to say about how native germans trust in the nation's capital i have heard it's not the norm but it is becoming more common to keep quiet about it would be wrong a recent survey has shown that where is this time last year around two thirds of the said they felt safe in their city that's around just over half these days while

those that said they felt very insecure it risen from nine percent a year ago to around sixteen percent right now as for what is fueling those fears are sort of pointed towards the influx of refugees and migrants into areas like this. district the local integration officer here says this well refugees don't fear arrest is they know that they'll be instantly released by the police should they be caught breaking the law does is the i don't think crime has decreased on the contrary it's actually increased i'd say ninety five percent of the crimes here are committed by foreigners that's way too much i think in general . people start to panic way early. this is way news spread quite quickly and. i would say that britain has gotten more

dangerous than any pain i think it's just because of all the new stuff like this spread all over and they just make a big deal out of every time the crime that's committed. this is even so political our politicians should be made to commute using the underground for one week and be made to hang out in this neighborhood that way they would see what the situation is really like it's become very hostile and aggressive not nice at all some of the politicians who represent the area say the perception of danger could become the new reality if a majority of the people have the feeling that they don't feel secure anymore and there is some some some basics for that and i think one of the problems is that the that the figure set of official from the police. and you clear but there are many things that are not even declared to the police as crime or as harassment or whatever you can call it because they know well the police cannot do anything about

it because our justice system is like that well they come in for maybe five hours and then they let them off again punishment is something that evidently or apparently in berlin context isn't there anymore and perhaps it's the feeling that things could get worse that's driving public opinion to feel that the german capital has become less safe peter all of a. quarter past the hour here in the russian capital your program continues in just a. that's. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something i want to be honest. it's a going to be press that's what before three in the morning can't be good that i'm

interested always in the waters of my. question. it's been almost fifty years since we've had human beings on the surface of another planetary body and i hope that we could actually put together an international lunar exploration initiative much like we have the international space station consortium and together the countries of the world cooperating with the private sector could afford to get back into real space exploration and i think that would that would create a lot of excitement. thanks for joining us here on r.t. ukraine has started seizing assets belonging to russian energy giant gazprom it's

following a longtime dispute over gas supplies that is to spite an appeal the case still being heard by a court in stockholm. picks up the story russia and ukraine could be on the brink of an all out gas war again kiev speak seizing the assets of russia's energy giant gas but a few days ago gasper said it was scrapping all sales and transit contracts with ukraine's nafta gas and russia's gas from have been settling their disputes in a style called arbitration court and in the last few years there have been so many issues and between these two but just a short while ago one stockholm tribunals decision forced the cranium firm to pay the russians a sum of about two billion us dollars that was basically a gas bill that they hadn't paid but then the latest decision was that russia's gas

must pay ukraine's nafta gatt more than four. point six billion u.s. dollars that was for abusing their position as a monopoly and if you do the math then moscow ends up of more than two point five billion us dollars and the boss is aghast more extremely unhappy they were saying that the reasoning for that was completely unfair and that they're just bailing out a shattered economy which many times as we've seen just couldn't pay for the gas that they were buying now bitrate is just too far the decision by the show of deterioration in the economy will categorically against the economic problems been solved expands if there's jenga tower of contracts for the purchases the transit and all the political issues to top all that off collapse says staying warm in eastern europe during this very cold spring as we all know could become an issue

it's not in any of russia's interest to spoil this reputation as a reliable partner but previously kiev has been caught for illegally siphoning off russia's gas intended for europe so there have been disruptions in gas deliveries but obviously russia how to protect its political and economic interests in technically it wasn't gas rahm's fault. californians seem to be getting increasingly irate about automation in san francisco for example there have been a number of attacks on self driving cars with passes by banging on their windows and bonnets and in the same city a robotic guard was taken out of surface after a public outcry of the security bought was tasked with shooting away a homeless people from outside business offices it was vandalized numerous times during its patrols and now a new robotic kitchen assistance in

a pasadena burger joint has also upset some locals. well a flippy the robot as it's known has prompted the twitter hash tag rise of the robots with some complaining that jobs are being stolen from real people others those see automation as inevitable one expert told us it's no surprise some people are angry robotics is developing very fast and it's going to have a big impact it's already having big so it's not surprising that you're already seeing these kinds of reactions from people when you start to talk about. of job threatened by the introduction of into the economy.

fifty percent unemployment ok that is a crisis that is a social political economic crisis and one of the possible outcomes of it one of the likely possible alternatives is is is massive violence and you know a lot of this kind of vandalism and sabotage i think you'll be seeing but you'll be seeing even larger scale disruptions here there are an appropriate adjustments in your political and economic arrangements we need to start redistributing things more fairly we need to start to pay people to take care of people and clean up the communities and to do so many things and we in the end to make sure that people benefit from technology instead of being dispossessed by technology. so it is march the eighth and women around the world of mocking international women's day including in madrid where they've certainly been making some noise.

lots of people there banging pots and pans in support of women's rights charging slogans if we stop the world still people go in solve careers sold came to the streets and supported me to movement calling for sex offenders to be brought to justice meanwhile the p.r. efforts of some forms men to be in support of women. takes a closer look. it's a global commemoration of women's rights and charles to right from wrong some companies if the shots at the top p.r. by showing their support for women although not always successfully take this french anti harassment campaign showing female passengers on public transport was being preyed on by animals instead of people a metaphor which hit the buffers with

a few fellow travellers. have never been bothered by sharks in the subway. in the much of. the difference between the rule and then descend french dude is that i have never been harassed. and what about the people behind three total ten it should be a great idea to make snap the civically for women so you know they could be more dainty and ladylike women don't like to crunch too loudly in public and they don't think their fingers generously and they don't like to poor little broken pieces and the flavor into them. tends out there judging by their reaction online most women. just like with edgy big company who expected fame outright because to flock to them for pink fear even if it was a bit of sarcastic stereotyping that. if you have to explain the joke maybe it's not a very good. poker. is gluten free too. not

the blue one it. seems that it's a marketing minefield when fans try winning and if the women take it from a different ball of the size it. out today is a whole thing. when the struggle for women's rights should be celebrated as maybe the p.r. guys let's face it they probably all guys should take some time out and i think tank dropping the gender pigeonholing and remember that political correctness doesn't wash with women. thanks for joining us here on our international we are back in about half an hour.

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hello and welcome to worlds apart sending humans into space has long required a national and even international effort to provide all the necessary financing and technology but space access recent successes in hauling freight into orbit claim to challenge this paradigm privatized space services make space exploration cheaper and easier to discuss that i'm now joined by geoffrey hofmann an american astronaut

and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the massachusetts institute of technology dr hoffman it's so great to talk to you thank you very much for your time. pleasure to be here now the world is still massmart eyes by space-x. recent falcon have a launch it was certainly very spectacular i've heard some people compare it to the launch of sputnik or the landing on the moon i want it all as an engineer do you think that was really such a major technological breakthrough a major milestone in the history of space exploration. no i mean it is evolutionary but what space x. as a whole is trying to accomplish i do think is revolutionary. the idea of strapping together three first stages to make a more powerful rocket is not new the the u.s. has the delta heavy rocket which has been flying for many years now. so that

technology is not revolutionary however what space x. has accomplished is to make it a lot more affordable. the rough cost of a delta heavy. it's hard to know exactly but it's in the order of two hundred fifty million dollars the falcon nine the falcon heavy can carry. twice the payload of the delta heavy for about one hundred million dollars and so it really is changing the paradigm of how much it costs to get into space and and that's the revolutionary aspect i think of what space x. is doing but dr hoffman i wonder if it's perhaps too early to say that because i think the same arguments were made about the shuttle program that it's to be usable that it's going to be so much cheaper than let's say the soviet comparison but dan

i got from your own lecture is that shuttles turned out to be much more expansive because all the ground operations and how they were service perhaps not very efficiently i understand that this is a house basics market it's technology at this point of time but can we really rely on those figures to be proven in time well. you're absolutely correct that people are waiting to see can space x. maintain the very aggressive launch scheduled that they have and reuse a lot of these first stage rockets which they've been recovering because that's what the price reduction depends on in in large part so yeah it's still early days what i can say though is what happened with the shuttle it was a very complex vehicle immunes very capable it was the most versatile spacecraft

probably that we'll ever see but it took a tremendous amount of care and maintenance there were thousands of people involved in every shuttle launch and that's where the money goes for people salaries and what space x. has tried to do is to simplify everything to make it possible to turn around a launch to reduce the first stages without thousands and thousands of people so far they've been successful but as you say it's early days and we have to see can they maintain the pace and do it. while they keep. you know hopefully a perfect roy ability record now elin mask is known to be very good at marketing this is how he sells his very expensive car speech i would argue are not very practical a driving but a very good for boosting your self-esteem i wonder if he's also trying to sell not

so much the product by the imagined experience associated with it because when you think about all the footage and the video that god from doc launch a it's more about projecting it certain ideas certain dream rather than marketing the the actual capacity that he wants to bring to the market no i wouldn't agree with that i mean anybody in the space business was concerned about is the rocket going to work. you know it. was really important to be able to show that they could launch recover the boosters and get the payload into orbit. the fact that instead of just using a bunch of lead weights as because you know you have to he wasn't carrying any real payload for money i mean no nobody was launching

a satellite on this but you still have to carry a payload with the equivalent mass of a large satellite and so the fact that he decided to launch his red tesla with a you know a a mannequin astronaut in it that that was obviously marketing and very clever and and the general public got a real thrill out of it and you know the idea of c i one of the things that i hope comes out of of a lot of what's happening in the private space market these days because we have to remember space x. is not the only one it's an extraordinary time that we're living in we we have a generation of billionaires who are space nuts they have a vision you listen to bigelow to to musk to be zos their vision is that some day many many people human beings are going to be living off the surface of the earth and i think that's really what's what's ultimately motivating him

there there's easier ways to make money than than developing a rocket company but he but he has a vision they're not the only people who have vision and i think. just because they're billionaires i don't see why that a vision has to be given so much attention compared to for example your own vision because you you have been into space five times you completed four spacewalks you you know how to. fix the hubble telescope and yet what people would remember after this launch is an empty tassel a card with a dummy auster not rather than for example you or somebody else who's doing every live work there in space don't you think that people perhaps need to appreciate not how glamorous this space is but talib eris it is you're misinterpreting the purpose of the falcon heavy launch was not to put a tesla into orbit the purpose was to demonstrate that this new

configuration which is the first time that space x. has ever tried this and they want to be able to use this to launch heavy satellites when you're when you have a new rocket you have to demonstrate that it works. that was the critical part of the launch and it was totally successful you know he decided to make it a little sexier by putting his red tesla as the payload but that was not the purpose of the launch now when somebody wants to put a really heavy satellite into orbit they can have certain confidence that the falcon heavy configuration has demonstrated that it it can work successfully and hopefully that means that he'll be able to launch heavy payloads both for private companies and for the government because this is important for nasa and this is a lot of heavy payloads and if you can launch it for

a third of the price of what you would have to pay on the delta heavy you can get a lot more science done now dr hoffman just a few moments ago you mentioned this new. visioned mosque and other space not as you called them have and mr mosque in particular is talking about space faring civilization and a multiply military species i suspect this is actually very similar to what year harry then imagined when you were growing up as a boy in new york drawing all those rockets and that it was more than sixty years later and yet we ask humanity i still not there do you think mr musk will see his vision very bold vision i have to say realized in his lifetime well when he talks about millions of people living on the surface of mars i think probably not that's that's a very expansive vision whether or not that will occur in the lifetime

of anybody who's alive now i i honestly don't know. but the falcon heavy now has the capability of taking payloads to mars rather significant payloads and. you know one of the exciting things that happened is that nasa as a space agency. originally kind of was reluctant to get involved with the private sector but. that was i think one of the successes of the obama administration's space policy was that they basically directed nasa to work with the private sector for lower thor but launches and for taking crew up to the international space station and so this idea of a public private partnership. i really look at as being the key to success for the

future. we're not going to have another apollo program whether for the moon or mars i mean apollo was a very special time we had a cold war going on between the u.s. and the soviet union space had been identified as one of the areas in which you could demonstrate the superiority of your culture and you know the the russians were launching things first and then the americans and finally we got to the moon first. but at a tremendous cost i mean at the height of the apollo program over four hundred thousand people were working on apollo it was for about two years nasa was getting almost four percent of the u.s. government's budget that's not going to happen again so nasa if they're going to be successful in space exploration has to learn to do it not apollo style but affordably and i think therefore there's a lot to be learned from the public sector and by working with the public sector

and using these developments particularly the rockets and the spacecraft developed at a much lower cost than nasa has previously been paying for launches that might make it possible on a much more limited budget that we then we had during apollo to get started with real space exploration again that's what i hope will happen dr hofman we have to take a short break but to be will be back in just a few seconds statement. form in the stock market oh my gosh blackstone what are the. a mixture sells i suggest you short yourselves a par lunny into you eviscerate your own corporate balance sheet and then blow your brains out on live t.v.

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