larger than the united states economy which was a monumental impact on the balance of forces globally right now china has around the united states in africa on every front and it will take more than just words for washington to elbow its way past beijing it has done of r.t. . the british foreign secretary has defended u.k. ties with saudi arabia that after a visit by the saudi crown prince to london prompted protests outside downing street denouncing riyadh's deadly three year bombing of yemen britain supports the reviews right to defend its security against missile attacks from yemen many of which have targeted the kingdom cities including react. any solution to the conflict must ensure that saudi arabia no longer faces this cross border security threat but around four hundred people did gather to protest against the royal visit activists condemn the war in yemen and u.k.

arms sales to the kingdom similar concerns were also raised in parliament by the leader of the opposition. a humanitarian disaster is now taking place in yemen millions face starvation six hundred thousand children have cholera because of the saudi led bombing campaign and the block 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 governments this is cannot be right that her government is trying looting in one of the united nations is evidence of war crimes some though did come out in support of the saudi crown prince and to ensure warm reception a promotional ad campaign is also launched at the prince's face and on the sides of bands and taxis as well as billboards throughout the city center these ads to

contend with the red double decker bus carrying banners branding the prince of war criminal we spoke to people on the streets about what they thought of the pro side posters. isn't convincing anyone in the u.k. that the abuses of human rights the saudis are doing good it's just propaganda for them back home to say oh look look how look at what this great well it's just a blatant propaganda display so it comes back to reflect badly on saudi arabia. that they're trying to manipulate this public opinion while on the of the visit saudi arabia's foreign minister here did try to ease the concerns of critics saying that the war in yemen had been quote imposed on riyadh he added it was a justified war backed by international law although unicef has called it the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in history. a racially motivated hostility and crimes against germans in berlin is becoming more

commonplace that's according to the capitol security chief with more on this is peter oliver. 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 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 or 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 feel 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 the social media people start to panic way earlier. this is way news spread quite quickly and. i would say that berlin has gotten more dangerous than any pain i think it's just because of all the news server like it's spread all over the balloon and they just make a big deal out of every time the crime that's committed. this is you and so political our politicians should be made to commute using the underground for one week and then 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. security more and there is some simpson basics for that many things that are not even declared to the police as crime or as a rassmann or whatever you can call it because you 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 appear in italy 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 as. peter all of a. thanks being with us tonight we're back with me. 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. your call and say that. something is good. but for barcelona. for crimea. or whatever. the principle is good all the principle is but has to be apply equally and that is .

again you without saying that californians do seem to be getting increasingly i write 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 doors on their bonnets and in the same city to a robotic god was taken at just after a public outcry while the security boat was tasked with shooting away homeless people from outside business offices it was vandalized numerous times during its patrol and also a new report a kitchen assistant in a burger joint has angered some people.

well flippy the robot as it's known has prompted the twitter hash tag rise of the robots and some complaining jobs are being stolen from paypal. automation as inevitable one expert told us it's no surprise though that some people are angry. robotics is developing very fast and it's going to have big in parents and it's already having big and so it's not surprising that you're already seeing these kinds of reactions from people when you start to talk about. of jobs being threatened by the introduction of it into the economy. fifty percent unemployment ok that is a crisis of social political economic crisis one of the possible outcomes of it one of the likely possible outcomes is is is massive violence you know out of this kind of vandalism and salazar's i think you'll be seeing you'll be seeing even larger

scale disruptions here there are appropriate adjustments in our 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 sayings and we in the end to make sure that people benefit from technology instead of being dispossessed by technology. women around the world are marking international women's day at the moment including imagery where they would be making some noise. thank you thank you. for head banging pots and pans in support of women's rights chanting slogans such as if we stole the world while people in south korea took to the streets of self-esteem in support of the meeting

they went courting for sex offenders to be brought to justice meanwhile the p.r. efforts of something meant to be in support of women have been branded patronize ing. as more. if the label commemoration had women's right to right and wrong as some companies say if the shop there. by showing that the women. successfully take this french. way showing. animals and sad. a matter for which. they travel it. have never been. much of. a difference between them and then. i have never been wrong. i'm nuts about the people behind. it. to make the women you know they could be played like women.

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as the day is insulting. when the struggle for women's rights should be celebrated maybe the guys let's face it they probably all guys should take some time out and i think paying. pigeonholing and remember that. doesn't wash with. women. meanwhile the story of a russian m.p. who's accused of harassing female journalists has been making headlines this week despite denying the accusations though the m.p. did decide to apologize today so we get more details now from jackie vega from our news room he's following this story. just tell us more then about the man at the center of this story well the man in the spotlight is leonid he's a member of the russian duma and this story actually erupted a few weeks ago in mid february when a number of unnamed female reporters came out with accusations of sexual harassment against him and it has since then snowballed with more and more women having their

names to the group now one reporter from the b.b.c. is russian service has actually joined the group claiming to have a recording of slip ski where he made advances and eventually allegedly groped her as well of course at this point that recording has not been made public but all the while he has denied the accusations saying that it's simply a smear campaign that was until today now of course today is international women's day and he chose to use the occasion to issue an apology whilst making a post celebrating the holiday. i'd like to use this occasion to apologize to anyone who intentionally all knowledge i have caused any emotional stress believe me there were no bad intentions now amid the accusations the speaker of the duma cast doubts on the accusers and also made the sink and made a suggestion to women that infuriated many. is something to consider what if this was all just a provocation if you have someone you should apologize but if you provoke you

should be held accountable is it dangerous for you to work and if so then change your jobs. meanwhile presidential candidate sub chalk who earlier in this week was already calling for an investigation into the accusations decided to stage a one woman protest outside of the duma today she was later on joined by other women who had signs that were pointed out the speaker who you just heard and they had signs that said if you're afraid of investigating sexual harassment then change jobs at this point we have seen one positive step coming out of all of this and that's from a nother member of the state duma pushkin to has promised to fast track a bill on enforcing gender equality and targeting sexual harassment in the government. ok thanks jackie that was very good reporting that. amount brings you up to date that's how events are looking so far today here not a more.

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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 these paradigms against privatized space services make space exploration cheaper and easier to discuss that i'm now in joined by geoffrey hoffman 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 mass murder by space x.

a recent falcon have a launch it was certainly a very spectacular i've heard some people compare it to the launch of sputnik or the landing on the moon i wonder though 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 but what i can say though is what happened with the shuttle it was a very complex vehicle a muse 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. wall 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 hear it 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 cia 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 you 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 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 and multiply metairie species i suspect this is actually very similar to what year harry didn't imagine 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 states and. it leads. you to look at what you could you wouldn't order your future none of us and others like mine and one million people and i'm dying to.