of a long crude probe to mars and now the beginnings of its 1st fully operational space station adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. dan polanco is a professor of astrophysics at the university of warrick he says scientists really cannot say where this will land but it's extremely unlikely to injure anyone there are predictions right now where it's going to. the areas or so large that it really could most anywhere or truck. so the contradictions are somewhere in there using and probably a 1000 miles away from new zealand but really that's just an approximate location and it could be anywhere from well from a trade to. water to china itself i really don't know because it all depends on the state the atmosphere at that time and and the orientation of the rocket when it hits you atmosphere and things like that so normally when you launch into low earth orbit he use of a booster that doesn't actually attain sufficient the last 3 to go into orbit itself so you would launch it in a safe mode east coast of the u.s. and the rocket would just fall into the atlantic in this case it was launching a large

expected to burn upon re-entry into the atmosphere but some pieces could fall anywhere on earth adrian brown reports now from hong kong. china's space program has traveled a long way very quickly as it races to catch up with other nations but as the rockets and what they carry get bigger so to the debris they leave behind. more than a week ago a chinese long march 5 rocket was launched from heinen island carrying part of the country's 1st permanent space station. after its separation from the maggio the rocket began to all but the earth in a lump land trajectory as it slowly lost altitude now of 30 meters section is hurtling towards earth a 29000 kilometers an hour the u.s. military is tracking its. we don't have a plan to shoot the rocket there were hopeful that they're all. in a place where. or harm anyone awfully in the ocean or someplace like that under international guidelines rockets are supposed to return to earth in a controlled way but that's not happening this time i'm afraid of the remaining part of the rocket is right now without control but it has its trajectory and it has its o

of a non crude probe to mars and now the beginnings of its 1st fully operational space station adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. well the out of control chinese rocket booster highlights a growing space junk problem according to the european space agency more than half of the 11370 satellites put into the earth's orbit a still circulating about 4000 of them are out of use that's more than 9000 tons of space junk about 23000 objects of debt free ranging in size from a smartphone to the space station a being tracked but the real figure could actually be 3 quarters of a 1000000 floating objects mostly less than a centimeter in size but nevertheless could still be damaging. a recap of the top stories this hour in the occupied east jerusalem has erupted in a 2nd night of violence with police again turning on palestinians angered by forced evictions the palestinian red crescent says at least 64 people have been injured israeli police and security forces have been out in the city a day after they stormed the some mosque more than $200.00 people were injured in friday's violence that included the

of a long crude probe to mars and now the beginnings of its 1st fully operational space station adrian brown al jazeera from call. a quick look at main stories now at least 40 people have been killed in an attack on a girls' school in afghanistan many of the dead were children between the ages of 11 and 15 years old more than 50 people have been injured the blast targeted they said a school in the predominantly shia. neighborhood of west kabul controversy has more now from kabul.

one of more than 50 countries says china's government who've received their vaccines for free adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. the president of the democratic republic of congo is to clear what he's calling a state of siege in 2 provinces in order to control escalating violence between armed groups in the mineral rich east that allows the military to temporarily take control to maintain order in north kivu and it turi more than 300 people have been killed and more than a 1000000 of the hoff displaced since january. was severely is an analyst at the center for research on the congo can he doubts this latest military action will make any difference. as just clearly pointed out the military is going to take control of the region this is a pretty ludes to what i believe would be military operations in the area and it's worrisome because we have had military operations in the r.c. i mean this is not the 1st time we've had that for the past 2 decades me as a chorus of that in the conflict and they have been the largest u.n. prosy peacekeeping forces in the world in of the r.c. they have a $120

of a non crude probe to mars and now the beginnings of its 1st fully operational space station adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. well the out of control chinese rocket booster highlights a growing space junk problem according to the european space agency more than half of the 11370 satellites put into the earth's orbit is still circulating about 4000 of them are out of use that's more than 9000 tons of space junk about 23000 objects of deborah ranging in size from a small phone to the space station of being tracked but the real figure could be 3 quarters of a 1000000 floating objects mostly less than a centimeter in size but nevertheless potentially damaging. moving on to another story taught us fuel pipeline operates a colonialist saying that it's shut down its entire network after a cyber attack the company's network transports 2 and a half 1000000 barrels of fuel a day through almost 1000 kilometers of pipes across the united states colonial says it took it systems offline to contain what it called a threat the company hasn't said when operations will resume but they have launched an in

of a long crude probe to mars and now the beginnings of its 1st fully operational space station adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. and mexico marijuana legalization has opened the door as for what could be the world's largest market one community is placing its bets on bats as it take it out of poverty critics say the reform favors small to national corporations and not small time farmers on a regular reports from mexico city. why is a small village in central mexico it's a poor community lacking running water and electricity. villagers have relied on the sale of traditional medicines and more recently honey for their survival but amid drown in environmental degradation neither industry is viable anymore which is why they are looking to grow marijuana now legal under federal law as well up on. its medicine will plan the treats many things so why not we would accept working with associations to use our fertile lands that are free of agro chemicals for cultivation of kind of banal which is medicine. many of you marijuana legalization as a potential boom for mexico's struggling economy a green

of a long crude probe to mars and now the beginnings of its 1st fully operational space station adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. dan polanco is a professor of astrophysics at the university of warrick and he says that scientists really can't say where this will land but it's extremely unlikely to injure anyone there are predictions right now where it's going to. the areas or so large that it really could almost anywhere or truck. so the contradictions are somewhere in there using probably a 1000 miles away from new zealand but really that's just an approximate location and it could be anywhere from well from the trade to the water to china itself really don't know because it all depends on the state the atmosphere at that time and and the orientation of the rocket when it hits you atmosphere and things like that so normally when you launch into low earth orbit he use of a booster that doesn't actually attain sufficient the last thing to go into orbit itself so you would launch it in a safe mode east coast of the u.s. and the rocket would just fall into the atlantic in this case it was laun

of a long crude probe to mars and now the beginnings of its 1st fully operational space station adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. and this is our to 0 these at the top stories there's been more violence in occupied east jerusalem with israeli forces cracking down on palestinian protesters for a 2nd day the palestinian red crescent says at least 90 people were injured when armed police tried to clear muslims gathering on the holderness night of ramadan had a faucet has more from occupied east jerusalem the israeli security forces have pretty much cleared a great deal of the square here close to damascus gate they are filtering people who are allowing access into the old city itself but this follows several hours of pretty continuous. patterns of skirmishes where there would be brief respite ites before again they would either be bottles thrown plastic bottles thrown by palestinian protesters or seemingly without immediate provocation israeli security forces would move in dozens of people mostly schoolgirls have been killed in multiple blasts outside the school in the afghan capital kabul pre

of a long crude probe to mars and now the beginnings of its 1st fully operational space station adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong.

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