five times and carried out equipment upgrades.e late 1990's, it began transporting the building blocks for the international space station. it traveled to the iss more than 40 times. the shuttle was the lifeline between the spacstation and earth. by 2003, the iss was halfway done. then nasa was struck by another tragedy. colombia broke up on i retu to earth, killing all seven people on board. nasa decided to stop the program shuttle when the iss was completed. that created a logistical problem. the shuttle is the only craft capable of carrying large equipment to the iss. the europeans think they have the solution with their new atv supply vessel. it still needs a heat shield to survive the journey back to earth. the technology has been developed and tested. >> we should not have to test much longer. if we get the go ahead, we could start tomorrow. the capsule could be ready to go in four years. >> that would be the big first step toward another dream, taking people into space with the european rocket and bringing them home safely

and we were carrying, i don't know, on that trip we were maybe carrying 80 or 90 pounds of water and moving it out to the sand and then we'd drop a cache and then go back and get more water and drop a cache. we were trying to get to the sea of cortez, that was one of the things on our mind, but this landscape, it starts turning your mind inward or outward or it gets hard to tell which way it turns it because it's a psychological place. there's no end to your horizons. the sky is infinite, the sand is infinite. it's hard to keep your focus because you are constantly using peripheral vision looking all around you. it doesn't matter which way you walk after a while, you are just wandering. and so on the first trip out there, we didn't get to the sea because we just ended up wandering. it happens out there. you have a plan but the landscape becomes beautiful in a way that you weren't expecting and you start disappearing into it. you start forgetting why you are going in one direction. you start thinking, no, i just want to see that shadow over there and spend time there and then i want t

out there where at times you are carrying 100 pounds of water, where you are carrying water in your hands, you are carrying water on your back, everything is about waterity there. you bury your water, you pick up your water, you strap it to your body. i remember on one of the trips carrying all this weight on my back and not sure why i had all this weight on my back. it was making me so clumsy, it was dragging me around and i started trying to unclip it and unbuckle all this stuff that i was carrying out on the dunes so i could get rid of it finally until i realized, wow, you have really put a lot of buckles on this. you didn't want this stuff off you. it's water. don't drop your water. keep carrying it. drink it. this landscape is all about water. and on the last trip you can see the sea of cortez out there on the horizon. we walked to the edge of the dunes and even out there, just past the edge of the dunes, you would find places where there's -- there were piles of pottery, pottery scattered in the sand, and then the desert pan extended out and then you reach the sea of cortez that lie

what is it about morality and ethics that needs to be carried out in a proper way. the other is an issue about morality and competition. they try to look good. they have said consistently that there should be referred to the competition commissioner. i hope you will think again. this is referred to the competition that all others are dealt with. these and not the absence of a reporter. they see a major news organizations. you take responsibility. nobody is denying this. it is happening on the watch. will the prime minister join me? there is a technology. you have to look at the technicalities. this is necessary appear everybody will ask themselves this. everyone is subject. all of them are under way. they must follow the other one. if they find people of wrongdoing, they should have no problem doing this. he says they should stand down. i am clear. he should take responsibility in stand down. these events show a systematic set of abuses. it is in the interests of our democracy. it is getting worse by the day payton and not shun the leadership necessary. is not shown

but how and when the tests will be carried out in japan are yet to be decided.urrently in east japan, power restrictions are being imposed on major electricity users such as factories to cut 50% of their power use compared to their peak last year. this is raising concerns about its negative impact on the japanese economy. even the nuclear reactors that are now in operation are scheduled to stop one after another by spring next year for regular inspections. the government should clearly explain how it will secure safety of nuclear power plants and at the same time safely supply power. >> and that was nhk world's shinya kutsukake. >>> "newsline" is launching a new segment this friday, and you won't want to miss it. "the road ahead" will examine the impact of the march 11th earthquake and tsunami and japan's efforts to rebuild. that's "the road ahead" every friday night at 8:00 and 11:00 japan time. >>> ai uchida joins us now the latest in business news. headlines out of europe today? >> that's right, today all week and today is no exception. let's start off with a

visitors to parks can carry guns.y are visiting it's a sharp change to previous laws that restrict guns in the national parks requiring them to be locked or stored. like the previous caller is concerned about drug dealers and various activities going on in the park and feel like their safety is threatened and it's in accordance with local and state law, they can carry a gun into the park. guest: that's exactly right. for many decades, guns were illegal in our parks. congress changed that through a rider on the telecommunications bill, which was signed by the president allowed the carrying of both concealed and unconcealed firearms in our parks. let me say we have worked cooperatively with the firearms' community and the advocates and have not had significant incidents. they cannot carry their guns into the federal buildings where we have employees. host: back to the phones, meril, wisconsin. caller: good morning. for the past several years, my wife and i bought an r.v. and go to wisconsin, south dakota and take advant

with the plumbing norway's capital and the shooting rampage the followed admits his guilt he says he carried out the country's first ever terrorist attack. global economic recovery is at risk as debt crisis talks in the us collapse within the government so after the e.u. comes up with a new lifeline to pull the euro back from the brake. pads and battle the media mogul rupert murdoch braces themselves for a legal battle in the u.s. questions are asked over the death of journalist sean hoare is credited with the reeling of. the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly here on artsy welcome to it the man charged with friday's shooting spree at a norwegian at a youth camp and bombing in the capital has admitted responsibility thirty two year old anders a battering a graphic says that he carried out the twin attack which claimed over ninety lives and it's so single handedly the incident has been called the country's worst atrocities since world war two the suspect was arrested at the scene of the massacre on the island. he reportedly traveled there in police uniform and as

we are doing that with the new offense that carries a mandatory sentence. that is a signal to anyone who is contemplating carrying a five but i think we should be frank with ourselves in this house and in the country that purely looking at this from a criminal justice situation isn't the answer. we got to ask ourselves why so many young children are joining gangs. why aren't families and communities doingore to keep them close and prevent the carrying of knives and that is something that runs right across government and indeed across our society as well. >> mr. ben bradshaw. >> it is simply not the cases at him prime minister claimed earlier that the

that rescue operations are being carried out. divers started at first light while police are operating twenty four hours a day there is as yet no information about those who have drowned risk your directions are still ongoing some people might have been able to swim to the islands there are many islands about a kilometer away from where the ship sank will continue their search until every. one is found. so while that rescue effort continues president dmitri medvedev has ordered for a full investigation into what happened and the minister of emergencies minister here in russia has demanded there's a full report on exactly what went on and why the ship was able to get to the falls such a tragic course of events that report be on his desk as soon as possible. washing up the main goal is to survey the shores divide them into sectors with people responsible for each area all the island should be checked for survivors and i want to see a final report only once we know for certain there's no one there. well one of the main reasons that

the spacecraft will carry a certain amount of people. it is designed to be much safer during ascent and entry ban the shuttle. we want to work on the space launch system. these systems will open up the entire solar system to us. i have established program officers. in houston and the hunts bill, alabama respectively. we will work on upgrading the launch facilities to accommodate more types of users. we had a tremendous interest in leasing these assets. we are close to making announcements about it soon. it will help these companies keep their costs down and create jobs for the space industry for tomorrow. one of the first customers will be one with a tourist take a rocket. we issued a call for proposals for mission concepts last week to study a solar electric propulsion system. it is one of the technologies we need to advance as we seek to reach those further destinations. consider how the architectural options will change as we develop space technology, for which there is wide consensus. inflatable habitats. high bandwidth communication

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libyan officials say they've intercepted due to ships carrying a belgian made weapons for the rebels in violation of. arms trafficking to the water country. those are the headlines here nazi next though is the man in charge of developing human rights in russia telling us about moving towards a more civil society. he won't. review the latest in science stems from cultures from around the russian. we've dumped the future coverage. with. hello yet welcome truth squad like the interview show on our t.v. on i would love and today my guest is me so you did what. president medvedev is holding another meeting with human rights activists this time it's taking place in this caucus this region of russia it's aimed at creating close that contact between a local cuban rights activists and experts some politicians but what else is on the agenda other than meets you'll hear about it from the head of the presidential palace so oddly human rights to the. movie council meeting out of moscow allows those involved to take a closer look at local problems because it also complains of misunderstandings bec

so in some instances he is necessary to carry out a public examination of such cases. however we should take into account two points. first this is a non government initiative and second it is purely legal in other words we're not asking our experts if there is a political aspect to this case because otherwise these questions should be addressed to political analysts not lawyers but that was the background and they were frankly i don't know how to conduct a political examination. i can't believe i can't comprehend this. i do know how to carry out a legal examination as a legal expert myself so why do we think it is necessary. but first of all it was our initiative we told the president that we would like to carry out such a nongovernmental legal examination that this was during our meeting in your concern berg on the february first. and then the president told us that since he was not an expert in criminal law because he's an expert in civil law and family law. he said he was not competent enough to best judgment on this situation. he's just not a specialist in this pa

both wanting investigations to be carried out to find out what exactly. tragedy. one of the suggestions that's been floated has to do with the number of people who were actually on that ship now the ship in question was licensed to carry one hundred twenty people we are hearing that could be as many as two hundred people on board now we have heard that. a vast majority of those on board were children the company the. organizing that was operating this pleasure cruise will be coming under extreme street and you know that's not the only course of events that could have caused this tragedy of course they are looking into. may have been some form of. damage to the ship some form of technical failure that led to this tragedy. thank you for that. and in fact we can give you some more information about the ship itself the about gerunds it was called the double decker pleasure boat from which fifty five ship was used for day trips along. with tourists in summer months attention has been aid to the vessel and speculation it could have played a role in the tragedy had not b

twenty people instead of two hundred it was made to carry one hundred forty people twenty means it's nearly empty two hundred means it's absolutely bulging and so that if it had been honest and said they had two hundred people on board it's very likely they wouldn't have been allowed to leave port. o'connor what about what about the ongoing search for the bodies of those who are still missing there now. divers are still working in teams in our in our out in a on a platform out in the river over the sunken bowl garra it's now estimated there are around a dozen bodies left to be recovered divers have explored most of the ship now there might be some places left where bodies could be but it is possible that some of those bodies may know may not be in the ship they may be in the water around the ship and in a worst case scenario currents may have carried some of the bodies up to two hundred kilometers downstream so they may have to increase their search area for some of those bodies but there's also been revelations added to the to the case of the of the ball garia and it's particularly

and maybe an official say to arms embargo has been breached again as both strong guitar carrying weapons for the rebels are reportedly intercepted so far france is the only nation to admit supplying arms to take it off the forces. that's the man in charge of developing human rights in russia tells r.t. about moving towards a more civil society. for the. we've got it's. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. and. hello yes the ultimate truth squad like the interview show on our team on the innoventions my guest is. president medvedev is holding another meeting with human rights act this time it's taking place in the caucasus region of russia it's aimed at creating closer tongue sex between fellow for human rights activists and at first so selfish but what else is on the agenda how the needs will hear about it from the head of the presidential council oddly human rights we fail to. move the council meeting out of moscow allows those involved to take a closer look at local programs because it also complains of misunderstandings because as he says locals of

a result of the crash the rescue operation continues at the site officials say each carriage could carry up to one hundred people. a joint raid by nato and afghan forces has left sixteen minutes and dead in the south of the country the operation comes in response to renew the taliban activity as a foreigner combat troops begin to withdraw from afghanistan nato military commander in the country general john allen warns of quote tough times ahead for the. president's brother who run the south of the country which we should be gunned down by an insurgent one of whom had called as top advisors was also being assassinated activist brian becker thinks the u.s. led coalition is losing its grip on afghanistan. they can't win by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the taliban but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the us and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cannot prevail the

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concrete reduces the size of the river that you need to carry the water because it speeds up the flow of water. if you'd like to remove all the concrete and to have natural system to carry the water to protect you from flooding, you need to have almost one mile on each side of the river set aside for transport of rain. so in order for the city to have use of those lands around the river, concrete made it possible to have minimum land so the water can be carried to the ocean in the fastest possible way. but, unfortunately, because of population growth and poor housekeeping, people are putting a lot of pollutants on the street and the streets are the openings to our stormwater sewer system. in an average year, 4,000 to 5,000 tons of trash ends up in long beach. man: we've created a system to deal with flooding but inadvertently created a pathway for pollution to get into our waterways. narrator: los angeles county is beginning to develop ways to reduce the infrastructure's impact upon the environment. on the front lines of protecting the beaches, are the crews that clean out the stormwa

risky operations are being carried out sure divers started at first light while police are operating twenty four hours of training there is as yet no information about those who have drowned risky operation there are still ongoing some people might have been able to swim to the islands there are many islands across a kilometer away from where the ship sank will continue their search until everyone is found. as far as response from russia's political elite president dmitry medvedev has said said said that he wants a full investigation into why this was able to happen also the emmet minister for emergencies here in russia has said that he needs to see a report on his desk very soon telling him why this was allowed to happen. the main goal is to survey the shores divide them into sections from people responsible for each other all the island should be checked for survivors and i want to see a final report only once we know for certain there's no one there. or one of the reasons this tragedy was able to catch so many people out was due to just how quick the boat sank now we're here aroun

now sequel in some other stories from around the world and nato has carried. out at least seven new airstrikes on the libyan capital hitting colonel gadhafi said residential compound state television report of the nato strikes had hit civilian and military sites on friday a large crowd rallied in the capital in a show of support for the colonel whose exact whereabouts are still unknown levy is ongoing revolution started in february with coalition launching airstrikes in march . two high speed trains have crashed into each other in eastern china killing at least thirty two people entered moving more than one hundred injured reports say one of the bullet train stopped after he was hit by lightning before being hit by another train from behind two train coach just fell off a bridge as a result of the crash rescue operation continues at this time officials say each carriage can carry up to eight hundred people. hundreds of protesters from across spain have gathered in madrid angry over the government's handling of the country's economic crisis activists have spent

to look for and he's explained how he was going to carry out this act so you can maybe understand why this anger among community here that he wasn't before he was allowed to carry out his crimes he expressed violent anti muslim views he was briefly a member of the progress party here in norway which is anti immigrant and the ruling labor party is who we attacked first through a blast in the city center the government headquarters were hit by a car bomb that apparently he went to an oil and just outside where he attacked a group of children he was dressed in a police uniform he had a gun and he was shouting i'll kill everyone everyone must die we have pictures of children swimming for survival hiding in the rocks and dramatic pictures of a ten year old boy being saved so the tragedy of a nation really hear more now in this report brave christine who was hit by the local bomb explosion in days and surrounded by broken globes she stayed in the blows to help the wounded the waitress just standing chaffing and then suddenly you could just fade i was like i come like a fish just waiting for

carrying. what. i see. now about. what they want. about. the vessel sank within three minutes it flipped to the right swerved and went down we were literally thrown out that's how we survived the whole family was on that ship we lost everybody my wife and grandchildren two vessels have passed by and didn't even care to stop and reach out a helping hand we spent around two hours in the water before we were rescued by swim around searching for any survivors and couldn't find anybody there were a lot of children on this ship they were all in the games room it was impossible for them to get out of there my grandson would be five years old tomorrow we went on this trip to celebrate his birthday. she was sick of it didn't work it's just that people basically buried alive as if in the middle sickle forgets we managed to get through the windows as there was my ten year old daughter i couldn't risk it she swallowed too much water when it was pulled aerialist my child was absent we don't know where to look for survivors there were a lot of children o

yeah just carried away. guess. the brown bat king of the tiger night i got always steers clear of the what is known as the three brothers tourists never pitch camping climbers never attempt to ascend the rocks those traveling on their own don't spend the night here the three brothers the three austere rock standing in the midst of an age old forest mistry and rumors surround them it is a mecca for mystics and u.f.o. enthusiasts people staying here for a long time suffer from strange hallucinations legend has it that the rocks were named after three giants who stole precious stones from their father's money box after confessing their guilt they turned into rocks to bear the eternal burden of repentance even geologists say the origin and composition of the rock significantly differ from the other areas of the taiga ny ridge at the bottom of the rock didn't result from magma gushing from the earth each was mahmoud frozen deep underground when the rock and merged on the surface as a result of erosion it developed a ver

now the activists on the boat said they were not carrying any humanitarian aid and the rain was simply to draw attention to their mission is not just admitting though their aim was to provoke israel. no there were three there are two the people of palestine million gaza which is under siege for the year for the fourth year since the international form an international community failed till this minute to pressure israel to end the illegal sea to respect international law this peaceful activists trying to come in order to show the that one point six million palestinians are living in serious conditions they are carrying some hope they are going to trying to break the isolation was by israel in gaza strip this is not the provocation to provoke a shoot so what happened today and what israel is doing regarding the grave violation committed on the international humanitarian who humanitarian law our people in gaza this peaceful activists were carrying with them some messages which is very important some the message to the people of gaza that there is other people who are beside the injustice

from the horrific events captures the moments a man in the water pleads for his life as the gunmen carries on with his brutal execution the rampage came just hours after the oslo bombing that killed at least seven ridiculous or lee has contacts with far right wing groups and had previously posted extreme anti islam statements on his blog. well we can now cross live tell a correspondent daniel bushell who isn't norway for eyes and bring us the latest. daniel hello there so what new details have emerged after anders behring breivik admitted his guilt. as you say more details are emerging about the killer this is the suspected killer that there were two guns registered to his name and he was a weightlifting and he's probably been plotting this for up to nine years there's emerged details of a bizarre fifteen hundred page. story which is told about it including how to make . quoted once you decide to strike it is best to kill too many of the not enough or you risk reducing the desired ideological impact of the strike there's also a video which has appeared in which he is dressed in army unifor

it's been carried out in the conditions of a tough economic crisis and conditions when the government had to sacrifice a lot and introduce huge reduction of costs in the social sphere think it's unfair that when there is a program of material aid reduction the state participates in a conflict which will be damaging to the country's economy. yet the u.s. defense secretary has still couldn't spain among others to play a more active role in the nato mission and despite the collapse of the housing market and with unemployment at critical level spain has in death and the extended its mandate for involvement in libya i don't think it's a human need to. resort to go to media now because we didn't care about human rights a year ago when we were selling. equipment libyan people have right here and go and we didn't hear about welcomed in spain in recent years gadhafi was even awarded the keys to the city on an official visit to madrid the ten there is that so many western countries until recently he could to get south bay and tolerated his regime. so the operation against libya is an action per

horrific events and act of desperation as a man of the water pleads for his life while the gunmen carries on with this brutal executions of thirty two year old a region that is being held in connection with both the bombing and the shooting and there are reports he's linked to a far right movements a second round was seized by special forces in the area where victims' relatives have gathered but it's not clear if he's an accomplice in the double atrocity a large he's done a bushel is following developments for us. the number of casualties estimated has skyrocketed witticism in intially said it was around ten since then the numbers have gone up dramatically and dressed in police uniform apparently and the labor party youth rally and began shooting indiscriminately dozens have been killed and there have been horrific stories of people swimming for their lives hiding in the bush is. people were wondering what was happening was it some bellew's exploding or is somebody playing a joke and then everyone started to understand that people actually have been shot because i was dressed as a policem

usual cargo means atlantis will carry a smaller crew. so each will be responsible for more duties on this mission. atlantis is scheduled to takeoff on friday morning 8:26 our time. >>> well, the search continues for several missing fishermen in the gulf of california. why the rescue mission could change this morning. >>> and grass fires in bay point kept firefighters busy through the night. the tense moments for people living in that area. >>> we're live in contra costa county where firefighters battled a string of wild fires last night. could it be related to 4th of july celebrations in find out next. >>> illegal fireworks light up the skies of the bay area. the reason money problems may have led to more exhibitions this year. >>> plus seven california fishermen still missing off the coast of mexico. the emotional reaction from their families here in the bay area. it's all ahead on ktvu morning news. >>> good morning to you. welcome to tuesday.

thanks carrie this is business r.t. hello and welcome to the program russia has increased its annual crude oil production forecast to five hundred nine million tons however the quantity of russian oil products is still very low and it's becoming more and more urgent for russia to modernize its refinery capacity and prime minister putin is going to make sure it will happen as all says does he on a political reports. prime minister was obviously unsatisfied that rush of the world's biggest oil producer has such a weak refighting industry he says it's still as it was fifty years ago small so high quality fuel in russia grows at double digit rates annually however refining has been called either in volumes or in quality of the guys who say legislation russian made it more profitable for world producers to explore all over quality all products but now kusa says the measures through jurors the trend will be taken. we need to monitor the implementation of the modernization plans by the oil companies and if we don't meet their

so what task is the final shuttle going to carry out? nhk has the details from the kennedy space center. >> reporter: over the past 30 years, the space shuttle has delivered vast volumes of supplies and large equipment to the international space station. "atlantis" this time is carrying a device that will be used in an experiment. it will test refueling satellites to prolong their lives. this will be the last time that a device this large will be delivered into space until a new spacecraft becomes available to replace the shuttles. >> this is critical technology that needs to be demonstrated now. we can't wait another five years to demonstrate this technology. it's critical to be on this last shuttle flight. >> reporter: under normal conditions, this mission would not have been allowed under nasa rules. after the space shuttle "columbia" broke up in midair as it was returning to earth in 2003, the space agency introduced a new rule. it required that a reserve spacecraft always be on standby to be used to rescue the crew of the iss in the

while it runs on nuclear pow ter doesn't carry nuclear weapons. do reminding us of our primary reason for being here. 25 years ago it was common for u.s. and soviet subs to be playing cat and mouse underneath the ice. with the break-up of the soviet union that activity ends. now renewed interest in the arctic has brought new players with rumors of chinese subs operating in the region as well as the old guard u.s. and russia. as all the nations gear up, the "uss connecticut" is prepared for war beneath the sea. >> man battle stations. man battle stations. man battle stations. >> reporter: this was just a drill but the captain reminded the crew of the larger purpose. >> it's always good to do this even up here while we conduct the exercises under the ice, because this is our main mission, taking this ship into harm's way and protecting our country. so great job getting on station. boo-yah. after traveling thousands of miles on planes, snowmobiles, helicopters, even submarines, we had come to a region influx. what seemed like a cold waste land masked

be popular this time of year especially tourist plates and passenger base such as the one that is carrying people this one is traveling between the town at both ends it is that it was a two day trip there and when it went down it was only a couple of kilometers difference sure so there is some speculation that perhaps some of these people the sponsor nearby island perhaps managed to get themselves to show that this is the other night and of course the rescue is just really working out so late in the scene it's possible and ongoing speculation as to exactly what went wrong here sara we have been hearing on some of the russian news wires already there are a couple of people reported to have swam to shore that's quite a swim three kilometers out if those reports are true as you mentioned this area those boats popular with tourists and this is a part of the new those waters well isn't it. it certainly is done the journey many times but it's thirty five years old and some commentators have been speculating that perhaps the age and some problems with the design could have contributed to the base

so the first thing i grabbed to take out i was like, i will just carry this bag on board. so so i went to put it in the machine and then i remembered when the psa guy was looking at it and i bought a water gun with a plastic pea -- penis on the end, can i say that? it looked like a gun, and that's why they were checking it. and they had to ask me what this was. i was like, i'm going to a bachelorette party. but i put it in the bag that i checked. >> you are the only one -- you are one of the only americansthat broke the vibrator rule and the gun rule at the same time. that's amazing. >> it shows how terrorists can get on board and say, i am going to a bachelorette party. it is shaped like a gun. >> what did you fill it with some. >> water. and i think we ended up using it. >> like squirting each other? that was a fun party. fun party. hot chicks with water guns? >> are you now in a fantasy world. >> she got me. >> could terrorists be making devices that look like sex toys? >> they have already been there already. you look at the numbers, greg, and five million women have v