and that saturn had rings not ears as galileo had theorized then italian scientists don't do many cassini found four of saturn's moons and the separation within saturn's rings now known as the cassini division flash forward a few centuries to when nasa and the european space agency and the italian space agency came to gather for a mission that by that time was already decades in the making the cassini quickens mission was part of nasa was flab flagship program to explore a very own solar system constructed at the jet propulsion lab in california it successfully launched on october fifteenth nineteen ninety seven aboard a titan for the centaur launch vehicle from cape canaveral it consisted of the cassini orbiter and the probe on her six hundred seventeen the day in space cassini flew by the planet venus coming out one point within three hundred seventy miles of the planet of love she made two more flybys of venus and one each of jupiter beaming back images and scans that scientists are still researching in two thousand cassini became only the seventh known craft to make its way through th

that cassini helped us find.he hazy moon titan almost like an alternate universe version of earth. that has an atmosphere, thunderstorms and lakes and rivers. so cold, all of the liquids are hydrocarbons, not water. it's still stuffed with organic materials that we think could be the building blocks for some type of like. -- of life. jane: that is why cass -- why cassini has pledged to her death to avoid contaminating these environments. is this something scientists have recently become concerned about? >> nasa especially has been concerned about planetary protection since the get-go. even the apollo mission when they came back had to be quarantined. because they were worried about them bringing materials back to earth. they could be harmful. since that time, we worried about the possibility for us contaminating the solar system with microbes if we were let cassini go and continue to float around the system was it was out of juice. there is a chance that we could contaminate any of those moons. and we would be ri

cassini flew close to titan — an encounter designed to bend its trajectoryjust enough to send it on as friday. dr caitriona jackman is from the school of physics & astronomy at the university of southampton. todayis today is a very special time in the final sequence of the mission because it's the final flyby over and called titan so it's going to use the gravity of this moon to give a small tweak to the spacecraft trajectory and that will mean that from today onwards cassini is only one way past two sat on and directly into saturn's atmosphere where it will ultimately end up. many people watching this will think why does it have to do this, make the suicidal move and eventually end up destroying itself in the atmosphere, why can it notjust stay there or pertain for ever? a lot of us wish it could but it is almost out of fuel and it's important we make sure we dispose of the safe craft in a safe tha n we dispose of the safe craft in a safe than planned way. a couple of reasons for that and the main reason is planetary protection. sad turn has some very special moons, and the potential

there we re were expecting from cassini?ents when the spacecraft is essentially stopped talking to the ground. the instruments were shutdowns of the mission controllers could find out what was going on. these kind of things always happen. the cassini project has been spectacular. we only had one of those. for me, one of the things that we were essentially going to be burning up in the atmosphere in saturn. with a spacecraft behaving spectacularly. everything is nominal. this is the best way to go. if you are going to end the spacecraft mission, which we need to, because we are running on fumes, we don't have any fuel. let's do it in as fumes, we don't have any fuel. let's do itin asa fumes, we don't have any fuel. let's do it in as a spectacular way as we can come and take data as we dive in. we will have coverage of cassini's last moments on bbc news. let's turn to iraq. at least 50 people killed in two tax in the south of the country. more than 80 people were injured. iraqi officials fear the death toll could increase. the

that is where we end our transmission, but we will be back, unlike cassini. i'm @tom donkin bbc. from me and all of the team, goodbye. hello there. our weather has taken on a decidedly cool and, dare i say it, quite autumnal feel. as we head on through friday, it will remain cool, after quite a chilly start, and we will see a mixture of sunshine and showers. showers from the word go across northern england, into wales and the south—west. these gradually drifting further south and east, and as the showers arrive in east anglia and south—east england, they will turn very heavy indeed, with some hail and some thunder. all the while, showers keep going across northern ireland and a good part of scotland. so let's take a closer look, then, at a:00pm in the afternoon. a mixture of sunny spells and hefty showers to the south—west of england. 15 degrees there in plymouth. could get to 16 in southampton, in the dry spells. but bear in mind, as the showers drift through, the temperatures will drop away by a good few degrees. maybe just 12 or 13 degrees in some of the s

many of them had worked with the cassini spacecraft for 30 yea rs with the cassini spacecraft for 30as cassini approached saturday. taking detailed pictures of the giant planet's features, and mysterious hexagon on the top and swirls in its atmosphere. and here, stunning details of its rings. the spacecraft is1 billion miles from earth, look closely and you can see it shining like a starjust below the rings. closely and you can see it shining like a starjust below the ringsm is very sad to see it go but on the other hand, the data it has god has really changed the way we think about our place in the universe and thatis about our place in the universe and that is what we set out to do and that is what we set out to do and that has been so successful. sather and has 62 moons, all varied in size and has 62 moons, all varied in size and shape. 0ne and has 62 moons, all varied in size and shape. one of them is nicknamed the death star. the largest moon is shrouded by a cloud, but a probe dropped into its atmosphere revealed a world that is both alien and yet strangely similar to earth. ag

and that led us inevitably to the plan of taking cassini and plunging it into saturday. cassini's final mission was twenty two dives between saturn's rings and surface then it flew into the planet's burning up misfit. burnet smith al-jazeera. let's get more on this now with astrophysicist francisco diego and london he's a senior fellow at university college west diego always good to have you with us on al-jazeera let's start with the people crying in the control room just why was this you know such a signature significant moment for the team. the cassini mission has been one of the most successful and one of the most challenging missions in this in the solar system ever. fully thirty years in the making and all these people spend most of their scientific lives and technical lives on this mission so to see a photo from the launch of the conception of this of the of the of the of the space probably itself the collaboration with the european and nasa to put these two spacecraft together the cassini and the huygens and then to launch them on to follow this very. imaginative

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well, i have worked a cassini for 30 years, and thatis worked a cassini for 30 years, and that is a biging a tremendous dent of sadness. sadness at the end of the mission, the breakup of the cassini family, and at the same time, a tremendous source of pride. the spacecraft leaves a remarkable legacy. from spotting saturn's colossal storms and finding structures as high as mountains of hidden within its rings, the revealing the planet's many moons, from titan with its mainframe ice and seas, to another with an ocean hidden beneath its icy crust, sending plumes into space. but the discoveries will keep coming. this is the control room, where the very final moments of cassini will be tracked. and every last drop of science is being squeezed out of this mission. as the spacecraft enters saturn's atmosphere, the data will be streamed back here, right up until the very instant it is destroyed. this will actually be the grand truth, as it were. we are actually being able to sample the atmosphere as the spacecraft goes in. it doesn't have a lot of time to do it, but it is going to be one of the

well, i've worked a cassini for 30 years, and that's a big chunk of my career.e end of the mission, the breakup of the cassini family, and at the same time, a tremendous source of pride. the spacecraft leaves a remarkable legacy. from spotting saturn's colossal storms and finding structures as high as mountains hidden within its rings, to revealing the planet's many moons, from titan, with its methane ice and seas, to enceladus, with an ocean hidden beneath its icy crust, sending plumes into space. but the discoveries will keep coming. this is the control room, where the very final moments of cassini will be tracked, and every last drop of science is being squeezed out of this mission. as the spacecraft enters saturn's atmosphere, the data will be streamed back here, right up until the very instant it is destroyed. this will actually be the grand truth, as it were. we're actually being able to sample the atmosphere as the spacecraft goes in. it doesn't have a lot of time to do it, but it's going to be one of the most exciting points of the mission, right at the

my career has been based on cassini, so it's really hard to see that go. have been explored for so long. and the cassini spacecraft, which is almost as big as a bus, has achieved something never attempted before. it has given us unprecedented views, and these have led to dozens of discoveries. the mission is described as one of the most remarkable journeys of exploration, while it has been orbiting saturn for a staggering 13 years. now, it is one of saturn's moons, called enceladus, that has produced the most startling revelation. plumes of vapour were spotted blasting out of it. now, this turned out to be water. so let's take a closer look inside where we now know that, under a covering of ice, there is an ocean. and scientists have come to an amazing conclusion — that in here there is every ingredient needed for life. this opens up a whole new realm of possibilities in the search for life beyond earth. and the discovery of conditions on moons like enceladus is a real breakthrough for scientists like linda spilker, who started her career at nasa three dec

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and liftoff of the cassini.g the saturn's system. from the atmosphere to the strange behaviour of its rings. now it is out of fuel. it is programmed to plunge into the planet, burning up as it dives... joining us now is presenter of the sky at night, maggie aderin—poccock — who's voice you just heard there. and the scientist leigh fletcher, who worked on the cassini mission. good morning. a pretty dramatic end. take us back a little bit. let's talk about the beginning. ground—breaking. talk about the beginning. ground-breaking. absolutely. this spacecraft has been in space for nearly 20 years. it has been humankind's first detailed exploration of the saturn system. we are lucky to be part of the generation that has been the first to witness some of these incredible places. we are looking at pictures now. the technology involved with cassini is pretty basic compared to what we have now. it's quite old. it's been in space for 20 years. and there was at least ten years of development before that. yet it has done a

cassini orbited saturn for thirteen years.ch, but first on bbc news it's time for click.

is the place where cassini took its final plunge. >> reporter: cassini first arrived in 2004 after ajourney. ever since we've all had a sort of ringside the solar system, the night side of saturn, those radiant rings that have so captured or imaginations, raging hurricanes and images that forced a sign timpg rethink. the moon tighten looks like mars rather than frozen ice. could something be alive down there. >> this is truly been beyond my wildest dreams. >> reporter: then just four months ago, cassini took all of us on a series of deep dives between saturn's rings. >> you feel like you're there and you could reach out and touch the rings. >> reporter: but after 20 years and 5 billion miles, cassini was out of fuel and nasa feared crashing it into a moon could contaminate any potential life forms so it put cassini into a fast dive fire ball, 75,000-miles-per-hour. >> the space craft is gone. thanks and farewell faithful >> reporter: the little space craft that could that took all of us on a journey to another world so far from our own own. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >> we a

plus, cassini's final mission. after 20 years of exploring saturn, the nasa spacecraft will crash into the planet in a death dive for data. >> the mysteries we want to solve with the grand finale mostly have to do with revealing saturn from the inside out. >> woodruff: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> the lemelson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention, in the u.s. and developing countries. on the web at lemelson.org. >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to you

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and that led us inevitably to the plan of taking cassini and plunging it into saturn. cassini's final mission was twenty two dives between saturn's rings and surface then it flew into the planet's burning up misfit. burnet smith al-jazeera. and i look at the main stories making news u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says north korea's aggressive regime threatens not only the region but the entire world is comments come after pyongyang find yet another missile over japan the second in less than a month the un security council is due to meet in the next few hours to discuss this also in jordan is that. but this is going to be a closed door meeting to talk about what other avenues the security council has to try to persuade to give up its nuclear weapons program or at the very least according to russia and china to be willing to engage in dialogue with the security council and perhaps more particularly with the u.s. and with south korea but police are treating a blast on a london underground train as in their words a terrorist incident the explosion which happened on

. >>> a nasa spacecraft left earth 20 years ago to bring us some pictures of saturn and now cassini's mission is over. jackie ward share the journey. >> reporter: kenny, its journey is over and those who witnessed the discoveries it made firsthand say they will miss it. it's the only satellite ever to orbit saturn and today, its mission ended. >> this morning, a lone explorer, a machine made by mankind, finished its mission 900 million miles away. >> reporter: confirmation of cassini's expected demise happened at 4:55 pacific time this morning. actually, as it burned like a meteor, 83 minutes earlier as it dove through saturn's atmosphere, but it took that long for the signal to arrive at earth. san jose state professor has been on the team since the beginning. >> it's been a close part to what i do on today daily basis. it's like losing a very dear friend. >> reporter: his involvement started 26 years ago as he monitored radio signals from his lab in downtown san jose. over the years, the satellite beamed back more than 450,000 images including some of saturn's many moons and a monst

the cassini probe is down to its final hours.oming up cassini's fiery end and the images it sent back to earth. we'll be right back. do your research.u shop ar. find the best fit. why not do the same for your prescription drug plan? at silverscript, we're experts in medicare part d. and 5 million people, just like you, trust us every day. with no deductible, we could help you save money... and get better coverage with access to pharmacies across the nation. so take a closer look at silverscript. we think you'll like what you see. ♪ >> back now on "eyewitness news" with a bizarre traffic stop in south carolina. after a short low speed chase, dashcam video shows officers pulling over a man driving a lawnmower. thursday out -- turns out the driver was the mayor of the town carrying a can of beer. the mayor can be heard apologizing to officers for the situation. the mayor was not arrested or chargeed. all right then. >>> nasa's 20 year mission to saturn will soon do you mean a fiery end. >> the cassini spacecraft will make a dive int

and that lotus inevitably to the plan of taking cassini and plunging it into saturn. cassini's final mission was twenty two dives between saturn's rings and surface then it flew into the planet's burning up misfit. bernard smith al-jazeera. and i again i'm going to have a problem and our harbor the headlines on al-jazeera and but as police are tweeting of laughter the london underground train as a terrorist incident the explosion happened on the district line of the city southwest during the busy morning rush hour twenty two people were injured but none of in a serious condition the u.k.'s domestic intelligence agency m i fire along with transport and metropolitan police are investigating the incident for the british prime minister tourism a has conveyed an emergency cabinet meeting she says the u.k.'s terror threat level remains at severe meaning further attacks are highly likely. clearly this was that was intended to cause significant harm twenty two people have been injured and are being treated in hospital last thoughts are with all those who've been affected by t

now that "cassini" has burned out, this is the only way you'll be able to see it-- as a model. the scientists who worked on the project say they don't see this as an end but a new beginning. >> in reality, we're just at a different phase. >> reporter: james green is the director of planetary science for nasa. the last 24 hours of the satellite's life, meant a massive, last-minute data collection. >> we're also going to be finding new discoveries that are going to come out in papers next year, two years, 10 years from now. >> reporter: a grand finale where the information gathered might just live to infinity and beyond. jamie yuccas, cbs news, pasadena. >> morgan: that's the cbs weekend news for this saturday. later on cbs, "48 hours." i'm demarco morgan in new york. thanks for watching. months since this dramatic crash in a bay area crosswalk. and as >>> new at six. it has been two months since the dramatic crash in a bay area crosswalk and as the young victim slowly recovers from life changing injuries, the city is putting safety in programs on the fast track. >>> we are live

lift off of the cassini spacecraft to saturn.phere of saturn. it is on its way there now. the signals take about an hour to reach us. the signals take just over an hour, but we will receive them this lunchtime. and what data is it sending back? so the spacecraft is running out of fuel and there was a question over what to do with it. there are couple of considerations, whether you could put it into some sort of orbit was safe and stable where it could stay there for millions of years and just leave it there. one of the risks was that it might crash into one of the moons of saturn which turns out to have been very interesting in terms of whether there might be life there. the other factor was that by putting it onto this path, you were able to get very close to saturn. you could go between the rings of saturn and the planet itself and produce unique data as you go close to the planet. but it would never have survived that if you had gone back close. we have said a number of times that it has run out of fuel. so it had 20 yea rs ha

and that led us inevitably to the plan of taking cassini and plunging it in to saturn. so after the last of twenty two fowle dives between saturn's rings and surface because seaney will fly into the planet's burning atmosphere. burn it smith al-jazeera. more on this i'm joined by dr david clements an astrophysicist from imperial college london thanks very much for coming in so it's been a really long mission isn't it what for you have been the highlights of this because you well from my point of view the highlight has been the unexpected discovery of the water gazes on the enceladus which demonstrate that there's liquid water underneath the icy surface and who knows what's in that liquid ocean and in terms of how the mission involved it did it start off with i mean it's kind of extended it was through the why it was extended and how that happened well it was extended the original mission length was about four years that's been extended and extended because the expendables the thing that limits the lifetime of the mission which predominantly is the fuel for the rocket so

cassini is no more, so what comes next?alf: i think we are going back and looking to be moons of jupiter. there are two of them. and europa, which also has oceans beneath the crust. i think that is the next up. nasa is doing the next step. after this, i am pretty sure we will go to one of these moons and land and probably get to those places where we can look into the interior. i think we are not able to drill, but there could be some kind of cracks where we can see what is coming out of the interior. sarah: the future looks bright for space exploration. thank you for being with us. and that is your dw news at this hour. 'sara harmon in berlin. you can findhe latest on o website, dw.com. gobye for now. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ host: hi everyone and welcome to our highlights show with the best picks of the week. here's a look at what's coming up. culinary champion, we'll meet the world's best female chef. beautif

these are real images taken as cassini approached saturn.features, a mysterious hexagon on the top, and swirls in its atmosphere. and here, stunning details of its rings. the spacecraft is1 billion miles from earth, but closely looking, you can see a star below its rings. it's very sad to see it go, on the other hand, the data which it's got has really changed the way we think about our place in the universe, and that is what we set out to do, and that has been so successful. saturn has 62 moons, all varied in size and shape. one of them is nicknamed the death star. the largest moon, titan, is shrouded by cloud, but a probe to t shrouded by cloud, but a probe to opt into its atmosphere revealed a world that is both alien, and yet strangely similar to earth. again, these are real pictures and what you are hearing is the sound of its atmosphere. the biggest discovery of all came from pictures of the moon insipidus, 300 miles wide. a closer look showed that jets insipidus, 300 miles wide. a closer look showed thatjets of insipidus, 300 miles wi

the cassini probe will hit the planet it's been orbiting for 1 years. >> i feel great because cassiniccomplished what it did. . >> reporter: the state professor has been on the cassini team from the beginning 26 years ago monitoring radio signals from his lab in downtown san jose. >> and liftoff. >> reporter: launched in 2003, there have been many milestones like when it first arrived at saturn. [ applause ] >> reporter: there was the landing of a probe on the surface of saturn's giant moon titan. the sound heard when crossing the magnetic field, the aurora, lightning, geysers on the moon and the list goes on. but there was one daring thing left to do. send cassini in between the planet and the rings and thread that planty needle. it worked so well they did it 22 times and got these up close never-before-seen pictures of saturn's surface. >> we were careful at the beginning because you want to make sure a $4 billion spacecraft has returned enough to justify its cost. and cassini did. >> reporter: as it makes its final approach on friday, the doctor didn't think he would get this attac

and that led us inevitably to the plan of taking cassini and plunging it into saturn. so after the last of twenty two foot between. surface to see lines of the planets burning up. burned out smith. three female former google employees have filed a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of discriminating against women in pay and promotions they say the company pays women less than men who perform similar work the class action comes as google faces a gender bias investigation by the u.s. department of labor. so that's it for the news hour but we will keep our eyes and ears to the situation that is happening and london where it appears that a train has been evacuated and some sort of device exploded but to keep it here on al-jazeera much more on the other side of the break. i just want to make sure all of our audience is on the same page whether on line and what pollutes the u.s. citizens here and what puts people of iraq both one and the same or if you join us on say ours never put a file been looked at differently because i'm doubtful that all the people this is a dialogue twe

my career has been based on cassini so it is ready ha rd to been based on cassini so it is ready harddistant world to have been explored for so long, and the cassini spacecraft, which is almost as big of a bus, has achieved something never attempted before. it has given us unprecedented views. these have led to dozens of discoveries. the mission is described as one of the most remarkable journeys of exploration. it has been orbiting saturn for a staggering 13 years. it is one of saddam's moons which have provided the most startling revelation. plumes of vapour were spotted coming from it. this turned out to be water. let's take a closer look inside. we now know under a covering of ice there is a notion. scientists have come to an amazing conclusion that in here there is every ingredient needed for life. this opens up a whole new realm of possibilities in the search for life beyond earth. and the discovery of conditions on moons like this is a real breakthrough for scientists like linda spilker who started her career at nasa three decades ago when the mission began. we wanted to know w

my career has been based on cassini, so it's really hard to see that go.been explored for so long. and the cassini spacecraft, which is almost as big as a bus, has achieved something never attempted before. it's given us unprecedented views and these have led to dozens of discoveries. the mission is described as one of the most remarkable journeys of exploration. while it's been orbiting saturn for a staggering 13 years. now, it's one of saturn's moons called enceladus that produced the most startling revelation. plumes of vapour were spotted blasting out of it. now this turned out to be water. so let's take a closer look inside what we now know, that under a covering of ice, there is an ocean. and scientists have come to an amazing conclusion. that in here there is every ingredient needed for life. this opens up a whole new realm of possibilities in the search for life beyond earth. and the discovery of conditions on moons like enceladus is a real breakthrough for scientists like linda, who started her career at nasa three decades ago when the mission beg

and that led us inevitably to the plan of taking cassini and plunging it into saturn. so after the last of twenty two farewell dives between saturn's rings and surface because seaney will fly into the planet's burning atmosphere. bernard smith al-jazeera let's now speak to fred young son astrophysicist and planetary scientists at the european space agency he's joining us from little in the netherlands thanks for being with us on the program why does cassini's mission have to end in this sort of blaze of glory. well first of all the mission is to contact them on fuel so at some stage it's done but as it was just a little little before we have something called planetary protection which means that spacecraft which haven't been cleaned the hundred percent of microbes and earth material should not crash into worlds where you later all go to try and search for life so this spacecraft is not one hundred percent clean and if they leave it circling around this is really insistent the chances of it crashing into our car or on some of those are not small and they have decided we

cassini mission this is an image put together by original infrared mapping spectrometer team they did a spectacular job turning around this data set that just came down dr simon is one of those who has seen the spectrometer since nine hundred ninety nine it was surprisingly more emotional than i expected i was actually you know just personally touched to watch the end of this you know this family that's been together for so long. time for nasa has hope that government funding for space exploration will continue the trumpet ministration has just picked a climate science denying a politician to run the agency whose goal has long been to end nasa as exploration of the earth and its atmosphere to focus instead on the wider solar system beyond. space flight center in maryland. this is al jazeera these are the top stories north korean leader kim jong un has vowed to continue his country's nuclear program despite u.n. sanctions he said the final goal is to achieve an end of force with the united states north korean media says kim personally oversaw the launch of the haas on twelve in the sty

into war but around the ringed planet cassini launched the. onto the surface of titan suddens biggest. over thirteen years the mission has sent back spectacular images from the other side of the solar system it will feel in some sense like a death in the family you know something you've devoted your life to for twenty seven years and then it will be gone. but certainly i will feel triumphant because it has been assumed and profoundly successful exploration and i'm so proud to have been a part of it covered in snow and ice this is another subtle and solid us it has powerful ice blasting gazes and here scientists believe there's water and so a chance to look for traces of life and on titan cassini revealed a climate similar to primordial earth it's why cassini can land on saturn it may still carry microbes some earth but could affect an alien ecosystem because of the importance of in solid us that cassini has shown us and of titan another potential world that could be habitable for life perhaps not like we know it but perhaps completely differen

the cassini spacecraft ends its mission to saturn in a fiery finally.ills block one and 6 is greater than 1. flonase changes everything. fred would do anything for "get in, fred!" even if it means being the back half of a unicorn. fear not fred, the front half washed his shirt with gain. and that smell, puts the giddy in "giddy-up"! ah...the irresistible scent of gain flings! laundry detergent. you can't help but smell happy. fred would do anything for "get in, fred!" even if it means being the back half of a unicorn. fear not fred, the front half washed his shirt with gain. and that smell, puts the giddy in "giddy-up"! ah...the irresistible scent of gain flings! laundry detergent. you can't help but smell happy. >>> here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. ♪ like animals, like animals >>> two zoos at opposite ends of the country joined forces to bring two tigers together. the national zoo in washington, d.c. and the san diego zoo partnered to help a 9-month-old cold. they flew the cub to san diego and introduced it to anothe

and that led us inevitably to the plan of taking cassini and plunging it into saturn. so after the last of twenty two farewell dives between saturn's rings and surface because seaney will fly into the planet's burning atmosphere. bernard smith al-jazeera. more than one hundred girls who were kidnapped by boko haram fighters in nigeria and twenty fourteen due to be reunited with their family. girls have been in state care since they were released in may a finally returned home on friday and are now celebrating their freedom. schoolgirls are still being held by her around. symbolic way is bringing a new voter register ahead of next year's presidential and parliamentary elections biometric technology will be used for the first time some people say it will increase the chances of vote rigging reports from harare. president robert mugabe's fingerprints and personal details are captured and stored using biometric voter registration equipment the commission is compiling a new virtual using the new technology the old manually compiled register dating back to one nine hundred e

cassini began its mission 20 years ago and a lot has happened since then. beginnings of a space race in asia. globally, the space race in asia. globally, the space economy was valued at around $323 billion in 2015, and 76% of thatis $323 billion in 2015, and 76% of that is in the commercial space. asia makes up a much smaller piece of that. china's annual budget is estimated at $3 billion, and india only spends about $1.4 billion. but thatis only spends about $1.4 billion. but that is growing. earlier i spoke with lennart tong, of the singapore space technology association. she said governments in the region are now making space exploration priority. i think it is very interesting that these countries are using their own initiative. in china it isa using their own initiative. in china it is a very deliberate, organised, national to become a major space power by 2030. and that comes from the very senior level all the way down to the people and the engineers in the mission. in india, they leverage it with cost competitiveness. they were the first asian countr

nnsl these are some of the final images taken by cassini. just a few of the four hundred and fifty thousand pictures that the spacecraft is cacaptured in the past thirteeeen year. seen the scientists have learned invaluable information about some. during. namely the discovery of an ocean on the moon and solidus. and the moon titan. which resembles primordial or. findings mean microbial life could exist elsewhere. and it's that very discovery that made scientists decide not to like cassini just float around when it runs out of fuel. wanting to avoid the potential of it crashing into and contaminating the moon's they decided to crash the orbiting spacecraft. we had to make decisions on how to dispose of the spacecraft. and that led us inevitably. to the plan. of taking cassini and plunging it into saturn. because a planetary protection. and our desire to go back to enceladus for. three a cooperative project between nasa the italian and the european space agency's cassini was launched in nineteen ninety seven. and arrived on saturday two thousa

but you've called cassini the perfect spacecraft. why?perience and design, people had 30 years of experience when they were designing cassini. jpl, they are all of the voyagers and all of the mariner program and the galileos and magellans. they had all that experience that went in to the design of the cassini spacecraft. we had my atlo team -- not my atlo, warren moore's team, we had people with 20, 30 years on the floor building cassini. and they built a brick house. and as soon as it launched we knew we had a great spacecraft. even though we spent seven years going to venus, venus, ertarth, jupiter, we spent seven years just trying to get to saturn. we knew we had a great spacecraft and that's why we were able to stay 13 years at saturn. >> it has been an extraordinary mission. i know that you decided to end it the way you did because you didn't want to contaminate the two moons. so it rather burned up into the saturn atmosphere before plunging into the air. but what did we learn? what do we take from what we learned? >> well, there's a

and that led us inevitably to the plan of taking cassini and plunging it in to saturn. so after the last of twenty two fowle dives between saturn's rings and surface because seaney will fly into the planet's burning atmosphere. burnet smith al-jazeera. a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera north korea has stepped up the tension again in its nuclear standoff with the u.s. firing another missile over japan and the u.s. military. it was an intermediate range ballistic missile that can travel three thousand seven hundred kilometers that ranges long enough to reach the u.s. military base on guam though this missiles path was further to the north north from near the capital pyongyang flying of the japanese island of hokkaido before plunging into the pacific ocean where your sect of state rex tillerson has issued a statement calling on all nations to take new measures against north korea he said china and russia must indicate their intolerance for these reckless launches by taking direct actions of their own well south korea's president warned that north korea's