coming up on "earth focus." >> biodiversity as way to describe the sheer variety of life on earth. life -- on land, air and sea. the sheer diversity of life on earth is a testament to the majesty, beauty, and wonder that is the natural world. millions of species of plants, animals, and microorganisms and the environment that habit are part of a creature interrelated system. they depend on what other for survival. human beings are part of this intricate web of life. biodiversity is also a source of cultural and spiritual wealth, an essential part of human tradition and inspiration. the earth's natural systems provide a range of services vital to our survival. species for other our food, livelihood, medicines, as well as to purify our air and water. oceans provide food and help regulate the climate. forest regulate water supplies and provide fuel. but all too often, we take these services for granted. today, human actions a pushing natural systems to the limit, and this, scientists say, can undermine not only the quality of life, but human survival self. we prably don't know the name

[roaring] ♪ we looked back at the earth, and you can actually see the earth start to get smaller.er as you're driving down inside the tunnel. jessica: did that personally really change things for you, that first time looking back and getting that perspective? lovell: yeah, it has. in some respects, it has, because when i looked at it, i thought to myself, you know, you know, you know, you go to heaven when you're born, because you just think of what you have here. you got a body with a proper mass to have the gravity, that contains water and an atmosphere, the essentials for life. you're in orbit around a star or a sun at just the proper distance-- not too far out to be too cold, too close in to be too hot. just the proper distance to absorb the sun's energy. that energy was what evolved life on earth to begin with. so, you know, in reality, out there, just 240,000 miles away, which is not much at all, you really see what you have back here. mission control officer: we've got it. we've got it. apollo 8 now in, in lunar orbit. there's a cheer in this room. this is apollo control, h

even after the sun and the earth... >> stone: the sun will become a red giant and envelop the earth andwo little emissaries will be out there in their independent orbit, basically for billions of years. >> cooper: it kind of boggles the mind. >> stone: that's the reason it was important to send it. >> quijano: good evening. regulators in nevada vote tomorrow on the controversial keystone xl expansion pipeline. lowe's and campbell's soup report earnings this week. and an estimated 164 million americans are planning to shop over thanksgiving weekend. i'm elaine quijano, cbs news. when you're close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment? if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with taltz. taltz is proven to give you a chance at completely clear skin. with taltz, up to 90% of patients had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. in fact, 4 out of 10 even achieved completely clear skin. do not use if you are allergic to taltz. before starting you should be checked for tuberculosis. tal

we are definitely a big past on earth. destroying some ecosystems. >> climate change will make an already bad situation worse and could become a factor most responsible for species' extinction in the next century. based pcpcs3030% of land- arare at risk from extinctctiony century's end. >> nobody knows what thahat is going to mean. clearly, a tremendous problems with food, tremendouous problems with water, tremendous death of species and all kinds. heat waves everywhere. the roleg challenge is of carbon dioxide, which both heats up the notion that makes it more acidic. two degrees fahrenheit or 1 degrees centigrade causes something called coral bleaching. and prolonged, can lead to massive amounts of coral l ath. the second thing carbon dioxide does is it dissolves in the ocean and makes the ocean more acidic. a more acidic pollution, it's much harder for organisms to secretete their skeletons, so coral has a harder time doing what is supposed to do. >> you can quickly realize how the warming of the e planet and changing t

and in low earth orbit nasa and the government free to develop beyond in lunar space. two key questions, what are the technology, knowledge and experiences the government wants to have available for broad dissemination to industries 50 years from now and what are the capabilities and services government and private industry driven by their own motives are interested in developing can sustain viable space-based businesses after leveraging initial government investment. the core concept inherent in the model and underscored by these questions is there is a need for government investment at the leading edge of exploration during the initial phase and the fact that industry will sooner or later we the benefit of that government investment to create and establish new capabilities in the development phase. i might comment the normalization phase we are not ready for yet in human spaceflight but we see that happening over the last decade and a satellite industry where there are independent economic spheres active with the government as a customer, the government still does it

rotates around other notable discoveries like the earth size trappist planets and proxima b. were made around similar stars and in the case of proxima b. or even closer to our solar system to date nasa's exoplanet archive includes more than three thousand alien worlds most are on inhabitable but there are a few dozen earth twin's that from a distance look like our own but ross one twenty eight b. has been described as special and may go further than any other discovery in answering the question about whether we're alone in the universe and gallacher al-jazeera try me on skype from nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena california eric manage that he's the deputy program chief scientist and nasser's expo planet exploration program and thank you for joining us i know you want to be very particular about giving credit where credit is due so so tell us who actually made this discovery. this is a wonderful discovery was made by a group of european astronomers using a large telescope in chile. they had used also using data from the nasa k two mission to rule out the fact that

some of that can translate to earth. so any things we learned from the kelly 20 past one twiniments -- astronaut experiments? mr. gerstenmaier: we believe it is microgravity that is causing changes. can differentiate between radiation and microgravity changes, and why certain genes regulate when exposed to microgravity, that is a fascinating research subject. we would have to bring researchers here that are better versed than myself. they could explain what they are seeing, and it is opening up a of question. this is how science advances. the new questioning, it calls into question your basic theory, and then the basic theory changes, and now you would about a new way to solve a problem or do something in the future. this is an exciting phase. representative perlmutter: we look forward to hearing from that side of your shop. there are some interesting design modification for deep space missions. what are you doing without orion capsule to make that more habitable? mr. gerstenmaier: one big thing is the radiation environm

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where does the earth's oxygen come from. the air we breathe is a mixture of different gases around a fifth of it is oxygen molecules. out in space individual oxygen atoms are quite common that was oxygen in the cloud of gas and dust that may have given birth to our planet. hotter matter clump together to form an ever larger clumps. the oxygen in the young earth was mainly bound in rocky minerals. as the planet cooled an atmosphere formed but it didn't contain oxygen yet. for that to happen the oceans first had to form. but it was still a long time before gaseous oxygen appeared. that required life

it can also support of element beyond the earth-moon system. the sls rocket is designed to be a heavy lift launch capability that can support the human mission around the moon, and is critical for mars-class missions, also missions such as the europa mission. it can reduce transit time 50% to the outer planets. we have built key infrastructure that allows us to fit within this architecture and framework we have been given. keeping a constancy of purpose origin or direction, we are moving forward, it is extremely important to us. starting at stopping is difficult. chairman babin: ok. dr. magnus? dr. magnus: i would like to echo that. starting and stopping in our industry is not healthy. we saw that in the shuttle program when we lost a lot of our corporate knowledge. we've already learned that. the continuity piece is part. we have a little bit of a short attention span and we end up hurting ourselves. there were programs that we have seen nasa have to cancel over the years. if you look in the apollo era, the dedication a had over a decade to co

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most argue, earth is a disk and not a sphere. >> how do i feel about this?wars. >> deception. >> now, it is funny to me. >> this is satan's greatest lie. >> destruction. >> i have a dog. he will come back with it in his mouth and it will be all chewed up. >> death. >> i feel like i have been deceived. ♪ >> we used to think when we got started individually in thi we were alone. we have one thing in common. we live on a flat plane. >> when you are watching videos at home, it is just you and the screen. it is lonely. i came here because i need to see what flat earth people look like, and i was not disappointed. they look normal. very few people overweight. about 30% of them are cigarette smokers. only four of them that i met her are from around here. ♪ >> nobody likes this uncomfortable feeling of being on this tiny ball flying through space. ♪ >> as far as what is underneath this? i don't know. it could be this thickness. it doesn't even have to be that thick. we can only drill down eight miles. in fact, this is only 50 miles thick. we do not know. this could

some of that can translate to earth, too? >> any resting things we lrned from the kelly astronaut twin experiment? >> it's exciting looking at how the genome changes. >> micro gravity, not radiation? >> yes. >> they can differentiate between micro gravity and radiation changes. why they upregulate, down regulate. that's a fascinating research subject. i would have to bring some of the researchers here that are much better verse than myself. >> this is how i any science and medicine really advances. the new questioning, it calls into question your basic theory. that basic theory changes, and dmou you're going to develop a brand new way and solve a problem or do something in the future. this is an exciting phase. >> we look forward to hearing from that side of your shot as well. >> there's interesting design modifications for deep space. what are you doing with that other ian capsule to make it more habitable. >> the radiation environment, we look at some potential shielding, when we took orion on the exploration test. we'll fl

earth like planets of been discovered before but ross one twenty eight b. may be the most significant yet it's about the same size and temperature is earth and revolves around a so-called quiet star so doesn't get blasted with harmful radiation it took scientists more than a decade to discover ross one twenty eight b. using a planet seeking program and an observatory based in chile but the still much we don't know the planet can't be observed directly so it's hard to say whether an atmosphere or water exist and uses the time of the most thirteen but it gives scientists important clues about potential life outside our solar system when new so-called super telescopes come online in the next few years scientists may well look for red dwarf stars like the one that ross one twenty eight b. rotates around other notable discoveries like the earth size trappist planets and proxima b. were made around similar stars and in the case of proxima be a even closer to our solar system to date nasa's exoplanet archive includes more than three thousand alien worlds most are

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and even now, bosnia's earth guards its secrets. gunshots.e its past, this country must confront it again, with the imminent verdict on general ratko mladic, whose list of war crimes led him to be dubbed "the butcher of bosnia". music continues. in an old factory in central bosnia, the human cost of the war is still being measured. for it is here that unidentified corpses from mass graves are being delivered even today, and the families of 30,000 still missing search for answers. this is overwhelming, in a certain way. there are pictures of the missing. there are human remains pretty much everywhere here, by the hundreds. and then, at the end there, there are scraps of clothing and other things that have been recovered with them. and this place is the main hope that a lot of the families of those missing have for discovering what on earth happened to a loved one, who just disappeared all those years ago. having covered the war 25 years ago, i've come back to explore the impact that one particularly malign man had on the lives of thousands. ra

and whether on the surface of mars or down here on earth. robotic vehicles have to be dependable if they're to have any kind of a future. we'll stay on facebook what do you fear most about self driving cars. frederick nelson read that he worries about what would happen if the software malfunctions and people know what he wants to know who would be held responsible. sean bell yes harakah and visions a scenario where people long for willfully cause the network to break down by running around with stop signs. coming cormo wonders how a self driving car would behave if the time flew at a hundred kilometers an hour. but kennedy chim bass says we shouldn't focus on the disadvantages he thinks self driving cars will make our lives easier he calls them evolution. one thing that definitely needs to evolve is the home from the door from the one point two billion measure vehicles on the well groomed. and it to. has out the pollution from the tailpipe is author with particular health hazard to people inside cars. it's a trip of around seventy kilometers

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as if earth wasn't messy enough, space is filling up with junk. old bits of rocket fragments and spacecraft and even old satellites are up there, and the amount of rubbish is growing. it poses a threat to vital satellites which could be hit and damaged. now a british team is hoping to solve the problem by setting up a spacecraft to grab some of the trash and bring it back to earth. our science correspondent rebecca morelle explains. >> liftoff. rebecca: blasting off. for decades, we have been launching into space. but what goes up rarely comes down, and space has become crowded with junk. the remove-debris spacecraft could be the answer, the world's first attempt to test how we could clean up celestial clutter. it will see if it is possible to snare a satellite in a net and reveal how effective a harpoon is. it will bring everything back down, burning up as it enters the earth's atmosphere. it has been assembled in surrey and cost 15 million pounds. this is the last chance to see it before it is packed up for launch early next year. >> this is the

you may think it's a bit strange looking a bunch of people inside a tin can here on earth and running tests on them when there's actually a space station orbiting the planet and has been for decades seemingly much more suitable for these sorts of experiments but they're actually key reasons why this works it's not that the international space station isn't being used for similar tests it is but earth based analogs are much safer cheaper and in some ways can better mimic deep space travel just wasn't on one designed to be an isolation environment it does i mean here you are isolated but more and more your own crew members and your cell phone in your pocket they can call their friends there is a requirement there's there are many thousands of commands and get sent from mission control to the vehicle every day with nasa russia and the european space agency all working together this experiment is also another reminder of the truly cooperative nature of space exploration rory chalons al jazeera moscow. good to have you with us avery and filling in here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera

for 20 years, nasa satellites have been recording life on earth.al evidence that drinking three cups of coffee macca day gives one a lower chance of developing heart problems compare to those who drink not. for 20 years, nasa satellites have been recording life on earth. that data has been compiled into a stunning time—lapse that scientists say provides a new perspective on climate change and the hunt for alien life. paul blake reports from nasa's goddard space flight center. this is what scientists are calling the most complete global picture of life on earth. for 20 years, nasa satellites have been recording changes in vegetation on land and at sea. what we are trying to learn here is notjust the availability of the distribution and patterns of life on earth but how the ecosystem is connected. so it is notjust looking at the ocean, notjust looking at the atmosphere, it looks at everything together. a quick glance at the 2.5 minute video released shows a mesmerising change in seasons with snowpacks growing and receding as the years tick by. diggin

some won't do believe that the earth is round. i i've seen the earth from space. the eight is round. so, you can't buy into something of this stuff you see on youtube. anymore scientists and people that have analytical minds that can discern different things and understand they're real. >> host: you talk about the twang. what is the twang? >> guest: the twang is when you're sitting in the shuttle and to the three main engines come on and the three main engines are off from the stack we call, the solid rocket boost and the shuttle and they light and the entire shutting rotates forward and then we come back, peter, the main engine's lights are -- eight bolts with explosive charges in them that are ignited and they blow away and we're off. and it's amazing. when you come back, the twang on a screen door that you open and the it twangs. that's how we come back up but we take off right after that. >> host: peep have raiden rollercoasters, felt the pressure on their chest, is it like that. >> guest: feeling three times your weight on the chest. we pull 3gs going up, and

just being human, living on this face of the earth is not easy. but i think it goes back to what we stated earlier, that if we learn how to live not for self but for the sake of others, if we come to appreciate and to understand that nothing is unique to any of us. what has been will be. we keep moving forward, unid we can conquer any storm. we can overcome any difficulty. it's not that we haven't been here before. we've been here before and we'll be here again so let us stay focused and be united with each other, knowing that each man's struggle, each woman's struggle is the other and if we join together, we will make it happen. >> the toughest work we all do is working on ourselves 24 hours a day and when we do that work, the world around us automatically improves. thank you, bruce, thank you bishop, thank you, peter, good day, wjla and newschannel 8, i'm armstrong williams. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> good morning. i'm diane macedo. >> i'm kendis gibson. here are some of the top stories we're following this morning on "world news now." >>> president trump

years ago, mars used to look similar to earth, in that it had similar to earth, in that it had similarthing went wrong then it turned into a dead planet. 0ne went wrong then it turned into a dead planet. one reason for that is it is basically losing its atmosphere. to asia now and some warnings about serious risks facing china's economy. sharanjit leyl is following this from our business hub in singapore. good to see you. tell moore. was this warning coming from? is coming from a variety of places. actually, what has ended up happening is that the warnings have resulted in china coming up with some new rules to try and curb some of the risks at its big development banks, and that is as they look to avoid a debt crisis. they are, these rules. they are saying that for the first time, the chinese banking regulator by they will start enforcing specific rules to reduce financial risk at three banks. the new measures will ensure they don't lend more cash than they can afford, and crucial corporate governance rules, as well. the three banks offended at the journeys of i , the export bank of c

so tomorrow, mike hughes plans to float through the air in a homemade rocket to prove the earth is flat. it's actually his first step toward boosting the flat planet theory. >> yeah, hughes won't get high enough to show the earth is too dimensional. he's hoping his proposed invention called a rockoon, which is a rocket carried by balloons, will take care of that in the future. >> i guess the ln not available. >> it doesn't show the curvature or the flatness of it. >> oh, i see. need the rocket and the balloons. >> this is a growing conspiracy theory, like there's a well known rapper who, b.o.b., who says that the earth is flat. >> by the way, he also says he doesn't believe in science, period. >> i hope he believes in rocket science, or else it's been nice knowing you. >> very good point. all right, well, good luck to you. >>> coming up, our black friday shoppers hand book. the top tips you need if you're planning to hit the stores today. >>> and coming up later in our insomniac theater, the movie that's already shaping up to be this weekend's hollywood blockbuster. you're watching "wor

and we lifted the earth, now we are doing the same in space.ld this galactic garbage collector to get rid of our rubbish —— rid of our rubbish? glad that you could join us. it's 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 8.30am in north korea, where pyongyang has fired an unidentified ballistic missile — the first since mid—september. south korean military officials say the missile flew east from a launch site near the capital, pyongyang. it reportedly travelled a distance of about 1000km before falling into the sea of japan. president trump told reporters the us can handle the situation and in tokyo, an emergency cabinet meeting will discuss the incident. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams is in seoul in south korea. they have done it again? yes, rico hizon. as you said just now, this is the first test by the north korean since mid—september, and it comes after this long porous in which people had started to wonder whether there was something significant in there was something significant in the fact that we had not had any missile test in

straight down at earth.the arrival date of said trial. >> i really like this. >> are these people rocket scientists of some point? >> they have just seen all of the same gender reveal videos that we've seen. they wanted to do something original. you have to give them credit. they found it. already, 33,000 feet, 52,000, getting higher before you know it you're starting to see planet earth just get smaller and smaller. 81,000 feet. 108,000 feet. that's basically -- >> 20 miles high. eventually we get to look straight up towards the balloon. >> before you know. >> suddenly the pressure on the outside of the balloon drops to such a level that expands. then this is where it starts tumbling back towards earth. this is the gender reveal. >> stick with it. you have to look up. this is where they deploy parachutes with a very special message on it. it's a boy. tesla will be the name, i guess. kind of appropriate to name it after a famous scientist, but that's pretty awesome. launched into the stratosphere. it eventua

long-term earth movement. >> long-term earth movement, which mysteriously is not covered by flood insurance sullivan: is it possible that the earth movement exclusion might not be in the best interest of homeowners, but it is in fact in their policies and it's written there and that's what they're paying for? >> we have no dispute that there's an earth movement exclusion. our dispute is, "did the flood trauma break the foundations of the homes, or was it like that before?" they're making up fake facts to put it into the exclusion. that's the problem. >> sullivan: in february 2015, the fraud allegations... >> state authorities raided a uniondale engineering company today. >> sullivan: ...prompted investigations by state attorneys general in new york and new jersey that are still underway. >> armed with a search warrant, investigators removed dozens of boxes from the building. >> sullivan: and in washington, criticism over fema's management of the program was growing. the administrator of fema, craig fugate, declined to be interviewed. but amid the controversy, he replaced the leadership of t

more than a furred of the earth's land surface is desert and many deserts continue to grow. ever more forests are being cleared every three seconds one hundred trees lost that's the rate at which deforestation has been going on in the amazon for the past forty years yes that's right one hundred trees felled or burned every three seconds . like here in the brazilian state of round donia rain forest is cleared to make way for soil fields cattle farms dams and reservoirs . for destruction of rain forests means even more c o two is released into the atmosphere and the earth gets ever warmer. human factors in climate change with the focus of the first un earth summit in rio de janeiro back in one thousand nine hundred two. then in japan in one thousand nine hundred seventy binding targets for greenhouse gas emissions were agreed for the first time the kyoto protocol was born. just before the two thousand and nine climate change conference in copenhagen the then president of the multi-verse made an impressive appeal to the world community underwater the media loved it but the summ

it takes more energy than the something from the moon to mars to earth. they don't even have enough to hold themselves so you get enough traction you can actually on a motorcycle which is so cool, but so, what i was going to say i think we have the brain computer interfaces which is the freakiest technology for a couple of reasons like number one, it in an extent you make humans unrecognizable which is a little upsetting there is a weird thing about the interface which is you are basically offloading the last vestige of privacy where you're allowed to pick whatever you want. at the moment the ability to interface you are giving up that last spot and it's a little more on them and they matter because the first person that gets one of these to work as an economic advantage that is rather severe. you can get to the situation people have to use it and it's already happening in academia they will admit to using brain enhancing drugs, so you already get this market for the brain alteration and we have a nice interface. does anyone understand what a brain comput

it is selling air, selling water, privatizing the whole mother earth.: isabella azizi, how does the story of your town, richmond, california, fit into carbon pricing? >> in richmond, california, there is the chevron refinery. it actually does extract oil amazon anddown an tar sands in canada. first nations and indigenous territories. our policies in california, there is the cap and trade bill that jerry brown had passed. that really permit us in any of the refineries to put a cap and offsets being done are being done down in the amazon. they're continuing to extract an fossil fuels in our towns and it is directly impacting is as indigenous peoples, people of color, low income communities like richmond. amy: you are a member of what tribe? .> the northern cheyenne amy: explain this. you both have called this paying to pollute. richmond chevron do in and then offset it by what they do, for example, in ecuador, brazil? i don't think most people can understand this. >> governor jerry brown is continuing to implement climate legislation in the state of calif

one for deep space and to the low earth orbit. getting to this point was not easy and there are still challenges ahead. however, we need to pause and reflect on this amazing time. as we pursue human exploration further into the solar system, our expiration teams are building more than a rocket and spacecraft for a single flight. rather, we are building a flexible, sustainable system that will be used for decades to come. with this approach, we can incrementally upgrade and enhance our exploration systems to accomplish a variety of missions, crude and i'm craving deep space. we are also building a system designed witdesigned with a andg techniques with a lower cost than previous designs. the work performed is an application to other programs in aerospace. for example, hundreds of requests for information have been transferred from o'ryan to the commercial spacecraft into development in low earth orbit. the work of the self reaction friction will have application beyond the sos. wondering the exploration and the current flight artic

. >> coming into focus, the new nasa time-outs video that crams 20 years of life on earth into just a minutes. the actor, singer, and 70's teen pop idol david cassidy has died at the age of 67. he was best known or his role in the comedy series the partridge family, after which he enjoyed a hugely successful career in music. his family said he passed away surrounded by those he loved with joy in his heart. >> in 1970, a young actor called david cassidy became the start of a new tv program, the partridge family. for the next four years, he made 96 tv episodes, recorded 15 albums, and toured the world. >> when 20, 30, 40, is due -- 50,000 people screaming at the top of their lungs, i love you, it is so overwhelming. it's like, wow. >> at one concert in london, a girl died. and another 800 were injured. in 1974, exhausted, overwhelmed, he retired from show business. he was 24. by the time he returned to the pop charts in the 1980's, there had been many ups and downs, struggles with money, drinking, the aftermath of fame. but there were also great successes. a broadway production of blood

scientists then did not know how to return living creatures from orbit back to earth.en hours, she died because of the very high temperature in her capsule. the system of thermoinsulation of her capsule had not been properly developed. in memory of this remarkable flight, special stamps and envelopes were produced with laika's image. there were also special cigarettes and matches in the ussr called laika. the monument was unveiled in moscow in 2008. laika's flight showed that you could survive weightlessness and the door was opened for man's travel into space. professor victor yazdovsky there talking to witness in moscow. next, in the autumn of 1984, ethiopia was hit by one of the worst famines in its history. dawit giorgis was the government officer in charge of the relief effort. famine was not new in ethiopia, for centuries people had been facing recurring problems of famine, but the 1984 famine was different because of the magnitude of the problem. it covered almost one third of the population and it was complicated by the politics of the times. the world in the 19

today, it is the third-largest democracy on earth. the philippines has emerged as a proud nation of strong and devout families. for 11 consecutive years, the world economic forum has ranked the philippines first among asian countries in closing the gender gap and embracing women leaders in business and in olitics. kingdom of thailand has become an upper middle-income country in less than a generation. its majestic capital of bangkok s now the most visited city on earth. and that is very impressive. not too many people here are from thailand. malaysia has rapidly developed through recent decades, and it is now ranked as one of the best places in the world to do business. in singapore, citizens born to parents who survived on $500 dollars a day are now among the highest earners in the world -- a transformation made possible by the vision of lee kwan yew's vision of honest governance and the rule of law. and his great son is now doing an amazing job. as i recently observed in south korea, the people of that republic took a poor country r