let's get more on this from barr and gopalaswami he's an honorary senior fellow with the indian political thing tank the observer research foundation he joins us from delhi mr goble as mummy thanks for joining me the loss of context doesn't mean the mission has failed what more do you know well i mean i think that's that's what the official reports president was it stays in on the prime minister said there were damn message saying that you know be courageous and correction congratulated the scientists it doesn't look good. and they realise to wait for the operation where they think to let them out but you but you know this is this is a bold an ambitious project well done and we'll wait for until the final results to come out so india was set to become only the 4th country in history to land on the moon just how significant would have be if this mission indeed turned out to have failed also for india's pride. well i mean. by far a very successful agency be stored in a base just space projects do not come back but do not come out do not come without any said by actual the unknown and as far

gopalaswami isn't on or a senior fellow with the indian political think tank the observer of research foundation he joins us from downey welcome to d.w. what more have you heard about the chandrayaan 2. well i think communication is still waiting for some communication links the prime minister was last seen leaving so i am not sure how far you know there are no tense moments as if like the mission might not be as expected and asked me at all like it to be but it's let's wait and see for the official results to come. how big a blow will this be if it has failed i mean it's worth bearing in mind that this it is an unmanned craft well i mean you know it's definitely a setback the expectations are there saying yeah this is kind of a given a big shot in the or if you know if it went. the way that we'd all anticipated it would definitely be a big boost if it did not go the way that we did not want to go there and it's obviously a setback but that does not mean is for has had setbacks in the past and this was a bounce twice as hard from that setback and it's still being in basic research org

let's get more on this from her author gopalaswami he's onery senior fellow from the indian political think tank the observer research foundation he joins us from down and welcome to day w. why is india doing this i think. i think for a lot of reasons a lot of the main reasons for this is for me they did space research organization for which our space applications was the mainstay now space exploration has become one of the mainstays and i think one of the space explorations one landing is one of the 3 keeping civilian that's when the it's doing. on the other one of the other areas should i see here is proving the technological progress as you are all report mentioned and i think the show is great so that it can do very ambitious projects in space and this is one of them and that's why it's doing it and space exploration to what end. i think space exploration has no whens i think space you know they need space research organization nasa began as an agency where it started doing space applications for the benefit of its own citizens an example of many. goals. knowledge become like spac

the taliban still isn't ready for peace they continue to fight well it's now speak to barracks gopalaswami who's a senior fellow at the observer research foundation and was a member of the advisory group is joins us from the u.s. state of delaware thank you so much for being with us sir so as these peace talks wrap up here in doha the taliban as we saw attacked the northern city of condos how much confidence is there really that they are serious about ending this war. i think you know the country just essentially a very mixed part of that is a majority of the u.s. establishment or say which wants to end the war and then there are skeptics all across the of congo meant unlike us who are just not sure what the taliban actually intends like like as you mention that is an attack on. and at the same time there is also this thought the school of thought that believes that the taliban are part of the taliban is really tired and sick of fighting or but it essentially like you know when you say that you're about to get a deal it really depends on what the contours of the deal are yeah as well as wh

government's added that repel the fighters killing at least 30 of them a civilian also died broth gopalaswamiis a senior fellow at the observer research foundation and was a member of the close ods advisory group he says the talks will be successful if the if it in the end on washington's terms. really you know put this into the context of the us going in to have actions next year and president trump and think of something like president trump would want to script a victory speech and something like that so essentially if you have that as a starting point where you want to put a banner on what a victory speech looks like and that then that defines the terms of what a deal would look like and that could be a very weak watershed bail be the be the taliban essentially where we want to pull the troops back home heading to kabul to have a negotiation with the of conduct of the taliban of essential a threat you know refused to recognize the existence of the afghan government and for me prince police speaking this was the whole. policy and where we were setting up a government that recognizes a lot

government said it had repelled the fighters killing at least 30 of them 3 civilians also died broth gopalaswami is a senior fellow at the observer research foundation and was a member of. advisory group he says the talks will be successful if they end on washington's terms you know what goes into the context of the us going into elections next year and president try and think of something like president would want to script a victory speech or something like this so essentially if you have that as a starting point where you want to put a banner on what a victory speech looks like and that then that defines the terms of what a deal would look like and that would be a very weak border should be all these or be the taliban essentially where we want to pull the troops back home clothes are heading to kabul to have a negotiation with the up. the taliban have been essential a threat you know refused to recognize the existence of the afghan government and for me prince police speaking this was the whole. policy angle where we were you know setting up a government that recognizes a lot of the principle

thank you so much for speaking to us thank you for your time barrage of gopalaswami joining us safe from that away in the united states we appreciate your time thank you in yemen rebels say saudi fighter jets have targeted a facility holding prisoners of war who are loyal to the u.n. recognized government they say the detention center in denmark has hundreds of people in it the attackers had to have happened on saturday among the stories still ahead on this al-jazeera news hour appearing cage in court saddam's ousted president is formally charged with corruption and illegal you saw foreign funds passed an anxious wait turns to devastation in india as up to $2000000.00 learned they could become state lead. and lewis hamilton's misfortune opens the way for ferrari in belgium peter will explain exports. new u.s. tire saan chinese goods come into effect in less than 2 hours china says it won't back down and has raise import taxes on $75000000000.00 worth of american goods as speak to katrina you who joins us live from beijing so katrina how are people in china going to be affected by these n