so rebecca, over to you. >> thank you josef, and hello matthias.t's so good to see you. >> hello, rebecca. it's wonderful to have the opportunity to talk to you from space and hopefully to have a very nice exchange also about the [inaudible] topic. >> i must say we were debating whether we should say good day, good evening, goodnight, because the orbit the earth every 90 minutes. it's a bit of a realtime call. but i'd love to start out by asking, how have your views of the planet changed since you have been aboard the international space station? >> yeah, so your right. we circle our planet like every 90 minutes, 16 times a day. and we work according to the uk time, so granted meantime. so we are only one hour offset with you. and yes, i traveled the planet once before, like it was a round the world trip, and it was always my big dream, and it was like seeing the world changed my life and it gave me a lot of different attitudes, like how we should work with our planet and the people on our planet. but now being in space, and especially this morning

josef aschbacher, director of the european space agency, which sponsored the astronaut we'll be talking to in a few minutes. sarah al-amiri, from the united arab emirates and chair of the uae space agency which last year launched a spacecraft to mars. she also heads a team comprised 80% of women in the uae. and chris kemp, founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of astra, one of the many space stars that's out there now and an absolute investment frenzy that's happening on the space front. vice president gore, i would love to start with you. you recently launched something called climate trace which uses ai in space to actually bring accountability to climate change. could you please explain how that actually works? >> yes, thank you for having me, rebecca. it's such an honor to join this distinguished panel. climate trace, trace stands for tracking real time atmosphere carbon emissions, it is one of the new possibilities opened up by artificial intelligence and machine learning. we take the data -- it's a nonprofit coalition, international, that relies on artificial intelligence

. >> reporter: but within a decade, soviet leader josef stalin, fearful of an independent minded ukraine, brought down the hammer. >> he decided to take the land away from the peasants and gave it to the stake and there was very strong opposition to that in ukraine. >> reporter: the atrocity that began in 1932 would come to be known as the ukrainian ex-termination from hunger. >> so it was an artificial famine. that means it was a famine caused not by crop failure, not by insects or drought. it was a famine that was created by the soviet state. political activists went from house to house in rule krukrain and confiscated food. they knew that meant people would die, and they anticipated that would happen. >> reporter: between 1932 and 1933, some 4 million ukrainians starved to death. in a 1984 documentary, one survivor called the horror. >> translator: i saw a child picking a stalk of wheat, trying to eat the unripe grains. that was a very serious crime. this was a government order. to punish anyone, even to death by execution. >> people survived by eating frogs, toads, mice. they ate the

it's some combination of josef stalin, mao thinking that they are creating the great power.trations in st. petersburg. thousands came out. in moscow, they are out and screaming and ukrainian flags. so hopefully something might change. but it's still too early to say how far it can go. >> understood. we did want to look at the endgame here to round out this hour. david and nina, thank you. thank you to those at home watching us here on our msnbc national coverage on a tough day. coming up at 8:00 p.m., rachel maddow will be in the anchor chair. up next, at 7:00 p.m. eastern, joy reid in the anchor chair. so stay with us. msnbc special coverage continues a of this short break. a of this short break. plus, superior nutrition. because the way we care is anything but ordinary. ♪♪ men put their skin through a lot. day-in, day-out that's why dove men body wash has skin-strengthening nutrients and moisturizers that help rebuild your skin. dove men+care. smoother, healthier skin with every shower. ♪ ♪ ♪i'm so defensive,♪ ♪i got bongos thumping in my chest♪ ♪and something tells me the

josef stalin, the communist dictator of the soviet union had, a problem in the ukraine -- union, had a problem in the ukraine. some of the people in the ukraine wanted to go back and be an independent country, which it was a few years before that. and some of the people in the ukraine, particularly the farmers, didn't like the idea of giving up their land and going to work for the government. and of course one of the reasons or one of the things that communists like is they want everybody working for the government because they want to have toe cal control over -- toe cal control over everybody -- total control over everybody. i'm sure the problem in the ukraine is similar to what we have in wisconsin. we have a lot of small dairy farmers. they own their own land and business. and they wouldn't take kindly to the idea of a marxist government coming over and saying, this is no longer your land, these are no longer your cows, you're working for us. the government. so the way josef stalin decided to deal with it is he decided to starve out the people in the ukraine. he decided to put tr

that you might see, by the way, underer the reign of somebody like, i don't know, adolfth hitler, josef stalin, af these things that they keep calling us is exactlyh what they're guilty of. god forbid you ask people g in our mainstream media to cover what's going on in canada. they're having their bank accounts ct shut down, not just the organizers, by the way. people that gave themt ju pizza brought them food. welcome a cup of coffee. you have restaurants nearby in ottawa who are having police knock on their doors and they're being served papers . they're being told, hey, your bank accounts, you're not going to be shut downacco pendig further notice. that young mananot that i was speaking with today told me that they can't feed s their families. and buy't go out anything. everything is completely frozen until a their dictator justinze trudeau decides that he's going to do something about this . and this is notti going to end, by the way, exactly what they want you to focus on is russia, though, right? russia is just coming back , the soviet union coming back . communism coming back and

in the early 1930's, josef stalin and the soviet union controlled what happened in the ukraine, and they were mad at the ukraine because some people in ukraine wanted to be independent and hadn't been under the communist heel enough. ukraine did have -- was a very wealthy region as far as agriculture was concerned. so in order to punish the ukrainians or make sure the soviet union took over the ukraine they instituted a famine. they wouldn't let ukrainians leave the country. they took over the crops in the ukraine. it dramatically is different if you look up the numbers but somewhere between, say, four million and 15 million people starved to death in the ukraine in the early 1930's. now, isn't that news? if you're a well-informed, well-educated american who went to school, maybe went to college, shouldn't you know that, when four million to 14 million ukrainians were starved to death because of the soviet union in the 1930's? i talked to people in this building and talk to people at home. they don't know it. maybe it has something to do with the an money is -- animosity between the ukra