the craft taken off from kazistan and an american astronaut is the first to spend 12 months at the stationuntries announced plans to build a new space facility to replace the international space station from 2024. that brings you up to date with the latest from europe and back to adrian. >> ghani wants afghanistan to be the cross roads of asia but the state of the actual roads in the country are a bit of a stumbling block to ambition, 15,000 kilometers of roads have been upgraded since 2001 but as jennifer glasse reports now many of them are still too dangerous to use. >> reporter: this should be a busy street but it's so bad few cars bother to use it. shop keeper who like most afghans has one name blames this road for poor business. >> translator: with the dust water and rain forget humans even a dog wouldn't walk here. >> reporter: it was built about five years ago with no sewers to drain water the tarmac reverted to dirt and this is in the capitol, outside the problems are worse. like on afghanistan's highway one that links kabul to other major cities, and kandahar and iraq, poor securi