and so maalik and her girlfriends are off to school. in the auditorium german old rich brown hooper is warming up on his saxophone. and whenever kimble gallagher plays the audience is very receptive. for many it's the first time they've seen a piano in person. and when the tunisian opera singer ben she caught performs a number from romeo and juliet the crowd is thrilled. music like this is highly unusual in southern tunisia an area still threatened by islamists and this concert certainly strikes a chord. on the law. you didn't. really ninety cents in the past five years i've been attending the school we've never had anything like i can't. for the school principal it's a big bonus when it got out of. our school lives far away in an insecure border area we lack everything teachers materials instruments we can't offer things like this to our students. thomas he can certainly seem better times tourists used to come here to experience the sahara but they don't come anymore because the area is just too dangerous very few people now visit the

well let's get more on this malveaux joined by atomic maalik and astro journalist at spa. he stopped calm and he's joining on skype from new york very good to have you with us on al-jazeera mr malik's a mission to fly into the sun's atmosphere it has been on astronomers watch lists for many decades so just how significant is what we're about to see in a few hours. well this is something that's never been done before you know nasa is going to take a spacecraft and launch it into the outer edges of the star that we think that we'll see every day and it's something that you know the hope to kind of uncover some of these mysteries of the sun that we just still even after decades and hundreds of years of observing it don't fully understand why this outer fringe this corona of the sun is so much hotter than the actual surface of the sun is this is lingering mystery that scientists hope this machine could answer and they all in the sort of intellectual can also see having says one of the practical reasons for having this information well understanding how this level of the sun's