n.a.s.a. reached pluto, spending $650 million, to send a spacecraft billions of miles to get there. is it reason enough in an age of skyrocketed death and increasing space exploration. to pluto and beyond. . >> welcome to "inside story". i'm leonardo mayer sitting in for luis suarez. it has been a huge month for n.a.s.a. for the first time history, a spacecraft, got close to blewetto sending us the first -- pluto, sending us the first images. scientists believe it has icy mountains 2.5 miles wide. frigid temperatures, 300 degrees below zero, and word of a new telescope. a planet, kepler 454 degrees. the first earth-side planet found orbiting around a sun a lot like ours. each mission has a cost of $650 billion. no one questions the wow factor, but some question whether it's worth that money. there's space exploration moving forward whether it would be better handled by the private sector. erica pitzi has more. >> a deep space discovery announced thursday has n.a.s.a. scientists excited. >> as

i know the n.a.s.a.go to antarctica if the summer. >> absolutely, different planes, different technology, but the same mission. >> hopefully techknow can join them on that too. >> hopefully. >> join us next time. >> dive into these stories and go behind the scenes at aljazeera.com/techknow. follow our contributors on >> [crowd chanting] hell no gmo. >> they're slamming a technology that could be used to solve problems for people who desperately need it. >> they get exited about technology whether it's in their phone or in their car, so why is it so weird on their plate? >> something's going into food that shouldn't really be there. >> techknow investigates. >> you could not pay me to fake data. ♪ greece submits a new plan to creditors in a last-ditch bid to secure a bailout but it looks very much like the old one. ♪ hello, this is al jazeera, live from doha i'm adrian and also on the program optimism and also disagreement, another deadline is missed in vienna and talks of iran's nuclear program and buryi

i know the n.a.s.a.antarctica if the summer. >> absolutely, different planes, different technology, but the same mission. >> hopefully techknow can join them on that too. >> hopefully. >> join us next time. >> dive into these stories and go behind the scenes at aljazeera.com/techknow. follow our contributors on >> [crowd chanting] hell no gmo. >> they're slamming a technology that could be used to solve problems for people who desperately need it. >> they get exited about technology whether it's in their phone or in their car, so why is it so weird on their plate? >> something's going into food that shouldn't really be there. >> techknow investigates. >> you could not pay me to fake data. vo: visitors to london could be forgiven for thinking they are seeing a quintessentially british town. the imperial architecture. the iconic black taxis and red phone boxes. but

i know the n.a.s.a.go to antarctica if the summer. >> absolutely, different planes, different technology, but the same mission. >> hopefully techknow can join them on that too. >> hopefully. >> join us next time. >> dive into these stories and go behind the scenes at aljazeera.com/techknow. follow our contributors on >> [crowd chanting] hell no gmo. >> they're slamming a technology that could be used to solve problems for people who desperately need it. >> they get exited about technology whether it's in their phone or in their car, so why is it so weird on their plate? >> something's going into food that shouldn't really be there. >> techknow investigates. >> you could not pay me to fake data. >> this is aljazeera america i've from new york city. i'm tony harris. done deal. removal of the confederate flag from the south carolina statehouse grounds, but now the debate moves to the u.s. capitol. the high school football team's celebration that some saw as racist. and tough issues on the table as talks con

n.a.s.a. releases the first images from its pluto flyby >>> yemen's exiled government be gun to come home after three months in saudi arabia. it follows gains for forces loyal to the government that have driven out rebels from the airport and the port. it's still not safe another for president abd-rabbu mansour hadi to return. >> translation: we will announce within the coming few days that we have secured the entire city of aden and we want to return home. the ministers returning it will be part of a plan to return all yemeni government to the city where they'll be based, working towards liberating the rest of the country >>> houthis suffered setbacks in tiaz, with the popular resistance committees. 46 houthi faces and forces loyal to the former president have been killed. hospitals in tiaz are crowded with the dead and wounded, after the heavy fighting and shelling in residential areas >>> japan's prime minister pushed through legislation that could send troops sent abroad for the first time

n.a.s.a.eases the first pictures of an historical flyby near pluto >>> greece's parliament has approved tough economic measures needed to open the door for talks on an 86 billion euro bailout package. prime minister alexis tsipras struck the controversial deal with international creditors on monday in brussels and the end to 290 m.p.s voted in favor, 64 against, and 6 ab stained. half of the no votes came from within the governing syriza party. we have this report from athens. >> reporter: at the end of a long day greek prime minister alexis tsipras pleaded with parliament to mass austerity measures he didn't believe in. >> translation: i will admit that the measures we are tabling are harsh and i don't agree with them. i don't believe they will help the greek economy. i say so openly i say that i must implement them that is our difference. >> and parliament obliged. 229 voted it through. an overwhelming majority of m.p.s. the memorandum, as controversial as it was, was expected to pass. alexi

n.a.s.a.tists say it's not too much bigger than earth and orbits a sun not much bigger than our own. it could have water with it. the planet was discovered with the n.a.s.a. kepler telescope. >> a comedy fest val is held in new york city. as roxana roxana saberi reports, they are using laughter to right debilitating muscle disease. >> reporter: this man believes comedy can combat fears about muslims. >> reporter: they believe comedy can combat fears about muslims. >> what about i.s.i.s. looking at me. looking at i.s.i.s. - i didn't do it >> reporter: he's one of 18 muslim comedians starring in a comedy fest. for them, little is off limits. >> my mum is like "is he circumsised." when you get to new york, look for the culture, you'll be fine. he was walking around new york city saying what of the jews. >> reporter: for some non-muslim americans, attack like that on the "charlie hebdo" paper in paris, and the shootings in chattanooga, tennessee perpetuate that image. a poll suggests that american

tarek has more from the mission and those keeping watch. >> reporter: n.a.s.a.'s new horizon probe was launched in 2006. it's taken since then over nine jeers and a journey of 5 billion kilometres to reach its goal. the spacecraft a few years back went past through jupiter to get a little bit of gravity poll to increase the speed and was a good opportunity to test the equipment. we had nice images of jupiter. surprising images have been brought back. instead of gray, it appears to have a red and orange surface. >> we are seeing crazy black and white patterns we have no idea what it means. we see a lot of sickure lar things we wonder if it is crate cores or something else and certain feature on the moon that are not craters. we have you know in a few days. >> after flying past, new horizons will continue their journey. going to the edges of the solar system, where they change from rock and gas to ice. and these objects. we find - we expect to find a little more evidence of the pristine material out of which the solar system was formed. >> radio signals from new hz

we flew with n.a.s.a. - as they measured the arctic ice melt on greenland's glaciers, marking anotherof decline. >> the climate of the arctic has been changing. >>> we travel to peru, where rain forests are declining. >> in 2005 there was the biggest drought in the amazon, in the history of our records. 2010, five years later, a bigger drought hit the amazon. these are the climate projections playing out before our eyes. >> we saw a core sample from the last ice age, to get a comparison on how quickly greenhouse gases are accumulating today. this sample represents 3,000 years of changing of carbon dioxide. >> the equivalent change of greenhouse gases that happened in the last decade took thousands of years to happen when the earth was not being influenced by humans. >>> these scientists reflect the fact that 97% of all research published on climate change say it's fuelled by manmade greenhouse gas emissions. >> as scientists we barely agree on anything. to say 97% of climate experts say the climate system is warming today is phenomenal. >>> scientists aside some politicians are not bu

. >>> we have ignition and lift off of n.a.s.a.'s new horizon spacecraft >>> more than nine years after it blasted into outer space, n.a.s.a.'s new horizon spacecraft is about to get the money shot. it'sate hours away -- it'sate hours away flying by pluto. it will complete a mission to photograph every planet in the solar system. we speak with the space commander tomorrow. >>> the white house hosted a sixth conference on ageing it happens once a decade, as patty culhane reports, one of the biggest issues is practically ignored. >> reporter: talk to anyone on the college campus about the state retirement fund in the united states, you'll hear this. >> i think it's a failing system. i think growing up that's what they told us that we weren't going to get social security by the time we retire. >> reporter: there's a good reason for the pessimism, government programs to help the elderly are running out of money. social security - that will run out of money in 2033, and medicare a programme providing health insurance for the elderly will

n.a.s.a.'s new horizon spacecraft flew past capping a recon scans beginning 50 years ago. the nuclear-powered probe was watched by scientists at john hopkins physics lab as it passed between the orbits of pluto and its primary moon sharon. fasten your saturday belts, new horizons landed at the pluto system. >> reporter: the fly by ended a movie behind the copier belt. >> yesterday the programme took a leap for humankind. stood the new horizon team wag bringing a blurred point of light into focus. >> >> pluto is the last major unexplored body in the solar systems. n.a.s.a. officials say they have learnt something new. >> we discovered pluto is a little larger than anticipated. we have good measures of its diameter and radius. it's 1185km, plus or minus 10. that settles the debate about the largest object in the koyper belt. new horizons spent more than 8 hours looking back at pluto, for a series of experiments, to study the planet's atmosphere and photographing it and mapping it. it took 4.5 ho

n.a.s.a.'s fastest spacecraft is sending back the clearest pictures of pluto ever. john hendren takes a look. >> this is pluto, as never seen before. n.a.s.a.'s spacecraft sailed past the planet. taking it past the solar system that began 50 years ago. . >> three. two. one. the nuclear-powered probe was watched by scientists at john hopkins physics lab as it passed between the orbits of pluto and its primary moon sharon. fasten your saturday belts, new horizons landed at the pluto system. >> yesterday america's space programme took a leap for humankind. today the new horizon team was bringing what was previously a blurred point of light into focus. >> pluto is the last major unexplored body in the solar systems. n.a.s.a. officials say they have learnt something new. >> we discovered pluto is a little larger than anticipated. we have good measures of its diameter and radius. it's 1185km, plus or minus 10. that settles the debate about the largest object in the koyper belt. new horizons spent mo

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n.a.s.a.'raft will fly within close to pluto. it's already sending back some pretty cool images. pluto appears to be a reddish brown and it shows pluto's largest moon circling the planet. n.a.s.a.'s scientists are excited about seeing so much detail from this far out but july 14th they will even see more. >> you have to have the clear sky though or the telescope. >> pretty shots inland. from our east bay hills camera you are looking at mt. diablo. isn't this beautiful? a little cloud cover in the east bay but a warm a day books the 90s and clear for the fireworks. it's not the case everywhere. i'll detail the forecast coming up. >> also ahead, buster posey stays hot but the giants continue to struggle on the road. why one pitch proved to be fatal in washington, ♪ ♪ everyone needs a bff. even your smile. new colgate optic white express white toothpaste with hydrogen peroxide for whiter teeth in 3 days. dazzle... without the hassle. new colgate optic white express white. whiter teeth in 3 days ju

. >>> from the edge of the sol oar system n.a.s.a. released more stunning photos of pluto. the pictures are sent back by the "new horizon" spacecraft. and scientists say this is the best image seen of the dwarf planet. photos show a different terrain, but most are interested in this an image showing pluto's atmosphere. >> this is a first image of pluto's atmosphere. that is what stunned the encounter team. for 25 years we knew that pluto has an atmosphere. in is our first picture, the first time we have seen it. this was the image that almost brought tears to the eyes of atmospheric scientists. >> n.a.s.a. says the first phase of the data transmission is now complete. next is technical data and photos expected in september >>> well there is nothing funny about hate and prejudice. muslim communities say that comedy shows the funny side. they are here for what they described as the first muslim-american comedy festival. >> let's address the i.s.i.s. in the room. >> reporter: this man beliefs comedy can combat fears about muslims. >> i'm walking down the street people are look

n.a.s.a.'s mission growing closer to the planet. sending back images baffling to signs and n.a.s.a.ictures of geological patterns are coming into view. >> it's amazing what we are seeing now. it was a gradual approach. every day we see a new view of pluto telling us things we never knew before and seeing crazy black and white patterns we have no idea what they mean and we are seeing circular things - are they craters or something else. >> new horizons is travelling to pluto at the rate of 9 mills -- mills person. i'll be back at 11. see you then. [ ♪♪ ] on"america tonight" - the weekend edition - sparking a high alert. the plane has to be ready in half an hour. >> it could be any one of them, it happens to be 912. >> the fire season and how bad will the season be, and whether the firefighters have the right tools to stop the blazers. >>> abbing accelerating addiction. >> is it scary for

. >> a signed n.a.s.a. picture is worth 4500. that's a forgery on the left. armstrong never signed over the flag. >> forgeries are around simply because it's a quick dollar. one lucrative stash of moon loot landed in court. lunar bibles printed on microfilm. >> they were preinduced, a group in or around the community who wanted to express support for the space program. they flew on apollo 13 and it was houston, we have a problem. came back to earth. they took a sunset and flew them out. they went to the moon. there was rumours they were out on the surface of the moon. they were packed in the personal preference kick. he brought them back to earth. the founder of the league, job stout is in his 90s living in this engineering home. this collection of lunar bibles is the disappear of a custody battle. author, carol, who wrote a book has 14 lunar bibles and the city of texas wants them back to pay for saut's care. he said four were given as gifts. the two sides are in mediation. the stakes are high lunar bibles sold at auction for 50,000. >> flights to the mon ma

i think we have a longer way to go >>> n.a.s.a. scientists unveiled close up photos snapped from a spacecraft that flew past floodo. the images reveal fast open plains. the teams named is spud nick after a man made satellite. more news from al jazeera on the website, aljazeera.com. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> new york real estate developer and reality tv star donald trump says he's toid with the idea of running for president before but always backed off. this time he's in and he's far enough ahead of many of the other candidates in the polls to be included in the first debates. and now other republican candidates have to look at the hands they've been dealt and worried about the trump card.

n.a.s.a.osion of the spacex rocket last month cost taxpayers $110 million. the unmanned rocket was headed to the international space station on a resupply mission. but just two minutes into the flight disaster. more than 4,000 pounds of food clothing and science experience went up in smoke. n.a.s.a. also said it paid spacex 80% of the fee it was scheduled to receive for the mission >> a few years ago researchers discovered an invisible planet. they know it's there, but they just can't see it. now some u.c. researchers have found ways to find planets while they are asleep. eric thomas looks inside the automated planet finder. >> this is an artist's representation of the three-planet system we discovered. >> you can say it's all in a night's work for lauren, but the process takes longer. that's why lauren and her team members at the university of california set out to supercharge a telescope known as the automated planet finder. >> the automated planet finder is a telescope that's dedicated for

and we talk to n.a.s.a. about an amazing voyage to >>> the nuclear deal announced today is personal for the americans taken hostage in iran 36 years ago. as you heard earlier, they were working at the u.s. embassy when they were kidnapped and held captive. that was the breaking point in relations between the two country, now that a door has been opened, former hostages are hoping to get the restitution they have been seeking. mary snow told us their story in march. >> reporter: when don peers into the past and his 444 days of captivity, he sees unfinished business and wants to make iran pay. cook was among the youngest of 52 americans taken hostage in 1979 after the shaw was overthrown in a revolution. he recalls the blind folding, led to mock firing squads. more than three decades later, cook considered himself one of the lucky ones. >> others didn't. of my colleagues that really, in some cases, took it to their grave, never got over it. >> he feels it's his responsibility to speak on their behalf in demand

. >> after a 9.5 queer void, n.a.s.a.'s new horizon spacecraft is on a trip to pluto. it will pass within 12,500. a megs has proven one thing. the plan planet in the solarcm is bigger than thought >>> it's a squl few believe will see the light of day. 50 jeers after "to kill a mockingbird," harper lee's follow up has gone on sail. it costs the character in a different right. >> since its release harper lee's novel "to kill a mockingbird" sold more than 40 million copies. it's a class ebbing. treasured -- classic, treasured by generations of americans a story resonating at the time. of still right movements. the theme was roicial tolerance as taught by her father. >> you never know a person until you consider things from his point of view. >> the 80-year-old said it was the some book that they would ever right. there, across the u.s. book stores are swamps for "go setter watchman." a squel written before. 20 years later, from the view point of the same daughter now a woman. 2 mitt advanced copies have been printed. >> this is it brufl writing. this pass lee's first righ

n.a.s.a. found what has been described as earth's bigger older cousins. it's 1400 light years away. circling a style that is similar, but older than our sun. you can keep up to date with all the news on the website. aljazeera.com. [ ♪♪ ] >>> on "america tonight", switching to the dark side. >> to thing at the same time as working on the cases, he as sabotaging them, that, to me, is the most shocking and disturbing part of the case. >> "america tonight"s lori jane gliha with a rogue fbi ate who used his -- agent who used his job to get drugs. a man's failure of evidence of an agency out of control? >>> and the dividing line - in life and death. >> blacks could not be buried in the white cemetery, whites could not be buried in the white cemetery. blacks could not be buried >>> christopher putzel in the nation's latest flashpoint. the texas community where a black woman died in police custody. is this really the most racist county in the lone star state? >>> thank you for joining us, i'm joie chen. what began as a routine traffic stop devolved into a flashpoint, reigniting the debate o

. >> we are on board for n.a.s.a.'s operation icebridge - flying over some of the largest ice sheets on the planet.

n.a.s.a.onth cost taxpayers $110 million. it exploded just two minutes into the flight. more than 4,000 pounds of food, clothing and science experience went up in smoke. n.a.s.a. also said it paid spacex 80% of the fee it was scheduled to receive for the mission >> a few years ago researchers discovered an invisible planet. they know it's there but they just can't see it. now some u. c. researchers have found ways to find planets while they are asleep. eric thomas looks inside the automated planet finder. >> this is an artist's representation of the planets we discovered. >> you can say it's all in a night's warning for lauren but the process takes longer. that's why lawyer and her team members at the university of california set out to super charge a telescope known as the automated planet finder. >> the automated planet finder is a telescope that's dedicated for looking at the the stars and finding the planets around them. >> the telescope is situated at the observatory near san jose. it sip

in the same spirit n.a.s.a. reached pluto, spending $650 million, to send a spacecraft billions of miles to get there. is it reason enough in an age of skyrocketed death and increasing space

the landscape is just astoundingly amazing. >> based at n.a.s.a.>> they stand in stark contrast to icy mountains, the size of the rockies and they are young. formed either by movement beneath the surface or by erosion. >> creating the same patterns you see when you look at the surface of a boiling pot of oatmeal or the bubbles in lava land. >> as it drifts farther from pluto, it's looking back at it to measure it's atmosphere. an atmosphere they say is escaping from the dwarf planet's weak gravity. >> what we see behind pluto an iron tail that's been pulled away and carried away in the wind. >> they discovered wind currents near the surface are mild, around 10 miles an hour. they will learn more as the data pours in. >> i'm really looking forward to getting the data in a month or two. it's very tantalizing right now and it's already we are able to do science with it. >> what they have now is merely a preview of what's to come. >> we currently have on the ground less than one of those 50 gigabytes. >> but it's been enough to insight the public's ima

n.a.s.a. found what has been described as earth's bigger older cousins. it's 1400 light years away. circling a style that is similar, but older than our sun. you can keep up to date with all the news on the website. aljazeera.com. [ ♪♪ ] >>> on "america tonight", switching to the dark side. >> to thing at the same time as working on the cases, he as sabotaging them, that, to me, is the most shocking and disturbing part of the case. >> "america tonight"s lori jane gliha with a rogue fbi ate who used his -- agent who used his job to get drugs. a man's failure of evidence of an agency out of control?

. >> he's also collaborated with n.a.s.a. >> for me, there is one system... >> and represented earth at the olympics. >> my dreams are coming true (laughs).... >> and he plans to keep on diving.... >> until i get to be 107... >> i spoke to jean michel cousteau in santa barbara california where his ocean future society is headquartered. it was founded to carry on his pioneering work. >> my generation grew up on the undersea world of jacques cousteau. your dad opened up this universe to generations. how, how has it changed from the 1960s in that initial exploration to to now? >> well, i think his curiosity uh is what made him do what he did and open the door uh in a easy way compared to many other ways uh to uh exploring the ocean and seeing and discovering what is at the end of the day a life support system to every one of us. the majority of all life in the ocean and on earth uh on land is because of the ocean and the foundations of all life which is the plankton zooplankton, phytoplankton. without them it wouldn't have any life. we wouldn't be here. so we didn't know that in those d

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n.a.s.a. revealed photographs yesterday.a surprisingly active world filled with glasers of nitrogen and methane ice. another image showing a hazy layer was especially stunning for scientists. >> this was the image that almost brought tiers to the eyes of the atmospheric scientists on the team. we have starting from scratch. >> it made its closest path ten days ago, coming within 7800 miles. next at 6:00, a homicide investigation closes all lanes of a busy east bay freeway. we have the latest. and an outpouring of support for a fallen hayward police officer as the accused killer's family defends the suspect. prep trauma unit 5. what've we got? bp 64/40 sterilize sites. multiple foreign objects in the body. tweezers. (buzz!) (buzz!) if you're the guy from the operation game, you get operated on. it's what you do. (buzz!) if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. it's what you do. mmm yoplait! it's snack time! oh, look! yoplait original now has 25% less sugar. time to taste it. how is it?

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communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: on tomorrow's pbs "newshour", n.a.s.a's 3 bill>>> this is "nightly business report." with tyler mathisen and sue herera. >> wall street rallies and it has greece to thank. >> fragile deal. greece and its creditors may have reached an agreement. did it come at a price too steep. did germany's demands go too far. >> drowning in debt. the one thing millennials have now that earlier generations did not. massive amounts of debt. tonight we start a three-part series called millennials and money on "nightly business report" for monday july 13th. good evening, everyone. welcome. a deal in greece. stability in china and a stock market rally here on wall street. investors breathed a sigh of relief when they