space agency wants to send the unmanned rover to the surface of the red planet partially to look for signs of past life on acid says the rover has already passed its 1st driving test if all goes well the craft could land on mars by early 2021 as one of 4 launches to the planet slated for next year we're so happy they have kids counting from washington d.c. joining us is an astrobiologist formerly with nasa an editor of nasa watch dot com keith before we start can you tell us what does an astrobiologist do. well we study the origin and evolution and distribution of life in the universe are at it in a nutshell that now that we've established that nasa already of course conducted over a dozen successful missions to mars what sets this one apart well this is an upgrade of the sort of improved version of the mars 20 of them are science lab which has been on mars for some years this rover is going to get down and actually see you know with the right test whether there was life on mars possibly even if there could still be some life on mars so it's asking the big question as asking the big

the space agency wants to send the rover to the surface of the red planet. partially to look for signs of past life. nasa says the rover has passed its first driving tetest. if all g goes well, the craft could land on mars by 2021. it is one of four lunches slated for next year. we are so happy to have keith from washington, d.c. joining us. he is and astrobiologist, formally and editor of nasa watch. before we start, can you tell us whatat does and astrobiologist ? >> we study the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe. >> in a nutshell. nasa already conducted successful missions to mars. what s sets this onone apart? >> thihis is an upgrade of thee mars scicience lab, whwhich hahn on mars for years. this rover is going to get down and seeee whether therere w wase onon ours -- on mars, possibly whether there could still be life on mars. it is asking the big queuestion. >> china, the european space agency, and the united arab emirates are also sending spacecraft to mars next year. this is a crowded field. how much to the objectives differ

the american space agency, nasa, says the unmanned starliner space capsule has successfully landed in after its aborted mission to the international space station. the craft, built by boeing, is the first american spacecraft, capable of carrying humans, to make its descent onto land. 0ur north america correspondent, peter bowes, reports. home again after an aborted mission. star liner‘s successful landing happened after a failed attempt to reach the international space station but the return journey was flawless a nd station but the return journey was flawless and a major test for the capture's parachutes, flawless and a major test for the ca pture's parachutes, opening flawless and a major test for the capture's parachutes, opening after enduring the intense heat of the craft‘s re—entry into the earths atmosphere. they successfully slowed the capsule down, ensuring a safe arrival in new mexico's white sands desert. a cushioned landing, much to the relief of ground staff. we did not make it to the international station and we did not dock but the spacecraft flew exceptionally well and

but 1st after a one day delay the european space agency has now successfully launched a satellite that will study planets outside our solar system the key ops satellite as it's you know last it off aboard a wrong kit from the european space ports and french guiana the mission is expected to last 3 years part of its goal is to discover if there are other earth like planets capable of sustaining life beyond our star system here is a look at exactly how key ops works. the key ops mission is designed to advance the search for extraterrestrial life for the 1st time the satellite will study planets orbiting distant suns so-called exoplanets. chips will observe how these distant worlds pass in front of the stars they orbit to make this possible researchers 1st had to scour the sky with other telescopes to select the stars to be targeted by the satellite. looking at the one star at the time. so we need to know that star has a plan that we need to know when this planet passes in front of the star and at that moment we point cope's there. the satellite is set to measure the tiny fluctuations in

like nasa and the european space agency account for 20 percent of the economy. to be developing the viper rover that i got a firsthand look at which will allow us to explore and perform experiments on the south pole of the moon in preparation for our return of human american astronauts to the. as you can see the excitement to revisit the moon as a priority for many in this day and age vice president mike pence's the viper rover will allow the u.s. to take a big leap toward mars and even develop technologies to live on the moon for years developing a new generation of nuclear powered spacecraft that left actually help us fly further and farther faster than ever before the investments being made in the space industry are astounding from the year 2000 to $2051100000000.00 was invested but from 2012 to $28.00 that number exploded to $10200000000.00 and according to goldman sachs a whopping 13300000000 has been invested into newly launched space startup since the year 2000 showing just how much of an interest this has brought to the private sector and a big part of t

space agency nasa says the unmanned spacecraft was on a test flight to the international space station when a timing era caused it to miss its planned orbit the star line is now our shuttle to return to on sunday is going to control. now australia's prime minister scott morrison has apologized for going on holiday while the country contends with a massive bushfire emergency mr morrison paid tribute to to volunteer firefighters who were killed as they tackled a blaze near sydney 3 others were seriously injured they were amongst thousands battling to contain around 100 ferocious blazes raging across the state of new south wales. crews struggling to tame wild bushfires in south australia rule teams are doing their best to contain the threat in multiple locations but it's perilous work especially for those on the ground. on 1st day to volunteer firefighters were killed battling flames just south of sydney and road wire and jeffrey keaton died after a burning tree fell on their truck these 2 brave young men who lost their lives that represent for us the thousands and thousands of volunteers

space agency nasa says the unmanned spacecraft was on a test flight to the international space station boeing says the spacecraft missed its planned orbit due to timing error. a company laying pipes for the north stream 2 gas pipeline between russia and germany says it's halted work the subcontractor all cs says the move was in response to u.s. sanctions on friday president donald trump approved sanctions against companies involved in the pipelines construction the u.s. has criticized the project for handing too much power to russia. the sanctions on the north stream to project are included in a wide ranging us defense spending bill president trump signed the legislation into law at a ceremony held under space just outside washington. now my honor to. sign the 2020 national defense authorization act into law. the sanctions target companies involved in the almost 10000000000 euro project to double the pipeline capacity carrying russian natural gas to europe's leading economy germany most of the pipeline has been completed all seized the company building the unfinished section through da

space agency nasa says the unmanned spacecraft was on a test flight to the international space station when a timing error caused it to miss its planned orbit the starliner is now scheduled to return to earth on sunday a week ahead of schedule. pressure on. for south korea's conservatives the country's politics is a tale of 2 presidents former president park going hey and the incumbent. they want park who is in prison for abuse of power and coersion back in office when j. in out and they're using the power of you tube to galvanize their movement. so the cream conservatives in their army of you tubers have been hitting the streets in force to reverse the impeachment of former president. into ows current progressive president mungy in from office many opposition politicians blame what they see as a critical and corrupted media environment for pox downfall and see you tube as the key to correcting that injustice moneywise to undermine critical to the etiology the liberal democracy relating to media egypt has the potential to break a monopoly controlled by the mass media such as the major

space agency nasa's says the unmanned spacecraft was on a test flight to the international space station boeing says the spacecraft missed its planned orbit due to a timing error. now u.k. prime minister boris johnson won last week's snap election promising to get bracks it done and now he has his e.u. withdrawal deal passed the house of commons with room to spare there's still more to do before it becomes law but friday's vote puts the u.k. on course to leave the e.u. in january 31st the 2 sides will then have until the end of 2020 to strike a trade deal. after winning his historic election victory last week boris johnson said he wanted to heal the nation and in the house of commons he presented his bracks it bill as a step towards that was a time that together as one reinvigorated nation one united kingdom filled with a renewed confidence in our national destiny and determined at last to take advantage of the opportunities but not a lie before us but despite the sweet talking johnson had stripped away many of the sweetness to reason may had added to help and peace support it before the

space agency nasa says the unmanned spacecraft was on a test flight to the international space station when a timing error caused it to miss its planned orbit the starliner is now scheduled to return to earth on sunday. in a landmark ruling a french court has held a company at its top management were sponsible for employees suicide $39.00 people attempted or committed suicide or suffered severe depression after the telecom giant r. and slashed more than 20000 jobs in the early to thousands the court called the drastic restructure quote collective moral harassment. france telecom was under siege back in 2006 when a brutal reorganization plan saw over 20000 employees lose their jobs the ruthlessness of the redundancies was a shock to the workers and scores of employees were so desperate they were driven to suicide. this man d.d.a. lombard was in charge of the company at the time and this is how employees reacted to him. today a paris court ruled that the company now known as orange bears legal responsibility for the suicides and as sentenced lombardo to 4 months in prison for the illegal

space agency nasa said the craft made what's called a bull's eye landing at the white sands. sol range in new mexico. to croatia now where the race for the country's presidency is heading to a 2nd round after no candidate won it outright majority in sunday's election a leftist former prime minister zoran may lot of edged top the 1st round of voting he'll face incumbent conservative kalinda grab archetype of each in a whole january 5th the winner will lead croatia as it takes on the presidency of the european union. before let's cross over to journalist d'albret in zagreb but tell me what tell us what's at stake in this election while the role of the president in crow show is largely. ceremonial but that he also or she. creates the foreign policy. is he's the he or she is the commander of the army and of course the biggest question in this election is the ideology the difference between the conservatives the right we the left or center. basically in this election the pain focused more on my goal that than on concrete issues that the country is facing and that they are actually

space agency nasa said the crowd made what's called a bold side landing at the white sands missile range in new mexico. the professional footballers association has called on the british government for an inquiry into racism in the english game this after germany international antonio allegedly faced monkey chants during chelsea's 2 nil win over taught him hotspur on sunday chelsea defender a blue ticket was targeted by some spurs fans after he was involved in a clash with sone grown men who received a red card the referee stopped play during the 2nd half when we together complained about the abuse. and have promised to take the strongest possible action but again it is player to face racism in the premier league earlier this month ben chester united's fred was targeted by manchester city. german soccer now and welcomed on the final match day before the bundesliga heads into the winter break after a tough start to the season on your own have been performing well but struggling decide or got the better of them on sunday. last season disallowed off one of the over achieving new boys in the

space agency nasa said the craft made what's called a bull's eye. landing at the white sands missile range in new mexico. the secretive artist banksy has unveiled his latest work and activity seen with a political twist it's on display in a hotel in bethlehem they traditional birthplace of jesus today both bethlehem and the hotel which banksy is involved in find themselves in israeli occupied west bank and in banks he's nativity scene so does baby jesus. at the 1st glance this new bag the installation just looks like a typical nativity play now take a closer look it's not the christmas doll that is shining on to baby jesus mary and joseph it's light that is coming through a show hole on a demo concrete wall a reference to the east really built up area they could be seen from every room of this hotel. you called this amazing piece of or the score. and it's a scar on it's it's a play on the worth of growth this photograph lands called. the artwork it's a metaphor for how palestinians live today in bethlehem and the rest of the police team in territori

space agency nasa said the craft made what's called a bull's eye landing at the white sands missile range in new mexico. hong kong police have broken up a sit in protesting china's treatment of its weaker ethnic minority the demonstrators accuse beijing of abusing over a 1000000 of the weaker muslims it's held in something it's a nice the standoff between police and protesters marks the latest violence in more than 6 months under arrest in hong kong. a rally for freedom of speech that ended like this. anger and violence between activists in place. bottles flies protesters respond furiously to the police action. amidst the scuffles and office appointees demonstrate is. this is what activists are complaining about they say china is threatening the liberties the people of hong kong still have. i think that basically we're all fighting against it's a totalitarian regime for we don't want. china. to become this undefeatable. sansom. the rally started peacefully in hong kong's financial district hundreds of democracy activists staged to see the in to show support of mainland chinese ethnic wage

that is the path we go down the space developed agency, to the leadership of doctor derek truenear. we will be able to produce the necessary redundancy, resilience, proliferation, persistence, timeliness that our space architecture needs to deter the wars of the future or wyndham if we have to fight. thank you very much. i am going to leave the rest of the time available to you for questions and it would be great if someone could turn down the lights on me and turn up the lights on the audience. thank you. [applause] >> i'm not sure there's any view which is enhanced by having more light on me. so questions? >> thank you, patrick tucker. i want to speak briefly to beyond overwhelming numbers of small satellites leading to resiliency, what are the defense of strategies or capabilities you are looking to develop in next-generation architectures possibly putting thrusters and mobility or whatever else beyond resiliency to large numbers? >> i am not seeking, we are not seeking to proliferate our space architecture, merely to have greater numbers of small satellites. if it is to be our a

space agency wants to send an unmanned rover to the surface of the red planet partly to look for signs of past life nasa says the rover has already passed its 1st driving test if all goes well crafted could lead to mars by early 2021 is one of 4 launches the planet slated for next year. and earlier we spoke to keith cowing an astrobiologist formerly with nasa he told us what the 4 missions heading to mars in 2020 are trying to achieve the u.a.e. spacecraft will be looking at mars whether china is going to be launching an orbiter but also is going to be putting a small lainer that will be looking for something called bio signatures evidence of a biological molecules on mars your hopes rosalind franklin rover from excell mars will be in the same thing as will the mars 2020 rover so those 3 rovers plus the mars science laboratory going for rovers on mars all of them are looking for evidence of past and possibly present life so it's going to be sort of a in astrobiology festival you know one in 2020 we put it rip arts. there is keith cowing an astrobiologist formerly with nasa speaking to

the european space agency wants to clean up decades of orbiting space junk. ellites and discarded rockets. the agency plans to send a multiarmed robot into space in 2025 to latch on to the debris. then the machine and its trash will dive back to earth and burn up in the atmosphere. there are about, get this, 170 million pieces of junk in earth orbit right now. but no international rules hold space agencies accountable for it. >>> back on earth, international negotiations to battle climate change will resume in the coming hours. right now, countries are deadlocked after working well into the overnight hours, past a friday deadline, to wrap up the two-week cop25 summit in madrid. countries cannot agree on how to set regulations and targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. a key part of the paris climate accord. one person at the center of it all is teenageage activist greta thunberg. she's made a name for herself by calling out world leaders for inaction on issues. in madrid, she slammed participants calling their response to the crisis clever accounting an

this space agency yeah. it's a potato space. so the growth in the air oh yeah that's something every day. but this way you don't really need. the benefits of. 10 times more. traditional way so this is this is for real for you guys this is not just a kind of a marketing stunt we don't have to be millionaires we just need to you know roll things forward make people think we're talking about you know food certification climate change. stuff. and. later on henry's invitation. ready to 1st to travel just want to down the road to see if these principles of circular economics can work on a much larger scale. farming on exactly. breaks. here. turned from a robert jordan has a vertical farm but this one is another level. who moves a jacket it's a different season in say disney. like herb safari would we go means possible again some coriander i need to speak to you to have kind of a glass that's just weird so this is entirely electric yes there's no no sunlight used to hold the wire meant a more efficient growth. of all your yield is a mu

the american space agency nasa says the unmanned starlight in a space capsule has successfully landed in the desert in the state of new mexico after its aborted mission to the international space station. the craft is the first american spacecraft capable of dissent to land. now on bbc news, one of the most striking stories of 2019 from. two twin girls who were bornjoined at the 2019 from. two twin girls who were born joined at the head and then brought from pakistan to london for highly complex operations. fergus walsh followed them through the dangerous nine months process. a warning that his programme contains images of surgery. safa and marwa are identical twins joined at the head. their family, from pakistan, want doctors to separate them. great 0rmond street in london is one of the few hospitals in the world with the expertise to do it. this is safa's brain, that's marwa's brain. what we need to achieve is to effectively untwist the brains, and that is difficult, pretty difficult to do just in your head. but it is perilous. the pads are on and they are ready to shock if we need

this space agency yeah well you know this it's a potato space st. louis caldera point so is the growth in the air oh yeah now that is something you don't see every day is it is wet yes. they still can't moist yes but this way you don't really need any soil the benefits about this is it can produce 10 times more potatoes than a traditional way so this is this is for real for you guys this is not just a kind of a marketing stunt we don't have to be millionaires we just need to you know roll things forward make people think. we're talking about. certification climate change. stuff. and. later on henry's invitation. the 1st to travel just want to down the road to see if these principles of circular economics can work on a much larger industrial scale. it's. exactly. breaks. here. actor turned farmer robert jordan also has a vertical farm but this one is another level. group jackets it's a different season in say disney. like herb safari would we go means beisel again some coriander i need to speak to you to have kind of a glass that's just weird so this

they have been chosen by the european space agency to had the first mission to clean up the junk floatingund in space. are 3000 abandon satellites, and more than 34,000 pieces of debris hanging around from disintegrating spacecraft. clear space beat out more than a dozen bidders for this 100 million euro contract. it will build a spacecraft with robotic arms to pick up part of sa rocket that has been floating around since 2015. the esa say they are moving into the area of cleaning up our things worked in space. it will be interesting to see how this sorts out. genie: coming up in the next half-hour, the winner is -- netflix. at least it seems to be, if the golden globe nominations are any indication. a closer look on the way after the news. reporter: in ukraine, the baby business is booming. it's the new w go-to destinatation for commercial surrogagacy. woman: where's your smiles? not yet. too young. reporter: while it brings joy to some... [woman speaking native e langua] [child crying] reporter: there's heartache for others. we uncover an ugly trade. woman: i think these are cockroaches

it's such a key concept in cosmology we want to know it as precisely as possible the european space agency's planck satellite measured radiation from the early universe and determined that for every megaparsecs or 3300000 light years further away a galaxy is it's receding 6070 kilometers per 2nd faster but more recently the hubble space telescope examined nearby galaxies and came up with a higher expansion rate of 74 kilometers per 2nd per megawatt hasek based. scrapin see still needs to be explained. many physicists believe but these glimpses into the cosmos show that the rate of expansion of the universe is increasing. some us astrophysicists have simulated what would happen if the expansion were to keep accelerating. in this scenario known as the big rip the entire fabric of space time would be torn apart galaxies stars planets even atoms the universe as we know it would cease to exist. fioretti that is fortunately this scenario is very improbable. so keep those questions coming here's how to get in touch on our website twitter or facebook. that's all for now next time we get into micro p

the european space agency wants to clean up space junk. agency plans to send a multi armed robot into space in 2025 to latch on to the debris. then the machine and its trash will dive back to earth and burn up in the atmosphere. there are about 170 million pieces of junk in earth orbit, but no interpret rules hold agencies accountable for it. >>> right now, countries are deadlocked after working well into the overnight hours past a friday deadline to wrap up the two-week cop 25 summit in madrid, spain. countries could not agree on how to set regulations and targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. a key part of the paris climate accord. >>> teenage activist greta thunberg has made a name for herself by calling out activists. she kept up the pressure in italy in one of her usual friday protests with more harsh words for leaders attending the climate talks. >> world leaders are still trying to run away from their responsibilities, but we have to make sure that they cannot do that. we will make sure that we put them against the wall and t

the european space agency has popostponed -- mission control made the decision after discovering a software error. a court in pakistan sentenced the country's former president to death for high treason. bashar ruled from 1999. he is living in exile. >> the sentence has been a long time coming for former pakistani president bashar, seen here in a court hearing in 2014. the verdictt -- guilty of treason. the sentence -- death. musharraf's lawyer rejected the decision, calling on pakistanis to stand by former ruler. >> i say this complaint is wrong. i'm not admitting the complaint. >> the verdict is part of the ongoing fallout. he may have lost popular support , but the former general continue to have his backers in the country's popular military. >> this is a unique decision i n ththe history y of pakista for t the first time, a military didictator has beeeen punisishey the court u under the constititn anand t the law, and it was ovee because the constitution has been violated no less than four or five times in the history of pakistan. >> for the time being at least, the death sentence is unl

space agency has been monitoring carbon dioxide levels. in 2013 climate history is made at the moment station in hawaii. in the month of may we measured c o 2. you know why go over 400. which is a mile you could say. we think this is a significant milestone it reminds. me. in the last at least 2000000 years. was also significant is the rate of increase is rapid. this computer generated image shows the. across the globe the intense red indicate increased burning of fossil fuels during the. 2006 which in turn generates. america europe and asia scientists at nasa and around the world have evidence indicating increased levels of c o 2 in atmosphere behind rising temperatures extreme droughts and extreme storms associated with global warming and climate change the prime driver scientists say carbon dioxide c o 2 a colorless odorless nature can provide a part of carbon capture through photosynthesis trees and plants to see or to production has outpaced the growth of the forests global temperatures continue to climb higher. 1000 and 72nd warmest

spacecraft moments before it was supposed to touch down on the moon after months long search america's space agency nasa and now says it has located the crash site thanks to a mission from india. is here with welcome peter so a space mystery solved by a mission of space detective yeah it's just like it's a really cool story this is just a regular guy from. who basically manage to do what some of the world's leading space i insist couldn't. his name is shanmuga super money and he's a 33 year old mechanical engineer and a self-proclaimed space not so when the indian mission control lost contact with the spacecraft he decided to join the search and see if you can find it so how did he do that well he did all of it from his laptop from his home he scoured satellite images that were shared by nasa. about a week after they were released he tweeted what he believed to be the crash site comparing an image of the target landing site before and after the spacecraft went missing and so he factis findings to nasa which then decided to take a closer look. we should see the images right here again they compare b

the american space agency has been overseeing the development of the capsule.s provided milestone payments to help boeing in vehicle into operation. and despite the setback, the agency is positive. >> i we would have had crew in there, number they would have one, been safe. to be cl be safe.rew would have and had they been there, we may be docking with the international space station tomorrow, had they been in the spacecraft. so a lot of things went right today. 3, 2, 1, 0. reporter: nasa hasn't itunched own astronauts into orbit for nearly nine years. irwhen it r the shuttles in 2011, it bought seats to then space statd russian -- space station on russian i capsultead. nasa would rather spend its money hailing rides on american-built astronaut taxi heserves. anenterprise, california's spacex c company hpleted the , test flight of its astronaut capsule. the dragon craft made a flawless abtrip to the orbitingn march. spacex is set to fly astronauts for real in the next few months. the fallout from today' events for boeing are unclear. heengineers will inspect st

brazil's space agency said that there was an 85% increase in fires in 2019, the worst in brazilian amazoneliberate in order to create more farmland. the fires have made the problem of the rapid deforestation much worse, as my colleague david shukman reported when he travelled there. it's hard to believe, but an area the size of a football pitch is being cleared every single minute. what that means is that forest that could cover more than 2,000 pitches is just vanishing every day. and all the signs are that this rate of devastation will accelerate. air travel has one of the most damaging impacts on the climate, and so there were calls for us to reduce the number of flights we take. among the protesters was greta thunberg, who, to make the point, travelled to climate conferences by boat. she departed from plymouth on a racing yacht built for speed, as justin rowlatt discovered. the malizia is all about speed. look at her! she's just a giant sail attached to a super light carbon fibre hull. she basically bounces through the waves, sometimes dives right through them. it is... whoa! it is a v