The show boys to make space travel history to u. S. Astronauts on the 1st ever private mission into space to face the final and most important part of their test flight returning to earth with a brain or splashed down. Omarion evan steen its good to have you with us we begin in the australian state of victoria where a state of disaster has been declared amid a surge in corona virus infections a range of new long down measures has also been imposed including a nighttime curfew for the city of melbourne while this comes after previous long down measures failed to curb a spike in new covert cases. Their last moments of freedom before the curfew came into effect the new measures are the countrys strictest to date melbourne is already under a 6 week lockdown but the infection numbers are still rising victorias premier has now declared a state of disaster. We cannot longer have people visiting out as we can no longer have people simply in about for no good reason whatsoever it is not an easy decision to mike but it is the decision that is necessary and that is war i have my duty and thats why i place will be out in force and you will be stopped and you will be asked and you will need to demonstrate that you are lawfully out and that you are not breaching that curfew the premier said people are not taking the virus seriously enough officials reported that one quarter of those who recently tested positive had violated lockdown rules. Authorities now have greater powers over melbournes 5000000. 00 residents additional restrictions for work places are to be announced on monday the latest day at home order will be in effect for at least 6 weeks. D. W. Reporter pablo foley ileus is in the studio with me to talk a bit more about this pablo why has melbourne in particular been hit so badly by this spike in corona virus cases compared to the rest of australia well Health Experts have actually been very clear and theyve basically said the combination of problems have led to where they are now which is a relaxation of the rules of complacency when it comes to social distancing and also look you know and its interesting when you hear from victorias premier daniel unders he says the rate of community at transmissions of course the people in you know passing on the virus they dont really know where its coming from because in many of cases many of the cases have nothing to do with the workplace or even theyre not getting infected at home or either and of course before this many of the cases in australia were coming from people coming from abroad brought a sudden the situation is completely different you mentioned it there before the rules are going to be much tighter. Stricter and its a massive blow to melburnians and victorians well i think its safe to say its a massive blow to the whole country i mean australia was praised as having brought the pandemic under control within its own borders now its a very different situation how are people elsewhere in the country taking this new situation well you know its like you said its a big blow and also if you go onto like social media you really see what the reaction is and it is pretty divided so i think its quite telling if you hear from a few guy hes from the Opposition Liberal Party and he says 5200000 melburnians now face a curfew and a lockdown ruining Small Businesses and meant. Health. Labor governments policy failures cause theres now its interesting you mention their Mental Health welcome back to that in a minute but if you actually then hear from someone else who has a different take on it this this tweeter here is saying just thinking back to when state premier done andrews and im stage 3 lock down 3 weeks ago he said if people dont do the right thing and numbers dont go down more lockdowns are needed so 2 very different takes there one is talking about Mental Health being a big issue these strains are made taking that very seriously because its going to be a big strain for people having to go back home spend a lot of time by themselves all the uncertainty that comes with us but also that 2nd tweet or were saying something is very important if people are complacent essentially this is what will happen were not seeing that just a mistrial because were seeing that here in europe were seeing that in many countries around the world exactly i mean weve just been reporting about the numbers going up in germany people are getting lazy perhaps about wearing their masks keeping their distance what is going to happen to us in europe are we going to be in the same situation as us trailer does it seem likely were going to have more lock downs in europe as well thats of really worrying and a big concern at the moment were seeing localized lockdowns in countries like spain at the moment you know even here in germany and in other countries theyre looking at different approaches instead of doing these National Lock downs like were seeing or we did see several months ago and the reason for it as you said of complacency and when they look at it a lot of times its 2 groups of people getting together and just not being careful about it theres also another issue which of course is to do with the work conditions of some people and theyve been forced to be in bad situations and reporter public thank you so very much. Well now we have more on some breaking news an attack is ongoing at a prison in afghanistan its happening in the eastern city of jalalabad where multiple gunmen are engaged in a battle with Security Forces were hearing that several people are dead and dozens more are injured and Officials Say the number of casualties will likely rise. Lets get the latest on this developing story in for that were joined by ali latif a hes a journalist in kabul ali this attack on the prison in jalalabad we understand its still going on what more can you tell us. Basically what we know is that there was a motor bomb that hit near the entrance of the jail policemen sorry gunman entered the scene and are essentially you know theres a complex attack going on and Police Special forces are there the ministry of interior at this point would only say that there are at least 3 dead and at least 5 injured but you know not giving any more information because of the fact you know that this attack took place at night and because that its in a city like joel a blog which is you know its a highly overpopulate densely populated city in a very small Geographic Area so that often attacks in the city will lead to a lot of civilian casualties now ali is there any indication on who could be behind the attack or a possible motive. So the taliban have outright denied that they had any involvement and they are in the middle of the 3 day cease fire that cease fire for the eve holiday if it does not get extended which theres no word of it being extended so by all accounts you know within the next few hours by midnight tonight it will and now in afghanistan theres really only 2 groups capable of staging staging such attacks one is obviously the tall one denied it and the other is the forces that claim to be and the city of jalalabad and the province of ning are in particular are very frequent targets for them and if it does turn out to be them or you know essentially any other group it leads to questions about the security situation in afghanistan how is it possible that amidst a ceasefire at a time when the government is seeking peace at a time when you know the government is trying to secure the country theres still so much insecurity the night before either on thursday night there was a major attack in another Eastern Province got in the capital of that province as well and whats interesting is that i believe was the ministry of interior within a few hours of the attack said you know even though the taliban denied that attack as well you know said that we know the exact role of on commander the exact sure i did do they had you know they were planning Something Like this and so again it leads to questions of well if you knew ahead of time where were you that you know why did it take so long to get a response or to get action and so you know the fact that these attacks keep happening raises a lot of questions about groups and also about the ability of the Afghan Government to protect the people. Are importing from kabul we appreciate it thank you. Thank you. Lets turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the world clashes have erupted in southern chile after police evicted indigenous my put of protesters from a government building. The building since monday calling for lands now in the hands of Forestry Companies to be returned to them the protesters also want my booty Political Prisoners to be allowed to rejoin their Community Amid the coronavirus pandemic. In new york city black sex workers held a march and a vigil in times square to honor sex workers whove been killed by Police Violence and cool that 19 the protesters called for the decriminalization of sex work and the release of jailed sex workers participants were encouraged to wear red clothing and also to wear face masks due to the corona virus pandemic. 2 u. S. Astronauts are is set to return to earth and splash down off the coast of florida within the next few hours it will mark the end of a Historic Mission that saw a private Company Rather than a Government Agency sending people into space space separation confirmed the space x. Craft undocked from the International Space station on saturday to be given its 19 hour journey back to the blue planet nasa astronauts bob behnken and curly launched from Cape Canaveral in florida in late may becoming the 1st u. S. Astronauts and nearly a decade to fly to the i. R. S. Says u. S. Soil. And joining me now from washington is keith cowing hes the editor of the space news web site nasa watch dot com and also a former nasa employee good to see you keith so can you talk us through this flash down landing but were expecting later today just how dangerous is it. Well its not without risk used to do it all the time back in the sixties and seventies when we had a pop gemini recruiting pole spacecraft coming back to earth but then for several decades we had speciously in like youre going so. We havent done this for nearly half a century its been a long time since weve done this but its a well known keep thing that the spacecraft does and it should just go as smoothly as planned theyve already had the spacecraft laying perfectly without people on board and predecessors to it as well so it should be a straightforward thing but it requires a little knuckle fighting right now. Going on some work well i imagine that knuckle biting might also have to do with this storm is i. E. S. Thats closing in on florida and now is the storm complicating things. Only to the point that they have a number of lending sites on the east or west coast of florida in since the her of the Tropical Storm is coming up of the east side of florida they just go to the west into the gulf or theyve got plenty of locations when they pick this off here pensacola so they should be leaning relatively calm waters as if there is the storm just a few 100 miles away all right hoping that everything does go well and they do land safely is it fair to say that this mission puts the u. S. Back in a leading position in the space race. Well i think weve always been leading but it certainly gives us you know the full suite of tools we now have the ability to launch our own past routes were always a role rockets of the bring them back to earth so yeah that box could be checked now its like if she could say were you completely back in the sound you know well i know you have been observing this mission from the very start and will be watching it to the very end what are your main takeaways what is the most exciting or important things about this mission. Well one thing it shows is that up until you know this flight particular its always been that only a government rocket only a government capsule or spacecraft keep in just face it what you see here now is a spacecraft built by a contractor on a completely commercial contract able to fly government astronauts thats in space station back and theres another one boeing is doing having spacecraft that will be able to do the same thing so weve kind of gone from the era of only government airplanes can fly use only or to where commercial airliners students are going now we have that happening in space so a lot of the things were used to seeing science fiction. Spacecraft was going to early mobiles on our block to become true and day they cant callahan theyre at nasa watch how thank you so very much for. The pleasure. 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