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This is 50 minutes. There we go. Im going to start over. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the next session. Im going to be speaking about mars and the future of space. When will we celebrate the first human on mars. And Research Director at the Heartland Institute and worked at cato and heritage and other places. We are having this discussion on a very auspicious date. July 20, 2019. This is the 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. One of the great human achievements. To give you more of my background during the summe december 1969 i put the High School Intern at the space center out in maryland, so i was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center i sat and watched the launch in the control room. This is the flight plan from the first moon landing. Everybody had one and i kept mine. I still have my little badge and you know how strict security is these days but it was just a little Plastic Thing f
To someone whos a headhunter people who are chefs the real crosssection of Hong Kong Society theyve gathered here in front of the main government complex which is right beside the headquarters of the Peoples Liberation army here in hong kong so i find it all demonstration and i remind viewers that there are many people here who remain very supportive of the protesters and indeed the methods that theyre using they say that the violence that has been perpetrated by the protesters is in their view acceptable and they say this demonstration is meant to show that the protest movement by no means is flagging here in hong kong now you mentioned that its not just you know workers whove been staging a day of action today so to have a number of Students Secondary School students i spoke to one earlier today from a secondary school the 17 years old he also stressed that these students fully support what the other protesters have been doing. They were staging a silent protest outside many schools
A very wet one lead to stop towards hong kong as you can see from monday less wet as we go on into cheese day but im afraid the wet weather yes it is still very much in evidence to say the flooding rains to of course a good part of india lots of clouds showing up on the satellite picture kolkata what remains in flood lots of big downpours here recently and the showers the longer spells of rain continue to cause problems looks a little drier up towards the far northwest of india into pakistan for now monday going on into chews day showers they will continue through much of the Northern Plains over towards the ganges i would say was that northeastern corner of india not quite as wet as it has been recently across the west and gas meanwhile across iraq you say hey we do have a lot you dry and sunny weather hazy sunshine 38 celsius here in doha a little humid side as we go on through the next couple of days but its pretty much wall to wall sunshine a little more cloud around the southern e
People are meeting the arrivals off the planes giving them leaflets and all kinds of different languages talking about Free Hong Kong talking about Police Terrorism here at cetera largely there has been a good response it has to be said good natured response from new arrivals somebody will demand especially perhaps among mainland mainland chinese visitors as people arrive here on the planes or they are being given all of these leaflets you have other people Walking Around with their laptops open explaining in different languages on power point presentations what this is all about excuse me welcome to hong kong and over here we have one of these ubiquitous pop up lenin walls as they are known that weve seen these all around hong kong people stop putting post it notes with all sorts of political messages on them here at the airports because they dont want to overstay their welcome they have a human pop up lenin wall so where you are right off your flight from wherever you come this frida