The freemarket frontier explores what it would take to send humans to mars. Im going to start now i will start over. Good afternoon i will be speaking about mars in the future of space. When will we celebrate the first humans on mars . Research director at Heartland Institute and cato and heritage and other p places in very auspicious july 20th, 2019 with the human beings landing on the moon during that summer i was a internet Goddard Space Flight Center in maryland like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space this is the flight i still have my id badge i know how strict security was and that was enough to get me into the Space Flight Center and things coming around so to speak but then working at the Cato Institute that the space policy for him and then i got a book on space the freemarket frontier. Uzz buzz aldrin did a chapter in my book so i am a space geek from way back. So i asked the question why havent we landed on mars yet. I have five
Also at the g7 as devastating fires take hold of the amazon rainforest, leaders agree to pledge more than 20 million to help save it. And a voyage of discovery how a vast mass of floating rocks in the Pacific Ocean could help save the Great Barrier reef. Welcome to the programme. This years g7 summit of World Leaders has ended. It was billed as the one where nobody would agree on anything. But with such low expectations, perhaps its no suprise that at the end of three days, they have been exceeded there was, in fact, some agreement and a warm atmosphere. Have a look at this body language. French president Emmanuel Macron, host of the meeting, and President Trump showing their closeness with this embrace at theirjoint press conference at the summit, which has come to an end with progress on at least two fronts. Firstly, on iran. Emmmanuel macron said a meeting could be arranged between President Trump and his counterpart, hassan rouhani. Heres mr macron speaking at a joint press confere
Meanwhile at headingley, jofra archer dazzles for england, taking six australian wickets to give his side the edge, heading into day two of the third ashes test. After of the third ashes test. A mixed august, sunshine with after a mixed august, sunshine along with the heat going up. Join me with the full weekend forecast. Its friday 23rd august. Our top story Global Leaders have expressed alarm at the Record Number of wildfires in brazils amazon rainforest. French president Emmanuel Macron tweeted our house is burning and described the situation as an International Crisis that will be discussed at the g7 summit. The brazilian president , Jair Bolsonaro, says he is investigating the fires, but claims he does not have the resources to fight them. Ramzan kamarli has more. The fires in brazils rainforest rage on. This year there have been a Record Number. Satellites have identified over 75,000, most of them located in the amazon basin. The situation has become increasingly worse over the p
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Respected states by fire by our own 30000 buyers in this space that is affecting mostly remote locations not quite here in the city but were told that 345 hours away from here theres already fires in those areas the government has announced that theyre going to be using the armed forces to fight this fires around the hundreds of thousands of them people here are telling us they still have not seen anything as whole as we also heard from the governors of at least 6 states that have been affected by the fires theyre asking for an urgent meeting with the press and they say that they need help the police to fight the fires but in order to cope with what is coming next and let me tell you where we are right now this place 30 years ago used to be filled with trees and biodiversity that has obviously obviously changed this is now a city but over the past decade brazil has pulled him place a series of controls of laws of agencies that help protect the amazon rain forest watch environmental gro