Genetically modified crops. Dr crystal dilworth is a molecular science and Cara Santa Maria has a bank ground in science. Im phil torres, an endometeorologist. Tonight spiders and goats and how we may hannes spider harness spider silk. Thats the team, lets do some science. Music ] hey guys, welcome to techknow. What does the bulletproof vest have to do with goats milk. The answer lies in spider silk of all things. I got a chance to look at the future of fabrics. It is fascinating. Lets take a look. Reporter they are natures masterful architects, genius at structural design. Their silk though just a fraction of the size of a human hair, is stronger than steel and more powerful than tevlar. You have called spider silk the ancient biomaterial for the future. What do you mean by that . Spiders have been around for roughly 600 billion years. It has properties that no manmade properties have. What can you use it for . Medical products, car tyres, bike tyres looking at it for air bags. How do
Calls for more protests but we are to blame for Climate Change. But we hold the key to fixing it. The findings of a landmark report into our ever changing world. We begin with the battle against fighters against the Islamic State of iraq and levant or i. S. I. L. The peshawar join the fighters in kobane. They have been sent to help syrian kurds stopped armed group. And in Northern Iraq, a town told by kurds i. S. I. L. Is making attacks to try to win it back. Well have reports in a moment. First, the battle for kobane, and al jazeeras jamal joins us from the turkishsyrian border. Jamal, you have seen the fighting from where you are. What have you witnessed . Yes, kobane is a couple of kilometres behind us. We have seen two large air strikes, huge sounds and explosions targetting kobane. And smoke is rising because of that. Proceeding that there was a rally of eight mortar shells fired by the peshawar in the western side of the up to , targetting the eastern parts here. This is the seco
In argentina, huge tracts of forest are being cleared. Kurdish Peshmerga Forces have joined the battle to free kobane. Theyre been firing rockets off the back of pickup trucks. Peshmerga forces started crossing the border friday. Theyre helping the syrian kurds as well as other opposition fighters who are already there. Aljazeera has this report from the turkeysyria border. We are a few kilometers away from kobane where the sound of sporadic fighting and shelling has persisted throughout saturday. Behind me is one of the entrances to the town from turkey where the iraq kurdish Peshmerga Forces crossed over late friday and early saturday, bringing with them muchneeded reinforcements for the Syrian Kurdish fighters who have been combating isil. The Peshmerga Forces when they entered the station themselves mainly in the western part of the city, they brought with them semi pickup trucks carrying anti aircraft guns and rocket launchers, bazookas and the like. These were weaponries that the
Moment. Day after day, children crawl into these dunls tunnels, searching for what they call black diamonds. Coal mining has grown into a multimillion dollar business, in indias northeastern state. Driven by the worlds hunger for energy. But what is the human cost for this development and is the price too high . Its im karishma vian. And during this weeks 101 east were investigating the reports of thousands of children working in these deadly coal pits. I wake up at 6 00 in the morning, brush my teeth have breakfast and go to work. I work for six or seven hours. My job is to cut and dig coal. I also pull it out. Karma has been working as a coal miner for more than a year. After his family left their home, to find work. He just celebrated his 16th birthday. He spent it in here, crawling in what locals call a rathole mine. The tunnel is filled with sulfuric gas and karma needs to go deeper and deeper inside to find coal. Today hes wearing one of our cameras to film sections of the mine t
One small step for man. A major setback nor the commercial space industry, tonight, after a spaceship collapsed in the desert. One died, other was taken to hospital with serious injuries. No word what caused the disaster with debris scattered across the desert. The accident happened 95 miles north of los angeles, aboard spaceship two. The craft was developed for virgin, virgin says the vehicle suffered a serious anomaly but gave no details. Virgin said it would work closely with authorities to discover the anomaly. Virgin boss Richard Branson tweeted hes also flying to california. The vehicle that crashed today evolved from this, spaceship 1 which won the ansari x price for becoming the first privately owned manned spacecraft to fly into space. Many have paid 250,000 deposits to fly on spacecraft 2, carried by virgins white knight 2 care crer jet and then released. The subor bitter will carry it to 62 miles or 100 kilometers above earth. Giving are travelers a brief view. On tuesday, a