to defuse the protests. coming up in 10 minutes time, newswatch. but first on bbc news, click. for the whole of human history, we have had no choice but to live off the land literally. everything that we use comes from planet earth. now, some of those resources rare precious metals for example are really useful to scientific and climate research, but they are really difficult to mine. other resources are just, well, running out. all systems are ready. and all of this begs the question as we venture into space, how are we going to live? where are we going to live? and what are we going to live on? so, as humans, we have been exploiting the resources on earth for as long as we have been around but instead of looking down now at what is underneath our feet, we are starting to look up and see what else is out there. ultimately, what we re looking at doing is going to an asteroid, landing on it, taking samples and then, kind of bringing them back. yes, we re going asteroi
scotland. just 12 for aberdeen, up to about 22 23 in london and the south east. things are looking unsettled through the week ahead. we are going to be seeing some spells of terrain, particularly across northern and western parts of the uk. furthersouth northern and western parts of the uk. further south and east avoiding most of the down peers, once again. temperatures in the mid 20s. goodbye for now. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: us military analysts say ukraine appears to have won the battle for its second biggest city kharkiv. reports suggest russia now appears to be focused on withdrawing its troops after failing to encircle the city. finland says it has spoken to russia aboutjoining nato. russia has warned finland and sweden that their entry into the defence alliance would lead to a militarisation of the baltic region. police in india have arrested two people after a fire destroyed an office building in delhi, and killed at least 27 people. witnesses say sev
gecko pads and if you look at, like, the ends of tarantula s feet, you know, the hairs that they have? that s how a spider is able to climb the wall. we ve not quite tested this, but if you were to put one on your head, it would have the force required to crush your skull. oh, good! which is lovely, isn t it? well, if you re going to make an asteroid climbing robot, make a killer asteroid climbing robot. but, really, is this the way to solve our resource problem? after all, it s all a fair way off yet. as well as designing the rest of the robot, with help of tohoko university injapan, the asteroid mining corporation need to find the right asteroid to mine. now, that s done by looking at the chemical composition of meteorites to identify what their parent bodies in this case, asteroids are made of. so, there you go. each element has been assigned randomly a colour. so, in this image, all the green is iron, all the orange is calcium, the pink is silicon, the cyan is magnesi
We begin in nagorno karabakh, where fears are growing of a potential humanitarian catastrophe after Military Action by azerbaijan. Thats the region that is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but large parts of it have been controlled by Ethnic Armenians for three decades. Tens of thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city, stepanakert, many of them gathering at the airport. They are coping with dwindling food, medicine and fuel supplies. In new york, azerbaijans foreign minister, jeyhun bayramov, told the Un General Assembly that baku was determined to reintegrate Karabakh Armenians as equal citizens but his armenian counterpart demanded the un establish a mission in the region to prevent further killings of Ethnic Armenians. The bbc s olga ivshina is one of the first journalists to have reached the region since this weeks hostilities began. She filed this report. This is the first time journalists have been allowed into karabakh since the start of recent