climate change he says the efforts so far are quote way off course. and two months after a failed launch another russian made soyuz rocket is preparing to blast off shortly for the international space station. they ass and also will be aboard say they are confident despite the risks. i m brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show qatar is leaving opec the organization of petroleum exporting countries this move comes ahead of opec s annual meeting in vienna on thursday where it s certain to be the focus of discussions. energy minister says the country will exit the cartel effect in january first reflecting plans to focus more on liquid gas production rather. them or oil now this follows
qatar says it s leaving the organization of petroleum exporting countries to focus more on liquid gas production rather than oil this follows a diplomatic dispute with opec fourteen other members including saudi arabia the kingdom has placed economic sanctions on qatar. more antigovernment protests are taking place in france ambulance workers have gathered close the national assembly in powers to complain about changes to working conditions senior politicians are holding crisis talks because of violent anti-government protests that have rocked the country. a russian man made soyuz rocket was successfully launched into orbit the crew of two men and one woman took off from baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan for a six month mission on the international space station sky to the international space it s the first manned voyage to the i s s since a rocket failure in october. today
in october their colleagues were forced to make an emergency landing when a sensor on the soyuz rocket failed and inquiry later found that it was damaged during assembly the incident was a blow to russia s once revered space program. the astronauts will depart from the same site which launched the first man into space nearly sixty years ago today s mission is a chance for russia to restore its stellar image in space exploration. earlier i spoke with fabio and schmidt from science and i asked him what exactly is at stake for the first manned mission to the i assess since that failed last october. ok what s at stake is basically z. image of ross cosmos program and its holes work holsey soyuz space ship it s
is on the menu for lunch. it s funded by the german charitable organization future for kids. and if and then as a man hand it poverty is spreading and medicinally and we used to give a daily mail to thirty to forty girls now it s three hundred to four hundred and that s me out of the army and. a bit of hope within the misery i these children are learning and have a warm meal every day but only as future and that of many other children in yemen is unknown because there s not yet any sign of an end to the war. a russian soyuz rocket is set to blast off from kazakhstan shortly on board two astronauts and cosmonauts bound for the international space station now this is the first logged since another soyuz failed minutes after liftoff in october the crew
last thing before we go, you can be an aficionado of space flight all your life, trust me, and yet never see anything that compares to this. we ve seen a bunch of rocket launches of course but this is the first time a rocket launch on earth has been this clearly visible from space. it s a high-definition video recorded by an astronaut on board the international space station as it passed over the launch site of a soyuz rocket in kazakhstan. the payload, three tons of supplies for our space station. oxygen, water, food, and fuel they depend on. so here is the video. look closely at the rising bright dot shooting up and away from the earth, you can see the