that people are facing hunger so they are concerned about how that peace deal is being implemented and asked for their foreign affairs of south sudan that will be discussed and to find ways to implement the deal faster so that any further bloodshed and for the displaced in south sudan should be stopped it's not clear if any agreement would be reached and the i get said that they're not going to renegotiate the peace deal to try to bring on board the people who have not signed on the people who have not signed the peace deal say they do not recognize the peace deal they don't recognize the government that they will continue to fight so it's not clear what these talks will produce but one thing is for certain is that they will be discussing the peace deal and they will try to find ways to reduce the fighting if not and it. last time i had on al-jazeera when want to be into these riches regions where anti immigration policies thrive kind of cross go without migrants. and i bet the weather is a quietening down every pulse of the middle east now we are seeing one area of travis gradually working away towards the northeast rule say seeing more cloud making its way you have opposed turkey and syria this is given a some pretty heavy rain and some strong winds but it is gradually easing instead there just be a handful of showers across that coastline of the mediterranean as we head through the day on cheese day elsewhere in fact that we'll see the temperatures beginning to rise now we get to around twenty three degrees just to the south of us that we more cloud beginning to build on wednesday and that will take the edge of the temperatures a little bit now here in doha been quite cool particularly over the night the winds go to a bit of a bite to it but as we head through the next few days that wind's going to change so late on tuesday and overnight the winds will be coming from the east and that will draw in some form on the air could be a little bit more in the way of cloud there so the outside chance of a shower but it won't feel quite as chilly at night so what is malta for us will be off at twenty nine degrees but we have further south there's more in the way of wet weather here you can see it stretching for angola are all the way down across parts of madagascar and here we are now seeing quite a cluster of thunderstorms develop this system is just going to nudge is way a little bit further north as we had three chews day so many of us in mozambique are looking at a pretty wet day expect some flooding. hello again you're watching al-jazeera mind of our top stories this hour venezuela's opposition leader is back in caracas after defying a travel ban on why don't call for demonstrations to coincide with his return against the president is currently making his way through a huge crowd of supporters in caracas. the u.s. judiciary committee the house judiciary committee issued new requests for donald trump's sons and former white house counsel in the investigation against the present committee chairman says they're focused on corruption obstruction of justice and abuse of power. one hundred fifty i saw fighters defending the group's last territory in syria have surrendered to u.s. backed troops there among hundreds of people to leave the eastern village of beit who's suing democratic forces try to liberate the town. algerians are continuing to protest after the president submitted his name for a fifth term in office that's despite abdelaziz bouteflika is attempt to appease them by promising electoral reforms if he wins next month's vote. reports. the protests continue a jury ans voicing their opposition to the candidacy of incumbent president of the lassies beautifully for a fifth i. can't independently verify these pictures posted on social media here in the city of goma but there have been daily demonstrations around the country every since beautifully can nouns he will seek another term people are demanding that the constitutional. court stopped beautifully standing in next month's election. in response to the protests defeat his campaign manager signaled the president will not rule for long if you wins april's election where in any of them will some mean one. i pledge to organize early elections to be set up by the independent national conference i pledged not to be a candidate and that selection a compromise that failed to convince several presidential candidates have dropped out of the race leaving the upcoming april election in disarray. that same anger was voice on the streets of france in paris and other big cities where there are large populations of algerian descent we are all mobilizing through for example today being many be going up against their fifth mandates but also against the system they have taken our country away from a president with a flicker who's eighty two has used a wheelchair since suffering a stroke in twenty thirteen and is rarely seen in public many complaints the president spend most of his current term getting treatment overseas then running the country. on saturday he sacked his veteran campaign manager possibly a tactic to calm the growing protest movement toward in two hundred people including dozens of police officers have been injured so far the protests represent the biggest challenge to beautifully has ruled since the twenty fourteen election which was denounced by the opposition but analysts say this is different to the protests during the arab spring i don't think there's the anger and hostility against the president which you saw in egypt that he did help to heal the wounds of the civil war he has he has brought some measure of prosperity but he can't buy off the votes is because the economy is is crumbling. many of those under streets have only known beautifully as president young people who feel marginalized from public life and who now want to steer a jury in a different direction but at the head. of floods in southern pakistan and afghanistan have killed at least fifty people heavy rain of the past ten days is cut of tens of thousands of people shot a balance reports from kabul. the afghan military flying over flooded kandahar province on a mission to rescue one thousand people trapped by floods there's been heavy rain in afghanistan and southern pakistan for more than a week. so today flash floods swept through towns and villages across the region we didn't just do you acknowledge that a disaster took place in kandahar there's no drainage and there is little public awareness which is why so many people were affected most of the affected people were already internally displaced and living on the river banks so they were hit harder than the others the traditional homes constructed from modern clay stood little chance as the flood waters search through oregon your farmer or i'm a poor man or the walls of my house have been damaged my two children were injured i'm asking the government to help me by providing tents it was a sale and a city and now we're distributing emergency aid on the advice of the governor we made a list of three hundred ninety seven families of that two hundred fifty families had their homes fully destroyed the u.n. is sending teams and sitting up shelters to help the displaced i think another issue that we're dealing with is accessibility in some of the more rural areas that we're only just getting to people are quite cut off they are quite vulnerable so obviously an event like this has a big impact on. the destruction extends from kandahar through six different provinces to harass and far in the west for than five hundred homes have been damaged or destroyed as well as schools mosques and bridges in pakistan the southern province of baluchistan has been hardest hit the military rescued hundreds of families stranded by floodwaters relief camps have been set up but those at high altitudes dealing with heavy snow. back in afghanistan most people were hurt as their homes collapsed around them others was swept away in the waters in kandahar those who could travel made their way from far away districts tomorrow i say hospital those who couldn't wait it is half a dozen medical teams try to reach flooded areas. but we have received in this hospital twelve dead bodies which include six men one woman and five children as well as. thirty five injured safe many people remain missing and in such remote areas of afghanistan and pakistan is going to take some time to assess how many lives and positions having lost shelob ellis out is there a couple. at least twenty two people have been killed in a series of tornadoes hit the u.s. state of alabama rescue teams are searching the wreckage of homes and businesses destroyed in lee county it's feared the number of dead could rise dosage of body has been this is what is left of lee county in eastern alabama after several tornadoes struck on sunday the u.s. national weather service says the first tornado packed winds of up to two hundred sixty six kilometers an hour carving a path at least a kilometer wide people tried to leave the area before the tornadoes hit i got a car away or my kids. my wife level two more going to my mother in law as we were just trying to get out of this area right here coming up around the corner as i was making a left right up there around thirty. and then follow the area right here. is very much just down. the scattered debris is hampering rescue efforts in certain areas we've done everything we feel like we can do to save the area is just very very hazardous to put anybody into a just point in time debris everywhere and it is just as it has mentioned previously this evening just some mass damage to structures residences in the area catastrophic is toward being used by many to describe what's happened here more than ten thousand people are without power across the state of alabama cold weather is forecast for the area after tornadoes with temperatures predicted to drop to near freezing. the state governor has warned people there could be more extreme weather to come and there are tornado warning still in place in parts of alabama and the neighboring state of georgia door such a pari al-jazeera the un's nuclear agency says iran still complying with the deal it signed with five world powers in twenty fifteen the international atomic energy agency confirmed iran's compliance with the agreement aimed at preventing it from aimed at preventing it from building nuclear weapons the u.s. withdrew from the deal last year ahead reimposed sanctions on iran. the netherlands has record its ambassador from tehran over the killing of two iranian dissidents on dutch soil foreign minister steph brock said it was a direct response to a similar move by iran netherlands accuses the iranian government of involvement in the killing of two opposition figures in two thousand and fifteen and twenty seventy. the israeli government's pushing for the quick demolition of the homes of two palestinians killed by israeli forces in the occupied west bank the military says the pair were killed after they tried to drive a car into israeli soldiers it happened in a call for an image village west of ramallah a local say it was just a car accident israel demolishes the homes of alleged palestinian attack is to deter future incidents near the abraham has more from ramallah in the occupied west bank. the palestinian health minister says that two palestinians were killed and third was wounded in the village of call for an hour west of israeli forces say that the three palestinians have branded a car against israeli soldiers in the area wounding two of them and the israeli army has also said in a statement that there found fire bombs in the car however the palestinians say that they contest the version of israeli forces and they say that the area in which the incident has happened has witnessed so many car accidents in the past the israeli army has closed off the area and many palestinians have suffered tear gas inhalation after a confrontation between the palestinians and the israeli army now the u.s. consulate in west jerusalem has been absorbed by the new u.s. embassy to israel the decision to turn them into a single diplomatic mission was made in october the consulate has been in place for nearly one hundred seventy five years and acts as a defacto u.s. embassy for palestinians many of them consider the move a downgrade in diplomatic relations egyptian photojournalists mahmoud better known as has been released after more than five years in prison he posted this picture on his twitter account with the hash tag hello asphalt it is used by gyptian political prisoners when they're free shall crown was real was arrested in two thousand and thirteen while taking pictures of protests. in journalism we are told to report the story and not be part of the story and unfortunately what happened with me was i was the story. i am not the first or last journalist to be detained famous journalist were detained and resumed their work when they were released i hope to follow the same path. it is one of the richest regions in europe and an economic powerhouse of italy veneto is also where the country's far right party known as the league has thrived nearly a third of the region voted for the party and its anti immigration policies in recent elections but migrant labor is crucial to the success of the region sonia gago has more from the city of around. a city steeped in history and as with other parts of italy their own is people are fiercely protective of their identity and customs so much so that protecting these was one of the foundations for the likud party. is where the league has always been important in terms of right wing parties and identity terry a movement it's an experiment into right wing politics we are battling for an identity and cause for defending security and against illegal uncontrolled immigration and the issue of immigration is always close to the top of the party's agenda there is a history of the extreme right here in verona back to the days of when it was part of the republic of salo during world war two and nazi puppet state these days it is the league that rules and they found the fervor of near fascist organizations here problem is that their anti immigrant rhetoric collides with the reality and that is that migrants are very much part of the success of this wealthy region. it's heavy work making motorized outdoor tools in this factory the assembly line chan's out lawnmowers and tractors one of the many industrial operations that defines venet off as a powerhouse i had a look along the shop floor reveals how diverse the eight hundred strong workforce is the factory could not keep up with demand or maintain its leadership in the market without italian workers i don't think it about politics we take it about the business and when the business come into the matters integration is something that you have to do because you want a wonderful product you want quality you want to fish and sea and you cannot have it without integrity whatever going to work is your environment. but while ten percent of the region's population is made up of migrants and immigration political parties have flourished then it'll come in. the immigrant labor force is indispensable in venator especially in small to medium sized businesses more so in this region than in any other it also has one of the oldest populations in the country which needs to mess to employees from this workforce despite this the anti immigration strategy has worked for the leak in this region turning fears into slogans has proved profitable for the politicians in terms of votes but some businesses are asking without the immigrant workers would we still be making a profit on it al-jazeera verona venator. this is going to round up all the top stories venezuela's opposition leader is back in caracas after defying a travel ban. speaking before a huge crowd of supporters in the venezuelan capital called for demonstrations against president nicolas maduro to coincide with his return the u.s. house judiciary committee has issued new requests for donald trump's sons and former white house counsel in the investigation against the president to requests include records from former attorney general jeff sessions the justice department and the f.b.i. committee chairman says they're focused on corruption obstruction of justice and abuse of power kimberly how good has more from washington. a sense lee what the house democrats are trying to do in all of this is to create lengthy public hearings to will put the president on public trial in the court of public opinion that will last for many months it may or may not lead to impeachment proceedings but what this definitely will do and this is part of the strategy as we understand is to embarrass trump officials embarrass the president in the eyes of the public as they head towards election day for the president trying to win a second term in the white house in two thousand and twenty one hundred fifty isaw finances defending the group's last territory in syria have surrendered to u.s. backed troops fighters are among hundreds of people to leave the eastern village of but whose syrian democratic forces tried to liberate the town algerians are continuing to protest after president abdelaziz bouteflika submitted his name for a fifth term in office he's promising electoral formes if he wins next month's vote the eighty two year old has been facing growing protests against his rule egyptian photojournalist mahmoud i was a better known as shell and has been released after more than five years in prison he was arrested in two thousand and thirteen israeli government stepping up definition of. palestinians who were killed by israeli forces in the occupied west bank the israeli military says the pair were killed after they tried to drive a car into israeli soldiers in coeur nama village but locals say it was a car accident those are the headlines inside stories next. this is the opportunity to understand the very different way weren't there before we don't have. the first commercial cap still capable of carrying humans dogs with the international space station is this a breakthrough for commercial programs or will it take space exploration to a new level this is inside story. alone while come to the show i'm sammy's a than now science fiction has long said space is the next frontier and this is gradually becoming a reality it seems you see on saturday space x. made history with the launch of its dragon spacecraft but is owned by billion on musk the new space vehicle carried only cargo and a human dummy but it's become the first american commercial space vehicle designed to carry humans to dock at the international space station the u.s. government ended its famous space shuttle program in two thousand and eleven and the galaxy discussion with this report. three q. right here it said. when space x. is unmanned dragon capsule launched from cape canaveral on saturday it was a high stakes mission twenty seven hours later the capsule with only a test dummy on board slowly approaching international space station when it excessively docked nasser in space x. declared a new era in commercial space travel after. the program. or emotionally exhausted. because. for. but it worked. it's been eight years since american astronauts last launched into space from u.s. soil but space six hopes to change that the dragon capsule remain in place until friday get in and docks and aims for a splash down in the atlantic and other vital tests for the program the next mission from space x. will be a test of the capsules high altitude a book capabilities safety system designed to get astronauts out of the way if there's a problem during launch after that will come the real milestone in july space x. plans to send two astronauts into space potentially ending years of the u.s. relying on other countries to get humans to the international space station and gallacher al-jazeera let's have a look now at the history of how commercial companies have explored space in one hundred eighty two a u.s. company called space services launched the first privately funded rocket then some nineteen years later american multimillionaire dennis tito boarded a russian capsule and became the world's first ever space tourist and last year richard branson virgin galactic successfully rocketed to the edge of space and back . let's bring in our gas into the show now we have joining us from toronto colonel chris hadfield he was the first canadian commander of the international space station the author of the book and astronauts guide to life on earth in houston joining us on skype eric berger he's a senior space editor at our technica and in london jill stewart she's a research fellow at the london school of economics who researches the politics ethics and laws of outer space welcome to all exciting panel i could start with eric so are you excited eric is this a huge step forward for space privatization if we can call it that how do you feel about that eric well it's not a huge step forward for it was a critical step i mean this mission to go right here space x. is going to want. to be huge and significant moment later decelerated us. but does the issue really was a proving ground station want absolutely honestly dark to the station. and saloon and critically and early friday morning in a manic ocean safely then they will go a long way to show national rest of the world their private company previously only country the united states russia and china or let me bring jill into the discussion one should not forget though this is by no means the beginning of commercial space exploration right a lot of the what we think of as government programs at least in the us involve the private sector why is this so significant and that. i'm glad you had that short lead in where you talked about the history of commercialization i think we tend to think of space course legislation as being something that's really new but it's been going on for decades and also something else to point out is that space x. is how it has a lot of government funding backing it and so i think we can't really distinguish between these being completely separate entities government versus private so it is a significant event but i don't think we should over state exactly how new it is what is significant then joe if as you said we've got this long history of the line being blurred between government and private programs i would say personally because the united states is going to have its capability to put humans on to the international space station again even though it's through a commercial partner but it would be from american soil legally what's interesting is that because it's a commercial entity a state has to take responsibility a country has to take responsibility for any damage that might be done by the object in this case the dragon capsule but it would be the united states that would be responsible for the capsule in this case so sense the space shuttle was retired it would be the first time that the united states would be space capable again in terms of humans and that's significant so it is it is a big event but again i wouldn't want to overstate the degree to which space commercialization is something hugely new it's more of an evolution in my mind rather than a revolution all right so it's a big event for the u.s. is capabilities of putting humans back in space colonel hadfield you're a canadian you've been in space you've been a commander at the international space station is there a reason for those who are not americans to also be excited about this day. yeah i think i mean i think it's incredibly exciting not only is this a new vehicle to take human beings off of the earth which which we haven't had for a while but it's also set up a whole different type of management structure so that space x. has the option of not just taking american government or other international astronauts to space but they have the potential of taking kind of whoever they want to space and boeing who's also building a rocket that should fly later this year that can take people on it has the same option there are ways to bring passengers up as well it's like early aviation suddenly opening to two passengers being about get on in and see the whole world in a new way so it's kind of like a door opening that we've never had open before and i agree with what judge as erik just said but i think it's also just a really cool next development in providing access to space like we've never seen it so colonel do you feel like well witnessing somehow the beginnings of human colonization of space. well it's still very very early i mean it's still dangerous and therefore difficult and expensive so that becomes a real limiter but with every launch on these new rockets that space x. has built in all of their competitors it's decreasing the risk and therefore increasing the accessibility drop in the cost so yeah that that opens up some real possibilities not just to getting things much more cheaply to earth orbit but the next logical destination being the moon to it's only three days away and it's not that big a shift in technology for people to go to the space station or to get to orbit around the moon or even down to the surface and rather than just the early exploration days where we just like just showing at the top of everest that it was barely possible to actually get into the phase of human settlement it seems science fiction but that's the cusp of where we are and that's what was really dramatically sort of demonstrated by this first launch of space x. as human rated space ship well that's kind of the feeling will we get excited to or we're getting excited about the story because we kind of feel like we're taking a big step forward every hour is there a difference a distinction that we need to make between a private company working in a government program and the sort of thing that verdict lactic is working on which is very much more toward space tourism taking people around in space yeah i would i would see a couple of these about that first of all there is a big difference between a government contractor going out and saying we're going to fulfill what the government wants to do which is get people the international space station and there's a surely commercial operation by virgin galactic which is to try and send hundreds of people on civil rules but i would also say that you know just that this was an evolution of the revolution i think it and it is to be gaining a revolution because. for a long time you had government buying products space for contractors time and exactly what they wanted and how to do it and the government's goal certainly during your pilot program and since then with us and a handful of people in the space. the best and brightest to do things but but kind of the ito's of these commercial companies like space x. out of virgin and goorjian is really to shake that up and not kind of have a qadri of elite ask nicely they're going to have. the bad and the brightest which is to broaden access to space more and you're seeing that with the approach that reusable rocket sex's has helped pioneer in terms of vertical takeoff and landing and so the fact that this company that is out there saying we want to colonize mars eventually gets to space first ahead of the legacy aerospace boeing. with its with the space x. dragon capsule really kind of is i think puts down a marker to the future that this commercial space for all this running access to space lowering costs a lot more people a lot of space that a future is possible we're certainly not there yet this is very much the beginning of the process or let's bring guilin back in to that point then is it more of a revolution than you might be willing to concede jill the feeling that private companies and i'm now becoming more and more involved in the entire process of space exploration them for. you know i'm sticking with my i'm sticking with my word of evolution i do still think it's more gradual and something i would point out i think it's interesting you mention colonise ations sort of jump to colonization maybe i'm just somebody who tends towards the middle but i think maybe that the middle step really that we're talking about here would be tourism first so i think it's really interesting to talk about the ethical questions around colonization but what we saw over the weekend i think more points towards what we might see in the next decade which really is about two or ism one of the things that i think is interesting is with with complete respect to both eric and chris who are very optimistic about this being a positive thing of people being able to go into space i do think we need to think about you know who do we want to be able to have access to space is that you know definitely a good thing that we can all potentially go out there what experiences do we want people to be able to get out of this should we be thinking about regulations and safety and the environmental impacts of of being able to go out there i actually am optimistic about what the future holds and when i was just going to the family as i don't i don't think. in terms of of regulation. no. while i mean. to some degree yes i mean or at least it's obviously not tested entirely but i mean i mean as chris i'm sure can attest to i mean just the legal infrastructure for the international space station was incredibly complicated because of the fact that we were dealing with multiple nationalities and outer space is. neutral territory in terms of. in terms of as nation states go and so i do think we are to some degree wading into a legal area that is unprecedented would you disagree or let's bring in chris you know colonel hadfield you've been on the international space station and many of us saw your beautiful video of singing space oddity by david bowie i think that was on the space station right and you were tossing that guitar around and singing so beautifully not many people would say oh we need some regulations to control colonel hadfield singing space oddity in space but is the perhaps to your mind. the risk that we do need some regulation to control what people other people might want to do in space it shouldn't be a free for all no pun intended. well if we're looking for precedents when the wright brothers first flew in one thousand nine hundred three. was a free for all sort of like drones have been for the last decade where this is new technological capability and then how is it going to become commercialized and normalized and at first it was very much uncontrolled but governments invested a fortune in developing airplanes through the first world war and then the predecessor to nasa until eventually airplanes became good enough and safe enough that they got commercialized and now last year i think over four billion people flew on commercial airplanes that's like eleven million people a day and they're in international air space and water is living in a hostile environment and yet we've found ways to regulate it and to control it where the captain is the captain of the ship so they have control within that vehicle but then everybody is following a certain set of rules on board there are some space travelers of us or is there are other times not quite as this one and i think if it's impossible to do aviation though because aviation started off maybe with regulation of sort of national aspace and then went international whereas in the case of space you just. delve straight into the international space if we can call it that and countries you know we don't get to challenge we had experience with that i mean we have set up an arc a kind of as a neutral territory where you know no one can own it. and so then don't kind of divide legal framework there is an outer space treaty that is certainly much more legal work needs to be done ok interesting so would you say eric some of the laws i don't know the law of the same as in the antarctic and these things can be applied to space the same conflict they could be if they can be a stone space that some extent they really have the problem is right now there's no one really there to enforce it i think the biggest legal test in the near term is going to come in terms of something else space exploration awareness which is basically space debris and the more satellites and spacecraft of vehicles you get up in orbit the greater chance you have of lesions and creating a real problem or both of them are at a height on i thought that was one of the treaties that suppose a lousy un to regulate that stuff or a nice register who puts what up where it does but as you get more stuff out there you have greater chances of of of debris and so you're going to need very smart regulation of very smart tracking of that and we've seen some efforts in the united states and elsewhere to do that but that is kind of the great challenge of the next ten years i think will lead us down well let's bring in our legal experts on this jail if it was absolutely the case that assad had the no go ahead please. as it's absolutely the case that there is a legal infrastructure to govern space debris and specifically the liability so any damage that is caused by space debris gets allocated the money the cost of it gets allocated to the state that is responsible for launching the object but the problem is tracking it and controlling it and i'm sure i'm chris have probably had some experience of you know worrying about debris on the international space station for example i wonder if. we take it back to i think we forget the earth gets hit by forty tons of meteorites every single day there are just natural debris coming from the universe so living on board the space station if you sat and waited quietly for a few minutes you could hear small meteorites ricocheting or bouncing off the whole of the ship it's a relatively hostile environment and what eric and joe are talking about of course the the man made particles up there are just add to that risk so it's it's it's a hostile place to be we need to regulate our own contributions to that we have the outer space treaty which lays the initial ground work but it was side back in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and it needs to be updated and ratified with everybody that's going it's a process and almost always the legality gets in behind the technology the technology leads out front so we have a lot of legal work to do but i don't think we're going to stop the technology or people's natural curiosity and excitement of traveling to what was otherwise just a science fiction destination that sounds quite scary colonel hadfield sitting in a space station and having debris smashing into you. of course are you a part of a project that i guess you could say symbolizes international cooperation i wonder whether you're concerned at school that this could lead this could prompt more sort of competition rather than international cooperation let's not forget space also has its military you. susan pope's well there's nothing nothing wrong with yeah nothing wrong with competent you know i agree with you sammy there's nothing wrong with competition i mean it it brings out the best though sometimes the worst of us also but i think the international space station is a tremendous example lasting almost thirty years now of how we can work together when we're trying to tackle something really complex i mean russia and the united states and japan and germany and england all of those countries have worked hand in glove twenty four hours a day seven days a week since the early ninety's on the international space station and as we're headed towards the moon next those same partners and adding other partners from the other newer space agencies are looking at how we can use that as a regulatory framework for explorer becoming an interplanetary species and i think that's a really good foundation to build on but you're right we have to be very careful especially when we discover something valuable on the moon or when we look at the military advantages of the high ground we have to try and put all those things together it's fraught with peril but it's always a magnificent opportunities for with peril i want to bring eric into this and what difference does so we say advanced commercialization of space make to the concept the watery old the opportunity of increased militarization of space right this is an excellent question and i believe you're going to have field you've got to simply use a space because nasa is exploration programs and the like in the international space station which has been a tremendous success for you and standpoint i mean you've got a military space or national security or national defense there's de facto natters the commercialization of space benefits both of those areas because lower launch costs benefit both civilization and the military and frankly the trumpet ministration has as i think. raising international concern about the militarization spatial distrust of space dominance so cyber space force which is kind of reorganization airports you know there's been a consistent message from the vice president about space dominance and he talked to people in europe and they're looking at this saying well does that mean they're going to dominate and i recently visited japan and they're talking about you know their our day to day living world space dollars plane and station certainly you see china's space program take enormous strides in the last ten years or so and one how we got distracted very positive light asia but the militarization space is something to definitely watch of the concerns you know there's no regulation malard free things there's a treaty that prevents you from putting weapons of mass destruction on space or making a military base on the moon so on there's nothing that stops you exploiting space for conventional weapons systems right. yes so this is one of the arguments that i've been making for a long time is that well one of things that fascinates me about space is that i think it it taps into the two extremes of our humanity which is this beautiful noble idea of exploring and cooperating and finding out who we are and then also having this political military competitive high ground and those two extremes i think are quite quite fascinating it's interesting that you bring up the point about competition one thing that i would point out i've been researching in this area for a long time and i think we tend to conflate different entities who are working in this area so you know you have people who are working on the science side and astronauts and cosmonauts and they are often caught up with the funding and the politics of people who are working in a very different area so just because two people are from the the same country and have gotten mixed into the same discourse around something like space exploration doesn't necessarily mean that they have the same motivations and so it's difficult to disentangle those two but i think it's worth recognizing that something else i would i would just point out we've been talking about space exploration and general or is i'm calling a zation but with regards to the dragon and the docking that we had this week and something i would be curious about the rest of the panels opinion is with regards to the international space station right specifically as carl hadfield pointed out this was a massive international collaborative project which brought together for example the soviet union the russians and the americans at a very tense time what's going to happen with the international space station is it headed towards commercialization more generally or do people think it's going to continue to be more of a government projects. all right just in ten seconds a final quick one chris hadfield would you go back to space and do another performance for us just in ten seconds if we get another i don't know virgin galactic commercial thing going i would love to fly on space x.'s spaceship or boys or anybody who'd give me a ride it's a magnificent human experience and more people that can benefit from it i think the better we'll all be i will look forward to another posting on you tube for not too long of colonel hadfield maybe our other guest to who knows maybe it will be our. i would say this discussion has been out of this world but i want to get too cheesy on everyone so let's thank our guests very much come on the chris hadfield eric berger and jules do it and thank you too for watching you can see the show again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for 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justice investigation. one hundred fifty eisel fighters surrendered in their last stronghold in syria. and several tornadoes hit the u.s. state of alabama killing at least twenty two people and causing severe destruction . venezuela's opposition leader has arrived in caracas after defying a travel ban why don't we appeared at a demonstration coinciding with his return he had been touring latin american nations to gather support for his self declared leadership he warned president nicolas maduro against any attempts to arrest him on his return. joins us now from the border town of kuta in colombia so manuel so far he's a free man in venezuela and if these pictures are that we've seen are anything to go by he's returning to a rapturous welcome. that was greeted by thousands of supporters that he had convened via a social media broadcast on sunday speaking to these thousands of supporters there was this expectation before his arrival in caracas that he was going to risk arrest that he could be detained by military upon his arrival in venezuela this was not the case and speaking to that crowd of thousands of supporters he says that that in itself is evidence that the chain of command in the military has been broken he spoke to supporters only moments ago to give you an idea of what he said take a listen. if you are today in all the streets of venezuela we are knowledge that yesterday and we are here today we have a lot to work with public workers they will not continue supporting democracy they will not continue supporting to dictatorship the world must understand as one of venezuela that the game has changed this is an opportunity for transformation you know our nation. so as you can see from those images you can see from those photos pictures these are thousands of people once again on the streets of caracas heeding that call on social media that one by bill made in that broadcast yesterday asking people to mobilize on monday but asking venezuelan citizens to continue that momentum to continue to mobilize into tuesday and continue to protest demonstrate against the government of nicolas mother. and i suppose it's the big question is how they define a swale and government is going to respond to this because if there's seemed to be any kind of heavy handed response that's something that could backfire on them isn't it. that's absolutely right house and that's something that was on everyone's minds what would be the the response by the government of mahmoud unfortunately we have not heard any sort of official statement any sort of declaration from president nicolas model in relation to this news that one has returned to venezuela in regards to the protests and demonstrations that are being convened for the coming days in fact on twitter the last couple of tweets that were published by president mother were actually in relation to tourism calling on venezuelan citizens and families to enjoy the two thousand and nineteen carnival monday and tuesday are actually a national holiday in venezuela and it's one of the reasons that there was such a high expectation that there would be a very large turnout of people demonstrating on the streets of god as i'm demonstrating across the country against the government of nikko last night little which is what we've seen throughout the course of the day already. about polo in force thanks very much are you going to talk about this more now with vanessa newman she is a latin america analyst at the foreign policy research institute and joins us live now from washington thanks very much for being with us now i'm sure you've seen these pictures of the venezuelan opposition leader arriving to what looks like a hero's welcome back there in in caracas what are your thoughts on that. thank you for much for having me on well yes we watched it live and we got notification just as the plane arrived and we knew that he was going to arrive today but we didn't know exactly what time so we were thrilled i mean in my home we have also other than us while the journalists who are tracking this are very much a part of the opposition so we watch very attentively it's phenomenal it's an incredible event that he has so many is so much international support with the international business it was very well organized they european union had said you know you must protect them the u.s. government said you must protect them embassadors turned up and he arrived on a flight from panama really great intelligence just print protecting him without leaking what flight he would be on he rides to hero's welcome and the love that he has that he inspires in the venezuelan people is evident because he has done what didn't seem possible just a few months ago to unify the venezuelan opposition the political parties and the people to inspire hope it's the fact that he arrived and there's a photograph of him going through immigration would just give all the venezuelan people so much show and it also really puts the regime on the back foot because they had said they would arrest him but they had a bad said they had a bad choice if they arrest him now there will be a massive uprising of all the millions of people who love him and have international action and now by not arresting him mother looks weaker than ever so it's a real loss for the regime and a real gain for the venezuelan opposition and a hope for freedom for the country how important then is momentum in all of this because there have been protests like this in venezuela before against the government and president maduro has been able to ride them out so what it what if these protests just go on. and remains remains in power. this is a completely different situation from what we have seen before it's not just the fact of the protests it's the fact that he that why though defied president motherhood all who said he didn't have permission to leave the fact that he left and went to kokoda and then went on these international tour through so millions of people because of course now the das power is shewed cheering him on in every latin american country and then he was able to come back and be aware that we don't recognize my daughter as our president so whatever he said about why they were not leaving and not being able to enter is not is this is simply not recognized by us and the fact that he couldn't even get his security forces to act on it is a real sop in the face so this is completely different and also it comes after the violent repression of the february twenty third when mother showed his hand in his brutality by ordering his security forces to shoot his own citizens carrying food to their starving relatives after that and the sanctions and the naked brutality of the regime has been evident and now he has defied that make that naked brutality and inspired this outpouring it's a completely different situation there is hope now for a transition in a way that there never has been i'm going to swallow before i want to ask you as well about the international since that. has been trying to gather in his time that he's been outside of venezuela and he is of course getting a lot of support from the u.s. where you are is there a danger that he is he may be seen as as a puppet of the united states particularly given the current administration which is shall we say not particularly popular with a lot of other countries right now. i've heard that criticism before i think we'll put paid to that criticism was the tour around latin america the fact that it was not just columbia but brazil power argentina ecuador and he flew in through panama and he will be going to chile on the twenty second of march that's already been announced that you know. it would it shows and the outpouring and the caravans of and people lining the streets and cheering we want to go back we want freedom and why goal really shows that his support is international and particularly regional and the fact that the e.u. came out and defended him and said don't touch him do send to mother widow don't touch him really shows how broad of the coalition is and that he is loved because don't forget how vast the diasporas about twelve percent of the population has already left other countries and then all those countries where he toured he was welcomed as a hero so now whatever if there had been a criticism that the support was led by the u.s. and that he was too much under u.s. influence you can see that that is no longer true that it is absolutely international good to speak leave and it was an undercover plain thank you yeah unfortunately we're out of time your thoughts on this good to speak with even less than human joining us there from washington the united states senate judiciary committee has issued new requests for president trump's sons and former white house counsel in the probe against donald trump the judiciary chairman says the probe is focused on corruption obstruction of justice and abuse of power kimberly how is live for us now in washington with more on this so kimberly one of the main points coming out of these requests. well in terms of what this committee is chasing and we should point out that actually it's a collection of committees that but it is the house judiciary committee that has issued this request for some sixty people associated with the trump white house to produce documents essentially there is a sort of slow build for the case for impeachment but you can't proceed with that until you have the facts and so that's what we're seeing right now this effort to try and hold lengthy public hearings along with testimony from witnesses over the next a series of months in order to try and create a record of public testimony that would be not only embarrassment for the president but also potentially would provide the ammunition for later on pursuing the impeachment that we know that house democrats are keen to pursue but certainly this is a process that has to be laid out meticulously it's one that the white house is keenly aware of in fact the president has responded in the last hour or so with regard to whether he would cooperate with the request for documents he said i cooperate all the time with everybody you know the beautiful thing no collusion it's all a hoax. it was great all the time with everybody you know. it's all. as you grow older it's a political hoax there's no because. you. a little bit chaotic in there that's because the president was surrounded by college football champions obviously very happy about their win some of them we're told were snickering as the president repeated what he said for many months this is all a witch all a hoax but in fact the fact that the president continues to say this is a witch hunt is exactly why the democratic chair of the house judiciary committee jerry nablas says he believes that it's worth investigating further he cites the fact that the president has called the moeller investigation.

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