Charlie it is such a great story. It . Have we learned from guest announcing people understand how scientifically are. E valuable they theyre basically time capsules. Comment, youle a have a chance of seeing what the solar system was like billions of years ago, where our chemistry came from some of the history of where we are. There was the beauty of the images returned from rosetta, but we also got an example to show that the water in our bodies is more likely find in asteroids and comets. We are piecing together the origin of the story of life. Charlie it was a 12 year flight . Guest yes, the launch was in 2004. Charlie that is amazing to me. Guest isnt it amazing . The Rosetta Mission had two different touchdowns. There was the filet Lander Philae lander. Have a this comment will little bit of us. Charlie the landing must have been difficult. Guest they had some practice 2014, ande, back in it was not without dramatic moments. It needed to land on a flat surface so that it would not
And i look forward to it because this is such a great story. It is super exciting. Tell me about rosetta and what was it about. What did we learn from it. , incredibly exciting. People know they are these large balls of ice and rock, that he how people dont know incredible they are. They are actually time capsules. When our solar system was forming, there were these little bits left over that became, its omets or asteroids. We have a chance to understand where we all came from. The interesting thing to me about rosetta, there was the beauty of the images that returned, but we had the chance to learn that the water in our bodies was more like asteroids and comets. Charlie am i right in that this was a 12 year flight . That is right. In 2004. Was iaunch was the rosetta actually had two different touchdowns. 2014. Uched down in and today, the entire spacecraft came down onto the comet. Now, there are two different little spacecrafts part of the human race that are out there in till the en
Rose we continue with a conversation of Mark Phillips of cbs news london. I think were at a crisis in journalism now, not just tv journalism, and i think its been illustrated being illustrated now in the course of the president ial Election Campaign here, was illustrated in the course of the brexit referendum campaign, were applying rules that served us well of fairness and balance and letting the two sides make their arguments and presenting it in the same way we have historically covering politics in the western world. Rose and we conclude with reid hoffman, part two of a conversation about the future of technology. If someone described facebook before it existed, you would have thought it seems like an awful invasion of privacy, yet over a billion people every day using this, sharing experiences and pictures. That being said, what i think it is key is to surface the issues to Pay Attention to them and try to navigate the technology to get most of the benefit. Rose Space Exploration,
Pensions that continue to flare in ukraine. New fighting has erupted in the countrys westerneastern region where Government Troops stepped up their efforts to retake key areas from the rebels. At least 18 ukrainian soldiers have been killed in clashes with separatist, but kiev denies accusations that government planes carried out an airstrike on the city. And a provocative move, nato says russia has ramped up its number of troops along the border with ukraine, warning it could beginning up to stage an in it could be gearing up to stage an invasion, something moscow vehemently denies. Residents say an aircraft fired missiles over rebel stronghold donetsk during the night. Russian tv broadcast what it said were images that showed an airstrike being carried out by Ukrainian Military planes, but kiev denies there worse carried out the attack kiev denies their f orces carried out the attack. Why do we have to make apologies for something we have not done . The government also denies firing
Coming hours after isil calls for jihad. A Historic Space Mission in jeopardy. New images showed just what it looked like on the surface of a a comet. Scientists face the experiment could end. Welcome to Al Jazeera America, im del walters. Im stephanie sy. Tensions flaring in the west bank, palestinians demonstrating, the israeli army firing tear gas to disperse the protestors. Our correspondent filed this report after moving for safety moments ago. You can see Israeli Security forces trying to disperse the crowd firing tear gas canisters and have been using stun grenades, as well. Again, this is a scene thats been going on here for the better part of a few hours. Again, as Israeli Security forces confront protestors, you can see, it is a pretty volatile situation, as they try to disperse these crowds. These crowds arent huge, they only number in the sevens, but againin the background is concessions made by the Israeli Government to allow people to pray at the mosque, many thought that