Nasa says its ultimate tool a spacecraft has thrown as flown past the most distant celestial body ever studied. Im phil girl welcome to the program. As the clock moves around the time zones around the last parts of the world ringing in twenty nine say the new year is officially underway from east to west revelers have been celebrating with music dancing and dazzling fireworks displays so lets take a look at some of the highlights. For millions of people around the globe the last moments of twenty eight thousand were spent holding their breath then as the clock struck midnight the show began. From kuala lumpur to sydney. To hong kong. Hours later twenty one thousand came to pakistan. Then to dubai. The home of the worlds tallest skyscraper the board khalifa. And on to the lebanese capital beirut. One of the largest new years eve celebrations in europe is in berlin at the Brandenburg Gate hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered for the show. But. It was a similar scene in the city of lights paris. Then across the atlantic to cut back up on a beach in rio de janeiro. In new york crowds gathered on times square for an annual ritual the dropping of a crystal ball at midnight not even heavy rain could dampen the enthusiasm this years event had a serious night celebrating generalism and press freedom. I. North koreas leader has used his annual new years address to warn that his country may change direction on its promise of denuclearize the nation if the u. S. Continues its sanctions and his televised speech kim jones said he remains committed to working towards a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula stronger cooperation between north and south and cold on the south the whole to its joint military exercises with the United States chairman kim also warned the u. S. Not to test his countrys patients not operable and didnt although he will i am always ready to sit down again with the u. S. President at any time and will make efforts to produce an outcome that the International Community would welcome. We need however if the u. S. Miscalculates our peoples patience forces something upon us and pursue sanctions and pressure without keeping a promise it made to the world we have no option but to explore a new path in order to protect our sovereignty in achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula. Lets get more on this from roy scars from the josh smith who joins us from the south korean capital seoul out welcome sir data just what is this new path likely to look like. Well of course many who heard that fear that it could mean worse possibly a return to some of the missile tests and launches that we saw in twenty seventeen in the stress of war from both pyongyang and washington but many others given the emphasis to kim jong un has placed on Economic Development more growth for his country see it as likely that. North Korean Leader kim jong un is basically setting the stage to blame washington for any failure of the ration the new thriller to say should cox and this allows him basically to turn to partners like russia or china or even south korea and potentially bring them on board as a major part first should things fall through with washington so has anything concrete unmeasurable been achieved since kim jong un and Donald Trumps historic summit last june. Well weve seen a fair amount of injured korean projects between north and south korea Going Forward theres been far less progress between the United States and company several high level talks been cancelled and yet to be rescheduled in his speech kim as you mentioned says that he wants to meet we dont trump again in the new year and trump has said that he is also interested in that and so what this what many will be looking for out of that summit will be specific some kind of agreement that both sides can work towards in the future that they didnt get in their last summit. Until north or to say they suspect a car attack shortly after midnight on new years day he was motivated by his then a phobia the fifty year old suspect is said to have driven a car into a group of pedestrians in the western german city of basra four people were injured and police say afghan and syrian nationals were among the victims the state interior minister says the man clearly intended to kill foreigners. Correspondents walsh is in basra where that attack took place welcome alice to talk us through what happened. Last night just before new years eve a man in his fiftys a german man tried to drive his car into a pedestrian here pot shop he was unsuccessful there but then he drove on to berlin a platts where i am now and he drove his car into a group of four people or interest of people with four people were injured. One person seriously one of the victims was also a child after that hes driven onto essen where he attempted to drive into another group but was unsuccessful theyre. Arrested. Police when he was arrested he said xenophobia statements to police which led them to suspect it was racially motivated attack. And later the interior minister gave a speech here and he said it was clear that this man was trying to to kill foreigners. Course this is not the first time foreigners have been targeted for attack here in germany. This is probably the largest incident was in camden its earlier this year in august there were huge scenes of far right extremists protests targeting foreigners in the city of camden its videos showing people chasing down foreigners there and there was a recent Study Released in november that showed racist attitudes are perhaps gaining stronger traction here in germany. I was so well say in the book of fact here. Now nasa has rung in the new year with a fly past of the most distant object ever explored the new horizon space travel spacecraft to travel about a billion miles a past pluto scientists hope the mission will provide answers about the origins of other planets unmanned vehicle has just sent back a signal to earth saying that it survived the fly by. Its being called ultimate tooley an ancient name for a distant place an estimated thirty two kilometers long it could reveal knowledge about how the planets were formed nasa spacecraft new horizons was due to capture hundreds of images as it made the historic fly by almost six and a half billion kilometers from earth but weve never been not only so far from the sun but its so well preserved in this ultimate proof of the corporate your absolute zero so this is the time capsule that weve never seen before the mission has been likened to an archaeological dig in space scientists hope to detect the chemical composition and to rain to learn the ancient Building Blocks of the planets. We have a series of science objectively one of the prime month to map the geology of. The whatever cretins it might have on its surface with whatever fractures other topography anything that will give us a call. How it how it fits with for. The new horizons probe launched some thirteen years ago on a mission to study pluto and its moons in two thousand and fifteen if past the door of planets and found it to be larger than thought it kept going another billion and a half kilometers deep into the quite a belt to reach ultimate tooley this stage of its mission is the most difficult were farther from the earth and for the communications times are much longer were farther from the sun and so the lighting levels are lower all of these things add up to a much tougher and much more challenging flyby. New horizons will continue on into the further reaches of space and could yield even more discoveries for years to come. Martin petzold from the university of cologne here in germany developed one of our new horizons experiments he joins us from laurel maryland where the mission is being controlled welcome to day w. So this is a probe that goes deep deep deep into space to look at a rock explain to us why thats important. You know the out. The socalled it. Seems to be filled with objects. The only form. So its important. Idea objects are. Composed and whole these. But the composition of. And thats you get in the formation of the sort of system so that these objects will give you a clue to how the solar system was was formed its explain to us how. You know it is expected that the decision of these objects as primitive very primitive silicate. Composition and water ice which. If this were a system and if its just objects it vents it looks like the other planets the solar system so there are still in there are regional composition and. That is the idea of mass and so thank you so much for joining us. For the quality of the sound we can get a signal into space but apparently not from the United States. Boxing great Floyd Mayweather came out of retirement to be to japanese kickboxer attention not a coward in an exhibition match in tokyo on new years eve and they were floored nasik our three times as he unleashed a series of jabs and hopes without reply was all over in just one round of the American Wedding by a technical knockout worth a reported nine Million Dollars the fight attracted criticism for its one sided nature many see it as just a publicity stunt and an easy payday for mayweather. And staying with the box in the shortest pina was a top portuguese fighter before losing his sight in two thousand and six and bad by his disability he switched sports and became a paralympic mathurin but if a god sees boxing roots and now trains underprivileged children in lisbon and his contributions of recently been recognized george pino dreamt of being a boxing World Champion but a detached retina ended his professional career now hes giving Something Back to the community. A deprived Housing Estate in lisbon is a tough place to grow up. Pee near is teaching children how to books so they can protect themselves and learn self discipline. Them if we were driving. By i also grew up in difficult neighborhoods i had problems when i was a teenager particularly with alcohol and drugs thats why i thought i could use boxing to help these kids by taking inspiration from my story and making them champions not necessarily in fighting but champions in their lives no no. The forty two year old has also branched out from boxing and hes aiming for a place in the twenty twenty tokyo paralympic marathon alongside just cited runner. It was so much. I can say that im happier now being blind today i see well i see everything i want to do everything i hope for myself and for others. Before i was really blind and selfish i didnt value the simple things that i value today in fact ive won more than ive lost. But teaching boxing remains a passion and now the local council has agreed to part funded new Sports Center named in pinas owner for others his dream of boxing success could still become a reality such youre up to date happy new year. Where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t. V. Channel and if you news papers with official information as a journalist i have work on the streets of many can trust and there was a fourteen solution inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. Coverage we can afford to stay silent