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in Venice, Italy, a 17th-century example of late Baroque architecture, its interiors filled with frescoes and stuccoes by notable artists. Once a college run by Armenian monks for 146 years, it closed in 1997 and has since deteriorated. Scroll through our gallery above to see some of the sites on the endangered heritage list. In Greece, a cluster of five islands in the southern part of the Aegean Sea is being transformed into an industrial zone by the Greek government, which hopes to install ...

Europa Nostra has announced 12 candidates for its 2021 list of Europes seven most endangered sites Courtesy of Europa Nostra Europa Nostra, Europe’s most prominent heritage lobbying organisation, has announced 12 candidates for its 2021 Seven Most Endangered Sites list. They make for interesting reading because each encapsulates aspects of major trends and events facing our society. The church of Saint Denis in the Pas de Calais region of France, near the English Cha...

Concert. he was in not complaining at all and he said that this pain is usually of us consider attending the event in one performing a calling with human approachable. so there was no criticism at all you didnt read the letter that was sent to you but i had an interview with that me and went with them and for sure i dont think there is a criticism about the functioning of the spending but you didnt you didnt change the law or do you promised meaningful changes to it and you havent i dont know ex...

Missile that tracked and destroyed one of its own satellites, a highly provocative demonstration of chinas growing capability to militarize space. russia has been designing an airborne laser to disrupt our space system and it claims to be developing missiles that can be launched from an aircraft in mid flight to destroy american satellites. >> mike: a message to moscow and beijing saying were going to be there every step of the way? >> you dont need to create a new space force to do that, you ju...

Going back live 250 miles above us, these two are outside a far larger space system today and enjoying the gorgeous view of the big blue marble down-home that we call home, actually. as you can tell, its night time, so they are in the dark side of the earth. there are seeing a lot of city lights. theyve been working so fast that they are now installing a cable to the spectrometer that collects data on raise. for peggy whitson, this is her ninth spacewalk and that also is a record for a female sp...

Contingency action and maybe eat less and possibly even reduce the size of the crew, there are six up there now. they could reduce the size of the crew so it is mostly a risk for loss of mission but not of physical loss to the astronauts. >> that is reassuring there are contingencies if they have extra plans to prevent anything catastrophic. >> that is what nasa does well. >> we do well, but what about the russians? this went haywire. why are we and should we rely on the russian space system to ...

Obrien joining us. how important is the orien project? >> especially the tensions u.s. encount weird russia and russia being the only way u.s. astronaut can get to the international space station, this is very important. also a matter of pride, since the u.s. space shuttle was retired an put in moth balls and hangars not its own independent way of sending human beings to space. space x would like to deliver astronauts to the international space station, but in the long run, nasa has pledged to g...

landings in history. but for now, all eyes on this. the very first video of the curiosity landing, released today. the grainy video was shot onboard moments before touching down. john zarrella and chad myers join me now for more. so, john, lets start with you. you have been following the story very closely and are live at nasas jetropulsion laboratory in california. tell us about this new veo and what exactly are we seeing? >> reporter: well, in fact, zoraida, what were seeing in this ...

And the control centers around the globe, houston, moscow, munich, scuba, japan, all are working to that same clock. so theyre displaced in their local times. they may be coming into work at midnight to start the day, and things like that. thats just one of the interesting aspects of working up here. >> you talk about the work. what specifically is it that you are working on? and why is developing a closed loop secure stable space system so important? >> were working on a number of different thi...

We cant let our guard down on that. >> at the end of the day, we run almost a flawless system. over 2 million passengers are moved through the national space system everyday and not even a bloop happens, but we have a couple of situation, and the ball is dropped and all of the sudden, we have become the butt end of the joke. we dont deserve it. we dont like it. we will stand together and fission it. >> reporter: now some changes in scheduling have been instituted, including that controllers have...