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Thursday, November 28 at 19:30 GMT:
# G20
On Friday, the two-day G20 summit begins in Argentina and, with the changing modern diplomatic order, badysts are closely monitoring official meetings as well as those likely to take place on the sidelines.
At a meeting that would make headlines, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked for a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Relations between the kingdom and Turkey have been severely tested by the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last month. The New York-based human rights group, Human Rights Watch, has asked Argentina to investigate the crown prince for possible war crimes in Yemen and for his alleged involvement the killing of Khashoggi. On Wednesday, Argentine prosecutors announced that they would pursue the case.
In addition, US President Donald Trump will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. This will be the first time Xi and Trump have come face-to-face since Washington imposed a $ 250 billion tariff on imports from China and China responded with its own measures.
And there is climate change. Last year, Trump announced plans to pull the United States out of the Paris climate deal. And a new report from the UN warned that the world is now farther than last year to meet the goals of the Paris agreement.
We will look at what is expected from the summit.
China 'social credit rating'
China is testing a new, state-of-the-art plan that will make it easier for citizens to do business and build mutual trust. In partnership with Alibaba, the largest company in the country, the government is creating a system that records not only credit ratings, but also "social credit".
In the most often cited example of how the system works, if you buy diapers, you are responsible and your score goes up. However, if you buy video games, the system will deem you lazy and your score may suffer.
Is this plan – because of its deployment in 2020 – an Orwellian nightmare or is it necessary to protect consumers in one of the world's largest economies? We will see what is behind the system and what the consequences would be.
Landing on Mars
After a six-month trip, NASA's InSight Lander satellite landed on Mars. The goal of InSight is to look deep into the surface of the red planet and uncover the mystery of its formation, as well as other planets. According to NASA, the mission will measure what it describes as Mars' "vital signs": its pulse (seismology), its temperature (heat flow) and its reflexes (precision tracking).
We will examine the importance of landing on Mars and what NASA hopes to learn.
Read more:
MBS arrives in Argentina against the G20: will he be an outcast? – Al Jazeera
NASA's Insight lands on Mars – And now? – Al Jazeera
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