the, the, this is dw news line from berlin, a landmark court ruling in favor of swift senior citizens who are saying their government is not doing enough to stop climate change. the european court of human rights said that's what the ends in action is putting their health at risk. also coming up where is that? the un stop court argue that trimming support for israel does not violate international law. nicaragua accuse is germany of helping israel committed a legend, genocide in gaza. and the father of the so called god particle dies at age. 94 will look at the legacy of his peter higgs and how his discovery re shaped

our understanding of the universe. the, i'm here until berlin, thank you very much for joining us. your p. europe's top human rights court has ruled in favor of a group of swiss pensioners who argue that their governments in action on climate change has put their lives at risk. as a landmark decision that could influence the legislation across europe and give a boost to activists who say their governments are feeling to tackle global warming . of these women have made climate history some 2500 swiss pensioners through their own government because its handling of the climate crisis put their health at risk . the european human rights courts and strossberg funds ruled in their favor. a landmark decision cementing the idea that governments clements in action can violate human rights. as the step is to talk,

this is the best they. yeah. that's we have the right thing history. and as i pushed on the way i understood it, switzerland has done too little, took up the time of crisis and violated human rights. that's a nice victory stagen lease to and they'll see some of the applicants use their own medical records to support the case. they said that heat weights which has become stronger and more frequent with climate change are especially risky for them as elderly women, 16 of the grand chambers, 17 judges voted in favor of this with women's associations. as a result, they concluded that this was government failed to meet emission targets and that it should have examined the associations complaints. these is the ruling will be communicated to switzerland and it will have certain measures that switzerland will have to perform to do more to name and more. but the plaintive stress, the ruling isn't totally for their benefit. yeah, i'm losing the other bits at all when all affected, not only all the women, it's been proven that they're out a greater risk,

but it's important that everyone is kid, finish the. that's fit all they. so it looks to be are so that this was the associations case wasn't the only one the court considered today. 6 young people from portugal suits 32 european countries. because increasing climate extremes, like the wild, far as in portugal, make the planet unlivable for future generations. a former french mer also suit his own government for not taking significant steps to fight climate change. but the court ruled both cases as in admissible on procedural grounds. still the one when of today to change the future of climate litigation is the 1st time a powerful court has ruled on climate change. and it could set a precedent for more people taking the government to court holdings. there was some responsible for their actions and this, as a result of this can meet in no way that we've seen back. this means that we have to fight even more the beginning because in the time its emergency, everything is that state. the effects could be felt in courts across europe,

or even the world. i, christina void is a professor of international law at the university of also. she explained what impact is ruling could have. oh, it's a, it's a very important indication that governments have to step up their game in order to protect human rights and governments all over the world and new as well uh, legally responsible to take appropriate measures to protect human rights. and in order to do so, we're now told they also have to take emissions climate change action with using greenhouse gas emissions to net 0 by 2050 heading effective measures in place to get there. and to ensure that they actually reach that goal. so that link is very important for decision makers for lawmakers, for implementers, but also for other quotes proceedings world wide. and it can have very important repercussions and other quotes, but also the other international quotes. and then many proceedings ongoing, which i kind of waiting for that judgment from desk book that we have. now. let's

take a quick look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. europe's climate monitor says march was the hottest on record and the 10th street month of record heat. world wide temperatures exceeds the pre industrial average by 1.68 degrees celsius. sine to say of a heat is down to rise in greenhouse gas emissions. the top court in the united states, the state of arizona, has reinstated an abortion band. it bars all abortions except when necessary to save a mother's life. many active ascent. lawmakers have slammed the ruling while the states democratic governor calls it a dark day. south koreans are electing a new parliament. the result will determine whether president, june, so you'll can push forward with his socially conservative agenda. opinion polls ahead of unpredicted, a close outcome. as the former colombian president of auto rebate is to go on trial. he's accused of bribing witnesses in an investigation

into his involvement with right wing paramilitary groups. 3 paintings he is innocent for legal battle has already lasted several months. rescue teams in italy are searching for survivors for after an underground explosion at our hydro electric plant. at least 3 people were killed and several other seriously injured. it happened while maintenance work was underway at the plant south of bologna, a. germany has presented its defense at the international court of justice to accusation of facilitating genocide in gaza. nicaragua is seeking to help him, german weapons, exports, the israel, claiming they are potentially being used to commit genocide. germany rejects the accusations of saying it is trying to balance its responsibilities to both israel and the palestinian people. israel security is that the core of german foreign policy,

that is how germany justified it's don't support of israel as it rejected nicaragua as accusations at the i. c. j. germany has learned from its post posts that includes the responsibility for one of the most of or if it crime since human history the show. but despite that history, nicaragua says germany's military support of israel is in breach of the genocide convention. germany is, israel is 2nd to largest supplier of arms and make a rug with says those experts are enabling is riley forces to commit to potential acts of genocide in gaza. application in the gym. and he says the accusations and not placed on facts and, and let me only supplies on the basis of detached scrutiny. the scrutiny, the only respect but far exceeds the requirements of international law. it is argued, doesn't make a rug what has grossly distorted the quantities and purposes of balance palms, exports to israel. and if we look at what has actually been license for export to

israel under this framework since october 2023, we see no artillery shells. no, munitions, nearly all experts, the exports involve what is known as of military equipment. typically all the subordinate or defensive in nature position is israel's conduct in gaza. it's central to this case, and so many questions how the code can rule without israel's presence to allow it also lash downs that nicaragua for focusing on israel's actions too. but ignoring those of from us fire. unlike nicaragua, germany is not blind to the fact that thomas also has obligations under international humanitarian law including towards the civilian population in gaza. so don't need that's how much not to comply with its obligations, but it also renounce suspended responsibility in the most significant manner. the

judges must now decide whether to impose emergency measures to holtz german onto exports to israel. now he helped unravel one of the degrees they make. most of the physics are needing his place alongside names like isaac newton and albert einstein . the father of the so called god particle, the nobel prize winning physicist peter higgs, has died age 94. the university of edinburgh says he passed away peacefully in his home. higgs was famous for his round breaking theory from the 19 sixty's, which proposed a new particle known as the king's bows on the argue that the bows on him to bind the universe together by giving particles their mouse. decades later, his theory was proven by visitors working at the large hadron collider in a certain in switzerland. he was honored with a nobel prize for physics in 2013. as i'm now joined by joseph in kindle, a distinguished professor of physics at the university of california. santa barbara

and the scientist who announced the discovery of the higgs bows on in 2012. so he could take us back to that moment professor, what was it like to announce that discovery with peter higgs in the audience? well, obviously it was a tremendously exciting moments and perhaps one of the biggest moments that are in our field for many decades. and i wasn't absolutely certain that peter would be there until shortly before hand. and we were just very happy that he could be there . i saw i saw that you showed a little clip with him one thing size. he was very emotional at the time. i mean, that's the discovery i was representing the cns experiment, which i show in the picture behind me here in fabulous a note to them to you. it was worth attending the alice experiment. and together we both have very strong evidence for the particle that he propose almost half a century earlier. so it was a long road to get there. and then before we continue, could you please help some more. he was understand exactly what the importance of

the discovery of the higgs bows on men for physics. it was a very key part of our understanding of how, how the fundamental forces and particles exist. what we do in particle physics is try to understand the really the most basic elements of nature, which are the fundamental particles and the forces. and we developed over much of the early 20th century, a pretty good understanding of, of how this all worked. and um, one piece, the one piece of the deposit was trying to understand how some of the forest carrying particles could have. and that's an impact how any particle cabinets that became suddenly a stumbling box block for any, any real completion of our understanding of reimbursed. and it's extremely important in the sense that if you don't have minutes of particles,

for example, is feel what's wrong with mass list, that there could be no out and we would not exist. and it turns out that this ability just to create mass particles occurring early in the universe. the universe wasn't essentially unable to do that initially. but a transition occurs. and this is uh, this isn't really what's not known as the problem. angler hayes my condition. and there's a particle associated with it, which as you mentioned was, takes this call is bumps on uh huh. and uh, that particle has often been referred to as the god particle, or also the hymns bows on. but we know that mr. higgs was never really comfortable with that term. what's the, tell us about the man, or he was incredibly humble. um and i don't know if he was religious, frankly, but as a few minutes ago was remarkably decent. well, man or person will, i mean he was just wonderful. we all loved him in the fields. and at the time of

the discovery, he was asked to speak and he said, you know, he just showing some ability of today's, for an experimental assume who would discover this. you know, you can talk to me some of the time. the whole thing with him is a wonderful guy, a little and there was almost 50 years between this when mr. hicks proposed behavior goes on and it's discovery. why exactly did it take so long? it was really hard actually. um, just trying to discover these. i think 3 generations of scientists, including the who, most of our career, you know, that was one of the biggest goals. one could imagine finding the expos on the, took an excel reader that was, you know, those that sir. and that's, you know, something like 27 kilometers. and so for circumference, we had to go to extremely high energy use, incredibly, not high number of proton proton solutions. and i estimated that, you know, our signal that we found the hicks with the discovery it was something like a few 100 for some prototype delusions. and that was out of $1000000000.00 total

collisions. so it was really, really difficult to find and it's a very dedicated experiments with thousands of businesses. many, many people contributed to this and, and it was the shuttle took almost a generation to prepare and find this, this powerful and withdrawing. astonishing is that every honest, honestly work that was joseph and conduct a distinguished professor of physics and the vice chancellor for research at the university of california. santa barbara, thank you very much for your insights. it's, it's me and his reminder of our top story is at this hour, or the european court of human rights has backs with pensioners who say their governments failure to act on climate change. while the links are human rights is the 1st time the court has accepted such an argument and germany has presented its defense to a charge of facilitating the legend, genocide and gaza. they can log on to off the case at the when's top court in the

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