to be represented another a policymaker in in these meetings have they missed something there because these are people who who who can understand some of the big social questions that are inherent in genome editing and as a journalist yourself who covers this field. is that something that the w w h o would benefit from. it certainly won't benefit from that influence and the last representation on the part of patient representatives the disabled community and many others has been a problem for the international genome summit since the first one was held in twenty fifteen that was in washington and the one in hong kong last november was the second and at both of those there was very little input from the anyone other than scientists and to some extent policy makers but it's important to point out i think that dr who did not consider himself a rogue scientist he believed that he was and hearing chinese law he also believed

that he was that hearing to the guidelines issued by the us national academies of science is that not bill council in england and other national bodies that had weighed in on the ethics and science of germ line and then he believed that he had checked all the boxes according to you know friends of his that i've spoken to you know he believed that he was doing something that was safe he believed that he had consent from the parents and he believed that the gene that he was going after could be targeted safely and that doing so addressed is severe unmet medical need so as you think about all those phrases safe severe medical need those are all highly subjective so you know i think what the w.h.o. expert advisory committee will very likely be looking at is whether anything other than to keep using the phrase a blanket prohibition a blanket moratorium is going to be effective because anything short of that some

scientists somewhere is going to believe that he or she has met the guidelines to go ahead with jeremiah had it and helen o'neill what's your take on this idea of a blanket moratorium that. i really disagree with the idea of a blanket moratorium i don't think it serves to progress science it don't don't think it serves to progress our understanding or to move forward i think that legislation should be not and should not be made based on the actions of one individual that is at the end of the day an exception we don't make laws to prevent people from doing things based on. individual crimes of one individual who does something it doesn't mean that the rest of the scientific community should be punished i think the reaction has been a great example of what will be done i think that there will be sanctions put in place and has been put in place for dr who himself but to try and prevent research happening by putting a moratorium is just not

a progressive way forward for any form of technology and what what do you make a whole new of what of what dr her did do you think as sharon bailey has said he it's unfair to call him a road doctor that he he he kind of he got to do all the i's and crossed all the crossed all the t.'s and so on of the you knew exactly what he was doing i think he knew exactly what he was doing he was very aware that what he was doing was not right that he was not within ethical principles or moral principles then then again i think that context is critical and international context is also very important to remember that different countries have different ideals for what is deemed acceptable and what is not acceptable whether or not he can be considered broken his own eyes i think he's going to protect his own image but there is no doubt that what he did on many many levels was incorrect and wrong i would say for just

looking at this going forward i mean how how do countries go about sharing information that's the screen from many new new research it is that is that the best way to do. to make sure that the things don't go too far well i mean you know sharing information sharing the fruits of research that's what facilitates the generation of very important very good scientific innovations very beneficial scientific innovations but the downside of that of course is that potentially malicious or ill advised actors like oh john quain could could take that information and use it and apply it in ways that the people that share it don't really intend there's been various proposals to try to make sure that the people sharing information maintain some degree of control some people propose the idea of using patents and patent controls to keep the person the general of the the particular innovation they can control how it's used but i do think that the norm

of open science this idea that we should be sharing is why the in previous possible to maximize the benefit to society to realize the human right to benefit from science i think that that is a very powerful force and ultimately that norm is currently governing modern science and i think that we that there is no real way around that we have to accept that data can and really should be shared widely sharon begley. are the risks of any kind of unwanted or undetected errors. acceptable should there be i mean is that something that the public should be more aware of when they make decisions for example to take part in trials like this so i think the press bears significant responsibility and not exactly correctly or training crisper it absolutely is a very powerful technology but it's also a very messy technology and as you know was pointed out earlier the changes that dr made in the single cell embryos and what became are all sequels

a little and that they were not the change that you wanted to make it was just an unholy mess to have altered their d.n.a. and i don't think the public understands that. i think without a doubt that the parents who consent to this this procedure did not understand that all the informed consent document did not make clear in any way what their risks might be and we back still don't know what their wrists might be to these little girls as they grow up and so i think the experts and the press have fallen down and the duty to explain what this technology could be what the drawbacks are and you know definitely what that the tension of for a human good might. but you know to say that the public is not terribly scientific scientifically literate is an understatement but you just have to work with a fascinating topic we should certainly spend a lot more time talking about it but unfortunately we don't have any more thanks

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rolls out ready o. active isotopes from underneath the die roll out with it it will really be we're not talking just a marshall islands we're talking the whole suite. new zealand begins burying the victims of two moscow attacks and christ church that killed fifty people. and the welcome to al-jazeera on live from our headquarters in doha. also ahead the strategy as prime minister heads back it took president to what he calls offensive comments from. the mosque attacks. on them to southern african countries but. as the death toll rises. amazing.

we're in and taking time to smell the flowers the unusual phenomena in california that is drawing tens of thousands of visitors. the first funerals for the victims of new zealand's mosque attacks have taken place a father and son who fled the war in syria were buried in christchurch where fifty people were shot dead to mosques during friday prayers thirty bodies have now been released to families and police hope to return more by the end of wednesday let's go to our correspondent wayne hay he's joining us live from christchurch the day the grieving families have been waiting for way in the chance to bury their loved ones. yes elizabeth of course a day of sadness for so many people in christchurch but also some relief for those

family members that this process is now finally underway because there is some concern still being. expressed by those family members of some of the victims who were killed in the attack on friday that this process has taken too long but at the end of wednesday we had six people buried in a cemetery in christchurch the first of them was a father and son that was khaled moustapha and his teenage son they were refugees from syria they only arrived with their family in new zealand they settled in christchurch just last year and in fact homs is a brother was also shot in the attack on the al nor mosque he was injured he survived and was able to attend the funeral today in a will cheer so six in total and we expect a lot more funerals to take place on thursday because the prime minister just cinder i don't who was in christchurch on wednesday says that they now have thirty

bodies cleared for release to family members so expect that perhaps the remaining funeral certainly a significant number of them will take place thursday and weigh in and we're hearing any more about the police investigation into what happened. well i think we'll have to be waiting a little longer for that the only suspect in this case at the moment has been remanded he will appear in court again on april fifth remembering he still only been charged with one count of murder so far we fully expect there to be more counts placed against him given that the police have been pretty clear that he was the only gunman there was only one gunman present on the day even though they did make some arrests most of those people in fact all of them have been released some other people charged with offenses not related to what happened on friday so at the moment no all we know is that there's one charge of murder again expecting many

more to come in the weeks ahead when thank you very much for that for now that's wayne hay with the latest live in christchurch thank you. now a diplomatic rift as i've been to train a stranger and turkey after president of. the christchurch shootings to strangers and well meant in turkey during the first world war everyone accused is training and new zealand of having an anti islam when their troops took part in the glibly campaign more than one hundred years ago as trains prime minister scott morrison is now threatening to summon turkey's ambassador. well as a campaign rally for local elections later this month or the one reminded us trailer and news event that turkish soldiers defeated their troops at. your grandfather's came here and saw that we were here and then turned back on foot somebody. if you come with the same intentions you're always welcome you know we

will send you back like your grandfather's scott morrison says that he may review travel advice to a stray and to warn them against travelling to turkey and he rejected comments implying historic islamophobia. i don't find these comments very hopeful i don't find them very accurate or truthful as well because the actions of this trial in the new zealand government has been consistent with our values of welcome and supporting people from all around the world we are the most successful margaret countries and in particular on the planet to die we are an example to the rest of the world about how we can all live together in place of harmony and i think australia and new zealand has a lot to offer the rest of the world and and perhaps i should be looking more closely at the example that we've set. our correspondent rob mcbride has been following the response to comments from said. this is quickly developed into a serious diplomatic spat between australia and turkey with the australian prime

minister scott morrison describing earlier one's comments as reckless and highly offensive it stems from apparent attempts by earlier one to make political capital out of the shootings in christ church by showing clips of the video of the attack and some of his campaign rallies and also going further by claiming that the australian suspect did shoot or in that case had made threats against people in turkey going further than that by saying that if any australians came to turkey with murderous intent then they would in his words go home in coffins like their grandfathers from literally now this is a reference to the literally campaign of the first world war when thousands of australian and new zealand soldiers died in the battles against turkish troops it is something that is very close to the hearts of all australians and any attempt to misuse or disrespect the memory of these soldiers is regarded here as being

highly offensive morrison has called in the turkish ambassador for a dressing down on wednesday and for an explanation of these comments afterwards he said he did not receive a satisfactory explanation and is still demanding that the one withdraw his comments saying that if he doesn't then australia is likely to take action and that all what are open let's move on to other news now number of people killed. has doubled and it's expected to rise further president felipe then you see concern that more than two hundred people have died and close to three hundred fifty thousand are at risk the u.n. says. one of the worst weather disasters to hit the southern hemisphere the destruction has made it hard for rescue crews and aid groups to reach victims and. areas the storm has also left a trail of destruction in zimbabwe and malawi. the city of beta and mozambique is

one of the hardest hit places ninety percent of us infrastructure has been a destroyed farm in a minute as there she met victims struggling to cope with the storm's impact. traumatized but safe survivors of scythe lonely die of rival bear airport one helicopter load at a time they come from boozy one of the hardest hit areas in so far province infants a mother and daughter this is the first dry land they've seen in days. another chopper lands filled with young children but hundreds of thousands more remain in desperate need. the united nations says cyclery die could be the worst weather related disaster known to hit the southern hemisphere one point seven billion people lay in its path in mozambique alone just was rescued three days after the cyclon struck he was found clinging to a tree almost entirely submerged in water now just science navigates the same water

that nearly drowned him to rebuild what little is left of his flooded home now most know broome would be there is no more reason to go back all of our houses have been destroyed risky workers say they've moved as many people as possible in dando district but there are many more they say the situation was made worse because people refused to leave their homes ahead of the storm this is a river its banks burst soon after the psycho hit some of the people who've lost their homes have come to this school to find a place to stay they may have found shelter and some water has been delivered but there's very little in the way of. a few hundred people living at the school several families a crammed into one classroom there you go through again i have been here since a cyclon hit by days ago all the roofs were blown away when i looked for help mine .