tv Outside Source BBC News October 1, 2018 9:00pm-10:01pm BST
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hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. donald trump authorises the fbi to expand its investigation into sexual assault allegations against his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh — but made it clear, he is defending his man: what his wife is going through. what his beautiful children are going through, is not describable. it's not describable. it's not fair. the bbc learns that none of indonesia's tsunami detector buoys worked at the time of friday's earthquake — 800 people have died. and a leading scientist claims male colleagues produce better research than women, and that physics was invented by men. a leading astrophysicist at mit told me there is an old boys network that hinders developing women. let's start with the latest development in donald trump's fight
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to get his nominee for the supreme court confirmed. here's new york times, as usual with president trump's press conferences, this one interviewing anyone it deems necessary as long as the interview was finished by the end of the week a lot of scrutiny on what exactly what the fbi would be doing. but it needs to finish its work by the end of the week. after a long press conference, it was the usual menagerie of policy, mistruths. and exaggerations. and inevitably there were questions about his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh.
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we'll work through what was said. the us senate is in the middle of its confirmation process — and three women accuse judge kavanaugh of sexual assault. now the fbi is now investigating — and there's been intense scrutiny on the scope of this investigation. let's start with the president on that. i want the fbi, this is now their seventh investigation. so it's not like they're just starting. i want them to do a very comprehensive investigation, whatever that means according to the senators and the republicans and the republican majority. i want them to do that. anthony zurcher, washington. let's be clear, this is the first into these allegations? yes, those others were background checks. they do criminal investigations, but they also essentially, can be instructed
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by the president to do national security, background checks on imported nominees. such as his supreme court nomination but unless they talk to someone who said that he misbehaved as a teenager, assaulted someone as a college student, then not going to look into that. the argument specific instructions to look into this and the judiciary instructions to look into this and thejudiciary committee instructions to look into this and the judiciary committee had asked the judiciary committee had asked the president to take these instructions in these incredible allegations and that appears what's happening and although you make a good point that earlier in the weekend, i was talk and reports of the media that the investigation was going to be very... you'll be aware that the president has boasted in the past of carrying out sexual assaults. and that he is accused of sexual assault by over 15 women. and of consensual affairs as well. in talking about brett kavanaugh‘s family — he also turned to his perception of those who make these kind of accusations. it's not fair.
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i think it's fair to do it to me because, you know i've been going from day one, long before i got to office even, it almost became, for me it's like a part of myjob description to handle this... "crap . but as faras, this is a man, this is not from this world. this is not from his world. next to the issue of brett kava naugh‘s drinking when when he was a young man. remember dr christine blasey ford says he tried to rape her when he was very drunk. today, president trump reflected on what he'd heard from judge kavanaugh. i watched that hearing and i watched a man saying that he did have difficulty as a young man with drink. the one question i didn't ask is how about the last 20 years, have you had to the last 20 years, cos no one has said anything bad about him
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in many, many years. they go back to high school. president trump seems to suggest the high school drinking is not the biggest deal — and thatjudge kavanaugh was open and honest during last week's testimony. for instance, this. i drank beers with my friends. sometimes i had too many beers. sometimes others did. i liked beer. i still like beer. but i did not drink beer to the point of blacking out, and i never sexually assaulted anyone. not everyone believes that was honest. charles ludington studied at yale at the same time as brett kavanaugh. he's released a statement saying "when i watched brett deliver his testimony, on thursday, i cringed". "in denying the possibility that he ever blacked out from drinking, and in downplaying the degree and frequency of his drinking". "brett has not told the truth". back to anthony. anthony zurcher is in washington.
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i know the democrats are keen to say that but it's very difficult to prove this, we are in a very grey area here. exactly, and well, the blackout? that really depends on his own recollections and memory. maybe the fbi could talk to people who knew him in college and in high school, and maybe recount stories on what he did the night before, that is conceivable. and maybe other people can say, he passed out come didn't fall asleep during his congressional testimony. but you are getting to the state of mind, the incident that happened 30 years ago. so it is going to be difficult to draw any conclusions on this, although the democrats certainly would like to extend the question that whether or not he has a drinking problem or less than forthcoming about that. there is a discrepancy between what he said what we have heard now from some of
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his friends and accusers. finally one more thing president trump said earlier — about how the accusation from dr christine blasey ford came forward. he accused democratic senator dianne feinstein of witholding the information. dianne feinstein knew about this two months earlier. if she wanted a really thorough investigation, we had all the time in the world. she didn't have to wait until after the hearing was closed, essentially. she shoulda said, listen i have a problem. i have this report. i'd like the fbi to look at it while we do the hearings. we had two months. no, she didn't do that. she waited until we were closed, and then she probably leaked it, but you know — who am i to say? anthony, you get one story, yet
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another person you know the story. when the democrats get this, where they allowed, within their rights to immediately release the information? yes, they got it injuly of this year. the congresswoman got copies of the letter. in the letter, she said that she did not want this to be published. she wanted it to be kept anonymous. so she was respecting her wishes up until when it started appearing in the media and the intercept, which is a website which first began publishing these allegations, they have come out recently and said that the week that they got the information that they got, it did not come from diane's office, there ought a limited number of people who knew about this, that was responsible for. what do you make of this exchange and the agency
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correspondent? question, go ahead. is she shocked that i picked her? that's ok, i know you're not thinking, you never do i noticed at the moment it happened. the fact that she responded like that, he said something under his breath, and insult and still, the fa ct breath, and insult and still, the fact that was does very clear dig at her, and for him to do that when there is sexual misconduct allegations, it is definitely dangerous ground for him. i tweeted that out in my comments right now on twitter about half and people being out richard donald trump's conduct and get the havoc he was saying that it was a reflection of the state of
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politics these days. an thank you,. rescue workers on the island of sulawesi in indonesia say they can hear people — but can't reach them. it's three days now since an earthquake and tsunami struck — and efforts to find survivors are being hampered by a lack of heavy equipment to move through the rubble. the death toll is 844 — but that is certain to rise. some areas have not even be reached. this shows that the 7.5 magnitude quake struck near the city of palu. the fishing region of donggala is the closest to the epicentre — more than 300 thousand people live there. rural areas like this remain in danger from mudslides. the tsunami brought waves as high as six metres. and this is what that looks like. this video shows the strength of the tsunami. that power has left scenes of devastation like this.
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this drone footage gives us a better sense of how widespread the damage is. and unfortunately, this work has to be done. today, mass graves were being dug for the bodies that have been found so far. volunteers have been told to prepare for at least 1300 bodies. people are living in tents, many are too scared to go into buildings — there are still strong aftershocks happening. there isn't enough food, clean drinking water or fuel, and there's no power. and that is making people desperate. look at these queues at a petrol station. and people are looting shops — grabbing whatever they can. for the most part, the policejust stood aside and let it happen.
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this is the damage at one hotel. it wasn't until late sunday night that the first survivor was pulled from the wreckage — 50 hours after the earthquake. there may be dozens of people stuck in there. as you can see, the hotel is right on the river mouth. this whole area has been heavily damaged. here's a rescue worker — and then the hotel owner. translation: the day screen, help, here. it was night—time, it was dark and there was no light. i quickly asked for
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heavy equipment to help with the evacuation because doing it manually is impossible. especially with the building collapsed like this. when a cure is a graphic of the ring of fire with australia and indonesia there. is on this ring of fire that you'll find 7% of the indonesia sits on what is known as the ring of fire. this is where you'll find 75% of the world's volcanoes. and where swipe 90% of earthquakes occur. as you'd expect indonesia has systems in place for when earthquakes happen. but this time none of the tsunami detection buoys worked. richard lister has more on this. this ring of fire around this season sees most of the seismic activity will stop any geological fault lines alone, and this one triggered friday's earthquake is the most active. it runs right through the town so people here were well aware
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of the threat. but this footage shows that even as the waves surge towards, people were still driving along the sea front. unaware of the danger. so why did the warning system failed? the tsunami alarm network was put in place around indonesia after the devastating tsunami in 200a. the system relies ona tsunami in 200a. the system relies on a series of sensors on the sea bed. when a sensor detects an earthquake, it assesses the threat and sends it to what is floating on the surface. it then alert the satellite which transmits a warning. but in 2016, and was revealed that none of indonesia's warnings were working. either damaged by fishermen ora working. either damaged by fishermen or a lack of maintenance. the replacement system as been delayed by lack of funding. and the authorities say that before the waves rolled then, warnings were
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sent out using sirens and text messages. but the earthquake cut power, disabling sirens and damaging to medication towers too. the warnings didn't get through to everyone. well this is indonesia's finance minister, talking to the bbc — and trying to shift the blame from budget cuts. i think we're going to continue and improve from this. this is not about a small, we're not supposed to shift this issue into debt, because it's not going to create a better thing for the country for support. the bbc‘s rebecca henshke was one of the first foreign journalists to reach the city of palu. this is what she's seen. people here say they only had a few minutes warning, after much wrong
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earthquake on friday, to flee to higher ground when it saw huge waves coming in. those that could survive, did so by clinging onto trees and buildings. there is no power here and very little fresh food or fresh water. so people are saying they desperately need to get aid and. for the people who are managing to get into the city, road travel is very difficult. there has been landslides appear, that is now almost no petrol and the area which is making rescue effo rts and the area which is making rescue efforts difficult. community members here say that there are bodies still amongst the rubble. people who are still missing and you can snow decomposing bodies here and they do not have the energy or resources to do anything about it. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come. a former miss iraq says she's received death threats just days
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after her fellow instagram star was gunned down in baghdad. we ask what's being done to protect iraq's women high street restaurant chains will be forced to let staff keep their tips, under plans to be announced by theresa may. the prime minister wants to introduce new laws to prevent this is about where the money goes that people pay in tips at the end of a meal. whether it goes to the company or whether it goes to the waiters and waitresses who served you. now if it sounds familiar as an issue, it's because it is. the government's actually looked at this already. a couple of years ago, they did a big industrywide study and found that big—name companies in particular, pizza express, cicis, were charging or getting between eight and 12% charges that people thought were going to the staff.
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now, as a result, the industry says they has changed. they introduce a voluntary code of good practise, only now taking around two and a half percent charge instead of that much higher proportion and the rest of it does go to the staff. a theresa may says that is not enough. but theresa may says that is not enough. donald trump is calling for a quick but comprehensive investigation into the allegations against the supreme court nominee. main story from bbc world service, main story from bbc this is the scene live in barcelona, where thousands of catalans have been demonstrating to mark the one year anniversary of the region's independence referendum.
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madrid imposed direct rule after catalonia declared independence in response to the referendum result — though the spanish government always maintained the vote was illegal. two scientists who discovered how to fight cancer using the body's immune system have won this year's nobel prize for medicine. the nobel committee in sweden said james allison from the united states and ta—suku honjo from japan had revolutionised cancer treatment. a horse walks into a bar. and this happens. a young racehorse escaped her stables in chantilly near paris and bolted — for the nearest sports bar. nobody was hurt thankfully. let's learn about the united states—mexico—canada agreement — also known as usmca. it replaces nafta — which president trump called the worst trade deal in history. this is how canada's prime ministerjustin trudeau describes the new deal. good day for canada.
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and this is the american political scientist tweet @ianbremmer. usmca is not an entirely new deal, but its more than a tweak on nafta. improved ip protections, new auto rules, expanded access to canada dairy. trump will exaggerate the win. but its a win." here is the president. this deal will also impose new standards, more automobiles be made in north america in order to qualify for the privilege of free access to our markets and that is what it is, it isa our markets and that is what it is, it is a privilege. we do not take it asa it is a privilege. we do not take it as a privilege. it is a privilege for them to do business about. and i'm not talking about mexico,
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talking about everybody. if you want to understand why this deal is so important, look at this graphic from bloomberg. we talk a lot of america's trading relationship with china — but china is the largest trading partner for only 5 us states. canada — in blue — is the largest export market for 36 states. and to take one example. this is the canadian consulate in detroit tweet @cyoung8591 virginia sells more to canada than to both china & mexico, combined. kim gittleson, new york. by by making files to city you pick out three changes that we should particularly focus on which ones are you focusing on? the biggest one is as you mentioned the car industry, donald trump it's says the bigger proportion that are manufactured and sold your united states come was to make sure that more of those parts are manufactured here in america so thatis
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are manufactured here in america so that is a significant concession they wants from mexico. it also says workers in mexican car factories they wants from mexico. it also says workers in mexican carfactories be paid higher wages, seen as benefiting us labour unions and the third thing they'll start about is that canada conceded when he came for opening its dairy market and we had significant barriers in place that put favourable treatment on the dairy farmers, a lot of those have been removed and that will help us dairy farmers. the market seemed to approve but is thatjust because of the certainty? yes, but it's also as you mentioned when it comes to the trade deals of the us, nafta is the biggest one. it represents one trillion worth of trade between the three countries. significantly more than the trade between america and china, so anything that suggested that there would not be free trade between the three countries,
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thousand eight area of concern for investors and between us corporations in particular the general motors. they both come out and saying that they are very pleased with the fact that the us will continue to be a part of the free agreement with the neighbour to the north and south. free agreement with the neighbour to the north and southlj free agreement with the neighbour to the north and south. i was wonder woman get these big announcements, how long it takes for it to be, reality. and any of these countries, when we see a difference? it actually has not been approved by congress yet, it's hard to say when these changes will be implemented, it could be until early 2019 at the earliest. so certainly a long time off if you are an executive at ford. and perhaps the trumpet administration can turn to the issue of china was more focused than it was able to do before? we also saw
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the trumpet administration said that this is a blueprint for how wanted to trade deal going forward and i'm not quite sure we can take away from this if chinese negotiator, but does suggest the administration will have more time to turn its focus to is happening with china, but they said that they did not have a significant plans in place yet to open talks with china when it comes to the ta riffs with china when it comes to the tariffs that i'm sure you and i will be talking about again sometime soon. i am sure of that. facebook may be fined over $1.5 billion by an eu privacy watchdog. that's a response to the data breach announced on friday that compromised the personal information of more than 50 million users. facebook may violated the eu's new privacy law. in fact, listen to this expert on this is a real test for the gdpr legislation.
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i think we have to be really careful because it is not trying to punish a company for a data breach. i think we have to be really careful because the gdpr isn't meant to punish companies for having a data breach. that is just, unfortunately, part of life and being online. so what they're really going to be looking at is did facebook follow the law in terms of they had to let everybody know within 72 hours they had a data breach, they did that. we know that the irish data protection authorities has said that facebook has not provided enough information, that could get them in trouble. and we're looking at the three types of vulnerabilities are exploited by the hackers, whichjeopardise a minimum of 50 million accounts that facebook actually locked out automatically, 90 million users a caution. that tells right you right there that this could actually be far bigger than even that. thank you for the weather round—up
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will start by heading across the atla ntic will start by heading across the atlantic where we have been watching hurricane rosa in recent days, on the western coast of mexico. downgrade to a tropical storm with winds though a big issue, the system is not pushing across california with heavy rain, but promises for the desert and the western parts of the desert and the western parts of the great base and for the next few days, perhaps the bigger problem. some significant rain in the short space of time, an arizona and dangerous flash flooding. also heading towards the midwest and west north east of the new interview tornadoes, meanwhile we're seeing: air across the prairies, a bite of winter here, and some significant snow in the season. let's head further east, your eyes do not
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deceive you, and other typhoon kicking in the pacific we had to scott ritter of the first one, sitting at a very similar place to where we just started talking and the track of this will be slightly different. wednesday for japan, the track of this will be slightly different. wednesday forjapan, yes perhaps some strong winds, since the mid air, but heavier rain, relatively calm day, for eastern china. we have got quite a scattering of showers some clearer skies allowed to continue after the synonymy in indonesia. let's take a look at what synonymy has in store. and eventually in eastern china, i will stress that this is a forecast back and change. looking through into japan so we will keep a close watch and keep you up—to—date. talking of storms, it was all about
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the big area of low pressure in the eastern and, this week it is definitely more about the area of low pressure here, bringing in some very windy weather to the western side on tuesday. we will see it across the southeast of france, and generally across the northeastern spain and winds gusting up to 17 mph and the showers tend to go to italy, perhaps parts of greece on wednesday. for the north, perhaps parts of greece on wednesday. forthe north, more perhaps parts of greece on wednesday. for the north, more windy weather and the pressure across scandinavia and maybe some snow on the way for norway as well. meanwhile for the uk, high pressure still managing to bring us a decent amount offair still managing to bring us a decent amount of fair weather to the week ahead, moral details on that in half an hour. hello, i'm ros atkins. this is 0utside source. donald trump authorises the fbi to expand its investigation into sexual assault allegations against his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh,
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but made it clear he is unhappy with the process. what his wife is going through, what his beautiful children are going through, is not describable. it's not describable. it's not fair. the bbc learns that none of indonesia's tsunami detector buoys worked at the time of friday's earthquake. 800 people have died. and a leading scientist claims male colleagues produce better research than women, and that physics was "invented by men". a leading astrophysicist at mit told me there is an old boys network that hinders developing women. more threats are being made to high—profile iraqi women. this is a livestream by a former miss iraq called shimaa qassem.
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she says she's received a message saying she's going to be killed. there's every reason to take that seriously. she's very prominent on instagram, with almost 3 million followers. tara fares also had a huge following. she was a fashion model and blogger, and on thursday, she was gunned down in baghdad. she was 22. this cctv footage shows her at the wheel of her porsche moments before that attack. two days before this murder, a human rights activist was shot in her car in basra in the south of iraq. the intention is of course to scare and intimidate. these are some baghdad residents reacting. translation: this is not the first
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case, it is happening every single thursday. we just we each thursday to see what happens. the situation is very difficult. most girls, especially the famous ones, thinking of leaving iraq. translation: people are starting to be scared because of the assassination cases, especially the assassination cases, especially the young women. this is affecting them ina the young women. this is affecting them in a very negative way. bbc arabic are helping us to support this story. i have been speaking with hadya al—alawi. this story. i have been speaking with hadya al-alawi. these women seem to be sharing the same social media circus. the prime minister said that seems to be some reason to believe that these attacks are coordinated, amid the reason behind them, and he has ordered an investigation based on that.|j them, and he has ordered an investigation based on that. i saw another quote from him saying this was more to undermine the security apparatus in iraq, rather than
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making a point about these women. apparatus in iraq, rather than making a point about these womenlj making a point about these women.” don't think they are quite sure yet what these killings were about. all these women are very outspoken, as you mentioned in your intro, and all of them have a lot of followers, and they are quite... iraq is a very conservative society, and for them to have such outspoken women, is very unusual, so to have such outspoken women, is very unusual, so we are not to have such outspoken women, is very unusual, so we are not quite sure if this was because of the way they present themselves on social media, that they are getting these threats, or it is just random acts of violence happening in a country where security is minimal at this point, it is hard to keep track of eve ryo ne point, it is hard to keep track of everyone doing something wrong in the country. is it starting to affect how younger women behave in big cities like baghdad? women in iraq are usually, especially in baghdad, quite conservative anyway. i think they are quite scared of being dressing in a certain way, a way that is considered european or out of the norm, and of course they are scared. we have seen the miss
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iraq who came today crying, there's a reason for her be scared. they are targeting women based on how outspoken er or how they dress, i'm sure that is good to upset them. what are the outspoken about?” sure that is good to upset them. what are the outspoken about? i have spoken to a couple of people in iraq, they said that the woman killed on thursday criticised... she didn't mention the name, but she criticised a certain shia lido comanche criticised certain villages figures in general. she comes from a christian family but converted into islam, which was very outspoken about the things she didn't agree with in the village, so far higher to post videos like that is very controversial in iraq —— far harder to post videos like that. and there have been links made between her and killing of how outspoken she was about these issues. but as i said,
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we are not fully sure why she was killed, and there are many hypotheses going around, but for sure she was not really a conservative regular 22—year—old, in that society, she was considered a little bit different from everyone else around her. so a very interesting young lady, and we will see how the investigation goes in the next few days. thanks. if you speak arabic, you can get news at bbcarabic.com. you'll know of cern — europe's nuclear research facility. it has that large hadron collider. well, it recently held a work on gender and physics. didn't go to plan. a professor speaking at the workshop said, "physics was invented and built by men, "it's not by invitation". this is professor alessandro strumia of pisa university. we have the slides from the workshop he was hosting. here's one suggesting women chosing to study gender politics and protest a lack of women in physics, rather than study physics. since this became a story,
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professor strumia has been happy to expand. i did the simple checks that i believe everybody should have done before making these claims. and, with some surprise, i found that it is the opposite. if you want to be hired, it is easier if you are a woman than a man. cern have described the presentation as "highly offensive". this is one physicist who was there. it is damaging because it tells a whole generation of young scientists, who are working in string theory, high—energy physics, and physics more broadly, that senior people in authority think that women are inferior and shouldn't be trying out for these positions, and have been there due to tokenism. there's no doubt that the physics world is dominated by men. bbc science correspondent pallab ghosh has more on this. of those studying physics at university, 21.6% are women.
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as they getjobs as research assistants, that figure falls to 15.5%. and as they progress in their careers to become lecturers, it's10%. and for the very top jobs, professors, it's only 4%. sara seager is a prize—winning astrophysicist and planetary scientist at massachusetts institute of technology. she also helps nasa and others plan and build spacecraft. i asked her opinion on this. it's actually shocking. but unfortunately, maybe not surprising. now, the thing i thought when i read the quotes was, not "i can't believe this guy thinks this," but, "i can't believe he said it out loud". what do we learn about the environment of these events that he thought that would be acceptable? well, i think what we really learn is perhaps one insight into why physics remains such a male dominated field, that is perhaps that this speaker and other like him see the world that way, they see physics that way.
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they did not experience what the women do on a daily basis, which would give him a very different view. is it an unwelcoming environment for a woman to come into? i think it depends where you are, and what your personal experience is. i personally have found physics to be welcoming, and i have done very well in physics, and have always been supported, but i do see a lot of women, especially my younger colleagues, really sometimes struggling. and some who are more sympathetic with the professor would argue, boys and girls and young men and young women make choices about the subjects they study, and in the case of physics, more boys and young men choose to go into it. do you think that is in part because of the environment that awaits them? well, we do see attrition at every level, so in high school we see lots of girls taking physics, and in college lots of women take it, but those that go on for postgraduate work and professors and then up to be leaders, there's fewer at every level, so we have evidence that women want to study physics, for sure.
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so what should be done to make it a more welcoming arena? i mean, that's very tough, because it's so ingrained for the culture for, let's call it the old boys' network, or the boys will be boys kind of thing. i can just speak to what i try to do, or what we here at mit are doing, and the women physics faculty meet regularly. our department head listens to our concerns and tries to take action, and we enthusiastically mentor the younger women, help them, with tools to make sure they are getting what they deserve in terms of resources and skills to move forward in this field. iran i ran out of iran out of time to ask about i ran out of time to ask about the equation on the blackboard. it looked fiendishly difficult! don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our website — bbc.com.news. uk government ministers
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are queueing up to talk tough to the european union. yesterday, the foreign secretary compared the eu with the soviet union. today, the brexit secretary told the eu to "get real," and to cut a deal with the uk. here's more from dominic raab. our prime minister has been constructive and respectful. in return, we heard jibes from senior leaders, and we saw a starkly one—sided approach to negotiation, where the eu's theological approach allows no room for serious compromise. yet we are expected to cast aside the territorial integrity of our own country. if the eu want a deal, they need to get serious, and they need to do it now. applause and — once again — the government sought to make it clear no deal is a possibility. ifan if an attempt is made to lock us in via the back door of the eea or the
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customs union, is only offer from the eu threatens the integrity of ourunion, the eu threatens the integrity of our union, then we will be left with no choice but to leave with no deal. applause this is all happening at the conservative party conference in birmingham. alex forsyth is there. alex, it feels like these ministers have made a conscious decision to mmp have made a conscious decision to ramp up the language somewhat. yeah, i think that on one hand, the other is to rally behind the prime minister and her proposals for brexit so far, because on the main floor of the conservative party conference, you heard as he said dominic crosby brexit secretary, and also the chancellor philip hammond, urging the study divided party to get behind theresa may and her brexit proposal, saying it is the one that will deliver a deal. in fa ct, one that will deliver a deal. in fact, the chancellor said it would even delivery brexit dividend. however, the edges of this conference, there is a very different tone. a lot of people are resisting the prime minister's plan,
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pushing back hard against it, hoping they can get to change your mind. some people might be watching, feeling totally amused that the conservatives are having this discussion as we enter notjust the last few weeks but the last few days of the negotiations. yeah, we are approaching that crucial summit in the brexit negotiations, the one which donald tusk, the president of the european council, has described as the moment of truth. and as you say, the party that has been meeting here, they are still very divided over what the uk's proposalfor brexit should be. there are people at this point saying it is time, we have to get behind the prime minister and the pragmatic. tourism herself is still waiting for brussels to come back with some random proposals to the offer she made. —— theresa may. and people are saying they do not want to get bit of the prime minister, but we want to shift policy, and there is a couple of weeks for this still to be hammered out before the crucial summit. so that is why there is all
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this talk about the prospect of no deal, dominic crosby brexit secretary saying that the uk is ready for that, because that is a very real option at this point. stay with us, alex. jeremy hunt, foreign secretary. this part of his speech didn't go down well with eu leaders. listen to this. the eu was set up to protect freedom, it was the soviet union that stops people living. the lesson from history is clear. if you turn the eu club into a prison, the desire to get out of it would diminish, it will grow, and we won't be the only prisoner that will want to skip. —— the desire will not diminish. eu leaders have hit back. the swedish ambassador to the uk — "expecting "respect in brexit negotiations is right, comparing the eu "with the soviet union is not". here's the latvian ambassador —
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"soviets killed, deported, exiled and imprisoned 100 thousands "of latvia's inhabitants after the illegal occupation "in19iio, and ruined lives of 3 generations, while the eu " has brought prosperity, equality, growth, respect". the french ambassador to the us. "un piece of advice i didn t think i would have to give — "when negotiating, dont insult the other side. "it doesn t help...." alex, jeremy hunt would have been well aware this would have caused some consternation, as a viz the calculator that it is worth it. i think there is a desire among some senior cabinet ministers to be seen to be talking tough here, because they think it will play well with they think it will play well with the party. i thinkjeremy hunt would have recognised that this will cause a star, perhaps not to the extent it has, because it is pretty rare for foreign ambassadors to criticise the government and public in the way they have done. i'm not sure he
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would have anticipated quite that response. i think his pitch was more to the conservative party here at the conference, who appreciate that kind of tough talk when it comes to the eu largely. what is quite interesting as the former leader of the uk independence party, nigel farage, the party that of course campaigned for brexit for a long time, has said jeremy hunt is burrowing his language and his tone —— borrowing. so you can see how a man who was once a supporter of remain has shifted, which shows you how the party is sitting right now. britain can sometimes feel like a political total eclipse of the sun —— brexit. can any other policies get through by the conservatives on the side of brexit? ? we have had some policies being launched on the main floor, so theresa may for example saying that waiters and witnesses would get to keep all their tips and restaurants cannot ta ke their tips and restaurants cannot take them away, but what is interested in is that brexit is dominant because it is a huge issue for the united kingdom and the eu right now. but when you go around
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the fringe events, the speeches, the talks, debates and discussions happening away on the edges of this conference, there is a lot of frustration that the brexit debate is drowning out the else, as you say. a lot of people in the conservative party say, we need to have an offer on things like schools, housing, mental health and the nhs, domestic policies for the united kingdom. they are conscious that the opposition party, labour, have that at their conference last week, they want to cancel, that is ha rd week, they want to cancel, that is hard when you have something as huge and divisive is brexit. —— they want to counter that. alex, thank you. a huge amount of coverage from bbc news online on both that confidence and brexit. iran says it's killed terrorists after a missile and drone attack map close to a border town in eastern syria. islamic state militants are known to operate in this aea. iran says it was targetting
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the ringleaders of an attack last month in the city of ahvaz. people died when gunmen opened fire on a military parade. this is the aftermath of that attack, you can see people try to escape trouble. and iran says regional allies of the us backed the attack. that's why one of the iranian missiles had the words "death to america, death to israel, and death "to al saud", written on it, those last words being a reference to saudi arabia's ruling family. i have been speaking to bbc persia's rana rahimpour for more i have been speaking to bbc persia's rana rahimpourfor more on this. i have been speaking to bbc persia's rana rahimpour for more on thism is the second time in the last 15 months that iran is directly attacking isis targets in syria, so
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it is not that common. iran has got advisors in syria, but they are not directly involved in any attack, so it is not that common. no, it is not a particular surprise to see a country retaliating against the islamic state group, but iran has gone a bit further and says, this attack by is was supported by american allies, doesn't offer any evidence to back that up? it is difficult to find any evidence. iran is convinced. the reason they have carried out that attack on a military place in iran 11 days ago. arabian leaders immediately blamed saudi arabia and united arab emirates for being behind these attacks, saying the hands of those who carried out these attacks are in the pockets of the saudis and the varieties. obviously this is an accusation, he has not offered any evidence, but even during the attacks today, on the rockets, they
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said death to america, death to israel, death to the ruling family of saudi arabia. so it seems like they are pretty convinced, and why. i guess the solvents into the broader tensions we are seeing, not just in eastern syria but across syria and in particular in the north—west at the moment. syria and in particular in the north-west at the moment. exactly, and it is not really going to help all the tension, it is in portland to remember that this is the second round of us sanctions, iran will be reimposed injust round of us sanctions, iran will be reimposed in just over a round of us sanctions, iran will be reimposed injust over a month. so iran feels under a lot of pressure. internally, it also came under a lot of criticism because they said that they have not secured the military parade. how come isis was able to get involved in an attack that killed 25 iranians. so it is in a wea k killed 25 iranians. so it is in a weak point, and it really needs to up weak point, and it really needs to up the game ensure that yes, they have the power over their regional
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rivals, and it is not going to help the tension. a little bit more on the tension. a little bit more on the attack on the military parade. the men who carried out this attack, doing over the barfrom, for instance? so there was a bit of confusion about who was behind it. originally, a separatist group based in iran took responsibility. and soon after that, isis came out and said, actually we did, at released a video in which there were a couple of attackers, some of them could speak person. so it is very likely that the iranian recruits who had joined isis, then the separatist group said it wasn't us, it was isis. it seems that there are people who are convinced it was isis, they would have attacked the separatists in iran. now, let's talk about scientists who are gathering in south korea. they are about to publish the most critical and controversial
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report on climate change in years. they are meeting in incheon, south korea this week to see if global temperatures can be kept from rising by more than 1.5c this century. this report has been three years in the making. it's been produced by the intergovernmental panel on climate change (ipcc), and will advise all governments on the causes, impacts and solutions to rising temperatures. this graph shows you how fast those tempreatures are rising. in the late 1800s and early 1900s, after the industrial revolution, temperatures remained steady. but in the 20th century, through the 19705 and ‘80s, things began to get hotter. you can see the global temp on the left here. the last four years have already moved 1.2c. just in the last four years, we have seen significant move on. matt mcgrath has more. we have always looked at two celsius at the limit, which was agreed in
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paris, but recently, more scientific papers have looked at this 1.5, has said that the difference between 1.5 and two doesn't seem like much, but it can be the difference between thousands of homes being flooded and thousands of homes being flooded and thousands of homes being flooded and thousands of species suffering. if you look at the measures agreed to in paris, we're looking at warming this essentially for around 3.5 celsius. the only safe limit for most countries around the world will be1.5. most countries around the world will be 1.5. other scientists say, we think we will sail past 1.5 by 2040. we're hoping to put across in this report that we can develop the technology that will bring us back from beyond 1.5 to 1.5, and that would involve planting millions of acres of trees, developing machines that will remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for lot of people think this technology is untested and nvidia knows how it will work. they are questioning the feasibility of that approach. some governments
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may be inclined to slow down on progress on this report, the got majorfossilfuel progress on this report, the got major fossil fuel producers, progress on this report, the got majorfossilfuel producers, saudi arabia, australia, the united states, who many fear will try and very watered—down the conclusions of this report has been negotiated with scientists this week. former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo has asked the international criminal court to acquit him of crimes against humanity, and free him after seven years in detention. the 73—year—old is the first—ever head of state to be handed over to the hague—based icc, where he's been on trial since 2016. sophie ikenye has more. backin back in court, the first—ever head of state to be handed over to the international crumbled court for crimes against humanity, laurent gbagbo has been held here for the last seven years. now he wants is to make your trial thrown out for what
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his defence team says it is a lack of evidence. some 3000 people died ina of evidence. some 3000 people died in a wave of post—electoral violence in 2010, when the former president refused to step down to make way for his bitter rival. after a long stand—off, laurent gbagbo was arrested by troops, aided by un and french forces, and turned over to the acc in 2011. but the crisis which saw both sides level allegations of gross abuses, paralysed the west african powerhouse for several months. —— icc. many remain loyal to laurent gbagbo. around 200 rallied outside the court before the hearing. and the court before the hearing. and the trial is being watched closely by his supporters back home in the ivorian capital. laurent gbagbo must be released so that peace can be restored. translation: without laurent gbagbo, we cannot have peace because he is the symbol, here's the
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one on whom we all depend. he is the one on whom we all depend. he is the one he can reunite the ivory coast, and when is here, you will see that everything will work. his trial is thought to encompass 82 witnesses, thousands of documents of evidence, and hundreds of hours of video. we will see you tomorrow at the same time. goodbye. if you're watching this long—range forecast because you are already making plans for the coming weekends, the details aren't quite nailed onjust weekends, the details aren't quite nailed on just yet. weekends, the details aren't quite nailed onjust yet. i will weekends, the details aren't quite nailed on just yet. i will tell you why any moment. but in the short term, we have got a lot of cloud fading a train the atlantic. this is the earlier satellite picture, the cloud being driven on by thejet stream. remember the jet stream cloud being driven on by thejet stream. remember thejet stream is the wind high up in the atmosphere that drives weather systems all around the world. it also separates
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warm airfrom coolair, around the world. it also separates warm airfrom cool air, and for the most part, it is good to be warm air dominating our weather over the next few days. but with that, a loss of moisture in the air, so there will bea moisture in the air, so there will be a lot of cloud, some misty and murky conditions, suddenly quite cloudy and drizzly parts of wales in the south—west, especially for coasts and hills during choose to. but where the cloud breaks up across the midlands, east anglia and the south—east, any sunshine will be accompanied with warm air, perhaps reaching 21 celsius. cloudy conditions for northern ireland. northern ireland and scotland season sunshine, crossing north of scotland, some showers. and the wind gusts we are expecting up to 50 to 60 mph across the far north. going through tuesday evening, another area about coming in from the atlantic. again, some warm air tied up atlantic. again, some warm air tied up with that because it has been brought in by warm front, so some outbreaks of rain in northern areas. the emphasis on wednesday as an dry
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weather. some spells of sunshine, but we will see large areas of cloud drifting through as well, and with that warm air in place, if we get some sunshine, temperatures could reach the high teens, perhaps even the low 20s. similar story on thursday, we might start with some dense fog patches in the south, then much of england and wales should be dry. pretty warm yourself at the time of year, northern ireland and scotla nd time of year, northern ireland and scotland seeing a weather front pushing and some cloud and outbreaks of rain. the strand is a cold front, and behind that, we get into some cooler air. the front begins to wriggle out of the atlantic, though, which starts changes some uncertainty into her forecast. which starts changes some uncertainty into herforecast. so for friday, looking likely that some rainbow push in from the west, many places dry, likely to be warm in the south, but a bit cooler further north. now thejet south, but a bit cooler further north. now the jet stream as we head into the weekend, and i want to talk about this dip in the jet stream. there is a possibility that this dip may actually break off a piece of
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the jet stream that. and, potentially across southern parts of the uk. whenever this happens, computer weather models struggle, as there is uncertainty. but this dip in thejet there is uncertainty. but this dip in the jet stream, particularly if it splits off, could bring an area of low pressure somewhere across the uk. so for the weekend, there is a lot of uncertainty. the chance of some heavy rain at times, but there is also likely to be some sunshine. but this troublesome dip in the jet strea m but this troublesome dip in the jet stream then runs away into the near continent for the start of next week, and then we return to something a bit more standard, and we hope a bit more predictable, with the jet stream force in up to the north—west of the journey, somehow brea ks north—west of the journey, somehow breaks of rain, somebody weather as well. further south and east, away from the influence of the jet stream, more likely to be some sunshine, and potentially some warmth as well. but we just have the weekends to get through first. my advice is to stated to the forecast.
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—— stay tuned. to increase significantly. this town enters its fourth day without power and clean water. people are getting desperate. in some areas where aid agencies are struggling to reach, the need for basic supplies is now acute. there's no signal for communications, and even, you know, gas... everyone's queueing for this, and especially supply of food. we'll have two reports from the region and we'll be looking at the state of the aid effort. also tonight... judge brett kavanaugh the supreme court nominee should face a full fbi investigation into allegations of sexual assault according to president trump.
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