just did a view to live from berlin the world renowned physicist stephen hawking has done. a superhero took me by work superman. though confined to a wheelchair from motor neuron disease whose groundbreaking work in black holes and relativity relativity pushed the boundaries of human knowledge to talk about his likes and. also coming up donald trump says he's closer to having the cabinet he wants after firing his chief diplomat secretary of state rex tillerson is the

latest to go president trump has replaced him with the cia director my pump a.o. will find out what that means for washington's foreign policy. that moscow ignores a midnight deadline to respond to british claims of poison the former russian spy who defected to the kremlin london to present the evidence we'll have more. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us stephen hawking mind roams the universe and style had his family says he passed away peacefully in sleep in the early hours of wednesday will be remembered for his groundbreaking work on black holes and general relativity he also defied expectations living for more than fifty years with a motor neurons. and a statement of street children said their father was

a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose legacy would live for many years offing was seventy six years old. well sean carroll is a theoretical physicist a working in los angeles and a colleague of stephen hawking i asked him earlier about some of his members stephen hawking was an amazing physicist one of the brilliant finds funniest and funny for centuries and very intimidating for young lifestyle but he was also an amazing character is incredibly stubborn incredibly willful he had only in sense of humor the very first time i ever met him was at a physics conference at a scots whiskey tasting where after the banquet. together the samples and single malt scotch is in there was steven he would not be left out he would not let is reported handicaps get in the way of anything i think that characterized his entire life ok and as you mentioned he was known for for sharp wit but working with them

and even talking with them it must been somewhat intimidating to be confronted with such a towering intellect well yes it wasn't it you knew what his accomplishments were that he had you know figured out some really profound secret for about how the universe work and of course it was. typed in list computer and so he would ask the question and minutes would go by before you would get an answer or place and every word counted the you really had to be on your best behavior you couldn't sort of waste time dodging around you had to really get to the point ok when you were with him how did he cope with his illness. i would say marvelously well i mean it was very very serious you know not only is he can vying for wheelchair but it's a degenerative disease that you only ever get worse when you have a disease like that he was predicted to last no more than a couple years after he was diagnosed in the early twenty's and he finally passed

away with seventy six years old yet many nurses lift him at all times but later said he just didn't let that affect his life in any way that didn't have he did what he wanted to do you travel collaborated with people he wrote see hung out with movie stars i think that stephen hawking had a great life ok as a fellow physicist what decisions mean now for the scientific community worldwide you know as always very impressive i mean putting aside the fact that in his seventy's stephen hawking was still an extraordinary only active and influential physicist was an amazing thing there's an enormous amount of respect that anything that he says gets just very recently feeling some colleagues working out a new way that black holes that evaporates say the rules of quantum mechanics and general relativity and i think that he had a special kind of creativity and insight and

a sort of sensitivity to how the universe works so we'll be very much sean thank you so very much for sharing your insights and your memories of stephen hawking with us this morning that was sean carroll from the walter burke institute for theoretical physics in los angeles thanks a lot. to talk more about some joined by now by did the show stockman good morning michelle. stephen hawking was an unlikely celebrities as we just heard there was a way he was he defied expectations people described him as a perfect mind and imperfect body and i think we need to look at that he lived for more than fifty years with just with this disease confined to a wheelchair he used a voice synthesizer and he became an icon of science kind of inherited that mantle of scientific celebrity from albert einstein and if we look at his research he wanted to understand relativity the nature of time and space and of quantum theory

how the smallest particles in the universe interact and how the universe is governed and to unify that and he wanted to make that accessible to a mass audience so we look at his book that he wrote in one nine hundred eighty eight a brief history of time ten million bestseller yes and i did read it and i feel i wish stephen hawking had been my high school physics professor because if he made it understandable he said that he passed it in front of his nurses before he published it to make sure that that it would be understandable to to a mass audience astrophysics accessible to a wider audience was definitely one of his accomplishments let's take a look back now at the life of steve all. stephen hawking showed the world the limitless possibilities of the mind trapped in a body crippled by illness he was one of the most well known scientists of our time from the seat of a wheelchair and with the help of a speech generating device the theoretical physicist and cosmologist fascinated

people worldwide. talking faced his difficult physical condition with courage spirit and his trademark dr. shows just superhero it up we i would pick superman. stephen hawking was born in oxford england on january eighth one thousand nine hundred forty two the oldest of four children. at seventeen he was awarded a scholarship at oxford university he studied physics and chemistry he also joined the school's boat club and loved science fiction then at the age of twenty one destiny dealt him a cruel blow. each to. start her photo you know story with a go s. or older girl and if she told me at work already and tour years.

all my life i had worked with the threat of an early. hocking focused on subjects he knew best and could manage it began working in the field of theoretical physics at cambridge university he researched areas that combined science philosophy and religion such as the origin of the universe. he was especially interested in black holes and studied the mysterious phenomenon for years. he looked at what happens to the material sucked into these holes why he developed numerous theories but no definitive answers. one of his greatest discoveries was that black holes can disappear this revelation turned the scientific world on its head. in one thousand nine hundred eight he published a brief history of time the

book sold millions of copies and was translated into dozens of languages and stephen hawking became a high profile public figure. he used his popularity to warn of the dangers of nuclear war and climate change. he sought a public debate to search for answers to other pressing questions of our time. hawking was actively interested in peace between israel and the palestinians. he called the u.s. led invasion of iraq in two thousand and three a war crime even inspired a hollywood film about his relationship with his first wife. hawking received numerous awards and honors for his research and his efforts to open science to a broader audience. in two thousand and seven he fulfilled a dream when he went on a zero gravity flight it was the first time in thirty seven years that he could move without being in

a wheelchair. but he did quest. or you could have thought no not. at all. overseen of course reactions to stephen hawking passing are coming in from around the world but what have you seen show he was a beloved figure as we saw in that report he met with world leaders you know with the pope but i'd like to bring in what i think just captures the essence this is from neil de grasse tyson he's another celebrity astrophysicist he said if you have twitter his passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake but it's not empty so that's it there's an intellectual vacuum now that he's gone you'd have used the shelf stuff and forces morning thanks very much michel the banks it's to the us now in the fired secretary of state rex tillerson has warned of russia's behavior and actions in a parting statement the former exxon mobil chief at

a series of public disputes of the white house after being appointed last year the president officially fired tillerson via twitter naming the cia director mark pompei zero as his replacement. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson exit from the white house had become the subject of speculation for much of his fourteen month tenure his relationship with president trump was on the rocks and their disagreements played out publicly not surprising trump delivered the final blow first to his forty nine million tweets a photo was before calling to listen. the u.s. president later hinted that he axed the top diplomats of a various policy clashes. we got along actually quite well but we disagreed on what you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible i guess he said

it was ok i wanted he's a regular to something he felt a little bit differently. the two men were at odds on more than the run nuclear deal to listen was in favor of the paris climate accord trump decided to leave it till a son warned of troubling behavior from the russian government while trump was repeatedly suggesting an alliance with the putin led state on the north korean nuclear crisis to listen preferred a diplomatic approach and trump threatens to bring down fire and fury over pyongyang that disagreement got so bad at one point to listen reportedly call it the president a moron. while the former exxon mobil c.e.o. had no one savory words for his former boss he barely mentioned him in his parting statement on our return to progress life a private citizen is a proud american probably after you have had to shoreham our country. cia director

mike compare who enjoys a strong relationship with the president is trump's choice to take over from to listen. now for some of the other stories making the news at this hour sara leone hold a runoff vote for president on march the twenty seventh after the first round of voting and that in a stalemate opposition leader julius model b o narrowly won the first round with forty three point three percent of the bow to face off against the governing party scoundrel some are a kemar who took forty two point seven. turkey says its forces have completely surrounded the kurdish controlled city of afrin in northern syria ankara wants to drive out kurdish fighters there it considers terrorists up to three hundred fifty thousand civilians are believed to be trapped there and hundreds of thousands of others as well in the surrounding region. well british

counterterrorism police are investigating another mysterious death of a russian exile in london but they do not believe it's linked to last week's nerve agent attack on a russian spy the body was found in a suburb of southwest london british media have a den of five the man is nicholai cough who was a former associate of the russian oligarch for spurs also who died in mysterious circumstances at his home near london five years ago or russia has ignored the british deadline in the case of the poisoned russian spy sergei st paul and his daughter by minister treason may told moscow it had until the end of tuesday to explain why a deadly nerve agent produced only in russia was used in the apparent assassination attempt may threaten to quote extensive for tallaght ory measures but moscow at the deadline pass and system will only cooperate with the british investigation if it receives samples of the nerve agent in question

a substance known as chalk. this standoff between the kremlin and the u.k. is escalating russia's foreign minister said britain is not complying with moscow's requests to see samples of the novich occasioned he called this a violation of the chemical weapons convention which oversees joint investigations wish you could move russia is not guilty russia is ready to cooperate in accordance with the chemical weapons convention only if the united kingdom deigned to fulfill its legal obligations to the same convention as that was the part of the cuban but key british allies have offered their support with e.u. officials pledging unity. i believe me it is of the utmost importance that those who are responsible for what has happened see very clearly that there is europeans solidarity unequivocal unwavering and very

strong so that those responsible are really punished for what they did. british police say they are not ready yet to name a specific suspect in the crime or even a person of interest hundreds of officers are continuing their investigation in the english town of saulsbury. the british government has valid retaliatory measures if russia fails to allay suspicions that the kremlin was behind the attack. it's very important to people to understand the gravity of what has happened and the outrage that the british government feels about the use of nerve agents use of chemical weapons or against innocent members of the public against innocent police officer. as british prime minister theresa may prepares to set out punitive measures russia has warned that the u.k. should not threaten a nuclear power. the state of you know still to come on the show after almost six

months of political uncertainty all of accor said to be inaugurated as germany's chancellor for the fourth time a closer look at what she's facing and germany's most important political job. well there's a lot of course on a limb ackles to do list most important among those items have to do with the economy that's true and looks like one of the new government's most important jobs will have to do with defending free trade against an increasingly isolationist best custom of the united states the german economy depends on exports like few others especially exports to the u.s. cause machines chemical products and other goods made in germany are popular around the world but is specially in america which is america germany's top customer and that is part of the problem the trade gap last year was two hundred forty four point seven billion euros in germany's favor u.s.

president donald trump has cited that imbalance on many occasions and he is riding on a wave of domestic support for his arsenal as news policies is this isn't a slap tires on aliment him and still is a reaction to that in a worst case scenario european cars could be next so how will the new secretary of state influence trade policy and what can germany do to improve relations regulations with an increasingly hostile white house questions are discussed with german said i'm a senior fellow at the peterson institute for international economics in washington and first asked him why markets reacted with a drop to the announcement of to lessons departure. well i i would think that these two factors that played a role in first of all there was of course a surprise in them and in the sack you know it took us all of it by surprise and that's reflected in the market reaction why do this now when the president has and

full with other issues like tariffs and i concede. but then you know more broadly we have had a balance if you like of people in the administration that supports. the fairly hard economic nationalist line of the president and we have had some people that oppose the nationalist line and essentially multilateralist since it was muslim just was one of them as was gary cohen and so to have now the second important senior figure in the administration depart who in some sense counterbalanced trump a bit is a little bit of the new the new one the new foreign secretary is more hawkish is yes so that is it just a problem of influence in trump or will it really have influence on trade as well well you know in it i think the issue. with respect is perhaps less on trade because they of course you know trump has the most trade of that even

with tennis and still in the in the foreign ministry and as a secretary of state he was very happy to just go ahead with his decision so i don't think that's so much the issue but the issue is just generally the propensity to high chance of conflict of international conflict of which trade is one once and . i don't know who will be sworn in later today for a first term as chancellor what do you think is on top of her konami to do list mending relations with the u.s. . well i would agree that her main challenges are international at this point so we have a coalition agreement that i think correctly outlines a bunch of. domestic economic challenges and i think there's a reasonable job and outlining how they will be met like public investment. tax issues and so forth but i think that the you know the two biggest challenges are indeed trade at this point and europe of course no and i think what has happened in

the last six eight weeks is that the trade issue and relations with us on the whole number one of the issues confronting the chancellor if you look at the rather big trade deficit with germany. and the rather high e.u. tariffs on. imposed on the u.s. does trump have a point you know. well he has half a point which is the only point if you like that trying to demonstrate in the obama administration completely agree with and they're really not very many just maybe the only one is that the opposite about the germans are right so on that in that sense he has a point or germany could do reasonable things things that have been pointed out by the i.m.f. and the european commission so by multilateral institutions to reduce its servers other than that he does not have the points of degree the issue on on tariffs effectively you know it we have some product lines where tariffs are high in the

u.s. these are europe for example on trucks much much higher in the u.s. than in europe we have other product lines like cars were tariffs a slightly higher in the you and this has to do with the history of those tariffs humans have and i thank you very much for this analysis thank you. the posting record profits for twenty seventeen german comic a folk song is getting serious about the production of electric cars the manufacturer has picked partners to provide battery cells and related technology worth twenty billion euros the comic advance to sixteen production plans for the production of electric cars by twenty twenty two a strong increase from the three that are currently able to produce the folks are no hopes to produce three million electric mobiles per year by twenty twenty five now the country came to the city and burned tuesday as some three hundred shepherds brought a small flock to the agriculture ministry in central and to try and save that

centuries old way of life the ship that some introduced no golfer demanding a grazing animal premium which is already paid to shepherds in other european union countries labor union representing germany's thousand dogs shepherds says the cheaper sheep imports germany's total flock has declined by a third since twenty ten just over one million she world wildlife fund estimates the premium would cost around twenty million euros a year and would be largely covered by e.u. subsidies. and that's all your business it's back to brian guards a big day here in berlin for other reasons as well german chancellor angela machall is said to be sworn in for her fourth term today after a week election performance and nearly six months of tough negotiations and political uncertainty macro's conservatives have once again formed a coalition with the social democrats now on the back was the longest serving

leader in the european union and this is widely expected to be her last term as jess. let's talk about this more as political correspondent nina hasa good morning you know the swearing in today the parliamentary approval that precedes it has been a long time in coming why did it take about half a year. actually it is the longest time it's ever taken to form a government here in port post-war germany one hundred seventy one days to be precise since the elections in september and we all know that this is not a marriage of love it's a marriage of convenience or the coalition partners have set so machall was very well aware that voters when no longer satisfied with a so-called grand coalition which is seen as a centrist government positions are sometimes a bit difficult to distinguish between all the parties so she tried this other deal

with the liberal f.t.p. and the greens and the f.t.p. pulled out of those negotiations and then i'm gone michael has to go back to the s.p.d. to ask for help ok it was a long process it wasn't very you know on the macro was highly popular for many years or popularity has been sinking now considerably this will be her last term no doubt and we can expect to be her toughest as well it's a much oh definitely but she looks like she could become the first chancellor to actually choose when the right time to leave is before she gets pushed out of the office that she will probably choose a successor and prepare the ground and this is probably going to be one of her most pressing issue within her own party to get the people up to speed and to prepare the ground for a successor and there is tremendous pressure also because of the challenges in europe there's pressure from the n.t.e.u. party within the german parliament and desperately needed reforms that she could

implement together with the french president so a lot a lot on the table ok a lot on the table what do you think after she is born in will be the first item of business what are some of the most important things for on america. forward the window of opportunity to actually implement reforms and to reinvigorate the idea of the european union is very very narrow we have european elections coming up next year and michael has already the french president has already extended his hand he stretched out his hand to germany and he's been waiting for germany to get a move on so that they can implement these reforms but at the same time uncle americal needs to get her own household in order and there is a lot of opposition we'll see how that will balance so domestically and internationally a lot to do for all of acol you know hasa thanks so very much we have live coverage of that of course later today. let's get your monitor now one of the top stories

we're covering for you right now world famous theoretical physicist stephen hawking's. will be remembered for his groundbreaking work in black holes of general relativity and for the final limits of his disability. seventy six years old. and the fired u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has warned of russia's quote troubling behavior and actions in a statement after being sacked by president trump the president officially fired till some via twitter cia director mike pump as his replacement. this is the interview news live from berlin i'm brian thomas for the entire d. the view news team thanks so much for being with us.

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