this is the w.'s coming to you live from condemnation of the scientists who says he's created the world's first genetically edited babies a chinese researcher says he really took the d.n.a. of twin baby girls even his university says the work violated its ethical standards the methods have been used on plants and animals but never before on humans also on the program. tensions between ukraine and russia escalate as ukraine imposes marcion north and parts of the country it says russia has entered

a new phase of aggression after it seized your cream in neighboring ships off the crimean peninsula and actually down compared to. now also celebrates as its spacecraft inside lands on mas the probe has already sent a selfie from the red planet is frightening mission is to dig beneath the surface and send back vital data on the planet's composition. played. hello and welcome i'm. the wood of science has condemned a chinese doctor who claims to have made the once first genetically edited baby's he says he ordered the d.n.a. of twin girls born earlier this month to try and make them resistance resistant to infection with hiv but his claims prompted

a fierce backlash from the scientific community including in his native china many cars died on the breakthrough and questioned its more out of. his study is not yet been published but academics around the world say asian quake has crossed the line the geneticist is said to have changed the d.n.a. of two babies born earlier this month to regular in vitro fertilization. claims the father of the two babies is a child be positive and that he edited the genes while there were just embryos to make them resistant to the edge of the virus. feel strong response be to. god it's not just to make a first but also make good. example there we have some well history in this if it's not of someone else questions and no being asked about the credibility of his urine quiz claims along with his motivations did he simply want

to further scientific research on the topic even though scientists worldwide have so far agreed not to test gene editing on embryos. that i made he wanted to play god i don't know i think doing these kinds of tests on humans is absolutely inexcusable we have no idea about what side effects there might be what might happen to these children in the next fifteen to twenty years doing these kinds of experiments on humans is beyond reason and ethically completely unacceptable the gene editing technology used in the experiment was initially developed to treat inherited diseases it involves changing the genetic makeup of plant life animals and humans. it's a special projects in the can be pursued i sleep programmed to take out and tire snippets of d.n.a. . mutated genes which can cause diseases for example can be completely switched off. genes can not only because out but they

can also be repaired or even replaced. the for. using the technology on human embryos however has so far been taboo not all research is feel bound by these ethical traditions for some it may be more important to prove they are at the forefront of gene therapy technology. i'm experimenting and it isn't just in my opinion this represents a reckless human experiment and neither the risks nor the benefits have been properly established society hasn't been consulted it's medically not necessary. the whole thing was announced a day before a major international summit on the topic as a provocation insist and for the cuts. the case has also caused an uproar in china more than one hundred scientists have signed an open letter denouncing it as risky and unjustified adding that at home the reputation and development of the by

medical community in china. joining me now for more on this controversial development is dead it williams from science desk welcome the first of four how sure can we be that this chinese scientists has genetically edited babies as he claims because there's been no independent verification so far as that you know there hasn't been and that's one of the most interesting aspects of actually this claim is that is that there's been no publication there's been no peer review which is the normal way that you would go about this as a scientist so all we have is basically the scientist itself claiming that he's done this and even the university where he was working says they have no knowledge of this particular research so it's still really very much in the air whether or not this is actually happened and the scientists insists if the scheme is proved that he is actually protecting these babies from inheriting a condition in this case hiv what's so wrong about that. genes do different things

in the body and so and what he's basically done is or what he claims to have done is as removed one particular gene that aids in the transmission of hiv if you don't have this particular gene then you won't get it now but the problem is is that genes don't really work that way it's very very rarely one gene for one particular process and by removing this particular gene he might have condemned these babies to actually other possibly difficult genetic circumstances not only that the crisper counts nine technology that's the that's the protein that we just saw in the piece it's called chris protected class nine this technology is very very precise but it's not perfect and so there are also what they call off target effects no one off target effect means that that particular technology that particular enzyme could also alter the genome in other places not just in the place where the doctor or where this researcher. claims that he did his work so the claim that the babies are perfectly healthy and that everything is just fine with them actually he can't really make that claim and despite all these concerns the

scientists say as we could not report if not me someone else would have done it is the right tool has he crossed a fundamental ethical boundary. yes he is right in the sense that others would have done it but yes also he has crossed a fundamental ethical boundary i think that the huge majority of of researchers in this particular field would say it's way way too early for us to be doing this kind of research this is sort of shot in the dark hit or miss kind of research if it actually is as he did take place as he claimed. ultimately we need it will happen at some point in the future but i think the hope is that it will be much more transparent and much more strictly regulated than simply somebody going off making a decision to do it and doing that did you yourself are an expert on biology and you know this area of genetic science is very competitive among scientists given all the outrage and the concerns very you see this going i think that as we heard

in the piece as well i think that this is sort of this is meant to shock the community as well the into making possibly global regulations regulating this particular area of science because we have to do it as we said it will happen eventually but we need to have it happen step by step to minimize the damage possibly because we're talking not only about babies and what it might do to to babies in the course of their lifetimes but also we're talking about altering those babies grow up in those babies will have children themselves and so we're talking about altering the entire human gene pool we're talking about the the future of humanity and that's not to be taken too lightly absolutely huge implications data from a sciences thank you very much for shedding that on this very controversial development . international calls are growing for a deescalation in the most dangerous crisis between russia and ukraine in recent

years the standoff sparked after russian vessels fired on boarded and captured three ukrainian ships on sunday you preened reacted by introducing temporary martial law in parts of the country and germany is among those countries calling on russia to release the ukrainian ships and the sailors this is what germany's defense minister or is it on the line had to say in these are two ends which would surely in the current situation both sides russia and ukraine must demonstrate that they are contributing actively to a deescalation defense because it's to seize ships and sailors must be released you kind of most beleaguered ukraine must provide evidence on what exactly happened also russia must ensure free passage through the waterway and should not act in a disproportionate manner and that was a germany's defense minister yourself on the line joining me now is the dumbest political correspondent kate brady from autumn entries to do so good we just heard

the german defense minister calling for deescalation what are some of the other german politicians saying about this standoff well we know now that since the weekend german chancellor angela merkel has in fact spoken on the telephone to both the ukrainian president petro poroshenko and his russian counterpart vladimir putin and merkel made it very clear that she wanted both countries to deescalate the situation and also stressed the need for a dialogue and that's also a call that we heard that was repeated again later today by the german foreign minister. who also stressed that need for dialogue and calls on ukraine and russia for the for the greatest possible restraint is what he said earlier today and we can have a listen to else he had to say now. that's big and maintaining a united approach in europe means we have to close the gaps in our own ranks.

as germans we experienced first hand the division of europe into east and west. we can't allow chasm like that to open up again. that's why we've broadened the scope of our dialogue with central and eastern europe and we must do so again one. good as we had hulk heikal loss is calling for european unity germany france ukraine and russia have worked together to find a solution in the process of the so-called normandy format but that hasn't or biz well obviously other options to defuse tensions now there are certainly other options on the table of course the second agreement that you mentioned just there emerita that hasn't been very successful at all there are hundreds and thousands of violations that have been reported by watches on the ground there since that first came into action in two thousand and fifteen and so there are all there is a need for

a solution here and at the same time already today there have been calls from politicians one social democrat politician a call today for more sanctions from europe against russia of course that would also be an option but at the moment the message from germany is deescalation and dialogue because there won't be any rush decisions not least of all from germany which has become famously patient in dealing with russia but it has been taking a rather stronger stance against moscow's foreign minister heikal mosse took office earlier this year but of course we're not going to see any rush to the decisions particularly given the sensitivity of the situation and how quickly of course things could escalate right kate brady thank you very much for giving us a german reaction on that russian ukrainian standoff. this article look at some other stories making news around the world french president in modern mccraw says his country which shot down fourteen of its fifty eight nuclear reactors by the

twenty thirty five he made the pledge in a speech laying out his roadmap of france's transition to clean energy across his blueprint comes amid ongoing protests of a few attack sites aimed at financing green initiatives. u.s. prosecutors say donor transformer campaign tram and manifold has violated the terms of clear deal with the justice department they said manifold lied to investigators probing russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen election despite agreeing to have them he's currently behind bars awaiting sentencing on conspiracy charges. the trial has begun in thailand of a billionaire construction tycoon accused of poaching and endangered alpha and other animals in a while live sanctuary. was arrested in june after park rangers found him the

sanctuary with guns and animal carcasses jetting out of mexico which says it is deporting scores of central american migrants who try to illegally cross into the united states at the same time it's called on the u.s. to investigate its use of tear gas fired across the border when many stormed. a san diego the incident has left many of the five thousand people anxious about the options must have traveled thousands of kilometers to the juana in mexico. for many of these migrants their six week journey may soon have to be repeated returning to where they came from the u.s. president is standing firm only those who qualify can enter the united states. and we just said look if they come over here within the studio to apprehend the movement to close the border that's not really been done to the extent that i'm doing because i mean it and i'll close it for a long time. on sunday he made that crystal clear when some migrants rushed the

u.s. border a cio wanna only to retreat after u.s. border patrol agents responded with tear gas mexican authorities also increased security and will deport scores of migrants after arrests were made. now some believe their voyage here may have been in vain the u.s. is processing asylum requests but that can take many months. we have no hope of being here for many days and i'm talking. it's like there's no hope of crossing. with the difficulties that were presented in the events that occurred i see getting asylum more distant it's looking more and more remote only god knows the time that we will have here what will happen we have to wait a bit. meanwhile the mexican government is offering some hope a job center has opened up for people considering working in the country not quite

their dream though of the promised land. you're watching the news coming up ahead painfully job cuts and general motors have affected. what happened to america first don't fall isn't happy either. but first one step closer to unlocking the secrets of the red planet nasa inside spacecraft has touched down on mas this picture is a kind of a selfie it's one of the first images in science has sent back but it will do much more it's expected to drill down into the martian soil to collect important data on how the planet was formed from the scientists involved it's been a thrilling and a hot stopping jinnie. sixty meters fifty meters constant ferocity suspense that's almost impossible to bear touchdown compared. followed by an outpouring of jubilation and relief this is the moment nasa

scientists received confirmation that the inside spacecraft had landed safely on mars. the news was relayed by a pair of tiny satellites that had been trailing in sight throughout its four hundred eighty two million kilometer journey because of the distance between earth and mars it took several tens minutes for confirmation to arrive to think about working for seven years as many of the people here in the room have done to get to the point where you have seven more minutes to survive you can literally survive is it credibly hard to describe my heart was basically i think to stop beating for seven minutes i don't know if that's healthy or not the two satellites not only transmitted the good news they also sent back inside its first snapshot of mars with dark specks of debris still visible from the landing the inside will now spend

the next two years studying mars core to learn more about the planet's origins but scientists say this will be a slow motion mission this entire process just getting the incident to the ground takes approximately two to three months so it's going to take a little bit of time to get to that point and then another couple months for them all to penetrate through the ground and to do the fine tuning of the seismometer and at that point we'll be sitting back and listening for those mars quakes and measuring the vital signs on mars getting all that great science or chart we're really looking for that. after transmitting the inside spacecraft dramatic landing sequence the twin satellites then took this final image roughly seven and a half thousand kilometers from mars a farewell to insight as it embarks on its mission. in sports champions league football is back tonight as the penultimate match of the group stage sees sides from all over europe scrambling to see their ticket to the knockout stages but for buying unit coach nicole called watch there's more than just qualification at stake

his job is a what's on the line. or coach on thin ice on saturday buy and were held to a home draw against the league's second worst team doff by and president only heard a spread of the performance slapstick refusing to comment on nico coverts his future beyond choose days champions league game on monday a prickly coach insisted he has the backing of his players. for example i've had conversations with several players and the ones i spoke to told me what i'm about to tell you this our relationship is exceptionally good so so not just with the players that i spoke to by the way they also amongst themselves. for the beleaguered by and side opponents benfica may look an easy target having lost two of the last three league games in portugal but by and missing five key players through injury and their own mistakes have been their achilles heel this season.

we analyze every game and we can see where we're making mistakes unfortunately the mistakes that we keep repeating or. throwing everything out and starting from scratch isn't possible when you only have fourteen feet out there are players. by and have never before lost to benfica as the margin for error shrinks. cove needs a wind to breathe easy to. get if his joins without huge job losses up to major us common faction and donor doesn't seem to be happy either get no notice or that doesn't really work with his make america great strategy general motors plans to lay off up to fourteen thousand factory and white collar workers in the u.s. and canada and put five plants up for possible closure fifteen percent of g.m.'s entire workforce are affected by the plants the comic only iconic brands like

chevrolet and cabot cadillac says it wants to focus more on all thomas and electric vehicles. g.m. said waning demand for traditional sedans and rising costs prompted the massive cuts and the steel tariffs introduced by the u.s. this year haven't helped president donald trump was quick to say g.m. decision to cut its american workforce. well we don't like it i believe they'll be opening up they go to where i was very tough i spoke with her when i heard there were closing that i said you know this country's done a lot but general motors you better get back it is true that you know i owe a wreck of trump's sentiments from canadian prime minister justin trudeau disappointed by g.m.'s decision regarding their plant in the ocean well as part of their global restructuring our thoughts are with those those whose jobs will be affected and their families. but unhappiest of all are affected general motors

stuff i've been here twenty years i've been through a closure in scarborough i've been through a closure in london i moved my family twice for this company and they do this to me this term. the five g.m. plants will halt production next year laying off three thousand three hundred production well because in the u.s. and about three thousand in canada the company also plans to trim its white collar stuff by eight pounds and. join in the studio by my colleague stephen beers they from the w. business stephen if you look closer into this story what's behind this decision by jim regular to think really if you look at this there belt we say there are three factors really a play one is market conditions the other is preparation for the future and then the other side these economic factors like the tariffs so we saw with market conditions americans are buying fewer small and midsize cars they want trucks they want us u.v.'s ford with these lines that they're idling not closing down they're idling these are of course largely production lines for cars and midsize sedan and

so the ships have been slowly being pulled back over time to talk about future conditions autonomous electric as what was mentioned in the piece a legit for example rick. wires fewer workers on the floor we're seeing similar changes across the sector right now volkswagen announcing similar changes to production lines going to movies hard to know that there's less moving parts it just requires less bodies on the floor and then finally we talk about some the trade stuff g.m. was saying that it's going to cost it's bottom line i think it's looking at seven hundred million to maybe a billion dollars in cost that's not insignificant but that is not at the absolute heart of this either of all these things converging so you said that the terror of stupid play a role there as well. there is a political dimension to this but it is it a bit large at this time due to donald trump isn't it right there's always a political dimension when people are being laid off as you can see in canada and other nations sounds the same as what we're hearing now in the u.s. from president trump but obviously president trump has intervened from very early in his presidency for hiring american hiring and these things and so this is really

this ultimate sort of tension between someone who is supposed to be a free market republican and someone who also wants to push for american jobs that's a very populist stance but as his critics have often said you know american prosperity rests on globalization and g.m. is making money from china in other areas not just from the u.s. and it has to think about the future it can't just think about job numbers all time globalization is an interesting point here. but shouldn't the g.m. also have profited from this massive tax cut from that on top of providing great if you could read of course is the one point five trillion dollars tax cut is meant to sort of encourage investment by businesses and by many reports they have saved on federal taxes this year about one hundred fifty million but they've also suffered a big loss from being able to write off past losses a much larger amount they've actually lost and that the point is this often isn't a one to one we cut your taxes you invest more we hire more as you can see it's much more complicated mr thank you very much. this time last year bitcoins meteoric rise was the talk of the town then started to plunge and.

last december one big con cost nineteen thousand dollars now they're trading below four thousand digital currencies a facing the next crisis only the most hardened risk takers to touch them. this is has some on twitter have depicted what's happening behind the scenes during the ongoing bitcoin crash although these images are not actually connected to bitcoin they nonetheless serve to illustrate how dramatic the mood is for some right now. across the board digital currencies are flailing big coin has lost seventy eight percent since the beginning of the year ripple has lost even more and terry almond bitcoin cast have dropped more than ninety percent each a year ago because one was the talk of the town people watched excitedly as the

value skyrocketed to twenty thousand dollars banks started working feverishly to build a digital currency infrastructure. but the plunge in value seems to have topes is it not game over for crypto currencies will they not be an accepted asset class off to roll some die hard crypto analysts remain confident they believe digital currencies will rise like phoenix from the ashes as they've done many times before others say their value has always been zero making them still overpriced. so you can be happy that you didn't invest if you go to a restaurant here in berlin this a fifty fifty chance that you get insulted by the way and stuff just because you dared to ask for free to order complain that they brought you the wrong foods those are the moments when you wish the future would arrive just a bit faster that the future has arrived in the count mom do already now lou is the first fully digitised restaurant in south asia custom it's all about touch screens

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