more than 1000 people have been detained throughout the country as part of the largest opposition action in years seen as a test of strength and alexina of all these battles with the kremlin. correspondent emily show one has been covering these protests emily is there a song get the people ready to go. well a lot of the protesters here in the capital moscow seem to there are reports of several protests smaller groups of protesters gathering around the center of the city still and chanting. but right here where we are on one of the central streets that was full of protesters until just recently it's only the police who remain behind me. and really what is it that has motivated so many people to take the risk and to come out on the streets today. well people today were chanting all sorts of things here on the streets of moscow they were chanting of

course for. scene of i need to be freed from prison but they were also chanting putin is a thief and putin leaves the chanting for him to leave office. on the one hand of course i think the fact that i would say never was arrested upon his return to russia and also the way he was trialed he was tried very quickly in actually at a prison here in the region of moscow that angered people then also the. team published an investigation this week into what they say is the near putin's palace put the palace of the russian president and that investigation on you tube has gotten millions and millions of views and many of the people that i spoke to today were saying that this is actually the 1st protest opposition protests that they've taken part in and that they just felt like this was just the . last straw and they they don't want the government to steal their money any more

they don't want corruption in russia and they want to have a better life before seeing these pictures of the palace we have been watching more live pitches of protest as being a why you have covered a lot of protests in russia how severe is the level of force the authorities deploying today as they try and break up the demonstrations. well there were also large protests here in moscow last year or rather in 2019 and i think the level of force was pretty comparable kind of violent arrests. are something that i've become used to here in moscow on the streets and at other protests as well in fact to date with the amount of people the thousands and thousands of people out on the streets in moscow almost at point seemed that the police the authorities had kind of lost control of the situation i saw at one point

the crowd kind of in circling a police officer who was trying or various police officers who were trying to lead off one protester in order to block them from arresting that person and that's something that i haven't seen before i think the level of force is comparable comparable to other protests though even though it may seem shocking. to to our viewers and i think we're still seeing live pictures of people being taken away as we heard also and of all these wife yulia has been the time and what sort of figure the she represent now for the protesters. i think over the last few months she's become much more of a public figure since i like seeing a violin the was poisoned a few months ago we saw her appear publicly several times including with the 1st interview in the 1st interview that i would say now i need gave to a russian blogger here she was also interviewed for example we saw images of her at

the hospital where her husband was being treated treated right after she was poisoned. and i think many social media users many people here in general were very impressed by how tough she is and how in control she remained despite the fact that such upsetting essentially things were happening to her own husband and there have been has been some talk now. in recent weeks as well about whether you could potentially even run for office in the upcoming elections which are scheduled for september particularly if her husband remains behind bars he's waiting for a trial which is likely to take place sometime in february and only show one in moscow thanks so much. now for a look at some of the other stories making headlines this hour. hundreds of a government protesters have taken to the streets of chile's capital something.

riot police 5 water cannon and used tear gas on demonstrators protesters are calling for reforms to pension health care and education systems. dramatic pitches show threatening storm clouds rolling. in northern spain lightning heavy rain and strong winds battered the catalonian region the markets in one town suffered extensive damage as the fast moving storm swept through no injuries have been reported. veteran u.s. t.v. and radio broadcaster larry king has died at the age of 87 he was best known face talk show larry king live on c.n.n. which he hosted for 25 years the journalist is reported to have died after battling coded 19 he also suffered several other health problems in recent years. hong kong has locked down a densely populated area and ordered residents to undergo compulsory testing after

a new outbreak of the corona virus some 10000 residents on the cow loon peninsula have been affected and thousands of police have now been deployed to enforce the law down the government says people have to stay at home until everyone has been tested. hong kong's 1st corona virus lockdown the territory had been largely able to keep case numbers low but a new stubborn wave of infections led authorities to take this unprecedented step they hope to stamp out the 1000 cluster quickly. we are working hard to get this done within 48 hours our aim is to fight the virus together to achieve is 0 a cases in this area and the government has a range sufficient testing equipment to test the people in this neighborhood as quickly as possible. a neighborhood that's poor and

overcrowded people here live in cramped subdivided apartments with shared bathrooms outbreaks in buildings with inadequate ventilation and plumbing are on the rise in hong kong one of the world's richest cities. and counties walking in this area that we've drawn up we noticed that sewage samples in some of the buildings show relatively high positive results compared to outside the area. residents will only be able to leave their homes with proof of a negative test authorities hope that people here will be able to return to work on monday. ok here's a look at some of the other developments in the pandemic balun astra zeneca has told the european commission that it will not be able to deliver the a grade volumes of its vaccine when it receives regulatory approval the netherlands

is introducing a not time curfew in a bid to help the spread of the new variant of the virus that restriction will come into force throughout the netherlands on saturday residents have to stay at home between 9 pm and 4 30 am and belgium is the ban non-essential trips into and out of the country from next week until the 1st of march to curb the spread of infections police will enforce the travel ban at land sea and air borders well 100 years old the world's oldest living a live picture empty and is still going relatively strong gary in gymnastics superstar agnes collette he won 10 medals 5 of them gold well she gave de w. an exclusive look into her life in budapest she's overcome discrimination faced great danger and yet still remain focused on the sport she loves. may have trouble hearing your questions but she makes up for that with her playfulness she enjoys dedicating

a recently published book on her life to those who ask me to curl while but she's happy to please her life has been anything but easy to use jewish ancestry saw her forced off her gymnastics team in 1941 due to unto semitic laws germany occupied hungary in 1944 the survived the holocaust but many of her family including her father note she won her 1st olympic gold in helsinki in 1052 and 4 years later in melbourne she cleaned for more then she was 35 making her the oldest female olympic gymnastics champion. again was that i know the gold medal didn't mean a lot to me. i just love gymnastics. h. at me and long as and then what do people get out of winning gold. our own home are reminders of the past photos of her beloved parents recognition

from the state of israel and from the hungry and prime minister. and the meaningless medals well she keeps tucked away in a plastic bag. this is the one. ashworth the last demo that we didn't do sport to win medals and next saturday we did it because we loved it. the reason gymnastics was so valuable. was because i could see the world for me because if i'd had to pay i would never have seen it. well kellett he gets ready for a walk around our sun rough explains what it is like to have a mother with such amazing sporting credentials a lot of the fact that. it took me time to realize how exceptional her path and her life. was and would still be she's much more famous in the last 10 years.

in the earlier 40 years because she became the. achieved. female athlete but the most. the longest leaving olympic champion. in the soviet union invaded hungry i'll kill it he was in melbourne for the olympics she received political asylum in melbourne before emigrating to israel. no she's back in budapest the city of her birth an extraordinary wife has come through a circle. that has been a reminder of the top story before we go now police in russia have detained more than a 1000 people at anti putin demonstrations across the country including the wife of jailed kremlin critic alexei navalny demonstrators are marching against the rule of president vladimir putin and calling for nice presents.

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long before homo sapiens began to populate the earth another human species had established itself across much of the eurasian continent the neanderthals. fossils discovered during the last 2 centuries in the atlantic ocean and in siberia have shed some light on these mysterious archaic humans. great culture they had social system they have intelligence. recent archaeological finds in england and france have helped researchers find out more about these early inhabitants of eurasia so the jockeys even

a master their environment and understood it perfectly awful. neanderthals managed to survive for some 300000 he is and then they disappeared how did they overcome existential threats such as extreme climate change. and walked in the end of phil's and most humans have in common. after the 1st archaeological evidence of neanderthals was discovered in the 19th

century many experts described the species as apes like. a more realistic picture of the neanderthals evolved decades later. analysis of their remains and various artifacts provided details about the way they lived the survival skills that they developed and the climate in which they lived. in that climate was extremely harsh during the millennia that neanderthals inhabited the eurasian continent. this was the ice age and there were periods of extreme cold with temperatures dropping to minus 20 degrees celsius and sea levels

were much lower than they are today. the evidence indicates that the neanderthals adapted well to these particularly difficult conditions. paleoanthropologist professor chris stringer of london's natural history museum specializes in the physical and anatomical development of early humans. the neanderthal face is very different to the shape of a modern face and many arguments about how that phrase evolved wide evolved and i think the view now is that certainly that face it's partly to do with account of that tradition so we know neanderthals of alvin conditions that were laundry. colder and drawa than the present in europe and it's rightly that the face

was absolutely the ninety's or because the nose is very large and it's pulled forwards it has a very large internal volume. so partly it seems that it's there as acting like a radiator it's warming up and humidifying the air that's coming in. and this richard for all of these are huge huge all of them really have a launch a nice of a bright just the more you wish to but never trust take it to another level where they really are pumping huge amount of it through their noses and i got fusion runs barrel chest then each night they're blond they're burning more energy to stay warm as well. these physical characteristics helped the neanderthal survive in an

inhospitable ecosystem. they also developed and in cotton skill making tools out of flint and other materials. this was groundbreaking technology. it's known as the level one technique and involves using a rock or bone to chip off thin sharp edged flakes from the core material. here archaeologist van son last tour demonstrates the technique. because i think about him shaping the core and then i'll remove the pieces that could be used as tool. it's. this is what's called

a liver point literally it runs along these ridges on your record now i'll break off a piece on this one. it's a long slow process now he has to sharpen the edges. so some of the player you can see are the distinctive features of this process of going after 2 ridges that come to a point and the beveled cutting edge. there's a concave ledge could be used to attach the pointed flake to a spear. by example. the level wire technique helps neanderthals create weapons to hunt large animals that would provide them with meat

for food and skins for clothing. this allowed the neanderthals to spread across the continent despite the cold weather. they were also able to adapt to a brief interglacial periods that were marked by significant increases in temperatures. there are only a few sites where experts have been able to study thousands of years of neanderthal history. one of them is on the island of jersey in the english channel excavations over the course of the last century have revealed new details on the lives of these early humans. archaeologist becky scott is a researcher at the british museum she and her colleagues have spent several years

studying the neanderthal side i'd like court to sound real art. the settlements preserved within the fish. begin accumulating at least 240000 places as tracy we have dates now of france about 40000 and there were lighter settlements as well so actually that catches that entire time span. but what it also captures if she changes in climate an environment. so there are times when it's warm you know it's nearly as well missed a day in the sea is quite close there are other times when it's cold dipping down into a glacial period in the end they the same is locked up a long way north of the site and a completely different landscapes exposed. in prehistoric times jersey was not

an island it was part of the european mainland one of its most prominent geographical features is a rock formation that towers 150 meters over a broad plain neanderthals may have used it as a lookout post. finance to people that. gives them control of that so you can maybe imagine somebody sat up there perhaps directing at the grapes perhaps spotting. maybe other people coming through maybe herds of animals coming through so by getting out they're actually able to control and work with their landscape in a way that you can't when you're just download and moving through it. scientists mapped lp ocean floor around the island to find out what the area might have looked like in prehistoric times. few years ago my colleague richard bates

and martin bass actually started t. conduct about the metrics of the bank that surrounds the cart and up to 5 kilometers off shore so that was kind to me in the landscape that we can't say so there's little bits of it still visible is a scary and reefs in a row did see statics. the bait brothers investigation showed that the sea bed was not very deep they also found canyons where neanderthals could trap bison wild cattle known as mammoths. here at the university of reading archaeology professor stephen mithun has been researching how early humans learn to develop survival skills and adapt to their environment. i think in many ways you know intel's were wild people but i mean wild

in a in the best sense the word they were very sensitive emotional caring people but they were engaged in the wilderness wilderness voices tundras of into place of force of coasts and had a great understanding of nature and were very much part of nature in the whether or not today so much. rivers and streams were vital to the neanderthals survival. they used these bodies of water to help find their way through dense interglacial forests they also hunted animals who gathered there to drink. excavations at kalgoorlie in northern france revealed evidence of big game hunts that took place there an estimated 123000 years ago.

experts from france's national institute for archaeological research in rap have been working at the side for more than a decade is a new move to a bit too poorly mobo the animals were probably killed on the riverbank at that time the river was about 10 meters from here not where it is today the ground was soft which made it difficult for the animals to move around it would have been too dangerous to hunt them on open hard ground people were. the lives of the neanderthals were focused on hunting they developed skills that eventually made them the most dangerous predators in the region. that that they were expert hunters we usually associate neanderthals with sites where the remains of medium sized animals have been found in various species of deer and reindeer to do more but they were also apparently. able to kill wild cattle which were nearly 2 meters

tall. the woolly rhinoceros was also huge they were very aggressive and dangerous animals but they also provided a rich source of food including meat and bone marrow well. it. makes give asian directives luke launched says the scientists yielded important new information on how neanderthals adapted to their environment and this has changed our perception of these primitive humans. for the coerced site was discovered in 2002 experts believe that neanderthals could not adapt to interglacial environments it was thought that they inhabited only the colder step sounds and moved out of our region during interglacial periods the. evidence from the side indicates that neanderthals spread their activities over

several locations for example the current takes give asian was set up at a place where these elite humans butchered the animals they killed just because. this was an intermediate site they used for slaughter and they killed the animal somewhere else and then brought the carcasses here on afterward they probably took the meat to a base camp that was a little further away poor to bask in pushed down pretty well probably a year on and you think we've recovered items that indicate that these people made their weapons very quickly without a lot of extra work. the idea was to complete it in what was for them a short period of time. and if i want to should remember. scientists have now determined how these sites were used and how long they were occupied. the oldest layer is around 124000 years old.