tend to be fascinated by certain things they're fascinated by dinosaurs for fifty years now if you would go to a typical classroom in the united states and look at posters on the wall you would see pictures of dinosaurs for the first time last year pictures from hubble space telescope occurred more often than dinosaurs on the walls of the classrooms of america that is quite an accomplished so thank you children for funding to help both well in fact that's true with their we've had servicing missions to the hubble . five of them actually and the last one there was a lot of questioning because the economy was having problems and whether or not it should go ahead there were some committees that actually recommended against the final servicing of hubble in fact it was the public the american public that insisted that hubble should be serviced so it could continue sending pictures for

another five to ten years so the public has actually helped save the life time of all the war extended could you validate helpless contribution to science on one hand and nasa this p.r. on the other hand what impact has it had there related nasa has done a good job of publicizing hubble but in fact i don't think that's really the key to success as we all know you can try to publicize something that doesn't really have much value and you don't succeed i think humble really has been a remarkable discovery machine and because of that is been very easy for nasa to. be successful in its p.r. of the telescope i just mentioned that we're going to speak to the apollo eight crew members and everyone knows that they brought back the shot of the earth right now you be responsible for perhaps to me. facia no photograph of this guys and who

really got it from point a couple at nothing how much of a gamble was it a big gamble really i've always been a risk taker in my life when i was a child first thing i did when i got my first job after school was to deliver newspapers i saved up money and got a telescope i was interested in astronomy even at that age twelve years old first thing i did was on a dark night i took it out to see how far i could see. fifty years later when i became director of the institute that operates helpful space telescope it seemed to me that one should do the same thing scientifically look to see just how far out that could see galaxies. there had been some studies scientific studies done before the launch of hubble trying to predict the important scientific problems that it would help solve and imaging distant galaxies was not one of them

and there were valid reasons why many astronomers thought that hubble would do many great things but it probably would not make much of a contribution in studying distant galaxies i question that. and i thought it was sufficiently important that i was willing to take a recess and point at. what i called an undistinguished spot in the sky for ten full days to see what it could see. some prominent scientists were very worried about this because we did this just after hubble had been repaired you know for the first three years of its existence there was a flaw in the mirrors that needed to be corrected and so the american public was very upset about that hubble space telescope at the time of its launch was the most expensive scientific project in history. two and one half billion

u.s. dollars very expensive and it was not working for three years the astronauts repaired it famous servicing mission very successful perhaps the greatest moment and nasa is history except for the moon landing. and so it was very worrisome to many people that right after the servicing mission when people had been opposed to the telescope because it wasn't working here's some crazy astronomer was going to try to see if he could image distant galaxies and they were afraid that i would get no results and if that were true then the public would really be opposed to the telescope but i thought it was worth the scientific risk and fortunately i had a very good team of young scientists helping me and of course it didn't work out so there's a story here it is important to take scientific risk but let's my question i mean

it's a huge range from what you've described a huge amount of money that could have been so many const more than prose what trophy is that intuition or is it is it reason partly no it was that's a good question actually it was intuition. and that's and. i in my science i do tend to rely on my intuition probably too much actually because i can point to times in my scientific career when i had a hunch we call it you suspect something and i followed it and it turned out not to be productive in the case that. in the case of the deep field it was productive you know it it's true in life that if you're going to make really interesting discoveries something that is unexpected you do need to be a risk taker and i. yes i like to go for the big discovery and so i'm

willing to take a risk even though the majority of the time perhaps you come up with nothing very interesting so it's a style that is a personal style that scientists have some people are not such risk takers they can be very successful i happen to be a risk taker. i've certainly had some failures that turned out to be a success and i think it was definitely worth it now it was in ninety five when you revolutionized the visuals of the science i mean for us for ordinary people it was a revolution of the visuals and a science and you took a chance you took a risk what about scientists and space researchers now kept can they take a chance to gamble or are the stakes too high budgets to tie in it's becoming more difficult when funding is in there is greater pressure to come up with a result and of course it's very it's much easier to come up with a result when you don't take a risk when you're doing something where you already know it's likely to give you

a positive result but of course a great discoveries are those in which you're completely unexpected and therefore you cannot anticipate and i believe for the progress of science it is essential that there be risk takers and i think it's important for the people in the political world to fund expensive scientific projects to realize that it is important for the march of science for the march of human knowledge that a certain amount of risk taking be undertaken just to make sure one more time for you this odyssey of the humble what's more important the facts or the visuals that that that that's mind boggling for us. the facts the facts yes so what's more important is it more important for you to see a beautiful picture and we can say that that's art and that's important or is it more important for you to realize that there's a discovery that tells you something about. the origins of life even if that image

is not pretty i would say it is the increased understanding of the universe that comes even from an image that is not very pretty to me that has much more of value then something that is beautiful although that of course does have value itself but you ask me as a taxpayer. that depends upon your values do you value art and depicting something that is beautiful more than fundamental understanding you also said that we're now experiencing that golden age of astronomy you still have that opinion lately you are even with the budget cuts yes because this extends over a period of some years we're going through difficult periods now in the past few years but when i talk about the golden age of astronomy i talk about the the space missions that we've had in the past fifteen years and the large ground based

observatories in the new technological developments that have been able to us to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that have really advanced our understanding of astronomy if you look at the fundamental discoveries that have been made in astronomy. paul's quads are there's. the existence of planets around other stars in the past fifteen years there's been an explosion of knowledge about things and then largely is due to important technological developments so they've all come together to cause this large number of discoveries that i would say really makes it appropriate to call this age a golden era of astronomy but what do you think how both crowning achievement will be i actually think it is produced many interesting scientific discoveries i believe the crowning. movement of hubble space telescope will be the fact that it

made the public aware of the universe and the fact that we can understand it and the fact that humans are a part of the universe and they evolved from that i believe that is hubble's crowning achievement thank you very much for this interview my pleasure. forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents only a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year.

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hello and welcome you all watching this for a time here is what's coming up in the program here while one went away from securing their fifteenth america title after they age out parachuting able to reach the final. stage when number two. spot local favorites almost sticks to the yellow jersey it's been wearing for a consecutive stages now. and pick it out discover what caused a united arab emirates player to be substituted immediately after scoring a goal and labeled disrespectful by team management. for both us to europe why have booked a place in the final of the copa america following a two nil victory over pirouette in the first semi all they see is tournaments europe wide emanated throughout the south but couldn't convert us any chances. so it wasn't until early in the second when they finally broke the deadlock luis suarez opened in the fifteen minutes reaching out to the deflection and firing home

for one male just five minutes later the same man made it a brace during his second goal on the night and putting their on the verge of elimination they nearly signed liverpool forward doing all the job himself to send the ball into the nuts and that's their own never came back after that losing to neil you're a while battle in the paraguayan already so a lot for the championship title. stay with the barcelona have said they are willing to fight to the end for sask fabregas also no already rejecting an all fine excess of forty million dollars for the spanish international but balsa coach have guardiola says the cash is there for the long sought after midfielder. getting that is if the interest of f.c. barcelona is known by the press and by arsenal there's money in the safe set aside from his goal if we can make him sign we will do it if not the money will be for someone else but we will fight to get going to be because we understand that this will make us a better team. meanwhile by munich's lineup will look significantly different back

season with the bundestag a powerhouse signing a whole host of new players here on board tang the most high profile bidding farewell to the english premier league to head home to his native germany twenty two old looking forward to joining up with fellow national team member of boss down . to involve the twenty league champions have been bought and is the missing link as they attempt to reclaim the ground they lost but who said last year the team chemistry is sure to be an issue boarding just one of the hospitals in new players said don't read. now into the latest from the tour de france with or who shoved took full advantage from the second rest stay coming out in full strength of the ensuing stage sixteen. beating the whole hog into sprinter victory on tuesday than a weekend you along with canadian rider as you delve the only riders in contention a handful of kilometers from the finish line and eventually and knowing who to time

his best to perfection and secure his second stage victory b.c.m. frenchman thomas voeckler the retains the yellow shadowed cable evens and three time when albert of course doubles made significant gains. and over in shanghai russia continues to dominate the synchronised swimming events at the world championships with the us now the gold coming in the technical team routine on tuesday there are ladies retaining the title they won in rome two years ago by scoring one and a half points more than china it's acceptable with spain completing the podium elsewhere divers are off and you can you can solve claimed silver in the man's three meter springboards and qualified for the london olympics and the process that you losing only two chinese rivals and. their first appearance at the world championships. now let's take a look at how the overall standings luke after four days of competition still it seemed china who would leave their home chair. friendships russia though in the

best position to challenge the host made while great britain are in third with the only gold medal won by kerry and pain in the women's open water ten kilometer race a few days ago. meanwhile china's most popular basketball player ever retires from the sport the eight time and be old star fish and calling into korea at a news conference just a half an hour ago yellow mane was forced to retire after a carrying leg and food dangerous forced him to miss two hundred fifty games in the last six years old was a household name in china before starting his n.b.a. career with the houston rockets as the top draft pick in two thousand and two and b.'s tallest player has spent eight seasons in the league becoming one of china's best known athletes. now an amazing result in the latics where the story it's also known as bladerunner has qualified for the upcoming world championships in south korea he needed to clock forty five point five seconds in the four hundred meters

to make it there but the south african did better so passing that mark with a time of forty five point zero seven seconds. easily meaning the twenty four year old double amputee could also be selected to the national team for the swainson's wealth summer olympics in london. it's been a tough couple of years for test cricket the long form of the sport experience same dwindling attendance coupled with an crazed viewership all of that swayed seats went to john or bought the international cricket council believe they have the solution in the form of a new competition named the world test championship. for some time though we've been working on. called it the world test championship we've always said that it's not the format that is the issue it's the lack of context so by the two series would have a lot more meaning if you were spotting who you were playing toward something at the end. and it's not common knowledge that we hope for that in twenty thirty the

top four will be involved in a playoff which will be to see photos of the final which will determine they will test champion. let's move on to a sport that's not competitive but nonetheless pull below where the modern youth barcoo are all free running has been made famous through the movie industry and is now gaining momentum here in russia and on course there are reports. can you call it a sport if your performance is not rated well these three runners don't care what you call there are. also known as tracers are growing in number across europe and the discipline is now making headway in russia as well you can see the development in the guys you can. be experiencing their training and the way they move the strength you can you can visit you know we see that wherever we go somewhere and then visited again a few years later we do see a difference in the strength and the ability and confidence of the practitioners normally. edwards regularly travels the world giving seminars and presentations.

this being his third visit to moscow he always turns into a great spectacle put on by his russian associates and. promoting not only a healthy lifestyle but also raising doubts about the very laws of physics. very important to be able to have complete control over your body could also be very practical like when you're fleeing from bad guys or something if i like what i see here who knows i mentioned them. russia's climate doesn't allow for a year. that's exactly the way to overcome an obstacle unsurmountable in everyday life. that russians don't have many opportunities to practice park or especially in winter when it's cold and therefore thing is covered with snow. and i was impressed with their technique and believe it has a future here. the global community truly has. the world's youth united

under similar slogans and that's to be healthy in body and spirit through the payment of flexibility reflex coordination and most importantly self-discipline. and finally one of the most dissolvable. spectacles of late just take a look now at how the united arab emirates school that not some of go in the seven to victory over lebanon in an international friendly. a one up loving quite a surprise either the most innovative spot kicks the strategy however drew criticism from his own team management is mild rushy don't coach. on the impressed by the keep calling it quote disrespectful amazingly this twenty year old midfielder is now looking at a five or even suspension meanwhile lebanon coach emil rustam played down the incident admitting it can be regarded as an insult. that's always full for the moment coming up next is the world whether than kerry will bring you an update on

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we're broadcasting live from moscow welcome to the program the firestorm surrounding rupert murdoch's media empire is spreading as arrests outrage and resignations continue this questions are on the demise of journalist sean hoare the man credited with revealing the phone hacking scandal and. reports his death has reignited debate over another high profile death at the heart of a different. another political scandal erupts another whistleblower diaries sean hoare was the first former news of the world journalists to go on the record to allege that phone hacking was endemic at the paper and that its editor andy colson actively encouraged it who was found dead in his house on monday

setting the blogosphere into a frenzy of comparisons with the case of dr david kelly why isn't the sean hoare story bigger reminds me of how dr david kelly was bumped off eerily similar tragedies of sheen who are in david kelly. to work there and david kelly shawn who are this what i'm thinking something's not trying dr kelly was the u.n. weapons inspector who first cause doubt on the government's claim that iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within forty five minutes it led to scrutiny of tony blair's decision to invade iraq by extraordinary coincidence kelly's body was discovered exactly seven years before that of sean hordes on the eighteenth of july two thousand and three it was british journalist andrew gilligan who david kelly had spoken to to publicize his belief that the forty five minute claim had been exaggerated gilligan believes there are similar.