it's all false now or in most cases this is all team pressure mounts on the bush's part minister gets a grilling of paul and over his ties with disgraced news corp executives. saunders say the timing of the phone hacking scandal that's already led zep from the rest mentions and scandal in. the last remaining war crimes songs that want to buy the u.n. in the balkans conflict to this be a reference to border on how they could fall back on for his latest attempt to promise tickles to even membership. george and janet simply use the old dollars use

of false impressions from prince charles and spine program so they claim is to send a clear message to the rest of george's media community. now with the u.s. shuttle program winding up in a tough economic situation straining space research some say the american dream of reaching out for the stalls is a one month still believes the weather that will goes away robert williams one of those behind the launch of the hubble space telescope things humankind will still make its way into space our interview next. mr williams thank you very much for being with us today it's an honor sir my pleasure said the beauty of hubble's energy security basically its funding and its

place in science to fund a beautiful you have a better chance of being successful president that is there aren't that pretty. no i would say well it's always nice to look at beauty. but in fact it is far as the scientific value of hubble is concerned we're trying to understand the universe and beauty is one of those things maybe you've heard the expression and the beauty is in the mind of the beholder and so in fact what i see sometimes is a picture that other people might not consider beautiful but that reveals the answer to some important question like how stars form how galaxies form and so to a scientist the beauty is a totally different thing the fact that hubble produces beautiful images that children like to see is very important for the funding of haldol and of course

that's important for scientists that's exactly what i meant and so in that sense yes it is important in fact i can tell you. in the united states maybe in many countries schoolchildren 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 the dinosaurs on the walls of the classrooms of america that. that is quite an accomplishment thank you children for funding to help well in fact that's true but there are 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 whether or not it should go ahead there were some committees that actually recommended against the

final servicing of the hubble in fact it was the public the american public that insisted that hosted be serviced so it could continue sending pictures for another five to ten years so the public has actually helped save the life of the pub or extended could you validate helpless contribution to science on one hand and nicest p.r. on the other hand what impact does it have there related nasa has done a good job of publicizing hubble but in fact i don't think that's really the key to the 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 harbaugh really has been a remarkable discovery machine and because of that is been very easy for masses 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 is that they brought back the shot of the earth right now you see responsible for perhaps the most sensational photograph of the skies and who really got it from putting people at nothing how much of a gamble was it a big gamble really i've always been a risk taker and our 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 hubble space telescope it seemed to me to do the same things scientifically looked to see just how far out that could see galaxies. there had been study and 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 hubble 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 and 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 in nasa this history except for the moon landing. and so it was very worrisome to many people that right after. service admission when people have 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.

fortunately i had a very good team of young scientists helping me and of course it could work out so i think there's a story here it is important to take scientific risks but that's my question i mean it's a huge shift from what you've described and huge amount of money and i couldn't so many const more than prose what do you think interest in. that reason partly you know 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 mccall that you suspect something and i followed it and it turned out not to be productive in the case that. in the case of the field it was productive and

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 guess 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 a mistake because 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. 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 of science and you took a chance you took a risk what about scientists and space researchers now can they take a chance to gamble or are the stakes too high budgets to tie it it's becoming more

difficult when funding is an issue 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 there 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 margin 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 than usual is that that but 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 shows 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 value then something that's beautiful although that of course does have value itself but you ask me as a taxpayer i think. that depends upon your god. unions do you value art and depicting something bad is beautiful more fundamental understanding you also said that we're now experiencing the golden age of astronomy still of that opinion lately or even with the budget cuts. 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 a large ground based observatories in the new technological developments that have enabled us to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that have really advanced their understanding of astronomy if you look at the fundamental discoveries that have been made in astronomy. also ours qualls ours and 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 both crowning achievement will be i actually think that it is produced many interesting scientific discoveries i believe the crowning achievement 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 part of the universe and evolved from it i believe that it's helpful screaming at you thank you very much for this interview my pleasure. wealthy british scientists sometimes bias let's go. to. the. market.

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russian streets lately we caught up with some of the country's finest practitioners to make the difficult the easy. people first where you're of why have their place in the final of a cop america following it to know win over peru in the opening last four clash of this year's tournament. dominated the first half but just couldn't break the deadlock it wasn't until early in the second period when they finally seize the initiative. is first to the break in the fifth the third minutes here. then five minutes after that the same mom clinging to his brace sealing peru's fate in the process the liverpool man to ring what he does best. to nail a final score euro why not make the winners of the part of my semi for. venice we are into the compas semifinals for the first ever time on on the underwent their final preparations against partick lyon choose that both sides

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claim the recently vacated w.b. eight belt. on a russian alexander perfect going to go head to head on august twenty seventh in germany and it will be because of the four olympic gold medalist prevent ins first title fight the thirty one year old is undefeated in twenty one professional i push needed should feel right at home the erfurt you coming for sixteen times there are many. already had the w.b. a bell to run this place back in two thousand and seven to be i don't rush and nicole where for its thirty two year old later feel to defend a client due to israel's wish to relinquish its title and. we catered in the first place because after four belts it sure took ownership over a fortnight ago in feeding day but hey it's been years before he did. this right to china where the country's most popular basketball player has retired from the sport yarrow ming officially calling it quits earlier today he a time n.b.a.

all star forced to quit the sport after his career was blighted during the past half a dozen years with injury the thirty year old was a high solem in his own country before starting his career stateside with the houston rockets to talk draft pick in two thousand and two n.b.a. commissioner david stern praising a thirty year old on stating that ming dynasty isn't finished. i very much want to personally can gradually yeah go on as this thing was playing career and wish him success as he transitions into the next phase that was life importantly we look forward to working with you in continuing the growth of the game of basketball in china a growth to which he has already contributed so much now there's been quite incredible achievement in athletics with oscar pistorius also known as blade runner coughing for the upcoming world championships in cycling career they double beauty who's got

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and says he expects to be cleared of any wrongdoing or prepares to try and prove costly ecclestone currently retains a huge shareholding and would sports topics. the excitement and rach is up a notch in the cricket world this week the top two run countries in the test form and at present india and england going head to head on the words and thursday's opener in this year's world cup none of the tournaments believes it's going to be as tight on the crease as it is on paper. i think it's going to be. definitely the really good bowlers i'm anderson broad. resident so it's going to be it's going to be a tough fight i think is the world. is well under pressure and i think go more than physical toughness is going to be mental toughness was really tough it's going to really. be quite a clash now let's finish with a hop skip and jump or actions that effect per current or free running which

initially was made famous through the film industry is now gaining more and more momentum in russia where a man class trip takes up the story. 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 and you can see the development in the guys you can see that you know that they experience in their training and the way they move the strength that sort of thing you can you can visit you know we see that we're every guy if we've been to somewhere and then visited again a few years later we do see a difference in the strength and the ability the confidence of the practitioners normally. zan edwards regularly travels the world giving seminars and presentations on this being his third visit to moscow his arrival always turns into a great spectacle put on by his russian associates and holds a algal party promoting not only

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