medical students at the university of cambridge are taking part in what the uni says is a world firstn augmented reality headset, the students are learning by practising on virtual people. it feels very much more that you're connected to the scenario. when you see their neck muscles straining, and the way they're breathing, the trained eye of a doctor will tell a lot from how a patient�*s chest rises and falls, and we spend a lot of time trying to get that exactly right. nasa has launched its first rocket from a commercial spaceport outside the united states. it hopes the sub—orbital rocket launched from australia will enable astrophysics studies that can only take place in the southern hemisphere. and after taking me for a spin last year, paralysed racing driver sam schmidt has broken new ground by being the first person ever to complete the hill climb at the goodwood festival of speed using only head movements and breath to drive. he achieved the feat in his modified mclaren that uses infra—red cameras and a breath—measuring device. i'm at the barbican in london to meet tony fadell,

he graduated from the faculty of mathematics of the university of cambridge and the faculty of political

each he has for you is a professor of international politics at q university in japan. and a visiting fellow university of cambridge, thanks for joining us here on out to 0. may i ask you 1st? i understand you met chince? i've been many times. how did he come across to you as a person? well i was, we think his advisory board in premier says office on civil for him and security policy issues. so around that time are maybe every month i will just office to talk and discuss on important point calls and the security policy issues. and aside from the tragedy, he was canvassing far upper house elections at the time. how might this impact the outcome of sunday's vote? do you think? right, and 1st of all, the reason why he was there was that he remained one of the most popular leader waiting in the p willing party. that's why many members really liked to come to support those candidates. that's why he went there. but i don't think that the outcome of the incident will not i will change the outcome because. 2 a still a many people believe that the moving party remains very strong and from the beginning, many people expected

scientists like professor emily shuckburgh at the university of cambridge say climate change in the uk20, more than 2,500 people died in heat—related deaths in one of the severe heat waves we saw that summer, so it really is something that is starting to impact us, notjust in terms of the financial cost, but the human cost as well. it's especially worrying times for farmers. here in norfolk, they grow potatoes, carrots and onions for supermarkets but the heat means they're going through 50,000 litres of water an hour to irrigate their crops. and reservoirs that would normally be half full at this time of year are at only 15% capacity. i think we're near record—breaking temperatures. we're certainly near record—breaking evapotranspiration rates which means the water is absolutely pouring through the crops. that's fuelled by the wind and high temperatures and high levels of sunlight at the moment, so the real challenge is to get enough water on these crops to sustain them. wheat is a particular worry. there are fears that if the heatwave continues it could affect the autumn harvest, putt

thanks, and date john nelson wright is associate professor in bolton, japanese studies of the university of cambridge. he's also a senior fellow for northeast asia. chatham house, he joins us now live from parents, good teddy with us, a professor other than very clearly a highly respected internationally. why who? because of the enormous impact he had on japanese form policy. this is a man who really made japan into a 1st year. so many of his performs to strength national security decision making, try to provide a much more coordinated approach to global and regional challenges. as you heard in your report. placing so much importance from the us, japan relationship he was i think he can't be underestimated. 30 single minded in his vision about making japan and theresa called normal nation a proactive country, which would focus on the importance of security, not just for japan, but for other countries. and i think when, when we consider his legacy, it's important to understand how some of the things we take for granted today in terms of japan's ability to to make the political, whether within asia and

dr chris smith is a consultant virologist at the university of cambridge and the host of the naked scientistscast. the uk was one of the first countries to begin to pick this up, and in fact we are one of the countries with the most cases, we have more than 2,000 cases in the uk. in america they also have about 2,000 cases. normally when we see monkeypox there is a history of travel to what we call the endemic area. it's naturally found in small rodents, we think, animals like rats, squirrels, small rodents basically that live in parts of western africa and parts of central africa so usually when we see cases and every couple of years we get a handful of cases, there is a travel history, people have been to the affected area, they have been exposed in that area, they come home, because the disease is quite dramatic, the symptoms are quite obvious. people get isolated and it stops. but what we began to see in may was a sudden number of cases that had not got any kind of travel history, and when investigations were carried out it appeared there was a specific group of people that were time and

well for more on this i'm joined by dr chris smith who is a consultant virologist at the university of cambridgeit is nice to talk to you again. we normally talk about covid, we are being reminded that there are other health problems that are out there. this one feels to have been a slow burnerfor this one feels to have been a slow burner for quite a few months since we started to become aware of it, what's been going on? it we started to become aware of it, what's been going on?— we started to become aware of it, what's been going on? it first came to our attention _ what's been going on? it first came to our attention in _ what's been going on? it first came to our attention in mid-may. - what's been going on? it first came to our attention in mid-may. the . what's been going on? it first camel to our attention in mid-may. the uk to our attention in mid—may. the uk was one of the first countries to begin to pick this up, and we are one of the countries with the most cases. we have more than 2000 cases in the uk, in america they also have about 2000 cases. normally, when we see monkeypox, there

scientists like professor emily at the university of cambridge say climate change in the uk is alreadythan 2,500 people died in heat related deaths in one of the severe heatwaves we saw that summer. so it really is something that is starting to impact us, not just in terms of the financial costs, but the human cost as well. it's especially worrying times forfarmers here in norfolk. they grow potatoes, carrots and onions for supermarkets. but the heat means they're going through 50,000 litres of water an hour to irrigate their crops. and reservoirs that would normally be half full at this time of year are at only 15% capacity. i think we're sort of near record breaking temperatures. we're certainly near record breaking evapotranspiration rates, which means that the water is just absolutely pouring through these crops. you know, that's fuelled by the wind and the high temperatures and the high levels of sunlight at the moment. so the real challenge is to get enough water on these crops to sustain them. wheat is a particular worry. there are fears that if the heatwave continues, it could

amy: professor, thank you for being with us, english professor at university of cambridge and author "insurgent empire: anticolonial resistance & british dissent." next up, we look at the growing economic crisis in sri lanka and across the global south as nations confront soaring energy and food costs. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "should i stay or should i go" by the clash. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. as we go now to the island nation of sri lanka, where protests are escalating amid a growing economic crisis and gas shortage faced by some 22 million people, many forced to wait forays and nits in long lines for fuel. >> when the patrol problem came up, i tried use whatsapp to see whe it was available but that was not article. first it was t or three hours then it was 4, 6, and up to eight hours. about three weeks ago, i was in a petrol queue for days. amy: police fired tear gas and water cannons at hundreds of demonstrators near sri lanka's parliament wednesday as they called for president gotabaya ra

also with me as muhammad -- from -- the president queens college at the university of cambridge and thedeputy director of the imf who continues to wear a tie. gentlemen, let me ask you about this, admiral muhammad makes a good point and we cannot hope that the war ends to solve the inflation problems on the west. as this war that russia thought would be 72 hours, western intelligence agencies that would be shorter to russia's advantage, as it drags on this is in the news less and people think about it less and they start to worry about their gas prices more. things like that. what does this war look like to you at this point, because you and i have been talking about the days before the war and how the started, how does this and to you? >> i will make a very practical point first, which is something that we could do is unlock grain and get it out of ukraine and we can do that by escorting grain shipments with u.s. navy warships, or it could be a un project. and we've done that in the 19 80s where we escorted oil tankers out of the arabian gulf. for example -- by the way, snake island th

joining us now is emily schuckburgh, the director of cambridge zero, the university of cambridge's climate change initiative. thank you so much for joining the newshour. you have had several heat waves over the years, but does this summer feel different, more worrisome? >> the mood really is different. think that we've now seen in the u.k. and across europe, summer after summer with heat waves that are causing real human hardship, whether that's in terms of the number of people who have died or just even the disruption to daily life. there are terrifying wildfires that are impacting communities, but we've also seen across europe, the devastation caused by flooding events as well. i was in southern france a few weeks ago, and devastating floods in southern france from two years ago, you can still see the immense damage that's occurred as a consequence of that. so it's very much the case in the u.k. and throughout europe that everyone knows somebody who's been affected by the impacts of climate change. and i think that has changed the mood and people really are starting to realize that clima

of history and durham university in the uk. he received his phd from the university of pennsylvania in 2016. he also holds a masters of philosophy from the university of cambridge and a bachelor's in history and english from williams college. a political historian of the 19th century united states was a focus on slavery imperialism and the american west dr. waite has written numerous scholarly articles and he comments frequently on american history and politics for major media outlets. his writing has appeared in the los angeles times the huffington post slate the new republic the conversation time and the them post just to name a few. and he's here tonight to talk with us about his first book and i think it is probably gonna be the first of many it looks like you've got some projects lined up but the book tonight west of slavery the southern dream of a transcontinental empire published by unc press and i will mention that we do have the shop the book for sale in our museum shop. so without without further ado, i'm going to turn the screen over to dr. waite. great. thank you, kelly. and thank you all for for showing up. i know it's been a long long year. i'm no

scientist5 like this one at the university of cambridge saying climate change in the uk is already literallyterally costing lives. in 2020, more than _ literally costing lives. in 2020, more than 2500 _ literally costing lives. in 2020, more than 2500 people - literally costing lives. in 2020, more than 2500 people died i literally costing lives. in 2020, more than 2500 people died in literally costing lives. in 2020, - more than 2500 people died in heat —related death5 more than 2500 people died in heat —related deaths in one of the severe heat waves we saw that summer, so it really is something that is starting to impact on us, notjust in terms of the financial co5t, to impact on us, notjust in terms of the financial cost, but the human cost as well. it of the financial cost, but the human cost as well-— cost as well. it is especially worrying — cost as well. it is especially worrying times _ cost as well. it is especially worrying times for - cost as well. it is especially worrying times for farmers. cost as well. it is especially - worrying times for farmers. here in worrying time5 forfa

center for geopolitics and professor of the history of european international relations at the university of cambridge. he's the author of at least eight other books including the struggle for mastery in germany unfinished our britain and the destruction of bosnia three victories in a defeat the rise and fall of the first british empire more which there isn't time to to list his co-auth the charlie lederman is a research fellow here at hoover but most of the time he's a senior lecturer and international history at the war studies department of kings college london his first book sharing the burden was published not so very long ago. he and brendan have formers co-authors in 2017. they published donald trump the making of the world view which tells you that these are historian. to my own heart. they are not confined to one narrow area of specialism but a happy to range broadly and indeed to write about contemporary politics before i pose my first question. i thought i would just quote myself rather egotistically. well quote my blurb about this book all too often. i wrote historians narrate the past as

from the autumn included the end of the oxford edition of south today and the cambridge version of look east. first tonight, cambridge universitys to increase mental health funding after the death of five students. a heat health alert has been introduced in the south and we're being reminded about the dangers posed by lakes and rivers. ten people have drowned in oxfordshire in the past two years. martin and daphne chapman describing themselves as loyal bbc viewers, e—mailed us, saying... those are not the first cuts to regional services. steve contacted us last summer after hearing that local news updates during the breakfast programme had been suspended because of the impact of covid. his response: to discuss this, i'm joined by the bbc�*s director of nations. he is responsible for local or national output across the uk. thanks so much for coming on newswatch. let's start with the regional news bulletin. do you except that if you live somewhere you might be forgiven for thinking, what is news in norwich got to do with me? if you live in that area, you are already receiving a lot during the day from norwich, a very established

li hsien-long was born on february 10 , 1956 graduated from the faculty of mathematics cambridge university and the department of political science at harvard university in 1984 elected as a member of parliament from the ninety- fourth to ninety-eighth minister of industry and trade from the ninety-eighth chairman of the monetary department of the financial authority of singapore since 2001 minister of finance since august 12, 2004 prime minister of the republic of singapore you have a reception here , if you are a reception minister of a very large globe and it is very clearly visible on it, what a unique i would say, in my opinion, a very advantageous position in the world dealing with singapore between europe, australia, asia, there is a very large globe on the globe. and if we look at singapore, this is a very small red spot. on it, we look around us and see the great partner countries, the opportunities, as well as the dangers that must be avoided so that our small craft can be safe. sail further towards a brighter future and prosperity, looking at the asia-pacific region as a whole, w

of history and durham university in the uk. he received his phd from the university of pennsylvania in 2016. he also holds a masters of philosophy from the university of cambridge and a bachelor's in history and english from williams college. a political historian of the 19th century united states was a focus on slavery imperialism and the american west dr. waite has written numerous scholarly articles and

country's prime minister was born on february 10, 1956 , graduated from the faculty of mathematics. cambridge s of whom university and the faculty of political science at harvard university in 1984 was elected a member of parliament from the ninety-fourth to ninety-eighth minister of industry and trade from the ninety-eighth chairman of the currencies of the financial administration of singapore from 2001 minister of finance, from august 12, 2004 prime minister of the republic of singapore very large globe and it is very visible. what a unique java news very advantageous position in the world occupying singapore between europe australia if you take a look there is a very large globe on the globe. and if we look at singapore, it is a very small red spot on it, we look around us and see great partner countries of opportunity. already there are dangers to be avoided so that our small craft can safely. sail further towards a brighter future and prosperity, looking at the asia-pacific region as a whole, we are optimistic about the opportunities as we believe that peace and stability can be maintained in the region. wh

not met, he added, "the next decades' must be" professor emily shuckburgh, director of cambridge zero, the universityrastructure, that really sets the scene for quite how important it is that our policy makers understand the scientific evidence around climate change. and how that is going to be absolutely instrumental in setting many of the policies over the coming decades. l in setting many of the policies over the coming decades.— the coming decades. i wonder if it sneaks the coming decades. i wonder if it speaks about _ the coming decades. i wonder if it speaks about the _ the coming decades. i wonder if it speaks about the general- the coming decades. i wonder if it i speaks about the general distraction and the bandwidth there is in westminster to deal with these enormous issues. it westminster to deal with these enormous issues.— westminster to deal with these enormous issues. it might do but these items _ enormous issues. it might do but these items you _ enormous issues. it might do but these items you have _ enormous issues. it might do but these items you have had - enormous issues. it migh

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defected from the autumn included the end of the oxford edition of south today and the cambridge version of luke east. first tonight cambridge university dangers posed by the dates and rivers. ten people drowned in oxfordshire in the past two years. some people described as loyal bbc viewers e—mailed us saying they were surprised and very disappointed to lose our connection with local current affairs with the arbitrary removal of our bbc look east. wire cutters are from overly relevant local channel. we are here, you know, here in the east. think again and reinstate a little bit of tv. there is not the first cuts to regional services. steve contacted us last summer after hearing that local news updates during the breakfast programme had been suspended because of the impact of covid. his response... to discuss this i am joined by the bbc�*s director of nations. he is responsible for local or national output across the uk. thank you so much for coming on news watch. let's start with the news bulletin for don't use except that if you live somewhere you might be forgiven for thinking, what is news in norwich got to do with me? ii thinking,

i'm in an absolutely crucial location in terms of the history of record temperatures, cambridge universityarden. this here, it's known as a stephenson's vox and it contains whether measuring equipment and it was here that the previous u.k. record teerature was recorded back in july of 20 and the record has been comprehensively smashed today. now that is the real surprise. client -- climate scientists have been saying for years that britain would see more record temperatures but i don't think they expected the records to be broken in the way that they were today. >> we are seeing it in real time but are also in the middle of an energy license. what impact our higher fuel prices and fuel shortages having on the debate around fossil fuel and climate? >> this is driving a debate in thu.k. about climate, widely recognized in television news in the newspapers, there's a climate componenwith climate change driving these record temperatures and in that sense it keeps tackling climate change, reducing emissions on the political agenda, here. we have got a competition to see who will take over leade

at kale university in cambridge, tina barret, who's been associate professor at tokyo base sophia university, and also a visiting fellow at cambridge university. and then you show in the city of beth, who we have your cheery sato, who's a professor rich who may con asia pacific university. and welcome to you all. thanks so much for your time with us on inside story. and i'll do 0 mosquito, which of our legacy will live on most prominently and how do you think that it could continue shaping japan cummins. the other is to be remembered as a someone versus dedicated to foreign security policy. so the, the strengthening of 2 years and one since that has been focused on, but at the same time, i would assume for science the arbitrator very big role in developing relationships . europe. so beyond asia pacific region, beyond in the pacific was something that he, he, he did a very good job. tina. well, what's your take on this? how, how will the, the former prime minister be remembered and, you know, he was known by many for his, i been nomics, which is a try to get the japanese economy moving. what will be the last thing legacy of that in particular, what he tried to do for his own c

here in a very sunny cambridge, we are joined by professor emily shuckburgh, director of cambridge zero, the universityadly the sort of temperatures we - do you say to that? is sadly the sort of temperatures we are - do you say to that? is sadly the i sort of temperatures we are likely to experience today and tomorrow are, for some people, potentially deadly. if you are elderly, pregnant, if you have babies or toddlers, those people are particularly vulnerable to these really high temperatures, so this is not something to take lightly. harper not something to take lightly. how do we deal with _ not something to take lightly. how do we deal with it _ not something to take lightly. how do we deal with it for these couple of days and how do we adjust our lifestyles may be way into the future, for ever?— lifestyles may be way into the future, for ever? you said earlier we should _ future, for ever? you said earlier we should be _ future, for ever? you said earlier we should be enjoying _ future, for ever? you said earlier we should be enjoying a - we should be enjoying a mediterranean lifestyle for the nex

university of notre dame in indiana. he gave me his assessment of today's too big gains. ukraine bombing, the anthony cambridge in hassan and rushes capture of ukraine's at virtually hiscock power station. well, i think neither of them are really decisive in terms of military operations that are turning into a slow grind. the big issue for the russians in the don't boss is to be able to push ukrainian forces far enough away from the city of don yachts to take it out from under ukrainian artillery attacks which are going on every day. conversely, the ukrainians are making a lot of the supposed offensive to take back her son and they have struck the end to nibs. and so not ski bridge a couple of times with high mars attacks. on the other hand, the bridge is not destroyed and there are other ways over the river, including a roadway on top of a damn about 40 kilometers to the northeast. and now a pro don't. yes. television is showing video pictures of the russian military building a pontoon bridge across the river. so i think the ukrainians are making a lot of the attack on the bridge, but it's not clear that it's going to,

joining me as mark elliott who is professor of public law at the university of cambridge and is also e value this appears to be a matterfor the because on face value this appears to be a matter for the conservative party and its process rather than anything broader.— party and its process rather than anything broader. yes, that's right and under a _ anything broader. yes, that's right and under a constitution, - anything broader. yes, that's right and under a constitution, when i anything broader. yes, that's right| and under a constitution, when the prime ministerfinds and under a constitution, when the prime minister finds themselves in this position, we would normally expect the internal party process to be given time to run and then, for them to resign as prime minister. once a new leader has been identified. that is what happened when david cameron resigned and when theresa may resigned. bind when david cameron resigned and when theresa may resigned.— theresa may resigned. and while that internal party — theresa may resigned. and while that internal party process _ theresa may re

and all of this was a big breakaway from what had been taught and older university, so i just not to be to put to find a point on it, but cambridge university for example just found a notes of one of newton's debates when he was in college, which was on the question of free will versus divine. um divine control so it was you know so much, you know, here's this major scientist growing up with him without it and jefferson wanted to break away. but how do you how did the courses that were actually taught at the university correspond to jefferson's ideas about? you know history and literature. well, are you very innovative both in the kind of course structure and offerings and also in pedagogy and how those courses were taught and the very decision to call. university a university was a big one. i know there were very few places in america at the time that colton stolt universities. i mean somewhere like columbia it was still known as columbia college and similarly south carolina's south carolina college did is difficult to keep using the original terms for more readers. i sometimes deliberately transmitted. got something in brackets

the university of cambridge is further down there but these pants are all here, they are all empty forto be careful. 0nly travel by rail if you have two, make sure you have got sunscreen on and wearing a hat. make sure you are staying hydrated so take the shade when you can and take this weather very, very seriously. the temperature is just about touching 30 degrees but the forecast for later, bound about four or five are set to grow up to here in the midlands so it's going to get pretty hot as we have had over the past few days animals especially the ones in fur coats need cooling down. i don't how much you can see but they put out isa blocks which they hang the blocks of wood for those on the ground and you can see male orangutan. he isjust coming out of his enclosure. can you pick up to the less there? you just coming out to find isa to help him keep cool. they have been sheltering and presumably it is cooler in the shade but they're coming out to try to find some of that isa now. i'm just going to chat to one of the zookeepers here. he is impressive, isn't he? is zookeepers here. h

joining me now is drjulieta, a research associate for the department of psychiatry, at the university of cambridgel in schools? that is _ intention. why is it not helpful in schools? that is a _ intention. why is it not helpful in schools? that is a great - intention. why is it not helpful inj schools? that is a great question and one which _ schools? that is a great question and one which the _ schools? that is a great question and one which the researchers i schools? that is a great question | and one which the researchers will need to do more to answer because the big study that we heard about is whether it works or not and what things could make it work. the things could make it work. the things they tried, they looked at whether the mindfulness course would improve decision—making and they found this course was not approving attention. they thought that mindfulness would act on well—being by improving this skill. they found that these skills were not improved by the courses. that is not one of the mechanisms of how it works. we don't know whether there may be other factors or it doesn't work

of an exhibition opening this weekend. the books were returned in march to cambridge's university library in a pink gift bag. lion agreement with the company. earlierthe $44 million agreement with the company. earlier the tesla chief executive accused the social network of refusing to provide evidence to prove it assertion that spam accounts were less than 5% of users. you can follow me on twitter at @richpreston. from all of us on the team in london thanks for being with us, we will see you next time. hello there. it was a very warm day on friday. temperatures touched 29 celsius across south—east england. and this weekend, more of the same, a lot of sunshine around. it's going to stay dry away from the far north—west of scotland. and it's all down to this area of high pressure, which will be sitting out towards the west of the uk to start the weekend, and we have a run of northerly winds. slightly fresher air mass, so i don't think it'll be quite as hot today as what it was on friday. most of the cloud will affect the north and west of scotland, northern ireland. some spots of rain for north—western scotland