reporter: the sauvage case convinced many women it was time to take action.nch women from all walks of life campaigned on sauvage's behalf. the publicity was successful. most likely to silence the protests, francois hollande granted jacqueline sauvage a rare presidential pardon. but not all legal experts agree with the decision. >> the pardon means that anyone can decide to end the life of another person. someone, a man or a woman, lives in an abusive relationship for 20, 30 or 40 years. and then, one day, one of them decides to kill the other. that can't be right. that's more dangerous than our current system. reporter: in france the private sphere enjoys unusually strong legal protection, and that has hindered the passage of laws to address domestic violee. alexia's lawyer believes this is why it took a presidential pardon to spark the process of change. >> now, after the sauvage case, perhaps the courts will begin to punish domestic violence more vigorously. otherwise we will keep seeing women who are forced to defend themselves alone, and there will be mo

reporter: the sauvage case convinced many women it was time to take action.for months, french women from all walks of life campaigned on sauvage's behalf. the publicity was successful. most likely to silence the protests, francois hollande granted jacqueline sauvage a rare presidential pardon. but not all legal experts agree with the decision. >> the pardon means that anyone can decide to end the life of another person. someone, a man or a woman, lives in an abusive relationship for 20, 30 or 40 years. and then, one day, one of them decides to kill the other. that can't be right. that's more dangerous than our current system. reporter: in france the private sphere enjoys unusually strong legal protection, and that has hindered the passage of laws to address domestic violence. alexia's lawyer believes this is why it took a presidential pardon to spark the process of change. >> now, after the sauvage case, perhaps the courts will begin to punish domestic violence more vigorously. otherwise we will keep seeing women who are forced to defend themselves alone, and

politicians in france are rallying behind the 68 year old jacqueline sauvage. he used to beat and rape her and abuse their son. when her son hank himself in 2012, she she turned a hunting rifle on her husband shooting him three times she was sentenced to 10 years in prison, upheld on appeal, the judge saying that her suffering did not merit a self-defense plea. ♪ >reporter: the courts said it ws toder, sentencing sauvage 10 years in prison. for her supporters, it was self-defense. in december, 2012, after 47 years of marriage, sauvage killed her husband with three gunshots to the back.he had been violent and sexually abusive to his wife and their children. the jury decided that was not a defense, ruling that was upheld on appeal. her family chose not to request the judicial review of the case, asking instead for a pardon. a petition in favor now has over 380,000 signatures. age's supporters want reform is what they see as lawse's outdated regarding domestic violence. >> yes, she killed him. this is not about getting her acquitted. this is about recognizing how

saying sauvage had knob reflected enough on her actions. >> they did not appreciate the president pardoning her. >> it was inside the family home that she and her husband suffered years of abuse. she shot dead her violent, alcoholic husband in 2012, a day after her son committed suicide. her daughters testified in court, saying their father also beat and remained them and they asked for their mother's release. in october 2014, jacklin was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison. she appealed blue her self-defense plea was rejected on the grounds she did not act to proportional and direct response to aggression. politicians on the left and right criticized the judge's decision. protests were organized and nearly half a million french jacqueline d a free petition. her lawyers say they will appeal for her release again. >> france is celebrating another old medal at the rio olympics. courtesy of the men's culls.eight double s the u.s. has 16 goals, well out in front of the rest of the world. france has high hopes for another gold later. they have the most successful judoker o

jaclyn sauvage was released from prison just hours after president franÇois lond -- fronts while hollandes released. immediaten puts an into her detention. she was married to a violent alcoholic who she said raped her and beat her and her three daughters and also abused her son. she was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2014, a verdict which was upheld on appeal a year later after the state rejected her plea of self-defense. she quickly became a celebrity with feminist groups and celebrities calling for the president to intervene. a petition demanding her release gathered over 400,000 signatures. in was granted partial artan january but the court twice rejected applications for her release. >> i'm very happy, i'm overwhelmed and relieved. has show thatnde he cares about women who have suffered the mastic abuse. he cares about their suffering and he cares about their lives and all those who unfortunately die at the hands of their husbands. feminist groups are calling for the definition of self-defense to be expanded to protect victims of the mystic abuse. -- of

miles, doctors jean-pierre sauvage, fraser stoddart, and bernard feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines help how small are we talking? >> think of a nanometer. a nanometer is-- well, there are 80,000 of them in a human hair. that will give you an idea. we're talking very small. imagine machines at the molecular level that can do work, and some of the applications that we're thinking about are potentially drug delivery inside our system, and many others where tiny machines can pack a punch. another application they're looking at potentially, hari, is creating computer storage capability at the atomic level. well, if you're storing things at the atomic level you basically need a processor at the molecular model. nanomachines are potentially revolutionary. we're still very early on in that game. >> sreenivasan: how do you build something that small? >> it's basically a chemical process that you engage with, and that is part of their insight. and, you know, basically, the researchers are saying that we're kind of like the wright brothers at this point. we built a flyin