cashmore professor of sociology of the aston university and former sports media lecturers is this good. to have in russia from the sports world. the potential of this is so calamitous as far as russia is concerned it could result in. russia being banned by every sport that is affiliated toward the world and the doping agency in other words not just the olympics but they could be disqualified from the future will cup and all the other major sporting tournament around the world for lord knows how long frankly what we're hearing about is a discrepancy this is mysterious our comp claim to know and i don't know anybody else who doesn't know exactly what the nature of this so-called discrepancy in the database russian is appears to be completely confident that it's quite minor and they said only earlier this week that why don't we all get our armed services if water is satisfied by those arts as by those explanations of the so-called discrepancy there presumably this scandal will be over and russia's reinstatement will progress satisfactorily but if it isn't satisfied that's when the trouble

i think we'll wrap things up now that it's catch more i guess professor of sociology at ucas aston university thank you. and to the news now runs the new victim of downing street highly likely scenario also used in the script the u.k. prime minister boris johnson said there's a very high degree of probability tehran was behind recent attacks on saudi oil facilities even promising to help the us secure the gulf region. the u.k. is attributing responsibility with a very high degree of probability to iran for the aramco attacks we think it's very likely indeed that iran was indeed responsible clearly if we are asked either by the saudis or by the americans to have a role then we will consider in what way we could be useful the british prime minister johnson seemingly getting on board with the accusations made by the u.s. and also by the saudis and the iranians if they weren't responsible for that attack particularly the saudis saying that the components that they found were rainy and made in terms of who took part in that attack on the saudi oil facilities and boris johnson there say that it was

that, at least, is that view of birmingham businesses, like this technology company near aston universitys are investing in the area and moving in, like hsbc, they are bringing the money with them that the smaller businesses like mine are able to benefit from. that argument doesn't wash with campaigners who say the government and the construction industry haven't been honest about the true costs, and the benefits are not widely shared. there is an absolute need for new infrastructure in this country, but it is not for the long distance point—to—point journeys that are the preserve of the business elite. what hs2 is is building a fast train for fat cats. the vast majority of commuters in this do short distance, inter— urban journeys. hs2 does nothing for them. the government promises rail links in the north will be improved whatever happens, but its flagship infrastructure project appears to be in the balance. simonjack, bbc news, birmingham. hurricane dorian has wreaked devastation on the bahamas, with the country's prime minister warning that parts of the islands are facing "a historic t

ai could change that max little is a mathematician at aston university. just voice changes can be an early indicator of parkinson's max and his team collected thousands of vocal recordings and fed them to an algorithm they developed which learned to detect differences in voice patterns between people with and without the condition. in a lab based study of the recordings the algorithm was able to correctly identify a parkinson's diagnosis nearly 99 percent of the time. max little's work is an example of the far reaching changes ai is bringing to the field of medicine it's no longer just doctors who are using artificial intelligence to develop new diagnostic methods but data scientists programmers and mathematicians like max. one example when a person walks sensors in their smartphone register the up and down motion of their gait. but what information can be gleaned from such data. if we measured a pattern of someone's walking behavior then someone who is healthy might have might measure the x. or to look like that ok so it's just the sort of move you would