at bristol university, dr rebecca shepherd, with help from professor lister and others, has found a quicks a piece of equipment at airports around the world and if you're a border security guard, you know, trying to stop the trade in illegal elephant ivory, a tough job to try and tell the two apart. yes. i mean, you can't do it. you couldn't, really. there's not really any way of knowing. i mean, we've got a piece of elephant ivory here. how easy would it be to disguise this as mammoth ivory? very, very easy. you see this piece of elephant ivory that's been in the museum for years. here's an equivalent tusk tip from a mammoth, and all you would have to do would be to stain this a brown colour and you couldn't tell the difference. so this is a school of anatomy. you'd never guess, would you? laughter. at bristol university, dr rebecca shepherd, with help from professor lister and others, has found a quick way to tell different types of ivory apart using lasers. from homeland security recently who said that it's a bit of a problem people trying to smuggle eggs of endangered bird species acr

at bristol university, dr rebecca shepherd, with help from professor lister and others, has found a quickpiece of equipment at airports around the world called a raman spectrometer, and this is already used in the identification of materials for things like drugs and unidentified liquids, so we're trying to repurpose this to tell the difference between elephant and mammoth ivory. essentially, it shines a laser at a sample, and the way that laser bounces back to the detector can tell you really detailed information about what a material is made of. there are people running legitimate businesses carving mammoth ivory, and presumably your technique will be useful for them because it gives them a way of proving, look, this is legal mammoth ivory. absolutely. it can be used tojust prove that a sample is what it says it is. is there a lot of interest from law enforcement in this new technique? there is. i've been talking to people within border force in the uk and the uk wildlife crime agency, and there is potential use for this in law enforcement in the uk. you're also thinking about different

uh you say this is a disappointing move by bristol university. why do you think that pursuing this case when they've already been found guilty of wrongful dismissal or? well, i think we hope that today will overturn the case or appeal. i think we've had legal advice to that effect from the lawyers. i think less bob legal advice myself, but i think that's what they've done. i said with a hope that that will stop them from having to pay me quite a large package at the end of the process. my own feeling is that a bigger win this and that they will look very, very foolish when that happens. but it's so a long process to have to go through just to establish that we were correct in the 1st place. and now again to defend yourself, you're having to raise $90000.00. how is that going? well i increased the lotion up here yesterday and we, we wonder how it would go, but we've almost already reached the torso. we still owe money, which we need and we would hope that people would help us with those donations that finding fund dot org slash support miller. but

i seen the lecture of international relations at the university of bristol, he joins us live from bass. so where the space extension leave the situation with the seas. 5 sounds like the sci fi is salvaged for now. are we going to see a situation of a lingering presence? solve is riley troops, so in lebanon, now that we've crossed the deadline, i think is uh, the future is on south. any disrespect. what we saw so far is that for the past 2 months, the ceasefire has largely held with some breaches and a monitoring mechanism that has tried to attempt to employment the conditions of the ceasefire itself. which as the previous report was saying, include the withdrawal of israeli troops from lebanese territory, but also to design them. and um, i just bought lots of military presence solves so badly tiny, but more abroad the also in the. ready whole overlap and one what will happen in the next 20 days a, so on. so it's on a possibly we will see a continuation of the kind of tensions that we witnessed yesterday. actually more than tensions that were actually definitely incidents in that respec

david miller towards sociology at the university of bristol, that was 5 in 2021. the institution said he failed to meet the standards of the havior. expect to of employees. the successfully claim discrimination based on his belief assign isn't, is inherently racist peer this and colonial. but now he needs to raise at least 75000 pounds to defend his legal case. he will start to just stay until the bank and his arrived in south korea for christ as talks, as political tensions escalate. and so when it comes as impeached to present units . so if you'll announces tends to suit law enforcement officials, their attempt to arrest him on friday. meanwhile, both his supporters and opponents continued to demonstrate in some 0 temperatures across so eunice, under investigation for insurrection. following his brief imposition of motion the last month of the presidential gods, blocked his arrest, investigate his appeal to the acting president to intervene.

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bristol were forced to close some runways temporarily and several roads were impacted with conditions slicker than usual. at a time when many people were traveling, returning from christmas break or heading back to university much of the same problem in ireland, parts of which were also coated in snow, the irish weather service says that bitter cold conditions will continue over the next few days, at a time when nearly 60,000 homes, farms and businesses were without power. german officials warned of black ice for drivers and pedestrians as the snow and ice snarls. transportation here to frankfurt and munich airports warned passengers of potential delays or cancellations, and some authorities are advising people to stay at home if possible well, if you want to drive into manhattan during peak hours, it will now cost you $9. it's part of a new congestion pricing toll that's meant to reduce traffic in the united states's busiest city. cnn's gloria pazmino tells us all about it. >> well, that's right. in fact, congestion pricing has been in the works here in new york city for at least a decade. but it's faced a lot of political opposition and obstacles in recent years. in fact, it still remains deeply unpopula

bristol were forced to close some runways temporarily and several roads were impacted with conditions slicker than usual. at a time when many people were traveling. returning from christmas break or heading back to university. much of the same problem in ireland, parts of which were also coated in snow. the irish weather service says that bitter cold conditions will continue over the next few days, at a time when nearly 60,000 homes, farms and businesses were without power. german officials warned of black ice for drivers and pedestrians as the snow and ice snarls. transportation here to frankfurt and munich airports warned passengers of potential delays or cancellations, and some authorities are advising people to stay at home if possible. yeah, we had a bit of snow, but interesting that the football is still on, despite the fact that the football is always on everywhere. >> i know it's just the uk transport system that really seems to struggle with any degree of difference. >> a bit of snow and rain by now at this point in our history, extreme heat, but sadly not. >> now. ukrainian forces are refusing to give up on russia's kursk region after months of holding their ground. ukrainian officials say they'r

because i remember i was at bristol university when he won the first time.estly, it was like there was like a funeral. state funeral was going on the streets. >> yeah, i can i wasn't there, but from what i was told, the bar that was streaming the election was very quiet and there was only like one table celebrating and they were getting some very odd looks. >> well, good on them. it sounds like a good table. yeah. you know, at least showing a bit of fun, right? you wanted to be there. >> that was the cien. >> that was the cien. >> yeah. you know what? i'm actually going to be on monday. we're hoping for gb news to be at a at the republican overseas event celebrating having, you know, they're going to be celebrating at least the inauguration, watching it live. so that'll be interesting to see what that's like. yeah, it's like 4 or 5:00 at times. it's not actually that bad, you know. yeah. we can watch it and see how it all goes down. right. well, i need more beer. actually, i'm going to read out a couple more on my. it's not very professional, but it's the it

speak to a lecture in the school of earth | lecture in the school of earth sciences at the university of bristolfor joining us —— a lecturer. give our audience an idea of why earthquakes happen in this region. earthquakes happen in this reuion. , , , ., ., region. yes, this is a region were essentially _ region. yes, this is a region were essentially india - region. yes, this is a region were essentially india is - were essentially india is pushing northwards and squashing an area that sits between india and mongolia and kazakhstan to the north and it has been squashed up and formed the tibetan plateau and the plateau is extremely high and essentially cannot get any higher, so it is escaping towards the east and been stretched towards the east towards mainland china and that leads to lots of normal faulting earthquakes, the type that this earthquake was which accommodates extending of the crust, and they happen all the way throughout the tibetan plateau, so this whole area of high topography in tibet is really exposed and a risk to these large earthquakes, so it's not something unexpected but it