alex summers from cambridge there.mine harrison set off on her 3,000—milejourney from the canary islands in december. she slept and rowed in two—hour rotations, to complete the crossing in 70 days — describing the experience as "am azing" a united airlines passengerjet has scattered debris after one of its engines failed on take—off, over colorado. it was able to safely land. no—one was injured. more on our website. bbc news. to stay with us. hello there. the very mild south—westerly winds which we've had during the start of this weekend have also brought a lot of rainfall across some western parts of england, wales, northern ireland and western scotland. and as a consequence from all the recent rain, the number of flood warnings has increased. but the good news is for part two of the weekend, it looks a bit drier across the board. we should see quite a bit of sunshine around. it's going to stay mild, but there will still be some rain around but not as much as what we had on saturday. now, the rain will be courtesy of

this was cambridge unity world oldest debating society. there cambridge students who wanted to get into the space but it was so full they could not. why were they all there? they were there to see james baldwin the poet, prophet of the civil rights revolution. baldwin was at that time were the most famous writers in the world. these students were excited to see the poet in the flesh. there also intrigued by the prospect of baldwin sharing the platform with william f buckley junior. in 1965 buckley was the second most prominent conservative united states birds second only to barry goldwater. he is not quite internationally known yet. they'd heard a buzz about buckley. they knew he was a right wing, they knew he was a critic of the civil rights revolution and so they were intrigued by the prospect of an intellectual battle before their eyes. and so space filled, it got hotter and hotter, the bbc was there to record the event for an international television audience. in soap buckley in baltimore these two embodiments of two movements. baldwin

the specimen arrived in cambridge in 2015.culturalist alex summers from cambridge university botanic garden grew the moonflower. he says thousands of people around the world tuned in to a live stream to watch the bloom. it's definitely been worth the wait, it came earlier than expected, we thought it would open at 9pm, but we were rudely awakened at about 3pm saturday when it started to open, and then we have had a most fantastic evening watching it come into full bloom, pollinating it, and recording as much as we can about it. is one of those examples of one of the many extremely rare plants we hold here at the botanic gardens, but i think from all the plants that we do hold, there are not many that have there are not many that have the same sort of bizarre ecology, and to be quite honest, there are not many that are so poorly known, to actually flower in cultivation is very rare and that means that we here at cambridge university have been really fortunate to have the first flowering example of this in the uk. it's so nice a

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the specimen arrived in cambridge in 2015.entists for decades — the search for extraterrestrial life. but now a uk—based business is hoping they might be able to discover if there's anybody out there. it's hoping to raise £1 million to build a 100—metre long telescope that will listen out for alien factories, machines and spaceships. richard westcott reports. on a disused airfield north of cambridge, next to the bunkers that decades ago used to house lots of the country's nuclear bombs, they are launching a project that could one day answer one of life's great questions. are we alone in the universe? this concrete bunker behind me is where the staff had to come if the base came under attack. you can see the slits where they put their guns out. today there is something very different going on behind this blast proof door. it is the headquarters of the east anglian astrophysical research organisation, the charity that is trying to raise £1 million to build a giant telescope to listen out for signs of extraterrestrial life. if yo

and we'll explain why the duke and duchess of cambridge are making calls in support of having coronavirus catherine and i are not medical experts by any means, but if it's any consolation, we can wholeheartedly support your having vaccinations. it's really, really important. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. i'm martine croxall. us presidentjoe biden has urged the us senate to approve his $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill after it was passed by the house of representatives. the republicans said the plan was too expensive and voted against it. but the democrats�* slim majority pushed the bill through. it's the third major us spending package during the pandemic, slightly smaller than the $2 trillion package introduced last march by donald trump. this was mr biden�*s reaction. we have no time to waste. if we act now decisively, quickly and boldly, we can finally get ahead of this virus. we can finally get our economy moving again. the people of this country have suffered far too much for too long. we need to relieve that suffering. the american rescue plan

like thousands of health care workers in cambridge, daniella does a weekly swab test for coronavirus will show whether she could be carrying the virus without displaying symptoms. that swab is analysed at these university labs, where they compared the results from staff like daniella who'd received the pfizer vaccine with those yet to be immunised. in early data, they found that two weeks after the first dose, the risk of asymptomatic infection — carrying the virus without knowing it — was reduced by 75%. an england—wide study of health workers found a similar protective effect. this is a genuine good news story. people should be really pleased that the vaccine will protect them and they should have the vaccine in order to prevent themselves and others from getting infected. i think it will help us get out of lockdown, help other countries get out of lockdown and it will allow us to get back to normal. hi, laura. can i check your blood pressure? daniella is a nursing apprentice at addenbrooke's. nearly nine in ten staff here have had their first dose of vaccine — important, as it red

the world oldest society, all these cambridge students wanted to get into this space, it was so full, they could not why were they author? to see james baldwin. poet of the civil rights revolution. he was, at that time, one of the most famous writers in the world. these students are excited to see the poet in the flesh they were also intrigued by the prospect of baldwin sharing the platform with william f buckley junior. 1965, but we was the second most prominent conservative in the u.s. he wasn't quite internationally known yet the students heard the buzz about buckley. they knew he was a right wing, a critic of the rights revolution so they think by the prospect of an intellectual battle before their eyes. this space filled, it got hotter and hotter, the bbc was there to record the event for international television audience. buckley and baldwin were these two embodiments of to promote baldwin the civil rights revolution and buckley, the american conservative movement. this book, fire is upon us is about that debate, but more than that. you can see it's a big book, it could be used

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professor, from the university of cambridge - roll-out.of cambridge always roll-out. professor, from the - university of cambridge always good to have your enthusiasm on the programme. thank you very much. the uk economy shrank last year by the largest amount ever recorded, due to the coronavirus pandemic. the office for national statistics said gross domestic product — which measures the value of goods and services produced in the country — dropped by 9.9% last year. the economy did grow slightly in december by 1.2% — as some restrictions were eased in the run up to christmas, avoiding a so called �*double—dip' recession. the chancellor rishi sunak told the bbc the economy "experienced a significant shock", and the government would set out the next steps of the response to the pandemic in the budget next month. 0ur economics correspondent andy verity reports. 2020, the year that will be remembered not only for a pandemic, but for an unprecedented economic roller—coaster caused by the government's anti—virus measures. the figures today sho

on a disused airfield north of cambridge, next to the bunkers that decades ago used to house lots of alone in the universe? this concrete bunker behind me is where the staff had to come if the base came under attack. you can see the slits where they put their guns out. today there is something very different going on behind this blast proof door. it is the headquarters of the east anglian astrophysical research organisation, the charity that is trying to raise £1 million to build a giant telescope to listen out for signs of extraterrestrial life. if you can imagine this whole area is two football pitches side by side, so signals come down from space, they hit this mirror, they are reflected across the other side of the site to this parabolic reflector, which concentrates the signal back into this feedhorn here. at the back of the feedhorn is a small building. just to give you an idea of scale, that's about the size of a small garden shed. our research is quite refreshing. we are going to be looking for activities in space such as interplanetary mining, asteroid mining, we are going t

she then checked into this hotel in cambridge.denly, her father's operatives arrived and she was captured. by 5 a.m. the next warning, she was on a helicopter to northern france were was transferred to a private jet that took her to dubai. on her and forced return to dubai, she was kept locked up for the next eight years and then released from confinement, but her life remains heavily controlled. we spoke to someone who had regular contact with her after she was released. >> she was tranquilized all the time. everything she did was controlled. there was no spark in her anymore. no fight anymore. i understand people cannot get there head around it. they just see some rich girl, but it is not like that at all. it's horrific. reporter: the uae government maintain that they are cherished and adored by their family. they are trying to prove she is alive and well. laura: the mystery of the missing princess. in other news, in the capital of peru, people are standing in long lines to get oxygen for loved ones infected with coronavirus. it

the study of health care workers in cambridge in the u.k.nd a single dose of the pfizer vaccine dramatically cuts the risk of getting the virus without symptoms. here is our medical editor. reporter: like thousands of health care workers in cambridge, daniela does a weekly swab test for coronavirus before she goes to work at adam brooks hospital. it will show whether she could be carrying the virus without displaying symptom that swab is analyzed at these university labs where they compare the results from staff who received the pfizer vaccine with those yet to be immunized. in early data, they found two weeks after the first dose, the risk of asymptomatic infection carrying the virus without knowing it was reduced by 75%. in england wide study found a similar protective effect. >> this is a genuine good news story. people should be pleased vaccine will protect them and they should have the vaccine to prevent themselves and others were getting infected. it will help us get out of lockdown and help other countries get out of lockdown and allo

but now, one company in cambridge claims to be able to reprogram stem cells to produce any other typen large quantities. it's part of a growing trend to bioprint elements of the body. the ability to repair damaged cells and tissue in the body is the focus of the field of regenerative medicine. over the years, we have seen bioink to print tissues, sd—printed body parts, and even a company growing bones from a person's own stem cells. innovations around stem cells, the building blocks of our bodies, offer exciting potential. typically, these cells are extracted from a blood or skin sample in small amounts, but one company is working on producing any type of human cell in industrial quantities. hello, how are you? hi. thank you for having us in your lab. this is one of our molecular biology labs, and here we create what is called gene cassettes, and we create — we engineer cells, essentially. here at bit.bio in cambridge, an interdisciplinary team has created a new technology called optimised inducible overexpression. it enables the precise reprogramming of entire cultures of stem cells

is now one of the most important in this pandemic professor sharon peacock joins me tonight from cambridge the fessor peacock it's good to have you on the program i'd like to if i could get your take on what we just heard from the u.k. vaccines minister he said that no matter what the mutation or the variant we will always be able to answer it with a vaccine now that is quite a statement to make is it true. rather than answering that directly good evening by the way a rather than answer that directly what i would do is take a step through the kind of near history that we're facing now so right now it's really key to recognize that the very it in the u.k. and that spreading from the u.k. is eminently effective against the vaccines that we have right now so that's the good news and we we mustn't consider that anything else than that is true because it could put people off having back scenes so go and have your vaccine because it's fully effective now what we have seen is that viruses can be take reasonably rapidly and when they do that might mean that of a very interactive which is then more

is now one of the most important in this pandemic professor sharon peacock joins me tonight from cambridge professor peacocke it's good to have you on the program i'd like to if i could get your take on what we just heard from the u.k. vaccines minister he said that no matter what the mutation or the variant we will always be able to answer it with a vaccine now that is quite a statement to make is it true. rather than answering that directly good evening by the way a rather than answer that directly what i would do is take a step through the kind of near history that we're facing now so right now it's really key to recognize that the very it in the u.k. and that spreading from the u.k. is eminently effective against the vaccines that we have right now so that's the good news and we we mustn't consider that anything else than that is true because it could put people off having back scenes so go and have your vaccine because it's fully effective now what we have seen is that viruses can be take reasonably rapidly and when they do that might mean that of a very interested which is then more

here at bit.bio in cambridge an interdisciplinary team has created a new technology.e reprogramming of entire cultures of stem cells into any cell type on a vast scale. founder and neurosurgeon mark kotter is combining coding and biology to enable a deeper understanding of the genetic engineering of a cell. we have taken a slightly different angle at biology. when we look back over the last 30 years, it seems like you can look at biology a little bit like a software. and that means that there is a possibility to, you know, reprogram, reboot a cell with a new programme. and our technology allows us to do this extremely efficiently. and that has really opened a completely new way of thinking about manufacturing and precision engineering of cells. we keep them in incubators here, as all other cells that are grown outside the body. they need a certain oxygen level, carbon dioxide and temperature. and once we make the — desired cell type, we can actually freeze them in small test tubes, in tubes, and you can send them to the customer in a frozen format. these cells could t

but analysis by cambridge university of the computer processing power required around the world to runt it uses more electricity annually than the whole of argentina. mining for the cryptocurrency is power—hungry, involving heavy computer calculations to verify transactions. the cambridge researchers say it consumes around 121.36 terawatt—hours a year — enough to power all the kettles in the uk for the next 27 years. so is the growth of cryptocurrencies just storing up problems for the future? joining me now is david gerard, author of attack of the 50 foot blockchain. great to have you with us. what you make of this report. can you make of this report. can you explain why this process of mining for bitcoin uses so much electricity?— electricity? processing the transactions _ electricity? processing the transactions is _ electricity? processing the transactions is easy. - electricity? processing the transactions is easy. you | electricity? processing the i transactions is easy. you can do that on a 2007 iphone. that is to calculate who traded in this block of ten minutes. every ten minu

so penelope, her four siblings and her father moved and settled in cambridge. unfortunately her mother appears to have died on the journey. however, the family was quite successful in cambridge which was a leading center of massachusetts at the time. harvard college had recently been founded. herbert pell lamb early on acquired land. he rose quickly through the government and became harvard's first treasure. however, within a few years he decided he needed to go back to ek land to settle some property disputes arriving over inheritance issues. the whole family accompanied him with the exception of nathanial, penelope's older brother who will remain behind to attend harvard and penelope herself. it's not clear why she at the age of 13 didn't accompany the family. later it's thought she didn't have the best relationship with her stepmother who her father married shortly after arriving in cambridge. we do know she moved in with her father's sister, another penelope, and her husband richard belling ham who is a leading citizen of boston. he would serve as governor

one of them you may be familiar with the name from that game as alan and cambridge mathematician basedon the work he decides a giant machine that can run through enigma settings looking for the one that could have produced the text also moving in us another cambridge mathematician by the name of gordon weltman. he, once he arrives transforms himself into a manager, a master of world changing technology. besides coming up with the design that actually made the machine at work, his big idea was code breaking was not academic work. he proposes turning code breaking into an industry. citing greasers from production working in three spots today. on our terms, it is a high-tech started. in april 1942, the crew breaks into the enigma network use between berlin and headquarters. the click of their able to decode this message from europe to rommel's headquarters in africa. as part of the appreciation it's reported from a good source to be strong enough to justify an offensive for the first of june. this is incredibly intelligent. tells rommel exactly how long it will take the british to attack

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we're talking to dr roxanne farm on for my on who teaches middle east politics at the university of cambridge and is the author of blood in oil a prince's memoir of iran from the shock to the ayatollah and journalist eli lake opinion columnist for bloomberg covering national security and foreign policy and he's been covering this issue for a very long time it's great to have you both with us i want to start out with mentioning that joe biden president biden has given a speech at the munich security conference and we're going to play a clip that's why he said we're prepared to reengage in negotiations with the p 5 plus one on a range nuclear program. we must also address arends destabilizing activities across the middle east and we're going to work in close cooperation with our european and other partners as we proceed eli let me ask you is it necessary for the united states to have a deal with iran to make a deal with iran or is it better that we move on without such a deal what are your thoughts in reaction to the president's talk. well i think that what we've seen in recent years is that pr

she then checked into this hotel in cambridge. was on a helicopter to northern france, where she was transferred to a private jet that took her to dubai. six months later, from her captivity in dubai, shamsa managed to get word of what happened to her to a lawyer in the uk who contacted the police. as part of their investigation, cambridgeshire police needed to go to dubai to speak to shamsa. the officer in charge applied through the crown prosecution service. and that's effectively where my investigation came to an end, i because a short while later, i was informed that my- request had been declined. he was later told by a senior colleague that the investigation had some significant sensitivities. we know at the time of dci david beck's inquiries, the london office of the princess's father, sheikh mohammed al maktoum, had contacted the fco about this. the foreign office told us that the investigation was conducted by cambridgeshire police, and that they had no role in the investigation or its outcome. but they declined to answer

is best memorised —— the specimen are raised in cambridge two weeks ago.during the start of this weekend have also brought a lot of rainfall across some western parts of england, wales, northern ireland and western scotland. we have seen some local flooding in places, river levels running very high. and as a consequence from all the recent rain, the number of flood warnings has increased. but the good news is for part two of the weekend, it looks a bit drier across the board. we should see quite a bit of sunshine around. it's going to stay mild, but there will still be some rain around but not as much as what we had on saturday. now, the rain will be courtesy of this weather front, which will start out across more southern and eastern parts of england. low pressure to the north—west of the uk will bring fairly breezy conditions to northern ireland and scotland, where we'll start off for sunday with a few showers here. cloudier skies with outbreaks of mainly light and patchy rain across the south east will slowly work their way westwards. parts of the north

had the best relationship with her stepmother who herbert had married shortly after arriving in cambridge. and so we do know though that she probably at this time moved in with her her father's sister another penelope and her husband richard bellingham, who is a leading citizen of boston. he would serve as government governor for several terms and the bellingham's home or their mansion house was located on tremont street. near where king's chapel is today. so living there would have exposed penelope to a host of people and ideas that exponentially broadened her world. we're not sure what her education consisted of but it would have been overseen by her aunt and it was obviously a very good education as later records testify. we do know that at some point she met josiah winslow here on the left became engaged to him. this may have been through her brother nathaniel as josiah attended harvard. he didn't graduate. he was older than nathaniel, but that may have been one connection. also herbert pelham and edward winslow on the right were well known to each other so edward winslow as we know w

and editor of naked sciences he joins us on skype from cambridge in the u.k. chris great to have you back here on the news so thank you forgive me if i'm oversimplifying this we think now the science is telling us there's at least one variant there that is immune to the vaccine. well immune is a strong word we hope the immune people are going to be those who had the vaccine but what this represents is the virus changing and evolving which all viruses do and evolving in such a way that the protection conferred by vaccination might be less effective than it was against the classic or parent strain of the virus and this is because these changes or these mutations alter the shape of the outer coat to the virus and if they distort the shape they can make the virus more transmissible which this change appears to do but at the same time they make it more slippery so our antibodies that we make in response to the vaccine find it harder to gain a toehold and neutralize the virus and that's why entities like madonna are saying they might want to update their back scene

a study of healthcare workers in cambridge here in the uk, found a single dose of the pfizer vaccineur medical editor fergus walsh reports. like thousands of healthcare workers in cambridge, daniela does a weekly swab test for coronavirus before she goes to work at addenbrooke's hospital. we could show whether she could be carrying the virus about displaying symptoms. that swab is analysed at these university labs where they compare the results from staff like daniela who'd received the pfizer vaccine with those yet to be immunised. in early data they found that two weeks after the first dose, the risk of asymptomatic infection carrying the virus without knowing it was reduced by 75% stop and england wired study of health workers found a similar protective effect.- workers found a similar protective effect. this is a genuine — protective effect. this is a genuine good _ protective effect. this is a genuine good news - protective effect. this is a genuine good news story. | protective effect. this is a - genuine good news story. people should be really pleased that the vaccine will pr

like thousands of health care workers in cambridge, daniella does a weekly swab test for coronavirusl show whether she could be carrying the virus without displaying symptoms. that swab is analysed at these university labs, where they compared the results from staff like daniella who'd received the pfizer vaccine with those yet to be immunised. in early data, they found that two weeks after the first dose, the risk of asymptomatic infection — carrying the virus without knowing it — was reduced by 75%. an england—wide study of health workers found a similar protective effect. this is a genuine good news story. people should be really pleased that the vaccine will protect them and they should have the vaccine in order to prevent themselves and others from getting infected. i think it will help us get out of lockdown, help other countries get out of lockdown and it will allow us to get back to normal. hi, laura. can i check your blood pressure? daniella is a nursing apprentice at addenbrooke's. nearly nine in ten staff here have had their first dose of vaccine — important, as it reduces

and in a series of video calls, the duke and duchess of cambridge urge people in the uk to put asideheir concerns about the covid vaccine and get the jab. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the political commentatorjo phillips and the political editor at the sunday mirror and the sunday people, nigel nelson. tomorrow's front pages, starting with... many of the papers are looking ahead to wednesday's budget. the observer says the chancellor will offer grants of up to £18,000 to 700,000 businesses as part of a £5 billion rescue scheme to save the high street. the sunday telegraph says rishi sunak is planning new taxes on online deliveries and the self—employed in order to start paying for the £300 billion cost of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. the independent says the public would back new taxes on the wealthy and big businesses in order to pay back the cost of the coronavirus support. the sunday times leads with rishi sunak�*s plans to raise income tax by £6 billion as he looks to find a way to plug the black hole

and the duke and duchess of cambridge have taken part in a call to encourage people to keep on taking19 vaccination. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. here in the uk — the chancellor rishi sunak says he's committed to supporting businesses and helping those on the lowest incomes, saying the public should feel assured ahead of wednesday's budget. labour has urged the government to keep the furlough scheme for as long as health restrictions remain in place. there are plans for a £5 billion grant scheme, to help pubs, restaurants, shops, and other businesses in england to re—open safely. our business correspondent, katie prescott, reports. the first signs of spring and with them hope of new beginnings for businesses as lockdown eases but it has not been an easy ride. despite government support, salons like this one still have rents and overheads. we can't do takeaway haircuts, we can't go into people's homes. there is no way a hair salon or beauty salon can pivot or make any income during these lockdowns so when we are shut, we are losing money every day

she then checked into this hotel in cambridge.thern france, where she was transferred to a private jet that took her to dubai. six months later, from her captivity in dubai, she managed to get word of what happened to her to a lawyer in the uk who contacted the police. dci david beck received the news. it's not every day| that an allegation involving a head of state lands on a police officer's desk. - in 2001, dci david beck needed to go to dubai to speak to shamsa. he applied through the crown prosecution service. and that's effectively where - my investigation came to an end, because a short while later, i was informed that _ my request had been declined. he was later told by a senior colleague that the investigation had some significant sensitivities. the london office of the princess's father, sheikh mohammed al maktoum, had contacted the fco about this. the foreign office told us that the investigation was conducted by cambridgeshire police. and that they had no role in the investigation or its outcome. but they declined to a

there's also studies of whether cambridge analytica personality targeting works or not. there's a paper in the national academy of sciences that shows it may work or commercial advertising but that study also has some criticism in that it doesn't account for causality well because the algorithms are a sort of targeting mass of people who are most susceptible to it. >> a small confession as a reporter around 2010 when facebook slab was doing that research on basically persuading people to vote , we went in there and wrote this feel-good story about the propensity to vote was increased by this wonderful social network and nobody thought at that time about flipping it and thinking about voter suppression and at the same time california had this documentary where they went down to the precinct level trying to find somebody who's voted and discouraged and they couldn't find anybodywho said i didn't vote because of some facebook interaction i had . >> i think both of these avenues of investigation are important, investigative journalism obviously is important and it draws up s

is now one of the most important in this pandemic professor sharon peacock joins me tonight from cambridge the fessor peacock it's good to have you on the program i'd like to if i could get your take on what we just heard from the u.k. vaccines minister he said that no matter what the mutation or the variant we will always be able to answer it with a vaccine now that is quite a statement to make is it true. rather than answering that directly good evening by the way a rather than answer that directly what i would do is this is take a step through the kind of near history that we're facing now so right now it's really key to recognize that the variant in the u.k. and that spreading from the u.k. is eminently effective against the vaccines that we have right now so that's the good news and we we mustn't consider that anything else than that is true because it could put people off having back scenes so go and have your vaccine because it's fully effective now what we have seen is that viruses can be take reasonably rapidly and when they do that might mean that of a very into rises which is th

a study of health care workers in cambridge has found that a single dose of the pfizer biontech vaccine symptoms. our medical editor fergus walsh reports. like thousands of health care workers in cambridge, daniela does a weekly swab test for coronavirus before she goes to work at addenbrooke's hospital. it'll show whether she could be carrying the virus without displaying symptoms. that swab is analysed at these university labs, where they compared the results from staff like daniela, who'd received the pfizer vaccine, with those yet to be immunised. in early data, they found that two weeks after the first dose, the risk of asymptomatic infection, carrying the virus without knowing it, was reduced by 75%. an england—wide study of health workers found a similar protective effect. this is a genuine good news story. people should be really pleased that the vaccine will protect them and they should have the vaccine in order to prevent themselves and others from getting infected. but i think it will help us get out of lockdown, it will help other countries get out of lockdown and it will al

s economy in london kind that produces trades in cambridge horizon makes retail space those companies export to china and you and i have many small exporters they know face problems delivering that products abroad polarizes managing director andrew must try to explain to you customers that they now had to pay the $80.00 sales takes to get the deliveries. not one of them was willing to do so because it involved too much because it just wasn't worth it for them anymore a real desperation because we had hundreds of thousands of euros of good sat here in the warehouse that we just couldn't deliver we had custom is desperate to receive these materials we had customers in italy and germany you know demanding deliveries that we can we simply couldn't do it we were letting customers down. the huge increase in administration is the main problem for kyle it is well. managing director mark really is most annoyed by a lack of support from british authorities that we did what we could to prepare because we kept being told prepare prepare prepare and then we realize it was the government that wasn'