cern has described the talk as highly offensive.ng on sexism in physics, could have invited professor strumia to speak without first checking what he was likely to say. palab gosh, bbc news. our top story this lunchtime. indonesia appeals for international help after the earthquake and tsunami on sulawesi island which has killed more than 800 people. and still to come: europe's golfers bask in the triumph of their comfortable ryder cup victory over the united states. and coming up on bbc news. after saturday's damaging defeat at west ham, underfire mourinho will face the press later ahead of manchester united's must—win champions league clash with valencia tomorrow night. the bbc series, blue planet ii, revealed the extent of plastic in our oceans and the threat to the wildlife that it poses. well tonight, bbc one has a special programme, speaking to some of the world's leading marine biologists to discover the impact of plastic pollution and what can be done to prevent it. 0ne team of volunteers in hampshire has discovered thousand

and then to remain in that position, i think it was certainly the right thing to do from cern, yes.a little more broadly can you give us a sense yes. speaking a little more broadly can you give us a sense of how far his comments reflect a wider sexism within science? i think it is actually... yes, there are people like that out there. and particularly in physics, but there isa particularly in physics, but there is a really positive brigade of us who are championing diversity in physics and astronomy. there are some very, very strong people and lots of events going on and people talking about diversity of all types, not just the talking about diversity of all types, notjust the gender divide, in physics, in astronomy and in the wider sort of stem environment, and i think we have to celebrate these positive changes, and educate the future generations. i was interested in that statistic in pallab ghosh‘s report that only a% of physics professors are women, and i wondered if you could perhaps give an insight as to why that might be?” if you could perhaps give an insight as to why that m

cern has said his presentation was unacceptable, while professor strumia has stood by his remarks — whichextra £240 million of emergency funding will be spent on the social care system to ease pressure on the nhs this winter. health secretary matt hancock will tell the conservative party conference he hopes the money will free up hospital beds by helping older people get home more quickly when they're medically ready to leave. the local government association welcomed the extra money but said short term funding solutions weren't the answer. the charity save the children says suspected cholera cases in yemen have almost tripled since june. it coincides with escalating fighting in the country's ongoing civil war, which began three years ago and has claimed more than 10,000 lives. the children's charity has renewed calls for a ceasefire from all sides. a budget airline that began offering long—haul flights from uk airports to the us earlier this year has collapsed. the icelandic—owned primera airline ceased all operations at midnight, with many passengers stranded and unsure of alternative t

cern has described the talk as highly offensive.o say. palab gosh, bbc news. drjessica wade was at the presentation and has spoken out about what she heard. shejoined us earlier. listening to the professor there, he seems to have gone away and done some research on this and come to a very specific conclusion. what conclusion has he come to and is it based on any fact? i think his research is leading him to the conclusion or he's stating that women are worse at physics and are disproportionately awarded grant funding and also senior positions within universities and in research centres, maybe like son. i don't think that his way of doing the evaluation is right. he uses the number of academic citations over time asa number of academic citations over time as a metric for how good a scientist is. unfortunately there is awful lot of bias in the academic citation process. in peer review in general there is a lot of bias against women and against non—western scientists. the number of times those publications are cited as also biased again

cern has described the talk as highly offensive. meeting on sexism in physics, could have invited professor strumia to speak without first checking what he was likely to say. we can speak now to dr sheila kanani — a planetary scientist and education outreach and diversity officer at the royal astronomical society. she's in lytham st annes in lancashire. thank you so much forjoining us. ijust wondered i just wondered what you made ijust wondered what you made of these comments and whether you were offended. it is quite mind blowing that he could come across and say things like that. we've got so much evidence that women being integral to physics over the years. the many many years it has been around, women astronomers thousands of years ago to all the amazing women who have done so much work hundreds of years ago when they had to pretend that their husbands are doing the work for them in the unsung heroes who spotted eight comments and worked alongside her brother. just unfounded that he could even say that. he says that it is not an

cern has described the talk as highly offensive.y. palab gosh, bbc news. it‘s exactly a year since 58 people were killed in america s worst ever mass shooting. it happened in las vegas — when a man opened fire on crowds attending a country music festival. more than 400 people were shot in the incident and survived. clive myrie has returned to las vegas to speak to some of the injured — people whose lives were changed forever that night — and a warning his report contains some distressing images. no other modern democracy venerates the gun as highly as america, and no other country pays such a heavy price. the bullet went through my chest and through my stomach. my liver, my spleen. i can hear the sounds, ican liver, my spleen. i can hear the sounds, i can feel the bullets. the bullets were six inches from my head. this is a story not about the dead but about those who lived. meet rosemary. a survivor of the worst mass shooting in american history. for close to one year, her home has been this hospital room because of a gunmen‘s bull

us on outside source, still to come: a day on from professor alessandro strumia's suspension from cerna woman has been awarded the nobel prize in physics for the first time in 55 years. heterosexual couples are to be allowed to enter into civil partnerships in england and wales, as an alternative to marriage. the government has announced it will change the law to extend civil partnerships — which were introduced for same sex couples in 2004 — to all adults. the move follows a supreme court ruling, which will give mixed—sex couples and their families greater security. the court had said that existing law was incompatible with the european convention on human rights. rebecca steinfeld and charles keidan, a couple from london, brought a legal challenge to be allowed to have a civil partnership — and they gave the bbc their reaction to today's announcement. we are delighted with this wonderful news from the government today, and we think the prime minister and the minister for women we think the prime minister and the ministerfor women and we think the prime minister and the minister for w

teenagers usually throw firebombs tires to obscure the view for israeli snipers cerned tear gas and often use rubber bullets as well as live rounds israel claims this is to stop mass infiltration and forms being placed along the border as they can see because of the flames. more recently palestinians started flying incendiary kites and balloons this causes fires on the other side costing israel a lot of money and scaring israelis who live nearby. it's a mess you never know what's happening. there it's here. and many have died. trying to knew how to try to solve them straight in the face. has been tried. found out it was a little more unfair in the country we were going to kill and we were people outside our. control. of a certain. number of people in their. lives according to a u.s. funded report. the struggle between empathy and law unfolds in italy as a refugee mayor is placed under house arrest for allegedly helping illegal immigrants. and the people's republic of the jam jar a prominent conservative party politician in the u.k. is under fire after making an insensitive quip about liby

this is this italian professor who has now in fact been suspended by cern, but some quite astonishingsolutely astonished. he is facing widespread condemnation, and he has doubled down on the point with the times, incidentally, saying that physics was invented and built by men, it is not by invitation, and blamed cultural marxism for indoctrinating others into ideology. and he does say he is notjust expressing an opinion, but this is based on data. this is based on scientific proof. ironically, he was supposed to be talking to a group of women about sexism in physics, and he sprung this on them. what marie curie and scores of other women scientists down the ages would say, i don't know, but this is unbelievable. it is interesting, though, jess, isn't it? he has told the times he stands by his comments even though he knows they could his career. it is interesting, that is the right word. -- they could ruin his career. it would be funny if it wasn't so frustrating. a funeral scientist is quoted in this times article that makes the excellent point that this isn't about being offended, it

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teenagers usually throw firebombs tires to obscure the view for israeli snipers could cern's tear gas them and often use rubber bullets as well as live rounds israel claims this is to stop mass infiltration and bombs being placed along the border as they can see because of the flames. more recently the palestinian side. it flying incendiary kites and balloons this causes fires on the other side costing a lot of money and scaring israelis who live nearby. it's a mess you never know what's happening. there it's here. dozens end up injured here every time and many have died. trying to knew how to try to solve them straight in different terms and to construct has been tried. and others in the spotlight of the work done for their country went on to kill many people under saddam's. control of hamas. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy thing for him to let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. cooked ad

cern has described the talk as highly offensive.sexism in physics, could have invited professor strumia to speak without first checking what he was likely to say. palab gosh, bbc news. let's get more on this from drjennifer rohn a reasearch scientist at university college london. thank you very much the coming in. what is the best way to treat his comments? i can't believe we are having this conversation again. it seems as if we get the same sort of comments coming out repeatedly, and there is with a big flurry about it, and a bigger bottle from the scientific community, but these people just keep coming out of the woodwork. some light -- sunlight, they say, is the best disinfectant, is there any merit in what he has to say, even if just is there any merit in what he has to say, even ifjust highlighting that the fact that these views exist and there aren't enough women in science? well, she has certainly done a good job of playing up and highlighting the view is that some people still do have about women in science, these views have

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december thirteenth one nine hundred seventy two he was united states navy captain eugene andrews cern and commander of apollo seventeen which was the final apollo mission just a month before he passed away and twenty seventeen gene cernan sat down for an interview that has not been seen until now and if you ever wondered why bother with space he explained why we can be proud of that investment. technology needs a focus it needs a goal needs a challenge it is it it needs a purpose to be developed you just don't develop technology and that's. what do i do with it you've got to have a reason and a reason your past has always been war ok think about it if you look back far enough television came from the radar revolution during world war two and all these other things that came from for they came historically from wars from weapons came useful technology that people could use in the factories in their homes. our cold war race with the russians did the same thing but we didn't bomb millions of cities and kill millions and millions of people we lost some people along the way there's no ques

you'll know of cern — europe's nuclear research facility. it has that large hadron collider.ing at the workshop said, "physics was invented and built by men, "it's not by invitation". this is professor alessandro strumia of pisa university. we have the slides from the workshop he was hosting. here's one suggesting women chosing to study gender politics and protest a lack of women in physics, rather than study physics. since this became a story, professor strumia has been happy to expand. i did the simple checks that i believe everybody should have done before making these claims. and, with some surprise, i found that it is the opposite. if you want to be hired, it is easier if you are a woman than a man. cern have described the presentation as "highly offensive". this is one physicist who was there. it is damaging because it tells a whole generation of young scientists, who are working in string theory, high—energy physics, and physics more broadly, that senior people in authority think that women are inferior and shouldn't be trying out for these positions, and have been the

if you're my cern girl i knew him on the wounded i tried to save her i carried her to the ambulance i left her there and went to help the others i saw a lot of people bleeding land on benches it was awful. about. immutability mines i saw a guy being attacked i try to help him but it was too late then i saw my friend something was wrong with his looks he couldn't walk so i dragged him all the way to the fans. the mushy it is now you will never know every accept heroism and kindness that took place last now in the confusion the adrenaline the modesty and in death but it wasn't just the students it was also bystanders volunteers and good samaritans. said i work nearby when i heard what happened i came here to help anyone i could see there were people without limbs just lying on the street everyone tried to help more just to get more of. when the wounded began to overwhelm local clinics the medical students jumped in to help. them but when it happened we were at our medical college we were in class when a teacher stormed in and said they need people to help with the injured so we rushed t

the west or should there be wilfully misunderstood the truth is that china has matched america at cern great game of capitalism and that is on forgivable. one measure of china's new capitalism is the run ritualised this league table of china's mega rich has published by rupert hogan warthe an old attorney and his chinese name as her run he's received many awards including china's man of the year this year two thousand and fifteen it's probably been the most extraordinary year of wealth creation in the history of china again in i've been doing this list of fifteen sixteen years i've never seen a year like two thousand and fifteen in it normally for two hundred million pounds or three hundred million dollars we find say eight hundred thousand people this year two thousand and fifteen it is doubled they'll be more dollar billionaires noted in china than in the u.s. so the u.s. up until now has been the leader in terms of business. even the most successful business tycoons in the world. china two thousand and fifteen but if they're taking the us said amazing. modern china is full of tellin

many volunteers who clean up after them say they are is cerned about their fety. doing something about it. trash, human waste, and pollutants. >> tithas grown, so the homeless population has grown. >> reporter: pam helmke is one of san jose's park rangers who helps clear out homeless encampments. >> they bring trash, batteries. >> reporter: the job is not always -- is not always safe. >> the job has an intrinsic level of risk to it. >> reporter: and now? the very tears who help clean -- the volunteers who help clean up as well as the park rangers are about to get some backup. >> the next two weeks, the mayor told a group of concerned citizens about the steps to decrease crime in the city including a new unit that help patrol parks alongside rangers. >> these will be armed officers, making sure our rangers are safe. >> reporter: we always have a strong working relationship with the san jose police department. i think it's a good thing. >> reporter: pam has worked for the city for 30 years. she says the decision to patrol parks with police makes sense. >> there are

the awarding of the prize to a woman comes just a day after an italian physicist was suspended by cern the european organization for nuclear research for saying in a presentation the true six was invented and built by man the web site al jazeera dot com. and a quick look before we go at the top stories rescue agencies warn time is running out to find survivors from friday's earthquake and tsunami on the indonesian island of pseudo way z. four days after the disaster more than twelve hundred people have been confirmed dead mostly from the small city of power lou at least sixty one thousand others are also homeless and in desperate need of aid. our correspondent andrew thomas has more now from paolo. this is a city that really has been destroyed virtually every building that i have seen has major damage smashed windows broken roof collapsed pillars they are everywhere. suspected cases of cholera in the yemeni city of her data have almost tripled this summer a report from save the children says there were more than thirteen hundred cases of color in august that's up from fewer than five h

he has been suspended by cern, as our science correspondent, pallab ghosh, reports. the universe works. relatively few of them are women. in an effort to change this, the company held a workshop. there, this man presented an analysis which she claims showed that particle physics research published by men was more widely cited and so better than that by women. he also showed cartoons making fun of those campaigning fora cartoons making fun of those campaigning for a quality in physics. leading physicists have studied his presentation and found it to be scientifically unsound. and contradictory to research produced by experts in the field. in an online statement they say, the professor's argument are morally reprehensible and reveals a deep co nte m pt reprehensible and reveals a deep contempt for more than half of humanity. in response, the professor has said that the high energy physics community is about 100 times bigger than the number who have signed the statement. he added that the signatories mostly come from those countries more affected by political correctnes

cern's jonah hole has the latest from brussels. if there's been concern about a slow response by european nations at a political level to the alleged murder of jamal khashoggi well that may be changing britain france and the netherlands have all announced that they're withdrawing their ministerial level delegations to the financial investment summit or davos in the desert as it's been dubbed citing that now is simply not the time for that level of engagement this was what french president emmanuel macron had to say. leafy. the facts we know today are mr g. string the serious and worrying we expect to throw light on this matter we have had exchanges with saudi authorities to clarify all this but in the current circumstances we have sides a postponement political visits including that of our economy minister european countries of course faced something of a quandary in their response to saudi arabia do they go in hard on riyadh demanding answers threatening action risking the possibility of wrecking lucrative trade and investment tie

that's why the cern i.t. engineers had to use another medium to ensure the long term storage of their valuable data. don't feel the need to sit at the large hadron collider data are stored here suggesting the want to hear means in these cartridges that contain tapes will stick to the same automated units like these fetch them when a physicist needs to reexamine reanalyzed it's true that. there are more than fifty thousand robots manage tapes which are used as archive media for all of the l.h. c.j. . tapes in fact i've been here at least fifteen or twenty years and the same question always comes up with aren't we going to change the system of the system the answer is no there are several reasons first reasoned analysis demonstrate the tapes are thousand times more reliable. and discs of needle may second tapes when they're not really used or don't consume any electricity and of course it's in spots and by the one hundred twenty third if you drop a hard drive there's a very good chance that it will be completel

yet the amount of data is so large that it would take several decades to analyze it even if cern had a network of computers that could process millions of operations per second. unlocking the secrets of matter in the universe takes time a period of time that's my. much too long given the fragility of the hard drives on the cell phones. that's why the san i.t. engineers had to use another medium to ensure the long term storage of then valuable data. goes you need to just sit in the large hadron collider data are stored here suggesting that the what's in here means in these cartridges that contain tapes will sit in the same automated units like these to fetch them when a physicist needs to reexamine reanalyzed it's said that. there are more than fifty thousand robots manage tapes which are used as all kinds of media all of the l h c j. y tapes in fact i've been here at least fifteen or twenty years and the same question always comes up to me is what are we going to change the system of the system the answer is no there are several reasons first recent analysis demonstrate the tapes are

the west or should there be wilfully misunderstood the truth is that china has matched america at cern great game of capitalism and that is on forgivable. one measure of china's new capitalism is the run ritualised this league table of china's mega rich has published by rupert hogan wore the old attorney and his chinese name as her run he's received many awards including china's man of the year this year two thousand and fifteen it's probably been the most extraordinary year of wealth creation in the history of china again in i've been doing this list of fifteen sixteen years i've never seen a year late two thousand and fifteen you know it normally for two hundred million pounds or three hundred million dollars we find say eight hundred thousand people this year two thousand and fifteen is it's doubled they'll be more dollar billionaires know about in china than in the u.s. so the u.s. up until now has been the leader in terms of business. you know the most successful business tycoons in the world. china two thousand and fifteen where they've taken the us said amazing. modern china is

the cern carlos warehouse runs up a mess of electricity bill for the high powered lights to grow plants in the next phase the company plans to set up robot farms in greenhouses where they can use sunlight for iron oxides raised six million u.s. dollars startup capital so far. for that money they're at least producing enough letters to feed their own employees. or are we back for business news later on until then we coming from one smart idea to another even i love the good news stories that we have so let's keep that momentum going with the royal swedish academy of sciences in stockholm which has announced this year's nobel prize for chemistry and the three separate recipients brother francis arnold and george smith of the u.s. and britain's gregory winter the nobel committee said they'd been given the prestigious award for their work in developing proteins of of human kind chemicals problems for you that you and the. next is here to tell us more about the nobel committee's decision and also what this prize really means so these researchers work in different fields so why are they shari

they're warning of the price to a woman comes just a day after an italian physicist was suspended by cern the european organization for nuclear research for saying in a presentation that physics was invented a built by man don't forget the web site al jazeera dot com. let's get you a look at now the top stories on al-jazeera rescue agencies warn time is running out to find survivors from friday's earthquake and tsunami on the indonesian island of soloway z. four days after the disaster more than twelve hundred people have been confirmed dead mostly from the small city of holland at least sixty one thousand others are also homeless and in desperate need of aid our correspondent andrew thomas has more from polly there have been met burials on tuesday but not all the bodies have been buried you can smell the composing flesh as you drive around not everywhere but it is frequent just like every building in this city has been very badly damaged you can see smashed windows caved in roof broken pillars and then the rowboat where they shouldn't be a long way from where the sea has now returned to

still to come — a day on from professor alessandro strumia's suspension from cern following his comments four mothers of disabled children have gone to the high court to challenge plans by a county council to cut the special needs budget by 21 million pounds. our education editor bra nwen jeffreys reports. do you want something to eat? what you like a sandwich? her son has settled in school. he has autism and adhd. each day he gets council transport to a specialist school. it allows his mum to get his sister to school and her self to work. allows his mum to get his sister to school and her self to worklj allows his mum to get his sister to school and her self to work. i do worry about transport because if he loses his transport then i cannot work because i would have to drive him to school. today she was one of four months taking a case to the high court. challenging plans by surrey county council to spend less, less on services for children like kian with special needs or disabilities. asking the court to decide if they should have been consultation. parents from around england were in

invented and built by men has been suspended from working with the european nuclear research centre cern. cern has said his presentation was unacceptable, while professor strumia has stood by his remarks, which he says are backed up by simple research. tributes have been paid to the french singer and songwriter charles aznavour, who has died at the age of 94, after a career spanning more than eight decades. he was known as france's answer to frank sinatra, sold more than 180 million records worldwide, and was described has having a certainje ne sais quois, even if his talent wasn't immediately recognised by critics. here he is talking to charlie and naga about overcoming negativity to become a global superstar. the critics were terrible. they find my songs bizarre, as they say. they said i didn't have the physique to be a star. they said my voice was terrible, too. everything is wrong. but i didn't listen to them. isaid, well, i know i'm going to make it. you know, that's the only way — the head against the wall. the french singer and songwriter charles aznavour, who has died at the age

cern has said his presentation was "unacceptable", while professor strumia has stood by his remarks,l stop they were on duty outside the gates and he came to court today to describe how he first heard a loud bang, he thought it was a road traffic accident at first. then he looked over and saw khalid masood‘s vehicle crashed into the railings, he then saw smoke coming through the fence, 30 metres from where he was standing. he then saw and heard people screaming and running towards parliament square. he then said to the court that he saw a man in a suit, who was shouting, men with knives starving people, men with knives! he then said he backed away and saul pc keith palmer, his colleague, had been caught by khalid masood and he told the court, i ran forward , masood and he told the court, i ran forward, intending to issue a rugby tackle. he came at me with knives. the court then heard that police officers shot khalid masood, he then went over to handcuff him, because he feared he may have been wearing a suicide vest. he was then asked in court, did you have any doubt that khalid masoo