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well, joining me now here in doha is colin baker. i was here a science and it's a colleen, why our gene therapies. so expensive. scientists have new tools and techniques that can correct the human genome inside the human body. that's a very big deal. we're and we're talking about serious diseases that affect a small populations with great severity. so that's a tantalizing problem to solve. the problem is it really raises 3 difficult issues for the market. one, you have a small patient population too. you have drugs that are very expensive to develop and traditionally have taken a long time to develop that might soon change and 3, these are one time use drugs. when you combine those 3 factors, you get a real question about how to price them. and the pricing that we've seen has been astronomical. we see a new record breaking drug almost every year. now our drugs for blood disorders are for neurological diseases, have soared above $2.00 and $3000000.00 for a dose, obviously big. charlotte leads a return on its investment, but the price

i science editor colin baker adapts our show for this week. don't forget if you'd like to comment on anything you've seen, you can get in touch by tweeting me. i'm at a fit again. please remember to use the hash tag a j c t c. when you do or you could drop us a line counter, the cost of our 0 don't bet is our e mail address, as always, plenty will for you online at al jazeera dot com slash ctc. that takes you straight to a page that you'll find individual reports, links even in time episodes for you to catch up on. but that's it for this edition of counting the cost on adrian finnegan for the whole team. here though, how, thanks for being with us, the news on al jazeera is next ah ah, a scarcity has become a major global issue. the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down, turning an essential natural resource into a commodity trading for profit. just because it's life doesn't mean it cannot be priced. what about the guy that can't afford it? that guy told me it's water. al jazeera examines the social financial and env

released and microsoft said it will integrate, i tools and to what's widely used office software. colin baker has more on how it will work for about non g p. t for is out for months after its predecessors shook the internet. the algorithm which stands for generative pre trained transformer is artificial intelligence presented as a chat box. in a way, it's a large language model, fed enormous volumes of data from the internet, gp t's learn to generate answers by predicting how words should be arranged. but humans also take part. this is where the model learns what sounds normal and what sounds odd, misleading, or dangerous. the company creates so called guard rails to prevent these. so what's new this time? g p t for understands images. users taken photographs of their refrigerators and asked the i to help them prepare dinner. it can write code and entrepreneur describe the cell phone game snake and the a, i helped him code it from scratch in minutes, users or deploying it as a personal assistant. it thinks of things that i don't think of, and that's the part that kind of close my mind the mos

each winter that findings are published in the journal nature. colin baker has the story every year polluted air in india's capital city between november and january contributes to the deaths of thousands of people including children. although air pollution in new delhi has long been a problem. how the haze develops has been poorly understood. you will have a clearly nice in getting some time, but then did other nicer. this case will go very fast, maybe starting respite me. by midnight, you will start seeing that a beautiful haze. and then by we arse in the morning, you find that really to case scientists know how pollutants become more dangerous in sunlight, gases react and lead to smog as has been documented in beijing. but it wasn't clear what was happening at night in new delhi. so chemist in the city, deployed 1400 sensors on rooftops to monitor the air. what they found surprised them. as the temperature dropped and humidity rose, minute particles grew fast, forming ultra fine ones, 10 thousandths of the width of a human hair. they were mostly made up of organic molecules, so the scient

her findings were published in the journal nature. colin baker has more every year polluted air in india's capital city between november and january contributes to the deaths of thousands of people including children. although air pollution in new delhi has long been a problem. how the have developed has been poorly understood. you will have a clear night night in getting some time. but then there are other nicer things when they thought maybe starting the spice by midnight. you will start seeing that info hayes. and then by we us in the morning, you will find that that's really up to case scientists know how pollutants become more dangerous in sunlight and gases react, and lead to smug, as has been documented in beijing. but it wasn't clear what was happening at night in new delhi. so chemist in the city, deployed 1400 centers on rooftops to monitor the f. what they found surprised them . as the temperature dropped and humidity rose, minute particles grew fast, forming ultra fine ones, 10 thousands of the width of a human hair. they were mostly made up of organic molecules. so the scienti

so making sure all those things are clear what he baker, colin assistant manager from county's office of emergency services. >> is monitoring the weather forecast back in january. the county responded to landslides, flooding closed the intersection of sycamore avenue and locust avenue moving our cars off this particular street. an intersection is probably going to be something that we're going to need to do. barber rivian's is staying at her daughter's home in the area. >> after dealing with heavy snow in the mountains, we've already written out one storm in the sierra and then because our power one out, we came down here to be warm >> and not snowing. but now we're having this rain. >> they are. cohn says the county has emergency plans in place and hopes people will prepare ahead of time. you consider if you're in an area that floods a lot. >> and maybe your sandbags or something you need good, you know, go out to hardware, a and your own people and get some sandbags now on the skies clear, we have very limited ability to supply sandbags over or an ace in sandra fell for selling a fe

so making sure all those things are clear what he baker, colin assistant manager from county's office of emergency services. >> is monitoring the weather forecast back in january. the county responded to landslides, flooding closed the intersection of sycamore avenue and locust avenue moving our cars off this particular street. an intersection is probably going to be something that we're going to need to do. barber rivian's is staying at her daughter's home in the area after dealing with heavy snow in the mountains. we've already written out one storm in the sierra and then because our power one out. >> we came down here to be warm and not snowing. but now we're having this rain. >> they are. cohn says the county has emergency plans in place and hopes people will prepare ahead of time. you consider if you're in an area that floods a lot. >> and maybe your sandbags or something you need good, you know, go out to hardware, a and your own people and get some sandbags now on the skies clear, we have very limited ability to supply sandbags over mrna since are selling a few ponchos and we'v

and we chatted with baker, colin.s the assistant manager for marin county's office of emergency services. and he says >> that the county emergency plans are in place, but he is also hoping that people prepare ahead of time so that they can mitigate what may be coming. >> we've got folks from public works who are out doing things like clearing storm grates him places debris tends to accumulate cosplaying want to watch things up. so making sure all those things are clear and sid or if you're in an area that floods a lot good, you know, go out to hardware. goodman is your own people and get some sandbags. now, all the skies clear, we have very limited ability to supply sandbags. >> and in the meantime, you are urged to sign up for the emergency alerts like next ul because that'll be crucial. letting you know what's close, what's open and what's a problem in your neighborhood. >> all right. and they quickly also have to let you know to the gas prices. and here's a quick update for you this morning. so far, the statewide a

so they're making sure all those things are clear what he baker, colin assistant manager from county's office of emergency services. >> is monitoring the weather forecast back in january. the county responded to landslides, flooding closed the intersection of sycamore avenue and locust avenue moving our cars off this particular street. an intersection is probably going to be something that we're going to need to do. barber rivian's is staying at her daughter's home in the area. >> after dealing with heavy snow in the mountains, we've already written out one storm in the sierra and then because our power one out, we came down here to be warm >> and not snowing. but now we're having and this rain. >> they are. cohn says the county has emergency plans in place and hopes people will prepare ahead of time. you consider if you're in an area that floods a lot. >> and maybe, you know, sandbags or something you need good, you know, go out to hard were and your own people and get some sandbags. now, all the skies clear, we have very limited ability to supply sandbags over or an ace in sandra fel

want to watch things ups and making sure all those things are clear what he baker, colin assistant manager fro county's office of emergency services. >> is monitoring the weather forecast back in january. the county responded to landslides, flooding closed the intersection of sycamore avenue and locust avenue moving our cars off this particular street. an intersection is probably going to be something that we're going to need to do. barber rivian's is staying at her daughter's home in the area after dealing with heavy snow in the mountains. we've already written out one storm in the sierra and then because our power one out. >> we came down here to be warm and not snowing. but now we're having this rain. >> they are. cohn says the county has emergency plans in place and hopes people will prepare ahead of time. you consider if you're in an area that floods a lot. >> and maybe, you know, sandbags or something you need good, you know, go out to hardware. good your own people and get some sandbags. now on the skies clear, we have very limited ability to supply sandbags over or an ace in sandra

want to watch things ups and making sure all those things are clear what he baker, colin assistant manager from county's office of emergency services. >> is monitoring the weather forecast back in january. the county responded to landslides, flooding closed the intersection of sycamore avenue and locust avenue moving our cars off this particular street. an intersection is probably going to be something that we're going to need to do. barber rivian's is staying at her daughter's home in the area. >> after dealing with heavy snow in the mountains, we've already written out one storm in the sierra and then because our power one out, we came down here to be warm >> and not snowing. but now we're having this rain. >> they are. cohn says the county has emergency plans in place and hopes people will prepare ahead of time. you consider if you're in an area that floods a lot. >> and maybe, you know, sandbags or something you need good, you know, go out to hardware, and your own people and get some sandbags. now, while the skies clear, we have very limited ability to supply sandbags over or an ace i