we are very proud of our nobel laureates. our american nobel laureates, look where they were born. just pay attention to that. tom: everywhere, right? president reif: everywhere. but we benefit from the fact that they are here and america nobeldited for these laureates, but they came from somewhere else to make a life here. look at many of the technology leaders in the new companies, the startups. those leading these enterprises, many of them were not born in america. we are fortunate to benefit from the supply of talent because of the welcoming culture of america. you stop that supply of talent and it will have huge applications for the future. particularly right now. it is a very competitive world. we are competing with china for all sorts of things, including the economy. five times the population of america. we need the best towel and we can get to be able to compete economically and in technology and science, talent from all over the world that wants to come from america should be our asset. tom: can you name specific companies that would be hard hit? it? -- hardest president

we are very proud of our nobel laureates. our american nobel laureates, look where they were born.t pay attention to that. tom: everywhere, right? president reif: everywhere. but we benefit from the fact that they are here and america is credited for these nobel laureates, but they came from somewhere else to make a life here. look at many of the technology leaders in the new companies, the startups. those leading these enterprises, many of them were not born in america. you stop that supply of talent, we are fortunate to benefit from the supply of talent because of the welcoming culture of america. you stop that supply of talent and it will have huge implications for the future. particularly right now. it is a very competitive world. we are competing with china for all sorts of things, including the economy. china is five times the population of america. we need the best talent we can get to be able to compete economically and in technology and science, talent from all over the world that wants to come to america should be our asset. tom: can you name specific companies that would

a nobel laureate professor from harvard university.out the fed dilemma around inflation, if you can call it a dilemma, a debate about whether to lose the 10% target -- 2% target. we have numbers coming out later this week, what do you see -- say about the disconnect between growth and soft inflation? -- strongave soft growth as far as outputs, but not in wages. my view is that as long as wages are not growing and prices are the pressure to raise interest rates seems muted fed willand i hope the appreciate that argument and take it's time with interest rate hikes. tom: because they factored in three potential-you would say hold fire for the moment? eric: i would. there is essentially no sign of inflation at the moment. are about to be released, they might show otherwise, but assuming they don't, i would say don't worry so much about the price stability side of the fed --date you'd concentrate mandate. concentrate on doing something for workers in making sure more of them are employed and making sure their wages rise. raising interest ra

support for myanmar as a broyles leader aung san suu kyi to tara tafe said he sees the nobel prize laureates he's facing international condemnation for failing to address the atrocities committed against muslims in myanmar. fighting corruption is topping the agenda at the african union's annual salles which is the under way now and ethiopia's capital. over the weekend african heads of states and government are jews joined the discussions on wants seen as one of the key challenges facing societies across the continent our correspondent in nairobi brings us this report about how corruption affects people's daily lives. police checkpoints in nigeria have been part of everyday life for years. but here they're not about maintaining security they're little more than payout stations of corruption. although the chief of police outlaw long ago his colleagues continue to stop cars and money. we are on the road from lagos the economic capital of nigeria to the neighboring country and we observing what traders and travelers go through here every day although we're still more than one hour away from the

they wanted me to be it next poet laureate of the united states. it came completely out of the blue, i really felt. when i said yes to becoming poet laureate, i thought i was going to have to defend poetry and i made up my mind i was not going to defend anything. it should be celebrated. to defend implies something is wrong, that it's under siege. but even before i could implement this celebration, people began to write me letters. that's when we wrote letters in those times and we wrote letters -- it was incredible. we'd start off with this disclaimer of i dont know much about poetry or you know, poetry is really a wonderful thing and i really don't know much but -- and then would come almost like a confession. they would talk about the first poem they read that moved them or it fact that -- i remember one for the middle of the country, an elderly white gentleman who told me his first book he got out of the mobile library in his little home town was paul lawrence dunbar, a collection of poems and he only got it because after filling out his entire

their invitation to the world from the nobel laureate aung san suu kyi turned out not to be sincere. she did not stand behind her invitation. she did not ensure that the world could come and see what was going on. we were not allowed to visit the villages that had been burned. we were not allowed to visit camps from the previous repatriation of individuals, called internally displaced camps, or i.d.p. camps, internally displaced person persons/camps. but we were able to into the capital sitwe, and there was something there that i didn't expect at all. and that is, in the capital there is a section of the city that is referred to as the muslim corridor, the muslim a anybodihood. it's called aug mingalar. we were told we could go visit the muslim corridor, and so we did. this is a street in aun mingalar. they end of the street, you have a police station and you have a fence. in fact, every route out of this neighborhood is blocked by police. the people who live there they're not currently trapped in like by high walls and extensive barbed wire. but it is illegal for them to leave this

has voiced support for me on mars embroiled leader aung sun suu kyi said he pities the nobel prize laureate who is facing international condemnation for failing to address the atrocities committed against her a hinge of muslims in myanmar. south korea's president has visited the scene of a hospital fire that killed dozens and injured more than one hundred the building in the southern city of near young caught fire on friday authorities have ordered an investigation into the cause of the blaze. today is international holocaust remembrance day marked every year on the anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp nazi germany murdered murdered more than six million jews in the second world war one of those working to uphold the memory of the victims is ninety five year old survivor margaret mizen are in the u.s. capital washington. margaret meissner was born in austria and trace in practical slovakia in one nine hundred thirty four the growing anti semitism in her city became more and more noticeable so markets matter center to paris and joined a year later. but the influe

myanmar as umbrella leave their own songs of change to tears he has said he pays the nobel prize laureate who's facing international condemnation for failing to address the atrocities committed against the hinge of muslims in me on mar. well today's edge national holocaust remembrance day marks every year on the anniversary of the gratian of the auschwitz concentration camp nazi germany murdered more than six million jews in the second world war one of those working to uphold the memory of the victims is ninety five year old survivor market meissner in the us capital washington. market meisner was born in austria seem practical slovakia's in one thousand nine hundred four the growing anti semitism in her city became more and more noticeable so markets mother sent her to paris and joined a year later. but the influence of the nazis was soon felt in france as well. one day markets mother received a letter. so i went to the police station with her and us them we're you taking your since none of your business go home and were you taking one of your business go home so here i was burma served

nobel laureates were born in other countries. immigrants have been an economic engine for this country. everyone in this chamber came from somewhere. their relatives came from somewhere. my grandparents on my mom's side came from switzerland. on my dad's side, my great grandparents came from slovenia. they worked in the mines. they worked so hard just to send my dad to college and save money in a coffee can in the basement. and i'm here today with the great grandparents coming straight from slovenia, the grandfather working in a mine, my dad growing up there and being the first one in his family to go to college and getting a two-year degree and a four-year degree, and i literally stand here on the shoulders of these immigrants. on my mom's side, the swiss side, my grandpa came over and ended at ellis island when he was 18 years old, and they had reached the cap, the cap on swiss immigrants. that might sound amusing, but that was the case. he then somehow got himself to canada. i think he said he was going to live there. came bac

noble laureates were born in other countries. it's been an economic engine for the country. everybody in this chamber came from somewhere, their relatives came from somewhere. my grand parents on my mom's side came from switzerland. on my dad's side from slovenia, worked in the mines. and worked so hard for my dad to go to college in a coffee can in the basement. i'm here with great-grandparents coming from slovenia, grandfather working in a mine and my dad growing up there and being the first one in his family going to college and getting a two-year degree and then a four-year degree and i literally stand here on the shoulders of the immigrants. on my mom side, the swiss side my grandpa came over-- >> u.s. senate is about to gavel in for the final workday of the week. lawmakers are scheduled to consider two district court nominations, the first, a noon confirmation vote on michael brown to be a judge for northern district of georgia and whether or not to limit the debate for the western district of texas if approved his confirmation

the police and there had been numerous searches of the area leading many like nobel peace prize laureate adolfo powers as to die of the official version our the pilot of necessity waterborne are very. sorry. but he thought. about all this and they're going to want to show my face because they don't or wall . the lobby are you corsican i stunk allowed us to go. over the border in chile in part again the police are on the trolling the fences. but the problems of our own coney is designated a conflict. the regional capital to move is full to bursting with paramilitary police. and the out oconee i read and there's the sense that there's some violence that is out of control and that should be somehow addressed by the authorities. of course it's not that we validate the violence are being committed in the region but you cannot use that as an excuse to go over human rights. a group of militants in the poochie calling itself coordinate dora come out yakka or come is engaged in a campaign of sabotage against the logging industry which it sais is destroying the environment. so far no one has been

to listen to people you can of course read the full interview with the iranian nobel peace prize laureateena body online that is at d w dot com slash top stories. well our next report now takes us to the irish capital dublin where the country has changed the way that it debates sensitive issues this citizens' assembly which was established back in twenty sixteen has already dealt with same sex marriage which has now been legalized have a look. ireland is one of the european union smaller members and the scene of a revolution in democracy. finbar o'brian a sixty two year old postman explains what that means all his life he says politicians were the ones up there i didn't know anything about politics i never discussed politics i had no actual interest in politics. up until today i was just sitting inside the restaurant and this lady came up and asked me what i'd be interested. in the citizens assembly debates the big issues facing irish society three years ago the environment devote on arlin's introduction of same sex marriages it was a hard task you often heard of priest peta fights. so ma

he did and not want to be known as a nobel laureate -- laureate. something like a musician who could pull tricks out of his hat. he wanted to be one of the guys but at the same time someone with extraordinary tricks. this assignment was known in some ways as much for his own conventionality as for his physics. we see some typical poses here is the picture of him with his bongo drums. and play into the night so that people knew that he was around. here is a picture of him at a costume party he went to an annual costume party that was run by his student al hibbs he was also known and now hibbs used to have these theme parties. it was the favorite religious figure. and he was dressed as a himalayan monk at the party. and an artist was there and she painted him and you you can see him holding a thunderbolt. which seems appropriate. but also it's shaped it shaped like one of his diagrams. it's really a very collaborative painting. we see here on the right he was involved in the annual caltech musicals and this the sun is very special this is south pacif

prisoners and members of the party the national league for democracy the celebrated nobel peace prize laureate spent fifteen years in house arrest before being elected member of parliament. in the interview with al jazeera two thousand and thirteen she laid out her vision to read more and her focus on human rights the ranger being persecuted at the moment how do you feel about i'm not happy about it i'm not happy about the fact that there should be such tension in our country and also i'm unhappy about the fact that there's so much focus on these troubles that it is difficult for us to resolve them calmly and with so much attention focused on the tension in the violence the disagreements it is very difficult first to work out a peaceful and happy solution for all sides this is a great worry for us in this world today nothing can be sorted out peacefully because anything that happens anywhere becomes the focus of tremendous global attention and sometimes i think we do need a bit of quiet and a bit of space in which to resolve very very complicated problems would you like to help. i would like t

stefan isknow about because of basic science research done 30 years ago by noble laureates figuring outhat there is a critical pathway to control cholesterol and you can interfere with that with the development of a particular drug. caseen humans emerged from -- the average life expectancy was 20. itay in the developed world, is maybe around 80. we have increased our life expectancy roughly four times, how much can people keep increasing longevity? >> much of that happened over the last 100 years. if you look at 1900, the average lifespan was only in the late 40's. you have dramatically extended that. zip extendable beyond the age 100? it is not clear that if we don't tinker with biology that will get much beyond that point, because there seems to be a program here of limited lifespan, and evolution cares about that. if to get one generation out of the way so the next one has a chance. but we are getting pretty smart in understanding what are the aging,molecular steps in and if we think it is a good idea, might be able to achieve that extension by tinkering a bit with the biology. disea

would need continual work and progress. [ applause ] >>> the 2011 national medal of arts as poet laureate of the united states 1993 to 1995. through works that blend beauty,

reporter: weah is succeeding nobel laureate ellen johnson sirleaf. e ceremony taking placace in a stadiuium. the x professisional footbtballr faces s a dauntnting task.k. civil war and ebola have both left scars on liberia. weah has pledged to boost the economy and create jobs. weah: slackers and persons looking to cheat the liberian people through corruption will have no place. [applause] reporter: internationally, weah made his name as a football star in the 1990's at clubs like monaco, chelsea, and ac milan. he was the first african player to be named world footballer of the yeaear, in 1995. but he never forgot his roots. weah: i thinkk we would sharere with other people, you know? i came from a very poor family. i want to stand in the -- i will not stand suffering. reporter: having won the presidency, the former football icon has to prove he can keep his campaign promises. his supporters believe that he can reboot one of the world's poorest economies. brent: from a former footballer to a current one. manchester have signed arsenal's star forward

our nobley proud of laureates. look at where they were born. >> everywhere. everywhere, everywhere else not in the u.s.. we benefit from the fact that they came here and we are credited, america is credited, the u.s., for these nobel laureates. but they came from somewhere else to make their lives here. look at the technology meters and new companies, the startups. those leading our enterprises, many of them were not born in america. supply of talent in which we are fortunate to benefit because of the working culture of america -- if you stop that, that has a huge application on the future. particularly right now, it is a very competitive world. we are competing with china for all sorts of things, including in the economy. china has five times the population of america. we need the best talent we can get to compete economically and in technology and science with china. and more of the world wants to come to america, that should be an asset. >> what companies would be hardest hit? are there larger ones that would really suffer? today: the issue we have is that

the great poet of india and nobel laureate from the previous century, had imagined a heaven of freedom and he set about it, when the world is not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic war. let's all get together and create this heaven of freedom where cooperation and coordination is there. and not divided fracture. there should be no place for divided fracture. but us all, together, get rid and make this whole world free of its cracks and unnecessary walls. i call upon all of you that india and indians consider the entire world its family. in many countries, there are people of indian origin. there are 30 million people of indian origin living in different parts of the world. when we consider the entire world our family, it means for the world also, we are your family. if you want wealth. if you want wellness along with wealth. you must come to india. if you are seeking totality in life, you must come to india. if you are seeking peace along with prosperity, and the answer is you must come to india. you must come to india and knew always be welcome in india. i have been give

and today at the same time we had the nobel laureate economist joseph stiglitz criticizing trumps tariffs saying that they will not create jobs and creating jobs is probably the biggest economic class that is hanging over the world right now especially for young people isn't it. everybody is talking about job creation here at the world economic forum in davos people are well aware of the fact that robots are taking over more jobs than governments can create off the back of a painful financial crisis and one country that knows about that is greece i'm delighted to be joined by dessie cherubs conscript now he's working for what and a volt a greek energy company that was founded during the crisis there and has you know is a surprising success story how many jobs did you manage to create hell in the midst of a chronic crisis we have managed to create two hundred jobs a sustainable jobs reliable jobs at this hundredth the sustainable level of jobs and we're educating our energy specialists in greece just tell us then a little bit more about how you managed to create these jobs in the depths of

it is because of basic science research done 30 years ago by nobel laureates brown and goldstein figuring was a critical pathway that controlled cholesterol and you could interfere with that with the development of a particular drug. david: when humans emerged from caves 200,000 years ago or so, or homo sapiens emerged, the average life expectancy was 20. more or less. today it is more or less, in the developed world, the united states, maybe around 80, so we have increased our life expectancy by four times. how much longer do you think people really can keep increasing their longevity? dr. collins: so, much of that happened in the last hundred years. if you look at around 1900, average lifespan in the united states was late 40's, so we have dramatically extended that. is human life extendable beyond about age 100? it is not clear that if we don't tinker with biology, that we will get much beyond that point because there does seem to be a program here of limited lifespan, and frankly, evolution cares about that. you have to get one generation out of the way so the next one has its chance,

the scientists, backed by 15 nobel laureates, cited north korea's nuclear and missile programme, climate during the presidency of donald trump. in 2017 we moved the clock from 3 to 2.5 minutes to midnight. an unprecedented step that reflected a darkening security landscape, characterised by an increasing recklessness around nuclear rhetoric and increasing attacks on experts and expertise world wide at the exact moment when such expertise is needed. for the first time in many years, in fact, no us—russian nuclear arms control negotiations are under way, and if the draft us nuclear posture review is any guide to us policy, there will be no us—russian nuclear arms control negotiations for the foreseeable future. instead, we could see a return to a nuclear arms race. researchers have identified remains of the earliest known modern humans to have left africa. a new dating of a jaw bone found in a cave in israel indicates that our species was living outside africa around 185,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than previously thought. our science correspondent, pallab ghosh has the detail

. >> pairs of los angeles include mila who is currently the duluth poet laureate. they write a three minute spoken word poem. they're both the classic and spoken with paul on platforms as diverse as the hollywood bowl in the white house. one african-american girl told us, i am the voice of minorities, one day we will realize there is nothing minor about us. get what program has been incorporated in to schools curriculum has improve literacy and reduce dropout rates among 30,000 low-income youth. the challenge is a challenge competition 87 countries who create mobile phone apps to solve social problems. my grandmother and i dock men and teams in mexico. working with technology mentors and business coaches to identify problems create prototypes and write business plans. sometimes while younger siblings looked on. this team, and once the mexico national prize in 2015 to curb childhood obesity. give recipes for healthy food and exercises for fitness. my grandmother and i cheered them on at the semi finals while they looked at teams competing as far as india and nigeria

way is succeeding nobel laureates ellen johnson sirleaf the ceremony taking place in a stadium the x. professional footballer faces a daunting task civil war and bowler have both left us cars on liberia. has pledged to boost the economy and create jobs. slug of personal use. groom who to the members of groups all will have no blues. internationally i am made his name as a football star in the one nine hundred ninety s. clubs like monaco chelsea and ac milan. he was the fast african science to be named welsh footballer of the yeah in one thousand five but he never forgot his roots a thing we should show a lot of people you know. came for the poor from almost ending. of suffering because i've been to it. having won the presidency the fall must took all i can now has to prove that he can keep his campaign promises to support his belief that he can reboot one of the world's poorest economies. all right from a former football or to a current one manchester united have signed arsenal's star forward alexis sanchez in a swap deal that sees henrik. move from united to arsenal now the deal is a

thdrums he can participatee play and then she found out some more and realized that he was a nobel laureate and she got all intimidated and when she met him she said hello, just call me a dick. i don't want any pretense. and in a position like the drummer or a performer he didn't want people to prefer to the specifics but someone different because he wanted to amaze people in so many different ways through acting were drumming or music and all different things. he knew the skill and do it so well. it happened a few weeks after surgery in the early 1980s and he needed more than 100 pints of blood because a blood vessel near his heart burst. he survived in a couple weeks later was the play and he wasn't going to do it. so they talked him into it. it called for someone heroic that would dive into a pool to rescue pearls from him even and come back up and in the process gets bit by a crocodile and that's where you got your scar so he said i guess i should do the play so he got up and only had enough energy to call out some lines. when the spotlight was on him all of a sudden everybody was compl