questions we're going to try to tackle a scientific angle with their aquariums our science editor and martin gak to get his correspondence for religious affairs and ethics will help navigate some of the ethical issues that have come up as well i want to start off with you if i may dare to give us the state of play before we start talking about the specific case about the the world of cloning because since dolly the sheep we had cloned monkeys cloned dogs dogs excuse me and many different mammals why. well there are there are about twenty different species that we clone now want to regular basis and many of them have there's a variety of different reasons we clone mice for example for research study purposes we clone cowls because they can then we can get cows that deliver more milk and we can be certain that they'll deliver more milk so there are a wide range of reasons why we clone animals this is definitely this is definitely moving in the direction of medical research cloning monkeys we don't have any we don't raise monkeys for food so what exactly it was so what's talk to us live it more abo

still lots of questions lots of answers for the future gentlemen thanks very much durk williams martin gak thank you. and a quick check of the time how close are we to global midnight for the second year running atomic scientists have moved the hands of the doomsday clock revealing that the world is now another small step closer to nuclear annihilation. as of today. it is two minutes to midnight. the last time the doomsday clock was this close to midnight one nine hundred fifty three the height of the cold war the day is nearly done the conversation continues online and remember no matter what happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that every. one. of. the international. for journalists. feel anti semitic is germany. was bullied and attacked because of his jewish heritage. opinions arguments analysis. the world's most powerful intelligence agencies. working together on climate research. the end of the cold war made that possible. the united states and russia seems to offer to me the former foes became collaborators even mad men they could see the disasters the asian

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science editor and to his right a familiar face here martin gak our religious affairs and ethics correspondent gentleman good to have you here at the big table let me start with you derek so if we can clone monkeys it's a very short step then to cloning you when you would me sirena clee yes i mean there are there there might be some differences in the protocol in the long term but actually i've been working for this for the last twenty years this was a very very difficult thing scientifically to overcome since dolly there's just there's some technical aspects to doing this kind of cloning that were very difficult to overcome and now they've overcome them now they're within our group of animals so they're in evolutionary terms these are very closely related animals so you can probably expect that most of what they did in order to obtain these these these clones would also work with humans and martin i have to assume the dr that motivated researchers to keep trying and trying until they got it right with the monkeys is going to keep driving them until they get it right with humans yes but we sho