massa was very supportive through the entire process.tried to explain to people in the company that when you hire people from silicon valley, you have to pay them what they were paid. emily: are you still involved at softbank at all? >> no, i was done with that last month. -- i: so, from the outside know you are supportive of the risk-taking, but can he really take these risks? >> i think he has the capital. willows some of them work in some will fail spectacularly. his track record speaks for itself. reily: softbank and massa a potentially behind a t-mobile merger with sprint, which softbank owns. is that a good idea and what does it mean for consumers? >> do we need four operators in this capital-intensive industry, where people are sucking down more and more bandwidth and want access anywhere and everywhere for everything? maybe not. that is a question for the regulators. i think three players in that space of the perfectly fine. weather deutsche telekom and massa can get to a deal is speculative. emily: you lead the way for softbank

nikesh: that's a great question massa. you should have them on and asking that question.: what do you make of the moves he is making? they are very bold moves. nikesh: massa is one amazing thing -- one thing he has that i haven't seen anywhere else in the world is as we get older, as we get more successful, our risk appetite changes. as hard as you try not to change it, it does change. but masa has zero change in his risk appetite, he wants bigger and bolder things. he's an amazing optimist. he looks at a 300-year vision or a 50-year vision. he doesn't do things in three months, six months, nine months, thought processes. he's found some partners who he is working with to give him access to a huge amount of capital, and he is sowing the seeds for creating this cohesive information revolution. that's what i can see from where i stand. emily: you were the heir apparent. you were supposed to succeed him. what happened? nikesh: i think when he and i got together, we had an amazing two years. we saw eye-to-eye on many things. in his life, when he turned 60, he was going to tak

nikesh: that's a great question for massa. you should have them on and asking that question.at do you make of the moves he is making? they are very bold moves. nikesh: massa is one amazing thing -- one thing he has that i haven't seen anywhere else in the world is as we get older, as we get more successful, our risk appetite changes. as hard as you try not to change it, it does change. but masa has zero change in his risk appetite, he wants bigger and bolder things. and he's an amazing optimist. he looks at a 300-year vision or a 50-year vision. he doesn't do things in three months, six months, nine months, thought processes. he's found some partners who he is working with to give him access to a huge amount of capital, and he's out there busy sowing the seeds for creating this cohesive information revolution. that's what i can see from where i stand. emily: you were the heir apparent. you were supposed to succeed him. nikesh: yes. emily: what happened? nikesh: i think when he and i got together, we had an amazing two years. we saw eye-to-eye on many things. in his life, when

massa: what you see is an incredibly rich collection of artifacts.retty much any alloy you could think of. one of the medallions found is stylistically completely different from the rest of the collection. you have the copper vessels that are just hammered surfaces, very simple. you have the brass bangles that have very simple decorations. and then you have this beautiful medallion. all this shows that these people were connected to a network. narrator: by the time the samdzong people were adorning their dead with gold masks, traders from asia were exchanging goods with europeans along an ancient trade route to the north called the silk road. the cave-buried people might have come from the vast area we know today as china. or are these simply trade goods from the north? they need more evidence. a single piece of cloth found in one of the caves could provide a clue. textile expert margarita gleba at university college london made a discovery using a scanning electron microscope that can magnify specimens up to 30,000 times. margarita gleba: this texti

a look at what is coming up for us on squawk alley >> well, david softbank still making big moves massabillion dollars into a business that lends to alsml businesses we'll have the ceo coming up on squawk alley >>> dow got a record high this morning, up 13 points, the split between the industrials is noticeable dow is up eight straight, s&p's down four of six, the nasdaq down five of six, and it's been pointed out, guys, unlike past sessions, actions really not being driven by one name in particular today >> yeah, we've got a few earnings, for instance, consumer staples is one of the best performing groups. this is being led by kell logs and clorox in a sluggish, overall environment, but pfizer continues to lead the dow, interestingly, apple's given a little back, down 1% after what, best day in five years yesterday driving the dow all the way up >>> speaking of staples and food, the trump administration introducing the r.a.i.s.e. act yesterday while slashing the distribution of green cards by more than 50%. it's an initiative that intends to curb foreign work force growth for more on h

second practice is currently underway but felipe massa won't be running again today after he crashedold is returning this weekend, having missed the hungarian grand prix through illness. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on the bbc sport website. more you and the next hour. some breaking news within the last half hour: two white farmers accused of forcing a black south african into a coffin and threatening to douse him in petrol and burn him alive have been found guilty. willem 0osthuizen and theo martins jackson are alleged to have put victor mlotshwa in the coffin accusing him of being a trespasser. they also allegedly threatened to put a snake in with him when he resisted. let's return now to our main story. the police watchdog has said the paedophile ian watkins could have been arrested nearly four years earlier — if officers in south wales had properly investigated numerous tip—offs about him. michael wolkind qc defended watkins' ex—girlfriend, joanne mjadzelics, who had to clear her name when she was accused of sharing watkins' indecent images. mark lobel has been

that's why we take of so seriously i trained and worked as an astronaut for twenty one years i was massa's director in russia i lived in star city you know for a seals who was the go to dark for about four and a half years and got to know my crew as well as i possibly could we trained together for years before launch just so that when we got away from earth and were trusted with all of the responsibilities of running a space ship that we would be as not just technically competent but as completely competent as a group of human beings as possible and my job as their commander it was through that whole period selection training launch the whole time in space and then afterwards and i'm very happy with the level of success that we had as a group of six human beings now here to have a way that that as well as the missions are all multinational but with all kinds of political tensions on earth right now does that create into the mission how do you manage that or all those issues are just left behind. astronauts are not infants or. ignorant about most of the things that are going on around the w

. >> this is one of these things i'd love to have you do an internship at massa for. honestfully. by the time you get to college, we don't have so many for high school students because they're not legal majors. for college students we have thousands of internships. when you send something to mars, how do you recognize martian life that may be very biologically different from us? this has been a problem since the 1970s when we landed the viking landers there which may or may not have detected life on mars. and for curiosity, we have something called a carbon trap where we actually feed different organic molecules into the soil samples that we take and see if anybody can use any of the chemistry, if they can attach to it. unfortunately, it is really hard to send a microscope. drill into oil soil, take a sample, put it under a slide, look for anything moving around, that's hard to do remotely. we're using these traps, could you just offer martian life a twinkie? would it do anything with it? we don't know how to detect or interact with it chemically. so that's something we have whole

second practice is currently underway but felipe massa won't be running again today after he crashed missed the hungarian grand prix through illness. let's get some news on england's rugby world cup team for tomorrow finals against new zealand. megan jones will start tomorrow's final she's replacing danielle waterman whose out after suffering concussion from their semifinal match with france. so with a bit of a reshuffle in mind emily scarratt will be moving to full back. and it means bristol's amy wilson—hardy comes onto the replacements bench. there's full commentary of the final on bbc radio five live on saturday — kick off at 7.a5pm. that is all from me. back in an hour. radical action is needed to help integrate some immigrants into society, according to a group of mps. in a new report, the all—party—parliamentary group on ‘social integration' warns that the immigration debate has become polarised. it's renewing calls for the government to make english lessons compulsory. the home office says it already funds community cohesion projects, including some focused on language. the c

charter and another says it's t-mobile >> they're not talking to charter -- well, i shouldn't say that massais to your board. i'm going to make an offer and he hangs up on him or is courteous to him but makes it clear he's not interested it's been on and off again so you never know because he's now so involved in other things he would go over to the soft bank side and become the key number two and take over and so we'll see. >> can i ask you just part of this whole universe why did viacom collapse so badly. >> we heard that the ceo was good and this was the collapse people were talking about this weekend. >> during the course of the day on friday there was a sense that it was down 13% at would be point. i'm not sure where it flows. people thought it was a bit overdone there's concern for a number of reasons. one is slowing domestic advertising. and then you had viacom say we're going to be down 2%. there were hopes there wouldn't be but ratings have been better. there's also a fear that somehow they're going to get dropped by charter. because they don't have must have networks. >> and then d

thank you very much, former massa astronaut, mary ellen western.y continues now across much of united states. the entire continental united states in a broad swath that comprises 14 states. this occurs at a time a lot of people read scientific things into this, others ominous things into this. my buddy had forwarded to me that the legendary astrologist who followed stocks and attached it to what happens happening in the heavens was the late, great arch crawford who predicted by the position of the sun, the moon and the stars. i don't know what arch used to say about the position of eclipses in all of this, just that they could trigger events or herald events that had probably very little to do with things that were factual, but certainly things that gripped people. that was then, this is now. an incredible display of astronomy is on play across the country. more after this. copd makes it hard to breathe. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. ♪go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way" with anoro. ♪go your own way