how has mnd affected you?but not when it got to the diagnosis. you remember the field, you remember robert when he was little, sidestepping, literally, and going over. remember it like it was yesterday and it brings back a lot of memories. rob's grandad was his number one fan. he wouldn't miss a match, would he, jeff? here in all weather, stood there, cheering him on, and he was so proud. do you have a look back and think the punishing, the talladega of the game, did that —— the brutality of the game. you have to put it down to bad luck. these people, women, that never played the sport, they've got it. there is men that have never played the sport. oh they'll find a cure. i want rob to be there when they find it. we wouldn't want people to have any doubt about playing rugby. the socialising, that isjust as important, it is an important part of life. if you don't have teammates, you can't get lonely. is the motor neuron disease family, we've got to be strong, got to get the message out and get the governments a

tell us how you found out you had mnd and the impact it had on your life?can be quite a difficult blow to take. have you decided to bank your voice, andy? we have heard a lot from rob burrow in recent weeks on this programme and he recorded his voice so he can now communicate with others. are you doing the same thing? yes, i did that almost a year ago, as soon as i could, really, because i wanted to capture my voice at its best. i mean, it's not bad now, but i'm really pleased i banked it when i did. and andy, just really briefly, sorry, richard, really briefly, sorry, richard, really briefly, that whole point about the voice banking, is it to try and do it early when people are strong enough to do it? absolutely, yes. these days we have been working with various voice banking providers. a person can bank their voice in as little as an hour. it can just be done. but the real challenge for us is to build awareness of voice banking because just as you say we would like people to know and to make their own decisions about banking their voice as early as possib

he can no longer talk, with mnd in december 2019.ives as possible. it to protect the nhs and save as many lives as possible.— lives as possible. it was a real rivileue lives as possible. it was a real privilege to — lives as possible. it was a real privilege to meet _ lives as possible. it was a real privilege to meet and - lives as possible. it was a real| privilege to meet and vaccinate lives as possible. it was a real - privilege to meet and vaccinate rob, who obviously is on the vulnerable list, who obviously is on the vulnerable list. and _ who obviously is on the vulnerable list. and a — who obviously is on the vulnerable list, and a shielding patient, and although— list, and a shielding patient, and although in the younger age group, it is so— although in the younger age group, it is so important that those patients— it is so important that those patients to contact us to be vaccinated.— patients to contact us to be vaccinated. �* ., ., , vaccinated. and one other person was deliahted vaccinated. and one other person was delig

mnd somewhere in my heart i' going to go back to the house of my youth and everybody will be there.and they will say, "where have you been? why are you so late in coming home?" my grandmother said she was going to go home. for me, this is the story of the late homecomer. i know that for me, because i hmong did not have a real , thisge until the 1950's is the hmong story on the bookshelves all over the world. it took a long time. i, too, am the late home comer. the more i realize that us americans, we are only beginning to come home to each other. people ask me, where are you from? that answer is not that i'm from america. it's that i'm hmong. people are still only beginning to realize that i belong to them and i belong to the country and i, too, am an american. becomes this bigger thing. the dream is getting bigger, the book is getting bigger. i'm not waking up and i am not afraid of the dream -- or that it will be too late, that it will not happen. andotook four years to write, which isr publishing, five years. which was average for a book in this country. >> what was the toughest

now bear in mnd, qatar relied heavily on imports via its only land border with saudi arabia, and thatship television network aljazeera, cutting links to the muslim brotherhood organisation and downgrading ties with iran. fast—forward to today, and the the gulf cooperation council has welcomed qatar back. here's the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman. translation: these efforts helped us reach the agreement of the statement. that will be signed at the summit, where we affirm our gulf, arab and islamic solidarity and stability and strengthen the amicable relations between our countries in order to serve the interests of their people. so, what's changed? we don't have all the answers, but the bbc‘s sameer hashmi can tell us what we do know. this is quite significant given the bitter rivalry over the last 3.5 years. now it has not happened overnight. this deal has not happened overnight. the talks have been on for the last year, year and a half. the trump administration was involved and they have played an important role, but the new administration have also played a pivotal part in

and by the frontline journalism mnd, with major support f jon and jo ann hagler.rontline. ♪ to order a thousand cuts on dvd visit shoppbs. call this program is also available on amazon prime video. ♪ ♪ (theme music plays) rubenstein: i'm at the tisch wnet studios today with walter isaacson. walter thank you very much for coming here. we are gonna talceabout walter's most book on leonardo da vinci. now walter, led like you to tell pebout your background because, uh, you have written books, about people who are polymaths, geniuses, renaissance men. you're obviously attracted to them, but there are some people who say that maybe you are a genius polymath or naissance man. so, let's talk about why some people might say that. let's talk about your background. grew up in new orleans? isaacson: yeah and the atperson who's the polh, who loved everything from m engineering to art aic was my father and he lived einstein, he was an electrical engineer.

. >> i mnd. greetings everyone and thank you so much for your testimony. the advantage of coming out and i can discuss to some degree perhaps more in depth starting with new start. one of the questions is how long does does it extend new start and how that might play into possibly launching negotiations in some of the evolving threats. >> thank you senator. in the first instance for all of the challenges we have seen an arms control agreements with russia burt yuli imf as well as to some extent open skies based on what i've seen based on what the trump administration reporter when it comes to new start russia would make good on its obligations and new start is not some kind of thing we get to the russians that is manifestly in our self-interest in terms of giving us a predictable on the core of russia's nuclear arsenal as well as giving us tremendous access to data and inspections that we otherwise wouldn't have. in our judgment it is certainly in the national interest to extend it. we discussed this a little bit earlier. because of our focus on making sur

sufferers should have, he hasn't _ have, mnd sufferers should have, he hasn't got _ have, mnd suffererses. people don't have equipment, people don't have weights to use, _ equipment, people don't have weights to use, so _ equipment, people don't have weights to use, so a _ equipment, people don't have weights to use, so a combination of a full body— to use, so a combination of a full body work—out. we call these rugby league _ body work—out. we call these rugby league per— body work—out. we call these rugby league per piece. we get an old band -- all-round — league per piece. we get an old band —— all—round body work—out. pick an exercise. _ —— all—round body work—out. pick an exercise, comedy 20 seconds, 20 seconds _ exercise, comedy 20 seconds, 20 seconds rest. and then trying to run as many— seconds rest. and then trying to run as many times as you can until you are absolutely shattered.— as many times as you can until you are absolutely shattered. kevin, how are absolutely shattered. kevin, how are ou are absolutely shattered. kevin, how are you going — are absolutely shattered. kev