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oxford university named philadelphia's own hardiman a road scholar.an the city council recognized that incredible achieve many. hardiman graduated from temple university with a degree in strategic communication. we told you all about him. he visited us gone day as well. he is the first temple grad to become a road scholar. >> incrediblely honored to be honored by city hall, the city i was born and raised in. for them to honor me for the award that i received, um, incredibly excited about it and i really appreciate them for it. it's a possibility that come from places i come from and i try to do that community service and -- >> a great young man. hardiman will go on to pursue a master's degree at oxford university if england. he says he plans to become a professor and research cher. congratulations. that is just great. >>> it's beginning to look a lot like christmas in bucks county. >> kind of ready for another installment of a very kelly christmas. bob kelly life in levittown buck county, bob. >> hey, gang, good evening everybody. i hear -- what do yo

developed nations for life expectancy and now joined by one of the world's greatest geographers oxford universities holford mackinder professor of geography professor danny dorling he's also a visiting professor at goldsmiths and university of london and a visiting professor at university of bristol is latest book do we need economic inequality is out now in paperback daddy welcome back to going underground i know that there may be a flu epidemic on the way in britain who knows but let's take us back when it comes to life expectancy tell me about the great old days of the mid nineteenth century when life expectancy improved in britain. and you have to go back to the nineteenth century to find periods where life expectancy was actually only going up slowly the life expectancy men about eighteen ninety you're looking at forty two years for men about forty five years for women and from their normal to become to advise it most in the eighty ninety eight it was at the beginning of the last century rose in one thousand twenties martine thirty's lines a year of every field for years at times and it did th

at the oxford university radiocarbon accelerator lab, archaeologist dr.tom hyiam are about to take a step closer to solving this mystery. by carbon dating a fragment of the true cross given to the king of ireland by the pope in 1100 a.d. >> the true cross is the most important relic. so to have it tested in this way which could reveal that the story that's potentially true is fascinating. >> this is the first time we've actually, to our knowledge, directly dated a piece of the true cross. >> radiocarbon is a complex method involving a series of stages. the first of which is to preclean and pretreat the sample to remove any contaminating carbon that could alter the result. in the final stage of the process is the particle accelerator, which enables us to measure individual partibles of the carbon. the more radiocarbon there is, the more recent the sample. and the less radiocarbon, the older it is. we can date anything from the present day back to about 50,000 years ago. >> in less than 20 minutes, they may solve an enigma that dates back 2,000 years. >> th

george kazan are relic hunters from oxford university.s found beneath the vatican. so they've tracked down two teeth believed to come from peter to a basilica in belgium. dr. kazan thinks they were brought here from rome in the seventh century. >> look, there are the teeth there, look. just there. two of them. >> so there is a latin inscription that says two teeth of the apostle peter. >> the two teeth are incredibly precious to the church but the authorities have agreed to allow tom and george to carry out certain tests. >> firstly, we can use radio carbon dating to fix an absolute date for the relics of st. peter. secondly, we can use genetic techniques that will hopefully help us to determine the ancestry of that particular individual. >> can modern science now corroborate the christian tradition that peter travelled to rome? >> so far so good. ♪ >> the sampling of the tooth was pretty challenging, because it's quite a small sample, and in order to get enough material for radio carbon dating, we had to use a lot of care, use a very sma

. >> in kansas city, professor tom higham of oxford university is trying to figure out a way of drilling's best to go in here. >> he hopes to date the carbon inside the bone and perhaps even get a dna profile that can then be matched against the first century relic he has already tested from bulgaria. >> it's the collagen part of the bone that we want to date. that's the protein part. and that, in modern people, is about 20% by weight. but of course, in older materials, the collagen decays and degrades. and so it's often not present in that large an amount. and of course, when we're dating very small relics, tiny bones, it becomes very, very difficult to get a useful enough sample size if we're to extract the collagen for dating. >> with limits to how far he can drill, he can't be sure they've got enough to determine whether this bone could have belonged to john the baptist. in jerusalem, the more john the baptist denounces herod, the more he risks inflaming herod's anger. with all the danger that could follow. >> you could talk about repentance and judgment day and maybe not get into mu

oxford university hear what does it tell us about the current climate?old for year bonds we behavioral reasons because people recoil at the 100 year bonds without realizing the final payment is worth a lot when you do the math. not to get to geeky. oxford university, aaa rated, better than government risks, massively oversubscribed 100 your debt. a sign of the times, maybe people up are getting over these behavioral facts and the macro picture is a curve flattening. on want the longest possible -- bond. mark: some investors recoil at 100 years. >> behavioral. some of the bonds we have, we own portfolios where we can, mexico and sterling's and dollar at 100 years part of the em trade. the performances are not correlated and they do not move with rates or credit. they are idiosyncratic. vonnie: we are seeing a recovery in some asset classes in the united states in the last few minutes. the dow and s&p 500 down 8/10 of 1%. vix up 13.5. a sharp spike. the dollar index moving quite substantially at 92.78. the president's lawyers is saying that the full statem

he's inspired and as edwina said he is mentored by the professor of experimental philosophy at oxford university. physics to you and i. churchill got to know the prof, as he was almost universally known in the early 1920s and it's a very close friendship and scientific mentoring relationship. this piece, 1924, ominously entitled, shall we commit suicide? in this article, churchill writes as follows, he suggests that the poison gas of the first world war might be the first chapter of a terrible book of destructive science. then there are explosives. has science turned its last page on them? might not a bomb, no bigger than an orange be found in time to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings? nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke. 1924. what about this from december 1931? it appeared in the bumper christmas edition of the strand magazine. it's a pretty well known piece called 50 years hence. many of you may be familiar with it. he says this, he says nuclear energy is incomparably greater than the molecular energy which we

fourteen let's bring in our panel joining us in kuwait city professor of political science university from oxford in the u.k. helen luck from the london middle east institute of the school of oriental and african studies and in london also. a writer columnist and editor of alcott's newspaper welcome to all of us thought by asking dr abdullah shows you this we've seen an uptick in the launch of ballistic missiles towards saudi arabia for you is this an indication or further escalation in this conflict well thank you. my greetings to all of the other panelists the viewers. this is no this was predictable i mean this war has been going on today for a thousand days since the launching of operation decisive stormed back in the twenty fifth of march twenty fifteen and it is a well it's a tough war it's a difficult war because it's a war that has been in gauged within the mentality and the environment of a cold war atmosphere between two major rivals saudi arabia led g.c.c. unfortunately it now with more fragmented then it was when the war was launched and on the other side you have iran which has a ver

you might think oxford university press commissions these books by the pound, and in a sense they do. they're meant to be very big books. so what i'm going to give you tonight is the short attention span theater version of the book. you're going to get the big themes and the takeaways, but i wasn't go into a lot of details. you can ask about those in the questions which is part of the talk i always look forward to the most. there's no lack of american historians who want to write about the civil war, world war ii, the new deal, but the guildded age, the period between 1865 and 1896 is usually flyover country. it's remembered mostly as the golden age of facial hair, as you can see here. amazingly the american presidents are who are the most friendable presents, grant, hayes, james garfield, imchesste a. arthur, benjamin harrison, grover cleveland. these are andrew jackson, an age of lincoln, an age of rootful there's no age of benjamin harrison. but we should be careful before we consign this period to the backwaters. if it's a backwater, we're living in one, too. we're living in a sec

i've gone underground to see oxford university's quantum computer.s a wizard's paradise of lasers, vacuum chambers, and traps for atom—sized particles. it's an ion trap. in the lab, they've achieved a world—record level of control over their quantum bits. they can even show off by making a single qubit glow in morse code. c-l-i-c-k. what will your quantum computer look like? it won't be this size then? so ideally, it looks incredibly boring and incredibly small. so take an optic cable, two metres by one metre high. we think we can get this down to something the size of a shoebox in the next five years. once you have everything in the right place. once we have everything the right place, machined down, optimised — and rather than made by physicists, made by engineers. to make something that works rather having knobs, when you have enough people twisting them. you're not looking to put more and more qubits into the same box, are you? what we want to do is build some devices which contain five or ten qubits, but build many of these devices. so it's the

time, is able to estimate whether a natural disaster was a young german physicist at britain's oxford university is studying hurricane harvey. similar studies on the floods in louisiana last year produced clear results. friederike: during those studies we discovered that climate change had, on average, doubled the probability of this torrential rain occurring. so it would be surprising if we got a totally different result in a neighboring state at the same time of year just 12 months later. reporter: so far the discussion about natural disasters and their possible link to climate change has been largely a political one. it's a high-stakes debate, involving powerful industries on the one hand, and a risk to people's lives on the other. friederike: in most cases it's always been politicians who put forward answers in the debate. that was what motivated us to say, over the past five years, we've developed these methods that allow us to make a qualified assessment, and we need to publicize that. reporter: it's a whole field known as attribution science. the data of recent extreme weather events is c

. ♪ we wish you a merry christmas ♪ ♪ we wish you a merry christmas ♪ >> they're oxford university'sing the songs of christmas for a cause. this is called merry christmas, everybody, originally done by slade and they made a video to go with it. ♪ it's the time that every santa has a ball ♪ >> not only do they sample from sleigh song merry christmas, everybody. this one might sound familiar. >> rogsin' around the christmas tree. ♪ rockin' around the christmas tree let the christmas spirit ring ♪ >> it's nice to see these young men full of life and spirit singing these songs which they're talented. >> what's really cool is how they're doing this for charity. this charity single is available on their website and it benefits the charity, helen and douglas house. this is the world's first hospice for children. so these guys are raising funds for that, and i have to say, that is a very worthy cause. >> nice. ♪♪ >> what's a medley without a little disco look. ♪ look to the future now ♪ >> bellbottoms everybody. >> could have gone without those. >> and is alin and ruffle ssatin and ruffles.

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goes wrong if there are trillions of these to go to which we can bring a legal system to bear oxford university professor of machine learning stephen robert stokes to want to see you this time. hello i'm sam is day than this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week how u.s. president donald trump's overhaul of the u.s. tax system could spark an international trade war also this week electric cars why the road to zero emissions may be built on illegal cobalt mining in the democratic republic of congo. plus when is a taxi not a taxi resolving then see crisis has implications for the gig economy. two thousand and seventeen if nothing else was the year when boring all taxation became a hot topic we had the release of the palomar papers followed by the paradise paper showed us how the world's wealthiest hid their money from revenue collectors and then this week billionaire u.s. president donald trump rewrote tax law for the world's biggest economy and some of the world's biggest companies trump and republicans say is tax bill will pour rock

machinery goes wrong is there a train of litigation to which we can bring a legal system to oxford university professor of machine learning stephen robert talks to all disease at this time. ok and your industry today is cape town facing a future without water maybe eighteen twenty eighteen is being called a zero south africa's second largest city where take a look at the debate around the root of the crisis and how cape town is planning for the near future as always we're live on you tube and bringing in your comments on twitter and facebook where today show pitch came from roll runback writes cape town is about to become the first city on earth to run out of water why is nobody covering this so role we looked into your pitch and found a fascinating story that we thought the rest of the international community should be aware of by me thank you so much now south africa is experiencing a major drought twenty seventeen was the driest year in decades and the third successive year of poor rainfall dams have gone on replenished underground aquifers are tapped out and springs and bore holes are run

goes wrong is there a train of litigation through which we can bring a legal system to bear oxford university professor of machine learning steven stokes to all disease this time. i'm femi oke from the well why refugee crisis to the fool of the long time zimbabwean leader robert mugabe alcoves for an independent catalonia the steamy scenes tons of great show pitches from the new out online community and while we cover as many of your story ideas as possible we can get to them all but today we explore the latest news about four important stories you suggested and you're now in the stream live on al-jazeera and you tube we start in one toy where the only going humanitarian crisis has reportedly millions of people right on the brink of starvation is our correspondent. reports on one thousand days of conflict but the conflict in yemen shows no sign of abating on tuesday who thiis by a political science two was the subject capital riyadh they say they were targeting meeting of senior officials at the royal palace saudi arabia accuses iran of supplying the healthiest with the messiah and that's the

and in this instance they would be right the recent discovery by oxford university's museum of natural history research fellow. went to is the first direct evidence that prehistoric takes said on feathered dinosaurs this completely change the prevailing theory that they only found on a mammals and reptiles and another first of its kind the discovery broke the wall between private collectors and science the private collectors obtained the ninety nine million year old samples with a number of pieces of amber that had been found and mine and my and mark they then gave them to step aside just for study and even donated some of the pieces to the american museum of natural history in new york even more remarkable if it's possible they found an entirely new species of tick in that amber called dyken croton dracula or dracula was terrible take no plans yet to use the blood to clone a herd of dinosaur board birds mainly because humans don't have the techniques to start d.n.a. from the tribes but never forget that the discoveries of today could be life saving dinosaur making technological tools

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goes wrong is there a chain of this to question through which we can bring an ecosystem to bear oxford university professor of machine learning steven roberts talks to all disease at this time. seen as a holy city by the three major monotheistic religions jerusalem has been contested for centuries al-jazeera brings you a special program about the status of jerusalem and its importance with our correspondents across the palestinian territories and opinions from around the world we explore the reality on the ground and the impact the u.s. has intention to move its embassy to jerusalem will have on the peace process the holy land on al-jazeera. jussi or. with and for us. this is al-jazeera.

nick bostrom at oxford university, you know him, i know you do because he works in the same field as to think of ai as a fundamental game changer for humanity. it could be the last invention that human intelligence ever needs to make, he says, because it's the beginning of a completely new era, the machine intelligence era and in a sense we are a bit like children playing with something we have picked up and it happens to be an unexploded bomb and we don't even know the consequences that could come with it. do you share that vision? i partially share it. where i disagree with nick is that i don't think we are under threat from a kind of runaway super intelligence, which is the thesis of his book of that subject, superintelligence, but i do think we need to be ever so careful. in a way, i alluded to this earlier, we don't understand what natural intelligence is, we don't have any general scientific theory of intelligence so trying to build artificial general intelligence is a bit like trying to do particle physics at cern without any theory, without any underlying scientific theory. i

goes wrong is there a chain of litigation through which we can bring a legal system to bear oxford university professor of machine learning stephen roberts talks to all diseases at this time. about shooting people are not enough pressure to themselves and their other countries have managed to solve this problem but you worry that this conflict could erupt into an outright open war that the city's general security the people who paid the price clearly the right top in prejudice setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al jazeera. side limits on oil imports and a smuggling crackdown do you.

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candle as a senior research fellow in arabic and islamic studies at pembroke college at oxford university she says it's likely the war in yemen could now take on a new direction. i think it's likely that the war is going to become more sectarian and the reason for that is that although saleh was zaidi which means some kind of branch of she is i'm like the who sees his rhetoric was very much secular was about a civil society a secular state now that he's removed it does leave the field wide open to the increasingly religious rhetoric of of the american who see the war may also become more proxy because without the forces that brought to the table to the who see alliance the who sees may need to seek additional support elsewhere and that could mean increasing vulnerability to the involvement of iran and its lebanese proxy hezbollah leaders from the gulf cooperation council states been arriving in kuwait for a summit of the could define the future of the block is the first such meeting since saudi arabia bahrain and the u.a.e. cut ties with fellow member cutter back in june our reports from

oxford university professor of machine learning steven roberts talks to all of this time. hello again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour the united nations has unanimously backs new sanctions on north korea which banned nearly ninety percent of petrol exports to pyongyang. regime is already under u.s. u.n. and ease sanctions after conducting several nuclear and missile tests this year. allison in present backward abbas says leaders to play a bigger role in peace efforts following the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital meanwhile two more palestinian protesters were killed by israeli forces in the latest demonstrations over the decision. u.s. says it will provide ukraine with what it calls enhanced defensive capabilities in its battle against russian aligned separatists in the east of the country the decision marks a significant increase in american support for ukraine weapons are expected to include antitank missiles congress would still need to approve the sale once president donald trump signs off on it more than t

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machinery goes wrong is there a chain of litigation through which we can bring a legal system to bat oxford university professor of machine learning stephen roberts talks to all disease i've this time. well again the top stories here on al-jazeera the head of the roman catholic church has called for a negotiated two state solution to end the israeli palestinian conflict pope francis also highlighted the plight of children in conflict zones around the world . thousands of people in the southern philippines are spending christmas in emergency shelters after tropical storm tendin left trail of destruction more than two hundred people are dead after landslides flash floods and peruse former president are better for your body has been part of health grounds seventy nine year old was serving a twenty five year jail sentence for corruption kidnapping and human rights violations. china's here has banned emirates airlines flights from landing in the country the decision comes two days after a number of tunisia and women said that they were barred from boarding their flight for dubai tuna's airport the u.a.e. i

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goes wrong is there a chain of litigation through which we can bring a legal system to bear oxford university as professor of machine learning steven roberts talks to all disease at this time. hi i'm femi oke from the well why the refugee crisis to the fall of the longtime zimbabwean leader robert mugabe.

goes wrong is there a chain of litigation through which we can bring a legal system to bear oxford university professor of machine learning steven roberts talks to wall jersey at this time. this is a really fabulous news for one of the best i've ever worked in there is a unique sense of bonding where everybody teams in that something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone we're often working around the clock to make sure that we bring events as i currently as possible to the viewer that's what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do well. an act of war north korea's response to the latest round of un sanctions over pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. my name's peter w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up the wrath of tropical storm tembin more than seventy thousand people in the homeless in the philippines at least two hundred people are dead. more housecleaning from the turkish president time per one the fires another twenty seven hundred people for alleged links to terrorism plus. meet the cuban dance comp

wrong is there a train all of this to get through which we can bring a legal system to bear oxford university professor of machine learning stephen stokes to all disease at this time. al jazeera and die from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha for the back to bow welcome to the news great europe's bloodiest conflict since the one nine hundred ninety s. could soon be worse the u.s. says it plans to provide weapons to ukraine to fight the russian backed separatists in the east more than ten thousand people have been killed since twenty four thousand after russia onix crimea we'll explore the human consequences of a conflict many don't know is still going on also on the grid in the southern philippines underwater more than one hundred dead many more are missing and tens of thousands are being forced to flee their homes as a tropical storm sweeps or mindanao island typhoons give filipinos grief almost every year or take a look at why they've become much more destructive and am old big bird and their sesame street friends on a mission to the middle east we'll tell you about the

2014 there has been an increase in the number of mounted police again, following a study by oxford universityell. you are six times more likely to interact and chat to a police officer if they are on a horse than if they are just on foot. i think a personable horse helps a bit. you're much more approachable on a horse. i found the difference, initially, when ijoined the mounted branch, i couldn't believe how many people stopped and wanted to speak to you. if you go to an estate, you will get a crowd around you, just purely to pat the horse. before they know it, they're talking to a police officer. this is where it all begins. lots of the policemen and women who join the mounted force have not been on a horse before they start training. 16 weeks later, the trust between horse and rider is such that they will even run through walls together. there's only so much i can do on a horse. but this gives me a taste of what it is like. jumping the fences, rip off their jackets, and having the trust to power through the final wall! a clear round. the fifa world cup is still six months away but players,

goes wrong is there a chain of litigation through which was preparing a legal system to their oxford university professor of machine learning stephen roberts talks to all diseases at this time. oh i maryanne demasi in london here's a round up of your top stories on al-jazeera. president says he'll no longer accept the u.s. as mediator in the middle east peace process saying it cannot be relied upon to play an honest role mahmoud abbas called for europe to play a stronger role in peace efforts instead after meeting french president in one electron in paris as asked about reports from paris. it was no surprise that the palestinian leader greeted the french president warmly as he arrived at the elise a palace emmanuel mccaw has been a staunch critic of the united states decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel off the talks on the crisis mahmoud abbas's said the palestinians could no longer accept a u.s. peace plan a good reform of the united states is no longer a credible mediator in the peace process we will not accept any plan on the part of the us because of the parties feeling

goes wrong is there a chain of litigation through which we can bring a legal system to bear oxford university as professor of machine learning steven roberts talks to all jersey at this time. that. he. played. like crap. hello again you with al-jazeera life from your headlines north korea has called the latest round of u.n. sanctions an act of war pyongyang state news agency says the strengthening of its nuclear deterrent program is the only way to frustrate the u.s. some one thousand percent of the country's fuel imports. more than two thousand seven hundred people in turkey have been dismissed from their posts past the country's latest emergency rule to create soldiers teachers and bureaucrats were all sacked over alleged links to what are being called terror organizations following last year's failed coup. and christmas preparations are going ahead in bethlehem despite anger over the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital israel has closed the northern entrance to ramallah better in the occupied west bank it's the main point used by palestinians crossing into israel. now

goes wrong is there a chain of litigation through which we can bring in legal system to bear oxford university professor of machine learning stephen roberts talks to all diseases at this time. he's the former somali refugee who now serves as canada's immigration minister under justin trudeau but how good is the canadian government actual record on immigration and asylum issues and what the minister make of donald trump's muslim i'll ask him that hussein. hussein thanks for joining me on up front at a time when the world is facing massive refugee and migrant crises which have prompted a lot of western governments to effectively close their borders and crack down on quote unquote illegal immigrants canada at least in terms of rhetoric has taken a very different stance a more positive starts welcoming refugees praising immigrants why. well first of all we are also against irregular migration but having said that as a country and as a society we have historically embraced immigration regular and orderly immigration and a well managed immigration system that has delivered so much positive outcomes