he's a lecture at the department of physics and astronomy at university college london. hello, francesco. 50. why would anyone want to touch the sun? what do we get out of that? yes, we have to leave careful is not exactly such as the sun. the sunny salbal of guys doesn't have a broker sort of a solid surface on the closest the space, but always going to be is about our for diameter there. so this on a far away from what we see the surface of the sun. so you not exactly touching the surface of the sun, but it does touching, being dental atmosphere, the sounding thermal corona, which is what a lot of things happen that effect they, the in the particle, the solar system on the earth. of course, i think we all set of sake of hearing a wed corona, but that does mean the upper atmosphere. is that correct and what, what do we learn from that upper atmosphere? where the good owner of the sun is what we seen the thoughts on solar eclipse. for example, that's i took, i'm of betty betty, i'm fine. i'm very beautiful. actually. looks like a flower. when i have seen several solar ec

brent: earlier i spoke to a professor at the university college in london who works on covid-19 data.d to have you on the program. we have heard today that this is mu variant omicron is probably the biggest threat in this pandemic. what does that mean? what scenario are you expecting to see in the comingeeks? guest: the problem with this variant is that the first time we ever heard of it was only three weeks ago. it is now 60% of cases in london and likely to be dominant in england within a few days. wherever it is being tracked across the world, it is doubling every two days. we haven't seen a spread that first. -- a spread that fast. that is the danger is that every two days, the problem gets twice as bad. so you don't have time to wait and see. that is why it could affect a lot of people in a short amount of time. and if any of them need hospital, you could certainly overwhelm the health services. brent: overwhelm the health services. but what about the severity of covid-19 with this new variants? are people getting sicker because of the newariants? guest: we are almost certain tha

a collection -- a lecturer in sociology at the university college london says in antiabortion rightsization would not have brought the bill to parliament if there was no chance it would pass. >> the ngo would not organize this initiative if it did not realize that there was parliamentary arithmetic's to pass the law. there was some hope that this draconian law could be passed. i need to stress that the foundations of this new proposed bill are threefold. the current law that allows abortion under very limited circumstances will be scrapped completely. the abortion will be criminalized. the terminating pregnancy will be equal to a homicide. including the punishment of the woman who will then -- who could be found guilty of homicide and that brings a prison sentence between two and 12 years. that will be possible because of the third foundation of the law. the law will expand the definition of a person and a human being and incorporate a prenatal stage. the definition of a human being and a person will be from conception to natural death. this law will be extremely draconian. even in m

flourishing beautiful and abundant as well as professor of evolutionary biochemistry at university college london. nick lane mclean. it's really great to have you with us in our program. have all the big questions. you can clarify some things for us right from, from what i understand energy contained in molecules is pretty much the reason for life on earth. so energy can be created or destroyed. it can only be transferred, right? so does this really mean that energy that i consist of? we can tracy back to where life started. maybe even further big bank. in principle, i suppose you could, but nobody would have a brain big enough to do that. is really the flow of energy, which is the important thing. so the way is moving from place to place and through us continuously. so we are eating and breathing all the time and we're changing our molecules of time. so the, an easy way to.

baba al jazeera london, both wild as an associate professor of international law at the university college london and joins me from the british capital. mister, while could have you with us on the program. i mean, what's your initial reaction to the verdict? was it expected? i think it's very important to appreciate that this is a very narrow finding, concerned with the specific issue of concerns relating to the mental state of julian assange and the consequences on that of him being extradited to, to the u. s. and the extradition decision hinged on all the risk to that particular rather than own any broader consideration about whether or not for example, somebody who did what he did should be tried. i saw or tried certainly in, in the u. s. b, these proceedings weren't about these proceedings, were specifically concerned with the risk to his mental health of the particular condition that he would be held in in the us both in terms of the pre trial conditions. and then if he were to be convicted, it seems very obvious that the court has been convinced now by the americans or by lawyers in a briti

coogel is electra in sociology at the school of love on an east european studies at the university college london. she says an anti abortion rights organization wouldn't have brought the bill to parliament if there was no chance it would pass the n g a. would an organize this a legislative initiative? if it didn't realize that there was parliamentary arithmetic to pastelo, there was some idea. there is some hope that this draconian law can be passed. i just really need to stress the foundation of this new proposed bill. 3 followed the current law that allows abortion and the very, very limited circumstances that will be scrapped completely, that abortion i will be criminalized. and the terminating pregnancy will be equal to homicide, including the punishment of the work of the woman. and who will then be a could be found guilty of homicide. and that brings them to prison sentence between 2 and 12 years. and that will be possible because of the 3rd foundation of the law that the law will expand the definition of a person and a human being, and incorporate that a prenatal antenatal stage. so the de

well, i asked professor of evolutionary biochemistry at university college london. nick lane mclean. it's really great to have you with us in our program. i have all the big questions. if you can clarify some things for us right from, from what i understand energy contained in molecules is pretty much the reason for life on earth. so energy can't be created or destroyed, can only be transferred, right? so does this really mean that energy that i consist of? we can trace it back to where a live started. maybe even further big bank. in principle, i suppose you could, but nobody would have a brain big enough to do that. is really the flow of energy, which is the important thing. so the way is moving from place to place and through us continuously. so we are eating and breathing all the time and we're changing our molecules of time. so an easy way to think of it is like a stream this flowing down a hill side and the, the, the molecules in the stream and any one moment and not the same molecules, but the stream itself is morris. as we are a person in that sense, sustaine

february, organized to say the variant will pose challenges. oksana pisec is a lecturer at the university college london school of pharmacy. she says the picture around our micron is becoming clearer and it's not particularly good. we are certainly on track for it to replace delta here in the u. k. in coming days and weeks. so globally, i imagine that effect will also take place, just based on, on how quickly the doubling rate is occurring. we have had one death in the u. k, thus far. so it is to seen, to draw conclusions around severity of alma kron. however, even if it turns out to be half and severe is delta just due to the rate of spread, it's going to put a tremendous amount of pressure on the end, a chest and disrupt health care delivery. to an extent that will cause another significant crisis. if we can't get our boosters roll out accelerated and we have a human resource problem around that here in the u. k as well or will absolutely help in terms of reducing hospitalizations but boosters alone will not be enough. and we do need to look at other ways to break trains of transmission because of the

well as professor of evolutionary biochemistry at university college london, nick lane mclean. it's really great to have you with us in our program. i do have all the big questions. oh, you can clarify some things for us. right from, from what i understand energy contained in molecules is pretty much the reason for life on earth. so energy can't be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred, right? so what does this really mean that energy that i consist of? we can trace it back to where a life started. maybe even further big bang. in principle, i suppose you could, but nobody would have a brain big enough to do that is really the flow of energy, which is the important thing. so the way is moving from place to place and through us continuously. so we are eating and breathing all the time and we're changing our molecules of time. so an easy way to think of it is like a stream is flowing down a hill side and the, the.

she's a global health advisor and lecture up at university college, london's school of pharmacy. she joins us now via skype from london. good teddy with us again. sana, how concern to you about the spread of the on the chrome varied? is it set to replace delta as the dominant variant globally? we are certainly on track for it to replace delta here in the u. k. m, in coming days and weeks. so globally, i imagine that effect will also take place. just based on, on how quickly the doubling rate is occurring, we have had one death in the u. k, thus far. so it is to seen to draw conclusions around severity of our micron. however, even if it turns out to be half as severe as delta a just due to the rate of spread is going to put a tremendous amount of pressure on the n h s, and disrupt health care delivery. to an extent that will cause another significant crisis. if we can't get our boosters, roll out an accelerated and we have a human resource problem around that. here in the u. k as well is a 3rd vaccine. those gotta be enough though to hold the spread of the i'm a convert or is a boo

university and author of excellent to rest hill in bristol, elizabeth pierson is an astrophysicist and space journalist in london, francisco diego senior research fellow in the department of physics and astronomy at the university college london. welcome to the program. either. this has been characterized as the most ambitious astronomy mission of nasa. why, why, why that characterization in particular? well, for several reasons. one is that the, the telescope will be in de la grunge point to, which is a one and a half 1000000 kilometers away from earth. it's about $3000.00 times farther than the hubbard's space that has got, isn't, service is not an option. so it's very ambitious for us to send the equipment thus far and hope that it will work perfectly as it did so far. the 2nd is that this telescope, it will take the deepest images of the universe piercing back in time to when the universe was only hundreds of millions of years. all that's when the 1st stars were made, the 1st galaxies, and we have a chance of getting the scientific version of the story of genesis lead there be lies of that reason. manson by avi, which is basically that need that quest. that humanity is thought as quite some time ago to understand h

us now from london, history, norman lecture and politics and international relations at university college london. julie, welcome back to the news or how difficult is it's for a federal government, i. e, mr. biden. to handle this properly, what's, what's the balancing act they've got to come up with? well, peter, it is indeed a balancing act. the president, in times of the natural disaster like this, needs to respond quickly, needs to show empathy and needs to get federal resources out where they're needed and requested. but also needs to balance that to make sure that it's not seen as exploiting the moment or using it for political gain. and so far, biden has been trying to hit that mark just right. he gave comments on saturday afternoon, right after the day following the tornadoes. spoke very openly about the fact that this is a time for americans to come together. this isn't the time for divisions between democrats and republicans, spoke openly about his prayers and the perm his parents of him and his wife for the victims, and also indicated his willingness to go to kentucky directly. so he's

i university of hong kong study in the study at university of college london so it's likely less severe even among unvaccinated and among vaccinated. it's definitely causing les miles more mild symptoms. so it will only give us a problem. an unvaccinated what does it say about that. this is able to spread so quickly what the world health organization saying. >> between a day and a half to 3 days that this is able to double. in in some areas. but it's not as severe as the delta. what does this say about this particular strain. >> so it's very good questions. the university of hong kong study showed us that speight able to replicate very fast in what's called the upper respiratory tissue. so here, miles nose and upper broncos. but it can't seem to infect long southwell and that was replicated by the ready, get the lab at university college london. that's a good thing in terms of severe disease, but because it replicates so efficiently up here up in the upper respiratory tract. it can spread much more quickly and it will be doctor fauci is right. that's an 8 people are and even unvaccinate

oksana pisec leader of the global citizenship program on our breaks of infectious diseases at university college london from amsterdam. yup. if he is journalist, specializing in medical science and in hong kong, john nichols is clinical professor pathology of the university of hong kong. thank you for joining the program. oksana from the data available so far. is it fair to say that the world may be bracing for a search of infections? similar to what happened in april 2020. well sir, we will see that vaccinations are going to mute some of the symptoms, but boosters are very clearly needed and in the u. k, there is a target of trying to achieve 1000000 boosters a day, which is very ambitious indeed, but it won't be enough to quell the crown wave that is rising faster than any other barrier that we have seen today. so it's likely that in many countries with a similar demographic to the u. k, will experience a similar rate of spread amongst its most vulnerable populations as well as in europe, the countries of how started going back into locked downs or re imposing tougher restrictions. all these measures

continue until 2025. francisco diego is a lecture at the department of physics and astronomy at university college london. he says that a significant moment the sony, so bowl of gods doesn't have a proper surface, a solid surface on the closest the space, but always going to be is about 4 diameter. so this on far away from what we see the surface of the sun. so you're not exactly touching the surface of the sun, but it is touching the darrell atmosphere, this funding thermal corona, which is what a lot of things happen that affect the, the end of part of the solar system and the air of course, the corona, of the sun is what we seen a thought on solar eclipse. for example. that's a kind of very, very thin and very beautiful actually looks like a flower. when i have seen several solar eclipses on the it is very hot, is about 2000000 degrees, which is hundreds of pounds halter on the surface of this on, on the is still not very clear why the temperature is so high house, get the temperature. there are magnetic fields in astronomy, general when you have a complex and situation it magnetic fields are always i

cobol is electra and socio ology and the school is lawana and eastern european studies at university college london. and she's joining us from oxford. it's good to have you with us on al jazeera. if i understand correctly, this has been brought by an anti abortion foundation. this is not being brought by politicians and yet has been debated in parliament. what do you think is going to happen? and thank you very much for this question. yes, indeed, it is not. and this legislative initiative is not the initiative of the current law and justice party. and the fact that the law works in poland. it gets initiative legislative initiative to citizens like the rights to life and, you know, which brought this bill to be debated in parliament. the law says that if they gather more than $100000.00 signatures in support of the particular bill, then the government, then the parliament has to debated. and we're gonna hear that debate later tonight in 4 hours time. what can happen at 3, that 3 options. this decision can be written, this proposal can be rejected in the 1st reading. this proposal can be accepted in

joining me now to discuss this is professor irene petersen, an epidemiologist from university college londonoining us. we have had the uk figures, do they surprise you? we had the uk figures, do they surprise ou? ~ ., ~ ., ., you? we have known for quite some time that the _ you? we have known for quite some time that the growth _ you? we have known for quite some time that the growth was _ you? we have known for quite some time that the growth was very - you? we have known for quite some time that the growth was very rapid | time that the growth was very rapid in increasing so i am not surprised and it is alarming but it is what we expected. and it is alarming but it is what we exected. ., , . expected. something we are expecting to see across — expected. something we are expecting to see across europe _ expected. something we are expecting to see across europe as _ expected. something we are expecting to see across europe as well, - expected. something we are expecting to see across europe as well, do - expected. something we are expecting to see across europe as well, do you . to see acro

what he's jane is academic clinical fellow in public health that university college london joins us now. live what you make, of course, if underlines so when he's to be discussion now about mandatory vaccinations. i learned thanks to me. so i think that, that we can see the reason why people are concerned a particularly politicians, as you've mentioned with this new variant. and the case is going up in the number of european countries. so it's certainly a consideration. it's a point worth discussing. i would suggest the, there are several steps that should be considered before vaccines are made, considered mandatory. and there are a number of reasons for that. first, the, we've seen protest and civil unrest breakout in a lot of european countries over covey restrictions. and certainly now isn't the time going into winter to exacerbate some of those tensions that also have long term political and public health ramifications fiscal and the other thing really is, is about a trust in government and whether actually mandating vaccines will convert into increased coverage on that, i mean, is

mickey — professor of health psychology and director of the centre for behaviour change at university college londonif we get more restrictions in the coming days, what does the evidence so far tell you about the public actually complying?— you about the public actually complying? you about the public actually coml in? ~ ., ., complying? when you look at what has ha--ened complying? when you look at what has happened over — complying? when you look at what has happened over the _ complying? when you look at what has happened over the past _ complying? when you look at what has happened over the past two _ complying? when you look at what has happened over the past two years, - happened over the past two years, we've seen in situations when the public has seen there is a real threat, and what they can do can make a difference, the public have complied with rules, even when they've been very challenging. so they've been very challenging. so the hope is that that will continue. we are obviously in a bit of a different context, in that there are more people vaccinated which gives people more hope, and a

professor christina pagel is a member of independent sage and is professor of research at university college london us omicron could put huge pressure on the nhs very quickly. the problem with omicron is that because it can re—infect people and infect people who have had one or two doses of the vaccine, it means we have millions more people who are getting infections with omicron who would not with delta and if you have high enough numbers, you will have enough people who need hospital treatment to put severe pressure on health services, and because it is so much more transmissible than delta, you are in a situation where even if you do not get that sick, you can potentially infect people who will get really sick. i think as a nation, we want to protect the nhs. it is already exhausted after nearly two years of this pandemic, they are already under severe, pressure and any extra pressure from covid reduces services for everybody, and we do not want to be in a situation where you can't get sick in winter, so i think from just a community point of view, we want to reduce infection. i spoke to profess

independence ainge and is professor of research at university couege professor of research at university college londonshe told us omicron could put huge pressure on the nhs very quickly. the could put huge pressure on the nhs very quickly-— very quickly. the problem with omicron is _ very quickly. the problem with omicron is that _ very quickly. the problem with omicron is that because - very quickly. the problem with omicron is that because it - very quickly. the problem with omicron is that because it can | omicron is that because it can re—infect people and infect people who have had one or two doses of the vaccine, it means we have millions more people who are getting infections with m stick my omicron who would not with delta and if you have high enough numbers, you will have high enough numbers, you will have enough people who need hospital treatment to put severe pressure on health services and because it is so much more transmissible than delta, yourinner much more transmissible than delta, your inner situation where even if your inner situation where even if you do not get that sick, you can

for more on how governments are dealing with containing the virus spread, jennifer rohn, university college londonrofessor, joins us now. over 91,000 cases reported as of today in the u.k., 44 deaths. what kind of numbers are you watching? what is your reaction? jennifer: i think we are just seeing the tip of the wave at the moment. there is such e-cig can lag. omicron has only just arrived. we are just seeing the percentages of hospitalizations with about 100 people in hospitals from omicron, about 12 deaths, so it is really difficult to say what is going to happen, but absolutely come of the numbers are rising. i think the numbers you see on the official reports are pretty much known to be underestimates. got testing lags, and inability to pick up -- online some days, so i thing we will see a lot more cases very soon because this thing is doubling very quickly. guy: do we get a rapid up and then a rapid down? do we anticipate that this will be a short, sharp shock? if that is the case, what do we need to do from a policy point of view to manage that to make sure that the health care system can c

discuss that modelling at all today's development with professor of operational research at university college london a member of the group independent sage, a group of scientists and researchers. good evening. can we talk first of all about the modelling and the figures we have laid out there? it's not peer reviewed as we understand it, but do the figures stack up for you? do you think this is broadly the direction of travel? i think this is broadly the direction of travel? . ., , ., of travel? i mean, the models are done by this _ of travel? i mean, the models are done by this stage _ of travel? i mean, the models are done by this stage modelling - done by this stage modelling subgroup using the same models they have been using throughout the pandemic. what they've done is updated them for what we know about omicron and tried to incorporate lots of different uncertainties into it, so how transmissible it is, how much it can grow, from most pessimistic to most optimistic. the problem is that what they are showing is that even under the most optimistic scenario, we are looking at about 2000 admission

and this is the view of professor irene petersen, an epidemiologist at university college london.nk this could get really bad. i think — i mean, you just said the numbers here were rising, we had a new record today, and we will probably see a new record in the next coming days, as well. omicron is a real sprinter, and it is getting pace right at the moment. earlier, the prime minister borisjohnson was asked whether the omicron wave meant people in the uk should be scaling back their plans for christmas. we don't want to make your choices for you about your social life. - we are not closing things. but what we are saying - is people should be cautious, and they should think about their activitiesl in the run—up to christmas. nobody wants to get omicron and be . unwell, and be forced to isolate. . the queen has cancelled her traditional pre—christmas lunch with her extended family. it would have brought up to 50 people together at windsor castle next week. buckingham palace said... here's our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. inevitably, of course, the queen will be wanting to

professor andrew hayward of infectious disease epidemiology and inclusion health research at university college londond—breaking case numbers means for the next few weeks. if you think about 75,000 positive tests yesterday, that's probably... only about half, or maybe even fewer people who do have covid ever get tested, so maybe that's about 150,000 people or more with the infection and we know that that's doubling approximately every two days, so, in two days' time, it would be 150,000. four days, 300,000. 600,000. 1.2 million, if it carries on doubling at that same rate, so you can see from that maths that this is an extraordinary number of cases on our way, because the strain is so highly transmissible and it escapes, certainly, immunity related to just the two doses, much better with three doses, so that's going to lead to a huge wave of infection and the way i think of it is like, really, if you think about getting a year's worth of rain over a month, then you are going to get flooding and potentially severe flooding, no matter how much you've shored up your defences and that's the concern here,

doctor andrew hayward is a professor of epidemiology at university college london.ses the government on the threat from new viruses. do you agree with the government's need? i do you agree with the government's need? ., do you agree with the government's need? . w do you agree with the government's need? ., ., ~' do you agree with the government's need? ., ., ,, , ., need? i do. i do think it is a proportionate _ need? i do. i do think it is a proportionate response - need? i do. i do think it is a proportionate response to l need? i do. i do think it is a proportionate response to a need? i do. i do think it is a - proportionate response to a serious potential problem and a very rapid increase that we have seen in south africa mirrored by the very rapid increase that we are seeing here and especially i think one of the things that was worrying was the increase in hospitalisations that we were already beginning to see in south africa, will make it clear that we do need to do something to slow this new variant down.— new variant down. might be a good idea to do some

coming up later this hour, we will be speaking with professor jennifer roane at university of college londonn the latest with the omicron variant. stay with us for that conversation. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: welcome back, everyone. 22 minutes into the european trading day. nice support for these equities. still with us is our guest. we are talking a little bit about some of the conviction trades, some of the things that you are not so keen about. when you look at technology and i have a great bloomberg chart -- think you to dan curtis -- he sent this to me saying, you would think that lower treasury yields would help some of the technology companies, but actually if you look at this chart, it is not the case. what do you do with technology shares right now? >> i think people are looking forward and seeing that growth trade, some of the big cap names and technology are not going to fare so well. the higher growth rate are going to be something that people are quite worried about. at the same time, because of the absolute numbers they are generating, the market dominance that they have w

senior lecturer at queen mary's university college of london. thank you very much, indeed. check the european stocks. this is the picture. a little bit lower possession lows. -- a little bit lower to session lows. the mining stocks did well. the dax got hit hard. it is had outperformance recently. the cyclicals have been doing well. the cac 40 down .7%. forrest johnson has a huge boat this evening and will likely face significant pushback from his own party on these covid restrictions. we will pick that around. the table -- we will kick that around. you can listen to it live in new york on dab digital radio -- you cannot listen to it live on new york on dab digital radio, but you can listen to us live on spotify and apple. the podcast is available. alix: i am very happy about it. markets are really rolling over. the nasdaq here is down almost 2%. is it sell the rumor, by the news? we will break it down also. guy: we are in today one of the fed, day two tomorrow. a huge day for global markets. is the fed going to be more hawkish than what is currently priced? that is the que

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. >> brian, associate professor at university of college london, thank you. you awake? parker writes, i'm up way too early for my first vacation in three years. road tripping from palm beach to tennessee. safe travels. we saw from bill karins, weather is good for a road trip. >> i have one from christina who sends this video with the caption, late night shenanigans. >> man with a tie and a suit walked by you there. >> look, it is live television, folks. david flew back on monday from a short week in paris and is going through breakfast crepe withdrawal. j.d. writes this, i'm awake because of an email i just got that we canceled a flight that was canceled last night and then rescheduled for now. it was just canceled again. j.d., i recommend getting in the car and driving to tennessee. >>> up next, "axios 1 big thing." >>> also, a deadly school shooting. the latest. >>> the surgeon general joins us for what we're facing with this new strain of covid. >>> plus, adam schiff. mark meadows is cooperating with the investigation, but what does that mean? we'll dive i

robert west is emeritus professor of health psychology at university college london.liticians at least is trust the people to decide. i wonder what is the evidence that people can be trusted to make the right decisions? people can be trusted _ to make the right decisions? people can be trusted and _ to make the right decisions? people can be trusted and there _ to make the right decisions? people can be trusted and there is - to make the right decisions? people can be trusted and there is very i can be trusted and there is very good evidence from earlier on in this pandemic people can be trusted when they have the opportunity to do the right thing and the capability to do it and one of the biggest issues throughout the pandemic in the uk has been the inadequacy of the uk has been the inadequacy of the financial support for people to self—isolate when they have got symptoms or when they test positive and that's been a big issue for us all along. and so it isn't really just a question of putting all the responsibility of the on to people, yes, individually we have respo

political science professor from university college london.c, also getting a preview of what we may see in this phone call between president biden and president putin this afternoon. coming up, we will hear from mohamed el-erian and get his thoughts on the markets and his outlook. this is bloomberg. ♪ paul: welcome back to a special edition of bloomberg markets. we are simulcasting bloomberg radio, television, bringing you the final days of the treating year and look ahead to the next year. recently, the federal reserve made a pretty hawkish pivot, talking about accelerating the taper of bond purchases, discussion of raising rates as many as three times this year, three times the following year. is that enough, is it too late? we recently spoke with mohamed el-erian to get his thoughts. mohamed: i will say better late than never, but let's not kid ourselves, they are still way too stimulative for what developments and forecasts are. if i were them, and i would accelerate even more the taper so that i don't risk a big policy mistake in the midd

professor francois bayou is director of the genetics institute at university college london. these different studies? i think i they point is similar values as you mentioned there is a reduction of at least half in terms of risk and sometimes a bit more and for most of them they tend to compare cases in them they tend to compare cases in the to leave and in the omicron wave which is not exactly the same so the ones that give us a good idea at the ones that give us a good idea at the ones where they prepare cases now and the tennis omicron seems to be less apparent. it’s and the tennis omicron seems to be less apparent-— less apparent. it's more infectious and that cancels _ less apparent. it's more infectious and that cancels out _ less apparent. it's more infectious and that cancels out the _ less apparent. it's more infectious and that cancels out the lists - less apparent. it's more infectious and that cancels out the lists of. and that cancels out the lists of their nests of this particular variant. if their nests of this particular variant. , ., ., ., their nests of this

was doing this reporting period when i realized dennis came out of this program at the university of college london. this blend of neuroscience and ai. founded by jeff. and there were all of these moments that i discovered in my reporting where jeff was there. talking about the moment when he and two students really showed image recognition. jeff, two years earlier had been instrumental in making this idea of speech recognition in a completely different part of the world. he was at microsoft. a great story about him traveling by train because he does not sit down. making this work. and on top of all of that, this tiny group suddenly became enormously valuable when the idea started to work. you see this at the opening of the book. he literally auctions his services to the high bidder. and it set the price for the talent. you had this tiny group of people and each, you know, they are people. they are interesting in their own particular ways. and then there is certainly a demand and they move into these companies. that sort of became the center of the book. this tiny group that moved into the industry

joining me now is athony costello, professor of global health at university college london and a membernt that - what is happening. it is a very. interesting point that professor chris whitty was making, encouraging pregnant women to get vaccinated and us to prioritise our social events that we attend. we will talk more in a moment. ijust need to say goodbye to our viewers on bbc two. you talked about this concern about waning immunity and the importance of a booster. but restrictions and decisions by government would be very different, wouldn't they, if it turned out that this variant or whatever comes next get round the vaccines that we currently have? exactly. the booster programme has been impressive. we have got up to about 25 million boosted, but that leaves many millions left who have not been boosted stop we don't know what the impact is going to be on the older population, although boosters are pretty good. so there is a lot of uncertainty right now and chris whitty is right to be very cautious. we are saying that the absolute priority is to try and protect christmas, and so we

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