professor manuela barreto is head of psychology at the university of exeter. young people or older people, for that matter, to access the kinds of activities that make it easier for social connections to flow and to be sustained over time. so if it is hard to access the right kind of transport that gets you into those places, then it is going to be harder to sustain social relationships. lam kay, i moved to cornwall in october 2016. i didn't know anyone at all when i first moved down. after working and travelling abroad for six years, kay decided it was time to settle down and save for a house. the idea of living by the sea drew her to cornwall. going from being around people constantly to being by yourself, it was quite lonely and horrible coming back to an empty house and not having anyone you could call up to go for a drink or anything like that. i've seen a lot of people who know each other from school. i wasn't sure how i would go about making friends. enter social media and a solution to kay and kelvin‘s isolation. all of these people met online. it's so

get more on this, i spoke to the author of the study tim gordon, a marine biologist at the university of exetercoast of queensland. those are some of the sounds that we hear on those are some of the sounds that we hearona those are some of the sounds that we hear on a healthy brief. the co nsta nt hear on a healthy brief. the constant crackle, it is almost like fraying bacon or rice crispy is, thatis fraying bacon or rice crispy is, that is invertebrate, that snapping shrimp and the urchins, some of the other grunt and others are some of the noises fish make. that is a lot of chatter among the different marine life underwater! but has it really worked? your goal was to lower back these fish to degraded reefs ? lower back these fish to degraded reefs? this certainly is a lot of chatter. we find that baby fish at the start of their life, they spend their lives out in the open ocean, they float around in the deep blue sea and they grow big and strong, and when they are ready to start aduu and when they are ready to start adult life they come back to settle ona adult life they come back to settle o

his a researcher at the university of exeter a strategy and security institute he's joining us via skype from there thanks through time with us on the al-jazeera news hour how challenging are the next couple of weeks going to be for parliamentarians in particular in iraq and in the search for a new prime minister are we looking at a political tug of war. i think we're going to see something that we see quite often in following iraqi elections although albeit this is not an election it's just a prime minister stepping down but you often see iraqi political parties who have the parts of the kind of the 6th sectarian more hostile system the division of ethno sectarian political seats and power. they will be conducting a lot of horse trading to see which candidate which party ultimately gets the top job and that will also include deals between the parties for which party will get control of which ministries and all their budgets i don't think that we're going to see too much of a significant change in terms of policy in terms of the form. this is just me a window dressing and the question is

is there such a university of exeter strategy and security institute joins us now because barham salih really intend to resign do you think. i think that if push comes to shove he will resign because it's become an untenable position to support any of these kind of the kind of pro regime establishment figures that have been coming out of parliament recently. for example is the governor of the oil rich southern city of iraq and that has been undergoing some severe protests itself have been protests as have been killed there so to appoint him the man who's kind of government governing that area where people have died. is obviously going to fly in the face of what the protesters want and other politicians are tuning into this now so it's unlikely that he's just going to be waiting to call their bluff i guess the problem is that political blocs these groupings in iraq have really struggled to come up with a candidate for prime minister. for a replacement for idol abdul mattie if barham saleh goes that one step further and submit his resignation does that make the situation even more compli

he's a researcher at the university of exeter he joins us on skype from london. who do you think who would want to launch a drone attack on such a prominent cleric. i think early indications suggest that it's a perhaps an alliance of the other. factions who are more closely linked to iran that's not to say that most of the souther isn't going to get on probably i think currently there right now however these factions often have kind of intro family familial conflict and if we go back to for example the early 2000 there was an operation in basra designed to force the mehdi army out as called operation charge of the knights the mehdi army being knocked to the sudden as militia in basra the time they were forced out and that was an internal conflict so between these rival parties there they each control their own militias and they each have arms coming in from the iranian islamic revolutionary guard corps and sometimes that forces for example major general us and so they may need to step in and force them to come to the table and to calm down so i think it's likely

i saw some reports from the university of exeter, they think they have found the cause of mnd.it takes us further down the line in looking at getting a treatment and ultimately a cu re getting a treatment and ultimately a cure for and it does make mnd. getting a treatment and ultimately a cure for and it does make mndi getting a treatment and ultimately a cure for and it does make mnd. i was going to ask you that, is it a far away, do you think? we have seen really strong progress in research over the last ten years. we hope that in the next few years, we will have some treatment perhaps coming on trialfor have some treatment perhaps coming on trial for people with mnd so they can begin taking those drugs. what we wa nt can begin taking those drugs. what we want to do is take the drugs out of the laboratory and into the clinics so people can start using them but it is a really complex disease. when you hear stories like early where's again, to go back to what he said on sunday, does it have an effect on fundraising? does it have the effect on awareness and both of those equally

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