george magnus, research associate at the university of oxford's china-centric.g up, we are live at bucharest with talks underway as ministers discuss more support for ukraine. do not miss the interview with spain's former foreign minister. that is up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ dani: welcome back to "bloomberg daybreak: europe." i am dani burger in london with manus in dubai. nato foreign ministers are gathered in bucharest for two days of talks as russia intensifies attacks on ukraine's energy infrastructure. for more, we go to maria tadeo who is in bucharest with our guest. maria. maria: good morning. we are here at the security conference in bucharest and what a year to do this conference. i am pleased to say i am also joined by our guest. arancha gonzalez laya, she is the former spanish foreign minister. and to me, the obvious question is being here in bucharest, you feel the tension. and geographically close to the war in ukraine. would you say this is the most security us -- most serious security issue since the cold war? arancha: certainly and the sharpest

researchers at the university of oxford found that covid sufferers. we're 55% more likely to be diagnosed with a seizure in the next 6 months. they say the increased risk was found even in people who were not hospitalized. the link between covid and seizures was also stronger among children than adults. researchers say the risk was small less than one percent of covid patients had seizures. and it's unclear why it happened. a new report says one in 10 babies were born prematurely in the u.s. last year. and that. >> as a record high in 2021, roughly 383,000 births happened before week. 37 of pregnancy. that's about 10 and a half percent of births. and that's that highest total since records began in 2007 health experts think this is partly because of problems like the rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes. also the strain on health care services from the pandemic. that report was published by the nonprofit march of dimes. >> the fda is warning americans against buying medication at online pharmacies. the agency saying while many operate legally, some are

as asked doctor, even coach if he's a senior clinical researcher at the university of oxford and also a clinical psychiatrist at the u. k. national health service. he joins us from ox. the doctor, thank you so much for being with us. you know, this issue is so important and so personal to so many people so explained to us please, what will this change me? this will change the change in our treatment for all time is currently what we have some suited to market treatments. so based on some of the chemicals important for attention and really they don't need to be a, we'd be underlined these process. this is a change because the drug that has be shown to, to engage with what we believe recoding out disease. in this case, the proteins removing them from the brain and crucially the removal of the protein . it's actually reflected in some, in some clinical benefit. in practical terms, what does it mean? it means you lose your memory slower. is that correct? so outside of disease goes beyond your memory, i'm thinking skills. yes. so the trial in, in the number of people that you mention showe

bringing ron and mister, he's a professor of the history and politics of modern china at the university of oxford . he joins us now. what's his jones admins legacy? i mean, his place in history. i think he will be seen as the chinese leader who essentially opened up china to international institutions. after the horror of gentlemen square, 1989, where workers and students were shot down in the street in beijing that event essentially turn china inward, alienated from road the world. gentlemen did work hard to bring china as your report, said cyril into the world trade organization to get the lympics and also to become part of the international financial system real similar to them. but of course for the fact that he maintained the authoritarian rule of the chinese communist party was relatively more liberal under his time than might have been the case to day under. she's in pink. but it was still very much or authoritarian state. and he officially left power in 2003, but he actually continued to exert influence on the political stage after that to me, he did. it said that during the rule of his s

we can speak to rana mitter, professor of chinese politics and history at the university of oxford. i think it would be useful to first of all get some perspective on the numbers we have seen on the streets there. yes, there are protests going on in various cities, but this is a huge country with a huge population. just how significant of a challenge is this to xi jinping?i just how significant of a challenge is this to xi jinping?— is this to xi jinping? i think it's significant. — is this to xi jinping? i think it's significant, nancy, _ is this to xi jinping? i think it's significant, nancy, although i is this to xi jinping? i think it's significant, nancy, although it| is this to xi jinping? i think it's i significant, nancy, although it is not yet the movement that looks likely to overturn the system. it is much more of a howl of rage, you might say. we are seeing in each of these places, shanghai, most recently the city of wuhan where most recently the first cases of covid were found, people numbering in their hundreds. but you have to have danger it is for people to protest a

serve twice at the study for strategic and international studies, a chinese studies from the university of oxfordnd spent the majority of his career focused on u.s.-china relations. matt is a distinguished visiting fellow at the hoover institution at the foundation for the defense of democracies. he served as deputy national security advisor from 2019 to 2021 and margaret hoover, author and host a firing line on pbs, now also with cnn, will moderate the discussion. she is the great granddaughter of herbert hoover, the 31st president of the united states. would you please welcome our distinguished panel this morning. [applause] >> good morning. welcome, and thank you, very much to the nixon foundation for holding this discussion with this expert, well informed on this dynamic. i think the best place to start is when president xi came onto the scene about one decade ago, many expected that he would be a reformer, he would harken back to the nixon days of the opening of china, -- would your head -- would spearhead political reform, and the nobel prize-winning writer will be released from prison. her

1993, about a week after i had arrived as a graduate student in allentown science lab at the university of oxford to study immunology. i had ground up a mouse spleen. yes, we actually do things like that and plated the blood tinged soup in a petri dish with facteur to stimulate t cells. the weekend passed and on monday morning i switched on the microscope. the room was so dimly lit that it was not even necessary to pull the curtains. the city of oxford, always dimly lit, if cloudless. italy was a land made for telescopes. then foggy, dark. england seemed custom made for microscopes. and i put the plate under scope, waiting beneath a tissue culture medium where masses of translucent, kidney shaped t cells that possess what i can describe only as an inner glow and a luminous fullness. the science of healthy active cells like eyes looking back at me, i whispered to myself and then to astonishment, the t-cell moved deliberately, purposefully seeking out an infected cell that it might purge and kill. it was alive. it's a beautiful segment. and i think that. thank you. one of the reasons you're so popu

. >> researchers at the university of oxford found that those who got covid-19 were 55% more likely toagnosed. but the seizure, they say the increased risk was found even in people who were not hospitalized. the link between covid and seizures was also stronger among children than adults. researchers say the risk was small less than one percent of covid patients had seizures. and it's unclear why it happened. >> what do people really want for christmas? while two-thirds of americans say they want a silent night, this is according to a poll from a mattress firm and says 66% of adults want better sleep and would be delighted to get just about anything from santa that would help. the post says the most sleepless nights include christmas eve new year's eve christmas day thanksgiving and black friday. still ahead, what a home on long shopping list tells us about shopping for groceries now versus when that movie was made in the 90's. and in sports, the warriors returning to home base tonight to play a scrappy new york knicks team. >> next in sports, the next county close. but in the end, ste

story, i'mjoined by madeleine sumption who is the director of the migration 0bservatory at the university of oxfordlysis of data on migration and migrants in the uk. 0ne one of the government's lines of defence is that they hadn't been prepared or expected this number of people coming across in small boats. and that's why they are not prepared. but surely the root of this problem isjust trying prepared. but surely the root of this problem is just trying to prevent crossings in the first place. i prevent crossings in the first lace. ~ . prevent crossings in the first . lace, ~' ., ., , place. i think i there are a number of challenges _ place. i think i there are a number of challenges the _ place. i think i there are a number of challenges the government i place. i think i there are a number. of challenges the government faces. preventing crossings is more difficult than many people appreciate. the government has looked at and is doing a lot more enforcement activity than previously and one of the reasons we see more people crossing by small boat now is the previous successful enforcement people ha

researchers at the university of oxford found those who got covid were 55% more likely to be diagnosedk between covid and seizures was also stronger among children than adults. researchers say the risk was small less than one percent of covid patients had seizures. and it's unclear why it happens. coming up on the kron 4 morning news. an investigation is now underway. >> for the way that ticketmaster dealt with ticket sales for the taylor swift or why high demand caused multiple complications. 4,000 fans and the biden administration is asking the supreme court to overturn a court decision and canceling the student loan program for millions of borrowers. this is gloria. she hasn't worked this hard to only get this far with her cholesterol. taken with a statin, leqvio can lower bad cholesterol by over 50% and keep it low with two doses a year. side effects were injection site reaction, joint pain, urinary tract infection, diarrhea, chest cold, pain in legs or arms, and shortness of breath. with leqvio, lowering cholesterol becomes just one more thing life throws your way. ask your doctor

marika at the university of amsterdam and in oxford, an associate fellow of the united services institutee, thank you for joining us for inside story. thomas, your son, quinn died in the disaster. i know this has been a difficult time for your family. tell us first about how you felt when that verdict was read out in court. do you feel justice has been done, does this bring you any closure? >> i have difficulties talking about closure, this will never be closed. the truth is yesterday was important to all of us. it was important to me to finally hear a judge, an independent judge, well respected internationally, that would say what happened, who was responsible and who should be convicted. so, yes, it was a great day to finally here what we know already in the past years since we had received that information through different press channels already. >> you follow the top -- trial from the very beginning what was it like for your family and the other victims families who were there with you? >> i did go twice to the court. i lived in new york for five years. i was unable to attend but whe

so on the celebrations go on over here. frankly, which is a military analyst at the university of portsmouth in oxford. i asked him if the city's residence still have to worry about being within range of russian artillery . well then, good morning. yes indeed. russian artillery has not retreated to a point where i can't help the city. i think presentation that would not look good, but who knows what the reasoning behind russian restraints at the moment is, is also the other factor, of course that they will need to dig in. so the next steps will probably not take place around curse on, but preparations are certainly being made for the, for the medium term for operations around there. what about these claims of hundreds of war crimes by russian troops? it's the same pattern, isn't it, that we're seeing it time and again for her. i heave summa and, and now her son absolutely. it does tend to indicate that the examples you have given, which i mean by the very fact that you could give so many really off the top of your head is that this is standard operating procedure on that there is a course of behavior

psychology at the university of london, but he was also keenly interested in universities in other english cities because his reports to the center of the universities at cambridge and oxfordor their leftist sentiments the only officer of the svr whom we can show in person on board, only the declassified official historian of management. since i have seen a lot of cases, but to such results. one man have been achieved. this can be said to be unprecedented. the case was recruited by the deutsch, the cambridge five - this is donald mclean. guide. burgess. john ken cross, they worked for moscow from the netherlands foreign office and british intelligence. this is anthony blunt rose to the rank of adviser to the king and this, of course, is a kimfillbe, but he occupied a very interesting position. well, first of all. this is probably during the war of the kursk battle, because the british did not transmit hmm. e the information that they read by name in german, which they decided they deciphered. well, here. well, they didn’t pass it on to such a filbe. yes, and it was also the cambrian five who first reported to moscow that work had begun on nuclear weapons in the west, but a

of taking decades to, to build up. it won't happen quickly, but i'm pretty sure it is starting to happen. now that was george magnus from oxford university and what's on the horizon for the world's 2nd largest economy abuse topic of the week. that's on youtube, dot com slash dw news. and a reminder of the top business stories were following for you this hour. even more twitter employees have left the social media company that's shortly after new boss you on mosque gave them the choice between an extremely hard core work environment or leaving hundreds of workers express their intention to resign by muskets deadline of thursday evening. beijing says a leaked paper on germany's new china strategy is a throwback to cold war. times the report a draft shows that berlin wants to take a new economic approach with china that focuses on curbing human rights abuses. berlin also warns that china is buying foreign companies, preventing foreigners from buying it's firms. that's all from me and the business team here in berlin for more head over to the w dot com slash business. you can also find us on youtube and on facebook until next time. take care

amsterdam, marie cur, the horn assistant professor of international criminal law at the university of amsterdam and in oxford, samuel romani, and associate fellow at the royal united services institute. welcome to your thank you very much for joining us on inside. sorry, thomas, let me start with you. if i can, your son quinn died in the mh 17 disaster. i know this has been a very difficult time for your family. tell us 1st about how you felt when that verdict was read out in court. do you feel just this has been done? does this bring you any closure? i have difficulties in talking about and closure. this will never be close. but the truth is that yesterday was important to all of this was important to me. to finally hear a judge, an independent church, well respected internationally, that would say what happened, who is responsible and who should be convicted. so yes, it was a great day to finally hear what we know already in the past years. since we have received that information from different address channels already, you followed the tile, thomas from the very beginning. what was it like for your, for y

friends, but now there is some international news, specialists from the institute of digital archeology at oxford universityloped a robotic recreate voluminous copies of objects, carving them out of stone, the device has already made a 3d copy of the famous head of the horse selena in ancient times, the statue was located on the east pediment of the main one. chrome athena then, along with other parthenon marbles, ended up in the collection of the british museum. now the machine is busy creating buy other ancient greek masterpieces. their reo robot carves from the same pentili marble from which the originals in the british museum were made and do not exclude that the exact replicas of parthenonas marbles can replace real 2.5 thousand-year-old artifacts in the exposition, which will be returned to greece. so everyone will have their own work art. well, there won't be copies anyway. store the energy that artifacts store. and in general, sculptors worked tirelessly at night, days, er, went together to create all this creation of such beauty, but here, you see, we create copies, but i would understand after thi

because of course, oxford university research, benito said it might just be what he describes. the placebo fund. well let's to me out for a little bit. i mean, what have we seen in the last 10 years? another fund was negotiate. it was a nouns were big fund far 20 years ago. that adaptation fund was being put on the table requested demanded by the developing nations and say, you know what, we are suffering someone needs to pay for the adaptation costs and infrastructure in future care ready. and you will find jobs. well, how much money has been put on the table in the last 20 years in total, under $1000000000.00 a year? but that's of course, a big number. but what are the need for developing? well, just africa alone need $52000000000.00 a year. so they're all funds are ready in the u. n. system which were fought for for many, many years, which were agreed to for many, many years, but which are under funded risk pin. the trick then, because if we take that un funds, how, how influential the international financial institutions that are all so now in theory, going to be contributi

we're also joined by madeleine sumption who's director of the migration observatory at the university of oxfordg into the uk for more than a year at a time versus the number of people leaving the uk, people who are emigrating, that includes british citizens, who are going to another life elsewhere. what we have learned is that 1.1 million people came to the uk in the year tojune 2022 and we tracked immigration that we have a net migration figure of 504000 and that is a record. it has never been that high before, is coagulated by the office for national statistics. much higher than the trend we saw in the lead up to the brexit referendum when it was around 350,000 or thereabouts. so this is a significant change. students are the single largest group within that, about 277,000 students with visas, granted in the year tojune, that was almost a double of what it was before. workers from outside the eu, 151,000 of them. and then other visas, similar number to the students, including people coming forfamily reasons, students, including people coming for family reasons, family settlement, reunificatio

joining me now is deputy director of the migration 0bservatory at the university of oxford. would you airee? ., , . agree? it has certainly increased substantially _ agree? it has certainly increased substantially over _ agree? it has certainly increased substantially over the _ agree? it has certainly increased substantially over the last - agree? it has certainly increased substantially over the last little l substantially over the last little while, but i think we probably need to contextualise this. the key issue here really is the processing and the uk, when we compare ourselves to france, we have actually seen fewer asylum applications in recent times than france, but france has a considerably smaller backlog. france in fact had more than double the number of asylum applications last year and has been processing things more effectively, so i think it is important to recognise that while certainly there has been an increase in arrivals, that is not necessarily the only reason why we are in this situation. ~ , ., , ., ~' situation. why do you think the backloi situation.

jim is also professor cf climate and environmental risks at the university of oxford.mful and distressing for people. what the report is saying is that this problem is getting worse. it is going to get even more worse in the context of climate change. but also because of new developments being allowed to connect up to the sewer system rather than being obliged to have sustainable solutions for on—site drainage. and also because of the paving over of people's gardens and so on. 50 of the paving over of people's gardens and so on.— of the paving over of people's gardens and so on. so you think the number of homes _ gardens and so on. so you think the number of homes that _ gardens and so on. so you think the number of homes that could - gardens and so on. so you think the number of homes that could be i number of homes that could be affected by flooding could double? it could almost double, yes. tn it could almost double, yes. in terms of why it is so bad, you mention things like the london underground stations flooding, are the systems that are there actually operating

1993, about a week after i had arrived as a graduate student in allentown science lab at the university of oxfordto study immunology. i had ground up a mouse spleen. yes, we actually do things like that and plated the blood tinged soup in a petri dish with facteur to stimulate t cells. the weekend passed and on monday morning i switched on the microscope. the room was so dimly lit that it was not even necessary to pull the curtains. the city of oxford, always dimly lit, if cloudless. italy was a land made for telescopes. then foggy, dark. england seemed custom made for microscopes. and i put the plate under scope, waiting beneath a tissue culture medium where masses of translucent, kidney shaped t cells that possess what i can describe only as an inner glow and a luminous fullness. the science of healthy active cells like eyes looking back at me, i whispered to myself and then to astonishment, the t-cell moved deliberately, purposefully seeking out an infected cell that it might purge and kill. it was alive. it's a beautiful segment. and i think that. thank you. one of the reasons you're so popul

budyak, saved a young english journalist from being shot, who, as a sign of gratitude , helped yuriy to enter oxford universityng journalist was winston churchill valera. if it were not for the cossacks in the 17th century , the state language in vienna might now be turkish when 200- the thousand-thousandth army of the ottoman empire besieged vienna, the situation seemed hopeless and the european capital was about to fall under the onslaught of the turks, but the cossack attack the troops changed the course of the war, forcing the ottomans to flee , even the significance of this battle was established in vienna, two monuments were erected, one to the cossack yury kulchytskyi, who is the author of the merset of viennese coffee, and the other to the cossacks who liberated the city, one of these cossacks was the grandfather of pyotr tchaikovsky, of which the great composer was always proud pyotr tchaikovsky he was always proud of the fact that he came from the glorious cossack family in ukraine. where he moved every year on the moon for 29 years, the composer found his inspiration, visited his sister and nephews,

of midway. and the oxford university press world war ii at sea. as the man who needs no introduction, but it is my great pleasure to say that harold holzer is the current director of hunter colleges roosevelt house, public policy institute. we know him as so much more. i was first introduced to him by my great friend david donald. and of, course jim mcpherson told me when i called him about that me to, just do what he says. and i think that that is certainly good advice in the civil war field. his number of publications was not yet in the double digits when i met him. but here we are. and i do want to say that harold has really excelled in being on panels. as a panelist defending lincoln's statues and otherwise. and from his chair at his manhattan institute, his interviews are something we we'll enjoy. i did do a count, and when i told harold i counted up 12 solo appearances, he said, was that all? of course, i informed craig that this is his tenth. speaking at the forum. so here he is in double digits. and i wanted to welcome them more as they spe

of the line. david kirk is a sociology professor at oxford university. 20 broke home free -- book home free of debt the outcomes of people releas from louisiana prisons right after hurricane katrina. >> destabilization of jobs, labor markets, services that the formerly incarcerated often times upon. for example, meal health treatment. even if -- a temporary if relatively short-lived situation where services are disrupted. that could be enough to in essence make it so people fall back into old patterns of behavior, drug use, things like that. william: barbara richards directs project 180, a sarasota-based nonprofit that helps people reentering from prison. in addition to linking people to addiction treatment, employment, and help with their finances, project 180 runs a pair of houses for formerly incarcerated men in sarasota. seth campbell is the house leader for one of them. >> we have men who have graduated from our residential program continuing to live in houses because they could not find a place in the community. so now, with so many people dilaced,

of burning co. this is james henderson who leads the gas research program at oxford university. so natural gas still emits c o 2 when burned. it's not entirely clean, but it's cleaner than alternative, like coal, by generating the same amount of energy. and so the 1st step for many countries is to switch away such as comb, particularly in college and ration. and you can imagine this like switching a color stove for a gas heater just on a much bigger scale. so instead of building a new coal power plant, build a guest, how a plant or retrofit occult tower plan to run on gas kind of like the industry is showing up. as a lot of relatively clean natural gas became suddenly available, it turned into more than just a fuel. it was now a bridge fuel making power economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change. the thinking was this gas could be the bridge between fossil fuel power, past and future power by renewables. up until today, politicians and the industry of pushing this narrative. and that's because it works in this sector in the us. typically, gas has been a

of burning co. this is james henderson who leads the gas research program at oxford university. so natural gas still emits c o 2 when burned. it's not entirely clean, but it's cleaner than it's alternatives like coal, by generating the same amount of energy. and so the 1st step for many countries is to switch away such as comb, particularly in college and ration. and you can imagine this like switching a color stove for a gas heater just on a much bigger scale. so instead of building a new coal power plant, build a guest power plant or retrofit acorta plan to run on gas kind of like the industry is showing up here. ah, as a lot of relatively clean natural gas became suddenly available, it turned into more than just the fuel. it was now a bridge fuel making power, our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change. the thinking was this gas could be the bridge between fossil fuel power, past and future power by renewables. up until today, politicians and the industry pushing this narrative. and that's because it works in this sector in the us. typically, a ga

lincoln and his admirals the civil war at sea distinguished valley volumes on the battle of midway and the oxford university, press world war ii at sea. and as the man who needs no introduction, but it's by great pleasure to say that harold holzer is the current director of hunter college's roosevelt's house public policy institute. we know him as so much more. i was first introduced to him by my great friend david donald and of course jim mcpherson told me when i called him up about meeting harold holzer just do what he says and i think that certainly good advice in the civil war field his number of publications was not yet in the double digits when i met him, but here we are and i do want to say that harold is really excelled in being on panels and as a panelist defendingly constatus and otherwise and from his chair at his manhattan institute his interviews or something. we well enjoy i did do account and when i told harold that i'd counted up twelve solo appearances. he said was that all of course. i informed craig that this is his 10th. speaking at the forum. so here he is in double digits, and i want t