laurent is studying at the eindhoven university of technology.his family believes he is in the right place. translation: i think he would have missed a lot of his youth if he was still in school. now it is just like a playground here, so he can do whatever he wants. like many boys of his age, he likes robots, but we're not talking about toys — laurent is a lot more ambitious than that. translation: my goal is actually extending life, replacing part of human beings by technology. so, for example, artificial organs and robot arms, robot legs — things like that. next up, he is aiming for a graduate degree. just imagine what he will do when he is ten. tim allman, bbc news. don't forget, you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter. i'm @jamesbbcnews. in the news last week, you might remember that venice was hit with severe flooding, and we have got similar weather conditions on the way for today. later on, around midday we will see the high water coming in around 1.6 metres above normal — that makes it one of the highest of the last 9

laurent is studying at the eindhoven university of technology.ieve he is in the right place. translation: i think he would have missed a lot of his youth if he was still in school. now it is just like a playground here, so he can do whatever he wants. like many boys of his age, he likes robots, but we're not talking about toys — laurent is a lot more ambitious than that. translation: my goal is actually extending life, replacing parts of human beings by technology. so, for example, artificial organs and robot arms, robot legs — things like that. next up, he is aiming for a graduate degree. just imagine what he will do when he is ten. tim allman, bbc news. some breaking news from sri lanka, we have heard that the ruling party candidate has conceded in the presidential election and congratulated his main rival, the former wartime defence secretary. 0fficial former wartime defence secretary. official results are still to be declared, and the results have divided the country across ethnic lines as gotabhaya rajapaksa has been the favourite among the

an efficient fission cost effective way to store very much electricity the researchers at university of technology in gothenburg sweden have been working for over a decade on different battery and power related projects and one is getting heaps of praise it's a storage system that starts with a liquid molecule made up of carbon hydrogen and nitrogen made into a laminate coating put on windows or anything on the glass surface and put that draws in the sun's heat energy and releases heat the big news though is that they developed a battery that can store the energy created by this for decades here's to the scientists and researchers versity heating up the careys for renewable energy and that everyone is our show for you today remember everyone asked my co-host who will be back soon tire of entropy always does not love an obsolete oh you all i love you i'm top of the lalas keep on watching the hocks and have a great day and night everyone. join me every so sleep on me all excited when sure when i'll be speaking to get us to the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see that. today ther

laurent is studying at the eindhoven university of technology, and although he doesn't spend all that place. translation: i think he would have missed a lot of his youth if he was still in school. now, it'sjust like a playground here so he can do whatever he wants. like many boys of his age, he likes robots. but we're not talking about toys. laurent is a lot more ambitious than that. translation: my goal is actually extending life, replacing parts of human beings by technology. so, for example, artificial organs and robot arms, robot legs — things like that. next up, he is aiming for a graduate degree. just imagine what he will do when he's ten. tim allman, bbc news. now it's time for a look that has been a bit of cloud around, some sunshine, especially across parts of scotland, northern ireland and parts of england. a thick cloud and parts of england. a thick cloud and other bit of rain will push these words, clear skies crossing north and west. he cold and frosty stock to scotland, northern ireland and into wales. high pressure is going to bring some sunny and dry weather for most o

have been incidents of vandalism on the part of protesters as well at hong kong's university of science and technology for example . a coffee shop was vandalized a bank of china branch was vandalize pro-democracy lawmaker was stabbed last week a protest olds have died last week today a protester has been shot clearly that is also something that the government is responding to do protest does have not nothing to account for tall. hong kong government and beijing should be a constable and responsible fund alyssum from the poster is there a way to show that is content to direct capital but have we ever for a long into a structural damage being incited and motivated by china's federalism in a pos 22 years before blaming the powerless people and i think that's the root cause and a fundamental political demand a protester is asking for an institution no matter what to set up that independence inquiry by 7 the committee to investigate. this and best political team on getting supporting rate more than 80 per cent off hong kong was but what we observed during a possible road base there and 11 yes so primary an

laurent is studying at the eindhoven university of technology, and although he doesn't spend all thatt place. translation: i think he would have missed a lot of his youth if he were still in school. now it's just like a playground here, so he can do whatever he wants. like many boys of his age, he likes robots, but we're not talking about toys. laurent is a lot more ambitious than that. translation: my goal is actually extending life, replacing parts of human beings by technology. so, for example, artificial organs and robot arms, robot legs, things like that. next up, he is aiming for a graduate degree. just imagine what he'll do when he's ten. tim allman, bbc news. terry o'neill — the photographer whose pictures helped define the 19605 — has died at the age of 81. his images of rock and film stars and royalty helped frame an age of celebrity — and the idea of the ‘5winging 5ixties.‘ david sillito looks back at his work. patrick macnee, twiggy. photoshoots don't get more 605 than that, and the man behind the lens was terry o'neill. his work, a who's who of the greatest stars of the l

but this call for strike was somehow related to the death of a university students, a hong kong university of science and technologyack last week. they somehow called it rather in a hurry and they did call out some sort of wildcat disruption to the city transport. it seems they may be changing tactics once again. can you provide a bit of context for us. if these pictures are as they seem and obviously you mentioned we are waiting for official confirmation and details, if they are as they seem how much of an escalation does this amount to in the protests there in hong kong? well, it's hard to tell if these pictures will escalate the incident. this is already the third confirmed gun shooting incident. back on october one there was one that young man injured also, also by live ammunition at close range. and then there was a second young man, a teenager, injured just a few days later. so this will be the third incident with someone involved getting close to a protest being shot by live ammunition. but it's also a possibility that if protest is wanted to express their anger towards the death of the student in the past w

child was a computer science undergraduate at the hong kong university of science and technology fried i was the graduation ceremony for many of these students that event became a memorial as his colleagues paid tribute to the 22 year old i think is a very grave day and we all have we all have i think a lot of home people not just the u.s. team members have a man talk operation for this but still when it comes to fact it hurts a lot this could be the 1st death as a direct result of the confrontations between police and protesters in hong kong the anti-government movement blames the police for china's injury which occurred when tear gas was fired on students during a dispersal operation she was trying to avoid eye contact from the police fired tear gas was caught for them from a cop car and so today we want. our house and also obviously my government the police to launch a free press because the government has expressed its regret and sorrow of the death of the 22 year old student standing in sympathies to the family but this incident is lucky to further anger the anti-government moveme

so close to the edge of this parking deck down have a numerous rumors around here and now i am at the university where used to study the hong kong university of science and technology you can hear the people shouting behind me they were holding come the memory event here. now leaving the area that we have going to probably see them around today again this house of course and got the students along ok so the students are angry tell us more about the general reaction to the news of the students' death i mean the details aren't. here but people already have opinions about what happened. yes but what is clear that he died during a protest and he would be the 1st person to die in direct consequence off of protests that have been other deaths and also rumors of test $103.00 not been confirmed to have been suicides but this would be the 1st case where somebody would have died directly linked to a protest although we do not know exactly what led to his death and that is of course going to ignite the protests further we have the impression that the protests might be slowing down a little bit also with district elections coming up in 2 weeks but this is clearly something tha

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in response to the death of a young man last week it was a student from the university of science and technologyces surrounding his death are quite clear. police are still investigating it. although there we re investigating it. although there were reports saying initially that he was trying to escape after police we re he was trying to escape after police were firing tear gas. this is yet to be confirmed by any further investigation from the police. so they called for this citywide strike and the protesters have been setting up and the protesters have been setting up different sorts of barricades on major thoroughfares as well as disrupting train services throughout the morning. there having clashes between protesters and the police throughout the morning already. ok, martin, thank you for bringing us up—to—date with events in hong kong. that is martin yip. as soon as there is more information we will be back with you. authorities in australia have declared a state of emergency, with weather conditions expected to worsen significantly in the next 2a hours. 64 bush fires are still burning and se

technology china is a step ahead of the ministry of science and technology has officially started preserve 60 telecommunications technology a group of experts from universities research institutes and data prizes is responsible for developing the stat it 6 g. could be available for 2030 owners. german exports rebounded more than forecast in september elaine fears that europe's biggest economy could stumble into a recession the jones it's just it's office says seasonally adjusted it's 40 increased by one and a half percent of the month the biggest increase in so you have a 2017 data published earlier this week painted a mixed picture of the industrial sector with a panel of economists advise of the government saying germany's long term upswing and come to an end. let's go live to frankfurt to chelsea delaney shows he how much of a surprise is this used up new data. it's certainly a surprise and certainly relief given all of the really gloomy data that's been coming out of germany over the past several months looking into the route to the details of the report sort of the hardest hit areas of german of the german economy seem to have rebounded so trade to the

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was a 22 year old student doing a computer science undergraduate at the hong kong university of science and technology now today's graduation day here in hong kong at this particular campus and at that particular graduation a number of those students have joined this memorial to pay tribute to this particular student who died on friday now the head of macho earlier down to the vice chancellors office where they've actually graffitied his office or the exterior of his office that now marched up behind me and they're now basically vandalizing graffiti and trying to attack and damage some of the operations on campus that are affiliated with mainland groups or certainly a chinese operation so certainly there's been a lot of mourning here in hong kong and a memorial but there's also anger from the friends and colleagues of this 22 year old student i was going to ask you about the impact this death is likely to have on the protest movement which has been going on for what 5 months now how is it likely to continue. we're looking at some of the you were talking to some of these students here today on friday t

child was a computer science undergraduate at the hong kong university of science and technology fried i was the graduation ceremony for many of these students that event became a memorial as his colleagues paid tribute to the 22 year old i think is a very grave day and we all have we all have i think a lot of humble people not just for us the members have a man tall operation for this but still when it comes to fact it hurts a lot this could be the 1st death as a direct result of the confrontations between police and protesters in hong kong the anti-government movement blames the police for child injury which occurred when tear gas was fired on students during a dispersal operation she was trying to avoid i am from the police but you get. caught for them from cop car and so today we are on. our. also our my. government the police to launch a fleet that's because the government has expressed its regret and sorrow of the death of the 22 year old student standing sympathies to the family but this incident is lucky to further anger the antiques. movement more protests is expected to join

reporter: he was a computer science and graduate at the hong kong university of science and technology. friday was the graduation ceremony for many of these students. the event became a memorial as his colleagues pay tribute to the 22-year-old. >> i think it is a very crazed day. a lot of hong kong people -- not just members, i have a mental preparation for this. when it comes to this, it hurts a lot. reporter: this can be the first death as a direct result of the confrontations between police and protesters in hong kong. the antigovernment movement blames the police for the injuries, which occurred when teargas was fired on students during a dispersal operation. >> he was trying to avoid an attack from the police by the teargas. he had fallen from a car park. mournful of our loss, and we demand for the government and police to launch a full investigation. reporter:reporter: the government expressed regret and sorrow for the death, sending sympathies to the family, but this incident is likely to serve anger. the movement has more protesters expected to join this weekend. high profile p

for more we're joined by harry hoster he's a professor at the university of lancaster and an expert on battery technology why did just not really choose germany it's worth noting that the right the engineering reputation has taken kind of a hit with the botched building of the airport with the diesel gate scandal so what's going on there so i think there's 3 important points to be made here one is it's so technically very clever to have a foothold in the one of the largest automotive markets in europe which at the same time is host also many of the strongest automotive mass produced within europe and that will certainly help to to increase their share in the european market as well as similar moves help the german companies extending their presence in the united states the 2nd point is there is a lot of embedded knowledge in the german common effect during industry about how to mess manufacture cars and this is exactly the thing tesla does not get to a 3rd maybe at a minor point is that germany office barrier free access to the products from the chemical industry which are key ingredients to the battery

guidelines now today on friday there's been the graduation of a number of students university of hong kong science and technology campus but this particular graduation a number of the students have joined a memorial to pay tribute to the 22 year old who died on friday and that the university has issued a statement they've asked for students and these protesters to show restraint and to show peace and to avoid conflict but at the moment other prop the protesters have actually marched up to now vandalizing and graffiti some of the operations on this campus that are affiliated with the mine and mine and chinese companies another government has issued a statement saying that they show deep regret and sorrow for the death of this student so certainly there's been a lot of mourning here in hong kong and a memorial but there's also anger from the friends and colleagues of this 22 year old student. meanwhile 2 pro-democracy activists have been in court in hong kong joshua wang and agnes child are charged over an unauthorized protest outside the police headquarters in june 1 has called for everyone in the city to wear bl

thank you to mark cannice, professor of entrepreneur ship and innovation at the university s ition of bloomberg technologyrrow. this ibloomber ♪ haidi: very good morning. i'm haidi stroud-watts. we are under oh hour away from the markets open in japan and south korea. shery: good evening from new york. i'm shery ahn. sophie: i'm sophie in hong kong. welcome to daybreak asia. ♪ this: the top stories wednesday. talking tough on trade. china wants tariffs lifted before any deal can be agreed. transpacific trade has slumped in recent weeks. nonetheless, optimism about a

child was a computer science undergraduate at the hong kong university of science and technology friday was the graduation ceremony for many of the students that event became a memorial as his colleagues paid tribute to the 22 year old i think it's a very grave day and we all have we all have i think a lot of home people not just for us the members have a man tall operation for this but still when it comes to fact it hurts a lot this could be the 1st death as a direct result of the confrontations between police and protesters in hong kong the anti-government movement blames the police for a chance injury which occurred when tear gas was fired on students during a dispersal operation she was trying to employ cash from the police fired tear gas was caught for them from a cop and so today we want. our house and also obviously my government the police to launch a full test against the government has expressed its regret and sorrow of the death of the 22 year old student standing in sympathies to the family but this incident is lucky to further anger the anti-government movement with more pr

zweig his of the the director of transnational china consulting and prof at hong kong university of science and technology he's joining us from hong kong thanks very much of david's wife for being with us on the al-jazeera news hour let's just 1st look into china's response it's promising countermeasures what does that mean and what can china practically do. well most of us who've been thinking about this would say that there's really not that much that china can do you know you can look at. say they don't import that much from the united states right now so it's hard to punish the united states through cutting back on imports for example liquid natural gas they import a lot of gas from the united states but they've already stopped doing that soybeans lobster's all that stuff they they've stopped already doing that during the trade war so there's not much that they have on that side on the other side they want to continue to be able export so they don't really want to intensify the trade war because they you know if you see jinping you need to export more because you're losing jobs in south china firms ar

he was a second-year student at the hong kong university of science and technology. say he fell from the third to the second floor of the car park. global news 24 hours a day, on air, and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. anna, matt? anna: thank you very much. next, the u.s. and china agree on a tariff roll back only if a deal is signed. are stocks skeptical? that is the conversation we have been having so far this morning. that is a conversation we will have a further. bloomberg is live on your mobile device or on the radio. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ to "bloombergback markets: european open." right now, we are 16 minutes away from the start of cash trading across europe and the u.k. futures are pointing lower after the big gains we have seen so far this week. optimism may be taking hold -- may have taken hold of equity markets, but below the surface, stocks are undergoing one of the most violent rotations is 2002. it is factor friday and here with the moves of the week is dani burger.