Yes. Hello good morning it's 4 o'clock on 5 wide with Kyle MacDonald We're staying up all night I'm a new son 5 Live Professor Stephen Hawking dies at the age of 76 playing sports an Old Trafford nightmare for Manchester United as they crash on to the Champions League. This is b.b.c. . With the b.b.c. News of 4 o'clock here's Joe Hornby it's been announced that the world famous British their radical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has died he was 76 confirming the news his children Lucy Robert Sam Tim called him a great scientist and an extraordinary man and legacy will live on for many years. The deadline set by the government from Moscow to explain how a Russian made nerve agents was used to poison a former spy in Salzburg has passed the Kremlin says any measures taken by the u.k. Will meet with a response the u.s. France and Germany have all said they support Britain and Riley Smith is the Telegraph's us editor yesterday the White House refused to copy the u.k. And point the finger at Russian formally today we've seen a slight at forwards from top to treason the White House issued a more forthright statement but we are going to see this tension play out in the coming days where the u.s. Is in her lockstep with Britain when it comes to reacting to Russia because that in a vote of. The sacked u.s. Secretary of state's Rex Tillerson House warned of Russia's troubling behavior and actions in his parting statement he was sacked by President Trump following a series of public disagreements CIA director Mike Pompei o has been named as his successor Gary O'Donoghue is all Washington correspondent they have a similar world view particularly on things like Iran like Poppy is very strong he's very strong on things like Guantanamo Bay and keeping that open which is of course something the president has done and also he has a robust view on things like some of the techniques that the CIA used to use in terms of waterboarding and things like that. Counter-terror police a leading the investigation into the unexplained death of a Russian exile living in London it collide blush called was found dead at his home . Hospital stuff in England treating an average of 12 victims of knife attacks every day that's according to n.h.s. Data analyzed by the b.b.c. The number of people admitted with knife wounds is that it's highest level for 5 years that active superintendent unit Jennings's from South Yorkshire Police and I crime summed up in 2 words then fighting the actually part of what we have to do here and order to tackle it effectively as we start to educate make our young man a particular thoughtful about the consequences likely to come and not just for themselves but for their family prosecutors in Florida are seeking the death penalty for the teenager accused of killing 17 people at a high school last month 19 year old Nicholas Cruz has admitted carrying out the attack and is charged with premeditated murder. 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And a change in Europe also suggests there may be issues with the approval of medicines and an increase in waiting times professor and Bennett is from the group if you're an old person who was a trouble to continental Europe and we no longer have a scheme like the European Health Insurance card you might end up paying an arm and a leg for health insurance which might put you off going abroad and the government has to spend $50000000.00 pounds trying to create more cohesive communities it'll be child in 5 areas and they'll be help the people in minority communities wanting to improve their English and for women who want to find jobs and it hasn't has the sports it was a nightmare not for Manchester United as they were knocked out in the last 16 of the Champions League they were beaten 21 at home by severe after a goal this 1st leg brace from substitute Wissam been yet or did the damage last despite Romelu Lukaku pointed goal back light on. 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Minutes on the program will reflect on the life of Stephen Hawking who's died at the age of $76.00 The world famous physicist and cosmologist was the subject of the $24000.00 film The Theory of Everything which starred any red meat and Felicity Jones the contract into motor neuron disease in 1963 and at that time was given just 2 years to live but he went on to study at Cambridge and became one of the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein for scientists and family members it was Hawking's intuition and sense of humor that marked a moat as much of course as the broken body in synthetic voice that came to symbolize the unbounded possibilities of the human mind. Professor Stephen Hawking the distinguished theoretical physicists and cosmologists has died at the age of 76 his book a brief history of time appeared on the British Sunday Times bestseller list for a record breaking 237 weeks Professor Hawking children Lucy Roberts and Tim have issued a statement in the last few minutes saying we are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today he was a great scientists and an extraordinary man whose work in legacy will live on for many years his courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world he once said it would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love we will miss him forever he was severely disabled by a form of motor neuron disease but continued to make contributions to cosmology into his seventy's recently surprising researchers in the field by changing his mind about what happens to matter that falls into black holes Nick high and looked back as life Stephen Hawking's voice was instantly recognizable and like much about him it was remarkable It wasn't his own speaking through a computerized voice synthesizer was just one of many challenges this vision resign interests amounted as he transformed our view of the. Verse from his motorized wheelchair he developed motor neuron disease as a student that he later claimed that he been bored with life before the mere fact of having to organize my thoughts so I can explain to us shows me a new way forward his scientific reputation rested on his work on black holes which he concluded went as black as everyone had thought the lights couldn't escape their immense gravitational pull he suggested something called Hawking radiation could and that eventually black holes evaporated his fame sprang from his book a Brief History of Time which sold 10000000 copies eventually developed a theory of everything which suggested the universe evolves according to well defined laws. Of questions. Questions. He became an unlikely celebrity appearing in The Simpsons and an episode of Star Trek where he played poker with Isaac Newton in 2014 his life was dramatized in the theory of everything with Eddie Redmayne playing hawking his private life was complicated with his 1st wife Jane he had 3 children but in 1990 he left her after 26 years for his nurse Elaine They married only to divorce later as for his scientific work he continued to make contributions into his seventy's announcing that he'd changed his mind about one key issue and concluded that it was possible to get information bag out of a black hole that's Nick Haim looking back on the life of Stephen Hawking who has been confirmed in the last few minutes has died at the age of 76 a reminder of what Professor Hawking children Lucy Roberts and some of said We're deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today he was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on from . Many years his courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world he once said it would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love and we will miss him forever I want to share a couple of a couple of lines from an article that Ian Sample who's the Guardian's science editor has posted online. We were hearing as well about Professor Hawking studying at Cambridge a couple minutes ago apparently he once estimated he worked only 1000 hours during his 3 undergraduate years when he was an Oxford he said you were supposed to be either brilliant with 0 effort or accept your limitations that was in his 2030 not a biography my brief history in sample continues that in his finals Hawking came borderline between a 1st and 2nd class degree convinced that he was seen as a difficult student he told his examiners that if they gave him a 1st he would move to Cambridge to pursue his Ph d. Award a 2nd and he threatened to stay Oxford and they opted for 1st his 1st major breakthrough came in 1970 when he and Roger Penrose applied the mathematics of black holes to the entire universe and showed that a singularity a region of infinite curvature in space time lay in our distant past the point from which came the big bang and we're reflecting at throughout the rest of the program on the life of Professor Stephen Hawking after it was announced that he's died at the age of 76 will return to that before the end of the program this morning now I want to bring you up to date on a special congressional election in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district it's been too close to call all night in fact for fans of democracy it's been a pretty exciting night particular state it's traditionally a Republican district that President one fairly easily and 2016 John to marry is the national political reporter with The Philadelphia Inquirer Hello John. Thanks for having Hi Thanks for joining us can you just bring us up to date with where we're up to with the count at this stage. Yes So all the voting that was in today has been counted some of the counties out there are still going through absentee ballots that have been mailed and at the moment that Democrat Connor Lamb has a very narrow lead of just a few 100 votes that looks like it may be enough for him but it's still too close to call definitively and we're just waiting for some of these very rural counties to get through the process of opening these on votes and literally counting the last number of votes on John I mean that was expected to be cool as was who says expected to be a school says this. Not this close I think most of us thought that there'd be an answer by this hour for sure and a little past midnight here but we were still waiting and it is a surprise that it's close at all though to be honest when you look at the big picture when President Trump won it by close to 20 percentage points in 2016 and less than 2 years later it's a nail biter Yeah absolutely I believe that actually previously Democrats didn't even feel the challenger in this particular district because they saw such a done deal what's changed was allowed them to challenge this this particular district. Well I think there's 2 things in the reason why the 1st one is the reason why I think everybody so interested in this race for one congressional seat out of 435 and it's that there's been a fierce backlash from Democrats ever since President Trump won a lot of people on the left were just stunned that he could win in 2016 and they have been eager to cast votes ever since then to kind of rebuke him and and stand up and try to venture that last somehow and at the same time a lot of folks who maybe like to trump or weren't sure of him have to have soured on him even though he won this district really easily. His approval rating among likely voters in one poll was basically split even giving for 4949 for people who approve and disapprove of him so that's the real national trend here that there is a backlash to President Trump that seems to be coming in elections this year and in the many more congressional races that we'll see later on this year and the other factor that Democrats have a candidate who is uniquely moderate and broke with his party on a lot of key issues and managed to appeal to some of these blue collar voters who had sided with President Trump before right and that's the interesting another interesting aspect to all of this is the comparison of of the 2 candidates in this election. That's right I mean one is this really a young up incoming Democrat named Connor lamb is 33 years old and the other is a Republican state representative named Rick's a cone who has basically said he'll be for almost anything Trump is for you says he wants to go in he's a former Air Force band and he says he wants to be Trump's wing man down in Washington Lam has supported Trump on several issues including some of the tariffs that the president says he wants to put on an imported steel which is not a typical position of Democrats he's opposed bans on assault weapons and rifles which is also not typical but he has criticized the president's tax cuts and some other positions so he's really had a real balancing act and he is seen as a much more ambitious and better retail politician thence a cone who a lot of Republicans have criticized as not running a real great race and I think that I'm right in saying there's been 7 special elections held during the presidency of Donald Trump and I'm just going to just some of the steps that I've been glancing at just noted that the average shift in the special elections from the 2016 results was generally that the Democrats gained by 16 points and tonight it looks like it's around 20 what does that kind of indicate ahead of the midterms coming up later this year. It indicates a lot of problems for Republicans again it is we talked about a little earlier it shows that Democrats are really energized and ready to go that Republicans are not as energized and we've seen in our area in Philadelphia where you have much more competitive districts than the one we're talking about tonight and a number of Republicans have already retired just kind of reading the writing on the wall and thinking they don't have much chance in this kind of environment and they're already stepping aside rather than campaigning and likely losing. What will be what will be the strategy to use and Trita Parsi from here on in what what will they be looking to real life in the next few months it's going to be a big question for Republicans because they had passed the major tax cuts last year and that was what they really were counting on to bolster them and give them a chance at the polls this year and they campaigned hard on that in this particular election and it didn't really work for them so it's not clear right now what their plan b. Is going to be a Democrats there's a lot of debate honestly within their party despite their success about what their message should be because a lot of people want to be very critical of the president and make this all about him but other folks will say that that's what Hillary Clinton did and it didn't work for her and so they also there are voices out there that party that say they need to find a way to appeal more to the working class voters others say they want to appeal to the real liberal base and so there is a debate within the Democratic Party even though things are looking good for them about what's the best way to try to capitalize on this and win and I should say for folks who might not realize really the import of this race is that having the house would give the Democrats a chance to stop Trump's agenda to confess to gate him and it's really what demo the reverse of what Republicans did in 2010 when they took the house they were really able to stifle President Obama's agenda for the last 6 years of his term. It's worth mentioning as well just how much money both parties had to spend on this and election resulting in this as we see too close to call at the minute is that indicative of how the rest of the year may go that they may need to through millions and millions of dollars in the. Future special elections and the midterms as well well the 70000000 spent but I doubt there'll be any other House races where there is as much money spent as this one I'm part of the reason so much was spent on this is that it's the only race going right now there's no other options and it shows you just how important this is symbolically because the winner gets a 9 month term it's really not that important in the short term practically but both parties knew that symbolically it could make a real blow if Republicans lost and Republicans were on the fence about running might look at this and consider retirement if they think that things are really turning against them nationally so it was. Really an absurd about of money for this kind of race but it shows you what the stakes for or at least what the parties think the stakes are Yeah absolutely and this is as it slowly then into a decent Democratic turnout do we think or is it. Are there other things at play here as you were saying the Democrats are feeling energized they're feeling mobilized they're getting a vote. Yes and that's certainly a big part of it but again the other part is that a lot of people have not been happy with President Obama his approval rating in most polls is somewhere around 40 percent which is pretty poor for for a 1st term president this or early into his term so there certainly has been a backlash to him even heard from some Republicans who say that voters like his policies are Republican voters that we like his policies but even they are a little turned off by his personality and the way he conducts himself and that seems to really be coming back to bite Republicans right now you know there's a hardcore 30 to 35 percent who are with him no matter what but a lot of the rest of the country is turned off by those very same antics. Thank you very much John good to join us and give us some time this evening or this morning where we are this evening with you John to marry from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Bringing us the latest on that special congressional election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District and the latest tally has the difference between the 2 candidates a difference of about $579.00 volt sort of means too close to call between the Democrat and Republican candidates there will let you know as soon as there is a result to report just want to remind you of the news that's been developing in the last half hour or so and it is that Professor Stephen Hawking the distinguished theoretical physicist has died at the age of 76 his children Lucy Roberts and Tim issued a statement saying they are deeply saddened that their beloved father passed away they say he was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years his courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world he once said it would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love we will miss him for ever Professor Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76 we'll continue to reflect on the life of Professor Hawking throughout the course of the program up until 5 am of course We'll step away from that for the next couple of minutes though and just find out the stories that are making the news in Germany Tobias Armbruster is in Cologne and he told me that the German government appeared to be supporting the u.k. In its ongoing confrontation with Moscow and the German government seems to follow this story very closely this is I think because under her skirt in a way her own history it with Russia she telephoned this afternoon. To resign and later a spokesman for that. Was taking this all in very seriously and she also condemned it and she's taking very serious READY. The British point a few that Russia is most likely behind this attack and she also said that she wants to stay in very close consultation with Theresa May and I think this one is significant because in the past couple of weeks and months we have seen a very key a rift between many European countries Germany in particular and the United Kingdom because of practice it and this seems to be a situation where. Both sides seem to seem to realize again how important this is to to work closely together and I said already that I'm glad I can ask of her own history with Russia she lived in the German Democratic Republic when the wall was still up and at the same time of the night in a piece of loving this Putin was a k.g.b. Agent over that show so she basically she had to purse hand experience of what the secret police from Russia can do and this has in a way fall into quality to what's Russia definite the over the past 20 years it's a clear contrast to what previous sesa should not it was very close and still is a very close friend with. Underlying medical always kept a very curious distance to plotting uprooting kept him always or rather treated him with with a certain portion of mistrust and I think this policy worked because blooding with Putin always. Has taken have very very seriously so in a way this might maybe be be a good support for for Great Britain in this situation what we're speaking of Anglo Marco she says she's finally going to be or her cabin is going to be sworn sworn in on Wed and stay 6 months after the election. The government that's taken the longest period of time for being formed in the. Modern time of Germany since since World War 2 year there was never a government that's the test taking so long this is of course in a way a sign already of how weak she is she had to take 2 attempts to form a government the 1st one didn't work out the 1st could mission and then the 2nd set of talks that finally what that was one sign full fall under the Americans weakness and now we are seeing a set of minutes those the ministers who will be sworn in tomorrow and found we can also see that something has changed and the arithmetic and glamour Curt's politics because so. Of the 3 governments she always tries to keep her rival her critics out of all talks height she basically pushed to the side she never gave them any any serious office and now we have to hand this government a very young ambitious conservative c.d.u. Politician can spawn and I'm cool in a way was forced to give in the ministry because the pressure on time from from her critics was so stock that she didn't have any other option now yen spawn he's a he's a young politician in the sense not not even 40 years old he will become health ministry minister but I think he will he will use this job not only for 'd or for health policy he will also form his his own career within the party and he has already made very clear that at some points he is at loggerheads with angle on that he criticised all the speed towards refugees already several times and now this week he said something very controversial something that he would never say in that way if. That the German system of basic welfare payouts cold of a he as hot see a does not mean that anyone else is living in poverty which basically means that he that he set living on $400.00 euros per month is quite Ok and he can get by with it now there wasn't wasn't a huge outcry after he said that he didn't take it back and this shows that he has that I think that he feels quite strongly can discover man that he feels that he is quite some some support so political observers see in Germany really take a very close look at this really special relationship between against fungus this young critic of Uncle America and the Chancellor herself and what comes out of that over the next couple of months I'm just a final story from you then Tobias runs a series of attacks on Turkish institutions in Germany what's going on. You know that it's not really clear what is going on what what police are seeing at what's what people in countries like the lady are cities like Berlin and took up a seeing this that there have been attacks in the past week on several Turkish institutions and and mosques police so far still investigating who is behind this but they seem to be some very strong claims that in spite of all be connected to what is currently happening in northern Syria around the town of freeing when the Turkish military is fighting the future pain against Kurdish militias now here in Germany we have got a huge Turkish population also a huge huge Kurdish population and. They have been in the past times when these 2 attractions in a way where holding demonstrations against each other but there has never been anything like like a serious off attacks where people were burning down houses things like. That police over here are saying that this is a very very likely possibility that this ongoing conflict in Northern Syria is now being played out on the streets of Germany and other set it after it has suddenly emerged over the weekend dozens of attacks in these 2 cities and no one really knows how how this will go on so police are keeping this a very close look is this is this part of the reason perhaps the President Erdogan of Turkey was stopped from speaking in Germany relatively recently it might be I don't think so it might be and if you see it. In the bigger context. Of the ground appearing in Germany usually in stadiums it for thousands or tens of thousands of Turkish supporters is also always sparking some controversy and authorities of here are always saying that. He might he might believe he might fuel aggression among the truckers community over here but I don't think anyone would suggest that he. Is basically making other people so aggressive that they would start to burn down mosques but. Indeed President out again speaking Germany is always a huge controversy and I think. German politicians Alquist do always try to avoid this at all cost that's Tobias Armbruster bringing us news there from Germany as we've been reporting in the last little while on the whole night Professor Stephen Hawking the theoretical physicist and cosmologist has died at the age of 76 his book a brief history of tell you appeared in the British Sunday Times bestseller list for a record breaking 237 weeks and we've had this statement from Professor Hawking's children. Lucy Robert and Tim He said We are deeply saddened to this our beloved father passed away today he was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work in legacy will live on for many years his courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world he once said it would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love we will miss him forever Professor Stephen Hawking who's died at the age of 76 let's speak to Sean Carroll research professor of physics at the mirror center for theoretical cosmology and physics at the California Institute of Technology Caltech Hello there Sean Hi No not at all thank you for joining us on a sad day absolutely it's as I've already said on Twitter it Stephen Hawking was one of the very rare scientist to a super duper famous and deserved every single bit of it he was a unique individual I believe that you met Professor Hawking I did a high did under somewhat unusual circumstances but maybe not if you knew Stephen very well not only was he really in person but he also had an amazing sense of humor and he offered me a job when I was a young graduate student looking for research position but I had to turn him down for personal reasons then 3 years later he offered me a job again and I had to turn him down I only met him after that and he was extremely gracious let's put it that way but they but they all remember that I was the 1st to call. When was this when most of the you you turned on the jobs then went on to me to me as well. That's right so the 2nd time that I turned down I went to u.c. Santa Barbara the stupid theoretical physics there and Stephen used to visit California every year he would come close to Cal Tech for a long time and then to Santa Barbara just a main goal with the physicist to talk about black holes and science and one of the 1st things that struck you was that he simply would not let his disability get in the way of doing what he wanted to do if he wanted to fly from Cambridge Santa Barbara California to talk to some string theorists about quantum mechanics and gravity that's what he was going to do what was it like being in his company. Well it was I mean probably the most intimidated I've ever been as a scientist you know he obviously was a brilliant mind and I remember in 1988 when I was in Santa Barbara that was the year that astronomers discovered that the universe is not only expanding but also accelerating and I was very fortunate because this is the one little area of physics that I was the world's expert in and exactly at that time Stephen was visiting Santa Barbara and I got a summons down to his office come explain this exhilarating universe to Steve I'm sure that he knew about the underlying physics of it enormously better than I ever did but he would ask questions I would answer it was slow but it was always rewarding everything he said every little precious word was well thought out and really meant something must be so yes you see intimidating being in the presence of him when he's when he's interrogating you like that I suppose all. The knowledge that you have. It's just amazing to contemplate what he accomplished even if he was perfectly healthy and able to get around there's very few people who did as much as he did for as long as he did the idea that he wrote books you know that he would do calculations during the half hour time that it would take to get him put to bed by nurses. And that his mind was always working that he was as it wasn't because he only thought about physics and nothing else he thought deeply about. The broader implications of physics but artificial intelligence about the state of the world and only we could all be a little bit more like Stephen Hawking the world be a better place you mentioned his sense of humor a moment ago tell us about that. I think I can say with confidence that Stephen Hawking was the most stubborn person I've ever met in that in the is the best possible son. And mischievous you know it wasn't just that he would have wise cracks but like he would say things to get a reaction to get a rise out of people he would he would target what he said at you because he knew what your predispositions were like if you believe one thing you would just as we say well what about this completely other thing. He would you know plan out elaborate jokes for his talk because when he gave a talk of course it was not extemporaneous he planned out the whole thing long and then and. He just did an amazing job. At. It making everyone laugh as well as you know what you mention is stubborn this there I believe he was when he was diagnosed he was only given 2 years to live was the was the the prognosis for him and the last of that prediction as we all know best That's exactly right yeah he was in his early twenties when he was diagnosed and given 2 years to live he died at 76 I don't think it's a coincidence his stubbornness because I think that he just refused to die he just had no other star to do it you know and he always had a very calm demeanor about the whole thing and I read a quote by him saying that you know he's faced death for most of his life and he knew that it could happen any time and for years now we would hear from thousands of miles away oh Steven has pneumonia there's sort of an unspoken worry but then a couple weeks later out even though. He was just sort of Will himself into continuing and continuing extraordinarily I want Sean thank you very much thank you for taking the time to talk to us and reflect on the life of Professor Stephen Hawking and what a treat one absolute privilege must have been to met him as well that Sean Carroll research professor of physics at the mercy enter for thier theoretical scuse me cosmology and physics at California Institute of Technology reflecting on the life of Professor Stephen Hawking after the Unknowns win that he's died at the age of $76.00 more to come on that at least from this is 5 life it's $436.00 digits along on smartphones and tablets this is b.b.c. 5 Live and with the b.b.c. News on 5 Live Here's Joe Hornby Professor Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76 his family have called him a great scientist and an extraordinary man his work and legacy will live on for many. Moscow's failed to respond to terrorism A's deadline for an explanation over the use of a Russian made nerve agents to poison Sergei annually a script in Salisbury Russia has denied involvement and says any measures taken by the u.k. Will meet with a response Donald Trump says he sacks the u.s. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson because they disagreed on t. Many things he's been with placed by CIA Director Mark Mike Pompei and the creators of the Netflix series the Crown have admitted paying Clare for he placed the queen less the Matt Smith says the cheek of Edinburgh produces Ses because of his previous role in talk to him let's go live to Hamilton where England's cricketers are taking or uneasy 11 in their day knights or match Simon Mann has the latest attitude a game in the New Zealand 11 a batting today and they are $154.00 for 6 which is a significant recovery as they were 345 early wickets Randerson he took 21 for broad one for wood and Mo in Ollywood has taken one subsequently Doug Bracewell leaving one his off Bell knocked off he was out for 34 but Tom blunder early made a century on Test debut for New Zealand is not in the squad for next week's 1st Test at Eden Park is but it really well he's 81 not and he's holding England up on the 1st day of this match another big blow their ponies even 11 a 6 and it's a 160 for 6 as the latest here in Hamilton and it happened has the rest of the sport and it's been a nightmare Champions League night at Old Trafford for Manchester United tenure in a friendly I was shocked at the word I shouted Jack was trying to the boat was played in had it all talked about that was our cameras were to change who was I know what I've got a shocking tower was going good night you don't write of a child dangerous Amatus United out of the Champions League big in the last 16 of the competition they fell to a 2 hour. In defeat at home to severe affray goalless 1st leg a brace from substitute Wissam but neither did the damage has despite Romelu Lukaku pulling a goal back united approach to that game has been criticised for not being attacking enough but manager Joe simmering Young says he's had no problem with the way they played I don't have regrets I did my best the players they did the best we tried we lost and that's what I was a good performance was about. Tension and the way we started was was really good and was really positive the 1st well we've always change the direction of the game sometimes I. Look at the challenges other times other managers I look river changes my mom arenas decision to work as a World Cup pundit for the Kremlin backed television channel r.t. Has been strongly criticised by an m. Pay after the Solve attack the Member for Ronda Chris Bryant claims it's blood money paid directly from the Russian state coffers the Manchester United manager has repeatedly refused to answer any questions about the role elsewhere in the Champions League tonight rumors one will win at home to shut down the nest season through on away goals in the Championship Cardiff City kept pace with leaders wolves but crucially now have a 7 point lead over 3rd place Aston Villa Cardiff straight one come from behind win it Branford means there remain 3 adrift of the leaders to great feeling ill I'm not proud of you know a lot of teams would have gone under tonight look at the printer at the start we had in the way they were playing but boy did we stick in knowing in the show the character that we've got and then the football came through with the start passing it around and I just thought it was a really good team performance as well Aberdeen are through to the semifinals of the Scottish Cup Maybe you come on and on penalties in that quarter final replay can find all of tonight's results on the b.b.c. Sport website now by over there written by jockey Barry Garrett c has joined so we're just racing greats by winning back to back stagings of the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival but the $64.00 on favorite only took the prestigious prize narrowly Mellen by a neck cases. And he. Did it he's done everything right away even if they thought it was a penalty he got a battle. 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Changing your child. Should be easier I send. My country we bring Bosler against Chelsea 745 kick the way for Champions League the 66 is your station this is fine. If you leave East Asia if you decide for a fall a flight that costs listen to you talk radio. This is up all night with Cal McDonald It's 443 we're with you till 5 o'clock this morning as we've been reporting in the last hour a theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has died he was 76 his children of said We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today he was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years his courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world his book a brief history of time appeared on the British Sunday Times bestseller list for a record breaking 237 weeks he was asked if everyone managed to finish the book. Let got stuck on 820 but I know plenty of people are all over the world people tell me it happened so I did it. They me finish or have understood everything they read but at least I do know that we live in a universe governed by rational laws that weekend discover and understand Professor Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76 more on this before the end of the program will just break we from it for a few minutes just now because this is the time of year that everyone who works on up all night of course fears and worries about after carefully acquiring a detailed knowledge of us time differences and listing rule states that are in 2 time zones in there more than you think by the way El when I The wouldn't last weekend when America moved to Daylight Saving Time apart from the clocks altering there's the fact that and Hawaii just don't bother to change then there's Florida which is thinking of staying on summer hours for the entire year and don't blame them I could go on but that might get spectacularly doe the legislation for messing about with time given 100 years ago and Michael dining a lecturer in creative writing at Tufts University and the author of spring forward the Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time joined me earlier to tell me how he feels this time of year but I'm always happy to give up an hour to the federal government particularly happy that I still not sure why I do it with the rest of Americans I'm just confused how did it come to be the history of this where you know we were really following the bridge and it was an. Architect writing fruit Tantra London early in the 20th century who looked up during those summer days when we had very early sunrise times and saw that people were sleeping through that sunrise and he thought that was a terrible waste of a natural resource So 'd his name was William well and he proposed to parliament to set the clocks forward so that we would have that hour of daylight at the end of the day to use for recreation and for possibly saving some energy here as you might know was laughed out of Parliament for 10 years then the World War was. Broke out the Germans got hold of the idea embarrass the Brits by adopting a wholesale then Britain followed and then America fall of the Brits and that's how it began. I mean some of the reasons for it do seem reasonable to all Nates or making the most of daylight when it's around and yet it also seems reasonable doesn't it you know and it almost seems reasonable that we can stick our fingers into the face of our clocks and actually create more daylight the problem is we can't and here in America I think we've pressed the confusion how to even further than most of the rest of the world because we now practice daylight 8 months of the year so it has replaced our standard time and we're doing it during the winter months when we really don't have enough daylight to push around the Sun So what do you benefit this time of year well I think there are a couple of real benefits for those of us who live in the northern hemisphere and that is that having suffered a long winter we feel we're owed a little more time outside at the end of the day and that's really what daylight saving has been very good at providing right from the beginning for 100 years now is pushing us out of our houses after work and in that sense they are life saving has been a social program that's a bit of a success unfortunately we here were sold daylight savings originally and for a 100 years as an energy saving plan and if it turns out it's a terrible waste or energy How does that. Well here there are 2 things that never really happened one is there was a thought we would demand less electricity if because we slept through those morning hours of daylight we would turn on our lights later if we got that extra hour of light in the evening but it turns out particularly at this point in the 20th century in the 21st century we use air conditioning we heat and light our buildings 24 hours a day and the best studies that have been done in the states is that daylight saving actually causes people to use more energy at the end of the day when it's bright outside and they still feel they need air conditioning but there's another city really important part of the story the petroleum industry have long been supporters of daylight saving and that's because they realized as early as 130 if you give Americans more sunlight at the end of the day 'd we really do go to the ballpark and we go to the mall but we don't walk there daylight saving increases gasoline consumption that's very interesting indeed Yeah absolutely I wonder if people listening use the experts tell you to be productive what we would what would you advise then should we stick with this changing clocks back and forth year should we change them once for all and some point what would be the the way to please everyone but I think the way to please everyone is probably an elusive hope but it seems to me that at least here in the States and for most of the 20th century in Britain as well we all practice 6 months of daylight saving time and 6 months of standard time and that gave us the social benefit when Spring rolled around feeling that we were getting that extra light at the end of the day but we. We also gave us Standard Time for 6 months of the year so that we weren't trying to push our clocks ahead and have sunrise times as we now have in the States as late as $830.00 or 9 o'clock in the morning which causes problems for commuters for schoolchildren and for all sorts of other people who actually like to see their way clear in the morning Michael dining there speaking to me a little bit earlier on this tend to follow on awful nice as we've been reporting the theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has died he was 76 and will Professor Brian Schmidt is a noble prize winning astronomer and vice chancellor of the Australian National University is with us tonight Hello Professor Schmitt Good morning hi there and an aside morning really impacted did Stephen Hawking Hubble new 1st of all. I guess you know my I'm 51 and so as a child he was someone who was up there as a scientific idol someone who was able to connect the absolute cutting edge of science to you know a 15 year old boy so I think that on that front he you know helped shape my career later in life you know I learned to study his work and he brought together quantum mechanics and gravity sort of the big outstanding issue still in physics still not resolved but he's the person who has probably taken the biggest and best steps and then after winning the Nobel Prize I've had the opportunity to meet him several times and incredibly inspiring individuals who I never really thought too much of as an individual until I met him and the courage and I guess vitality he was able to live life given his condition is truly inspiring what was opposed to when you were 15 years old that the made you can exit him into. His area of expertise and inspired you to to head for the similar similar field yourself. I guess just the amazing wonder of it all being able to think here on Earth about objects on the other side of the universe or even at the beginning of time that power of humanity being in such a tiny speck to go and understand things so big and his ability to express that in a way that I found compelling as a young boy I guess is what really hooked me and of course the famous saying is to never meet your idols but then you did you met him several times what was that what were those encounters like. So the 1st time I met him I was literally walking down right after winning the Nobel Prize the hall that he works that at Cambridge and some of his office came running out and asked if I was the Nobel Prize winner from last year and I said yes and said Ah Stephen Hawking wants to talk to you and I said Ok and I went in and had a couple hour conversation with him and I just you know it was it was quite remarkable to see that vitality. You see in person in a way that it's kind of hard to imagine until you see him in person well sort of things that you talk about. Well we talked about the big discovery that I was part of the accelerating expansion of the universe which may well be a place where gravity and quantum mechanics come together in some weird way and he was talking about it as being a big surprise from him it surprised him and just wanted to know my thoughts of how we might measure. You know things better and I asked him about his view of the theory and I think we both agreed we weren't sure was he was he a scientist that was regarded unanimously as brilliant and among scientists. I think pretty much everyone sees that work he did especially in the 1970 s. Of connecting gravity and quantum mechanics as being absolutely brilliant scientists tend to be quite critical of other scientists that break in to explaining their work to the you know to the common person on the street or in society and so I think that's the place where it generated some controversy was it was simply the fact that he was prepared to go out and tell people of the public what he was doing and how important was that for what he had discovered and for scientists on the whole as well that somebody was willing to you I mean is virtually became a celebrity didn't he was very recognizable and people like you did a young age really connected with them. Yeah so I think there are very few people like him in the world and his ability to go through and take the most complex ideas and distill them in a way that brought about Wonder and created a generation a generation of scientists like myself hard to understand the value of that pot it certainly was profound for me and I presume for many others what will be his greatest legacy. Well I think it's going to be 2 things it'll be his work on black hole radiation the fact that black holes of operate due to this interplay of quantum mechanics and gravity that is something that will last for time immemorial is the person who who thought of that and I think for a generation for several generations he will be seen as the public figure of leading edge physics and astronomy that you know people 50 years from now still look back not dissimilar to how we look back to some of the greats of 20th century physics be it Einstein or you know someone like Niels Bohr someone you know he is just such a public figure and someone who had done that great work well you personally remember by so I'm going to remember more than anything his humanity as I said meeting him in person and seeing that humanity all bottled up inside of a body that had sort of left left him as being you know what most people have and being able to to use to do to do things that humanity inside him inside that body I guess is something that I would never will forget what was it like when you when you miss him and I mean just the ASBOs he never let his this disability get in the way to you you was always you know I didn't about that but it didn't provoke some sort of an even deeper respect I suppose that he was fighting in the last ways against his own boldy. Yeah I mean I guess he didn't really see it as a fight he just did it and got on with it and for me I realized that you know how no matter what happens to me in life remain positive. You know amazing things can happen and from my perspective incredibly inspiring it's a person who has a certain when I have a bad day I look at the say you know I can move on from this yeah absolutely Brian thank you very much for your time and for your reflections as well that's Professor Brian Schmidt who is a Nobel prize winning astronomer and vice chancellor of the Australian National University who was reflecting there are several meetings that you had in fact with Professor Stephen Hawking the theoretical physicist who has died at the age of 76 as children of said We're deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today he was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work in legacy will live on for many years his courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world for the rest of the day on 5 Live I'm sure will be reflecting on the life of Professor Stephen Hawking and of course as we were chatting about there he became such a public figure when it came to science so enjoyable to listen to and releasable and definitely a celebrity of course there are several films made a bow to me appeared several television programs as well Professor Stephen Hawking and as Professor Schmidt was saying there even at the age of 15 he felt that Professor Hawking was the one that he was able to connect to and made science come and come to life for him basically Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76 when stunned he died peacefully in his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday of course he was known for his work with black holes and relativity and wrote several popular science books including a brief history of time which as we've been talking about was on the British Sunday Times bestseller list for a record breaking 237 weeks. He at the age of 22 Stephen Hawking was given only a few years to live after being diagnosed with a rare form of motor neuron disease the illness of course as we all know left him wheelchair bound and largely unable to speak except through a voice synthesizer But as we've been hearing from our guests in the last little while that wasn't something that he let stand in his way and he persevered and it was a trailblazer and the world of science this is up all night does it say more reflections on the life of Stephen Hawking coming throughout the day here on b.b.c. 5 Live.