Well urging the authorities to make sure the security forces make a concerted effort to police protests with care with proportionality and between recess attain accordance with international law a new study suggests mental health problems among pregnant women a far higher than 1st thought research as a King's College London found they affect one in 4 women can have an impact on a child's future professor Louise Howard wrote the report we know that a range of conditions can impact on pregnancy outcomes in terms of weight and in terms of premature delivery but also they can impact subsequently on childhood development in terms of cognitive development and also emotional problems and there's a warning that raising the national living wage may encourage employers to automate more jobs it said to pass 8 pounds 50 an hour by 2020 the Institute for Fiscal Studies thinks that could mean more staff being replaced by machines in places like banks and shops that's the news chosen over ends at the 5th Test in Sydney. Where England 11 without loss after 5 overs cook and having to dig in here to withstand a very lively opening spells dark and Hazelwood of the Hazelwood has just been replaced by Pat comment Cook has 3 stone house 7 1st boundary of the day hit by stoma into the backward deep backward square boundary a few moments ago 11 without loss England early stage of his 5th Test match rest of the sports news comes from Jo Kerry also Vanga has described referee Anstey Taylor's decision to award Chelsea a penalty in the 2 will draw as foster home Jack Wilshere had put the home side ahead before adding hazard one and then school the spot kick off the heck to ballon appeared to catch his foot in the box Marcus Alonzo gave Chelsea the lead late on any footballer and to salvage a point for Austin with a super folly Japan's kind she Curry has pulled out of the Australian Open after thale in trick of a from a wrist injury in time the news comes as Andy Murray Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic all remain doubts for the. 1st Grand Slam off the year and Wales wing George North could miss the start of the 6 Nations with a knee injury he set to be out for up to 4 weeks this is b.b.c. On am and f.m. Are on the u.k. On digital and online I'm Raj Shah were up all night among the more contested claims made by President Trump in the months after his election was the assassin that widespread electoral fraud artificially boosted the vote for Hillary Clinton one of the states that found shelf particularly agree was New Hampshire the shop ject of a frequently repeated canard that people who didn't live in the state flock to the polls in New Hampshire to register as voters on the day tonight the president has stood by now like child Commission which great caution tried to get records of coaching from Sheykh reaches of state all over the country and all of them refuse. All over Britain is 5 plus 25 past 9 in Seneca Falls New York Amelia bloomer was a local woman who popularized a new form of clothing in the early 850 s. Bloomers were the scandal of the day 5 prostate and mind up North Dakota in the 880 s. When some people were digging for gold the residents of mine became plains combers amassing huge boon piles of Buffalo remains for the fertilizer trade 57 in the chapel now known as Our Lady of Peace instead Francis cathedral Santa Fe New Mexico the carved wood statue of the Madonna is at least 400 years old and was brought here by the Spanish 5 Posix in Eureka California best known for its grand Victorian mansions less so for the Romano Gabriel wooden sculpture garden thronged with the work of a local gardener whose raw material was all packing crates our news comes from c.b.s. . This is b.s. News on the hour. On Pam Colter the book is due out January 9th but it's already causing an earthquake in Washington in it former senior adviser Steve Bannon says President never expected or wanted to win the White House and suggested the Russia investigation would focus on money laundering c.b.s. Is even portly says the White House is fighting back the White House spokeswoman describes her boss as furious over the comments of his former chief strategist going after the president's son and absolutely outrageous an unprecedented way is probably not the best way to curry favor with anybody in interviews with author Michael Wolff Steve Bannon is quoted blasting Donald Trump Jr for setting up a meeting with Russian lawyers in which he hoped for dirt about Hillary Clinton Bennett describes that as treasonous having formerly called his top aide a good guy the president now says Bannon has quote lost his mind Stephen Portnoy c.b.s. News the White House former truck campaign chairman Paul man of Ford is going on the authentic of against. Russia's special counsel filing suit against Robert Mueller claiming he succeeded his authority c.b.s. Is Jeff a gay Atlanta for it says the investigation that led to his indictment in October is about failing to file certain reports about offshore bank accounts and failing to register as a foreign agent 1000000 of the charges he says relate to his activities during his stint as drum campaign chairman North Korean leader Kim Jong un has reopened a communications channel with South Korea ahead of the upcoming Winter Olympics Asia expert Gordon Chang says Pianka has good reason to want improved communications North Korea is suffering from the sanctions and it want relief from and it probably saw South Korea willing target so this could very much be a money the winter storm that hit the southeastern u.s. Is moving north a winter storm warning is up in New York City and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced schools will be closed tomorrow more than 2000 flights have been cancelled due c.b.s. Meteorologist Craig Allen says the storm will intensify as it heads north this is going to be an all out storm with so many different parameters that will cause a lot of problems from the Carolinas all the way on up into New England American Airlines has canceled all departures out of Boston tomorrow spokesman Ross Feinstein says they're sending their planes away overnight of course to restart resume operations tomorrow evening based on airport conditions it's easier for us to resume our operations once the snow has fallen if there are no aircraft on the ground the Dow is up 98 points today Nasdaq gained 58 this is c.b.s. News a sign the red hot car buying market is cooling down a strong last week push December sales slightly better than expected but still not as good as 26 team a story we saw last year while $27.00 teams all the 1st year over year sales decreased since 2009. The industry still sold over $70000000.00 vehicles for only the 5th time ever I would say the year was rock solid extremely competitive but rock solid G.M.'s Jim came most of the sales drops and $27.00 team involved passenger cars Jeff Gilbert former c.b.s. News Detroit there was a movie about Snakes on a plane but Alaska Airlines found a rat on one of its planes at Oakland Airport in California the flight was canceled and the airline called in an exterminator Fishel say passengers were boarding the plane when the rat jumped from the jetway onto the plane most passengers rebooked on a later flight Pam Colter c.b.s. News. Happy thought the president of the United States says that his former chief strategist has lost his mind Steve on and has quoted in a new book called fire and fury describing a meeting between Mr Trump's son Don Jr and a group of Russians as treasonous also at the meeting. Who preach. An open commission. As Mr Trump's wingman at the White House the Russians did offer Donald Trump Jr damaging information on Hillary Clinton at the meeting in June 26th. The fact is that this is causing a c.b.s. Said ructions in Washington Britney Shepherd was at the White House briefing this afternoon with a very unsettled set of Huckabee Sanders or Sarah Sanders as we know caller and she's the White House correspondent for The Independent Journal Review Hello Britney Hi Ron how are you thanks for having a good one for a good nice have you with us tell us about Sarah Sanders 1st of all because she she had some awkward questions difficult questions to answer than she sure yes and all of us in the briefing room today were sure to crest their address not only all of the strange thing and unsettling claims in this book that will be released next week but also many of the tweets that came yesterday and the flurry in Firestorm believe there were 60 maybe 70 and we were keen to figure out what terrorist temperature was and what the president's temperature wise when he saw the Guardian and then subsequently the New York magazine piece about the advantage and about more marginally the president himself need indeed so the word treasonous is have very strong word to use isn't it of anyone and and Steve Bannon uses it of dawn junior says he should have immediately reported the meeting to the f.b.i. . What was Sarah Sanders reaction to that particular quote Oh yes and to lobby treason against anyone is obviously no small claims Sarah was as she told us disgusted and appalled especially because the attack was so personal of course the president would be defense of anyone in his cabinet but especially an attack on his own son Donald Trump Jr That definitely crosses the line into if you hit me I hit back which is something that Sarah Sarah has said about the president in the past so it's clear that they were shocked and appalled. Have you ever heard her describe the president as furious about anything not necessarily of course with terrorism and nuclear war the president is keen on those 2 things but to see the president so I rate and it seems like Sarah Sanders wanted to let us know that this was personal and he was upset. Many of you of course would have come across Steve Bannan at the White House who wouldn't wouldn't you and you wouldn't recognize the president's description of Steve on this being fairly and consequential I mean I'm paraphrasing but suggesting that Steve Benen didn't really have very much to do with his government anyway and you know that's simply not the case at Bannon was chief executive of the Trump campaign in its final 3 months and he transitioned into White House chief strategist and 7 marks 7 months after that before he was fired over the summer I wouldn't call that a small change coffee boy role at all they were close friends allies some other reporters saying that they were brothers like the Cain unable and to see them split and to see the president step out and address Mr Bannon as Steve in his statement is definitely surprising. When when he did go on August 27th it was because of remarks that he had made in an interview with the American Prospect Wasn't it he talked to them a great length and and really said some things which call the whole Trump project into question of course yes and that kind of spiraled this and time I ban in sentiment within their ranks of the trumpet ministration back in October I had spoken to Anthony Scaramucci former White House communications director who as famously had a curfuffle if you will. With Steve Bannon and I spoke earlier this evening to another former White House and ministration member who said that everything the president said in his statement was and I quote spot on so it seems that that kind of kick started this anti ban in thought from inside the house if you will. So what's the general view of Steve Bannon from the from the White House press corps I mean do they believe that Steve Bannon is doing this as in a vindictive way or or what's his motivation you know it's a really good question it's hard to put a finger on what Steve Bannon is actually thinking right now as we all know Steve Banahan has this anti g.o.p. Establishment view and certainly after the special election in December in Alabama where he lost in a very major way after supporting why more credible credibly accused child molester . Steve Bannon lost the State and Alabama lost their Republican foothold so some of us might think that Steve band in this is looking to poke. Poke the fire a little bit at the g.o.p. Establishment and cause a bit of chaos in the house but we're not really sure of his intentions they seem to change all the time. And come ask you about another story was came out later on which is that this electoral commission the commission which was set out with great fanfare to to look for electoral fraud has been disbanded by the president yet as you make of that I mean in a flurry of news today we are hit with this other big story and I think it shows that the administration has gone grown frustrated with this fight to find millions of. Votes cast illegally the White House still maintains that there were illegal votes but they said in the statement that they didn't want to use valuable taxpayer money for this anymore so it seems to me and I think the other members of the press corps the White House has grown tired with fighting you know that they want this Russian vest a geisha to wrap up soon I'm not quite sure if that's going to happen in their favor so it's a bit like cutting your losses I believe. Rene Shepherd thank you very much for being with us thank you very much and stay warm out there. Really is really this White House correspondent for The Independent Journal Review a talk of staying warm I wonder if John over and this is really war last time we were with you Jonathan there were 3 runs on the board. And now there are 24 and we are warm because the sun has come out rod for the 1st time in the day it's a quarter past 1 in the afternoon here and a refreshing sight after the morning rain that we sat through here in Sydney there's been a very entertaining start this Test match cook and Stoneman at the crease dome has got most of the runs he's 20 knots out Cook is 3 not out dropping anchor but they've had to withstand a very aggressive opening spell by the Australian quick bowlers dark Hazelwood and Cummins But Stoneman in particular has impressed 3 boundaries for him one of the deep backward square boundary one to the backward point boundary in the pick of the shots a beautiful on drive back past Mitchell Starc to the lawn boundary for 4 so he's in good nick the sorry opener could well it's the last test of the series he's got to fifty's but hasn't yet to score a century on this tour what a time it would be if he could go on they have a long way from it at the moment Sturm and 20 cook 3 England 24 without loss. Thanks to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States which takes in Washington New York Boston is braced for what is called a bomb shy quote. Weather phenomenon which our weather bomb which officials say will arrive during this cold snap that's already claimed at least 11 lives apparently a severe and sudden pressure drop will lead to an explosion went to storm and lots and lots. Of snow on the coast us parts of the United States currently on the 10th day of record breaking low temperatures and Valley joins us from Connecticut Ed are you on the snowy side or the less noise side I am on the very snowy. Roads here how much snow are you expecting in your part of the world you know we're expecting anywhere from 8 to 14 inches of snow here through the day on Thursday so certainly a pretty significant storm on the way. Now it's not just snow this because you know to make a big fuss about a just a snowstorm would be one thing but this is more than that isn't it what what can you tell us about this bomb Cyclon our Bombo Genesis Yes absolutely so this is still me is very impressive in that it's going to be strengthening very quickly off the eastern coast of the United States and that's going to lead to a lot of that snow across the what we call the I 95 corridor the main megalopolis of all the cities in the eastern United States Washington New York City Boston so it's definitely going to be a very dynamic storm system with a lot of wind and a lot of snow and I think we end is is some of the the piece to this puzzle that some folks are talking about nearly as much as they should I think there's going to be a lot of very strong gusty winds blizzard conditions at times and ultimately that can lead to some power outages and obviously combined with the bitter cold in the snow that's going to be occurring that's definitely not a good situation you know indeed that that when that at this time of year it's driving. It surely bringing died she says into That's the main problem for power and of course if if the power goes and you're in very very cold temperatures that's a serious problem exactly and that's that's the thing that we're watching very closely because like you said if we have these very strong gusty winds and you have snow on some of those trees that's going to be a recipe for some of these trees to fall in ultimately lead to those power outages and with the cold that we're going to be seeing that's going to lead to some life threatening conditions at times in parts of the Northeast United States. This is quite early in January and to an event this cold in this prolonged. Have you got any ideas as to why it's happening yeah so typically we do start to see the storms developing off the East Coast as we get into January and especially into February but the recent cold snap that we've had has brought down a lot of very cold air from Canada from the North Pole in as that's come down when we have these pieces of energy coming in the atmosphere and what we call phasing together that allows feeds off of that very intense cold and the temperature gradient right along the coastline and that's where we start to see what we call the Bombo Genesis which is a term used when we see a storm deep in more than $24.00 millibars in 24 hours so that's in simplistic terms very intense. You know strengthening in a very short amount of time so if I mean it in a kind of old fashioned way if people still had barometers in the hallway they would see that the pressure go right back at very very quickly Yes exactly and that's exactly what we're going to be seeing here over the next 12 to 24 hours. So from. What Whatever we take from this do you do you attribute this then to a weak thing of the the jet stream or they are the Arctic shark elation the thing that usually keeps all that cold air further north right so so I think that that's part of this we're seeing a very unique weather pattern developing across the northern Pacific Ocean and that is very conducive to some of this colder air to spill down from the North Pole and come right into the eastern United States and that's what's really sparking you know the overall atmosphere conditions for that storm. Well look winter has a long way to go thank you very much. For having me and we have some news from Sidney Jones over and 1st it is down and it's Mark Stoneman cold behind by Would he keep it Tim pain off the bowling of Pat Cummins for 24 he played exceedingly well. To that point 2 beautiful drives to the boundary back past the bowler looks to have settled after a couple of early scares but just a feather touch on the outside edge and Australia celebrating their 1st wicket with England 2841 James Vince out to join Alastair Cook in the middle. Thank you John. German is still trying to put together a government dangler Marco holding talks with the leader of the short Democrats who previously said they wouldn't have anything to do with. Forming a new coalition Mrs Merkel said to right alliance has been unable to form a government since the inconclusive elections Tembe are and Margaret Heckel is a German political analyst and biographer of Anglo-American I asked her if there is a chance then of a new German government soon there definitely is a sensitive could work. Met each other today and it talked of course last couple of days and. It there is a good chance said they will sort of get together however the Social Democrats are in quite problematic water because right after the election their head will said he doesn't want to go into a growing coalition and now he's sort of forced to explain to his party why he goes maybe into a grand coalition again and so and that's the main problem how the Social Democrats behave themselves right but yet nobody wants sure and we've learned this nobody seems to want another election. We want to get thrown back into that situation yes and death mainly because Americans party and the Social Democrats will lose when there's another election coming up and they know it quite clearly and so. Want to avoid it parliamentarians who are who have been elected want to avoid it because they stand you know it fear of losing their mandates again so everybody in Berlin is you know quite very about new elections but it's the social democrats don't move or if the party. Vote for our going into another grand coalition then they are bound to happen. What would the Social Democrats want to go into another coalition Well one of the Christian Democrats said they need a sculpted needs you know something to show to a dear electorate that they really did fight very hard and that they really won something dead might be something in the health sector there's talk of changing the way the German health system works it might be something in the migrant question is specially the question of whether or migrants who are allowed to live in Germany and who get political asylum can invite their family. Their children or maybe death parents to come to Germany so in a couple of questions which are sort of symbolic and. And if the Social Democrats really manage to get. Important Wednesday or the my did just my it's of convinced their party to vote for another one called listen. But there's not an economic question that the vice somewhere fairly agreed are they on how they want the the German state to progress yes. Yes because Germany the economy is working and brilliance the at the moment unemployment has been down. A Qantas constantly and we're now in this to ration where we have asked you I'm employed persons as the Wall came down so that's a real success and the siddhis no real fights in terms of economic questions it's more in terms of migration policy and health policy and the view of leadership from the rest of the you and Britain of course is there any discussion about replacing Mrs America or us are completely off the table and she's going to lead the next government yes she does and of course this always talk about it but so far from from politicians who are not very important and it's more like you know it's noise at decides and once she won she if she manages to get another grand coalition is going to be elected chancellor for the 4th time it's quite clear that as soon as she is elected she will turn her attention towards European policy Breck seeds and use questions she won't focus on Germany because and that's just because there are so many open questions in the European arena Bret's it certainly being one of the most important and among. And that was Margaret hacker from Berlin and. It's exactly half past 2. 5 Premier League football anyone else this is b.b.c. 5 Live I'm sure you I didn't mean to charge so surprised Richard Foster has the b.b.c. News Donald Trump says his former chief strategist Steve Bannon has lost his mind over claims made in a new book in it the former chief strategist describes a meeting between a group of Russians and Donald Trump's son joining the election campaign as treasonous the children's commissioner for England says social media is exposing children to significant emotional risks as they start secondary school and Longfield says she's worried that many are ill equipped to cope and operations begun to recover the wreckage of a seaplane which crashed near Sydney on New Year's Eve killing 5 members of a British family Richard cousins died with his 2 sons his fiance and her daughter and Intel says it's working with other major tech firms to fix flaws that could allow hackers to steal personal data Microsoft and Apple both use Intel chips there are expected to bring out security updates soon as news Johnson over and is at the 5th Test in Sydney beautiful sunshine now here at the s e j after morning rain in England batting 1st after winning the toss of $31.00 for one hours to cook is there on 6 James vents yet to get off the mark brought to the crease because Mark Stoneman after a quick fire $24.00 including some beautiful boundaries was caught behind by Tim paying off the lively bowling of Pac Cummins England $2841.00 at that point says lots of work to be done here by Cook and Vince just to steady the ship because Australia and their pace bowlers very very interested by the conditions and the movement they're getting off this Sydney pitching and 31 for one in their 1st innings. And Joe Kerry has the rest of the sport back to balance injury time strike and are a tool. A draw against Chelsea at the Emirates in the Premier League with all 4 goals coming in the 2nd half Jack Wilshere had put the home side ahead before and has not equalized moments later from the spot market then gave Chelsea the lead lights on only fit better into salvage a point for off no with a superpower folly but for the 2nd game in a row boss also Vanna was left criticising the performance of the referee describing ansi tennis decision to award Chelsea a penalty as fossil was a remarkable game and once again we got very bad decision against us and so we have to account now in the preparation of all a game set but what we have to face and not to give up which were duped into war and it was a great for game when you come here you see who go but unfortunately she is worried by the decision and elsewhere x. Chelsea striker Diego Costa scored 5 minutes into his Athletico Madrid return after coming off the bench against the east but t.-o. Former England defender asked to call assigned a new one year contract to remain with the m.l.s. Side l.a. Galaxy at the age of 37 and Wales women forward Tasha Harding is joint reading on a long term contract Japan's kind she Curry has pulled out of the Australian Open after failing to recover from a wrist injury in time the news comes as Andy Murray roughen a doll on Novak Djokovic all remain doubts the 1st grand slam off the year Wells when George North is a doubt for his country's opening 6 nations fiction against Scotland off to sustaining and knee injury a previous knee problem picked up in October caps now out of the autumn internationals and the former Wales captain Jonathan Davis says it will have an impact on the school board it's a big blow but it's just part of the game. You're trying to reason up one of the problems of that we all got that strength in depth the you know somebody in the country so it's going to end any injuries no want to put a strain on on the on the squad especially when it's such a concentrated toward a mentor where you know it's so there's a goalie demanding and the former English. And I'm Great Britain rugby league prop Ryan Bailey has won a landmark case against u.k. Anti Doping becoming the 1st player to escape a drugs ban for refusing to submit a test sample the Toronto player was charged for failing to provide a sample in May last year because he is worried about contamination. 5. If you're Alicia by the way the very beginning of the program and even when I was talking to Phil Williams You might have heard me getting terribly excited about a book called Hotel Scarface by Miami in the age of Miami Vice you know the t.v. Series which actually turns out to be a bit true however we look forward to this because I had spoken to the author Robin far as I had earlier on today but we will be bringing you that interview next week so something for me to get excited about all over again. Iceland has become the 1st country in the world to make it illegal to paid men more than women the law will impose fines on any company or government agency with over $25.00 stuff without a government certificate demonstrating pay equality as part of a bed to eradicate the gender pay gap by 2022 and we spoke to thought student big luncheon Iceland's former minister of social affairs and equality this was his baby he announced that Iceland was introducing the law on International Women's Day last year. Corporation earth the social partners I looked the torch. Period a few years. For me it looked like a very promising. Sector tool to eliminate the gender pay gap within companies at least. I was skeptical that it. Will internally I thought that in a manner so that it reached the entire markets. And this isn't this isn't a voluntary situation is it because the new law actually imposes fines on any company or government agency that has more than 25 people that doesn't pay men and women the same just that is true they they mandate it to implement the Who placed on that with and the given time for. They temp is subject to find if they do not comply. And did you for const The cost to the government for example of making this happen and making up women's pay to the level of men's pay presumably didn't talk about bringing does the men's pay to the level of women's pay well. That is true we would rather expect pates rise rather than men's pay to be lowered or all that can sometimes be the case no actually we did not go through the production section of estimating for governments cost because. We saw. If there is. Discrimination based on gender. But this is simply the cost that has to be borne by other companies or government to correct however we did try to estimate the the implementation costs for either. Government but these were companies and found early estimated the implementation cost could be somewhere in the range of aren't going to point 3 percent of fun on your payroll we thought that would be highly acceptable. Weighing the ethnic and. Gender pay gap of 6 to 8 percent. So that was the big gap in Iceland is the gap in Iceland is it. That is the measure of the Gender based on this. What do you see as the benefits I mean apart from the fact that women will not the same as men what are the actual benefits from this. Well I think. We have seen for companies that have implemented the standard already and it is there it is increased confidence in the way it's setting within the company people view it as a fair procedure there is increased employee satisfaction as well so there are definite benefits for companies as well and implementing that something and what we also see within companies that have gone through this exercise is that the wage setting process becomes a little bit more formal a bit more structured and bigger is a bit more disciplined so definite advantages a Aside from the opener's expenses but the most important factor of course is that it should be self-evident in this day and age that men and women should be paid the same we have had legislation both here and I something else for most of the Western world banning discrimination based on gender but still everywhere than you're selling us and same women are on average paid 1020 percent less than men even in the more advanced European economies so we thought or so I mean with that we had the opportunity to take a decisive step to eliminate that I mean I had a people from some of these other had vanished economies talking to you about how they would implement it are you hearing inquiries from people who are interested in the same thing yes we have. This stunt of that sort of. This is scientists an international management center so we're at this fairly easily adaptable to other economies and we have questions from several countries and not just significant interests and following the effects of the implementation. If you have had inquiries from the u.k. We received quite a bit of interest from the u.k. At the time when we were debating this earlier last year and also from the other Nordic countries as well Portugal is there's another country that's been following and Switzerland to name a few so I think this could be. An example that could he easily adopted by other countries if they are interested you think you've broken the dam in fact in Iceland you have led the way. And we definitely hope that we have we have been. Privileged and leading the world in when it comes to gender equality and we definitely want to keep it that way but this this is one effort to try to stay in front we could say but at the same time we hope that both this endeavor move being successful and the other countries can learn from it and adopt it to their economies as well. And that was Iceland's farmer equality minister Thorson vigilance and. Well if we were talking earlier about jet streams and the Arctic circulation imagine where the chesty must be like on Jupiter I've been speaking to Emma Alexander who joins our astronomy team from a job I can Manchester and Emma's been telling me about new discoveries about the jet stream on Jupiter much like the jet stream Terra Jeep to has an East West jet stream that flows high but it's a quite And the interesting thing about it that's been in the news recently is the about every 4 years it changes direction and this witching is called the quasi courtroom you know a selection or. Now similar selections of scene in jet streams on. So that house period of about 28 months and also. Which. 15 years researches have taken detailed observations over a 5 year so that's a whole cycle of this keep you process whereas NASA has Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii specifically with an instrument called the Texas cross a shell spectrograph. The measurements come out an area 40 degrees above and below the equator and approach the Invesco slices a deep his atmosphere. After comparing the day to the simulations the team concluded that something called gravity waves are likely to be the driving force of these oscillation So after ruling out several other kinds of atmospheric whites just tonight gravity waves a not the same as gravitational waves. Good I'm so glad you mentioned that. You said gravity waves as though it's complicated this isn't yet you may have thought yeah the recent Gravitational Wave detections from like 0 and diagnose that these are ripples in space time caused by the acceleration or deceleration of massive objects I think Buchholz I mean from Star Wars gravity waves way secondary liquids and gases physical parts of patients that are driven by their star and force of gravity in a planetary environment c s unfortunately similar names but you very different phenomena very different like and how fast could the jet stream be on Jupiter I mean you know we've been a plane's been blown across the Atlantic by the jet stream but what. Could the jet stream be like on Jupiter Well that is a very good question. That I not sure off I'm afraid it's. A question for the future that but I'm I'm guessing a bigger planet must of must a mighty jet stream must be pretty scary Well an infinite so if you observe keep to what the telescope people have you can see the bounding across faces that kind of different sections of us up misfit and run when you're looking at your telescope and they kind of continue quite small depending on how could you tell us is obviously these. Sections about. The scale of today are huge. So looking up in the sky appears that there is yet another meteor shower to be observed in yet another one yes so at the moment well tonight actually there is the peak of the question today meteor shower which is a yearly meteor shower of late December now to January so it beats around 8 or 9 o'clock this evening so it's declining at the moment and it's actually a pretty fast decline. Though the meteorite only exceeds Hof its peak rate for around 8 hours now back to the past August for example that has a peak time of about 2 days so right is less meat mystery is declining. But in the light on in the evening it's possibly still worth looking out for some tonight we do have the old stocks against us though because we've also got a reasonably full moon and well for the weather in the u.k. Doesn't seem that great at the moment the know and of course we've got this Super Bowl to contend with Yes So we've actually got 2 super mains this month that for us to fill means that that fall in January so when we recently have one we'll get another one by the end of the month. So Superman. They are a little bit bigger they do a para little bit bigger in the sky compared to. A normal full moon but the difference is not as big as some. People might make out but it will still be quite bright and unfortunately probably washed out quite a lot of the meteorites. Oh well now there's a coming together of Jupiter and Mars Yes So around the sickness I'm through January just before dawn will be treated to a conjunction of. So Miles with its distinct rescue apos about a quarter of a degree below the brilliantly by bright you saw in the sky this distance is about half the diameter of a full meal. So conjunction of these 2 pilots a code previously in October but won't happen again until 2020 and the teapots will apparel the horizon a Toronto pass through the morning and they'll reach a maximum altitude of around 20 degrees before the sun rises Toronto hate to see these times are a little bit and in on exactly why you are 0 based on where I am in Manchester. Reference clenched fist held like this typically 10 degrees in the sky so the planets will only rise to face with above the horizon to make sure that you've got a good view on the horizon to be able to catch a glimpse of the House and the over as Herod to believe in the depths of winter this from is actually no at its closest point to the earth yes so round 5 that t. And I am say yesterday morning now g.m.t. The us was around 1001600000 miles away from the sun for comparison the feathers part of its orbit is around 94500000 miles difference of 3000000 miles it might seem like a lot but on cosmic scales it's still reasonably small the average Well the apparent diameter of the sun in the sky any changes by around 3 percent and on average amounts to a 7 percent difference in the amount of energy we see from the sun is to not have too much of an effect on the weather that we experience and it does mean that winter is about 5 day shorter northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere and this can be explained by Want to Kepler's laws of motion must of opening body will sweep equal areas in equal time so imagine a planet sweeping out an ellipse is all that star and you're a line from the start of the planets and that line moves with the planets the area that it covers is the area that the drawn out and that will be equal. So this results in the moving slightly faster around perihelion and that around the northern hemisphere winter solstice. M.r. Xander ph d. Shouldn't the University of Manchester Well let us join Jonathan over and over at Sydney Cricket Ground Jonathan Hello Rod she knows a lot of extraordinary stuff oh she does she does it's like fish in the world. Here the cricket your world yeah in my word the far more basic world of watching Sport England the 441 James Vince 2 with 2 not out along side I was to cook who is 12 not out and trying to recover from the early loss of Mark Stoneman who was caught behind off the ball in a pack of ends for a quick fire 24 was then turning innings while it lasted for boundaries but he'll be disappointed at the way he edged one behind from the pace men come in they just had drinks we've played for now I have 441 England in their 1st innings. Johnson thank you very much well let us return to the world of science with Bianca greedy who's been looking at the weekend science for a little Bianca and a Happy New Year rod and happy need. Well we've heard one Gina the thing technique crisper and seems to have done it again. They have I mean Crisp is is such a fascinating piece of technology it and I mean we're really just seeing the very openings of the door that fits going to lead into what what I mentioned will be an extraordinary few decades of work and probably reaching far for the Met as well but in this particular case that I've been looking at using the gene editing technique to correct genetic deafness now they've done this experiment in my spot and this particular form of deafness is present both in Mohsen humans it's the same mutation so the gene that's involved is called t.m.c. One and it's known to be important for the normal function of the cochlea has cells so these are the microscopic has that line the the ear and these convert vibrations into electrical impulses that our brain then interprets as sound so they pretty important and humans and mice have a form of deafness that results from a single letter you Taishan in this chain such just one base pay that's that's all to it but they dissed this recently discovered crisper has $9.00 Gene editing technology gives us the ability to selectively correct that one single wrong less stop so the studies they used what are called bite Hovan mice which I thought was kind of cute so there's a there's a model that a break in mice you can play the piano a. Piano Absolutely that's why they're called by having less and possibly also because they go deaf a Funnily enough we don't actually know why I went deaf one of the one hour I was reading one of the young possible reasons was syphilis which has nothing to do with the with genetics but anyway I digress so so Chris because 9 is a technology that was originally discovered in bacteria so they use it as part of a defense mechanism against viruses. And it allows us to pretty much get it out d.n.a. Or d.n.a. The way that for example a book editor might go in and correct a single typo or correct a wood so it's pretty amazing technology. So in this case they not only had to use this crisp because 9 technology to fix the mutation but they also had to work out how to get the whole component the Chris because one component into these tiny tiny his cells in the e.f. So they bundle them up with fatty molecules called Lipschitz which can travel across across so membranes and scent sent the package where it needed to go and what they found was that the treated my eyes had much better hearing than the control my set is with the mice who didn't see the Chris because 9 treatments and so the difference was for example the treated my reacted to a volume of sound almost on par with a rock concert so pretty loud sound and I reacted to it I was startled as you would be whereas the untreated control my eyes didn't react so they didn't hear it so even though this is just one mutation it's got potentially huge implications for deafness because around half of all deafness in humans has some genetic component so if we didn't if Yeah yeah I want to humans. Yes and this was done I mean I'm just I'm I'm I'm back with the mice and I'm thinking about how the the leopard was introduced into the mice is a you are. Basically an injection was it some so yes you know they did have to inject it but I mean the difficulty with these things is always how to get something to go where you need to go in the body because of this is you know one of the big challenges of medicine is you want a treatment that's going to target a particular cell you've got to find a way to get it into that sill of to make it attractive to that cell so they did inject it into the in area but then the challenge was getting at across the the cell membranes and into these these little hair follicle so even though it's just in mice at this stage so it's very early days next you know the next step will be to try to implement this in humans released in human cells samples but then it does again I've been a whole range of possibilities down the line for potentially treating a lot of other genetic deafness issues. Yeah well you might as well say whatever next a cure for baldness. Funny you should ask so it is also about hair and oddly enough he does actually also start to some degree with the hair cells of the ear but this they're talking about the potential applications for curing baldness I know that's always a big thing so this is actually starts with the challenge of trying to grow out of fishes skin so this is a long running medical challenge I guess to to be able to to lab grow or to have sort of laboratory grown skin because if you think about it the applications are endless and it used to be that if you needed a skin graft you'd have to take skin from one part of the body to cover the area that was burnt orange a dog would have the demo wherever the damage had been done because skin itself is made up of at least 20 different types of cells it's very very complex structure so it's incredibly difficult to grow this from scratch it's I mean I guess you could say the same but most bits of biology but one structure in particular has really started made researches and that is the hair follicle because it is also a very very complex structure so what the researchers were doing in this case was they were actually trying to create a kind of a little model of the inner ear because they you've got these sort of skin surface structure but you also have these has cells like the ones who are talking about earlier and all these other little I guess elements so what they were trying to do was create what are called organ Wade So there's a miniature organ so kind of like a little ball of inner ear cells and they're using what are called pluripotent stem cells so these a cells or stem cells that can pretty much develop into any kind of cell thing and in this case they were engineering them to develop into skin cells and so they'd done what they needed to do to make to try to get these to. Grow into the sort of struck she see in India and what they noticed was that these things suddenly started sprouting haywire and the guy the research actually described them as looking at little balls of lint say the skin grows into a sphere it's got the kind of the structure the layers of the ear and then lo and behold these little hair cells were forming and they have follicles were forming and there was browsing hair so but what was cool about it was it wasn't just sprouting in heo but it was also hair that would normally grow for example on the surface of the mouse on the on a mass of skin so what they were basically doing is that I've They may have found a possible way to grow hair follicles so it's a little way off before where transforming a cable into Fabio but it's definitely a step in the right direction but I think right and the men's buying habits when they have to go to the chemists and buy stuff for themselves partly they they buy different stuff from women how about that. Well this is a yes this this is an interesting story and I realize I'm probably wading into it and. Opening a big can of worms but it's generally fairly well established that women have stronger a stronger environmental conscience than men so generally women little less than they recycle more and they also tend to choose more sustainable more sustainable lifestyle and more sustainable products so there's long been a question of why it is you know this is obviously this is a complex question is good social reasons cultural reasons perhaps economic reasons but a group of researchers were speculating that maybe there might be a related agenda reason in the sense that in more environmentally friendly products might be saved as being more feminine and that this might be discouraging men from buying it because it feels like a bit of a challenge to they invest so they did a series of experiments or they did 7 experiments that involved more than 2000 American and Chinese participants and the questions like that were asked presented with a scenario of someone brings a reusable canvas bag for their shopping and what they found was that both male and female participants a study subjects when they were asked who would you think of this person with a canvas bag perceive that person to be more feminine regardless of whether that person with a camera shop was famous. There was another time when the experiments were. Asked to think about a time when they did something that was good for the environment compared to something bad for the environment and it turned out that when they were doing something good for the environment they perceive themselves to be acting more feminine So it's kind of a bit weird it's a bit worrying because it suggests that if men a feel of masculinity is threatened that they might actually go to a less sustainable products then if they're feeling fairly confident and secure in their masculinity so I don't really know what we do with that but it's a will for if the focus. And if you. Feel reassured. Feel when you. Call Bill Clinton and you want a b.b.c. 5 Live. On 5 Live President Trump has accused his former chief strategist of losing his mind at the Sydney Cricket Ground 1st after winning the toss in the face.