The news and. Then anyone else this is b.b.c. 5. It's 2 o'clock on the b.b.c. News comes from Richard Foster the main story on 5 Live Donald Trump blasts his former chief advisor. Here in Sydney where finally under way for the 1st day of the 5th Test match but England having to withstand a lively opening spell from the all the quick bowlers 7 without loss. This is b.b.c. 5 a. President Trump has hit back at accusations made by his former chief strategist Steve Bannon says a meeting between the president's son and a group of Russians was treasonous Mr Trump accused him of losing his mind Steve Bannon is the head of the right wing news site Breitbart bodily used to work that. The White House they had in building his own platform to lead his own movement and it certainly showed that you know hesitate to break that and it's convenient for Steve the children's commissioner for England is calling for more education in primary schools about the risks of social media and Longfield says many children are ill equipped to cope with the sudden demands of online sites when they move to secondary school workers started to try to recover a sea plane which crashed into the sea near Sydney killing 5 members of a British family the catering tycoon Richard cousins died with his 2 sons his fiance and her 11 year old daughter Our correspondent Phil Mercer explains what the investigation will try to establish the safety record of the aircraft the maintenance history of it the background and experience of the pilots and what the investigating team is hoping to recover from the aircraft is any mobile phone footage that the passengers may have taken that could yield valuable clues the environment secretary is to to announce plans for British farming after brakes it Michael Gove will tell the Oxford farmers conference that landowners will be given 5 years after Britain leaves the union to prepare for changes to subsidies. The reigning authorities have intensified their efforts to end several days of anti-government protests across the country the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard says the unrest is over and those arrested will be dealt with severely Elizabeth Russell is a spokesperson for the u.n. Human Rights Commission urging the authorities to make sure the security forces make a concerted effort to police Potence with care with proportionality and we do recess a teen 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 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 Johnson over ends at the 5th Test in Sydney. Where England 11 without loss after 5 overs cook and stone are having to dig in here to withstand a very lively opening spell stark and Hazelwood although he's always just been replaced by Pat comment Cook has 3 stone house 7 1st boundary of the day hit by stoma into the backward backward square boundary a few moments ago 11 without loss England early stage at this 5th Test match rest of the sports days comes from Joe Curry also Bangor has described referee and see Taylor's decision to award Chelsea a penalty in their tool draw as far sickle Jack Wilshere had put the home side ahead before adding hazard one and then school the spot after heck to Beleriand appeared to catch his foot in the box Marcus Alonzo gave Chelsea the lead late on. To salvage a point for Also with a super paf Ali Japan's kind she Curry has pulled out of the Australian Open off to fail in trick of a from a wrist injury in time the news comes as Andy Murray roughen a doll. Overmind out 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. 5 live on digital online the smartphone and stop let the weather rain will cross southern England Wales and Northern Ireland by the morning talk temperatures later around 11 degrees fake up around 3 best to be a game a game plan to stay because now it's time for the big guns to end the fray refutations hospital weasels no mean anything get out to what is a great. Place to be a tool to keep some of the junk going to come to the store 3 times the strength to be blunt it's when a state vs a cop to find out where you killed what you listen to the f.a. Cup pub b.b.c. One of 5 life go to the b.b.c. Don't go to u.k. Slush but. 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 fired the shelf particularly agree was New Hampshire the shop ject of a frequently repeated canard that people who didn't live in the state flocked to the polls in New Hampshire to register as voters on the day tonight the president has stood by now like short Commission which. Great cost tried to get records of voting from secretaries of state all over the country and all of them refuse. All over Britain as 5 plus 259 and 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 bind up North Dakota in the 880 s. When some people were digging for gold the residents of mine became plains combers amassing huge bone piles of Buffalo remains for the fact lies a 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. . News c.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 Trump 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 Bannon describes that. Is treasonous having formerly called his top aide a good guy the president now says Bannon has quote lost his mind Steven Portnoy c.b.s. News the White House former truck campaign chairman Paul man of Ford is going on the authentic of against the Russia 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 wanted relief from them 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 w. 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 is falling and if there are no aircraft on the ground the Dow is up 98 points today Nasdaq gained 58 this is c.b.s. News assigned the red hot car buying market is cooling down us. Wrong last week pushed December sales slightly better than expected but still not as good as 26 team a story we saw all last year while 27 teams all the 1st year over year sales decreased since 2009 the industry still sold over 17000000 vehicles for only the 5th time ever I would say here was rock solid extremely competitive but rock solid G.M.'s Jim came most of the sales drops in 2017 involve 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 in 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. I think that's a happy thought the president of the United States says that his former chief strategist has lost his mind Steve on this 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 operates. An open commission as as Mr Trump's wingman at the White House the Russians did offer Donald Trump Jr damaging information on Hillary Clinton 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 Brittany how ironic how are you thanks for having a good one for a good nice of 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 quests there so address not only all of the scathing and unsettling claims in this book that will be released next week but also many of the tweets that came yesterday and in a flurry of Firestorm believe there were 60 maybe 70 and we were keen to figure out what terrorist temperature was and what the president's temperature was when he saw the Guardian and then subsequently the New York magazine piece about the advantage and about what marginally the president himself did indeed so the word treasonous is have fairly strong word to use isn't it of anyone and Steve Bannon uses it of dawn junior who says he should have immediately reported the meeting to the f.b.i. . What what was Sarah's Sondos 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. But 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 Pat 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 the name Paul 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 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 bought in 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 is 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 quite oblique used child molester. Steve ban in what's the State and Alabama lost their Republican foothold so some of us might think that Steve band in this is looking to poker we're. 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 cost you about another story which 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 the flurry of news today we heard it 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 to other members of the press corps that the White House has grown tired with fighting you know that they want this Russian best occasion 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 but they separate thank you very much for being with us thank you very much and stay warm out there. Pretty as pretty as right House correspondent for The Independent general review a talk of staying warm I wonder if John over and this is fairly warm last time we were was he Jonathan there were 3 runs on the board. And now there are 24 and we are warm because the sun has come out road for the 1st time in the day it's a quarter past 1 in the afternoon here and that's 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 not 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 back a point boundary in the pick of the shots a beautiful on drive back pass 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 there but a long way from it at the moment Stayman 20 cook 3 England $24.00 without loss. Hey thanks to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States which takes in Washington New York Boston is braced for what is called a bomb Cyclon a weather phenomenon which are a 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 explosive winter storm and lots and lots of snow on the coast us parts of the United States currently on the 10th day of record breaking Lou temperatures Valley joins us from Connecticut Ed are you on the snowy side or a less noisy side I am on the very snowy. Roads here oh much snow or you expect here 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 is 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 Bumbo Genesis Yes absolutely so this is them 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 or the main megalopolis of all the cities in the eastern United States Washington me 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 wind 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 at this time of year it's driving. It surely bringing died she says into That's the main problem for 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 and 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 kind of isn't it for an event this cold in this prolonged. But 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 and 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 in 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 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 that 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 that 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 this storm. Well winter has a long way to go thank you very much. For having me and we have some news from Sydney a German over and the 1st England wicket is down and it's Mark Stoneman caught behind by Would he keep it to him paying off the bowling of Pat Cummins for 24 he played exceedingly well. To that point to 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 Jonathan. German is still trying to put together a government dangle Americal holding talks with the leader of the Social 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 of September 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 they met each other today and they talked of course you know last couple of days and. It there is a good chance that they will sort of get to getto How ever the Social Democrats are in quite problematic water because right after the election there are ahead Martin chill said he doesn't want to go into a grime coalition and now he's sort of forced to explain to his party why he goes maybe into a grand coalition again and so it that's the main problem how the Social Democrats behave themselves right but yet nobody wants I mean we've learned this nobody seems to want another election. We want to get thrown back into that situation yes and death mainly because both are going to Merkel's party and the Social Democrats will lose when there's another election coming up and didn't they know that quite clearly and so the only one avoided 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 if the Social Democrats don't move or if the party deafened 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 'd 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 their parents to come to Germany so that a couple of questions which are sort of symbolic and. And if the Social Democrats really manage to get. Important wins there the my it did just my it's of convinced their party to vote for another one coalition but there's not an economic question that the Vitus and they're fairly agreed are they on how they want the the German state to progress yes. Yes because Germany the economy is working brilliantly at the moment and unemployment has been down conceal a Qantas constantly and we are now in a situation where we have asked you unemployed persons. When 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 from a point of view of leadership in the rest of the you and Britain of course is there any discussion about replacing Mrs Merkel as 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 as noise at decides and once. When she if she manages to get her another grand coalition and 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's so many open questions in the European Irina Bret's It's certainly being one of the most important and among. And that was Margaret hacker from Berlin and. It's exactly half past 2. Miles from your league football anyone else this is b.b.c. 5 Live sure you haven't been discharged 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 during 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 on 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 that's nice Johnson over and is at the 5th Test in Sydney beautiful sunshine now here at the 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 paid off the lively bowling of packed 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. Injury time strike a tool drop. 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 for Beller into salvage a point for off no with a superpower folly but for the 2nd game in a row also boss also Vanga was left criticizing the performance of the referee describing and his 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 our game set but what you have to face and not to give up with or did you do and over 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 tio former England defender Ashley Cole is signed a new one year contract to remain with the m.l.s. Side at a galaxy at the age of $37.00 and Wales women forward and Tasha Harding is joint reading on a long term contract Japan's kind she Currie 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 of the year Wells when George North is a doubt for his country's opening 6 nations fiction against Scotland off to sustaining a 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 is part of the game of your tranquil collision up there one of the problems of that we are not that strength in depth but the you know some of the country so it's good that you know any injuries no it's going to put a strain on on the on the scored especially when it's such a concentrated toward event where you know it's so there's a goalie demanding and the former England angle. 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 he was charged for failing to provide a sample in May last year because he is worried about contamination. . If you're listening 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 at Airlie 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 Thorston Figg Linson 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 with the social partners to have looked the to watch. Video of the Furious and for me it looked like a very promising them and sex it's all true in a minute 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 are going to let me have it 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 Monday that to implement the Who placed on that with and the given time frame. 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 Di the men's pay to the level of women's pay well. The that is true we would rather expect to pay through our eyes rather than men's pay to be lowered or all of that can sometimes be the case no actually we did not go through the production section of estimating for governments costs because of that. We thought well if there is. Discrimination based on gender. But this is simply the cost that has to be borne by other companies or for government to correct however we did try to estimate the the implementation costs for either. Government but these were companies and found that early estimated implementation cost could be somewhere in the range of on torrent point 3 percent off often on your payroll and weren't really thought that would be highly acceptable. Weighing Bethlehem's a gender pay gap of 6 to 8 percent say so that was the gap in Iceland that is the gap and I saw it as a. That is the measured gender based pick economics and 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 in implementing that something and what we also see within companies that have gone through this exercise is that the weight 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 open expenses but the most important factor of course and 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 for most of the Western world banning discrimination based based on gender but still everywhere than in your stories and same women are on average patzer ripped into 10 and 20 percent less than men even in the more advanced European economies so we thought it was time and 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 advanced 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. The stunt of that some of this scientists an international management center so we're at this fairly easily at the optimal to other economies. And we have had inquiries from several countries and well to significant interest and following the effects of the implementation. Can I ask 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 has another country that's been following and Switzerland to name a few so I think this could be. An example that can't easily adopted by other countries if they're 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 and when it comes to gender equality and we definitely want to keep it that way so that 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 looking 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 they are tech 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 streams here on a Jeep to has an East West jet stream that flows high above it's a quite a and the interesting thing about it that's been in the news recently as the about every 4 years it changes direction and this witching is called the quasi core tremulous elation or. Now similar selections of seen in jet streams on. So that house period of about 28 months and also exactly which occurred over 15 years researches have taken detailed observations they were 5 years 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 shall spectrograph . Measurements come out an area 40 degrees above and below the equator and approach the Invesco slices of deep his atmosphere. 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 waves just tonight gravity waves a not the same as gravitational waves you may know you good I'm so glad you mentioned that yeah yeah yeah 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 black holes are neutron stars whereas gravity waves way secondary liquids and gases physical part of patients that are driven by their storing force of gravity in a planetary environment c s unfortunately similar names but you very different phenomena is very 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 and one that I am 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 for the Skiri well known for that so if you observe keep to what the telescope people have you can see the bounding across faces that that kind of different sections of its atmosphere. And run when you're looking at your telescope and the kind of Contin quite small depending on how good you telescope is obviously these. Sections about mixer on Jupiter on the scale of today are huge. So looking up in the sky it 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 January so peaks around 8 or 9 o'clock this evening so it's a stick lining at the moment and it's actually a pretty fast decline. Though the meteorite only exceeds half 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 as we're speaking this rain is declining. But in the later 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 tie the know and of course we've got this Super Bowl to contend with Yes So we actually got to Superman's this month that for us to fall means that that fall in January so when we recently had one and 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 it's not as big a some. People might make it out to be but it will still be quite bright and unfortunately will wash out quite a lot of the meteorites. Well now there's a coming together of Jupiter and Mars Yes So around the sickness I'm into January just before dawn will be treated to a conjunction all Moslem groups or so miles with its distinct you will possibly 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 2 parts will appear on the horizon a Toronto has 3 in 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 based on where I am in Manchester. Reference clenched fist held a blunt is typically 10 degrees in the sky so the planets will only rise to face with above the horizon make sure that you've got a good view on the horizon to be able to catch a glimpse of the House and the Although this hard to believe in the depths of winter this from is actually no at its closest point to the earth Yes So around 5 that t. And I am say yesterday morning now g.m.t. The s. Was around 1001600000 miles away from the sun for comparison the furthest 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 some but that 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 shelter in northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere and this can be explained by one of Kepler's laws of motion must have open body will sweep equal areas in equal time so imagine a planet sweeping out an ellipse is all that stuff and you're aligned from the start of the planets and that line moves with the planets the area that it covers is the area that the strong now and that will be equal. So this results in the moving slightly faster around pair helium and that around the northern hemisphere winter solstice. M.r. Xander ph d. Shouldn't the University of Manchester we want to join Jonathan over and over at Sydney Cricket Ground who Jonathan Hello Rod she knows a lot of extraordinary stuff oh she does she does is like fish in the world actually does. Here the cricket your world yeah in my word of the far more basic world of watching Sport England the 441 James Vince 2 with 2 not out along side us 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 taking innings while it lasted for boundaries but will be disappointed at the way he edged one behind from the placement come in so 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 wonder this 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 I we're really just seeing the very openings of the door that going to lead into what what I mentioned will be an extraordinary few decades of work and probably reaching far further than that as well but in this particular case they'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 his that line the the ear and these convert vibrations into electrical impulses that our brain then interprets as sound so they're pretty important and humans and mice have a form of deafness that results from a single letter you Taishan in this chain so 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 study that they used what are called Beethoven 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 are all I think about that are 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 her went deaf or one of the one of our I was reading one of the young possible reasons with syphilis which has nothing to do with the with genetics but anyway I digress so so Chris because 9 is a technology if it 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 of 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 word so it's pretty amazing technology. So in this case they not only had to use this Chris because 9 technology to fix the mutation but they also had to work out how to get the whole component of the Chris because one component into these tiny tiny his cells in the ear so they bundle them up with fatty molecules called limpets which can travel across the across so membranes and scent sent the package where needed to go and what they found was that the treated my eyes had much better hearing than the control my so these were 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 that was startled as you would bait whereas the untreated control my son 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 Yet when I saw it could be 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 year. Basically an injection was it of some sort 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 still of to make it attractive to that cells 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 Adam 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 and 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 or do whatever the den 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 research as 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 his 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 always 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 and get these to. Grow into the sort of struck she see in India and what they notice was that these things suddenly started sprouting hair and the guy the research actually described them as like looking at little balls of lint so the skin grows into a sphere that's got the kind of the structure the layers of the ear and then lo and behold these little hair cells were were forming and the hair follicles were forming and I was browsing hair so but what was cool about it was it wasn't just sprouting in hair but it was also here that would normally grow for example on the surface of a mouse on the on a mass of skin so what they were basically doing is that they've they may have found a possible way to grow hair follicles so it's a little way off before we're transforming a Keeble 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 privately they they buy different stuff from women how about that. Well this is a. 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 there is a 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 a gender 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 the invest so they did a series of experiments or they did 7 experiments that involved more than 2000 American and Chinese participants and though of course 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 the person with a camera shop was by all famous. There was another time when the experiments were very pissed off 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 I'm in a field of mescaline these threatened that I might actually go to 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 slippery if the beautiful voice. Thank you. For news Moxley spoke to anyone else a b.b.c. 5 Live. From my knees on 5 Live President Trump has accused his former chief strategist of losing his mind and here at the Sydney Cricket Ground boxing 1st after winning the toss in the 5th test code has 18 fits has forced a $24.48 for 1. 6 is b.b.c. 5 Live. 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