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In the past March this c.b.c. 5. Page 4 o'clock on 5 Live coverage of Foster this is up all night the main news this hour an emergency the u.n. Session ever the Solsbury attack time in small Southampton to a point Mark Hughes is manager and Chelsea are out of the Champions League this is b.b.c. 5 live with the b.b.c. News on 5 of his Kevin MacGraw rushes demanding material evidence it was behind the poisoning of a former spy in Salzburg the un Security Council's been holding an emergency session to discuss the attack following to resume Mazen and some of the 23 diplomats or to be expelled from the way in his own security correspondent Gordon Corera the aspiration is ambitious simply to dismantle Russia's espionage capability here in the u.k. Other measures as well the government wants including the ability to stop suspected spies at the border report something they can only do with terrorism suspects as well and to do more to check private plight and right the governments to spend almost 50000000 pounds on a new chemical weapons Defense Center report and down sciences there helped identify the nerve agent used to poison Sergei scree Powell thousands of troops will also be vaccinated against anthrax as a precaution the Briggs's secretary has told the b.b.c. He can live with a transition period of less than 2 years after the u.k. Leaves the year David Davis says he's more concerned about getting the right deal more important that blunt that he is that we get the implementation period agreed in March legally side up until the autumn but that's more important to me than a few months either way so I'm not bothered too much about the question of whether it's Christmas 2020 or. 2021 thousands of students across the u.s. Have walked out of their classrooms to demand tighter. Gun safety laws the protests are organized to commemorate the Florida school shooting a month ago in which 17 people were killed Layla took part in a walkout in Chicago I want to feel safe from my own score which ever since for a student happened I have. I just wanted to honor the 17 or so experts say at least 300000 extremely versity places will be needed in England by 2030 to keep up with demand research published in the Higher Education Policy Institute warns that will put more pressure on the public purse and a cap on student numbers may need to be introduced researchers in the u.s. Say they found particles of plastic in some of the most popular brands of bottled water and the latest and largest study of its kind more than 200 bottles were examined food safety experts say it doesn't mean the water is unsafe to drink but Professor Sherry Mason who is involved in the project says more research is needed some of these particles are so incredibly small that they can actually make their way across the gastrointestinal tract the lining and be carried throughout the body and we don't know the implications of what that means on our various organs and tissues and a police dog who protected his handler when he was stabbed with a 10 inch knife is to be honored with a George Cross for animals for his bravery the German Shepherd Finn was also injured during a chase in Stephen edge that's a 5 Live news with the spot now his show Southampton have appointed Mark Hughes as their new manager until the end of the season they dismissed a mercy 0 pelligrino on Monday after a run of just one win in 17 matches Hughes takes over with the team one place above the Premier League relegation zone with 8 rounds of games to go the Chelsea manager Antonio Conti reckons anyone watching their last 16 tie against Barcelona in the Champions League would agree the final result is unfair the league leaders won the 2nd leg 3 mail of the new camp and progress to the quarter finals for one on aggregate asked. Women won the Continental Tires cup for a record 5th time they beat Manchester City one nil in the final England rugby union head coach Eddie Jones has apologized unreservedly after a video of him making disparaging comments about Wales and Ireland appeared online he made the remarks at a sponsors event in July and Ruby Walsh will not ride again at the Chelton Festival this year after a fall which resulted in him aggravating a recent leg injury this is b.b.c. 5 live on digital on smartphones and tablets fan the weather rain will persist in the north and extreme east Francisco us a falling from the southwest but a further spell of sherry rain will spread into Wales and southwest England during this afternoon highs today of 10 in Manchester and 11 for Cardiff. Every race from a political rally in Slovakia and it's all about alleged government links to the south Italian maffia and the murders of an investigative journalist and his fiance as you heard in the news a new study suggests micro plastics. They've been found in many different brands of bottled water so how concerned should we be and more tributes as well to Stephen Hawking including this hour his influence on the field of cosmology. That women being tried for the killing of the North Korean leader Kim Jong un's half brother Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia thought they were acting in a prank show according to testimony heard in court yesterday if convicted their women face the death penalty but not if it's found they didn't intend to kill the B.B.C.'s Jonathan Head is in Bangkok and joins me now hello there Jonathan good morning hi just just tell us 1st of all this let's just recap what actually happened last year because Kim Jong Nam was was killed in an airport wasn't he he was he was killed at Kuala Lumpur's main international airport. Suddenly fell ill and reported it to the authorities into a clinic and died within 20 minutes if in fact it was something of an accident perhaps that this was even discovered because. Had had it wasn't clear what was wrong with him but the Malaysian securities officials there in Italy thought he was South Korea and that the South Korean embassy got to hear about it and recognized him because he was traveling on a false passport as the half brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong un and that immediately set off a much more thorough investigation into what had caused his death and indeed the Malaysian authorities discovered within a few days that he had been killed by having the deadly nerve agent v.x. Wiped on his face and through looking at security camera video they discovered that a couple of women had been involved in y.p. And they literally come up to him as he was near check him from behind and wiped this substance on his face and it killed him within 20 minutes. The 2 women have been arrested but they are basically 2 fairly poor women from provincial towns in Indonesia or in Vietnam who were working in the entertainment industry in Malaysia so nobody thinks they were the masterminds they themselves are said they thought they were taking part in a video prank and indeed the Malaysians have identified at least 5 North Koreans who they think were involved but unfortunately have not been able to get hold of them though they're almost certainly left the country so the key plank of the defense case is that these women just didn't know what was going on. It is and the problem for the Malaysian government is that the government is arguing they didn't know but the more we hear the more obvious it is they really didn't have a clue and they got no motive either the testimony we've just heard from. In court in the latest hearing is from a friend of the Vietnamese defendant saying that she was there when she was recruited by a man we now know to be a North Korean agent who she thought was a talent spotter you know and she's quite hard up and living quite a hand to mouth existence in bars in Viet Nam and that she went on practice runs doing these kind of pranks where she sort of went up behind people and rub something on their faces or poured a bit of baby oil on them so the prosecution's case that these 2 women with the main sort of ringleaders of this plot just isn't holding up the trouble is that last year the North Koreans held Malaysian diplomats effectively as hostages and the Malaysian government kind of gave in and allowed 3 North Koreans who were holed up in the embassy to leave without really being able to interview them so the defense is also able to say well you allowed 3 key witnesses to leave the country albeit under duress and that's compromise the right to give these women a defense because it's quite obvious the North Korean agents who are working within the embassy are far more likely to have been ringleaders and to know far more about the plot are these women the only suspects here is anyone else but I'm going to fight they're the only suspects they've got and that's the problem they were 4 men identify with them who one of whom has been identified as a very senior North Korean 8 Secret Agent now who were at the airport with him who left immediately but there were 3 others who helped hold up in the embassy 2 of the moment where the North Korean airline the other was a minor embassy official don't appear to have been very senior in the plot and police quickly took a statement to let them go in order to get the Malaysians released North Korea but there's another man who recruited one of the women and she's got photos of him have on her phone and the Malaysians are being very invasive. About this man they've actually said they don't know where he is they're not making it clear that he left the embassy or even left the country he might even still be there and is this kind of evasiveness that's baffling us because the Malaysian government simply refuses to accuse North Korea of carrying out this attack even though everybody believes that that must have been them it seems as though Malaysia is nervous possibly of some kind of North Korean retaliation and all they're doing is focusing on these 2 women saying they did it without any reference in the trial to the obvious likely involvement of the North Korean government it's quite a contrast to be think about it to the current reaction of the British government to the attack in Salzburg where quite quickly the British government is pointing fingers at Russia and demanding action the Malaysians just haven't done that there was want to pretend that somehow the North Korean government isn't involved what's likely to happen next we think the trial is going to go on for a long time. It's been very drawn out taking place over a series of weeks began for 5 months already I suspect watching the way the defense is able to pick apart the police witnesses who are very sketchy in their recollection of events and a bit inconsistent I suspect is likely the judge will have to conclude that these women were not ringleaders or didn't know what they're doing and they will probably get some kind of conviction and will simply be left with a black hole knowing that there is almost certainly North Korean government North Korean government hand behind this is sas nation but never really knowing how it was hatched or exactly brought bringing to any kind of just as the people who almost certainly carried it out got the poison into the hands of these women and it's very mysterious Jonathan Head in Bangkok back from a city for speaking to us here on up all night let's take a look at some of the front pages of the morning's papers many tributes as you might expect to Stephen Hawking the I described him as Britain's master of the universe the greatest British thinker since Newton is how they describe it various pictures of the man himself as well of course Stephen Hawking $94220.00. Scene physicist who brought science to the masses is on the front page of The Financial Times with a picture looks like it was taken probably around about the mid 1980 s. That same picture is on the front page of the Metro their headline push off ski $23.00 spies ejected in the strongest action since the Cold War that also dominates the front page of The Guardian Russia threatens retaliation esmé expels $23.00 diplomats little quote of tourism a on the front page as well the Russian state was responsible for the attempted murder of Mr script and his daughter she told the Commons yesterday big picture as well of Stephen Hawking Hawking Hawking rather Daily Mail glowing with health as a boy the genius who defied crippling illness to unlock the wonders of the universe and criticism as you heard a little earlier on from 4 Jeremy Corbyn describing him as Corbin the Kremlin stooge the son describes his Putin's puppet this all to do with a reaction from the Labor leader in the Commons yesterday to the allegations of Russia carrying out this attempted murder dead Russian was on Putin's hit list is the daily Express's headline The paper says security fears for 21 targets living in Britain also has a picture of Stephen Hawking Hawking and any Redmayne who of course won the Oscar for patrolling him in the theory of everything and the Daily Star pitcher instead of Stephen Hawking of Jimbo and who of course also died yesterday and a separate story about Coronation Street well last night search results led the Beck back pages of The Daily Mirror this morning is the man Alan McKinley speaking to me at 3 gone now Chelsea the latest to go are they last for a deal of also harsh scorelines in the play in the 1st after also a very good. The differences are in the so same surprise surprise result from Chelsea couldn't go away the chances are crazy whereas Lionel Messi the headline a mess he goes nuts. Makes course while it chills fever twice to send brave police of Europe and he was just as you would imagine just extraordinary I mean even a fantastic thing cyber Lionel Messi done even afterwards and so here comes a whole you know basically well what can you do you just have to sometimes when these things happen you just have to praise the opposition and he's an extraordinary player and a little bit lucky with his 2 finishes but the build up to them was you know typically brilliant by Messi how good Chelsea Well actually they were actually quite good in the 1st especially in the 1st half of this the 1st 5 or 10 minutes I mean they actually went out Bosler perhaps you know if United on a little bit more against Syria probably wouldn't go out because they were they really did attack and there are a couple of good chances but just it was just around the edges around the edge of the penalty area I was way past loner in Chelsea with different boss a lot of found their men with little passes inside the penalty area and of course you got a great player laughter from the whereas a man has always fairly anonymous you really didn't look look at him father but the best chances Chelsea had of scoring with room for Marcus alongside of course is a fullback for that pretty much sum that up there a little bit hard to go out for a cricket are any cool front's any account had to go because that was one of the key messages after a United loss to Sivia not the Yankees I don't think Chelsea fans are desperate for him to leave but I think it's more to do with that and so here comes a deciding that enough is enough he was asked by the Italian t.v. Afterwards he said the next time we speak to you Will you still be manager at Chelsea and can say replied well as an o.t. Question I want to answer and pretty much I was almost an answer in itself wasn't it. A silly wanting to become the national coach is not no he's up to be short of offers from other things in the summer and it does sound as if Chelsea that Chelsea board may set up we can complain that he's not getting the right kind of players not spending enough money so it sounds very much as if he'll be out but he won't be silly and the decision you know is of course last. Couple of nights ago and but room and deny that they p.s.t. Might be interested in. And Simon Renia yeah just that they seem to fall in love with yourself just as you not to fall out of love with him because he's got an exchange is only just on an extension to his contract will 2020 but he's a little safe on a collision course with a united Iraq or a very spending plans and in the wake of United's exit a severe. Mooring I was claims not it must match the financial outlay of a European rivals he made much the city really if they are to compete for the biggest prizes and Paris p.s.g. Are on the lookout for a new boss they are but all their vision humiliated against Real Madrid that it may look up to around the trees level asshole when they crashed out of the Champions League and allowed to p.s.g. Know that signed an extension to resteal money is never a problem for p.s.g. Now and if he was discontented the United not spending enough money is because it takes root it looks like p.s.g. Will step in and Trump is waiting to join them will marina be a good fit for p.s. Do you think. It's a strange religion that expansive got a name on a pride themselves on playing this flamboyant footballer but in the what I want to say they are going to be they actually need a manager in some ways to make them harder to bait rather than get them to play great football which is what United fans want merino to do with that same it's exactly the other way around with p.s.g. Their goal is flair but yet they can't get over the hurdle of the last 16 of the Champions League which they're desperate to do until a decision suddenly just entering is the obviously very good record of the Champions League I think that's where they got their eye on the other end of the Premier League table now south of sun Mark Hughes in a in an attempt to keep them in the league actually has a loss a prize this one that I've signed actually used to play for them of course and he's been offered a hefty 6 with a bonus if he does kick them in the Premier League they're 17th in the table one point ahead of the relegation zone and there are a games to go to the record from here it's a challenge I'm excited by great teams he's come back to a club I have an affinity with I couldn't turn that down I'm sure money had nothing to do with it but it's certainly they see him as a man who's going to do enough to keep them updated keep quiet for ages up for a while at least of course when the took over that didn't end too far into well as stocks are 1st offered him to. Any reaction from the Southampton fans tonight about that appointment I think we haven't gotten a reaction from the Southampton fans in the paper I think that because he was because his next play whatever next player goes to a club to become the manager you get a little bit extra good willed on you the same whether you are say for example an apology to Crystal Palace that he's regarded not many places and to the peak of his career obviously but he did play and I was with Melissa CIA for example and they played an asylum system which did manage to stay out place in the season as well so he's done it before as a player it might be say whether he can do as a manager Joe Wilson is going to be named in the England squad tell me Yeah I mean he's pretty spinets this far as carousel after is concerned. Because play Holland in Italy and there will she is back in England set up the one the last of his 34 caps in that dreadful 16 disaster against Iceland. Is huge boost to him of course he's been desperate to get back into the England squad ahead of the World Cup of course a lot of injuries hurricane rule that means evidence Dominic tell the loser political by last Africa as well but surface after a 6 highly entrance into the England squad because he looks as though he might actually lead Arsenal I was very confident we hope certainly to stay with us so hard but it's Russia because he's refused to 2nd title he's 110000 bad week wages looks Arsenal and we'll see maybe there may be a passing of the ways a club manager asked Banga said on my side nothing has changed I will be free at the end of the season we made a proposal so I wanted to stay my desire to see him like the Club for the future I hope he will do it however Wilshere as a side is not willing to reduce his wages so he always being the only playing for England he looks as though he. Will be limited they want to wage Coniston because of his age into echo Yeah it is a bit of a raise it is a bit of a risk of course doesn't play too often easy choice only try. 6 Jack Wilshere so should be at the peak of his powers certainly before we had the most recent injury when he was playing for England he looked. Terrific player has really got back to the form exactly look to be isolated in the care of a cup finals and he didn't but Arsenal notoriously possible yes when he comes when it comes to situations like this they're not going to budge but they're saying that they're not going to review him at the same level and so they will be up to Wilshere to find a club that will pay him the amount of money and that perhaps isn't going to be as easy as perhaps he thinks from football to rugby some control before Eddie Jones has been forced to apologize this is a leadership seminar and footage has faced him fortunately especially folks with him 3 days before England face Island of course are going for the Grand Slam on Saturday afternoon a video in the has emerged of him branding the Irish scum a and the footage also appears to. Be John's calling Wales as a little well I can't use the word but it's a little something place and it's not complimentary so bad timing for him certainly with the with the young guy coming up he has apologized and the r.f.u. Side of the apology is sufficient and that he will not be at risk of losing his job but given England's current status in the 6 Nations you might be thinking that they they might be looking for a bit of an excuse maybe well yeah I mean this could go either way can I mean this is the island did it to England in the ring and are we going for the Grand Slam and they played absolutely have their skin to stop them to stop them doing that so revenge is the motive for England I'm sure Eddie Jones would begin to think what else could go around after that so we're all a lot less to perform most recent 2 level rather lackluster performances can Scotland and France scares me and now it is it just adds it adds to the furore in the fever surrounding the game of chicken on Saturday Alan McKinley from the Daily Mirror I take me through the back pages of this morning's papers. We've been speaking tonight to scientists about the impact and sheer scale of Professor Stephen Hawking's contribution to physics and indeed cosmology one academic knows the feel very well is Dr Carroll Mondo professor of extragalactic astronomy and head of physics at the University of Bath She specializes in the study of those super massive black holes that lurk at the center of galaxies Professor Hawking's research was seminal in the study of black holes Stephen was a theoretical physicist and so his work was very mathematical and the really big breakthroughs for from modern physics that he contributed to and was around the math of singularities and so he showed that the beginning of the universe there had to be this idea of a singularity is a point where our laws of physics break down and so there had to be a big bang and the other really exciting piece of research that he did in his lifetime was about the the blackness of black holes so in classical physics we say that black holes that the pull of gravity from the is so great that nothing can escape not even light once you are beyond there event horizon sort of the last point of no return what Professor Hawking did was he combined theories of general relativity so physics that govern the universe in the largest scales with physics on the very smallest scales governed by quantum mechanics and he suggested mathematically that black holes actually might radiations and they wouldn't be completely black so that was very revolutionary the idea that this could happen would only be really significant for black holes that are much less massive than stars we've not found any of these in the universe yet but this Hawking radiation would have very deep implications for mathematical physics if we were able to confirm experimentally that it exists in 2 days they were at the University of Bath or do you find yourself you know using an quoting Professor Hawking very regularly Well we what we do I mean I'm an observational astrophysicist So I'm looking for. The think that is of black holes in the universe of course I am looking for the electromagnetic imprints Evite that comes from material close to black holes and one of the big puzzles is about really what happens close to a black hole is a big debate between theoretical physicists and including FESA Hawking about whether information can escape from black holes so is there really a point of no return and I think what is one of the you know obviously the very the the poignant side I mean it's a great loss to and to the last Professor Hawking's from our profession and obviously deeply sad for his family where we were very fortunate to have him so long know his condition in the prognosis is very very bad when it when he was 1st diagnosed but this year we're hoping that the very 1st image of the shadow of an event horizon will be discovered data were taken last year with a suite of radio telescopes around the globe pointing at the sigmas the black hole in the center of our Milky Way and I'm sure he'd been very excited to have seen whether some of his theories have been confirmed you're confident therefore that the theories that he suggested will indeed come to fruition in years to come yeah I mean I think the theories are so deep I mean he's a very creative scientists although obviously he's very mathematically gifted he's also very creative in the way he conceptualize the universe and then for me a form formulaically if you like and formally put that into mathematical terms and I think he was very far ahead of his time obviously working with other 7 of his lights about Japan rose you know their idea is possibly transcend generations you know it may not even be in my life and that we prefer some of these theories but they're very very exciting to think that we can have as a as a species that kind of insight into the universe in which we live Did you ever meet him I did yes I am I met him at dinner at the Royal Society he was that she was sitting a reward from the Royal Society and there was also in the celebration of some astronauts who had been up on the space shuttle and that's. Space shuttle is really exciting to see his his fascination about the universe about space and he famously said don't look down that you feel remember to look up at the stars and that connection between our little species on this tiny planet and the immensity of the universe there's a really great dinner where he was there to receive the astronauts for those up and we will celebrate their all of their successes both the theoretical physics and also in the living space tributes have been paid throughout the day of course and I actually had one minute physicist on a radio station a little earlier saying even he couldn't make head or tail of a brief history of time could you well I think it was a fantastic book because when you read it you think you can't make head nor make head or tail of it and it's not till you get to the end that I think you realise how incredibly profound it is and that's really what gets you thinking and I think Professor Hawking was a phenomenal popularize and communicator trying to mean to make physics so popular Never mind very said Terry theoretical physics I think you know was a real talent and I think it was that almost childlike curiosity into the universe in the workings of the universe that made him both a very insightful physicist and also a great communicator of those deep isa Terry physical theoretical ideas to the general public given that his obvious communication barrier was there that's an even greater achievement isn't it I think that's right and I think what it does is it tells us that you know where we're capable of anything and I think you know speaking to friends who you know who do have disabilities what they say is well he showed what you could do not what you can do and I think that was what was was incredible although obviously he had practical difficulties and you know there was great arrangements needed to be made if he if he was invited to a conference I mean in terms of his science we didn't think of him as a disabled scientist he was a scientist he's an eminent physicist and that really transcended his physical difficulties you. If we compare him to Newton and Einstein do you think we're talking of a scientist who is as significant as those men I think personally like me yes I mean it's often not till many generations later that one looks back on the immensity of the chieftains of scientists and you then realize how imminent they were and of course they don't work alone so the lights evolved Einstein worked with a very eminent mathematician called I mean Earth or she was a lecturer at the University of go to go and I mean unfortunately those days women went when recognized as academics they weren't paid but the work that she did on symmetries in the conservation law is really underpins the whole of this and so it can be many many hundreds of years and generations before we look back and really realise how insightful This is we're But you know I think hopefully if his theories are proven experimentally that's really when theoretical physicists have made it if you know when you prove their theories are correct experiment Dr Carroll Mandela the Professor of extragalactic astronomy and the head of physics at the University of Bath specializes in the study of super massive black holes something of course which Stephen Hawking was very much concerned with himself that it was that look at the center of galaxies you learn an enormous amount on this program and certainly tonight events an awful lot about science as well as these tremendous tributes we've been receiving to Stephen Hawking who died yesterday at the age of 76 going to sit up all night here are 5 Live it's hoppers 4 digits on my smartphone and tablet this is b.b.c. 5 live camera grow as the headlines the un Security Council's been told the nerve agent used in the Solsbury points and it was so horrific it's been banned in war 23 Russian diplomats are being expelled from the following Moscow's refusal to explain the attack more government funding is being given to the laboratory where scientists help identify the nerve agent used in Salzburg that. And secretary is expected to announce an extra $48000000.00 pounds for a new chemical weapons defense center at Porton Down the Briggs's secretaries told the b.b.c. He can live with a transition period of less than 2 years after the k. Leaves the new David Davis says he hopes this will say help security at next week's e.u. Summit and students across the u.s. Have walked out of their classrooms to demand tighter gun safety laws comes exactly a month after the school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead as a 5 Live news England's cricketers are playing the 2nd day of their 2 dates hall match against New Zealand 11 some in men's watching in Hamilton It's been a careless batting performance by England today apart from Liam Livingston the 24 year old Lancashire player who will be their captain in the coming season he's at 11 fours and a 6 as another 4 to make that 124074 not out in England 195 for 9 So clearly he's been far and away the best performer today the next leading scorer cook with 30 best homemade 20 and the rest not very many a whole series of Lou shots from England today as they prepare for the even part test match next Thursday 195.911 reply to 376 the rest of the sport from Shojo Shaka Messi scored twice in the process took his Champions League goals tally to 100 as Barcelona sunk Chelsea 3 mail in the 2nd leg of their last 16 tie in the competition the Arden time also set a bar says other goal as they completed a 41 aggregate victory Chelsea manager Antonio Conti sort method out after the game to congratulate him. To make a great compliment from AC I think that it's right it's right that we can you guys are super super popular yet because we are talking about the glee that it. Is able to score 60 gods Dutch international the Demus scored the only goal is. No women beat Manchester City in the final of the continental tires cup she says winning Euro 2017 with her country last year really helped where you sort of maybe one of the biggest finals in football and yet today I think experience helps alive even when you're like one are now our pen the last 10 minutes you just know what to do new Southampton manager Mark Hughes says he's excited by the challenge of trying to keep them in the Premier League he replaces Maurizio pelligrino who was sacked on Monday the team are $1.00 and $1.00 place above the relegation zone midfielder Charlie Adam played under Hughes at Stoke the club which sacks him earlier this season I think is a sensible appointment of the sort I'm thin he's a good manager to go get back and stuff and you know try and organized on let's say the triangle believe games I think they've got 5 away the hole is going to write off for them England rugby head coach Eddie Jones has apologised unreservedly for offensive comments he made about Wales and Ireland on stage at a sponsors event last July the video of Jones and speech was uploaded to the Internet at the time but has only now gained wider public attention top jockey Ruby Walsh is out of the festival after suffering a suspected stress fracture to his leg the festival's all time leading rider who only returned from breaking his right leg 6 days ago heard the same leg after a fall in the r. I say chase on Wednesday his sister Katie was very emotional after winning the final race of the Day herself was a true being brought out that's race and I don't know what is by far too has turned out to be a marvelous name for me the word that you are going to get is have to be honest one sees so when he's talking that's the main thing we're not waiting to hear as he walking up yes you know so. You know that's the main tank and Masters champion Sergio Garcia and his wife Angela have given their new daughter the same name as the 13th hole of the Augusta National the Spanish golfer made a vital part of the 13th on his way to winning his 1st major to. Last year the new baby is called Gothia and that's the very latest from b.b.c. Sport this is b.b.c. 5 live on digital online smartphone and tablet Hello there good morning 14 degrees in London and 40 millimeters of rain in Northern Ireland those we guess today's extremes that rain is pushing its way northward some eastwards today this morning no frost too windy too much clout of course we've got that spell of rain too. In Northern Ireland close to Northern Ireland across Wales through the Midlands tools the southeast doing the dirty this boy still so heavy burst of rain for a while as well but it is going to be slow to get swayed northwards away from the maid lives away from southeast thing that away from Wales during this morning heading up towards northern England still for a while close northern parts of Northern Ireland moving into southern Scotland and still clinging on to possible but as well so some rain for some areas into the afternoon and may be a little bit of 1st over the mountains as it heads into the cold air that we've got in Scotland central moves couple of those still dry the maybe some sunshine in the northwest but mostly sunshine comes behind a band of rain eventually O'Brien up in Northern Ireland will get some sunshine developing today in Wales Midlands and southern England it is here we could actually see some chop showers around almost anywhere a little bit Mr many places still dry but if you catch a shot it could be heavy. As well quite a range of temperatures a cool 6 degrees in Aberdeen and. Where we are to the north of the rain belt or in the rain and an 8 degrees in. Fast eventually the weather improving 9 Celsius here 11 in Birmingham and 13 Celsius for London and Cardiff for those temperatures are going to change an awful lot really on Friday we still got some are right around maybe a little sleet snow over the high ground in Scotland for the big changes come this weekend because it will be significantly colder we'll get an easterly wind arriving that may well bring some snow showers mainly across England and Wales a lot of places that will stay. If you try you will notice a distinct chill in yeah especially with those strong easterly winds there are about 5 live weather the 6 Nations. This is the 6 Nations station chief did a nice well being in weekly download it subscribed search for Rugby Union weekly online or in a pod cast to 6 nations across the b.b.c. You listen to up all night with me Richard Foster till 5 now the Slovak Prime Minister Robert feats has said he's willing to step down and it's all because of continuing political turmoil following the murder of an investigative journalist and his fiance Mr Fitz said he was ready to resign and nominate a successor as early as today if the country's president respects the come the coalition's right to continue governing the B.B.C.'s Rob Cameron is in the capital of the neighboring Czech Republic and I asked him to tell me more this is a case that has absolutely rocked the political class and indeed the whole of society in Slovakia it started just over 2 weeks ago now with the discovery of the bodies of an investigative journalist a 27 year old called Yan could see UK and his fiance Martina Kush near over in their home in a village to the east of the capital Bratislava both had been shot dead execution style one bullet a Each Now Young could see out had been looking into the links between businesses shady businessman alleged organized crime reached him all the way to the Calabrian mafia and the links that those people had with the very highest echelons of the Slovak government figures close to the party of the Prime Minister Abbott fits all. That's what really set the stage for the 6 straw dinner a convulsion that is affecting Slovak society so it looks as if the investigation at least could have been on to something that it's very hard to say is certainly part of the problem I think and part of the reason for all the public anger in Slovakia and there have been 2 successive Fridays of demonstrations and another one coming out this Friday has been the failure of the authorities really to get to the bottom of why he was killed and the police it seems have no leads at all they arrested 7 Italian citizens living in the east of Slovakia alleged to have been involved in embezzling in agricultural subsidies that was one of the subjects that this journalist had been looking into but they were released 48 hours later because there was actually no evidence against them so the fact that the police really says you know there have been a no leads and the trail seems to have gone cold really is part of the problem why exactly then does the prime minister say that he's willing to step down now well the whole series of allegations that this journalist had made in a series of articles and it was the final article that he was working on when he was killed that was the most serious as I say alleging that Italian Besant businessmen with links to the. Mafia from Calabria had cultivated links over the years with Slovak officials including figures close to the prime ministers. Close to the prime minister himself and and close to the prime minister's party those allegations really rocks politics and even though the prime minister himself if it's it was not in any way implicated in this man's death or ink or in corruption or in allegations that these e.u. Subsidies were being embezzled from Slovakia by the Italian maffia just the political fallout has been so toxic if. Like that Mr Fitz is decided that the only way to ensure that his party stays in the heart of government and that there isn't a massive constitutional crisis early elections and so on is if he himself steps down and nominate someone else from his own party to replace him before all this started what was the government relatively stable and so that well yes and this is Mr Fitz. Governments in fact it's a coalition government that's been in place since 2016 it started off as a 4 party coalition and then one of the parties which was a new party pretty much imploded leaving Mr Free to reassemble his government has 3 parties so they are in a kind of uneasy alliance he's a sort of a leftist populist slightly euro skeptic figure. He's in coalition with the slow right National Party which is a sort of conservative nationalist party and then the 3rd party is a mostly ethnic Hungary in a party representing Slovakia's large Hungary minorities there's a bit of an uneasy alliance but sliver of politics is is pretty fractured even the opposition is extremely fractured So certainly the government. I think would have survived and will. Indeed you know continue to survive if it hadn't been for this for this case but certainly it is a government that has been accused and he has been accused and his interior minister has now stepped down as been accused of corruption and cronyism and having links with him rather dodgy characters in the business world in Slovakia you mentioned a very fractious government and indeed a fractious opposition as well is anyone making hay is anyone sort of shining a big light and saying you know we will stand up against corruption and they're proving very popular as a result Not quite no I mean it's an interesting situation because you know on one hand we have these masters. People expressing their anger and frustration with the cronyism and corruption that seems to have entangled Slovakia with kind of state capture mark here in in the last few years and there is you know deep public anger amongst a certain section of society if for the last few years it's been very much the kind of urban elite young people university students that are sort of middle class of the cities of the this murder has basically brought a lot more people onto the streets people perhaps who wouldn't really bothered before but it's also you know you must be said that I'm afraid so and his party. Is very popular with a huge section of society and it and also has to be pointed out that if there were an election tomorrow and Robert Peter would probably win it the B.B.C.'s Rob Cameron speaking to me earlier about the latest political shenanigans going on in Slovakia with the alleged links there to the southern Italian Mafia tests all major brands of bottled water found that nearly all of them contain tiny particles of plastic who were running the story in the news tonight the research led by a us journalism organisation discovered an average of 10 plastic particles politer each larger than the width of a human hair Molly Bingham is c.e.o. Of the group that led the research on reporting it's called all media to tell me how they'd carried out those tests so more media reports stories that affect millions of people around the world and so today we are releasing our research and reporting that reveals that global bottled water brands are contaminated with microscopic plastic particles and as we know every single curse person in the world depends on water to live and last year or did a study that we reported and released in September that indicated that global tap water samples were contaminated with microscopic plastic fibers and we thought it was important to follow that up with aquarium water and how that stand. How much plastic Did you actually discover so we tested more than 250 bottles across 11 brands and they were sourced in 1000 locations in 9 countries from 5 continents and 93 percent of the samples that we tested contained microscopic plastic and on average those samples were had $325.00 particles per liter and those particles and per bottle the number ranges from no particle 0 particles to over $10000.00 particles so there is a huge range in the number is there any evidence to suggest that these particles might be harmful that's a great question that is really the $1000000000.00 question I think that what we are coming to understand the public's coming to understand is that microscopic plastic is ubiquitous in our environment it's in our commons it's in the soil it's in the air it's in the water and I think that the science studying its impact on human beings when we ingest it is is nascent right so one of the things that I think is important that we do or think is important is that the entities and organizations that do major health studies actually pursue this and find out what it what it means to human human beings to ingest microscopic plastic and share that information is there any other any guidelines at the moment about just how how many particles per 1000000000 you need to ingest before these sort of substances actually become harmful I don't think there's anything like that there is definitely and there's an easy report that said you know they think that is in 2016 so they think as much as 90 percent of micro plastic that we take in there that we swallow might pass through us. And but that also an f.a.o. The Food and Agriculture Organization study said that smaller particles under $150.00. My Crohn's can end up in the liver in the lymph system and in the blood and that these are you know that that last statistic that last information is on scientific modeling it's not based on lab studies but I think this is exactly the question I think this just needs to be studied more profoundly and taken quite seriously we know it's everywhere and we know that we're ingesting it. We should know what it does to us but if millions of people around the world are drinking these products perfectly safely every day this sounds a little odd scaremongering doesn't well I think I think not knowing doesn't mean it's dangerous but I also don't think it means that it's safe right I mean I think that it's perfectly appropriate to say wow I didn't know that there were microscopic plastics in the water and we don't know what that does to our bodies and that research should be conducted to establish that we don't know it could be harmful it could not be harmful so I think it's a question that should be asked in research and is that part of you is that sort of the next stage of calling on governments to fund more research in that kind of thing or puts quality information in the hands of the public and then I think people hear about this information whether they're researchers themselves or whether they're in government positions or whatever you know whatever they do they might decide to do something about it in that way whether they start a campaign and get people to you know lobby for more testing that's something that's up to the individual we don't necessarily get involved in that but I think what is important is that the public has this kind of information and they can decide what to do with it Molly Bingham who led the research into the tests on major brands which is found there are many many tiny particles of plastic contained in bottles of water that's fun I was making the news in India now with Murali Krishnan and the Murali a bad few days for the ruling b j p polity. We had 2 crucial buy ports and parliamentary seats empty and all that sustainable divination was a huge blow to the morning by Joe the party and this comes just a year before parliamentary elections next year it's 30 in favor of the opposition and what is more humiliating for the fact is that all these crucial seats in the northern city of or the police were represented by the top men the chief minister your young intern are all where saffron robes a very controversial minister and his deputy. Mario. That the opposition candidates won from these constancies in at a very very big week so obviously it's bad news for the the b j p and by doesn't take rocket science to say that the deputies easier loss is obviously set off alarm bells and could spell trouble for the Prime Minister Nouri them all the way with now perhaps on air right now election more and terms of preparing for the general elections next year we have to remember that in 2014 he came he came to power with a group majority was almost like a tsunami and the Be Good b.s. Never after that maybe but there's such a poor devil as the saw yesterday and whatever the issue is the hunting ground it won so the one of the 80 parliamentary seats in 2000 and again what about $325.00 seats off the $403.00 there simply polls last year so this will this is really not a good use will the election results give opposition parties a boost Do you think. I would imagine so I think it's kind of a shot in the arm for the the Congress office ition other regional parties we saw Sonia Gandhi the leader of the Congress party I just a couple of these back hosted know or leaders of 20 minutes or bodies yesterday have a couple of days back to residence to kick start the process and I would imagine with a few more assembly elections coming up in a few months from now should the opposition Manisha sort of stitch clever strategy alliances with other parties and win them then it would be double jeopardy or the that the Begin be so important Egypt became not what we know is one in 6 belts and more importantly though it might be only $22.00 of one states it's still risks facing double and incumbency and therefore to conclude I would I would imagine that you know what a euro is a lot of climate politics but this message is very clear everything is not hunky dory or that he gave the televised months ago and I think if the opposition is able to overcome its differences and solve a strategy alliance at the national level it could cause a serious challenge to Prime Minister movie there's been another powerful i.e.d. Blast by Maoist rebels in central India as well. Yes this latest Did the mouse attack on security forces in the central state of shock these are yes once they get a grim reminder of the government's speed into it rest security challenges which the rebels come to New Paltz remember just exactly last year around this time you know 25000 people you know it was in a similar fashion and in 2010 you saw was the worst ever 76 security forces so therefore the tax base to show the results that I'm to name this stranglehold all the areas and at this time I think the government really needs to have also correction in terms of whether the Maoists strategy is working and. Not succeed in the ground as far as we can see and that's why I was talking to the counterterrorism I guess I mean read the problem very closely and who says why the Maoist rebels seem to have the advantage given the kind of concentrations we have for security forces all I envisage is really do things one of the areas where they exercised the squeeze so to speak with the permission of the security forces concentrated there would be simply abandoned by the most they would walk away and simultaneously in order to decrease the security pressure on themselves the Maoists will escalate attacks across much wider areas in other words they would try to force the security forces to disperse as widely and as Tinley as possible trouble for the Hollywood actor Pierce Brosnan as well Murali. Yes You know many fans around the world went kind of shaken and stirred when the sort of advertise for a particular theme called upon Messiah which is basically something which is consumed by e.d.s. In copious quantities in that part of us I was a balanced mixture of Beatle light because of the line I reckon not meant to back hope and other e Readers and what piece Boston was really shocked to see that this is your actor was actually advertising for this project or this product and that was creating a big shindig almost about a year back but now apparently Yes Richard. Seeing that you didn't knew what he was advertising and you thought was advertising a red freshener and a whitener and not only have the spine muscle or your your mottos red Ok it's it has reducing grievance in that and therefore you buy that you were never interviewed or new treatment to a product in India which is dangerous to anyone so I don't know whether that's going to cut much ice because the damage is already done because it's because you was you were on social media with the ad here because many thought we ever it also project given the fact that it's just one council causing one but this is what. You send is that if it was lawyers but yet we can see whether you know whether that's going to sort of stick we will indeed money question in India thanks for much indeed for speaking to us here on up all night well 24 hours ago we learned that the theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking had died at the age of 76 let's hear now from someone who knew him well to end the program tonight Professor Michael Green is a theoretical physicist and worked alongside Stephen Hawking at Cambridge he succeeded him as the location professor of math back in 2009 and I asked him what he was like to work with he was somebody course he just. Also in his he had an incredible presence but at the same time it was it was very difficult to communicate with him simply because the conversation any conversation was very difficult. His reaction time was very slow so the conversations had to be rather sysfs and very much focused on the points otherwise you know I thought as I was wasting his time so it was sort of difficult to communicate directly but our interests in physics were very very closely related and it was always a great pleasure to see him his thought processes you succeeded him as the professor of mathematics in 2009 but how do you come into contact with him before then as well oh yes no he's been a big big influence on my life and many others for the last 40 years or so the work that he did in the early to mid seventy's is still enormously stimulating if he made a very striking discovery or sort of discovered which has stimulated research in number of other since then and so I always felt very very much influenced by him and it's always been a great pleasure to hear him talk and. And to interact with him how do you think his work has actually changed the way that we understand the universe now in a very broad sense and his work has helped transform our view of how Einstein's theory of gravity general Nativity might be extended to to in some sense be unified with the theories that describe other forces of nature forces responsible for the structure of atoms and molecules so he's changed our vision of how the universe might be not only today but how it how how it how to go from the time of the big bang he. We made enormous contributions to build foundations of cosmology for example our modern view of how the galaxies in the universe came into being about the universe. Present us the universe started from a big bang and it was a Boeing Boeing tiny it was a tiny it was very empty. Subsequently expanded and one of the big puzzles him to understand how this empty tiny object could expand and produce. The billions and hundreds of billions of galaxies that we see in the universe today and he his work was blame both influential in developing this understanding one of the tributes I heard today was that he was Professor Brian Cox described he said that in a 1000 years physicists will still be referring to Professor Stephen Hawking Do you agree Well I mean of course it's extremely difficult to extrapolate to a 1000 years but you know of all the contributions to political physics in the last 50 years or so and it's certainly his contributions are the ones which are most likely to be to survive in particular I mean the most the most notable of his contributions is his work on black holes which some black holes are remnants of collapsed stars which are which are called black because once a black hole is formed things can fall into it but nothing can get out of it not even light so according to Einstein's theory black holes are black Stephen so that isn't actually correct when you take into account the fundamental laws of physics that we know today and in fact black holes radiate the radiation matter that comes out of it because it's called Hawking radiation and although this isn't something which might sound rather abstruse it's in fact it seems to be a key a key observation. So understanding how to go beyond Einstein's. It's been enormously influential this was work he did in the United seventies but it's still having a very profound influence on research. It's one of the most stimulating and hold fundamental to the professor Michael Green theoretical physicist who works alongside Stephen Hawking Cambridge thanks very much. Donald is back at 1 o'clock tomorrow morning thanks to the team as Richard Foster a fantastic day.

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