Santa maria welcome to the news hour from aljazeera israels Prime Minister is missing Foreign Ministers on the European Union where there is widespread opposition to the u. S. Or recognition of jerusalem as israels capital also had venezuelas president banned the main opposition parties from taking part in next years president ial election thousands are protesting in kiev against the ukraine president demanding the release of ex georgian leading the counts saakashvili has been jailed in the city and the recession in greece led to a revolution in solar energy that means greece will meet its Climate Change targets. So israels Prime Minister has urged europe to follow washingtons lead and recognize jerusalem as his countrys capital despite the widespread e. U. Opposition Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking ahead of a meeting with e. U. Foreign ministers in brussels where he is facing pressure to restart middle east peace efforts. I believe that all or most of the group in countries will move
Has quit over equal pay, saying she couldnt collude with an unfair pay structure. A new day is on the horizon. And at the Golden Globes, Oprah Winfrey led the calls for change in hollywood, following recent Sexual Harassment scandals. Its five oclock. Our main story the Prime Ministers reshuffling her ministerial team, with a handful of announcements made so far. With the top post holders including philip hammond, Boris Johnson, amber rudd and david davis keeping theirjobs, theresa may has promoted Brandon Lewis to conservative Party Chairman. Shes also moved thejustice secretary David Lidington into the cabinet office, to take on some of the responsibilities carried out by the former first secretary of state, damien green. From westminster, ben wright reports. A new year, a new cabinet. Morning, Prime Minister. Will this rejuvenate the party . She will hope so. After the tories botched election last year, the question is, who will she choose to chop, rejig and remove in her team . Thi
Live, all the sport. Are we talking about andy murray . Yes, he has had surgery on his hip and expects to be out for at least 14 and expects to be out for at least 1a weeks. And the weather, pretty as a picture as ever . Is that me or what is behind me . i will explain why some others have clear blue skies and sunshine while others are stuck underneath a dense layer of low cloud with little chance of change. More on that in the next hour or so. Also coming up. I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon powerful speeches about hollywoods Sexual Abuse Scandal have dominated the 75th Golden Globe Awards. Well have the latest from la. Hello, this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. The comings and goings at number 10 are, well, still coming and going, but were getting a clearer picture of theresa mays new year reshuffle. None of the bigger names in the cabinet has been affected yet, but theres a new Party Chairman and several new vice chairs. We have
Zira. Hello there im telling the donald this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes. Of. Jubilation in barcelona as kaplan politicians vote overwhelmingly in favor of secession its a move thats raising more questions than answers. Kenyas repeats of president ial elections marred by more violence voting in four Opposition Strongholds is over fears the safety of election staff. Burned it becomes the first country to leave the International Criminal court calling it the great achievement. With all the days sports news this cuts a loony a votes to declare independence but we will leave. That and more coming up later this news hour. If theyre warm welcome to the news hour the Spanish Government held a special Cabinet Meeting in madrid to enforce direct rule over catalonia Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called the meeting after kaplan politicians voted overwhelmingly to secede from spain. Well this was the same in catalonia as Regional Parliament just a few hours
They did using a process known as gene editing. There are many hurdles tojump but this raises the hope of preventing thousands of inherited genetic disorders. Fergus walsh reports. The goal could not be more ambitious. To eradicate inherited diseases. These scientists have taken an impressive first step on a long road. Editing dna in Human Embryos. So how is it done . Inside the nucleus of each of our cells is our genome, billions of pieces of dna. It is the Instruction Manual for life. The scientists were targeting a faulty gene that causes a serious Heart Condition. They fertilised a healthy egg with sperm from a man carrying the faulty gene. They then injected the gene editing system. This scans the dna like a spell check or a sat nav. It then cuts both strands of the dna and removes the faulty gene. A healthy copy of the gene from the egg was then naturally inserted. Now here are some of the embryos from a study in the journal nature after being edited. 42 of 58 embryos were correc