stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure. you believe that our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they wouldn t be around us any more if they didn t. the mouse that didn t care about surviving wouldn t pass on its genes. so we come from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep going. but we have these big brains, that s part of our survival mechanism, if you like, that allow us to see the future, to generalise. and we re conscious of ourselves as individuals, and that means we re conscious of our own deaths. and of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that, one day, all of their efforts will come to nothing. and so, if we look back through human history, what we see is humanity struggling to make sense of this. some of the earliest archaeological evidence we f
deadin manslaughter after a baby was found dead in woodland in sussex yesterday. yet more revelations emerge from the former health secretary s leaked whatsapp messages, as matt hancock accuses the journalist behind it of a massive betrayal and breach of trust. and as children are encouraged to read on world book day, the bbc is encouraging them to write as well. the 500 word story and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. we ll give you the latest on the hearing into cricket s racism scandal, while in the tennis, djokovic delivers in dubai, the world number one cruises into the semi finals in straight sets good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. the inquiry into the manchester arena bombing has found that the security service, m15, missed a significant opportunity in the months running up to the bombing at an ariana grande concert that might have prevented the attack. the head of m15 has said he is profoundly sorry. the families of the 22 people who died i
combined with strong winds will bring blizzards so there is a high risk of disruption to transport and power supplies perhaps as well. later in the week as the cold air works southwards so the risk of snow will progress further southwards but there is still a bit of uncertainty about the exact detail, we are, who on that but it is going to be a cold week. thank you. and that s bbc news at ten on thursday the 2nd of march. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleague across the nations and regions for the news where you are. but from the ten team, it s good night. good evening. here s your latest sports news. the lawyer representing former england captain michael vaughan has said allegations of racism made against the cricketer are word against word. the comments came on the second day of the public hearing into the allegations made by former y
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now, beyond that into the weekend, for the most part, the weather s going to stay quite quiet. it could be a bit of rain around, but most of us having dry weather and sunshine, stays cold and frosty in the morning and those temperatures are about 5 7 degrees through the afternoon. however, into next week, things get a bit more exciting. 0ur area of high pressure moves westwards and finds itself stuck across greenland. that starts to draw in these bitterly cold northerly winds, too. we get another plunge of cold air pushing southwards across the uk. definitely loads of snow showers with that across the north. but there could be some more organised bands of precipitation running into that cold air, bringing the threat of areas of more widespread snow where we could start to see some disruption. so next week, cold northerly winds where there s definitely some snow showers around, potentially some more widespread areas of snow at times bringing the threat of disruption. but the kind of det