And fancy working in an enormous Train Station . I dont know if youve noticed, but there seems to have been a lot of election talk of late. This week, click is taking a trip to paris where, this weekend, the french take to the polls in the first round of their president ial election. And curiously, from a Technology Point of view, the way we vote seems, if anything, to be going backwards. In the last election, france did allow online voting for those living overseas. But not this time. For both the president ial elections and the legislative elections injune, it is back to pen and paper. And that is due to the fear of cyber attacks, which the French National Cyber Security agency says are an extremely high risk. Queues of people, paper voting surely there has to be a better way. Well, we asked bbc newsbeats Political Editor Jonathan Blake to have a look. Ancient institutions and modern technology the two do not always go together. As elections are held worldwide throughout 2017 that co
It is time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Nigerias stability and unity is threatened by internal tension, conflict and corruption, from the boko haram insurgency in the north to violent militancy in the south and separatist aspirations in the east. Amid all this turmoil, how effective in securing the country is the Nigerian Army . My guest is army chief Lieutenant General tukur yusuf buratai. Are his forces playing a constructive or destructive role, as nigeria tries to keep a lid on its problems . General tukur yusuf buratai, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. General tukur yusuf buratai, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. A couple of years ago your president , new president , set you a Clear Mission to eradicate boko haram. He said it could be done within months. It would be fair to say, would it not, that you have failed in that mission . We have not failed. We have achieved that particular mandate, as at that time. We were appointed on the 10th of
It is time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Nigerias stability and unity is threatened by internal tension, conflict and corruption, from the boko haram insurgency in the north to violent militancy in the south and separatist aspirations in the east. Amid all this turmoil, how effective in securing the country is the Nigerian Army . My guest is army chief Lieutenant General tukur yusuf buratai. Are his forces playing a constructive or destructive role, as nigeria tries to keep a lid on its problems . General tukur yusuf buratai, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. General tukur yusuf buratai, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. A couple of years ago your president , new president , set you a Clear Mission to eradicate boko haram. He said it could be done within months. It would be fair to say, would it not, that you have failed in that mission . We have not failed. We have achieved that particular mandate, as at that time. We were appointed on the 10th of
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
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