after 5a years at the nih and almost a0 years as the director of an institute, you know, all the things that i ve done research and developing vaccines what do i want to do for the last five or more years? and i think that the pretty clear answer was to maybe serve as an inspiration for young people who are either interested in a career in public service or already are in a career of public service. your undergraduate, you didn t study medicine, though. you studied classics. i studied classics. greek, latin and the romance language and philosophy in undergraduate, and then i went to medical school. i tookjust enough sciences to get me into medical school. do you remember any of your classics? i could give you the first five lines of the iliad and the odyssey. go on. i would be very. he recites in ancient greek. you still remember it. good for you. and being back at georgetown, where your children were born, you were married. and my wife went to undergraduate here and she
at edinburgh zoo. and coming up on bbc news. manchester united s champions league hopes in the balance, with keeper onana in the spotlight after letting their lead slip at galatasaray. good afternoon. rail strikes by the rmt union are over for now. its members have voted to accept a pay deal, to end their year long dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions. they will get a backdated pay rise of 5%. it means the end of the union s mandate for more strikes until at least next spring. but another rail union aslef is pressing ahead with more industrial action starting tomorrow. here s our transport correspondent katy austin. it s been nearly a year and a half since the long running series of strikes on the railway began. commuters like these in west sussex have had to get used to it. if you want to go to work instead of being stuck at home, yeah, it disrupts normal everyday life 100%. i don t understand why there s so many. i haven t been able to go into work as frequently a
legend for a billion dollars over his promotion of crypto exchange, binance. plus 12 months that changed the world one year on from the launch of chatgpt, how is the boom in artificial intelligence transforming the way we do business? hello if you have just hello if you havejustjoined us, you are very welcome. i am sally bundock. i am sally bundock. we start in dubai, where, as you have been hearing, 167 world leaders and 70,000 delegates from business, charities and faith groups are gathering for the latest round of global climate talks, the conference of the parties or cop28. of the parties, or cop28. eight years ago, in paris, nearly 200 nations pledged to keep global warming well below two degrees centigrade above pre industrial levels, and try to limit it to 1.5 degrees. but a recent un report has confirmed the world is not acting fast enough to achieve the paris goals. there is added controversy, this time around, given the event is hosted by one of the world s to
committed to releasing another 20 women and children over the next two days. in exchange, 33 palestinians are to be freed by israel and just two hours ago we have also seen the first pictures from the west bank where the bus carrying those detainees released by israel arrived there. memo, on the humanitarian aid front that is flowing into gaza as a result of that temporary truce, further truckloads of supplies entered the gaza strip on monday with food, fuel and medicines being distributed by aid organisations. he is more from the bbc, on all the days development. inseparable and coming home tonight. emma and yuli, twin girls just three years old, released with their mother sharon. their father is still being held in gaza. they ll be picked up by military helicopter. like these boys, freed last night. the government here has been sharing footage of every release. israelis very invested in this and the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, needs a victory even a partial one.
saying more palestinian prisoners to be freed from israeli prisons in the event that a release of more israeli hostages is carried out by hamas. the short statement says the next batch of 50 people are all female. for more on all the days developments here s orla guerin. inseparable and coming home tonight. emma and yuli, twin girls just three years old, released with their mother sharon. their father is still being held in gaza. they ll be picked up by military helicopter. like these boys, freed last night. the government here has been sharing footage of every release. israelis very invested in this and the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, needs a victory even a partial one. already savouring her freedom, margalit moses, who is 78. she tells hospital staff in tel aviv they are amazing. so is she. freed from gaza on friday after almost 50 days in captivity. already a survivor of cancer, and now of hamas. some homecomings are overshadowed by sorrow. hila has been reun