And Jeremy Corbyn is described as no meeting of minds. Also on the programme. British police have discovered the bodies of 39 people in a lorry container that arrived in the uk from europe. The 25 year old driver has been arrested. And the shining example from denmark of what to do, if you are precariously positioned on the cliff edge. Hello, and welcome. Im Michelle Fleury in washington, and Christian Fraser is in london. The democrats impeachment inquiry took a significant leap forward on tuesday following testimony from the top us diplomat to ukraine. Damning and devastating just some of the words being used to describe William Taylors account of the trump administrations efforts to pressure ukraine to investigate the president s political rivals. Behind closed doors, ambassador taylor, who remember is still a serving diplomat, gave nine hours of testimony. His Opening Statement stretched to 15 pages. The ambassador said. Referrring to an anticipated meeting between the ukranian pre
I think showing how seriously the us is taking this and i think its worth pointing out when we talk about the road map of the 2 state solution, and one of the us is not really in favor of anyone else steering this, this, this, this long standing complex. That is one of the problems in many ways the us have taking it to be a position where they own the diplomacy. On this conflict. We seen them try and go round the palestinians, the Abraham Accords with of jared cushion or double trump, you know, do deals with, with countries with out of countries ignoring the palestinians, hoping the policy and problem will go away. Thats been the us step strategy. All the countries, i think even us allies are now saying that needs to be a multinational a approach, this a Multi Lateral approach to this. Remember the thing called the coal tests where used to have a group of countries leading the diplomacy. I think theyll be a push from some setting the russians, and the chinese a Team Getting Back involv
This is the news hour live from london coming up. Theres again. A u. N. Security Council Resolution rejecting any change to the status of jerusalem is a vetoed by the u. S. Cyril ramaphosa elected to lead south africas ruling a. N. C. And likely to be the countrys next president. A passenger train has crashed off a bridge onto a major road in the western u. S. State of washington several people have been killed. And im santa how much with the sport our top story today the ashes down under as australia at. The famous cricket contest. The United States has used its veto on the United Nations Security Council to block a resolution critical of its decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel resolution was drafted by egypt. In the much lower court audio of the draft resolution stresses in its operational paragraphs that any attempt at changing or altering the character status or demographic composition of the holy city of jerusalem. And must be rescinded we have to object to su
By the United Arab Emirates say theyve taken control of the yemeni city of aden. The. Russian sponsored talks on the war in syria wrap up in sochi ending a day of heckling and an opposition protest at the airport. Kenyas Opposition Leader raul or doing the is sworn in as the peoples president in a mock you know gratian ceremony. The u. S. Awaits President Trump state of the Union Address not least what he has to say about immigration. As the English Premier League sits a new january transfer spending record with more than twenty four hours still to go. To yemen where succession his forces say theyve taken control of the southern port city of eight and thats where the saudi backed government of president. Hadi has been based after hoofy rebels took control of the capital in two thousand and fourteen the Reuters News Agency says the forces which are backed by the u. A. E. Of confine the government of president hadi to the president ial palace suggesting splits in the Saudi Led Coalition
How does the learning process really work many teachers have to scratch their heads over that question. And scientists also know very little about what happens in the brain when we learn. When we set up a number of experiments to find out but not with school kids. Pigeons are reputed to be not very smart but might we be wrong about them lets take this average pigeon we call it right now were going to do an experiment to find out if i can distinguish between photos with and without humans in them. We show id have pictures of dr and peer. Family and adrian. Caro and gonna. The pigeon passes easily because its works because its identified humans as a category by has been trained and shown lots of pictures with them without people in them. The pigeon clearly didnt memorize the pictures but learned something abstract from them recognizing a human being and you can apply that to any picture. But. The team of neuroscientists observe the pigeons learning behavior in whats known as a skinner bo