Its a nobel prize season in sweden and norway its the worlds most prestigious accolade but while many laureates a celebrated others have attracted controversy so is the nobel prize still relevant this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter dobby the nobel prize is one of the worlds most coveted awards its recognizes the highest achievements in a variety of subjects from science to literature and economics to peace notable winners include Albert Einstein Martin Luther king jr mother Theresa Nelson mandela and Yasser Arafat but over the years some have criticized the Nobel Committee and its choices laureates will be announced this week in sweden and in norway in an unprecedented move to prizes for literature will be awarded last years award was cancelled after allegations of Sexual Misconduct against the husband of a Swedish Academy member secret juries select the recipients and the names of the nominees are kept secret for 50 years. There have been some controversies
The entire bay area in mere seconds. As the bay area reflects on the past we are looking forward toward being prepared for future earthquakes. Just a few moments at uc berkeley a launch of the my shake app gets under way. Heres what people will hear on their phones when that app goes off. Earthquake, drop, cover, hold on, shaking expected. It wont predict an earthquake but it can provide people with critical seconds to get to safety. The system was years in the making and feeds off a statewide network of seismic detectors designed to trigger the warnings. When the loma prieta earthquake on everyones minds events are taking place across the bay area to get folks prepared for the next big one. Pete suratos is live in San Francisco with some of the details there. Good morning, pete. Good morning to you. A number of events taking place right here in San Francisco including the great california shakeout. I want to show you video within the past half hour happening here in San Francisco. You
Hello weve got some quotes where the pushing into western parts of europe over the next couple of days still a fair bit of cloud just piling across the British Isles down across the low countries i will concede to sink its way south which of these was as we go on through the weekend as is the case to around italy and the balkans this area cloud continues to pull its way down well see some showers along the spoils of rain some lively showers a possibility of some thunder quite weather across a good part of the med for the time being as is the case to the eastern parts of you thats like watch weather across the western side if you sat staceys process guys come through on a northerly pass there for london 18 degrees celsius as we go through into sunday watch the skies still pushing in across a good part of western europe showers will dispose of right now might they were across the adriatic bright skies come back into a good part of italy but still want to rochelles just up towards the wit
Midsomer gabi as an icon of the pan african Pro Independence movement but when it comes to the west the main sentiment was basically this was a tyrant who abused his power for many decades which led or strove the country to the brink of collapse. Right well statesmen and diplomats protect each other generally. And i think thats been the case often times if you speak to diplomats behind closed doors and off the record they say quite Different Things and they certainly have had in the past but Robert Mugabe has been able to marshal the ideology of sovereignty and pan african ism. To put them on their back feet usually except of course in 2008 when after the victory of morgan change in the election at the end of march forced a runoff well of course a lot of fake counting as well but thats not unusual and mugabi and his People Killed at least the very least 177 m. D. C. Supporters at that time sadek and the e. U. Had had enough and pushed him into a unity government. But he was able to mak
A 1000 flights will on saturday they were largely faulted in that exercise because the police were out in very heavy numbers and here in tone show me a very busy Shopping Mall on a saturday afternoon weve had standoff between protesters and the police all afternoon weve had 2 brief dispersal operations by the police a number of people have been detained in a how many but its remind as i say that even normally the free for the most like this has become very volatile on the more protests are planned on sunday including one outside the u. S. Consulate thats a 1st look at the moment the focus for the protesters remains the area around hong kongs international airport. Still ahead on al jazeera hundreds missing in the bahamas sand warning that number the number of dead from Hurricane Dorian could be staggering when warnings the u. S. China trade war could take years to resolve well look at the challenges and opportunities its creating. A lot in a welcome back to International Weather foreca