Doctors have been offering emergency medical services but now they too have walked off the job and plunged the public health care system further into crisis they re demanding that the fire junior doctors be reinstated and that their wage grievances be addressed junior doctors are asking for 500 percent increase in salaries as a cushion against triple digit inflation the strike has seen many patients turned away the government remains intransigent on Tuesday it s announced that almost 450 doctors have been fired in ongoing disciplinary hearings e.u. Ministers are gathering in Spain to agree a multi-billion dollar program for the European Space Agency which includes returning humans to the moon Jonathan Amos as more every 3 years European Space Agency member states come together to approve its policies it s 2 days of hard negotiations countries big cash to take the lead on new rocket systems planetary probes a new types of telecom satellite the meeting always starts with some drama and
Take and whether the world is prepared for pandemics in the future it s stopping Ebola. Ebola swishes destruction gives it an air of omnipotence a malevolent supernatural force but it s not that it s just a bit of biology some scientists even debate whether a virus a snippet of genetic code wrapped in a protein even meets the definition of life basically be a bowl of viruses simply a tiny tightly curled strand of our in a many of the researchers the virologists who study a bolo speak about the beauty of Ebola virus it s a very peculiar kind of beauty but when you look at it in a microscope you re looking deep into the heart of nature and you re seeing something that is essential to life on the planet fire this is probably originated among the very earliest stirrings of life on the planet. Like other viruses that cause hemorrhagic fevers Ebola evolved in our wildest most ancient places coexisting with other living things it ll let us be if we let it be but we re not doing that we no lo
And the thing to do it is different from that would have been the other inventor of the World Wide Web search him Berners Lee is launching a global action plan for the Internet to try to stump up political manipulation fake news and privacy violations his contract for the web sets out 9 principles were governments companies and individuals Here s our technology correspondent Rick Kathlyn Jones 30 years after he created the Web sit in Berners Lee is worried about where it s heading he s contract for the web is a project bringing countries corporations and individuals together in an effort to combat threats such as online Harris meant election interference and the spread of misinformation so Tim told the b.b.c. That Facebook should ban targeted political advertising and he also attacked the conservatives over an incident where they rebranded their press office Twitter account as fact check you can see he described it as very brazen to impersonate an independent organization Scotland s m
N.p.r. News. I m Ari Shapiro and I m also a Chuang today s other witness was David Holmes a senior diplomat at the u.s. Embassy in Ukraine this was a demand that presidents Alinsky personally come in on a cable news channel to a specific investigation of President Trump s political rival this hour we ll review the chemo months from the day s testimony of people who make quartz countertops are getting sick look at why I was just thinking oh maybe I m getting older I mean I get Entire so easily later a story about the great cranberry crash of 1959 and remembering a man known as the godfather of snowboarding after these headlines. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Jack Speer in a final day of scheduled testimony before the House Intelligence Committee a former national security official describes some testy encounters with the man who said that President Trump had put him in charge of Ukraine N.P.R. s Michele Kelemen reports the testimony shows how foreign policy experts grew conce
And we really need more moderation and in the debate over discussion amongst the staff of the science and environmental health network we re talking about whether my ration is really needed it that s watering down that those strong sentiments of sanity and reverence which. Are so necessary for the survival of the planet and for the for the beauty of the planet and our own health and well being and it just seems that moderating our views is not going to get us where we need to go that moderation is not the opposite of extremism and it is this was her age sense of standing with other creatures standing with and for life standing with and for the planet that is not extreme or moderate it is it s a unity it s something so much greater and more beautiful than the moderate which I m a moderate I m not an extremist I m not a liberal and I m not a straight that those labels of kindness in some trouble and miss this kind of larger survival set of questions that are grounded in those values and