Election that could put the far left into power. From london, to sydney, to san franciscan journalists around the world have stopped work and called on egypts government to set our colleagues free. It was a year ago today that peter greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were arrested and imprisoned. Andrew simmons has their story. Reporter al jazeeras doha news center marking an anniversary the staff here and in the rest of the world find hard to absorb. It is now one year since a phone call to the news desk reporting the arrest three of the networks journalists in cairo. Then 12 months behind bars. For just doing their job. Right across the world there were newsroom vigils and protests outside egyptian embassies. A trial in cairo had failed ocome one any evidence to incriminate the staff or associate them with what egypt described as terrorists. All the charges against correspondent peter greste, bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy and producer Baher Mohamed were false. Bahers wife spiking f
Wreckage from the airasia flight say they may have spotted the tail section where the black box flight recorders are located. A campaign promised to restore sport to the heart of fifa. The Vice President of world footballs governing body says hell stand against. Hello, and welcome to the program. Spacex is attempting to revolutionize commercial rocket launches with its latest unmanned Cargo Mission to the International Space station. But this time its not the takeoff that has space fans waiting with baited breath its the landing. The 14story booster will soar about 240 kilometers high before flying down back and attempting to settle upright on a footballsized pitch floating in the atlantic ocean. Now, just off the coast of florida, this is no mean feat. Spacex admits the odds of success are not great, maybe around 50 at best. Lets get all of this in perspective. The bbcs science correspondent Jonathan Amos is here for us. This is a footballsized platform that this enormous rocket has t
Introduce our speaker Richard Preston did his undergraduate work in english and got his ph. D. In english from princeton university, studied Nineteenth Century american nonfiction writing. He is the author of nine books on a variety of topics including fixes disease. Im also sure that the hot zone inspired many of its readers to consider and pursue careers in epidemiology, vie rolling and Public Health. That fascination fuels curiosity and a lot of what we know today. The most recent mass i outbreak of ebola occurring in west africa has once again propelled the hot zone back onto the National Bestseller list, 20 years after its publication. I have always had a particular fascination for the insidious ingenuity of Infectious Disease and for the dynamics of epidemic infection. And so its a pleasure to bring this element to the program and to discuss it today, and im happy we have the opportunity and the foresight to bring Richard Preston to talk to us today in this timely lecture. His ta
Also worsening tonight. In iraq, the radical isil has driven one and a half Million People from their homes, leading the United Nations to declare it a level three emergency. That is the highest and worst level. The Obama Administration meanwhile has sent a team of special operations groups to iraq to assess how to evacuate the thousands of refugees trapped there. The troops are on the Mountain Range for roughly 24 hours in a move the critics say seems an awful lot like boots on the ground. Something the administration has insisted we would not see. When asked about that at a brief survey today, the advisor tried to draw an extinction. These are 130 personnel are not going to be in a combat role in iraq. Theyre there on a temporary basis to make assessments about how to get the population off the mountain. This would be a humanitarian effort again to get them to a safe space. There are a range of ways for doing that, we havent made decisions about how to carry out that mission because
Also worsening tonight. In iraq, the radical isil has driven one and a half Million People from their homes, leading the United Nations to declare it a level three emergency. That is the highest and worst level. The Obama Administration meanwhile has sent a team of special operations groups to iraq to assess how to evacuate the thousands of refugees trapped there. The troops are on the Mountain Range for roughly 24 hours in a move the critics say seems an awful lot like boots on the ground. Something the administration has insisted we would not see. When asked about that at a brief survey today, the advisor tried to draw an extinction. These are 130 personnel are not going to be in a combat role in iraq. Theyre there on a temporary basis to make assessments about how to get the population off the mountain. This would be a humanitarian effort again to get them to a safe space. There are a range of ways for doing that, we havent made decisions about how to carry out that mission because