seventy six his family says that he passed away peacefully in his sleep in the early hours of wednesday hawking will be remembered for his groundbreaking work on black holes and working on a theory that was close to einstein s theory of relativity he also defied expectations living for more than fifty years with a motor neuron disease let s have a look back at his life. british theoretical physicist professor stephen hawking was known as much for his profound and witty comments as for his scientific discoveries a brilliant mind which endlessly explored time the universe and humanity s place within it s he communicated his theories through his famous for his synthesizer. diagnosed with a rare form of motor neuron disease during his post-graduate studies at cambridge
a well cup in russia in june and july my own feeling is that this is such a serious matter a prime minister the british prime minister has said with a probability that borders on certainty the russian state is to blame for this attack him people fighting for their lives british police officers seriously injured five hundred people in souls pre woke up yesterday morning saying they too may be contaminated by this vile nerve agent this is in effect. an invasion through chemical means of british soil and that has to have very serious consequences for that was anthony glees director of the center for security and intelligence studies at the university for joining us earlier from oxford. in the united states high school students across the country have walked out of their schools to protest against gun violence calling for stricter gun laws in the u.s.
a decision as to be taken to expel them i think we can expect the russians to stop expelling british diplomats any moment now so what we ve got to tonight then is we ve got the u.k. expelling diplomats who are really spies and we ve also got a royal boycott of the summer world cup in russia this summer would you say that this punishment fits the crime. well i think it i mean them that other things to reason may have said i think there is explosion there is a seizure of russian assets in the u.k. which is a very important measure that checks on acra flying into the united kingdom from russia and there is a suggestion that the royal family will not go and look at the world cup of course it s up to fifty to decide whether the england team should go and play in the well and indeed whether any european team should go in the well should play in
university of buckingham in the u.k. i asked him who are the twenty three people the prime minister is kicking out and why were they selected. i think we can very safely assume they were selected by britain s security service the m i five and they were selected because of that title s people need to know they have basically two sorts of intelligence offices who operate in foreign countries those who are attached to an embassy legally and those who are independent of the embassy said called illegals now all of the illegals in the embassy some of those people in the embassy will be normal diplomats doing that open source diplomatic activity but some will be secret intelligence offices and senate m i five our security service will have a good idea of who they are so mr glees are you saying that these twenty three people they may be listed of diplomats but they re actually doing espionage in the
a new german government finally takes office nearly six months after the election. is sworn in for a fourth term. it s good to have you with us tonight the united nations security council is holding an emergency meeting on britain s fresh sanctions against russia in the poison just spying affair the united states ambassador nikki haley says that russia s crime and she is calling it is worthy of the security council action britain has acted after russia failed to meet a deadline to explain the poisoning of the former spy and his daughter in the u.k. last week now among the saying twenty three diplomats will be expelled.