weather reason number three for being glad that your summer holiday is over even if you don t play american football this phenomenon can also apply to the cation basking in the midday sun. most people don t let the heat get to their heads of course not directly at least. a study by a german psychologist suggests that lounging around and doing nothing for weeks on end can have a negative impact on your i.q. other surveys support that the. second place for that it seems it really is better to keep your brain busy while on holiday. people who go hiking go on other kinds of. actively cations tend to return home with a higher i.q. . at the same time you have to be wary of overdoing it on the brain exercise front excessive sightseeing can cause culture overload our number
today. reporters posing as foreigners with political ambitions are meeting with cambridge analytica, the political data firm with ties to the trump campaign, is making a sales pitch to potential clients. if you are collecting data on people and you re profiling them, that gives you more insight that you can use to know how to segment the population. to give them messaging about issues that they care about. and we use that in america. reporter: cambridge analytica is the company behind that growing scandal involving facebook and how the profiles of 50 million of the social media company s users may have been obtained without them knowing. the reporters even meet this man, alexander nix, one of the company s founders, who promises to send an attractive woman to trap a rival candidate. send some girls around to the candidate s house. we could bring some ukrainians in on holiday. i m just giving you examples of what can be done and what has been done. reporter: nix is saying he was
the government a year to change the law. in the united states democrats are celebrating victories in several closely watched state and local elections president donald trump s republican party was dealt a major blow in virginia where democrats ralph nor them was elected governor in the same state fellow democrat danika room became the first openly transgender person elected to a state legislature. turmoil in the british government as the overseas aid minister pretty patel quits she s the second the minister to go in a week she does mrs holding undisclosed meetings with the israeli government officials including prime minister benjamin netanyahu while on holiday. the united nations has warned of the largest family in the world has seen for many decades in yemen the saudi led coalition fighting who the rebels has ordered all ports closed to cut the flow of arms to the fighters although one report says aden has reopened.
the government a year to change the law. in the united states democrats are celebrating victories in several closely watched state and local elections president donald trump s republican party was dealt a major blow in virginia where democrats ralph nor them was elected governor in the same state fellow democrats danika room became the first openly transgender person elected to a state legislature. turmoil in the british government as the overseas aid minister pretty patel quits she s the second the minister to go in a week she does mit is holding undisclosed meetings with israeli government officials including prime minister benjamin netanyahu while on holiday. spain s top court has an old catalonia declaration of independence calling it illegal the ruling came as independence supporters staged a general strike and blocked roads and commuter trains to protest against the jailing of separatist leaders and activists.
been weeks and weeks since we ve had an election night if not months. we ll all be watching. more to come. and in a surprise move speaking of elections, british prime minister theresa may announced she s calling an early election, snap election, in june to try to seize the moment to widen her mandate heading into brexit negotiations to leave the european union. joining me from london is the u.s. managing financial editor of the new york times on the other side today. those of us who went through 18 months on the road for the last u.s. election, we really envy you, the snap election, announced today, it will be all over june 8th. well i happen to be in london this week by chance on holiday. the key issue is we knew europe was going to be fascinating in the political sense in the coming months with a french election and the general election, now we have a uk election on top of that that s added a real sense of drama. people were not expecting this to come today. she has, indeed,