2014 nobel prize in physiology or medicine, with one half to john okeefe, and the other half jointly to moussa for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. Members of the Nobel Committee made the announcement in stockholm, sweden. Ukbased john okeefe and norway based husband and wife mary and bart mosser share the honor. Nobel Officials Say their discovery has helped to solve a problem that has occupied scientists for centuries. The three are first to be awarded prizes this year. The announcement of the nobel prize got under way on monday, and as were reporting let me just repeat the names again. Uk based john okeefe and norway based husband and wife mary mosser and bart mosser share the honor, congratulations. In other news a powerful storm that brought heavy rain and strong winds to large areas of japan has moved out to sea. Typhoon phanfone caused injuries to about 60 people and left at least six people missing. The typhoon blew through okinawa o
Delhi. Plus another Senior Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has been arrested in egypt. This picture is said to show esam elarian when he was taken from a house in a cairo suburb wednesday morning. Hed been in hiding since the coup in july, which ousted former leader mohamed morsi. Esam elarian was a deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhoods political party. We speak to Dominique Kane who joins us from cairo. What do you know of the circumstances of the arrest, and what is the significance . What we understand is in the early hours of the morning the police went to a house in new cairo suburbs of the capital. Esam elarian was found, they arrested him. There were pictures of him collecting bags and being taken away. He was taken to tora prison, where many of his colleagues in the Muslim Brotherhood, the Senior Leadership, is being held. The prosecutor is moving to the prison to start investigations with esam elarian. This comes a day after the three leaders. Mohammed badie and two collea
Way back to france. Also. Im in the ecuadorian amazon where the government has gisent the green light to drill for oil. The u. N. Says the long drawn out battle between Government Troops and rebels in the democratic republic of congo is drawing to a close. Congolese soldiers are launching an assault to retake the last town held by armed fighters known as the m23 rebels. A bit of background. The m23 are a group of tute si fighters who defected from the government. The conflicts forced 800,000 people to flee their homes. The push by the congolese troops has been largely successful because they are backed by a u. N. Prevention brigade sent to crush the rebels. The m23 fighters abandoned their military positions in the east and are confined to a small down close to the ugandan border called rumanagabo. They have been fighting hard for days. They are getting ready to fight again. They are congolese Government Troops and have taken a string of towns back from the m23 rebels. The fighters hol
Longterm Unemployment Benefits ran out. A live line for life line for 1. 3 million people. They are cut off. They wont be getting what they used to go a little over 1,000. It start at the height of the recession. Since then it cost 225 billion since 2008. The u. S. Economy is adding jobs, but is well short of a total before the bottom fell out of the Labour Market in 2007. The hardest hit are the longterm unemployment, 4. 9 million will exhaust emergency benefits during 2014, unless Congress Acts to renew the program. People like 56yearold norbert franzak are being cut off now. Im not going be able to pay for utilities. In fact, after this check i get this week from unemployment, i have to pay the mortgage payment on 1 january, ill have less than 200 in the bank. Before congress adjourned for the year president obama appealed for the benefits to be restored. For many looking for work Unemployment Insurance is a life line that can make the difference between temporary hardship and lasti
Of more aggression. Now, vietnamese newspapers are reporting that a chinese ship ram add vietnamese fishing boat, this time in the gulf of tonkin. The chinese ship charged without warning he said. He said they sprayed mens of his crew with a water cannon. The gulf is off the vietnam and china. But he says they were more than 500 kilometers from the paracel islands. Crews have been locked in a stand off ever since. Each side has accused the other of ramming their vessels. Both sides are trying to drum up support at the united nations. Theyre trying to explain their positions to other member states. They hope the dispute will be resolved peace fully. The secretary general is ready to mediate if the two sides ask him two. Chinese delegates have written a document outlining their position. They accuse the vietnamese of forcefully disrupting the operation of the oil rig. Chinese leaders have sent out a reminder that they still rule hong kong. Activists have been pushing for greater autonomy