Am. B.b.c. Radio 5 Live. B.b.c. News at midnight this is Nick NASA has landed a rover vehicle on Mars in a mission to find signs of life on the red planet perseverance will collect rock samples from a crater that's thought to have held a giant lake billions of years ago Professor Sanjay Gupta a planetary scientist at Imperial College London says landing the vehicle took a huge amount of skill that rocks craters etc So a lot of dangers and that made it look easy. And it's just you know for us because our mission starts now basically and Big made our next few years happen and you know it's just incredible feats of engineering basically extraordinary the u.s. Senator Ted Cruz has been strongly criticized after trying to Mexico for a family holiday while hundreds of thousands of people in his home state of Texas injured a 4th day without power residents in the Lone Star State have been hit by severe winter weather which has disrupted transport energy and water networks Mr Cruz said he'd flown to the resort of can can with his daughters because he wanted to be a good dad David Willis is our North America correspondent take Cruz has been called upon to resign by Democrats in the state of Texas and it is truly extraordinary political error on the part of somebody who has a lot of political ambitions still to be out of the state at a time when many of his constituents and freezing cold and in some cases are actually dying because of the temperatures there M.P.'s have accused Facebook of bullying after the social media network blocked news from its site in Australia Facebook made the change over a proposed law in the country that would make tech giants pay for news content on their platforms there's a burden from Bloomberg says Facebook is concerned that other countries may follow suit Facebook really knows that Australia is. The 1st destination in this bottle and the e.u. The u.s. The u.k. Are going to be watching what even then Australian c.e.o. Of Facebook said it was like an October war saying this is the 1st shot for Facebook and it is a wall that's going to continue the government has announced the formation of a new research agency focusing on science and technology the advanced research and invention agency has received 800000000 pounds in funding and will be led by experts will be given the freedom to identify and fund research involving high risk high reward science. And the pioneering Jamaican reggae artist you're Oyo has died at the age of 78 the musician whose real name was at the banquet recorded tracks including dreads in a bad beat on and not a rebel he was also credited with popularizing the vocal style known as toasting rhythmic chanting over reggae and down strikes and the weather some showers in the northwest will clear leaving a largely dry and clear night for the u.k. 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Welcome back to the show Christmas is whether it's in charge of our technical stuff tonight all the signs and all Chloe is doing one of her 1st shifts in charge of a radio show and brilliant there's so much going on you wouldn't think so little because all those calls to get up on a lot so fantastic stuff Chris the numbers away at all wait 590961308 away at 590-9613 it's not an exaggeration says probably 200 different subjects has been represented tonight in texture calls so a lot of time if you're not getting on with group things together only go look that one person would be the answer to those 50 texts right so even though we get such a high volume keep the calls come in n o it away at 5909613 because you might trigger a different conversation and that sort of what we try and do over the time. 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And blow out the candles you are blowing out fowls and of droplets and you are decorating that cake with a lovely ample supply of saliva and in that saliva will be a host to bacteria and there are millions millions upon millions of microbes in your mouth and they will come out all over the cake and viruses as well as lots of viruses that live in your in your survivor in your mouth up your nose and the rush of air will deposit those liberally all over the table the cutlery the cake and you can eat it now if you think about it when you share a living space with somebody we're doing that to each other anyway so if you are doing the cake blowing with people that you share close personal space with all the time anyway you're probably not sharing anything with them you haven't already got but where it matters is if you get a bunch of people around who don't know each other like a kids party which you're not doing that at the moment anyway but for the sake of argument if you did then you've got the opportunity to spread stuff around the people haven't got so that's what makes a difference so I would say if you're all a close unit bunch of people who all live together and you're sharing air and chatting together you're there for spraying each other with saliva on a daily basis anyways not to make climate a difference I wouldn't say but if it's an unknown entity someone who has come around and you don't know them and you wouldn't be comfortable to them then I probably wouldn't spill over the cake either. What it what it is it can be too old for calmness and a kick you will not help because I have a lot of saké we do use a probably a logarithmic scale though because once you get to our decade in life you know if you run out you either have to consume so many calories that you're a high risk of cholesterol poisoning to have a cake big enough to accommodate that many candles or you have to. Resort to some kind of lower group make scale to have violence or bad psychologically or have a fire risk so you need to turn to if she found you also you can buy big wax candles that are numbers made of wax so you can have a candle in your case you could have either 3 for example or yeah. So a sin Johns are missing 2 fire brigades I'd sign if you did one for every year so it's good if you Peter's writing numbers I'll work welfare write 3 more to all we got some locked on purchases as well good evening column my my my locked and purchases a hot water top. No more waiting for the kettle the border that's a sprint. Tab I have actually got one of those that is connected to something then . No no you know those fancy tops you post Daryn and they give you your board and hot water if you see no yeah I thought it was going to be like an oven glove because I know some of the bone oven glove and I said was a real ripoff because they put all the food in it came back an hour later was still cold and I went very precious will be missed. And often. Get right more text Conan Mark says when a figure we've done this but I think it's good deed this it will carry in so many times right when a figure says 70 percent efficacy. 70 percent of people are protected fully and 30 percent just that mark or 70 percent likelihood of protection. It means that when you take every say $100.00 people and you vaccinate them and then those 100 people are exposed to virus then of those exposed individuals we know that at least say 70 percent if that's the efficacy won't get severe disease what we can't say is that the 30 percent will get severe disease we can only say that they they might not be protected from severe disease what we understand about these vaccines is that probably that you will get protection from severe disease for almost everybody but you will convert you know the number of people who will will otherwise of have had a very very severe disease into a much smaller number so for the sake of argument if ice is efficacies 95 percent that means out of 100 people 95 people. Will be fine who otherwise wouldn't. Right loads and loads and loads and loads and loads common then. There's a birthday cake upped it tell me about this song is from a different Rachel in Manchester helping out rates on stuff like water by claiming film the kick stick the candles on with the picket covered playing fell blow the candles I then take the can as I remove the clang fell clean kick. Sounds good to me I mean obviously you've still got the problem of that you've got a fiddle around it might damage the icing if you've got a very lot of mints on the cake then that there might be a problem but how does and I was getting actually uneasy and I didn't ask you to be Mary Berry I asked you to be a doctor Christmas would die keep the disease. Off the kick I don't want it again I didn't hear you know when you get missing all the icing my mova bad are I mean your parts just tell me is that I'm keep the disease or not doctor it will significantly cut down the affections burden on the cake but look here's the rub every time we do this anyway you're blowing huge amounts of stuff into the air and it's not just what lands on the cake it works with what's going up in the air and so we're going to breathe air in anyway so you could just have your cake and eat it to be honest in terms of your viruses Yes Also our other thing is to say I think my my suggestion that if people you have already got a very close personal relationship with you you're sharing with your bugs anyway and we know this because people have done studies where they've they've swapped people and looked at the microbes we carry top end and bottom end and you can look in families and you can see that there's a very close association between individuals who live together and what lives on them and inside them whereas if you are diverse people in the population who don't normally get together they have very different microbial flora and fauna on them and so therefore that's why I'm advocating his people you know really well you need to be a lot of time with you're probably not going to exchange anything with them that you haven't got already and vice versa where is below you don't know so well you are so probably do the clingfilm trick on the people who you don't know so well but family and people like that if you're healthy probably not going to be a risk Yeah right logic questions come in but skills let me throw hollowed out yeah 2 or 3 at a time in Ingle foot so Lucy in Martin park wants to know can he said that the rest of us are. Says Cohen and Dr Chris can you separate the risks of 2nd risk no I'll read it and then Chris can set it as I spring creatively it's lovely I can he said at the risk of secondary pupils returning to school and going to through and alone . If schools are or are to open in the march all school staff should be vaccinated if you teach a 5 period day you're asking teachers to mix the 150 students and one day stop more statement but obviously to garner. Opinion on not and and the most random question ever but I love Miranda an alternate high Dr Chris high will covert effectiveness Connex to kids the head lice population or future generations of parents going to miss out in the joy of Child and best Haitians So 3 questions connect that the kids want is a bite Secondly the dangers of secondary the rescue 2nd it was called by your view teachers get vaccinated on the future of head lice. In terms of sectors school kids going back obviously as soon as we start having contacts between individuals there's a higher risk of transmission between individuals but this should hopefully be countered by a number of measures number one is that schools should be observing secure premises and an operating conditions so that should help to mitigate things a bit number 2 the plan that will be outlined by Boris Johnson next week we understand will include provision for doing regular testing of children probably twice a week using home lateral flow tests so that we can try to head off people going into school before they leave home who might have it which hopefully will cut down the chances of transmission within school and 3rd as far as we can tell younger people are less at risk of severe disease than older people and therefore the risk for the children themselves of being in school even if they do catch it is regarded as low now that feeds actually into the question of teachers and I think that that's a reasonable case is being made that teachers do have a lot of contact and we're expecting them since the we regard schooling and education as one of the cornerstones of getting the country back to normal that is a plan going to play their part in that obviously and I think that given that the number of teachers really in the grand scheme of things is quite small up against the number of people we're managing to vaccinate every day and we should therefore make a push to try to get teachers vaccinated because then it would allow the enormous numbers of fears and help us to maintain our schools open and keep the educational system running which we regard as that important fundamental cornerstone on it at the hard liners and take the pressure off parents quite and the Home School and caressed stress and the arguments don't sell so even though like you they're Go ahead it makes toll sense to me I just don't know why they're not in the right and I don't know you know and I think it's fair enough I think that for. Probably that they should just sort this out and and arrange for teachers to receive exaggerated vaccination since it is part and parcel of the strategy to get the country back to normal. My old master teacher he should be by he wasn't very nice but every other teacher just not my old boss teacher cycle at. What was his night I'm not going to I'm not going into that you know I found my thoughts I was tidying up and I got bags of reports right now are and it next week