Her decision to join the party which now has 19 M.P.'s at Westminster Abbey Allen quit the conservative city of the shares to become one of the founders of change u.k. Let's get the sports headlines here is better cover the movie without their captain for the rest of the year Hugo to reste dislocated his elbow during Saturday's defeat at Brighton suppose say the goalkeeper doesn't require surgery Phil Neville says he does not feel vulnerable as in the women's manager's despite the fact his side of failed to win any of the last 5 games the most recent defeat was on Saturday when they lost 21 to Brazil in the friendly the lawn as his play Portugal at 7 pm in Neville says it's a must win game managing director of in the men's cricket Ashley Giles as the new head coach Chris Silverwood has a clear understanding of how both red and white ball teams need to evolve flanker James Davis says he was shocked to be named in the wild side to face Fiji on Wednesday Davis makes his tournament debut as Justin Tipperary is rested Andy Murray says his fitness levels are improving with each match will continue to make progress with his comeback from injury when he plays Fabio I think Nini in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Masters later this morning and Britain's men's gymnastics team secured their place at next year's lympics by qualifying for the final of the World Championships this is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live on digital b.b.c. South small speaker. Look at the weather showers in western areas becoming more widespread across the country through the day today perhaps something heavy with the risk of some thunder at times very windy in some parts of the u.k. Today with temperatures reaching up to between 13 and 17 degrees. advent of Captain James Cook and his crew on the shore of what's now a New Zealand was violent and deadly as a result of cultural misunderstandings we're told a leader of the local tribe where the Endeavor 1st moored was shot and killed a teller Madi people also lost their lives nevertheless Coke's arrival accompanied by a celebrated Polynesian navigator named to Pio is being celebrated by ceremonies that look back over these 250 years the less charitable view of Cook's arrival is that it heralded an age of call niceish. Hundreds of extinction rebellion activists across the globe have been arrested while protesting 30 people were charged with committing offenses and 70 after hundreds blocked a road while more than $100.00 were arrested in Amsterdam the total number of arrests in London rose to just under 300 the demonstrations also been taking place in John in Spain and Austria and France in the New Zealand and they're expected to last over the next 2 weeks we're joined this morning by Jane Martin who's an activist with extinction rebellion in Australia Hello Jane. Why are you still are you so I took away protesting when there was a lot of campers in London who are still out there on the street look we had a can you know rather lovely Poc it's right on the edge of the city and we are taking actions in the city every day. In the morning or evening take out so today we were swarming around the city we went round the various intersections. Confusing the place and came to an intersection at side stayed calm and and as we arrived started absolutely pouring with rain but nonetheless we held the intersection for about 3 hours or more and with your wrists president it's very high and this is a. Wake of that action we're going to keep going or wake and then see how we go after that. And how do you feel Amanda about what's been achieved you know apart from traffic disruption. We I think I've been one of the media spokespersons and I would say I feel ecstatic we have had coverage like really positive coverage. Talking about the emergency talking about ecological and extinction crisis from some of the most conservative comic denying made in the country we've had enormous support from television journalists we had a television journalist dancing with us as we blockaded down near the central station last night it's just been it's been an absolute shift in how the issue is viewed. And. The dialogue is opening between you and the and the people who have the political power to change the way that things are in Australia . But we have a government that is there a much. Influenced by lobbyist from the fossil fuel this we were an enormous fossil fuel industry of course in Australia we're heading to being the largest coal exporter in the world the largest gas exporter in the world so I'm not saying that we've had some sudden from government but I think. This thing we needed to do was to shift the media narrative and that is just shifted I think it's I almost I not it's just incredible. When I want to run a. Well. I'm a psychologist and became aware that we're facing a climate emergency about 12 years ago and my concern was that even then climate scientists were saying should we buy land in New Zealand or the south the Tasman you know they were already panicking in 2007 but one of the obstacles apart from all the lies that even the climate environment groups have been sanctioned we must use a strong message we must stay positive I think that it's a really strong message. With a really strong message about 6 shut down the city we have to rebel I think people have been in a stroller and particularly in despair about any political pathway through which we can win. But I think now seeing the amazing things that happen in the u.k. With the extinction rebellion people are flocking to join us. We can't keep up with the new groups that are springing out and the people who are just joining us every day it's quite amazing. To corporation among the different environmental groups absolutely we're getting really strong support from from organizations that have been very very cautious in the pot past it's again just one of the things that's just changed almost overnight and it's so exciting because they're the ones with the paid staff they're the ones with the reach to millions of people and they are the ones who've had this very cautious oh climate change is real sort of approach No I actually wrote a booklet called Don't mention the emergency. Specifically to try and influence these environmental groups and some of the. Political parties like the Labor Party and end scientists as well if scientists actually telling each other see it doesn't work we mustn't tell people how bad it is I think it's one of the main obstacles and one of the things that you can see is that when you come out with a really strong clear message you say we're risk of extinction we're in the 6 major extinction. That the scientist says that at 4 degrees of warming 4 degrees Celsius . The earth could support any about a 1000000000 people so billions would be dated 4 degrees when you come out and make that clear we find that it is an issue that you not see left and right in the ordinary population I'm not saying it can bring all the politicians on board. And do you find that we seem to be finding that in Britain and the May in the police are taking a very sort of back view. To these protests you know that have been obviously arrests but still. How are your relations at the moment with the police. I relations with individual police I'm very good we always do political you know police liaison we had a young female police woman this morning I think just with tears in her eyes as we were singing we're doing this for your children as well as we're peaceful What about you is that we're getting a bit rough with arresting people so I look in general it's a very good relationship but we did we held a practice action practice actually a preliminary action on one of our bridges 3 weeks ago and I moved much aggressively but very sort of in a very tough way against us they typed awfully area there was people coming to join the process that would let them join and they put all the media outside the cordon and then they gave everybody a warning saying that it's going to arrest everybody on the bridge which wasn't true because I had to get individual warnings and we held the bridge for 3 hours that time with I think $45.00 wrists. But the way that they moved to really. Limit the protest and to shut the Major out today they were trying to shut the main year out but that the maid here actually resisted and insisted that they could stay in the intersection so that's that's good but. I think you could say they're polite they certainly nonviolent as we are. But they're working quite hard to just put. We're going to push but I think it's been taken off some way based on some minor thing about the trial and. So they're doing what they can but not in of all that way but in a way that makes it a bit tough for us. More from extinction about him. Thank you thank you for talking to us thank you so much for having me. And to all of rebels in the u k. Well a some financial news now the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has abandoned it says $36000000000.00 attempt to take over the London Stock Exchange saying it come pursue the deal with new improved from the target's management as they put it the proposal was unveiled in September amid the political upheaval in both Britain and then Hong Kong and it was rejected almost overnight by the l.s.e. Board it would have created one of the world's largest stock exchange operators Quentin Webb is Asian markets editor of The Wall Street Journal and home Kong and I ask Renton why there Hong Kong Stock Exchange formally abandoned the bid but said the home construction just says that it's not really willing to proceed with this without the ability to talk to the management of the target company of London Stock Exchange and I guess if you're trying to look at a company from the outside in with no help from the management it's rather difficult to work out what sort of financial benefits you could gain by putting the 2 companies together and with a deal is taken is risky is this really creates an extra. Day fell without that sort of assistance from the other side it would be too dangerous to say was this a bit of a bolt from the blue in the 1st place this bit. It was a complete surprise I don't think anyone really expected this was coming the Hong Kong Stock Exchange h.k. X. Is not really a very acquisitive company a few years ago they bought the London Metal Exchange that was a much much smaller deal than this and they've effectively sat on the sidelines during a big wave of consolidation between some of the world's larger exchange grapes what they were doing hair I think is that they saw our last opportunity to bid for the l.s.e. Before it became too big to ever be taken over and that's because the l.s.e. Was pursuing its own deal to combine with their financiers which is to form a terminal to market data business of Royce's So that was going to sort of create this big hybrid Stock Exchange and financial information group and ha x. Or sword if we move now we can have that off at the pass and said create this plan European and Asian exchange operator do you know why the London Stock Exchange was so very definitely not interested. Well I think it's partly because they thought that this deal with her affinity was very compelling and they also thought there was some sort of significant uncertainties about the deal with h k x and some of that is you know arguably political so. Then with the streets of Hong Kong that it. Attentional Yes I mean if you think about it this way. You know there is a question mark bad the extent to which Mainland China is well into Let them come operate as a separate system under They are One Country 2 Systems principle is government since 997 at the moment they were saying on the street protests a lot of disquiet about the potential sort of tight control by Beijing of Hong Kong and so that makes it a rather awkward time to you know one of the most important bits of markets market infrastructure in Europe on the hands of Hong Kong government linked company. Quentin Webb is Asian markets editor for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong Well he was custom mines back a long long time 3 and a half 1000000 years ago in fact to the time when something nobody knew about it until now happened that it was cataclysmic it was a giant energy flare which ripped through the center of our galaxy according to a team of a show in astronomers they say the so-called sifter flare started near the super massive black hole in the center of the Milky Way but the empire was fell 200000 light years away faster just blonde Haasan as the astronomer who led the team Hello Professor. How you it's hard to imagine something extending over 200000 light years does that mean that the impact was felt in another place 200000 light years late. 200000 years later yes years later yes it was actually colder safer to flare and Carl say that was an astronomer about 50 odd years ago. So if you look out into space you see galaxies everywhere and they all have these central super massive black holes and the black holes themselves are invisible what you see is the gas and stars falling into the black hole rather like what you see when the water goes down a drainage source swirls around the drain before it goes down this these gases star slow like a death spiral around the black hole and if all they fall in they get very very hot and he got up and didn't generate these gigantic winds and bubbles and jets that flow outwards so we sort of see death rows falling into the massive black holes all through the universe I don't think anyone suspected however that our own galaxy could do this as well. And in fact just 3 and a half 1000000 years ago when we had you know cave. Cave people or upright ancestors ape like ancestors looking the earth they would have seen his enormous great flash of radiation from the center right across the sky. And the reason we were affected that. That it would sound like it would be pretty awful. Yeah any life near to the black hole would have been destroyed wiped out luckily for us we're out way out in the suburbs as well as like you know middle of London compared to 7 oaks or something we're kind of living in Sevenoaks and well clear of any badness going on the center of London so we're kind of fortune away out where we're going the sun in the solar system but if you happen to live anywhere close like the inner parts of the city of London as it were you'd be in real trouble I think the black hole flare would have wiped out any form of life and. How did you find out about it why didn't anybody know about it before yeah so in 2003 I had my 1st as it were revelation I was using the German x. Ray satellite called Rosat and noticed these gigantic bubbles coming out from the center 2017 years later NASA had an amazing discovery with what's called the Fermi satellite and it's all the same bubbles in gamma rays which is like a 1000 times more powerful and this is it requires even more energy and by then by 2010 I realize this must be some kind of an a.g.m. Doing there some very powerful and to do with the central super massive black hole . Gravity Yeah so the question then was what could that black hole do driving giant bubbles is not the same thing as driving even bigger beams of radiation the bubbles are only 30000 light years across yet we see the echo of the radiation over 200000 light years much much further out and that's that required using the Hubble Space Telescope musing a particular instrument on the Hubble to do those measurements. So that's how we discovered this this as well as it where you are you saying that this echo persists to this day how did how did you discover it with the instrument on the Hubble Yeah yeah that's a that's a really interesting question I think a little astronomers even trying to you know the vast. Question themselves what how and what is the timing come from well actual fact the burst of radiation has long gone we look at the center now it's very quiet very peaceful black hole in the center of the galaxy and the flash will happen 3000000 years ago and the question is how is that possible to see it so that the way to see it it To think of it is if you if you pump air into a bicycle tire you are I think you'd agree that the bicycle tire warms up and gets hot and then if you start pumping air into the bicycle tire the tire then cools down kind of like a switching the catalyst when the kettle is just boiled you can put your hand on and it's hot and is when it's much later the kettle feels cooler so what we did was basically go and look at something which we knew to be warm or hot the gas above or below the black hole and we could tell it being cooling down it was once much hotter and basically the Hubble space telescope gave us a way of measuring the temperature of the gas and we knew that the gap what we were seeing was different elements of the in the in chemistry like carbon nitrogen oxygen silicon sulfur and they did they sort of decline a different rate some of the calls are some of the calls late and I was enabled us to tell that there had been a much hotter gas there in the past and the what we were seeing was cooling down. Really amazing thought just that could have ripped right through the universe and destroyed all its parts would there have been cosmic bodies caught up in this that are just simply not there know. It actual fact yes the radio astronomy team they're looking at coal gas in the galaxy and they emit MacLow Griffiths and j. Lockman and they have been observing cool gas all around us and they found that all the coal gas in the direction of where we're looking has disappeared you basically see. Easy funnel where there is no call gas so basically it is all the coal gas was wiped away and I don't know about stars whether the stars would be affected by this some of the summit some some of the stars could be affected I think most would survive the effect of the blast wave and radiation coming through and I would predict that life doesn't exist that you would not find any stars with plant planets or country systems with life in those planets around anywhere near the Atlantic Center. Thought the thing happened and it does the possibility exists and I must let you go but there's a possibility exists for such a thing to happen again. Yes I think it's the casting like chaotic behavior like you see with Ok nose and earthquakes you know the you get these big booms and then nothing and you know that San Francisco will have another great earthquake in the future but just don't know when. And I also think that we believe that this black hole that the that the despair causes the Jets and bubbles and winds slops around a lot so in principle it could even come in the direction of the earth you know millions of years in the future maybe even the past but I don't think the radiation would be enough to destroy lives as it would be like the sun having a one of its little Albert's. That that in itself is I find quite comforting thank you very much for. Speaking to you like you but I but also just blonde Hawthorne was talking to us there from Australia now let's turn to New Zealand which is marking the 250th anniversary quite sensational anniversary because it's the beginning of a whole lot of things their arrival of Captain Cook Captain Cook's landing and what is now the city of guess borne as being corroborated with a replica of Cook's ship the and Devore But this is up setting Maori activists no end and they say it glorifies a man who was responsible for the deaths of indigenous people and we're joined by not who is and the journalist rights advocate Hello Tina. Lou thank you for coming to talk to us. What happened when when Cook landed I know there was a there was a dust up right at the beginning wasn't around and people lost their lives. Well yes quite a few people lost their lives and there are a number of different accounts by different proof to all give di