we are the ellis family. my husband and i have known each other since grade school. we were friends the whole time. we dated in high school and married in college and this is our 20th wedding anniversary. because we have some issues with the boys, we have not been on a trip in a really long time. they are not very effective at communication, so it takes a lot of intuition to figure out what they need. we have a lot of meltdowns. 0h, did he throw it? child cries did he drop it or did he throw it? he dropped it. it s ok. when there are two autistic nonverbal children, the behaviours can be exponential. sometimes they play off of each other. it s all right, it s all right, it s ok. before the twins were born, we were just a family of four. and we had the two older brothers who kind of sort of got along, but not really. after the twins came, the dynamic changed to this really sweet, caretaking dynamic. and especially as the twins got older and they stopped developing, or their de
founder of the health company theranos is found guilty of fraud over her failed blood testing technology. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, from new york. this city is testament to the power of science and technology. but we shouldn t be fooled by these gravity defying towers. we are not masters of the universe. covid and climate change remind us of that. and so, too, does my guest today, arguably america s most famous scientist, neil degrasse tyson. his special subject is astrophysics, but his mission goes much wider, to get us all to respect scientific fact. so how s that going? neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. your dayjob is being an astrophysicist, but you are also one of america s leading champions for science. so you tell me why there appears to be such a strain of scepticism among so many americans toward the basics of scientific knowledge. i don t have a good answer for that and i poked around in the ether for what cou
and former tech billionaire elizabeth holmes founder of the health company theranos is found guilty of fraud over her failed blood testing technology. the language is extraordinarily broad and this is the type of very broad language that lawyers sometimes think is going to be helpfulfor them but often it actually result in finding that a provision is invalid because it is in fact too broad. prince andrew was adamant in his 2019 newsnight interview he has no memory of any contact with ms giuffre. you can say categorically that you don t recall meeting virginia roberts, dining with her, dancing with her at tramp or going on to have sex with her in a bedroom in a house in belgravia? i can absolutely, categorically, tell you it never happened. - do you recall any kind of sexual contact with virginia roberts, then or any other time? none whatsoever. there might not be an outcome today from the hearing but prince andrew s lawyers will be hoping the case can be stopped in its t
for lying about the technology that made her a billionaire. and six years after his death david bowie s estate sells his entire catalogue of songs for more than 250 million dollars. lawyers for prince andrew will today try to convince a new yorkjudge to throw out a civil case brought by a woman who accuses him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. the duke has consistently denied the claims. it follows the release of a document that shows the woman, virginia giuffre was paid half a million dollars in exchange for agreeing not to sue any potential defendent connected to the disgraced sex offenderjeffrey epstein. here s our legal correspondent dominic casciani. a woman making the gravest of allegations. the unprecedented defendant, a prince of the realm. and now, a day of critical court hearings for both virginia giuffre and the duke of york. she says she was sexually exploited by the man on the right, jeffrey epstein. ms giuffre, then known as roberts, said epstein c
campaign is on his mind while on this trip to scotland and ireland. he says a victory for him would make america greater than ever before. he said earlier we will be leaving for scotland and ireland soon in order to inspect my great properties there. the second largest bank failure in history unfolds in the us as regulators shut down first republic bank and sell its assets tojp morgan. and solving london s housing crisis how one community is building its own solution selling affordable housing to locals. welcome to world business report, i m ben thompson. also in the programme we re going to take a look at the state of the commerical property sector, in the post covid world. but first. let s start in the united states, where us regulators have closed down first republic bank, and sold the troubled lenders assets tojp morgan. it was one of six banks that submitted bids to buy first republic, at an auction run by regulators. it makes it the second largest retail bank failure