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Rate little cost small but for for things that like you if you were for the whole talk a concrete. Wall some bit of pipe that's a friend's Sunday night to take on B.B.C. 2. This is a night on 5 Live I'm told soon added by are coming up in this hour of the programme some people are calling it meaning food vote 3 in Parliament does not but I have our eye on it cos is describing it also in case it was you by the Chancellor spring statement was delivered yesterday will go through the head lines will get you the week's news from India including the reach of the Gandhi's and scientists are a step closer to night to doing a Jurassic Park by bringing back the would be mammoth from extinction what could possibly go wrong. One of the days I promise you we won't need an emergency edition of bricks a cause but night isn't one of those days as Chris Mason and the gang had to time 123 Yeah my hand is good on him and I can hear the collective exhaustion in all of our voices. Right everyone happy 99.5 episode of frogs that casts in 1009 Republicans we were oh no we were meant to be were meant to be having that I often I reconvening tomorrow celebrate the 100th episode of the podcast with a low I toss a backlash of something lukewarm. But. I mean it's always it's called a blackout when you walk is created all over the day you celebrating earlier celebrating the end of another. Solution the compromise solution we've come to this is episode 99 and a half so we can still preserve the great surprise compromises of being ago Thursday night yeah yeah yeah but Mason compromise so 99.5 where is that Clarke said. The sun comes. Down to D.C. And we still don't understand. Brazil Russia is. What the special place looks like for those who travel to break the schedule for a place think about Bret's a must see must all else it will be far better to the if you think think of possible speech I can only describe as a dog's breakfast. It is $99.00 and I happen to be know by now it is lower in Westminster and as Chris said Westminster and its cats are in Brussels and out of still in Strasbourg I know the chance that we get to our 200th episode by about what it is like I'm. All right all our life they are. So you know I absolute same's absolutely oh yeah we still got that the show so sounds like the B. Day and last week so I like a fool I thought it was going to be relatively quiet day I thought the M.P.'s would probably vote we shouldn't leave the European Union at the end of March without a deal which would have been an important political expression of will but wouldn't have changed that much except there were absolute scenes of Bush shining on him and something else happened and I've got a little list does this help let's have a list just talk us through it right Cora logical order. Number one M.P.'s voted clearly to say we should never leave the European Union without a deal not binding a very strong expression of EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER That only happened because the government lost so many of their own sides including cabinet ministers who didn't vote the same way as the Prime Minister never seen ministers for cabinet ministers and then woman is through actually voted against as opposed to absolutely right and quit to do so and around these parts and that is a big big big big deal number 3 and this is the forward looking that treason may immediately then said to M.P.'s will look. Either my deal or a long delay and guess what I'm going to have another vote on my deal within the next 7 days and tomorrow the last thing the government says M.P.'s will be asked to vote on extending until the end of June so even if she gets a deal through next week Rexx it not happening on March 29th the earliest kind of technical official date would be in the 30th but she still make it with the deal through by March 29th you know I'm not a cent because I've spent the whole evening loitering in and around the commons in the lobby and in the press gallery and then just catching up with people that sense of pandemonium was extraordinary what was it like because I was here like trying to do this every 1000 pm was that well what was reassuring because the highways and byways and rules and regulations that comes are quite baffling if you've even if you've been here for a while I was reassuring speaking to both M.P.'s and fellow scribblers in the lobby was that lots of people. About what was going to happen but what was really striking I know this sounds quite nerdy but it gets to the essence of the challenge that particularly those who defied the government tonight the the essence of how difficult a moment it was I was looking down into the chamber. And you could see ministers trying to work out what they were going to do caught between 2 principles and 2 deep principles I desire not to say a no deal Brax it and a desire to be loyal to the government in which they serve and then you add on to that the whole thing garnished by a sense of confusion that I know you've been tweeting about a lot about whether or not what would happen if they either abstained or if they voted to get something that was my expectation if you vote to get you to lose your job but could you keep your job if you were state yet and there's Holden's out they court turns out a kid to what did you see because you know these are and you guys and it at the European Parliament work in very different ways but here on a fascinating. Things about if you're like us covering Westminster you see it physically because people have to get up and decide which corridor to walk through and so you know you see ministers that heads in her listen to his phone literally not just metaphorically literally sitting on his hands in his seat not wanting to move and then people coming up and clearly saying what are you going to do and you can see because of the just to kill ations are we going that way you know we're going to the way the words which way you're going to vote then he got up and how to wander around and sat down again then he got up and wandered out water up the back doors and I thought maybe he's just going to the moon. And then I thought and then he disappeared to live and you know you then left guessing as to what's going on and I think it's also because it was about addiction in the end about what the votes actually meant Yeah because I was I was getting texts from you know a couple of European contacts and I think it was all the negatives that was so confusing it was I'm not voting for a new deal or you know there was lots of No not well and it became really quite confusing and by the way I'm P.C.M. Fuse by that yet as you could see M.P.'s are skiing that whips and asking more senior M.P.'s even if they were clear in their own mind how they wanted to vote to make sure they went into the right lobby and I'm not sure everybody was that there was a kind of mini cabinet huddle and then a bad sort of half past 6. To say what to do and I'm told in that meeting some of that's me the prime minister did not actually quite understand what's going on. Because it was so chaotic the chief whip apparently it suited was asked what was the weapon on this vote what happens if we abstain because remember the context lots of former remain our ministers have been absolutely pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing to be allowed to vote to take no days off the table that's why there was meant to be a free vote but for all sorts of reason we're going to end up being that way partly the chief whip couldn't at that point answer so the man is in charge of party discipline and didn't appear tonight it said to know quite what was going on but it seems after the result of Oh I think it is worth listening to and then I really want to hear what you think the response will be you guys over there to hear the prime minister and stand up to forget she hasn't got a voice this week metaphor a liar it is obviously not her fault but she's like struggling to hold on to her voice and the noise in the Commons when she was trying to set her plan for what's next you have a listen the options before us is the same as they always have the we could do it we could leave with the deal which this government is negotiation past year yes you could leave with the deal we have to go say to the subject to a 2nd referendum but that there's risk no Bracks it at all. Damaging damage you decide child trust between the British. Talent certainly damaging the fragile trust between the British public and the members caused this was so immediately prior to that moment I was covering a quick word with some people who were going into that meeting of the cabinet as opposed to being a cabinet meeting because they were the whole cabinet wasn't there but a good number of them were there and I just say in Westminster I don't really care if somebody did point out that there was a distinction between those 2 things I said to one of them I wasn't really fishing for quite a sort of a polite I just had to this person and you well. What if it wishes you to do is the response was. Not really a matter of how those. Understated understated moment and sort of the scale the scale of what was going on and then just Suddens afterwards from those in government and beyond and you know we've been here before we should mention again because it's just so extraordinary of a ask you Minister what's going to happen next and I'm saying who knows. Find me someone who can tell you what I'll find you a liar was that right now I know we've had variations on like that for quite a while because there is that collective sense of not quite knowing what's going to happen. But I genuinely Can I ask things that I've never seen anything like it oh so you can I ask 2 questions number one why is it that people in the bubble and the village seem more excited about this which is a vote which is symbolically very important but practically less so than they were about actually voting on the deal itself and rejecting it for a 2nd time doesn't that suggest sort of a bit in love with our own business a bit more than we are without actually as I should I think it's true that rank to Parliament gets off on feeling important no question about that. Procedural stuff and we're paying and all that but I think the difference about today's vote and why it has had huge kind of energy and energy around it is because you want to reduce. Some very very unusual and unconventional things happen that have implications way beyond race if we ever get past it how does Theresa May actually run a government after this if you've got cabinet ministers running amok when I was a very senior Tory text me tonight in this government is breaking down so there you go that's why it matters point to this today is actually seen a shift in 3 ways position now so he's actually saying something new right the choice is now delay or my deal is not well there's no deal or my deal or no breakthrough and guess what the vote in coming back saying so young so young and young has changed change so that is different so there's movement she's been forced to me and and I suppose and I mean if. It's only last night yeah 111 nerdy point and then one broader point which plays into a catch or not and that the whole question of how the European Union response to all of this is the nerdy point looking down from the press gallery was after that 1st vote. This evening which was on the idea put forward by Cooper and originally by Caroline Spelman the Conservative M.P. Who then withdrew her kind of support for it which was this idea of taking the idea of no deal off the table completely as opposed to the government's idea which was specifically about taking it away on the 29th of March there was a quite a to do it's fair to say in the chamber after that 1st vote had passed as a load of senior ministers collected around Julian Smith the chief whip and there was clearly a conversation along the lines of I couldn't hear it as a noisy chamber along the lines of what on. Earth what on earth do we do next round the whipping arrangements for the next vote which we suddenly discovered an M.P. You suddenly discovered was it was mandated that they had to vote in line in a particular direction of course that's what course the difficult decision for those if the middle of the that got that much Caroline Spelman this thought it persuade her to tears or pull over but Yvette Cooper yet again if you press answer . He's been the great interest made always there then no on our side whatever our long for donkey's Yvette Cooper the person who has actually had a huge influence over moving this process on many different occasions so we let you know it's a 20 minutes and also I ask my question to yeah yeah so we're going to have meaning for 3 next week and of course regular lessons of regular Castle have seen the 3 coming for several weeks now thanks to your great insights is there anything around the deal or within the deal that will change to win over objectors or is it just the context and the timing and what could happen instead of the deal that will that will swing people I'll just say one little thing the follower probably has vowed to get things to say is that I picked I don't bet on it I don't make it up outside the meeting that cabinet meeting prior to the vote that there was a real emphasis from some cabinet ministers to say. Prime Minister when you stand up afterwards you've got I really like your own fake that this could be. A lie. If this deal doesn't get through eventually you know the words the emphasis seems to be on the stake for as far as approach to you Marcy It's a very very long to lie rather than necessarily any front about for sure and that's what we can say is a sort of that we think we've been talking about here a couple minutes has been saying almost jokingly and then kind of like a well wouldn't it be nice and then or like oh actually wouldn't this this is our way we will say you can have an extension but only if it's a year or 2 years that's never getting through the Commons and then it's either there or oh to resign means deal except the E.U. Isn't quite playing ball on that isn't because I mean the idea of living hell for the E.U. Would be a really really long delay where the idea of bricks and the process of hangs around like a poisonous smell affecting all sorts of business effecting members of you know departments in government and all the emotional states affecting the most immediate term the European parliamentary elections where populist figures like mad in the pan might their Salvini of Italy are expected to do well anyway and they love Breck's as a theme to have a go at Brussels and then at the end of that long extension the idea for the E.U. That it could result in a general election or a 2nd referendum that would prove to be you know not decisive would just leave this huge gaping wound in the E.U. Side and completely unresolved so you know they are racking their brains at this idea of an extension now how can be resolved it is so it's unpleasant for either leaders this you know this whole idea if it's short it's difficult and they think it'll end up being long anyway if it's long it could be horrific this is the this is quite the E.U. Leaders this is their agonize. Using decision at the moment because of course if they say no then they'll be blamed by their voters and on a technical level after on a bureaucrat level people in the E.U. Are ready to say no if the U.K. Doesn't come up with a really good reason and it's not a man you know I might call Francois I mean on the technical level it's not his emissaries which you might think considering how brakes and go stations have gone so far it's of those countries that the U.K. Has traditionally looked to as their mates in Germany it's Sweden it's the Netherlands and they're saying why should we go through this process if there is not a very concrete reason and and they really don't know which way to jump so I mean just to compare with you Chris when you said earlier when you asked someone just sort of very politely you know how are you and I know that one of my contacts from a from a member state today I was like saying oh you know how you and he said but. You know it I think while M.P. Summarily talking about you know threatened with a long extension it will be difficult if the noise from the E.U. Is we aren't going to grant this unless you have something important to say and if it comes to tweek or a before M B 3 there is an absolute big hairy you know to that but if you know whether if they say no that's also happy days because then so the prime minister can either say long delay or my idea or no deal or my deal both things work for theoretically. Yes And then I think we should so. Yeah so I can see how it might all work because so on Monday in Strasburg that no one noticed was the last or from younger to where the last paragraph sad oh if you case stays in beyond March the 29th it will have to contest the elections in the European Parliament on the 23rd of May than at core approaches the ambassadors meeting this morning all the focus of the discussion was about a short technical extension so even though that isn't a formal position from the E.U. It's pretty clear that a short time nickel stanch and is edging its way on to the table so it's a reason they can say in her motion for tomorrow which we've now all seen oh if the deal passes the day before the next summit next week she can go to the summit and get a shore extension that will be fine then you've got the threat of the European Parliament elections to focus people's minds and you can imagine a situation where at the summit the leaders say we're not convinced your shore extension will be enough years a long extension for you to do something massive like have another referendum or a vote revocation or an indicator of votes about Norway plus that's really the main comes back to you which through the May comes back to London and says look here's the deal you either have the vote with a short extension and my deal or you have a long extension and we will have to have a vote on revocation or another referendum meaning he won't. Get it I think you know meaningful that. Those those big things revocation referendum renegotiation treason May has been saying over and over this week and people have been really noticing so you realise that's probably what she's going to than conjure up for meaningful vote for the pithy version of that from this side of the tunnel. So I didn't mean that as a sort of put down about your waffling and not even looking at me very pointedly he said that what I said that you know I mean you know I mean look at me. I just awesome Piers I went back over the road from parliament back to the back to the newsroom again just you know what you make of it and this person said you. Hell these phones will show you a text from something to my wife I don't need I mean what I've heard even most of my inquiry. And it said water close to something from the audience I want to hear her side and then I'm told the phrase The description was it's scorched earth policy from the prime minister and the view that she might ram it through in the end yeah sure. Lose to win. By delivering for just a 2nd to do it's my cue when you say leave it at that Lord say just. A tiny little thought. But then that you don't know what. The E.U. Is sort of arms folded against saying it's all very well to bear in faith it's a vote against no deal but voting against a no deal doesn't stop no deal brights it and. Yes Well you see there is some as we say as we have many times said the E.U. And trees may all know on opposite sides when it comes to this they are joined at the hip because as Task Force 59 in the European Commission has said they feel absolutely and they said this very clear to you and to the ambassador's investors today their job is done they were tossed by E.U. Leaders to negotiate an exit deal with trees in May They did it and that that's why they say it's now up to night what the stages Michel Barnier said in the chamber of the European Parliament today when he then quoted me. Right so. No it's right. It's OK Herbert says I need a hash tags a cast like now so let's give Kate what she wants and wrap up there but I can make a. Hard for the 100th. Case. Exit cast makes it cast from the B.B.C. Thank you for making it to the end of a break said Cassie really uses stamina so let me gently encourage you to subscribe to us via not just occasionally mention B.B.C. Sounds and then without having to do anything else our ramblings will meander on 05 every week. And amid all the breadstick ales there was also a spring statement on Tuesday the chancellor pledged to spend more than 26000000000 pounds to Billy's the economy if M.P.'s vote to leave the European Union with a deal of course that's a big if Philip Hammond vowed to free up more money to help and austerity in a deal deep in a deal divided as he called it some campaign groups are upset that Mr Hamel hasn't taken more and he has dirty steps now Naomi Rudnick is a reporter for The Financial Times he's been looking at some of the working families who are struggling financially exactly who she was very exciting on my main interest has been in working families that shitty because well the number of children who are living in relative poverty. By about half a 1000000 since austerity still sit in 24100000 in my reporting just going around food banks and homeless shelters and social safety markets and talking to charities and that kind of thing I'm still making a lot of people saying well I work full time the My partner works full time but wait here at the Food Bank away Heya trying to get some 2nd hand clothes for our kids at this charity giveaway day because we can't make our wages stretch till the end of them up and what exactly is meant by relative poverty what is a very tricky stat to get you had drowned because it's not destitution and it's not the system destitution what it is is that the number of people whose income after the housing costs is 60 percent below the maid. And now I'm no economist I can't tell you why that's the accepted measure of struggling but it means that you basically don't have enough in your in your pay packet after you've paid for your housing to really get comfortably to the end of the month or the end of the week and it's an accepted measure used by the government the less in various think tanks so it means you've not got as much as most and was there anything for those families in the Johnstons been statement not really if you are a higher rate taxpayer you'll be getting a bit of a sweetener from the chancellor at York the the threshold at which you pay that high rates of tax is going up to $50000.00 but there wasn't really a lot for people who were getting by on a low income plus tax credits plus benefits those tax credits have been pretty much reduced or frozen since a star ity in 2010 and what was really interesting is that the government already in 2014 set a cap on how much it will spend on welfare but then the O.B. Are in its forecast they said actually the government's going to be spending 1600000000 below the cap so there is some headroom that maybe the chance that's keeping it back for a rainy day or a stormy Breck's that we could the chancellor have given the most help to these people. Well obviously there's the longer term initiatives like education and skills and encouraging companies to pay more so you know the Living Wage is being reviewed as it is every year that could go up particularly for younger workers. There's obviously social housing we could need more of that so when I was on an estate and working I'm looking at people who were working you know Mom had come down during half time to get some recycled children's clothing I noticed that a lot of what we would think of as the council houses had already been subdivided into flat save for families of 5 will 6 living in 2 bedroom flats for example and then of course other working families who are really paying quite a lot of rent even if they're getting housing benefit that is really about 24 percent of people I think according to the Joseph Roundtree Foundation who are having to top up the housing benefit with income because rents are high. Obviously that's a function of low interest rates and high housing values which is the Remove the Bank of England rather than the chancellor. I mean we have money that's being spent on tax cuts elsewhere many have questioned the logic So for example. The said earlier in the year that cuts to corporations so the tax that companies pay on their profits or so traders who set themselves up as companies pay. That's been cut quite drastically and that's going to cost the Treasury about $6200000000.00 so you wonder whether that is entirely necessary or whether that could be rated back into the kind of welfare and tax credit support that low income families enjoyed really until 202012. Potential until there's some readjusting the pull for them definitely some Yeah and in the meantime you've got obviously cuts to local council funding and that's making life hard for people as well so when I was growing up I've grown up in a workplace. So it actually. We didn't have to pay for very much so thus the as my phrase if I wanted to go to the library that was good didn't worry about what school I went to because of the cost of the boss swimming lessons at school were free school trips nominal payment for those people who are in work and that seems to be all gone and then you have the staying up until 2030 quit the social fund where if a low income family want to needed a new wardrobe with a bed collapsed or something they could apply for a loan or a Grob that was centrally administered responsibility for that kind of a merge and see grant giving or loan giving was then devolved to local councils but most of them of basically going bust So those those little pockets of support have really been eroded a bit over the last few years as Naomi Rob Nicky of the Financial Times Now I'm going to introduce my colleague Rosanna pound woods for the last time here on B.B.C. 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And he's a facing an over Commons vote over breaks it later this time to decide whether it's delay leaving the European Union and after the majority voted to rule out a no deal back since a 3rd man has been charged with the matter of a 17 year old Jodie Chesney The teenager was stabbed to death in a park in East London almost 2 weeks ago Facebook has been suffering the most severe outage in its history Instagram's also been affected by the as of yet unknown problem the social media site says it's working to fix the issue and the Formula One race driver Charlie Whiting has died 3 days before he was due to officiate the 1st race of the new season the 66 year old suffered a pulmonary embolism sport now has Nick little fall are through to the quarter finals of the Champions League after putting the Bundesliga champions to the sword in their own backyard China's call it was . 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Sound this small speaker analogue Good morning well our weather story's been dominated by storm Gareth over the last couple of days Gareth last seen spitting its way across Denmark is certainly a long way from our shores however but it's not the end of the wet and windy rainy weather is going to stay pretty blustery not just today but through Friday and into the weekend as well now look at the weather picture 1st thing this morning will start off across England and Wales we've got low pressure Withers and it's going to be a cloudy and wet start to the day for many areas now the rain will ease away from northern England North Wales quite quickly with a mixture of sunshine and showers following it here and those brighter showery conditions will then spread southwards across the rest of Wales the Midlands into East Anglia and eventually Southern counts of England southwest England stays quite Cloudy with rain never too far away the other thing you'll notice if you're out and about on Thursday is going to be another blustery day now because the wind could reach around 40 or 50 miles an hour on the face of it temperatures not doing too badly ranging from between 10 and 13 degrees but those gusty winds will make you feel a little bit fresher than that forecast for Northern Ireland was starting the day cloudy here still the chance for a little bit of overnight rain but clearing quite quickly followed by sunshine and showers as well probably your car to go over again later on in the day temperatures here reaching a high of around 9 degrees Celsius the forecast for Scotland Well here is going to be a blissed the show blustery showery starts to the day the majority of the showers across northern and western areas but nowhere is going to be immune you could see you know chop popping up just about anywhere and they will be heavy could be a bit of hail mixed in with some of them a little bit of winter Enos over the very highest of the Scottish mountains temperature wise looking at highs of 10 degrees Celsius now it is going to stay pretty blustery they'll be further rain at times on Friday particularly across England Wales oil. By showers later in the afternoon and then there's potential for some very strong winds and some very heavy weight to start off that we can do some snow or some mountains of Scotland to Chris walks for life with my family. From digital B.B.C. So it's a small street. Is B.B.C. Radio 5 minute election campaigning is underway in India much of the focus is on the Gandhi's or the reach of the gun does if you like Let's talk. And yeah we're looking at the Indian elections here and we've gotten and really they were declared on Sunday that can go for a long period of time you know getting more than 900000000 people to the polling booth it's quite well you know it's the world's largest democracy in action I know that in the U.K. There's a lot of a lot of interest in the democratic process and up with what's happening Well that's the same of course in India and I think as you've alluded to that this is going to be a very important election for the family because we have never intermodal from the B J P who had this huge majority last time I think it's fair to say that he will start these elections again as a hot favorite and against him basically he has the Gandhi family and the Congress party and I remember the Gandhi family has ruled India for the 1st almost the 1st 37 years since the Brits left over the last 40 years that we haven't had a gun the prime minister even the Son You can be with the woman behind the scenes women moan thing was Indians India's prime minister so this is a crucial election for them because if they don't make a dent this time we looking at an end to what is probably the world's most powerful political dynasty I've been speaking to the author Sunday Profile Here are his views majority of the population of growing up without seeing a gun the prime minister and you know we lose all family names just John Kerry that much clout with the electorate who have become much more. Focused on themselves as opposed to thinking about you know that just because you're a gun he therefore you are immediately entitled to be the prime minister the nation and therefore everybody must vote for them in a we it is the Congress's problem that it is even at this point so excited about someone with a gun the name coming into politics and in a way it's sort of rather sad for the Congress that it still at this point needs to rely on what is very rapidly feeding on the charisma in some ways of the Gandhi's almost where the Kennedys are in the States in a sense that people love to talk about them within the media but they're really not that relevant anymore or not as relevant as they used to be the Gandhi's are far more relevant than the candidate I think the difference between the Gandhi's and the Kennedys is that the Kennedys don't have a stranglehold over the Democratic Party in the way the Gandhi's have managed to keep a stranglehold over the Congress party a young tended to right now is not going to be able to walk into the Democratic Party and immediately feel like they will obviously get the nomination as people like Caroline Kennedy and I have discovered so in that sense yes the Congress party still feels that the Gandhi's are indispensable but I think the rest of the country has long moved on and don't think of the dandies as indispensable to Indian politics in any way really fascinating conversation their role but quite apart from the get go is the campaign over. Well we're in the winter started really Dalton And it's going to be a long one but I think what we're seeing from the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is he wants this basically to become a presidential campaign because he feels and he would be confident because of this before must last time when he when he is India star campaigner when it comes to politics trouble. Gandhi is probably the prime ministerial candidate of the Congress party doesn't really seem to be able to get to have that personal touch with the Indian population that Mr Modi does I think what is going to be BIG going to be the sort of wild card in this election is that Rahul Gandhi SR Priyanka Gandhi as aunt of the political stage she looks like her you know she looks like into a guy and be a great grandmother and that even though it sounds bizarre could have a very important part to play in this particular election but the T.V. Channels are full of debates the newspapers are full of different campaigns where trying to work out which party's going to be with which other parties who are the beginning of it now could dot and but you know for the next 2 months forget about cricket forget about Bollywood it's the soap opera of the Indian elections that everybody's going to be watching and we will keep Rooney on our pulmo of course on another topic how much pressure is generated the Indian children incredible amounts of pressure I don't know how good you were at school the tennis as a people but I'll just give you an idea of the sort of pressure that kids are under at the moment as many of them are taking their final exams to get into some of India's top colleges. Forget 90 percent forget 95 percent you need 981900 Stevens college for economics has had to cut off point of scoring 100 percent in your exams to get it not to get those grades memory India has a system of wrote it means you just study study study study I've been speaking to some people that want to call up girls' schools modern high. Pressure come from. The US you have to be good in nothing else not this but you have to be this that's difficult when you need 9798 percent to go into college and right that. You get a 9798. You're not in your head it's a lot of pressure on you it's not competitive to be decided on going up because this question so much. You're learning by rote you want to learn by a different system. And you know the interesting thing is often that when the exams are on in India it consumes the whole family parents stop going out they stop doing everything they stay at home with their children I spoke to a couple of fathers who were waiting to pick up their children at the same school that is but I think that's inevitable the fact that 1500000000 population is going to have it there's nothing you can do about it for sure even special needs of those . There's nothing it's only study study and study that's be all end all of everything that's not good for kids they need to develop all aspects of absolutely you have to be an overall development but then your most important thing is education this is normal life for any of us because it may be that even when it's the kids exams parents are home revising Yes yes that's exactly what's happening that's exactly what's up with. The 1st time she's doing this it's not the. The fact that their wives are not of this giving example the entire family is giving the example we really would wonder this I don't know how to go about it but then you know just bring to the Almighty the US Some somebody comes any other changes the entire system over if the entire system is pretty creature of the 1.2000000003 prove you can see we're. Going to change one room in these dots and but you know there is a bigger problem I think here and it's something that India really doesn't need to begin to address because when you learn by rote you know when you go to school and you're told not to question what we're seeing now is this a lot of employers saying hang on a minute you know we've got these kids with 100 percent 99 percent but actually in the workplace they're not really that able to function because work is changed so much in our knowledge whilst important would be internet is not as important as it used to be they need people who can think out of the box so I think we're now beginning to see a debate about whether they said you cation system is working and how to change it the difficulty is with so many people you know class sizes are so big 5560 kids in a class with one teacher where they can't give people's individual attention and that's where the rote system works but let's be honest you know it was a system introduced by the Brits when they came to India they don't follow in the U.K. Anymore so a lot of Indians are saying why do we follow in India. Can we talk Cheltenham. If there is a chance it in your list or your word. India of course you know we're heading towards the Cricket World Cup and I think a couple of weeks ago there was great optimism in India I think they would have class themselves along with England as the favorites for the competition they have had this series against Australia 50 over series which I think you know they thought they were going to win quite easily remember this is an Australian side still without Warner and Steve Smith The Indians have come a cropper that mean they've lost now 3 to the series and I think there are serious questions now that are being asked by the Indian cricketing public about some of the selections in the team the batting order it certainly doesn't we're not quite sure who's going to be going to to the World Cup not quite sure about which of the spinners again no work as well so a series that was supposed to be in a sense a formality built up the confidence has ended up asking a lot of questions and I think it's going to make you know the I.P.L. Which is going to start very soon quite a quite a big moment for a number of Indian cricketers because they're welcome futures all being picked in the World Cup squad is going to depend on how they perform Why hasn't the I.P.L. The Indian Premier League resonate. In terms of improving the quality of the national side why is it that it's looking like the Premier League you know the greatest league in the world players from all over the world coming to play you would expect the England national team to be quite you know contenders at the very least for the highest international trophies Likewise with Europe you know the most dynamic of cricket leagues but the national side struggling one. Well that's a really good analogy I think the answer to that lies in the fact that unlike football we have so many different versions of cricket so we have to 20 we have 50 overs and we have the Test match and they really almost like different sports only T 20 and Test cricket and I think to some extent and 20 and 50 over cricket so what we're seeing at the youth level is a huge development at the 20 level I think in India you know India has a lot of great T 20 players but that doesn't necessarily translate to a technique that's going to allow you to succeed in other parts of the in other parts of the game really and I think that is you know that is the answer then of course also with the I.P.L. I think we're seeing a lot of players burning out I mean they're playing so much cricket now a days and I think a question that a lot of Indian fans will ask is with the amount of cricket they play in now a big I.P.L. Season coming how fresh are some of these players going to be before the World Cup but yeah good analogy the Premiership hasn't seemed to help the England football team so far let's see if the I.P.L. Is going to help the Indians win the World Cup in England they have won in England once before but it may be a tough struggle this year I think England would be the hot favorites at the moment royal turned in there now they may have died out thousands of years ago but scientists appear to have moved a step closer towards bringing back the willies member of a team in Japan transplanted cells extracted from the moment fried carcass of a mammoth into a mess they subsequently recorded positive biological activity the findings were published in the publication scientific reports during Griffin is Professor of Genetics at the University of Kent and he's been telling me how significant this is I quite enjoyed reading it so I look at the paper. And it shows the 1st time some biological activity for almost a. From 8 some souls that were extracted from a prehistoric creature. So it's no way in reach. No way sort of trying to recreate that creature but it's just in that little bit a biological activity so it is a starter Jurassic Park in some ways. For Murder males to remember the vice versa Well if you're going to try to recreate the man of the you wouldn't put these cells into a mouse egg it put it into an elephant egg and see what happens but by putting it into a mouse egg they can at least have a look next more scientifically rigorously at what it was up to and the mouse eggs are a lot better controlled as not a lot of the elephant eggs out that so shipping into mass segued shows a few things it should a little bit of activity it showed some of the proteins working quite well so one binds to the D.N.A. Let's call the histones one that binds to the inside of the nuclei called the lemons and they did some live cell imaging of it as well so I'm just looking at the pictures at the moment they're really quite impressive. So what the scientists do to essentially is extract tissue samples from the animal's bone marrow and muscle Yeah and that is the need to be well preserved Yes So this is the thing they found a specimen that's particularly well well preserved in its 28000 years old apparently which is pretty impressive. So putting the nuclei bit with the D.N.A. Inside a mouse is the same thing that you would do if you were clothing for instance so you start with an empty egg an egg without a nucleus and it put a new nucleus in there so it's the principle is developed for the dolly shape if you like but with modifications Now if you just want to see if a nucleus is alive and doing something from from that from any particular species you'd use a mouse egg because that mo more freely available a more easy to extract than any other but in this case I think they found I think the number was 808 different nuclei that looked reasonably intact from this ancient specimen injecting them into these medicines and watch what happened. And watching what happens is the stuff the scientists love to do is needed to see exactly what happens next if we do this in that overt Hollywood has already made 5 movies to suggest that this is a really bad idea the what happens next going to be good for us so why risk the eventual consequence of whatever mess well your parent if there is a approach it to Harvard to try and fully resurrect the mammoth I think the technology can be put to better use I think we have been. Very very bad. Causing species to go extinct and we have seen far freshest specimens all species that didn't go extinct and I think it would be better use. Conservation purposes and then this high profile application they have here so I think it has its uses with all the mammoth escape and start killing people that lost wretches digits not quite sure in quite the same way but I am reminded of that quote in that the most recent drastic well for what could possibly go wrong so have to say yes indeed and it will be an elephant as you suggested earlier that would be the this test anymore or whatever the word is so so that the closest living relative is is an elephant and in this particular paper they they managed to sequence the genome of this menace called U.K. But accounts and they compared it to the genome all I think is an African up elephant if I recall correctly and that's the nearest relative to showing some some similarities so one of the things that they would have to get working is essentially elephant I.D.F. Now in addition to humans we have. V.F. We have cattle a little bit take cattle and to go on a mob of fact. But and in this case if they wanted to try and get a cell to divide they'd have to use an elephant egg and presuming that have to implant the resulting embryo into a mother elephant a surrogate as well now I am magine that their ability to do that is still an awful long way off and an awful lot of things could possibly go wrong and even if they got something at the end of it whether it would be truly a woolly mammoth like used to wander around 28000 years ago we wouldn't necessarily know. You could read learn anything from the process anything that's worth the retaining. Yes I mean I think some of the things that they found out from from this and other previous studies is for instance cold tolerance in an elephant so they found an awful lot more about how these animals come to the cold the ice age and so they when they isolated some evil globin. From from the last time they did similar work although that didn't involve life cells also gives you some sources clue into why these animals came extinction and the sort of conditions that were around so it is very useful to find out about science and also how long do these tissues last in any sort of preserve will form and how damaged is the D.N.A. Get so there's a lot of interesting genuine scientific questions and could say how they become extinct 2nd time around is because they're going to huge ivory tusks Oh you know if we can predict the elephants now with their ivory towers 6 hours how will we be 2 How will we do protecting he'd really mammoth vive huge a tusks Is it well it does make you wonder. And I guess if they created a park with a few woolly mammoths up in Siberia or something I guess it would have to have the most massive security and I guess it would be subject to terrorist attacks and and all sorts of protest and all sorts of things so goodness knows what happened if they actually money should create a park with a few of these things and it was what could possibly go rogue was your quote was. Absolutely absolutely I have to say I think the filmmakers do a far better job at recreating these species than the sides of a what So I quite like I quite like sitting up and having a little escapism of watching the movies. Leave the leave the creek just in the filmmakers in the science in the scientists I would say Darren Griffin there who's a professor of genetics at the University of Kent that's about it for. As for tonight thanks for listening thanks Dischord as always we're back with the tomorrow from. His 25 years old which is 25 years old and still going strong What could possibly go wrong. And. Thank you John good morning good time you wear this estate take me through until 6 o'clock or 7 depending on coming up to date I forgot for you amongst all the things lots going on across the region this morning among some of things we're going to be talking about the situation the parliament last night and that is it one big mess we got to get your thoughts on it 13 double for a start a text with the word Steve place I'm pacing now going to 5 tonight on whether or not they want to delay breaks it by asking the E.U. To extend Article 15 tonight but another consequence of Bret's it no holidays for South Yorkshire police officers at least right now anyway South Yorkshire Police is confirm that. There is now a leave in place. To breaks it and this is going to bring from the 29th of March until the 15th of April and inspect to say improvements need to be made to add a hospital in West Yorkshire They Care Quality Commission carried out an inspection at the N.H.S. Trust in December concerns have been right East in a number of areas including staffing levels training and around measures in place to prevent infections of power your station for you Steve Bailey.