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The usa Gymnastics Team, larry nassar, has been sentenced to 175 years in prison for sexually abusing young female athletes. More than 150 women filed personal statements against him during the seven day hearing. Thejudge said he would die injail, and dismissed his apology to his victims as insincere. Our correspondent, rajini vaidynathan, has been following the Court Hearing in michigan. The tables have turned, larry. We are here, we have our voices and we are not going anywhere. The amount of ...

Is one of the big these of british politics. Known as the father of the house because he is the longest serving member of the commons he has also held more cabinet post than any other living british politician. Yet, ken clark says we are now in the maddest situation of his lifetime and talks of a political system that is broken. It is one of the reasons he could not quite bring himself to retire at the last election, staying on to fight against brexit and for the conservative party. Is it a figh...

We begin with the scotland times, which leads with british Prime Minister theresa mays speech at davos today. Shell address the need for social media giants to crack down on illegal and harmful content. And warns tech firms will face a backlash from government and investors, if they dont clean up their act. The metro headline reads sexist and the city. Its a dig at some of britains business and political elite who were allegedly caught sexually harassing staff at a mens only fundraising event. T...

Although we are still have much in the thick of the crisis. The bill for Hurricane Harvey is at a staggering 160 bi. Thats a quarter of our Defense Budget and that could be the starter path for the biggest, most of expensive storage in history. Hurricane katrina cost 109 billion. And there is bad blood stirring in congress over Hurricane Sandy flooding. Northeast legislators promise retribution is not on the docket. If the sandy package was bogged down with porky projects, lawmakers have a time ...

Although we are still have much in the thick of the crisis. The bill for Hurricane Harvey is at a staggering 160 bi. Thats a quarter of our Defense Budget and that could be the starter path for the biggest, most of expensive storage in history. Hurricane katrina cost 109 billion. And there is bad blood stirring in congress over Hurricane Sandy flooding. Northeast legislators promise retribution is not on the docket. If the sandy package was bogged down with porky projects, lawmakers have a time ...

Singapore, midnight in london and 1am in geneva, where a top north korean diplomat has warned his country is ready to send what he called more gift packages to the united states. The threat of new missiles comes as new nations debate new sanctions against the pyongyang regime, butany new sanctions against the pyongyang regime, but any hope for International Unity has been dashed by russia. President putin says new sanctions would be useless. Our correspondent reports from seoul, south korea. Off...

Im stephen sackur. My guest today is a hugely influential contemporary music maker, once styled the brainiest man in pop. Except the word pop doesnt fit brian eno. He was a member of roxy music in the early 70s, but then he went his own way, developing ambient music, audiovisual installations and collaborating with a host of big names, including bowie, u2 and coldplay. His output has been prolific and varied, but what is he musician, composer or an artist impossible to label . Brian eno, welcome...

And this is al jazeera live from london also coming up spain apologizes for a Violent Police crackdown on catalonian secessionists it still takes the regions head of place to count on charges of sedition. Celebrating Nuclear Disarmament the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to a Campaign Group calling for a global ban plus. Im horrible tassel reporting. Transit in zambia find out why thousands of people are fleeing the democratic republic of congo and coming here. Saudi arabias ambassador to the u. N...

Destination mission to the moon. And for the channel and Discovery Communications and including the widely praised modern marvels. An assistant professor and a lecturer with Johnson Space center. And tonights stories of the space age which features 20 of his favorites from the golden age of Space Exploration. Join me in welcoming him. [applause] thank you very much, normally i kind of dance around a little bit while i perform these things. Because theyre taping tonight, and we have a weird micro...

Partnership, the largest private repository of civil war archives in the world. [applause] imagine, that comes with a great cost and lots of work. This is a 3 million effort to andide storage, process catalog the collection, and in doubt this so it can be available to the largest possible audience. Were halfway there, and we welcome your help. Professor gallagher has received many awards, including the prize for the best book on the civil award for contributions to civil war studies, the lincoln...