Musical career. The name is eddie micah welcome to the program tensions are running high head of president ial elections in ivory coast on saturday after any i decided not to run for a controversial thing that president ouattara is seeking reelection after the death of his favorite success in july the opposition say they are not having it and i calling for you boycott of the elections and civil disobedience people are longing for peace and stability but many a repeat of history about a decade ago at least 3000 people were killed and now at least 30 people have already died from communal violence our correspondents funny fresh our reports from be shot. You can see the tension but you can feel it as ivory coast braces itself for election day obbie john the commercial capital is awash with billboards of the sitting president and a sound of what. He promised not to run for a 3rd term but then hes chosen successor died and he changed his mind. Several dozen people have been killed in protes
Manager welcome to news isha glad you could join us thailands a very monaco is facing calls for change from thousands protesting on the streets of the country in particular focus is the current king did a long whos wrong periods of stay here in germany have raised questions not just among his people but also in the German Parliament heres mall. The protest movement in thailand is picking up momentum protestors are calling for constitutional change and want to reform thailands powerful monarchy people want to really really go to the roots of grievances they want systemic changes. And they will do you know and these protesters our mary. And. And when we look to the root causes of that part of the sea these gene compositions as the cause and i think the palace is. Thailands king along corn has a Strong Influence on most aspects of thai society and has tried to consolidate his power he is known and often criticized for his lavish lifestyle. But instead of ruling from his royal residence in
And figured if i dont write a book like this, who will. Host did you have an education experience that made you think like this . Guest if they can both be back in kindergarten sitting in class, teaching all these subjects and some of them i understood there were others like why do we have to learn this stuff and adults would say you need to learn this to get a good job. That seems true because all of you adults had to go through the hoops to get through where you are. I was always puzzled until i started reading more about why education pays and now i understand the answers mystery ive been wondering since kindergarten. Host big part focuses on the Human Capital so most of the audience might want to do with t that is. Before we get to the substance [inaudible] guest is basically the one teachers and parents tell you which is you go to school and the poor skillthey pour skills a result when you graduate you are a skillful person employers will want to give you a good job and pay you a
Book educated. I have to tell you this was one of the most extraordinary memoirs i have ever read so i am honored to be here with you today. Really i was blown away. And then even made the experience so much more profoun profound. I just want to dive it and ask you to read from a section. To make turning to the house on the hillside i saw movement of a different kind tall shadows, my brothers are awake imagine my mother hovering in my father hunched by the back door and putting his hands into welding gloves. And then the school bus went past without stopping. I am seven but this makes my family different. We dont go to school the government cant force us because it doesnt know about us. All seven of us have no medical records because we were born at home, we have number certificate and no School Record we never set foot in a classroom. And i am nine im issued a delayed certificate of birth but at this moment i do not exist. Of course i did. Going to preparing for the days of abominatio
And biology are promising to bring about revolutionary changes in the way humans leads and as we learn today how to change our d. N. A. I mean the possible implications are just mind blowing from getting rid of diseases unborn babies today i sat down with revolutionary scientists and molecular engineer Dr George Church to talk about that. Professor George Church thank you very much for being on our program today so do you know sequencing and gene editing is Something Like the internet in the eightys on the brink to explode those are your words so do you mean to say that soon genome editing will be just like surfing the news on a sunday morning with a cup of coffee. Its possible i mean its hard to rule out that scenario just like there are many. Drugs that we pop without prescription that might be one of them right right now lets stop the case but there are many. Pharmaceuticals that we take without without thinking about them that much so when you say that you know madigan is on the br