Anway because of a fatal collision last night it looks like that's going to be closed off for about the shower this morning in the center of town and James's Street is close southbound at Piccadilly for the pairs to a collapse man cover so combined with the closure of Constitution Hill that's going to make Piccadilly extra busy this morning any updates you can tweet us acts b.b.c. Travel and the trains and ships so far this morning posting a good service box the b.b.c. Radio lines and this will travel in 15 minutes. On digital radio and t.v. On $94.00 f.m. London is raising is to. B.b.c. Radio London. London's music 6 I'm Matthew Schofield Professor Stephen Hawking widely acclaimed as one of the world's leading scientists has died at the age of 76 his fame came largely from his bestselling book a Brief History of Time and here he is explaining his theory of everything which suggested the universe evolves according to well defined laws. Well in 1964 at the age of just 22 Professor Hawking was diagnosed with motor neuron disease and told he had just 2 or 3 more years to live his children have called him an extraordinary man and say his legacy will live on Britain is preparing to set out the sanctions it intends to take against Russia after Moscow failed to meet a midnight deadline to explain how one of its nerve agents was used to poison one of its former agents on British soil to resume aes meeting senior intelligence officials at Downing Street the Smalling assert. A scrip Aoun his daughter Yulia remained critically ill in hospital following the attack 10 days ago in Salzburg the Liberal Democrat leader and peace of its cable says the Prime Minister's response must be robust while the government has to be tough they can't just let this pass I believe that in any way of the personal assets of many of the kitchen cronies are the best way of hitting the government should consider seizing Meanwhile counterterrorism officers are investigating what they're calling the unexplained death of a Russian exile at his home in New Malden on Monday the man in his sixty's was a close friend of Boris Berezovsky a high profile critic of President Putin the police say there is no evidence to suggest a link to the attack in Salzburg a 14 year old boy is in hospital after he was shot near 7 Sisters station no one's been arrested following the incident just after 11 o'clock last night in Scotland Yard says the boys in a stable condition detectives investigating 2 deaths in Camden last month of charged a 17 year old boy with murder he is due before Highbury corner magistrates accused of killing Abdi Karim her son and city Mohammed as well as violent disorder following an incident in Hackney on the same day a man has died in a collision between 2 cars in south east London one of which failed to stop Scotland Yard says the victim who was in his sixty's was driving a Mercedes which collided with an Audi on a roundabout in Belvedere at around $830.00 last night a group of homeless people who have taken over a building in central London due to go to court today to fight a possession order from the landlord they claim the building in Great Portland streets been empty for 15 years and they're meeting a social need for accommodation one of the group Matt hopes the judge will let them stay a bit longer what we're going to ask for is that we are allowed continued access to this space for as long as it does. So we can continue to do what we're doing if that doesn't happen the likelihood is that a lot of these people are going to be back on the freezing streets within the week London's weather dry and sunny today. A turning point windy but it's going to feel mild after a chilly start with top to purchase a 15 Celsius $59.00 found Hice b.b.c. Radio London it's 4 minutes past 6 I want to put on what's on the box while they were singing with the balmy for them now Usually this is London I'm so jealous I mean if he continues on rambling as I speak from a station to hear the bass is b.b.c. Radio long to. Follow in a very good morning this is b.b.c. Radio London and it's Petrie here with you until 7 o'clock this Wednesday the 14th of March bloody may have Putin raises the stakes a lot of the front pages covering this story this morning as you can imagine the Daily Telegraph saying the death of a 2nd Russian exile triggers new terror probe Daily Mail as I said Putin a Putin it's not Pew it's poo raises the stakes on the Daily Mail the Taliban's today doing an excellent pace on the inside of their paper but also on the front cover this morning don't try to intimidate us Russia warns Britain but on pages 6 and 7. They've done a wrap up of the number of cases that facing new inquiries by officials the business only Gaulke Boris periscopes ski age 67 who is a who was opposed to President Putin and was convicted in Russia and his absence of fraud an embarrassment found dead at his home in something Hill box sharing 2013 post mortem examination suggest its death was consistent with hanging. The other Russian businessman found dead wrong for going out for a joke near his home he'd fallen foul of the Kremlin the inquest continues on that one we had we had I go for all these Russian names upon m r f representative the Russian International Maritime Organization in London he died suddenly in 2006 there been other people that have just done lead and there's been no real explanation. And Gareth Williams If you remember 31 form worker g c h Q Who was on Scum and 2 am I 6 was discovered inside a sportsbike and he central London home has never been any any real explanation for that one Stephen Moss who's 46 a British lawyer who died of what appeared to be a heart attack in 2003 others having dying in helicopter crashes car crashes heart attacks sudden and young so quite a few deaths here that now being looked at again to make sure that they are. What they have 1st appeared to be but when you look at them with the work the Times is done and it's excellent the work they've done stay when you look at them. It's hard now not to look at them in the way of them being assassinations it really is very interesting that Daniel is in line but this morning talking about Stephen Hawking Good morning Carol. Just figured out that today's by the you know it by. 3.14 So this this is actually celebrated by many mathematicians as the because pi is a number that is irrational. It cannot be reduced to a fraction and it was actually very difficult for mathematicians to prove it is irrational goes on for the 2nd set of digits goes on forever and the stratum is in that it is on the state sorry and I'm staying at what how how is it pointed a gun explain to me why it's Pi Day because by if you express by just 3 digits is 3.14 so. 14 months. 143.14. When the steps and all consist of was asked. What he would like to be remembered for and is said it would like to be remembered for his research on black holes. Yeah I mean that's got to be the some of the greatest there is haven't really. Looked like it was made in love I mean that is amazing thank you for pointing that out he's I don't pine day which is 3.14 which is coach is the 14th of the 3rd today and Stephen Hawking of course that we've been talking about and continue with our conversation on Stephen Hawking at 22 years old he was given 2 or 3 more years to live by the age of 76 he looked inside black holes research for the theory of everything and opened the Paralympic Games Professor Stephen Hawking the world renowned physicist has died and safe in his an expert in dark matter at the University of California told me earlier that Stephen Hawking had brought what Stephen Hawking have brought to the scientific community piece just brilliant ideas to the world like there's you know there's one which is harking radiation which basically says that you know over time black holes will radiate away and it's you know this weird process where like at the event horizon you know like. A particle and an empty particle kind of are created and then the black hole will absorb the negative one for a kind of takes the negative energy which means that it loses mass and it happened over a really long period of time it's not been observed yet but it's a brilliant brilliant theory. That's more than I can even keep my head wrap my head around there with these theories that of course is scientist so fear NASA he's a specialist in dark matter I will Ben White said joins us now to look back on an inspirational life Ben good morning to you certainly has been an inspirational life probably one of most famous famous scientists in the world but it started fairly Ordinarily it did indeed Petry Yes Stephen Hawking grew up in Oxford he enjoyed horse riding rowing and I suppose the 1st extraordinary sign was his 1st class degree in physics from the University of Oxford and after that he moved to Cambridge for postgraduate study in cosmology but in 2002 looking back his mom is about was reminiscing on his student days and to be honest he sounds like your typical student I think Stephen was a very normal young man you know at parties he liked pretty girls only pretty ones . And he did to some extent like work. To some extent like well I've got a student like that I'd done so but I'm sure he won't turn out to be as brilliant as Stephen Stephen Hawking but of course it seemed became more of a challenge for him didn't it it did indeed yes he was diagnosed with motor neuron disease while at Cambridge and that would eventually leave him almost completely paralyzed and as you say he was given a few years to live at that point and this all came as he was preparing to marry his 1st wife Jane now both sets of parents that set the wedding shouldn't go ahead they feared Stephen would only be alive for another few years but in 1909 looking back on base Jane who King explained her decision to marry Stephen saying that it actually at the time seemed pretty straightforward every day when I read reports in the newspapers that it was likely to break out in the next year or 2 people were saying they were going to have children because there was going to be a nuclear war to do this though on our lives who are going to be very severely cut tailed and the fact that Steve had been diagnosed a senior having a couple of years to live didn't really seem to be very much different than situation it was facing the rest of us anyhow and Stephen Hawkings life continued to have its challenges a brush with pneumonia robbed him of his voice as well which left us with that sound of the distinctive synthesizer But Stephen who can was almost optimistic about his condition he said it gave him more time to think and that it put his life in focus or I got older and. I was bored with life but the prospect of an early death made me realise life was real we were living there so much one can do so but only when. Strawberry What were his big contributions to signs well as you were hearing earlier he discovered Hawking radiation the radiation that leaks out of black holes as they slowly fade away and initially he championed the idea of a theory of everything the idea that the whole universe and all of physics could be explained by a single set of rules which we could eventually somehow discover so we could work out how it all began and where it was all going to but perhaps he's most known for his book a Brief History of Time which is sometimes described as the most popular book never read it sold 10000000 copies but he's quite dense and scientific but Stephen Hawking says that he acknowledged that but at least it peaks people's interest in space all over the world people told me. And so I did. They may not have finished or understood everything they read but at least God you know I do know that we live in the universe got burned by Rush and all of that we can discover a new Understand now Petri like any good scientist Stephen Hawking changed his mind if he thought the evidence led him a different way so he changed his mind on whether black holes could destroy everything they consume and most importantly he decided eventually there might not be a theory of everything in physics but despite all of that he brought us this amazing message that it's in our power to understand the universe so I'll leave you with the advice he gave the world during the opening of the London Paralympic Games look up at the stars and not down at your feet try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist be curious Bernie and thank you so much for that very enjoyable they're running to have a good one thank you. Report to their bad wife who has been looking at Stephen Hawking's life extraordinary life it was to you're listening to b.b.c. Radio London that we're going to continue with our conversations in just a few moments time but right now it is $615.00 says time to catch up with the latest travel and traffic now with. The radio lines and the latest travel news see highway Pecci coming into town is down to one lane for merchants repairs to a purse was made of facts that she downs one lane in both directions now these repairs are expected to take several days and traffic already cueing from the start of the line house Link tunnel so it's a laser only get worse as the morning goes on he's will sort of morning to laze the plan tunnel also building up in Belvedere eastern way is close between yawned some way and pickets are away following a fatal. Collision last night in the center of town since James's streets close southbound Piccadilly from the parents to a collapsed manhole cover now that's combined with the works nearby that are closing Constitution Caleb's been causing delays on Piccadilly the last couple of days so that's going to be very busy coming into town this morning if these for take much longer but no change on the combs present on the cheap on the hospital and City Line Westbourne Park station is currently closed because of a power cut but there's a good service on all lines and the trains water running close to time this morning any updates you can give us a call 0127 tutti for 2000 where you can tweet at b.b.c. Travel and it's blow up sleep b.b.c. Radio and in the small travel in 15 minutes. Islam to our appropriate or inappropriate is it to commemorate the battle of strafed of cyclists hill stations or member the old slogan Wests to assure you to kill. Perhaps you know in the subject annoyed corrective action $976.00 suited to Islam to fix its d.t.c. Radio London. And good morning to this is b.b.c. Radio London Petrie here until 7 o'clock this Wednesday morning and then of course Vanessa will be here now we've been talking about this all morning and I've been hearing some of your stories about scams I'm still taking calls on that so if you do believe you've been scammed then do give me a call or if you just have heard of the latest scam that we can alert London to pick up the phone 72242000 or text one triple 3 if you start with the word London that come straight to me here in this studio 2 thirds of over sixty's are worried about the threat of scams and fraud. As. The survey done by sun tan dad the bank who plans to roll out scam avoidance schools across the country they say that feeling vulnerable because of an illness is a common reason why people are worried they might be susceptible to a scam but we're joined now by Professor Steven Lee who's an expert on the psychology of scams and Professor good morning t.j. . I love the idea that the an expert on the psychology of scams What is the psychology how does this work on a. Lot of aspects of it and the reason. Psychologist is interested in it quite apart from obviously the desire to find a way of helping people avoiding falling victim to them is that it's a particular kind of a kind of behavior psychologists have always been interested in what we call compliance Why do people go along with saying good things as well as bad things why why do people bail laws why do people 'd do wat nefarious people on the phone might ask them to do. Why do we I mean you are absolutely right that there is a we want there's this sense in else is an effort of pleasing people of doing something that pleases somebody else the act of compliance Why do we do that. Is I think partly as you say a desire to be friendly helpful compliant cetera rather than a season or could and is the the expert scam and some of them are experts possibly not the people who compose those e-mails we've all seen so often that we will seize through so easily. Some of the experts camera and tries to use our. Use various tricks that get us into that corporatism and one of them is trying to get. Like them another one which I think is particularly 'd relevant to 'd 'd what you've been talking about. Is to get a sense of urgency or even get us into a panic that characteristic for example the kind of scam where they say we've detected something wrong with your computer or with the security department of your bank and we've detected some stuff transactions and you need to act now to 'd stop your account being emptied for exactly of course what they're about is trying to find a way of emptying your account is it but it's extraordinary how quickly I mean I'm very scared I'm aware but I did get a text the other day and I I had to stop myself from applying went Oh no hang on a minute there's still I had one just the other day saying your microsite says my or your Microsoft's one account will be suspended in 2 days if you don't do something about it. But we even even those people who are savvy to this and and who are on the lookout for scams I've always said that somebody could legitimately want to give me a 1000000 pounds and I'd turn them down beside her I'd be so convinced it was some kind of scam but even I even we can be pushed into this agency as fact straight away certainly it's it's it's very easy to do 'd and really is the this of anonymity of the phone call of the e-mail helps a little like that because we we reduce to rather limited range of cues that we can use to assess whether this is really a threat on a lot. Over a phone message or something like that and say scammers do exploited that they also I think you know I'm I'm with. Santander. From what I've read if it's in saying that old people may be targeted we did a study recently where we 'd with some students we reply needs to. Some scam e-mails we we had were in the unusual position of asking people to send a seal scam e-mails and there was of the little reply to them and we reply it's either using a male name or a female name so we were either Christopher or Christine and we slipped into our reply their remarks you know as a young student I all you know as an old Penn elderly 'd pensioner I and then we looked to see what kinds of replies we costs and whether they were different depending on whether the scam. Had been led to believe READY they're applying to a man or woman or to an older person or a younger one and we did find differences in the kind of thing that came back to us and in particular with with older people and with women we got more of the kind of stuff that is designed to. Add. To all of the fun while of. Flux and. Pounce you into doing stuff. To get you panic stop says she'll do something silly in a hurry. This is to surround a stereotype of gender and age differences out but it's a has yes much doubt that the scammers have it so they put out to people. It's just because 60 perhaps they just missed the technological revolution with emails and wells and things easy generalizations sons am Yeah I met him and he was nice. And I know I've been using computers 'd since probably before you or the scammers will be for me. But there are averages here and the other thing is that. I think people are quite right that being ill or under the weather. Or anything like that does make it harder to think clearly not to mention of course that o