Temps have been set up in many of the hardest hit areas the worst may not be as the United Nations says the number of deaths from HIV has fallen by a 3rd since 20 turn 277-0000 in 2018 un aids says almost 38000000 people live with HIV However you and Aids want efforts to eradicate the disease was stalling because of insufficient funding a street in Wales has been named the steepest in the world prompting celebrations by local residents who had campaigned for it the road for the pen in Harlech has been officially recorded by Guinness World Records as having a gradient of 37 percent the campaign to have the street recognise was led by a local historian after his car slid down it while the handbrake was fully locked and those are the latest stories from b.b.c. News. You're listening to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service with Mark Lobo will Ursula von Delenn be the next president of the European Commission the German defense minister and close ally of angular Merkel was a surprise nomination and will need to win over a majority of any p.s. If she is to get the job today she made her case to the European Parliament in an attempt to appeal to those socialist and green politicians who opposed her she spoke about Briggs it illegal immigration and climate change I will put forward a green deal for you Roth in my 1st 100 days in office I will put forward the 1st ever European Climate law which will set the 2050 target in law this increase of ambition will need investment on a major scale our Europe Correspondent Damian Grammaticus is that the European Parliament in Strasburg she is a center right politician ally of anger Merkel the way they were election result fell that grouping in the middle doesn't have enough votes to get it through that's a 1st for the European parliament that's not so easy so you're right she's what she's done today is appeal to the left side of the spectrum climate change you heard there that pledge to be climate neutral Europe climate neutral by 2050 a carbon boarder tax is talking about so on any imports to reflect the amount of carbon pumped out in producing goods in factories abroad say in China that's how climate picture the greens for the socialists are very angry that their candidate was passed over by e.u. Leaders she's reached out to them by pledging things like an unemployment insurance scheme across Europe a basic income scheme for workers across Europe to a minimum wage sort of scheme so those are things she's trying to picture to the left and center left but it's unclear still whether she can win enough votes there to get her over the line you know quite a balancing act to win the actual vote but if she does win the. Vote there be other pressing issues that you have to face early on what did she say about those. Yes So on the issue of immigration particularly refugees she was very clear about that she's been under pressure to be quite accommodating on that and that's another area where she reached out to liberal voters in the sort of center of the parliament talking about the fact that she believes the e.u. Has to do more to protect human rights the rights of refugees they should be she said a g.t. To save lives of those trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach the e.u. That's a bit controversial some of the more right wing governments in Europe so she's appealing there to the liberals talking about the pending the rule of law that means investigations of countries like Hungary more likely and then Brax it that big sort of issue that is looming at the end of October there isn't a vote winner in the chamber but she laid out very clearly her policy there which would be to be open to granting the u.k. More time so a further extension of the negotiation process she said if there was a good reason to do so and that got to do a lot of cheers from quite a lot of m e p s. I mean Grammaticus there 50 years ago today the Apollo 11 mission took off from what was then Cape Kennedy in Florida 4 days later American astronauts would become the 1st man to walk on the Moon Let's listen to one description of that unforgettable moment from a journalist covering the launch of Apollo 11 at the time. Said let's bring the field of play under these guys typically beautiful Saturn 5 launch what a role or a great flame over try spelling. Out the way it's going right. From our viewpoint where the B.B.C.'s Washington Correspondent Jane O'Brien joins us live on the line from the now renamed Cape Canaveral Jane it looks rather glitzy where you are as if they're pulling out all the stops Can you paint us a picture of what's happening there. Oh this is a really special day we're expecting thousands of people to converge on the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center which is where I am now and I'm actually in front of a massive Saturn 5 rocket similar to the one that actually took the astronauts to the moon 50 years ago today and I've I've never stood next to a rocket of this size before it is huge but what is mind blowing is the tiny capsule on the top which is what the astronauts actually sat on in order to get into orbit and then more extraordinary come back alive and land back on Earth and so it's it's a it's a celebration of so many different things the technology the advancement the best science that teamwork the collaboration that got those 3 men into space and then of course just the celebration of the human endeavor in itself the fact that people at that point dreamt of going to the moon and had the wherewithal and the ambition to fulfill that mission so a lot of people will be coming here including 2 of the surviving astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins and some of the half a 1000000 people rocket scientists. Turned on the support people who actually were essential in making sure that Apollo 11 was a success it sounds like we're saying is not for the cross for phobic what memories have been shared so far by those that were involved in this mission. Well I've actually just spoken to somebody who was there now when I say was where they were actually 3 and a half miles away from the launch site because that was as close as you could get and realistically as a civilian you you would die if you got any closer and unless you were an actual engineer and had protective clothing and he was describing the the knowledge that he was witnessing history and the physical sensation of the engines the rumbling the vibration the found the sight of the flame really stirring stuff but most importantly as I said the idea that this was something extraordinary and the fact that 50 years later we're still celebrating that extraordinary achievement and it still is enough to generate new interest in putting people back into the moon which is of course America's ambition for 2024 indeed and talk of future space exploration too thanks very much Jane there may be an annular currents but this year's monsoon rains in South Asia have already claims many lives and displaced millions of people Bangladesh Nepal and India have all been affected the United Nations sector general and Tonio good terrorists said the u.n. Stands ready to help the affected governments I've been speaking to our correspondent in Delhi Regina a virgin are from the moment we're in more than 130 people have died across the region as a result of this weather will start with snow poor where more than 67 people have been reported dead but there are also many more who are missing now a lot of the deaths there or as a result of landslides also in Bangladesh there have been in bad floods that have hit. Hard number of fatalities there actually Mark has been as a result of lightning strikes a lot of farmers have been affected by the lightning there and some losing their lives but also the world's largest refugee camp Cox is bizarre invalid there has also been hit by this weather where I am in India in this country the state of Assam and the ha have seen millions of people displaced from their homes homes submerged even a national park has a wrong a national park which is home to a famous one horned rhino that is almost completely submerged now and people are bracing themselves for even more bad weather over the coming days and how do these compare to previous years a lot of people are citing the floods in 2017 where around 800 people lost their lives over the monsoon seasons now we are only in July and the monsoon season is due to go on until September so you know it is of course always bad no matter how many lives are lost no matter how many homes are displaced because you know there is nothing that people can do agencies obviously go in they do what they can to help with food resources but nobody likes to leave their home and that's what millions of people have been forced to do and routinely the u.n. Secretary general has been pledging the UN's help for the governments in these flood hit countries have you seen any sign of help yet I haven't been out to any of these areas but we are hearing reports of you know relief centers that have been set up where that happens every year people who are displaced taken to safety wherever possible and they're given food imagist the basic shelter as well but as is the case with a lot of these things Mark the real challenge in places like South Asia is how to find a long term solution to make sure that people's lives aren't affected in the same way year on year you're listening to the b.b.c. World Service not Gerry as the headlines true surviving astronauts from the 1st moon landing remarkable Collins will launch events today to. Mark the 50th anniversary of the German defense minister also left underly and is fighting to convince the European parliament to approve her nomination as president of the European Commission and I'm a lazy in quarter so that the former prime minister Najib resigned spent $800000.00 at an Italian jewelers in a single day was doing quite a shopping lists Thanks Gerri. The former South African President Jacob Zuma is undergoing a 2nd day of questioning at a corruption inquiry as we reported on the program yesterday he's rejected allegations that he was personally corrupt and says he's the victim of a conspiracy a correspondent Milton cosey explained what is likely to happen we're expecting more answers to the specific allegations of corruption that President Zuma is facing but we did not go off without any drama again this morning President Zuma opened up his testimony by telling the judge but the last night between 7 and 8 pm he was personal assistant received a call where an anonymous caller told the p.a. Saying that tell Zuma that we are going to kill him his children and the people around him and the judge said that no one should be receiving any threats of violence purely by coming to testify here but he was also wondering whether Mr Zuma can receive any more protection than he already enjoys with members former head of state he still gets a lot of protection by virtue of having been head of state so that was the bombshell this morning which we were not expecting but then they began briefly into the nitty gritty of the 2nd of one of the senior officials in government who lost sons faired or stroke sacked because he refused to help the family friends of Mr Zuma the copters Milton and before today's dramatic disclosure Mr Zuma is legal team were arguing that they haven't received all the necessary documents to hand How's that argument being received so essentially what they we are going and that's correct there were arguing that the line of questioning by the evidence leader amounted to a cross examination they were saying that to their witness Mr Zuma should not be cross at them and because he was not prepared for cross-examination he was only prepared just to give his side of the story. So there we got into a really deeply legal debate between Mr Ramos lawyers and the charge up about what litigation and what and Tory Oh questioning means Musudan cozy in Johannesburg a new law banning public sexual harassment in the Philippines has been signed by President Rodrigo deter today but it's the president himself has been described as the single most brazen violator of the laws intent that comment came from a women's rights party which said the legislation was the result of hard work to combat what it calls an alarming rise in street based on public sexual harassment or Asia Pacific editor Michael Bristow told me what sort of behavior is now banned was a whole range of offenses from Wolf whistlin catcall in making sexual jokes all the way up to more serious offenses searches groping and stalking because the situation of offenses is a range of punishments as well coming from perhaps a fine of $20.00 and a few hours community service right up to 6 months in prison depending on the nature of defense and how many times offenders committed the particular offense so whole range of acts which have now been outlawed now won't be lost on many of our listeners the president to Turkey of course is himself being criticized for his attitude towards harassment of women well that's exactly why this is gained so much attention in the Philippines and beyond you don't really have to look far in the president's history to to pick up numerous examples of him appearing to transgress in the very laws which he's just signed in a few years ago he wolf whistled a female journalist who attended one of his press conferences a couple of years ago he went to South Korea in which he stood on the stage and was talking to Filipinos working there he invited a woman on on stage and she was visibly uncomfortable when he when he asked her to give him a kiss and the have been some. Very very serious instances as well a couple of years ago Mr deterred he even made a joke about a terrible crime in which an Australian missionary was raped and murdered in the city which he was running at the time in the 1980 s. So many many examples of Mr Detective seeming to transgress some of these crimes but aside from that unsettling soap opera in general has the new law been welcomed it has been welcomed many rights groups as you indicated earlier suggested that there's been a growth in a sort of an anti female culture on the streets of the Philippines and so they've essentially said that this is really welcome and that they've worked hard to try and get it they just won't president to Tertius to be the 1st person to abide by these rules in the future Michael Bristow that the states now whether for congresswoman who Donald Trump said should go back to the countries they came from have accused them of using the language of white nationalists speaking at a news conference here's how one of the 4 congresswoman involved I am the president responded I'm encouraging the American people and all of us in this room and we are to take the bait. This is a disruptive distraction from the issues Ok or concern in consequence to the American people the Texas Republican congressman will hurt is one of the few elected Republicans who spoken out against Mr Trump's remarks the tweets are a racist and xenophobic period in this story and also not accurate because the 4 people he's talking about are u.s. Citizens and 3 of the 4 were born in the United States of America I think this is the behavior unbecoming of a president but also it hurts us politically because there was a civil war going on within the Democratic Party and now everybody is kind of circling the wagons and have come to their defense but despite those comments our correspondent in Washington Nick Bryant says the president seems happy to keep their all going he double down the why has virtually attacking these nonwhite female congressman and he pulled down on Twitter later on if you are not happy here he wrote in capital that says you can leave and he was using language obviously this is well outside the parameters of traditional presidential discourse attacking these women as radical left Democrats anti israel pro-al Qaida women who hated America and we have this extraordinary hour while Trump was launching his relates hist onslaught against him simle tiny Asli they were on Capitol Hill holding a press conference these 4 women that are often called the squad Alexandria or cacio Cortez perhaps the most famous but some of the strongest words came from ill Han She's a congresswoman the 1st of 2 Muslim women elected to Congress she accused Mr Trump of launching a blatantly racist attack she said this is the agenda of white nationalists can 3 of them were born in the United States of course one of whom was born just down the road from where I don't trump. Was born only ill Hannah was born in Somalia and she came here as a child so they are aware that the president is trying to bait them into this rather fact that he is escalating shows a he seems to be enjoying it and they he thinks it's a political purpose for him he thinks it revs up the base for Donald Trump it's these moderate conservatives many of whom voted for him last time holding their noses because they hated Hillary Clinton and that negative partisanship they voted for him because they hated the alternative that's the worry I think for him and that's one of the reasons why the Republicans lost the House of Representatives in last November's midterm election it was those moderate Republicans who are the state home who voted for the Democrats and that's the political problem for Donald Trump It appeals to the base but in my alienate some of those moderate Republicans . A correspondent in Washington Nick Bryant Jerry has some other stories from our news desk Ryanair has revealed that it doesn't expect to receive any of the Boeing 737 magnum craft it is on order until next year as a result it says it will have to alter the summer shadows for next year cut back on plant growth and cut some of its bases bound to doesn't expand to cancel any of its current orders for the aircraft is our business correspondent Theo Leggett The 737 Max was grounded worldwide in the aftermath of a crash in Ethiopia in April in which 157 people were killed it was the 2nd major accident involving the new plane in 5 months it won't be allowed to fly again until regulators in the United States and Europe have approved modifications put forward by Boeing the manufacturer is hoping this can be done by September but Ryanair says it's prudent to plan for the day to slip by some months it doesn't expect to have any of its own new aircraft in service until early next year and will have fewer planes operating next summer than anticipated as a result it says it will consult with unions and employees about cutting services from some of its bases starting this winter the world's largest education publisher has taken the 1st step towards phasing out print books by making all its leading resources digital 1st the British firm Pearson said students would only be able to rent physical textbook textbooks from now on and the be updated much less frequently it hopes the move will make more students bides he textbooks which are updated continually. Spanish police say they've arrested a man at Barcelona airports who had hidden half a kilo of cocaine under his wig the Colombian man attracted the attention of customs officers who noticed that he was wearing a disproportionately large hairpiece under his hat during what they later called Operation 2 paid police found a perfectly sealed package taped to the man's head it contained cocaine worth almost $35000.00 a check stud farm which was founded 440 years ago to breed and train horses for the have spared emperors court has been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List the national starred farm located in Easton Prague is the 1st Art Farm on the you know scale list you know as go describes it as one of Europe's leading horse breeding institutions developed at a time when horses played vital roles in transport agriculture military support and aristocratic representation. It's not been a great few days for New Zealand after an agonizing defeat in Sunday's Cricket World Cup They've only got to last another title to the British they can no longer claim the world's steepest street previously in dire need and it's now officially in Wales as our very own Jonathan Savage reports it's on the rugby pitch that Wales and New Zealand are familiar rivals but this is a street fight or rather a battle between 2 streets Baldwin Street in the Needham whose 35 percent gradient has been officially surpassed by 4th penciler in Harlem North Wales the Welsh are fought for a year to take the title in the Guinness Book of Records and now they finally prove that their own road has a gradient of 37.45 percent Syrah bad and coordinated the claim absolutely elated and exhausted of course after the hard work over the last year you know I can remember as a little girl walking up this road every Sunday to Sunday school a little a day from our street club blog used to bring us up and she did the same for many generations it's very much part of our culture here for Spencer had to meet certain criteria a public thoroughfare at least 10 metres long with buildings on both sites in New Zealand disappointment journalist Hamish McNeely has been writing profitably about Baldwin Street for over a decade while I'm still angry I'm angry of a lot of things in the world this week but really just ruined my week but he has a warning for the Welsh be careful what you wish for every years of become more and more popular particularly with the needle being a harbor city so we have cruise ships coming in and it's just a constant stream of tourists going there if I talk to a lady today who often has our tourist wandering around her house taking photographs inside or around the gardens people think it's like some sort of Disneyland attraction for Kiwis there is still plenty to celebrate in what I think we can now call their bitter rival. Ri with the Welsh a dominant record in rugby a superior number of sheep and the longest place name in the world yes while Welsh tongues can rattle off some for procreation coke out of control. New Zealand goes further with apologies can I have a one way ticket please to 2 matter for tunny Hunter cool or Tom to rebook bookie Munger or a new coupon for new Archita. Or you want me to spell it proof there ain't no word long enough for the newsroom's Jonathan Savage there that's nearly all from me in the team here at the newsroom just to say For more on our top story the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 watch check out the b.b.c. World Service dot com website goodbye. In a moment here on the b.b.c. 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World Service with me Ed Butler today we are looking at college education with a growing number of graduates struggling under a mountain of debt and to get a decent job or universities delivering that missing is old style education really fit for purpose or is it time to reinvent uni for the digital age let's business daily in a couple of minutes. B.b.c. News where Gerry Smit the German defense minister also left underly and has set out her priorities if confirmed as president of the European Commission she told your and P's that she would tighten control of illegal migration and call for Europe to become climate neutral by 2050 the 2 surviving members of the Apollo 11 program will be reunited shortly at the NASA launch pad where the 1st manned mission to the moon began exactly 50 years ago as Aldrin and Michael Collins will meet in Florida to commemorate the mission I'm a lazy in court has heard that the former prime minister Najib Razak spent more than $800000.00 in one day at a jewelers in Italy afterwards Mr Knight Jeep on trial for money laundering said it had been spent on gifts for members of a foreign royal family Italy's interior minister met veiny who's the head of the far right League has ordered the country's regional prefects to report on the presence of members of the Roma Sinti and community communities the Interior Ministry said the aim was to shut down illegal camps the Congolese all for it is say that a pastor who was the 1st confirmed victim of a bowler in a crowded eastern city of Goma has died the arrival of a boner in Goma a major trade Crossroads has raised fears it could spread more widely. The b.b.c. Is closing its bureau and operations in Burundi until further notice after efforts to resolve issues with the author it is there failed in March the government banned b.b.c. Transmissions after accusing it of airing a documentary that it said had damaged the country's reputation and Spanish police say they've arrested a man a Barcelona airport hadn't half a kilo of cocaine under his wig customs officers notice that the Colombian was wearing a disproportionately large piece b.b.c. News. Hello there I'm Ed Butler and welcome to business daily from the b.b.c. Coming up the spreading use of online study aids to transform what universities teach I do tell people like I give away my degree because that's why I started the show is when the government should watch ration fees I thought that's really unfair so I'm just going to give away what I've learned for free online from You Tube to digital classrooms the Internet is challenging old models but can it really be better than traditional university education universities have nothing to do with education they have everything to do with the quality of research they have been decoupled from what research say The relies on universities for that's all to come in business daily from the b.b.c. . And all the talk of digital disruption in the modern age is university education one of the last great institutions that's resisting reform it's a time we rethought the way that we choose to and train the brightest and the best among our young people well maybe over the years I've spoken to quite a few educators evangelizing the potential of what's called Tech the meeting of education and technology consider the pole world for example where under-resourced teaching is a growing impediment these days to development Cellcom runs a u.s. Based digital education platform called the Khan Academy I can imagine that if you're in a village in someplace in Africa or India you could learn a lot of your core skills especially in the stem subjects and then you could prove it that frees up class time to do the richer things like you know if you're in math to do proofs if you're in writing to get peer feedback if you're in a history to have a Socratic dialogue but I also think those things we can start to experiment virtually as well you know you have to things like Google Hangout and Skype now the virtual computers digital whatever you want to call it actually in my mind has a chance of making the experience Morse human you're going to have more personalization and really being able to cater the education to your individual needs and yet for all the promise of technology how much has actually changed in education in recent years at university level especially it seems to been relatively slow today we're going to be looking at why that is and some of the ways that online video technology is making inroads 1st let's hear from Ben Nelson he's c.e.o. Of something called the Minerva project an education system designed to combine existing classroom teaching with life seminar learning systems and new curriculums The problem is today the dissemination of knowledge is no longer a barrier the real barrier is how to interpret that knowledge what to do with it how to bring the various systems of thinking to the data that we get presented and the. Process of training a mind to do that is quite a bit different than the process of dissemination of knowledge nonetheless there is still surely that is sensual dynamic of the face to face pedagogical guidance that you talk about that that thing that interaction human to human that is really hard to replicate through a screen Well actually that's that's one of the things that we have found that that face to face interaction is far superior in environment built for it as opposed to one that is done by happenstance more from Ben Nelson and his project in a bit but 1st let's look at a couple of case studies some You Tube as these days are using their channels to explore and explain ideas science politics philosophy simply just share what they've learned for some it's become something of a business in its own right the B.B.C.'s brain Lindsay has been to meet one such online educator and performer. She was where we where we are we are at a studio in North London somewhat of a take. This is all of a thought on he's an actor currently touring the u.k. In a production of Much Ado About Nothing but that's not why I've come to see him. Alongside acting only has another career. Bubble by brick of my thumb something we keep it's. Always You Tube channel philosophy has nearly 500000 subscribers and his videos regularly get half a 1000000 or more views he makes money from ad revenue and support on the crowdfunding platform Patria all these videos sometimes have guests that you would expect to see on a You Tube channel about philosophy but the time this comes out the one with the snakes will be out I did a half a percent a while ago on a horse which was good for and about the royal family so part of it is just me starting to say well what can I do what can I get away with like what's going to be fine and what is possible all you started philosophy Chub for a simple reason he did a master's degree in philosophy the year before the u.k. Government tripled university tuition fees this made it far more difficult for young Britons to access education so he thought he'd share what he'd loans online the banner on philosophy cheap still reads giving away a philosophy degree for free this episode is all about whether or not you exist if you've ever so much as did your telling the vast ocean that is philosophy then you will have heard the phrase I think therefore I am 1st written by 17th century French philosopher and Captain Cook look alike they take heart in it I do tell people like I give away my degree because that's why I started the shows when the government should let us in fees I thought that's really unfair so I'm just going to give away what I've learned for free online and I actually wanted to originated just record my lectures and upload them and my university said no you can't do that so that's why I'm on camera writing scripts and summarizing it because they wouldn't I would have been fine to not be in the videos but then they said I couldn't do that in the years since he started philosophy Chub has changed from a fairly straight talking to camera kind of format to something a bit more theatrical Unlike you I feel like we've known each other a long time where a dying breed. You and I The world is changing it seems like everywhere you look flames are beginning to rise we have to be so careful not to lose everything that we built. Only makes videos that are a kind of mix of education and entertainment using his background in philosophy and his training and creativity as an actor it's similar to what other You Tube or such as and he speaks contra points unfolding ideas do these You Tube creators use the platform to show their audience how ideas taken from philosophy or politics science and the arts how these ideas interact with the world today developing their own unique storytelling style and technique as they go for every new video I like to challenge myself I set myself a little personal goal whether it's like learn to use a green screen or like put in a big musical number probably because it's fun because there's more than one way of explaining things some people are like Oh you used to just explain ideas and I'm like well I'm still exploiting them I'm just explaining in a different way a lot of people come to me and I like Oh I didn't get it until I heard the song until I saw the character. The actor and philosophy teacher all of a thorne there he's not the only one exploiting you cheap these days to teach either how it's really and today I'm going to be showing you how I make it hard to believe and basically Ruby Granger calls herself a study Chuba She's a 1st year university student herself in the u.k. And she's simpleton easily broadcasting advice videos to other students a whopping $350000.00 of them on how to prepare for their schoolwork and exams my aim really online is to help students to be the best versions of themselves that they can be in a to achieve their full potential whilst also protecting their mental health so there's a huge focus on study advice but all say Time Management in allowing for a walk life balance in terms of mental health I just saw one of your posts it was about a 14 hour study day yes you know you're not recommending a 14 hour study you know I'm not saying a long study days are things that personally for me have walked in the past and 3 doing them I've been able to recommend to some concentration and avoiding distraction procrastination but equally I always stress you know this isn't every single pass and this might be he but not everyone sure procrastination some would say watching you cheat videos is procrastination I agree that it can be procrastination but why not make it productive procrastination and be learning at the same time and be watching really Granger which I mean you do put out a lot of this stuff and you've got what hundreds of thousands of subscribers somehow Yes it's it's a marathon I think about it yeah it does sound remarkable to me that watching somebody study is a form of You Tube content I suppose it does say that the pressure on young people around this study process is so great that they are starved of ways to tackle it. I really think that the pressure which is on young people at the moment is extraordinary and when I 1st started university I daily blog every single day of face past 2 weeks and people were watching these videos and they were going 3 the exact same thing you know they were going through fresh is having a very fast having a fast and not meeting that professes earned having that shot experience with somebody else he's distant but equally really quite place at the same time I think can still be valuable you Juba Ruby Granger You're listening to business daily from the b.b.c. World Service with me Ed Butler incidentally a u.k. Estimate suggests that one in 5 British students are consulting you Cheever's like Ruby these days for study advice but is there a counterview to all this enthusiasm for video teaching aids Kevin Cruz is a professor of history Princeton University he's a bit more measured about what he reckons online education can offer but there are a lot of benefits to the what we call America the flipped classroom and I've certainly seen that it's sweeping across some elementary schools and high schools as well as colleges so I do think that there are going to be made for that I've never personally taught a course that way so I can't speak to the benefits of that method I do think however the more traditional lecture and seminar style classrooms really do serve a valuable purpose both in terms of communicating the grand narrative of history in my case but also in probing books with a lively discussion that has take place face to face so maybe that we have a future in which both of these forms flourish I don't really see one replacing the Other Professor Cruz has focused considerable efforts Combating Online misinformation after all you do get all sorts on the Internet and not every further education to let's be honest is worthy of the name one controversial offering is the self-styled prego university set up by conservative u.s. Talk show host Dennis Prager it has no accreditation and bills itself as an antidote to what it calls the liberal bias university system is some of what the. Channel brute costs leftism destroys everything it touches perhaps the most obvious example one that many liberals acknowledge is the left near destruction of most universities as places of learning Well Kevin Cruz has spent a lot of time t. Bunking claims about American history put out by sites like this one I think they co-opt the term university because they were claim the prestige that comes with that but their style of inquiry their style of advocacy isn't remotely like what you would see at any accredited college or university anywhere in the world so it really is a deliberate ruse on their part to claim that title when they they don't embody the values of the university So is this fake cheatery a serious argument to denigrate all of the various educational sites you can now find online Well I saw only what they want to denigrate the work of people who are sharing their knowledge on more like You Tube I think that's a valuable service I do that we have to think about this as a whole and consider the misinformation campaigns along with those who are actually trying to inform a scholar who's been out You Tube videos or who is like I'm trying to correct the record on Twitter is doing this on their own time and for free on the other side you have heavily financed sites largely on the right who really have a lot of money behind them and can really push this message aggressively so it's not quite kind of the open marketplace of ideas there's a heavy thumb on the scale here Professor Kevin Cruz Well we heard earlier from Ben Nelson of Minerva his online platform partnering with universities from Hong Kong to the United States introducing a wide variety of digital tools to assist existing curriculums indeed he offers to reinvent others entirely as online modules he gave me an example of how modern technology like his can assist a typical college class what science has shown us is that students actually do not retain information if they are just listening they need to be doing active processing and what you can do in a law. Live the video environment where there is a camera pointed directly at every students face you can create techniques and methodology used to ensure that the other students real time are actually assessing the answer the professor will then cut off the student that's entering halfway through their question ask a different student to complete the question ask a 3rd student to rebut the question a 4th student to finish the rebuttal but the computer will track them out of time every single student is talking such that the professor doesn't just call in their favorites but make sure that everybody in the class is in caged So the the professor in the scenario is gazing at a split screen with 17 faces and picking one after the other to interact with correct and I suppose this allows the students to be one in Kuala Lumpur another in Wagadu a 3rd in Miami I mean they could be around the world if that's what you how you prefer to implement it we have primarily implement our system so far in residential universities we're actually all the students are located in the same location oftentimes with a professor but the preferred medium of instruction is this much richer data environment and this actually is a testament to how powerful this medium is so are you saying that almost being in the room together is a disadvantage in this context correct while this is actually better than the existing one without question you actually cannot the liver the kind of curriculum that we have designed one where you bring various learning objectives and introduce them in one class taught by one professor and then carry them through out the curriculum in various contexts and carry that data through you cannot do that offline Ben if you just measurably provably aced tertiary education for the digital age in one fell swoop how come everyone isn't doing it. Well that's that's a great question remember that we only started enabling other institutions to implement a Minerva system less than a year ago so it's very very new but the 2nd element is that universities are institutions that have been around for a long long time and there is a general resistance to change but the far more insidious problem is that we as a society have affectively let universities off the hook because universities have no incentive not to actually produce more effective teaching and let me just expand on that because that's a not a non-controversial claim certainly not if universities are driven by prestigious think about the pursuit of Nobel Prizes and field medals and other on a reflects being members of the world society etc They have nothing to do with education they have everything to do with the quality of research so is the future of education then the future of college education everyone staring at a screen to an extent when you look at the amount of time that students spend on a quote unquote screaming in a nerve system it is between 9 to 12 hours a week now show me a modern day worker of any kind that doesn't stare to screen far more than that. And so yes we believe that 9 to 12 hours a week of physical classroom time should be replaced by a more data rich environment but the rest of your time is living in the real world and taking advantage of it for your educational purposes that spend else and c.e.o. Of them and it does seem as though it's still going to take some time for the old school universities the leading lights of Europe and the United States to transform that curriculums to the digital age but change it's promised is gradually on the way tomorrow will be here telling us power and why it's really is falling out of love with the euro join us that. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service and now it's time to witness history I'm clear. This week to mark 50 years since the 1st moon landing we're bringing you a selection of 1st hand accounts of humankind's adventures in outer space and it was in June 1963 that the Soviet Union space program sent the 1st woman into space Lucy ash went to Russia to find out about Valentino Tara historic voyage. A low profile and female public. Preparing to make the top 10 mile no doubt on. Her her own. On a crackly connection from 0 gravity Valentino cover announced her radio call sign to anxious listeners Ana. I am Cheika pacifically Today I am Cheika the Russian word for Siegel this sturdy 26 year old with blue eyes and plump cheeks was the 1st woman in outer space on the 16th of June 1963 in her orange space suit gray boots and helmet stamped with the letters u.s.s.r. She squeezed into vast toxics a 2 and a half meter capsule and was shot into orbit adding yet another 1st to the Soviet space race after the 1st satellite the 1st animal and the 1st man in an interview she gave in 1977 terrace cover was careful to share the credit for her achievement by lute because Munna glowed with its agreement to Lady huge when a cousin of goes into. Space he or she knows very well that it's not their work alone there are thousands of workers who made the cups or designers engineers doctors another scientist who prepared them for the flight. As a young girl to discover was fascinated by speed and movement she wants said she envy the engine drivers and wished she could be in that place driving trains across the world as a teenager she looked to the skies and joined a parachute club 50 feet. Out of form after waiting to give a shout out work on the place where they took the car in October after Eureka Guarin the 1st man to return from space in 1961 terrorist cover wrote to the or Thora cities begging to be sent into space it was a longshot she was a factory worker but the central committee was eager to find proletarian heroes agents from the space program secretly came to watch her parachute jumps and then she was invited to Moscow for cosmonaut training but she wasn't alone. Valentino upon a merry over was one of the cosmonauts who trained alongside Kurdish Corporal let you know that you have the 5 and a strike the 1st were a bit guarded soon we were spending more time together we all live in the same complex we train together meals together and did everything together in some ways it sounds like a cross between the army and holiday camp they out there you know there was a piano in the canteen and all the cosmonaut to gather round in the evening we were full of enthusiasm we love singing together especially the new songs are they going to space exploration and it. Wasn't. On the 19th of November 1962 selection for the flights. Took place the 2 Valentino's Ponomaryov and 10 ish cover with the final candidates but who would be the 1st Soviet woman in space ideology trumped expertise when it came to the final choice Tarrasque of a mouth her support for the party and her daughter Yelena now admits that have fresh face caught the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's she wasn't just. The fact. That is why maybe she. Is it true that crucial liked the way she looked this is also on the fact she like a very much. And maybe she compared them to. Jackie Kennedy poor Valentino upon the Mario of a man who had the best test results but she failed to impress the selection board when asked what do you want from life she replied I want to take everything it can offer Ponomaryov a still can't hide her disappointment at being passed over her children but it was a terrible moment when Tara shoulder took off and we were left behind numbskulls our need you they told us to fret your all get the chance to go to space we come onto that hope for a very long time it makes you upset even now all these years later you think maybe store again is the course that was pressing it Marvie because there is it seemed of my life or suddenly or over there was nothing else to live for. Back in 1963 a British t.v. Program featured pictures from inside terrace cover space capsule and a pen or pencil floating around the pencil in which you make no compact floating about in space where it goes out of the pop of your great. Pad. Tarrasque of his conversation from space with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was broadcast around the world. Contact with ground control was intermittent during tears covers 3 days in space. The further away the space ship drifts she later said the more you start to miss the sounds of nature of rainfall there were reports of problems the mission had to be modified at the time terrorist call the vehemently denied of a sleeping but later admitted to it she also denies vomiting in the capsule although these days nausea is recognised as a common reaction to space conditions she also did become quite ill didn't she the space food didn't agree no no it was not that these come from the memoirs of some of the people involved in the 1st space program and why would they make stuff up my mother told me about those people and I myself also read this articles and you tell me if we were very jealous and it was very complicated. After 3 days in space it was time for her return at 7 kilometers above ground she was catapulted out of the capsule still stuck in the ejection chair 4 kilometers up the parachute opened I asked Yelena what her mother had told her about the moment she fell to Earth 1st she was noticed by peasants who lived a new Am I wrong to her space ship and start to touch her Oh you life Oh you saw me interesting in my mother. She let them taste test special special food because for those people it was very interesting and my mother told me about their parents I looked at. My mom and totally space I did you see. Because you were very very much a talk I put you in the room because. She was given a triumphant reception in Moscow after the flight as she strode along a red carpet and White High Holy Spirit picker cleared her Cinderella of the stars and Guarin in a skirt. After terror was somewhat faltering speech she got a massive bear hug from Crucial before she was allowed to move along to a tiny stooped woman in a headscarf weeping mother. After the flight crew shoved organized a state wedding between Valentino and fellow cosmonaut and 3 on the color of their divorce 19 years later when he had grown up but after Valentina's inspirational flight her trail turned to cinders it was 20 years before another woman was sent into orbit. And that was Lisa with the story of Valentino Tarrasque over and if you'd like to listen to more of our history programs just such I'm lying for the b.b.c. Witness history here on the b.b.c. World Service Shaima is heading to Iraq here in Mosul people lived under the control of Islamic state for 3 years the destruction of muscles cultural heritage came to the attention of the British Museum to train some Iraqi women an archaeological reconstruction between the rebels there's her teacher training to save the treasures of Iraq on the b.b.c. World Service at b.b.c. World Service dot com. And in 60 minutes people fixing the world where this week we're in the Italian city of tree asked which in the 1970 s. Closed its asylum and chose to care for people with mental health problems in the community system is still going strong that's after news hour here on the b.b.c. World Service the world's radio station. Welcome to News from the b.b.c. World Service I'm Julian Marshall lift off we mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the Apollo mission that landed a man on the moon the news was showing people around the world in Sydney and Japan and Russia in Europe in Paris in London watching after he landed on them and I haven't looked at me as that money you're going to be in the history but can Germany's defense minister win over the European Parliament to clinch the e use top job how London surgeon the separated could join twins connected by their skulls slowly painstakingly the surgeons separating vessels brain and. We should join these twins together very lives and a rare b.b.c. Report from inside Iran on the impact of u.s. Economic sanctions that's off to the news. Hello I'm Marianne Marshall with the b.b.c. News the German defense minister who sort of underlying is fighting to convince the European Parliament that she's worthy of taking the top job she'd be the 1st woman to do so Damian Grammaticus is in Strasburg addressing parliament today she appears have won over liberals with promises to protect the a used democratic values sensual do more to save the lives of refugees try to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe and should be tough on countries like Hungary that backslide on the rule of law but socialists are angry their preferred candidate was rejected by leaders in the backroom deal that resulted in missed on the line selection to try to win over the left she's promised social policies like moves towards a minimum wage workers in the you white unemployment insurance and to win Green vote she's promised to make the e.u. Climate neutral by 2050 and to bring in a carbon tax on all imports but as he is on the line could still be rejected by the parliament and if she is the e.u. Will be plunged into a new institutional crisis the 2 surviving members of the Apollo 11 program will be reunited shortly at the NASA launch pad where the 1st manned mission to the moon began exactly 50 years ago Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins will meet at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at the start of a week of events to celebrate the mission John Logsdon was one of the people watching close by when the rocket took off you 1st saw the flames from the rocket and then it took a number of seconds for the sound to reach you when you felt the sound that reverberated through your body the rocket accelerated very slowly of the pad seen wing hung there was unforgettable the closers a civilian could get was about 3 and a half miles in case there was a horrible accident that could hear basically the energy of a small nuclear bomb in that rocket. The earth art is in the Democratic Republic of Congo say that a pastor who was the 1st confirmed victim of a bowler in the crowded eastern city of Goma has died Goma is a major trade crossroads on the border with Rwanda and the death has raised fears that the outbreak will spread. Africa regional editor Will Ross the governor of North Kivu Province colleagues called for karma she announced that the evangelical preacher had died she said the case had been detected quickly in the passengers who travelled with him had been identified but a bowler reaching Goma is however extremely worrying in such a bustling densely populated city it's hard to trace and isolate people who may have come into contact with the virus the fact that a preacher chose to visit an infected area where he frequently touched worshippers including the sick shows that ignorance is still a major problem and far more education about a bowler is needed Africa regional editor Will Ross reporting you're listening to the latest world news from the b.b.c. The campaign group Human Rights Watch says the Syrian government is punishing the fam.
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