the, the, this is dw news line from berlin. the father of the so called god particle dies at the age of $94.00. is peter higgs, propose the existence of the higgs bows on. we speak to the scientists who confirmed the particles of distance decades later, with an emotional higgs watching in the audience. also coming up a landmark court ruling in favor of swift senior citizens who say their government is not doing enough to stop climate change. and lawyers, i think you ins, popcorn argue that the german support for israel does not violate international law . nicaragua accuses germany of helping israel commit a legend genocide in gaza. the

i'm here until in berlin. thank you very much for joining us to help to unravel one of the greatest enigmas in physics or in his place alongside named like isaac newton and albert einstein. the father of the so called god particle, the nobel prize winning physicist peter higgs, has died age 94. the university of edinburgh says he passed away peacefully in his home. fix was famous for his groundbreaking theory. 1962 with proposed a new particle known as the hicks bows on. he argued that the boys on helped him buying the universe together by giving particles their mass decades later, his theory was proven by physicists working at the large hadron collider at cern and switzerland. he was honored with a nobel prize for physics and 2013. the earlier i spoke to please,

this is josephine can download from the university of california. she announced the discovery of the higgs bows on in 2012 with peter hicks in the audience. well, obviously it was a tremendously exciting moments and perhaps one of the biggest moments that are in our field for many decades. and i wasn't absolutely certain that peter would be there until shortly before and we were just very happy that he could be there. i saw, i saw that you showed a little clip with him wanting xyz. he was very emotional at the time of the last, the discovery. i was representing the cns experiment, which i showing the picture behind me here. in february to note, it was recommended to be out of 6 for me. and together we both have very strong evidence for the particle that he propose, almost half a century earlier. so it was a long road to get there. now before we continue, could you please help some more viewers understand exactly what the importance of

discovery they expose on men for physics. c wasn't very key part of our understanding of how, how the fundamental forces and particles exist. what we do in particle physics is try to understand the really the most basic elements of nature, which are the fundamental particles and the forces. and we developed over much of the early 20th century, a pretty good understanding of, of how this all worked. and um, one piece, the one piece of the deposit was trying to understand how some of the forest caring particles could have maps and impact how any particle they have maps that became suddenly a stumbling box block for any, any real completion of our understanding of reimbursed and it's extremely important in the sense that if you don't have minutes of particles, for example, is feel what's wrong with mass list,

that there could be no out and we would not exist. and it turns out that this ability just to create mass particles occurring early in the universe. the universe wasn't essentially unable to do that initially. but a transition occurs. and this is really what's now known as the about angular haze . my condition and there's a particle associated with it, which as you mentioned was a takes, is called a bunch on, uh huh. and that particle has often been referred to as the god particle, or also the hymns bows on. but we know that mr. higgs was never really comfortable with that term. what's the, tell us about the man as he was incredibly tumble. um and i don't know if he was religious, frankly, but as a few minutes ago was remarkably decent while matter personable. i mean, he was just wonderful and we all loved him in the fields and as it's fine with the discovery he was asked to speak and he said,

give me just showing me some ability of today's, for the experimental, assume to discover this. you know, you can talk to me, some of the possible thing that you have is a wonderful guy. and there was almost 50 years between this when mr. hicks proposed behaviors both on and it's discovery. why exactly did it take so long? it was really hard actually. um we discovered a, i think 3 generations of scientists including the who, most of the work for your, you know, that was one of the biggest goals. one could imagine is finding the expos on it took an excel reader. that was, you know, it does it sir, and that's something like 27 kilometers. and so for circumference, we had to go to extremely high energy use, incredibly, not high number of proton proton solutions. and i estimated that, you know, our signal that we found the higgs with the discovery, it was something like a few 100 for a time for science solutions. and that was out of $1000000000.00 total solutions.

so it was really, really difficult to find and it's a very dedicated experiments with thousands of businesses. many, many people have contributed to this and, and it's a well, as i said, it took almost a generation to prepare and find this, this powerful, withdrawing, astonishing, does it, every honest, honestly work that was joseph and canal, a distinguished professor of physics and the vice chancellor for research at the university of california, santa barbara, thank you very much for your insights. is interesting. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. as the top court in the us state of arizona has reinstated in abortion band, it borrows all abortions except when necessary to save a mother's life. many active as in lawmakers have slammed the ruling which the states democratic governor called a dark day. south koreans are electing a new parliament. the result will determine whether president, june,

so people can push forward with his socially conservative agenda. opinion pulls ahead of the vote, predicted a close outcome. europe's climate monitor says march was the hottest on record and the 10th street month of record heat. worldwide temperatures exceeds the pre industrial average by $1.00 degrees celsius, signed to say, the heat is down to rise in greenhouse gas emissions. a group of retired swiss with him all aged over 64. and when the landmark case said, your top human rights court, the judge has accepted their arguments that older women are particularly vulnerable to global warming. and they will, that switzerland's government was not taking sufficient action to protect them active as hope the ruling will increase the pressure on governments to curb greenhouse gas emissions. just cosign more. one of the lawmakers in this landmark case told us why the group she represented in the hague consisted only of

elderly women as well. it was by design because in switzerland, some reason you have to be able to establish to bring a case that you are particularly affected. so you have to be more effective, but somebody else and it's not good enough to just show that your affected an elderly women are particularly badly affected by heat. because the ability of an older woman's party to regular temperature is less expensive than the equivalent page. so old women and very young babies, particularly affected by heat waves, as we see by the vast numbers of people who have tied in the last few heat waves that we've had over the last decade in the or germany has presented its defense at the international court. of justice to an accusation of facility in genocide and gauze and nicaragua and seeking to hold german weapons exports to israel, claiming that they are potentially being used to commit genocide. germany rejects

the accusations, saying it is trying to balance its responsibilities to both israel and the palestinian people. israel security is that the core of german foreign policy. that is how germany just to find its, don't support of israel as it rejected in nicaragua, as accusations at the i. c. j. germany has learned from its post posts that includes the responsibility for one of the most of or if it crime, since human history. joshua, but despite that history, nicaragua says germany's military support of israel is in breach of the genocide convention in germany is israel, 2nd largest supplier of arms and the colorado. it says those exports are enabling is riley forces to commit to potential acts of genocide in gaza. application in the gym and he says the accusations on not placed on facts and the let me only supplies on the basis of detached scrutiny. the scrutiny,

the only respect but far exceeds the requirements of international law is argued with in nicaragua has grossly distorted the quantities and purposes of balance palms, exports to israel. and if we look at what has actually been license for export to israel under this framework. since october 2023, we see no artillery shells, no munitions. nearly all experts, the exports involve what is known as of the military equipment. typically of the subordinate or defensive nature position is israel's conduct in gaza. it's central to this case. and so many questions how the cold can rule without israel's presence to allow it also lash downs that nicaragua for focusing on israel's actions through but ignoring those of from us fire. unlike nicaragua, germany is not blind to the fact that thomas also has publications under

international humanitarian law including towards the civilian population in gaza. but only that's how most most comply with its publications. but it also renounce has any responsibility in the most significant manner. the judges must now decide whether to impose emergency measures to holtz german onto exports, to israel, to the german government as promising to get tougher on criminals. after new data shows a sharp prize in crime, in 2023 criminal acts were up 5 percent over the previous year, while the crime reached a 15 year high. and a 3rd of the suspects are not terms conditions. the statistic is driving calls for better enforcement as immigration laws. the german police haven't been busy, busy in use. the increase in violent crime, in particular, is a big worry for the government. 2023. so over

214000 reports of violent crime, a considerable rise of 8.6 percent from the previous you most significantly that's been a 13.5 percent surge since 2022 in violent crimes. committed by people without a german passport. non german defenders accounted for 24.4 percent of all crimes committed despite making up only about 15 percent of the population. the government has promised action to tackle the increase of stuff who gives us there is no justification or excuse for the violence when you go in here to the principal of 0 tolerance supplies in the case of for an offenders. in addition to the immediate consequences under criminal law, and this also means that they must leave germany much more quickly than was previously the care of the front of a position. parties are using the for goes to cold for to full migration policies,

such as types of border controls and multiplications. the head of the german criminal police rejects claims that people from other countries are inherently more criminal, emphasizing the importance of improving integration for photos. police because of all, it's also true the people who are still protection in our country and still to non german people who stay here. do they have a risk factors lies that make criminal offenses more likely to regardless of their origin for these types of trying to come in. okay, and i think these include, for example, lack of education to that cannot back end security. so for experiencing violence either one positive takeaway is that the number of crimes solved in germany has grown more than half to dw political correspondence. simon young told us earlier, why the number of suspects without a german passport has arisen? well, brand, you have to look at the overall context. old crime is going off on types of crime

that but the continuing high level of the in would migration to germany means that the proportion of people in the population with without gym and citizenship is increased. and so among then the numbers committing crimes is also going back to that. the fact that the people from disadvantaged groups are often more likely to commit crimes and in a migrant more likely to be living in difficult economic circumstances, often and difficult living conditions. if they're in the solemn hospitals or a section centers where there may also be crime, some of them have experienced a domestic conditions like war and violence in their own country. so that may be part of the grant background. why they are more likely to commit crime? and i think also there is a problem that's acknowledged in germany with born integration of many of these

people that too might be part of the context. well you up to date, but to stick around up. next we have a documentary on vladimir pollutants, russia, and its invasion of ukraine. i'll be back at the top of the hour with another news update. thank you for joining us. the innovation green, the green revolution global. so listen to a whole lot of crime. it's probably up to speed is secure, subscribed to this channel every friday. subscribe to plan is a the.