Will Chalk

A group of protesters ahead of him pelt the police with stones. But Shreem turns away from the violence. Unarmed, he holds his hand in the air, and then he's shot in the back of the head.

Over the next 48 hours, parliament along with hundreds of other buildings are set alight. 13,000 inmates break free from prison. Three police officers and at least 50 more Nepalis are dead. Then the prime minister resigns. Shriyam's mother again.

An official inquiry into the violence is yet to report its findings. No one has been held accountable for these deaths. Sabina Shrestha

Now hear the words one-eyed cyclops, and you're probably thinking horror or sci-fi film, not important human ancestor. But a new study suggests our eyes evolved from these creatures, and we share these roots with all other vertebrates. The BBC science presenter Marni Chesterton has been looking over the research.

What this new work is saying is that our eyes didn't evolve from primitive pairs of eyes, they actually, a more complex version came down from that one ancestral eye.

Marni Chesterton.

It's something that's been put to the test at Denmark's National Symphony Orchestra as part of a series of concerts exploring the boundaries between human and machine. This report from Alice Adderley.

Tässä on violinistina Kristiina Astrand.

Alice Adderley.

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I'm Will Chalk and this edition is being recorded in the early hours of Thursday the 26th of February.

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