Azia: Hey guys. It is Tuesday, November 10. I am Azia Celestinoand Channel One News starts right now.
Hey guys, I am here with Tom Hanson,who is bringing us up to date with a story from the University of Missouri that had the football team refusing to take the field.
Tom: And you know Azia, the team and a lot of students on campuswere pushing for the university's president to step down. Yesterday, he did.
Students at the University of Missouri wanted change, and they got it, cheering when the news broke.
Tim Wolfe: Please use this resignation to heal and not to hate and let's move forward together for a brighter tomorrow.
Tom: University president TimWolfe is leaving after days of protests and turmoilat Mazzou. Hours later, the university chancellor said he would step down as well. Students said the president didn’t do enough to address racism on campus, including incidents of racial slurs and acts of vandalism.
Protestors had been demanding change for months, and this weekend the football team took it on, vowing not to play until the president steps down.
The rising tension had been going on for months.
Female: It’s really about just being fair.It’s not just about TimWolfe resigning, but it’s about just getting equal rights with different things on campus.
Josh McClellan: Racial issues are a problem that are always been around, and on this university we have had some problems. So, for those to be addressed, it’s good.
Tom: Tom Hanson, Channel One News.
Azia: Wolfe took full responsibility for his inaction and the student frustrations that followed.
Alright coming up, what life is like for teens living in Iran.
Today, as we continue our look at Iran, we focus on the lives of young people. Iran has one of the largest populations of young people in the world, and they are striking up a balance between technology and tradition. Once again, Maggie Rulli takes us “Inside Iran.”
Maggie: I first met 17-year-old Amir at this video game bar in Tehran, where he quickly schooled me in video games, one of his favorite things to do with friends.
So, how often do you see Americans?
Amir: You're the first one.
Maggie: Really? I am the first American you have ever met?
Amir: Yeah.
Maggie: Amir may have never met an American before, but he does know how most Americans picture him.
Amir: This is America, having all the cool weapons, Air Force, helicopter, tanks.This is Iran. People, for God sake. Soldiers walk through the battle field with AK 47.
Maggie: Is it not true?
Amir: Do you see me like that?
Maggie: No.
Amir: Seriously?
Maggie: Definitely not.
Amir says his generation of young people in Iran is no different than other teenagers around the world.
Amir: In the movies, I like Al Pacino, Johnny Depp. In music, we both like Linkin Park. One of our biggest wishes is that maybe one day we’ll go to one of their concert.
Maggie: Iran has one of the youngest societies in the world, with around two-thirds of the population under the age of 30. They are more educated and more connected than any other generation in Iran’s recent history.
And this generation of young people is the first to grow up under the religious government.A generation caught in betweenliving in a world that's connected to modern freedoms and American culture, but in a country ruled by traditional Islamic law.
Is it legal for us to shake hands?
Amir: No,it’s not.
Maggie: It is not legal?
Amir: No, it’s not.
Maggie: Hanging out with Amir is technically not allowed, but because I am working as a journalist, it is ok.
Amir: Actually, this is kind of illegal too.
Maggie: Is it?
Amir: There should be a canal between us.
Maggie: Oh my gosh!
Amir: That's the real state of measuring things in Iran.
Amir: Boys have their own school, girls have their own school. They never meet up. Boys have men teachers, girls have women teachers. They never mix up. Never mix, never, never, never.
Maggie: And there are some things off limits to even talk about.
Is it legal to be gay in Iran?
Amir: It's not legal, and you should not talk about it.
Maggie: All TV, music and internet is controlled. Social media sites, like Twitter and Facebook, are blocked. But millions of young Iranians have found a way around the rules, using third- party apps to get on things like Facebook.
Amir: Actually, I think Iranians are very good with computers; very good with computers.
Maggie: Experts in the U.S. say,many young people here live an underground life, one of illegalparties and dating. It is rarely talked about publically because breaking the rules could land you in jail.
They tell us, if you air that, the government will probably come after me. That could stop me from going to university. It could stop me from ever being able to leave the country. It could stop me and my family from living in our homes. I mean, really serious things just for talking to us on camera about what they do in their free time.
But according to experts, this large youth population has the power to create lasting change in the country. They have done it before.
It was students who led the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Masoumeh Ebtekar, a current vice president in Iran, was one of the thousands of students who helped over throw the governmentand create a religious state.
Students here in Iran have had a long history of creating change here in the country. Do you think that the younger generation today has the potential to create change in Iran?
Masoumeh Ebtekar: I think that they have already. In the recent elections, the young generation had avery important role in bringing Dr. Rouhani to power.
Maggie: Students helped elect Iran’s current president, Hassan Rouhani, a more moderate leader who helped make the nuclear deal with the U.S. and other world powers.
Hassan Rouhani: We are ready to show more transparency to the world.
Amir: His thoughts is not old fashion. He just says new things that is more correct that the old.
Maggie: But thismovement away from extremism only took hold after the world saw the brutality of the Iraniangovernment during another student uprising.
In 2009, students were protesting what they say was a fake election. A young woman, Neda Agha Soltan, was shot and killed by Iranian security forces. Her image went viral, and she became the face of what's known as the Green Revolution.
Today, Iran's leaders don't want to lose control of this large youth population again, or allow outside culture, especially American culture, to influence them. They say it is to save Iranian identity.
Rouhani: Under no circumstances will we allow a penetration of Americans into our economic, social and cultural areas.
Maggie: But that outside influence has already taken hold. Today's generation says they want to keep moving forward, little by little.
Amir: Revolutions, I think, damage stuff. I think, if people change it in time, but make the change more stable that will be way better.
Maggie: Pushing for change through their every day, ordinary actions.
Amir: We are the future of this country and you cannot hold us back. Come on let’s go.
Maggie: Maggie Rulli, Channel One News.
Azia: And to check out video of the most memorable moments from Maggie and Tom's trip to Iran, head to Channelone.com.
Alright guys coming up, a bug “backpack” that is causing quite a buzz.
It is time to Get Your Geek On with a story that has us buzzing around with the bees. That’s because more than 80 percent of the food we eat could not be grow without the hard work of honeybees, which pollenate the plants.
But over the past few years, bees have been dying off and scientists can’t figure out why. But now,a new innovative invention may change all of that.
At London's [Royal] Botanic Gardens, beneath the flowers where wild bumblebees roam, deep in a secure basement laboratory, British ecologist Sara Barlow suits up her bees for flight.
This is the bumblebee backpack, and it is one of the smallest tracking devices ever placed on a living organism.
Sara Barlow: We'd be able to build up a map of the bee movements and see a network of where they've been, how long they've been out feeding, how far they've travelled.
Azia: But, outfitting the bees with thespecial backpack is no small feat. She stores them in a refrigerator. The cold calms them down, usually.
Barlow: She’s making those warning sounds just to tell me.
Azia: Shecarefully holds the bee in place with pins.Barlow then applies regular old super glue to the back, and finally the microchip.After drying for a few minutes, the bee can buzz off.It is a wobbly start at first because the tracker is half the bee's weight.
For now the pilot backpack program is only ina greenhouse with plans to place receivers around the bees feeding paths out in the wild.It is one tiny tool that will hopefully unlock the secret world of bees, and the mystery behind their disappearance.
All right guys, it is time for us to get buzzing along.But have an awesome day, and we will see you right back here tomorrow.
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