of will be in the milder zone. some significant snow to begin with in the mountains in the north east. on saturday there will be some sunny spells and temperatures up to about 12. warm christmas eve, back to you, i2. warm christmas eve, back to you, sophie. thanks, matt. and that s bbc news at ten. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines at the top of the hour as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. are the machines about to take over? that basic fear seems to underpin much of the discussion about artificial intelligence, and parallel developments such as synthetic biology. the latest wave of tech advances offers us extraordinary new possibilities, but do we flawed human beings have the will and the means to contain and control them? well, my guest is mustafa suleyman, ceo of inflection ai and the author of a challenging book on al and us. is that a doomed relationship? mustafa suleyman, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for havin
at the world darts championship has won again tonight. and stay with the serum bbc news, for considering coverage and analysis from our team of correspondents in the uk and the world. a student has carried out a mass shooting at the university where he was studying in prague, killing 14 people and wounding 25 others, ten of them seriously. police were already looking for him after his father was found dead this morning in a nearby village. the student, thought to be in his early 20s, began his shooting spree this afternoon, apparently picking off people at random. he was later found dead. our correspondent sarah rainsford is in prague. well, this mass shooting took place just across the bridge from where i am tonight in the building that s lit up at the end, that s charles university, the arts faculty, and that s where the gunman shot so many people, wounding and killing many. there is deep shock of course tonight here in prague and across the czech republic, and there is als
normal, to a large degree, because of the little girl. they didn t want her to be traumatised. as the delegates gather for the latest international conference on how to deal with the reality of an overheating world, is it already too late to save our planet? anything we do is better than nothing, which i know is not a great rallying cry, is it? famously, general winter is russia s great ally. and although when vladimir putin launched his invasion of ukraine back in february, he clearly thought it would all be finished in a couple of weeks or so, he s now hoping to recruit general winter to help him win, more than eight months later. people in kyiv and many other towns and cities in ukraine are suffering from the loss of power and heating, even though on the battlefield itself, ukraine continues to do well. is the balance of the war changing, therefore? i spoke to frank gardner, the bbc s security correspondent. i think ukraine is still largely doing better because of the qual
centre in dover, in south east england, was the result ofan act of terrorism. authorities believe andrew leak, who is thought to have killed himself after the attack last sunday, was motivated by an extreme right wing ideology. now on bbc news, the travel show. good girl! straight on! my name is lucy edwards and nine years ago, i lost my eyesight completely. since then, i ve been on a mission to use social media to showjust because i m blind doesn t mean i m broken. how does a blind girl play tennis? how does a blind girl organise her wardrobe? how does a blind girl ride a motorbike? engine revs. i don t my dad does. i m going to get off this now because it s scary. african music plays. when i first lost my sight, it felt like my world had shrunk forever. but now, i m embarking on a great big african adventure in kenya. with the help of my cane and a guide, i will tackle some challenging terrain. and you were using my cane, weren t you? laughs. it is the toughest it s the
as world leaders gather in egypt for cop27, can they prevent geopolitical issues from casting a shadow over tackling climate change? and the 34 year old singer and rapper aaron carter has been found dead at his home in california. hello and welcome to the programme. the crucial us midterm elections, which will decide who controls congress, are just days away and president biden and barack obama have taken to the stage together at a campaign rally in pennsylvania. mr biden urged the cheering crowd in his home state to back the democrats john fetterman for the senate. he said the elections would shape the country for decades to come. this is not a referendum this year. it s a choice. a choice between two vastly different visions of america. vastly different. maybe it s in our blood butjohn and i believe all, it s all about fighting for working and middle class people. the way i ve said from the beginning of my, my objective when i ran for president was to build an economy from