And, 2. 5 million women honored for their service and a singular surprise. Soledad the only woman ever to receive the medal of honor, Mary Edwards Walker. Find out what this Civil War Veteran did to earn the honor. Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Its memorial day weekend, a time when we pause to remember and honor those who died while serving in the u. S. Armed forces. Today, our salute is a look back on the service of some of the bravest among us. The medal of honor is the highest award that can be given to a military hero in this country. It is bestowed by the president on behalf of Congress Following an extraordinary act of bravery. An honor reserved for those who risk their own lives, above and beyond the call of duty, in action against an enemy. More than just another accolade, it advances careers, provides a lifetime stipend, and allows the children of honorees a smooth path into the military academies. For those honored, it makes a world of difference. Toda
you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the travel show, and stay tuned for newswatch. this week on the travel show. we ve got the struggle of equality being queer, and we ve got the struggle of equality being indigenous people in this country. ..how pride reaches the world s oldest cultures. you ll see the smell is close, but then the lands in the mouth is different. ..and a teetotal tipple in the land of wine. it s good, actually. i don t like it. hello there from sunny paris, where later on in the show, i ll be finding out whether the city of love is ready to relinquish its favourite drink, but first. ..we re off to sydney, which is celebrating 50 years since its first gay pride week, and five since same sex couples were given the same marriage rights as everyone else. so that s made this year s pride events all the more special, as jacqui wakefield s been finding out. the summer season in sydney, and everyone s out on the streets. it s the time of year the parks and o
out in the dry and bright weather by the weekend. thanks ben. theres more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight with christian which is just getting under way on bbc two, the news continues here on bbc one, as now its time tojoin our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, but from the ten team it s goodnight. hello, i m 0lly foster with the latest from the bbc sport centre. the indian premier league is back. ben stokes and moeen ali were the first england stars on show, but their chennai super kings were beaten by reigning champions gujarat titans in the opening match of the tournament s 16th edition. michael redford reports. of the big stadium in the world to come of the biggest of occasions, so much more thanjust come of the biggest of occasions, so much more than just a cricket condiment, it s full of global stars and plenty of home grown talents. that was mohamed s 100 and plenty of home grown talents. that was mohamed s100 ipl and
to leave prison and move into house arrest. him, his brother and two romanian women are being investigated on allegations of rape, people trafficking and forming an organised crime group. they all deny wrongdoing. coming up on bbc news, the latest edition of newswatch. first, though, here s click. this is the uk s national centre for data science and artificial intelligence, the alan turing institute, named after the mathematician considered to be the father of computer science. artificial intelligence is the idea of notjust us programming computers, but them being able to learn for themselves and alter their own code. yeah. and, in fact, it was the big guy himself who came up with the idea of the turing test, suggesting a computer could be regarded as truly intelligent if it could chat to a human and fool that human into thinking they were talking to another human. now, you and i have both tried chatgpt and all the latest ai chatbots. do you think that test has been passed n
others were concerned about the practicalities, with terry pearson e mailing: and someone tweeting as patrickphotos posted this: well, let s put those concerns to the man in charge, interim executive news editor of bbc news channel, paul royall. thank you for coming on newswatch. now, we ve already seen some of the changes, like the loss of the paper review, the film review, dateline london. what differences will there be from next week? we re entering, i think, a really exciting phase for bbc news with the news with the new channel. we re gradually bringing in the changes during april and early may. as you ve said at the beginning there, some of the output will be combined. and so, the way to sort of understand the channel is there are two main feeds. there s a global feed and there is a uk feed and at some points, they re combined, but at other times, they re separate. so, for example, just to give you a sense of things, between 6am and ”am every day every weekday u