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The un Secretary General has called for a ceasefire in gaza to mark ramadan, the muslim month of fasting. Antonio guterres also called for the release of hostages held by hamas, and the Speedy Delivery of aid to the palestinian territory. The us secretary of state, antony blinken, Hasjoined Leaders Of Caribbean Nations Injamaica for Emergency Talks on the crisis in haiti, where gang leaders are demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister. The World Food Programme has warned of Famine Conditions in the haitian capital as armed gangs terrorise much of the city. Authorities in new zealand say 12 people have been admitted to hospital following whats been described as a mid air technical problem on a flight between sydney and auckland. Witnesses described people being thrown through the cabin, as the plane suddenly lost altitude during severe turbulence. A Flag Raising Ceremony has taken place in brussels to Mark Swedenjoining nato. Sweden formally applied to join along with finland aft
welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. we begin in france where more than a hundred police officers have been injured in the latest protests over pension reforms. demonstrators used the traditional may day rallies, to voice their continued anger, against president emmanuel macron s plans. these protests have been widespread. take a look at the figures. according to the interior ministry, more than 780,000 protesters hit the streets across the country. that includes 112 thousand in the capital, paris alone. but the country s hard left cgt union, says the figure is actually three times that number. at issue of course is president macron s plans to raise the retirement age from 62, to 64. he signed the legislation last month, and the meaures are due to take effect in september. 0ur europe correspondent, nick beake has the latest. singing. the may day march, a french tradition reaching back decades, but fuelling this year s protests, the vision of a future whe
hello. the man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence has quit his job at google, warning of the dangers of ai. doctor geoffrey henton s pioneering research on aland neural networks has paved the way for current work on al, but he says he now regrets his work and is worried the technology will flood the internet with misinformation. google has responded in a statement, saying. doctor henton has told the bbc how these systems can know so much. the kind of these systems can know so much. tie: kind of intelligence we these systems can know so much. tue: kind of intelligence we are developing is very different from the intelligence we have. we are biological systems, and these are digital systems, and the big difference is that with digital systems, you have many copies of the same set of weights, the same model of the world. and all these copies can learn separately but share their knowledge instantly, so it s as if you had 10,000 people, and whenever one person
tayabullah, barely breathing, ill with pneumonia and malnutrition. his family wants us to see his condition. alone in a corner, his mother nigar realises her son is fading. doctors find a faint heartbeat. already defeated by a lack of resources, they re trying to revive him with the little they have. this man tells us it took eight hours, on rubble roads, to bring his grandson here. a family that can barely afford to eat, scrape together money to pay for the ride, trying to save their little boy. idema is one of two nurses treating 60 children. she makes a final attempt. minutes later, she tells nigar her boy has died. sobbing. they carry their baby home. he should be alive. every disease he had was curable. translation: i am also a mother, and when i saw the baby die, - i felt like i ve lost my own child. when i saw his mother sobbing, it broke my heart. it hurt my conscience. we don t have equipment and trained staff. there is nothing we can do but watch babies dying. barel