by plane, are taking boats. the british government recently estimated that around 4,000 britons were stuck in sudan. 0ur diplomatic correspondent paul adams has been following the situation from nairobi. the evacuation of foreign nationals from sudan does continue, largely now from port sudan, where people are able to leave by ship across the red sea, and also by plane. britain now says it is evacuating more than 2000 people altogether since the airlift began. but far more sudanese people are on the move. the un estimates 50,000 have crossed sudan s borders into egypt, chad, south sudan and ethiopia, and as many as 75,000 people are thought to be internally displaced, fleeing the fighting in khartoum and in darfur, to places where they feel more safe. the un is warning it could get a whole lot worse, with the head of the unhcr saying today as many as 800,000 people could be on the move if the fighting worsens. that is a sharp increase in the estimated numbers of people who co
room for compromise yet on an issue that impacts the global economy. us treasury secretary janet yellen says the us could run out of cash byjune 1st, prompting president biden to call a meeting with the top leaders in congress next week. in a letter to the leaders today, yellen warned: speaker mccarthy responded to yellen in a statement, saying: the republican controlled house passed a debt ceiling bill last week that includes steep spending cuts. senate democratic majority leader chuck schumer announced a process to pass a clean bill with no cuts just hours ago. meanwhile, a little relief in the banking sector. wall street giantjp morgan chase took over the troubled first republic bank in a $10.6 billion deal brokered by regulators. they seized first republic early on monday, after efforts to rescue the bank fell through over the weekend. the failure of the bank is the second largest in us history, and the third in the country since march. samira hussain has more. as of mond
of murdering seven babies and trying to kill ten others, has been giving evidence for the first time in her trial. she cried in the witness box and told the jury she only wanted to help and care for the babies she was looking after at the countess of chester hospital. myjob was my life, she insisted, and said she was traumatised when she was arrested. she denies all the charges against her. this report from ellie price contains some distressing detail. the parents of lucy letby, arriving at manchester crown court. their daughter s trial has been going on for the last six months. today she gave evidence for the first time. fighting back tears she was asked by her defence lawyer ben myers kc how she felt to be accused of killing babies and to have herjob as a nurse taken away from her. letby said it left her feeling very isolated and her mental health deteriorated. she told the court, there were times when i did not want to live, i thought of killing myself. she was asked why
on an issue that impacts the global economy. us treasury secretary janet yellen says the us could run out of cash byjune 1st, prompting president biden to call a meeting with the top leaders in congress next week. in a letter to the leaders today, yellen warned: speaker mccarthy responded to yellen in a statement, saying. the republican controlled house passed a debt ceiling bill last week that includes steep spending cuts. senate democratic majority leader chuck schumer announced a process to pass a clean bill with no cuts just hours ago. meanwhile, a little relief in the banking sector. wall street giantjp morgan chase took over the troubled first republic bank in a $10.6 billion deal brokered by regulators. they seized first republic early on monday, after efforts to rescue the bank fell through over the weekend. the failure of the bank is the second largest in us history, and the third in the country since march. samira hussain has more. as of monday, first republic custo
hello, i m lucy hockings. the man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence has quit his job at google, warning of the dangers of ai. dr geoffrey hinton s pioneering research on deep learning and neural networks has paved the way for current ai systems like chatgpt, but dr hinton says he now regretted his work and is worried that al technology will flood the internet with misinformation. google responded in a statement saying, we remain committed to a responsible approach to ai. dr hinton has been telling the bbc how these systems can know so much. the kind of intelligence we re developing is very different from the intelligence we have. we are biological systems and these are digital systems and the big difference is, 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 l