Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Here we are at this viewpoint, its called the Horseshoe Falls viewpoint, but there are no falls . Maybe one year there will be no fall completely, no water. Weve lost at least 200 elephants. You mean, from starvation . From starvation, yes. Trees are destroyed, vegetation is lost. Those are the issues. This is the briefing, im sally bundock. Our top story with pro democracy candidates in hong kongs local elections on course for a landslide, after years of political the territorys pro beijing leader turmoil and misrule, carrie lam says her government zimbabwe now faces an existential threat from Climate Change. Will respect the results. Can it adapt before its too late . Days of heavy rain and floods drench parts of italy and france, devastating communities and destroying roads. Leaked documents seen by the bbc reveal the vast network of high Security Prisons in western china designed to brainwash uighur muslims. Victoria falls, one of the wonders of the natur
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Here we are at this viewpoint, its called the Horseshoe Falls viewpoint, but there are no falls . Maybe one year there will be no fall completely, no water. Weve lost at least 200 elephants. You mean, from starvation . From starvation, yes. Trees are destroyed, vegetation is lost. Those are the issues. After yea rs of political turmoil and misrule, zimbabwe now faces an existential threat from Climate Change. Can it adapt before its too late . Victoria falls, one of the wonders of the natural world. The waters of the Zambezi River plunge more than 100 metres along a fault line that divides zimbabwe from zambia. The british explorer David Livingstone claimed to be the first european to experience this magic. It was, he said, a view for the angels. Long before David Livingstone got here and named this spectacular place Victoria Falls, local people knew it as the smoke that thunders. But right now, this smoky mist isnt so thick and the thundering roar, well, it
Also tonight. There are 42 flood warnings still in place in the north of england, ministers will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow, as locals underline the scale of the crisis. Weve never experienced this in our lifetime. Weve lived here for nearly 55 years. I was born here. And we just think the system has completely let us down. One of the uks biggest steel makers has been rescued by a chinese company, potentially safeguarding thousands of jobs. In hong kong, two people are in a Critical Condition after another day of demonstrations by democracy campaigners in hong kong. And a two minute silence across the uk, as people gather to pay tribute to those lost in two world wars. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news a fourth consecutive gold in a championship record in the javelin. Hollie arnold starts for Great Britain at the world para athletics. Good evening. Theres been a potentially significant shift in the dynamics of the upcoming election, caused by the brexit partys decision not
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But these machines and in some sense, do. They have an explicit internal model welcome to hardtalk, of what their objective im stephen sackur. What is the most serious existential is and they can figure out how to achieve it. Threat facing humanity . So there might have the goal of winning a game of chess well, many of us might point and they can figure out how to do that and beat humans at it. To nuclear war or climate change. Learning what about that word, learning where does that fit . So these days, following actually but some of the greatest minds a recommendation by alan turing in the tech sector are looking in 1950, we built many of the ai in a very different direction. Artificial intelligence, system, not by programming them warned the physicist explicitly, but by training them. Stephen hawking, could spell the end of the human race. So we have general purpose learning algorithms that take examples my guest tonight is stuart russell, from the real world and then a globally reno