this was a final offer and further industrial action would not change that decision. the teaching unions immediately responded, by suspending their plans for further strikes. the announcement came asjunior doctors began five days of strikes what their union calls the longest stirke action in the nhs history. these are the pictures from one of the picket lines in central london. they re demanding a pay increase of over 30%. ministers have said that s unreasonable and risks fueling inflation. we ll have more on that in a minute. let s have a quick look, though, at the recommendations which affect millions of workers. police officers have been offered 7%. consultants, dentists and gps, 6%. junior doctors, 6%. prison officers, 7%. the armed forces, 5%. teachers, 6.5%. this was rishi sunak a little earlier. i can confirm today that we are accepting the headline recommendations of the pay review bodies in full. but we will not fund them by borrowing more or increasing your t
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
ceasefire ended. welcome to the programme. the uk prime minister rishi sunak has given his first tv interview of the year to the bbc s laura kuenssberg. mr sunak addressed concerns over nurses strikes and said he will talk to the royal college of nursing union about pay but does not commit to increasing wages now to end their strike action. our political correspondent damian grammaticas reports. a health service in urgent need of care itself claims hundreds are dying each week because of delays means this is perhaps the most pressing issue for the prime minister. the first question for rishi sunak, is this a crisis? the nhs is undeniably under enormous pressure. until now his government has said it won t talk to nursing unions directly about pay. that is done by a pay body. now he says a discussion can happen, though only it seems about future years. will you talk to nurses about increasing pay this year yes or no? we are about to start that process. that is about next y
on the city of kramatorsk. in his latest television interview, prince harry reveals that he felt guilty for being unable to show any emotion in public after the death of his mother. hello. welcome. the uk prime minister rishi sunak has given his first tv interview of the year to the bbc s laura kuennsberg. mr sunak addressed concerns over nurses strikes and said he will talk to the royal college of nursing union about pay but does not commit to increasing wages now to end their strike action. our political correspondent damian grammaticas reports. a health service in urgent need of care itself claims hundreds are dying each week because of delays means this is perhaps the most pressing issue for the prime minister. the first question for rishi sunak, is this a crisis? the nhs is undeniably under enormous pressure. until now his government has said it won t talk to nursing unions directly about pay. that is done by a pay body. now he says a discussion can happen, though onl
on the city of kramatorsk. in his latest television interview, prince harry reveals that he felt guilty for being unable to show any emotion in public after the death of his mother. international travellers have been streaming into china after it fully opened its borders for the first time since the start of the covid pandemic. people arriving in the country no longer need to quarantine and chinese citizens are once again allowed to go overseas. there have been emotional reunions at airports and the mainland s border with hong kong. this latest lifting of coronavirus restrictions coincides with the country s busiest travel season marking the lunar new year. martin yip is at that border between mainland china and hong kong. china has been rapidly de escalating these covid i9 control measures, literally walking away from what used to be called zero covid policy. so if you wonder how rapid we are talking about, two things that happened today on the other side of this bridge migh