A study challenging the claim that the Syrian Government was to blame for the alleged chemical attack in 2017 thats after the article attracted fierce anti assad criticism. A very warm welcome to you youre watching r. T. International with me nicky aaron the top story this hour people in the french 30 of ruin are demanding the truth from the all for a tease they fear theres been a cover up after a major fire at a nearby chemicals factory with locals not believing officials who say the air is safe to breathe your thirties have released a report on the incident it states that over 5000 tons of chemicals burned in the inferno these were mostly multipurpose additives for fuel arties shala dubinsky reports. Almost a week ago the Chemical Plant just across the water that was a blaze afic plume of black smoke billowed into the sky as firefighters battled almost 24 hours against the flames. Since then there has been growing anger over what some say is a lack of information over what was put in
Livingstone, Deputy Director in our Global Energy center where i need to work on climate and advanced energy. Thank you very much for joining us here today. Its a terrific to see a full room, particularly amid the dark days of august when so many folks in dc leave for cooler or at the very least, less humid climates. It is surely a traffic registration of interest in this topic and before we get started let me give a big thanks to zach strauss and are Global Energy and art interns who are instruments and making today happen along with our talented medications and events team. They are truly a testament to the assets and professionalism of the Atlantic Council. Dive in to todays discussion by noting that not only are you here because youre fascinated by the narrative that surround the climate challenge in the Energy Transition but you are likely also very interested in the narrators that help us to understand the complexities, ambiguities, leading characters in the emerging solutions at
They are in the process of product processing the there have been aftershocks including 3 that registered about 4. 5 magnitude. There will be another one. Not make it less likely. There is about a 1 in 20 chance that this location will have an even bigger earthquake within the next few days and we have not yet seen the biggest earthquake of the season. It is certainly area will be shaken a lot today and some of those aftershocks will probably exceed magnitude 5 which means they will become damaging. Reporter todays quake was a bit weaker than the northridge quake in 1994 which registered a 6. 6 and killed dozens of people and cost billions of dollars in damage. The difference is that quake was centered in a populated area well todays quake was centered in a remote area far from any major city. Many people in los angeles were asking why the citys new Early Warning system did not go off. Officials explained a Smart Phone App is designed to warn of moderate shaking and todays shaking was
Were killed and others injured. The attack is similar to another 3 months ago when suspected dog unarmed men killed 160 felony villages in August Saguenay near the border with the kenya fassel. Mali president abraham day because kater held a minutes silence for the victims during an official visit to switzerland and at this moment a thought for those who once more have fallen on the motorist bullets an unjust and cowardly act in the country felonies on a matic herders who move in search of fodder for their cattle villages resent them invading their farmland and those disagreements often turn violent. There are 13000 Un Peacekeeping troops in mali to protect people from armed groups linked to al qaeda increasingly theyre dealing with fighting between neighboring villages the United Nations system in mali is mobilizing to provide humanitarian assistance to help people affected the mission also provided air support this morning in support of the mali and government to prevent future a fur
Could get over the soviet union was pursued through our. The new field of Artificial Intelligence was flush with money and confidence about what it could achieve. But there were competing ideas about how i would lead the way to this brave new world. From the very 1st day there were 2 big approaches one of them was were going to figure out the rules and were going to teach the rules to the machine right were going to say this is how you do this 1st or this 1st or that 1st of that so the 1st one is the socalled expert systems where you just codified old rules you can and say go for it the 2nd one was were going to show it things were going to feed it data and its going to learn from the data you feed it the data and expected to build what people call a Neural Network which is that it looks at the data and the results and says ha ha this this this goes together and then does it again and does it again and till it builds almost like a brain like structure. What happened was a book was publ