and tributes to the legendary singer, actor, and civil rights activist harry belafonte, who s died at the age of 96. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in sudan, where an uneasy truce appears to be holding. thousands of people have been fleeing the country due to the violence there, as countries from around the world work to evacuate their citizens. people living in sudan have spoken of their fears of looting, vandalism and hunger. andrew harding has this report. safely out of sudan, the first plane carrying british nationals landed back in cyprus this evening. the rescue mission had begun early in the morning, several raf planes setting off for sudan s capital, khartoum, not knowing if a ceasefire in the city would last days or even hours. it has been incredibly challenging because of the changing nature. we have had to work up complex plans involving numerous royal air force aircraft and a great number of military personnel, who ve been flown in from the uk over t
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
can you imagine it? we had to go, sneak the road to go someplace where there is dirty water, and we had to bring it to house and use it for cooking and drinking. we will have more of the eyewitness reports of those making the journey to egypt and live in larnaca for the latest on the rescue flights. also tonight. prince harry claims that the sun newspaper paid prince william a very large sum to settle claims of phone hacking. let s finish this job i know we can. joe biden announces he ll run again for the white house next year. at 81, he will be the oldest president to seek re election. # island in the sun. and the singer and human rights campaigner harry belafonte, who helped break racial barriers in america, has died aged 96. and in the sport on bbc news, we ll have the results from todays premier league matches including leeds against leicester with both fighting to avoid relegation. good evening. the first of three special flights rescuing british nationals from the v