another u turn? the british prime minister insists she won t cut public spending, to pay for her multibillion pound package of tax cuts. and the us leads western countries in promising more weapons for ukraine, including air defence systems. we will do everything we can as fast as we can to help the ukrainian forces get the capability they need to protect the ukrainian people. and scientists in australia teach lab grown brain cells to play an iconic video game. we find out how and why. live from our studio in singapore. hello and welcome to the programme. ajury in the us has ordered the conspiracy theorist alexjones to pay $965 million in damages to the families of victims of the sandy hook massacre. mrjones falsely claimed for years that the mass shooting had been staged by the government to try to introduce tighter gun controls. the school principal was among the 26 people killed in the attack in 2012. a little earlier our correspondent, gary o donoghue told me why alexjone
to protect the ukrainian people. scientists in australia teach brain cells grown in a lab to play a video game. we find out why. the next stage could open up options such as cyber security management or more economist devices and perhaps could lead to sentience and fully autonomous robots. we met the inventor taking off in his brand new flying car. hello. welcome to the programme. ajury in the us has ordered the conspiracy theorist alexjones to pay $965 million in damages to the families of victims of the sandy hook massacre. mrjones falsely claimed for years that the mass shooting had been staged by the government to try to introduce tighter gun controls. the school principal was among the 26 people killed in the attack in 2012. 0ur correspondent peter bowes has been following the story and joins us now from los angeles. i asked him what prompted this case. this goes back a decade and it is as a result of the families, they say they were harassed and persecuted by followers
and the us leads western countries in promising more weapons for ukraine, including air defence systems. we re going to do everything we can, as fast as we can, to help the ukrainian forces get the capability they need to protect the ukrainian people. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. i want to bring you some news that s just come through in the last hour from the us, where a usjury in connecticut has ruled that the conspiracy theorist alexjones must payjust shy of $1 billion in damages to the families of those killed in the 2012 sandy hook mass shooting. mrjones falsely claimed for years that the mass shooting had been staged by the government to try to introduce tighter gun controls. the school principal was among the 26 people killed in the attacked in 2012. a little earlier, our correspondent gary 0 donoghue told me why alexjones has been held accountable. really, from when it actually happened, alexjones, on his info wars channels, reachi
i think you met them. but there is no civil society. that s why russia can t resist. for now, resistance to the kremlin is coming from ukraine and the west. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. i want to tell you now about the fact that australian researchers have grown brain cells in a lab and taught them how to play the iconic early video game, pong. the team says the so called mini brain , can sense and respond to its environment, calling it the first sentient lab grown brain. here s our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. these little white blobs are clumps of brain cells that have been grown in a lab. researchers connected cells similar to these to a computer. under the microscope, you can see the tiny wires that sent electrical impulses in and out. it learnt to play a 1970s
scientists in australia have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned how to play a basic video game. they say that their so called mini brain can sense and respond to its environment. the team also claims to have created the first sentient lab grown brain. other experts describe the work as exciting but say that calling the brain cells sentient was going too far. here s our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. these little blobs are clumps of brain cells that have been grown and allowed. researchers connected them to a computer. under the microscope except expect microscope, you consider tiny wires that sand impulses in and out. it loads a basic 19705 in and out. it loads a basic 1970s game called pong in a rectangle on the screen. the lab grown game moves a white line to stop there. getting past. line to stop there. getting ast. ., ., past. right now we have the chance for past. right now we have the chance for drug past. right now we have the chance for drug discovery, i ch