are the machines about to take over? a senior tech engineer is put on leave after claiming an artificial intelligence tool has develped a mind of its own. and a month after mcdonalds pulled out of russia because of ukraine, a homegrown burger chain opens called tasty and that s it. a group of us senators from both the republican and democratic parties have reached agreement on a series of gun control measures. the developments come after the tragic mass shootings in texas and new york. the measures include tougher background checks for gun buyers under the age of 21 and moves to prevent people buying such arms for others who are restricted from purchasing them. our north america correspondent david willis reports. this is a significant move and assuming these proposals pass into law, they would represent the first gun control measures this country has seen in decades. the proposals themselves are fairly modest, they include tighter background checks for gun sales involvin
like because it, in effect, puts a border down the irish sea. now on bbc news, it s time for dateline london. shaun chuckles. hello, and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline london. this week political apologies and their consequences. 40% of borisjohnson s mps say it isn t enough to say sorry he should quit. we ll be discussing why history may be on the british prime minister s side. and in africa, the king of belgium voices his deepest regret over the abuse and humiliation caused in what is now the drc by his family and other belgians. why do those who colonised find it so hard to say sorry? in the studio are stefanie bolzen, uk and ireland correspondent for the german media group die welt, marc roche, who writes for the french news magazine le point, and adam raphael, who began reporting on uk politics in 1976 the last year to date in which a british
an artificial intelligence tool has developed a mind of its own. a group of us senators from both the republican and democratic parties have reached agreement on a series of gun control measures. the developments come after the tragic mass shootings in texas and new york. the measures include tougher background checks for gun buyers under the age of 21 and moves to prevent people buying such arms for others who are restricted from purchasing them. our north america correspondent david willis reports. this is a significant move and assuming these proposals pass into law, they would represent the first gun control measures this country has seen in decades. the proposals themselves are fairly modest, they include tighter background checks for gun sales involving customers under the age of 21, and the introduction or expansion of so called red flag laws which would potentially lead to the confiscation of weapons in the hands of people deemed a risk to themselves or others, and gr
which unionists don t like because it, in effect, puts a border down the irish sea. now on bbc news, here s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the rupture in relations between most of europe and russia since vladimir putin s invasion of ukraine has left european governments scrambling to end their dependence on moscow s oil and gas. it turns out there was another arena in which europe had become dangerously dependent on russia space. without russian rockets and other space know how, europe s short term space plans are now in disarray. my guest isjosef aschbacher, director general of the european space agency. is europe destined to be an also ran in the space race? josef aschbacher, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you for having me. let s start where i started in that introduction your relationship with russia. it has exposed, has it not, the war with ukraine, the degree to which you ve had to sever ties with the russian space agency? it s exposed a d
to his fans about the facial paralysis that s forced him to cancel a series of shows. england s cricketers have it all to do at trent bridge today, after a dominant start to the second test by new zealand, who are building a big first innings. good morning, for many of us the weekend promises some warm sunshine, but the further north you are across the uk, there will be some pretty hefty showers around and it will be windy. i ll have all the weather details here on request. on breakfast. good morning, it s saturday june. the high court has ruled that a flight taking asylum seekers from the uk to rwanda can go ahead on tuesday, despite a legal bid by campaigners. it s the first flight under a new government policy deporting those who illegally enter the uk to rwanda to apply for asylum there. mark easton reports. is it lawful to give people seeking asylum in the uk a one way ticket to rwanda? telling them to pursue refugee status thousands of miles south in east africa? th