good afternoon and welcome to viewers on bbc one and the news channel ahead of a downing street update at five led by the health secretary matt hancock. alsojoining him will be the deputy chief medical officer for england jenny harries, and susan hopkins from public health england. we will bring that to you live. that is around five o clock this afternoon. earlier today, the prime minister said the government will look at the potential of relaxing some measures before mid february, but it is understood no changes will be made before that date. mrjohnson is under pressure from mps to set out a route map for schools to reopen, with an urgent question in the house of commons scheduled for tomorrow. meanwhile, the prime minister says he s actively working on a proposal requiring travellers arriving in the uk from high risk countries to pay to quarantine in a hotel. it comes as the latest figures show that a further 22,195 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the
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four days of losses is about to become five. are down 7.5% over the previous four days. cross assets, we look like this. a bid into the bond market briefly in treasuries. it did not stick. it was a treasury market selloff. this morning, it is about yen strength. dollar-yen coming down on 0.3%. again.rude is down 0.9% mark wheret is that you have these massive producing countries like russia and saudi starting to worry. these are very hard prices to deal with when you try to balance your books. it all comes back to demand. everything is about demand right now. when you have france and germany going into lockdown, that does not bode well. euro-yen is striking me this morning. i feel that for the first time it is acting like a haven. it is her membrane what it is supposed to do. jonathan: a bit of yen strength. chancellor merkel giving a wake-up call to her fellow eu leaders. they failed to act quickly stop the pandemic. for more, our western europe managing editor joins us. wal
made up your mind yet? where ever you live, whoever you vote for, one of these two men will be prime minister, in a week s time. tonight, for the next hour borisjohnson and jeremy corbyn will debate the future of our country. neither mrjonasson or of our country. neither mrjonasson oer of our country. neither mrjonasson or mr corbyn will know the questions they are going to face. they have been chosen by the pollsters, who invited people who support both of their parties and others who have yet to decide how to vote. people from all backgrounds, people from all walks of life. they are here to ask their questions to listen to the a nswe i’s , ask their questions to listen to the answers, to listen to the debate, not to cheer on a team, let alone to boo their opponent, myjob then, is to try and make sure their questions do get answered and this debate is as free and fair as possible. so, apologies gentlemen if i have to interrupt you occasionally, just to make sure this debat
entirely written by a human, so what s going on? today, we re dedicating the whole programme to these questions. with me are madhumita murgia, artificial intelligence editor at the financial times, sky news science and technology editor, tom clarke, eliz mizon, from independent media cooperative the bristol cable, as well as jackson ryan, science editor at cnet. welcome to you all. and i think we should start with the basics. madhu, if i could bring you in, from the financial times, explain what we mean by aland why, particularly in terms of the role ofjournalism it has, why it s getting so much coverage now. well, so, ai is artificial intelligence and, i mean, supposedly it s a mechanical computer version of human intelligence, or at least that s the hope, right? but today, what we have is, it s basically a powerful statistical system, a computer software, which finds patterns in large amounts of data. but what this means is that it can, you know, find diagnoses from pictur