runners and riders in the american presidential race. but can donald trump be stopped? there s about 30% of republican voters who are going to live and die by donald trump. that s his base. and they re going to stick with him through thick and thin. and a heartfelt account from our correspondent injohannesburg about south africa s future. i want to believe that things are going to change for the better. i want to still live in a south africa that was prosperous because it still can be prosperous. ukraine s counteroffensive is well under way against the russian invaders. but if people in the west, often encouraged by commentators in the media, thought it was going to be a walkover, well, it hasn t been, so far, at any rate. i asked jonny beale, the bbc s defence correspondent, for his views about the way the counter offensive is going. it s going to take time. it could take weeks, it could take months, i think more likely months. and i don t think what we ve seen so far necess
we ll have all the day s headlines from the uk and around the world at the top of the hour. but first on bbc news, it s unspun world. hello, and welcome to unspun world the programme where the bbc s global team of experts tells us what s really going on. today: is russia managing to defend itself successfully against ukraine s counter offensive? russia is still, and the ukrainians know this, a weakened but formidable fighting force. runners and riders in the american presidential race. but can donald trump be stopped? there s about 30% of republican voters who are going to live and die by donald trump. that s his base. and they re going to stick with him through thick and thin. and a heartfelt account from our correspondent injohannesburg about south africa s future. i want to believe that things are going to change for the better. i want to still live in a south africa that was prosperous because it still can be prosperous. ukraine s counteroffensive is well under way ag
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who s a creative director from visual effects house framestore, now, it s important to remember always when you re dealing with this kind of stuff, that the ai doesn t understand what it s drawing. and actually that s what gives it its unique, quirky animation style. and actually that s what gives it its unique, quirky animation style. you can see in that robot there, the controls on the front, all the buttons are rippling and glitching. yeah. it can t keep them consistent over the number of frames you ve animated it. so thatjust seems to be part of the thing where it doesn t necessarily understand what needs to stay the same in the animation. funnily enough, actually, there s a moment where the girl robot spins her head around, and that was something that itjust did serendipitously. i didn t ask for that, and itjust did it. i mean, it s one of the interesting things about this, the sort of serendipitous nature of it giving you something unexpected, which is also part of the
this week, nick s getting into his trunks to find out what a phone can do for a forest. now i ve just completed another survey injust under a minute. we ll find out what lara s thinking as she immerses herself in culture. i know what i m looking at now, but how do i feel? and less than two years after ai took up art, is it ready for hollywood? spencer s getting his big trailer voice ready. the ai will listen to the audio. deep trailer voice: ..and generate me a new one. jazz music plays this is the tinpot jazz orchestra. it lasts less than a minute, but it is a charming, glitchy, cartoon like production created using generative ai video tools. now, this means that the characters weren t designed by illustrators and animators. instead, they were described in english to an ai, which then created them itself. the film was made by william bartlett, who s a creative director from visual effects house framestore, and who, like a lot of generative ai creators at the moment, put it t