Welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. The un has warned that the middle east is on the brink of imminent catastrophe amid fears of an all out war as israel and the iran backed group hezbollah in lebanon carry out large cross border strikes. Israel said hezbollah launched more than a hundred rockets from lebanon towards them. Hezbollah said the attacks were in response to the wave of explosions of pagers and walkie talkies that s widely believed to have been carried out by israel. In haifa, hospital patients have been moved to underground facilities, schools have been closed and gatherings restricted, as well as in other northern areas up to the lebanese border. Meanwhile, israel said it carried out more air strikes on targets in southern lebanon, destroying thousands of hezbollah s rocket launchers. The un chief antonio guterres said he fears the conflict between israel and hezbollah could risk lebanon becoming another gaza. Our senior internat
Neil lawrence, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me. It s a great pleasure to have you. Now, you are a computer scientist, but it seems to me, as you ve journeyed deep into the potentiality of artificial intelligence, you ve also thought a great deal about human intelligence and what is so very special and unique about us humans. Can you try to put that into words? yeah, i think, for me, what we ve seen with a lot of the artificial intelligence debate has been a sort of naturally narcissistic in tendency to think about our intelligence. And what i think it does is offers the opportunity to introspect about our intelligence, to stand in a different place, to look at a different type of information processing, that that s done by a computer, and use our understanding of that, which we built and created, so we understand it, to look back and think about what s special about us. Is intelligence the right word to use when it comes to discussing what machines can do in this
On the difference between 12 miles of fisheries and 200 miles of fisheries, and i can understand the delicacies. I believe as the Prime Minister tries to help mr. Mccraw by phasing in those fishing rights. We will be speaking with our fisheries expert, therese raphael. And the underlying question, how many can fish at any time, we will see if they want to sign something or whether they want to postpone it. Thats get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika the Justice Department is in talks about resulting charges against the ceo of huawei technologies. It is a longrunning dispute that fueled a clash between the u. S. And china. Canada arrested mag ones out two years ago, confined to the city of vancouver ever since. There are talks of a third prosecution agreement on violating sanctions against iran. That would allow him to return to china. Call for says he will americans to wear masks for the first 100 days of his administration. He will issue a Standing Order biden sayses he thi
More from interests in which the incident happened in 2 villages at least 2 villages in northeastern nigeria in borno state in particular. And one surprising thing is that the attackers, according to sources, came on motorcycles, and there has been a ban on the use of motorcycles in that region for at least 6 years now. So its surprising how Security Forces couldnt identify or discover some people illegally using motorcycles. They carried out their tax when these farm workers were busy harvesting rice in the fields in bed, as well as a bit of money where we saw today. A funeral for 43 of the victims were, was held u. S. , president elect. Joe biden is being treated for a fractured foot a day before he is to receive his 1st president ial briefing, also wisconsins 2 largest counties, a finalize their recount of votes, and they have confirmed biden as the winner. Irans Top Nuclear Scientist who was assassinated on friday will be laid to rest in the coming hours. Memorials were held on sun
Kimberly how it has more this will all be pending a determination by the food and Drug Administration that will be taking place in mid december just to give you a sense of how this works. This very accelerated timeline that weve seen for fire and mature enough is in part because of the request for emergency authorization under the Public Health service act. And the reason that these Drug Companies are able to do this is because there was declared a Public Health emergency with regard to cope at 19 back in january 20, twentieths or earlier this year. So what does this mean . This means that there can be a rapid approval pending that determination of the Public Health hearings. If the o. P. s Prime Minister told parliament federal forces have not killed a single civilian during the 3 week long conflict in the grey region figure its forces dispute the claim. I Funeral Service for Top Iranian Nuclear scientists must mohsen factories are there has been held in the capital. He was assassinat