here in the uk, specifically either a member of the armed forces or a police officer. in the written base of plea it said you had only carried out a terrorist activity here if your plans to go to syria to join isis were frustrated. the prosecution does not accept that part of the base of plea. both the prosecution and defence agreed that this aspect of the base of plea does not make any difference to sentencing in this case, as on any view you accept you had an intention to commit both terrorist acts and that you made preparations towards the commission of both types of terrorist act. from what has emerged from the police investigation it is clear that you are someone who developed and entrenched islamist extremist mindset, extreme anti western views and you intended to commit terrorist acts both in the uk and overseas. secondary school you are someone who dabbled in drugs and where your behaviour became more aggressive you were expelled from school and attended an education
the australian tennis star nick kyrgios is due in court in canberra later, charged with an alleged assault of a former partner in 2021. and covid, vaccines, and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us where the defence department says it s confident a balloon spotted over montana is a surveillance platform from china. a short while ago, the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder put a statement on the us department of defence website confirming the high altitude surveillance balloon is being tracked. he added. he also said. i m joined now by peter bowes for more on this story. peter, great to get you on the show. in the first instance, what do we know about this? well, according to the pentagon, we know that the surveillance balloon, believed to be china s, has be
gets to you, the core production ethos of how ai is made, which is collect it all and figure it out later. iii and figure it out later. if machines are learning from what is on the internet, material thatis is on the internet, material that is harmful needs to be filtered out, and much of that work still needs the scrutiny and judgement of humans. and udgement of humans. there are and judgement of humans. there are certainly and judgement of humans. there are certainly countries and judgement of humans. there are certainly countries where - are certainly countries where this type of outsourced labour is most commonly located, china, malaysia, kenya, some examples but indeed it is a growing market for people to be really doing this extremely difficult, extremely traumatising work, so in a sense, it maps to a global north, globalsales sense, it maps to a global north, global sales dynamic of extraction and exploitation of labour for these systems. this.
away from the coast, so still a fair way to go. 0ne away from the coast, so still a fair way to go. one of the big aims of this counteroffensive may be to try to split this so called land corridor, which connects russia with the illegally annexed crimea. this is a much bigger task and it may take months. is a much bigger task and it may take months. courtney bembridge workin: take months. courtney bembridge working with take months. courtney bembridge working with the take months. courtney bembridge working with the bbc take months. courtney bembridge working with the bbc verified - take months. courtney bembridge l working with the bbc verified team, and looking closely at that material thatis and looking closely at that material that is coming into the bbc newsroom. we ll be looking at all the material that comes in and that is on social media, to try to verify it for you. as we said, the ukrainian forces have been reporting that they have taken a fifth village. just to clarif
in the course of the submissions it is helpful to have the full intelligence material in a case such as this where future risk is the key issue. he submits on your behalf that the prison material supports the passing of an extended sentence rather than a life sentence. you concedes and properly so that you are not someone who is free from extremism, northat are not someone who is free from extremism, nor that you are somebody who is not dangerous. but he submits the threshold for a discretionary life sentence is not passed. in my judgment, the prison material presents a very mixed picture. there is some material that supports the stance adopted and which is to your credit, your openness and candour. however, there is other material thatis however, there is other material that is pointing in the opposite direction and is of considerable concern. would you stand, please? having reflected on all the matters that have been set out and summarised in these remarks, and in