after talks in brussels. at the same summit, leaders agreed to open membership talks with ukraine and moldova and to grant candidate status to the country of georgia. all three nations have been pushing to join the alliance. ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky, called the decision a victory for ukraine . the president of the european council charles michel said age talks would continue next year. he said important progress had been achieved at the summit. tonight we sent a very achieved at the summit. tonight we sent a very powerful - achieved at the summit. tonight we sent a very powerful signal i we sent a very powerful signal to the european citizens, a very powerful signal to the ukrainian citizens because we have decided to grant status to georgia to open negotiations with ukraine, and with moldova to make a very important step with bosnia and herzegovina, because we will open the decisions and a report will be issued by the commission in the coming weeks to make
more humanitarian relief in to those who are in need in gaza. we ll hear more on the possibility of an extended truce later from our correspondent on the ground. it all comes as m more israelis held by hamas, including nine children as well as three foreign nationals, were released on sunday. among them is abigail idan the first us citizen to be freed. she was just three when she was taken hostage and she spent her fourth birthday in captivity. her parents were killed by hamas gunmen during the october 7 attacks. members of her family have released a statement saying: the family also thanked the qatari and us governments for helping to secure her release. here s her grandfather speaking earlier. translation: it was wow . i couldn t believe it until i saw her. i simply couldn t believe it. now i m a bit more relieved. not relieved completely, because there is happiness mixed with missing abigail s parents. there are other people who have not returned. i want them to return
Discussion of Artificial Intelligence with john kelly, head of research at i. B. M. And conversation that first aired on 60 minutes. Charlie, most people think of watson as the game machine on jeopardy that most infamous match 40 years ago. But watson is more than that. Watson is the beginning of a whole era of computing. When you think of computer which has almost a century of technology, started with mechanical switches that counted things, and then we moved to programmable systems that we told the system what to do and it improved our productivity. Watson is the first of the next generation of computing built for big data and extracting understanding from massive amounts of data to help humans make better decisions so its an entirely different computer. Cardinal Peter Turkson in rome and Artificial Intelligence when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Caption
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Pleasure of introducing to you i said to him, Cardinal Turkson, what can i call you . He said how will that peter. I will not use peter, i would use Cardinal Turkson. He is at the forefront of the ideas we have been discussing this morning in the few minutes we have gotten started as we have laid out the imperative of this conference. He has some familiarity with the united states. He went to school there. He went back to ghana, became an archbishop and then a cardinal, first nominated by Pope John Paul ii. Pope benedict brought them here to the vatican and pope francis has given him this new response ability. Here is what hope francis said handed this responsibility which begins january 2017. He will be competent in issues involving migrants, those in need, this sick, excluded and marginalized, as well as victims of armed conflict, natural disasters in all forms of slavery and torture. You have your hands full. [laughter] Cardinal Turkson that is quite a case. Good morning to all of y