Somerset house. You are watching bbc news. And now its time for the engineers intelligent machines. Hello, im Caroline Steel, this is the bbc world service. And welcome to the engineers. This year were at the science specialist university, imperial college london, and were here to focus on the technical revolution defining our era, artificial intelligence. Im joined by a panel of three World Leaders in The Field and a large, enthusiastic audience in imperial s great hall. Already, a computer can defeat the worlds greatest player at our most complex Strategy Game. The first movie written entirely by ai has just been released, and ai may have discovered our first antibiotic in three decades. Together with our partners Royal Commission 1851, we have brought together three engineers at the Cutting Edge of this field to discuss their work and what it means for us humans. Paolo pirjanian is armenian, but he was born in iran and started his career working on Mars Rovers for nasa. Hes now Foun
Just as the taliban begins a major advance. So what does that mean for the western backed government in kabul. And its Manic Monday at the all england club. Djokovic is through, federer is through, and on court now the british teenage sensation emma radakanu. Hello and welcome. Borisjohnson says england is on course to end all Covid Restrictions Byjuly the 19th though a final Decision Wont be taken until more data is released next week. The Prime Minister said the pandemic will not be over onjuly 19th, in Fact Modelling suggests there could be as many 50,000 cases a day by the time all legally enforced restrictions are dropped. The Chief Medical Officer said currenly cases are doubling every 9 days. But you will see from these graphs that while hospitalisations and deaths are also starting to rise. The success of the vaccine programme, means they are at a much lower rate hospitalisations almost 10 times less than they were mid december at the height of the second spike. With deaths als
Translation i hope that no one will think of crossing the translation i hope that no one will think of crossing the socalled think of crossing the so called redline regarding russia. He didnt mention Alexei Navalny in his speech whose supporters are right now protesting in moscow against his medical treatment in prison. Hes 22 days into a Hunger Strike and said to be close to death. India ravaged by a Second Wave Of Covid record numbers of daily deaths and infections hospitals are overwhelmed as Oxygen Supplies run out. And well look at why the Breakaway European Super League unravelled so quickly just two clubs out of 12 remain, for now, barcelona and real madrid. Lets start in the us where we have been seeing a day of reaction to the conviction of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty of murdering George Floyd Last May by holding his knee on mr floyds neck for more than nine minutes. Weve seen celebration from George Floyds family and civil rights acti
Mary anne marsh whos in cape cod. Welcome to the programme. Russia has stepped up its air assault on targets across ukraine. Moscow says it hit more than 300 military targets, including weapon and fuel depots, warehouses and other infrastructure mainly in eastern ukraine. But ukraine says that many of the missiles hit and killed civilians. At least seven people were killed in kharkiv, while the governor of mykolaiv, near the port of 0desa, says the city has been under continuous bombardment from russia rockets. And then theres the western city of lviv. It has been relatively unscathed throughout the conflict, but Missile Strikes there have killed at least 7 people. Three Military Warehouses and a car garage were hit. 0ur correspondent dan johnson is there. This is where one of the missiles hit this morning. The authorities tell us that it is a tyre fitting garage, a place that looks after peoples cars. They say this is not a military target whatsoever, but they have said three other Mi