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00:00:40the latest news, interviews, results results and goals as we follow every
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00:00:57MUSIC And And a 24 hour news cycle. Patients
00:00:59Patients can be so frustrating, but
00:01:02but it's a crucial tool. I don't
00:01:04don't rush to be the first. I strive
00:01:06strive to get it right. I'm Lucy
00:01:08Lucy Hockings on BBC News Now. MUSIC
00:01:18MUSIC These These are the latest headlines from
00:01:20from BBC News. The chief executive executive of the tech giant Nvidia,
00:01:24Nvidia, Jensen Huang, says there's
00:01:26there's no need for new laws on artificial artificial intelligence, even as
00:01:30as calls for more regulation grow.
00:01:32grow. Baby wards in England are to
00:01:34to get cot cams after an inquiry inquiry into the nurse Lucy Letby,
00:01:38Letby, who murdered seven babies,
00:01:40babies, found that lives could have have been saved. Several support
00:01:44support acts for Ed Sheeran's US
00:01:46US tour have pulled out in solidarity
00:01:48solidarity with the rapper Macklemore Macklemore after he was barred from
00:01:52from forthcoming performances for for making pro-Palestinian statements
00:01:55statements on stage. China warns warns against turning outer space
00:01:59space into a battlefield as the United United States confirms for the first
00:02:03first time it has deployed space space weapons and the former England
00:02:07England footballer Raheem Sterling Sterling has admitted dangerous driving
00:02:10driving after he crashed a Lamborghini Lamborghini into motorway barriers
00:02:14barriers in May. Well, in the last
00:02:23last hour, the chief executive of
00:02:25of Nvidia has said that there is
00:02:27is no need for new laws on AI. Instead,
00:02:31Instead, artificial intelligence intelligence companies should, quote, quote, simply not release anything
00:02:35anything that they're not confident confident will be safe. Now he is
00:02:37is one of several AI bosses who've
00:02:39who've been speaking at a conference conference in California. Anthropic
00:02:43Anthropic boss says it is tempting tempting to attack competitors, but
00:02:47but it is more responsible to try
00:02:49try to establish industry wide standards.
00:02:53standards. If we're not confident confident about the safety of the the products, like all companies
00:02:56companies like you and I, any, any,
00:02:59any, all the companies here, if you you build a product or a service
00:03:02service and you're not confident
00:03:05confident in its functionality, capability capability or safety, then don't
00:03:08don't release it. And so that's a
00:03:09a very obvious thing to do. You pace
00:03:13pace yourself until you are confident confident you're releasing something
00:03:16something that the market would appreciate. appreciate. The market forces are are already there. We don't need
00:03:19need any new laws. We don't need
00:03:22need any new regulations. We just
00:03:23just need companies to decide that
00:03:26that when it's, you know, run as
00:03:28as fast as they can. I think innovation,
00:03:31innovation, speed and safe products
00:03:33products are not it's a false choice. choice. You could definitely have
00:03:36have both at the same time. Well.
00:03:39Well. Meanwhile, US and Chinese leaders leaders are due to meet in Washington
00:03:42Washington next week. And it would
00:03:44would appear that artificial intelligence intelligence will be a key and potentially
00:03:48potentially testing topic of conversation. conversation. President Trump has
00:03:52has continued to bat away suggestions suggestions from across the political
00:03:55political divide that there does
00:03:57does need to be greater AI regulation,
00:04:00regulation, but this continuing discussion discussion has brought some unlikely unlikely names together. And at a
00:04:04a summit in Washington today, US US Senator Bernie Sanders called
00:04:08called on President Trump and his his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping
00:04:11Jinping to sign a treaty to pause
00:04:14pause development of advanced AI AI technology. He warned it would
00:04:18would potentially bring catastrophic
00:04:21catastrophic consequences. AI has has the potential, as I think we
00:04:25we all know, to do some extraordinarily
00:04:28extraordinarily good things in terms terms of health care, prescription
00:04:32prescription drug development and and in many other areas. But the
00:04:35the bottom line here is that our
00:04:39our job as human beings in our country country and throughout the world
00:04:42world is to make sure that AI works
00:04:46works for all of the people and does
00:04:49does not simply end up making a handful
00:04:51handful of the richest people on
00:04:53on earth even richer. Well, we also
00:04:57also heard from Steve Bannon at that that conference, a right wing ally
00:05:01ally of Donald Trump who wants kerbs
00:05:04kerbs on AI, also lashed out at the the major artificial intelligence
00:05:08intelligence companies. Every day.
00:05:11day. Every paper, every time they're they're on TV. Why do we have to
00:05:15to keep pushing so hard? Why is it it relentless? Why can't they have
00:05:18have any controls if you're not in
00:05:23in accelerationist, you're anti-American.
00:05:24anti-American. If you're not an accelerationist,
00:05:28accelerationist, you're pro Chinese
00:05:29Chinese Communist Party. If you're
00:05:32you're not accelerationist, you're you're almost a Luddite. You want
00:05:35want to take America back. Well,
00:05:39Well, a lot of the discussions at
00:05:42at that summit there and also indeed
00:05:44indeed at the major AI companies companies is how we can control the
00:05:48the growth of artificial intelligence. intelligence. And it is a question question that my colleague Christian
00:05:52Christian Fraser and the team on on the BBC AI Decoded programme are
00:05:56are looking at this week. Here's
00:05:57Here's a snippet. Let's talk more
00:06:05more about the control problem. I I mean, we know these systems can
00:06:07can act on their own. The harder harder question is whether anyone, anyone, including the people who
00:06:11who built them, can see what's going
00:06:13going on inside the brain. And there there were certain things that Dario
00:06:17Dario Amodei said. I mean, he was was pretty candid in his letter,
00:06:19letter, Max, about that. He says says they only understand a fraction
00:06:23fraction of what goes on inside these
00:06:25these models that they're building. building. So with that in mind, what
00:06:29what would a speed limit look like like and for what purpose? Yeah,
00:06:32Yeah, I think that's the really tricky tricky thing that was not defined
00:06:36defined particularly well in the the letter. And I think that the the only sort of example that we
00:06:39we had was at the point where, let's let's say, a model becomes capable
00:06:42capable of X, then we need to be be doing y. And x was an example
00:06:45example of something able to break break out of sandboxes, which is is what we used to contain these
00:06:49these agents from a safety perspective. perspective. And Y was a pretty airy
00:06:53airy answer on making sure they don't don't have the propensity to go and
00:06:57and target large-scale sections of of the internet and compromise computers. computers. I mean, that's one of
00:07:01of the only problems we can really really nail down today. And we've we've already seen the tricky nature
00:07:04nature of trying to put a speed limit limit in around here and defining defining what those look like. And
00:07:08And I'm struggling. To understand understand what the speed limit is
00:07:09is for. Is it for compute? Is it
00:07:13it leaps in capability? Is it the the time between releases? What is
00:07:17is I mean, how do you what are you you trying to measure? Yeah. It's It's very it's incredibly broad.
00:07:20broad. And the language that's being being used is, is incredibly broad
00:07:24broad because I don't think these these companies want to be pinned
00:07:27pinned down to definitions to say, say, OK, well, we're going to slow
00:07:29slow down on this part of our development, development, but we're not going going to slow down on this part of
00:07:33of our development as well. And I I think that's why that language language is being used and why it's
00:07:37it's being kept as broad as it is. is. And that's the problem, Andy,
00:07:40Andy, isn't it, for the for American American lawmakers is what are you
00:07:43you legislating on and for? Well,
00:07:46Well, there's already draft legislation
00:07:49legislation to require these companies companies to have what they're calling
00:07:52calling a kill switch. So in other other words, if they start to lose
00:07:56lose control, they can turn the models
00:07:58models off. And that is currently currently not required. There's almost,
00:08:02almost, you know, zero regulation regulation at the moment. So anything
00:08:05anything and I do believe Congress Congress is inclined to establish
00:08:09establish some regulatory oversight
00:08:11oversight of this industry. And hopefully
00:08:14hopefully before a terrible crisis
00:08:16crisis happens. Just an excerpt of
00:08:22of AI Decoded and you can catch the the full episode later on this week
00:08:25week on YouTube and here on the BBC
00:08:28BBC News Channel. Over the weekend
00:08:32weekend now, residents of a small small village in Oxfordshire here
00:08:36here in the UK have held a symbolic
00:08:38symbolic vote today on whether or or not they should become independent
00:08:42independent from the United Kingdom.
00:08:44Kingdom. Around 350 people live in in Piddington. Now their referendum
00:08:48referendum is in protest at government government plans to house more than
00:08:51than a thousand male asylum-seekers asylum-seekers on their doorstep.
00:08:54doorstep. Well, the asylum-seekers asylum-seekers would be moved into
00:08:57into this former military storage
00:08:59storage depot, which is called site site A quadrupling the village's
00:09:03village's population. Our correspondent
00:09:06correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports. It's the Oxfordshire village
00:09:09village that's mentioned in the Domesday Domesday Book, but Piddington is
00:09:12is now at the centre of a very modern
00:09:15modern chapter of British life. People
00:09:17People have been voting all day in
00:09:20in their own referendum. They want
00:09:23want independence from the UK so so they can block plans to house
00:09:26house asylum-seekers nearby. Jolly Jolly good. I'm just going to go
00:09:30go in now. Voting by post and in
00:09:32in person at the village hall has
00:09:34has been brisk all day. You don't
00:09:37don't think it's a futile exercise exercise because it has no legal
00:09:40legal binding? I think it's an exercise exercise that sends out a powerful
00:09:43powerful message. We understand it
00:09:45it has no legal binding. The village
00:09:47village with a population of around
00:09:50around 350 people, is just half a a mile from this disused military
00:09:54military base where the Home Office
00:09:56Office want to house 1250 asylum-seekers.
00:09:59asylum-seekers. The camp was used used for storage. The only people
00:10:02people here today were the security
00:10:04security guards filming us. The referendum
00:10:08referendum voting slip asks if people
00:10:10people want to secede from the UK.
00:10:12UK. It has no legal basis but villagers
00:10:16villagers say it is symbolic. It's It's just really hard to see that
00:10:19that many people that are unvetted unvetted and you just don't know
00:10:22know who they are. It's just the the sheer scale of it. That's putting
00:10:26putting these people everywhere. everywhere. They shouldn't do it. it. It's disgraceful. They've got
00:10:30got to wake up and smell the coffee coffee and not kick the can down
00:10:34down the road, which everyone's been
00:10:35been doing. We are the women of Piddington.
00:10:38Piddington. The villagers have even even made their own campaign videos
00:10:41videos to get their message across. across. In a statement, the Home
00:10:45Home Office said we are working fairly
00:10:47fairly to house asylum-seekers across across the country, including former
00:10:51former military sites which are designed
00:10:55designed to be self-contained. We We did try to find somebody in the
00:10:58the village not voting for independence, independence, but there weren't any.
00:11:01any. It may only be a paper exercise,
00:11:04exercise, but it reflects the views views of this community and many
00:11:08many others around the country. Just Just like they were in Crowborough
00:11:11Crowborough in East Sussex earlier earlier this year when local people
00:11:15people tried to block similar plans
00:11:16plans to put asylum-seekers in a
00:11:19a military camp. The villagers in in Oxfordshire want their message
00:11:23message to travel far and wide as
00:11:25as well, even if it is unlikely that
00:11:27that anyone will ever need a passport passport to Piddington. Well. Let's
00:11:31Let's talk about this now with the the immigration lawyer Hardeep Singh
00:11:34Singh Bhangal. Thank you very much much for coming in. What do you think
00:11:38think of this extraordinary referendum referendum in this little village?
00:11:40village? Well, it's clearly a protest protest and the villagers feel that
00:11:44that they do not want asylum-seekers asylum-seekers housed near them,
00:11:48them, although traditionally there there have been detention centres
00:11:51centres in Oxford and nearby Cambridge,
00:11:52Cambridge, so in Oxford, in Kidlington Kidlington there was a detention
00:11:56detention centre, Campsfield House, House, which has recently been reopened
00:11:59reopened last year, can house up up to about 500 people detained.
00:12:03detained. Of course, and Cambridge. Cambridge. Similarly in Oakington
00:12:07Oakington disused now stopped centre centre in 2010 could also house hundreds.
00:12:10hundreds. But I think the key is is here whether they would be detained
00:12:14detained or actually allowed outside
00:12:16outside and that might make a difference. difference. Obviously is making a
00:12:19a difference to the views of the the villagers. Do you understand
00:12:21understand those views? Do you understand understand that anger that you know
00:12:25know their population is about to to be quadrupled potentially. We
00:12:28We can understand that. And change change obviously is very hard. And
00:12:31And a lot of people don't like change, change, especially people who are
00:12:34are set in their ways and have lived lived in villages. But you've got
00:12:37got to see whether the infrastructure infrastructure is there and the government
00:12:40government have to see whether they're they're overloading the cities by
00:12:43by housing asylum-seekers. Now the the key is before the next election,
00:12:46election, the government has promised promised to get rid of asylum hotels.
00:12:50hotels. Thus allegedly saving the
00:12:53the public £1 billion. Now those those asylum-seekers have to be housed
00:12:57housed elsewhere. This whole crisis crisis is built up as a result of
00:13:00of the Home Office, which is broken,
00:13:04broken, which takes years up to years years to decide asylum claims. Now
00:13:07Now remember I told you about this this detention centre in Cambridge,
00:13:11Cambridge, Oakington that was a fast fast track centre under the previous
00:13:14previous Labour government in the the 2000. I know I used to go there
00:13:18there regularly every week. They They would decide your claim. The
00:13:21The whole claim from start to finish
00:13:23finish in seven days. Now that same same process is taking a year. And
00:13:27And why is that then? Why is that that slowed down so dramatically?
00:13:30dramatically? Because we have an an institution like the Home Office, Office, which is not fit for purpose.
00:13:34purpose. Every year we have a Home Home Affairs Select Committee report. report. And for the last ten odd
00:13:38odd years I've been reading it. It It actually says this institution
00:13:41institution is not fit for purpose. purpose. So when you ask a factory
00:13:44factory whose machinery is broken broken to make you perfect products,
00:13:48products, it won't be able to do do it. You need an alternative machinery
00:13:51machinery or you have to knock this this down and make it again rather rather than papering over the cracks,
00:13:55cracks, but not fit for purpose. purpose. Is this the. Individual
00:13:58Individual staff, the people who who are processing these asylum claims
00:14:01claims that are just being too slow,
00:14:03slow, not very good at it, too slow, slow, inexperienced. I mean, one
00:14:06one year they had gap year students students deciding claims and a lot
00:14:09lot of the decisions were wrong at
00:14:11at tribunal. When it goes to appeal,
00:14:14appeal, 50% are decided to decisions decisions are wrongly made. It's
00:14:17It's decided that they're wrongly
00:14:18wrongly made. So all of this the
00:14:21the above the fact that the interview interview process is long. The interviews
00:14:24interviews take for four hours at at a go. Staff are only knocking
00:14:27knocking out one or two decisions decisions a month when they could
00:14:31could do that knock out about three three decisions a week. A claim should
00:14:34should take maximum a day to decide, decide, not a year. It's the way
00:14:38way you say it. It makes it sound sound really easy. You wonder why
00:14:42why governments haven't managed to to make all this happen much more more quickly because as we've just
00:14:45just seen, it's causing such distress,
00:14:47distress, such. Anger in so many
00:14:50many communities. Well, Labour have have promised to reintroduce that.
00:14:53that. And the figures are sort of of swaying their way. Remember the
00:14:56the fast track system was there under under a Labour government. The Conservatives,
00:14:59Conservatives, in all their wisdom,
00:15:01wisdom, abandoned it and indeed numbers
00:15:04numbers of asylum claims went up.
00:15:06up. The removals went down under under the Conservative government.
00:15:09government. Labour now claim that
00:15:11that the boat crossings are down down and that the removals are up,
00:15:14up, and the figures do seem to support support that, but not in the numbers
00:15:18numbers that the country or the population population deems right. And essentially
00:15:22essentially that's all that's going going to matter. The optics. Labour
00:15:26Labour want to stop this optics moving
00:15:29moving 100,000 asylum-seekers from from hotels into other accommodation accommodation technically doesn't
00:15:33doesn't reduce the number, but what what it does in people's eyes, they
00:15:36they say, well hold on, they're not not being housed and living in five
00:15:39five star hotels any more and that that bodes well. Or Labour think
00:15:42think will bode well for them for for the next election. RJ Singh, Singh, Bengal immigration lawyer
00:15:45lawyer thank you very much for coming coming in to the studio. Thank you.
00:15:49you. We'll take a short break. Back Back in just
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00:17:04here. On BBC News. Welcome back. back. Here in the UK, one of the
00:17:06the senior doctors who tried to raise raise concerns about the nurse Lucy
00:17:10Lucy Letby with hospital managers managers has told the BBC that the
00:17:13the Thirlwall Inquiry report is grim.
00:17:16grim. Reading consultant paediatrician paediatrician Doctor John Gibbs,
00:17:19Gibbs, now retired, was working at
00:17:20at the Countess of Chester Hospital
00:17:23Hospital throughout the period 2015
00:17:262015 to 16 when Letby has been convicted convicted of murdering and attempting
00:17:29attempting to murder babies on the
00:17:31the neonatal unit. Well, this is
00:17:33is the first time in this three year
00:17:36year period that any consultant involved involved in the case has been speaking
00:17:39speaking to the media. Speaking to to our North of England correspondent
00:17:43correspondent Judith Moritz, Doctor Doctor Gibbs said that he accepts
00:17:45accepts that consultants must bear bear collective responsibility for
00:17:49for some of the failings identified identified in the report. What do
00:17:53do you make of what Lady Justice
00:17:55Justice Thirlwall has had to say?
00:17:57say? I think overall it's a very
00:17:59very fair report. I wasn't expecting expecting it to be an easy read and
00:18:03and it certainly isn't. I'd imagine imagine it's extremely difficult
00:18:06difficult read for the parents of
00:18:07of the babies concerned. As I admitted
00:18:12admitted when I appeared before the the inquiry to give evidence that
00:18:15that I feel we failed the babies
00:18:18babies and I apologise to the families
00:18:20families for that. And in a careful
00:18:25careful way, Lady Justice Thirlwall Thirlwall points out how we could
00:18:28could and should have escalated matters matters ultimately to the police
00:18:32police earlier than we did. This This report looks at the actions
00:18:35actions of everyone at the hospital hospital and the failings not just
00:18:38just of the leadership but of consultants. consultants. Do you recognise those?
00:18:42those? Yes. Yes. I think most of
00:18:45of us owned up to our failings when when we gave evidence at the inquiry,
00:18:49inquiry, and that's all in the report.
00:18:51report. And some of those failings
00:18:54failings are pointedly the subject subject of recommendations. And when
00:18:57when it came to, for example, noticing noticing the insulin results, the
00:19:01the blood test results of one of of the babies. Yes. That was one
00:19:05one doctor that you say it was a a collective failure. It's a collective
00:19:08collective failure. There was one one of my consultant colleagues who
00:19:12who was covering the neonatal unit unit at the time the results came
00:19:14came back. Who did see those results?
00:19:17results? Didn't recognise the significance significance of them. But others
00:19:20others of us were on call and covering covering the neonatal unit over the
00:19:24the next week or two before the baby baby moved out of the unit. We all
00:19:27all had the opportunity to review review the notes. It wasn't just
00:19:30just one person that saw those notes.
00:19:32notes. I think also you could say,
00:19:35say, and it's in the report. The
00:19:37The way that insulin results are are handled in the laboratory and
00:19:41and communicated to the doctors looking looking after the baby needs to be
00:19:44be improved. Lady Justice Thirlwall Thirlwall says that had action been
00:19:48been taken more swiftly, some of
00:19:50of these attacks may well have been been stopped. Do you accept that?
00:19:54that? Yes, there are multiple time time points when action could have
00:19:57have been taken more definitive action
00:20:00action and ultimately the police police could have got involved a
00:20:03a lot earlier. From my point of view, view, and it might be a little different,
00:20:07different, not a lot different for
00:20:08for some of my consultant colleagues. colleagues. Suspicions that deliberate
00:20:12deliberate harm may have been happening happening on the unit were well enough
00:20:15enough formed later on in 2016 that
00:20:19that it should have been possible possible to intervene and prevent
00:20:21prevent harm to the final few babies.
00:20:24babies. Others may feel intervention intervention could, could have and
00:20:27and should have been done much earlier
00:20:28earlier than that. How is that to
00:20:33to live with? Very difficult. Yeah.
00:20:38Yeah. And I've yet to sit down and
00:20:40and face the families, you know, know, because the whole of this process
00:20:44process from when we started to have have suspicions, the police getting getting involved, going to court,
00:20:47court, then waiting for this inquiry inquiry means you are limited in
00:20:51in what you can say to parents. And And it does increase the parents
00:20:54parents frustration that things have have been hidden from them to a certain
00:20:57certain extent. When it came to your
00:21:01your bosses, senior managers, the
00:21:03the executives. This report is damning.
00:21:07damning. What was your experience experience during that year of how
00:21:10how they handled your worries? Well, Well, none of us at the Countess
00:21:14Countess of Chester who were involved involved with the neonatal unit and
00:21:16and the management of the unit performed performed particularly well. So I
00:21:20I can't claim we were fine. What
00:21:22What I did was fine and the managers
00:21:24managers didn't perform properly. properly. Consultant paediatrician
00:21:28paediatrician doctor John Gibbs you're
00:21:29you're watching BBC. News. Discover
00:21:41Discover the world on BBC News in
00:21:44in association with Turkish Airlines.
00:21:47Airlines. I'm travelling through through Japan, going off the beaten
00:21:50beaten track to find out what makes
00:21:52makes this country unique. This is
00:21:55is ultimate Japan. This time I visit
00:22:00visit Toba in the South to witness witness the ultimate Japanese fishing
00:22:04fishing tradition. I'm on a small
00:22:06small island in an area called Toba,
00:22:08Toba, which is home to one of Japan's
00:22:11Japan's most unusual communities, communities, a group, mostly women
00:22:15women who over generations have forged forged a really tight bond with both
00:22:18both the sea and nature generally.
00:22:28generally. An iconic Japanese free
00:22:30free divers who collect seafood, seafood, seaweed and even pearls
00:22:33pearls from the sea floor. Almost
00:22:36Almost all AMA are women, and many
00:22:38many keep diving until their 70s.
00:22:4170s. 80s and even 90s diving without
00:22:46without oxygen in their traditional traditional white outfits. It's a a centuries old way of life that's
00:22:50that's been passed down through generations.
00:22:52generations. But today's divers under under threat from all the pressures
00:22:56pressures of modernity, are having having to adapt. Like here, displaying
00:23:00displaying their skills for tourists.
00:23:04tourists. Tell me, what is this show
00:23:07show about? I know. I know. Which
00:23:20Which do you prefer? Getting real real fish or would you like doing
00:23:23doing this and performing to tourists.
00:23:27tourists. Or not? No. It's kind of
00:23:34of ironic because for a long time
00:23:36time Japan was a homogenous and quite
00:23:38quite inward looking society. But
00:23:41But it's outsiders, tourists who who are now providing a major industry
00:23:44industry here. But rest assured elsewhere
00:23:47elsewhere there is still some genuine genuine armour diving going on. A
00:23:51A few miles along the shore in Asatsu,
00:23:53Asatsu, I meet some divers who are are still making a living from this
00:23:57this traditional form of fishing.
00:24:03fishing. He obachan sorry. To. Toshi
00:24:14Toshi Osawa. Umi. I don't know. Oyo
00:24:26Oyo State more. Jeremy Bowen. Dan
00:24:36Dan Roan. Yet these Amer still need
00:24:41need to supplement their income by by preparing meals for. Well, people
00:24:45people like me. How is it different
00:24:49different now diving to when you
00:24:50you first started doing it? So Martin
00:25:01Martin Lindsay. And why do you think
00:25:04think that is? Do you think diving
00:25:08diving will carry on? I know what
00:25:17what I. Even having spent just a
00:25:28a few hours with these charming ladies ladies has made me realise that the
00:25:32the traditional old ways aren't just just romantic. They actually offer
00:25:36offer a viable way of life for the the next generation. It was really
00:25:39really interesting to learn that that people are coming back here
00:25:41here to actually live and work as
00:25:44as AMA divers. Maybe it's just very
00:25:47very Japanese. The past is also
00:26:00the future. Discover the world on
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