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poland or estonia will face wales or finland. wales 2—0 finland. bosnia and herzegovina are facing ukraine, for the right to take on israel or iceland. goalless in those games. the winner of greece v kazakhstan will take on georgia. 4—0 in that game. bukayo saka has pulled out of the england camp two days before their wembley friendly against brazil. the 22—year—old arsenal forward trained away from the main squad earlier this week, after reporting for duty carrying an injury. he has returned to his club to continue his rehabilitation, and the fa have said no replacement will be called up. england also play another friendly against belgium next tuesday, also at wembley.
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scotland have already qualified for the euros — and face the netherlands on friday night in a friendly in amsterdam before taking on northern ireland, who haven't qualified for germany, at hampden park next tuesday. in terms of preparation, it's important because we have four friendlies before we get to the tournament itself. the better we can play the better we can be prepared then. more likely we will do well in the summer. leicester city say they're surprised and disappointed by the timing of premier league charges — which allege they broke spending rules during their last three seasons in the top flight. the club noted the charges had been brought while they're outside the top flight. leicester were relegated to the championship at the end of last season — and have been referred to an independent commission for breaching profit and sustainabilty rules, and failing to submit audited accounts. if found guilty, they could face a points deduction. to tennis — and jannik sinner�*s told the bbc that he's embracing the scrutiny that comes
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with winning his first grand slam title. the italian won the australian open injanuary after beating daniil medvedev in a five set thriller. sinner�*s preparing for his second round match agianst andrea vavassori at the miami open on thursday. a little more attention this year. anyway i haven't changed as a person. it's great. ifeel lucky to be in the position but that's it, if you lose the match, the next day you have to work and if you win the match, you work anyway so you have to be really careful with opponents because opponents know you and want to beat you. i like to be in this position because it makes me a better player. ms dhoni has handed over the captaincy of ipl champions chennai super kings to ruturaj gaikwad on the eve of this year's tournament. having already retired from international cricket, 42—year—old dhoni has described what's likely to be his final campaign as a "gift" to his fans.
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a big moment for england captain marlie packer to come in this weekend's women's six nations opener against italy on sunday — she'll win her 100th cap for the side. the 34—year—old flanker made her debut for the red roses in 2008, and becomes only the seventh woman to reach the milestone. england won the six nations grand slam last year — and are aiming to win their sixth six nations title in a row. yeah, six nations title in a row. super excited. i think for it's yeah, super excited. i think for me it's more aboutjust kicking off the six nations, always a tournament you want to be involved in. to receive my 100 and the first game is pretty special. 0ver my 100 and the first game is pretty special. over in palmer, my friends and family are coming over, i think. had to ask for a managerfor16, 17 tickets the other day and the max allocation you could have on the app was six, some i don't know if we'll get all 16 tickets but we hope so.
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it's currently wheels to one against finland there at half time, that's all the sports for us from now. it's reported north korea has stolen $3 billion in crypto currency over the last seven year. crypto is decentralised online currency. we haven't seen that specific report but we are going to speak now to mark fitzpatrick... associate fellow for strategy, technology and arms control at the international institute for strategic studies. what are the broad allegations here, what is north korea accused of doing? what is north korea accused of doinu ? . , , ., , doing? immediate news is that they are accused — doing? immediate news is that they are accused of— doing? immediate news is that they are accused of stealing _ doing? immediate news is that they are accused of stealing vast - doing? immediate news is that they are accused of stealing vast sums i doing? immediate news is that theyi are accused of stealing vast sums of money through crypto currency
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exchanges and some directly crypto attacks on financial institutions to the tune of $3 billion. the other part of the equation is that they are using a large part of this money to fund their nuclear programme, so they are both thieves and very dangerous actors on the international stage. dangerous actors on the international staue. �* , ., , international stage. and when people are compiling — international stage. and when people are compiling these _ international stage. and when people are compiling these kinds _ international stage. and when people are compiling these kinds of- are compiling these kinds of reports, what is the process, what is the united nations' involvement, when do we see these reports or when do we know? 50 when do we see these reports or when do we know?— do we know? so there is something called a panel— do we know? so there is something called a panel of— do we know? so there is something called a panel of experts _ do we know? so there is something called a panel of experts that - do we know? so there is something called a panel of experts that was l called a panel of experts that was convened a couple decades ago to assess the implementation and the impact of un sanctions on north korea. there are seven experts that are drawn from various countries, the chairman right now is a briton, very good guy. they produced two
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reports a year, one in september and one now and this one now is right at the end of their annual tenure. there's a question about whether their tenure will be extended, it's a fight and will know tomorrow whether it's going to be extended. and these reports are expensive, they are detailed and they give a lot of their information —— get a lot of their information —— get a lot of their information —— get a lot of their information from member states, united states, japan, south korea provide information and then the panel assesses and tries to confirm and determine whether it's a valid and so forth. and what they put out was very good reporting. i suppose we should just define a little bit, what does it mean by north korea stealing crypto currencies? how was it doing this in simple terms? yeah, you might be going beyond my competence here. i don't know exactly how crypto currency works but i do know that
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north korea has very skilled cyber operators who can bring into bank accounts and empty them. the? accounts and empty them. they do this rather with _ accounts and empty them. they do this rather with regular _ accounts and empty them. they do this rather with regular bank- this rather with regular bank accounts and i assume they do this with crypto accounts by stealing passwords or somehow breaking through the firewalls and emptying out accounts.— out accounts. mark fitzpatrick, thank you _ out accounts. mark fitzpatrick, thank you so — out accounts. mark fitzpatrick, thank you so much _ out accounts. mark fitzpatrick, thank you so much for- out accounts. mark fitzpatrick, l thank you so much for explaining that to us and thanks for coming on the programme, thank you. a generation of women born in the uk are owed apologies and thousands of pounds in compensation — that's the finding of an independent investigation into pension changes. the campaign group — women against state pension inequality, or waspi — say many have suffered financially because of those changes. 0ur political editor chris mason has the story. it was so hard i ended up on my brother's driveway in a caravan. i didn't know about it and it
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doesn't give you much chance to put together extra pension. i went on to the website and was told you've got to wait until you're 66. i said, "what? ! " the state stands accused of failure, from one government to the next, over the best part of a generation. angela had expected her state pension in 2014. until, that is, this moment. i got a letterfrom the department for work and pensions in march 2012 telling me i would receive my state pension in march 2020, almost six years later than expected. i was absolutely floored. what do you say to perhaps our younger viewers who might say perhaps you could have found out more about what was happening here? i would say no. so, in order to find out that something has changed you have to have some idea of what you're looking for.
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they could have given me 15, 16 years' notice of a change to my state pension age, but they chose not to and i don't know why they made that choice. there is one waspi woman now dying every 13 minutes. that's why we have always asked for fair and fast compensation. i am talking to you today... the post—war labour government led by clement attlee brought in pensions for all at 65 for men and 60 for women. but fast—forwarding to colour in the 1990s, and... today i have announced that by the year 2020, the state pension age for women will be raised to 65 — the same as for men. but thousands of women say this was never properly explained. and today a report concludes that from 2005 onwards the communication from the department for work and pensions, the dwp, was hopeless.
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what we are saying is, when you are providing a public service, you have got to do it right, you've got to understand your audience and the members of the public you are dealing with. we want the dwp to be able to say to women "we understand, we have heard, we have reflected and we are sorry this has happened to you." and none of those things have happened? no. here is what has happened — they sent us a statement hinting compensation would cost a fortune. and listen to this cabinet minister. is he offering compensation? no. that report has just come out. obviously, the government will look at the findings and the recommendations of that report. i'm not in a position where i can comment on the details of it. words, but no commitment from the conservatives.
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from labour too. i haven't seen the report yet but i think it's a really important issue because many women across the countryjust feel like they had the goal posts moved from them at the time when they didn't know what was changing. failure with consequences over decades described today — not yet resolved. chris mason, bbc news. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.
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you are watching the context. it is time for our new weekly segment — ai decoded. welcome to ai decoded, that time of the week when we look in depth at some of the most eye catching stories in the world of artificial intellligence. we begin with the new york times
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who report google has been fined $271 million by france's competition watchdog for failing to broker agreements with media outlets for using their content to train its ai technology. which leads us to a possible solution. after leading ai developer 0penai told the uk parliament that it was "impossible" to train leading ai models without using copyrighted materials, a group of researchers says there is an alternative after releasing what is thought to be the largest ai training dataset composed entirely of text that is in the public domain and not under copyright. ap news looks at the un general assembly vote on what would be the first united nations resolution on artificial intelligence, the verge tech website has a video of one of theirjournalists having a realtime conversation with an ai avatar who responds to human speech. currently it's an experimental programme developed by video game ubisoft and we'll show
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you a clip later. in the ft — an uber eats delivery worker who after becoming fed up with the company's app consistently making errors decided to rewrite the code to fix the issues. we have the author of the article with us tonight and she'll tell us more. afp news features novelist salman rushdie who says artificial intelligence tools may pose a threat to writers of thrillers and science fiction, but they lack the originality and humour to challenge serious novelists and another artist — musician james blunt says he felt "humiliated" at how bad the results were when he experimented with al to see if it could create lyrics accurately in his style. with me is madhumita murgia, who's the financial times artificial intelligence editor. thanks very much for coming on the programme. thanks for having me.
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lots to get through, quite a busy week, i think we can probably say that almost every week now. let's start with the new york times. france finds google amid ai dispute with news media. so this is a broad issue that we are going to come up against quite a lot and already have. but a seemingly significant moment, what's happened here? said this is, moment, what's happened here? said this is. there's — moment, what's happened here? 5: c this is, there's been, as you say, a long—running dispute between google and news organisations about how google has been using links, news media and newspaper articles and so on. this particularfine, they've said they failed to negotiate fare deals and have used data from newspapers to train their large language model, the chat box that many of us have been using. this is part of a wider ruling that they've made and said google hasn't negotiated in good faith. and made and said google hasn't negotiated in good faith. and saying it's failin: negotiated in good faith. and saying it's failing to — negotiated in good faith. and saying it's failing to inform _ negotiated in good faith. and saying it's failing to inform publishers - negotiated in good faith. and saying it's failing to inform publishers of. it's failing to inform publishers of the use of their content for their software. isn't that something that we are kind of, all the big ai
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companies, all in the same boat here? everything kind of train to the same way?— here? everything kind of train to the same way? absolutely, it's not 'ust the same way? absolutely, it's not just google- _ the same way? absolutely, it's not just google. openai, _ the same way? absolutely, it's not just google. openai, too, - the same way? absolutely, it's not just google. openai, too, they - the same way? absolutely, it's not just google. openai, too, they are j just google. 0penai, too, they are funded by microsoft primarily, they have one of the most powerful models which powers chat gpt which people might have played around with. that too is a large language model trained on data found online. new york times have sued a openai and is currently in this court case with them saying they had illegally used their copyrighted material and that's kind of another ongoing battle on another front. interesting. we're going to stick with exactly this theme, this is wired. here is proof you can train an ai model without slurping copyrighted content. not office you get slurping in a headline but i like it. 50 get slurping in a headline but i like it. ., , , ., , ., like it. so what is the story about? this is the —
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like it. so what is the story about? this is the other _ like it. so what is the story about? this is the other side _ like it. so what is the story about? this is the other side of the - like it. so what is the story about? this is the other side of the coin, l this is the other side of the coin, right? because the leaders of these companies, openai in particular has said there's no other way to build these models, if we want really powerful language models if we want chat box, we need to use the words on the internet. we need this data. but the research that's coming out of here, it's a group of researchers backed by the french government, they showed there actually are other ways, there are alternatives. you can make data sets that power may be smaller models, but for a specific use cases. an example to give here is for a law firm for example, if you're trying to build a language model to help with lawyers and the work that they do, specifically, this could be in any sort of scientific research or vertical we want to apply it to, you can use less data and it can be paid for. interesting. so that is one potential solution on narrow use cases. the data set is tiny compared
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to what lots of the other language models were kind of based on. so surely there must be some kind of difference in quality or outcome but maybe you don't need that. 0bviously, maybe you don't need that. obviously, the internet has the entire swell of information that we all put out there from reddit posts to amazon comments. and reviews. there is a lot of noise in that data, there's a lot of rubbish on the internet as much everyone can attest to, so as not necessarily clean, good quality data. there is still, it's an open question of whether it's quantity or quality, and i think there is an argument to be made for good quality data. interesting. right, let's move onto bit of high—level regulation now, because it's hugely important. there are, as we've been witnessing over the last six months especially, these big attempts at regulation. the united nations now hoping to get in on the act. the united nations now hoping to get in on the act-—
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in on the act. what's going on there? so. — in on the act. what's going on there? so, today _ in on the act. what's going on there? so, today the - in on the act. what's going on there? so, today the general| there? so, today the general assembly set to vote on what's going to be the first united nations resolution on artificial intelligence. they are hoping that it will be unanimous and the goal, really, is to bridge inequities between the developed western world and countries in the global south, developing world. and make sure those countries have a seat at the table when it comes to developing the technologies, that is notjust the technologies, that is notjust the united states where these companies are based that sealed the upside of the technology. imore upside of the technology. we're ickin: u- upside of the technology. we're picking up these _ upside of the technology. we're picking up these quotes - upside of the technology. we're picking up these quotes from i upside of the technology. we're | picking up these quotes from ap upside of the technology. we're picking up these quotes from ap here and they are saying they want to make it safe, secure, trustworthy. kind of those broad principles that he think most people would kind of a scribe too, but with really interesting picking up on exactly what you are talking about there. it's distributing the potential benefits, notjust having a few companies in a few countries, and
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therefore populations and people of those countries benefiting, but making sure it's across the world. that's a laudable aim, i'm sure, but probably easier said than done, or... ? probably easier said than done, or... f probably easier said than done, or... j ., , , or... ? they're doing this so they can help at _ or... ? they're doing this so they can help ai kind _ or... ? they're doing this so they can help ai kind of _ or... ? they're doing this so they can help ai kind of achieves - or... ? they're doing this so they can help ai kind of achieves their| can help ai kind of achieves their un development goals for 2030 which they are far behind on, they are hoping this can address inequities in health care, education, and so on. i'm not sure ai is the magic bullet to all of it but it is a step. bullet to all of it but it is a ste . _ ,, ., ., , bullet to all of it but it is a ste. ., , ., , , step. some of these examples, detectin: step. some of these examples, detecting diseases, _ step. some of these examples, detecting diseases, predicting i detecting diseases, predicting floods, helping farmers, training the next generation of workers, that's what they want to make sure it is equally spread across the globe. right, next story. now let's take a moment to watch this incredible example of a real time conversation with an ai avatar. this is a not yet released "creative experiment," by video game developer ubisoft that suggest the company has made small breakthroughs in al
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"real—time emotion and animation," contextual awareness," "contextual awareness," and "collaborative decision—making". let's take a look. tell me one word why i should stay. passion. you can feel it, can't you? all right. that burning desire to make a difference, to fight for what's right. that's what drives us. and that's what will keep you going through the tough times. and trust me — there will be tough times. but together, we can overcome them. i have too much to lose. i have a family. two daughters. really, should i be doing this? family is everything, nelson. and that's why we're fighting — to create a better world for our loved ones. we can't continue living
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in fear and oppression. it's a risk, but it's a risk worth taking for a brighter future. and don't worry. we'll have each other�*s backs. have you lost anybody close to you? yes. i've lost many — my son, my friends, my home. but every loss only fuels my determination to keep going. and through the resistance, i've found a new family. together we can make a difference and prevent others from experiencing the same pain. right, slightly strange to watch that, what was going on? so, that is an avatar powered by ai, and what is unique about it is it's not scripting, it'sjust responding unique about it is it's not scripting, it's just responding to you in real time over station, that's what's new about this. it's a
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bit stunted but you can see the potential there for the next generation of games. it’s potential there for the next generation of games. it's quite haunting. _ generation of games. it's quite haunting, wasn't _ generation of games. it's quite haunting, wasn't it? _ generation of games. it's quite haunting, wasn't it? that's - generation of games. it's quite| haunting, wasn't it? that's part generation of games. it's quite i haunting, wasn't it? that's part of the desired effect, but if that still in the concept phase that seems pretty impressive to me even if it's just a fancy chat bot at the moment, it still deeply impressive. let's move on to your story, ft, the delivery driver who took on his face was boss. , , ., , ,., ., ~' delivery driver who took on his face was boss. , , ., , . was boss. this is from my book which came out today _ was boss. this is from my book which came out today which _ was boss. this is from my book which came out today which is _ was boss. this is from my book which came out today which is as _ was boss. this is from my book which came out today which is as exciting, i came out today which is as exciting, it's called code dependent, it's about humans who have been impacted ljy about humans who have been impacted by air systems unexpectedly, and the uber eats driver in biz story found he was being unpaid consistently in one case, it was this a problem that occurred again and again, because of the algorithms that govern work on gay gaps are so opaque, people who work for these apps have no idea why they are being paid what they're being paid, he had to hack it. he
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essentially built a tool that could figure out how far he was travelling and therefore how much he should have been paid. he then made this free for other uber eats drivers to use and they've all been using it around the world to figure out whether they have been underpaid, which they had. that whether they have been underpaid, which they had.— which they had. that is an absolutely _ which they had. that is an absolutely incredible - which they had. that is an l absolutely incredible story, which they had. that is an i absolutely incredible story, i which they had. that is an - absolutely incredible story, i wish we had more time for it. unfortunately, we don't. last issue we've got because we are unfortunately nearly out of time. ai only poses a threat to unoriginal writers. and we can also look at the same timejames blunt, humiliated by ai versions of his lyrics, what is going on? this is about creativity, and about whether artificial intelligence can ever be creative. whether that's artists, voiceover actors, journalists like us for
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james blunt finds that humiliating as he says, nothing like his real lyrics. i as he says, nothing like his real i rics. ., �* ~' �* , lyrics. i don't think it's there et, lyrics. i don't think it's there yet. coming _ lyrics. i don't think it's there yet. coming to _ lyrics. i don't think it's there yet, coming to replace - lyrics. i don't think it's there yet, coming to replace us. l lyrics. i don't think it's there i yet, coming to replace us. you didn't have _ yet, coming to replace us. you didn't have to _ yet, coming to replace us. you didn't have to bring _ yet, coming to replace us. you didn't have to bring journalists into it, did you? always talking about them. we are out of time, thank you so much for coming in and talking us through that brilliant stuff, that's it, i'll see you same time next week. good evening. there have been mixed fortunes across the country once again today for much of central and southern england. it stayed largely fine and dry with glimpses of sunshine, in fact, in london once again, we had temperatures into the mid—teens so you could get out and enjoy the beautiful cherry blossom that we've got at the moment. it was a different story, however, further north and west, the rain not too heavy, but it was a nuisance, as you can see from lancashire just a few hours ago. now, this weather front will continue to sink its way south and east, clearing the south—east during friday and then behind it under this influence of low pressure. a cooler story is set to dominate, so it will be a rather murky
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start with some light, drizzly rain pushing its way south—east behind it somewhat brighter with a rash of showers and gale force gusts of winds to the far north. so, we could see that frontjust lingering across the kent coast during the afternoon. but a brighter story across england and wales, few isolated showers, but look at the difference in the temperature. notably cooler feel out there. further showers into northern ireland and scotland accompanied by gales, perhaps severe gales across the northern isle. so that really will make it feel quite chilly here. and some of those showers will start to turn quite wintry to higher ground. low pressure drifts its way steadily east. the winds remain tightly packed with those isobars for the start of saturday. and that weather front will continue to enhance the showers. so a chilly start to the weekend, low single figures in many rural spots and there will be some showers from the word go across scotland and northern ireland. these will, yes, be of snow to higher ground and will then get to see some showers developing
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across england and wales. some of these heavy with some hail and maybe some thunder mixed in there as well. and temperatures will remain on the cool side. gusty winds, 35 to 45 miles an hour and temperatures down on where they should be really for this time of year. a brief ridge of high pressure for sunday quiets things down, but not for long. low pressure once again set to return into next week, keeping things again quite cool for this time of year and unsettled. so yes, sunday the better of the two days through the weekend, but there's further showers or longer spells of rain and temperatures a little bit below par as we head towards easter weekend.
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hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones. you're watching the context on bbc news. as set out in our complaint, apple has maintained its power not because of its superiority, but because of its unlawful exclusionary behaviour. many people like apple products because they market themselves, their brand is that they are simple to use, but it is that simplicity and its own business model that is now being challenged by this lawsuit. apple is accused of eccentrically engaging in anti—competitive
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behaviour, so making it really hard for people to leave this ecosystem that apple has created. and joining me on the panel today is susie boniface, daily mirror columnist also known as fleet street fox; and wills robinson, the assistant editor — of politics at dailymail.com in new york. first, the latest headlines. the usjustice department has launched a major lawsuit against apple, accusing the firm of maintaining market dominance through illegal, anti—competitive practices. the attorney general said the behaviour of the smartphone maker hurt rivals, developers and customers. apple said it would vigorously defend itself. israeli forces say they've killed 50 palestinian gunmen in the past day, in the continuing fighting around al—shifa hospital in gaza city, bringing the total to 140 since the operation at gaza's
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largest hospital began. combat has raged for days in and around the complex,

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