tv The Papers BBC News October 27, 2019 10:30pm-11:01pm GMT
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by us special forces. a brutal killer, one who has caused so a brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, it has violently been eliminated. the us says al—baghdadi detonated an explosives vest, after being cornered in a compound, in north western syria. the government presses ahead with attempts to get a december general election. ministers will put a vote before parliament, tomorrow. vigils are held in vietnam by families who fear their loved ones are among the 39 people found dead in a lorry in essex. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with us are martin bentham, the evening standard's home affairs editor, and business commentator, josie cox. many of tomorrow's
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front pages are already in. he died like a dog — president trump's words lead on the metro after the world's most wanted man and leader of is — abu bakr al—baghdadi — is killed in a us raid. the guardian also has that story. the telegraph reports the prime minister has been handed a lifeline by the liberal democrats and the snp who have proposed holding a general election in december if borisjohnson adheres to a three month extension of article 50. the i has the same story, ahead of tomorrow's vote in the commons, with the prime minister to put forward a motion calling for an election on december 12th.
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the metro. a picture of their of abu bakr al—baghdadi, america's most wa nted bakr al—baghdadi, america's most wanted man. now he is dead. he is dead and he is dominating the front pages. that and brexit. we cannot get away from that. this study reiterates tramp‘s style in government and all the quotes we have been healing tonight, he died like a have been healing tonight, he died likea dog, have been healing tonight, he died like a dog, this is trademark trump, he is holding this up as a triumph of his presidency, when he could do with at the moment with his domestic troubles. particularly given the fa ct troubles. particularly given the fact that he wants out of the middle east, wants to get the troops out of syria, he has made it clear that is not where his foreign policy priorities are. yes he is in a mess and a sense
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because he has effectively abandoned to the american is former coalition allies and that has attracted condemnation, and is widely seen as having created a terrible vacuum there which is allowing the russians to exert themselves in a way they we re to exert themselves in a way they were not doing before and opens the door potentially to an is revival, and allowing people in detention camps there to potentially escape and regroup. this is very useful for him asa and regroup. this is very useful for him as a big landmark success, and this rhetorical flourish she has come outwith, currently not necessary to describe it as that, but that is what he does. but it does not necessarily solve, and most people here, our foreign secretary, our prime minister, people elsewhere in the world, i clear that although you take out the leader of is that
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does not mean the threat from is is entirely removed at the same time. as we saw with the removal of bin laden. and if we read through the comments that donald trump has been making it sound like he genuinely thinks this is his big victory, that he has been eliminated, he uses the word eliminated, which really does imply that he thinks that is it. let us imply that he thinks that is it. let us stay with the telegraph. lib dems for pm route to an election. what would that route be? it is a tassle, as it between december the 12th, what the government want, or december the night, which the lib dems seem to favour along with the snp? the government has obviously been calling for an election, has been calling for an election, has been trying to get an election, on the grounds that he thinks he can win the election. the fixed—term parliaments act requires a two
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thirds majority for him to achieve that, he has not been able to achieve that so far. he is going to go for that again tomorrow apparently. but that lib dem route is to amend the fixed—term parliaments act by a bill which just requires a straight majority. of course if that lib dems and the snp and all of the conservative party as is, and perhaps people who were conservatives and i know independence were to vote for it, then the ability to achieve that vote, a positive vote in favour of thatis vote, a positive vote in favour of that is potentially created. because they do not need to get two thirds majority. that could achieve it. but the lib dems want something in return? they want an extension. they like many others do not want to crash out of the eu just yet. god knows what will happen in a few months' time. this is essentially a tactic for them to buy more time to help us to enhance the chances of
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coming up with some kind of deal that everyone is agreeable to. they do not want to come out at all. yes. they want to stop the entire idea. let us look at the guardian. the eu ready to give uk three month brexit extension, leak reveals. another leak. amazingly. you start to think that the entire place is like a colander. france were talking about it needing to be less than three months. that is the rhetoric we have been hearing from emmanuel macron pa rt been hearing from emmanuel macron part if it comes down to it and everyone else, the other eu leaders agreed to an extension, to this kind of point, then i do not see that there would be a big chance of him unanimously blocking this thing. it'sjust shows once unanimously blocking this thing. it's just shows once again that it is very much in the eu's interest that britain does not crash out of
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the eu without a deal, that would be harmful and set all kinds of precedent. this is a sign they are trying to come up with some kind of constructive solution or temporary solution at least that would enhance the chances of some brexit coming to fruition that wouldn't necessarily damage... their point is i suppose that the issue that emmanuel macron has had is simply that what he does not want to do and the rest of the european union does not want to do is just have an extension for no purpose. and everyone will not reach consensus. if there is to be an election or a referendum, and probably an election in between, theoretically, obviously we do not know that would be decisive, but theoretically it might achieve a decisive result which would either allow the government as it is now to wina allow the government as it is now to win a majority which would allow them to get that withdrawal
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agreement through, or the reverse scenario of allowing a party that wa nts a scenario of allowing a party that wants a second referendum or what's not to have it at all to take power and to change the scenario that way. that is obviously what this extension would be about. the interesting thing, it is not in the story, but one of the other reports, pa rt story, but one of the other reports, part of this would be to prevent any amendment to their withdrawal agreement, which if that were the case, we have been here before with all sorts of things that cannot happen but they do happen, but presumably that would then blow out of the water the labour policy of seeing the want to renegotiate a new deal. because apparently this is what is being suggested, this would be definitive, and that will be written. it is the art of the possible so much these days. the ft. toxic tweets say mps soared after
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borisjohnson said toxic tweets say mps soared after boris johnson said hamburg. toxic tweets say mps soared after borisjohnson said hamburg. there we re borisjohnson said hamburg. there were a vehement exchange in a few weeks ago in parliament. boris johnson said basically he did not believe that mps were getting death threats over brexit. many did apologise over that. he realised that was a mistake. the problem is across the spectrum. of course boris johnson has said, and he seems to specialise, a bit like trump, seeing a colourful at the very least things, provocative things. on the other hand it is not a one—way street. there is aggression, there is accusation of people being fascists, racists, on the other side. there is upping the anti too often on both sides. it feels like the lid has come off. how do you put the lid has come off. how do you put the lid has come off. how do you put the lid back on? we have to get out
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of brexit somehow. the stats at the ft. of brexit somehow. the stats at the ft, they have done quite forensic analysis, they found that more than 2 million tweets were sent that were vitriolic, hate speech fuelled tweets. itjust vitriolic, hate speech fuelled tweets. it just shows vitriolic, hate speech fuelled tweets. itjust shows how vitriolic, hate speech fuelled tweets. it just shows how out of control every party has become. it is notjust one party that is to blame. it is this entire situation that has become inflammatory, deeply inappropriate, and as you say, johnson's response of calling death threats handbag is not going to help the matter. let us go back to the telegraph. a couple of stories. banks should pay for it failures say mps. yes, absolutely. massively overdue in my opinion. this is something that has blighted the sector for some time. massive disruptions with barclays. tsb. it is down to the banks to take
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financial responsibility for these outages especially in the day and age where digital banking is the i'ioi'iti. age where digital banking is the norm. and they are encouraging people to go down that road. for some people it might be a question of you cannot get money out that you might need just to do a bit of shopping or whatever but for other people... businesses. it has a real impact on your life in that we of course there should be some recompense. whenever there is an instance like this it is always big businesses that we hear about. ftse 100 companies that are affected by these outages, but think about small businesses as well. they are the economic backbone of the uk. if they are hit by a banking outage ofjust one day, the impact that can have on their turnover and one day, the impact that can have on theirturnoverand their one day, the impact that can have on their turnover and their ability to pay their customers or whatever it is can be detrimental and quite catastrophic. how big would a fine have to be for it to concentrate minds? it would have to be more than a slap on the wrists. one way to do
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it might be to make it a cut of the revenue or a cat of it might be to make it a cut of the revenue or a cat of profit so it would actually be a meaningful fine. they seem to be talking here, obviously we have only got a snippet, not the full report, talking about a hire industry levy, talking about a hire industry levy, talking about a hire industry levy, talking about compensation. it does not always work. it rightly sees as well as should be a concerted effort between the bank of england and the credential authority and the banking conduct authority as well. the final story, also on the telegraph. they have an all—star front page. you a lwa ys have an all—star front page. you always know you are going to be ok in this review if the telegraph comes in. nhs leaders declare war on homeopathy. very controversial. a lot of scientists, a lot of bodies, saying there is very little evidence that it actually does anything.
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saying there is very little evidence that it actually does anythingm is not surprising that nhs leaders are perhaps seeing that because they are perhaps seeing that because they are dealing with science. of course, here, it is seeing amid fears it is fuelling anti—vaccination propaganda, not quite sure that is coming from, but it it is causing people to think there is something else other than proper established science and medical procedures is the root cause of the way of solving medical problems, then probably it is detrimental. it is time to quite nicely as well. it is flu season, vaccination season. in terms of that likelihood that this will hit some kind of nerve. if you are somebody who is grasping for some kind of cu re who is grasping for some kind of cure and you don't understand the science, it is too easy to be drawn to things without accreditation.
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science, it is too easy to be drawn to things without accreditationlj suppose to things without accreditation.” suppose that is why they are calling for this now. that is all for now. another look at the papers. you can see the front pages online. if you mist the pro—gram in the evening you can watch it later. coming up next, it is time for a click.
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every single day, we upload 4 million hours of video to youtube. we send 682 million tweets. we post over 67 million instagram pictures. 4.4 billion of us use the internet. and collectively, we create 2.5 exa bytes — that is 2.5 million terabytes 2.5 quintillion bytes — of data every single day. and a significant proportion of all of that data — searches, news, messaging, social media, video streaming — goes through here. this is telehouse north, one of the most important parts of the internet backbone. it is one of four buildings here in london full of computers,
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cables, cooling equipment, and sheer geekery. the internet was built on many earlier ideas, but the big one happened exactly 50 years ago this week. the work had origins in 1969 when the american defense department — specifically the defense advanced research projects agency — decided that it needed a network to connect about a dozen university computer systems together in order to promote sharing of information and acceleration of research and artificial intelligence. and so, they promoted the design and development of a packet switch network which they called arpanet. on october 29, 1969, at 10:30 in the evening, the first message was sent over arpanet. a computer at the university of california in los angeles sent a word to stanford research institute in san francisco. the word was "login" — although the system crashed before they got to the g. nevertheless, those two
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nodes became hundreds, and then thousands, and then millions of connections. a global network of networks now consists of over 1.2 million kilometres of submarine cables, sometimes laid as deep as mount everest is high. these connect massive server buildings and immeasurably more smaller cables connect those to individual computers. an interconnected network that vint cerf and robert kahn named the internet. it's important to understand that the internet is not the world wide web. the web is a great invention — it's the way that data, webpages, services and documents are arranged, accessed and addressed, but all of that sits on top of the hardware that is the internet. which allows many, many networks to talk to each other in a really clever way. so, say you want to watch
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a cute video of a cat. well, your request to see the video shoots out of your device, along regional networks, and at some point races through telehouse north, and off across the globe to where the video is stored. and this is where is gets really clever. see, sending the whole video in one go down one route will likely mean that it will get stuck in traffic and take ages. so the video is torn apart, broken up, split into little packets, and each one makes its own way back down different routes. and when they start arriving back at your device, they're juggled into the right order. and once enough of the start of the video has arrived, there is your cat, as cute as you want it. ah! my name is vint cerf. i am vice president and chief internet evangelist at google, but some people know me as one
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of the co—inventors of the internet. first of all, the good part. as the world wide web emerged, there was this enormous desire in the general population that had access to the internet to share information that they knew. and the world wide web was a tremendous facilitating means by which this could be done. then in the 2000s, we start to see the arrival of social networking. but those platforms have been essentially subverted by some people who like to use them as a way of injecting misinformation and disinformation into the system, for either political or pecuniary or other nefarious purposes. so we have a tough problem ahead of us, which is to try and help
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people distinguish good quality information from bad quality information. some people hope that this could be done algorithmically. i am not as sanguine about that. algorithmic detection of misinformation and disinformation is not so easy. the expectation that artificial intelligence and machine learning and computer programmes will somehow solve all these problems is an expectation which can't be fulfilled. some people will say "well, the country should have rules — "enforceable rules — that suppress misinformation "and disinformation. "just make all that bad stuff go away." that particular practice has a very, dark abusive side. it is called "censorship," which is intended to suppress access to information that the general public should have. there are regimes in the world that view any information
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which is critical of the regime is unacceptable and therefore, should be censored. i actually think that the best tool we have for dealing with misinformation and disinformation is called wetware and it's up here. and it's exercise in what is called critical thinking, where you ask questions like "where did this information come from? "does it have any corroborating references somewhere "from legitimate sources?" all of those things should be top of mind, should be part of the digital literacy we need to have as we use these online technologies that are so global in scope. one thing that we know you will see — i'm sure you will see — is the expansion of the internet off the planet. way back in 1998, we began asking ourselves "what would happen "if we had a network that was the size of the solar
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"system that could support manned and robotic space exploration?" so we now have a set of protocols that together create an interplanetary backbone network. it's in operation between earth, mars and the international space station. so you can anticipate there will be an evolving interplanetary backbone over the next several decades to support manned and robotic exploration. this exhibition at london's barbican provides an insight into ai data training. huge numbers of pictures like these are needed to create artificially intelligent algorithms.
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from ‘apple' to ‘anomaly‘, attempts to show visitors how something so simple to categorise — for example, an apple is an apple, we all agree on that, but some concepts are a lot harder to explain. and the algorithms that we create have to deal with these abstract ideas. even as a human, it can be quite tricky to identify what an artist model or a creep may look like or, in fact, many of the concepts that are up here. yet, people are having to create these categories and then teach what they believe to be the right answers to the machines. a training set is a database that is organised into concepts, and each of those concepts have pictures associated with them. but as you go further through the installation, the concepts get more abstract. we move through apple picker, other things having to do with apples, but at the end, we arrive at concept of an anomaly. the concept of an anomaly seems very abstract and yet, abstract concepts like this are
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still built into technical system. you have a concept like a bad person, for example, that indicates a certain worldview. the whole point of this is that we may think that al is all about technology, algorithms and statistics, but actually, it has human bias at the heart of it. take the search term obama, for instance. obama shows up as a figure in many, many different categories. it's almost like a where's waldo? kind of thing. been labelled by the people that made the training set as good person, a bad person, a greedy person, a leader, a loser. what you find — and i think what the example of obama speaks to — is that you have a kind of underlining bedrock of sludge and contradictions and absurdities quite often that the ai systems are built on. to make this installation,
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i pretty much sat down and looked at about 1k million images that were organised into tens of thousands of categories. the database that the installation is drawing from, was made by researchers who went and scraped the internet, so they collected tens of millions of pictures, they put those images together, and then hired online workers on the amazon platform to sort those pictures into many, many thousands of categories. all of this just leaves me feeling that there are so many different ways of seeing the same thing and as a person, you add some contextual and culturaljudgement to that. but the question is can we train a machine to do the same? and i'm afraid that's it for the shortcut of click this week. the full—length version is up on iplayer and it's waiting for you right now. this isjust a quick reminder that you have less than one week left to register for tickets for click live. it's in dundee in
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scotland this year. and if you can be there on november 19, we would love to see you. the website you need is bbc. co. uk/showsandtours. that's it for now. thanks for watching, and we'll see you soon. sunday brought a lot of fine, dry cooler weather to many parts of the british isles. that is the way it will stay for the next few days but it will be markedly colder than of late by day and by night. we have that influence of high pressure they are dominating the scene. there will still be some showers across mainly
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the north of scotland. elsewhere skies will be clear, save that far south—west, some cloud, maybe the odd spot of rain. a widespread frost overnight. you will start monday on a chilly note, the chance you will be scraping the car for the first time this evening —— this season. but it will be a gloriously sunny day. showers across northern and eastern coastal areas. clouds towards the western end of the channel. the rained towards the far south—west of cornwall but otherwise afine, south—west of cornwall but otherwise a fine, crisp d.
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this is bbc news. iam martine i am martine croxall. the headlines at 11:00: president trump says the leader of the so—called islamic state group, abu bakr al—baghdadi, has died after a military operation, by us special forces. a brutal killer, one who has caused so a brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, has violently been eliminated. the us says al baghdadi detonated an explosives vest, after being cornered in a compound, in north western syria. abu bakar al baghdadi presided over a brutal regime, that inspired terror attacks, around the world. here, the government presses ahead with attempts to get a december general election. ministers will put a vote before parliament, tomorrow. vigils are held in vietnam by families who fear their loved
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