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neymar�*s leaving paris saint—germain tojoin saudi pro—league club al—hilal. the fee is understood to be around 90 million euros, plus add—ons. the transfer is subject to the brazilian completing a medical and all the necessary paperwork. it comes after it became clear neymar was not part of new coach luis enrique�*s plans for the new season. not long to go until he women's world cup semifinals get under way. australia head into their semi—final after defeating england 2—0 away in a friendly back in april, ending the lionesses�* 30—match unbeaten run. that was a friendly game, and yes, we do take something out of it. but at the same time, we are into knockout games in a world cup, so it is a completely different game, and i think we want sort of let the result of that last game that played get in the way or alters sort of our
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tournament mode. i think the semifinal of a world cup. _ i think the semifinal of a world cup. it— i think the semifinal of a world cup. it is— i think the semifinal of a world cup. it is a _ i think the semifinal of a world cup, it is a difficult game, obviously they can take some confidence from that game, but we were not_ confidence from that game, but we were not at— confidence from that game, but we were not at our best, and i'm sure they— were not at our best, and i'm sure theyare— were not at our best, and i'm sure they are aware of that, and we have changed _ they are aware of that, and we have changed a _ they are aware of that, and we have changed a lot since then in shape and players, and i think the momentum you have got in a world cup is different. _ momentum you have got in a world cup is different, so i imagine they will not be _ is different, so i imagine they will not be too — is different, so i imagine they will not be too focused on that, they know _ not be too focused on that, they know it — not be too focused on that, they know it will be a tough game, it is honefuiiy— know it will be a tough game, it is hopefully going to be a good game for fans— hopefully going to be a good game for fans to watch. despite reaching several finals, sweden have not won a major trophy since winning the first european championship in 1984. they face a spanish side appearing in theirfirst women's world cup semi. history favours sweden to make the final, but there's fighting talk coming from the spain camp. translation: yes, sweden are one of the teams we — translation: yes, sweden are one of the teams we have _ translation: yes, sweden are one of the teams we have to _ translation: yes, sweden are one of the teams we have to beat, _ translation: yes, sweden are one of the teams we have to beat, but - translation: yes, sweden are one of the teams we have to beat, but they i the teams we have to beat, but they have an obligation to beat us because of the historical record, but i'm also convinced, and that is
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how i really see it, that we can look at them in the face and if we present a good vision of spain, tomorrow we will win the game. when they lose the ball high, they are very— when they lose the ball high, they are very quick, very good in taking it back, _ are very quick, very good in taking it back, and — are very quick, very good in taking it back, and there we have to be good _ it back, and there we have to be good in — it back, and there we have to be good in transition, may be a little bit lower— good in transition, may be a little bit lower than we were against japan — bit lower than we were against japan it— bit lower than we were against japan. it is going to be high pressing _ japan. it is going to be high pressing spain and sweden, and in between _ pressing spain and sweden, and in between the transitions, and for me lovely— between the transitions, and for me lovely football. erik ten hag says harry maguire would be better off leaving manchester united if he's not confident enough to battle for a first—team spot at old trafford. maguire is desperate for more game time and is keen on a move to west ham, but ten hag still belives he can still be important this season. top centre back. he is the best for england, so why shouldn't he be the best for us? but he has to prove it. and when he is not confident didn't
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have to go in and fight, then he has to go, then he has to make the decision. but i am happy with him. france fly—half romain ntamack has been ruled out of a home rugby world cup because of a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament. ntamack injured his left knee in a world cup warm—up win over scotland. ntamack limped off the field in the second half and underwent a scan on his knee on monday. the world champions new zealand will face england on the final day of wxv, a new women's rugby union competition launching in october. the three—tier competition aims to offer consistent annual fixtures for sides outside of world cup years. each tier has six countries who've qualified via continental tournaments and play—offs. the final placings are determined by a points table. and that's all the sport for now. from driverless cars to sd printing, artificial intelligence has been transforming how we live. but could ai one day be capable of reading our minds?
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lara lewington of bbc panorama has been investigating the potential risks and benefits of the ai revolution. hi, lara. hi, good to meet you. thank you for having us. come on in. thanks very much. neuroscientist alexander huth has spent a decade trying to understand how the brain works. if we want to build intelligent machines, maybe we want to make things that act more like human brains. so that's kind of what got me into neuroscience. this year, his team had a breakthrough. using ai technology that can understand language, they've built a computer that can read minds. we scan people's brains with an fmri scanner while theyjust listen to stories. so we track how their brains respond while they're listening to hours and hours of stories. the team has trained the al on their own brains. as they listen to stories inside the scanner, the computer watches what happens.
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what sort of brain activity are you looking for? we're looking for brain activity that's related to specific ideas or specific words that appear in the stories. so, for example, whenever you hear somebody talk about parking a car, there are certain patterns of activity in the brain that will be present that reliably correspond to that kind of idea. and we're trying to build up that mapping from this very large dataset. the computer looks for patterns in the vast amounts of data from the scanner. with enough training, it can translate brain activity into words. so the lead scientist is listening to a story for us. the war of the worlds. the martians in the pit had turned the heat ray on. a deep, throbbing sound, a silver pencil of light... ..and a narrow ribbon of bracken and grass and trees and houses stretching as far as the eye
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could see was scorched. and this is the text that the ai created from the brain scan. in the decoded version, which misses a lot of things, but it gets some of the good stuff, fired the bullets out of the clip he had on him as he ran. and then i heard a huge crack as a large piece of concrete hit my forehead and then a giant ball of fire. the general idea of "big noise, got hurt" is there in both of them. yeah. and then also the idea that something was on fire, the scorched versus a giant ball of fire, it captured all those things, but clearly not exactly the right words. so far, it's only analysed the brains of a handful of volunteers who've all spent 16 hours being scanned. but they hope it'll unlock the secrets of how our minds work. we are really pushing on, and what a lot of our effort in the lab goes toward is using this to actually understand the brain better. that's our scientific goal. in the end, we want to know, how does the brain work? how do our brains process language? how do we understand ideas? how do we think?
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sounds great, but what happens if it ends up in the wrong hands? some people are scared or think that the thought police is coming. i think it's a fair reaction to this to say, like, this is scary, i don't want this to happen. that was kind of our reaction too, like, the first thing that we thought when we got this working was like, this is fantastic, it's working. and then like, oh my god, this is working. are the thought police coming? not yet. none of the current technologies that we have would be effective at actually policing people's thoughts. lara lewington reporting there. and if you're in the uk, you can watch the panorama programme on bbc iplayer. the wash—outjuly in the uk may not have been great for your summer holidays, but it's come at the right time for wine producers in england. the mixed weather this summer means 2023 is promising to be a great year for the grape harvest. steve humphrey is at a vineyard in chichester.
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there are now 915 vineyards across the uk. five years ago, they were producing something like 5 million bottles of wine a year. last year, that had increased up to 20 million bottles of wine a year, and it's on an upward slope at the moment. and also, interestingly, exports of uk wine are also increasing. so what is it about the weather this year which has made these grapes so good? let's have a chat to the owner here at the tinwood vineyard now. they're looking great at the moment, why are they so good? it's all to do with the weather, steve. so, yeah, like i said, perhaps not good for tourists, but we had a cool wet start at the beginning of the year for april and beginning of may, but most importantly, no frost. and then through the second half of may, the rest ofjune, fantastic sunny weather, one of the hottestjunes on record. and that's really when these vines
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were going through flowering, fantastic fruits that stuck to the top of their canopy. and just, of course, as it was starting to get a little bit too dry, then the rain came in the rest ofjuly. so it looks as though there's going to be a bumper crop, but the all important question is, are they going to be good quality grapes? i hope so, and it's looking that way so far. the next six weeks are going to be really important. if we can get some sunshine for the rest of august, if we get an indian summer in september, we'll really get a fantastic ripeness, get great quality grapes, because we want to make the best sparkling wines in the world here. you're sounding excited at the prospect of harvesting these grapes. well, we work hard all year, all with my life, living here and working and breathing on the vineyard, the most exciting time of the year, of course, is our harvest. and that comes end of september, first two weeks of october, we'll start to pick all the grapes, make some amazing wines, because, again, like i said, we want to make these amazing wines. people come here to our tasting room, get to try all of our wines, and once you pour them a glass of
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this sussex english sparkling wine, it's fantastic. this is an industry which is expanding? absolutely, it's doubling in size every four years. and it's a real success story. we're winning awards, won gold medal at iwsc last year. it puts us in the top i% of the worldwide wines here in west sussex. the one upside to what has been a very wet summer so far. stay with us, lucy wray is here next with verified live. allow, for some of us it has been a thoroughly soggy start to the new working week with low pressure in charge of our weather. and this frontal system which has become quite slow moving across parts of northern england and
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north wales generating some very heavy bursts of rain. through the rest of the day it is north wales but perhaps more especially northern england and into the far south of scotland where we will see the wettest of the weather. there could well be enough rain to cause localised transport disruption, maybe a bit of flooding. quite windy across southern and eastern parts. sunshine and showers away from our main rain bands and temperatures generally in the low to mid 20s. as we head through tonight that rain will lingerfor a time across parts of eastern scotland and north—east england. i think much of it will pull away by the end of the night. one or two showers out west but the majority will be dry and clear, and not a cold night, 11—15 degrees. tomorrow the last vestiges of that rain will tend to clear from eastern scotland and north—east england and then it is a sunshine and showers day. some of the showers could be on the heavy side, but there will be some decent dry gaps in between and some spells of sunshine. temperature wise, we are looking at 19 degrees in aberdeen, 23 in norwich and in london. as we move out of tuesday and into wednesda, we start to see this quite weak area of high pressure
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building its way in. that will settle things down to some extent. underneath that high we could see some dense fog patches to start, particularly around western parts of england, wales and northern ireland. some of that fog taking a while to clear, but it should do quite readily through the morning. then some sunny spells, a chance of one or two showers, but signs of something perhaps a bit warmer developing down towards the south—east. it looks like we will see some warmer weather later in the week. it is going to be quite a warm week generally across much of continental europe, and as we move through on into the start of friday we will start to develop a south easterly breeze, bringing some of that warmer air our way. butjust how warm it gets depends on the progress of this frontal system swinging in from the atlantic because that is going to bring cloud and some heavy rain northwards and eastwards. before that arrives, it looks like temperatures will, for some, get up into the middle 20s celsius but some very wet weather swinging its way eastward through friday and into the start of the weekend.
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live from london, this is bbc news. the death toll in hawaii's devastating wildfires rises to 96 — hundreds of people are still missing. niger's coup leaders say they'll prosecute the toppled president for high treason. will artificial intelligence be capable of reading our minds? the bbc�*s panorama investigates the scientists trying to do just that.
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screaming fans at beatles' concerts "disgusted" george harrison's mum — according to one of her letters, which is now going under the hammer. hello, i'm lucy grey, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start in hawaii, where the number of people confirmed dead — following devastating wildfires — has risen to 96. five days after fires hit the state — hundreds of people remain unaccounted for. it's the worst us disaster of its kind in more than a century. the military is helping to look for victims in the town of lahaina. but so far only a tiny fraction of the affected area — less than 5% — has been searched. those who survived are turning their thoughts to how to rebuild —
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