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finally. >> another so-called godfather of artificial intelligence voices concerns over technology that he helped to bring into the world. opening up a world of possibilities for the humble pea. how do versions of the veggie could help the planet. welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. we start with a special report from ukraine. not long after the war began reports began to emerge of ukrainian children being taken by russian troops over the border into russia. 15 months into the invasion officials in kyiv claim 15,000 children have been taken this way. the bbc cannot verify the figure but understands children have gone from care homes and residential schools. our eastern european

correspondent as follows the bring home their children. >>tt em tso it is the most anxious journey of these mothers lives. dashing to reach the children may have been separated from for six months. ukrainian children sent to summer camps run by russia and then never returned. she tells me every minute now counts. the children have been told they will be put in care if their moms do not come for them. that means a grueling trip across thousands of miles from ukraine deep>> i should never hm go. but we did not know. they just took him and that was that. my son had seen explosions. i wanted him to relax from the war and then this happened. i just hope we make it in time.

>> russia has been removing children from parts of ukraine it occupies. it claims it is saving them from danger but the international criminal court calls this illegal deportation. it is why he is now a wanted man. vladimir putin has annexed huge chunks of ukraine and claims everything there is russian, even the children. >> and we found new evidence of how they are treated. this boys ukrainian dressed in the mark of russia's war on his country. he is a classmate of tatyana's son who was also taken by the russians. sasha has special needs. his mom had to travel into enemy territory to rescue him. >> he tells me how russian

soldiers in bolick lagos came to his school with guns. they loaded him and 12 other children onto buses and drove off with them. sasha had no conta with his mom for six weeks. when i ask how hard that was, he says it is too distressing to remember. sasha is now safe with his mom germany. he has told tatyana that the children were banned from even mentioning ukraine, told there was nothing there to return four. >> it is not only vladimir putin who should be on trial, it's all the main people. the commanders, all of them, for what they did to the children. what right did they have? [phone ringing] >> i called the woman in charge of the school where sasha was taken.

deep inside russian occupied territory. i wanted to know about the zed mark, ukrainian children dressed as russian soldiers. so what if they were, the director shot back. what kind of question is that? soon after, the line cut out. for those who do make it back, the long road home ends here on ukraine's northern border. the first group is just coming through. i can see women and children waving as they cross the border finally. six months apart, then six days of travel to be reunited. daniel had been scared he would not see his mother again but and i made it --anna made it. the stories of their exhausting trips spill out between the

welcome hugs but anna says it was worth it to see her son again. daniel just says the reunion was brilliant. this is a war that has created all sorts of victims. brought all sorts of pain. but it is the fate of ukraine's children that has got vladimir putin indicted as a suspected war criminal. sarah, bbc news unit northern ukraine. >> a day after moscow suffered its biggest drone attack since its war against ukraine began officials in southern russia say a drone has had an oil refinery. these are images confirmed by bbc verify to be the refinery in the southern region it inside russia. the region's governor says the strike caused a fire but no one was injured. president vladimir putin has promised to improve air defenses around moscow after monday's

drone strikes which have been described as the most dangerous attack on russia's capital since the second world war. vladimir putin accused ukraine of provoking moscow into responding in kind. the bbc's diplomatic editor james langdale is in kyiv. >> the attacks are qualitatively different to other attacks in russian territory in the neighborhood of ukraine. those are relatively common. schelling, drone strikes, things like that, that is part of this war and has been happening for some time, so it's not unusual to have a report that a ukrainian drone has landed on an oil refinery pretty close to the ukrainian border. that is different i think to yesterday's instance in moscow. as to what people think about the attacks in moscow, the impression has been sort of quiet satisfaction if you like with somewhat less quiet satisfaction. people in moscow are getting a sense of what it is like to live in a city like kyiv as people

have here for the last month under relentless onslaught. yesterday, there were eight drones in moscow. at the same time there were 32 over the skies in kyiv and that was not considered unusual here. so i think that is the scale of the comparison. when they heard those reports about the attack on moscow. >> james land dale in kyiv for us. in the u.s. the bill that would avert the first ever default has been making its way through congress. the deal would temporarily suspend the debt limit and limit discretionary spending. it would clawback funding that had been set aside for the internal revenue service. the deal received pushback from hard-line republicans and democrats. though the white house and republican house leaders are intent on seeing it through. >> we are going to deal with the debt ceiling.

i think things are going as planned, god willing. i'll be landing in colorado tonight in preparation for my commencement speech tomorrow and by the time i land congress will have acted and we will be one step closer. >> if i am a member of congress i would not want history to pass me by. i could do work reforms for welfare and i could see that we could reform for the first time in 40 years, cutting the red tape. making america competitive. everyone has a right to their opinion but on history i want to be here on this bill today. >> bbc's nomia is standing by. we've been hearing from members on the extreme sides of both parties. they are vocal in their dislike for the bill but do we have a sense of what lawmakers in the middle think about the debt ceiling bill? >> those in the middle think

that this is the sort of deal you get when you need to compromise. when you have a divided government. it has got modest spending reforms, spending cuts, but it does protect medicare, social security and government spending. it's a two-year deal which means there will not be an issue until after the next presidential election. democratic congressman brendan boyle from pennsylvania summed up the move when he said nobody loves this deal, nobody is saying this is amazing. he says that is probably a sign of a fair compromise, when you have a house that is narrowly controlled by republicans. when you have a senate that is narrowly controlled by the democratc party. and when you have a white house that is controlled by the democrats. >> we are getting to know the details in this. people have been pouring through the hundred page document. what is the feeling on capitol hill about whether this might

favor one side or the other or if this truly is like you said a year compromise -- a pure compromise? >> those on the extreme sides of either party think they're missing out. if you've got the house freedom caucus that are angry about the bill. they do not think it is tough enough. they're not happy that kevin mccarthy negotiated or compromised with president biden. that is how the progressives feel in the democratic party. they are angry about some elements, particularly when it comes to the way new energy projects will now be approved. they're not happy about the additional work requirements for dependence -- sorry, adults without dependents who are on things like food stamps. so they are angry as well that president biden it did a u-turn and negotiated with kevin mccarthy in the first place. remember, he said he is happy to talk about spending cuts but he will not tie it to the debt ceiling. many of the democratic progressive members think -- to

answer your question when it comes to those extreme sides they think the bill favors the other. >> a vote in the house tonight then if and when it lands in the senate, can you walk us through what the procedure will be for the bill and the voting then? >> the fight is not over. if they pass it in the house it will go to the senate. it is a numbers game. democrats have 51 senators which means they will need republicans on board to back them. we know that the vermont democratic senator bernie sanders is going to vote no to the bill. we know there are six republicans who will vote for the bill. so they have to get people on board. let's say there is unanimous consent, wishful thinking. the debate will be skipped and it will go to a vote and end up on president biden's desk to be signed. there are republicans who are saying that they are going to

basically put roadblocks out there. they are going to want to debate this. senate majority leader chuck schumer is preparing for his party to stay in over the weekend to get this over the line. >> there could be more late nights on capitol hill. thank you so much for your reporting. and one more note from the world of u.s. politics. next week will be a busy one for the republican 2024 presidential calendar. former new jersey governor chris christie is set to announce that he's entering the race for president on tuesday. he was a supporter of former president donald trump helping him prepare for debates. he has now become a critic of donald trump and plans to take on the republican front runner and mike pence is set to enter the race on wednesday. he served as vice president in the trump administration and was the target of trump supporters when they stormed the u.s. capitol on january 6.

he soaping his moderate tone encouraged in bona fides will help him with the electorate. we've heard warnings about artificial intelligence lately and now another leading figure in the development of artificial intelligence has added his voice to warnings about safety. professor joshua says he would have prioritized safety over usefulness if he realized how fast ai would evolve. >> big tech is spending billions on artificial intelligence. photorealistic images generated without -- with applications like mid journey are going viral. chatgpt is answering millions of questions every day. this is the fun face of generative ai but today another so-called godfather of artificial intelligence, a pioneer of the technology, voiced concerns over its rapid rise driven by developers. >> governments need to track

what they are doing. they need to audit them and that is a minimum thing we do for any other sector. building airplanes, cars, pharmaceuticals. >> it's been a quarter of a century since ibm's deep blue computer beat a chess champion. since then, systems have been developed to acquire new skills through training called deep learning. ai does not have to take the form of science fiction's humanoid robots. you probably interact with it several times a day without realizing it is picking your favorite film. artificial general intelligence is the goal of creating human level or beyond intelligence. one of the bosses of a leading firm says the pace of change is unpredictable. >> a year ago this would have been incomprehensible. teachers can no longer set essays because of chatgpt. you can see images being imagined from nothing. where will we be in a few years,

nobody can tell. that's what we have to take action now to put the guard rails it. >>'s excel rating powder -- power has been matched by an ai arms race. one original developer says its use in the military should be banned. >> this is one of the worst places we could put super intelligent artificial intelligence. does enough examples in science fiction. the problem is if something goes on and we lose control and it happens to be an ai that kills people. >> worry more about bank details being stolen. it's being used to generate misinformation from emails to fake news. >> i don't understand the purpose of focusing on risks that don't exist and ignoring the ones that do when if the harm were so very potent and it was something that we should be scared of, anybody who signed that letter, all the ceos could

agree to not build it. that is literally how easy it is to stop it. they can just not build it. >> this is important. >> there is a new drumbeat of experts calling out the danger of ai and the world is paying attention. the solution is regulation. we know some of the questions ai poses. politicians are starting to try them. >> the billionaire owners of purdue pharma will be protected to legal action related to the u.s. opioid crisis in exchange for a settling totaling $6 billion. per do files for bankruptcy in 2019 amid thousands of lawsuits, they made drugs like oxycontin and are blamed for the crisis. an appeals court ruled its owners, the sackler family, would receive immunity from civil lawsuits. joining me in the studio is the bbc's gary o'donoghue who has been following the story going on for a few years now.

what more is in this particular settlement that we are hearing about on tuesday? >> the details of the settlement have been public for years. the issue has been whether or not the final settlement would allow the family to walk away without future liabilities. that is what the legal arguments have been. they have added extra money to the money they are prepared to pay up to $6 billion that will go to states, municipalities. about 750 million will go to individuals. they could get anything between three and a half thousand dollars may be up to 40 or $50,000. that money is now looking like it is going to be released. it has to have the go-ahead from a bankruptcy court before it will happen but it looks like the parties all agree and it will bring to end a lengthy saga. >> could we see other legal challenges, this is been such a long process? >> the family which owns the

private firm, the could be criminally prosecuted. there is not to seem to be a sign of that but this is a shield against civil liabilities in the future. $6 billion sounds like a lot of money that they as a family are stumping up. we don't know how much they're worth. one committee suggested they might be worth 11 billion. they will not be poor after this by any means but it is a big chunk of money. it goes with a whole bunch of other settlements that are taking place across the country. pharmacies like cvs and walgreens already paid a lot of money to the states in terms of their contributions and the problems that the opioids have caused. >> this is a wide-ranging problem. you can't point the finger at one company or family but remind us about the big role they played in this broader epidemic

that has been killing many people in the u.s.. >> the estimates are 500,000 people in the last 20 years. it's a lot of people. purdue pharma hit upon something extraordinary, and opioid formula that was much stronger than anything that had gone before. doctors began prescribing it in people became addicted. they've always been accused of not being open about the addictive quality and the strength of their drugs. now that has morphed if you like overtime into a much wider opioid crisis. fentanyl, heroin, all of these things contributing to what was something like 75,000 deaths last year alone. due to opioids. so they were not the only company but they were one of the first in on this market in the mid 90's. >> the bbc's gary o'donoghue, thank you for your reporting. let's take a look at other

stories. the yuan has started an operation to remove more than one billion barrels of oil. the vessel with a crew of experts reached the ship on tuesday. there's a risk it could break apart or explode causing an environmental catastrophe. the first public meeting of a nasa panel studying with the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena which we would call ufos kicked off on wednesday. it features experts from fields ranging from physics to astrobiology and was formed last june to examine unclassified ufo sightings which it refers to as uap's. and other data from government and private sectors. british researchers are developing pea that do not taste like peas. sounds like a dream but why? the plan is to produce an alternative to soya to meet the demand for land base food.

peas tend not to be used as a meat substitute because they taste like peas as our science correspondent reports. >> these pea plants are being grown at a farm outside norwich. chris harrison will use them to produce meat substitutes. this is what they will look like after they have been processed. these protein chunks sold to food firms to make dishes like this chili. this is delicious. it's easier to make spicy food because the protein taste of pea s. >> once you start to use milder flavorings you're more likely to taste the flavor coming through. exactly that. a lot of work goes into making burgers that do not have that vegetable flavor. that has been the biggest focus of that industry in the last five years.

>> these seeds could be the answer. they are the wild variety from india which have no flavor. they cannot be grown commercially but scientists have come up with an ingenious answer. >> in this particular one we have a flavorless trait and this one we have improved nutritional quality. but neither of these are variants that would be grown by the farmer and we need to really get those traits into something like this, which the farmer is prepared to grow. in other words, we are going to integrate with these three types >>. >>these are the first plants to have been crossbred with some of these seeds. there has been an enormous increase in demand for plant-based foods. in the u.k. it's growing at 30% per year. growing peas could save farmers 15 million pounds a year because they do not need fertilizer. that would reduce co2 emissions

by a whopping 24,000 tons each year. british grown up flavorless peas would reduce the need for imported soya which is widely used in plant-based foods. we all know we are facing a climate emergency. a lot of soya is produced in south america and a fair proportion is produced following rain forest deforestation and that carries a big footprint. the aim is to produce a new variety of pea that is nutritious, easy to harvest and most importantly, does not taste like a pea. bbc world news, norwich. >> as my producer was clear to say, not everyone hates the taste. they can be delicious. for we go, a great story. a pair of zoos in the u.k. or butting heads over who has the more globetrotting goats. let me explain. london zoo's goats are

taking on other goats for a 30 day challenge. they put their best hoof forward with the goal of them walking the distance of the planet. earth's circumference is 40,000 kilometers or 25 miles. that breaks down to 1300 kilometers a day, so in reality they will walk about two kilometers daily. with names like button, chestnut, pickle, holly and rambles, it does not really matter. it's narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.

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