issue in the region and the major problem that washington is is committing right now ok let me go to sami in beirut we can talk about american influence in a second here but could i ask you the same question that i asked joe we knew your mind what are the main confines of what's going on in the middle east because as joe has pointed out it's a long long laundry list ok go ahead sami. yes i think what this at stake today is the new order in the middle east. or that. one hundred years ago has definitely gone and now there is a new or do but to a different players with different powers that opening them up and for instance you have russia getting a big role in syria especially in the last two years iran the united states of america and. lesser extent saudi arabia so this is a new order. by the. powers and of course i forgot turkey that is a compact of the regional powers on the scene for us. and. the name of the game today is fighting the. core issue is who will be policing. this. areas of influence that would be controlled by each of the. work that we have already mentioned so what's at sta

sami this thing with saudi arabia here. i'm going to agree with joe here it is it seems that it wants a gemini in the region and it wants other countries in the region the gulf countries to mirror its domestic politics and foreign policy which means no human rights no democracy no civil society. al-jazeera comes to mind out of qatar i mean is this what the gulf countries are signing up to and if the same time the more they put pressure on qatar qatar just moves into the arms of the rand again i don't understand the logic of how this supports the national interest of saudi arabia and the security of the entire region it seems are doing everything backwards in brawn go ahead sammy. what it comes to democracy or countries and then we do including iran have this so put including including iran on the side including iran including iran course including including of course including iran when you have i mean council of experts that all of that will be allowed to participate in the next. we cannot talk about democracy it's not abo

do you more deep than dadancing f for e sami: i've finally ended up in andalusia, in southern spain,he birthplace of flamenco. [men speaking spanish] [flamenco guitar playing] man: ole. [men speaking spanish] sami: flamenco is something much more deep than dancing for the tourists in a taverna, with a rose behind one ear. flamenco is powerful stuff. emotions are not held back. the soul is not spared. the technical virtuosity of the best flamenco musicians is unbelievable. the music is rhythmic science, incocorporatig

live civilian we are all shocked the family in spain is also shocked the puzzling question is how sami and the likes of sami became terrorists as we speak that you would never suspect that your son a relative would do this i would tell him to surrender please surrender to the police we have parents surrender to see if the police can capture the ones that have done this to you otherwise other kids will be recruited it's not about these kids it's about what was done to them what they have been told and to want. the police suspect and a mom who masterminded the attacks was killed in a recent explosion and that's where it's believed the terror cell had a bomb making factory and for half a year been planning attacks on a much larger scale with the manhunt for the barcelona driver continuing what i guess the breaks down how open e.u. borders have previously played into the hands of jihad us on the run from authorities in this day and age of total surveillance radicals who are often known to police could move down more than a hundred people in broad daylight and get away they can cross twenty

we are joined by sami attya.ow smart are your robots nowadays >> well, hello thanks for this opportunity to talk about robots and the exciting artificial intelligence robots are becoming smarter over time and they are doing tasks that we didn't imagine them doing years ago. i don't know if you know the history, but 1974 the first controlled robot was built by us, abb. last year we introduced the umi, which stands for you andme it is a collaborative robot that you can place in a manufacturing setting, side by side with humans so he that is really, you know, enabling absolutely new ways of production exciting areas for us. >> automation has been in place for many decades i guess that concept as a whole is not entirely new. the new aspect is now ai, artificial intelligence. how are you working this into to the robotics division? >> ai is an important pillar of our development. and in our case we narrow it down to what we call machine learning and there we give the robots the capability to not be programmed, but be -

of sami became terrorists. you would never suspect that you son of a relative would do this i'm. tell him to surrender please surrender to the police for parents surrender to see if the police can capture the ones that have done this to you otherwise other kids will be recruited it's not about these kids it's about what was done to them what they have been told and taught. police suspect the new mom who masterminded the attacks was killed in a recent explosion in al qaeda. where it's believed that terrorists had a bomb making factory and had been plotting attacks on a much larger scale with the manhunt for the barcelona driver continuing breaks down just how open you borders have previously played into the hands of jarvis on the run. in this day and age of tootle surveillance radicals who are often known to police could move down more than one hundred people in broad daylight and get away they can cross twenty six european countries and there will be a single border checkpoint the entire way good the suspected

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[man singing in spanish] sami: finnish crooner reijo taipale sang about the land of fairy tales in the year of 1963. by t then, finlaland had aeaeady been intoxicated by tango for 3 decades. in the early days of the twentieth century, tango drifted to the nordic shores on the backs of sailors a and traveling music men. i first got interested in this music when i heard the bad boy of

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sami: weelcome to pararanambuco, bbrazil.zil, the land of samba, football, and beautiful people. but there's more to this place than the carnival in rio or the rainforests. i'm traveling to a lesser known region, at least from the western point of view--the northeast state of paranambuco. the last time i was here was in 2008. i got me a bunch of albums, local stuff. on the plane, after reaching cruising altitude, i ordered cachaca on the rocks and slammed in the earbuds. the music had me flying even higher. it was a traditional paranambuco sound fused with rock, funk, hip hop, and reggae. it was something cocompletely open-minded and unashamed, music that didn't

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the kurdistan regional government special representative bayan sami abdul rahman is here and we also have the ambassador from iraq ambassador fareed yasseen. welcome, glad to have you here. both will have an opportunity to speak to you before the panel discussion. three years ago this month isis targeted many of iraq's minority groups christians have cds pokemon and others to this assault on northern iraq. isis also targeted arabs and kurds in many more areas. last year the secretary of state and the u.s. congress and just last week the administration labeled as genocide the attacks on the chaldeans syrians and other groups by isis so the last administration and this administration are in agreement and have made it very clear. over the past three years these communities have faced unspeakable atrocities including mass murder, sexual enslavement and torture. through the efforts of the iraqi government the k. or t., the u.s. government and the international community important progress has been made the liberation of the nineveh plain mosul are important accomplishing is for the religi

the kurdistan regional government special representative bayan sami abdul rahman is here and we also have the ambassador from iraq ambassador fareed yasseen. welcome, glad to have you here. both will have an opportunity to speak to you before the panel discussion. three years ago this month isis targeted many of iraq's minority groups christians have cds pokemon and others to this assault on northern iraq. isis also targeted arabs and kurds in many more areas. last year the secretary of state and the u.s. congress and just last week the administration labeled as genocide the attacks on the chaldeans syrians and other groups by isis so the last administration and this administration are in agreement and have

. >> reporter: like 9-year-old sami. >> hello. i love your dress. >> thank you so much.tion is she for some of the other patients here? >> we can't parent important it is. and how important it is to understand that the burn does not define them. they can achieve anything. >> reporter: the living proof of this message, now in the national spotlight for all to see. especially her biggest little fans at the hospital. a watch party with everyone's favorite singer and fellow survivor as the special guest. >> these kids, you know, they can be in their rooms and probably feeling pain. but they wanted to be here to watch this with me. ♪ and singing this song ♪ to you >> so great. >> the judges voted to send kechi on to the live shows. there will be kids back at shriners watching. >> i had goosebumps. >> it shows you the power of mu >> and her spirit. >> yes. she's incredible. >> thank you, jenna. you can catch the last round of "america's got talent" next tuesday here on nbc. >>> we are back in >>> and we are back in a moment, but first this is "today" on nbc. [ cheers and appla