Nick Mars
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and at 14 Hours GMT on Tuesday 28th January, these are our main stories. We hear from our correspondent, who's been on a rare aid trip with the Jordanian military inside Gaza. Hospitals overwhelmed, dead bodies on the streets. What can stop the battle for Goma raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
And the dramatic rise of the new chatbot, DeepSeek, and the concerns from some that it's a vehicle for Chinese spies.
It could be a reality within the next 10 years. We examine the ethical issues. As hundreds of thousands of Gazans continue to walk back to find what's left of their homes in northern Gaza, Jordanian helicopters have begun deliveries of aid to the territory, the first since the ceasefire was declared.
The BBC joined the mission, the first international media organisation to fly into Israeli-held territory in southern Gaza since this ceasefire. Our correspondent Fergal Keane was on board. He's now back at the Alzaka Air Base in Jordan, and he told me what he saw.
Fergal, that aid, as you said, went into the south. What do we know about aid getting in for the hundreds of thousands of Gazans returning to Gaza City further north, where the need is going to be huge, isn't it?
We've been speaking to one of the people who stayed in Jalabia in northern Gaza throughout the conflict. His name is Saib al-Zar, and we asked him what it was like now being reunited with some of his relatives who've returned home.
Saeb Al-Zar speaking to Nick Robinson. Conditions in Goma in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo seem to be getting worse. There's intense fighting going on between the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, the Congolese government and UN troops. Four more South African peacekeepers have been killed, bringing it to a total of 13 over the past few days.
Up to two million people are in the city, including hundreds of thousands displaced by conflict. Jens Laake is a spokesman for the United Nations Humanitarian Office.
Our reporter Emery Makumeno is in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa. He told me about the latest fighting in Goma.
And Emery, I'm hearing that the World Food Programme is saying that they've stopped food deliveries. And that is devastating for many people in Goma because a lot of people are living in refugee camps, aren't they?
And Emery, what are we hearing about the hopes of a ceasefire?
Emery Makumeno in Kinshasa. The return of Donald Trump to the White House has raised expectations of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 remains the largest war in Europe since the Second World War. Moscow now has control of one fifth of its neighbour's territory. The UN says at least 12,300 civilians have been killed in Ukraine.
Our senior international correspondent, Orla Guerin, reports now from the southern city of Zaporizhia on how one bereaved family feels about the prospect of negotiations.
Ola Gery, reporting from the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia. More than 200 years ago, the author Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, her novel about a young scientist who creates a creature in a scientific experiment. For some people, our next story may have echoes of that and ethical issues to grapple with too.
Scientists are making such rapid progress that the board of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority here in the UK... has been told that lab-grown human eggs and sperm might be a reality within the next 10 years. Justin Webb spoke to Sarah Franklin, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, about the ethics of this.
But first, Professor Robin Lovell-Badge from the Francis Crick Institute told him how all this would work, using skin cells or some other kind of tissue as the starting point.
Sarah Franklin, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Professor Robin Lovell-Badge from the Francis Crick Institute. Still to come, we hear about Bishop Marion Budd's sermon that upset Donald Trump.
A few days ago, not many people had heard of DeepSeek. Now, the Chinese chatbot seems to have blown the global AI race wide open. It shot to the top of the US App Store on Monday, overtaking its American rival, ChatGPT. And its creators say it cost a mere $6 million, compared to the billions poured into AI by the likes of Microsoft and Google.
As well as sending a wave of panic through the Western tech world, it's also raised questions of security. It's only a week since the short-lived ban of TikTok, based on concerns that the Chinese-owned social media app is harvesting US data. Will DeepSeek raise similar alarm bells? Joe Tidy is our cyber correspondent.
Now, there are inherent biases with all chatbots of this type. We've seen them in the past in favour of white males, if you like, in the Western world. The algorithm for deep seek seems to be slightly different. There seems to be an inbuilt China-friendly censorship bias.
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