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Chapter 1: Why is Saudi Arabia withdrawing funding from LIV Golf?
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President Trump has said his administration is considering reducing troops from Germany, appearing to be in retaliation for some critical comments by the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Pro-Palestinian activists say a flotilla of boats carrying aid to Gaza has been intercepted by the Israeli military in international waters near Greece.
Also in this podcast we hear about workers in Kenya who allege they had to view distressing images captured by meta smart glasses. Sometimes people employed in doing this work encounter extremely graphic content. One person said he felt doing this work he'd lost his humanity.
Any idea that the Roman Empire creates a really impermeable frontier that holds its own and then all of a sudden breaks down and gives way to a wave of barbarians isn't credible. A study reveals the collapse of the Roman Empire may not have been as swift and dramatic as once thought.
It was supposed to be a game changer for the game of golf as we knew it, but five years since its launch is the Saudi investment bubble in the sport set to burst. Saudi Arabia is to stop funding the Live Golf Tour at the end of the season. Live was formed as a breakaway from the longstanding PGA Tour, offering billions to tempt away some leading players in the sport.
The tour features some of the biggest names, including John Rahm, Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau. And with millions invested across other sports, could this be the start of a snowball effect? Our golf correspondent Ian Carter is following the story.
Yksi iso ongelma, joka liittyy Liville, on se, että se ei toiminut todella käsittämättä lähestymällä, kun puhutaan ympäristöä. Se on ollut onnistuvaa, erityisesti Suomessa ja Australiassa, kun puhutaan ihmisistä katsomisesta ja luovasta ympäristöä. Se ei toiminut todella käsittämättä, kun puhutaan ihmisistä katsomisesta ja luovasta.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of US troop reductions in Germany?
So that's a big knock-on effect. And, you know, another key element that Saudi Arabia is still focusing on is on tourism. Now, it's been successful to a degree with internal tourism, Saudis spending their money in Saudi Arabia rather than abroad. But aside from the big events, and of course for pilgrimage every year for Hajj, it hasn't really broken through successfully.
So I think that is playing a part as well. Also, as I mentioned before, the human rights issues, the shadow that hung over MBS for years over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, that's dissipated to some extent. But there's still an issue about that. The golf players, the footballers all have to face some kind of condemnation for going to play there or to work for the Saudis.
Sebastian Usher with that assessment. Next, relations between the US and Germany are being tested over the war in Iran. In the last few days, President Trump and Chancellor Merz have criticized each other for their stance towards Tehran. In his latest social media post, Mr. Trump announced that he was considering reducing the number of US soldiers posted in Germany. Mr. Merz has responded by calling for a reliable transatlantic partnership.
Global Affairs reporter Paul Moss told me why there are so many US troops in Germany in the first place. This actually dates back to the Second World War, when American troops came to help fight Nazi Germany. But when that conflict ended, it was followed immediately by the Cold War. Germany, of course, the front line between the Communist East and the Kiitos, että katsoitte.
järjestettiin, että amerikkalaiset sotilasjärjestelmät Euroopassa eivät lopeta kauheasti. Joten tietysti ei ole mitään erittäin uutta, mutta Donald Trump on oikeastaan todella rauhoittunut muiden NATO-maiden kanssa, koska hän näkee, että se ei toimi auttamaan Yhdysvaltoja Iranin kanssa. Hän on erityisesti rauhoittunut, jolloin Alemankin puheenjohtaja Mr. Mertz, joka sanoi, että Iran oli nykyään rauhoittamassa Yhdysvaltoja Iranissa, joten hän on uudistunut vahvistamaan sotilasjärjestelmiä.
And what exactly has Chancellor Metz said about that threat to pull them out? Well, he was speaking today while he was watching an army exercise, and everyone was waiting with bated breath to see how he would respond to what Donald Trump said. In fact, he didn't address the threat directly, but as you said, he...
He talked about the importance of a reliable transatlantic partnership, and he said that this partnership was important for him personally. And it should be remembered that Friedrich Mertz really means this. He's a man who spent a lot of time in the United States. Unlike a lot of chancellors, he speaks perfect English. He was chairman for 10 years of an organization called the Atlantic Bridge, which brings together American and European politicians.
Toisaalta luulen, että tällainen kokemus ja ympäristö ei todennäköisesti kääntäisi paljon isoa Donaldun. Hän tuntuu reagoimaan siitä, mitä hän näkee kokemuksiaan, ja siksi hänen viimeisimmät vaikutukset. Mitä se tarkoittaa Yhdysvalloissa, jos he saavat säästää säästöjä Alamäellä ja myös tulevaisuudessa?
I mean, it would be really huge. I mean, on a practical level, these are the American troops closest to Russia. If there ever were a conflict in Europe, it would be a lot harder to airlift troops from Texas rather than having them waiting in Stuttgart or Wiesbaden. Now, no one expects that conflict on land anytime soon, but I think psychologically...
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Chapter 3: How are pro-Palestinian activists responding to Israeli military actions?
Israeli military has been saying that it enforces the naval blockade of Gaza and insists that that is legal. The Israeli foreign ministry is the one that is really commenting here though and is accusing the activists who are on this flotilla of being illegal. Ja Jelan, tämä ei ole ensimmäistä kertaa, että jotain tällaista on tapahtunut viime vuosina.
No, so actually the Global Smooth flotilla itself had a flotilla of boats back in October that were setting sail for Gaza, trying to break the blockade. And that was at a time before the ceasefire came into force, a time of very high tension. That got a lot of media focus. At that point, the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was on board. This time...
There has been sort of less focus on this flotilla, but it is an extremely large one. And they are making accusations against Israel, saying they're deporting people, having brought them against their will to Israel. And it does flag up lots of international law issues that the defense Israel has, it seems to say, basically using counterterrorism laws to justify this.
Jolanne reporting from Jerusalem. The technology giant Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major contract with the company it was using to train AI, after some workers alleged they had to view graphic content captured by Meta smart glasses. The claims were made by some Kenya-based employees of the firm Sama. Our senior technology reporter Chris Vallance has been investigating and spoke to Christian Fraser.
This concerns Meta's smart glasses. You can use them to take photos, video, and you can get Meta's AI to answer questions about what is captured. Particularly useful if you're partially sighted, for example. It'll tell you about some of the things that you've seen.
In a major scoop, two Swedish newspapers spoke to workers based in Kenya at Meta's subcontractor, SAMR. They were working on improving and training AI, and they said as part of their work they'd been asked to review footage captured by the smart glasses, and that included sometimes photos.
users on the toilet, users having sex, and also intimate footage of other people that had been captured by the glasses, that that was something they occasionally encountered. Now, Meta said in response at the time that material was private unless users chose to share it, staff might sometimes review AI content to improve customer experience, which he said was a common industry practice, and this was made clear in its terms of service.
Samra on loppunut kontraktaan. Mitä se tarkoittaa yritysten kanssa? Kaksi kuukautta myöhemmin kontrakta oli lopettunut. Samra sanoi, että sen jälkeen sen tulisi tehdä 1,108 työtä. Meta sanoi, että tämä oli siksi, että Samran työ oli substandardissa. Samra sanoi, että tämä oli heidän asiaan. He olivat miettineet metan standardit.
But really we haven't been able to find out what not meeting META's standards meant. Some Kenyan workers' organizations say really the failure of standards they allege was that workers had spoken out. And that was what META really objected to. In a much more generic sense, Chris, and maybe beyond AI in terms of content moderation, is there a safeguarding issue here for the workers that are doing this, those that are annotating data or those who are training the AI?
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Chapter 4: What are the new drone restrictions being implemented in China?
Tai sitten tuot sen fonumiin. Isompikin puhelinremontti hoituu keskimäärin sadalla neljälläkympillä ja huoltoarvio on ilmainen. Jätä arkisatamaan.
This is the Global News Podcast. Next to the ongoing legal battle between two of the world's largest technology firms in a California courtroom. Elon Musk is suing his former friend and co-founder of OpenAI, Sam Altman. Mr. Musk accuses him of abandoning the company's non-profit mission. Mr. Musk has been testifying for a second day. Christina Criddle is a technology reporter at the Financial Times and was in court. Rob Young asked her what she made of Mr. Musk's performance.
Tämä on ensimmäinen kerta, jossa olen kuullut hänet puhumaan tällä kertaa. Se oli todennäköisesti hetki, ja periaatteessa tutkimuskeskukset ovat vastaanottaneet, että hän oli yllättänyt donoittamaan noin 38 miljoonaa OpenAIin, jossa se olisi yksi non-profit. Tänään hän kutsui sen hyökkäyksen.
Yesterday his lawyer kind of likened it to having a museum with a gift shop, where you wouldn't have a museum gift shop sell Picassos and pocket the profit. That's the analogy that he used. And then today we saw Elon in cross-examination, where OpenAI's lawyer was trying to get him to answer very narrow yes or no questions. And Musk was basically refusing to do so, finding ways out of it, asking for clarification and really pushing back. I mean, at one point he said,
Your questions are not simple. They're designed to trick me, essentially. And I need to give longer answers, because a simple answer would be misleading the jury. And he even used the example of, if you ask the question, have you stopped beating your wife? I can't just answer yes or no. And so they were really having this back and forth. So it got quite tetchy then. Did he persuade the jury in your assessment? What was his performance like?
I can't really speak to what the jury thinks, but he definitely was able to get his point across in his cross-examination without really giving too much away or giving any howlers that made me think, oh, he maybe shouldn't have said that. So he really made his point very clearly and then didn't really answer the questions where he could have been on the hook for something, at least in my view.
We've still got to hear from the boss of OpenAI and the head of Microsoft, which is a large shareholder in OpenAI later on in the trial. What does Elon Musk want from this case?
Exactly. We still have to hear from lots more people in this trial. Musk was the first person to take the stand. Naturally, we're hearing lots of his arguments for why he's bringing this case. We need to hear everybody else's arguments in defense as well. Musk is arguing that OpenAI was founded as a non-profit, which is true, with this mission of ensuring that AI benefits all of humanity. He's arguing that when he donated this money, he believed it would remain a non-profit.
By creating this hugely valuable for-profit entity now, which is worth over $850 billion, it's one of the most valuable companies in the world, Musk argues that that means that it's not going to be as focused on its mission of ensuring that AI benefits all of humanity, because instead it's going to be focused on profits. And so what is potentially at stake in the trial?
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Chapter 5: What does the latest DNA study reveal about the fall of Ancient Rome?
...picture and portrait on a drone. And I think, you know, when it comes to the reasons behind this, it has been the fact that drones are becoming more and more popular in Chinese society. But also the Chinese government will be eager to track them, to trace them, to know who's flying them, where and when. And just why are they clamping down exactly?
No one's given any specific reason. So the Ministry of Public Security has said this is for security and safety reasons. But there's no doubt this is going to hit China's biggest drone supplier, drone maker DJI, hugely. Here in Beijing, for instance, there's a total ban on all flights. Now it's already difficult to fly a drone or any kind of aircraft in Beijing.
but now there's a total ban on even bringing in drones or components for drones from outside the city. And there is footage from many of the DJI shops, this famous drone maker, across Beijing, and there is not a single drone in their shop outside of Beijing.
The restrictions are a little bit easier, but still you have to go to the police station. You have to register with your ID. You have to take a special course to say that you'll be a responsible citizen. You have to download software in order that the authorities can track every single flight in real time. So it makes it even more difficult for anyone to fly a drone. I think the other thing is you can apply for permission, but we're hearing online that
Anekdotallisesti sosiaalisen mediasta käyttäjille, että jopa pystyy laittamaan dronin päivän edelleen on erittäin vaikeaa. Ja onko siellä mitään yksityiskohtia? Kerroit aiemmin, että ihmiset haluavat ottaa tämän magaattisen kuvan tai videon. Mitä vaikuttaa turistiin, jos he tulevat katsomaan? Heidän pitäisi tulla ulos jonkinlaisen permitin tai soittaa sen, kun he ovat siellä?
I think you can apply for one, but I think the chances of you getting one, it might be still difficult. No one really knows exactly how this will play out. If you're looking at a major tourist site, will you be able to fly there? And I think that's very, very uncertain right now. I think in terms of where we are with Chinese restrictions, once they put it in place, it's very difficult to even go near the grey area. There will be people patrolling, and we've already heard from people who are switching on their drones and already getting visits from the police.
to check that they're complying with the regulations. There are exceptions if the size of the drone, for instance, and of course if there are areas on the map that are green or white, then you are able to fly them to a certain height. But outside of that, and particularly here in the capital, it will be very, very difficult.
Laura Bicker reporting from Beijing. The collapse of the mighty Roman Empire in AD 476 may have not been as swift and dramatic as once thought. That's according to a new German study. It suggests that barbarians' tribes gradually integrated over time, rather than overrunning Roman territory.
Research has analysed the DNA of more than 200 individuals buried in cemeteries in southern Germany, starting from about the year 450 CE. They found their genomes pointed to a melting pot of soldiers, farmers and barbarians, instead of a single mass migration event from northern Europe. Tim Franks asked Carl Harper, historian at the University of Oklahoma, for his assessment of the study.
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Chapter 6: What are the controversies surrounding Meta's AI training practices?
ja sanoisimme, että siinä oli rauhassa, mutta myöhemmin romaan ajan, se ei ollut erittäin luonnollista tarkoituksia siitä, miksi ympäristö pysyivät ja barbarismi alkoi. Genetiset tutkimukset antoivat meille uuden, erinomaisen uuden ymmärryksen siitä, mitä tämä kirja tekee. Kyle Harper University of Oklahoma
Kliks and views, the modern age of social media and sport, they seemingly go hand in hand. In recent years the world of sport is being reshaped with new formats emerging for quick shareable moments online. From influencers managing sports teams to bite-sized versions of traditional games, like three-a-side football, more sports are fighting for the attention of younger fans. But is it working and is it bringing in the money? Matt Lyons has been taking a look. What is ball league anyway?
All right. We've got a brand new football league that's changing the game. Baller League is coming to the UK. The best part of hockey is going global. Introducing the Three Ice World Cup.
From football to ice hockey, cricket to basketball, sports all around the world are now rolling out new, faster, more action-packed versions of their games, all designed to be shorter, sharper and hard to ignore. One of the newest of these formats is tennis' one-point slam, an event at the Australian Open, where professionals and amateurs play in matches of a single point, with the winner going home with one million Australian dollars. Oh my goodness me! He's won a million dollars!
Lawrence Robertson is the tournament director of the event. We completely outperformed all of the metrics we set ourselves in terms of community reach, domestic audience reach. As we sit here now in March with nine months to go until next year's Australian Open, we're already in fairly advanced talks with...
Brans and partners about who want to get involved with the one point slams. And it's not just about shortening the game and making them ideal for TikTok or Instagram. It's also getting names involved who have big social media followings. It started in boxing with YouTubers getting in the ring to battle it out against each other. And now it's moved to football with the Baller League.
A six-a-side football tournament pitting non-professionals against each other in 30-minute games, with the teams managed by the likes of former Premier League greats Alan Shearer and Ian Wright. There's also a host of influencers and YouTubes involved, including KSI and Angry Ginge. Felix Stark is the CEO of the Baller League.
I ask Chris Beer, senior data journalist at GWI, to take a look at the
But is this all just a flash in the pan trend, or does it have a long term future?
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