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The BBC’s Yogita Limaye has been on the ground in Afghanistan witnessing the changes imposed by the Taliban since they regained power in 2021.

She documents her latest visit to the country, reporting on stories including the ban on education for women and girls, extreme poverty, and the conflict with Pakistan.

Yogita also secures an interview with a senior Taliban official to challenge him on these issues.

In this video…

0:00 - Reporting in Afghanistan

01:22 - Dress code

02:08 - Ban on women’s education

02:33 - Secretly studying

04:22 - Filming in public

05:15 - Strike on rehab centre

08:06 - Taliban checkpoints

08:34 - Local reporter insights

09:58 - Heading to Ghor

10:49 - More Taliban permissions

11:59 - Hospital visit

13:46 - Unmarked child graves

14:16 - Where we stay

14:51 - Desperate job search

16:53 - Taliban interview

19:27 - Previous Taliban interviews

20:48 - Restrictions on women

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The US and Saudi Arabia have signed a landmark deal that will reportedly allow the Gulf kingdom to develop a civilian nuclear programme.

The deal is described as a "peaceful nuclear co-operation agreement" that will provide "great access for American companies in the Saudi nuclear energy program", according to the US energy department.

Text from the deal was not made public, but US media have reported that it could allow Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium in the future - which can be used as fuel for power plants, but also to make nuclear bombs.

Experts say that would mark a first for the US and could run the risk of future nuclear proliferation in an already unstable region.

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OpenAI has revealed some of its most advanced AI models went rogue and hacked a start-up after it lost control of them during a security test.

The ChatGPT-maker said its agent - an AI system which can operate alone after human instruction – was being tested in a controlled environment but, after finding weaknesses, was able to escape the test limits.

In another AI development, the publisher of Harry Potter and other bestsellers, Bloomsbury Publishing, says it's set to receive a share of a £1.1 billion settlement from Anthropic -in what's thought to be the largest copyright payout in US history.

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The US and Saudi Arabia have announce a deal allowing the Gulf kingdom to develop a civil nuclear programme.

The agreement is likely to hand billions of dollars to US companies, to build facilities to produce the enriched uranium used as fuel for power plants, but which can also be used to make nuclear bombs.

Some nuclear experts, along with officials in Israel, have warned that the plan could ultimately lead to Saudi Arabia developing a nuclear weapon.

It’s understood that the deal allows US companies to develop and manage nuclear power facilities in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia, along with Israel, is one of the closest allies of the US in the Middle East. The deal will raise concerns over nuclear proliferation in a highly unstable region beset by conflict.

The US and Israel have justified their war with Iran as necessary to prevent it developing nuclear weapons, something that Tehran denies planning to do.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.

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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced the return of the £2 bus fare cap in most of England, but how will it be funded?

And, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, one of the first and most senior Labour politicians to publicly call for Keir Starmer to go, is expected to join Andy Burnham's government. He’ll be joining fellow Starmer dissenters Wes Streeting and John Healey in the cabinet.

Adam Fleming is joined by Chris Mason and Henry Zeffman to unpack it all.

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00:00 How far could you get for £2?

03:00 What is the bus price cap?

07:00 Has it worked elsewhere?

08:03 Scotland’s Anas Sarwar to become a Lord

09:38 Who got the best jobs after ‘stabbing Starmer in the back’?

15:10 Anas Sarwar as Trade Minister

18:18 Wes Streeting gets caught laughing on mic

22:16 What could happen with income tax?

OpenAI has revealed some of its most advanced AI models went rogue and hacked a start-up after it lost control of them during a security test.

The ChatGPT-maker said its agent - an AI system which can operate alone after human instruction – was being tested in a controlled environment but, after finding weaknesses, was able to escape the test limits.

They targeted Hugging Face, one of the world's largest hubs for sharing AI models, gaining access to some internal company systems.

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Ukrainian drones have hit warehouses of Russia's biggest online retailer again, killing one person and injuring another 14, local officials said.

They said logistics hubs run by Wildberries in two south-west cities in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions were struck overnight, triggering the evacuation of employees.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the hubs were "involved in providing the Russian army with drone components, navigation equipment and other gear”.

Ukraine hit the retailer's warehouses in central Russia four days ago, killing eight people, according to Russian officials.

The latest strikes come after President Zelensky dismissed Ukraine’s army commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi.

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The artificial intelligence giant OpenAI - maker of ChatGPT - has said that some of its most advanced AI models went rogue and hacked another company, called Hugging Face.

Analysts say there is growing concern about the autonomy of AI agents, as they become more powerful.

Last year the AI firm Anthropic said that, during a test scenario, its Claude Opus 4 model had attempted to blackmail an employee, to stop him from replacing it. The company has also slowed the release of its Mythos model, which it said could outperform humans at some cyber-security and hacking tasks.

We ask the BBC's technology reporter Chris Vallance why AI programmes act in unexpected ways, what regulation may be needed, and whether AI could one day become too "smart" to control.

Several tech firms are already working to develop Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI - a form of AI that is as good as, or better than, humans at learning and reasoning.

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00:00 Introduction

00:14 How an OpenAI agent went rogue

01:52 Why weren’t there guardrails in place for AI?

02:24 Anthropic’s blackmail incident

03:50 Hannah Fry and the AI mug experiment

05:07 AI’s growing capability

06:07 When will AI be “smarter” than humans?

07:00 Regulating AI

08:48 The AI “Pandora’s Box”

A woman who was almost killed in an attack but whose 999 call helped save her life has seen her former partner sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempted murder.

After months in a coercive relationship, Caz Goddard said she finally asked James Stock to leave her home near Weston-super-Mare, UK in July last year.

The next thing she remembered was Stock knocking her to the floor and strangling her.

Caz was on the phone to the police when she was assaulted, and managed to hide her phone in some plants so the entire call was recorded.

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Lebanon's army said its troops are deploying to a "pilot zone" in the south of the country following the withdrawal of Israeli forces under a US-brokered agreement reached last month.

Engineering units entered the village of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh in Nabatieh district on Tuesday morning, the army command announced.

Later, it said Israeli forces had opened fire in the vicinity of the troops. Israel's military said warning shots had been fired after the troops crossed into the Israeli-declared "security zone".

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