After weeks of Israeli attacks, Lebanese feeling abandoned by international community

Israel is expanding its ground incursion into southern Lebanon and Israeli air strikes continue to target Beirut’s southern suburbs. About a million Lebanese have been displaced in recent weeks and many in Lebanon are feeling abandoned by the international community. Also, British Canadian scientist Geoffrey Hinton has been called “the godfather of artificial intelligence” because his research laid the groundwork for advancements in AI. But that doesn’t mean he’s a proponent. In fact, he’s known for speaking out about the dangers of the technologies he helped invent. We’ll hear his reaction to Tuesday’s announcement that he’s won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics. And, Tunisian President Kais Saied has claimed a second term in a landslide election that critics say was rigged, with his closest challenger getting only 7% of the vote. We’ll get analysis on the state of Tunisian democracy, given that this largely predicted scenario has come to fruition.

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