The jury in Russell Brand’s rape trial won’t see a TV documentary that a complainant says led her to come forward.

Judge Mr Justice Bennathan said it would be unfair to show the Channel 4 Dispatches programme because the allegations it contains have not been tested in court, but said that jurors will hear about it during the trial.

The 51-year-old actor and comedian faces seven charges – three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault.

The allegations, made by six female complainants, span a 10-year period between 1999 and 2009. He denies the charges.

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There have been sobering warnings this week from MI5, the UK’s AI Minister and a number of security officials – AI is already a threat to our lives.

But despite those fears, innovation and AI development continues at breakneck speed.

So this week on AI Decoded we focus in on that central question of AI – should we accelerate the development of ever more powerful AI systems, or slow down before the risks become unmanageable?

It’s the question at the centre of a major new film, Artificial, which explores the growing divide between OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever over the answer.

To discuss it all, Marc Cieslak and Dr Stephanie Hare are joined by technology futurist Bernard Marr and AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy, one of the world’s leading voices on the risks posed by superintelligent AI.

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0:00 – Introduction
2:14 – The real threat of AI
10:05 – Waging war on data centres
12:03 – Can we control super intelligence?

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President Zelensky has said he feels “betrayed” by President Trump and the US.

He believes access to Elon Musk’s Starlink Starshield system, which is critical to Ukraine’s fight against Russia, was limited. Ukraine said systems have now been restored.

But – just how reliant Ukraine and others are on Elon Musk’s technology? And are there any alternatives?

In this video…

0:38 – What did Zelensky say
1:39 – What is Starlink
2:16 – What is Starshield
2:42 – What are they used for in Ukraine
3:13 – How important is US tech to Ukraine
4:27 – What has Elon Musk said
5:26 – Has the Pentagon responded
6:16 – Are there alternatives to Starlink
7:59 – Is Europe too reliant on US tech
9:11 – What is Trump’s Ukraine strategy

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The BBC has witnessed Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and set fire to olive trees in the occupied West Bank.

Several dozen settlers dressed in black charged down a hill near an outpost – illegal under Israeli and international law – to a field where Palestinians and activists were harvesting olives. They torched about a dozen trees and hurled stones from slingshots.

Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine, who was at the scene, was taken to hospital where she told reporters she “got jumped” and described being kicked on the ground.

The UN says the past two weeks have already seen more attacks by violent Israeli settlers than during the entire harvest season last year. It says this year levels of settler violence have reached an all-time high.

The BBC’s Middle East Correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from the occupied West Bank.

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