Christa Pike was 20 when she became the youngest woman on death row in the US.

Now, 30 years later she’s facing her execution date this week. She would be the first woman put to death in Tennessee in nearly 200 years.

Pike was one of two people convicted of brutally beating, torturing and murdering Colleen Slemmer, a 19-year-old woman she met at a training programme for troubled teens.

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00:37 What was Christa Pike convicted of?
02:14 Moment Pike was sent down in 1996
02:47 Why does Pike’s team want to stop the execution
04:13 Friend of Pike speaks to the BBC
05:13 Governor’s Statement
05:46 What about the victim’s family?
06:14 Why has it taken 30 years?
06:51 How rare are female executions in the US?

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An OpenAI agent has “infiltrated” part of the Australian government’s healthcare scheme Medicare. Experts say it’s the world’s first known breach of a government system by rogue AI agents

It accessed a statistics portal in June, OpenAI became aware in August and told the Australian government in September, via email.

So – how can this happen? In this video, the BBC’s Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy explains.

0:00 Intro
01:09 What happened in Australia?
02:01 Why would AI do this?
02:36 OpenAI’s response
03:26 AI agent v AI model
04:00 Previous AI hacks
04:54 What is OpenAI?
05:51 Australia’s response
06:34 Closed v open AI models
07:50 The known risks of AI
09:03 Could this happen again?
10:00 End

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The father of Manchester terror attack victim Saffie Roussos has paid tribute to his “stunning” daughter.
Andrew Roussos told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme Saffie was a “huge character”, on what would have been her ninth birthday.
He said he wanted her name and images to be remembered through the media, as it was what she would have wanted.
Saffie was one of 22 people killed in a terror attack after an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in May.

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A week after an apparent Ukrainian attack on a Russian military base in occupied Crimea, an arms store at another military facility has been hit by a series of explosions.

Blaming “sabotage”, Russian officials said a fire triggered the blasts in the Dzhankoi area, another fire hit a power station and a railway was damaged.

A string of blasts last week destroyed Russian warplanes at a Black Sea base on the Crimean coast.

Ukraine has not admitted that attack.

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