Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has told the BBC that Iran forced her to sign a false confession before allowing her to fly home to the UK. She says she did so “under duress” in Iran in the presence of a British official.

Her lawyer has written to the UK Foreign Secretary asking for an explanation of why she was “told to sign a false confession by her own government”.

The British-Iranian national was freed by Iran in March 2022, along with fellow detainee Anoosheh Ashoori, six years after being arrested on spying charges.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe says that the Iranian authorities would not let her board her plane home until she had signed the last-minute false confession.

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Massive floods and landslides swept through border towns and villages in Nepal and Tibet a month ago, wiping out thousands of houses and destroying energy infrastructure.

Since then, 1,400 people are known to have died, thousands are still missing and many are displaced.

Scientists say the floods were caused by a collapse of rock wall and glacier ice near the peak of Langtang Lirung, a mountain on Nepal’s side of the Himalayas.

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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.

In this video…
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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