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

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4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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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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0:00.0	I'm David Remnickin each week on the New Yorker radio hour. My colleagues and I
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0:25.3	listen to the New Yorker radio hour,
0:27.5	wherever you get your podcast. Israeli strikes continue in Lebanon and in Beirut black smoke fills the sky.
0:39.6	This is very much a city and a country that feels that it's already a war.
0:44.3	I'm Marco Werman and I'm Carolyn Beeler.
0:46.6	Today the latest from the ground in Lebanon.
0:49.4	And real talk from a Palestinian peace activist.
0:52.2	We create hope together.
0:54.4	It's not something politicians will give us.
0:56.7	It's not something that you find by looking for it.
1:00.7	It's something you create.
1:02.0	Also today, a Nobel Prize for a scientist whose work helped make AI possible and comes with some remorse.
1:09.0	This is the kind of regret where you did something that seemed reasonable at the time, but it might turn out to have had bad consequences.
1:15.0	Plus, when you see trash in a museum, make sure it's not art before you throw it away.
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