This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Friday the 26th of May these are our main

stories.

Artificial intelligence is used to develop a new antibiotic.

Far-right militially, their Stuart Rhodes is sentenced to 18 years in jail for seditious

conspiracy following the attack on the US Capitol in 2021.

A big up surge in investment in clean energy.

Also in this podcast, more than a dozen civilians face trial in a Pakistani military court

as the army seeks to prosecute opposition supporters involved in recent unrest.

And why killer whales are sinking boats of the Iberian coast.

It's like when we get up in the morning and do some coffee when anorka get up,

theorka thinks I have to swim 50 kilometres.

For example, I have to eat and I have to stop some boats.

We begin with an exciting scientific breakthrough that's been made possible thanks to artificial

intelligence.

Researchers in the US and Canada have used AI to discover a new antibiotic that can kill

a particularly dangerous super bug.

Dr Jonathan Stokes is from McMaster University.

AI enhances the rate and in a perfect world decreases the cost with which we can discover

these new structural and functional classes of antibiotics that we desperately need.

It's not a panacea.

It's not going to solve all of our problems, but it's a remarkably powerful and dynamic

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