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

I'm Janet Joliel and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 10th of March, these are our main stories.

The Chinese leader Xi Jinping further cements his power with an unprecedented third term.

German police say a government killed seven people, including an unborn baby in Thursday's

attack on a religious meeting in Hamburg. Scientists create the first detailed map of how an

insect's brain is wired. Also in this podcast the use of ums and hours in speech.

So all of the AI conferences are opened. Anyone who's capable of, you know,

make, you know, paying for the trip and the ticket.

How artificial intelligence is learning to sound more and more human.

Xi Jinping has cemented his status as China's most powerful leader in generations after securing

an unprecedented third term as the country's president. During a highly choreographed ceremony

in Beijing's Great Hall for People, China's rubber stamp parliament voted to extend his rule by

another five years. Nearly 3000 voted for not one against.

President Xi took the oath of office committing to make China a great modern socialist country.

But this all comes at a time of growing tensions with the US, economic challenges at home,

and global fears that China might invade Taiwan. Asia Pacifico to Michael Bristo says it's a

significant moment for the world's second biggest economy. In some respects this was a non-event

because we knew all along that Xi Jinping at this parliament was going to get a third term in

office. And indeed the presidency in itself in China is not that much of an important

rule. It's largely ceremonial. Xi Jinping gains his power by being head of the Communist Party.

That's where his power mainly derives from. But I think it's worth marking because this is

the culmination of a five-year project. In 2018 Xi Jinping changed the rules in China to allow

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