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The Alternative for Germany party defines the family exclusively as a mother, father, and their children. @Alice_Weidel, the party’s co-leader, explains why she supports that description while raising two children with her wife. Watch the full Insider interview with @zannymb: bit.ly/47u7QKu
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Some members of Alternative for Germany, which is leading German opinion polls, have been linked neo-Nazi groups. @Alice_Weidel, the party’s co-leader, told @zannymb that accusations there are extremists within the AfD are “completely unfounded”. Watch the full Insider interview: bit.ly/4i4wh60
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Is Vladimir Putin interested in peace? @Alice_Weidel, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany party, believes Germany should end all support for Ukraine. She tells @zannymb that Europe needs to consider Russia’s security concerns. Watch the full Insider interview: bit.ly/4srZay5
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Refugees “have to go back to their country”, says @Alice_Weidel, the co-leader of the Alternative for Germany party. She explains to @zannymb why she thinks Afghan, Syrian and Ukrainian refugees should leave Germany. Watch the full Insider interview: bit.ly/3VDwGFc
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Europe is heading for a bond-market crisis, says @Alice_Weidel, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany party. She tells @zannymb that high-state debt and the rising cost of borrowing will be a disastrous combination for the euro zone. Watch the full Insider interview: bit.ly/4hPiLVc
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Ukraine has “already lost” the war against Russia, says @Alice_Weidel, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany party, which is leading German opinion polls. She told @zannymb, that Germany should pull the plug on support for Ukraine against Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
Watch the full interview at 6pm London time (1pm in New York): bit.ly/4yrcX9s
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Donald Trump’s attitude to AI can be summed up with just three words: “Let it rip”. But his hands-off approach to the technology is becoming increasingly unsustainable. @zannymb believes it will take a Chernobyl-like disaster to regulate AI. But, she adds, history shows it’s possible to strike the right balance between safety and speed. Watch the full Insider show: bit.ly/3TrILww
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What happens when an autonomous AI can wage war? Eric Schmidt, former chief executive of Google, tells @zannymb why targeting decisions must never be left to a machine. Watch the full Inside Defence interview: bit.ly/4xIaJSu
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“We’re not going to do a pause.” @ericschmidt tells @zannymb why the incentives make an AI pause impossible, and what America and China should agree to instead. Watch the full interview on Tuesday at 6pm London time (1pm in New York): bit.ly/4y9psqS
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Iran has gained leverage over a new global choke point: the Bab al-Mandab strait. Its ally, the Houthi rebel militia, seized new territory on Yemen’s coast that borders the strait, through which roughly 12% of global trade traverses every day bit.ly/4dJZdyK
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Ukraine’s war against Russia is dominated by drones, data and a relentless cycle of innovation, as @zannymb saw when she was among the first foreign journalists to visit the command centre of Ukraine’s elite drone brigade, Nemesis. Watch The Insider: bit.ly/3VlIBai
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Joining @bbclaurak is always fun. Today's conversation ranged from the royal family to Ed Sheeran via the budget. My contribution: to argue (probably in vain) for a serious look at welfare spending. Watch the show here: bbc.in/4izDE7x
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Russia is developing its own equivalent of Starlink. @zannymb, our editor-in-chief, and Alex Turner, our defence editor, who have just returned from Ukraine, discuss how close Rassvet is to becoming operational and what its use would mean for the war. Watch The Insider: bit.ly/4hxCFnf
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Recently @elonmusk told me that Britain and Europe were headed for “a reckoning” and “civil war” as a growing group of people would try to implement beliefs that are antithetical to Western ones. He suggested that I didn’t know what was going on
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Our analysis of Britain found that the government is struggling to deal with the problem of Islamism. But the idea that Muslims as a group pose a threat to Britain is unfounded bit.ly/3T1hT5Z
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Our cover leader argues that Islamists and the populist right feed off each other. That is the real danger facing Europe bit.ly/3SDI1nC
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. @harari_yuval says voters need to challenge politicians on AI today. In an interview with @zannymb, the author and historian warns that the technology is developing so quickly that voters need to press politicians now before America’s midterm elections in November. Watch the full Insider interview: bit.ly/4gLnIO1
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. @harari_yuval says AI will take over the financial system. The author and historian warned @zannymb that humans may not understand what causes a financial crash in the future. Watch the full Insider interview: bit.ly/4x8RkdX
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