the bbc uncovers a report showing the post office spent £100 million of public money fighting postmasters in court despite knowing their defence was untrue. let's head to the bbc sport centre. on thursday, the quarterfinals in barcelona and to the last six year running after singh of norway 3—1 on the night in spain and 5—2 on aggregate. just over and we just approach the half—hour mark and currently 1—0 with the only goal of

the game and that means the french capital now leads at tight 3—1 on aggregates. newcastle united midfielder sandro tonali has been charged with misconduct by the english football association for alleged breaches of betting rules. having signed from ac milan injuly 2023 for £55 million, tonali was banned for betting on matches involving his teams brescia and milan. this charge, though, relates to alleged bets since he moved to newcastle. andy swiss has more. remembered joining newcastle last summer but is only really played a few times for them because last year, he was banned by the italian football federation for ten months because he broke betting rules in italy and not was extended worldwide siu has not been able to play for newcastle since then. now, today, the english fa have charged them with alleged breaches of betting

rules. these relate to separate allegations during his time as a newcastle player. the faa alleges he broke the rules by pledging 50 bets a matches between august and october last year. newcastle have said they acknowledge the charge and that in their words, acknowledge the charge and that in theirwords, he acknowledge the charge and that in their words, he continues to fully comply with the relevant investigations and retains the clubs full support. although he cannot play for newcastle, he can continue to train with his newcastle team—mates and he has until the 5th of april to respond to the charges. nottingham forest manager nuno espirito santo says he and his players are solely focusing on what's happening on the pitch. he's been speaking publicly for the first time since the club confirmed it'll appeal against a four—point deduction for breaching premier league profit and sustainability rules. the ruling has left forest in the relegation zone, one point from safety, going into this weekend's game against crystal palace. i think it now that we know the reality and the reality is we're in the relegation zone. so who are we to say

that it is fair or unfair? we have to focus on what we have to do for them and what we have to do is on the pitch. this is the message, forget about everything and focus on our tasks so we get out of the situation. tottenham and korea forward son heung min said it was the supporters who made him decide to continue representing the korean national team. son was reported to be considering his internationalfuture after korea were knocked out of the afc asian cup byjordan in the semi finals. the most big part is i think the fans, which is giving such a big heart and so much love, i haven't seen that before. i don't want to disappoint them. i just want to show them my happiness and my love towards the fans and show the biggest respect. the german bundesliga is back on saturday

alexander zverev is into the last four of the miami open with a hard—fought victory over in—form fabian marozsan. zverev ensuring the hungarians pair of top ten wins did not turn into a hat—trick. having defeated holger rune and alex de minaur en route to the last eight, marozan unable to force his way past the world number five, who is into his third semifinal of the season. zverev taking the match 6—3, 7—5. next up, either carlos alcaraz or grigor dimitrov. it's been described as the uk's most widespread miscarriage ofjustice — the post office scandal, where hundreds of sub—postmasters and postmistresses were prosecuted for stealing money because of incorrect information provided by a computer system called horizon. the scandal has made headlines across the world, and now a draft report uncovered by the bbc shows the post office spent £100 million of public money fighting sub—postmasters in court despite knowing its defence was untrue. the document reveals the post office was shown evidence by 2017 that losses could be due to errors in the horizon it system or remote tampering.

but it kept arguing until 2019 in the bates v post office ltd trial that theft or mistakes by sub—postmasters must be to blame. the case was portrayed in the recent itv drama mr bates vs the post office. the lead barrister for the sub—postmasters in the case said the bbc�*s findings were shocking and that the report shows that the case need not have happened at all. zoe conway has this exclusive report. in howey, mid—wales, there is something missing. for years, this house was the village post office, but not any more. hello! there was a counter that went from that wall, all the way across. this was all part of the shop and then the post

office is at the end. customers used to sit down and have a cup of tea with us. joan and her husband had to give up thejobs they loved after being accused of stealing thousands of pounds. in the beginning, joan blamed herself for the shortfall. i was thinking that, "well, it must be me that's doing something wrong." but she came to realise the horizon system was at fault. how else to explain that the numbers on her computer screen dramatically changed overnight? we were in bed! nobody else can get in the house. when they were suspended from running the post office, some villagers assumed they'd stolen the money. to be thought of as a thief and somebody you can't trust, we were just pariahs. to be thought of as a thief and somebody you can't trust, you know, we always worked hard. itjust seems wrong that we should be treated this way. whatjoan couldn't have known and what this secret 2017 report makes clear is that her account could be accessed remotely without her knowledge. commissioned by the post office,

it said fujitsu employees had the ability to amend or delete transactions entered by branch staff. the system wouldn't flag up to a postmaster a change had been made, and those changes could cause a shortfall in branch accounts. it also said a malicious actor could potentially change data. going to law will force the post office to open their files. so, finally, we'll get to know everything the post office knows. the sub—postmasters took the post office to court in 2018. by then, post office management, lawyers and investigators knew about findings within the report. but instead of coming clean, they kept it secret. despite knowing their defence was false, they continued to discredit the postmasters.

i'm shocked. i really am shocked. the barrister who acted for the sub—postmasters has never seen the report before. this is exactly the sort of thing that we would have wanted to have, and to analyse and put in front of thejudge. it's them admitting that they could do in 2017 something they were still denying that they could do in 2019. the case dragged on for two years. it cost the taxpayer more than £100 million. i don't think the case should have happened. it should have been settled. and it's a great shame some of the people have died since then without having their names cleared. it's tragic and very, very sad. when victory came, it was bittersweet. the vast majority of the postmasters�* compensation was swallowed up in legal fees.

lord arbuthnot has been a long—time campaigner on behalf of the postmasters. it's a significant report, which tells us things that we already suspected. i've been trying to bring the post office to a sense of its own responsibilities, but why they did it is very hard to see, how people can lose all sense of morality in the way that the post office clearly did. in a statement, the post office said it was deeply sorry for the impact the scandal has had on people and told the bbc the public inquiry�*s next phase would look at the issues raised. it's disgusting. joan is still fighting for compensation, butjustice is about so much more. dignity is something you can't buy

with any amount of money. it's got to be there for people to think, "i've got my dignity back now and i'm not going to be called a liar any more." zoe conway, bbc news, howey. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

you are watching the context. it is time for our new weekly segment, ai decoded. welcome to ai decoded, that time of the week when we look in depth at some of the most eye catching stories in the world of artificial intelligence. first, using ai being in therapy. we'll show how nhs england are using ai chatbots to help their growing waiting list for mental health support. and like here in the guardian newspaper, we'll ask

whether a chatbot is really equipped to tackle complex emotional needs? next up, forbes asks, could "ai —powered" genital scans actually become a thing? a new start—up has launched a sexual wellness tool for women called calmara and is encouraging users to submit photos of their partners�* private parts. the company claim their "patented" ai "wizardry" can analyse images of male genitalia for the presence of common sexually transmitted infections. the daily dot shows one man's solution forjob interviews. a tech ceo posted a tiktok showing him using an "ai clone" during a mockjob interview. we'll show you that in a bit. in the hollywood reporter, mamma mia! musical star sara poyzer said in a social media post said that artificial intelligence has replaced herfor a bbc production.

she shared a message from an unidentified production company which said they had the approval from the bbc to use an ai generated voice so they no longer needed poyzer�*s talent. the bbc has responded by saying, "in these very particular circumstances and with the family's wishes in mind, we have agreed to use a! for a brief section to recreate a voice which can now no longer be heard. this will be clearly labelled within the film." and finally in the telegraph, could ai come up with the perfect pint? according to a recent study, beer made by artificial intelligence is tastier than a normal pint. researchers trained a computer system to take average existing beers and elevate them to an elite drink after knowing exactly what chemicals to add. with me is priya lakhani, ceo of century tech, an artificial intelligence company that develops ai—powered learning tools for schools.

first though, i just want to show you this. a look at potential use of ai in therapy. as waiting lists for nhs mental health support continue to grow, a new wave of start ups building ai chatbot solutions are hoping to help. our reporter hannah karpel has more. how would you feel about opening up to a chat bot? well, millions of people now do in what's known as a! therapy across england. the nhs is using the software to help tackle their growing waiting list for mental health support. one of the companies helping them is limbic, who work with a third of nhs talking therapies in england. we've taken this data with consent from the nhs, trained it to be able to identify with very high accuracy what your primary problems are. we were able to take your goal for therapy and what your primary issues that you want to really focus on during therapy are through this highly empathetic 2a

seven always on chat box. but can we trust a! as therapy? the first thing that we need to know is how secure the data is. but we also need to know, of course, that there is patient benefit. you need to know that this is better than doing something else, or better at least than doing nothing rather than having chat bots replace therapists. i think the idea of having them blended together is probably initially a way of reducing the number of sessions that you need. some patients are more comfortable talking to a chat bot. our al was inherently non—judgemental. i it did not have a race or agenda, so it could not clash _ with the race or gender— of the individual seeking support. as more of us talk to the ai. its database and understanding of communities will grow. so that means more reliance on artificial intelligence in our health care. hannah karpel, bbc news.

similar story on the front page of the guardian. what you make of it? that is a big question in the ai and condition of therapy, it can augmented by what is really interesting is what we just saw their that the nhs is not deployed across many parts of the nhs and talking and therapies programme is very different than what is in the article. and it's very different and context to our audience and therapy demand is really high and waiting list, 20,000 people in the uk they're off work with her mental health at a quarter of people seeking treatment for more than 90 days and more than have them

deteriorate within that time and just a couple of stats and the audience and how severe this is an worldwide, 12 billion workdays are lost every single year due to depression and anxiety and pandemic triggered an increase in the general anxiety and depression and it is called governments and to present the health budget and mental health and how can i help is the question, we saw was an app that has medical device status when regulated in that device status when regulated in that device there has been proven to reduce clinical workload by about 50,000 clinical hours the ceo has said, it's a support tool that helps diagnose mental health and the point is it augments the process and you have a clinician and an expert that you tendency. that is there, the

guardian very quickly talks about the tens of thousands of apps that are often unregulated and chabad friends where they find the app using gpt and people find solace in speaking to these apps and they're also some issues with them. firstly, is your privacy maintain we are talking to these apps it also some sweeping reviews the foundation found in looking at 32 popular mental health apps and found 19 of them were failing to safeguard the use of privacy. psychologist make this point that if we end up in a world where your best friend is actually under app and you're going to his best friend a! to talk to them even with anxiety and depression and there certainly benefits of that in many ways, people of the stigma where they think there's a stigma seeking therapy and might go the app. the problem is, you might be exacerbating the fact that some people might not relate to humans at

all because human beings are chaotic and the story goes into that and very different things and it's not regulated and the events of the audience is very clear about and then you have those regulated apps. and ai then you have those regulated apps. and a! app flaming to detect sdis from photos of genitals is a privacy disaster. —— sti. if you go to the website, it encourages someone who is about to get into an intimate situation and you're in that environment for the first time, may be and things are heating up. to whip out your smartphone and take a picture of male genitalia and to see if there is an sti. yes, sti are a

massive problem and pregnant women with syphilis and birth outcomes and it all is a problem to be solved and i can help and they do have techniques in the aa model causes this where you try to find in the pixels of the digital image, an anomaly. a skin lesion in the ai technology can absolutely help with the problem is, firstly, people posting images into this app where there might be security and privacy concerns, i started reading this and others potentially a very good use of machine learning and ai others potentially a very good use of machine learning and a! but i started reading about the company in the forbes article and they claim the forbes article and they claim the company itself said that it had some academic partnerships that are removed from their website after forbes started probing into it and the universities have claimed that they do not have a partnership with they do not have a partnership with the company and you can start to see

now where facts are out there and without a lot of transparency of where the date is going, is there independent validation of where it's going in the aa model and all these things and it casts doubt on the ai app's claim in the clear thing is, before submitting photographs or any photographs into these apps, yeah. research was done for that and i read in the paper and saw the images. let's go to the daily dart and before you talk about it, let's just take a look at this video. hi, ian. how are you? where are you calling from today? i'm doing great, thanks. and i'm in london. i've been looking forward

to discussing this opportunity with you today. christoph, if it's ok with you, i'd like to dive straight into it. can you tell me about the product that you've launched that you're proud of and why? certainly, one of the products i'm most proud of is a mobile app that we designed to streamline online shopping for customers. it integrated ai driven recommendations and a highly intuitive ui. there is a man on his laptop with an anti—version of himself doing a mock interview. anti-version of himself doing a mock interview. ., ., , . ., , ., interview. yeah, the apt claims that he was using _ interview. yeah, the apt claims that he was using this _ interview. yeah, the apt claims that he was using this are _ interview. yeah, the apt claims that he was using this are hired - interview. yeah, the apt claims that he was using this are hired and - interview. yeah, the apt claims that he was using this are hired and lots| he was using this are hired and lots of people use chat gpt to read the resumes and cover letters and around 11% denied that when the employer finds out there using it. in some ways, can level the playing field for people who may struggle with writing applications in the interview they have a real problem with that because you can

misrepresent, the service of your capabilities and your personality and behavioural skill set and lots of companies have cultural interviews to ensure that culturally use it where if it is a clone, you're not going to get that person. you get lots of problems of that and you have a video there because that red what is potentially going. fix, red what is potentially going. a familiar theme, red what is potentially going. a familiartheme, replacing musical familiar theme, replacing musical starfor familiartheme, replacing musical starfor bbc production familiartheme, replacing musical star for bbc production is familiartheme, replacing musical starfor bbc production is going on here? star for bbc production is going on here? �* , , . ., here? and leisure edited piece to where the bbc _ here? and leisure edited piece to where the bbc has _ here? and leisure edited piece to where the bbc has said _ here? and leisure edited piece to where the bbc has said in - here? and leisure edited piece to where the bbc has said in a - where the bbc has said in a statement that they're trying to replace a voice actually there are no longer exists in the context is really important but talking by the significant threat to employment in this segment. they had a bit of an update a few days ago they negotiated and ratified the agreement when it comes to voiceover actors and with them, if you say that the voice, a voice actor, it

has to a human being, people will be re—enumerated if the voiceover or translator is a different language in the article points to actually in the uk, may be cupping them friends overseas and the union agreement for artists to protect them and clearly, it lowers the cost of production in less recording required and there are going to be production companies and in this context, there using ai and in this context, there using a! for a voice i no longer exists but they mightjust do it because it's simply cheaper. they mightjust do it because it's simply cheaper-— simply cheaper. something a bit later to finish, _ simply cheaper. something a bit later to finish, beer _ simply cheaper. something a bit later to finish, beer made - simply cheaper. something a bit later to finish, beer made by - later to finish, beer made by artificial intelligence tastes better than the normal pint, study suggests. it’s better than the normal pint, study su: nests. v . ~ better than the normal pint, study su: nests. v ., ~' ., suggests. it's taken over five ears, suggests. it's taken over five years. expert _ suggests. it's taken over five years, expert taste - suggests. it's taken over five years, expert taste panels i suggests. it's taken over five i years, expert taste panels and suggests. it's taken over five - years, expert taste panels and this is the important thing. 50 criteria ijy is the important thing. 50 criteria by 15 experts tasting about 250 beers in the you have hundred 80,000 reviews and you can imagine these

data sets, what they've done is look at the analysis and chemical composition of the beers and to suggesting alterations and amending to make the beer taste year and they've managed to do that and wondering where our drinkers are now. by that were going to do a live tasting. what's going on? so, those who are going to enjoy this new beer and it's a new technology and people will always want that fully 100% human craft beer stop by this is definitely ai human craft beer stop by this is definitely a! i can get on board with. right, we are out of time thank you so much for that and that is it, we are out of time and we will do this again same time next week. hello there. good evening.

plenty of wet and very windy weather around today with some squally showers pushing northwards, longer spells of rain, some of the rain falling as snow to low levels and settling for a while in northern ireland. all of the showers just swirling around this deep area of low pressure out towards the west and it'll stay windy, really rather showery overnight tonight. so still some wet weather to come, but we'll see the skies clear for a while across parts of wales and the midlands, maybe through the small hours and some clear skies developing across northern ireland as well. the ground pretty saturated here. expect to see some mist and fog develop and we'll see some icy stretches, perhaps with temperatures dipping really quite close to freezing. it's mildest underneath the cloud in the south east of england. as we head through a good friday then there will be some rain,

i think to start the day off in northwest scotland and the western isles that will clear away and plenty of sunshine to start the day, but not too long before we see the showers get going again. some of the showers heavy and thundery. there could be some hail in the mix, but generally fewer showers, more sunshine than we've seen today. still windy for england and wales, but it's warmer 11 to 1a degrees celsius with the south—westerly wind pushing us that milder feeling air. now the low pushes further westwards as we head through saturday. so the winds will lighten. there's another low, though, just spinning off the near continent that could bring increased amounts of cloud across parts of east anglia and southeast england. there's a lot of dry weather around on saturday, plenty of sunshine, too. but again, watch out for some showers there. most likely to develop further north and west you are temperatures will be above the seasonal average, 11 to 15 degrees celsius and it's more of the same again on sunday. i think we should see a largely

dry start to the day with plenty of sunshine around, not too long before there'll be some showers and again, the most likely out towards the west, perhaps pushing into northern england, but perhaps largely dry across scotland and towards the south and the east. again, temperatures above the seasonal average. now, as we go into bank holiday monday, low pressure remains out towards the west of the uk, but there's another low just spinning off the near continent once again that could bring some more significant rainfall and then that is likely to track further northward. so some more reliable rainfall i think for bank holiday monday. and as we head into next week, it turns a bit cooler again and stays unsettled. bye— bye.

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