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Sweeping history under the Turkish carpet?

Reality Check: "Genocide" diplomatic row, Egypt and its neighbours, terror attacks on France, measles, probabilistic computing

Armenian "genocide" controversy

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Foreign Minister, Sebastian Kurz, says the parliamentary declaration must be respected

The Austrian parliament's declaration that the killing of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 during WW1 was "genocide" is causing a diplomatic row with Turkey.

Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador to Vienna, and is responding angrily - but how far will the incident escalate?

Turkey analyst, Cengiz Gunay, explains why this issue is so sensitive, 100 years after the event.

Egypt and its neighbours

Samuel Schubert discusses the unique and particular role that Egypt plays in the Middle East and Gulf region.

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Saint-Cyr and Sainte-Julitte church, one of those Sid Ahmed Ghlam plotted to attack

Terror attacks on France

France says its police force has foiled 5 terror attacks since the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January.

In the latest incident, a 24 year old student was planning to attack churches when hit plot was discovered.

Hugh Schofield reports from Paris on the increasing threat in France since the Syrian civil war and the rise of Islamic State.

The fight to eliminate measles

Abigail Schefer of the World Health Organisation discusses the ongoing struggle to eliminate measles, which is once again on the increase.

Probabalistic computing

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Sinister visions of thinking computers, such as the murderous Hal 9000, are still firmly science fiction, says Vikash Mandinghka

Despite all the warnings of computers taking over the world, they are still essentially calculators, and can only work out answers which involve calculations.

According to Vikash Mandinghka of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, we are still a very long way from developing computers that can think in a way comparable to a human.

He explains the difference between calculating and thinking with a simple and ingenious game, which he played with Joanna Bostock.

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