good morning early birds I'm Vanessa
yavich subbing in for Koy wire today I'm
so happy to start this week with you
after a long holiday weekend so let's
get those final yawns out and get ready
to let some knowledge in our lead story
today takes us to Russia Alexi Naval who
was a critic of Russian President
Vladimir Putin had been in prison since
2021 he died on Friday the Russian
prison service says he didn't feel well
while he was on a walk at his prison and
then fell unconscious his cause of death
is still unclear but the Kremlin says an
investigation is underway naval's team
accus Russian authorities of lying and
are refusing to return his body to his
family for at least a few more weeks
naval's Widow Julia claims President
Putin is responsible for his death and
she says she will continue her husband's
Legacy and fight for justice in Russia
there's been an outpouring of grief
across the world but in Russia the act
of mourning is more difficult State
media largely is ignoring the situation
and authorities are telling people to
avoid unsanctioned Gatherings with some
makeshift memorials being taken down
human rights groups claim police have
detained hundred hundreds in the country
for attending rallies and vigils and
this marks the largest wave of arrests
at political events in the country in
two years now to give you more of a
sense of who Naval was and his impact on
Russia let's turn to our Matthew
chance lawyer politician and
anti-corruption activist Alexi naali LED
Street protests against the Kremlin for
years but never managed to challenge
Putin in The Ballot Box famously branded
Putin's United Russia party as the party
of crooks and thieves nalni Rose to
prominence in 2008 when he began
blogging about the alleged corruption
within Russian state-run companies in
2011 he emerged as one of the leaders of
the massive protest that broke out after
allegations of massive fraud in
parliamentary
elections Nal was arrested numerous
times and was convicted on embezzlement
charges his first embezzlement
conviction came in 2013 as the
anti-corruption activist Was preparing
to run for mayor of Moscow naal was
found guilty of misappropriating about
half a million dollars worth of lumber
from a state-owned company the activist
denied the accusations saying that the
charges were politically motivated the
day after the conviction however the
state prosecutor stunned observers by
requesting that Naval be freed on bail
so he could continue campaigning for
mayor of Moscow but Nal lost to former
presidential Aid and interim Moscow
mayor Serge
saani in 2017 during a retrial of the
same case naali was found guilty and
received a 5-year suspended prison
sentence this time the conviction
prevented him from running against Putin
in the 2018 presidential
election
Russian State media has often silenced
the anti-corruption activist but that
didn't stop Naval who took his
anti-putin message to YouTube where he
frequently broadcasts to hundreds of
thousands of viewers the Kremlin has
often condemned Nali as a dangerous
threat to the country's stability and
has rejected his allegations of
widespread highlevel corruption but
outside Russia many see in Nal an
alternative to Hardline
Putin it is 10-second trivia time which
American filmmaker created the infamous
War of the world's radio play that
sparked panic in
1938 Alfred Hitchcock Clint Eastwood
Billy Wilder or Orson
Wells you said Orson Wells well you're
right the radio broadcast fooled an
audience of millions by mimicking the
style of a news report some listeners
were convinced that martians had
actually attacked New Jersey okay this
next story will blow your mind and maybe
even your eyes isn't this video of a
Victoria Crown blue pigeon just gorgeous
well guess what it's not even real
and that's not actually a bird and no
one actually even filmed this video it
was all generated using artificial
intelligence AI leader open AI the
company behind the viral chat GPT has
introduced this new model called sora
the company says Sora can create
realistic videos of up to 60 seconds
long just from quick text prompts like
this example of a mesmerizing Scenic
shot in bigsur California
open AI has not released this to the
public just yet because the company says
it intends to work on the safety issues
Behind These models Sora however is
making some tech experts concerned our
Michael Holmes spoke with Christian
Hammond the director of the center for
advancing safety of machine intelligence
at Northwestern University about what
this breathtaking tool could actually
mean we have to get used to the idea
that all of these things we thought were
part of esta in truth really no longer
will yeah and we have to have a an eye
towards that yeah open AI um they
they've uh weighed into this and and
they said and I I'll quote them too they
say we we are working with red teamers
domain experts in areas like
misinformation hateful content and bias
who will be adversar testing the model
uh are you reassured by that at all I'm
not sure I am we really now have to put
not only in the hands of the technology
companies and we have to force them to
work as hard as they can uh to make sure
the content is good we have to realize
that it's up to us now yeah to be able
to look at the content we see and make
decisions about whether or not we
believe it or not it's just that we have
to start thinking less about the
technology and more about how it's used
and if we're going to regulate it's
going to be regulating the use not the
technology itself because the technology
is here to
stay and now let's turn to a story that
as Koy would say deserves a 10 out of 10
all this Black History Month the show
has been highlighting trailblazing black
Americans who made a lasting impact on
the world and today I want to talk about
Charles Richard drew the father of the
blood bank Drew was the first black
student to earn a medical doctorate from
Columbia University he studied all
things blood like transfusions and
preservation leading to a groundbreaking
discovery that made it possible to store
blood for up to a week this was during
World War II so Drew led a pilot program
for the Red Cross supplying blood around
the US in Great Britain saving countless
lives he also invented mobile blood
donation stations known as blood mobiles
but Drew couldn't participate himself
even though he led these efforts the Red
Cross refused to let black people donate
blood I also want to highlight the
achievements of Bessie Coleman the first
black woman to become a pilot because of
her race and gender flight schools in
the US wouldn't accept her but that
didn't stop her dream of flying so she
decided to learn French and moved to
Paris to attend a prestigious Aviation
school there she got her pilot license
in
1921 and that was two years before
another famous female pilot Amelia aart
when she returned to the US Bessie still
faced discrimination but found work
performing aerial stunts and parachute
jumps her dream of opening a flight
school for black Pilots never came true
but her determination in Breaking the
mold continues to inspire not only
Pilots but anyone fighting racial and
gender
stereotypes and now I'm told it's time
for shout outs starting with a school
across the world this is Hillside
Collegiate International School in goj
South Korea wow thank you so much for
tuning in and for a shout out a little
closer to home at least my home shout
out to my alma moer Montclair High
School in New Jersey go mounties now
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much fun I'm Vanessa y cavage thank you
for letting me join you all I'm ready to
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