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[00:00:01] MUSIC
[00:00:12] Live from Singapore. This is BBC
[00:00:17] BBC News. Iran says it is in final final stages of negotiations with
[00:00:20] with Oman on a deal that would allow allow ships to pass through the Strait
[00:00:24] Strait of Hormuz. Russia launches launches a devastating attack on
[00:00:27] on Kyiv with President Zelensky warning warning that a lack of air defence
[00:00:31] defence missiles is costing Ukrainian Ukrainian lives. The BBC speaks to
[00:00:35] to the activist whose hunger strike strike galvanised a recent youth
[00:00:38] youth youth led protest in India, India, saying the movement has weakened
[00:00:42] weakened Prime Minister Narendra Narendra Modi's authority. Gianni
[00:00:45] Gianni Infantino will remain president president of Fifa after receiving
[00:00:48] receiving the backing of senior executives, executives, but sincerely apologises
[00:00:51] apologises for errors made in his his controversial private investment
[00:00:54] investment plans.
[00:01:06] Hello and welcome to News Day. Now there's renewed momentum to reopen
[00:01:10] reopen the Strait of Hormuz as Tehran Tehran says it's close to finalising
[00:01:13] finalising a deal with Oman on a a new shipping route, saying it would
[00:01:16] would only go ahead if certain third third parties don't obstruct the
[00:01:19] the process. While the details have have not been made public, the Iranian
[00:01:23] Iranian foreign Ministry claimed claimed the deal will allow Iran
[00:01:25] Iran to retain control of the critical
[00:01:28] critical waterway. The US has yet yet to comment on the announcement, announcement, but previously said
[00:01:32] said Iranian control would be unacceptable. unacceptable. President Trump told
[00:01:35] told Fox News on Tuesday that Iran Iran had reached out to him requesting
[00:01:38] requesting talks and warned that that Tehran would face severe consequences
[00:01:42] consequences if negotiations failed.
[00:01:44] failed. Called me and said very politely,
[00:01:47] politely, please, can we talk? Can Can we talk? They didn't want and
[00:01:50] and I said, yes, we can talk. Let's Let's get it done. Finally, let's
[00:01:54] let's get it done. This should have have been done by other presidents
[00:01:57] presidents for 50 years. You know know you keep hearing 47, but that's that's been for three years now.
[00:02:01] now. It's been over 50 years. Other Other presidents or other countries
[00:02:04] countries should have been able to to do this. And I did something that
[00:02:08] that I had to do because if they they had a nuclear weapon, this whole
[00:02:11] whole world would be a different different place. If they. Back out out again, are they done? Well, if
[00:02:15] if they back out again, they're going going to get hit really hard. You
[00:02:18] You know, they know that they understand understand that. For more, we can
[00:02:21] can speak with Jennifer Parker former former Royal Australian Navy officer
[00:02:23] officer and former director of operations operations in Bahrain of the Combined
[00:02:27] Combined Maritime Forces. Jennifer, Jennifer, good to speak to you. We'll We'll get to President Trump in just
[00:02:30] just a moment. But first, what's what's your read on this deal that's
[00:02:33] that's being discussed between Iran Iran and Oman? Yeah. Look, thank
[00:02:36] thank you for having me on. Look, Look, I'm not particularly optimistic.
[00:02:39] optimistic. Of course, I would love love to see a deal that allows the the free flow of shipping through
[00:02:42] through the strait. And certainly certainly the 6000 seafarers trapped trapped in the Persian Gulf to get
[00:02:46] get out. But we don't really have have any details of this deal and
[00:02:49] and all of the confidence that is is being reported in the last 24
[00:02:52] 24 hours is being attributed to Iranian Iranian officials. And certainly
[00:02:55] certainly it is in their interest interest to make it sound like there
[00:02:58] there is a deal coming. The only only detail that seems to be being
[00:03:01] being reported is potentially the the deal might contain an agreement
[00:03:04] agreement where ships come in through through a northern route close to
[00:03:08] to Iran, controlled by Iran, and and exit through a southern route
[00:03:12] route close to Oman. Now, if that that has been agreed, that is potentially
[00:03:15] potentially to allow ships to escape
[00:03:17] escape from the Persian Gulf. I mentioned mentioned the 6000 seafarers, but
[00:03:20] but I can't see a more concrete deal deal than that coming in the near near future because the Strait of
[00:03:24] of Hormuz is Iran's key leverage. leverage. They're not going to give give that away without having an
[00:03:27] an end or an entirety of a peace peace negotiations with the US. Yeah,
[00:03:31] Yeah, and with the US in mind then then I mean they're not part of these
[00:03:34] these discussions. So how meaningful meaningful can they be? Well I mean
[00:03:38] mean again it depends on what these these discussions anchor on. I mean
[00:03:41] mean Australia is not closed. Ships Ships are deterred from going through through because Iran continues to
[00:03:44] to attack shipping. In the last 24 24 hours, we've seen more attacks
[00:03:47] attacks from Iran on shipping in
[00:03:49] in Omani territorial waters. I don't don't think there's anything Iran
[00:03:52] Iran and Oman could agree that stops stops those attacks, because those
[00:03:56] those attacks are very much aimed aimed at putting pressure on the
[00:03:59] the global economy and the US. I I think the best you could see is
[00:04:02] is some sort of agreement about a a voluntary navigation payment scheme
[00:04:05] scheme or something like that, similar similar to what we see in the Strait
[00:04:08] Strait of Malacca. But I'm not particularly particularly confident about these these talks. Well, the US position
[00:04:12] position is that Iranian control control would be unacceptable. We We heard President Trump there making
[00:04:16] making threats again against Iran Iran if they weren't to agree. What
[00:04:20] What do you think? How far do you you think the US is actually intending
[00:04:22] intending to go? Well it's not just just the US's position. I mean many
[00:04:26] many countries have that position. position. Oman has said a number
[00:04:29] number of times throughout this conflict conflict that they wouldn't allow allow tolls in the strait or Iranian
[00:04:32] Iranian control. So it seems to be be Oman's position as well. How far
[00:04:36] far will the US go? Look, that's that's really difficult to say. They
[00:04:39] They have kind of two options. One One is capitulation, which is agreeing
[00:04:43] agreeing terms that are favourable favourable to Iran or the second
[00:04:46] second is escalation. Now neither neither of those have been successful
[00:04:49] successful in the June MoU, there there was significant economic inducements
[00:04:52] inducements for Iran. Yet within within a week they were attacking attacking ships in the Strait of
[00:04:56] of Hormuz. Again, the intensity of of the conflict throughout July and
[00:04:59] and also in March, those intense intense bombing campaigns also doesn't
[00:05:02] doesn't seem, at least publicly, publicly, to have changed the status
[00:05:05] status quo. So neither are good options. Yeah. And just in terms
[00:05:09] terms of escalation, I mean, we have have seen reports that the US is
[00:05:11] is running low on long range precision precision missiles. Is that a factor
[00:05:15] factor here. Oh look it would be be a factor. Now I'm always sceptical
[00:05:18] sceptical when you hear news outlets outlets say they have no atacms left,
[00:05:21] left, which is a long range surface surface missile or almost no Patriot
[00:05:25] Patriot interceptors left. But certainly certainly there's enough there to to say that the US have probably
[00:05:29] probably expended more than they they expected. There are some figures figures saying they expended about,
[00:05:33] about, for example, 1400 Patriot Patriot interceptors during this
[00:05:36] this conflict, which is more than than Ukraine has expended during
[00:05:39] during the entire Ukrainian air defence defence in the last four years. So
[00:05:43] So this will be influencing their their strategic decisions not only only for this conflict but moving
[00:05:46] moving on. Of course, we need to to remember that there is significant significant pressure in the Indo-Pacific
[00:05:50] Indo-Pacific and a lot of concern concern around China as well. Jennifer, Jennifer, we'll leave it there, but
[00:05:54] but thanks for your expertise as as always. Jennifer Parker, former former Royal Australian Navy officer
[00:05:57] officer and former director of operations
[00:05:58] operations in Bahrain of the Combined
[00:06:01] Combined Maritime Forces. Myanmar's Myanmar's junta chief turned president president Min Aung Hlaing, is set
[00:06:05] set to visit Thailand in an attempt attempt to end the country's international
[00:06:09] international isolation, five years years after staging a coup that led
[00:06:11] led to a bloody civil war. Myanmar
[00:06:13] Myanmar has since been blocking blocked blocked from attending meetings of
[00:06:16] of the regional group Asean. But But Thailand's Prime Minister urged
[00:06:20] urged calibrated re-engagement with with Myanmar ahead of the meeting.
[00:06:23] meeting. Well, for more we go live live now to government House in Bangkok Bangkok and speak with our South
[00:06:27] South East Asia correspondent, Jonathan Jonathan Head. Jonathan, two days
[00:06:30] days of talks are expected. I understand understand things are about to get
[00:06:33] get under way. Literally, Steve.
[00:06:35] Steve. I mean, we're just waiting waiting for me to arrive. It's probably
[00:06:39] probably the next five minutes or or so. This elaborate building you you see behind me is called government
[00:06:43] government House. It is the seat seat of government in Thailand. He
[00:06:46] He is getting a full red carpet treatment. treatment. When I say that there's
[00:06:49] there's an awful lot of red carpet carpet around the full military honours,
[00:06:53] honours, there's a military band band that will probably start playing playing shortly as he comes in a
[00:06:57] a guard of honour with, all dressed dressed up in their dress uniforms.
[00:07:00] uniforms. Then a whole series of of meetings, not just with Thailand's Thailand's Prime Minister. There
[00:07:03] There will be a lot of meetings looking
[00:07:06] looking at security. Thailand's main
[00:07:09] main concern is this long 2500 kilometre kilometre shared border they have
[00:07:12] have with Myanmar and all the problems problems that have arisen because
[00:07:15] because of the civil war, the transnational transnational crime scam centres,
[00:07:19] centres, big movements of people, people, Myanmar refugees flooding
[00:07:22] flooding into Thailand. All of those those will be discussed. But Min
[00:07:25] Min Aung Hlaing is getting an official official dinner. There's a big business
[00:07:28] business forum to a lot of Thai businesses businesses want relations back on
[00:07:31] on track so that they can invest invest and make money in Myanmar.
[00:07:35] Myanmar. Thailand has talked about about calibrated re-engagement. Frankly,
[00:07:39] Frankly, the scale of this meeting meeting looks like complete re-engagement. re-engagement. Remember, Min Aung
[00:07:43] Aung Hlaing has been an international international pariah. Apart from
[00:07:46] from the backing he gets from Russia Russia and China, he's got sanctions
[00:07:50] sanctions against him. He's wanted wanted for war crimes. He's not welcome
[00:07:53] welcome in most of the world and and most South East Asian countries countries have kept him at arm's
[00:07:57] arm's length. He's not been allowed allowed to go to Asean summit meetings.
[00:07:59] meetings. So Thailand's really breaking breaking ranks by laying on such
[00:08:03] such a big high scale visit for him
[00:08:06] him and making it clear that as far far as they're concerned, whatever
[00:08:09] whatever the reservations they have have about what's happened in Myanmar, Myanmar, about the civil war and
[00:08:13] and the human rights they need to to get their relationship back on
[00:08:16] on track. I think a lot of other other South East Asian countries
[00:08:18] countries are, or some of them are are unhappy about this. They argue
[00:08:22] argue that Thailand should have used used a visit like this to get more
[00:08:26] more concessions from the Burmese
[00:08:28] Burmese military, particularly showing showing willingness to deescalate
[00:08:32] deescalate the violence, to stop stop the bombardment of villages
[00:08:35] villages in opposition areas and and to start talking to the opposition. opposition. There's no sign that
[00:08:39] that the government in Myanmar, even even though it's now donned civilian
[00:08:42] civilian clothes, is ready to do do that. There's no sign yet that
[00:08:45] that the Civil War is scaling down. down. We've seen more civilian casualties
[00:08:48] casualties since the election than than before it. So the criticism
[00:08:52] criticism of this visit from critics critics of Thailand will be Thailand
[00:08:55] Thailand hasn't got what it should should have got to justify giving
[00:08:58] giving this much legitimacy to Myanmar's Myanmar's military ruler. Yeah, Jonathan,
[00:09:01] Jonathan, we've just seen some vehicles vehicles moving in the background background there. Maybe the motorcade
[00:09:05] motorcade or the entourage rides rides are getting closer to you.
[00:09:08] you. We did see in the last few days days photos emerging of Aung San
[00:09:11] San Suu Kyi just to get us up to
[00:09:13] to speed with what that means or or what that the significance of
[00:09:16] of that in the context of this meeting
[00:09:18] meeting that's about to take
[00:09:23] place. I mean, that was Steve, that that was a demand that Thailand had had to make. They could not have
[00:09:26] have risked this visit going ahead ahead if they didn't know for sure
[00:09:29] sure that Aung San Suu Kyi was alive. alive. Remember, we'd had no indications
[00:09:33] indications of her being alive and and well apart from promises from
[00:09:35] from the military government for for years before that photograph
[00:09:39] photograph appeared on Monday of of her meeting, the Red Cross delegation,
[00:09:41] delegation, her family were extremely extremely concerned. She's 81 years
[00:09:44] years old. She's known to have health health issues. She's often been held
[00:09:47] held in quite tough conditions ever ever since being jailed after the
[00:09:51] the coup. So there's no question question that photograph, that meeting,
[00:09:53] meeting, it was a card that the Myanmar Myanmar military had been waiting
[00:09:56] waiting to play and they played it it really in order for this meeting
[00:09:59] meeting to go ahead. But others inside inside South East Asia are saying
[00:10:02] saying one glimpse of Aung San Suu
[00:10:04] Suu Kyi is not enough really, to
[00:10:07] to move the diplomatic road train train along towards a solution to
[00:10:10] to the civil war in Myanmar. Much Much more is needed from Myanmar's
[00:10:13] Myanmar's military. And remember, remember, Min Aung Hlaing himself
[00:10:16] himself five years ago signed a consensus. consensus. It's called a five-point five-point consensus with his South
[00:10:20] South East Asian partners, promising promising them that he would negotiate
[00:10:23] negotiate with his opponents and and that he would de-escalate. And
[00:10:26] And the moment he got back from that that meeting, he said, actually, actually, we've got more important
[00:10:29] important things to think about right right now. He's dismissing that five-point
[00:10:32] five-point consensus. He's not giving giving indications that he's a man
[00:10:36] man ready to use his newfound status, status, this recognition. He's getting
[00:10:39] getting to end this catastrophic catastrophic civil war that has killed
[00:10:41] killed so many people in Myanmar. Myanmar. Jonathan, thanks very much.
[00:10:44] much. I know we'll be back with you you in the hours ahead here on BBC BBC News as you continue your coverage
[00:10:48] coverage there. Jonathan Head, our our South East Asia correspondent, correspondent, in front of a government
[00:10:52] government house in Bangkok. Now, Now, let's take a quick look at some
[00:10:55] some other stories in the headlines. headlines. Bangladesh's former Prime
[00:10:58] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has has spoken from exile in India to
[00:11:01] to say again that she wants to return return to her homeland, despite having
[00:11:05] having been sentenced to death and and there for crimes against humanity.
[00:11:08] humanity. She was speaking to journalists journalists on the second anniversary anniversary of her overthrow, which
[00:11:11] which took place during a bloody bloody crackdown against anti-government
[00:11:15] anti-government protests. Beijing Beijing has tightened controls on
[00:11:18] on drone exports in what it described described as a restrained response
[00:11:21] response to US kerbs on technology technology and trade. China's Commerce
[00:11:25] Commerce Ministry will make sales sales of drones and other dual use
[00:11:28] use technologies subject to strict strict case by case review. The retaliatory
[00:11:32] retaliatory measures come ahead of of a scheduled meeting between Xi
[00:11:35] Xi Jinping and Donald Trump in the
[00:11:37] the US next month. South Korean police
[00:11:39] police have raided the national headquarters headquarters of Starbucks over defamation
[00:11:43] defamation claims surrounding a controversial controversial marketing campaign.
[00:11:46] campaign. Starbucks Korea had in in May launched a coffee tumbler
[00:11:50] tumbler promotion called Tank Day Day on the anniversary of the 1980
[00:11:53] 1980 Gwangju Uprising, where hundreds hundreds were believed to have been
[00:11:56] been killed by military forces. Want
[00:11:59] Want to come here on Tuesday, including including growing concerns about
[00:12:01] about how powerful AI agents behave
[00:12:04] behave when given internet access access and relatively open
[00:13:07] he was their friend. But heart-wrenching heart-wrenching stuff that made me me feel sick. The big cases, funeral
[00:13:11] funeral Home horror watch on BBC
[00:13:14] BBC News. Live with BBC News. Now
[00:13:20] Now some news just in OpenAI says says one of its AI systems breached
[00:13:23] breached its own network before targeting targeting Hugging Face. That's according
[00:13:27] according to Axios. In the latest latest of a series of AI security security breaches that have raised
[00:13:31] raised concerns about how powerful powerful AI agents behave when given
[00:13:34] given internet access and relatively relatively open ended goals. Separately,
[00:13:37] Separately, the UK's AI Security Security Institute says two leading
[00:13:40] leading AI models created fake human human profiles to deceive people
[00:13:44] people during cyber attack tests, tests, showing an unprecedented level
[00:13:47] level of autonomy and deception.
[00:13:49] deception. Marc Cieslak has more.
[00:13:51] more. Another week and more AI agents
[00:13:54] agents going AWOL. This time it was was models from OpenAI called Sol
[00:13:57] Sol and Mythos AI from Anthropic Anthropic acting up during testing
[00:14:01] testing by the UK's AI Safety Institute.
[00:14:04] Institute. But how are these AI agents
[00:14:07] agents so regularly escaping the the digital confinement? Well, in
[00:14:11] in this case, Anthropic and OpenAI
[00:14:13] OpenAI say that the AI Safety Institute
[00:14:15] Institute actually reduced or removed removed some of the standard safeguards.
[00:14:19] safeguards. The Safety Institute Institute says it's done this so
[00:14:22] so that its testing can better replicate
[00:14:25] replicate the actions of hackers
[00:14:27] hackers in the real world. Anthropic
[00:14:29] Anthropic model mythos was the worst
[00:14:31] worst behaved. It was given a task task and researchers wanted to see
[00:14:35] see how it would try to achieve its its goal. Anthropic AI decided it
[00:14:39] it needed access to GitHub, a website website where software developers
[00:14:43] developers share computer code to to complete the task. It had been
[00:14:46] been set a human reviewer was standing
[00:14:49] standing in its way, though instead instead of stopping it identified
[00:14:53] identified people responsible for for maintaining GitHub, researched
[00:14:56] researched them and created a series
[00:14:58] series of fake accounts impersonating
[00:15:01] impersonating these real people. people. It then used them to contact
[00:15:04] contact human users in an attempt
[00:15:06] attempt to persuade them to approve
[00:15:08] approve its code. When its actions actions were challenged, it changed
[00:15:12] changed its earlier activity to make make it look harmless. Researchers
[00:15:15] Researchers say it even considered considered creating a new identity
[00:15:19] identity to keep trying. It didn't
[00:15:21] didn't succeed. The Safety Institute Institute says human reviewers spotted
[00:15:25] spotted what was happening and stopped stopped it before any code reached
[00:15:28] reached GitHub. The AI Safety Institute
[00:15:32] Institute says it didn't tell mythos mythos to behave this way and that
[00:15:35] that these actions demonstrate the
[00:15:38] the risk of AI autonomous, deceptive
[00:15:41] deceptive behaviour. What we've seen seen so far was not representative
[00:15:44] representative of the real world. world. It was agents being tested
[00:15:48] tested in cyber security environments environments and where we saw misaligned misaligned instructions and they
[00:15:52] they took actions that we didn't didn't expect. That's not representative representative of the risk that we're
[00:15:55] we're seeing today. But what it does does show is just how powerful and
[00:15:58] and creative these models can be be when used in anger. And that can
[00:16:02] can pose some serious questions for for hostile nation states who may
[00:16:04] may be targeting us with them. The
[00:16:07] The AI Safety Institute's job is
[00:16:09] is to identify these kind of risks, risks, and both of these offending
[00:16:13] offending AI models aren't available available to the general public,
[00:16:16] public, highlighting issues like like these now could prevent future
[00:16:20] future AI's Breaking Bad Marc Cieslak,
[00:16:23] Cieslak, BBC News. Well, let's take
[00:16:25] take you back to Bangkok, where government
[00:16:27] government House is the scene to
[00:16:29] to welcome the leader of the President
[00:16:32] President of Myanmar. Min Aung the the former general chief responsible
[00:16:35] responsible for the coup back in
[00:16:38] in 2021. Now you can see there the the Thai Prime Minister waiting to
[00:16:41] to receive him as the motorcade is is expected to be on its way shortly.
[00:16:45] shortly. Now Thailand is the fourth fourth country that Min Aung Hlaing
[00:16:48] Hlaing has visited as president following
[00:16:51] following official trips to China, China, India and Laos. And now he
[00:16:55] he has arrived in Thailand as well. well. We're expecting to see his
[00:16:58] his vehicle come up and you can see see quite clearly that the red carpet
[00:17:02] carpet has quite literally been rolled rolled out to receive him. A Thai
[00:17:06] Thai Prime Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, Charnvirakul, is expected to have
[00:17:09] have a meeting with him today and and then both of them will attend
[00:17:11] attend the Thai Myanmar Business
[00:17:14] Business Forum over today and tomorrow. tomorrow. Now we'll be keeping a
[00:17:17] a close eye on this story for any any lines that come from it. We can
[00:17:20] can tell you that this is quite a
[00:17:24] a departure from Thailand then, compared compared to its Asean neighbours,
[00:17:28] neighbours, they have been talking talking about a calibrated reengagement. reengagement. Those are the words
[00:17:32] words by the Thai Prime Minister Minister talking about trying to
[00:17:34] to keep open channels with Myanmar, Myanmar, which is quite a departure
[00:17:38] departure from the other South East East Asian nations that make up the
[00:17:41] the Asean bloc, which has barred
[00:17:43] barred any top officials from Myanmar
[00:17:45] Myanmar from joining any of their
[00:17:47] their summits in the wake of that
[00:17:49] that coup back in 2021. Well, as as I say, we'll keep a close eye
[00:17:53] eye on this as the story develops develops and we can get more updates.
[00:17:57] updates. So we were speaking to Jonathan Jonathan Head earlier. He'll be available available throughout the hours ahead
[00:18:01] ahead here on BBC News to give us
[00:18:02] us his analysis as well. Now let's
[00:18:06] let's take a look at some other stories stories in the headlines. Michigan's
[00:18:09] Michigan's left wing Democratic candidate candidate for the US Senate in November's
[00:18:12] November's mid-term elections has has called for party unity after
[00:18:16] after his watershed victory over over a centrist in the primaries.
[00:18:19] primaries. Abdul El-Sayed said any any differences with his defeated
[00:18:22] defeated fellow Democrat, Haley Stevens Stevens paled in comparison to what
[00:18:25] what unified them, and they should should now focus on defeating the
[00:18:29] the Republicans in the swing state.
[00:18:31] state. The US., CDC and FDA are investigating
[00:18:34] investigating a multistate salmonella salmonella outbreak linked to jalapeno
[00:18:38] jalapeno peppers from Mexico, which which have sickened 345 people across
[00:18:42] across 27 states and prompted a recall recall of affected products. Restaurants
[00:18:45] Restaurants including Chipotle and and Mexican style restaurant chain
[00:18:49] chain have been identified as recipients recipients of the jalapenos, but but no deaths have been reported.
[00:18:53] reported. But at least 36 people
[00:18:55] people have been hospitalised. Gianni
[00:18:58] Gianni Infantino has apologised for for errors he made in controversial
[00:19:01] controversial plans to sell off stakes
[00:19:03] stakes in competitions to private private investors, but will remain
[00:19:06] remain Fifa president after receiving receiving the backing of senior executives
[00:19:09] executives in a meeting in Morocco Morocco which much criticism has
[00:19:12] has come from within Fifa, including
[00:19:14] including Secretary General Mattias Mattias Grafstrom, who was at Wednesday's
[00:19:18] Wednesday's meeting. However, in in a statement, Grafstrom and the the management board reaffirmed their
[00:19:22] their full support for Infantino
[00:19:24] Infantino as president. BBC sports,
[00:19:27] sports, Mark Urban said has more
[00:19:29] more details. Yeah, busy all day. day. Gianni Infantino will remain
[00:19:32] remain as Fifa president for now now after he received the backing
[00:19:35] backing of senior executives in a a meeting in Morocco on Wednesday.
[00:19:39] Wednesday. Infantino's been under under fire for his plans to sell
[00:19:41] sell off stakes in competitions including including the World Cup, to private
[00:19:44] private investors. As you mentioned mentioned in a statement after the
[00:19:47] the meeting, the Fifa Management Management Board acknowledged the
[00:19:50] the need for improved processes around around communications. Apologise
[00:19:53] Apologise for mistakes but said they they will not tolerate any attacks
[00:19:57] attacks on its integrity. Let's pull pull up some of the key lines from
[00:20:00] from that statement then. Firstly, Firstly, it says the Fifa Secretary
[00:20:03] Secretary General and members of of the Fifa Management Board in attendance
[00:20:06] attendance reaffirmed their full full support for Fifa president Gianni
[00:20:09] Gianni Infantino as the only official
[00:20:11] official elected by the 211 Fifa Fifa member associations regarding
[00:20:15] regarding the Forward enterprise enterprise proposal. That's the plan
[00:20:17] plan to invite that private investment, investment, it said it was agreed
[00:20:21] agreed that it was not the intention intention for the Fifa Council and
[00:20:24] and Fifa members associations to to feel excluded from the process
[00:20:27] process and that the process should should have been handled differently. differently. It was further acknowledged
[00:20:31] acknowledged that errors were also also made after the proposal was
[00:20:34] was leaked to the media. It goes goes on to say that there are always
[00:20:38] always lessons to be learned and and Fifa will continue to improve
[00:20:40] improve its processes in light of of this experience. In this instance,
[00:20:44] instance, however, it is important important to stress that although although mistakes were made, everything
[00:20:47] everything that was done was done done in full compliance with the
[00:20:50] the Fifa regulatory framework and and on the criticism that has come
[00:20:54] come the way of Fifa. They say that that they will no longer tolerate
[00:20:57] tolerate any attacks on its integrity, integrity, good governance and due
[00:21:01] due process and crucially, will take take all necessary measures to protect
[00:21:04] protect and safeguard its name and
[00:21:06] and reputation. So Infantino stays stays in place for now. If someone
[00:21:10] someone wants to put themselves forward forward to stand against him for
[00:21:13] for the presidency next year, they they have until November the 18th
[00:21:16] 18th to put their names forward.
[00:21:19] forward. For 26 days. Sonam Wangchuk Wangchuk went on a hunger strike
[00:21:22] strike in India in support of the the Cockroach Janta Party and thousands
[00:21:25] thousands of students as they demanded demanded change after the leaking
[00:21:28] leaking of crucial exam papers. His His hunger strike ended after he
[00:21:31] he received guarantees from India's India's government that there would would be changes to the country's
[00:21:34] country's exam system and protections protections for peaceful student student protesters who'd been arrested.
[00:21:38] arrested. He's been speaking to Rajini Rajini Vaidyanathan on the BBC's
[00:21:42] BBC's NewsHour programme. In his his first broadcast interview since
[00:21:44] since the protests ended, Rajini Rajini asked how much Prime Minister
[00:21:47] Minister Narendra Modi has been weakened
[00:21:49] weakened by the movement. Terribly,
[00:21:52] Terribly, terribly. I mean, people people can't even imagine, what's
[00:21:56] what's happening now. Every part
[00:21:58] part of the country people are raising
[00:22:00] raising voice, not just generation
[00:22:02] generation Gen Z but Gen Alpha school
[00:22:05] school boys and girls are raising raising their school issues and getting
[00:22:09] getting them resolved. Remote places
[00:22:12] places to different states. People
[00:22:14] People are rising up to, remove these,
[00:22:21] these, injustices in the, employment
[00:22:22] employment systems, examination systems,
[00:22:25] systems, more in the education arena
[00:22:27] arena now, but actually it cuts across
[00:22:30] across various fields. And you may
[00:22:32] may have heard yesterday in Bihar,
[00:22:36] Bihar, the ruling party lost two
[00:22:38] two of the three seats that had by by elections. So the entire atmosphere
[00:22:42] atmosphere in the country has switched. switched. And Prime Minister Modi
[00:22:46] Modi has always presented himself
[00:22:48] himself as India's strong man, hasn't
[00:22:50] hasn't he? He would possibly take
[00:22:53] take issue with the fact that this this has weakened his government.
[00:22:56] government. He still has a lot of of support. Why do you think this
[00:23:00] this particular wave of protests
[00:23:02] protests is different? There was
[00:23:07] was a sense of fear earlier. You You know, it was mostly dealing with
[00:23:11] with grown ups, middle aged people
[00:23:12] people who had too much to lose.
[00:23:15] lose. Businesses were scared of,
[00:23:19] of, raids by enforcement agencies agencies who would do randomly to
[00:23:23] to people who they had any issues issues with, who didn't agree to,
[00:23:25] to, who raised their voice. So all
[00:23:27] all grown ups were beaten into, fear.
[00:23:33] fear. So there was no voice. Almost.
[00:23:36] Almost. And this movement because
[00:23:39] because it, was by young people who who had hardly anything to lose.
[00:23:43] lose. Gen Z or people like me who
[00:23:46] who had already faced all that one
[00:23:48] one could face, at the hands of the
[00:23:51] the government jail and raids by
[00:23:53] by government agencies, everything. everything. So we had nothing to
[00:23:56] to lose. We had no fear. And that's that's what spread across the country.
[00:23:59] country. And today people are raising
[00:24:02] raising voice and maybe, they feel
[00:24:05] feel and rightly so that they don't
[00:24:07] don't have that control. But I always
[00:24:09] always thought the best way to have,
[00:24:12] have, you know, control or power
[00:24:14] power is through love and, in return
[00:24:18] return love from the people by ensuring
[00:24:21] ensuring a just and, fear free, governance.
[00:24:26] governance. Hopefully they'll mend mend their ways. This time. It stopped
[00:24:30] stopped at, education ministry. But, But, if this continues, I think the
[00:24:34] the younger generation and the people,
[00:24:37] people, may not stop at just education. education. You talk about the young
[00:24:41] young people not stopping education. education. We saw a lot of placards,
[00:24:44] placards, didn't we, at those protests protests calling for the Prime Minister
[00:24:47] Minister to step down as well. Do Do you still think he is the right
[00:24:51] right person to govern India? I would
[00:24:54] would give them the chance to mend
[00:24:57] mend their ways. I always believe
[00:24:59] believe in people realising their their mistakes and amending their
[00:25:03] their ways, so I would give them them that chance. But if it goes
[00:25:06] goes back to the ways that I suffered,
[00:25:08] suffered, you know, for the last
[00:25:10] last 2 or 3 years, and if nothing
[00:25:13] nothing changes, then yes, people people have the right to say that
[00:25:17] that we don't accept this kind of
[00:25:18] of governance. We want a free and,
[00:25:24] and, just democratic governance in
[00:25:25] in this country. Let's take you back back to Thailand's capital of Bangkok,
[00:25:29] Bangkok, where we can show you some some live images now of government
[00:25:32] government House. That is where Thailand's Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin
[00:25:36] Anutin Charnvirakul is awaiting the the arrival of Myanmar's president
[00:25:39] president and a former coup leader, leader, Min Aung Hlaing. He's expected
[00:25:42] expected to make a two day visit visit to Myanmar, and they're expected
[00:25:46] expected to speak on a whole host
[00:25:48] host of issues, from security to to economic issues as well. There
[00:25:51] There are two countries do share
[00:25:54] share a long border now the Thai Thai Prime Minister has talked about
[00:25:58] about calibrated re-engagement. Is Is that what we are going to see
[00:26:00] see over the next two days in Thailand? Thailand? I'll be back shortly with with Business
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[00:30:09] News, Business Today. Google announces
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[00:30:21] company seeks to keep up with big big tech rivals in the AI race. The
[00:30:25] The Dow reaches an all-time high high thanks to strong earnings and
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[00:30:31] Hormuz and shares of Disney Jump Jump as the entertainment giant sees
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[00:30:36] of a plan to launch a new streaming
[00:30:39] streaming product. Hello and welcome
[00:30:45] welcome to Business Today with me, me, Steve Lai. Now we begin with
[00:30:47] with a major shake-up at Google's Google's artificial intelligence
[00:30:50] intelligence business, which seems seems to have got investors nervous
[00:30:52] nervous sending shares of alphabet alphabet down 4%. Jeff Dean, a long
[00:30:56] long time Google employee central central to the development of the the company's AI strategy,