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[00:00:02] MUSIC
[00:00:10] Live from London. This is BBC News.
[00:00:16] News. Iran says a deal with Oman Oman for a new shipping route through
[00:00:20] through the Strait of Hormuz is in
[00:00:22] in the final stages. The Fifa president,
[00:00:26] president, Gianni Infantino, apologises apologises after a backlash over
[00:00:29] over his proposal to sell shares shares in football's World Cup to
[00:00:33] to private investors. Myanmar's military
[00:00:37] military leader visits Thailand as
[00:00:39] as Bangkok pushes for re-engagement
[00:00:41] re-engagement with its regional neighbours. neighbours. And also coming up how
[00:00:45] how two of the world's most powerful
[00:00:47] powerful AI models tried to deceive deceive people during safety tests
[00:00:51] tests by creating fake human identities.
[00:01:03] identities. Hello there, I'm Tadhg Tadhg Enright and welcome to BBC
[00:01:06] BBC News. Iran says that a deal with
[00:01:09] with Oman on a new route for ships
[00:01:11] ships through the Strait of Hormuz Hormuz is being finalised. But Iran's
[00:01:15] Iran's foreign ministry said it would
[00:01:16] would only go ahead if certain third
[00:01:19] third parties did not obstruct the the process. President Trump has
[00:01:23] has said that the key waterway would
[00:01:25] would open very soon, or that Iran
[00:01:27] Iran would be hit very hard. Well,
[00:01:30] Well, in his first meeting with his his US counterpart Marco Rubio, the
[00:01:34] the new UK Foreign Secretary said said Britain would work with the
[00:01:38] the US to secure a lasting cease
[00:01:40] cease fire in the Iran war and would would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:01:44] Hormuz. But in a broadcast interview interview after the meeting, Ed Miliband
[00:01:47] Miliband insisted the UK would never never take part in offensive military
[00:01:51] military action. He spoke to the
[00:01:54] the BBC's Helena Humphrey, who asked asked him what he and Marco Rubio
[00:01:57] Rubio achieved. Well, the number number one priority for this government
[00:02:01] government is to tackle the cost cost of living crisis that people
[00:02:04] people are facing. And my job as as Foreign Secretary most immediately
[00:02:08] immediately is to work with our closest closest ally, the United States,
[00:02:10] States, on getting a ceasefire and
[00:02:13] and a lasting ceasefire in relation
[00:02:16] relation to the Iran war. Now we we are working night and day to try
[00:02:19] try and make that happen. That was was a large part of our discussions
[00:02:23] discussions today. I am hopeful that
[00:02:26] that this may happen, but we are are not there yet and we've got to
[00:02:29] to do everything we can to get this this ceasefire in place. The work
[00:02:33] work between Iran and Oman is obviously obviously crucial to that, but then
[00:02:36] then we've got to make sure it is is an enduring ceasefire, that we
[00:02:40] we don't have a nuclear Iran. Well,
[00:02:43] Well, meanwhile, the Iranian president, president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has
[00:02:46] has described current interactions interactions with the country's supreme
[00:02:50] supreme leader as very difficult. difficult. But he insisted he had
[00:02:52] had been able to have productive
[00:02:54] productive meetings with him. Mojtaba Mojtaba Khamenei has made no public
[00:02:58] public appearances since he took took over in the role. He was reportedly
[00:03:01] reportedly injured in one of the the first strikes launched against
[00:03:04] against Iran by the United States
[00:03:07] States and Israel. Let's speak now
[00:03:09] now to the director of Iranian studies
[00:03:11] studies at Stanford University, Abbas
[00:03:13] Abbas Milani. Thank you very much
[00:03:15] much for joining us, Mr Milani. Let's Let's talk about the potential good
[00:03:19] good news here. What's your view view of the significance of this
[00:03:23] this tentative deal between Iran
[00:03:25] Iran and Oman? I think we have the
[00:03:28] the beginnings of a good news. I
[00:03:29] I think the outlines as described
[00:03:32] described by Iran indicate that they
[00:03:34] they certainly want to have a deal.
[00:03:37] deal. The devil or the god, as they they say, is in the details. We don't
[00:03:41] don't know the details, but I think
[00:03:44] think Iran and Oman and the United
[00:03:46] United States and Britain, I think,
[00:03:48] think, and China and Europe all want
[00:03:51] want the Strait of Hormuz open. So
[00:03:53] So we have the beginnings of this this process in place. Help us to
[00:03:57] to understand the context a little little bit more. What does it say
[00:04:00] say that this is a deal between Iran
[00:04:02] Iran and Oman, not between Iran and
[00:04:06] and the United States? Well, I think
[00:04:08] think in the reality it is at least least partially with the United States.
[00:04:11] States. But Iran is in this silly
[00:04:13] silly game that it claims it does
[00:04:16] does not directly negotiate with with the United States, although
[00:04:19] although it often does indirectly
[00:04:22] indirectly or through intermediaries intermediaries without the United
[00:04:24] United States. I don't think that that deal would work without the
[00:04:28] the Europeans. The deal would not
[00:04:30] not work without Oman UAE, Saudi
[00:04:33] Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain Bahrain without China. I think the
[00:04:37] the deal would not work. All of these
[00:04:38] these countries. I think, uniformly
[00:04:41] uniformly want an end to the closure closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:04:45] Hormuz. So I think Iran is under under considerable pressure. But
[00:04:49] But because of domestic situation situation and because of regional
[00:04:52] regional situation, they can afford afford to look like they are making making any concessions. They want
[00:04:56] want to look like they are the ones ones who are dictating the terms
[00:04:59] terms of the agreement. Well, looking looking at that domestic situation
[00:05:01] situation in Iran, we heard the President
[00:05:04] President say describe efforts to to communicate for him to communicate
[00:05:07] communicate with the new Supreme
[00:05:09] Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, Khamenei, being very difficult. What
[00:05:12] What do you make of that? I think
[00:05:15] think that's a very important point. point. I think Iran right now is
[00:05:19] is involved in one of the most intense
[00:05:23] intense internal fights within the the regime between the hardliners
[00:05:27] hardliners who want a confrontational confrontational approach, who think
[00:05:31] think Iran has a possibility to throw
[00:05:32] throw the US out of the Middle East.
[00:05:35] East. Force the US to make serious
[00:05:37] serious concessions. And those like
[00:05:40] like Mr Position who think Iran is
[00:05:43] is economy, the Iranian situation situation demands that they make
[00:05:46] make a quick deal. That battle, I
[00:05:49] I think, accounts for some of the,
[00:05:53] the, rhetorical pyrotechnics that that Iran engages in. They want a
[00:05:56] a deal. I think Trump administration administration wants a deal. Oman
[00:05:59] Oman wants a deal. So I think we we have the outlines of a deal. But
[00:06:03] But the details are very important important to work out. OK. Abbas
[00:06:07] Abbas Milani, director of Iranian Iranian studies at Stanford University,
[00:06:10] University, thank you very much for
[00:06:12] for that. Let's bring you up to date date with some breaking news that
[00:06:15] that we've received just within the the last hour or so. The Israeli
[00:06:18] Israeli military has said that two two of its soldiers have been killed
[00:06:22] killed and four others severely injured injured in southern Lebanon. Well,
[00:06:26] Well, this comes as Israel resumed resumed strikes on the country for
[00:06:29] for the first time in more than a
[00:06:31] a month. Lebanese state media said
[00:06:33] said that one person had been killed
[00:06:36] killed and 11 wounded. Fighting had had decreased after Israel and Lebanon
[00:06:40] Lebanon signed a US sponsored deal
[00:06:42] deal in June. But Israeli forces forces still maintain control of
[00:06:46] of much of the south of that country.
[00:06:49] country. Now the embattled president president of Fifa, Gianni Infantino,
[00:06:52] Infantino, has apologised for mistakes
[00:06:54] mistakes he made in the pursuit of of his controversial proposal to
[00:06:57] to sell shares in football's World World Cup to private investors. The
[00:07:01] The apology came in a letter signed
[00:07:04] signed by Mr Infantino, which also also reaffirmed the management board's
[00:07:08] board's full support for him as Fifa
[00:07:11] Fifa president. BBC Sports Mark Benstead
[00:07:13] Benstead has more details. Yeah, Yeah, busy all day. Gianni Infantino
[00:07:16] Infantino will remain as Fifa president president for now after he received
[00:07:19] received the backing of senior executives executives in a meeting in Morocco
[00:07:23] Morocco on Wednesday. Infantino's Infantino's been under fire for his
[00:07:25] his plans to sell off stakes in competitions competitions including the World
[00:07:28] World Cup, to private investors. investors. As you mentioned in a
[00:07:31] a statement after the meeting, the the Fifa Management Board acknowledged
[00:07:34] acknowledged the need for improved improved processes around communications.
[00:07:37] communications. Apologise for mistakes mistakes but said they will not tolerate
[00:07:40] tolerate any attacks on its integrity. integrity. Let's pull up some of
[00:07:43] of the key lines from that statement statement then. Firstly, it says
[00:07:46] says the Fifa Secretary General and and members of the Fifa Management
[00:07:50] Management Board in attendance reaffirmed reaffirmed their full support for for Fifa president Gianni Infantino
[00:07:54] Infantino was the only official elected
[00:07:56] elected by the 211 Fifa member associations associations regarding the Forward
[00:08:00] Forward enterprise proposal. That's
[00:08:01] That's the plan to invite that private
[00:08:04] private investment, it said it was was agreed that it was not the intention
[00:08:07] intention for the Fifa Council and and Fifa members associations to
[00:08:10] to feel excluded from the process process and that the process should
[00:08:13] should have been handled differently. differently. It was further acknowledged
[00:08:16] acknowledged that errors were also also made after the proposal was
[00:08:19] was leaked to the media. It goes goes on to say that there are always
[00:08:23] always lessons to be learned and and Fifa will continue to improve improve its processes in light of
[00:08:27] of this experience. In this instance, instance, however, it is important important to stress that although
[00:08:30] although mistakes were made, everything everything that was done was done
[00:08:33] done in full compliance with the the Fifa regulatory framework and
[00:08:37] and on the criticism that has come come the way of Fifa. They say that
[00:08:40] that they will no longer tolerate tolerate any attacks on its integrity,
[00:08:44] integrity, good governance and due due process and crucially, will take
[00:08:47] take all necessary measures to protect
[00:08:48] protect and safeguard its name and
[00:08:51] and reputation. So Infantino stays stays in place for now. If someone
[00:08:54] someone wants to put themselves forward forward to stand against him for
[00:08:58] for the presidency next year, they they have until November the 18th
[00:09:01] 18th to put their names forward. forward. The Nigerian government
[00:09:04] government says that more than 300 300 people have been freed in what
[00:09:08] what it's described as the largest largest ever rescue operation by
[00:09:11] by the security forces there in a
[00:09:14] a single day. More than half of the the kidnapped victims were seized
[00:09:17] seized by suspected jihadists in
[00:09:19] in Kwara State six months ago. The The rest were taken from Niger State.
[00:09:23] State. The attack in Kwara targeted
[00:09:26] targeted two villages near the border
[00:09:28] border with Benin. At least 75 people
[00:09:31] people were killed. Germany's interior
[00:09:34] interior minister has warned about about a new level of danger after
[00:09:37] after what appears to have been an
[00:09:39] an attempted drone attack on a major
[00:09:41] major airport. The drone, packed packed with explosives, was discovered
[00:09:45] discovered overnight at Leipzig Airport. Airport. Another aircraft collided
[00:09:49] collided with an unidentified object object after taking off from Leipzig
[00:09:53] Leipzig and made an unscheduled landing.
[00:09:56] landing. Now Myanmar's military leader
[00:09:58] leader turned President Min Aung Aung Hlaing is visiting Thailand
[00:10:01] Thailand today in an attempt to end
[00:10:03] end the country's international isolation.
[00:10:06] isolation. It is five years now since
[00:10:07] since he staged a coup that led to
[00:10:10] to a civil war. Meanwhile, Myanmar Myanmar has since been blocked from
[00:10:14] from attending meetings of the South
[00:10:16] South East Asian trading group Asean. Asean. Well, for more now, let's
[00:10:19] let's cross live to government House
[00:10:21] House in Bangkok and speak with our
[00:10:24] our south-east South East Asia correspondent correspondent Jonathan Hedge. Jonathan, Jonathan, thanks for being with us.
[00:10:28] us. There's quite a welcome being being laid out there for Menang Yang.
[00:10:31] Yang. How likely do you think is
[00:10:33] is he to achieve this objective?
[00:10:37] objective? Well, I think by getting getting Thailand on board this idea
[00:10:40] idea of restoring relations to completely, completely, completely normal as
[00:10:44] as though he's a normal government. government. This is a very big move move for him. Remember, he's already
[00:10:47] already got the backing, the full full backing of China. China's been
[00:10:49] been backing him for the last two two years, helping him to restore
[00:10:53] restore his authority in his military military government. Two years ago
[00:10:57] ago was losing ground to a whole whole alliance of different armed
[00:11:01] armed groups that had formed to resist resist his coup. This bloody civil
[00:11:04] civil war has cost thousands of lives. lives. He was being pushed back.
[00:11:08] back. He looked like he might actually actually crumble. Chinese support
[00:11:11] support has showed him up. His troops troops are much stronger now. He's
[00:11:15] He's held this much criticised. Certainly Certainly not free election at the
[00:11:18] the beginning of the year that allowed allowed him to call himself a president. president. But Thailand's different
[00:11:22] different Thailand, being a member member of the Association of South South East Asian Nations up to now
[00:11:26] now have been keeping him at arm's arm's length. Their position was
[00:11:29] was we need to see him start to de-escalate
[00:11:32] de-escalate the violence, to negotiate negotiate with the opposition, to
[00:11:34] to bring this civil war to an end end before we can bring relations
[00:11:37] relations back to normal. Well, now, now, Thailand's broken ranks, Thailand's Thailand's essentially saying he's
[00:11:41] he's there to stay. He's got China's China's backing. Thailand has a very
[00:11:44] very long border with Myanmar. It's It's 2500km long. The Thai government
[00:11:48] government argues it's got too many many issues it needs to talk about
[00:11:51] about with Myanmar to keep relations relations in the deep freeze. I mean,
[00:11:54] mean, they talked about a calibrated
[00:11:57] calibrated re-engagement. This didn't didn't look calibrated. The ceremony
[00:12:00] ceremony we saw earlier here, this
[00:12:02] this is a full visit with an honour honour guard a band. He's getting
[00:12:05] getting a proper official dinner dinner with the Prime Minister, a a business forum. Thailand really
[00:12:09] really is going right back to normal. normal. And to be honest, the nature
[00:12:13] nature of this region being what what it is, I suspect other governments governments will now follow opponents
[00:12:17] opponents of the military government government are really angry about about this. They're saying they're
[00:12:21] they're giving legitimacy to a bloodstained bloodstained dictatorship. But governments
[00:12:25] governments in this region are saying saying after five years of civil civil war, we have to start dealing
[00:12:28] dealing with the people in charge. charge. Min Aung Hlaing for all of
[00:12:31] of his flaws and what he's done to
[00:12:33] to his country is the guy in charge. One of the sticking points,
[00:12:36] points, though, has been about the the wellbeing of the democracy campaigner
[00:12:40] campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi. And And I understand we were given a
[00:12:43] a glimpse of her recently. Yeah,
[00:12:46] Yeah, I mean that that was almost almost certainly a demand the Thais
[00:12:49] Thais made. She hasn't been seen seen in public pretty much since
[00:12:53] since she was ousted by the coup coup five and a half years ago. She's
[00:12:56] She's been jailed, been given a whole whole series of spurious charges
[00:13:00] charges by the military. And her her family were getting very, very
[00:13:02] very concerned. No contact at all
[00:13:04] all with her for two and a half years. years. But the Thais, I think, almost
[00:13:08] almost insisted there had to be some some proof of life before they could
[00:13:11] could let this visit go ahead. If If this visit had gone ahead. And
[00:13:14] And it turned out that Suu Kyi, who who is 81 years old, had somehow
[00:13:17] somehow passed away, it would have have been deeply embarrassing. The The military has held back, giving
[00:13:20] giving that proof of life really really as a kind of card to play.
[00:13:23] play. They played it on Monday. They They allowed a Red cross team to
[00:13:26] to go and meet her, and they released released photographs of it. Now she's
[00:13:30] she's still enormously popular, particularly particularly in parts of Myanmar Myanmar that oppose military rule.
[00:13:34] rule. But, you know, at her age and and having been in prison all this
[00:13:37] this time, it's likely she played played a largely symbolic role. If
[00:13:41] If there's ever a negotiated end end to the Civil War, she matters.
[00:13:45] matters. Governments in this region region say her treatment and ultimately
[00:13:48] ultimately her freedom will be signalled. signalled. Proper signals of good
[00:13:52] good intent by the Burmese military. military. But there's a lot more more at stake here. There's far more
[00:13:55] more negotiation and work to be done done before the conflict between
[00:13:59] between the military and the people people of Myanmar who have risen
[00:14:01] risen up against it, starts to be be resolved. Jonathan Head in Bangkok,
[00:14:05] Bangkok, thank you very much. Still
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[00:15:31] News. This is BBC News. Japan's Prime
[00:15:34] Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has has for the first time led commemorations
[00:15:37] commemorations in Hiroshima on the the anniversary of the world's first
[00:15:40] first use of nuclear weapons. 81
[00:15:44] 81 years ago. The United States dropped dropped an atom bomb on the city
[00:15:47] city at the end of the Second World
[00:15:49] World War. An estimated 140,000 people
[00:15:53] people were killed. In her address,
[00:15:55] address, Miss Takaichi reaffirmed
[00:15:58] reaffirmed Japan's three non-nuclear non-nuclear principles of not possessing,
[00:16:02] possessing, producing or allowing allowing nuclear weapons on its territory.
[00:16:06] territory. Let's cross now to Tokyo Tokyo and our correspondent there.
[00:16:09] there. Kurumi Mori. Kurumi. How significant
[00:16:12] significant was it that Miss Takaichi
[00:16:14] Takaichi made this commitment? You
[00:16:18] You know, this commitment that she
[00:16:20] she made was largely expected. Japanese Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi
[00:16:24] Takaichi attending the Hiroshima Hiroshima Peace Memorial ceremony ceremony for the first time as the
[00:16:28] the country's leader. She's attended attended before but not as Prime
[00:16:31] Prime Minister. So in her speech, speech, she did reaffirm the three
[00:16:35] three non-nuclear principles you you mentioned not possessing, producing
[00:16:38] producing or permitting the nuclear nuclear weapons on Japanese territory.
[00:16:41] territory. I mean, this message, message, though, carried particular
[00:16:44] particular weight. This year, Japan
[00:16:46] Japan is set to revise its key national national security strategy later
[00:16:49] later this year, and that's prompting prompting questions over whether
[00:16:53] whether its long standing commitment commitment to those principles could
[00:16:56] could face new pressure. At a time time when we're seeing East Asia
[00:17:00] Asia rapidly changing with its security security environment. And Takaichi
[00:17:04] Takaichi did not address those concerns concerns directly in her speech,
[00:17:07] speech, and instead she stressed stressed Japan's responsibility as
[00:17:10] as the only country to have suffered
[00:17:13] suffered atomic bombings in war and
[00:17:14] and renew that commitment to pursue
[00:17:17] pursue a world with no nuclear weapons.
[00:17:19] weapons. But the issue has become
[00:17:22] become increasingly sensitive in in Japan online, some questioned
[00:17:25] questioned whether Takaichi, who who is widely regarded as having
[00:17:29] having a more hawkish national security
[00:17:31] security stance, will maintain that that pledge as the regional tensions
[00:17:34] tensions just grow further and defence defence spending here continues to
[00:17:38] to rise. The debate did intensify
[00:17:40] intensify last month when Defence Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi
[00:17:44] Koizumi called for Japan to have have a more open discussion about
[00:17:46] about the role of nuclear weapons weapons in the country's defence.
[00:17:49] defence. The remarks drew criticism
[00:17:52] criticism from survivors of the atomic atomic bombings and anti-nuclear
[00:17:55] anti-nuclear groups, and that prompted prompted Koizumi to later clarify
[00:17:58] clarify that he remains firmly committed committed to Japan's non-nuclear
[00:18:01] non-nuclear principles and to that that goal of world, a world free
[00:18:05] free of nuclear weapons. But, you you know, for many in Hiroshima,
[00:18:08] Hiroshima, the ceremony is less about about politics than about remembrance
[00:18:12] remembrance as the number of atomic atomic bomb survivors continues to
[00:18:15] to decline in Japan, there's this this growing urgency to preserve
[00:18:19] preserve their testimony and ensure ensure that lessons of Hiroshima.
[00:18:22] Hiroshima. Make sure that they are are not forgotten. OK. The BBC s
[00:18:25] s Kurumi Mori in Tokyo. Thank you
[00:18:27] you very much. Well, the man suspected
[00:18:30] suspected of killing a Scottish aid aid worker in Greece who will be
[00:18:33] be back in court in Athens today
[00:18:36] today after a brief appearance on on Wednesday. The body of Elisabeth
[00:18:39] Elisabeth Ross, known to her family family as Lisa, was found in a suitcase
[00:18:43] suitcase at an abandoned building building on the 18th of July, days
[00:18:47] days after she'd been reported missing.
[00:18:49] missing. Sharif Ahmadzai Ahmadzai,
[00:18:51] Ahmadzai, who is 26 and from Afghanistan, Afghanistan, faces charges of homicide
[00:18:55] homicide with intent, robbery and and weapons offences. Ben Philip
[00:18:59] Philip reports now from Athens. This
[00:19:02] This is the first time we saw the the man suspected of killing Lisa
[00:19:06] Lisa Ross since his arrest in public, public, handcuffed and wearing a
[00:19:10] a tracksuit. Sharif Ahmadzai was
[00:19:12] was ushered into a car by armed police.
[00:19:15] police. A short time later, the car car arrived at the court in central
[00:19:18] central Athens. Many people here here are following this story closely.
[00:19:22] closely. Lisa was found dead on the the 18th of July. The 38-year-old's
[00:19:26] 38-year-old's body was found in a
[00:19:28] a suitcase in an abandoned building. building. Ahmadzai was in court here
[00:19:32] here for around one hour and 20 minutes. minutes. He was told. He faces charges
[00:19:35] charges of homicide with intent, intent, equivalence of a murder charge
[00:19:39] charge in the UK, robbery and weapons
[00:19:42] weapons offences. The 26-year-old 26-year-old was born in Afghanistan
[00:19:46] Afghanistan and arrived in Greece Greece as a refugee when he was 15.
[00:19:49] 15. He made no comments during the the hearing and the case was deferred
[00:19:53] deferred until Thursday. We managed managed to get close to him when when he was leaving court. He kept
[00:19:57] kept his head down and had nothing nothing to say as he was escorted
[00:20:01] escorted back to custody. The derelict derelict building where Lisa's body
[00:20:04] body was found is just down the street street from the court building. Locals
[00:20:08] Locals here are still coming to terms terms with what's happened. The only
[00:20:11] only thing. The whole neighbourhood neighbourhood is in major distress.
[00:20:15] distress. Even the young children. children. My own daughter, who is
[00:20:17] is ten years old, is terrified and and consumed by fear. Lisa arrived
[00:20:21] arrived in Greece in late June and and stayed at these apartments close
[00:20:24] close by. It's here. Police believe
[00:20:27] believe she died. Ahmadzai is a champion
[00:20:29] champion boxer. He runs a refugee refugee charity with his American
[00:20:33] American wife. Investigators are are also looking into whether he
[00:20:35] he already knew Lisa. Greek police police claim that he took Lisa's
[00:20:39] Lisa's body in a suitcase and left left her here before using her bank
[00:20:42] bank cards to withdraw money thought thought to be around ten zero zero
[00:20:46] zero 0. It's expected Ahmadzai will will be formally charged when the
[00:20:50] the case recalls. For now, the investigation investigation remains ongoing. To
[00:20:53] To find out what happened to Lisa
[00:20:55] Lisa in the Greek capital. Ben Philip,
[00:20:58] Philip, BBC News, Athens. A Cambridge Cambridge professor who's been the
[00:21:02] the subject of media scrutiny after
[00:21:04] after claims of plagiarism has resigned resigned hours after Cambridge said
[00:21:08] said it would investigate his qualifications
[00:21:10] qualifications and honourary appointments. appointments. Professor Jason Arday
[00:21:13] Arday has been the subject of many many questions in the media over
[00:21:16] over the last few weeks. Our culture culture correspondent Noor Nanji
[00:21:19] Nanji has more. This is Cambridge's
[00:21:23] Cambridge's youngest ever black professor. professor. He joined the university
[00:21:26] university back in 2023. But as you
[00:21:27] you say, he's been facing these allegations
[00:21:30] allegations of plagiarism ever since. since. Another academic who was sacked
[00:21:34] sacked from his role at Cambridge
[00:21:36] Cambridge back in 2024, said he had
[00:21:38] had noticed numerous instances of of plagiarism in Professor Aadhi's
[00:21:42] Aadhi's work and also questioned questioned some of his stated achievements. achievements. Now this row has been
[00:21:46] been bubbling for weeks in the media media and so on. It all came to a
[00:21:49] a head at around 6:00 this evening evening when Cambridge University
[00:21:52] University announced that they were were launching a probe following
[00:21:56] following new information about him. him. Now, shortly afterwards, just
[00:21:58] just a couple of hours later, Professor Professor Ardi announced that he
[00:22:01] he was quitting. In a letter that that was published on the Good Law
[00:22:05] Law Project's website. And in that that letter he said that he was facing
[00:22:08] facing an unrelenting level of public public scrutiny and personal attack
[00:22:11] attack and that he needed time to to heal. Now, he didn't address the
[00:22:15] the specific allegations around plagiarism plagiarism in that letter, but he
[00:22:18] he has been defending himself recently, recently, including on the weekend weekend in an interview with The
[00:22:22] The Times in which he insisted he
[00:22:25] he was not a liar, he said that some
[00:22:27] some errors in his earlier academic academic work could be related to
[00:22:31] to his autism, and he also told The
[00:22:32] The times that there had been a concerted
[00:22:35] concerted campaign to remove him him from the university, which he
[00:22:39] he argued was racially motivated. motivated. Now it might not surprise surprise you. There's been a lot
[00:22:43] lot of reaction to all of this. More More than 16,000 people have signed
[00:22:46] signed a petition in support of him
[00:22:48] him set up by the Good Law Project, Project, but some academics have
[00:22:52] have argued that there are now serious serious questions to answer. The
[00:22:55] The two of the world's most powerful
[00:22:57] powerful AI tools created fake human
[00:23:00] human profiles to try to trick people people in an attempted cyber attack
[00:23:04] attack during testing. In the most most serious case, Anthropic's Mythos
[00:23:07] Mythos AI tried to gain access to to a service by sending private messages.
[00:23:11] messages. Having set up fake accounts
[00:23:14] accounts mimicking real people, the the UK's AI Security Institute said
[00:23:18] said it was a level of autonomy and
[00:23:20] and deception it had never seen before.
[00:23:23] before. Marc Cieslak reports. Another
[00:23:24] Another week and more AI agents going
[00:23:27] going AWOL. This time it was models models from OpenAI called Sol and
[00:23:31] and Mythos AI from Anthropic acting
[00:23:33] acting up during testing by the UK's
[00:23:35] UK's AI Safety Institute. But how
[00:23:38] how are these AI agents so regularly
[00:23:41] regularly escaping the digital confinement? confinement? Well, in this case,
[00:23:45] case, Anthropic and OpenAI say that
[00:23:47] that the AI Safety Institute actually
[00:23:49] actually reduced or removed some some of the standard safeguards.
[00:23:52] safeguards. The Safety Institute Institute says it's done this so
[00:23:55] so that its testing can better replicate
[00:23:58] replicate the actions of hackers
[00:24:00] hackers in the real world. Anthropic's
[00:24:02] Anthropic's model Mythos was the the worst behaved. It was given a
[00:24:06] a task and researchers wanted to to see how it would try to achieve
[00:24:10] achieve its goal. Anthropic's AI AI decided it needed access to GitHub,
[00:24:14] GitHub, a website where software software developers share computer
[00:24:17] computer code to complete the task. task. It had been set. A human reviewer
[00:24:21] reviewer was standing in its way,
[00:24:23] way, though instead of stopping it it identified people responsible
[00:24:27] responsible for maintaining GitHub, GitHub, researched them and created
[00:24:30] created a series of fake accounts
[00:24:33] accounts impersonating these real real people. It then used them to
[00:24:37] to contact human users in an attempt
[00:24:39] attempt to persuade them to approve
[00:24:42] approve its code when its actions actions were challenged, it changed
[00:24:45] changed its earlier activity to make make it look harmless. Researchers
[00:24:49] Researchers say it even considered considered creating a new identity
[00:24:52] identity to keep trying. It didn't
[00:24:54] didn't succeed. The Safety Institute Institute says human reviewers spotted
[00:24:58] spotted what was happening and stopped stopped it before any code reached
[00:25:01] reached GitHub. The AI Safety Institute
[00:25:05] Institute says it didn't tell Mythos Mythos to behave this way and that
[00:25:09] that these actions demonstrate the
[00:25:11] the risk of AI autonomous, deceptive
[00:25:14] deceptive behaviour. What we've seen seen so far was not representative
[00:25:17] representative of the real world. world. It was agents being tested
[00:25:21] tested in cyber security environments environments and where we saw misaligned misaligned instructions and they
[00:25:25] they took actions that we didn't didn't expect. That's not representative representative of the risk that we're
[00:25:28] we're seeing today. But what it does does show is just how powerful and
[00:25:32] and creative these models can be be when used in anger. And that can
[00:25:35] can pose some serious questions for for hostile nation states who may
[00:25:38] may be targeting us with them. The
[00:25:40] The AI Safety Institute's job is
[00:25:43] is to identify these kind of risks, risks, and both of these offending
[00:25:46] offending AI models aren't available available to the general public,
[00:25:49] public, highlighting issues like like these now could prevent future
[00:25:53] future AI's Breaking Bad Marc Cieslak,
[00:25:56] Cieslak, BBC News. I'll be back with with you in a few minutes. Time for
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