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[00:00:18] Giannone the headlines. Iran says says a deal with Oman on a shipping
[00:00:22] shipping route through the Strait Strait of Hormuz is in its final
[00:00:25] final stages. Israel says two of of its soldiers have been killed
[00:00:28] killed in southern Lebanon as it
[00:00:30] it resumes strikes on the country.
[00:00:33] country. Shares in Google fall after
[00:00:35] after the CEO of DeepMind steps aside aside as the tech giant seeks to
[00:00:39] to keep pace with its rivals. Afghanistan's
[00:00:42] Afghanistan's exiled women footballers footballers have made an international
[00:00:46] international comeback after a change
[00:00:47] change in Fifa's rules, and we'll
[00:00:50] we'll meet the 97-year-old woman woman who's successfully broken her
[00:00:53] her own world record to become the
[00:00:55] the oldest woman to complete a wing
[00:00:58] wing walk. Let's get more now on
[00:01:03] on the Iran war, a possible breakthrough breakthrough in negotiations to reopen
[00:01:07] reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Reports Reports suggest Iran and Oman are
[00:01:10] are close to an interim deal that that would create defined shipping
[00:01:14] shipping routes through one of the the world's most vital maritime choke
[00:01:18] choke points. If an agreement is is confirmed, it may ease the pressure pressure on energy supplies, but
[00:01:21] but it could also mean Iranian authorities
[00:01:24] authorities would exercise some sovereign sovereign control over the strait
[00:01:27] strait for the first time. Let's Let's talk to Niko Kelbakiani, an
[00:01:30] an Iran specialist at BBC Monitoring. Monitoring. Hello to you, Nico. What
[00:01:34] What information do you have about about this possible deal? Well, the
[00:01:38] the Iranian officials are saying
[00:01:40] saying that that yes, they are in
[00:01:43] in the final stage of a deal with
[00:01:46] with Oman about the arrangements arrangements of in the Strait of of Hormuz and the shipping routes
[00:01:49] routes there. However, they maintain
[00:01:52] maintain that this doesn't mean that that the doesn't mean the reopening
[00:01:56] reopening of the Strait itself, because because they say that this depends
[00:01:59] depends on the US actions. They say say that the strait is closed because
[00:02:03] because of the US Israeli war with with Iran and their hostilities.
[00:02:07] hostilities. Their hostility with with Iran. So what they want is actually
[00:02:11] actually the lifting of the US blockade
[00:02:13] blockade and also, so that the US
[00:02:16] US allows the sale of Iranian oil, oil, on the international market
[00:02:19] market and also unfreezing of some some of the blocked Iranian assets,
[00:02:23] assets, basically the points that
[00:02:25] that were in the memorandum of understanding
[00:02:28] understanding that Iran and the US
[00:02:30] US signed in, in June. So, that's
[00:02:33] that's kind of an additional point point that the Iranian officials
[00:02:36] officials are making that, yes, they they are making these arrangements
[00:02:39] arrangements with Oman. But, to reopen
[00:02:42] reopen the strait in the in its full
[00:02:44] full force. They need these concessions
[00:02:47] concessions from the US. And if you you also watch Iranian media, there
[00:02:51] there are some disagreements also also within especially the hardliners
[00:02:55] hardliners who call, who doesn't doesn't believe in any of this as
[00:02:58] as they say, us false promises. And
[00:03:00] And they maintain that Iran should should continue closing the Strait
[00:03:04] Strait of Hormuz because it's the
[00:03:06] the because it's Iran's main leverage
[00:03:08] leverage against the US. Basically
[00:03:11] Basically to kind of control, the the global shipping routes and, basically
[00:03:15] basically put this pressure on the
[00:03:16] the US to, for it to back off itself,
[00:03:19] itself, because they, they say that
[00:03:21] that even if, if Iran and the US,
[00:03:25] US, agree to a deal us might, not
[00:03:28] not fulfil its promises, as they they say, as they did it in previous
[00:03:32] previous instances. Nico we've also also been hearing from the President,
[00:03:35] President, Masoud Pezeshkian, saying saying that communication with the
[00:03:38] the Supreme leader, the new supreme supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is
[00:03:42] is difficult. What's being said about
[00:03:44] about that? Yes. Mojtaba Khamenei Khamenei hasn't been seen in public
[00:03:47] public since March when he was elected
[00:03:50] elected as the elected as the successor successor to his father, Ali Khamenei,
[00:03:53] Khamenei, who was killed on the first first day of the war. And very few
[00:03:56] few people have said that they met met him including one of them was
[00:04:00] was Pezeshkian and another one was was senior military commander. That
[00:04:03] That was back in back in spring. spring. And it's believed that he's
[00:04:07] he's maybe hidden in a very secure
[00:04:09] secure location. And no verifiable verifiable image of his has been
[00:04:13] been produced. No audio or video, video, messages has been published.
[00:04:16] published. He has only communicated
[00:04:18] communicated through his, through through written statements, and Pezeshkian
[00:04:22] Pezeshkian also said that he his his in his interview yesterday that
[00:04:26] that yeah, the communications with with him is very difficult, but he
[00:04:30] he also warned not to, misinterpret
[00:04:33] misinterpret his remarks. For example,
[00:04:36] example, how many, said in his statement
[00:04:39] statement that he was in principle principle against an MOU with the
[00:04:42] the US in June, but, but he agreed
[00:04:45] agreed to agree to it after Pezeshkian
[00:04:47] Pezeshkian showed him that he would
[00:04:50] would be ensuring Iranian interests interests in the talks with the US.
[00:04:53] US. And these comments were seized
[00:04:55] seized by hardliners to attack. The The President and the negotiating
[00:04:58] negotiating team that they were conceding
[00:05:00] conceding too much with the US and,
[00:05:03] and, that, actually, the supreme supreme leader was against such comments
[00:05:07] comments and president warned that
[00:05:10] that actually, the supreme leader,,
[00:05:13] leader,, respected the expert opinion
[00:05:14] opinion and the majority of the Supreme Supreme National Security Council
[00:05:18] Council voted for the MOU for signing
[00:05:20] signing the MOU and only one person
[00:05:23] person out of 13 was against it. it. So, but yeah, thank you very
[00:05:26] very much. All right, Nico, thank thank you very much. Niko Kelbakiani,
[00:05:30] Kelbakiani, Iran specialist at BBC
[00:05:31] BBC Monitoring. Thank you. Shares
[00:05:34] Shares in the Google owner alphabet alphabet have been falling after
[00:05:36] after a shake up at the top of the the company's AI business. Demis
[00:05:40] Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind
[00:05:42] DeepMind is set to become chief scientist
[00:05:45] scientist at alphabet. It comes as as four of Google's AI researchers
[00:05:48] researchers announced they were leaving leaving to start their own company.
[00:05:51] company. Here's our North America America business correspondent Samira
[00:05:53] Samira Hussain. Google is under immense
[00:05:56] immense pressure as it competes with
[00:05:58] with the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI.
[00:06:01] OpenAI. It is why this big shake
[00:06:03] shake up of their AI leadership has
[00:06:05] has investors just so nervous. There There are worries that alphabet has
[00:06:09] has actually fallen behind in the
[00:06:12] the AI race, even though it created
[00:06:14] created some of the key technologies technologies that are underpinning
[00:06:18] underpinning current AI models. Now Now also remember like other tech
[00:06:21] tech firms, Google continues to spend spend big on AI data centres and
[00:06:25] and such to the tune of somewhere
[00:06:30] somewhere between 195 to $205 billion. billion. That's an awful lot of money
[00:06:33] money to spend on a division of a a company that is going through such
[00:06:36] such a massive shake up. Samira Hussain
[00:06:39] Hussain Africa's richest man Aliko Aliko Dangote has told the BBC about
[00:06:43] about his plans to build a new oil
[00:06:46] oil refinery in Kenya, which he says
[00:06:47] says will help African countries
[00:06:50] countries become energy self-sufficient. self-sufficient. Nancy Kacungira Kacungira caught up with him in Lagos
[00:06:54] Lagos and began by asking him how how advanced the plans for the refinery
[00:06:57] refinery are. The plans have actually
[00:07:00] actually gone very far with Kenya
[00:07:04] Kenya and because what we are trying trying to do really is to try and
[00:07:07] and make sure that, you know, most
[00:07:10] most African countries we make them
[00:07:15] them self-sufficient in their own,
[00:07:17] own, you know, energy needs, energy
[00:07:19] energy needs fertiliser. And so going
[00:07:23] going back to your question, how how far have we gone? We've gone
[00:07:26] gone very far. And I think by latest
[00:07:31] latest by October we'll be doing,
[00:07:35] doing, groundbreaking once we break
[00:07:37] break ground, we will start the construction
[00:07:40] construction very soon. We are really really planning something very big
[00:07:44] big within the African continent continent and a lot of people say,
[00:07:47] say, OK, well, does the refinery refinery in East Africa, does it
[00:07:50] it make sense? But it makes a lot lot of sense because the refinery
[00:07:53] refinery is not only for Kenya. That's
[00:07:56] That's why we are calling it East
[00:07:59] East African refinery. You know,
[00:08:02] know, so that can serve a lot of
[00:08:04] of countries up to even Egypt. How How much do you expect the East African
[00:08:08] African refinery to. I think we. we. Thought it was going to cost
[00:08:11] cost 17 billion, but it's going to to cost much. It will cost less than
[00:08:14] than that. We are looking at about
[00:08:17] about 15.5, $16 billion. Why will
[00:08:19] will it cost less than you originally
[00:08:21] originally anticipated? Because this this one will be faster. So in terms
[00:08:25] terms of financing costs will be
[00:08:27] be less. And then also you know,
[00:08:32] know, we are wiser as a company then
[00:08:34] then that when we built this one one because we are just learning
[00:08:38] learning when we built the one here. here. So that is really what is helping
[00:08:41] helping us. So in terms of timing,
[00:08:44] timing, we'll be able to build in
[00:08:46] in less than four years. So the location
[00:08:48] location is decided. What about the the financing. Are you looking at
[00:08:52] at cash debt equity. Yeah.
[00:08:56] Well. At. All that you know equity equity and debt. So 30% is going
[00:08:59] going to be equity. And then, 70%
[00:09:04] 70% will be debt. But we know we we don't have any problem raising
[00:09:07] raising the money. So what do you
[00:09:10] you see as the impact that this refinery refinery could have on energy security?
[00:09:14] security? It's going to have a massive
[00:09:16] massive impact really. And then also
[00:09:18] also it guarantees the countries countries getting their own products.
[00:09:21] products. They are not going to live live hand-to-mouth. You know, they
[00:09:24] they are leasing. And then, you know, know, the refinery is there. It's
[00:09:27] It's for them. On the BBC website.
[00:09:31] website. Now AI is proving to be be a useful tool in tackling this
[00:09:34] this summer's record. Wildfires in
[00:09:35] in Europe, coupled with satellite satellite imagery, artificial intelligence
[00:09:39] intelligence models are helping emergency emergency services to detect fires
[00:09:43] fires earlier and forecast how they'll
[00:09:44] they'll spread. We've been speaking
[00:09:47] speaking to doctor Axel Ronick of
[00:09:49] of OroraTech, which helped develop develop Greece's first national wildfire
[00:09:53] wildfire detection system. He's been
[00:09:54] been telling us how it works. So
[00:09:57] So from space we can continuously
[00:10:00] continuously monitor fires with satellites
[00:10:03] satellites that measure infrared.
[00:10:05] infrared. So we measure heat rather
[00:10:08] rather than visible smoke or flames.
[00:10:09] flames. And we scan the Earth's surface
[00:10:12] surface surface. Looking for heat
[00:10:15] heat signatures frequently and globally.
[00:10:17] globally. So with that information information combined with weather
[00:10:21] weather vegetation and terrain data,
[00:10:24] data, our AI turns millions of data
[00:10:27] data points into a simple alert and
[00:10:29] and actionable insight like how the
[00:10:32] the fire evolves, where it goes.
[00:10:34] goes. And how important it is. Europe
[00:10:36] Europe is getting used to more wildfires. wildfires. It's probably going to
[00:10:40] to have to. Other parts of the world world are more accustomed to dealing
[00:10:42] dealing with them. And I wonder,
[00:10:44] wonder, is this part of that Europe
[00:10:47] Europe becoming more capable of managing
[00:10:52] managing wildfires? Wildfires need
[00:10:55] need to be detected earlier if you
[00:10:57] you want to if you want to act, on
[00:11:00] on a manageable size of the fire.
[00:11:01] fire. Once fires get beyond a certain
[00:11:05] certain size, there is no control. control. So the earlier you can detect
[00:11:08] detect a fire and even predict where
[00:11:10] where fires are likely to happen,
[00:11:12] happen, you can put forces on the the ground, be prepared and react
[00:11:16] react when the fire is still manageable. manageable. And this is where we
[00:11:19] we need to get to go. Obviously there's there's like also in the prevention
[00:11:23] prevention part that we need to do
[00:11:25] do things like, removing vegetation
[00:11:28] vegetation early enough, etc. Is
[00:11:30] Is there a risk that this kind of
[00:11:32] of technology could promote maybe maybe some complacency about climate
[00:11:36] climate change that we rely on technology
[00:11:38] technology to help mitigate its worst
[00:11:41] worst impacts? No, we are currently
[00:11:45] currently using in firefighting often often technologies that are, you
[00:11:47] you know, 100 years old and we just
[00:11:50] just need to catch up and use what,
[00:11:52] what, what we have at hand, to, battle
[00:11:57] battle wildfires, with the appropriate appropriate means. OK. And setting
[00:12:00] setting up systems and infrastructure. infrastructure. This is like roads
[00:12:03] roads and bridges and IT infrastructure. infrastructure. This is something
[00:12:06] something that every country should
[00:12:07] should have. The family of Meredith
[00:12:11] Meredith Kercher, the British exchange exchange student who was murdered
[00:12:14] murdered while studying abroad in
[00:12:16] in Italy in 2007, is calling for for the cancellation of a comedy
[00:12:19] comedy show being performed by Amanda Amanda Knox, Meredith's roommate
[00:12:22] roommate who was twice convicted convicted then acquitted of Meredith's
[00:12:26] Meredith's murder. Meredith was killed killed while studying abroad in the
[00:12:30] the Italian city of Perugia in 2007.
[00:12:32] 2007. She was found dead in an apartment apartment she shared with Amanda
[00:12:35] Amanda Knox. Amanda and her then then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito
[00:12:39] Sollecito were initially convicted convicted of her murder and jailed, jailed, but both were later cleared
[00:12:43] cleared following years of court
[00:12:46] court proceedings. A third defendant, defendant, Rudy Guede, whose DNA
[00:12:49] DNA was found at the scene, was convicted
[00:12:51] convicted of murdering Meredith in
[00:12:53] in 2008. He was released from prison
[00:12:56] prison in 2021. Since being cleared cleared of any involvement in Meredith's
[00:12:59] Meredith's death, Amanda has told told her story a number of times
[00:13:02] times through books, documentaries documentaries and in a TV drama.
[00:13:06] drama. Meredith's family have spoken
[00:13:07] spoken in the past of pain that Amanda's
[00:13:10] Amanda's projects have caused them, them, arguing they overshadow Meredith's
[00:13:14] Meredith's memory. Amanda's new show show is due to take place at the
[00:13:17] the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It's It's being described as a stand up
[00:13:19] up comedy show, referencing the time time she spent in jail in Italy and
[00:13:23] and how she has since tried to explain explain it to her young children.
[00:13:27] children. Meredith's sister Stephanie, Stephanie, told BBC Breakfast the the show makes light of violence
[00:13:31] violence against women and causes causes pain for the family. 19 years
[00:13:34] years on. The family, obviously it's it's very personal to us and affects
[00:13:38] affects her friends as well. Still, Still, obviously, you know it's left
[00:13:41] left a massive void in our lives
[00:13:45] lives and Amanda is naturally free
[00:13:47] free to continue with her life as
[00:13:49] as she wishes. But I think the problem
[00:13:51] problem with this particular project
[00:13:55] project is that it is comedy. And And whilst I appreciate comedy is
[00:13:58] is there to push the boundaries and
[00:14:01] and you know, it very much normalises
[00:14:04] normalises and trivialises violence violence against women and Meredith
[00:14:08] Meredith in particular. I think in
[00:14:10] in this case it's a position where
[00:14:14] where it's not a generic topic. It's
[00:14:17] It's targeting an individual traumatic
[00:14:18] traumatic case and an individual
[00:14:21] individual person and family. And
[00:14:23] And I feel very strongly that that that Meredith wouldn't agree with
[00:14:27] with that. And obviously I have read read certain comments that she's
[00:14:30] she's made that Meredith would have have found it funny. And Meredith
[00:14:34] Meredith absolutely wouldn't find
[00:14:35] find these topics of, you know, any
[00:14:38] any comedy value. Stephanie Meredith's
[00:14:42] Meredith's sister around the world
[00:14:42] world and
[00:15:43] he was their friend. Paul's heart-wrenching heart-wrenching stuff that made me me feel sick. The big cases, funeral
[00:15:47] funeral Home horror. Watch on BBC
[00:15:50] BBC News. A 97-year-old woman has
[00:15:56] has successfully broken her own world world record to become the oldest
[00:15:59] oldest person to complete a wing
[00:16:01] wing walk. Betty Bromage started started fundraising by completing
[00:16:04] completing the stunts a decade ago.
[00:16:06] ago. Our reporter Steve Knibbs has
[00:16:10] has more. Betty is back 97 years
[00:16:15] years young and taking to the skies skies again. I just get bored at
[00:16:19] at life. Otherwise when you get old
[00:16:21] old you can't go here. You can't can't do this. You can't drive, you
[00:16:24] you can't see. I can't see very well.
[00:16:26] well. And I get a bit frustrated.
[00:16:30] frustrated. Up in the air. Betty's Betty's at home in her element on
[00:16:33] on the ground, her friends and neighbours neighbours from her retirement village
[00:16:36] village in Cheltenham watch on nervously.
[00:16:40] nervously. Betty. Betty started all
[00:16:43] all this ten years ago at the age age of 87. She's since abseiled down
[00:16:46] down a tower in Cheltenham and took took on a zipwire in Snowdonia. And
[00:16:50] And today she pushed the envelope envelope even further, asking the
[00:16:53] the pilot to throw in a barrel roll.
[00:16:56] roll. Oh, my God, oh, my God. All
[00:16:59] All of this was done to raise money money for the stroke unit in Cheltenham.
[00:17:02] Cheltenham. They helped Betty when when she had a stroke last year.
[00:17:05] year. So kind to me and straight
[00:17:07] straight away the treatment I got
[00:17:10] got it affects my words. I go to to say a word and it doesn't always
[00:17:14] always come out. But the rest of of me I'm fit as a fiddle. Well,
[00:17:18] Well, for a 97-year-old. Today, the
[00:17:21] the staff sent her a good luck message.
[00:17:23] message. Grateful for the support.
[00:17:25] support. Thank you Betty from. Just
[00:17:29] Just amazing that she's doing this this for us. We're so grateful. And
[00:17:33] And to, you know, go up and wing wing walk and take on such a daring
[00:17:36] daring and incredible challenge and and to support our stroke services services team. It's just amazing.
[00:17:40] amazing. We're so grateful. We really really appreciate what she's doing.
[00:17:44] doing. Back on the ground. Betty Betty took it all in her stride with
[00:17:47] with confirmation that she broke broke her own world record yet again
[00:17:51] again as the oldest female wing,
[00:17:52] wing, Walker. Officially amazing.
[00:17:55] amazing. I was a trained children's children's nurse and I went to work
[00:17:58] work in Doctor Barnardo's home in in Bristol and above my bed it said
[00:18:01] said we passed through this world, world, but once any good we can do
[00:18:05] do any kindness we can show. Do it it now. Do not defer or neglect it.
[00:18:09] it. You're not pass this way again. again. In two and a half years' time.
[00:18:13] time. Betty has promised to take take to the skies again when she
[00:18:16] she turns 100 to become a magnificent magnificent centenarian on a flying
[00:18:20] flying machine. Steve Knibbs, BBC
[00:18:22] BBC News Renkum. And we were all
[00:18:26] all saying she doesn't look 97 now. now. Japan's Prime Minister Sanae
[00:18:29] Sanae Takaichi has for the first first time led commemorations in
[00:18:33] in Hiroshima on the anniversary of
[00:18:34] of the world's first use of nuclear
[00:18:37] nuclear weapons 81 years ago. The The United States dropped an atom
[00:18:41] atom bomb on the city at the end
[00:18:42] end of the Second World War. An estimated
[00:18:47] estimated 140,000 people were killed
[00:18:49] killed in her address, Miss Takaichi
[00:18:52] Takaichi reaffirmed Japan's three three non-nuclear principles of not
[00:18:56] not possessing, producing or allowing
[00:18:57] allowing nuclear weapons on its territory.
[00:19:01] territory. He was the first man to to walk on the moon. But even giant
[00:19:05] giant leaps start with small steps. steps. Now, the place where Neil
[00:19:08] Neil Armstrong's journey began is is going on sale. The astronaut's
[00:19:11] astronaut's childhood home was where where his interest in aviation first
[00:19:14] first took off. As a boy, he would would launch model planes from his
[00:19:17] his bedroom window. The current owner owner is one of a handful of people
[00:19:21] people to live there. Since Armstrong's Armstrong's family sold it back in
[00:19:24] in the 60s. She opened her door to to the BBC and gave us a tour. Take
[00:19:28] Take a look. I fell in love with
[00:19:31] with the house right off the get-go
[00:19:34] get-go and didn't know that it was
[00:19:36] was Neil Armstrong's boyhood home,
[00:19:39] home, though it was not advertised
[00:19:41] advertised as that out of personal personal preference, I wanted to
[00:19:45] to keep it like the Armstrong's had
[00:19:46] had it. We'll sign print. And these
[00:19:51] these were the guys out at the airport
[00:19:53] airport that he worked from. I've
[00:19:56] I've made hundreds of friends and
[00:20:00] and acquaintances by living here.
[00:20:03] here. I've met all kinds of people.
[00:20:08] people. Everybody from a student student wanting to do her thesis
[00:20:11] thesis work for college that did
[00:20:13] did a Neil Armstrong to people who
[00:20:17] who just wanted to be here. I love
[00:20:21] love this house, I really do, and and I'll always love this house.
[00:20:24] house. But it's time to let somebody
[00:20:27] somebody else have the opportunity opportunity to be as blessed with.
[00:20:30] with. It. Breaking news to bring
[00:20:35] bring you. German prosecutors have
[00:20:37] have detained a 33-year-old Ukrainian Ukrainian national suspected of gathering
[00:20:41] gathering information on the premises premises of a defence company in
[00:20:45] in southern Germany for sabotage
[00:20:47] sabotage purposes. That's coming coming from prosecutors in Germany.
[00:20:50] Germany. The man who was detained detained on Sunday is suspected of
[00:20:54] of working as a low level agent on
[00:20:58] on behalf of a foreign spy agency, agency, they've added. They haven't
[00:21:01] haven't named which country, but but German prosecutors detaining
[00:21:05] detaining a 33-year-old
[00:21:07] Ukrainian national suspected of gathering gathering information in a defence
[00:21:11] defence company in southern Germany.
[00:21:19] Germany. MUSIC
[00:21:27] Grand Central Station is one of
[00:21:29] my favourite New York City structures.
[00:21:31] structures. It's a glorious reminder reminder of the golden age of American
[00:21:35] American railroads. It also provides provides the setting for some early
[00:21:39] early scenes in what many people
[00:21:40] people regard as one of the greatest greatest American thrillers of all
[00:21:44] all time. The picture North by Northwest,
[00:21:48] Northwest, an American thriller, thriller, yes, but directed by a
[00:21:51] a British filmmaker, the master of
[00:21:53] of suspense Alfred Hitchcock. Top
[00:21:56] Top US film critic Bilge Ebiri told
[00:21:58] told me he's such an ardent fan of of North by Northwest that has seen
[00:22:02] seen the film at least 50 times.
[00:22:05] times. Do you know this man? Look
[00:22:16] Look North by Northwest from 1959,
[00:22:18] 1959, the pinnacle of Hitchcock's Hitchcock's American filmmaking career.
[00:22:22] career. Listen to me. I had nothing nothing to do with it. And also I
[00:22:24] I think it's kind of the pinnacle pinnacle of a particular kind of
[00:22:27] of studio filmmaking that Hollywood Hollywood specialised in. Automatically
[00:22:31] Automatically means a rising sales sales curve. North by northwest follows
[00:22:34] follows an ad executive named Roger
[00:22:35] Roger Thornhill, played by Cary Grant,
[00:22:39] Grant, Who is mistaken for a spy
[00:22:42] spy by some nefarious figures, and and they're convinced that he's this
[00:22:46] this other person and they try to
[00:22:48] to kill him and he winds up going
[00:22:53] going on this cross-country adventure
[00:22:54] adventure trying both to prove his
[00:22:57] his innocence and to flee from the the authorities. North by northwest
[00:23:00] northwest had a huge impact on me me because in some way it treats
[00:23:04] treats a lot of Hitchcock's deeper
[00:23:05] deeper themes about guilt and accusation,
[00:23:08] accusation, while also framing it
[00:23:11] it within this incredibly exciting, exciting, delightful, charming adventure
[00:23:15] adventure plot. Well, here we are
[00:23:18] are again. Yes. One of the most famous
[00:23:21] famous sequences in this film is
[00:23:22] is the crop sequence. It occurs about
[00:23:26] about halfway through the film. Cary Cary Grant's character has been told
[00:23:29] told that he's going to meet somebody somebody out in the middle of nowhere
[00:23:32] nowhere on this highway. Road. There's There's nobody around for miles and
[00:23:36] and miles of flat, blank expanse.
[00:23:38] expanse. And then, of course, he
[00:23:41] he sees this little plane appearing appearing in the distance, you know,
[00:23:44] know, dusting crops and you realise realise that the plane is there to
[00:23:47] to kill them. They start to fire
[00:23:53] fire at him and he runs away. It's
[00:23:55] It's an incredible sequence when
[00:23:58] when I think about what makes American
[00:24:01] American cinema so special. I have
[00:24:04] have to think about the Hollywood Hollywood system and the kinds of
[00:24:07] of films it made possible, the kind kind of scale it made possible, the
[00:24:11] the kind of stardom, the kind of
[00:24:13] of charm it made possible. And to
[00:24:16] to me. North by Northwest really really kind of stands at the very
[00:24:20] very top of that. You know, it is
[00:24:22] is Hollywood firing on all cylinders,
[00:24:25] cylinders, maybe for one of the very
[00:24:27] very last times. It's a great example
[00:24:31] example of a studio film. It's a a great example of a master filmmaker
[00:24:35] filmmaker at the height of his powers powers in the studio system, working
[00:24:38] working with one of the great stars stars of the studio system to create
[00:24:42] create something so beautiful and
[00:24:45] and so magnificent, right as the the studio system is essentially
[00:24:48] essentially about to collapse. But But the thing that they create together
[00:24:52] together becomes this work that is is so influential and that winds
[00:24:56] winds up influencing all the filmmakers filmmakers that come after not just just American filmmakers from all
[00:25:00] all over the world. Well, if we ever ever get out of this alive, let's
[00:25:03] let's go back to New York on the
[00:25:04] the train together. All right. Is
[00:25:07] Is that a proposition? MUSIC
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[00:28:59] What new industries are created. Because what we've seen seen throughout history is new industries
[00:29:04] industries are created and it's that that process that actually opens
[00:29:06] opens new doors. That was the that
[00:29:09] that was the mandate from Prime Minister Minister Starmer. He wants the UK
[00:29:12] UK to be an AI superpower. He recognises
[00:29:16] recognises that the ingredients are are all right here. Putting the customer
[00:29:19] customer at the centre of everything everything we do. I really think think that's how the company started,
[00:29:23] started, but I think we lost our our focus because we got a little
[00:29:26] little too distracted on efficiency
[00:29:30] efficiency and technology. AI is
[00:29:33] is real AI and total pay off just just like cars in total paid off
[00:29:37] off TV and total paid off. But most
[00:29:39] most people involved didn't do well.
[00:29:41] well. It's a revolutionary, you know, know, time upon us. And I think,
[00:29:45] think, you know, all industries will will be adopting AI in some shape
[00:29:48] shape or form.
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