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[00:00:00] first associate member. We.
[00:00:12] We. Canada. Canada welcomes
[00:00:18] this ambition and I will tell you.
[00:00:19] you. Polling shows that an overwhelming overwhelming majority of Canadians
[00:00:23] Canadians support much closer ties
[00:00:26] ties with Europe. An Alliance for
[00:00:38] for the future is a unique, positive
[00:00:41] positive approach that we will define
[00:00:44] define together. Building on our our common strengths and based on
[00:00:47] on our shared values. But let me
[00:00:49] me take this opportunity to say plainly
[00:00:52] plainly what Canada proposes. Canada
[00:00:56] Canada and Europe should secure our
[00:00:59] our strategic autonomy through deep
[00:01:01] deep co-operation in the full range range of strategic capabilities,
[00:01:05] capabilities, including critical critical minerals, defence, industrial
[00:01:09] industrial capacity, AI and compute
[00:01:12] compute energy security space and
[00:01:13] and payments. We should move towards
[00:01:16] towards seamless digital trade and and non-agricultural goods and a
[00:01:19] a wide range of services. We should
[00:01:22] should deepen our people to people
[00:01:24] people ties, allowing our youth to
[00:01:27] to work, study and live where they
[00:01:30] they want on either side of the Atlantic.
[00:01:45] Canadian membership of Erasmus+
[00:01:47] would give your students and ours
[00:01:50] ours more opportunity to learn at at some of the world's top universities
[00:01:54] universities to broaden their horizons horizons and to build those lasting
[00:01:57] lasting ties that will sustain our
[00:02:00] our alliance for the future. Canadian
[00:02:12] Canadian membership of the next generation generation of horizon would allow
[00:02:14] allow us to pool resources, co-operate
[00:02:16] co-operate on frontier technologies, technologies, leverage our world
[00:02:19] world class research institutes and
[00:02:23] and universities. Yesterday. Yesterday,
[00:02:32] Yesterday, president von der Leyen
[00:02:35] Leyen announced, and I quote, a new
[00:02:37] new European co-operation on critical
[00:02:39] critical raw materials to obtain
[00:02:41] obtain and stockpile the material material needed for electric cars
[00:02:45] cars for chips and batteries, clean
[00:02:47] clean tech and defence. I'll observe
[00:02:51] observe that Canada has deposits
[00:02:54] deposits of over 34 critical minerals, minerals, and we are among the top
[00:02:57] top producers of the ten most essential
[00:03:00] essential for the energy transition.
[00:03:02] transition. Our alliance can help
[00:03:04] help fill Europe's need for reliable
[00:03:07] reliable supply. Canada's desire
[00:03:10] desire for advanced processing capabilities
[00:03:13] capabilities and our common objective objective to complete value chains
[00:03:16] chains in the transition and our
[00:03:19] our defence. Canada can contribute
[00:03:29] contribute LNG and hydrogen at large-scale
[00:03:31] large-scale to support Europe's energy
[00:03:34] energy security, including by developing
[00:03:37] developing and leveraging new port port infrastructure in our high North
[00:03:41] North and on our East Coast and Canada
[00:03:43] Canada in turn, can benefit from
[00:03:45] from your leadership in so many clean
[00:03:48] clean energy technologies. We can
[00:03:59] can pool new sovereign compute capacity
[00:04:01] capacity and build more secure broadband broadband connections between Europe
[00:04:05] Europe and Asia via our common geography.
[00:04:08] geography. Canada and Europe can
[00:04:10] can join forces to develop AI safety
[00:04:12] safety protocols, co-ordinate common
[00:04:15] common standards and strengthen transparency. transparency. All well developing
[00:04:19] developing applications so that our our governments and our companies
[00:04:21] companies can serve our citizens
[00:04:24] citizens better. Canada and Europe
[00:04:32] Europe should consider exploring exploring an integrated market for
[00:04:36] for financial services to broaden broaden choice and reduce costs for
[00:04:40] for our citizens to improve access
[00:04:42] access to capital for our companies
[00:04:44] companies while maintaining our world
[00:04:46] world leading financial resilience.
[00:04:55] resilience. These are some of the
[00:04:57] the opportunities. But the fundamental
[00:05:00] fundamental point is that the opportunities opportunities that can be created
[00:05:03] created by an alliance for the future
[00:05:06] future are the product of our common
[00:05:09] common values, our compatible systems
[00:05:12] systems are complementary strengths strengths and deepening and widening
[00:05:15] widening our relationship will strengthen
[00:05:20] strengthen our sovereignty improve improve affordability and opportunity
[00:05:24] opportunity and security for our
[00:05:26] our citizens while safeguarding our
[00:05:29] our abilities to live our lives as
[00:05:31] as we choose. Now. I also want to
[00:05:44] to be precise about what I am not
[00:05:48] not proposing. I'm not proposing
[00:05:50] proposing a third bloc in order to
[00:05:52] to become a great power rival only
[00:05:55] only with better manners. We. We
[00:06:05] We do not seek power to dominate
[00:06:08] dominate others. On the contrary,
[00:06:11] contrary, we are pursuing resilience.
[00:06:13] resilience. So no one no one can
[00:06:15] can control our open markets, impair impair our sovereignty, threaten
[00:06:18] threaten our territorial integrity
[00:06:20] integrity or undermine our freedoms,
[00:06:22] freedoms, our democracies, our rule
[00:06:24] rule of law.
[00:06:42] It's these motivations, these fundamental motivations combined
[00:06:45] combined with our latent hard power
[00:06:47] power mean that we can help to create
[00:06:52] create the next just stable and prosperous
[00:06:55] prosperous world order. A Canada
[00:07:03] Canada EU alliance would create a
[00:07:06] a beacon for other democracies, an
[00:07:09] an alliance not defined by what we
[00:07:12] we oppose, but about what we are
[00:07:16] are for freedom, solidarity, prosperity,
[00:07:20] prosperity, sustainability. An alliance
[00:07:27] alliance that builds resilience for
[00:07:28] for what it allows us to do for our
[00:07:31] our citizens and our citizens to
[00:07:34] to do for themselves. An alliance alliance strong enough so that no
[00:07:38] no one can dictate our choices. An
[00:07:41] An alliance open enough that others
[00:07:43] others can join an alliance. Principled
[00:07:46] Principled enough that our strength
[00:07:49] strength reinforces international international law rather than seeks
[00:07:51] seeks to replace it. And to conclude
[00:08:01] conclude in my country, it's often
[00:08:04] often said that Canada became a nation
[00:08:07] nation during that battle of Vimy
[00:08:11] Vimy Ridge and certainly the thousands
[00:08:14] thousands of Canadians who didn't didn't return from that battle sacrificed
[00:08:17] sacrificed their lives for something
[00:08:19] something much bigger than themselves.
[00:08:22] themselves. One who did come home, home, stop first to pick up some
[00:08:25] some acorns. And today the same Vimy
[00:08:29] Vimy Oaks grow in Canada as in France
[00:08:33] France living proof that what we we cultivate together can survive
[00:08:37] survive the darkest winter to thrive
[00:08:39] thrive again. So let us now deepen
[00:08:43] deepen those roots, widen this canopy
[00:08:46] canopy and grow a transatlantic forest
[00:08:49] forest under which our citizens can
[00:08:51] can flourish as free people on free
[00:08:54] free ground. Every single day. Thank
[00:08:57] Thank you very much. Nice to meet
[00:08:59] meet you. Thank you. Canadian Prime
[00:09:02] Prime Minister Mark Carney there there addressing the EU Parliament
[00:09:06] Parliament in Strasbourg. And it it comes just 24 hours after the
[00:09:10] the European Commission president president Ursula von der Leyen announced
[00:09:13] announced those plans by the European
[00:09:15] European Union to pursue an associate
[00:09:18] associate membership of the EU for for Canada that would make Canada
[00:09:22] Canada the first associate member
[00:09:23] member of the European Union. So
[00:09:26] So a very warm reception for what what Mark Carney had to say to the
[00:09:30] the Parliament today. He talked about
[00:09:32] about how the response to the current current geopolitical rupture, as
[00:09:35] as he called it, must include a new
[00:09:38] new dimension. He talked about the the bonds that Canada and the EU
[00:09:42] EU share. He called them
[00:09:47] Share. He called them deeply rooted in our lands and talked about about the shared history between
[00:09:50] between Canada and Europe. He also also talks about their alliance. alliance. They say. He said they
[00:09:54] they are not fair weather allies. allies. We do not pursue zero sum
[00:09:58] sum deals. He talked about sharing
[00:10:02] sharing the same unwavering dedication
[00:10:04] dedication to the rule of law, human
[00:10:07] human dignity, individual freedom freedom and democracy. We are expecting
[00:10:11] expecting him to hold a news conference
[00:10:13] conference shortly. We'll be with
[00:10:16] with that when that begins. He also also added that a strong economy
[00:10:19] economy is not an end in itself,
[00:10:20] itself, but a means to a just society
[00:10:23] society and a nod to President Trump's Trump's use of tariffs. We talked
[00:10:27] talked earlier about how Donald Trump
[00:10:28] Trump had reacted to the news that
[00:10:32] that the European Union and Canada Canada were pursuing this associate
[00:10:35] associate membership for Canada.
[00:10:36] Canada. He talked about tariffs being
[00:10:40] being economic integration is now now being weaponised, tariffs being
[00:10:44] being used to exert pressure. He
[00:10:46] He said financial mechanisms have
[00:10:48] have been used for coercion. Supply
[00:10:51] Supply chains constitute weak points
[00:10:54] points to be exploited. He also said said that Canada and the EU can form
[00:10:58] form a protective canopy under which which their citizens can thrive.
[00:11:02] thrive. He talked about it being being about sovereignty, our ability
[00:11:04] ability to live as we wish, he said.
[00:11:07] said. It's about freedoms. We must must fight for every day. Well, here
[00:11:11] here in the studio I'm joined by by our Europe editor, Katya Adler, Adler, who's been hearing some of
[00:11:14] of what Mark Carney had to say and
[00:11:18] and can I just remind us why we're we're seeing the Canadian Prime Minister
[00:11:21] Minister in the European Parliament Parliament at all? Well, he was invited
[00:11:24] invited there, so he was invited invited by the President of the European
[00:11:27] European Commission, the President President of the European Council Council and the President of the
[00:11:31] the European Parliament. So the leaders leaders of the EU institutions, he
[00:11:35] he was already at the Parliament Parliament yesterday listening to to the so-called state of the Union
[00:11:39] Union address by the President of of the European Commission, and she
[00:11:42] she made headlines by offering Canada
[00:11:45] Canada an associate membership of of the European Union. Now that doesn't
[00:11:48] doesn't exist. There's actually no no legal framework for that. But But there is. And we've heard this
[00:11:52] this just now from Mark Carney, this
[00:11:54] this deep, deep desire on both sides
[00:11:56] sides to get closer. And that is is because Canada, like Europe, feels
[00:12:00] feels really squeezed right now between between the big superpowers. The
[00:12:03] The United States and China as well. well. There was lots of indirect
[00:12:07] indirect reference to Donald Trump Trump there. You know, we're not not about a zero sum game. That was
[00:12:11] was definitely a dig, even though though he wasn't mentioned by name,
[00:12:14] name, I would say, you know, to a
[00:12:15] a large extent he is the unintentional
[00:12:18] unintentional matchmaker here really, really, because traditionally Europe
[00:12:22] Europe and Canada look to the US US as their greatest ally in trade
[00:12:25] trade for the EU and Canada. Number Number one trade partner, but also
[00:12:29] also in terms of defence, but no
[00:12:30] no longer. So it's all about diversification, diversification, finding like-minded
[00:12:34] like-minded partners to stick together. together. And that essentially was was what the speech was about today.
[00:12:38] today. And he talked about a protective protective canopy being formed between
[00:12:42] between the EU and Canada, hinting hinting exactly at what you're saying
[00:12:45] saying about old allies, which aren't aren't viewed so securely nowadays. nowadays. They don't feel secure
[00:12:49] secure at all. And of course we saw saw him yesterday. So in between
[00:12:51] between his two European Parliament Parliament appearances, he popped
[00:12:54] popped over here. He was at Liverpool Liverpool meeting Prime Minister
[00:12:58] Minister Andy Burnham for the first first time face-to-face. So they
[00:13:00] they watched an Everton match together. together. And they also spoke about
[00:13:04] about common values there as well. well. So he emphasised that. Right.
[00:13:07] Right. It's not about exclusivity. exclusivity. So yes he would like like the special partnership with
[00:13:11] with the EU. But he said it's a partnership partnership that others should be
[00:13:14] be able to join other like-minded like-minded groups. So it's not about
[00:13:18] about shutting others out, it's about
[00:13:20] about growing together. It was he
[00:13:23] he was very intentionally talking talking in positive tones. Today
[00:13:26] Today it's not against other forces, forces, he said. It's not to build
[00:13:30] build a third superpower, which would would be against China or the United
[00:13:33] United States. This is about being being together to protect common
[00:13:36] common values, he said. When you you talk about others potentially
[00:13:39] potentially being brought into this, this, how much has the mention of
[00:13:42] of this new concept of an associate associate membership for Canada to
[00:13:46] to the European Union raised the the interest here in the UK.? Well,
[00:13:50] Well, of course, I mean, you know,
[00:13:53] know, definitely if they'd have had had time to chat about it and Mark
[00:13:56] Mark Carney and Andy Burnham could could have had a chat yesterday about
[00:13:59] about how to woo the EU and actually
[00:14:01] actually that it's one thing to have
[00:14:04] have warm words, whether it's transatlantic
[00:14:06] transatlantic or across the channel, channel, but it's actually the devil
[00:14:10] devil is always in the detail. So
[00:14:12] So whether it's about this reset reset between the UK and the EU after
[00:14:16] after Brexit that we've heard successive successive Prime Ministers now talking
[00:14:19] talking about, which actually has has come to very little so far, or
[00:14:22] or whether it's this talk of an associate associate membership. I mean, what
[00:14:25] what is that like? There is no concrete concrete terms for this at all. It
[00:14:28] It will always come down to the details.
[00:14:31] details. The EU is riddled with rules rules and regulations. It's seen
[00:14:34] seen as quite an inflexible body body and the European Commission
[00:14:38] Commission deals with trade on behalf behalf of the member states. But
[00:14:41] But you have 27 individual countries countries with 27 different national
[00:14:45] national priorities. Yes, everybody everybody feels vulnerable in the
[00:14:48] the world today, but we have big big elections coming up across Europe
[00:14:51] Europe at the moment. You know, in in France, in Poland, in Italy, in
[00:14:55] in Spain, in these big powers and and with nationalist parties saying
[00:14:59] saying you've got to deal with our our country first before you turn
[00:15:02] turn to others. So there are all all sorts of forces at play here, here, and I think it's worth bearing
[00:15:06] bearing in mind it's one thing when when the European institutions hold
[00:15:09] hold out the hand to Mark Carney, Carney, but at the end of the day,
[00:15:12] day, any agreement that could be be forged, whether it's about defence, defence, critical raw materials,
[00:15:16] materials, AI and tech, any of the the things that Mark Carney mentioned
[00:15:19] mentioned today, it will have to to be signed off unanimously by all
[00:15:22] all of these 27 EU member states, states, and that's no easy task.
[00:15:25] task. Are there particular member member states within that 27 who
[00:15:28] who are going to be more challenging challenging when this is introduced? introduced? Well. There would be
[00:15:31] be some who would say France tends tends to be a bit more tricky. I
[00:15:34] I mean, that's definitely been the the case with the UK, but I think
[00:15:37] think France feels very strongly
[00:15:40] strongly that it doesn't want outside outside countries so non-member states
[00:15:43] states to have two attractive a partnership partnership with the EU because otherwise
[00:15:47] otherwise you could tempt other members members including France. You know,
[00:15:50] know, there are political parties parties in France that that aren't
[00:15:53] aren't very keen on the EU at all. all. So not wanting to tempt others
[00:15:56] others to leave and get a good deal deal outside so that, you know, that
[00:15:59] that is a French concern, then you you have Ukraine. I mean, Germany
[00:16:02] Germany suggested earlier this year year an associate membership for
[00:16:06] for Ukraine and that was rejected rejected by member states. Ukraine, Ukraine, of course, saying we want
[00:16:09] want to be in the club completely.
[00:16:10] completely. So there's a lot of complications, complications, a lot of sensitivities.
[00:16:14] sensitivities. But I think at the the end of the day, there is absolute absolute agreement. You saw rapturous
[00:16:18] rapturous applause there. These are are difficult times. Countries need
[00:16:21] need to stick together. But as I I say, the devil is always in that
[00:16:25] that detail. Katya, thank you very
[00:16:26] very much. Katya Adler, our Europe
[00:16:29] Europe editor around the world and
[00:16:30] and across the UK
[00:17:36] Join me Martin Sharkey of Tech, now
[00:17:37] now on BBC News. King Charles has
[00:17:44] has called on AI giants to keep tech tech in service of humanity ahead
[00:17:48] ahead of him hosting a summit with
[00:17:50] with industry leaders. Concerns about
[00:17:52] about the existential threat of artificial artificial intelligence have intensified
[00:17:55] intensified in recent weeks, with with several instances of bad actors
[00:17:58] actors using AI models for weapons
[00:18:01] weapons development and fraud. Mustafa Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft
[00:18:05] Microsoft AI has told the BBC Radio Radio 4 Today Programme that this
[00:18:08] this is a warning shot moment in in the development of AI and there's
[00:18:10] there's every risk, he says, that
[00:18:12] that we might lose control of it
[00:18:15] it unless it is regulated. I think
[00:18:17] think that if we all create AI that
[00:18:19] that are able to act autonomously, autonomously, that can define their
[00:18:23] their own objectives, that can earn
[00:18:26] earn money, that can own assets,
[00:18:27] assets, that could run businesses.
[00:18:30] businesses. We're essentially seeding seeding a new silicon species, which
[00:18:33] which will no doubt compete with with us for resources, no matter
[00:18:37] matter how much it cares about humanity
[00:18:39] humanity and loves us, which is,
[00:18:41] is, I think, Anthropic intention.
[00:18:43] intention. I think that is a mistaken mistaken and misguided, but we have
[00:18:47] have to empirically test it. And And so if they believe that this
[00:18:50] this is a safer route to developing developing AI, then they have to
[00:18:53] to share the data to prove that.
[00:18:55] that. New silicon species is a chilling chilling phrase. It will make people
[00:18:59] people think of science fiction. fiction. You mean that, don't you?
[00:19:02] you? You mean that there could be
[00:19:04] be a competitor species created by
[00:19:08] by man, perhaps more powerful than
[00:19:10] than man. We've just witnessed a
[00:19:13] a watershed moment in the development
[00:19:16] development of AI and a model that
[00:19:18] that was being trained by OpenAI
[00:19:22] OpenAI inadvertently hacked into
[00:19:24] into Hugging Face, which is a public
[00:19:26] public website that runs evaluations
[00:19:28] evaluations and benchmarks for testing
[00:19:31] testing these agents. The swarm of
[00:19:34] of agents co-ordinated together.
[00:19:36] together. They organised themselves themselves into hierarchies. They
[00:19:39] They created a division of labour, labour, and so they've developed
[00:19:43] developed very, very complex behaviour.
[00:19:45] behaviour. Now the good news is this
[00:19:47] this was OpenAI developing a model
[00:19:50] model deliberately with the guardrails guardrails turned off. And they were
[00:19:53] were doing that to try and stress stress test it and learn about its
[00:19:57] its boundaries and limitations. I I just wonder if you ever worry you've
[00:20:00] you've helped create something that that we're losing control of. I think
[00:20:03] think as we've seen, there's every every risk that we might lose control
[00:20:06] control of it, but our job is to
[00:20:10] to contain technologies and align align them so that we get the best
[00:20:13] best out of them. If we didn't have have any air traffic control regulation,
[00:20:16] regulation, planes would be hitting hitting each other in the sky. When
[00:20:19] When we introduced seatbelts, we
[00:20:21] we saved millions of lives. The purpose
[00:20:23] purpose of regulation is to shape shape and sculpt technology so that
[00:20:27] that it delivers more good than harm. harm. And that's the moment that
[00:20:30] that we're currently now in. So I I think it's right to be concerned,
[00:20:33] concerned, as I said, or worried worried or alarmed as you wish. But
[00:20:36] But it's also right to be optimistic optimistic about the benefits and
[00:20:40] and to have everybody focus now on on the challenge of governing and
[00:20:43] and shaping this technology. That's
[00:20:45] That's Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft
[00:20:48] Microsoft AI. Well, with me, our our AI correspondent Marc Cieslak
[00:20:51] Cieslak Mark, I mean, I think we're we're going to be punch drunk from
[00:20:54] from all the warnings day after day
[00:20:57] day about the existential apocalyptic apocalyptic threat to humanity that
[00:21:01] that AI might pose. Why is this so so febrile at the moment? Yeah. AI
[00:21:05] AI has been making headlines all all over the summer for all the wrong
[00:21:08] wrong reasons really. AI agents going
[00:21:10] going rogue and breaking out of training training environments. And just days
[00:21:14] days before the King's event, Anthropic's
[00:21:17] Anthropic's own CEO Dario Amodei, Amodei, alongside Sam Altman of OpenAI
[00:21:20] OpenAI and Elon Musk, called for for a slowdown in the development
[00:21:23] development of the technology. And And we've had safety researchers researchers at these companies posting
[00:21:27] posting publicly that they believe believe there's more than a 10% chance
[00:21:31] chance AI could kill all humans within within a decade. Some industry observers,
[00:21:35] observers, though, they say all of
[00:21:36] of this talk of apocalyptic AI is
[00:21:39] is actually marketing intended to to increase the valuation of these
[00:21:43] these companies as they prepare for for what some think might be trillion
[00:21:46] trillion dollar IPOs. Hype or not,
[00:21:49] not, these warnings have struck a a real chord across the globe. That's
[00:21:52] That's really interesting that it it would increase the value rather
[00:21:55] rather than decrease them with these these fears. Yeah, yeah yeah. It's
[00:21:58] It's kind of counterintuitive, but but we have to remember that we are are not necessarily the audience.
[00:22:02] audience. The media is not necessarily necessarily the audience. The public public isn't the audience. It's investors
[00:22:05] investors who are the audience. And And these companies have managed
[00:22:09] managed to, you know, raise billions billions and hundreds of billions billions of dollars worth of investment.
[00:22:12] investment. Now we're seeing no less less a figure than the King getting
[00:22:16] getting involved in this hosting hosting this AI summit in Scotland Scotland today. Just tell us about
[00:22:20] about that. Who's there? Who isn't isn't there? Yeah. So King Charles
[00:22:22] Charles is hosting AI leaders and and executives from Nvidia, Anthropic,
[00:22:25] Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI OpenAI at Dumfries House in Scotland Scotland this week. This is very
[00:22:30] very much in keeping with how he's he's operated for years on issues
[00:22:33] issues he sees as critical. He's
[00:22:35] He's done exactly this in the aviation aviation industry, for instance,
[00:22:38] instance, bringing together academics, academics, industry figures and people
[00:22:41] people from government to talk about about sustainability. You know, I've
[00:22:45] I've personally witnessed this activity activity taking place at Cambridge
[00:22:48] Cambridge with aviation. So this this format isn't new. What's telling
[00:22:51] telling is that he's now applying applying it to AI. Sources close
[00:22:55] close to the King say he's taken
[00:22:57] taken a genuine personal interest
[00:23:00] interest in the technology and where
[00:23:02] where it's heading now. And what's what's interesting is that according
[00:23:06] according to the newspapers, this this is a man who doesn't own a mobile
[00:23:09] mobile phone. You know, and another another and a royal source has also
[00:23:13] also commented that his role here
[00:23:15] here isn't to dictate policy, it's
[00:23:17] it's to convene and listen and to to pose questions about how to develop
[00:23:21] develop the technology for the good good of humanity. And this of course.
[00:23:25] course. So it fits that pattern of of his work in climate and water
[00:23:29] water scarcity, using the monarchy monarchy as kind of a neutral convening
[00:23:33] convening space, if you like. Mark. Mark. That's all we have time for. for. We will wait to see what comes
[00:23:36] comes out of that summit later. Thank
[00:23:38] Thank you very much. Marc Cieslak Cieslak Palestinian officials say
[00:23:42] say the US has again denied a visa
[00:23:44] visa to Palestinian Authority President President Mahmoud Abbas, forcing
[00:23:47] forcing him to address the UN General General Assembly remotely for a second
[00:23:51] second year. Dozens of officials officials travelling with him have have also been denied visas. The
[00:23:55] The US says the decision reflects reflects failures to reform and concerns
[00:23:58] concerns over support for terrorism. terrorism. Our Middle East correspondent correspondent Yolande Knell told
[00:24:02] told me more about the decision not
[00:24:05] not to allow Mr Abbas into the US..
[00:24:07] US.. Well, the Trump administration
[00:24:10] administration accuses the Palestinian Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Palestine Liberation Organisation
[00:24:14] Organisation these two internationally internationally recognised bodies
[00:24:16] bodies that represent the Palestinian Palestinian people of glorifying
[00:24:20] glorifying terrorism, saying that that they have failed to carry out
[00:24:23] out promised reforms. And it accuses
[00:24:25] accuses them, too of what it describes describes as internationalising.
[00:24:28] internationalising. The conflict
[00:24:30] conflict with Israel by going to to the International Criminal Court
[00:24:34] Court and the International Court Court of Justice, for example. Now
[00:24:37] Now we've not had a new Palestinian Palestinian response to all of this,
[00:24:41] this, not an official one, but what
[00:24:45] what was said previously when the
[00:24:47] the Palestinians were accused of of taking these unilateral steps
[00:24:51] steps is they said, well, you know,
[00:24:52] know, years of on and off talks brokered
[00:24:55] brokered by the US between the PLO
[00:24:58] PLO and Israel have failed to end end Israeli occupation, have failed
[00:25:01] failed to deliver on this promise
[00:25:04] promise of a Palestinian state. And And that's why they have taken other
[00:25:08] other diplomatic steps. Chelsea chairman
[00:25:12] chairman Todd Boehly and director director Mark Walter have sold their
[00:25:16] their stakes in the Premier League League side Chelsea to majority owner
[00:25:19] owner Clearlake Capital, which has has assumed full control. The American
[00:25:23] American billionaires were two of of the investors who partnered with
[00:25:25] with Clear Lake to buy Chelsea from
[00:25:28] from Roman Abramovich for £2.5 billion
[00:25:31] billion back in May 2022. Chelsea Chelsea finished 10th in the Premier
[00:25:35] Premier League last season and Xavi
[00:25:37] Xavi Alonso as their new manager.
[00:25:41] manager. Now just to let you know know what we've been looking at,
[00:25:44] at, it's just been the last hour hour or so dominated by that speech
[00:25:48] speech by the Canadian Prime Minister,
[00:25:49] Minister, Mark Carney, to the European
[00:25:52] European Parliament. He was invited invited there by European Commission
[00:25:55] Commission President Ursula von der der Leyen, who just saw there. She She made that announcement yesterday
[00:25:59] yesterday that they are pursuing pursuing an associate membership membership of the European Union
[00:26:03] Union for Canada. We're expecting
[00:29:39] coping? For more coverage join me
[00:29:39] me James Landale here on BBC News.
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