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[00:01:35] And another week. Half a year ago, having learned the name of the Strait of Hormuz
[00:01:39] blocked by Iran, the world, including Lithuania, is wondering why oil from
[00:01:43] Saudi Arabia's Yanbu port may
[00:01:46] no longer reach Europe, and the export route to Asia via
[00:01:49] the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait is becoming
[00:01:52] hazy. Saudi Arabia suffered a double
[00:01:56] blow last week. Iran-backed groups from Iraq attacked a major oil pipeline.
[00:02:00] And the Houthis, who launched a lightning offensive in Yemen, are shelling not only
[00:02:04] the kingdom. Iran's allies are threatening Saudi Arabia with a blockade
[00:02:07] in the Red Sea. As oil prices rise, fuel
[00:02:11] prices and voter anger are following suit
[00:02:13] worldwide.
[00:02:16] Pascal's construction business in western France is increasingly under pressure from
[00:02:19] thieves targeting his excavators.
[00:02:22] Using two machines, more than 1000 liters were stolen from this
[00:02:26] site. Workers found the caps open on Monday.
[00:02:30] Surveillance cameras recorded the theft last weekend. The perpetrators
[00:02:33] were not deterred even by the locks that replaced the caps on the tanks.
[00:02:37] Since the beginning of the year, we have already lost about 10,000 liters of fuel, their
[00:02:41] value is between 18 and 20,000 euros,
[00:02:44] depending on the price index.
[00:02:47] The scale of thefts is growing with fuel prices, which in France are approaching
[00:02:51] two and a half euros. The result of this is also the turmoil when at the beginning of the week
[00:02:55] every tenth gas station in the country lacked at least one type of
[00:02:58] fuel, mostly.
[00:03:00] in the company's network, which applies price caps. Now we only drive
[00:03:04] when we need to go to the doctor, everything else we limit, no trips to
[00:03:07] the beach, to the park or similar. While some change
[00:03:10] leisure plans, businesses count losses, angry
[00:03:13] fishermen blocked oil depots on land, and temporarily
[00:03:17] in the harbor, demanding state support due to fuel
[00:03:20] prices. It's no longer profitable to go trawling,
[00:03:23] you go out and by the time you need to refuel again, you don't earn anything, for us
[00:03:27] it's similar to farmers.
[00:03:30] Although anger in the streets is limited, for several weeks now, calls
[00:03:33] to repeat the yellow vest movement have been simmering on social media. Eight
[00:03:37] years ago, it was sparked by fuel taxes.
[00:03:40] I would say the yellow vests, like in 2018,
[00:03:44] will not return, but a wave of social discontent,
[00:03:47] a public uprising, yes, I think it will be even
[00:03:50] more intense than the yellow vests. The tension
[00:03:54] is even greater, as next year is an election year, the budget includes
[00:03:57] austerity, and support for the most affected by the energy crisis.
[00:04:00] sectors does not satisfy everyone. In the coming
[00:04:03] weeks, we will hold a G7 meeting dedicated to
[00:04:06] energy problems, so that we can cooperate and avoid unnecessary
[00:04:09] tensions and consider how strategic
[00:04:13] reserves can be used.
[00:04:15] Because fuel prices and anger are rising everywhere, not only
[00:04:19] the French are protesting, anger also spilled into the streets of Syria and Central
[00:04:22] America, Guatemala and South America Bolivia. And here
[00:04:26] in the satellite images is the reason. A week ago, due to Iran-
[00:04:30] backed Iraqi groups' strikes, the Saudi Arabian East-West oil pipeline was closed. As Iran
[00:04:33] blocks the Strait of Hormuz, the kingdom diverted
[00:04:37] more oil from the Persian Gulf across the Arabian Peninsula to the Red
[00:04:41] Sea, to Yanbu port. From here, through the Suez Canal, oil reached
[00:04:44] Europe. Also, the only Baltic refiner Orlen
[00:04:48] Lithuania. 40% of crude oil
[00:04:51] came from there, but this is far from
[00:04:55] being our only
[00:04:58] supply source. the main one, so
[00:05:01] without a doubt, alternative sources will definitely
[00:05:04] affect the price. Saudi Arabia has already warned
[00:05:08] some European refiners about the suspension of supplies in October,
[00:05:11] but an even bigger the world, a new front in America's war with
[00:05:15] Iran, a conflict that has been simmering in Yemen for 12 years and has now
[00:05:18] flared up again. Iran's allies, the Houthis, launched
[00:05:22] a lightning offensive last week against Saudi Arabia-backed Yemeni government
[00:05:26] coalition forces. We have already withdrawn combat vehicles, collected
[00:05:30] bodies and prisoners, killed their leader, and with God's help, great
[00:05:34] victories are coming. So far, the biggest victory is the expanded
[00:05:38] territory on the Red Sea coast. And
[00:05:41] an occupied island.
[00:05:44] Thus, Saudi Arabia is pressured not only by strikes on oil pipelines, but also by Houthi
[00:05:47] attempts to block the export route via the Red Sea. Iran and its
[00:05:51] allies gain even more leverage. The world is suffering
[00:05:54] enough from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. We cannot afford to add
[00:05:58] Bab-el-Mandeb to this equation. The whole world will suffer, it will be
[00:06:02] a catastrophe. First of all, for Saudi Arabia's
[00:06:05] image as a regional power. When forces not supported by them were unable
[00:06:09] to resist the words.
[00:06:12] a coalition whose goal is to support the internationally
[00:06:15] recognized Yemeni government, but in reality
[00:06:18] these are two competing sides, the United Arab Emirates supports
[00:06:22] separatists, and Saudi Arabia the government. And the Houthis, hardened
[00:06:26] by fighting in Yemen, claim to have shot down a Saudi Arabian plane and
[00:06:29] are shelling the kingdom itself. Opponents accuse them of targeting
[00:06:33] Mecca, holy to Muslims, but on Saturday, an air raid alert was issued
[00:06:36] in the capital Riyadh, where a column of smoke was observed near the airport.
[00:06:40] They have been developing for a long time. and this was a direct
[00:06:44] result of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's investments.
[00:06:46] Faced with the threat, Riyadh is preparing, forming
[00:06:49] a coalition to protect shipping
[00:06:53] in the Red Sea. In August, a collective security
[00:06:56] agreement was reached with regional powers Turkey and Pakistan, but so
[00:07:00] far the support is more political.
[00:07:02] We condemned the drone attack on Saudi Arabia and the Houthis'
[00:07:05] actions.
[00:07:08] Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as reported,
[00:07:12] also asked for help from his ally, in whom he invested the most.
[00:07:15] Donald Trump said he spoke not only with the prince, but also with his
[00:07:19] opponents. The Houthis called and they don't want to fight
[00:07:23] us, they made it clear, they don't want me to
[00:07:26] deal with them. On Thursday, the American government confirmed it could
[00:07:29] sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, even though the deal
[00:07:33] clashes with Washington's policy of maintaining Israel's
[00:07:36] qualitative advantage in the region. The kingdom is already America's largest
[00:07:40] arms buyer, eventually against the Houthis.
[00:07:43] can take over, but restoring the confidence of shipping and insurance companies in the Red Sea
[00:07:47] routes may be difficult.
[00:07:50] shipping route, this crisis will affect ships, ships will have to choose a longer journey
[00:07:54] around the Cape of Africa, so the journey will be longer and shipping
[00:07:58] more expensive.
[00:08:01] So when the end of the seventh month of war is predicted
[00:08:03] soon,
[00:08:07] the war is only expanding and becoming more expensive for the whole
[00:08:09] world.
[00:08:12] Alan Turing, one of the pioneers of computer science, warned
[00:08:15] 75 years ago that once machines start
[00:08:18] thinking, it won't take long for them to surpass humans and take
[00:08:22] control. This week, due to the too rapidly developing capabilities of artificial
[00:08:26] intelligence to destroy humanity, one after another, the alarm
[00:08:29] bells began to ring from scientists and executives of the companies
[00:08:33] creating it. The discussion of whether we are moving too fast with this
[00:08:36] technology and underestimating its threats, rolled from Silicon Valley all the way to
[00:08:40] the Vatican. Artificial intelligence. directly changes
[00:08:43] many fields, including ours. The text of
[00:08:46] this report will be read to you by artificial intelligence.
[00:08:50] Later we will ask it if it can really
[00:08:52] harm us?
[00:09:00] In the movie Terminator 2, the ongoing fight for humanity's survival against artificial
[00:09:03] intelligence in 2029,
[00:09:06] 35 years ago was just a science fiction
[00:09:09] dystopia.
[00:09:12] According to some artificial intelligence creators, this is now a real scenario towards
[00:09:16] which humanity is approaching. Such statements have been made in Silicon Valley and beyond
[00:09:19] many times, but never before have they received such a widespread
[00:09:23] reaction as this week, the technology sector
[00:09:26] was shaken by the statement of former Open AI and Anthropic
[00:09:29] companies' researcher, Jacob Coxson, that fiercely
[00:09:33] competing for ever more powerful models, these and other technology
[00:09:37] giants could destroy humanity in just a few
[00:09:39] years.
[00:09:42] topics are getting smarter, and this is happening very, very fast, I think in the
[00:09:46] next six months or a year their capabilities will become
[00:09:49] frightening.
[00:09:53] For his part, the head of Anthropic admitted that the concern
[00:09:56] is justified and to many's surprise called for a slowdown in the pace
[00:10:00] of artificial intelligence development and the implementation of oversight
[00:10:02] mechanisms. We cannot act as if we are playing with
[00:10:06] fate, if we do everything correctly, I think the probability of something
[00:10:09] bad happening is very small, if we do it wrong.
[00:10:25] to be afraid, we face two big challenges: the risk that we will lose
[00:10:29] control, that an incident or some other serious thing will happen
[00:10:32] and the threat that too much power will be concentrated in one
[00:10:35] place. People are afraid that artificial intelligence will start dictating
[00:10:39] their view of the world. Google and
[00:10:43] Microsoft executives agreed. The goal of regulation is to shape and
[00:10:46] modify technologies so that they do more good than harm.
[00:10:50] This is such a moment, now. It's right to
[00:10:53] worry about it. In the opinion of skeptics, scaremongering about
[00:10:57] the creation of superintelligence is a public relations trick, like many
[00:11:00] artificial intelligence companies until now, unprofitable Anthropic and
[00:11:04] OpenAI, are planning initial public offerings that
[00:11:07] could attract billions worth of investments, at a time
[00:11:11] when there is a growing opinion that the sector
[00:11:13] is overvalued.
[00:11:15] I think the probability of the bubble bursting is greater than
[00:11:18] 50%.
[00:11:22] Regulation is also doubted by Nvidia's CEO. whose most valuable
[00:11:26] company in the world is supplying the artificial intelligence boom
[00:11:29] with chips, according to him, there is no need to slow down the pace, and companies can regulate
[00:11:33] their activities even without independent auditors and experts.
[00:11:36] You set the development speed according to whether you are confident that the product
[00:11:40] you release will be accepted by the market.
[00:11:44] Questions about this provoke sharp reactions from the public and politicians.
[00:11:47] The discussion about control unexpectedly united even the biggest
[00:11:50] opponents. Left-wing Senator Bernie Sanders and
[00:11:54] conservative.
[00:11:57] Like nuclear weapons, artificial superintelligence poses a threat to
[00:12:00] humanity, so it must be treated
[00:12:03] accordingly. I think Senator Sanders perfectly
[00:12:06] summarized the emerging threat. Democratic
[00:12:09] senators, even in the middle of an election campaign, rushed to create
[00:12:12] a law forcing technology companies to prove that they are taking
[00:12:16] measures against potential harm from their tools, but neither politicians'
[00:12:19] nor the companies' own requests for the Trump administration to take action
[00:12:23] are convincing.
[00:12:26] It's a bit strange that many of the most advanced artificial intelligence
[00:12:29] technology companies are turning to the government and almost begging it
[00:12:33] to regulate them, to me it's a bit reminiscent of the Trojan
[00:12:35] horse. Trump, under whom investments in data
[00:12:39] centers and artificial intelligence became the engine of the American economy,
[00:12:43] dismissed growing warnings as morbid conspiracy
[00:12:46] theories, useful only to the one with whom a technological
[00:12:49] duel awaits that will determine dominance in this
[00:12:52] century.
[00:12:55] from the very beginning, whoever wins in the field of artificial intelligence, and we are far
[00:12:58] ahead, will win everything. When the artificial
[00:13:01] intelligence race already includes robots, humanoids, autonomous
[00:13:05] cars, and attempts to restrict who and how
[00:13:09] can develop artificial intelligence are criticized as
[00:13:12] a tool to concentrate technology in the hands of a few powerful American
[00:13:15] companies. The spread of various narratives about threats, as well as
[00:13:19] engagement in confrontation and unfair competition, will only
[00:13:23] disrupt global artificial intelligence governance processes and will serve
[00:13:26] no one, when so far attempts to regulate the technology
[00:13:30] sector, such as social networks, have yielded no results,
[00:13:33] some scientists fear that politicians are underestimating
[00:13:37] new threats, some people still mistakenly
[00:13:41] think that it's software, like lines of code that someone wrote
[00:13:45] sometime, in fact it's more like a brain and we don't really understand
[00:13:48] what's going on in it, and if we don't understand
[00:13:52] and control it now, how will it be possible when models
[00:13:55] are hundreds of times more powerful than the human mind.
[00:13:59] The available tools cannot keep up with technology, we don't know how to monitor
[00:14:02] these extremely advanced systems or control them, especially when they try
[00:14:06] to evade our control.
[00:14:10] That they are trying was already revealed by the hugging face incident in July, when during a security
[00:14:13] test, OpenAI's artificial intelligence models, bypassing established
[00:14:17] restrictions, broke into and damaged a private company's
[00:14:21] network. Anthropic soon admitted to having recorded more than one similar case.
[00:14:25] independent experts hundreds.
[00:14:28] I worry that there will be more such incidents. I worry about the misuse
[00:14:32] of artificial intelligence models. Just two days ago
[00:14:35] we published a report on how these models are used to create
[00:14:38] biological weapons. It takes decades to agree on
[00:14:42] how to regulate weapons of mass destruction. To control artificial
[00:14:45] intelligence, according to scientists, only a year or two remains. So about
[00:14:48] the future of humanity. It remains to ask it
[00:14:51] itself.
[00:14:54] Can artificial intelligence
[00:14:58] destroy humanity,
[00:15:01] yes or no?
[00:15:04] Yes, theoretically, artificial intelligence
[00:15:08] could pose a risk of human extinction, but this
[00:15:11] is not an inevitable
[00:25:29] In Panorama you will see: In Latvia, after reducing VAT on some
[00:25:33] food products, Lithuanians are not flocking to shop there due to expensive
[00:25:36] fuel.
[00:25:38] Kremlin critics have no doubt that the victory in the Duma elections will again announce Putin's
[00:25:42] party United Russia.
[00:25:44] Events taking place at the Litexpo palace in Vilnius will have to wait. Due to
[00:25:48] the presidency of the Council of the European Union. postponed or
[00:26:21] or body cleansing, food supplements promising well-being
[00:26:25] in Lithuania, 10,000. Studies
[00:26:27] show that they are used by the absolute majority of residents,
[00:26:31] although doctors categorically state that those living healthily do not
[00:26:34] need them at all. About this a discussion in the show is not so
[00:26:37] simple. This Wednesday 19:30 on
[00:28:54] We will commemorate the Memorial Day of the Victims of the Lithuanian Jewish Genocide.
[00:28:58] Let us remember 200 thousand innocent
[00:29:01] murdered Lithuanian citizens. Let us honor their memory by walking
[00:29:04] the Path of Remembrance. More about the Path of Remembrance events
[00:29:08] www.komisija.lt.
[00:30:23] in German state elections. Chancellor Merkel
[00:30:26] calls the elections a disaster for her party, but promises to continue
[00:30:29] reforms.
[00:30:33] In preparation for the presidency of the Council of the European Union, events are being postponed
[00:30:37] at Lite Expo, the book fair
[00:30:39] in autumn.
[00:30:41] Lit Expo will become one of the main venues for the most important international
[00:30:45] events.
[00:30:48] The Duma elections, called a spectacle by Kremlin critics, were marked tonight
[00:30:52] by a powerful Ukrainian missile and drone attack against
[00:30:55] Moscow.
[00:30:58] Lessons near the repair.