TRTWORLD — Just 2 Degrees
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[00:00:00] has forced a 125,000 people from their
[00:00:03] homes just since the start of this
[00:00:07] of month, and Iran's revolutionary guard says an oil
[00:00:10] tanker exploded and caught fire after it hit mines in
[00:00:14] prohibited areas
[00:00:15] of the straight of hormous. The US military though says that the vessel was
[00:00:19] in stripped by a drone while sitting in waters off the coast of
[00:00:21] of a
[00:00:22] man.
[00:00:26] Let's turn to Gaza
[00:00:27] a now where overnight drone strikes and sniper. fire have killed at
[00:00:31] least one person in
[00:00:32] of Gaza City and the northern camps. Officials reported a
[00:00:35] pre-dawn drone strike hit Gaza city leaving two
[00:00:39] wounded. Monday, separate series of strikes killed a senior
[00:00:43] Hamas military commander in the north of Gaza. Cars's health
[00:00:46] ministry says Israeli attacks
[00:00:48] a since the ceasefire came into effect in October 2025 and now
[00:00:52] de killed more than 1,300 and 70
[00:00:54] Palestinians. The
[00:00:58] war's also taken ahead. toll on animals in the Gaza Strip.
[00:01:02] Thousands
[00:01:03] of them have been killed injured or left without food, now
[00:01:07] displaced from its main shelter, one animal rescue group is
[00:01:10] struggling to keep the animals it is saved alive. I don't have
[00:01:14] Hamat reports from Central
[00:01:17] in Gaza. Sulala is an organization that has been caring
[00:01:21] forestry and injured
[00:01:23] in animals across Gaza. It's main children was in Gaza city, home to
[00:01:27] more than 450
[00:01:28] of dogs before the war. but as
[00:01:30] of Israel is a slot to spread, it had to be evacuated and the hard
[00:01:34] to breaking decision had to be
[00:01:36] made, i founded sulala in
[00:01:40] 2006 to protect stry animals, when we were forced to evacuate we
[00:01:44] could only bring 25 disabled dogs with us because we didn't have enough
[00:01:50] of transportation, the animals that made it out now depend a small
[00:01:53] team working with very limited supplies, veterinary
[00:01:57] medicine and equipment are difficult to find. so even
[00:02:00] simple treatments can require some
[00:02:02] creativity. we have to find our own
[00:02:06] solutions. when a dog named lucy had severe ear infection, we
[00:02:10] made corn for her from a plastic bowl. even before the war we made
[00:02:14] wheelchairs and
[00:02:15] in prosthetics for animals that had lost
[00:02:17] of a limbs. we still make them from whatever materials we can
[00:02:22] a find. food is another daily struggle as supplies
[00:02:26] became harder to find and more expensive. keeping the animals fit.
[00:02:31] of out
[00:02:35] of food
[00:02:39] a we had and medical run supplies, we started using whatever food we could find and when necessary some human medicines to keep the animals
[00:02:43] alive. we also treat animals brought to us by displace families
[00:02:46] and share whatever supplies we have with them. since october
[00:02:50] 2023, 97% of gaza's lifestock
[00:02:54] and animal wealth has been destroyed according to the
[00:02:57] UN
[00:02:58] of food and agriculture organization. and the human rights
[00:03:01] monitors. Thousands of pits have also been left
[00:03:04] behind, as families flee without food,
[00:03:08] of chilter or proper care. Some animals arrive
[00:03:12] here after their owners can no longer look after
[00:03:17] living in them. tense,
[00:03:18] families there For may simply not be enough space, food or water to
[00:03:22] keep up it. I rescued a cat and her
[00:03:26] kittens from the street. I was living
[00:03:28] in a small
[00:03:28] of tent with my own pets. and didn't have enough space or food to keep
[00:03:32] them, so i brought them here, animals feel pain just like we
[00:03:36] do, so lalala's team knows it cannot
[00:03:40] save every animal, but in gaza where so much has been
[00:03:43] lost, they continue to care for the ones they
[00:03:47] can, abdul wahab hammed, trt
[00:03:50] of world, gaza, former columbia
[00:03:54] university student and pro palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil
[00:03:58] has fired
[00:03:58] of a lawsuit, against the university and one of its deans, allegging
[00:04:02] discrimination against Palestinian students. Khalil was arrested by
[00:04:06] immigration agents in March
[00:04:08] of of
[00:04:08] of 2025, after he taken part in protests against Israel's war on
[00:04:12] Gaza. He was detained for 104 days. Khalil accuses Colombia
[00:04:16] of laying the
[00:04:16] of ground in work for the Trump administration to target
[00:04:20] of him. We are suing because no student,
[00:04:24] regardless
[00:04:28] of of their background, should go through the hill that could... put us through over all these
[00:04:32] years, year and a
[00:04:33] of half since my unlawful detention, colombia has not reached out
[00:04:37] one time to offer any support to me, on
[00:04:40] of the
[00:04:40] of contrary, they barred me from campus,
[00:04:44] the only time they emailed us was actually to ask us to leave colombia
[00:04:48] housing,
[00:04:48] it is time to hold those
[00:04:52] who discriminate against palestinians
[00:04:55] of accountable, the US Supreme Court has blocked
[00:04:59] President Trump to tighten mail-in voting rules just weeks before
[00:05:02] November's mid-term elections. The high court rejected emergency
[00:05:06] request from the administration allowing states to keep
[00:05:09] of their existing
[00:05:10] of ballot systems. The White House wanted to block mailing ballots from voters
[00:05:14] not on lists provided in advance to the US postal service.
[00:05:18] critics though argued the president lacked the authority to rewrite election rules at
[00:05:22] the last minute. nearly a third of US voters use male ballots
[00:05:26] making the decision important in the race for control of
[00:05:28] congress. on
[00:05:32] president Trump's also pushing back against growing fears over artificial
[00:05:36] intelligence calling efforts to reign in the technology part of
[00:05:39] sick conspiracy. the US president dismissing
[00:05:43] warnings from tech leaders at companies including Anthropic, Open AI
[00:05:47] and SpaceX, who have been calling for greater government oversight
[00:05:50] of AI and warning that it could pose an existential threat to
[00:05:54] humanity. From Washington DC, Erondo Olu explains why the US
[00:05:57] administration is so wary of regulating
[00:06:00] AI. While the
[00:06:03] AI companies are concerned about the risks of
[00:06:06] AI, the government is weighing the risks of
[00:06:10] AI against competition. with China, they are arguing
[00:06:14] that the AI companies are America's great strength
[00:06:18] against their competitor, China, and that the regulations
[00:06:22] might slow them down, and similar things were
[00:06:26] happening previously with social media companies right, the government
[00:06:30] that time wanted to put guard rails on them, and that actually
[00:06:33] escalated further, and they testified in Congress, we
[00:06:37] saw Mark Zuckerbert appear in Congress, but this is part
[00:06:41] the same story. one the major reasons America is able to
[00:06:45] keep its competitive advantage against China alive is its
[00:06:49] companies uh constantly innovating, it was social
[00:06:53] media companies in the previous decade and now it's
[00:06:57] AI companies and for the government while there are risks
[00:07:00] involved they're clearly also keeping in mind the
[00:07:04] competition with China and they don't want to
[00:07:07] impede the companies and they want to keep the innovation the pace
[00:07:11] of innovation forward. uh as as the current
[00:07:14] government, of course, the Republican administration, they are they're
[00:07:18] also historically resistant against guard rails
[00:07:22] on open market uh competition,
[00:07:25] so that's currently where everything stands with AI,
[00:07:29] the Trump administration is hoping to
[00:07:33] uh limit the amount of guard rails and hoping to uh
[00:07:37] increase the speed of innovation with AI companies at the cost
[00:07:41] of not seeing I with the heads the companies
[00:07:44] themselves. joined now by
[00:07:48] barat ready, associate fellow with the high tech geopolitics program
[00:07:52] at theila institution, he just be live from Bengaluru in India,
[00:07:56] appreciate it. so I mean, as I just detail the tech leader statements and
[00:08:00] it was unexpected really, calling for more cautious approach with
[00:08:03] AI. um, the anthropics chief calling for kill
[00:08:07] switch, do you agree with their
[00:08:09] caution? uh, definitely
[00:08:13] need more guard rails, there are there
[00:08:15] is evidence of greater capabilities, especially cyber
[00:08:18] capabilities, we have seen that with the recent hugging face
[00:08:22] attack, we have also seen AI being able to solve math
[00:08:25] problems which were which are really which have really puzzled us for
[00:08:29] generations, so you see these new capabilities emerging and
[00:08:33] and while that is true,
[00:08:37] i don't agree with the with the characterization of
[00:08:41] existential risk to human. so these are tools that are
[00:08:45] going to be used by humans and maybe it gives malicious
[00:08:49] actors abilities to carry out these attacks,
[00:08:52] but this this idea
[00:08:55] that AI is becoming sentient or is
[00:08:59] becoming more capable and will take actions against
[00:09:02] humans that I don't think is is still
[00:09:05] justified, so you we definitely need guard trails, you
[00:09:09] need different layers of protection and one them might be kill...
[00:09:12] which in case of incidents like the ones we have seen,
[00:09:16] so you need better testing, you need third party, red
[00:09:20] teaming, all these different garls which will
[00:09:23] help build trust in this system as well, so
[00:09:27] but nothing to indicate that we are a point when AI
[00:09:30] is becoming
[00:09:33] you know sentient or is causing an
[00:09:36] existential risk to humans itself, okay you don't think this that that physical risk, what
[00:09:40] about the risk of not being first? because the same big tech companies,
[00:09:44] many leaders said previously, whoever gets their first wins everything, there's no
[00:09:48] second place, no third place, whoever gets like the singularity first, will just wipe the
[00:09:52] floor with all the other companies, so that seems to be perhaps the concern of
[00:09:55] President Trump, he doesn't want regulations slowing down US companies, do you see this as
[00:09:59] a straight up race, the US against China winner takes
[00:10:02] all? there's there's definitely a
[00:10:06] geopolitical race here, and it's not, it's one, one is at the
[00:10:10] level of between the US and... china who are at the forefront of this innovation,
[00:10:14] but also between the countries themselves, between the companies themselves, so you see
[00:10:18] anthropic and open AI in race to capture market share,
[00:10:21] both them are headed towards an IPO and you need... you
[00:10:25] know paying customers who can and they would like to
[00:10:29] demonstrate these capabilities and all these are happening at the same time
[00:10:33] right so what you what you see is a collective action problem
[00:10:37] so no one wants to slow down because they risk losing market
[00:10:41] share but at the same time you you see that if you
[00:10:44] see that there are certain risks all them are individually willing to say that
[00:10:48] there are risks but no one is willing to take that step unilaterally and say
[00:10:52] that we are going to slow down so unless that's that you
[00:10:56] know response comes from
[00:10:59] maybe a collective
[00:11:02] level, it might be at the level of a country or at at an
[00:11:06] international level, I don't think we'll see any slowing down, so but
[00:11:10] on the question about do you see
[00:11:13] singularity, I don't think that might
[00:11:17] be something that is on the horizon yet, you see lot
[00:11:21] of capabilities being increased, you see that...
[00:11:25] honestly they are able to execute a lot of task, very complex task, but are we
[00:11:29] at the point of reaching a singularity? that's still
[00:11:32] debatable, there are experts who argue on both
[00:11:36] sides right, so and i would tend to prefer, mean it makes more
[00:11:40] sense to me that you see a increasing capability, but it's still
[00:11:44] a normal technology, one of everyday use a general purpose technology a
[00:11:48] sense, not something that is you know reaching the
[00:11:51] singularity at all, but when you hear though big names, chiefs
[00:11:55] of of major US companies involved in AI saying,
[00:11:59] there's a risk, perhaps we need to slow down
[00:12:02] and for everybody to be, perhaps have some
[00:12:06] regulation, does that suggest to you that actually these companies think they're losing this
[00:12:10] race and they want to slow everybody down, drag them down to the same
[00:12:13] level? not really,
[00:12:17] so one is that they're trying to call
[00:12:20] for these regulations and you can think of it as a generous way to look it is that
[00:12:25] you you look at these companies and saying
[00:12:27] and and they see something some risks that they are able to see in their internal testing and
[00:12:31] they want to maybe call for some
[00:12:34] collective guard rails to be put in place or some
[00:12:38] some kind of slowing down for everybody right so that's that's a generous kind of
[00:12:42] reading the situation but another way to look at is that maybe there
[00:12:46] is reason for them to impose these
[00:12:49] guards because they have a big advantage over their rivals and having these
[00:12:53] kind of stricter guard. stricter regulatory compliance requirements
[00:12:57] gives the first moves an advantage and in
[00:13:01] you know capturing that market right, so it's in a sense regulatory
[00:13:05] capture of sort,
[00:13:06] so you you reach there first and you are able to ask for
[00:13:09] stricter regulations and that kind of makes it harder for
[00:13:13] anyone who is now trying to compete to capture the same market,
[00:13:17] it also creates this the sense that this is
[00:13:21] something really dangerous and we are the only ones who can build it responsibly, so
[00:13:25] don't trust the Chinese or don't trust
[00:13:27] you know this small startup because they might not take it as
[00:13:31] seriously as we do so you see both these and there is some truth to
[00:13:35] both ways of looking at it and but we definitely need
[00:13:39] a consensus on what those
[00:13:43] risks are, you need more capacity within government to
[00:13:46] evaluate those risks and to take those build those safe guards as well
[00:13:50] so and and wel definitely see some
[00:13:53] these in... playing out and and that will hopefully raise awareness about
[00:13:57] what the risks are and how we should respond to them, yeah, perhaps an attempt to lock in
[00:14:01] advantages, that's that's one perspective, i've not even considered and that's why we get you
[00:14:05] on, barret, great to speak to you, barret ready, associate fellow with the high tech
[00:14:09] geopolitics program at the taxashila
[00:14:11] institution,
[00:14:22] protesters are expected to take to the streets in the... sees capital
[00:14:25] Kinshasa on Tuesday as parliament opens its doors, the rally targets a
[00:14:29] proposed constitutional change that could let the president Felix
[00:14:32] Chisicady run for a third term. Okay, let's go to our correspondent
[00:14:36] prosper Arian Garora who is live for us in Goomar in the
[00:14:40] DRC, um, so it seems like people unhappy about a
[00:14:44] changing regulations, why would they be so opposed to another term for the
[00:14:48] leader?
[00:14:53] so in Democratic Republic of Congo, in recent months
[00:14:56] there is debate about the constitutional
[00:15:00] change and then in democratic republic of Congo,
[00:15:04] presidenti the country has
[00:15:07] stated that if Congolese people allows
[00:15:11] him to run for a third term, he might not
[00:15:14] exclude that possibility, and after his
[00:15:17] announcements, there are terms in Democratic
[00:15:21] Republic of Congo, especially opposition leader.
[00:15:25] are calling Congolese people to go into the
[00:15:28] street to show their opposition or to show their
[00:15:32] protest against the possibility the
[00:15:36] President of. Democratic Republic of Congo to
[00:15:39] run for the third term, while Constitution of
[00:15:43] Democratic Republic of Congo allows only two
[00:15:46] terms or two 10 years for
[00:15:49] president wook might be in charge of ruling
[00:15:53] of Democratic Republic of Congo. This
[00:15:56] week opposition leaders are calling for
[00:15:59] populations especially in all the country and in
[00:16:03] Kinshasa to go into the streets while.
[00:16:07] this time it is the start of parliament
[00:16:11] recession and many believe that the matter
[00:16:15] of constitutional change must be at the center
[00:16:19] of discussions and then Kongolese leaders
[00:16:22] especially from opposition are calling population
[00:16:26] to go in front of palais la
[00:16:30] nation or the the
[00:16:33] siege or to go at the member of
[00:16:37] go at the parliament building to show their protest
[00:16:41] against this possibility of changing
[00:16:45] the constitution and to allow presidenti to
[00:16:49] run in the third term. many observers, especially in
[00:16:52] eastern Congo are saying that say they don't
[00:16:55] understand why the current
[00:16:59] regime prioritizes constitutionally change
[00:17:02] while the country is dealing with the ebola epidemic
[00:17:07] east. country also the ongoing conflict due
[00:17:10] to fighting between congolase army and
[00:17:14] m23 fighters and
[00:17:18] right now the situation might change in
[00:17:21] Kinshasa while while kongoles security
[00:17:25] forces have stated that they will reinforce
[00:17:28] security around the parliament to avoid
[00:17:32] any problem prosp thanks for clarifying
[00:17:36] the situation for us the latest from around there from garora who's in
[00:17:39] Goma. Let's turn to Nigeria
[00:17:43] now. Uber has ended 12 years of operations there shutting down with immediate
[00:17:47] effect on September 2nd the exit part of a global restructuring
[00:17:51] that has also seen the company withdraw from Uganda. So for thousands of
[00:17:55] drivers it could likely mean an abrupt loss of income,
[00:17:58] as Akinalaka reports from
[00:18:02] Lagos. If has been driving for Uber since
[00:18:05] 2018. federal f has built most of his
[00:18:09] household income around this road and this
[00:18:12] app, this week the app went
[00:18:16] dark without notice, the major challenge there,
[00:18:19] the the income that was that used to come will
[00:18:23] not coming the way used to come, you know everything
[00:18:26] will at least if you are getting 70% now it
[00:18:30] will be going
[00:18:31] to be 45%, even he is not alone,
[00:18:34] dispatch riders on this route describing years of running the
[00:18:38] numbers just to break even, we buy foil
[00:18:42] very core and seriously as we don't
[00:18:46] have anything to do, that's why we are just using it because we don't have any
[00:18:50] option, but at least sometime we don't have any
[00:18:54] profit much. uber's exit comes as a company
[00:18:57] restructures globally cutting about 10% of its
[00:19:00] workforce while reviewing its investment. this
[00:19:04] particular exit of uber was born out. of two things,
[00:19:08] their global strategy, and of course how easy it was
[00:19:11] considering the complaints that were coming from drivers with
[00:19:15] regards to fairs and all of that that tied into or you know
[00:19:19] just made it much more easy to do what they wanted to do from
[00:19:23] a global standpoint. Uber's rivers
[00:19:26] face many the same pressures, but bolds has
[00:19:30] adapted eight pricing to the local market, while
[00:19:34] indrive allows drivers and passengers to...
[00:19:37] negotiate first directly. Uber may have
[00:19:41] left Nigeria, but the roles it once help drivers
[00:19:44] navigate are still busy. For drivers like efan,
[00:19:48] the challenge is to find another way to make living a
[00:19:51] market where competition is fears costs
[00:19:55] arising and the platform the ones paid, some the bills
[00:19:59] is no longer there. The exit could also reshape
[00:20:02] Nigeria's ride healing market. When the competitors will be able to
[00:20:06] absorb the... riders increase their market share, have more drivers
[00:20:10] that
[00:20:11] you know they can deploy to carrying out this particular ride healing
[00:20:14] business. the bigger question for former uber
[00:20:18] drivers is what replaces their income and how soon
[00:20:21] i alaka (TRT World
[00:20:25] Legus) the race to explore the
[00:20:28] moon is gathering pace and turkey is stepping up its own lunar
[00:20:32] ambitions. Turkey is preparing to send its first spacecraft to the moon where it will
[00:20:36] study the lunar. magnetic fields and interaction with
[00:20:40] solar winds as well as how water forms
[00:20:42] on the moon. the spacecraft is designed to operate for at least three months with the
[00:20:46] mission potentially extended
[00:30:10] Welcome back, you're watching TRT World, I'm Neil Harvey, and these are your headlines:
[00:30:14] three people, including two children, have been killed in Saudi Led
[00:30:17] coalition air strikes in Yemen's Taise province, according to Hoothi run
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[00:30:25] firmly to Huthi attacks that injured 13 civilians in three
[00:30:29] Saudi cities. The UN says fighting in Yemen has forced a...
[00:30:33] people from their homes since just the start the
[00:30:36] month. At least 18,00 households or
[00:30:40] 125,00 people have been displaced since the start the
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[00:30:47] and today, our colleagues at the UN human rights office have verified 40
[00:30:51] civilian casualties. Iran's state media says
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[00:30:58] leaving several people missing.