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[00:01:30] from the Turkish capital Ankara, so Hasan, tell me what is to
[00:01:33] do out for for you from the press
[00:01:35] of conference? Well, Jafar, I
[00:01:39] think we can divide their
[00:01:41] of talks
[00:01:41] in a number of areas, so first of all, you've got
[00:01:46] of of regional security, of of of they've talked about two important areas, the situation around Iran and the straight of hormos and then you've
[00:01:50] got the Russia, Iran war, as far as the straight of hormos is concerned, the
[00:01:54] two foreign ministers talked about the steps that they can
[00:01:58] of take to contribute to work, the opening of straight of
[00:02:02] hormos and they talked
[00:02:04] of
[00:02:04] of about uninterrupted movement of vessels there, he said that the
[00:02:08] status quo that existed
[00:02:10] of before the attack on Iran, that status quo needs
[00:02:14] to be restored. They
[00:02:15] of also discussed Russia Ukraine war and we heard from the Turkish foreign
[00:02:19] minister, he talked
[00:02:21] of about how maritime security in the Black Sea region is threatened as
[00:02:25] a result of this war that has been going on for more than four and a half
[00:02:28] of years and he said Turkey is taking all diplomatic steps
[00:02:32] to try and deescalate the situation. He talked about
[00:02:36] how energy security is threatened as a result of this
[00:02:39] war and how global economies has been suffering. Now of
[00:02:43] course, talking about energy security, they also talked
[00:02:47] in about the bilateral steps Turkey and Azerbaijan have been
[00:02:50] taking and can take to strengthen energy security, that of
[00:02:54] course links
[00:02:55] of to regional connectivity. They talked about the Nachshivan
[00:02:59] corridor. and the challenges that are currently
[00:03:03] of of there
[00:03:05] of of in of linking mainland Azerbaijan directly to Turkey, the Turkish foreign minister said that that's going
[00:03:09] to
[00:03:11] of of benefit of not just the entire Turkic world, but Asia broadly connecting directly to
[00:03:15] a Europe, it's going to improve trade between
[00:03:19] continents, and it's going to have a positive impact on energy
[00:03:23] of security for the world as well, and of course then there was the
[00:03:26] of
[00:03:26] of bilateral dimension in
[00:03:28] of terms of trade, they've set a target of...
[00:03:30] of 15 of billion dollars, they've achieved about a half of that, and they've
[00:03:34] of talked
[00:03:34] of about sectors where the two countries can increase imports and export,
[00:03:38] they've also discussed
[00:03:39] of defense
[00:03:40] of cooperation saying that the two countries have achieved a fair bit
[00:03:43] together, but there are areas where they plan
[00:03:46] in to increase cooperation, and we also heard the
[00:03:50] of turkeys forum minister hakan fadan once again
[00:03:52] of reiterate Ankara's position on what's going on in the region, he once
[00:03:56] again called for freedom of navigation in the straight of hormoon.
[00:04:01] of Absolutely, the Turkish position has
[00:04:05] been that any blockade, any restrictions around the straight of
[00:04:09] hormos or other choke points for that matter are
[00:04:12] unacceptable, the Turkish foreign
[00:04:14] a minister
[00:04:15] of in this meeting, I understand discussed the steps the two countries can take and
[00:04:18] how they can use their
[00:04:21] of diplomatic muscle to try to convince their partners, now of
[00:04:25] course uh while they didn't name anyone in the case of
[00:04:28] a Azerbaijan there are certain... is a certain degree of strong relations that
[00:04:32] Azerbaijan has with Israel, so there's that leverage that
[00:04:36] Azerbaijan can perhaps bring into the equation, while they didn't
[00:04:40] mention
[00:04:40] of that, of but I understand that perhaps this is one
[00:04:43] of the dimensions the two would have discussed, the Turkish
[00:04:46] position is that the United States has pivotal role to play in this regard
[00:04:50] in trying to get Israel to
[00:04:54] not take certain steps that Turkia sees as destabilizing the
[00:04:58] region, fascinating,
[00:05:17] "the fighting between Yemen's Hooti group and Saudi pack forces is
[00:05:21] spreading with both sides continuing to launch attacks overnight is sparking
[00:05:25] fears of a full-fledged war. Three people including two children
[00:05:29] have been killed in Saudi Lad coalition air strikes in Yemen's Thais
[00:05:32] province. That's according to Huti Run Media. Two others have been injured
[00:05:36] a strikes elsewhere. Saudi Arabia said it would
[00:05:40] respond firmly to who the attacks that injured. 13 civilians in three Saudi cities on
[00:05:44] Monday. Earlier, Riad had issued emergency alerts in six cities
[00:05:48] before later declaring the danger had passed. The alerts come as
[00:05:52] the hoothies advance along Yemen's red sea coast towards the
[00:05:55] babal
[00:05:57] mandap straight, which is key global shipping
[00:05:59] route. At least
[00:06:02] 125000 people have been displaced and more than 200 people have fled
[00:06:05] to, that's since the start of September, according to the United
[00:06:09] Nations. Insecurities restricting human. access and supplies
[00:06:13] are running low, we walked on foot at
[00:06:17] night after sunset from up, we were
[00:06:21] then told that the road was closed and that we had to return to mokha, so
[00:06:25] we went back, we had absolutely nothing with us, no food,
[00:06:29] water, nothing, everything was shut down, the bullets were flying
[00:06:33] over heads like rain, we appeal to the humanitarian
[00:06:36] organizations and the international community to
[00:06:39] intervene and provide shelter for these families. and
[00:06:43] ensure that they receive food, water, clothing and
[00:06:46] accommodation
[00:06:50] has the latest from the yemini capital. the current
[00:06:53] development, what we are witnessing, the continuation the
[00:06:57] air strikes on areas under the control of his in
[00:07:00] particular, according to hoti media outlets, they said that
[00:07:04] the air strikes have targeted regions
[00:07:07] in and also,
[00:07:11] they also mentioned that the... other air strikes have targeted
[00:07:14] the the governmental compound in
[00:07:18] the
[00:07:19] mud khadir district in tazs especially also the continuation
[00:07:22] the air strikes that continue on the
[00:07:26] areas that have been recently taken on by the his in
[00:07:30] particular the mokaport city where they have
[00:07:34] targeted lubab and also they targeted alkhukha which is to
[00:07:38] the to the to the north the
[00:07:41] mocapot city. uh which was also recently taken
[00:07:45] by the his in their advance towards the most
[00:07:49] important and strategic coastal port city of muka,
[00:07:52] also the other air strikes also are taking place in other regions,
[00:07:56] but so far the hies continue to
[00:08:00] reach attacks against Saudi Arabia, but so far the recent
[00:08:04] declaration by the houthies during his pressa, he mentioned that they have attacked
[00:08:08] the king Khalid air base in khamis musheid and
[00:08:12] also at type they accuse Saudi Arabia the the continuation their
[00:08:16] attacks on their positions and they threaten that they will would
[00:08:19] further escalates and further attack the the
[00:08:23] Saudi oil facilities and also ports
[00:08:26] in in retaliation to what they say for the
[00:08:30] Saudi continue continued blockade on their areas and their seaports
[00:08:34] and also we are witnessing also the
[00:08:37] the the the continuation the international
[00:08:41] internationally recognized government. forces uh advanced
[00:08:44] towards the areas under the control thehies, the
[00:08:48] recent which
[00:08:48] of was their advance towards the uh the region
[00:08:52] the district of shamayatin.
[00:08:56] Iran's media reports that two fishing boats were targeted a drone attack off the
[00:09:00] country's southern coast, leaving number of fishermen missing. meanwhile Iran's revolutionary
[00:09:04] guard says an oil tanker exploded and caught fire after hitting mines in
[00:09:08] prohibited areas in the state of hormos, but the US military
[00:09:11] disputes that... claim saying that the Panama flagged vessel was hit
[00:09:15] by an Iranian missile last month and is struck again by a drone
[00:09:19] while sitting in waters off the coast of oman. the
[00:09:23] world's most important oil shipping lane has been mostly shut down
[00:09:26] since the start the war, pushing energy prices to their highest
[00:09:30] levels in recent years. whereas atami has the latest from the Iranian
[00:09:34] capital. conflicting narratives continue
[00:09:38] since this war started, we have heard so many conflicting.
[00:09:42] narratives from Iran and the United States, basically now the United
[00:09:46] States Trump himself is saying that the straight has been
[00:09:50] cleared of minds, but the IRGC says that this trade
[00:09:54] is not cleared of minds, and the latest
[00:09:57] statement by IRGC says that vessel, this is
[00:10:01] algaya vessel, a panamanian flagged
[00:10:04] tanker hit a naval mine in the
[00:10:08] southern corridor the straight of horm, we know this southern corridor.
[00:10:13] has
[00:10:14] been a bone of contention between Iran and the United States,
[00:10:17] Iran does not approve of this southern lane that has been
[00:10:21] designated by Oman and the United States. so the
[00:10:25] IRGC says that that vessel hit a mine over there,
[00:10:29] but the sendcom, the US military says
[00:10:32] that the reason for the attack,
[00:10:36] mean the attack was due to a drone a drone, an iranian drone
[00:10:40] hitting this vessel, not a naval mine.
[00:10:44] separately, Iran has reported attack on
[00:10:47] fishing boats, civilian fishing boats off the port
[00:10:51] of Kargan, this is a port along the... the
[00:10:55] eastern uh coast of
[00:10:59] Iran the straight Formus. says several fishermen have gone missing as result of
[00:11:03] that attack which Iranian media has attributed to the
[00:11:07] United States. And we have heard on so many
[00:11:10] occasions, Iranian officials reporting civilian
[00:11:13] casualties as result of US air
[00:11:16] strikes. The the last major one happened earlier this
[00:11:20] month when a US strike according to Iranians hit
[00:11:24] a wedding. in the city of Kuhastak
[00:11:27] along the straight of
[00:11:29] horm. Turkish president, the
[00:11:33] one says Ankara is stepping up its role addressing challenges facing the
[00:11:37] region and the wider Muslim world, pointing to rising tensions in the
[00:11:41] gulf region. He says
[00:11:42] Turkey is recent defense initiative with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sends a
[00:11:46] strong message of greater regional
[00:11:47] cooperation. For
[00:11:51] years we have said the world is bigger than five. continue to
[00:11:55] say so, but we did not stop there. we also said there a
[00:11:59] more just world is possible. how is it possible? we are currently
[00:12:03] following what is happening in the straight of horm, and it's not just situation
[00:12:07] in the straight of horm. as you look around, there are serious problems in
[00:12:11] many parts the gulf, and where are the bottle necks caused by these
[00:12:14] problems? the muslim world. as turkia, we say that we want the
[00:12:18] muslim world to overcome these difficulties as soon as possible, and to
[00:12:22] help overcome them, has now stepped up. role in the region
[00:12:26] and will continue to do so, we cannot take this lightly because expectations
[00:12:30] from Turkey are very high. remember why we took the step regarding the
[00:12:34] defense pact in Riad and Mecca. Saudi Arabia,
[00:12:37] Pakistan and Turkey came together and took a
[00:12:40] step. The purpose of this step is for these three countries to come
[00:12:44] together and God willing send a signal from here to the Muslim
[00:12:48] world. There are positive developments and we will achieve this as
[00:12:52] well. To Gaza now where. overnight drone strikes
[00:12:55] and sniper fire half killed at least one person across Gaza City in the northern
[00:12:59] camps, officials reported that a pre-dawn drone strike hit Gaza
[00:13:03] city leaving two people wounded on Monday
[00:13:06] separate series of strikes killed a senior hamas military commander in
[00:13:10] northern Gaza. Gaza's health ministry says Israely attack since the
[00:13:14] seasfire took effect in October last year, have killed more than
[00:13:17] 1,370
[00:13:19] Palestinians. Former Columbia University student
[00:13:23] and pro Palestinian activist. Mahmoud Khalil has filed a lawsuit against
[00:13:27] the university and one of its teams, allegging discrimination against
[00:13:30] Palestinian students. Khalil was arrested by immigration agents in March
[00:13:34] of 2025 after taking part in protests against
[00:13:38] Israel's war on Gaza. He was detained
[00:13:41] for 104 days. Khalil accuses Colombia of laying the
[00:13:44] ground work for the Trump administration to target him. We
[00:13:48] are suing because no students, regardless their
[00:13:51] background should go through. the
[00:13:55] hell that Colombia put us through over all these
[00:13:58] years. A year and a half since my unlawful detention, Colombia has not
[00:14:02] reached out one time to offer any support to me.
[00:14:06] On the contrary, they barred me from
[00:14:09] campus, the only time they emailed us was actually to
[00:14:13] ask us to leave Colombia Housing. It is time to
[00:14:17] hold those who discriminate against Palestinians
[00:14:20] accountable.
[00:14:26] "Turkey and Somalia have developed a strategic partnership, bringing together security,
[00:14:30] defense, humanitarian assistance, trade and energy. For more than
[00:14:34] decade, Ankara has supported Somalia's efforts to reinforce its security and
[00:14:38] estate capacity. Let's take closer look at that.
[00:14:42] In 2011, the then prime minister, Richard Typ
[00:14:45] Erdogan, visited Mogadishu during devastating drought
[00:14:49] and humanitarian crisis. Ankara subsequently
[00:14:53] expanded its humanitarian and development assistance while also
[00:14:57] deepening political and economic ties. Since
[00:15:00] 2013, Turkey has also played a facilitating
[00:15:04] role in talks between Somalia and the Somaliland
[00:15:08] administrations. Turkey supports the
[00:15:11] development of Somalia's security institutions through military
[00:15:15] training, capacity building and defense cooperation.
[00:15:19] The turksom military training facility opened in September
[00:15:23] 2017, providing. training to Somalia's armed
[00:15:26] forces. In February 2024, Turkey in
[00:15:30] Somalia signed a Defense and Economic Cooperation framework
[00:15:33] agreement, boosting bilateral cooperation in security and defense.
[00:15:38] Trade between Turkey and Somalia covers a wide range of products,
[00:15:42] including food, machinery, construction materials,
[00:15:46] pharmaceuticals and other manufactured goods. Turkish companies are
[00:15:50] also active in areas including construction, infrastructure,
[00:15:54] logistics and services. In March 2024,
[00:15:57] Turkey and Somalia signed agreements establishing a framework for
[00:16:01] cooperation in oil and natural
[00:16:03] gas. In 2024, Turkey
[00:16:07] petroleum and the Somali petroleum authority signed an agreement for
[00:16:11] offshore oil and gas exploration and production. The following
[00:16:15] year, hydrocarbon exploration and production onshore
[00:16:19] were added to the agreement. In January, Turkey and Somalia signed a
[00:16:22] protocol aimed at strengthening economic and commercial
[00:16:26] cooperation. Now, Russia and Ukraine
[00:16:29] exchanges strikes overnight targeting critical infrastructure on both sides. A
[00:16:33] Russian drone attack killed one person and knocked out power in parts of Zapurit.
[00:16:39] the mayor of Ukraine's capital says a drone hit a petrol
[00:16:42] station in the in Keeve early on Tuesday injuring one
[00:16:46] person in the Black Sea. vessels carrying military supplies to Ukraine were
[00:16:50] hit while port infrastructure in Odessa also came under
[00:16:53] attack. Russian authorities also reported attacks targeting
[00:16:57] e-commerce warehouse in Tagonrog and industrial
[00:17:01] facility in Samara region. The
[00:17:05] US Supreme Court has blocked President Donald Trump's attempt to tighten mail in
[00:17:09] voting rules, just to weeks before November's mid-term elections, the High Court
[00:17:12] rejected emergency request from the administration allowing states
[00:17:16] to keep their existing ballot systems. The white house wanted to block
[00:17:20] mail and ballots from voters not on lists provided in advance to
[00:17:24] the US postal service, but critics argue the president lacked the
[00:17:28] authority to rewrite election rules at the last minute.
[00:17:31] Nearly a third of US voters use male ballots making the decision
[00:17:35] important in the race for. control of
[00:17:37] congress now tech giant anthropic, the
[00:17:41] company behind the AI assistant cloud is calling for governments to consider
[00:17:45] mandatory regulations including a potential kill switch for AI
[00:17:48] systems. President Donald Trump says it is all a hawks and opposes
[00:17:52] the restrictions. The debate was triggered after former Open AI
[00:17:56] and enthropicast staff raised the alarm that AI is getting out of
[00:18:00] control and could gamble with our lives. Christinach
[00:18:04] reports. They assister.
[00:18:09] They can also dance, compete,
[00:18:13] even for the jobs that traditionally relied on the human
[00:18:17] touch, but the fast advancement of
[00:18:20] artificial intelligence is also raising safety
[00:18:24] question. I've worked in AI for 10 years and the whole time,
[00:18:28] every year I have been saying this technology is incredibly
[00:18:31] powerful,
[00:18:32] it is getting more powerful by the day, and the window to act when you
[00:18:36] have a small number of... that can build it because it's still very
[00:18:39] expensive is so narrow,
[00:18:41] it is few years, we are in this window now, the
[00:18:45] co-founder of Anthropic, one the largest tech companies in the
[00:18:48] world says law makers across the globe should
[00:18:52] introduce kill switch policy, that's when you can get a
[00:18:55] policy regime in place that can prevent accidents and it can
[00:18:59] prevent the technology spiraling out of control, tech titans including
[00:19:03] elon musk and open AI chat gpt creator,
[00:19:19] H200 chips to approved customers in China on the
[00:19:23] condition that Washington receives a
[00:19:25] 25% cut the revenue he's calling the
[00:19:29] safety warnings a hoax saying the development of AI
[00:19:33] and data centers is bigger than oil the AI
[00:19:37] debate. was sparked last week after anthropic AI
[00:19:40] researcher quit and then posted viral
[00:19:44] warning that AI could wipe out humanity within the
[00:19:48] next decade. we really are on the cusp of recursive self-improvement, as it's
[00:19:52] called in AI, where AI is used to train new AI,
[00:19:56] cutting the human out entirely, like
[00:19:57] robot doesn't have to kick in your door
[00:19:59] and shoot you. it has to simply destroy the systems that keep us alive in modern
[00:20:03] society. so imagine that all of those systems go down simultaneous.
[00:20:08] right, that's a mass casualty event, some hollywood movies such as
[00:20:12] irobot and the terminator show machines turning
[00:20:16] against us humans, of
[00:20:19] course that's cinematic fiction, but it
[00:20:23] raises very real questions, will AI safety
[00:20:26] and regulations be enough to avert the risk it
[00:20:30] already poses to
[00:20:32] people. trt
[00:20:35] world. is capital, people have
[00:20:39] taken to the streets as parliament opens its doors, the rally targets a
[00:20:42] proposed constitutional change that could let president
[00:20:46] felix Shikasi run for a third term. Osper
[00:20:50] Harry has the story: in Democratic Republic of
[00:20:53] Congo, in recent months, there is debate
[00:20:57] about the constitutional change, and then in
[00:21:01] Democratic Republic of Congo, President Chisekedi
[00:21:04] the country has stated that,
[00:21:08] if Congolese people allows him to run for a
[00:21:12] third term, he might not exclude that
[00:21:15] possibility, and after his announcements, there are
[00:21:18] terms in Democratic Republic of Congo,
[00:21:22] especially opposition leaders are calling
[00:21:25] Congolese people to go into the street to show
[00:21:29] their opposition or to show their protest against
[00:21:33] the possibility the President of Democratic
[00:21:37] Republic of Congo to run for the third term, while
[00:21:41] Constitution of Democratic Republic of Congo allows
[00:21:45] only two terms or two 10 years for
[00:21:48] President. who might be in charge of ruling
[00:21:52] of democratic republic of Congo, this
[00:21:55] week, opposition leaders are calling for
[00:21:59] populations especially in all the country and in
[00:22:02] Kinshasa to go into the streets,
[00:22:06] while this time
[00:22:07] it is the start of parliament recession,
[00:22:11] and many believe that the matter of constitutional
[00:22:15] change might be at the center of discussions
[00:22:19] and
[00:22:43] and now let's take a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the
[00:22:47] world, funerals have been held for 20% four children killed
[00:22:50] in fire in the city of bukavu in the Democratic Republic the
[00:22:54] Congo last Thursday. Officials say the fire started near a
[00:22:58] school, but quickly reached the building where lessons were
[00:23:01] underway. Some children tried escape by jumping from higher
[00:23:05] floors, while others were trampled as they tried to
[00:23:08] flee from the flames. More than 500 houses in the vicinity also
[00:23:12] burned down. Dozens of firefighters in Spain
[00:23:16] are battling a wildfire that broke out on Monday. emergency
[00:23:20] crews have been conducting ground and air operations to contain the flames,
[00:23:24] elsewhere in Spain, firefighters are still battling wild fires in Grand
[00:23:28] Canaria and the province of Malaga that injured three people and
[00:23:31] prompted the evacuation of 50 residents.
[00:23:35] Flights at Italy's Katania airport have been suspended again as
[00:23:39] Mount Etna continues to spew volcanic
[00:23:43] ash. The aviation alert has been raised from orange to red
[00:23:47] after around four. thousand meters
[00:23:51] and after after ash cloud rose around 4000
[00:23:54] meters and began drifting south posing a serious risk to
[00:23:58] aircraft. Etna is Europe's most active volcano
[00:24:02] and regularly disrupts flights from Katania, but unusually heavy
[00:24:06] ash emissions this summer have caused repeated disruptions for
[00:24:10] thousands of
[00:24:10] travelers.
[00:24:14] Okay, now Africa's biggest ever share sale has opened to investors in
[00:24:18] Logos with the... Dangoat refinery asking ordinary Nigerians to
[00:24:22] get behind its fundraising drive. There are already signs of a strong
[00:24:26] demand with more people expected to apply then there are shares
[00:24:30] available. Hillary Nuruka has the story. I
[00:24:33] making history today. The Dangote refinery IPO has opened for subscription
[00:24:37] on the Nigerian exchange, putting one of Africa's biggest
[00:24:41] industrial projects directly in the hands of public market
[00:24:44] investors. The offer is for 4.1 billion shares at
[00:24:48] 525 each. That's 40 cents,
[00:24:52] potentially raising about $1.6 billion dollars.
[00:24:56] At that price, the refinery is being valued at roughly $48
[00:24:59] billion dollars, but at last week's signing ceremony,
[00:25:03] aliko Dangote said the IPO is about more than raising
[00:25:07] money to double its capacity. What we are trying to do is to make sure
[00:25:10] majority of all all these, my our
[00:25:14] drivers, our cooks,
[00:25:16] our servants,
[00:25:20] managers, everybody, they will have an opportunity to
[00:25:24] have a stake in this refinery, and sure
[00:25:27] enough, retail investors have flauded investment portals, leading
[00:25:31] to the crash of no fewer than two investment apps. the
[00:25:35] Nigerian Exchange temporarily posted on X just hours after the
[00:25:39] IPO opened that about 400,00 people had subscribed
[00:25:43] to billion dollars worth of equity. Even before the IPO
[00:25:47] opened for subscription, the Nigerian stock market. witnessed
[00:25:50] bearon with investors pulling their money out of other
[00:25:54] equities waiting to put it in the
[00:25:56] IPO. Before my messages could
[00:26:00] land uh... in their
[00:26:03] destinations to some these clients, lot them had already
[00:26:06] peltering has started peltering our accounts with
[00:26:10] payments,
[00:26:11] you know, they are already dumping money, paying you
[00:26:15] know to uh take part in the
[00:26:19] IPO. African market leaders were well represented at the
[00:26:23] IPO offer presentation, showing how connected to the
[00:26:26] refinary they are. This is Africa's wealth, and what
[00:26:30] I mean is that we as Africans need to roll up our sleeves to make sure that we
[00:26:34] actually release the value, that is
[00:26:38] African resources. Dangoti has become a security
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[00:32:56] never far from the headlines, but what did this year's brick summit
[00:32:59] achieve and
[00:33:00] can the block be viable counterweight to
[00:33:03] the west? I'm Hasim Seaker and this is today's
[00:33:06] newsmate.
[00:33:23] Our bricks leaders met in New Delhi with wars, sanctions and
[00:33:27] tensions between the world's major powers, testing the group's
[00:33:30] unity. With 11 members now representing almost half the
[00:33:34] world's population, Brick says it wants a greater voice for the
[00:33:38] global south and less dependence on western
[00:33:41] institutions. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, They
[00:33:45] must be rule shapers, not rule takers,
[00:33:48] but can this increasingly powerful and increasingly diverse
[00:33:51] block actually agree on what that new world should look
[00:33:55] like? Here's a look: breaks was created
[00:33:59] to give emerging economy's greater influence a global
[00:34:03] system dominated by western powers.
[00:34:07] 20 years later, it has 11 members, representing nearly
[00:34:11] half the world's population and around 40% of global GDP.
[00:34:16] but New Delhi was about more than showcasing the block's growing
[00:34:19] reach. This was its first summit since the war on Iran
[00:34:23] reshaped relations between some of its own members,
[00:34:27] bringing those divisions to the same table and raising difficult
[00:34:31] question. How much common ground survives when the
[00:34:34] crisis is inside the room? The broader ambition remains
[00:34:38] unchanged. Leaders won a greater role for emerging economies in
[00:34:42] global decision making and a shift.
[00:35:15] bricks foreign ministers failed to agree a joint statement at
[00:35:19] differences over the war. new delhi brought the issue
[00:35:23] directly into the summit. Iranian presidentian met
[00:35:27] abu dhabi crown prince sheikh halid bin mohammed bin
[00:35:30] zait in the highest level known face to face meeting
[00:35:33] between Iran and the uae since the war began.
[00:35:37] beyond that meeting bricks still had to find a common position on
[00:35:41] how the war has been fought.
[00:36:15] restraint in the Middle East and raised concern over attacks on civilian
[00:36:19] infrastructure and nuclear facilities, but it did not
[00:36:22] name the US, Israel, Iran or the gulf
[00:36:25] states. Last year's Greeks declaration had directly
[00:36:29] condemned US and Israeli attacks on Iran. This year
[00:36:33] agreement came with much less specific language. On
[00:36:36] Palestine, Bricks was much more direct. It opposed the first
[00:36:40] displacement of Palestinians, called for an end to Israel's war in
[00:36:44] Gaza, demanded unhindered humanitarian excess and backed
[00:36:48] full UN membership for Palestine. There was also
[00:36:51] agreement over economic pressure. The declaration criticized
[00:36:55] unilateral tariffs and opposed. sanctions imposed without UN
[00:36:59] security council authorization.
[00:37:01] what is message? the message is that we
[00:37:05] stand together. bricks countries, most the bricks countries do
[00:37:09] not accept the sanctions imposed by the west either
[00:37:12] on say Iran or on the on Russia.
[00:37:16] so they pursue a slightly different kind of policy and they also demand
[00:37:20] what you call multilateral reform. that push for reform has been at the heart of
[00:37:24] bricks from the start, giving emerging. economies a
[00:37:28] greater say in institutions still dominated by established
[00:37:32] powers. two decades on, bricks has become too large to
[00:37:36] ignore and too diverse to move easily in one
[00:37:38] direction. new delhi showed both sides of that
[00:37:42] equation. its global influence is growing, but its
[00:37:46] collective power still depends on how far its members are
[00:37:50] willing to move together. we're joining me now
[00:37:54] to talk more about this from Moscow. we have founder and CE of
[00:37:58] bricks plus analytics
[00:38:00] yaroslav from Boston, director
[00:38:03] of bricks lab at the MIT Center for International
[00:38:07] Studies, Michela Papa, and joining us from Washington,
[00:38:10] director the Quincy Institute's Global South program,
[00:38:14] Sadang Shidore, good to have you all with us,
[00:38:17] so uh, Sadang, let me start with you then, what for you were
[00:38:21] the main takeaways of this brick
[00:38:24] summit? the way i would say
[00:38:28] it is that bricks dodged a bullet
[00:38:31] because it's come under some stress over the last year and a
[00:38:35] half, ever since is expansion, we
[00:38:39] have seen some troubles rocking its boat, and
[00:38:43] most them haveen coming from the security side of bricks, which of course is
[00:38:46] not the way bricks originally started for the
[00:38:49] most part, it started mainly as economic development
[00:38:53] oriented club with some global order
[00:38:56] goals of. but what has happened over time is
[00:39:00] that security matters have caught up with it, the world has
[00:39:03] changed, the world is at war in many ways today,
[00:39:07] in ways it wasn't 15 years ago, and new
[00:39:11] members have arrived within bricks at about the same
[00:39:14] time, so the two factors have combined in ways that have
[00:39:18] stressed the organization, we have had some troubles issuing joint statements
[00:39:22] of late over disputes
[00:39:26] between African. members also recently of
[00:39:30] course the war in the middle east with the UAE and
[00:39:33] Iran at logger heads and both them are new members, so there
[00:39:37] was some concern that there would be troubles in issuing the joint
[00:39:41] statement, but the leaders declaration was issued, so that
[00:39:44] was that was victory, the price for that victory though was
[00:39:47] that the relevant paragraph on the middle east war was very water
[00:39:51] down, was probably the best that could have been achieved under the
[00:39:55] circumstances '
[00:39:58] "and I think Bricks is essentially
[00:40:02] closed ranks and put a
[00:40:05] show of unity, everybody that was
[00:40:09] expected to come or less came, and so I
[00:40:12] think the the task now for bricks is really to kind of take
[00:40:16] a deep breath and work out some
[00:40:20] these issues that they should not from their
[00:40:23] perspective paralyze the organization."
[00:40:27] because there's a lot of work to do in terms the way they have
[00:40:31] achieved and they have set out lot of goals and they have achieved some
[00:40:34] goals, but there's a lot more to
[00:40:37] do, so it's really sort of
[00:40:40] looking within and figuring out how
[00:40:43] to make this expansion work in the coming
[00:40:47] years. all right, let's get Michelle's take on on this
[00:40:51] and as well the
[00:40:53] the the point that was made there by Sareng on the the final
[00:40:56] statement, that was made that was kind of wated down as he and others have
[00:41:00] observed, when we look at that final statement, does it look like to
[00:41:04] you like some the issues were just kind of paper it over and
[00:41:07] and
[00:41:08] you know not wanting to ruffle feathers at this
[00:41:10] point? this is a question of
[00:41:14] expectation, so for example when we think about India's
[00:41:17] chairships, India was the one that paved the way for the new development
[00:41:21] bank which was the major success story for bricks as
[00:41:24] institution where each member contributed significant.
[00:41:28] so this situation of current summit is not one
[00:41:31] where you have like one huge legacy project or major
[00:41:35] announcement that there is cross border payments initiative up and
[00:41:40] what you have uh now is very many different initiatives,
[00:41:44] lot of added it issues, so uh, this shows
[00:41:48] not only that the countries manage to reach
[00:41:52] consensus, but also have belief in bricks to keep
[00:41:56] adding issues to the bricks agenda. one thing that I
[00:41:59] would um emphasize is the effort
[00:42:03] to think about industrial development, to look at global
[00:42:07] value chains and action plan on that, and also growing
[00:42:11] momentum on WTO and actually
[00:42:14] support the new members in joining
[00:42:18] WTO, so uh these are some the
[00:42:21] high-level uh takeaways, but India had very difficult
[00:42:25] situation, and it was major accomplishment even to
[00:42:29] have an outcome, especially when we think about what happened
[00:42:33] during the foreign ministers meeting several months earlier, and
[00:42:37] how difficult it was to reach any consensus.
[00:42:40] Yaroslav Lisovolik, the point was made earlier there
[00:42:44] that bricks was initially set up as economic
[00:42:48] group, so with that in mind, can bricks be an alternative
[00:42:52] to to reshape the world order rather than follow
[00:42:55] it? I think it
[00:42:59] can, it needs to do lot more,
[00:43:03] certainly in sphere such as trade, um, I
[00:43:07] think Michaela has rightly pointed out that, um
[00:43:11] on on the trade side we're starting to see more of momentum in terms
[00:43:15] the discussions within bricks, but trade is
[00:43:18] precisely the area where bricks is experiencing the most
[00:43:22] pressure, we've seen unprecedented pressure in terms of
[00:43:25] protectionism in terms the rhetoric um coming from the US
[00:43:29] visa v bricks and so there needs to be a more coordinated
[00:43:32] response
[00:43:33] obviously on the trade side coming from bricks
[00:43:37] um so there are some there have... in some discussions
[00:43:41] including a an
[00:43:44] extraordinary summit that has taken place um last
[00:43:48] year during Brazil's presidency that was dedicated to
[00:43:52] partly to trade issues, but there needs to be something more
[00:43:56] systemic, including probably something like a
[00:43:59] platform for bricks within the WTO, within the
[00:44:03] World Trade Organization, there needs to
[00:44:06] be um a more systemic '
[00:44:10] dialogue and progression on key issues such
[00:44:14] as the payment system, um, we are
[00:44:17] seeing that the use of national currencies is
[00:44:20] certainly advancing and its share and total transactions
[00:44:24] is rising, but at the same time there is not yet a
[00:44:28] bricks payment system, and the final declaration
[00:44:32] did not clearly state that
[00:44:36] there are critical milestones that have been achieved. "It
[00:44:40] seems like there's still a need to forge consensus uh
[00:44:44] within bricks on some these key issues on the economic
[00:44:47] front and to advance at the expert level in terms
[00:44:51] the technicalities of how these platforms of
[00:44:54] cooperation will work. Sareng, global
[00:44:58] headlines uh were always going to be a talking point at this summit
[00:45:02] as they have been in summits in the past
[00:45:05] and obviously not the least of which is the US
[00:45:08] Iran war. "and when we see that Iran and the
[00:45:11] UAE who have been on opposite sides of this very
[00:45:15] dangerous regional confrontation, what do you make
[00:45:19] then the fact that Iran's president masoud beseshgan was
[00:45:23] meeting with the high-level uh UAE
[00:45:26] representative? what what what can we what can we get from
[00:45:29] that? yeah, I mean, I think that that
[00:45:33] gets us into the middle situation, which is very complicated one,
[00:45:36] and to be to be fair to bricks, it has..." very little
[00:45:40] leverage to resolve the issues,
[00:45:44] so the fact that the Iranian president came and the
[00:45:48] fact that the UAE sent a very senior figure in
[00:45:52] the government, is a positive sign,
[00:45:56] perhaps a little bit in terms of how they are interacting, but also
[00:45:59] perhaps more in terms the importance they give
[00:46:03] to this grouping that they have
[00:46:07] recently joined, they felt it was necessary to be
[00:46:11] present a high level, it also reflects their relations with
[00:46:14] India, the UAE in particular has very close
[00:46:18] relations with India, Iran to has good relations with
[00:46:22] India, so the fact that New Delhi was
[00:46:25] the venue was in many ways a safe space
[00:46:29] for them to come and engage, and the more they engage obviously
[00:46:33] bilaterally and otherwise, the
[00:46:37] sl they improved other chances for them understand. each other's position
[00:46:41] obviously that war in the middle east is very complicated, there are many actors
[00:46:44] involved, it's not entirely in the hands these two countries, but i
[00:46:48] think bricks in a sense provided that space where
[00:46:51] everybody... could come and that's that's significant a time when
[00:46:55] we have enormous fragmentation in the world, many
[00:46:59] states are talking at cross purposes, talking past each
[00:47:02] other, and it's really down to some these
[00:47:05] multilateralish fora to create spaces for
[00:47:09] engagement, and bricks, I think did that job in
[00:47:11] Delhi. Michela, people often look at the optics
[00:47:15] these things and and so when you see the the
[00:47:19] the the president of Iran uh meeting... with all those other
[00:47:23] leaders, does the fact that this took place under the bricks
[00:47:26] umbrella tell us something more about what bricks is
[00:47:30] becoming not just economic group but diplomatic
[00:47:33] space? i would actually
[00:47:36] emphasize india, china meeting as the major
[00:47:40] diplomatic meeting showing that bricks is diplomatic
[00:47:44] space, because there was so many years past since
[00:47:48] president she visited India and India and
[00:47:52] China... had a militarized conflict several years
[00:47:56] ago, so uh this shows that brings brings countries
[00:47:59] together that are in dispute or have had challenges
[00:48:03] and very strong differences on certain
[00:48:06] aspects. in terms of Iran i would look at
[00:48:09] bricks more like um as area where
[00:48:13] practical cooperation needs to be possible, not necessarily
[00:48:17] that countries need to get along the well, so for
[00:48:21] example the way we look... at Cuba and the United States in the
[00:48:24] United Nations, that's the same way we look at Iran being there with
[00:48:28] UAE in bricks, so almost like the min UN
[00:48:32] model approach to to the platform, so
[00:48:36] if at the end the day they can find some areas of mutual
[00:48:40] gains, find some functional cooperation that
[00:48:43] that helps their their country's development, then that's a good
[00:48:47] outcome. Yaroslav, we had the the Indian
[00:48:51] Prime Minister. Narendra Modi calling for for urgent
[00:48:55] reform for the global institutions such as
[00:48:59] the UN and the IMF, but did that mask some
[00:49:03] some deep divisions over how this should be achieved,
[00:49:06] because talk is one thing, but putting into action is is
[00:49:10] something entirely different. Well,
[00:49:14] I think on the reform of international institutions, with
[00:49:18] respect to the UN, there may be more divisions
[00:49:20] and Obviously this is more
[00:49:24] of a political issue in terms of which heavyweights from the global
[00:49:28] south make it into the UN security
[00:49:31] council etc. so this is one issue
[00:49:35] and obviously um there are
[00:49:39] you know to some degree there is some competition
[00:49:43] amongst the developing economies and in that in
[00:49:46] that part the agenda, but then with regard
[00:49:50] to issues such as WTO
[00:49:53] reforms such as the reform the IMF, I think there are
[00:49:57] less divisions, there is more unanimity with regard
[00:50:01] to the need for a more balanced
[00:50:05] distribution of voting rights within
[00:50:07] within the IMF,
[00:50:11] whereby the the lion share that the
[00:50:15] majority these voting shares are with the developed
[00:50:19] economies and certainly the current status quo and in terms
[00:50:22] the distribution of votes does not reflect
[00:50:26] the dynamics in the global economy
[00:50:29] whereby the share of developing economies, including the
[00:50:33] largest developing economies from bricks is
[00:50:37] rising, so on this front I think there's more
[00:50:40] unanimity, and with regard to the WTO, I think there is
[00:50:44] also the agreement that bricks
[00:50:47] economies are very much interested in having
[00:50:51] a fully functional WTO with a
[00:50:55] proper dispute settlement body, which is not really fully
[00:50:59] operational at this stage, to to a significant
[00:51:02] degree, I would actually argue that with
[00:51:06] globalization slowing down and having
[00:51:09] experiencing setbacks in the developed world,
[00:51:12] bricks plus with a proper
[00:51:16] ambitious trade agenda could become a
[00:51:19] platform for revitalize. globalization
[00:51:23] effort and liberalization of markets, certainly we're
[00:51:27] seeing that economies such as China um and
[00:51:31] even India are starting to become far more
[00:51:35] active and boosting south south trade and
[00:51:38] concluding regional and bilateral
[00:51:41] trade agreements. saran,
[00:51:45] can can bricks or should bricks challenge the west, because
[00:51:49] it is, it is powerful group, it's 40%.
[00:51:54] uh of the world and or is it better of
[00:51:57] simply trying to carve out its own sphere of
[00:52:00] influence? yeah, so let's take a step
[00:52:04] back and and and sort of see why bricks is
[00:52:08] even become so attractive and has taken off in recent
[00:52:12] years. there are two basic reasons for it. the first one is a
[00:52:16] sort of a a sense a static reason that the fact
[00:52:19] is that over the last several years we haven't seen the
[00:52:23] current global order deliver especially for the global south a range
[00:52:27] of issues. the point was made about trade and we are seeing
[00:52:31] actually retreat from open trade and the idea that trade in
[00:52:35] integration can work with some qualifiers obviously, but is
[00:52:39] a way forward, we are, we haven't seen very much on climate
[00:52:42] from the the powers the day, and on many
[00:52:46] other fronts, so these sort of failures that have now multiplied over
[00:52:50] time have made many states realize that
[00:52:53] alternative pathways, alternative clubs may
[00:52:56] be a place to to invest in, and
[00:53:00] the second reason, which is sort of somewhat different perhaps
[00:53:04] also is the fact that the
[00:53:07] US led order is undergoing a shift, we are
[00:53:11] seeing a decline of unipolarity, it hasn't
[00:53:15] ended, but it's certainly declined since the 90s. we are a
[00:53:19] different world from the 90s when it comes to the ability the United States
[00:53:22] to kejol, persuade,
[00:53:26] attract countries and align with its agendas for the
[00:53:30] world order, so when you have a future
[00:53:33] that is is uncertain because we nobody knows what's going to
[00:53:37] replace the shift, the US
[00:53:41] relative decline, we don't know what sort of order is going to come about in
[00:53:44] 10, 15, 20 years, so this uncertainty
[00:53:48] drives a imperative to hedge and multialigne
[00:53:52] even more, that's always been there in the global south by the way
[00:53:56] for decades, but this makes it even more urgent, and investing
[00:54:00] in bricks is again becomes attractive, so I don't see bricks as a
[00:54:04] coherent. alliance of any kind, it will never never be one
[00:54:07] obviously, even economically, so there's no question of
[00:54:11] its spheres of influence and so forth, those concepts will not
[00:54:15] apply, but the really interesting question is whether bricks can
[00:54:18] really set up alternative
[00:54:22] institutions or complementary institutions, I would say even, because
[00:54:26] many the countries in bricks from the global south are actually not
[00:54:29] anti-western, they don't want to overthrow the existing
[00:54:33] institutions, the existing... institutions are not delivering for them, so they want
[00:54:37] to invest in alternatives as complements and the
[00:54:40] question is if these complementary pathways they have taken on such as the
[00:54:44] new development bank, but perhaps a payment system,
[00:54:48] perhaps something on trade, it's interesting how much the consensus is on trade, but there hasn't
[00:54:52] been a lot of action on trade, although the feelings are strong
[00:54:56] on defending the WTO, so they can do something on trade, they can do something on
[00:55:00] these other areas of developmental spaces, then we'll
[00:55:04] start seeing a sort of a competition and in
[00:55:08] the ideal world it would be healthy competition with
[00:55:11] existing institutions that are legacies from the 50s or the
[00:55:15] 90s, and we'll all win
[00:55:18] in the end. so that's where at least the global
[00:55:22] south countries
[00:55:23] are sort of
[00:55:24] motivated by. obviously Russia and China have somewhat different
[00:55:27] goals, but there's enough common here, common agendas that all
[00:55:31] them can work together on some these points. you see this
[00:55:35] as moment of opportunity for uh bricks given all
[00:55:39] the the volatility in the world right now, particularly with regard
[00:55:43] to um events in the middle east and the point that sarang
[00:55:46] made there earlier about how this US
[00:55:50] lead world order seems to be on the
[00:55:52] decline. definitely see it as
[00:55:56] moment of opportunity, but i'm not seeing that bricks is actually
[00:56:00] optimizing the opportunities it has, so for example one big
[00:56:03] item on the agen was strategy for bricks economic
[00:56:07] partnership for 20 2030 and uh
[00:56:11] that has not been decided yet uh then uh bricks
[00:56:15] grain exchange cooperation was supposed to
[00:56:19] actually facilitate food trade and this this is in areas
[00:56:23] where um where bricks has major
[00:56:26] market power so that has not been developed
[00:56:30] and uh also the bricks does not really know what it
[00:56:34] wants. to do with so many issues, how to consolidate, there
[00:56:38] is a bit of a sense that there is some continuity and that there is
[00:56:42] awareness that there should be a continuity mechanism and and Troika and this
[00:56:46] is now focus, but uh what I see is
[00:56:50] all these opportunity, but it's not really being
[00:56:53] implemented, and um one area
[00:56:57] where I see that bricks could make major difference is
[00:57:01] a new regulation, so right now we see...
[00:57:05] artificial intelligence revolution and there is very little regulation
[00:57:09] on that and the future is changing very quickly, so what can
[00:57:13] not only how bricks can challenge the west, but what
[00:57:17] can... bricks do to innovate and how to manage
[00:57:20] this human AI relationship in the future? all right,
[00:57:24] um, give what's probably going to be the last word then to Yaroslav, how do you
[00:57:28] see this playing out then uh as bricks goes
[00:57:32] forward given the the the the growing economic power that it
[00:57:35] has, how can it use that
[00:57:37] power? well, i
[00:57:41] think they will certainly do their
[00:57:44] best to um further. um
[00:57:48] progress on key issues um that are
[00:57:52] crucial for bricks members and the broader global south, this
[00:57:56] is issues related to trade, this
[00:57:59] is the optionality in terms of payment
[00:58:02] systems and the use of national currencies, i think there
[00:58:06] is also um the um the need to
[00:58:10] forge ahead with greater
[00:58:12] institutionalization and
[00:58:15] certainly the some the mechanisms that are now
[00:58:19] being discussed, including the continuity mechanism like
[00:58:23] troika, that will be potentially
[00:58:26] significant contribution to greater
[00:58:29] efficiency of bricks in terms of its
[00:58:32] operations, and bricks will
[00:58:36] probably further expand as well, there was already a
[00:58:40] wave of expansion that we've witnessed, quite a significant
[00:58:44] one, currently we're on in in uh pause
[00:58:48] mode for some time, but then I think
[00:58:51] clearly given the fact that there are quite a lot of emerging
[00:58:55] markets that want to become part the bricks
[00:58:59] core, there will be further pressure for the bricks to
[00:59:03] further expand, and accordingly the share of bricks in the global
[00:59:06] economy will continue to rise,
[00:59:10] and that in turn will also further raise the
[00:59:14] ambition the block with respect to... forming um
[00:59:18] and changing the current status quo. all right, we'll have to leave it
[00:59:22] there.
[01:00:21] escalating, the Saudi led coalition has now strucked the
[01:00:24] ansarulahuthis in the tires province, and that's as the Iranback
[01:00:27] group pushes into government held areas, well Riad wants military
[01:00:31] assistance from the US, but reports claim that Washington is
[01:00:35] reluctant to offer anything beyond Intel. Tensions
[01:00:39] are also high in the straight of Homus where Iran's media say that Teran has
[01:00:43] downed an American drone. Iran's also accused the US of targeting
[01:00:47] It's fishing boats while the two countries have conflicting
[01:00:51] accounts about attack on an oil tanker. Tech
[01:00:55] giant Anthropic is calling for kill switch as AI technology grows ever
[01:00:59] more powerful.