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[00:02:27] a reminder of our top stories now, the fighting between Yemen's ansarullah huti
[00:02:31] group and Saudi back government is spreading. Saudi
[00:02:35] Arabia has issued brief alerts over possible attacks meanwhile three
[00:02:38] people, including two children have been killed in Saudi Let
[00:02:42] coalition air strikes in
[00:02:44] in Yemen's Thais province. That's
[00:02:45] of according to Huti Run
[00:02:49] of Media. And earlier
[00:02:50] of this month, President Donald Trump snub reports
[00:02:52] of the US facing ammunition crisis, but the Pentagon has
[00:02:56] admitted its weapons shortfall as
[00:02:58] a result of its war. on
[00:03:00] a Iran, this may cause issues for Washington's gulf allies who have previously
[00:03:04] expressed concerns over this
[00:03:06] development. Now Somalies have
[00:03:10] held rallies in various parts
[00:03:11] of the country to express their
[00:03:16] of of support for Turkia's continued commitment to Somalia. Turkish
[00:03:17] of flags filled the stands in Baidoa as
[00:03:21] Somalies gathered to thank Ankara for its longstanding backing
[00:03:24] of the country. The rally comes as Turkey and Somalia
[00:03:28] of deepened their strategic. ship with cooperation spanning
[00:03:32] defense, energy, fisheries, maritime security and
[00:03:36] space. in 2024, the two countries signed a 10-year
[00:03:39] in defense and economic agreement, while turkey has also expanded
[00:03:43] oil and gas exploration and began construction
[00:03:47] of a space port in
[00:03:48] Somalia. on Friday, Somali President Hasan
[00:03:52] Sheikh Mahmoud praised Turkia support during
[00:03:56] of a ceremony for Georgia troops returning from training in Turkey.
[00:03:59] Muhammad Kahie reports: Somalia and
[00:04:03] Turkey have developed
[00:04:05] a close and wide ranging partnership with cooperation
[00:04:08] extending from health care and education to
[00:04:11] security, infrastructure and humanitarian assistance.
[00:04:15] Over the past years, Turkey has significantly expanded its
[00:04:19] engagement in
[00:04:20] of Somalia becoming one
[00:04:21] of the country's key development and strategic partners in
[00:04:24] healthcare. Turkey supported institutions in Mudishu
[00:04:28] have provided medical treatment.
[00:04:30] of and special services to thousands of Somalis, including
[00:04:34] patients receiving essential care for chronic conditions such
[00:04:38] as kidney failure. Turkey has also invested heavily in
[00:04:41] education and
[00:04:43] of training, of foreign scholarships
[00:04:45] and supporting programs that provide Somali students and
[00:04:48] professionals with opportunities to study and develop new
[00:04:52] skills. Security is another major pillar
[00:04:55] of the relationship. Turkey
[00:04:57] has supported the training and development of Somali security. process as the
[00:05:01] country works to strengthen its national
[00:05:02] of institutions and take greater responsibility for its
[00:05:06] security, the partnership also covers
[00:05:09] infrastructure, humanitarian assistance and economic development
[00:05:13] with Turkish institutions and companies involved in
[00:05:16] projects aimed at supporting Somalia's long-term
[00:05:19] growth. The cooperation has also attracted
[00:05:23] public support in different parts the country. In
[00:05:27] bidor, residents gathered curring Somali and Turkish flags
[00:05:31] expressing their appreciation for the relationship and Turkia's
[00:05:34] assistance to Somalia. And now here's closer
[00:05:38] look at the ties between the two countries.
[00:05:43] In 2011, the then prime minister, Richard Taip
[00:05:46] Erdogan, visited Mogadishu during devastating drought and
[00:05:50] humanitarian crisis. Ancora subsequently expanded
[00:05:54] its humanitarian and development assistance while also
[00:05:58] deepening political and economic ties. Since
[00:06:02] 2013, Turkey has also played a facilitating
[00:06:05] role in talks between Somalia and the Somaliland
[00:06:09] administrations. Turkey supports the
[00:06:12] development of Somalia's security institutions through military
[00:06:16] training, capacity building and defense cooperation.
[00:06:20] The Turksom military training facility opened in September
[00:06:24] 2017, providing training to Somalia's armed
[00:06:27] forces. In February 2024, Turkey and
[00:06:31] Somalia signed defense and economic cooperation framework agreement,
[00:06:35] boosting bilateral cooperation in security and
[00:06:38] defense. Trade between Turkey and Somalia covers a
[00:06:42] wide range of products, including food, machinery, construction
[00:06:46] materials, pharmaceuticals and other manufactured goods.
[00:06:50] Turkish companies are also active in areas including
[00:06:53] construction, infrastructure, logistics and services.
[00:06:57] In March 2024, Turkey and Somalia signed agreements
[00:07:00] establishing a framework for cooperation in oil and natural
[00:07:04] gas. In 2024, Turkey
[00:07:08] petroleum and the Somali petroleum authority signed an agreement.
[00:07:12] offshore oil and gas exploration and production. The following
[00:07:16] year, hydrocarbon exploration and production onshore
[00:07:20] were added to the agreement. In January, Turkia and Somalia signed a
[00:07:24] protocol aimed at strengthening economic and commercial
[00:07:27] cooperation. And for further analysis, joining me
[00:07:31] now is Emlimliolu. She joins me live from the Turkish
[00:07:34] Capital Ankara. She's a professor at the Social Sciences University of
[00:07:38] Ankara in their African studies department. Professor, great to have you.
[00:07:42] here with us on TRT World, so as we saw in the report there that the two
[00:07:46] countries enjoy a very strong relationship,
[00:07:50] but help us understand why is
[00:07:53] Somalia important to Turkey?
[00:07:56] well, thank you for having me. Somalia is actually important to
[00:08:00] Turkia for several reasons of course, and you mentioned
[00:08:04] about how relations have evolved, especially in the last 15
[00:08:07] years, I must say that the in the
[00:08:11] initial period... "there was a huge humanitarian concern,
[00:08:15] because we always say that, yes, when president Erdogan first
[00:08:19] visited the country in 2011, the country was in desperate
[00:08:23] need of humanitarian assistance, because most the angels had left the
[00:08:27] country, they were having their operations abroad, especially from
[00:08:30] Nairobi, Kenya, and then this
[00:08:34] humanitarian assistance actually quickly evolved into the economic
[00:08:37] domain, and as you have also mentioned, the Turkish companies have
[00:08:41] increased their op'. because the country unfortunately at that
[00:08:45] time was also a war thorn country and it was in need of
[00:08:49] infrastructural development, there was a huge infrastructure gap and
[00:08:53] turkish companies was actually ready to fill this gap and then
[00:08:57] they operated somalia's port and
[00:09:00] airport activities and so through those
[00:09:04] two different domains turkey actually developed a deep
[00:09:08] relationship with Somalia since especially 2011 but what
[00:09:11] began with humanitarian assistance expanded into different domains
[00:09:15] including education, health, security, defense
[00:09:19] and even maritime cooperation, energy, and now we talk about
[00:09:23] space cooperation. Somalia is also important for
[00:09:27] Turkey for another reason, because
[00:09:29] of its very unique geographical position, because
[00:09:32] you know the country is exceptionally located at the intersection
[00:09:36] of horn of Africa, the Gulf
[00:09:37] of Fadan and the Indian Ocean, very close to the Red Sea and the Babel
[00:09:41] Mandep straight. some the world's major maritime roots,
[00:09:45] so the developments in the country and in the wider region have implications
[00:09:49] well beyond Somalia itself, but I think I can wrap up by
[00:09:53] saying that Somalia is important to Turkey,
[00:09:57] because Turkey is also important to Somalia. Right, and
[00:10:00] obviously we saw pictures today, people taking to the streets
[00:10:04] celebrating the ties between the two countries supporting
[00:10:08] Ankara, but obviously we have to talk about the future here
[00:10:12] as well right, when it comes to the future the ties
[00:10:15] between the two countries, where do you see
[00:10:19] cooperation heading towards? well, there are
[00:10:22] of course several promising areas and some of those areas actually
[00:10:26] are in the existing ones, for for example the
[00:10:30] energy sector, because Turkey is involvement in Somalias
[00:10:34] offshore oil and gas sector is quickly
[00:10:37] evolving through an important long-term relationship
[00:10:41] and I think it has an important
[00:10:44] potential of sustainable economic benefits
[00:10:48] for Somalia as well including employment, infrastructure
[00:10:52] and and revenues as well. Another one is maritime. operation as I
[00:10:55] mentioned before because we always say that Turkey is involved in
[00:10:59] Somalia security sector and is highly involved in security
[00:11:03] sector reform and trained Somalian armed
[00:11:07] forces, but with the defense and economic cooperation
[00:11:10] agreement signed between
[00:11:11] the two countries early 2024, Turkey has
[00:11:15] security cooperation expanded into naval naval domain as
[00:11:19] well, so Turkey will actually help modernize
[00:11:23] and beal Somalian naval... forces as well, so this is also
[00:11:27] related with the defense and security cooperation, and another area is
[00:11:31] the technology, because we always talk, we started to talk about space
[00:11:35] cooperation, so here
[00:11:36] it is particularly important because what started in the
[00:11:39] humanitarian domain we see is that now reaching to point
[00:11:43] where the two countries are discussing cooperation in in one
[00:11:47] the most technically advanced sectors, so I know it's not an
[00:11:51] easy question to answer so because we could not anticipate. that the
[00:11:55] relations could quickly evolve in such a short period of time, mean in
[00:11:59] 15 years, started from the humanitarian domain, then into the
[00:12:03] economic domain, security cooperation, then quickly into the energy
[00:12:07] and space sector as well, but i see that it will become
[00:12:10] more diversified and more strategic.
[00:12:14] professor alm, thanks very much for joining us here on tRT world, i really appreciate
[00:12:18] your taking out the time, thank
[00:12:21] you, the turk world dialog
[00:12:25] panel series continues with its second edition ahead the OTS
[00:12:29] summit to be held in the Turkish Capital in October. Turkish head of
[00:12:33] communication
[00:12:34] has sent a video message to the panel in the Azerbaijan capital Baku
[00:12:38] with the message that Turkia will continue to work for regional and global
[00:12:42] peace while protecting the common interests the Turkick
[00:12:45] world.
[00:12:49] Today the international system faces multidimensional challenges such as
[00:12:53] depening crisis. geopolitical competition, fragile
[00:12:57] supply chains, energy and food security problems, climate
[00:13:00] change, irregular migration, cyber threats and
[00:13:04] disinformation. in such a period, the turkic world's acting with common
[00:13:08] sense and strong coordination is a consequence the responsibility we
[00:13:12] bear before history and the demands the times. the conditions we
[00:13:16] face make it imperative that we place our solidarity on firmer
[00:13:20] ground. in this respect, the organization of turkick states is the bearer
[00:13:23] of vision that's to regional outlook, increases
[00:13:27] connectivity, supports economic development and is open to international
[00:13:31] cooperation, the partnerships developed in many fields, from the
[00:13:35] transcaspian middle corridor to energy and transportation, from trade
[00:13:38] integration to the digital economy, are concrete indicators the
[00:13:42] great world. potential
[00:13:46] thousands possessed
[00:13:46] by of the Romaniansh turkic on Tuesday
[00:13:50] to protest an export ban on livestock imposed by the European Union.
[00:13:54] right Police clash with protesters with tier gas used to disperse the
[00:13:58] crowd. The farmers association in Romania slammed the export
[00:14:01] suspension as disproportionate, resulting in huge financial losses to
[00:14:05] them. Shardi Edwards Dasti
[00:14:07] reports.
[00:14:11] Anti-EU farmers in Romania have clashed with
[00:14:14] police. Security forces aimed tear gas squarely
[00:14:18] at the protesters. It marked one the largest
[00:14:21] agricultural protests in Romania this year.
[00:14:31] The anger is over an unresolved crisis in the country's
[00:14:34] livestock sector over restrictions on animal
[00:14:38] exports. Politicians should not longer be allowed
[00:14:41] to pass, we want to block the traffic to make them come and talk to
[00:14:45] us. In just two years, Romania has gone from
[00:14:49] being the European Union's largest exporter of live
[00:14:52] sheep to facing a complete. on exports to both
[00:14:56] EU member states and non EU markets. It comes
[00:15:00] after virus had been circulated undetected in
[00:15:03] Romania's livestock and sufficient guarantees for
[00:15:07] disease control were not provided. That's when the
[00:15:11] culling began. Number one, stop
[00:15:15] killing animals. They apply tests on six or seven sheep and then they
[00:15:18] kill thousands. Number two, reopen the exports. This
[00:15:22] is very important. This government should go away.
[00:15:37] to find a workable solution to allow exports to resume as soon
[00:15:41] as possible, but every day that goes by is
[00:15:45] another financial hit to farmers. we have
[00:15:49] very high expenses for taking care of animals. winter is
[00:15:53] coming, they need corn and hay, we can't sell
[00:15:56] anymore. how do we get earn money for
[00:15:59] living? we can no longer sell.
[00:16:02] it is very difficult, there is terrible drought and we are feeding now the
[00:16:05] animals with the food that we should. been saving over the
[00:16:08] winter, it's a disaster, there is severe drought and we
[00:16:12] don't have enough food for the animals, things are going from
[00:16:16] bad to worse, this summer the agricultural sector
[00:16:20] faced huge losses from severe and prolonged drout due
[00:16:24] to record breaking heat waves. the band should be lifted by
[00:16:27] 2027, but farmers worry by then
[00:16:31] business will be driven to the brink of bankrupcy.
[00:16:35] shady Edward Stashi, TRT.
[00:16:39] world tech giant enthropic, the company behind the AI assistant cloud
[00:16:43] is calling for governments to consider mandatory regulations including a
[00:16:46] potential kill switch for AI systems. President Donald Trump
[00:16:50] says it is all hoaks and opposes the restrictions.
[00:16:54] The debate was triggered after former AI and anthropic staff raised the
[00:16:58] alarm that AI is getting out of control and could gamble with our
[00:17:02] lives. Christina Simic has the
[00:17:04] story. They assist.
[00:17:09] They can also dance, compete,
[00:17:13] even for the jobs that traditionally relied on the human
[00:17:17] touch, but the fast advancement of
[00:17:20] artificial intelligence is also raising safety
[00:17:24] question. I've worked in AI for 10 years and the whole time,
[00:17:28] every year, I have been saying, this technology is incredibly
[00:17:32] powerful,
[00:17:32] it is getting more powerful by the day, and the window to act when you
[00:17:36] have a small number of... companies that can build it because it's still very
[00:17:39] expensive is so narrow, it is few years, we
[00:17:43] are
[00:17:43] in this window now, the co-founder of Anthropic, one the
[00:17:47] largest tech companies in the world says law makers across the
[00:17:51] globe should introduce kill switch
[00:17:54] policy, that's when you can get a policy regime in place that can
[00:17:58] prevent accidents and it can prevent the technology spiraling out of control
[00:18:02] tech titans including and open elon
[00:18:04] AI
[00:18:05] musk
[00:18:07] H200
[00:18:19] chips to approved customers in China on the
[00:18:23] condition that Washington receives a
[00:18:26] 25% cut the revenue he's calling the
[00:18:29] safety warnings a hoax saying the development of AI
[00:18:33] and data centers is bigger than oil the AI
[00:18:37] was sparked last week after anthropic AI
[00:18:41] researcher quit and then posted viral
[00:18:44] warning that AI could wipe out humanity within the
[00:18:48] next decade. we really are on the cusp of recursive self-improvement as it's called
[00:18:52] in AI where AI is used to train new AI cutting the
[00:18:56] human out entirely like robot doesn't have to kick in your door and shoot you,
[00:19:00] it has to simply destroy the systems that keep us alive in modern
[00:19:03] society. so imagine that all of those systems go down simultaneous.
[00:19:08] right, that's a mass casualty event, some hollywood movies such as
[00:19:12] irobot and the terminator show machines turning
[00:19:16] against us humans, come with me if you want to live, of
[00:19:19] course that's cinematic fiction, but it
[00:19:23] raises very real questions, will AI safety
[00:19:26] and regulations be enough to avert the risk it
[00:19:30] already poses to
[00:19:38] joins me now live from Salford in the United Kingdom, he is the chair of science communication
[00:19:41] and future media at university of Salford, great
[00:19:45] to
[00:19:45] have you here with us on theity world so you right before the show I asked chat GPT, cloud
[00:19:49] and Grock whether or not they think AI needs a kill
[00:19:53] switch and it seems there's consensus among these three apps
[00:19:57] that yes there should be some sort of shutdown
[00:20:00] capability, so my question to you Andy is if there is
[00:20:04] already consensus among the AI community.
[00:20:08] that uh this sort of capability needs to be introduced,
[00:20:11] why not do it already? why do we wait for a
[00:20:15] policy? well first thanks for having me on, i think it's a really
[00:20:19] complicated subject, but certainly one the challenges is what does the kill switch look
[00:20:22] like, and always with these questions is who has oversight on it, who has the
[00:20:26] capability to actually press that button, so it's really a conversation about
[00:20:30] global govern governance, coordination, collaboration, and that's the bit that
[00:20:34] we haven't quite figured out yet, yes there's a desire for... forms of
[00:20:38] technology to try to find ways to limit them if they become to dangerous, but what we
[00:20:41] haven't worked out yet is how to do that well, and what do you make of
[00:20:45] president Donald Trump trying to basically say
[00:20:49] that? that all of this is hoax? well, the first
[00:20:53] thing I would say is that we should always listen to employees working on
[00:20:56] technology and understand the perspective,
[00:20:59] and I think in this case, whilst it's important to take head, we don't have a systematic view
[00:21:03] of understanding that breadth of perspective, so we don't really know what employees think about the
[00:21:07] technology, other than these moments where somebody comes out and says something quite bold, so
[00:21:11] I think we do need to take into account these views, we need to understand them, I think
[00:21:15] the hoax is in not really clarifying what the risks are, so people imagine the risk
[00:21:18] is that somehow the... technology will run out of control and have some kind of
[00:21:22] independent will that would lead to humanity destruction. I think the more likely
[00:21:26] scenarios are humans using AI a way that can be destructive, so there are
[00:21:30] different levels of risks associated with it requiring different kinds of
[00:21:33] responses. Andy, how concerned are you about the future of
[00:21:36] AI? I'm very concerned. I think the the
[00:21:40] positive consequence of all this discussion is actually the governments around the world may find a
[00:21:44] way to make this AI's climate change moment where we recognize that
[00:21:48] it needs coordination, it needs. collaboration, it needs a global governance system, the
[00:21:52] risks are significant, I'm not worried about human extinction, I think the
[00:21:56] scientific community isn't worried about that, so independent scientists don't think that's
[00:22:00] a plausible scenario any stretch the imagination, but they do recognize
[00:22:04] the need for global coordination, and that's the bit that isn't helped by
[00:22:07] saying that somebody wins AI, the way we win AI is by having that
[00:22:11] global consensus around how to regulate it, and that's where we need to go.
[00:22:15] Right, and Andy, very quickly, before I let you go, so we have seen this
[00:22:19] debate. taking place about regulating AI in fact there is support within
[00:22:23] the community to do something of that sort, but
[00:22:26] i failed to understand how would regulations on AI look
[00:22:30] like? can you give us some examples? yeah, so one
[00:22:34] these suggestions is to have employee level monitoring, independent monitoring taking
[00:22:38] place within the company so that we understand actually what's taking place. at
[00:22:42] the moment, however, the real challenge is that there is still it is still being treated as a
[00:22:45] competition, so we talk about race taking place a bit like the space race the
[00:22:49] 60s. "we talk about this as being still a competitive situation when in fact
[00:22:53] we need to see it collaboratively, so making sure that there are independent
[00:22:57] authorities that are monitoring progress and regulation is critical
[00:23:01] to that, but so to is that individual capability to understand how
[00:23:05] to use it, and that's for a big priority is that people need to understand these
[00:23:08] potentials. fascinating insights and mia, thanks very much for joining us here on
[00:23:12] tier2 world,
[00:23:13] i really appreciate your taking out the
[00:23:14] time, and that's
[00:23:18] our news hour, but uh..." Before we leave, here's a sport update
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[00:30:14] Fresh exchanges of fire between the Houtis and the Saudi backed government in
[00:30:17] Yemen. The UN says more than hundred thousand people have been
[00:30:20] displaced. The leaders of Saudi Arabia
[00:30:24] and Egypt hold crisis talks in Cairo to address the widening conflict in the Middle
[00:30:28] East. Hello, welcome to TRT World Live from.
[00:30:32] with me, Aron also ahead on the program: two
[00:30:36] sailors are missing after another attack on shipping in the straight of hormos, the US
[00:30:40] has blamed Iran, Teran says the ship it mines
[00:30:43] and the top US law maker
[00:30:46] echoes President Trump's hoax claims about the dangers of
[00:30:49] AI and the risks of falling behind
[00:30:52] China.