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00:00:12Live from Singapore. This is BBC
00:00:17BBC News. Iran says it is in the the final stages of negotiations
00:00:21negotiations with Oman on a deal deal that would allow ships to pass
00:00:23pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Hormuz. Russia launches a devastating
00:00:27devastating attack on Kyiv, with with President Zelensky warning that
00:00:29that a lack of air defence missiles missiles is costing Ukrainian lives.
00:00:33lives. Left wing candidate Abdul Abdul El-Sayed wins the US Democratic
00:00:37Democratic primary for a key Senate Senate seat in Michigan, a result result that could have implications
00:00:41implications for the party's future future direction. Plus, Gianni Infantino
00:00:45Infantino will remain president of of Fifa after receiving the backing
00:00:48backing of senior executives but
00:00:50but sincerely apologises for errors errors made in his controversial
00:00:53controversial private investment
00:00:54investment plans.
00:01:05Hello and welcome to Newsday. There's renewed momentum to reopen
00:01:09reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as Tehran Tehran says it's close to finalising
00:01:12finalising a deal with Oman on a a new shipping route, saying it would
00:01:15would only go ahead if certain third third parties don't obstruct the
00:01:18the process. While the details have have not been made public, the Iranian
00:01:22Iranian foreign Ministry claimed claimed the deal will allow Iran Iran to retain control of the critical
00:01:25critical waterway. The US has yet yet to comment on the announcement,
00:01:29announcement, but previously said said Iranian control would be unacceptable.
00:01:32unacceptable. President Trump told told Fox News on Tuesday that Iran
00:01:34Iran had reached out to him requesting requesting talks and warned that
00:01:38that Tehran would face severe consequences consequences if negotiations failed.
00:01:41failed. He called me and said very
00:01:44very politely, please, can we talk? talk? Can we talk? They didn't want.
00:01:48want. And I said, yes, we can talk. talk. Let's get it done. Finally,
00:01:52Finally, let's get it done. This This should have been done by other
00:01:55other presidents for 50 years. You You know, you keep hearing 47, but but that's been for three years now.
00:01:59now. It's been over 50 years. Other Other presidents or other countries
00:02:02countries should have been able to to do this. And I did something that
00:02:05that I had to do because if they they had a nuclear weapon, this whole
00:02:09whole world would be a different different place. If they. Back out out again, are they done? Well, if
00:02:13if they back out again, they're going going to get hit really hard. You
00:02:16You know, they know that they understand understand that. Well, for more on
00:02:18on this, I'm joined by Jean Lucy Lucy Manning, senior research fellow fellow at the News Middle East Institute.
00:02:22Institute. Jean-Luc, good to have have you here in studio. We'll get get to President Trump and the US
00:02:26US in just a bit. But what's your your read on, on where we are with
00:02:29with this deal between Iran and Oman?
00:02:32Oman? Well, it's very small progress progress that we see. I mean, it's
00:02:36it's very similar to what we had
00:02:39had in June before the latest round
00:02:42round of escalation. There's a lot lot of unknown regarding the content
00:02:46content of the deal. As we heard
00:02:48heard the Iranians say that it will
00:02:50will ensure that they still control control the Strait. At the same time,
00:02:54time, the US has been very clear
00:02:57clear that it doesn't want Iran to
00:02:59to allow to control this. And that's that's not something that the Gulf
00:03:03Gulf states would also accept. So
00:03:05So very unclear. And again, not a
00:03:08a lot of details on the content. content. And how much, say does the
00:03:11the US have in these discussions? discussions? I mean they're not at
00:03:14at the table. So what we heard is
00:03:16is that the US has been told about
00:03:19about the details of the negotiations.
00:03:22negotiations. But officially the the US has been very careful not
00:03:25not to endorse this agreement so
00:03:27so far. And again, we hear very contradicting
00:03:33contradicting messages from Washington Washington that on the one hand the
00:03:36the US is open to negotiations. But
00:03:38But on the other hand, as mentioned
00:03:40mentioned during the latest speech
00:03:42speech from Donald Trump, the US
00:03:45US is still very, ready to go to
00:03:48to a military escalation again. So,
00:03:52So, again, we don't see any settlement
00:03:54settlement range when we look at
00:03:56at the details of both positions
00:03:59positions in the US or in Iran so so far. Yeah. So as we heard from
00:04:02from President Trump and as you were were alluding to, it comes with sort
00:04:06sort of the threat of force if they they don't get what they want. So
00:04:09So does it matter what Oman and Iran Iran agree together? There are still
00:04:12still other parties involved, the the US for one, but the other regional
00:04:15regional players also will have a a vested interest in the Strait of
00:04:18of Hormuz as well. Shipping companies companies as well. Well, I think
00:04:21think there are two, two points here.
00:04:24here. The third thing is that there
00:04:26there might be, let's say a short-term
00:04:30short-term arrangement, a settlement
00:04:32settlement where both sides accept
00:04:34accept temporarily at least until
00:04:36until the primary elections in the
00:04:39the US, to accept a modest deal which
00:04:42which would be more or less the memorandum memorandum of understanding that
00:04:45that we saw back in June. But on
00:04:48on the longer term, what we see is
00:04:50is two countries, the US and Iran,
00:04:54Iran, that, disagree on the most
00:04:56most significant issues with regards
00:04:58regards to the opening of the Strait Strait and who controls what, and
00:05:02and not even to talk about the nuclear
00:05:05nuclear issue, which has become almost almost a secondary topic because
00:05:09because it's almost impossible right right now to agree on the issue of
00:05:12of reopening the strait, that we we almost forget that the reason
00:05:16reason the US went to war was because
00:05:18because of the nuclear issue, and
00:05:21and that has been postponed indefinitely indefinitely right now. Yeah, it
00:05:23it does seem like there's a lot more more areas where they don't agree
00:05:26agree on than they do. So what are are you looking out for going forward forward then? These talks with Oman
00:05:30Oman and Iran, are we expecting them them to conclude soon? Well, it seems
00:05:34seems that from the announcements announcements that it's a matter
00:05:37matter of days. Again, I will be
00:05:41be closely looking if I want to understand
00:05:44understand and verify if that's a
00:05:47a breakthrough in the coming 24 hours.
00:05:50hours. About the details of who controls
00:05:52controls what. If this is an arrangement,
00:05:57arrangement, where Iran has a say
00:05:59say on which ship is able to navigate
00:06:01navigate through the strait, and and if there is a cost involved,
00:06:05involved, because that's also a detail
00:06:07detail that is unclear so far. One
00:06:10One thing also to look at is the
00:06:13the reaction from the Gulf states. states. So the UAE, Saudi Arabia
00:06:16Arabia that have been suffering for
00:06:18for months now, are they accepting
00:06:21accepting that, how do they react react and how do they convey their
00:06:25their position to the US, their biggest
00:06:26biggest partner? So these are elements
00:06:30elements that will eventually shape
00:06:33shape how this agreement is or not not a real breakthrough. Yeah. Jean-Luc,
00:06:36Jean-Luc, thanks as always for coming coming in and for giving us your your perspective. Jean Lucy Manning,
00:06:39Manning, senior research fellow at
00:06:41at the NUS Middle East Institute. Institute. Now, President Zelensky
00:06:44Zelensky says Ukraine's supplies supplies of air defence missiles missiles from abroad have dropped
00:06:48dropped threefold compared with the the same period last year. His statement
00:06:52statement comes after Russian strikes strikes killed at least 21 people people overnight, including 17 in
00:06:56in Kyiv in one of the deadliest attacks attacks this year. Ukraine correspondent
00:07:00correspondent Dan Johnson has more
00:07:01more from the capital. Kyiv hadn't
00:07:06hadn't seen a night like this for
00:07:08for weeks. A deadly wave of ballistic ballistic missiles that came with
00:07:12with little warning and no chance
00:07:15chance of interception. It wasn't wasn't just Kyiv, but this city felt
00:07:19felt the worst impact. Warehouses
00:07:21Warehouses seem to have been the the main target, but homes were also
00:07:24also hit. We had the third floor, floor, we had the roof. So another.
00:07:28another. Floor yeah, it was another another floor. On the edge of the
00:07:31the city. Anastasia is trying to
00:07:33to work out if there's anything left.
00:07:36left. It was so scary. I must say
00:07:39say this was my scariest night during
00:07:41during the five years. My scariest
00:07:43scariest night. At the nearby railway
00:07:45railway station. Seven warehouse warehouse workers and a child were
00:07:49were killed having been evacuated evacuated from their building when
00:07:51when the sirens sounded. There were were 28 ballistic missiles fired
00:07:54fired by Russia last night. None
00:07:56None of them intercepted by Ukrainian Ukrainian air defences. Is that because
00:08:00because they've run out of interceptors? interceptors? Is it because they're
00:08:02they're having to ration their supplies supplies so carefully, given the
00:08:06the shortage, Ukraine's president president called his military advisers
00:08:09advisers together and he was clear clear lives are being lost because
00:08:13because his country doesn't have
00:08:14have enough missile interceptors.
00:08:18interceptors. We recognised that that this is a major challenge. We
00:08:21We made it through a difficult winter,
00:08:23winter, but the reduction in supplies supplies became more noticeable with
00:08:26with each passing month. Today we
00:08:28we are facing a clear shortage. Saratov Saratov president welcome. It's so
00:08:31so nice to see you. Nice to see you. you. Also in Ukraine's capital, the
00:08:35the new British Defence Secretary Secretary bringing moral support
00:08:38support but no guarantees. We've We've been looking very closely at
00:08:42at Ukraine's requirements. We're We're working through a whole list
00:08:45list of those requirements where where the UK has the ability to provide.
00:08:49provide. We will and where we don't.
00:08:50don't. It's my job to mobilise the the international community to step
00:08:54step up. Another warehouse was ablaze
00:08:57ablaze south of Moscow last night. night. The next round of Ukraine's
00:09:01Ukraine's attacks on Russia's biggest biggest online retailer, the Wildberries
00:09:05Wildberries distribution network, network, has been under repeated repeated assault in recent weeks.
00:09:08weeks. Its workers have been killed.
00:09:13killed. So were seven Russian holidaymakers
00:09:15holidaymakers at this beach on Monday.
00:09:19Monday. Struck by a long range Ukrainian Ukrainian drone believed to have
00:09:22have been shot down the Kremlin claims
00:09:25claims its citizens are being deliberately deliberately targeted. The Ukrainians
00:09:29Ukrainians insist not. But as this
00:09:31this war ramps up, Vladimir Putin Putin shuffled his military leadership,
00:09:34leadership, announcing a new head head of drone forces to counter the
00:09:38the growing threat. It is, though
00:09:40though the people of Ukraine who who have been reminded that their
00:09:43their skies remain vulnerable. And And that's going to mean more nervous
00:09:47nervous nights ahead. Dan Johnson,
00:09:49Johnson, BBC News in Kyiv. Michigan's
00:09:51Michigan's left wing Democratic candidate candidate for the US Senate in November's
00:09:55November's mid-term elections, has has called for party unity after
00:09:58after his watershed victory over over a centrist in the primaries.
00:10:01primaries. Abdul El-Sayed said any any differences with his defeated
00:10:04defeated fellow Democrat Haley Stevens Stevens paled in comparison to what
00:10:07what unified them, and they should should now focus on defeating the
00:10:10the Republicans in the swing state. state. Well, for more, we can speak speak with Sidney Blumenthal, a former
00:10:14former senior adviser to president president Bill Clinton and long-time
00:10:17long-time Democratic political strategist, strategist, a Sidney, really good good to get your perspective on this
00:10:21this today, what's the key thing thing we should understand about
00:10:23about this win for El-Sayed? One
00:10:26One of the things that's been overlooked overlooked is how unique this election
00:10:29election is. Michigan is a state
00:10:32state with an incredibly large concentration
00:10:34concentration of Arab American voters
00:10:37voters in Dearborn, Michigan is the
00:10:39the only city in the United States
00:10:41States with an Arab majority. They
00:10:45They were key to the election of
00:10:47of Donald Trump in 2024. It's why
00:10:49why he flipped the state. It had
00:10:53had been a reliably Democratic constituency, constituency, but because of the
00:10:56the Gaza issue, Trump won the city
00:11:00city by a margin of plus 13 and flipped
00:11:03flipped the state by less than 1.5%.
00:11:081.5%. Now, El-Sayed, who is a very
00:11:11very unusual candidate, won the city
00:11:13city by a margin of plus 57. And
00:11:17And that's why he barely won the the nomination to be the candidate
00:11:21candidate for the US Senate from from Michigan. So you're saying with with these conditions, then that
00:11:25that this isn't perhaps representative representative of what we might see
00:11:27see in other in other sort of swing swing states or in other Democratic
00:11:31Democratic primaries. Not at all.
00:11:33all. This is, unique situation with
00:11:37with a very unusual candidate who
00:11:39who also happens to be incredibly
00:11:44incredibly talented and intelligent. intelligent. He's a Rhodes scholar.
00:11:47scholar. He's a doctor and he's attempting
00:11:49attempting to pivot now to the centre. centre. Yeah. And with that in mind,
00:11:53mind, then how does this sort of of set up the mid-terms from the
00:11:56the Democrats point of view? Well,
00:11:58Well, the Democrats have a very large
00:12:01large map to work with. Of states
00:12:04states to win the Senate. There are
00:12:06are many states that are in play.
00:12:09play. They need to win four seats.
00:12:12seats. And this is one of them. This
00:12:15This could be the key seat. If this
00:12:17this reverts to being a Democratic
00:12:20Democratic state in a year in which
00:12:23which Donald Trump is profoundly
00:12:26profoundly unpopular, the most unpopular unpopular president of our time.
00:12:30time. And the voters are mobilised
00:12:33mobilised and incentivised and enthusiastic
00:12:35enthusiastic to vote against him. him. Then they could elect El-Sayed
00:12:39El-Sayed in Michigan. Well, President President Trump was quick to weigh
00:12:41weigh in on this victory in the primary, primary, accusing al side of being
00:12:44being part of a wave of communists.
00:12:47communists. Yeah, that's not going going to work anywhere. No one pays
00:12:51pays any attention to that. People People have no idea what it means
00:12:53means at this point to be a communist.
00:12:57communist. El-sayed's positions are,
00:12:59are, for the most part, very indistinguishable
00:13:02indistinguishable from those of most most mainstream Democrats, despite
00:13:05despite the fact that he's seen as as less left wing. He's for universal
00:13:09universal health care as his farthest farthest out position in. Many Democrats
00:13:13Democrats are for that. And this
00:13:16this the Democratic Socialists of of America tag of which he is an
00:13:20an organisation of which he's not not a member, is going to be very
00:13:24very difficult to attach to him. him. And furthermore, the attacks
00:13:27attacks on him, particularly personally
00:13:31personally by Donald Trump, will
00:13:33will have the result of, incentivising
00:13:38incentivising the Democrats to turn
00:13:39turn out. And, it will incite their
00:13:44their enthusiasm. Sidney, we'll leave leave it there. But thanks very much much for your views on this. Sidney
00:13:47Sidney Blumenthal, former senior senior adviser to president Bill
00:13:50Bill Clinton and long-time Democratic Democratic political strategist.
00:13:53strategist. We'll be back with more more on News Day, including the activist
00:13:57activist whose hunger strike sparked sparked massive protests in India.
00:14:00India. He speaks to the BBC for the the first time since those protests
00:15:03Trump's plan to get the oil flowing flowing again, one that will pay
00:15:06pay off. Join us on Talking Business
00:15:08Business Weekly on BBC News. Live
00:15:14Live with BBC News for 26 days, Sonam Sonam Wangchuk went on a hunger strike
00:15:18strike in India in support of the the Cockroach Janta Party and thousands
00:15:21thousands of students as they demanded demanded change after the leaking
00:15:24leaking of crucial exam papers. His His hunger strike ended after he
00:15:27he received guarantees from India's India's government that there would
00:15:30would be changes to the country's country's exam system and protections
00:15:33protections for peaceful student student protesters who had been arrested.
00:15:36arrested. He's been speaking with with Rajini Vaidyanathan on the BBC's
00:15:39BBC's NewsHour programme. In his his first broadcast interview since
00:15:42since the protests ended, Rajini Rajini began by asking how much Prime
00:15:46Prime Minister Narendra Modi has has been weakened by the movement.
00:15:50movement. Terribly, terribly. I mean,
00:15:51mean, people can't even imagine what's
00:15:54what's happening now. Every part
00:15:57part of the country people are raising
00:15:59raising voice, not just generation
00:16:01generation Gen Z but Gen Alpha school school boys and girls are raising
00:16:05raising their school issues and getting
00:16:07getting them resolved. Remote places
00:16:10places to different states. People
00:16:13People are rising up to, remove these,
00:16:19these, injustices in the, employment
00:16:21employment systems, examination systems,
00:16:24systems, more in the education arena
00:16:25arena now, but actually it cuts across
00:16:29across various, fields. And you may
00:16:30may have heard yesterday in Bihar,
00:16:34Bihar, the ruling party lost two
00:16:36two of the three seats that had by
00:16:38by elections. So the entire atmosphere
00:16:40atmosphere in the country has switched. switched. And Prime Minister Modi
00:16:44Modi has always presented himself
00:16:46himself as India's strong man, hasn't
00:16:49hasn't he? He would possibly take
00:16:51take issue with the fact that this this has weakened his government.
00:16:54government. He still has a lot of of support. Why do you think this
00:16:58this particular wave of protests
00:17:00protests is different? There was
00:17:05was a sense of fear earlier. You
00:17:07You know, it was mostly dealing with with grown ups, middle aged people
00:17:11people who had too much to lose.
00:17:14lose. Businesses were scared of,
00:17:17of, raids by enforcement agencies agencies who would do randomly to
00:17:21to people who they had any issues issues with, who didn't agree to
00:17:23to who raised their voice. So all
00:17:26all grown ups were beaten into, fear.
00:17:31fear. So there was no voice. Almost.
00:17:34Almost. And this movement because
00:17:37because it, was by young people who
00:17:40who had hardly anything to lose Gen
00:17:42Gen Z or people like me who had already
00:17:45already faced all that one could
00:17:47could face, at the hands of the government
00:17:49government jail and raids by government government agencies, everything.
00:17:53everything. So we had nothing to to lose. We had no fear. And that's
00:17:56that's what spread across the country.
00:17:57country. And today people are raising
00:18:01raising voice and maybe, they feel
00:18:03feel and rightly so that they don't don't have that control. But I always
00:18:07always thought the best way to have,
00:18:10have, you know, control or power
00:18:13power is through love and, in return
00:18:17return love from the people by ensuring
00:18:20ensuring a just and, free, governance.
00:18:24governance. Hopefully they'll mend mend their ways this time it stopped
00:18:28stopped at education ministry, but, but, if this continues, I think the
00:18:32the younger generation and the people,
00:18:35people, may not stop at just education. education. You talk about the young
00:18:39young people not stopping education. education. We saw a lot of placards,
00:18:42placards, didn't we, at those protests protests calling for the Prime Minister
00:18:45Minister to step down as well. Do Do you still think he is the right
00:18:49right person to govern India? I would
00:18:52would give them the chance to mend
00:18:55mend their ways. I always believe
00:18:58believe in people realising their their mistakes and amending their
00:19:01their ways, so I would give them them that chance. But if it goes
00:19:04goes back to the ways that I suffered, suffered, you know, for the last
00:19:08last 2 or 3 years and if nothing
00:19:11nothing changes, then yes, people people have the right to say that
00:19:15that we don't accept this kind of
00:19:16of governance. We want a free and,
00:19:22and, just democratic governance in in this country. Myanmar's junta
00:19:26junta chief turned president, Min Min Aung Hlaing, is set to visit
00:19:28visit Thailand in an attempt to visit visit to end the country's international
00:19:32international isolation. Five years years after staging a coup that led
00:19:34led to a bloody civil war, Myanmar Myanmar has since been blocked from
00:19:38from attending meetings of the regional
00:19:40regional group Asean. But Thailand's Thailand's Prime Minister urged calibrated
00:19:44calibrated re-engagement with Myanmar Myanmar ahead of the meeting. Well,
00:19:47Well, for more we can speak with with Teittinen Pongsudhirak, a professor professor and senior fellow at the
00:19:51the Institute of Security and International International Studies at Chulalongkorn Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.
00:19:55Bangkok. Teittinen good to get your your thoughts today. Thailand's Prime
00:19:58Prime Minister has talked about a a calibrated re-engagement with Myanmar.
00:20:01Myanmar. Is that what we're
00:20:05seeing? That's what they say. And And first, I think the Prime Minister
00:20:08Minister is not an expert or a policy
00:20:12policy person in terms of foreign foreign policy. So he's kind of outsourced
00:20:15outsourced foreign policy to the the foreign minister. Csak Kate McGough McGough and that's, I think, where
00:20:19where it's coming from now. You know, know, you can call it whatever you
00:20:22you want calibrated re-engagement. re-engagement. What it is is it's
00:20:26it's kind of a bringing out Myanmar Myanmar into the Asean fold again
00:20:29again for Thailand that comes with with a lot of risk for Min Aung Hlaing.
00:20:32Hlaing. This is a kind of a coming
00:20:33coming out party. I mean he seized
00:20:36seized power in 2020 1st February. February. And after that that led
00:20:39led to a civil war. And the Civil Civil War was deadly and violent.
00:20:42violent. It killed more than 100,000 100,000 people. And, you know, there
00:20:46there was a national revolt. The The majority of Myanmar people, vast
00:20:49vast majority, don't support the the military. They're against Min
00:20:51Min Aung Hlaing. He came to power
00:20:54power after bogus elections in December, December, January. So he doesn't
00:20:58doesn't have legitimacy really. And And now Thailand is extending kind
00:21:01kind of a basis a platform for him. him. So for him it's all to be gained
00:21:04gained for Thailand. There's a lot lot of risks for Asean. Asean has
00:21:07has been divided over Myanmar. The The five-point consensus that has
00:21:11has barred from attending the Asean Asean summit. Now that is at risk
00:21:14risk now. And, you know, moving forward
00:21:16forward next year it will be ASEAN's ASEAN's 60th anniversary and Singapore
00:21:20Singapore will be the chair. This This is posing a lot of risks for
00:21:23for next year. If Min Aung Hlaing Hlaing comes, a lot of people will
00:21:25will not come to the meetings. Yeah. Yeah. There's also I mean you mentioned
00:21:28mentioned Asean. If we could just just talk a bit more about that and
00:21:31and how you think they might respond respond to this. As you know, the
00:21:33the international community more
00:21:36more widely, you know, NGOs as well, well, human rights groups, they will
00:21:39will also have something to say about about this. Well, you know, they
00:21:42they will have a lot to say because
00:21:44because at the end of it, fundamentally
00:21:48fundamentally this is an illegitimate illegitimate government. It has been
00:21:52been whitewashed by a sham election election in December, January. And And you know, if Thailand wants to
00:21:56to bite the bullet and be practical practical and pragmatic because Thailand
00:21:58Thailand has a long border with Myanmar,
00:22:01Myanmar, with drug trafficking, scam
00:22:04scam networks, river pollution, a a lot of issues. We have Myanmar.
00:22:07Myanmar. We also have some 5 million
00:22:09million people, like almost 10% of of the Myanmar population working working in Thailand. So Thailand
00:22:13Thailand has a lot at stake. I'm
00:22:14I'm just not sure inviting Min Aung
00:22:17Aung Hlaing and extending the red red carpet treatment like this will
00:22:20will achieve Thailand's objectives objectives because he seems to be
00:22:23be holding the upper hand here. Thailand Thailand has given him the upper
00:22:26upper hand because if you look at at the Aung San Suu Kyi, public display,
00:22:30display, for example, it was, cynical cynical and manipulative because,
00:22:33because, you know, he should have have shown he could have shown, much
00:22:36much earlier. She's not been seen seen for several years, that she's
00:22:39she's alive and well, but he waits. waits. He waited until the, you know,
00:22:43know, just days before he visited visited Thailand to show that she's
00:22:46she's around and she's alive and and well. So, I mean, he's full of
00:22:49of tricks and Thailand may be falling falling into one of his tricks. Well,
00:22:53Well, there has been also, you know, know, we have seen Min Aung Hlaing Hlaing also be greeted or visit with
00:22:57with Xi Jinping and also Narendra Narendra Modi as well. So there is
00:23:01is there are larger countries that that play also that seem to be lending
00:23:04lending him that legitimacy. Yeah. Yeah. Including Russia as well. I
00:23:07I mean, he has support, clear support
00:23:10support direct from Russia and China
00:23:12China all kinds of ways. Modi, reception
00:23:15reception of Min Aung Hlaing, I think think was, unnecessary really. I
00:23:19I mean, India, went, too soon, too
00:23:21too fast to get him to receive him.
00:23:23him. But yes, he has that kind of
00:23:26of support, especially from China. China. China has basically intervened
00:23:29intervened and pulling back the resistance, resistance, the ethnic armies from
00:23:33from engaging and giving Min Aung Aung Hlaing a lifeline. And that
00:23:36that lifeline has been built into into a momentum after the sham elections
00:23:39elections now. But that doesn't mean, mean, you know, the Asean should
00:23:42should really abandon its five-point five-point consensus. Very hard to
00:23:45to get a consensus in Asean. This
00:23:47This has been since 2021 and it's
00:23:49it's very basic. I mean it calls calls for, you know, humanitarian
00:23:52humanitarian assistance. Peace, inclusive inclusive peace dialogue, release
00:23:56release of political prisoners and
00:23:57and an Asean envoy to kind of mediate
00:24:00mediate the conflict. But Min Aung Aung Hlaing has signed on to it without
00:24:04without actually complying with it, it, without implementing it. So he
00:24:07he hasn't been sincere all along. Yeah. Thanks very much for for your thoughts as always. Nan
00:24:11Nan Pongsudhirak, a professor and and senior fellow at the Institute
00:24:14Institute of Security and International
00:24:16International Studies at Chulalongkorn Chulalongkorn University. Now let's
00:24:20let's get you up to speed with some some other stories making the headlines
00:24:23headlines today. Bangladesh's former former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,
00:24:27Hasina, has spoken from exile in in India to say again that she wants
00:24:30wants to return to her homeland, homeland, despite having been sentenced
00:24:34sentenced to death for there for for crimes against humanity. She
00:24:37She was speaking to journalists on on the second anniversary of her
00:24:40her overthrow, which took place during during a bloody crackdown against
00:24:43against anti-government protests.
00:24:47protests. Beijing has tightened controls controls on drone exports in what
00:24:50what it described as a restrained
00:24:52restrained response to US kerbs on on technology and trade. China's
00:24:55China's Commerce Ministry will make
00:24:57make sales of drones and other dual dual use technologies subject to
00:25:01to strict case by case review. Now
00:25:03Now the retaliatory measures come come ahead of a scheduled meeting
00:25:07meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald
00:25:10Donald Trump in the US next month.
00:25:12month. South Korean police have raided raided the national headquarters
00:25:16headquarters of Starbucks over defamation
00:25:18defamation claims surrounding a controversial
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00:25:24in May launched a coffee tumbler
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00:25:28Day on the anniversary of the 1980
00:25:311980 Gwangju Uprising, where hundreds hundreds were believed to have been
00:25:34been killed by military forces. And
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