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00:00:12Live from Singapore. This is BBC
00:00:17BBC News. Iran says it is in final final stages of negotiations with
00:00:20with Oman on a deal that would allow allow ships to pass through the Strait
00:00:24Strait of Hormuz. Russia launches launches a devastating attack on
00:00:27on Kyiv with President Zelensky warning warning that a lack of air defence
00:00:31defence missiles is costing Ukrainian Ukrainian lives. The BBC speaks to
00:00:35to the activist whose hunger strike strike galvanised a recent youth
00:00:38youth youth led protest in India, India, saying the movement has weakened
00:00:42weakened Prime Minister Narendra Narendra Modi's authority. Gianni
00:00:45Gianni Infantino will remain president president of Fifa after receiving
00:00:48receiving the backing of senior executives, executives, but sincerely apologises
00:00:51apologises for errors made in his his controversial private investment
00:00:54investment plans.
00:01:06Hello and welcome to News Day. Now there's renewed momentum to reopen
00:01:10reopen the Strait of Hormuz as Tehran Tehran says it's close to finalising
00:01:13finalising a deal with Oman on a a new shipping route, saying it would
00:01:16would only go ahead if certain third third parties don't obstruct the
00:01:19the process. While the details have have not been made public, the Iranian
00:01:23Iranian foreign Ministry claimed claimed the deal will allow Iran
00:01:25Iran to retain control of the critical
00:01:28critical waterway. The US has yet yet to comment on the announcement, announcement, but previously said
00:01:32said Iranian control would be unacceptable. unacceptable. President Trump told
00:01:35told Fox News on Tuesday that Iran Iran had reached out to him requesting
00:01:38requesting talks and warned that that Tehran would face severe consequences
00:01:42consequences if negotiations failed.
00:01:44failed. Called me and said very politely,
00:01:47politely, please, can we talk? Can Can we talk? They didn't want and
00:01:50and I said, yes, we can talk. Let's Let's get it done. Finally, let's
00:01:54let's get it done. This should have have been done by other presidents
00:01:57presidents for 50 years. You know know you keep hearing 47, but that's that's been for three years now.
00:02:01now. It's been over 50 years. Other Other presidents or other countries
00:02:04countries should have been able to to do this. And I did something that
00:02:08that I had to do because if they they had a nuclear weapon, this whole
00:02:11whole world would be a different different place. If they. Back out out again, are they done? Well, if
00:02:15if they back out again, they're going going to get hit really hard. You
00:02:18You know, they know that they understand understand that. For more, we can
00:02:21can speak with Jennifer Parker former former Royal Australian Navy officer
00:02:23officer and former director of operations operations in Bahrain of the Combined
00:02:27Combined Maritime Forces. Jennifer, Jennifer, good to speak to you. We'll We'll get to President Trump in just
00:02:30just a moment. But first, what's what's your read on this deal that's
00:02:33that's being discussed between Iran Iran and Oman? Yeah. Look, thank
00:02:36thank you for having me on. Look, Look, I'm not particularly optimistic.
00:02:39optimistic. Of course, I would love love to see a deal that allows the the free flow of shipping through
00:02:42through the strait. And certainly certainly the 6000 seafarers trapped trapped in the Persian Gulf to get
00:02:46get out. But we don't really have have any details of this deal and
00:02:49and all of the confidence that is is being reported in the last 24
00:02:5224 hours is being attributed to Iranian Iranian officials. And certainly
00:02:55certainly it is in their interest interest to make it sound like there
00:02:58there is a deal coming. The only only detail that seems to be being
00:03:01being reported is potentially the the deal might contain an agreement
00:03:04agreement where ships come in through through a northern route close to
00:03:08to Iran, controlled by Iran, and and exit through a southern route
00:03:12route close to Oman. Now, if that that has been agreed, that is potentially
00:03:15potentially to allow ships to escape
00:03:17escape from the Persian Gulf. I mentioned mentioned the 6000 seafarers, but
00:03:20but I can't see a more concrete deal deal than that coming in the near near future because the Strait of
00:03:24of Hormuz is Iran's key leverage. leverage. They're not going to give give that away without having an
00:03:27an end or an entirety of a peace peace negotiations with the US. Yeah,
00:03:31Yeah, and with the US in mind then then I mean they're not part of these
00:03:34these discussions. So how meaningful meaningful can they be? Well I mean
00:03:38mean again it depends on what these these discussions anchor on. I mean
00:03:41mean Australia is not closed. Ships Ships are deterred from going through through because Iran continues to
00:03:44to attack shipping. In the last 24 24 hours, we've seen more attacks
00:03:47attacks from Iran on shipping in
00:03:49in Omani territorial waters. I don't don't think there's anything Iran
00:03:52Iran and Oman could agree that stops stops those attacks, because those
00:03:56those attacks are very much aimed aimed at putting pressure on the
00:03:59the global economy and the US. I I think the best you could see is
00:04:02is some sort of agreement about a a voluntary navigation payment scheme
00:04:05scheme or something like that, similar similar to what we see in the Strait
00:04:08Strait of Malacca. But I'm not particularly particularly confident about these these talks. Well, the US position
00:04:12position is that Iranian control control would be unacceptable. We We heard President Trump there making
00:04:16making threats again against Iran Iran if they weren't to agree. What
00:04:20What do you think? How far do you you think the US is actually intending
00:04:22intending to go? Well it's not just just the US's position. I mean many
00:04:26many countries have that position. position. Oman has said a number
00:04:29number of times throughout this conflict conflict that they wouldn't allow allow tolls in the strait or Iranian
00:04:32Iranian control. So it seems to be be Oman's position as well. How far
00:04:36far will the US go? Look, that's that's really difficult to say. They
00:04:39They have kind of two options. One One is capitulation, which is agreeing
00:04:43agreeing terms that are favourable favourable to Iran or the second
00:04:46second is escalation. Now neither neither of those have been successful
00:04:49successful in the June MoU, there there was significant economic inducements
00:04:52inducements for Iran. Yet within within a week they were attacking attacking ships in the Strait of
00:04:56of Hormuz. Again, the intensity of of the conflict throughout July and
00:04:59and also in March, those intense intense bombing campaigns also doesn't
00:05:02doesn't seem, at least publicly, publicly, to have changed the status
00:05:05status quo. So neither are good options. Yeah. And just in terms
00:05:09terms of escalation, I mean, we have have seen reports that the US is
00:05:11is running low on long range precision precision missiles. Is that a factor
00:05:15factor here. Oh look it would be be a factor. Now I'm always sceptical
00:05:18sceptical when you hear news outlets outlets say they have no atacms left,
00:05:21left, which is a long range surface surface missile or almost no Patriot
00:05:25Patriot interceptors left. But certainly certainly there's enough there to to say that the US have probably
00:05:29probably expended more than they they expected. There are some figures figures saying they expended about,
00:05:33about, for example, 1400 Patriot Patriot interceptors during this
00:05:36this conflict, which is more than than Ukraine has expended during
00:05:39during the entire Ukrainian air defence defence in the last four years. So
00:05:43So this will be influencing their their strategic decisions not only only for this conflict but moving
00:05:46moving on. Of course, we need to to remember that there is significant significant pressure in the Indo-Pacific
00:05:50Indo-Pacific and a lot of concern concern around China as well. Jennifer, Jennifer, we'll leave it there, but
00:05:54but thanks for your expertise as as always. Jennifer Parker, former former Royal Australian Navy officer
00:05:57officer and former director of operations
00:05:58operations in Bahrain of the Combined
00:06:01Combined Maritime Forces. Myanmar's Myanmar's junta chief turned president president Min Aung Hlaing, is set
00:06:05set to visit Thailand in an attempt attempt to end the country's international
00:06:09international isolation, five years years after staging a coup that led
00:06:11led to a bloody civil war. Myanmar
00:06:13Myanmar has since been blocking blocked blocked from attending meetings of
00:06:16of the regional group Asean. But But Thailand's Prime Minister urged
00:06:20urged calibrated re-engagement with with Myanmar ahead of the meeting.
00:06:23meeting. Well, for more we go live live now to government House in Bangkok Bangkok and speak with our South
00:06:27South East Asia correspondent, Jonathan Jonathan Head. Jonathan, two days
00:06:30days of talks are expected. I understand understand things are about to get
00:06:33get under way. Literally, Steve.
00:06:35Steve. I mean, we're just waiting waiting for me to arrive. It's probably
00:06:39probably the next five minutes or or so. This elaborate building you you see behind me is called government
00:06:43government House. It is the seat seat of government in Thailand. He
00:06:46He is getting a full red carpet treatment. treatment. When I say that there's
00:06:49there's an awful lot of red carpet carpet around the full military honours,
00:06:53honours, there's a military band band that will probably start playing playing shortly as he comes in a
00:06:57a guard of honour with, all dressed dressed up in their dress uniforms.
00:07:00uniforms. Then a whole series of of meetings, not just with Thailand's Thailand's Prime Minister. There
00:07:03There will be a lot of meetings looking
00:07:06looking at security. Thailand's main
00:07:09main concern is this long 2500 kilometre kilometre shared border they have
00:07:12have with Myanmar and all the problems problems that have arisen because
00:07:15because of the civil war, the transnational transnational crime scam centres,
00:07:19centres, big movements of people, people, Myanmar refugees flooding
00:07:22flooding into Thailand. All of those those will be discussed. But Min
00:07:25Min Aung Hlaing is getting an official official dinner. There's a big business
00:07:28business forum to a lot of Thai businesses businesses want relations back on
00:07:31on track so that they can invest invest and make money in Myanmar.
00:07:35Myanmar. Thailand has talked about about calibrated re-engagement. Frankly,
00:07:39Frankly, the scale of this meeting meeting looks like complete re-engagement. re-engagement. Remember, Min Aung
00:07:43Aung Hlaing has been an international international pariah. Apart from
00:07:46from the backing he gets from Russia Russia and China, he's got sanctions
00:07:50sanctions against him. He's wanted wanted for war crimes. He's not welcome
00:07:53welcome in most of the world and and most South East Asian countries countries have kept him at arm's
00:07:57arm's length. He's not been allowed allowed to go to Asean summit meetings.
00:07:59meetings. So Thailand's really breaking breaking ranks by laying on such
00:08:03such a big high scale visit for him
00:08:06him and making it clear that as far far as they're concerned, whatever
00:08:09whatever the reservations they have have about what's happened in Myanmar, Myanmar, about the civil war and
00:08:13and the human rights they need to to get their relationship back on
00:08:16on track. I think a lot of other other South East Asian countries
00:08:18countries are, or some of them are are unhappy about this. They argue
00:08:22argue that Thailand should have used used a visit like this to get more
00:08:26more concessions from the Burmese
00:08:28Burmese military, particularly showing showing willingness to deescalate
00:08:32deescalate the violence, to stop stop the bombardment of villages
00:08:35villages in opposition areas and and to start talking to the opposition. opposition. There's no sign that
00:08:39that the government in Myanmar, even even though it's now donned civilian
00:08:42civilian clothes, is ready to do do that. There's no sign yet that
00:08:45that the Civil War is scaling down. down. We've seen more civilian casualties
00:08:48casualties since the election than than before it. So the criticism
00:08:52criticism of this visit from critics critics of Thailand will be Thailand
00:08:55Thailand hasn't got what it should should have got to justify giving
00:08:58giving this much legitimacy to Myanmar's Myanmar's military ruler. Yeah, Jonathan,
00:09:01Jonathan, we've just seen some vehicles vehicles moving in the background background there. Maybe the motorcade
00:09:05motorcade or the entourage rides rides are getting closer to you.
00:09:08you. We did see in the last few days days photos emerging of Aung San
00:09:11San Suu Kyi just to get us up to
00:09:13to speed with what that means or or what that the significance of
00:09:16of that in the context of this meeting
00:09:18meeting that's about to take
00:09:23place. I mean, that was Steve, that that was a demand that Thailand had had to make. They could not have
00:09:26have risked this visit going ahead ahead if they didn't know for sure
00:09:29sure that Aung San Suu Kyi was alive. alive. Remember, we'd had no indications
00:09:33indications of her being alive and and well apart from promises from
00:09:35from the military government for for years before that photograph
00:09:39photograph appeared on Monday of of her meeting, the Red Cross delegation,
00:09:41delegation, her family were extremely extremely concerned. She's 81 years
00:09:44years old. She's known to have health health issues. She's often been held
00:09:47held in quite tough conditions ever ever since being jailed after the
00:09:51the coup. So there's no question question that photograph, that meeting,
00:09:53meeting, it was a card that the Myanmar Myanmar military had been waiting
00:09:56waiting to play and they played it it really in order for this meeting
00:09:59meeting to go ahead. But others inside inside South East Asia are saying
00:10:02saying one glimpse of Aung San Suu
00:10:04Suu Kyi is not enough really, to
00:10:07to move the diplomatic road train train along towards a solution to
00:10:10to the civil war in Myanmar. Much Much more is needed from Myanmar's
00:10:13Myanmar's military. And remember, remember, Min Aung Hlaing himself
00:10:16himself five years ago signed a consensus. consensus. It's called a five-point five-point consensus with his South
00:10:20South East Asian partners, promising promising them that he would negotiate
00:10:23negotiate with his opponents and and that he would de-escalate. And
00:10:26And the moment he got back from that that meeting, he said, actually, actually, we've got more important
00:10:29important things to think about right right now. He's dismissing that five-point
00:10:32five-point consensus. He's not giving giving indications that he's a man
00:10:36man ready to use his newfound status, status, this recognition. He's getting
00:10:39getting to end this catastrophic catastrophic civil war that has killed
00:10:41killed so many people in Myanmar. Myanmar. Jonathan, thanks very much.
00:10:44much. I know we'll be back with you you in the hours ahead here on BBC BBC News as you continue your coverage
00:10:48coverage there. Jonathan Head, our our South East Asia correspondent, correspondent, in front of a government
00:10:52government house in Bangkok. Now, Now, let's take a quick look at some
00:10:55some other stories in the headlines. headlines. Bangladesh's former Prime
00:10:58Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has has spoken from exile in India to
00:11:01to say again that she wants to return return to her homeland, despite having
00:11:05having been sentenced to death and and there for crimes against humanity.
00:11:08humanity. She was speaking to journalists journalists on the second anniversary anniversary of her overthrow, which
00:11:11which took place during a bloody bloody crackdown against anti-government
00:11:15anti-government protests. Beijing Beijing has tightened controls on
00:11:18on drone exports in what it described described as a restrained response
00:11:21response to US kerbs on technology technology and trade. China's Commerce
00:11:25Commerce Ministry will make sales sales of drones and other dual use
00:11:28use technologies subject to strict strict case by case review. The retaliatory
00:11:32retaliatory measures come ahead of of a scheduled meeting between Xi
00:11:35Xi Jinping and Donald Trump in the
00:11:37the US next month. South Korean police
00:11:39police have raided the national headquarters headquarters of Starbucks over defamation
00:11:43defamation claims surrounding a controversial controversial marketing campaign.
00:11:46campaign. Starbucks Korea had in in May launched a coffee tumbler
00:11:50tumbler promotion called Tank Day Day on the anniversary of the 1980
00:11:531980 Gwangju Uprising, where hundreds hundreds were believed to have been
00:11:56been killed by military forces. Want
00:11:59Want to come here on Tuesday, including including growing concerns about
00:12:01about how powerful AI agents behave
00:12:04behave when given internet access access and relatively open
00:13:07he was their friend. But heart-wrenching heart-wrenching stuff that made me me feel sick. The big cases, funeral
00:13:11funeral Home horror watch on BBC
00:13:14BBC News. Live with BBC News. Now
00:13:20Now some news just in OpenAI says says one of its AI systems breached
00:13:23breached its own network before targeting targeting Hugging Face. That's according
00:13:27according to Axios. In the latest latest of a series of AI security security breaches that have raised
00:13:31raised concerns about how powerful powerful AI agents behave when given
00:13:34given internet access and relatively relatively open ended goals. Separately,
00:13:37Separately, the UK's AI Security Security Institute says two leading
00:13:40leading AI models created fake human human profiles to deceive people
00:13:44people during cyber attack tests, tests, showing an unprecedented level
00:13:47level of autonomy and deception.
00:13:49deception. Marc Cieslak has more.
00:13:51more. Another week and more AI agents
00:13:54agents going AWOL. This time it was was models from OpenAI called Sol
00:13:57Sol and Mythos AI from Anthropic Anthropic acting up during testing
00:14:01testing by the UK's AI Safety Institute.
00:14:04Institute. But how are these AI agents
00:14:07agents so regularly escaping the the digital confinement? Well, in
00:14:11in this case, Anthropic and OpenAI
00:14:13OpenAI say that the AI Safety Institute
00:14:15Institute actually reduced or removed removed some of the standard safeguards.
00:14:19safeguards. The Safety Institute Institute says it's done this so
00:14:22so that its testing can better replicate
00:14:25replicate the actions of hackers
00:14:27hackers in the real world. Anthropic
00:14:29Anthropic model mythos was the worst
00:14:31worst behaved. It was given a task task and researchers wanted to see
00:14:35see how it would try to achieve its its goal. Anthropic AI decided it
00:14:39it needed access to GitHub, a website website where software developers
00:14:43developers share computer code to to complete the task. It had been
00:14:46been set a human reviewer was standing
00:14:49standing in its way, though instead instead of stopping it identified
00:14:53identified people responsible for for maintaining GitHub, researched
00:14:56researched them and created a series
00:14:58series of fake accounts impersonating
00:15:01impersonating these real people. people. It then used them to contact
00:15:04contact human users in an attempt
00:15:06attempt to persuade them to approve
00:15:08approve its code. When its actions actions were challenged, it changed
00:15:12changed its earlier activity to make make it look harmless. Researchers
00:15:15Researchers say it even considered considered creating a new identity
00:15:19identity to keep trying. It didn't
00:15:21didn't succeed. The Safety Institute Institute says human reviewers spotted
00:15:25spotted what was happening and stopped stopped it before any code reached
00:15:28reached GitHub. The AI Safety Institute
00:15:32Institute says it didn't tell mythos mythos to behave this way and that
00:15:35that these actions demonstrate the
00:15:38the risk of AI autonomous, deceptive
00:15:41deceptive behaviour. What we've seen seen so far was not representative
00:15:44representative of the real world. world. It was agents being tested
00:15:48tested in cyber security environments environments and where we saw misaligned misaligned instructions and they
00:15:52they took actions that we didn't didn't expect. That's not representative representative of the risk that we're
00:15:55we're seeing today. But what it does does show is just how powerful and
00:15:58and creative these models can be be when used in anger. And that can
00:16:02can pose some serious questions for for hostile nation states who may
00:16:04may be targeting us with them. The
00:16:07The AI Safety Institute's job is
00:16:09is to identify these kind of risks, risks, and both of these offending
00:16:13offending AI models aren't available available to the general public,
00:16:16public, highlighting issues like like these now could prevent future
00:16:20future AI's Breaking Bad Marc Cieslak,
00:16:23Cieslak, BBC News. Well, let's take
00:16:25take you back to Bangkok, where government
00:16:27government House is the scene to
00:16:29to welcome the leader of the President
00:16:32President of Myanmar. Min Aung the the former general chief responsible
00:16:35responsible for the coup back in
00:16:38in 2021. Now you can see there the the Thai Prime Minister waiting to
00:16:41to receive him as the motorcade is is expected to be on its way shortly.
00:16:45shortly. Now Thailand is the fourth fourth country that Min Aung Hlaing
00:16:48Hlaing has visited as president following
00:16:51following official trips to China, China, India and Laos. And now he
00:16:55he has arrived in Thailand as well. well. We're expecting to see his
00:16:58his vehicle come up and you can see see quite clearly that the red carpet
00:17:02carpet has quite literally been rolled rolled out to receive him. A Thai
00:17:06Thai Prime Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, Charnvirakul, is expected to have
00:17:09have a meeting with him today and and then both of them will attend
00:17:11attend the Thai Myanmar Business
00:17:14Business Forum over today and tomorrow. tomorrow. Now we'll be keeping a
00:17:17a close eye on this story for any any lines that come from it. We can
00:17:20can tell you that this is quite a
00:17:24a departure from Thailand then, compared compared to its Asean neighbours,
00:17:28neighbours, they have been talking talking about a calibrated reengagement. reengagement. Those are the words
00:17:32words by the Thai Prime Minister Minister talking about trying to
00:17:34to keep open channels with Myanmar, Myanmar, which is quite a departure
00:17:38departure from the other South East East Asian nations that make up the
00:17:41the Asean bloc, which has barred
00:17:43barred any top officials from Myanmar
00:17:45Myanmar from joining any of their
00:17:47their summits in the wake of that
00:17:49that coup back in 2021. Well, as as I say, we'll keep a close eye
00:17:53eye on this as the story develops develops and we can get more updates.
00:17:57updates. So we were speaking to Jonathan Jonathan Head earlier. He'll be available available throughout the hours ahead
00:18:01ahead here on BBC News to give us
00:18:02us his analysis as well. Now let's
00:18:06let's take a look at some other stories stories in the headlines. Michigan's
00:18:09Michigan's left wing Democratic candidate candidate for the US Senate in November's
00:18:12November's mid-term elections has has called for party unity after
00:18:16after his watershed victory over over a centrist in the primaries.
00:18:19primaries. Abdul El-Sayed said any any differences with his defeated
00:18:22defeated fellow Democrat, Haley Stevens Stevens paled in comparison to what
00:18:25what unified them, and they should should now focus on defeating the
00:18:29the Republicans in the swing state.
00:18:31state. The US., CDC and FDA are investigating
00:18:34investigating a multistate salmonella salmonella outbreak linked to jalapeno
00:18:38jalapeno peppers from Mexico, which which have sickened 345 people across
00:18:42across 27 states and prompted a recall recall of affected products. Restaurants
00:18:45Restaurants including Chipotle and and Mexican style restaurant chain
00:18:49chain have been identified as recipients recipients of the jalapenos, but but no deaths have been reported.
00:18:53reported. But at least 36 people
00:18:55people have been hospitalised. Gianni
00:18:58Gianni Infantino has apologised for for errors he made in controversial
00:19:01controversial plans to sell off stakes
00:19:03stakes in competitions to private private investors, but will remain
00:19:06remain Fifa president after receiving receiving the backing of senior executives
00:19:09executives in a meeting in Morocco Morocco which much criticism has
00:19:12has come from within Fifa, including
00:19:14including Secretary General Mattias Mattias Grafstrom, who was at Wednesday's
00:19:18Wednesday's meeting. However, in in a statement, Grafstrom and the the management board reaffirmed their
00:19:22their full support for Infantino
00:19:24Infantino as president. BBC sports,
00:19:27sports, Mark Urban said has more
00:19:29more details. Yeah, busy all day. day. Gianni Infantino will remain
00:19:32remain as Fifa president for now now after he received the backing
00:19:35backing of senior executives in a a meeting in Morocco on Wednesday.
00:19:39Wednesday. Infantino's been under under fire for his plans to sell
00:19:41sell off stakes in competitions including including the World Cup, to private
00:19:44private investors. As you mentioned mentioned in a statement after the
00:19:47the meeting, the Fifa Management Management Board acknowledged the
00:19:50the need for improved processes around around communications. Apologise
00:19:53Apologise for mistakes but said they they will not tolerate any attacks
00:19:57attacks on its integrity. Let's pull pull up some of the key lines from
00:20:00from that statement then. Firstly, Firstly, it says the Fifa Secretary
00:20:03Secretary General and members of of the Fifa Management Board in attendance
00:20:06attendance reaffirmed their full full support for Fifa president Gianni
00:20:09Gianni Infantino as the only official
00:20:11official elected by the 211 Fifa Fifa member associations regarding
00:20:15regarding the Forward enterprise enterprise proposal. That's the plan
00:20:17plan to invite that private investment, investment, it said it was agreed
00:20:21agreed that it was not the intention intention for the Fifa Council and
00:20:24and Fifa members associations to to feel excluded from the process
00:20:27process and that the process should should have been handled differently. differently. It was further acknowledged
00:20:31acknowledged that errors were also also made after the proposal was
00:20:34was leaked to the media. It goes goes on to say that there are always
00:20:38always lessons to be learned and and Fifa will continue to improve
00:20:40improve its processes in light of of this experience. In this instance,
00:20:44instance, however, it is important important to stress that although although mistakes were made, everything
00:20:47everything that was done was done done in full compliance with the
00:20:50the Fifa regulatory framework and and on the criticism that has come
00:20:54come the way of Fifa. They say that that they will no longer tolerate
00:20:57tolerate any attacks on its integrity, integrity, good governance and due
00:21:01due process and crucially, will take take all necessary measures to protect
00:21:04protect and safeguard its name and
00:21:06and reputation. So Infantino stays stays in place for now. If someone
00:21:10someone wants to put themselves forward forward to stand against him for
00:21:13for the presidency next year, they they have until November the 18th
00:21:1618th to put their names forward.
00:21:19forward. For 26 days. Sonam Wangchuk Wangchuk went on a hunger strike
00:21:22strike in India in support of the the Cockroach Janta Party and thousands
00:21:25thousands of students as they demanded demanded change after the leaking
00:21:28leaking of crucial exam papers. His His hunger strike ended after he
00:21:31he received guarantees from India's India's government that there would would be changes to the country's
00:21:34country's exam system and protections protections for peaceful student student protesters who'd been arrested.
00:21:38arrested. He's been speaking to Rajini Rajini Vaidyanathan on the BBC's
00:21:42BBC's NewsHour programme. In his his first broadcast interview since
00:21:44since the protests ended, Rajini Rajini asked how much Prime Minister
00:21:47Minister Narendra Modi has been weakened
00:21:49weakened by the movement. Terribly,
00:21:52Terribly, terribly. I mean, people people can't even imagine, what's
00:21:56what's happening now. Every part
00:21:58part of the country people are raising
00:22:00raising voice, not just generation
00:22:02generation Gen Z but Gen Alpha school
00:22:05school boys and girls are raising raising their school issues and getting
00:22:09getting them resolved. Remote places
00:22:12places to different states. People
00:22:14People are rising up to, remove these,
00:22:21these, injustices in the, employment
00:22:22employment systems, examination systems,
00:22:25systems, more in the education arena
00:22:27arena now, but actually it cuts across
00:22:30across various fields. And you may
00:22:32may have heard yesterday in Bihar,
00:22:36Bihar, the ruling party lost two
00:22:38two of the three seats that had by by elections. So the entire atmosphere
00:22:42atmosphere in the country has switched. switched. And Prime Minister Modi
00:22:46Modi has always presented himself
00:22:48himself as India's strong man, hasn't
00:22:50hasn't he? He would possibly take
00:22:53take issue with the fact that this this has weakened his government.
00:22:56government. He still has a lot of of support. Why do you think this
00:23:00this particular wave of protests
00:23:02protests is different? There was
00:23:07was a sense of fear earlier. You You know, it was mostly dealing with
00:23:11with grown ups, middle aged people
00:23:12people who had too much to lose.
00:23:15lose. Businesses were scared of,
00:23:19of, raids by enforcement agencies agencies who would do randomly to
00:23:23to people who they had any issues issues with, who didn't agree to,
00:23:25to, who raised their voice. So all
00:23:27all grown ups were beaten into, fear.
00:23:33fear. So there was no voice. Almost.
00:23:36Almost. And this movement because
00:23:39because it, was by young people who who had hardly anything to lose.
00:23:43lose. Gen Z or people like me who
00:23:46who had already faced all that one
00:23:48one could face, at the hands of the
00:23:51the government jail and raids by
00:23:53by government agencies, everything. everything. So we had nothing to
00:23:56to lose. We had no fear. And that's that's what spread across the country.
00:23:59country. And today people are raising
00:24:02raising voice and maybe, they feel
00:24:05feel and rightly so that they don't
00:24:07don't have that control. But I always
00:24:09always thought the best way to have,
00:24:12have, you know, control or power
00:24:14power is through love and, in return
00:24:18return love from the people by ensuring
00:24:21ensuring a just and, fear free, governance.
00:24:26governance. Hopefully they'll mend mend their ways. This time. It stopped
00:24:30stopped at, education ministry. But, But, if this continues, I think the
00:24:34the younger generation and the people,
00:24:37people, may not stop at just education. education. You talk about the young
00:24:41young people not stopping education. education. We saw a lot of placards,
00:24:44placards, didn't we, at those protests protests calling for the Prime Minister
00:24:47Minister to step down as well. Do Do you still think he is the right
00:24:51right person to govern India? I would
00:24:54would give them the chance to mend
00:24:57mend their ways. I always believe
00:24:59believe in people realising their their mistakes and amending their
00:25:03their ways, so I would give them them that chance. But if it goes
00:25:06goes back to the ways that I suffered,
00:25:08suffered, you know, for the last
00:25:10last 2 or 3 years, and if nothing
00:25:13nothing changes, then yes, people people have the right to say that
00:25:17that we don't accept this kind of
00:25:18of governance. We want a free and,
00:25:24and, just democratic governance in
00:25:25in this country. Let's take you back back to Thailand's capital of Bangkok,
00:25:29Bangkok, where we can show you some some live images now of government
00:25:32government House. That is where Thailand's Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin
00:25:36Anutin Charnvirakul is awaiting the the arrival of Myanmar's president
00:25:39president and a former coup leader, leader, Min Aung Hlaing. He's expected
00:25:42expected to make a two day visit visit to Myanmar, and they're expected
00:25:46expected to speak on a whole host
00:25:48host of issues, from security to to economic issues as well. There
00:25:51There are two countries do share
00:25:54share a long border now the Thai Thai Prime Minister has talked about
00:25:58about calibrated re-engagement. Is Is that what we are going to see
00:26:00see over the next two days in Thailand? Thailand? I'll be back shortly with with Business
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00:30:09News, Business Today. Google announces
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00:30:21company seeks to keep up with big big tech rivals in the AI race. The
00:30:25The Dow reaches an all-time high high thanks to strong earnings and
00:30:28and hopes for a deal to reopen shipping shipping in the Strait of Hormuz
00:30:31Hormuz and shares of Disney Jump Jump as the entertainment giant sees
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00:30:36of a plan to launch a new streaming
00:30:39streaming product. Hello and welcome
00:30:45welcome to Business Today with me, me, Steve Lai. Now we begin with
00:30:47with a major shake-up at Google's Google's artificial intelligence
00:30:50intelligence business, which seems seems to have got investors nervous
00:30:52nervous sending shares of alphabet alphabet down 4%. Jeff Dean, a long
00:30:56long time Google employee central central to the development of the the company's AI strategy,