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00:00:16MUSIC This This is The World Today on BBC News.
00:00:18News. The headlines this hour. New New strikes hit two refineries deep
00:00:22deep inside Russia as a wave of Ukrainian
00:00:24Ukrainian drones target the country. country. The FAA withdraw support
00:00:28support for embattled Fifa president president Gianni Infantino as Uefa
00:00:32Uefa says Europe's World Cup boycott
00:00:34boycott may still go ahead. Power
00:00:36Power failure causes major disruption
00:00:38disruption across railways in the the northwest of England, and the
00:00:42the family of the British student student Meredith Kercher murdered
00:00:45murdered in Italy almost 20 years years ago, criticised an Edinburgh
00:00:48Edinburgh comedy show by the woman woman convicted and later acquitted
00:00:51acquitted of killing her. There are
00:01:00are calls for an independent inquiry inquiry into an army training college
00:01:03college for teenagers in Yorkshire, Yorkshire, where four young women
00:01:06women say they were sexually assaulted assaulted and harassed. They told
00:01:09told the BBC the incidents happened happened at the Army Foundation College
00:01:13College in Harrogate. The army said said the claims were extremely distressing
00:01:17distressing and serious. This report report from our senior UK correspondent
00:01:21correspondent Sima Kotecha, contains
00:01:22contains details of abuse allegations.
00:01:25allegations. It ruined my life. I've
00:01:28I've lost all my confidence. The
00:01:31The words of women who went to the the largest army training college
00:01:34college in the country for 16 and
00:01:36and 17 year-olds. Speaking to the the BBC for the first time. It needs
00:01:40needs to be closed down and I don't
00:01:42don't get why it hasn't. Just doesn't doesn't make sense. The Army Foundation
00:01:46Foundation College in Harrogate is is for teenagers who want a life
00:01:49life in the armed forces, but now
00:01:52now it's at the centre of serious serious allegations from several several women who went to the college
00:01:56college in recent years. Claims of
00:01:59of harassment and sexual assault
00:02:01assault Tilly, not her real name, name, says she was raped by fellow
00:02:05fellow recruits. They started taking taking my clothes off and then this
00:02:08this led to them doing stuff I didn't
00:02:11didn't consent to. There were a lot
00:02:14lot of them. They touched me in places, places, made inappropriate comments,
00:02:17comments, calling me a thing rather rather than a girl. Like some of
00:02:21of the other women we spoke to, Tilly Tilly reported it to the police.
00:02:24police. We're not providing the full full details of all their investigations
00:02:28investigations to protect their identity.
00:02:31identity. Monica, also not her real real name, says she too was attacked
00:02:34attacked by a junior soldier. Stood Stood against the door so I couldn't
00:02:37couldn't get out. He then pushed pushed himself up against me and
00:02:40and started kissing my face and touching
00:02:42touching me all over. He sexually sexually assaulted me. All of the
00:02:46the women we've spoken to went to to this college over the last five
00:02:50five years. Data obtained by the the BBC through a Freedom of Information
00:02:53Information request shows that North
00:02:56North Yorkshire Police recorded 16 16 sexual offence crimes over the
00:03:00the last year at this college, including
00:03:04including voyeurism and exposure exposure and sexual assault. These
00:03:07These are recorded complaints and and it's not clear how many led to
00:03:10to prosecutions. If this was anywhere anywhere else it would have been been closed down by now. I think
00:03:14think as a matter of urgency, there
00:03:16there should be an independent inquiry inquiry into the college led by someone
00:03:20someone with significant safeguarding safeguarding expertise. This woman
00:03:24woman is the mother of a former soldier.
00:03:26soldier. She says her daughter was was touched inappropriately. She
00:03:30She was literally recruited from
00:03:31from school, sold a dream and then
00:03:34then had to navigate almost daily daily sexual harassment. And it just
00:03:38just broke my heart because what
00:03:40what you forget about is that she's
00:03:43she's just a child. The government
00:03:46government defines a child as anyone
00:03:48anyone under 18. In response to the the allegations made in this report,
00:03:52report, the Ministry of Defence says
00:03:54says unacceptable and criminal behaviour behaviour has absolutely no place
00:03:57place in our armed forces and these
00:03:59these reports are extremely distressing distressing and serious. It says
00:04:03says it's created the defence Serious
00:04:05Serious Crime Command, which is independent independent and outside of the army
00:04:09army chain of command and has a specialist
00:04:11specialist team who help victims
00:04:13victims throughout the process of
00:04:16of justice. The Army is a tough training
00:04:20training environment with high standards, standards, but the supervision and
00:04:23and discipline of junior recruits recruits and their instructors is
00:04:26is now in sharp focus. After so many
00:04:30many serious allegations. Sima Kotecha,
00:04:33Kotecha, BBC News. Well, if you've you've been affected by this story,
00:04:37story, details of help and support
00:04:38support in the UK are available@bbc.co.uk/
00:04:43available@bbc.co.uk/ action line. line. Now the Facebook owner Meta Meta has become the latest tech firm
00:04:47firm to say one of its AI models models was able to connect to the
00:04:51the internet and hack into another another organisation's systems during
00:04:54during testing. Remember similar similar breaches by OpenAI and Anthropic
00:04:58Anthropic models have raised cyber cyber concerns and prompted calls
00:05:01calls for tougher safeguards and and more rigorous testing. Ivana
00:05:05Ivana Bartoletti is chief of AI governance governance at Wipro. It's a global
00:05:09global tech services and consulting consulting company. She gave me her
00:05:13her analysis. In the last two weeks,
00:05:15weeks, four different organisations organisations OpenAI, Anthropic,
00:05:19Anthropic, Meta and separately the
00:05:22the UK AI government testing body.
00:05:23body. They ran security tests and
00:05:26and of their AI agents. AI agents
00:05:28agents are systems that do things. things. For example, they can book
00:05:32book a flight for you or they can can do something, something else.
00:05:36else. So they run security tests
00:05:39tests on their agent and it's a little
00:05:41little bit like a bank hiring someone someone to try to break into their
00:05:45their own vault, right? To find weaknesses
00:05:49weaknesses before a real thief does. does. And in each case, what happened
00:05:52happened is that the vault wasn't
00:05:54wasn't as sealed, as protected as
00:05:56as they thought it was going to be.
00:05:59be. So the agent was trying to complete complete the task. It had been set
00:06:02set and found a way out of the test
00:06:06test environment and touched sort
00:06:08sort of real systems. It was never
00:06:10never meant to reach. So to an extent, extent, you know, you can compare
00:06:13compare this to like a guard dog, dog, you know, that will let let
00:06:16let off its leash in a secure test
00:06:18test yard that turn out to have a
00:06:20a gap in the fence. So in and in
00:06:24in one case, things went a little little bit further. So what happened
00:06:27happened is that the agent pretended pretended to be a real person to
00:06:31to get access to a system which is is a little bit more worrying. As
00:06:35As a kind of a problem. So but none
00:06:38none of this happened to ordinary ordinary people using these products.
00:06:42products. So all of this happened happened during the company's own
00:06:46own deliberate testing. So should
00:06:48should be worrying. Well, we can't
00:06:51can't underestimate obviously, but
00:06:53but this is not AI turning against
00:06:55against us. This is AI doing exactly
00:06:58exactly what it was told. So through
00:07:00through a gap that nobody meant to
00:07:04to leave open. That was Ivana Bartoletti Bartoletti they're speaking to me
00:07:08me about AI now. As weather events
00:07:10events become more extreme, fake fake videos are being shared rapidly
00:07:13rapidly online and it's causing real real world problems in China. The
00:07:17The government there has vowed to to crack down on misinformation.
00:07:20misinformation. But as our China China correspondent Stephen McDonnell
00:07:23McDonnell explains, identifying AI AI generated content is becoming
00:07:26becoming increasingly difficult. difficult. This isn't footage from from a natural disaster, it's AI.
00:07:30AI. As weather events become more more extreme, fake and misleading
00:07:34misleading videos are being shared shared more rapidly online with real
00:07:37real world consequences. In China, China, following recent typhoons,
00:07:40typhoons, the authorities say creators creators are making misleading content,
00:07:44content, some to attract viewers, viewers, others to cause panic or
00:07:48or social unrest. The Chinese government government pointed to this flood
00:07:51flood rescue video as an example example of how false and AI generated
00:07:54generated videos can mislead the the public about the emergency response.
00:07:58response. It's also vowed to crack crack down on misinformation. But
00:08:01But as we discovered, finding out out what's really AI generated can
00:08:05can be very difficult. Take this
00:08:06this video sent to the BBC by a shop shop owner in Guangdong. He says
00:08:10says it was filmed by a family member member after a recent flood. We ran
00:08:14ran it through AI checks and reached reached out to experts, but it came
00:08:17came back with conflicting results results as to whether it was AI generated.
00:08:20generated. The Chinese government government says this footage claiming
00:08:23claiming to show released crocodiles crocodiles in flood waters was old,
00:08:27old, likely from another country country and being misrepresented
00:08:29misrepresented as China. The earliest earliest related post we could find
00:08:32find featured a woman speaking Hindi
00:08:34Hindi who also had several AI videos
00:08:37videos on her Instagram profile. profile. One AI expert said that
00:08:40that the images are likely real, real, but that their test showed
00:08:43showed mixed results. Ours did too.
00:08:45too. Either way, whether it's old
00:08:48old footage being reshared or AI AI generated, it's still misinformation.
00:08:51misinformation. Recently, there have have been arrests and punishment punishment ranging from detention
00:08:55detention to fines for the creation creation of bogus reports and fake
00:08:58fake videos. It's clear, though, though, that as disasters become
00:09:01become more frequent and extreme
00:09:04extreme and AI continues to develop, develop, that protecting the public
00:09:07public is becoming ever more difficult. difficult. That's Stephen McDonnell
00:09:11McDonnell reporting there from China. China. Now the budget airline Easyjet
00:09:13Easyjet has agreed to be taken over
00:09:17over in a £5.7 billion deal from from the US firm Apollo. The deal
00:09:20deal was announced after rival suitor suitor Castlelake said it was dropping
00:09:24dropping out of the bid battle for for the no frills airline. EasyJet
00:09:27EasyJet is one of Europe's largest largest airlines and employs more
00:09:30more than 19,000 people at flies
00:09:33flies to around 1200 routes across across 35 European countries. It
00:09:37It was founded by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou
00:09:40Haji-Ioannou in 1995 to offer cheap cheap airfares to Europe from the
00:09:43the UK. Time for a short break. Now Now around the world and across the
00:09:47the UK. This
00:10:50flowing again, one that will pay pay off? Join us on Talking Business
00:10:52Business Weekly on BBC News. The
00:10:58The sister of the murdered British British exchange student Meredith
00:11:02Meredith Kercher has appealed to to Amanda Knox not to go ahead with
00:11:05with a comedy show at the Edinburgh Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Amanda
00:11:09Amanda Knox was convicted but later later acquitted of the murder in
00:11:13in Italy in 2007. Miss Kercher's Kercher's sister says the proposed
00:11:16proposed stand up show turns the the rape and murder of Meredith into
00:11:20into entertainment. Emma Vardy has has more on a warning her report
00:11:23report contains flashing images.
00:11:26images. Characterised in court as
00:11:28as a cold, manipulative femme fatale fatale for many years Amanda Knox
00:11:32Knox was portrayed to the world as
00:11:34as a murderer convicted along with
00:11:36with her former boyfriend 21-year-old
00:11:4021-year-old Meredith Kercher was was found dead in the apartment they
00:11:43they shared. She had been stabbed
00:11:44stabbed in the throat. Amanda Knox
00:11:48Knox spent four years in prison. prison. But after years of appeals
00:11:52appeals and Retrials, Italy's highest highest court, finally acquitted acquitted her. I'm so grateful to
00:11:56to have my life back. After years
00:11:59years rebuilding her identity through through documentaries, books and
00:12:03and podcasts, she's now bringing bringing a stand up comedy show to
00:12:06to the Edinburgh Fringe. My friends friends and family are actually really
00:12:09really nervous for me, despite my my spotless record in the court of
00:12:12of public opinion, I bombed in a
00:12:15a courtroom and they sent me to prison, prison, so I'm just saying I'd rather
00:12:18rather be heckled than shackled.
00:12:19shackled. To. But Meredith's family
00:12:22family have told the BBC their pain
00:12:24pain is being turned into entertainment. entertainment. Whilst I appreciate appreciate comedy is there to push
00:12:28push the boundaries and you know
00:12:32know it very much normalises and and trivialises violence against
00:12:36against women and Meredith in particular. particular. And it shouldn't be given
00:12:39given a platform for that specific specific topic. They've backed a
00:12:42a petition calling for the show to to be cancelled, but Amanda Knox
00:12:46Knox says the show honours Meredith's Meredith's memory rather than making
00:12:49making light of it. I'm not the first. first. Person to invent using comedy
00:12:53comedy to talk about traumatic and
00:12:55and difficult material, and I think
00:12:58think that, again, I would hope that that people will honestly engage
00:13:01engage with my work and recognise, recognise, like the deep heart and
00:13:04and sensitivity that I bring to it it as I tell a very personal story
00:13:08story through a comedic lens. The The show, which is said to be sold
00:13:12sold out, has raised questions for for the fringe over someone's right
00:13:15right to tell their own story and
00:13:17and the impact of that on others.
00:13:19others. The round. Nearly two decades
00:13:22decades on, it's another chapter chapter for Amanda Knox in a story
00:13:25story she spent years trying to tell.
00:13:28tell. Emma Vardy. BBC News. Well,
00:13:31Well, let's speak to Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco, Pizzuto-Pomaco, who is Edinburgh
00:13:34Edinburgh correspondent for the Herald. Herald. Great to speak to you, Josh, Josh, thanks for joining us. So where
00:13:38where do we stand here? I mean, what what exactly is this show about?
00:13:41about? Yes. So Amanda Knox has said
00:13:44said this is an exploration of femininity femininity and motherhood and all
00:13:48all these things through the lens lens of comedy. Looking back at that
00:13:52that time in her life as a young
00:13:54young student in Italy, the trial
00:13:57trial and the corresponding legal legal battle and that's what she
00:14:00she said. There's been a lot of controversy controversy about that from, you
00:14:04you know, members of the public. public. A petition has been set up,
00:14:06up, as we've heard, and but at its
00:14:09its heart, you know, Amanda Knox Knox says this is about reclaiming
00:14:12reclaiming her story and sharing
00:14:13sharing her sense of being wronged wronged by the justice system. And
00:14:17And how has the fringe responded responded to this level of controversy? controversy? I imagine it's not the
00:14:21the first time something controversial controversial has been shown at the
00:14:24the fringe. So what's the reaction reaction been from the organisers? organisers? Yeah. Certainly not.
00:14:28not. I mean, the fringe no stranger
00:14:31stranger to controversial comedy comedy and plays and things, there's
00:14:35there's been, you know, issues over over gender critical views, trans
00:14:38trans rights, Israel, Palestine, Palestine, the whole gamut. This This is unique, I think, in a way
00:14:41way because it involves, you know, know, you know, a very serious personal
00:14:45personal thing. The fringe has said
00:14:48said they are committed to upholding upholding the rights of free speech.
00:14:51speech. It's important to note, of
00:14:53of course, any decision about cancelling cancelling or, you know, putting
00:14:56putting the show off off the public public eye would be a decision for
00:15:00for the individual venue, not for for the wider Edinburgh Fringe Society.
00:15:04Society. Just a good thing to clarify clarify there. It's the decision
00:15:07decision of the Gilded Balloon, which which is the company which is producing
00:15:11producing or hosting the show. It's It's their decision whether or not
00:15:14not to continue with the show. And And the show is completely sold out.
00:15:18out. So what are the chances they're they're going to change their minds minds and decide not to host the
00:15:22the show? I think it's very unlikely. unlikely. Again, as you say, you
00:15:25you know, for the entire sort of of ten day run, it's completely sold
00:15:28sold out, which I think speaks to to maybe a morbid curiosity. You
00:15:31You know, we see that with true crime crime in today's culture. And this
00:15:35this is another example of that. that. So I'd say it's very unlikely unlikely that anything's being cancelled.
00:15:39cancelled. I think Amanda Knox has has made it clear that she's going going forward. And that seems to
00:15:43to be the case with the venue as as well. OK. Josh good to talk to
00:15:46to you. Thank you very much for taking
00:15:47taking the time to speak to us. In
00:15:51In the five years since the Taliban Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan,
00:15:55Afghanistan, women have been banned banned from all organised sport.
00:15:58sport. But against the odds, Afghanistan's Afghanistan's women footballers now
00:16:01now scattered across the world, have
00:16:02have found a way back into the international
00:16:06international stage after Fifa changed changed its rules, allowing them
00:16:08them to officially represent Afghanistan.
00:16:11Afghanistan. Mahjooba Nowrouzi from from BBC Global Women followed their their journey as they travelled to
00:16:15to New Zealand for their first training
00:16:17training camp and match. At some
00:16:23some the Meghan Owen. A song for
00:16:27for Afghanistan, a team reunited. reunited. These players have travelled
00:16:30travelled from across the world for
00:16:32for two friendlies in Auckland against
00:16:35against the Cook Islands. The first
00:16:38first since Fifa allowed Afghanistan's
00:16:40Afghanistan's team in exile back back into international football.
00:16:43football. In Afghanistan to be free. free. And we want Afghan girls and
00:16:47and women to be free, to be able
00:16:49able to choose who they want to be. be. We want to prove that we are
00:16:54are still here. We still fighting fighting for the rights that you
00:16:56you took away from us. Five years
00:16:59years ago. Everything changed for
00:17:01for them almost overnight when the the Taliban returned to power, women
00:17:05women were banned from playing sports.
00:17:09sports. Afghanistan's women's team team was forced into exile, unable
00:17:13unable to represent their country. country. They were scattered across
00:17:16across the world. I was bullied throughout throughout high school and football football gave me the confidence to
00:17:20to be who I am today and to be able able to speak loud so I don't know
00:17:23know where I would be. Now they are
00:17:26are back together rebuilding the
00:17:28the team. They thought they had lost.
00:17:31lost. For these players, football football is more than a game. I wanted
00:17:34wanted to use this platform to advocate advocate for the war in Afghanistan Afghanistan who haven't been allowed
00:17:38allowed to study for the past five
00:17:40five years. Obviously the book The
00:17:44The Rose, who is a representation representation of women and the date
00:17:48date August 15th and the date that
00:17:50that Afghanistan fell. These matches
00:17:55matches are only the beginning. The The aim is to rebuild Afghanistan's
00:17:58Afghanistan's team in exile and to
00:18:00to compete for a place at the 2028
00:18:042028 Olympic Games. I would be proud proud of the team and proud of myself
00:18:08myself that I was part of the journey journey and we made history by being
00:18:12being the first like football team team to get our recognition without
00:18:15without the approval of the Taliban. Taliban. I'm so proud of our young young players who played today. Great
00:18:19Great game. Don't cry. Don't put put your heads down. It's more than
00:18:22than football for us. Afghanistan Afghanistan lost both matches to
00:18:26to the Cook Islands, but after years
00:18:28years in exile simply wearing their
00:18:30their country's colours again is
00:18:33is a victory. Their Olympic dream dream is is still alive. We don't
00:18:36don't know when we're going to see see each other again, but it's just
00:18:39just always amazing to have the second
00:18:41second time. Up. Yeah. Mahjooba Nowrouzi
00:18:46Nowrouzi BBC Auckland. Star Wars
00:18:49Wars is going to be dubbed into Welsh Welsh for the first time ahead of
00:18:53of the film's 50th anniversary next next year. The Welsh language version
00:18:56version of the original film, A New New Hope, will broadcast on Welsh
00:18:59Welsh language broadcaster S4C and and its platforms from Christmas
00:19:03Christmas Day, while Claire Evans Evans will play the Golden Protocol
00:19:07Protocol droid C-3PO in the dub.
00:19:08dub. He told us about taking on the
00:19:11the iconic character. I'm a child child of the 70s and 80s, so I'm
00:19:15I'm a massive Star Wars fan, you you know? He's fluent in over 6 million
00:19:18million languages and now he's fluent
00:19:21fluent in 6,000,001, hence his ability
00:19:22ability to talk Welsh. So well. You
00:19:25You know, I'm so I know the character character so well because over the
00:19:29the years I've watched the films films and he's lives on his nerves.
00:19:33nerves. And yeah, I found it quite quite simply, whilst she's a very
00:19:36very poetic language and we tend tend to use more words than English
00:19:39English because we're far more descriptive
00:19:42descriptive and imaginative. So trying
00:19:43trying to squeeze those English lines
00:19:46lines into his few words, Welsh words words as possible was tricky. And
00:19:50And also you've got that intergalactic intergalactic gobbledegook to translate.
00:19:54translate. So the translators had had a bit of work on their hands.
00:19:58hands. Fantastic stuff. Now a rare rare tiger has been released in Kazakhstan
00:20:01Kazakhstan for the first time in
00:20:03in 70 years. Umit, a female Amur
00:20:06Amur tiger, has been released into into Kazakhstan's Ile-Balkhash Nature
00:20:10Nature Reserve as part of a programme programme to restore the animals
00:20:13animals population, which was wiped wiped out in Central Asia a century
00:20:16century ago. Umit is one of four four tigers transferred from Russia.
00:20:21Russia. She'll be monitored on how how she takes to the new habitat
00:20:23habitat before a decision is made
00:20:25made on when to release the other
00:20:27other three. Rihanna could be making
00:20:31making music soon, according to her her partner ASAP Rocky. Rihanna,
00:20:35Rihanna, whose real name is Robin
00:20:37Robin Fenty, hasn't released a full
00:20:40full album since 2016. Anti ASAP
00:20:42ASAP Rocky said on the Jason Lee
00:20:45Lee podcast. She's in the studio studio right now, adding she's cooking.
00:20:48cooking. We don't have any details, details, but the pair have said they
00:20:52they won't collaborate on a double
00:20:55double album. MUSIC
00:21:09Grand Central Station is one of
00:21:11my favourite New York City structures.
00:21:13structures. It's a glorious reminder
00:21:15reminder of the golden age of American American railroads. It also provides
00:21:19provides the setting for some early early scenes in what many people
00:21:23people regard as one of the greatest greatest American thrillers of all
00:21:27all time. The picture North by Northwest,
00:21:30Northwest, an American thriller, thriller, yes, but directed by a
00:21:33a British filmmaker, the master of
00:21:35of suspense Alfred Hitchcock. Top
00:21:39Top US film critic Bilge Ebiri told
00:21:41told me he's such an ardent fan of of North by Northwest that he's seen
00:21:44seen the film at least 50 times.
00:21:47times. Do you know this man? Look
00:21:58Look North by Northwest from 1959,
00:22:011959, the pinnacle of Hitchcock's Hitchcock's American filmmaking career.
00:22:04career. Listen to me. I had nothing nothing to do with it. And also I
00:22:07I think it's kind of the pinnacle pinnacle of a particular kind of
00:22:10of studio filmmaking that Hollywood Hollywood specialised in. Automatically
00:22:13Automatically means a rising sales. sales. North by northwest follows
00:22:16follows an ad executive named Roger
00:22:18Roger Thornhill, played by Cary Grant,
00:22:21Grant, who is mistaken for a spy
00:22:24spy by some nefarious figures. And
00:22:27And they're convinced that he's this this other person and they try to
00:22:31to kill him and he winds up going
00:22:35going on this cross-country adventure adventure trying both to prove his
00:22:39his innocence and also to flee from from the authorities. North by northwest
00:22:43northwest had a huge impact on me me because in some way it treats
00:22:46treats a lot of Hitchcock's deeper deeper themes about guilt and accusation,
00:22:50accusation, while also framing it
00:22:53it within this incredibly exciting,
00:22:56exciting, delightful, charming adventure
00:22:58adventure plot. Well, here we are
00:23:00are again. Yes. One of the most famous
00:23:03famous sequences in this film is
00:23:05is the crop duster sequence. It occurs
00:23:08occurs about halfway through the the film. Cary Grant's character
00:23:10character has been told that he's he's going to meet somebody out in
00:23:13in the middle of nowhere on this this highway road. There's nobody
00:23:16nobody around for miles and miles.
00:23:18miles. A flat, blank expanse. And
00:23:21And then, of course, he sees this
00:23:24this little plane appearing in the the distance, you know, dusting crops.
00:23:27crops. And you realise that the plane
00:23:29plane is there to kill them. They
00:23:35They start to fire at him and he
00:23:37he runs away. It's an incredible
00:23:41incredible sequence when I think
00:23:42think about what makes American cinema
00:23:45cinema so special, I have to think think about the Hollywood system
00:23:48system and the kinds of films it it made possible, the kind of scale
00:23:52scale it made possible, the kind kind of stardom, the kind of charm
00:23:56charm it made possible. And to me,
00:24:00me, North by Northwest really kind kind of stands at the very top of
00:24:03of that. You know, it is Hollywood
00:24:06Hollywood firing on all cylinders, cylinders, maybe for one of the very
00:24:09very last times. It's a great example
00:24:13example of a studio film. It's a a great example of a master filmmaker
00:24:17filmmaker at the height of his powers
00:24:19powers in the studio system, working working with one of the great stars
00:24:22stars of the studio system to create
00:24:24create something so beautiful and
00:24:27and so magnificent, right as the the studio system is essentially
00:24:30essentially about to collapse. But
00:24:32But the thing that they create together
00:24:35together becomes this work that is is so influential and that winds
00:24:38winds up influencing all the filmmakers filmmakers that come after not just just American filmmakers from all
00:24:42all over the world. Well, if we ever ever get out of this alive, let's
00:24:45let's go back to New York on the
00:24:47the train together. All right. Is
00:24:50Is that a proposition?
00:28:35MUSIC
00:28:42What new industries are created. Because what we've seen
00:28:44seen throughout history is new industries industries are created and it's that
00:28:48that process that actually opens opens new doors. That was the that
00:28:51that was the mandate from Prime Minister Minister Starmer. He wants the UK
00:28:55UK to be an AI superpower. He recognises
00:28:58recognises that the ingredients are
00:28:59are all right here. AI is real. AI
00:29:02AI on total will pay off just like like cars in total paid off TV and
00:29:06and total paid off. But most people people involved in it didn't do well.
00:29:10well. It's a revolutionary, you know, know, time upon us. And I think,
00:29:14think, you know, all industries will will be adopting AI in some shape
00:29:17shape or form. MUSIC
00:29:37MUSIC
00:30:13Hello and welcome to The Context USA. I'm Sumi Somaskanda
00:30:16Somaskanda in Washington and I'm I'm Annita McVeigh in London. And
00:30:20And tonight we're focusing on the the role of intelligence sharing
00:30:23sharing between the US and Ukraine. Ukraine. As Ukraine intensifies attacks
00:30:26attacks on Russian infrastructure. infrastructure. This is a deliberate
00:30:30deliberate Ukrainian strategy to to take the war deeper into Russian
00:30:33Russian territory, to make the Russian
00:30:34Russian people really feel the impact.
00:30:37impact. A US Senate committee has has voted to hold. Former White House
00:30:40House medical adviser Anthony Fauci Fauci in contempt after he refused
00:30:44refused to answer questions about about his handling of the Covid pandemic.
00:30:47pandemic. If we were to grant him him immunity from telling the truth
00:30:50truth of what value, you know, would
00:30:52would his testimony be? Metta becomes
00:30:55becomes the latest firm to say one
00:30:57one of its AI models hacked another another company.