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00:01:23News. Iran says a deal with Oman
00:01:25Oman on the Strait of Hormuz is in
00:01:28in its final stages. And let's turn
00:01:41turn to the Iran war. Now let me me begin by just bringing you up
00:01:44up to date with what President Trump Trump has been saying in the Oval Oval Office in the last few minutes.
00:01:48minutes. He's just finished speaking speaking there. He was being asked
00:01:51asked about the questions of American
00:01:54American supplies of munitions, and and he said that the US., quote,
00:01:58quote, had an unlimited supply of of munitions. But he said, we always
00:02:02always want more, but we're supplied supplied all over the world. That
00:02:05That doesn't exactly track with some some concerns about military supplies
00:02:09supplies that we've heard from the the chair of the Joint Chiefs of
00:02:12of Staff in the US., General Dan Dan Cane and President Trump also
00:02:16also said that he thought the war war would be over soon. But he has
00:02:20has said that a number of times during
00:02:23during the course of this war, which
00:02:26which began in February. Well, with with reports of a possible breakthrough
00:02:29breakthrough over the Straits of of Hormuz, Iran says they're close
00:02:33close to finalising an interim agreement agreement with Oman over the vital
00:02:37vital waterway, which has been effectively effectively closed since the start
00:02:39start of the conflict. Pakistan, Pakistan, which is mediating between
00:02:43between the United States and Iran, Iran, says it hopes an agreement
00:02:46agreement will lead Washington and and Tehran to resume talks and resolve
00:02:50resolve their conflict. If confirmed, confirmed, a deal might begin to
00:02:54to ease an economic crisis that has
00:02:56has shaken markets. But it could could cement Iranian control over
00:03:00over the maritime choke point. Well,
00:03:02Well, let's speak now to Matt Smith,
00:03:05Smith, director of commodity research research at Kepler, a global data
00:03:09data platform that provides intelligence intelligence on international trade
00:03:13trade and maritime logistics. Welcome Welcome to the programme, Matt. I
00:03:16I want to get you to bring us right right up to date with what exactly exactly is happening in the Strait
00:03:20Strait of Hormuz at the moment. Is
00:03:22Is there any movement? Well, we continue
00:03:25continue to see somewhat more than than a trickle, but that's about
00:03:28about it. And so whether it is ten,
00:03:31ten, 12, 14 tankers passing through through there each way on any given
00:03:34given day, would that those are mostly mostly related to Iran. So they're they're either ones that Iran is
00:03:38is letting pass through on its northern
00:03:41northern route that passes close
00:03:43close to in its waters there, or
00:03:45or we are seeing some dark tankers, tankers, tankers switching off their
00:03:49their eyes. So we are seeing some some crude oil getting out of there,
00:03:53there, but it still remains very, very, very depressed in terms of
00:03:56of volumes. Yes, absolutely minimal
00:03:58minimal compared to the traffic before before this conflict started. So
00:04:02So in terms of what you've heard
00:04:04heard about the discussions between between Iran and Oman, do you think
00:04:07think that a deal to reopen the strait
00:04:10strait fully to traffic, shipping
00:04:12shipping traffic can be
00:04:17reached? It's difficult to say. It's It's hard not to be sceptical at at this point, right? As we move
00:04:21move into the sixth month of the the conflict here, it seems as if
00:04:25if this deal is more related to just
00:04:27just getting the traffic flowing flowing rather than some broader
00:04:30broader type of deal. And so when
00:04:32when we kind of consider from a US
00:04:35US perspective, this is a positive positive thing given that President President Trump wants to see more
00:04:39more traffic moving here, he wants wants the market to seem to be returning
00:04:42returning to normalcy. From the Iranian Iranian side, though, they are the
00:04:46the ones that have the leverage. leverage. They have the control. control. We have seen them fire at
00:04:50at tankers just over the last week
00:04:52week or so. And so Iran isn't going
00:04:55going to give up that leverage. And And so that's the key thing here
00:04:58here is what is their game plan. plan. This may simply be a temporary
00:05:02temporary deal. It's a prequel towards towards them. Perhaps just implementing
00:05:06implementing a toll on the strait. strait. So we have to be sceptical
00:05:09sceptical about their motivation motivation to do this because they they are the ones that hold the power
00:05:13power right now. And if there was
00:05:15was a deal, what would the impact
00:05:17impact be in terms of shipping behaviour? behaviour? Would we see operators
00:05:21operators holding back at first to
00:05:23to see if someone else goes first
00:05:25first and what might happen to
00:05:29them? Yes that's likely. And so we we have seen this across a number number of scenarios through the Strait
00:05:33Strait of Hormuz in recent months months here where you need the first
00:05:36first movers. So essentially those those that will go first to give
00:05:40give confidence to everybody else, else, and then that gives the momentum
00:05:43momentum for those that vessel traffic traffic to essentially pick up. The The thing to bear in mind here, we're
00:05:47we're still waiting to hear all the the details on this. We're hearing
00:05:50hearing rumours, you know, that Iran Iran is going to let some tankers
00:05:53tankers go through, but if they are are related to those countries that
00:05:57that have been part of the war against against them, they are not going
00:06:00going to let those go through. So So there's a lot of unknowns related
00:06:03related to it. Now. Yes, this could could be very positive in terms of
00:06:06of really seeing the traffic pick pick up. I think we just have to
00:06:09to be very wary because we don't don't know what Iran's ultimate intentions
00:06:12intentions are here. Yeah. A lot lot of questions that would need
00:06:15need to be answered. And just finally finally and very briefly if you would,
00:06:18would, Matt, what could the impact impact be in costs for ships if they
00:06:22they do start to move again through
00:06:25through the strait? Well, it's related related to insurances, the shipping
00:06:29shipping costs involved there. And And so the insurance are the ones
00:06:32ones that are have to approve these these vessels to be passing through.
00:06:35through. We've had these high costs costs here involved which have stopped
00:06:38stopped them moving through. So that's that's the ultimate concern here
00:06:41here is is if it is a safe passageway passageway to then everything else
00:06:44else will kind of fall into place place for that to happen. OK, Matt,
00:06:47Matt, very good to talk to you. Thank Thank you very much. Matt Smith,
00:06:50Smith, director of commodity research research at Kepler. Now, over the
00:06:54the next few minutes we're going going to focus on the man who shaken
00:06:58shaken up the Democratic Party in in a critical US swing state. We'll
00:07:01We'll discuss how he pulled off the the victory and what it tells us
00:07:05us about the shape of the Democratic Democratic Party. Less than 90 days
00:07:08days from the crucial mid-term elections elections over to my colleague Matthew
00:07:12Matthew Amroliwala and today's big big story. What a race. You know,
00:07:15know, in the words of Muhammad Ali, Ali, we shook up the world. Billed
00:07:17Billed by some as a battle for the the soul of the Democratic Party,
00:07:21Party, a narrow victory for 41-year-old
00:07:2341-year-old progressive Abdul El-Sayed. El-Sayed. Eating establishment centrist centrist candidate Congresswoman
00:07:27Congresswoman Haley Stevens. He hates
00:07:28hates Jews and he hates Israel. Abdul
00:07:31Abdul El-Sayed. If you can't say say the name, it's Abdul Rahman. Rahman. Keep the name out your damn
00:07:35damn mouth. We need more people in
00:07:38in the Senate who will fight for for working families. God forbid
00:07:41forbid you're going to have President
00:07:43President El-Sayed in three years.
00:07:49years. The left wing political outsider.
00:07:51outsider. Abdul El-Sayed narrow victory
00:07:54victory in Michigan's Democratic Democratic primary has been branded
00:07:57branded another big win for America's America's progressives. But as Democrats
00:08:01Democrats prepare to take the fight fight to Donald Trump and the Republicans
00:08:04Republicans in November, can the the left wing of the party labelled
00:08:07labelled as communists by the President, President, unite with the centrist
00:08:11centrist wing? And if so, can they
00:08:12they do it in time to present a united
00:08:15united front that can convince voters voters of the party's strategy? Well,
00:08:18Well, we're going to spend the next next ten minutes or so in today's
00:08:21today's big story looking at those those questions. Well, with us is
00:08:25is our North America correspondent correspondent Anthony Zurcher, who's who's in Washington following the
00:08:28the story. Let's start with Abdul
00:08:30Abdul El-Sayed. He's fairly new on on the national scene. So tell us
00:08:34us more about him. Fairly new. He's
00:08:36He's 41 years old. He was born in
00:08:39in Michigan, the son of Egyptian
00:08:41Egyptian immigrants. He went to the the University of Michigan for college,
00:08:45college, attended Oxford as a Rhodes Rhodes Scholar. He's an epidemiologist
00:08:49epidemiologist by training. He was was a public health official in Michigan
00:08:52Michigan before going into politics politics in 2018. He ran unsuccessfully
00:08:56unsuccessfully for the Democratic Democratic nomination for governor.
00:08:58governor. And then now in 2024, he he ran for the Senate seat mostly
00:09:02mostly on the same sorts of issues. issues. But he's young, he's charismatic,
00:09:05charismatic, and he's viewed by many many on the progressive left as the
00:09:08the next generation of potential potential leaders. Well, you touch touch on it because I was going to
00:09:12to ask you why voters in Michigan
00:09:13Michigan chose him over the more
00:09:16more established Democratic candidate. candidate. Well, one of the things
00:09:19things we hear time and time again again from Democrats, Democratic
00:09:22Democratic voters across the country country is that they're frustrated frustrated that the Democratic Party
00:09:25Party isn't doing enough to stand stand up to Donald Trump. They want
00:09:29want someone who's a fighter, someone someone who's willing to full throatedly
00:09:33throatedly espouse Democratic positions. positions. And that's what El-Sayed
00:09:37El-Sayed did the Democratic voters voters liked his positions. They
00:09:40They wanted someone who was charismatic
00:09:42charismatic but also willing to draw draw bright lines between Donald
00:09:45Donald Trump. And if he gets to Washington, Washington, not look for compromise,
00:09:49compromise, but look for ways of of stopping Donald Trump. And tell
00:09:51tell us what some of the key issues
00:09:53issues were for those voters in Michigan.
00:09:57Michigan. Well, his policy prescriptions prescriptions are mostly progressive
00:10:00progressive ones that people who who follow Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth
00:10:03Elizabeth Warren and others would would be familiar with. He talked
00:10:07talked about Medicare, this government government health insurance for all
00:10:10all Americans expanding that elderly
00:10:12elderly programme, raising taxes
00:10:14taxes on the wealthy, getting money money out of politics. He also talked
00:10:18talked about cutting off US military military aid to Israel. And that
00:10:21that became a big issue during the
00:10:24the campaign and a line of distinction distinction between him and Haley
00:10:28Haley Stevens, the congresswoman congresswoman who he defeated. So
00:10:30So these are all familiar progressive
00:10:33progressive ideas, but he's focusing focusing more on the economic policies
00:10:36policies he's going to. He said he's he's going to get money out of politics
00:10:38politics and put money in American's
00:10:41American's wallets. Well, you mentioned mentioned there that the Middle East
00:10:44East and Democrats support for Israel Israel is dividing the party more
00:10:48more broadly. There was focus on
00:10:50on comments made by Abdul El-Sayed
00:10:52El-Sayed after the Michigan synagogue synagogue attack back in March, carried
00:10:55carried out by a man who's Hezbollah Hezbollah linked relatives were killed
00:10:59killed in an Israeli air strike. strike. Well, back then, he said
00:11:03said of the attack. Hurt people, people, hurt people. He was asked
00:11:06asked about those comments by CBS
00:11:08CBS News on Wednesday. What did you you mean? And do you regret saying
00:11:12saying it? What I mean is that hurt hurt people, hurt people that maybe
00:11:15maybe if we're serious about ending ending the hurt, we should stop hurting
00:11:18hurting people. I condemned the attack. attack. It was a vile anti-Semitic
00:11:21anti-Semitic attack. Let's turn now now to Michigan's importance on the
00:11:25the national stage, because it's
00:11:27it's one of the six key swing states states that in 2024, Donald Trump
00:11:30Trump flipped from Democrat to Republican.
00:11:33Republican. But how crucial is Michigan Michigan in these mid-terms that
00:11:36that are ahead? Here's Ed O'Keefe O'Keefe from CBS News. Michigan is
00:11:40is one of those states to watch this this fall because Democrats need need to hold on to their Senate seat
00:11:44seat here and in the state of Georgia, Georgia, plus win four other Republican
00:11:47Republican held seats across the the country in order to retake control
00:11:51control of the US Senate. Let's go
00:11:53go back to Anthony in Washington. Washington. And Anthony, looking
00:11:56looking ahead to November in Michigan,
00:11:59Michigan, who is El-Sayed actually actually running against? He's running
00:12:03running against a former congressman, congressman, Mike Rogers, who is
00:12:06is trying to get back into politics
00:12:09politics after leaving his House House seat in Michigan. He's more
00:12:13more of a traditional Republican. Republican. He isn't one of these
00:12:15these Trump fire breathers, not an an election denier. If you imagine
00:12:19imagine the Republican Party ten, ten, 15 years ago, Mike Rogers would
00:12:22would fit well into that mould. So So it's going to be an interesting
00:12:26interesting contrast between El-Sayed, El-Sayed, who is obviously a progressive
00:12:30progressive activist, and Rogers, Rogers, who's much more traditional traditional establishment type of
00:12:33of Republican. Well, it's not the the first time in recent months that
00:12:37that a left wing candidate has won
00:12:40won for the Democratic Party with with the biggest name being the mayor
00:12:44mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani. He, like El-Sayed, focused
00:12:47focused his campaign on lifting the
00:12:49the working class and endorsing policies
00:12:51policies such as free childcare and and abolishing the controversial
00:12:55controversial Ice immigration enforcement. enforcement. Back to Anthony and
00:12:58and Anthony, a couple of final questions. questions. Is this part of a broader
00:13:01broader trend now within the Democratic
00:13:04Democratic Party? Yeah, I think it it is. As I mentioned, Democrats
00:13:07Democrats are looking for fighters. fighters. They're looking for people
00:13:09people to stand up to Donald Trump. Trump. And you have seen progressives
00:13:12progressives start winning some races, races, unseating incumbent members
00:13:16members of Congress who were viewed viewed as to moderate. Zofran. Mamdani
00:13:19Mamdani obviously, his success in in New York City was a big part of
00:13:23of this. But you've seen in places places like Colorado, elsewhere in
00:13:25in New York and in some House races
00:13:28races in Michigan as well, that this this is a trend that Democratic voters
00:13:32voters are more open to progressive progressive candidates, whether that
00:13:35that actually translates into ballot
00:13:37ballot box success in a battleground battleground state like Michigan
00:13:40Michigan that Donald Trump won twice twice in 2016 and 2024. That's the
00:13:44the big question. I think progressives progressives are hoping that the
00:13:46the answer is yes and that this shows shows that their policies have wider,
00:13:50wider, wider appeal than just in in those deep democratic parts of
00:13:53of the country. Well, let's finish finish with that final thought. How
00:13:57How do we look and know how progressive progressive candidates have stacked
00:14:00stacked up so far against Republicans?
00:14:04Republicans? Well, we haven't seen
00:14:07seen anyone like Abdul El-Sayed run
00:14:09run in a place like Michigan before.
00:14:11before. We've seen progressives win win the Democratic nomination in
00:14:14in places that are either solidly
00:14:16solidly Republican. And it was a
00:14:19a token kind of opposition or in in places that were solidly Democratic
00:14:22Democratic and winning the Democratic Democratic primary nomination would
00:14:25would be enough to virtually assure assure victory. This is going to
00:14:27to be the big test case. This is is going to be someone who is progressive
00:14:31progressive standing in a seat that, that, as you mentioned, is essential essential for Democrats to hold on
00:14:35on to if they want to flip the Senate. Senate. Anthony Zurcher there in
00:14:39in Washington. Thanks for taking taking us through all of that. And And that's all you need to know about
00:14:42about the primary victory of Abdul Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and what
00:14:46what it means for the
00:15:50editor in chief of The Economist Economist will tell us about her her experience. It's all on The Media
00:15:54Media Show on BBC News. Some good
00:16:03good health news now, as British British scientists say vaccines which
00:16:06which don't need to be kept cool cool in a fridge have been successfully successfully trialled in patients
00:16:10patients for the first time. Around Around half of all vaccines are wasted
00:16:13wasted each year, often after freezing freezing or becoming too hot. Researchers
00:16:17Researchers say the breakthrough breakthrough could transform vaccination vaccination programmes around the
00:16:21the world. A team at the National National Institute for Health and
00:16:24and Care Research in Southampton Southampton has been working on a
00:16:28a fridge free approach. And the director
00:16:31director of the NIH facility, Professor
00:16:33Professor Saul Faust, joins us now. now. Welcome to the programme. Great
00:16:36Great to have you with us. And I
00:16:38I understand that you used a tetanus
00:16:41tetanus diphtheria vaccination for for this trial. Was there a particular
00:16:43particular reason for that? Yeah.
00:16:46Yeah. Well, the British company that
00:16:48that have developed this technology,
00:16:51technology, obviously it's quite
00:16:53quite difficult to use develop a
00:16:55a new vaccine from scratch with a
00:16:57a new technology that to help the
00:17:00the temperature regulation and storage.
00:17:03storage. So they had to find a company company that were prepared to let
00:17:06let them use their vaccine and change change their vaccine, if you like.
00:17:09like. Take the take the same vaccine vaccine and turn it into a fridge
00:17:13fridge free version. And the company company that that worked with them
00:17:17them allowed them to use a tetanus tetanus diphtheria vaccine that is
00:17:21is used in different places around around the world. OK. And in user
00:17:25user friendly terms, explain then
00:17:26then for us how you created a version
00:17:31version of this vaccination that that doesn't need to be kept in a
00:17:34a fridge. Yeah. So the founder of
00:17:37of the company realised that a sugar
00:17:40sugar called trehalose, which is
00:17:41is like a simple naturally occurring
00:17:44occurring sugar that was found in in a plant called the plant in the
00:17:48the desert in the United States.
00:17:51States. And the plant is able to
00:17:55to dehydrate itself in times of drought drought completely looks dead if
00:17:58if you look at it like our grass grass outside at the moment. And
00:18:02And then when the rains come, it it sort of completely regenerates
00:18:05regenerates itself and resuscitates resuscitates itself into a flowering
00:18:08flowering plant. And that shook same
00:18:10same sugar has now been used to take
00:18:14take what is a vaccine that's already already been made? Is the normal
00:18:18normal version. And then they can
00:18:20can dehydrate it using the same sugar
00:18:23sugar and create a powder that when when we take it to the clinic, can
00:18:27can then be reconstituted just with with water for injections. Like many
00:18:30many of the things you get at the
00:18:32the doctor's or in hospital as there's there's water for injection everywhere
00:18:36everywhere that can be used. So looking. looking. To the natural, looking looking to the natural world for
00:18:40for inspiration. Professor Faust Faust and talk to us in a little little bit more detail if you would
00:18:44would then about the implications implications for vaccination programmes
00:18:47programmes in places with hugely hugely varying temperatures. Yeah.
00:18:51Yeah. So as you said in your introduction,
00:18:53introduction, freezing is as bad bad as being too hot. And actually
00:18:56actually many of the vaccines that
00:18:58that get wasted, about half of the the vaccines in the world are said
00:19:02said to be wasted every year because because of temperature and other
00:19:05other deviations from how they're they're supposed to be stored. And
00:19:08And it's actually freezing at the the back of the fridge or in a cold
00:19:11cold in a cold bag on the way, the the way somewhere that that ruins
00:19:15ruins more of them than heating.
00:19:17heating. So being able to freeze
00:19:21freeze or heat, heat, heat a vaccine
00:19:24vaccine or in the future, other medicines,
00:19:27medicines, other biological, new new biological agents, treatments
00:19:30treatments for cancer, whatever it it might be, the potential of this
00:19:34this technology is is huge and the the company are already working with
00:19:37with other companies that have molecules molecules to treat cancer. Other
00:19:41Other anti-infection treatments and and other vaccines. Of this type.
00:19:45type. So the standard vaccines, protein
00:19:48protein vaccines or ones that we
00:19:50we we are called adjuvanted vaccines. It sounds like a really
00:19:53really exciting prospect. Very briefly, briefly, if you would, you've had
00:19:56had this first trial. What's next?
00:19:59next? So two two things. What's next? next? First is to do a bigger trial
00:20:02trial just to prove that the data
00:20:04data is absolutely solid. And that's
00:20:07that's 160 people that'll happen happen in Britain over the next few
00:20:10few months, be finished by next year. year. And then that vaccine will
00:20:13will hopefully by the end of next next year or 2028, be able to be
00:20:16be deployed around the world. And And of course, the potential though
00:20:20though is is even more exciting than than just this tetanus diptheria
00:20:23diptheria vaccine. The potential potential is that companies will
00:20:25will be able to work from the start
00:20:27start for new medicines and vaccines
00:20:30vaccines to create temp fridge free free versions or for some medicines
00:20:34medicines that are needed out to to the community or elsewhere in in the world to turn them into to
00:20:37to turn existing medicines into fridge fridge free versions. OK. Professor
00:20:41Professor Saul Faust, thank you very
00:20:43very much and good luck with the
00:20:46the rest of the research. Thank you
00:20:48you very much. Now a rare tiger has has been released in Kazakhstan for
00:20:52for the first time in 70 years. Umit,
00:20:55Umit, a female Amur tiger, has been been released into a nature reserve
00:20:58reserve as part of a programme to to restore the animals population,
00:21:02population, which was wiped out in
00:21:04in Central Asia a century ago. Here's
00:21:07Here's hoping that that works really really well. Thank you very much
00:21:09much for watching us here on the
00:21:11the context on BBC News. MUSIC
00:21:28Grand Central Station is one of
00:21:30my favourite New York City structures.
00:21:32structures. It's a glorious reminder
00:21:34reminder of the golden age of American American railroads. It also provides
00:21:38provides the setting for some early early scenes in what many people
00:21:42people regard as one of the greatest greatest American thrillers of all
00:21:45all time. The picture North by Northwest,
00:21:49Northwest, an American thriller, thriller, yes, but directed by British
00:21:52British filmmaker the master of suspense
00:21:55suspense Alfred Hitchcock. Top US
00:21:58US film critic Bilge Ebiri told me
00:22:00me he's such an ardent fan of North North by Northwest that he's seen
00:22:03seen the film at least 50 times.
00:22:06times. Do you know this man? MUSIC
00:22:17MUSIC Look Look North by Northwest from 1959,
00:22:201959, the pinnacle of Hitchcock's Hitchcock's American filmmaking career.
00:22:23career. Listen to me. I had nothing nothing to do with it. And also I
00:22:26I think it's kind of the pinnacle pinnacle of a particular kind of
00:22:29of studio filmmaking that Hollywood Hollywood specialised in. Automatically
00:22:32Automatically means a rising sales. sales. North by northwest follows
00:22:35follows an ad executive named Roger
00:22:36Roger Thornhill, played by Cary Grant,
00:22:40Grant, who is mistaken for a spy
00:22:43spy by some nefarious figures. And
00:22:46And they're convinced that he's this this other person and they try to
00:22:49to kill him and he winds up going
00:22:54going on this cross-country adventure adventure trying both to prove his
00:22:58his innocence and also to flee from from the authorities. North by northwest
00:23:01northwest had a huge impact on me me because in some way it treats
00:23:05treats a lot of Hitchcock's deeper deeper themes about guilt and accusation,
00:23:09accusation, while also framing it
00:23:12it within this incredibly exciting,
00:23:15exciting, delightful, charming adventure
00:23:17adventure plot. Well, here we are
00:23:19are again. Yes. One of the most famous
00:23:22famous sequences in this film is
00:23:24is the crop duster sequence. It occurs
00:23:26occurs about halfway through the the film. Cary Grant's character
00:23:29character has been told that he's he's going to meet somebody out in
00:23:32in the middle of nowhere on this this highway road. There's nobody
00:23:35nobody around for miles and miles
00:23:37miles of flat, blank expanse. And
00:23:40And then, of course, he sees this
00:23:42this little plane appearing in the the distance, you know, dusting crops
00:23:46crops and you realise that the plane
00:23:48plane is there to kill them. They
00:23:54They start to fire at him and he
00:23:56he runs away. An incredible sequence
00:24:00sequence when I think about what
00:24:02what makes American cinema so special,
00:24:05special, I have to think about the the Hollywood system and the kinds
00:24:08kinds of films it made possible, possible, the kinds of scale it made
00:24:11made possible, the kind of stardom,
00:24:13stardom, the kind of charm it made
00:24:16made possible. And to me, North by
00:24:19by Northwest really kind of stands
00:24:21stands at the very top of that. You
00:24:24You know, it is Hollywood firing firing on all cylinders, maybe for
00:24:27for one of the very last times. It's
00:24:31It's a great example of a studio studio film. It's a great example
00:24:35example of a master filmmaker at at the height of his powers in the
00:24:39the studio system, Working with one one of the great stars of the studio
00:24:42studio system to create something
00:24:43something so beautiful and so magnificent.
00:24:47magnificent. Right as the studio studio system is essentially about
00:24:50about to collapse. But the thing thing that they create together becomes
00:24:54becomes this work that is so influential
00:24:56influential and that winds up influencing influencing all the filmmakers that that come after not just American
00:25:00American filmmakers from all over over the world. But if we ever get
00:25:03get out of this alive, let's go back back to New York on the train together.
00:25:07together. All right. Is that a proposition?
00:25:13proposition? MUSIC
00:28:51MUSIC
00:29:01What new industries are created? Because what we've seen seen throughout history is new industries
00:29:05industries are created and it's that that process that actually opens
00:29:08opens new doors. That was the that that was the mandate from Prime Minister
00:29:12Minister Starmer. He wants the UK
00:29:13UK to be an AI superpower. He recognises
00:29:17recognises that the ingredients are
00:29:18are all right here. AI is real AI
00:29:22AI on total pay off just like cars cars in total paid off TV and total
00:29:25total paid off. But most people involved
00:29:27involved and didn't do well. The
00:29:30The revolutionary you know time upon upon us and I think, you know, all
00:29:34all industries will be adopting AI
00:29:35AI in some shape or form. MUSIC
00:29:53MUSIC
00:30:16I'm Sumi Somaskanda in Washington and this is BBC World
00:30:18World News America. Ukrainian forces forces hit two oil refineries deep
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