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00:02:14Hello, I'm Annita McVeigh and this is The Iran War Today bringing
00:02:18bringing you up to date with all all you need to know on the US war
00:02:22war with Iran. Let's start with some some of today's key developments.
00:02:25developments. As the conflict widens. widens. Saudi Arabia and Yemen's
00:02:28Yemen's armed forces have continued continued their fight against Iran
00:02:31Iran backed Houthis in Yemen, launching launching dozens of air strikes on
00:02:35on key Houthi positions. It's in in response to the militants targeting
00:02:38targeting key oil pipelines and infrastructure.
00:02:41infrastructure. The widening internal internal war between the Houthi militants
00:02:43militants and Yemen's armed forces forces is causing a major humanitarian
00:02:47humanitarian crisis. The UN says
00:02:50says 100,000 people have been internally internally displaced. Thousands more
00:02:54more have already fled across the the Bab al-Mandab Strait to Djibouti
00:02:57Djibouti in less than a week. Meanwhile, Meanwhile, another vessel has been
00:03:01been hit in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:03:03Hormuz. UK maritime trade operations operations say an unknown projectile
00:03:06projectile struck a vessel in the
00:03:08the waterway. Oman's navy said they
00:03:10they rescued 23 members of crew. crew. Only a handful of ships have
00:03:14have been able to cross through the the strait in the last 24 hours.
00:03:18hours. The fighting between Saudi Saudi Arabia and the Houthis, combined
00:03:21combined with continued strikes in in the Strait of Hormuz, have kept
00:03:24kept oil prices high, with Brent
00:03:26Brent crude remaining above $100
00:03:28$100 a barrel. And Lebanon's Prime Prime Minister has revealed the huge
00:03:32huge cost of Israel's war with Hezbollah
00:03:35Hezbollah on his country. Prime Minister Minister Nawaf Salam said rebuilding
00:03:38rebuilding will cost up to $4 billion
00:03:41billion and will require support
00:03:43support from other nations. As a
00:03:50a stalemate continues between the the US and Iran, fighting continues
00:03:53continues to escalate in the Red
00:03:55Red Sea centred around the Iran backed
00:03:58backed Houthis in Yemen. The Houthis Houthis claim they have hit a major
00:04:01major Saudi base and seized more more strategic islands in the southern
00:04:05southern Red Sea. Releasing this this footage of their attacks and
00:04:08and rapid advance in Yemen, Saudi
00:04:11Saudi and Yemeni forces have intensified intensified their strikes on Houthi
00:04:15Houthi targets in response, releasing releasing footage of their own of
00:04:18of successfully targeted strikes strikes on Houthi positions. Our
00:04:22Our Middle East correspondent Hugo Hugo Bachega has the latest. The
00:04:26The full-scale of the fighting on on the ground in Yemen remains unclear.
00:04:28unclear. The Houthis have made significant
00:04:32significant advances along the country's country's Red Sea coast and have
00:04:35have been striking Saudi cities and and infrastructure. This has put
00:04:39put a lot of pressure on energy supplies.
00:04:41supplies. A vital east west pipeline
00:04:43pipeline in Saudi Arabia has been
00:04:46been shut after a drone attack a a few days ago, and concerns remain
00:04:50remain that the Houthis may try to
00:04:53to disrupt Saudi oil shipments in in the Bab al Mandab Strait, which
00:04:57which has become a key alternative
00:05:00alternative for Saudi oil exports. exports. Given that the Strait of
00:05:03of Hormuz has been effectively closed closed because of the US war against
00:05:06against Iran. In the meantime, Saudi Saudi and Yemeni forces have been
00:05:10been striking Houthi positions with
00:05:13with frequent air strikes and Houthi Houthi spokesperson said at least
00:05:16least three people had been killed
00:05:18killed in the latest Saudi attacks,
00:05:22attacks, including two children. children. There hasn't been any reaction
00:05:26reaction from the Saudi government
00:05:27government and in Saudi Arabia, emergency
00:05:30emergency alerts were sent for the the city of Mecca for the first time
00:05:34time in this crisis, amid fears of
00:05:36of renewed Houthi attacks. Now we we still don't know if the Houthis
00:05:39Houthis are going to try to capture
00:05:40capture more territory in Yemen or
00:05:44or if the government and its allies
00:05:46allies are planning to launch a wider
00:05:49wider counteroffensive. But the concern concern here is that this violence
00:05:52violence could reignite the civil civil war in Yemen after four years
00:05:56years of relative calm. The renewed
00:05:59renewed conflict in Yemen has left left more than 100,000 people internally
00:06:03internally displaced. That's according according to the United Nations and
00:06:06and has sparked thousands of people people to flee from Yemen across
00:06:09across the Bab al-Mandab Strait to to Djibouti. The UN has called the
00:06:13the huge influx of refugees unexpected
00:06:15unexpected and is warning of a humanitarian humanitarian crisis if thousands
00:06:19thousands more people arrive. If If the fighting continues. Our global
00:06:22global affairs reporter Richard Kagoe
00:06:24Kagoe has more from Nairobi. Well,
00:06:27Well, the UN in Djibouti is saying
00:06:30saying that they are currently overwhelmed overwhelmed by the influx of refugees
00:06:34refugees who are fleeing the fighting fighting in Yemen, saying that they
00:06:37they have so far received about 2400.
00:06:412400. But the authorities in Djibouti
00:06:43Djibouti indicating that there are
00:06:45are thousands more, about 3400 and
00:06:47and more are still coming. What they're
00:06:49they're saying is that the town of of Obock, which is literally on the
00:06:53the front line in terms of this response,
00:06:56response, is currently overwhelmed overwhelmed because you're having
00:06:59having majority of them who are children. children. They say that the children
00:07:02children on arrival are appear to
00:07:05to be stressed, also at the same
00:07:07same time, they appear to be very very tired and are. But there's a
00:07:11a sense of relief from them. The The fact that they have been able
00:07:13able to escape the war and successfully
00:07:17successfully navigated the waters waters across the Red Sea. So currently currently what they're doing is they're
00:07:21they're doing registration, are providing
00:07:23providing them with water, with food food and other supplies. The fighting
00:07:27fighting in the Red Sea is having having a huge impact on the already
00:07:30already inflated oil prices, and and it's clear to see why. Since
00:07:34Since the start of the US-Israel US-Israel war with Iran, the Strait
00:07:36Strait of Hormuz has either been been blocked or remained a highly
00:07:40highly risky route for Saudi Arabia Arabia to try to ship its oil out
00:07:43out to the rest of the world. To
00:07:45To combat that, Saudi Arabia has has been piping oil across the country
00:07:49country from east to west and using using the Red Sea to get its oil
00:07:52oil out to the global market. The The problem is that pipeline has
00:07:56has now been taken offline as a result
00:07:58result of strikes by the Houthis Houthis and by Iran backed proxies
00:08:02proxies in Iraq. Take a look at this this satellite image from Vancouver.
00:08:06Vancouver. This is what one of Saudi Saudi Arabia's major pumping stations
00:08:10stations looked like last October. October. And this is what the same
00:08:13same pumping station looks like now. now. There is a huge amount of damage
00:08:17damage to it, and experts have told
00:08:19told BBC Verify repairs could take take more than a month. But even
00:08:22even when Saudi Arabia can get the the pipeline back up and running,
00:08:25running, the Houthis could still still cause issues. And that's because
00:08:29because the ideal route out of the the Red Sea is the Bab al Mandab
00:08:33Mandab Strait. But now, as the Houthis Houthis are blocking that route,
00:08:36route, the only way for the oil to to go out of the Red Sea is through
00:08:39through the Suez Canal in the north,
00:08:42north, which is not only a much smaller smaller exit for ships, but it also
00:08:45also means that any oil travelling travelling to Asia has to travel
00:08:49travel all the way around the southern southern tip of Africa and time,
00:08:52time, of course, means money. Well,
00:08:54Well, let's speak to our North America America correspondent Samira Hussain.
00:08:58Hussain. Samira, the conflict in in the Middle East was already having
00:09:01having a major issues for the price price of oil. And these latest developments
00:09:04developments are presumably cranking
00:09:05cranking up that pressure even further.
00:09:08further. Absolutely. We're seeing seeing now that the price of oil
00:09:11oil is trading at around $109 a barrel.
00:09:14barrel. That's for Brent crude. And
00:09:16And as you rightly pointed out look,
00:09:19look, you have the main Strait of
00:09:21of Hormuz that is has been blocked
00:09:23blocked because of the war with Iran.
00:09:25Iran. And now you have the Bab al
00:09:28al Mandab Strait Strait that is also also being constricted. And so there
00:09:31there really is only one way to bring
00:09:34bring oil out there. And it takes takes a long time for that to be
00:09:38be able to happen. And it really really just limits how much oil can
00:09:42can actually get to other countries. countries. So what is the impact
00:09:44impact that we're seeing? Well, in in terms of global oil reserves,
00:09:48reserves, we're seeing that those those are dwindling really quite
00:09:51quite quickly. And so now what's what's going to have to happen is
00:09:54is that other countries are going
00:09:56going to have to buy commercial oil
00:09:59oil to rebuild some of those supplies. supplies. And as we know, it comes
00:10:03comes at a pretty hefty cost. And And Samira, what effect does all
00:10:06all of this having on the wider markets
00:10:08markets like bonds, for example?
00:10:11example? Well. So the price of energy
00:10:14energy as it goes higher, it has has a direct impact on inflation
00:10:17inflation here in the United States. States. We just got some inflation inflation numbers and we know that
00:10:21that a third of inflation the rises
00:10:24rises in inflation that we've seen seen have to do with the high cost
00:10:28cost of energy. And that just means means that we're going to see things
00:10:32things like bond yields. So that that is the interest rate the rate
00:10:35rate of interest that that investors investors will make on these bonds.
00:10:39bonds. Well that's going higher. higher. But with inflation going
00:10:42going higher it also means that investors investors are going to want to make
00:10:45make more money elsewhere, which which is why you're seeing that there's
00:10:49there's a selloff happening in the the bond market. And you see that
00:10:52that investors are trying to find find more value for their buck. OK.
00:10:56OK. Samira, thank you very much.
00:10:58much. Samira Hussain there. Whether
00:11:00Whether you are joining us on YouTube, YouTube, TikTok sounds Radio or TV,
00:11:04TV, thank you for your time. We'll
00:11:06We'll be back soon with another Iran
00:11:09Iran war today.
00:12:12coverage join me James Landale here
00:12:15here on BBC News. Let's return now
00:12:22now to the story. We began the programme programme with today and the news
00:12:26news that OpenAI Anthropic and Google Google have said they're working
00:12:29working to create an AI standards
00:12:31standards body. All this after a
00:12:35a number of insiders in the industry industry as well as politicians and
00:12:38and other concerned individuals have have been raising huge concerns about
00:12:41about the potential impact of AI
00:12:44AI on humanity. We took you live live to an event that's happening
00:12:48happening in Washington, the Pro-human Pro-human Assembly. It's called a
00:12:50a whole range of people from across across the political spectrum speaking
00:12:54speaking there. And in the last few few minutes we've heard from Steve
00:12:58Steve Bannon. Now he is a right wing
00:13:00wing ally of President Trump. But But unlike the President, he wants
00:13:04wants kerbs on AI. And he lashed
00:13:07lashed out at the major AI firms.
00:13:08firms. Take a listen. Why is it that
00:13:12that they can't win? Because the
00:13:15the people don't trust them. The
00:13:19The people don't trust them. And
00:13:20And that trust is not going up. In
00:13:24In the last 72 hours they've come
00:13:25come out and said, you know, you're
00:13:28you're correct. We actually should should have some sort of framework.
00:13:31framework. OK. And you know, and
00:13:35and maybe you have a human checking
00:13:36checking in on us every now and again.
00:13:40again. They've tried to cover up
00:13:43up the danger by saying it's a psyop,
00:13:46psyop, but using the psyop to try
00:13:49try to get off liabilities, what
00:13:52what they want is to socialise all
00:13:55all the risk with the American people,
00:13:57people, including potential bailouts
00:14:00bailouts when they come and they
00:14:02they want to keep all the upside. upside. So you can break this down
00:14:05down to three component pieces. The The national security piece, the
00:14:10the regulatory piece, and we can can talk about the financial and
00:14:13and the economic when we talk about about the national security piece
00:14:17piece every day, every paper, every
00:14:20every time they're on TV, why do do we have to keep pushing so hard?
00:14:23hard? Why is it relentless? Why can't
00:14:24can't they have any controls if you're
00:14:28you're not an accelerationist, you're
00:14:30you're anti-American. If you're not
00:14:33not an accelerationist, you're pro
00:14:35pro Chinese Communist Party. If you're
00:14:39you're not accelerationist, you're you're almost a Luddite. You want
00:14:42want to take America back. Steve
00:14:44Steve Bannon speaking at the Pro-human Pro-human Assembly in Washington.
00:14:48Washington. And we're going to have have more on that story for you.
00:14:50you. AI very much the story of the
00:14:53the moment. Now, in other news, the the President of Lithuania says Nato
00:14:57Nato fighter jets have shot down down a drone that enters entered
00:15:00entered the country's airspace from from neighbouring Belarus. This was
00:15:04was the moment the drone was brought brought down by Italian Nato fighter
00:15:08fighter jets near the city of Kaunas. Kaunas. The interception, caught
00:15:11caught by a resident security camera. camera. The debris, which was scattered
00:15:14scattered over a wide area, is being being collected and examined by military
00:15:17military police. It's the latest latest security incident in the Baltic
00:15:21Baltic states since Russia launched launched its full-scale invasion
00:15:23invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Our Our Eastern Europe correspondent
00:15:27correspondent Sarah Rainsford sent sent this report from the capital
00:15:30capital Vilnius. It was just after after midnight this morning here
00:15:34here in Vilnius that my phone screeched screeched with an alert and when
00:15:36when I checked the message, it said said there was a suspected drone.
00:15:40drone. Keep safe, it said, and wait
00:15:42wait for the all clear. Now that that all clear came about 20 minutes
00:15:46minutes later and we now know that that there was a drone confirmed
00:15:49confirmed that it was in Lithuanian Lithuanian airspace for around about about half an hour before it was
00:15:53was intercepted and shot down by by Nato fighter jets belonging to
00:15:57to Italy. We still don't know who who that drone belonged to. We don't
00:16:00don't know whether it was launched launched deliberately or it might might have strayed into Lithuanian
00:16:04Lithuanian airspace. We know that that it entered from neighbouring
00:16:08neighbouring Belarus and that after after it was shot down, the debris debris was scattered over a wide
00:16:11wide area. So it's being collected collected up and examined to see
00:16:15see where it came from, who it was was launched by and whether or not
00:16:19not it was armed. In fact, whether whether or not there was any explosives.
00:16:23explosives. But this has happened happened at a nervous time here in
00:16:26in this region because Russia is is escalating its full-scale war
00:16:30war on Ukraine, and it is also escalating
00:16:31escalating its hybrid attacks on
00:16:34on Ukraine's greatest supporters. supporters. Vilnius Lithuania has
00:16:37has always been a staunch supporter supporter of Ukraine ever since the
00:16:40the full-scale invasion. This city city is still covered in Ukrainian
00:16:44Ukrainian flags. There's lots of
00:16:46of messages of solidarity for Kyiv
00:16:49Kyiv here in this city, in this country,
00:16:52country, in the past, when there there have been drone incursions incursions into other countries,
00:16:56countries, including Poland and other other Baltic states, experts have
00:17:00have suggested that Moscow could could be testing Nato's reactions.
00:17:02reactions. At the moment here in in Lithuania, there are still more
00:17:05more questions than answers, but but certainly there is now a full-scale
00:17:09full-scale investigation into what what happened and who might be behind
00:17:12behind it. Sarah Rainsford reporting
00:17:15reporting the rapper Macklemore has has been dropped from Ed Sheeran's
00:17:18Sheeran's US tour after making pro-Palestinian pro-Palestinian comments on stage.
00:17:22stage. The artist was criticised criticised by Jewish groups after
00:17:25after saying Free Palestine at two two concerts and making political
00:17:29political speeches. Macklemore stood stood by his comments, saying in
00:17:32in a statement that the real victims victims are the Palestinian people
00:17:35people in Gaza. Writing on Instagram,
00:17:38Instagram, he said anti-Semitism anti-Semitism is real and that is
00:17:41is exactly why the word matters too
00:17:42too much to be used as a shield against
00:17:46against criticism of the Israeli
00:17:46Israeli state. And he continued when
00:17:50when criticising Israel opposing opposing Zionism or saying Free Palestine
00:17:53Palestine gets conflated with hatred hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't
00:17:57doesn't protect Jewish people. It
00:17:59It protects Israel from accountability. accountability. Our music correspondent correspondent Mark Savage explains
00:18:03explains the background to this story. story. Macklemore was supporting
00:18:07supporting Ed Sheeran on the first first two dates of his US tour in
00:18:10in New Jersey about ten days ago. ago. Actually this happened. He went
00:18:13went on stage. He was introducing
00:18:15introducing a song that references
00:18:18references pro-Palestinian protests protests at Columbia University in
00:18:21in 2024. Speaking to the audience, audience, he said Free Palestine Palestine and that he wanted people
00:18:24people in Gaza to know that we have have not forgotten about them. He
00:18:28He also broadcast images on the big
00:18:30big video screens in the venue of of devastation in Gaza, following
00:18:34following Israel's military action action there now that almost immediately
00:18:37immediately triggered a backlash. backlash. The Israeli-American council
00:18:41council launched a petition calling calling for him to be dropped from
00:18:44from the tour. The Stop anti-Semitism anti-Semitism Organisation made a
00:18:47a similar call on social media, saying
00:18:52saying that he had a ambushed fans fans with anti-Israeli propaganda.
00:18:55propaganda. That was a statement statement that got amplified by the
00:18:58the pop star pink, who reposted it
00:19:00it to her Instagram page. And in in the ten days while the tour has
00:19:04has actually been on pause, there's there's just been a huge amount of
00:19:07of discussion about what he said said on stage and that has led to
00:19:11to some of the venues pressuring pressuring the promoters of the tour
00:19:13tour to drop Macklemore from the the future concerts. The remaining
00:19:17remaining eight dates of Ed Sheeran's Sheeran's US tour and that is what
00:19:21what has now happened. And in the the last couple of hours, Ed Sheeran
00:19:23Sheeran has issued a statement on on the removal of Macklemore as part
00:19:27part of a longer post. He said there
00:19:30there is a reason I do not use my my professional platform for politics.
00:19:33politics. My audience includes young
00:19:35young people, often children of all all backgrounds. Those who come to
00:19:38to my shows do not expect a political
00:19:41political forum. Well, let's speak
00:19:42speak now to Lisa Verrico, music
00:19:45music journalist at The Times. Lisa,
00:19:48Lisa, welcome to the programme. What What do you make of all of this of
00:19:51of Ed Sheeran's response? Well, I
00:19:54I mean, Ed Sheeran is taking a while while to respond and I don't blame blame him. He's probably wondering
00:19:58wondering how all this happened. happened. He's friends with the rapper rapper Macklemore and he invited
00:20:02invited him on part of his tour, tour, this huge loop tour he's been
00:20:05been doing all year. It's his North
00:20:06North American leg of the tour like
00:20:10like Macklemore is well known, used used to be in a Duo called Macklemore Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and they've
00:20:14they've always been political and and he's spoken out about Palestine
00:20:17Palestine in the past. And there there is a Ferrari about whether whether Ed Sheeran should have invited
00:20:21invited him to play or not if he he knew it was going to do. I mean,
00:20:24mean, the point is this is Ed Sheeran's Sheeran's tour. It's in stadiums.
00:20:27stadiums. He's got a point. He's He's always been purposely apolitical
00:20:30apolitical and a lot of people that that were complaining were saying, saying, well, you know, we didn't
00:20:33didn't pay to come and see Macklemore Macklemore we didn't know that this
00:20:36this was going to happen. And of
00:20:38of course, now there's a lot of backlash backlash for Ed Sheeran saying, how
00:20:42how could you let this happen? You You should have stood up for him.
00:20:45him. So it's one of these situations situations that you kind of can't
00:20:48can't win. But you know, there's there's a lot of politics and pop pop at the minute and this is going
00:20:52going to keep happening. Yeah. Politics Politics and pop. Exactly. I mean
00:20:54mean for decades past, you know, know, certain musicians have been
00:20:58been associated with political statements, statements, whether, you know, you you go back to the time of the Vietnam
00:21:02Vietnam War, Vietnam War or any time
00:21:04time since then. But on the other other hand, in a very fractious world,
00:21:08world, you also have the argument argument that many people will go
00:21:10go to a concert looking to escape
00:21:12escape all of that, looking to escape
00:21:15escape politics. Yeah. But also you're you're in a social media world where
00:21:19where everybody can voice their opinion opinion and the people who don't
00:21:21don't like it always shout the loudest. loudest. I think interesting about
00:21:25about the kind of Palestine situation. situation. I mean, if you look at
00:21:29at a lot of music and protest pop pop in the past, it's been quite
00:21:33quite generational. So, you know, know, like Rock against Racism or
00:21:36or even Red wedge, you know, it's it's like the older generation. You
00:21:39You just haven't caught up with us us yet. You know, the world is changing.
00:21:42changing. You know, get with the the programme. Whereas this isn't
00:21:46isn't and it's just it's very mixed mixed up. And you know, people from
00:21:49from all ages getting involved, it's it's such an incendiary topic. I
00:21:52I mean, you'd think I thought you you would, you know, why are we not not seeing more Ukraine flags on
00:21:56on stage? You'd think there'd be be a lot more anti-Trump rhetoric.
00:21:59rhetoric. There is a bit of it, but but not so much. But this issue is
00:22:02is just it seems to be huge in pop pop and across all culture at the
00:22:06the moment. And as soon as someone someone brings it up, you know, the
00:22:09the internet goes wild. Lisa, thank thank you very much for joining us.
00:22:12us. Lisa Verrico from the Times.
00:22:16Times. Now a crowded waiting room room and trolleys and corridors may
00:22:19may be a sight all too familiar for for some doctors and nurses, but
00:22:22but a television series, The Pitt, Pitt, is earning praise for what
00:22:25what the medical profession is calling calling the most realistic drama
00:22:28drama yet. The Pitt was nominated nominated for 25 Emmys and ultimately
00:22:32ultimately won Best Drama Series, Series, with Noah Wylie also winning
00:22:36winning best lead Actor in a drama
00:22:38drama and some of the show's biggest
00:22:41biggest fans are doctors. And one
00:22:42one of those fans is Doctor Anthony Anthony Cirillo, president of the
00:22:46the American College of Emergency Emergency Physicians, who joins us us now. Thank you very much for taking
00:22:49taking the time to talk to us. I
00:22:51I mean, I've watched The Pitt. It's
00:22:54It's absolutely compelling. How true
00:22:56true to life is it? It is the real
00:23:02real embodiment of what we experience experience every day. And we not
00:23:05not just the physicians, but as you
00:23:07you said, the whole team of the emergency emergency department and patients
00:23:10patients and families and loved ones, ones, they've done an incredible
00:23:13incredible job of making this the
00:23:15the validation of what happens every every day in emergency departments.
00:23:19departments. And as you said, not not just here in America, but we
00:23:22we know that there are challenges challenges with providing emergency
00:23:26emergency care around the world. world. Yeah. How or which elements
00:23:28elements of it hit closest to home,
00:23:30home, in your view? For me and I've
00:23:34I've been practising now for 35 years,
00:23:36years, the fact that they can treat
00:23:39treat actors, people who don't even even understand the words they're
00:23:42they're saying, how to say them in in a way that that is so natural
00:23:45natural or looks so natural. And And then to teach them the skills,
00:23:49skills, the manual dexterity, dexterity dexterity to do some of the procedures.
00:23:53procedures. It's truly amazing to to watch how these actors can take
00:23:56take on the role of a health care
00:23:59care professional with just the coaching coaching from the other medical professionals,
00:24:02professionals, it really is astounding. astounding. Yeah, the medical dialogue dialogue has stood out to me as well.
00:24:06well. I've often sat and watched watched it and thought, how on earth
00:24:09earth do they make it sound so convincing?
00:24:12convincing? Now Noah Wylie's character character is Doctor Michael Rabinovitch.
00:24:15Rabinovitch. Doctor Robbie to fans fans of the show, his character is
00:24:19is very open about his mental health health struggles. Does that reflect
00:24:22reflect the emergency rooms you have
00:24:25have worked in, or is it a allowing
00:24:27allowing those sorts of conversations
00:24:29conversations to become more open
00:24:31open in, in medical settings? Anita
00:24:35Anita it reflects reality. And the the reality is that at least here
00:24:38here in the States, 1 in 5 adults
00:24:41adults suffers from some form of of mental illness. And to think about
00:24:44about in that cast and all of the
00:24:47the people in that room, in that that department, how many of them
00:24:50them might be suffering at the same same time? And here in the States
00:24:53States this month is is National National Suicide Awareness Month.
00:24:57Month. And actually in two days will will be physician Suicide Awareness
00:25:01Awareness Day. So I think Robbie
00:25:04Robbie Noah has allowed many of us
00:25:07us who have felt overwhelmed at times
00:25:08times to be able to say, it's OK
00:25:11OK to say that that the stigma of
00:25:13of feeling overwhelmed in an overwhelming
00:25:16overwhelming environment is almost almost normal. And, and he really
00:25:19really has allowed us to be able
00:25:22able to say it's OK to be struggling, struggling, but it's OK to get help
00:25:26help as well. And just finally and and briefly, if you would, Doctor
00:25:29Doctor Cirillo, seeing those awards, awards, those Emmy Awards, going
00:25:32going to the show, to the fabulous fabulous team behind it does that
00:25:36that in some way make you feel that
00:25:39that real life physicians, nurses, nurses, all of the teams in the emergency
00:25:42emergency departments are also being
00:25:44being recognised. That word I use
00:25:47use is validated, Anita. And for for many, many years we've never
00:25:50never really felt if people understood understood how what we do is really
00:25:54really hard every day and hard for for us, but hard for patients and
00:25:57and again, hard for families and and loved ones and for them to portray
00:26:01portray it as real as they do. And
00:26:04And then for no one to go beyond. beyond. Doctor Cirillo, I'm so sorry
00:26:06sorry to bring an end to that conversation. conversation. Thank you very much
00:26:09much for your time. We are out of of time. Do stay with us here
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