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00:00:08I'm sundanda in Washington and this is
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00:00:11of World News America. The United Nations issues a
00:00:14of warning about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, as the Hudis and the Saudis
00:00:18exchange large-scale drone and missile attacks, internally
00:00:21displacing
00:00:22in more than 100 thousand people. The Pentagon says the US space force
00:00:25has positioned
00:00:26of weapons in Earth's orbit capable of destroying hostile. threats
00:00:30and AI leaders gather at summits on both sides
00:00:33of the country as President Trump continues to downplay growing concerns about
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00:00:49welcome to World
00:00:50in News America. Thank you for joining us tonight. We begin in the Middle East where the
00:00:54UN is warning the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is
00:00:57deepening.
00:00:58of As the Iran back to the
00:00:59of rebels. assault the Saudi-backed Yemani government forces. The UN refugee
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00:01:04in says that renewed
00:01:04of conflict has internally displaced more than 100,000 people.
00:01:08Thousands have fled across the red sea
00:01:10a to of Jibooti and officials are warning of humanitarian crisis
00:01:14there. The conflict shows no signs of slowing with those launching
00:01:18large-scale
00:01:18in drone in and
00:01:19in missile of attacks and Saudi leaders vowing a firm
00:01:22response. Saudi Crant Prince Muhammad bin Salman met Egyptian
00:01:26President Abdul Fattahi
00:01:27of in Cairo on
00:01:29a Tuesday. The two. leaders are calling for freedom of navigation in the red sea,
00:01:33which the
00:01:33in a hoodis have imperiled with their advance. the hoodies
00:01:37of have denied threatening international
00:01:38of shipping, except for Saudi vessels. well, the UN security council
00:01:42called emergency meeting on Yemen to discuss the worsening
00:01:45situation. our North America
00:01:47of correspondent is covering that for us today. netta, very
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00:01:53of of good to see you. tell us a a bit more about what we heard at the UN. well, sumi, this
00:01:57is the second time the UN security council. has
00:02:00me met on Yemen in the last week uh with renewed fighting
00:02:04escalating there, now the UN
00:02:06of official, of Khalid Kiari uh briefed the council and he told
00:02:10the emergency meeting that the flows of commercial shipping through the Red
00:02:14Sea appeared to remain
00:02:16in unaffected of for of now,
00:02:19of of but that the Houti advance had added to market concerns given the disruptions were
00:02:23already
00:02:24of seeing in the straight
00:02:24of of Hormus and the impact there, and there was really kind of
00:02:28united
00:02:29of calls from the entire council members agreed that freedom of
00:02:32navigation must be maintained to prevent uh
00:02:36shocks to global supply chains
00:02:38of arise in things like food, fuel and medicine
00:02:41worldwide. seeing
00:02:43of this of really of as a potentially dangerous turning point for red sea
00:02:47security, but Yemen and
00:02:49of Saudi in Arabia called specifically for more decisive council
00:02:53action against the Houties, accusing the group and also
00:02:57Iran which backs
00:02:58a them of choking... both
00:03:00of strates as a tool of pressure, and their allies on the
00:03:04council also strongly condemned the Houtis and
00:03:08demanded that Iran sees its longstanding support
00:03:12for the group. um, and clearly this comes, as you mentioned there
00:03:15after
00:03:17of you know the Hutis had launched a new wave of attacks on Saudi
00:03:20Arabia,
00:03:22a of with even uh the crown prince Muhammad bin Salman asking President Donald
00:03:26a Trump for the U.S. military support, but so far
00:03:30"that is
00:03:30a request that has been refused, and the Houties
00:03:34claiming of course that Saudi vessels will be the only ones to be
00:03:37banned to pressure Riyad to end its blockade on their
00:03:41territory, but Sumi will see what happens, because of
00:03:45course that is another key international waterway,
00:03:48a and a council members will be following very closely if there's any more
00:03:52disruptions there, as we've seen in the
00:03:53of straight of
00:03:54a Hormus, yeah, absolutely. Okay, Netta Tafiq for us in New York, thank you so much for
00:03:57that reporting." Armen Yedgaran is the
00:04:01Yemen representative for the United Nations Refugee Agency. I spoke to him
00:04:05earlier and I asked him what the situation is like on the ground where he is in
00:04:09Aden. Speaking from
00:04:12Yemen, the situation has
00:04:15of a escalated shortly in the last weeks with
00:04:21of of multiple fronts and hostilities along Germany western coast and other
00:04:24of places like
00:04:25of Daiz, southern
00:04:27a Roda, Aljov, Mariv. So It is a multifront
00:04:31escalation now, different than the previous
00:04:35of confrontations, of and this created
00:04:39a new way of internal displacement within the
00:04:42of country in Yemen and also outside of
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00:04:46of Yemen. Close to 100 people have been displaced in a week
00:04:50time. This is only just from the from
00:04:53of the last week until now, the fighting
00:04:56has uproted families
00:04:59of across Alhodida.
00:05:05of in of
00:05:11of of of "I would say now more than
00:05:1460% them are women, children, older
00:05:18people, and report indicate that
00:05:22more people may be preparing to displace internally or
00:05:26leave Yemen, if the hostilities continue
00:05:29or intensify. So Arma, can I just jump in there and ask you,
00:05:33um, what are the conditions like for people who are displaced
00:05:37internally or leaving the
00:05:39country, internally?
00:05:43you know the number is growing every day just from the humanitarian
00:05:47perspective, behind each number there is life family, women,
00:05:51children or just human being, they are
00:05:55living to to those locations in Yemen
00:05:58internally, and many just fled a short
00:06:02notice without belongings or with few
00:06:05belongings, shelter, food, clean water, medical and
00:06:09protection needs are the most urgent needs for them.
00:06:13because the receiving communities and displacement sites, they are
00:06:17over stretched. this is additional pleasure on the
00:06:21existing infrastructure and the services available
00:06:25in those sites where the people go, and
00:06:27then if you if i can go a bit
00:06:31more, humanitarian access is also issue
00:06:34because it's a major challenge, insecurity,
00:06:38damage roads and movement restrictions are affecting
00:06:41operations. This is inside the Yemen,
00:06:45the crisis has regional impact too, it made
00:06:49thousands to flee and seek safety across the
00:06:53sea, Babelmanda straight, moving to
00:06:57jubouti or through the Arabian sea to Somalia or possibly
00:07:00Ethiopia and other countries, only from from
00:07:04the last week as of today over
00:07:072,400 new arrivals have been
00:07:10recorded in Djibuti. so so Arm, let ask you this, um, for
00:07:14yourself and AID organizations working on the ground, do you get the
00:07:18sense that the international community is paying attention to what
00:07:22is again a humanitarian crisis? think
00:07:26so, because now there is a growing attention on the situation
00:07:30in Yemen, both on the confrontation and also on the humanitarian
00:07:34situation. Yemen was one the worst
00:07:37humanitarian crisis in the world, and this new
00:07:41escalation brought a new suffering to yemenis
00:07:45and and the displaced people who are in the country and
00:07:49I am sure now the humanitarian community and donors, they are
00:07:52paying great attention to the
00:07:55situation here, there is an interagency
00:07:58organized response and HCR part
00:08:01of that interagency providing leading the protection,
00:08:05shelter and side coordination or the new newly
00:08:08displaced families inside themen '
00:08:12but it depends also on the challenging security
00:08:16environment, if the partners are in place, they can have access to the
00:08:20people to the sides and deliver the assistance. okay, i would say
00:08:24once again, the community, both international and also inside yemen,
00:08:28the humanitarian community, they are preparing,
00:08:31they are to respond to happen, the action is already in
00:08:35place. well, the flare up in Yemen partially
00:08:39stems from the US-Israel war with Iran, and here in the... us the defense
00:08:43department's inspector general says the conflict has led to shortfalls in
00:08:47munitions and a bottleneck in resupply. President Trump
00:08:51and defense secretary Pete Hexath had insisted for months that the US was not facing
00:08:55such shortages. Now Republican Congressman Thomas Massi as introduced
00:08:58articles of impeachment to remove Secretary Hexeth, allegging he has
00:09:02waged the war in Iran illegally. Our
00:09:06correspondent Tom Baitman is with us here in the studio for more on this. Tom, let's
00:09:10start with that um articles of impeachment introduce. by Thomas Massi seemed to come
00:09:14as a surprise, so what's the background to this? Yeah, we didn't know Thomas Massi was going to do
00:09:18this today at all, actually there was another attempt to file articles of impeachment by
00:09:22the Democrats in the house earlier in the year, you might expect that from the
00:09:25administration's opposition, this is from republican Thomas Massi, or be it someone who's
00:09:29been a repeated thorn in the side the Trump administration, someone
00:09:33who's really now been targeted politically by President Trump, he's no
00:09:37longer you know got the opportunity to run again uh for the house as republican
00:09:40because of that, and so I think... these articles of impeachment went in and I mean reading
00:09:44through them they are absolutely damming,
00:09:46I mean he does not mince his words about secretary Hegseth
00:09:50here says that uh the secretary of state
00:09:53has uh been has
00:09:57executed unlawful and unauthorized wars
00:10:00meaning by congress or military operations in Iran,
00:10:04Venezuela, Yemen and the Caribbean Sea, so four different
00:10:07military operations goes to say that he is a threat to the constitution
00:10:11the United states because the way this has been done and then gets into some detail on Iran
00:10:15and says that in his view because the way he says the
00:10:19secretary of defense stripped away these safeguards
00:10:22meant to protect civilians in warfare. at the Pentacon that this
00:10:26resulted in the strike a school in Minab
00:10:28in Iran on the first day the war, of course killed some 120
00:10:32children, according to the Iranians and says that in his
00:10:35words that secretary Hegseth has affected the murder
00:10:39of civilians in Iran uh putting all this together says these are
00:10:43grounds for impeachment uh the Pentagon has staunchly defended Secretary
00:10:47Hegseth and said that he has a transformative leader and that the
00:10:50entire department is unified behind his vision and that they'll continue to put war
00:10:54for. is in America first, really interesting, Tom, and I also
00:10:58want to ask you about that Inspector General report that we mentioned
00:11:02that refers to some these munition shortages, this is something we've heard reporting
00:11:06on for for few weeks now, but what more did we find out from this
00:11:10report? well, I mean it's a really interesting report because this is an oversight
00:11:13body, um, and given the Trump administration has been pretty
00:11:17opaque in quite a lot of details about the war, we got a few
00:11:21significant thing things here, they confirm that as the end of June, the cost of war.
00:11:2533 billion dollars, we knew it was somewhere around that kind of
00:11:29figure, but there was this huge request for a supplemental
00:11:31uh funding from congress, at least double that to try
00:11:35and pay for it and the ongoing operation, but beyond
00:11:39that there were significant uh clar confirmations in
00:11:43this particularly about the the way that munitions have been burned up
00:11:47um in this war said that
00:11:49there was a a strategic inventory shortfall as
00:11:53they call it basically just enough weapons left because of this and that
00:11:57there's a bottleneck in uh in rebuilding them, but it also painted
00:12:01picture really the way in which uh Iranian attacks in the
00:12:05Gulf had badly affected US military bases there and
00:12:09how actually basing in Europe by the United States have been the
00:12:12launchpad for this war as well as from sea
00:12:16um but that really kind of cuts against some the descriptions of European governments who had
00:12:20really tried to keep their involvement at arms length so that I think was an interesting description in
00:12:24this report. Okay, Tom Baitman, thank you for bringing us all of that reporting
00:12:27today. Now, President Trump
00:12:31continues to downplay growing concerns about artificial intelligence, rejecting
00:12:35calls to slow down the development of AI, saying quote, whoever wins AI
00:12:39wins, as tech bosses and lawmakers meet to discuss the issue on both sides
00:12:43the country. In California, top AI bosses have been attending a
00:12:47summit including Open AI Sam Altman, and Anthropics Stario
00:12:50Amadai. Mr. Amadai is one of several industry figures warning the dangers
00:12:54of unchecked AI, but the boss of Nvidia, Jensen
00:12:58Wang, has argued against new laws and regulations, saying it is for
00:13:02companies to decide on the safety their products. Well, here in Washington,
00:13:06progressive Senator Bernie Sanders and former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon,
00:13:10appeared at the same rally, calling for restrictions on artificial
00:13:13intelligence. Senator Sanders warned the potential danger of AI is,
00:13:17quote, probably greater than nuclear
00:13:19weapons. Let us be
00:13:22clear, artificial intelligence and
00:13:26robotics are the most
00:13:30transformational technologies in the
00:13:33history of humanity, and they will
00:13:37impact the lives of every man,
00:13:40woman and child in our
00:13:43country. They've tried
00:13:47to cover up the danger by saying it's
00:13:51siap, but using the cyop to try to...
00:13:55get off liabilities, what they want is to
00:13:58socialize all the risk with the American
00:14:01people, including potential bailouts when they
00:14:05come, and they want to keep all the
00:14:08upside. well, alarm bells have been ringing particularly in the
00:14:12capital this week, so we can speak now to Kevin Kylie, an independent
00:14:16congressman from California, previously was republican congressman.
00:14:20it's great to see you again, thanks for joining us on our program, and
00:14:24you introduced and AI safety bill few years ago, there are
00:14:28now number of efforts underway in both chambers to drop
00:14:31legislation on AI safety, your bill, as I understand is still
00:14:34pending, so it raises the question, will Congress actually be
00:14:38able to push forward any sort of comprehensive AI
00:14:42legislation? well, I hope that Congress can at least do
00:14:46something uh that will be helpful and that will raise the salience of
00:14:49this issue, which it has been raised here in the last week or so uh
00:14:53and bring the entire country uh into the conversation,
00:14:57because
00:14:58you know this uh the power these models has been growing and growing and growing
00:15:02for some time uh, and yet we really haven't had the kind of
00:15:05national conversation about how this is going to impact folks
00:15:09and basically all facets their lives, I mean
00:15:12I not only introduced uh my first year in Congress this AI
00:15:15safety act in 2018 when I was member the state legislature in
00:15:19California, I introduced a resolution where our legislature
00:15:23endorsed what's called the asilamar. for the safe and beneficial
00:15:26development of AI, so I've been watching this
00:15:30trajectory continue for some time, and now it's finally gotten to the
00:15:34point where the changes ahead of us that we're already in the midst. are really
00:15:38undeniable uh and it's about time that congress gave it comence for
00:15:42intettention and yet President Trump has said no
00:15:45regulation is needed and speaker Johnson said today the AI
00:15:49labs developing this technology quote they can self-police they can
00:15:53self-regulate what do you think of that? well I disagree
00:15:57and and the labs themselves have been saying that we need to have some sort of national
00:16:01framework here uh we need to have third party verification for
00:16:04example so I believe we do need a national frame. I believe that the
00:16:08government needs to be uh regulators need to be uh working hand in
00:16:12hand uh with the labs in order to do red teaming and order to
00:16:16see models before they're released to the public in order to be uh
00:16:20alerted to any incidents of misalignment like the hugging face
00:16:23incident uh that we had with open AI uh but there's a second
00:16:27question top of all of that because if we do in fact you
00:16:31know uh see the pace of uh of capability
00:16:34growth uh slow down which is what some these are aimed at and let's
00:16:38assume for the sake of argument that we even get China on board with that
00:16:42through bilateral multilateral talks, which is certainly not something that you can
00:16:46take, but let's assume we do, then the question becomes, what are we going to do with the
00:16:50extra time that we bought ourselves, and what we need to do is to solve this
00:16:54fundamental issue of alignment, of assuring that AI models are
00:16:57aligned with human values and interest and under human control, so that's what my
00:17:01bill is all about is making investments, mobilizing the
00:17:04resources the federal government behind bringing people. just solve this problem of
00:17:08alignment, you'll know yourself, there's a lot of skepticism about the role
00:17:12that these companies themselves are are playing, um, they have urged
00:17:16lawmakers to give them some sort of legal guarantee that their companies won't be violating
00:17:20anti-trust law if they band together to pace frontier AI
00:17:24technology, and Steve Bannon in that conference said today, the AI labs are trying
00:17:28to use crisis to create mote or cartel, do you
00:17:32think that's the case? well, if it's strictly
00:17:36about safety then
00:17:37I don't know why we would want any barriers to stand in the way of that. I think what we
00:17:41need is we do need full-fledged uh coordination and
00:17:44collaboration among not only the labs in our country, but leaders, leading
00:17:48researchers in academia, leading researchers,
00:17:52scientists, and folks who work at labs in other countries
00:17:55ideally as well, all coming together to share what they've learned, to share
00:17:59best practices with safety, to work on solutions to assure the models are
00:18:03aligned
00:18:05uh with uh with human values as they ascend. capability, this is very hard
00:18:08problem, for example, we we might not even know when we've solved it, because the models can
00:18:12trick you into thinking that they're aligneduh when they're not, and so of course
00:18:16whatever uh legal barriers might stand in the way of this sort of
00:18:20collaboration, we should work to make sure that they don't stand in the way of safety, and we
00:18:23also need to put lot of resources behind such an effort. i know you said at the start
00:18:27of this interview, you hope congress does something, i've seen a whole lot of skepticism
00:18:31that that would actually happen, do you think congress really is is up
00:18:35to meeting this moment? Well, unfortunately, Congress has
00:18:39not really done much of all uh, at all
00:18:43uh in recent weeks, months uh or years, and really has
00:18:46consumed itself with your typical uh partisan food
00:18:50fights, while this generational issue, this epical issue
00:18:54uh of transcendent importance to the future of our country and the future of
00:18:57humanity has sort of just continued to to rise
00:19:01without any real dialogue on the part of Congress around it, so we
00:19:05have seen this last week that suddenly... "the issue has sprung into
00:19:09uh,
00:19:09you know, public view and is has penetrated the halls of congress in a real way, for
00:19:13whatever reason why that's happened now, I mean, I think that part of it is just that even the folks
00:19:17at the labs are seeing capabilities increase faster than they
00:19:20expected, so we need to channel this into something constructive, the the
00:19:24the unfortunate thing is that we're talking about congress here uh, which
00:19:28unfortunately hasn't worked very well when it comes to just kind the basics of
00:19:32keeping the government open and so forth, and so but if
00:19:34there was ever moment to rise to the occasion, this is..." Okay,
00:19:38congressman Kevin Kyley, interesting discussion, as always, thank you so much for joining
00:19:42us, you bet, thanks for having me. Now, also here
00:19:46in Washington, President Trump attacked the U.S. Supreme Court over its decision
00:19:50to block his mail and ballot plan for November's mid-term elections, calling
00:19:54the justicces ruling highly political. The court on Monday upheld
00:19:58an order that temporarily blocks the US Postal service from moving forward with
00:20:01new requirements for postal ballots. The ruling means that US states
00:20:05can continue using their existing... systems for the elections in just seven
00:20:09weeks time. President Trump posted on his truth social
00:20:13platform, Republicans just got another bad decision from the
00:20:17US Supreme Court. He accused the court's judges of being petrified of what he
00:20:20called craised and depraved democrats. He also
00:20:24criticized the three justices he appointed saying these are not the people I interviewed
00:20:28to serve on the United States Supreme Court. A president Trump signed the
00:20:32executive order to control Milan voting in March, insisting contrarited
00:20:35evidence that postal.
00:20:50space weapons active earth's orbit move it says is necessary
00:20:53safeguard against enemy action, that's coming up around the world and across the
00:20:57UK. this is BBC
00:20:58News.
00:22:07You're with BBC News, here in the US, the Pentagon has confirmed for the first
00:22:11time that it deployed a space weapon into earth's orbit.
00:22:15Air force secretary Troy Mike announced Monday that the U.S. Space Force now
00:22:19operates with He called on-orbit space control
00:22:22weapons, capable of destroying hostile threats. The Pentagon is
00:22:26not disclosed details about the technology, and it's unclear when the
00:22:30weapons were sent into space. President Trump has hailed the US space
00:22:34force as a significant step to counter growing space threats from China
00:22:38and Russia, amid concerns that those two countries are testing new
00:22:41offensive technology. Russia responded to the latest US announcement by
00:22:45saying outer space should be free from any weapons, while China warned
00:22:49against turning... face into a battlefield. Our defense correspondent
00:22:53Jonathan Beal has more. No notice launch, Iran.
00:22:57The US space force is already helping America fight its wars on
00:23:01the ground. Here, detecting the launch of ballistic
00:23:04missiles. This is the wolfden, but it's also preparing
00:23:08for a potential conflict in space. We are already
00:23:11sparring in the cyber domain in the space domain, home
00:23:15to thousands of active
00:23:16satellites. Now. For the first time
00:23:20the US has confirmed it's deployed a weapon in
00:23:23space. The US Air Force secretary said it wanted to maintain
00:23:27its dominance, so we've had to take steps to make
00:23:31sure that when we're threatened, we can take care of
00:23:34that. That's prompted both Russia and China
00:23:38to condemn the move, and warn of an arms race
00:23:42in space. America has already accused them
00:23:46of doing the same. The reality is, there's already...
00:23:50"the start of an arms race in space. The US has accused both
00:23:54China and Russia of developing satellites that can
00:23:57jam the signals of other satellites or listen in,
00:24:01or deploying lasers to blind them, even fitting
00:24:05grappling arms to try to maneuver other satellites out of
00:24:09orbit. The US has also accused both China and Russia
00:24:12at developing weapons that can be fired into
00:24:16space or from space to destroy satellites. Three?" "
00:24:20two, we have ignition, but for now the US
00:24:24isn't saying what weapon it's launched into
00:24:27orbit. what the US is talking about are probably
00:24:31things like electronic warfare or jamming abilities or
00:24:34spoofing abilities, possibly things like what we called
00:24:38co-orbital weapons, which you have another satellite that's orbiting
00:24:41alongside another another satellite and could bang into it. it's not
00:24:45just the military that increasingly relies on space,
00:24:49we all do... on satellites for everyday life, from
00:24:53social media to phone calls and finding our way
00:24:56about. it's not yet star
00:24:59wars, but an arms race in space should concern
00:25:03us all. jonathan beal, bbc
00:25:05news. okay, still to come on the
00:25:09program, a UK inquiry into the crimes of lucy ledby
00:25:13finds that some the babies murdered by the nurse could have been
00:25:16saved if the hospital where she worked had acted sooner. We'll have
00:25:20more on that, plus we'll also be looking as Russia has launched another wave of attacks on
00:25:24Ukraine, despite the fact that President Trump has said that both
00:25:27sides have agreed to not hit each other's energy infrastructure, we'll be
00:25:31taking a special look at the impact on Ukraine's postal
00:25:35services, plus another discussion about artificial intelligence, we'll be
00:25:39talking about education and artificial intelligence uh with
00:25:42guest and our political panel, so all of those stories coming right up on world news America,
00:25:46of course all of our headlines are on our website as always bbc.com, slash
00:25:50news much more on AI there, as you can see on our live page, so stay with us, we're back
00:25:54a few
00:25:54minutes.
00:26:07Hello, sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean are well above
00:26:10average, about five degrees above normal for the time of year in places close to
00:26:1430 celsius and in southern parts the Mediterranean we're seeing those warmer seas
00:26:18fuel some stormy conditions that are heading towards parts of southern Greece at the
00:26:22moment, meanwile further northwest low pressure moving in from the Atlantic so a
00:26:26fresher spell of weather across the United Kingdom into France as well real drop in the temperature
00:26:30for Paris on Wednesday compared to recent. some scattered heavy showers across
00:26:34parts of Turkey and down towards Greece, particularly Creat, seeing
00:26:38that wet weather in the central Mediterranean. It's a dryer picture though across
00:26:42Sicily and Malta after the recent heavy rain and across to Spain and Portugal,
00:26:46not as hot as it has been, 29 there for Madrid, some heavy showers across the
00:26:50pyranees and then showers stretching through the alps across parts of Germany
00:26:53up towards Finland, it's looking fairly fresh here for Scandinavia and
00:26:57unsettled as well with more showers arriving on Thursday.
00:27:01Meanwhile, it is going to... we largely dry across Portugal and central parts of
00:27:05spin where we'll also see the temperatures on the rise once again into the weekend and
00:27:09into next week as well, but heavy rain pushing across parts of northern Italy
00:27:13into Croatia through the course of Thursday. For cities
00:27:16in the west of Europe, actually lots of dry weather on the cards over the next few days perhaps an
00:27:20isolated shower for London, for Rome as well, but temperatures will be picking up after
00:27:24that cooler spell, more showers to come for Helsinki and it should be
00:27:28dry in Athens.
00:27:29Bye-bye.
00:27:44Grand Central Station is one of my favorite New York City
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00:27:54moment I have been dreaming off. I'm
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00:28:01Troy. legendary trosan war may have played out
00:28:05around me. this is pure
00:28:07magic. it's not difficult to
00:28:11imagine the delight, the marvel that those inspectors must have felt when their
00:28:15torch light was landing for the first time onto these silver
00:28:19objects that nobody had seen for a thousand
00:28:21years. i don't want to complain, need hope
00:28:25and i want to show them that vitality and hope and wisdom
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00:28:42I promise this isn't how I drive
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00:28:47or an extra bump there and a few clicks of a button I can do that. This is the
00:28:51forefront the technology. Why do we want a cell phone network on the moon?
00:28:55There are no people there. There are no people yet. What's in my hands are tiny
00:28:59lab grown brains. This is what everybody wants to get their hands.
00:29:04This is a really significant change in the game. What have you found already? 10
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00:29:20Technology like this is part of what will accelerate the
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00:29:38news.
00:30:16Welcome back to World News America. Let's turn now to the UK where the
00:30:20lives of some babies at the countess of Chester Hospital could have
00:30:24been saved if action had been taken earlier by staff. That
00:30:28is the conclusion at the end of inquiry into how the nurse, Lucy
00:30:31Lutby. was able to murder seven babies and attempt to murder
00:30:35murder seven others. the chair the inquiry, lady justice Thurlwall
00:30:39said there had been a complete failure to protect babies in the hospital's neonatal
00:30:43unit between 2015 and 2016. she also said the
00:30:47parents of Lucy let these victims were kept in the dark and were not aware
00:30:51of concerns until they were contacted by the police after the
00:30:5536-year-old was arrested in 2018. Judith Morritz
00:30:58reports: no babies were
00:31:02murdered free. In the Lucyletby case, there
00:31:06are two universes: there's that of her supporters, convinced of her
00:31:09innocence, and that the courts and the Thillwall inquiry where
00:31:13her guilt is settled. 'It was established to examine
00:31:17what those around letbe did as babies kept dying and she
00:31:21fell under suspicion and it's found that if the hospital had
00:31:25acted as it should have done, babies could have been
00:31:28saved. There was complete failure at all levels
00:31:32to invoke safeguarding procedures any
00:31:35point. Looking for clinical or other explanations for
00:31:39deaths and collapses was not wrong, but once there was
00:31:43suspicion that Letby may be causing'.
00:31:45deliberately, safeguarding steps should have been
00:31:49taken. no one seems
00:31:51to have thought that safegarding action is required when a member of staff is
00:31:55suspected of causing deliberate harm.
00:31:59it isn't necessary to be sure suspicion is
00:32:03enough. the offenses of murder and attempted murder have been
00:32:05identified and you have been identified as these a
00:32:09offenses.by
00:32:09suspec has been convicted of murdering seven babies
00:32:13and attempting to murder a further. in 2015 and
00:32:162016, is you going to have to go to
00:32:18the police station to be questioned about these allegations? today's report doesn't specify
00:32:22how many of those attacks could have been prevented, but lays out
00:32:25timeline of missed opportunities. in June
00:32:292015, three babies died in quick succession, but it wasn't
00:32:33viewed as an unusual cluster of deaths. that august,
00:32:36fourth baby died, and consultants disregarded a baby's blood test which
00:32:40suggested insulin poisoning. after the fifth baby death
00:32:44in October 2015, Letby was kept on the
00:32:48ward, doctor failed to report his suspicions about her
00:32:51in relation to one baby in February 2016, and even
00:32:55after consultants met managers in May that year, safeguarding rules weren't
00:32:59followed, two more babies would go to die. The
00:33:03reports scaving about the hospital's former executives, it
00:33:07finds that director of nursing Allison Kelly in the middle here, pitted nurses
00:33:11against doctors with misguided determination to protect Letby.
00:33:15"the former medical director, Ian Harvey is said to have tried to control the
00:33:18narrative, writing documents himself to support the nurse, and
00:33:22the then CEO Tony Chambers is described as dictatorial,
00:33:26running an exercise in spin, stalling the police investigation
00:33:30for nearly year. This is behavior by NHS
00:33:34managers that should never have been allowed to happen and a complete
00:33:38disregard for all the systems that would have protected these
00:33:42children, safeguarding, H are,
00:33:45whistleblowing, freedom to speak out, escalation of
00:33:49concerns, all of it, completely treated like it
00:33:53didn't matter. pretty grim reading, sadly. Dr.
00:33:57John Gibbs is one the senior doctors who battled to raise
00:34:00concerns about Lucy Letby with hospital managers, but he says he
00:34:04also accepts that the consultants bear collective responsibility for
00:34:08some failings.
00:34:09Do you look back and think, I wish I'd done more, we'd done
00:34:13more? Yes. "I wish we consultants had
00:34:17been brave enough to follow our suspicions and escalate
00:34:21things to the police earlier, and when I say we
00:34:24consultants, um, I am responsible as well,
00:34:27and um, if my other consultant colleagues didn't go to the
00:34:31police, I should have gone to the police. What we did,
00:34:35particularly when we're having a lot of resistance dealing with the managers, what we
00:34:39did, which helped us enormously, is that we all stuck
00:34:42together. The countess of Chester Hospital..." is now under new
00:34:46management, responding to the Philwell report, its current CEO
00:34:49said will approach its recommendations with openness and the firm commitment to
00:34:53build on the progress we've already made in improving our hospital's governance,
00:34:57safety and culture since that time. We acknowledge however that there's more to
00:35:01be done. Our priority is to ensure that we address the Tholwall report's
00:35:05recommendations as swiftly as possible. The report makes
00:35:0917 recommendations for the NHS in England, including tighter
00:35:13controls access to insulin, Compulsory rules on safeguarding
00:35:17and the introduction of cameras monitoring all cots and incubators on
00:35:20neonatal units, which wasn't available at the counters of Chester
00:35:23Hospital. I have asked my officials to urgently develop plans
00:35:27for cot cams which can also help parents feel better
00:35:31connected to their babies when
00:35:32they aren't able to be with them in person. As well as aiming her
00:35:36fire at the hospital and recommending change, lady justice Thurwall had
00:35:40words about how the baby's families were dealt with. The anger
00:35:44some pair. feel at the way they were treated by the countess was
00:35:47palpable, they were kept in the dark for years about what was
00:35:51happening, about the fact that there were concerns that their babies may have been
00:35:55deliberately harmed, the lack of consideration shown to the
00:35:59parents at that time was reprehensible. the
00:36:03baby's parents have welcomed Thurwall's findings, but they say the
00:36:07real test of this inquiry and its report will be whether it
00:36:10paves the way for real change across the
00:36:13NHS. Russia
00:36:17intensified its attacks on Ukraine on Tuesday, despite
00:36:20President Trump claiming
00:36:22the two countries had agreed to pause strikes on each other's energy
00:36:25facilities. Russia launched a... wave of attacks on petrol stations,
00:36:29trains and ports in Ukraine. Ukraine's postal services,
00:36:33which provide lifeline to millions of people left isolated by the war
00:36:37were also targeted. As James Landell reports.
00:36:41In Kieve, filling up your car just got dangerous. Petrol
00:36:45stations now Russia's target of choice. Several were hit
00:36:49overnight a wave of drone attacks that continued into the
00:36:52day. Near the border with Poland, another
00:36:56train was struck. part of Russia's escalating assault on
00:36:59Ukrainian infrastructure. One big
00:37:03target is Ukraine's postal service. Rushes destroyed
00:37:07hundreds of vans and branches, costing the lives of more than 50
00:37:11postal workers. Every day their boss has to
00:37:14decide where to send them safely. If it's too dangerous to go
00:37:18today, we won't go today, we'll go tomorrow or we'll go somewhere
00:37:22else. This is all that's left of Catarina's post
00:37:25office. Widowed by the war, she... rebuilt her life in this
00:37:28building until march when a russian drone struck
00:37:32targeting soldiers working
00:37:34nearby, from here for two
00:37:37years she served as the village post
00:37:40mistress, it's a great picture for me
00:37:43to los this room, this was your life, this is your
00:37:47work, yeah, yeah, i
00:37:51didn't visit this room, it's this
00:37:55first time. Today, Catarina's
00:37:59new office is this van, one of thousands of mobile branches
00:38:03providing vital services to people on the margins of
00:38:06society, and they don't just deliver parcels,
00:38:10most here in this village, are collecting pensions or
00:38:13paying
00:38:14bills.
00:38:25They also deliver medicines and food. and something more
00:38:29intangible, it's very
00:38:32important, it's one the few joys the month,
00:38:34you come out, have a chat with people, collect your pension and go
00:38:38home. Ukraine is vast rural country made
00:38:42up of thousands of remote villages just like this, and the postal
00:38:46service is part the glue that holds it all
00:38:48together, and for these people, not too far from the front line,
00:38:52this van can be their last link to the Ukrainian
00:38:56state. "what do you think people here think about
00:38:59you? they proud of
00:39:03me, they love
00:39:05me,
00:39:09are they need? james lando, bbc news,
00:39:12newsaparigia, still to come
00:39:16on world news america, president trump has dismissed calls by tech
00:39:20leaders for AI guard rail, so why is the president so opposed to
00:39:23regulating artificial intelligence? we'll take closer look around
00:39:27the world and..." across the UK. This is BBC
00:39:29News.
00:40:38You're watching BBC News. Now we've been talking lot this week about AI
00:40:42controls and regulation with fears that the industry is advancing
00:40:46a dangerous pace. In some of his latest comments on the
00:40:49concerns raised by AI tech leaders, President Trump has dismissed
00:40:53those fears about AI harming humanity as hoax, saying there's no need for. more
00:40:57guard rails our BBC North America editor Sarah Smith
00:41:00reports. Why is Donald Trump refusing to
00:41:04regulate AI? He is insisting that the warnings from some of
00:41:08America's biggest companies about the dangers the technology are nothing but
00:41:11a hulks. Trumpse is AI as race with China. We don't
00:41:15want to restrict them, we're all of sudden we come in second to China. He often says
00:41:19whoever wins AI wins. And the second reason is
00:41:23economic. The AI boom has seen hundreds of billions.
00:41:27of dollars invested in the American stock market and it's reached record
00:41:31highs. Donald Trump doesn't want to do anything to affect that before the
00:41:35mid-term elections in November. He's said that he thinks that
00:41:38AI will be bigger. than oil, gold, diamonds or even the
00:41:42internet as a driver of economic growth, and he doesn't want to
00:41:46kill the golden goose as he put it. the thing is, he is completely
00:41:50odds with both the AI companies and the American voting
00:41:53public. it's a warning sign that we need to slow down. and open
00:41:57ais, sam altman and elon musk back that idea.
00:42:01two-thirds of adults say they are more worried about the dangers of
00:42:05AI than they are excited about the opportunities, and that was
00:42:08even before the... AI firms themselves started warning that they could
00:42:12destroy humanity, Sarah Smith reporting for us there,
00:42:16we're going to talk more about how our approach to AI is changing now with
00:42:20Alex Katran, CEO the AI education project known as
00:42:24AI EDU. Alex, thanks for joining us. First of all, what
00:42:28do you think the president lawers are getting right and getting
00:42:32wrong about AI right now? Yeah, look, I mean, I think it
00:42:35is, I'm glad that people are focused on the safety
00:42:39issue. um, I'm not going to weigh in, there's like plenty of, there's been a lot of voices today
00:42:43like weighing as a humble non-profit leader, um, I don't how much
00:42:47I have to add to that, but what I will say is um,
00:42:51there's
00:42:51been a lot of focus on protecting Americans today, and I
00:42:55think we are not spending enough time thinking about addition to protecting
00:42:59them from AI, how do we make sure people are prepared, because you can ban AI, we've
00:43:03seen this in school districts, that are doing pauses,
00:43:07um, but pausing on AI, slowing things. down isn't answer to this
00:43:11question of how do you prepare people
00:43:12and I think you know ultimately Americans we're seeing this in poll we're seeing this in
00:43:16in primaries and certainly I think it will come to pass in the midterms
00:43:20voters are
00:43:21you know genuinely concerned about what is where is my place in this
00:43:25and I think that sometimes it's almost hard to kind of like you
00:43:28know piece apart like all these sort of like different anxieties but at the end the day I think people are concerned
00:43:32about
00:43:33you know they feel like things are moving away um and they don't necessarily
00:43:36see and they're not being told like like how are you really?
00:43:40to be a part of that future, so from your perspective at AIEDU, how do you
00:43:44answer that question people have of where am I and all of this? especially if you look at
00:43:47kids in schools as you said, yes,
00:43:50I mean a we work in all 50 states, we we've reached
00:43:54two million kids, we're also one the first organizations to be doing this work back in like
00:43:572019, so we do this for seven years, which makes it like the longest organization to be
00:44:01focused on AI readiness, and you this question of how do you prepare kids for the
00:44:05future, I think a lot of people assume that it's just like, oh kids need to have
00:44:09chance to just use AI so this question of like how do we give kids access or give schools
00:44:13access to AI um our theory is that actually this
00:44:17is going
00:44:17to come down to what you the human advantage um how do we actually
00:44:20build the intangible human skills that the AI can't
00:44:24do um it's almost like AI is a multiplier you have to focus on
00:44:28what the the base factor is that you're multiplying and so you think
00:44:31in almost every domain it's really this this there's a question of like
00:44:35there's just lot of training and learning that has to be done this is basically going to be the
00:44:39biggest if you think about like AI transformation, broadly speaking, including education, this is the
00:44:43biggest change management uh project in the history of
00:44:46civilization. um, every organization in the country in the world is
00:44:50going to have to retool itself and in some cases dramatically transform, and the
00:44:54way you do change management, you talk to the people at McKenzie and you know at these big
00:44:58consulting firms, it is people endeavor, it's about investing in human capital,
00:45:01it is about training, and um, and I just don't see that happen, that that being
00:45:05prominent enough in the conversation that I'm seeing today. so what does that look like?
00:45:10retooling, retraining, if you talk about schools in particular, you you
00:45:13mentioned the the multiplier of AI and what you're teaching is that
00:45:17baseline, so what does that baseline then look like for kids? yeah, so you think about like, well,
00:45:21how do we deal with kids using AI to cheat, how do we make sure that kids
00:45:25also have durable skills so that they can succeed, and you know, which is what you know
00:45:28companies are asking for, and the answer I think in all cases is you have to have a trained
00:45:32educator in the room, um, if teacher doesn't understand AI, it's going to
00:45:36be very hard for her to design an assignment that is resistant to AI.
00:45:40um and we see lots of schools that have policies uh and I think 6% of
00:45:44teachers reported actually really understanding what those policies are and if you look what other
00:45:48countries are doing and
00:45:48I think this is one thing that you know I look at what the like the president's remarks and he's talking about the
00:45:52competition with China you know what I would say is
00:45:55you know we also should be concerned about the fact that China is way further ahead than the
00:45:59US on their transformation of education they have in 2025
00:46:03they laid out a comprehensive plan to basically retool education from
00:46:07preek to elementary school to to high school. you know
00:46:10aligning what students are learning to the job market um mandatory training for
00:46:14teachers, they actually also like put some you know specific uh blocks in and
00:46:18saying no uh AI assessments until 2030
00:46:21um we need that level
00:46:24and i don't agree with lot the stuff that china is doing they do lot of surveillance like
00:46:27you know tracking kids facial expressions, i don't think that is what we want here in the US
00:46:31um but there's a white space right now and if we don't fill it
00:46:34then i think other countries will and so that's why it's so important okay alex
00:46:37katran interesting conversation thank you so much for joining
00:46:40in the studio tonight, well we're going to talk about
00:46:44that and all the AI news with our panel tonight, offira
00:46:47haskel, a director of external affairs at the Democratic Governor's Association and
00:46:51Stephen Kent. conservative columnist, it is great to see you
00:46:55both. um, Stephen, I will start with you on this one, there is, if you
00:46:59look at polling, and we were just having the call conversation here with Alex about some the
00:47:03skepticism in the public towards artificial intelligence, and we are just
00:47:07seeing that amplified this week. are law makers
00:47:10understanding that, do you think? I do think that lawmakers are
00:47:14understanding it. you see Congress being very responsive generally
00:47:18to the fears that Americans have about artificial intelligence. Right
00:47:22now, at least 52% of Americans, according to pu
00:47:26are more nervous than they are excited about the AI
00:47:29future, but I'm going to be honest here and say what Donald Trump is
00:47:33doing is leading. This is an example of a
00:47:37politician who is not running for re-election again, and that gives a
00:47:40person a little bit of political courage to be out front on
00:47:44something that most people are not excited about. He
00:47:48sees a huge opportunity for America to lead in the 21st
00:47:51century. "and he's willing to say the unpopular thing, which
00:47:55is we need to be moving fast on AI so that we
00:47:59can secure our own future. technology is part of that. it's kind of
00:48:03interesting actually to see another area in which
00:48:06you know conservatives, republicans generally are a
00:48:10uh more optimistic posture than democrats, the people who
00:48:14supposedly are more open to change and flexibility where
00:48:17conservatives are always wanting to keep things the way they are. um, you have here
00:48:21republican..." party who is by and large looking ahead with
00:48:25optimism and trying to make sure that we land on our feet well with this new
00:48:28tech. hard to be optimistic when
00:48:30you hear some the warnings from the AI industry, but um Opera, I'll ask you what
00:48:34you make of that as well and what even have to say about how the parties are approaching
00:48:37this. well, I think President Trump has shown pattern of
00:48:41dismissing the concerns the American people as a hoax, whether that is on
00:48:45affordability, now AI, and I think right now, this is
00:48:49moment where folks are looking for critical leadership in President Trump's...
00:48:52teams um content to put his head in the stand instead of finding solutions, and
00:48:56I think that's why there's an opening with less than 50 days until these critical
00:49:00mid-terms for for democrats
00:49:01I think to show leadership on on this issue and to show that they're really
00:49:05hearing hearing voters, and I think we're seeing examples of in this
00:49:09leadership vacuum at the federal level, leaders in the states like Governor
00:49:13Pritzker who just signed the strongest AI safety legislation in the
00:49:17country last week, and so I think there's a really clear contrast here on
00:49:21display ahead of. critical mid-term elections of who's actually listening to the concerns
00:49:25of voters. I just want to follow up on that really quickly offera. um, what even
00:49:29said is that President Trump is being a leader, because what needs to be done is for
00:49:33the US to win this race. What do you think of that
00:49:36argument? Well, I think we should listen to the concerns of both the industry
00:49:40and the American people. They're asking for there to be a thoughtful
00:49:44leadership on this issue, for there to be some sort of guidance or regulation and
00:49:48detered a future vision for the country on this complex issue and president.
00:49:52and simply not meeting the moment on any of that. okay, Stephen, I'll I'll put that back to
00:49:56you. um, does it help if if the US leads or wins
00:50:00if it's a race to the bottom? the only thing to fear is fear
00:50:04itself. we need leaders at the top who actually set a
00:50:08trajectory forward and give people a sense of encouragement and
00:50:12optimism about the best possible outcomes. we are not Europe.
00:50:15in Europe, and in the UK, frankly, they lead by the precautionary
00:50:19principle, and it is why when it comes to technology innovation.
00:50:22entrepreneurship, these places are in the stone age compared to the United
00:50:26States and in China. This is what the US does very well, and
00:50:30it does make people uncomfortable and nervous when we come up to
00:50:34these huge technological fault lines where things are going to change very
00:50:38fast. But what's so interesting about Donald Trump as
00:50:41republican, as a leader is he came to to
00:50:44office promising to return the 20th century,
00:50:48you know, like
00:50:50coal mining, and he was going to reinvigorate industry. real towns in the
00:50:53midwest, and he has actually been able to see reality, and
00:50:57this is something that democrats won't say, he is sort of coming to
00:51:00grips with the fact that you can't do that, but you can step forward in the
00:51:04future, you can produce chips, you can resure some these
00:51:08companies that provide these technologies, you can build data centers and
00:51:11make tradesman and electricians, some the most wealthy people
00:51:15uh in northern Virginia, particularly where I live, who are doing
00:51:19this kind of work, and you can actually make a... new
00:51:22industry for the United States that's going to secure its future. China
00:51:26has it easy, they're a dictatorship. They're going to set all sorts of
00:51:30different guidelines and strategic initiatives at the national level
00:51:34that require no debate because it is centralized. We have it very
00:51:38hard. It's a very hard thing for us to do, but
00:51:42Donald Trump is providing some direction for us to do that. Yeah, I... I guess the
00:51:46point is, and offer has made this point as well, is that industry leaders
00:51:50themselves are saying this is a dangerous technology.
00:52:05but Opera, what I want to ask you is, do you think
00:52:08Democrats are indeed going to be seen as a party
00:52:12then that doesn't embrace progress, as as Stephen has hinted at
00:52:16there, if they say we are against data centers and we want to reign in
00:52:20AI
00:52:20and Bernie Sanders, he's
00:52:21an independent but still saying um he wants a ban on all super
00:52:24intelligence. Well, I think
00:52:26what democrats are are proving every single day is that there's
00:52:30innovation to be made in the country, and I think we're seeing lot of chaos and dysfunction
00:52:34coming
00:52:34out of. washington, but in the states led by democratic governor specifically, we're
00:52:38seeing that there is an openness to innovation, creation, job creation in
00:52:42particular, I know, Stephen talked about bringing jobs back to the
00:52:45United States, but it's really democratic governors, I think who are showing up the president on that
00:52:49front, and so I think democrats really do have lane open to them,
00:52:53especially again with the contrast with less than 50 days to the midterms of
00:52:57Republican controlled Washington that's absolutely not delivering anything for the
00:53:01American people on the most pressing issues that they care about, whether that is affordability.
00:53:05or AI, but fear, congress is not likely to get a
00:53:09whole lot done in the the remaining time before they go home to their districts
00:53:13to uh campaign ahead the midterm, so in that
00:53:16sense, what do you think the democrat's messaging should be?
00:53:20well, today's national voter registration day, and I do think that Democrats are
00:53:24a great position heading into these midterms and I think the message is that
00:53:27Republicans with full trust and control of Washington have done absolutely nothing to make
00:53:31your life better, and I think Democrats uh in turn ar ready to to hit
00:53:35the ground running and deliver deliver change, especially again a leadership vacuum
00:53:39left by Trump on this issue. So Stephen, we just have about 30 seconds left,
00:53:43but um, how do you think Republicans should be messaging on AI with the fact
00:53:47that the polling shows people don't feel very good about it at the moment?
00:53:51You just have to keep hammering home the best possible
00:53:54outcomes. You can sit around all day and talk about the things that can
00:53:58go wrong and there is incentive for many tech companies to do
00:54:02that, Anthropic is trying to secure. their position in the future
00:54:06by in ensuring regulatory capture, republicans
00:54:10need to be making that point that you cannot necessarily trust
00:54:14these tech companies to act altruistically, they have motive
00:54:18too in all their dumerism, and we're going to try to point people a better
00:54:22direction, a more optimistic direction about the future. yeah, and that is
00:54:25point I have seen some Republicans making already, Stephen, it to what you just
00:54:29said, so we have unfortunately run out of time, but I
00:54:32have a feeling we'll be discussing this issue much more in the coming... weeks, I'm Stephen Ofera. Thank
00:54:36you so much for joining us tonight. My
00:54:38pleasure. Let's get a quick look
00:54:42at some other headlines now from across the globe. All the support
00:54:46acts for Ed Sheiren's US tour pulled out the performances in
00:54:49solidarity with the rapper Macalmore after he was barred from
00:54:53upcoming performances for making pro-Palestinian statements on stage. Sheiron
00:54:57says it wasn't his decision to remove Macklemore from his tour lineup.
00:55:01In a statement, the British singer blamed the tour promoters. Robert Kraft, the billion.
00:55:05owner the Jullette Stadium in Massachusetts has admitted to lobbying
00:55:09other venue managers to boycott the tour if Maccomore was not
00:55:12removed. Welsh actor Matthew Reisse has
00:55:15made history at the ME Television Awards by winning two lead
00:55:19actor
00:55:20car categories in the same year. He won for his roles in Widow's Bay
00:55:24and the Beast in Me. Widows Bay won record
00:55:2714 awards. All right, don't forget
00:55:31you can always get the very latest on our website BBC.com. slash
00:55:35news, you can see there again, we have all the updates on that AI story as they
00:55:39come into us, plus much more on the who these advance uh in the
00:55:43Middle East as well, and you can always download our BBC news
00:55:47app, you'll get a push alerts and all of your headlines there as well, for all of us here in
00:55:50Washington, thank you for watching, my colleague Helena Humpfrey will have an update on your headlines in few
00:55:54minutes, stay with
00:55:55us.
00:56:11Hello, let's take a look at the weather around the world, and first off to North America where
00:56:15there's a real contrast in temperature, we've still got some very warm air holding place
00:56:19across the southern plains from Texas, Arkansas, all the way towards the
00:56:23Mid-Atlantic, cooler conditions to the north of that and where those air masses
00:56:27meet, we've got some stormy weather pushing across parts the northern
00:56:30plains, also some heavy downpours here around the desert, southwesties a monsoon.
00:56:35showers pushing in here, for Mexico, one or two heavier showers
00:56:39around the bay of Campeche, and we've also got some heavier rain pushing in for Costa Rica, Panama,
00:56:42into Nicaragua as well, we could see some heavier downpores around the
00:56:46Lesser Antelees as well, heading across South America now
00:56:50and there's still some heavy rain across the far north of Peru up towards Colombia as
00:56:54well, dryer conditions around the Amazon Basin, this frontal system just starting to
00:56:57clear from the southeaster Brazil, temperatures will eventually rise for southern
00:57:01Brazil into Argentina over the next few days, but settle to the
00:57:05far south. now across Europe and we're seeing drop in temperature, it's been very
00:57:09hot across France, Spain as well, a frontal system is introducing some
00:57:13cooler, fresher air and some heavy downpors affecting parts the alpine
00:57:17region. in Switzerland up through Germany into Finland as well, still
00:57:21pretty warm to the south of that and some stormy conditions for southern parts of Greece,
00:57:25we've got low pressure in the Mediterranean here, that may affect some northern coast of
00:57:28Africa, around Libya, Egypt as well, heavy showers around the Gulf of Guine, some
00:57:32downpours likely here and it's going to turn increasingly wet in Cape Town
00:57:36after Wednesday, 17 degrees on Wednesday, wet in windy weather then pushing
00:57:40eastwards across south Africa, lots of dry settled weather for much the
00:57:44Middle East at the moment, few showers down towards Yemen, one of... two up
00:57:47towards the Caspian Sea, but dry and hot and sunny in between
00:57:51across India now and some heavy monsoonal showers building
00:57:55across northern and northeastern parts the country heading across to Bangladesh, still one or
00:57:59two sharp showers around Rajasthan, Gujarat as well, the bulk the
00:58:03heavy rain though further south for the Maldives and Sri Lanka, more heavy
00:58:07rain though working across Japan, it's been very wet more
00:58:09of that to come, could be some flooding on Wednesday and some heavy showers for the Philippines across to
00:58:13Vietnam as well, quieter conditions further south still very...
00:58:17much of java into Sulawazi as well and across
00:58:21Australia, much the country looking dry, a big area of high pressure in
00:58:24charge, it's a cooler spell of weather towards the southeast, 13 in
00:58:28Melbourne, but it will be turning warmer here in the southeast, cooler
00:58:32towards western Australia through the rest the week, and then rain will push northwards
00:58:36across both islands of New Zealand. Bye for
00:58:38now, r is kind of work
00:58:42without fear, because it's fun for me, it's like if I fail, it's no big
00:58:46deal, if something don't. work out, I'm not afraid of of failure, because to me I
00:58:50never feel like loser. She could act, she could sing, she could write songs, I mean
00:58:53she was the complete package. To millions across the globe, Dolly
00:58:57Parton was a true one off, lady who,
00:59:01I truly believe was the most beloved human being
00:59:05in the world. Fans from Nashville,
00:59:09Dolly, we love you, to Newcastle have been celebrating the star's
00:59:13life. God bless her, it feels a little bit like when the queen
00:59:16died. It honestly
00:59:18does. This is
00:59:22how the world paid its respects to the undisputed
00:59:25queen of country. The idea of a world without dolly in it,
00:59:29it just doesn't seem
00:59:33real. Dollywood, come on down to Dollywood, you'll have fun
00:59:36and we'll treat you good, so come on down to Dollywood, it's better on
00:59:39Fasson.
01:00:06live from Washington, this is BBC News. The UN
01:00:10issues are warning about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen as the
01:00:13Houtis and Saudi forces exchange large-scale drone. and
01:00:17missile attacks, forcing more than 100 thous people from
01:00:21their homes. The Pentagon says US space force
01:00:25has positioned weapons in Earth's orbit that are capable of destroying
01:00:29hostile threats. And AI leaders gather at
01:00:33summits on both sides the country as President Trump continues to
01:00:36downplay growing concerns about the
01:00:39technology.
01:00:49"I'm Helena Hompfrey, good to have you with us. We begin in the Middle East where the UN is
01:00:53warning that the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is deepening,
01:00:57as the Iran back toothy rebels assault the sound."