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00:00:14Live from Washington. This is
00:00:16BBC News. The UN issues a warning warning about the humanitarian crisis
00:00:20crisis in Yemen as the Houthis and
00:00:22and Saudi forces exchange large-scale large-scale drone and missile attacks,
00:00:26attacks, forcing more than 100,000 100,000 people from their homes.
00:00:30homes. The Pentagon says US Space Space Force has positioned weapons
00:00:33weapons in Earth's orbit that are
00:00:35are capable of destroying hostile
00:00:38hostile threats and AI leaders gather gather at summits on both sides of
00:00:41of the country as President Trump
00:00:44Trump continues to downplay growing
00:00:46growing concerns about the technology.
00:00:57technology. Helena Humphrey, good good to have you with us. We begin begin in the Middle East, where the
00:01:00the UN is warning that the humanitarian humanitarian crisis in Yemen is deepening
00:01:04deepening as the Iran backed Houthi Houthi rebels assault the Saudi backed
00:01:07backed Yemeni government forces. forces. The UN refugee agency says
00:01:11says the renewed conflict has forced
00:01:14forced more than 100,000 people from from their homes, while thousands
00:01:17thousands more have fled across the the Red Sea to Djibouti, where officials
00:01:20officials are warning of difficulties difficulties in providing food as
00:01:24as well as emergency health care. care. Now the conflict in Yemen shows
00:01:27shows no signs of slowing, with Houthis
00:01:30Houthis launching large-scale drone drone and missile attacks and Saudi
00:01:33Saudi leaders vowing a firm response.
00:01:35response. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Mohammed bin Salman met with the
00:01:38the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah Fattah al-Sisi, in Cairo on Tuesday,
00:01:42Tuesday, and the two leaders are are calling for freedom of navigation
00:01:45navigation in the Red Sea, which which the Houthis have sought to to blockade as they take control
00:01:49control of Yemen's western coastline.
00:01:51coastline. The Houthis have denied denied threatening international
00:01:55international shipping except for for Saudi vessels. Well, our North North America correspondent Nada Nada Tawfik has been covering the
00:01:59the latest in Yemen, including Tuesday's
00:02:02Tuesday's Emergency Security Council
00:02:04Council meeting. Yeah, well, the
00:02:06the briefing came initially from from a UN official to the council
00:02:10council before we heard speeches. speeches. And Khaled Kyari said that
00:02:14that there hadn't been a change to
00:02:17to maritime traffic reported yet,
00:02:18yet, but that there is real market
00:02:22market concern about the strait, strait, given that already the Strait
00:02:25Strait of Hormuz has been affected
00:02:27affected and that was really a concern
00:02:29concern that was echoed by all council
00:02:32council members because, of course,
00:02:34course, this is another vital international
00:02:37international waterway. Bab el-Mandeb el-Mandeb and that could affect any
00:02:41any change. Their. Prices for medicine,
00:02:44medicine, food, energy prices of of course, and transportation. And
00:02:48And so for all Council members, there
00:02:50there was a clear call to make sure sure that the international waterway
00:02:54waterway stays open. Now, the Houthis Houthis have said that it will remain
00:02:58remain open, that they will only
00:03:00only block Saudi Arabia, but from from Saudi's allies, a clear condemnation
00:03:04condemnation not just of the Houthis Houthis but on Iran, because, of
00:03:08of course, the group is backed by by Iran. And there is fear now that
00:03:11that this could be a second front
00:03:13front to try to put pressure on the
00:03:16the US and others in this wider region.
00:03:19region. Nada Tawfik reporting there there will. President Trump has continued
00:03:23continued to downplay growing concerns concerns about artificial intelligence,
00:03:27intelligence, rejecting calls to to slow down the development of AI,
00:03:30AI, saying, quote, whoever wins AI AI wins. As tech bosses and lawmakers
00:03:34lawmakers meet to discuss the issue issue on both sides of the country.
00:03:37country. Well, in California, top top AI bosses are attending a summit
00:03:41summit including OpenAI Sam Altman Altman and Anthropic Dario Amodei.
00:03:45Amodei. Mr Amodei is one of several several industry figures warning
00:03:49warning of the dangers of unchecked unchecked AI. But the bosses of or
00:03:52or the boss of Nvidia, Jensen Huang,
00:03:55Huang, has argued against new laws laws and regulations, saying it's
00:03:58it's for companies to decide on the the safety of their products. And
00:04:02And here in Washington, progressive progressive Senator Bernie Sanders Sanders and former Trump adviser
00:04:06adviser Steve Bannon appeared at at the same rally calling for restrictions
00:04:10restrictions on artificial intelligence. intelligence. Senator Sanders warning
00:04:13warning that the potential danger danger of AI is probably greater
00:04:17greater than nuclear weapons. Let
00:04:21Let us be clear artificial intelligence
00:04:25intelligence and robotics are the
00:04:29the most transformational technologies
00:04:32technologies in the history of humanity
00:04:35humanity and they will impact the
00:04:38the lives of every man, woman and
00:04:42and child in our country. They've
00:04:45They've tried to cover up the danger
00:04:48danger by saying it's a psyop, but
00:04:51but using the psyop to try to get
00:04:54get off liabilities what they want
00:04:57want is to socialise all the risk
00:05:00risk with the American people, including
00:05:03including potential bailouts when
00:05:05when they come and they want to keep
00:05:07keep all the upside. A Ibrahim, a
00:05:10a senior fellow for economic and
00:05:12and national security at the AI Now Now Institute and asked about President
00:05:16President Trump's recent comments comments as countries aim to be one
00:05:19one step ahead of rivals on AI. The
00:05:23The President's comments about, you you know, whether this is a hoax
00:05:26hoax or not, I think spotlights a
00:05:29a larger issue that we've had in
00:05:31in this debate, which is it became became very easy to weaponise this
00:05:35this idea of a race with China. And And it's something that the firms
00:05:39firms regularly relied on to justify justify moving as quickly as possible
00:05:42possible and often moving as recklessly recklessly as possible. But again,
00:05:45again, in service of this idea of
00:05:47of a race that that mean we must
00:05:50must win. And the President's dismissal
00:05:52dismissal of that is is a bit ironic ironic given how much effort they
00:05:55they have put in weaponising and
00:05:58and leveraging this idea of a race.
00:06:00race. But it really calls into question
00:06:02question what the race premise leads
00:06:04leads us to and whether winning is
00:06:06is something that will be to the
00:06:09the benefit of Americans and the the country at large. If you just
00:06:12just look at the economics of it it and again, looking at what President
00:06:15President Trump has had to say, you you know, this not just being about
00:06:19about a race but also about economic economic gain. You know, he says
00:06:22says he thinks this will be bigger
00:06:24bigger than diamonds, oil, the internet
00:06:26internet in terms of what this can can add to the economy. Is he right
00:06:30right there? The President points
00:06:32points out that there is a lot of of potential here, but the reality
00:06:35reality is it's all dependent on
00:06:37on choices as to whether or not the
00:06:39the benefits of this technology are are broadly shared. I wouldn't argue
00:06:43argue that the benefits of a robust
00:06:46robust diamond industry has paid paid off for most hardworking Americans.
00:06:50Americans. That's not to say that that it's not a lucrative industry,
00:06:52industry, but the idea that just just because a industry or a good
00:06:56good or product or service can produce
00:07:00produce a lot of prosperity does does not mean that that's prosperity prosperity that's shared. As you
00:07:03you point out, there are many different different ways that this can go right
00:07:06right now. It is a question of choices. choices. And we have heard from,
00:07:09from, you know, some big hitters hitters in the AI industry leaders
00:07:13leaders saying that they too, think think that things should slow down.
00:07:16down. But I'm curious as to how much
00:07:18much credence you give their words
00:07:20words in what is a global race? Because Because surely that's already in
00:07:24in their gift to put some guardrails
00:07:27guardrails in. So the leaders of of these industry, I mean no more
00:07:30more or less than necessarily anyone
00:07:33anyone else. But again, recognising recognising that they are very significant
00:07:36significant financial interests on on the line here. Right. These are
00:07:39are not small investments that have have been made towards this build
00:07:43build out in the technology and its
00:07:45its proliferation. So these are not
00:07:47not necessarily objective actors
00:07:49actors or observers in any way. That
00:07:52That being said, you know, they are are in, in the labs, they're seeing
00:07:55seeing how things are developing.
00:07:56developing. But it is it's quite
00:07:59quite telling that those who have have been in control of this technology
00:08:02technology this entire time are now
00:08:04now suddenly asking for someone else
00:08:06else to curb their control. But it's
00:08:09it's not clear that this is to curb
00:08:12curb control in service of protecting
00:08:15protecting all people. Or is it in
00:08:18in service of protecting the labs
00:08:20labs and the leaders of these labs labs themselves from the consequences
00:08:23consequences of what they are very very quickly and very recklessly
00:08:25recklessly putting out into the world? I mean, what do you think think smart regulation looks like?
00:08:28like? And also, what do you make make of the fact that those calling
00:08:31calling for it include Senator Bernie
00:08:34Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, not,
00:08:36not, you know, obvious political
00:08:39political allies? I think you apply
00:08:42apply the rules where they exist.
00:08:44exist. And oftentimes with debates debates in tech and tech regulation
00:08:47regulation and technology policy,
00:08:50policy, it is a question of do we we rewrite rules for this emerging
00:08:54emerging technology, even if the the application is something we have
00:08:56have seen before? So in, in safety
00:08:59safety critical systems like defence, defence, like nuclear, like health
00:09:02health care and in banking, we have
00:09:04have very rigorous oversight and and regulation and we can trust that
00:09:08that oversight and regulation, if if there's an audit done of a nuclear
00:09:11nuclear system, you can trust those those tests versus what a lot of
00:09:13of these labs are advocating for, for, which is, you know, effectively
00:09:17effectively their friends getting getting to grade their homework or
00:09:21or ideologically aligned evaluators
00:09:24evaluators getting to review their
00:09:25their decision making. As for unlikely
00:09:29unlikely political bedfellows, I
00:09:30I think the most important and sustainable
00:09:36sustainable organising that is happening happening is not anything that's that's happening in Washington. It's
00:09:39It's what's happening in communities communities across the country where
00:09:42where you're really seeing bipartisan bipartisan organising around data data centres specifically, which
00:09:46which as many have already noted, noted, has become a proxy for a much
00:09:50much larger fight around this broader
00:09:52broader AI build out. AI. Lastly, Lastly, I mean, no matter how the
00:09:56the US chooses to legislate on this,
00:09:59this, does any of it matter if China
00:10:03China isn't on board? Is there kind
00:10:04kind of some global framework that's
00:10:07that's needed here? You need both both things at home and of course,
00:10:11course, a global framework. But your your hand abroad is not going to
00:10:15to be any stronger than what you're you're doing here. So as home to
00:10:19to the largest and most leading edge edge labs, the United States has
00:10:22has a major advantage in being able able to set the rules of the road
00:10:25road for the rest of the world. So So whatever we do here is the floor
00:10:29floor internationally. Beyond that,
00:10:31that, I think it is unwise to believe
00:10:34believe that in the same way that
00:10:37that we have concerns about what
00:10:40what unregulated proliferation of of this technology might look like like and what it means for people
00:10:43people and what it means for risks risks here and around the world that
00:10:47that our counterparts and competitors competitors alike are not thinking
00:10:50thinking about those very same risks.
00:10:52risks. The Pentagon has confirmed confirmed for the first time that
00:10:55that it has deployed a space weapon
00:10:58weapon into Earth's orbit. Air Force Force Secretary Troy Meink announced
00:11:01announced on Monday that the US Space Space Force now operates what he
00:11:05he called an orbit space control
00:11:07control weapons capable of destroying
00:11:09destroying hostile threats. The Pentagon Pentagon has not disclosed details
00:11:12details about the technology, and and it's unclear when the weapons
00:11:15weapons were sent into space. President President Trump has hailed the US
00:11:18US Space Force as a significant step
00:11:21step to counter growing space threats threats from China and Russia, amid
00:11:24amid concerns that the two countries countries are testing new offensive
00:11:27offensive technology. Will Russia Russia responded to the latest US
00:11:30US announcement by saying that outer outer space should be free from any
00:11:34any weapon, while China warned against
00:11:36against turning space into a battlefield, battlefield, our defence correspondent
00:11:39correspondent Jonathan Beale has has more now. No notice launch Iran.
00:11:43Iran. The US Space Force is already
00:11:45already helping America fight its its wars on the ground here, detecting
00:11:49detecting the launch of ballistic ballistic missiles. This is the Wolf
00:11:52Wolf Den. But it's also preparing preparing for a potential conflict
00:11:56conflict in space. We are already already sparring in the cyber domain
00:11:59domain in the space domain. Home
00:12:01Home to thousands of active satellites.
00:12:06satellites. Now, for the first time, time, the US has confirmed it's deployed
00:12:09deployed a weapon in space. The US US Air Force secretary said it wanted
00:12:13wanted to maintain its dominance, dominance, so we've had to take steps
00:12:17steps to make sure that when we're
00:12:19we're threatened, we can take care
00:12:22care of that. That's prompted both both Russia and China to condemn
00:12:26condemn the move and warn of an arms
00:12:28arms race in space. America's already
00:12:31already accused them of doing the
00:12:33the same. The reality is there's
00:12:36there's already the start of an arms
00:12:37arms race in space. The US has accused
00:12:40accused both China and Russia of
00:12:42of developing satellites that can can jam the signals of other satellites
00:12:46satellites or listen in, or deploying
00:12:49deploying lasers to blind them, even
00:12:51even fitting grappling arms to try try to manoeuver other satellites
00:12:55satellites out of orbit. The US has
00:12:56has also accused both China and Russia
00:12:59Russia are developing weapons that
00:13:01that can be fired into space or from
00:13:03from space to destroy satellites.
00:13:06satellites. Three two. We have ignition.
00:13:08ignition. But for now the US isn't
00:13:11isn't saying what weapon it's launched launched into orbit. What the US
00:13:15US is talking about are probably probably things like electronic warfare
00:13:19warfare or jamming abilities or spoofing
00:13:22spoofing abilities, possibly things things like what we call co-orbital
00:13:25co-orbital weapons, which you have have another satellite that's orbiting
00:13:28orbiting alongside another satellite satellite and could bang into it.
00:13:30it. It's not just the military that
00:13:33that increasingly relies on space.
00:13:35space. We all do on satellites for
00:13:38for everyday life, from social media media to phone calls and finding
00:13:42finding our way about it's not yet
00:13:45yet Star Wars, but an arms race in
00:13:48in space should concern us all. Jonathan
00:13:52Jonathan Beale, BBC News. Lithuania's Lithuania's Defence Minister has
00:13:55has told the BBC he considers Nato Nato to be at war with Russia because
00:13:59because of recent attacks blamed blamed on Moscow. The Lithuanian
00:14:02Lithuanian Defence Minister was speaking speaking after Nato jets shot down
00:14:05down a drone over Lithuania, though though he didn't confirm that it
00:14:09it had been launched by Russia and
00:14:10and citing similar incidents in Germany Germany and Poland. The Lithuanian
00:14:14Lithuanian Defence Minister said said that Europe and Nato needed
00:14:17needed to show they had muscle and and would protect their people to
00:14:21to deter further Russian escalation. escalation. Our Eastern Europe correspondent
00:14:24correspondent Sarah Rainsford sent sent this report from the capital,
00:14:27capital, Vilnius. It was just after after midnight this morning here
00:14:31here in Vilnius that my phone screeched screeched with an alert and when
00:14:33when I checked the message it said said there was a suspected drone.
00:14:37drone. Keep safe, it said, and wait
00:14:40wait for the all clear. Now that that all clear came about 20 minutes
00:14:43minutes later and we now know that that there was a drone confirmed
00:14:46confirmed that it was in Lithuanian Lithuanian airspace for around about
00:14:48about half an hour before it was was intercepted and shot down by
00:14:51by Nato fighter jets belonging to
00:14:54to Italy. We still don't know who who that drone belonged to. We don't don't know whether it was launched
00:14:58launched deliberately or it might might have strayed into Lithuanian
00:15:01Lithuanian airspace. We know that that it entered from neighbouring
00:15:05neighbouring Belarus and that after after it was shot down, the debris debris was scattered over a wide
00:15:08wide area. So it's being collected collected up and examined to see
00:15:12see where it came from, who it was was launched by and whether or not
00:15:16not it was armed. In fact, whether whether or not there was any explosives.
00:15:20explosives. But this has happened happened at a nervous time here in
00:15:23in this region because Russia is is escalating its full-scale war
00:15:27war on Ukraine, and it is also escalating escalating its hybrid attacks on
00:15:31on Ukraine's greatest supporters. supporters. Vilnius, Lithuania has
00:15:34has always been a staunch supporter supporter of Ukraine ever since the
00:15:37the full-scale invasion. This city city is still covered in Ukrainian
00:15:41Ukrainian flags. There's lots of
00:15:43of messages of solidarity for Kyiv
00:15:46Kyiv here in this city, in this country,
00:15:49country, in the past, when there there have been drone incursions incursions into other countries,
00:15:53countries, including Poland and other other Baltic states, experts have
00:15:57have suggested that Moscow could could be testing Nato's reactions. reactions. At the moment here in
00:16:01in Lithuania, there are still more more questions than answers, but
00:16:04but certainly there is now a full-scale full-scale investigation into what
00:16:08what happened and who might be behind
00:16:09behind it. Well, still to come, President
00:16:12President Trump lashes out at the the Supreme Court after they deal
00:16:15deal a blow to his mail in ballot ballot plans for the mid-terms. We'll
00:16:18We'll have more on that after the the break. Around
00:17:21for world questions.
00:17:25Questions. Nigeria truth, trust
00:17:26and fake news on BBC News. You're
00:17:31You're live with BBC News. President
00:17:33President Trump attacked the US Supreme Supreme Court over its decision to
00:17:37to block his mail in ballot plan plan for November's mid-term elections,
00:17:40elections, calling the justices ruling ruling highly political. Well, the
00:17:43the court on Monday upheld an order order that temporarily blocks the
00:17:47the US Postal Service from moving moving forward with new requirements
00:17:50requirements for postal ballots. ballots. That ruling means that the
00:17:52the US states can continue using using their existing systems for
00:17:56for the elections in just seven weeks' weeks' time. And President Trump
00:17:59Trump posted on his Truth Social Social platform Republicans just
00:18:02just got another bad decision from from the Supreme Court. And he accused
00:18:05accused the court's judges of being
00:18:07being petrified of what he called
00:18:10called crazed and depraved Democrats. Democrats. He also criticised the
00:18:12the three justices that he appointed, appointed, saying these are not the
00:18:15the people I interviewed to serve serve on the United States Supreme
00:18:19Supreme Court. Now, President Trump Trump signed the executive order
00:18:21order to control mail in voting in in March, insisting contrary to evidence
00:18:25evidence that postal voting is not not secure and is vulnerable to fraud.
00:18:29fraud. Surveys suggest that the Democratic Democratic voters are more likely
00:18:33likely to vote by post than Republicans.
00:18:36Republicans. Now, Sophia Lin Lakin Lakin is director of the Voting Rights
00:18:39Rights Project at the American Civil Civil Liberties Union, and she gave
00:18:41gave me her take on what the Supreme
00:18:43Supreme Court's decision means for
00:18:47for American voters. It means that
00:18:49that millions of voters can breathe breathe a little easier today. Ballots
00:18:53Ballots will go out the way they they always have. If you vote by
00:18:57by mail and tens of millions of Americans
00:18:59Americans do. Nothing changes for for you. If there's one thing that
00:19:02that I want voters to take away for
00:19:04for this November in the United States,
00:19:07States, it's that they can rely on on the rules they've been relying
00:19:10relying on. Those are still going going to be in place, and they will
00:19:13will continue to be in place for for November. So, Sophia, the administration
00:19:17administration has called these, these, in their words, common sense
00:19:20sense measures to protect the security security of mail in ballots and ensure
00:19:23ensure that only Americans vote in in American elections. And of course,
00:19:27course, that's an argument that you're you're clearly familiar with over
00:19:29over the past few months. What have
00:19:31have you said to that? Well, you
00:19:34you know, there hasn't been any evidence evidence whatsoever put forward in
00:19:37in this case. And certainly I think think in general, the evidence that
00:19:40that there is any kind of widespread widespread voter fraud of any type,
00:19:44type, let alone just mail voting
00:19:46voting in particular is so rare that
00:19:48that it doesn't certainly does not
00:19:50not justify the kind of enormous
00:19:54enormous disruption to election rules rules in the few weeks before mail
00:19:57mail ballots were set to go out, out, before voters were about to
00:20:01to cast their ballots. That disruption, disruption, as brief after brief
00:20:04brief after brief and the record
00:20:06record demonstrated, would have caused caused immense election administration
00:20:10administration disruption, chaos chaos and the disenfranchisement disenfranchisement of millions of
00:20:14of voters. So do you believe, then,
00:20:17then, that this crossed the line
00:20:20line from election security into into efforts to restrict legitimate
00:20:22legitimate voting? And if so, you you know, what evidence is there
00:20:26there of that? Well, we have. The
00:20:29The very fact of the rollout of this
00:20:32this particular rule. We've had times times before when you have election
00:20:36election administration changes, changes, you don't try to put it
00:20:39it in place just days before mail
00:20:41mail ballots were set to be sent
00:20:43sent out by some states. And before
00:20:46before you have the infrastructure infrastructure to actually support support real compliance with the
00:20:50the rule. That's the other thing.
00:20:51thing. This rule required a portal
00:20:54portal for states to upload their
00:20:56their voter lists to be matched against
00:20:58against mail ballots. As far as we're we're aware, that portal never ever
00:21:02ever was functional. It never became
00:21:04became live. How were states to even
00:21:07even comply with the rule if it went went into effect? At the end of the
00:21:10the day, what we do know is that
00:21:12that this administration has been
00:21:16been set on, on sowing chaos and and sowing distrust to some extent
00:21:20extent that appears to be part of
00:21:24of the whole plan. Whether or not not the rule was stopped, part of
00:21:27of it was to create distrust in the
00:21:30the system to try to dissuade voters
00:21:33voters from turning out. And I worry worry a little that that part of
00:21:36of what has happened over the last last couple of weeks, the last couple
00:21:39couple of months with this rule that
00:21:40that voters are still uncertain about
00:21:43about whether they can rely on the the secure mail systems that they've
00:21:46they've been relying on, that they they are relying on this election
00:21:49election cycle. And I want them to to know that they can. But part of
00:21:53of it is, again, sowing that distrust distrust in our election cycle, laying
00:21:56laying the groundwork to cast doubt doubt on election results that the
00:22:00the administration doesn't like. like. We've seen this playbook before,
00:22:03before, and we know that it is one one that the administration that
00:22:06that President Trump has relied on on in the past and has continued
00:22:09continued to rely on today. And we we know that President Trump has
00:22:12has previously pushed back on that. that. I do want to put the other
00:22:15other side to you. Does the government government have, I guess, a legitimate
00:22:18legitimate interest or role in putting putting any safeguards in? So the
00:22:22the only eligible US citizens can can cast ballots? You know, is there
00:22:26there any system when it comes to to back end verification from the
00:22:30the government, for example, which which you would support? Well, there
00:22:33there are. Safeguards in place. There There are already guardrails in place
00:22:37place to ensure that only eligible eligible voters are casting their
00:22:40their ballots. And we know, given given the complete lack of evidence
00:22:43evidence of widespread fraud. Time Time and time again, study and study
00:22:47study have demonstrated that that that is true, that at the end of
00:22:50of the day, more safeguards at this
00:22:53this point is only going to become become barriers to eligible voters
00:22:56voters being able to cast their ballots. ballots. We have guardrails in place.
00:22:59place. Our system is safe. It's the
00:23:01the system is secure. Some Republican
00:23:04Republican led states Florida, Louisiana, Louisiana, Montana supported the
00:23:08the President in court findings. findings. So where do you anticipate
00:23:10anticipate that we go from here?
00:23:13here? This is the mid-terms. Do you you anticipate further battles from
00:23:16from your end in the run up to 2028?
00:23:202028? Unfortunately, that's part part of what we come to expect here
00:23:24here in our election system that
00:23:26that there are tacks on the election
00:23:30election systems from the Trump administration. administration. We're going to continue continue to see that from allies
00:23:33allies in the states as well as in in localities to restrict voting
00:23:37voting further, to make it more difficult difficult for people to access the the ballot. At the end of the day,
00:23:41day, the ACLU is a proponent of making
00:23:45making eligible voters have easier easier access, fair access to be
00:23:48be counted equally in the process process to be to know that when they
00:23:52they are eligible to vote, they can can cast a ballot, have that ballot
00:23:55ballot counted and have the results
00:23:57results of their elections respected. respected. Sophia Lin Lakin there
00:24:01there from the American Civil Liberties Liberties Union. Well, turning now
00:24:03now to a round-up of stories making
00:24:07making headlines across the globe. globe. All of the support acts for
00:24:09for Ed Sheeran's US tour have pulled pulled out of their performances
00:24:13performances in solidarity with the the rapper Macklemore after he was
00:24:16was barred from upcoming performances
00:24:18performances for making pro-Palestinian pro-Palestinian statements on stage. stage. Sheeran says that it wasn't
00:24:22wasn't his decision to remove Macklemore Macklemore from his tour line-up
00:24:25line-up and in a statement, the British British singer blamed the tour promoters
00:24:28promoters Robert Kraft, the billionaire billionaire owner of the Gillette Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts,
00:24:32Massachusetts, has admitted to lobbying lobbying other venue managers to
00:24:35to boycott the tour. If Macklemore
00:24:38Macklemore was not removed. The board board of the Kennedy Center in Washington,
00:24:42Washington, DC has voted to close close the venue immediately for renovations.
00:24:46renovations. But in a Truth Social Social post, President Trump says
00:24:49says those renovations won't start start until the courts say that he
00:24:52he can put his name on the building. building. It comes shortly after
00:24:55after a judge overruled an attempt attempt to put Trump's name back
00:24:59back on the centre. The Duke and and Duchess of Sussex switched their
00:25:03their children to a new school just just two days into the new term.
00:25:06term. A spokesman for Prince Harry Harry and Meghan said the decision
00:25:10decision was taken after a discussion
00:25:12discussion with the family's protection protection team about the practicalities practicalities of their original
00:25:16original arrangements. Separately, Separately, the committee overseeing
00:25:19overseeing Royal and VIP security security is set to reconsider the
00:25:21the level of protection for the family family now that they're living in
00:25:24in the UK rather than visiting. And
00:25:28And Welsh actor Matthew Rhys has has made history at the Emmy Television
00:25:31Television Awards by winning two two lead actor categories in the
00:25:35the same year he won for his roles
00:25:37roles in Widow's Bay and The Beast
00:25:39Beast In Me, Widow's Bay won a record record 14 awards. That's the most
00:25:43most Emmys ever won by a comedy in
00:25:46in a single season. Remember, you
00:25:48you can always get the very latest
00:25:50latest on our website that is bbc.com.
00:25:53bbc.com. I'll be back with more for for you at the top of the hour. In
00:25:56In the meantime, of course you can can always follow us on social media media to find out what we're working
00:26:00working on any time. I'll see you
00:26:01you very soon. Bye for now.
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00:30:13Newscast. The UK state pension is is going up and there are questions
00:30:16questions about whether the cost cost is sustainable. Lots of questions,
00:30:20questions, lots. To discuss and that's that's what we're going to do on
00:30:22on this episode of Newscast. Hello,
00:30:25Hello, it's Alex in the Newscast Newscast studio. And it's James in
00:30:29in the Glasgow Newscast studio. Faisal Faisal is here. Hey, Faisal. Hello. Hello. How you doing? I'm good, thank
00:30:33thank you. So we're going to be talking talking about pensions. Yes. And
00:30:36And we are going to be talking about about the triple lock. And the reason
00:30:39reason for this is because we had had some news on Tuesday about the
00:30:43the amount the state pension is going going to reach next year. And it's
00:30:46it's posed all of these big questions questions about affordability and
00:30:49and fairness and all the rest of of it. But before we get into it,
00:30:53it, just to set out what this is is all about, so the triple lock
00:30:57lock is a mechanism that was introduced introduced back in 2010 by the coalition coalition government, which