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00:00:09It's 6pm in London. This is the
00:00:12world today with Maryam Moshiri. Moshiri. King Charles warns of the
00:00:15the existential dangers of AI systems systems falling into the wrong hands
00:00:19hands as he addresses tech leaders
00:00:21leaders at a summit in Scotland.
00:00:23Scotland. Those in our world who
00:00:25who value deeply our humanity and
00:00:28and its vital moral component are
00:00:30are anxiously seeking your reassurance
00:00:34reassurance that we will not lose
00:00:35lose control of our destiny or our
00:00:38our souls. More allegations from
00:00:40from Earl Spencer in the latest extract extract from his book on Princess
00:00:44Princess Diana. He claims the then
00:00:46then Prince Charles sounded giddily giddily elated on the night Princess
00:00:50Princess Diana died. South African
00:00:52African police say they found a ninth ninth woman killed near Johannesburg
00:00:55Johannesburg in a spate of murders,
00:00:57murders, causing fear and outrage
00:00:59outrage in the country. Also coming
00:01:02coming up on the world today, we'll we'll speak to the founder of the
00:01:06the London pizzeria that's been voted
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00:01:19Hello and a very warm welcome to
00:01:23to The World Today on BBC News. Well,
00:01:24Well, King Charles has warned AI AI executives of the existential
00:01:27existential dangers posed by the the technology falling into the wrong
00:01:30wrong hands as he hosted a conference conference on the issue in Scotland.
00:01:34Scotland. He told participants from
00:01:36from firms including OpenAI and Anthropic, Anthropic, as well as Chinese representatives,
00:01:40representatives, that they must urgently urgently consider the dangers of
00:01:43of AI being used in potentially catastrophic
00:01:45catastrophic ways. The King urged urged them to implement controls
00:01:48controls before it's too late. Those
00:01:51Those who have created these technologies technologies are now increasingly
00:01:55increasingly warning that AI risks
00:01:57risks developing darker capacities.
00:02:00capacities. Perhaps even to take
00:02:02take life. And in this regard, if
00:02:04if I may say so, there seems urgency
00:02:08urgency in adequately considering considering the existential dangers
00:02:12dangers of such technologies falling
00:02:14falling into the wrong hands and
00:02:17and being used in potentially catastrophic
00:02:19catastrophic ways. Well, recent doomsday doomsday scenarios have prompted
00:02:23prompted tech bosses to join discussions discussions on how to protect humanity
00:02:27humanity from rogue AI. Jensen Huang
00:02:29Huang is president and CEO of Nvidia. Nvidia. He attended the summit at
00:02:33at Dumfries House in Ayrshire and and answered the question whether
00:02:36whether people are right to be afraid afraid of artificial intelligence.
00:02:39intelligence. Well, it's very powerful powerful technology. It could be
00:02:43be used for incredible things. Of Of course it could be used for ill.
00:02:46ill. And so we have to build this
00:02:49this technology safely and securely securely and responsibly. And but
00:02:52but we have to do it with, if you
00:02:55you will, responsible optimism because because the impact and the benefit
00:02:58benefit is going to bring to society
00:03:00society is so, so incredible. Well,
00:03:03Well, let's cross live and speak speak to Isabel Ryle, who is the the director at Prairie. It's one
00:03:07one of the main AI analytical programmes programmes in France. Thank you so
00:03:10so much for joining us. And let me me just start by asking you what
00:03:13what you make of what we've seen seen today and that kind of push
00:03:16push by King Charles to ensure, in
00:03:19in his words, that those within AI
00:03:22AI don't allow it to become a danger
00:03:24danger to society. Thank you. Hello.
00:03:29Hello. I think that AI is beneficial beneficial in many fields. As it
00:03:34it was mentioned in health care and
00:03:36and medical imaging and so on. But
00:03:39But we don't know exactly today how
00:03:41how it works and why it works. So So for me, it's very important to.
00:03:45to. It's a very important things things is continuing all research
00:03:49research that helps us understanding
00:03:52understanding AI and its impact, impact, understanding LLMs to capture
00:03:55capture the theoretical properties, properties, to understand how training
00:03:58training data can influence their their behaviour. To have more safety
00:04:02safety guarantees. And of course course to link the impact of AI on
00:04:05on economy, jobs and so on. So I
00:04:08I think that politicians, policymakers
00:04:10policymakers should of course pay
00:04:13pay attention to this technology,
00:04:14technology, but also consult extensively.
00:04:21extensively. Scientists before being being afraid by big announcements
00:04:23announcements made by people who who have their own trajectory and
00:04:26and their whole lives. And that's
00:04:30that's interesting because the announcements announcements you're referring to to have been in the news recently
00:04:33recently a warnings that there's there's a 10% chance AI could destroy
00:04:37destroy humanity. Those are things things that stay in people's minds.
00:04:40minds. What do you think governments
00:04:42governments need to do then, in terms
00:04:45terms of AI companies. Government
00:04:51Government monitoring AI since 2017?
00:04:542017? I think most of the country
00:04:57country has their own strategy, and
00:04:59and I think that they are looking
00:05:01looking very carefully on companies
00:05:03companies and develop AI. Our problem
00:05:06problem is here that we have much
00:05:08much more big tech companies in US.
00:05:12US. Companies essentially, that have
00:05:14have their own context and they have
00:05:17have announcements that arise. Many Many questions for me, for example,
00:05:21example, imminence of an initial initial public offering, release
00:05:25release of competitive open source
00:05:27source Chinese models, etc, etc.
00:05:29etc. So I think that all governments
00:05:32governments in Europe should be concerned
00:05:37concerned with these topics, but
00:05:40but not to not too much manipulated
00:05:43manipulated by all these big announcements.
00:05:45announcements. You have one excitement
00:05:48excitement six months. OK. Isabelle. Isabelle. Isabelle. Well, great to
00:05:51to talk to you. Thank you very much much indeed for joining us. Thank
00:05:54Thank you. Well, let's take you to to another royal story now because
00:05:58because Earl Spencer has made more more deeply personal attacks on the
00:06:02the King in new extracts from his his book, which had just been published published or released, excuse me,
00:06:05me, by the Daily Mail. He claims claims that on the night that Princess
00:06:09Princess Diana, his sister, died, died, the then Prince Charles sounded
00:06:13sounded giddily elated, like a lottery lottery winner. Well, the book swan
00:06:16swan song Diana my sister alleges alleges the King told Diana's brother
00:06:20brother we'll forget her soon enough.
00:06:22enough. After her death in 1997 and and that Charles subjected the earl
00:06:25earl to a stream of anger after he he insisted Diana would not have
00:06:29have wanted Princes William and Harry,
00:06:31Harry, then aged 15 and 12, to walk
00:06:34walk in her funeral procession in in an unusually strong response,
00:06:37response, the palace hit back on on Wednesday, saying that the pain
00:06:40pain of fraternal grief can cloud cloud reason and colour memory. Well,
00:06:44Well, let's cross live and speak speak to our royal correspondent correspondent Noor Nanji, who's in
00:06:47in Greenwich in south London, where where Prince Harry is attending an
00:06:50an event connected to his Invictus Invictus Games. But first of all,
00:06:53all, before we talk about that, let's let's talk a little bit about the
00:06:56the latest revelations that we're we're hearing. And I mentioned earlier
00:07:00earlier a robust rebuff from the the Palace yesterday. No reaction
00:07:03reaction today, though, to the latest
00:07:04latest lines that the Daily Mail
00:07:07Mail has published. That's right. right. The reaction from the Palace
00:07:10Palace is very much the same as the
00:07:12the one that we had last night, which
00:07:15which is essentially to suggest that
00:07:16that Earl Spencer's grief may have
00:07:19have coloured his memory and those those lines that we got from the
00:07:22the palace then and now remain very
00:07:25very surprising. You know, we don't don't normally hear the palace respond
00:07:28respond in such strong terms. Of Of course, the famous royal family
00:07:31family motto is very much never explain, explain, never complain. But very
00:07:35very much on this occasion they are are feeling the need to say something.
00:07:38something. And that's because these these claims that are coming out,
00:07:41out, you know, bit by bit yesterday yesterday and today, and we'll carry
00:07:44carry on in the coming days from from Earl Spencer's new book are
00:07:48are obviously quite damaging for for the royal family in particular
00:07:52particular for the King at the moment moment with the revelations we've
00:07:54we've had yesterday and today, today, today, as you mentioned, just in
00:07:57in the last hour or so, we had those those latest lines from the book,
00:08:01book, which has been serialised in in the mail, which suggested Earl
00:08:04Earl Spencer was suggesting that that the then Prince Charles sounded
00:08:08sounded giddily elated, like a lottery lottery winner when on the night
00:08:11night that Diana, Princess of Wales,
00:08:15Wales, died and that he suspected suspected he was, he was happy that
00:08:18that he was freed up to then marry marry the woman that he loved. And
00:08:21And of course that is deeply damaging. damaging. But as I say, the response response from the palace so far is
00:08:25is very much the same as the response response they'd issued yesterday,
00:08:29yesterday, which is, as I say, very very much the sense that fraternal
00:08:32fraternal grief may be colouring colouring recollections. OK, Nora,
00:08:35Nora, just talk us through what you
00:08:38you are doing in Greenwich because because it's a big day today for
00:08:41for Prince Harry. He's back in the the UK and he's back doing what he
00:08:45he loves, heavily involved in his
00:08:47his Invictus Games. That's absolutely absolutely right. So today has been
00:08:51been a really big day for a lot of of the members of the royal family. family. We've had of course, you
00:08:55you heard a little bit there about about the King and the AI summit. summit. We've had the Prince and
00:08:59and Princess of Wales out and about about in the Isle of Bute. But today,
00:09:03today, this evening is all about about Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex
00:09:06Sussex here in Greenwich at this this Invictus Games related event.
00:09:10event. It is Invictus Spirit Awards Awards and it is linked to those
00:09:13those games that he set up. Of course, course, he founded very much aiming
00:09:16aiming to celebrate the achievements achievements of injured servicemen servicemen and servicewomen. And
00:09:20And we know that it's something that that Prince Harry is so passionate
00:09:23passionate about. He describes them them as a family. Invictus community,
00:09:27community, and it's something that that he really champions and he does.
00:09:30does. Even when he was in the States States living in the US., he would
00:09:33would come back here and attend events events related to it. Now, of course,
00:09:36course, he's moved back here and and this is the first big public
00:09:39public event that he's attending attending since moving back. It's
00:09:41It's worth mentioning that we had had there were some expectations
00:09:45expectations and hopes for some that that Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex,
00:09:48Sussex, would be joining. We don't don't believe that's going to be
00:09:51be the case. Sources close to the the Sussex family say that her priority
00:09:54priority at the moment is settling settling Archie Lilibet into their
00:09:57their new routine. Of course, the the children have just moved over
00:10:00over here as well, so that is her her priority for now. So we're not
00:10:04not expecting to see her here today. today. But Prince Harry is very much
00:10:07much expected to attend and usually usually he gets a hero's reception
00:10:10reception here. He's very loved in in this community, this Invictus
00:10:13Invictus community as he calls them. them. OK, Nora, great to talk to
00:10:16to you. Thank you very much indeed.
00:10:19indeed. Well, it is a very busy day, day, isn't it? In terms of the royal
00:10:23royal family, both with engagements engagements but also those latest
00:10:26latest lines coming from Earl Spencer's Spencer's book. Let's dive a little
00:10:29little bit more deeply into what what all this means with Victoria
00:10:33Victoria Howard, royal commentator commentator and founder of The Crown Crown Chronicles. Victoria, great
00:10:36great to have you on the show. Let Let me ask you first of all, for
00:10:39for a little bit of a kind of insight insight into what we're seeing now.
00:10:42now. It just feels like a very busy
00:10:44busy time for the royals with King
00:10:46King Charles talking about AI, Prince Prince Harry with Invictus. What's
00:10:50What's happening with the Earl Spencer Spencer book? Is there a danger, danger, do you think, that the Earl
00:10:54Earl Spencer news will overshadow overshadow the kind of work the royal
00:10:56royal family is, are trying to push
00:10:59push forward? There is and the royals royals are used to this. You know,
00:11:02know, something will happen and it it will just take over the news cycle
00:11:06cycle rather than the visit or the the speech that they are doing that
00:11:09that day. I think it's worth reflecting reflecting that it's September, and
00:11:12and August is always known as silly silly season when it comes to the
00:11:15the royal family. You know, they they go on holiday, they spend time
00:11:19time away from the spotlight and and that means you get some of these
00:11:22these rumours floating around. But But then they come back in September September and they really dive into
00:11:26into those engagements. So that's that's what we're seeing a little little bit here in terms of the volume
00:11:30volume of engagements with William William and Catherine out today,
00:11:32today, the King out today, Harry, Harry, obviously not a working royal.
00:11:35royal. So that might just be coincidental,
00:11:38coincidental, but it does. It overshadows overshadows that. And Charles was
00:11:41was giving a very serious message message today about the risks of
00:11:44of AI. And instead we are now talking talking about Earl Spencer's claims
00:11:48claims about something that happened happened 30 years ago, which is very
00:11:51very emotional. But is it as important? important? That's a question I would
00:11:54would pose. Yeah. And I think that that the difficulty is it's such such a long time ago. Why is he releasing
00:11:58releasing the book now. With a cynical
00:12:02cynical hat on? I think it could
00:12:04could be a commercial thing. Next Next year is 2027. That does mark
00:12:08mark 30 years since the death of of Diana. Could it be the lead up
00:12:11up to something like a bigger exhibition exhibition at Althorp? You know,
00:12:14know, those estates are really expensive expensive to run, so that could be
00:12:18be something definitely in the back back of this plan behind this plan
00:12:21plan even to mean that that Charles Charles Spencer thought it was now
00:12:25now the time to talk about his sister's sister's death when he has had 30
00:12:2830 years to do so already. And of of course, we've had a big, as you
00:12:31you mentioned earlier, very strong strong pushback from the palace.
00:12:34palace. How unusual is it for the the palace to push back in that way?
00:12:38way? I remember when Harry and Meghan
00:12:40Meghan did that interview with Oprah Oprah and the Palace came out with
00:12:44with that line. Recollections may may vary. This feels very much like
00:12:47like it's vibing with that. Exactly. Exactly. And I think that the language
00:12:51language is very similar. As you you say. What I find interesting
00:12:54interesting is probably in the last last year or so, actually the Palace
00:12:57Palace has been slightly more vocal. vocal. You know, when Andrew was
00:13:00was arrested earlier this year, February
00:13:03February on his birthday, the Palace Palace actually actually released
00:13:06released a statement and I was taken taken by surprise by that. They said
00:13:10said that the law must take its course. course. No one is above the law.
00:13:13law. And I think what they're doing doing is they're starting to notice
00:13:16notice moments that the scale of of the risk or the threat to the
00:13:19the perception of the palace or the the royals themselves needs to be
00:13:22be dealt with. So the Andrew one
00:13:25one in particular around the Harry Harry and Meghan protocols which
00:13:28which went to the government, the the military, the Lords lieutenant,
00:13:31lieutenant, etc that seemed to be be causing a lot of confusion. Therefore
00:13:34Therefore it was a risk. This is is also the case with the allegations
00:13:37allegations that Earl Spencer is is making against the King. This This is risky enough that they need
00:13:41need to do something about it. So So for me it's a trend of being slightly
00:13:44slightly more proactive and vocal. vocal. And I think what I'll be watching watching quite closely in the next
00:13:48next couple of months. OK. Victoria
00:13:50Victoria Howard, great to see you. you. Thank you. Now let's take a
00:13:54a short break around the world and and across the UK. This is The World
00:13:58World Today on BBC
00:14:59truth, trust and fake news on BBC
00:15:01BBC News. The Secretary General of
00:15:09of Nato has told the BBC there has
00:15:11has to be a credible path towards
00:15:13towards the UK meeting targets to to increase defence spending. Mark
00:15:16Mark Ritter on a visit to Britain, Britain, has met the Prime Minister Minister and the Defence Secretary
00:15:20Secretary for the first time. He He also described drone strikes in
00:15:23in western Ukraine today very close close to the Polish border, as evidence
00:15:27evidence of Russia's desperation. desperation. Mr Ritter has been talking
00:15:30talking to our political editor,
00:15:33editor, Chris Mason. Eastern Poland.
00:15:36Poland. This morning, sirens blaring
00:15:37blaring Russia's war in Ukraine sounds
00:15:41sounds near drone strikes over the
00:15:43the border far too close for comfort.
00:15:46comfort. Is this yet another example example of a dangerous escalation
00:15:49escalation in this war? It's clearly
00:15:51clearly an example of increasingly
00:15:54increasingly reckless behaviour by
00:15:56by Russia and its president, but
00:15:58but also evidence of him being increasingly
00:16:00increasingly desperate. Should Nato Nato intercept Russian drones that
00:16:04that are over Ukrainian territory territory if they are approaching
00:16:07approaching a Nato border. There There is a limit to what I can go
00:16:11go into in a public interview, but but I can assure you we do everything
00:16:14everything to make sure that Nato Nato stays safe. Nato territory stay
00:16:18stay safe, that we can defend every every inch of that's happening again.
00:16:21again. I can never get into those those operational details. I was
00:16:25was told afterwards drones were not
00:16:27not at least yet intercepted by Nato
00:16:30Nato while still over Ukraine. How How worried are you? How worried
00:16:34worried should we all be that Russia
00:16:36Russia will attack or invade a Nato
00:16:39Nato country in the coming years? years? If you're willing to sacrifice
00:16:43sacrifice 1.2 million of your own own people in this crazy, unprovoked
00:16:46unprovoked fight, let's not be naive naive about what Putin could do,
00:16:50do, but we are stronger. I mean, mean, we are stronger. It could happen. happen. It could happen in the coming
00:16:54coming years. No, don't think so. so. Because we are strong. So strong
00:16:57strong that he will not try. But But we have to make sure of is that
00:17:00that we are as strong in two, three, three, five years from now. You've
00:17:03You've been here meeting the Prime Prime Minister, the Defence Secretary,
00:17:07Secretary, the Foreign Secretary, Secretary, as you all know, the Chancellor, Chancellor, John Healey, the former
00:17:11former Defence Secretary, resigned resigned because he wasn't certain. certain. You know, he didn't think
00:17:15think the previous government would would get to 3% of national income
00:17:18income on defence by 2030 and said
00:17:21said that was essential. The new new government hasn't yet explicitly
00:17:24explicitly committed to that. In In the conversations you've just just come from, are you confident
00:17:28confident they're going to manage manage that? I'm totally confident confident about what this government
00:17:31government wants to do. That is to
00:17:34to reach the 3.5 and 2035. Also understanding understanding that it cannot be that
00:17:37that you stick to 2.6, 2.7 now and
00:17:40and then in one go in 2034, you would
00:17:43would go to 3.5. So you've long been been a sceptic about a. Credible
00:17:46Credible path. It sounds like they've they've not managed to be specific
00:17:49specific and reassure you that that
00:17:52that 3% target by 2030 is actually actually going to be met. I'm absolutely
00:17:55absolutely confident that when it it comes to the 3.5 they are there. there. I'm absolutely confident that
00:17:59that when it comes to the yearly yearly increments, they totally take
00:18:02take it and accept it that they have have to be there. What exactly the
00:18:05the pathway will be. We will see see next year in the spending review. review. Secretary General, thank
00:18:08thank you. Thank you very much. Well,
00:18:11Well, Mark Rutte was talking to Chris
00:18:14Chris Mason there. Now the European European Union has set out plans plans to ban social media for children
00:18:18children under the age of 13. It It follows similar bans for under
00:18:22under 16 seconds in countries such such as the UK and Australia. Our
00:18:25Our Europe correspondent Nick Beake Beake reports now from Brussels.
00:18:29Brussels. The European Commission, Commission, which proposes legislation
00:18:31legislation for the whole of the the EU, says that there has to be
00:18:35be a complete change of emphasis emphasis here that in the future
00:18:38future big tech companies prove that that their products are safe for
00:18:42for children. Now officials have have been looking at the ban that
00:18:45that Australia brought in at the the end of last year for under 16
00:18:4916 seconds. They're using social social media and the European officials
00:18:53officials believe that there needs needs to be a more gradual approach
00:18:56approach in the continent. Here they're they're saying that under 13 should
00:18:59should not have access to social social media. Then when a child reaches
00:19:02reaches the age of 13 and when they're they're 14, they should have some
00:19:06some limited access to certain platforms
00:19:10platforms with parental supervision. supervision. And for only an hour
00:19:13hour a day. So parents will have
00:19:15have to play their part in this, this, not just social media apps
00:19:18apps though also video sharing platforms
00:19:21platforms are included. Online gaming
00:19:24gaming and AI companions. How will will this work in practice? Well,
00:19:28Well, some people are talking about
00:19:30about privacy concerns because there
00:19:32there is talk of age restrictions restrictions coming in. So people people having to prove that they're
00:19:36they're old enough to use these particular
00:19:39particular services. And it's worth worth pointing out that just last
00:19:42last month in France, after the government government there had come up with
00:19:46with its own ideas for making children
00:19:49children safer online, the top court court in France said that there were
00:19:53were concerns about restrictions restrictions on freedom of expression. expression. So that's just one indication
00:19:56indication of how there could be be obstacles in the months to come.
00:20:00come. But certainly the European European Union says this is putting
00:20:04putting children at the heart of of what they're doing and also giving
00:20:07giving the power back to parents parents so that in the future they
00:20:11they can feel confident that their their children are safe as they try
00:20:14try and navigate the digital world.
00:20:18world. That's Nick Beake there with with me now is Doctor Caitlin Rieger,
00:20:20Rieger, who is an associate professor professor of digital humanities at
00:20:24at University College London. Great Great to talk to you, Caitlin, as as always. And just give me a bit
00:20:28bit of an insight into why we think think the EU is doing this now. Well
00:20:31Well I think this is a really promising promising move. And what we're seeing
00:20:34seeing is that the EU is looking looking to learn from best practice
00:20:38practice and also mistakes of other
00:20:41other countries. And that's a really
00:20:43really promising thing in that we we actually see countries coming
00:20:46coming together on this. With my my work at rise, which sits across
00:20:50across a few different countries, countries, we look to do knowledge knowledge sharing across different
00:20:54different countries. So what we see see here is that they are looking
00:20:57looking to the UK for the end of of social media ban, where they're
00:21:00they're looking to some of the mistakes mistakes of Australia and potentially
00:21:03potentially also the Canadians that that have recently tabled a social
00:21:06social Media Safety Act as well. well. But under 13 doesn't sound
00:21:10sound very old does it? Right. So
00:21:12So they have now this kind of buffer buffer period that they want to propose,
00:21:15propose, which is between the age
00:21:18age of 13 and 15. Now that will what
00:21:21what it sounds like that will mean mean in practice is that we'll have
00:21:24have about an hour a day that those
00:21:27those early years teenagers, what what we call younger teenagers may
00:21:30may be allowed about an hour a day day on a parental device or on a
00:21:34a parental account. Now that will will deal with the quantity of time
00:21:38time spent on social media, not necessarily
00:21:41necessarily the quality of time spent spent on social media. The other
00:21:44other thing, though, that it may may encourage is something that we
00:21:47we call co-viewing, which is where
00:21:49where parents and young person view view together and talk through these
00:21:53these issues, whether that will work work in practice. Hard to know, but
00:21:56but that's probably what they're they're looking at for that buffer
00:21:59buffer period and probably why they've
00:22:02they've made that 13 to 15-year-old 15-year-old stop gate. What are the
00:22:05the dangers of younger people having having full on access to social media
00:22:08media in the way that they have done done in the past few years? So I
00:22:11I think what's important to note note here is this is not the social
00:22:15social media of 2012. When we talked talked about online activism, when
00:22:19when we talked about this space of
00:22:22of collectivity and connectivity, connectivity, we do not consume social
00:22:25social media in the same way any any more. And that is because the
00:22:28the technological affordances that that feed us content have become
00:22:30become a much more sophisticated. sophisticated. We know that hate,
00:22:34hate, harm and disinformation or or more attention grabbing content
00:22:37content is algorithmically prioritised. prioritised. But increasingly we're
00:22:40we're also worried about the way
00:22:43way in which children are much more more accessible online. So this is
00:22:46is through things like live streaming streaming on TikTok, where we may
00:22:49may think that this is akin to opening opening up your front door and just
00:22:52just letting anyone talk to your
00:22:54your child. And so the way in which
00:22:56which social media is evolved, it it is becoming incrementally less
00:23:00less safe. And that is what countries countries are trying to tackle with
00:23:03with right now. OK, doctor Caitlin, Caitlin, it's always great to talk talk to you and get your analysis.
00:23:07analysis. Thank you so much. Thank
00:23:08Thank you. Now in Russia tomorrow tomorrow is the start of three days
00:23:12days of voting in the country's parliamentary parliamentary election. It's the
00:23:16the first since Russia's full-scale full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While
00:23:19While critics dismiss the vote as as neither free nor transparent,
00:23:22transparent, but the Kremlin is expected expected to use it to claim the country
00:23:25country is united behind the policies policies of President Putin. Our
00:23:28Our Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg, Rosenberg, sent this report from
00:23:32from Moscow. In Russia, ultimate
00:23:36ultimate power lies here in the Kremlin.
00:23:40Kremlin. But across the road there there is a parliament and it's election
00:23:44election time. So what is a parliamentary parliamentary election like now in
00:23:48in Putin's Russia? Different. At
00:23:53At this TV debate for candidates,
00:23:56candidates, the presenter came. The
00:23:59The candidates didn't. Come. And
00:24:04And this party political was more
00:24:06more X factor than exit poll. Mind
00:24:10Mind you in the last Parliament everyone everyone was singing from the same
00:24:14same hymn sheet. Russia, Putin. All
00:24:20All together now Russia, Putin victory
00:24:23victory chants the Speaker of the the House, all MPs, all parties are
00:24:27are expected to back the President
00:24:29President and the war in Ukraine.
00:24:32Ukraine. There has been some campaigning campaigning and a bread and biscuit
00:24:35biscuit factory near Moscow. We caught
00:24:37caught up with the communists at
00:24:40at times, though, the tent parties parties allowed on the ballot are
00:24:43are hard to tell apart, none of them
00:24:46them criticised the Kremlin or the
00:24:48the war. As the Communist leader
00:24:52leader Gennady Zyuganov tells me,
00:24:58Duma voted unanimously for 170 laws laws in support of the special military
00:25:01military operation. Russia's political political system is often referred
00:25:05referred to as managed democracy, democracy, where the Kremlin does
00:25:09does the managing and the Kremlin Kremlin is likely to use this election
00:25:11election to claim that despite problems problems in the country, Russians
00:25:15Russians are united behind their
00:25:17their president and behind the war
00:25:20war in Ukraine. Gregory Grecian belongs
00:25:23belongs to the one party that is
00:25:25is publicly calling for peace. Yabloko
00:25:29Yabloko for freedom. Peace for a
00:25:31a ceasefire, he says. For a Russia
00:25:34Russia free from political repressions,
00:25:36repressions, Yabloko was on the ballot
00:25:38ballot until the Supreme Court removed
00:25:40removed it from the party list. Some
00:25:45Some of its candidates, including including Grigory, are still competing
00:25:49competing in individual constituencies. constituencies. But in the run up
00:25:52up to the election, many of these these candidates have had problems
00:25:55problems with the police and the
00:25:57the courts, and some have been barred.
00:26:00barred. Gregory was questioned by
00:26:02by police, but he's still in the
00:26:04the race. The police. Are carrying
00:26:07carrying out a political order. The
00:26:10The demand for an end to the bloodshed bloodshed in Ukraine is very popular.
00:26:13popular. I think most people in Russia Russia now want peace, and Yabloko
00:26:17Yabloko helped people express this. this. That's why it's been excluded
00:26:21excluded from the party lists and
00:26:23and why individual candidates are
00:26:26are being barred. 50 miles from Moscow
00:26:29Moscow in Dmitrov, there's little little sign of an election. But there
00:26:33there are signs of the war. A new
00:26:36new memorial to people from the town town who've been killed fighting
00:26:40fighting in Ukraine. And the war
00:26:42war is front and centre of people's
00:26:45people's minds. Of course we feel feel it, says Olga, whose son in
00:26:48in law is fighting in Ukraine. But
00:26:51But elections can't affect what happens
00:26:54happens there. I'd like our country country to be peaceful, Paulina tells
00:26:57tells me, so we don't have to worry worry that drones will fall in front
00:27:01front of us. This election is unlikely
00:27:04unlikely to deliver that in Russia.
00:27:06Russia. It's the Kremlin that decides
00:27:08decides on war and peace. Steve Rosenberg,
00:27:12Rosenberg, BBC News, Moscow. Now
00:27:17Now scientists have confirmed that that climate change was a core factor
00:27:21factor in last month's deadly glacial
00:27:23glacial mountain collapse on the
00:27:25the China-nepal border, 1400 people
00:27:27people were killed. At least 6000
00:27:296000 are still missing huge amounts
00:27:32amounts of water, ice and debris debris smashed through buildings
00:27:35buildings after a massive section section of rock and glacier broke
00:27:38broke away from the mountain, according according to a new report. The glacier
00:27:42glacier collapse or the collapse collapse of that specific glacier,
00:27:45glacier, was caused by a compound
00:27:47compound compound crisis which is
00:27:49is shaped by long-term global warming.
00:27:52warming. Hence the climate change change connection there. Well, we're
00:27:56we're going to be coming up at the the after the break. We're coming
00:27:59coming up with The Iran War Today, Today, all the very latest on the
00:28:02the US war with Iran. Stay with us