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00:00:01Think of that while the global consumption consumption is 120 million a month
00:00:04month I don't think that this will will have a tangible impact if somebody
00:00:08somebody thinks otherwise, let them
00:00:09them think so. So I believe that
00:00:12that there are different rationales
00:00:14rationales behind this decision.
00:00:17decision. If so, why? Why doesn't doesn't America then conclude a diesel
00:00:21diesel deal with Ukraine? Ukraine.
00:00:25Ukraine. Let's propose a diesel deal
00:00:27deal with Ukraine. We are influencing
00:00:30influencing whether these ships are
00:00:32are moving. We are. We define whether
00:00:35whether the refineries are working.
00:00:38working. Let's do this for us. What's What's important is electricity.
00:00:42electricity. If they can guarantee guarantee the protection of our energy
00:00:45energy grid, we will not respond respond to their diesel infrastructure.
00:00:48infrastructure. For US, electricity electricity means first and foremost
00:00:50foremost helping people power supply
00:00:52supply for people. But it's also
00:00:55also helping Europe because everybody
00:00:59everybody knows that we are connected connected to the European grid. And
00:01:02And if our energy is not being attacked,
00:01:04attacked, then we are capable of of helping other countries who have
00:01:08have deficit power shortages with with our cheaper, cheaper energy.
00:01:12energy. So let's have such a deal deal with the President of the United
00:01:15United States. Let's hope he's listening.
00:01:18listening. President Zelensky, we
00:01:19we obviously know that you're entering
00:01:23entering another extremely difficult difficult winter period. What is
00:01:25is your understanding of what Russia
00:01:27Russia is preparing for? Since the
00:01:40the beginning of this war, Ukraine
00:01:42Ukraine has not yet yet overcome
00:01:46overcome all the difficulties because
00:01:47because war itself is a huge challenge
00:01:51challenge for our people. So there there is only one way out and that
00:01:54that is an end to the war. And this
00:01:58this will definitely happen. And
00:01:59And of course we count on. The support
00:02:04support from our partners and I concur
00:02:06concur with Donald. We do not now
00:02:09now see signals from Russia that
00:02:11that they want to end this war. We
00:02:13We do not see basics De-escalatory
00:02:17De-escalatory steps. Everybody's Everybody's talking about diesel,
00:02:20diesel, but they all forget about
00:02:22about grain. Believe me, in 2 to
00:02:25to 3 months everybody will be talking talking about a crisis in agriculture
00:02:28agriculture because there will be be food shortages for countries on
00:02:31on the African continent. For some
00:02:33some countries in Asia, in the Middle
00:02:36Middle East, because we are exporting
00:02:39exporting millions of food to those those markets. And now the sea is
00:02:42is being blocked and the United States
00:02:45States is not feeling that. So the
00:02:47the issue here is not only with energy.
00:02:49energy. Please believe me. And forgive
00:02:53forgive me for using such word conjugation,
00:02:57conjugation, but this is another
00:02:58another or Muse when the food supply
00:03:02supply routes are blocked, that is
00:03:04is a challenge and that is starvation
00:03:07starvation that many countries may
00:03:08may face. So we must bear this in
00:03:12in mind. We must think about everybody everybody because we all live on
00:03:16on this planet and many crisis can
00:03:20can be prevented. We can prevent
00:03:23prevent these challenges. Energy
00:03:28Energy of everybody understands that that the routes of the energy crisis
00:03:31crisis are stemming from the Middle Middle East. Some people are afraid
00:03:35afraid to spell it out, but I think
00:03:38think that almost everybody is capable
00:03:40capable of counting. If the Russian
00:03:46Russian diesel influence on the global
00:03:49global market constitutes 2.2%, then
00:03:51then forgive me, but what influence
00:03:54influence do they have this. A very
00:03:57very small one. And if Putin has
00:04:02has such a tiny influence in this
00:04:05this regard, then he will have tiny tiny influence in other dimensions
00:04:08dimensions as well. He wants this
00:04:11this dialogue that is lacking justice
00:04:14justice and equality. He wants dialogue
00:04:16dialogue with concessions. But Ukraine Ukraine is demonstrating that it
00:04:20it is in a decent independent state
00:04:22state that wants to reach an agreement.
00:04:25agreement. But Ukraine will not.
00:04:28not. Away from the. Energy itself.
00:04:31itself. Thank you sir, away from from the energy, away from the military
00:04:34military aspects, away from the rockets, rockets, the missiles. You talked
00:04:37talked about reaching out to the the hearts of Americans, the hearts
00:04:40hearts of people. We spoke last year
00:04:43year about the situation with Ukrainian
00:04:46Ukrainian children forcibly deported deported the situation of to Russia.
00:04:49Russia. Ukrainian children who are are living within occupied territories.
00:04:53territories. Can you bring us up
00:04:54up to date with what is happening
00:04:57happening with those Ukrainian children
00:04:58children who right now are voiceless?
00:05:13We are doing everything to
00:05:15bring our children back. And you
00:05:19you know that children cannot be
00:05:24be a part of an exchange fund. You
00:05:26You can only bring children back
00:05:29back through the help of various
00:05:33various partners services and countries
00:05:35countries both in Europe and in the
00:05:38the Middle East. And everybody is
00:05:40is working on this and we are grateful
00:05:44grateful to the Holy See. We support
00:05:48support their work and it's also
00:05:51also about the Emirates, but it's
00:05:52it's also about our Canadian partners
00:05:56partners who are a part of our coalition coalition to bring back Ukrainian
00:06:00Ukrainian children, but also our our Ukrainian team has brought back
00:06:03back many children. This work takes
00:06:12takes a lot of time because the Russians
00:06:13Russians do not want to give these
00:06:16these children back. So we should
00:06:19should always find different levers
00:06:21levers to ensure results. Thousands
00:06:24Thousands of children were illegally illegally adopted by the Russians.
00:06:28Russians. They are now in orphanages.
00:06:30orphanages. Their names and surnames
00:06:32surnames are changed and those who
00:06:36who have grown are now being sent
00:06:39sent to the war. Of course, this
00:06:42this is a genocide. An example of
00:06:48of such genocide is Kirin. That is
00:06:50is a place in Ukraine that is now
00:06:53now razed to the ground. Where the
00:06:59the Russians. Did not prevent both
00:07:05both children and adults alike from
00:07:07from getting food. Now we're not
00:07:10not talking about famine there. We're
00:07:12We're talking about genocide. We're
00:07:16We're talking about this. We're trying trying to help these people. But
00:07:18But they are now under occupation.
00:07:21occupation. We're grateful to all all the countries that are trying
00:07:25trying to help us. Please forgive
00:07:28forgive me. It's the city of Alaska.
00:07:31Alaska. It's the city of Alaska.
00:07:34Alaska. We are grateful to all of
00:07:37of the people who are helping us.
00:07:39us. President Zelensky, there with
00:07:43with very emotive language there. there. Asked by Kasia Madera about
00:07:46about the impact on children in Ukraine
00:07:49Ukraine talking earlier. Really they're they're focused on the energy ceasefire
00:07:53ceasefire that President Trump had had said over the weekend had been
00:07:56been agreed to by Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine. But President Zelensky said
00:07:59said they didn't know about it until until they heard about it from the
00:08:02the media. But earlier saying they they would absolutely sign up to
00:08:05to a ceasefire, something they've they've called for an energy ceasefire.
00:08:08ceasefire. Of course, if the Russians Russians would agree to it, saying
00:08:11saying that they would sign an agreement agreement if the Americans needed
00:08:14needed it. Also talking about the
00:08:18the impact of diesel on the market,
00:08:19market, saying that Russia only has
00:08:22has 2.2% of the global market, it
00:08:24it is a small impact. Obviously not
00:08:27not happy with any sort of US deal deal and really saying it was the
00:08:30the Middle East that has the bigger bigger impact, the crisis in the
00:08:34the Middle East that is affecting affecting fuel prices in the US ahead
00:08:37ahead of the mid-terms and right right across the world for everybody.
00:08:41everybody. Well, turning to events events in the Middle East where it's
00:08:43it's been another difficult few days. days. And Yemen's Houthi rebels have
00:08:47have renewed their warnings against against using airports in Saudi Arabia.
00:08:50Arabia. It all comes after two deadly deadly strikes on Riyadh's main international
00:08:54international airport in as many many days. Saudi officials say one
00:08:57one person was killed and 11 wounded wounded in an attack on the King
00:09:00King Khalid International Airport Airport on Sunday. The day before
00:09:03before 13 people were killed and and more than 300 injured in a missile
00:09:07missile strike. The deadliest attack attack on Saudi soil in more than
00:09:10than a decade. Well, we've received
00:09:12received a CCTV pictures of the moment moment of Saturday's attack. We're
00:09:16We're choosing not to show you some some of them as they are too distressing.
00:09:19distressing. But in this footage footage from Saudi state TV, all
00:09:23all the passengers seen waiting for for their flights do manage to get
00:09:26get up and escape after the bright
00:09:28bright orange flash of the missile missile tearing through the building.
00:09:31building. Well, the Iran-backed Houthis Houthis say they're targeting Saudi
00:09:34Saudi Arabia over its support for for government forces in Yemen's
00:09:37Yemen's civil war. In a post on X,
00:09:39X, the British Embassy in Saudi Arabia
00:09:42Arabia advises British citizens against against all but essential travel
00:09:45travel to Jeddah. Dammam and all
00:09:47all airports in the kingdom except except for Medina. Here's our world
00:09:51world news correspondent Joe Inwood. Inwood. Saturday morning, one of
00:09:55of Saudi Arabia's busiest airports. airports. Hundreds of people from
00:09:59from all over the world waiting for
00:10:00for their flight. Then this a missile
00:10:04missile hitting a crowded terminal, terminal, killing more than a dozen
00:10:07dozen people, wounding over 300.
00:10:10300. Emergency services were said said to be overwhelmed late last
00:10:13last night. A group called the Houthis Houthis claim responsibility not
00:10:17not just for Saturday's attack but but for this one. Last Thursday at
00:10:21at the same airport. Another one one yesterday, as well as one at
00:10:25at a state run gas plant with the the help of Almighty God, the armed
00:10:29armed forces carried out for qualitative
00:10:32qualitative operations over the past past 24 hours using a number of ballistic
00:10:35ballistic and winged missiles as as well as drones. The first operation
00:10:39operation targeted King Khalid Airport Airport in Riyadh. The second operation
00:10:43operation targeted an Aramco gas
00:10:45gas plant. The Houthis are a group group that control large parts of
00:10:48of Yemen just to the south of Saudi
00:10:51Saudi Arabia. For more than a decade, decade, there's been a brutal civil
00:10:54civil war there. The Houthis on one
00:10:57one side, the internationally recognised recognised government, which is backed
00:11:00backed by Saudi Arabia, on the other. other. For the last couple of years
00:11:03years there's been an uneasy truce. truce. But that's been shattered.
00:11:07shattered. The Houthis made lightning lightning advances down the coast
00:11:11coast last month, allowing them to to threaten Saudi shipping in the
00:11:14the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia responded
00:11:17responded with air strikes. The Houthis Houthis have been firing back. As
00:11:20As we've seen this weekend. President President Trump is an ally of the
00:11:24the Saudis. He condemned the attack attack on Riyadh airport but did
00:11:28did not say he would get involved. involved. I think it's terrible,
00:11:31terrible, terrible. Why the Saudis Saudis able to defend themselves.
00:11:35themselves. While they're able to to defend the Saudis are good fighters.
00:11:39fighters. But I think the attack attack was a terrible thing. This
00:11:42This attack was the most severe on on Saudi soil in over a decade. Some
00:11:46Some of those killed are now being
00:11:48being identified. One of them, Buthaina
00:11:50Buthaina Awada, was a mother of four four from Syria. She was a victim
00:11:54victim of a conflict that she had had no part in. But that seems to
00:11:58to be escalating dangerously. Joe
00:12:01Joe Inwood, BBC News. Well, with with me is Hesham Shawish from BBC
00:12:05BBC Monitoring. Thanks very much much for being with US, Hisham. Just Just tell us what we're hearing at
00:12:08at the moment from Saudi media on on all these events. So the Saudi
00:12:12Saudi media response has been quite quite varied. They've been reporting
00:12:15reporting on a global messages of of solidarity with the kingdom, and
00:12:18and they've been really focusing focusing on the latest comments by
00:12:21by President Trump. The Saudi media
00:12:23media is very closely watching what what the US is. Next move will be.
00:12:27be. The Saudi army statements have have also been prominently reported
00:12:31reported in Saudi media. The army army reported the attacks over the
00:12:34the weekend as full-fledged war crimes, crimes, and the army said that they
00:12:38they would respond firmly and decisively. decisively. We know that passengers
00:12:41passengers and airport workers were were caught up in those attacks over
00:12:45over the weekend, and the we're likely
00:12:47likely to see a much stronger Saudi
00:12:50Saudi response compared to previous previous occasions. So throughout
00:12:54throughout the day yesterday and and also this morning, we've seen
00:12:56seen reports of Saudi coalition and and Yemeni army strikes targeting
00:13:01targeting Houthi held territory in
00:13:02in various parts of Yemen, including
00:13:05including Sanaa, Taiz in the southwest
00:13:07southwest and Saada province in the
00:13:09the north along the border. And Saudi Saudi channels have been prominently
00:13:13prominently hosting commentators commentators and military experts experts and really poring over those
00:13:17those statements by President Trump,
00:13:18Trump, who said that the US may join
00:13:22join the potential strikes against against the Houthis but that the
00:13:25the Saudis were capable of defending defending themselves. So some very,
00:13:29very, very carefully worded messaging
00:13:30messaging being put out by the US
00:13:33US there. And what do you make of of the comments from the Houthis
00:13:37Houthis latest warning about avoiding avoiding Saudi airport and airspace?
00:13:40airspace? Yeah. So yesterday we saw saw this fresh warning being put
00:13:43put out by the Houthis for airlines airlines to avoid Saudi airports
00:13:46airports and airspace. Apart from from the areas of Mecca and Medina.
00:13:49Medina. So flights in and out of of Jeddah International Airport are
00:13:53are safe for the time being. But
00:13:54But this type of warning by the Houthis
00:13:58Houthis signals that civil aviation aviation infrastructure is now part
00:14:01part of the pressure campaign against against the Saudis to try and lift
00:14:04lift their blockade on Houthi held held territory in Yemen. And this
00:14:07this type of warning is really intended
00:14:10intended to amplify the psychological psychological and economic impact
00:14:14impact beyond physical damage. And And I could say that the Houthis
00:14:18Houthis are really being emboldened
00:14:19emboldened right now by the lack lack of a comprehensive defence pact
00:14:23pact with the US, which is why they're
00:14:25they're making these moves against against the civil aviation infrastructure
00:14:29infrastructure in the kingdom. And And the Saudis also recently signed signed the Mecca pact. Just tell
00:14:32tell us what that is and how this this whole situation could affect
00:14:35affect that. Sure. So this defence defence pact with between Saudi Arabia,
00:14:38Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey will
00:14:40will be really tested over the latest
00:14:44latest escalation will be watching watching closely to see if the Pakistanis
00:14:48Pakistanis and the Turks get involved.
00:14:50involved. If they send over advanced
00:14:53advanced weapons or even troops. troops. And we'll be closely. Watched Watched if one is attacked the other.
00:14:57other. Exactly, exactly. But up to to now we've only seen very strong
00:15:00strong statements of solidarity and and messages of support, but nothing
00:15:04nothing concrete, nothing material. material. Fascinating. Hesham Shawish Shawish from BBC Monitoring. Thank
00:15:07Thank you so much for being with with us. Thank you. Thank you. Let's Let's get more on this with the geopolitical
00:15:11geopolitical analyst Salman Al Ansari, Ansari, who's in Riyadh. Thank you
00:15:14you very much indeed for being with with us. Grateful to you for your
00:15:18your time. I just wondered how concerning
00:15:21concerning these weekend events are.
00:15:23are. Hello. Thank you so much for for having me. Yeah, definitely.
00:15:26definitely. This attack was unprecedented. unprecedented. Specifically the one
00:15:30one three days ago that actually
00:15:33actually killed 13 people in Riyadh
00:15:35Riyadh airport and injured 309 people.
00:15:38people. Those killed included four
00:15:40four Saudi citizens, Pakistani and
00:15:43and Bangladeshi nationals and other other Arab nationals, and an American
00:15:46American citizen. And there is actually actually something that has been
00:15:49been widely overlooked. I believe
00:15:51believe these attacks on Saudi airports
00:15:54airports fit a wider pattern of Iranian
00:15:57Iranian threats against civilian civilian aviation. Let's not forget
00:16:00forget two weeks ago, just two weeks
00:16:02weeks ago, on September the 23rd.
00:16:0423rd. Mohsen Rezaee, secretary of
00:16:07of Iran's Supreme National Security
00:16:09Security Council, threatened literally literally to disrupt airports in
00:16:13in neighbouring countries and if
00:16:16if definitely if they helped halt halt Iranian flights. And his warning
00:16:19warning followed. US Treasury Secretary
00:16:21Secretary Scott Bisson's announcement announcement that Iranian airlines
00:16:25airlines would have to suspend operations operations and that Iranian threat
00:16:28threat is one side of the coin. The
00:16:30The other side of the coin is the
00:16:33the Yemeni government forces, armed armed forces, significant advances
00:16:36advances on the ground, especially especially around Bab el Mandeb,
00:16:40Mandeb, definitely. Tehran, Iran
00:16:42Iran had tasked the Houthis with
00:16:44with controlling the strait to strengthen strengthen Iran's hand in negotiations
00:16:48negotiations with the United States.
00:16:49States. That strategy has been thwarted, thwarted, thwarted massively, and
00:16:53and the Houthis are losing ground ground by the hour. So. So can I
00:16:57I just ask you just to ask you then
00:17:00then what then should the Saudi response
00:17:03response be and should the US get get involved? Yeah. Good question.
00:17:06question. Yeah. I think we need to
00:17:09to look at the approach and see how how we can change the approach, the
00:17:13the multifaceted approach has not not worked. The Yemeni government
00:17:16government and the Saudi led coalition coalition appear to have concluded
00:17:20concluded that a zero sum approach
00:17:22approach is now necessary. Appeasement Appeasement and political dialogue
00:17:25dialogue are no longer viable with
00:17:28with this malign Houthi militia,
00:17:31militia, a decisive all out confrontation confrontation is needed, including
00:17:34including treating the Iranian backed backed Houthis as a terrorist organisation
00:17:37organisation like Isaias and Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda. With regards to the international
00:17:41international community. On top of of them is the United States. We
00:17:43We have seen how they have voiced voiced solidarity with Saudi Arabia,
00:17:46Arabia, including the UN, the EU,
00:17:49EU, the United States, the United United Kingdom, Canada and Japan
00:17:53Japan and India. And just recently, recently, just two hours ago, China
00:17:57China itself has actually condemned condemned the attacks Houthi and
00:18:00and definitely among many others. others. So definitely we are right
00:18:03right now in a position where we
00:18:06we are rallying international support support because. What do you mean
00:18:10mean by, you know, a full response response practically? What do you you mean? You're talking about massive
00:18:14massive military escalation here. here. Yeah, it means everything.
00:18:18everything. It means land sea. And
00:18:23And we should actually like an air.
00:18:25air. We should just find a way through through which we can get Yemen to
00:18:28to be a normal nation without this
00:18:31this Iranian backed militia. Let's Let's not forget the Saudis, the
00:18:34the Saudi led coalition has secured secured and liberated 80% of the
00:18:38the Yemeni lands. But the problem problem we have is that 80% of the
00:18:41the Yemeni population are in that
00:18:44that 20%. So that's why it is concerning
00:18:47concerning that the Saudis and the the Saudi led coalition does not
00:18:51not want to launch a war that would
00:18:53would actually affect the civilians.
00:18:55civilians. And having a major casualties, casualties, etc. But at the end of
00:18:59of the day, there is no way at all
00:19:02all whatsoever but to thwart the the Houthi militia and let's be very
00:19:06very dark. They are actually on the the losing right now. People are
00:19:09are seeing them in the media as if if the Houthi militia is resilient,
00:19:13resilient, but they are not. They They are just like the Iranian regime,
00:19:16regime, which have lost almost all all their traditional capabilities.
00:19:20capabilities. And right now we just just need to finish the job. And
00:19:22And I think the Saudis, along with
00:19:24with its partners, are working. Day
00:19:28Day by day, hour by hour to, to find find a way through which they can
00:19:31can actually finish the job with
00:19:34with the least number of casualties casualties in Yemen. OK. Salman al-Ansari
00:19:38al-Ansari in Riyadh, thank you very very much for your time. Thank you
00:19:41you so much. Breaking news this hour.
00:19:47hour. Actor and comedian Russell Russell Brand has arrived at London's
00:19:51London's Southwark Crown Court ahead ahead of the start of his trial on
00:19:54on seven charges of rape and sexual
00:19:56sexual assault relating to six women.
00:19:59women. 51-year-old brand, once one one of Britain's most high profile
00:20:03profile broadcasters, has pleaded pleaded not guilty to all seven charges,
00:20:06charges, three counts of rape and and four counts of indecent or sexual
00:20:10sexual assault allegedly committed
00:20:13committed between 1999 and 2009.
00:20:152009. We will have much more on this
00:20:18this news later and in the days and
00:20:21and weeks ahead. You can follow that that trial day by day on the BBC
00:20:24BBC podcast Fame Under Fire. Russell Russell Brand on Trial, which is
00:20:28is available on BBC Sounds, YouTube
00:20:30YouTube iPlayer or wherever you get
00:20:33get your BBC podcasts. The actor actor Robert Pattinson was in London
00:20:37London last night at the premiere premiere of his new film Primetime.
00:20:40Primetime. The movie dramatises the the production of the American reality
00:20:43reality TV series To Catch a Predator,
00:20:45Predator, which aired between 2004 2004 and 2007. Pattinson stars as
00:20:49as its host Chris Hansen, an NBC NBC journalist who worked with a
00:20:53a vigilante group to expose child child predators in sting operations.
00:20:56operations. The movie's getting rave rave reviews, with critics saying
00:20:58saying he's going to get an Oscar
00:21:01Oscar nomination. Much more, of course,
00:21:04course, coming up here on BBC News News I'm Geeta Guru-Murthy. Thanks
00:21:08Thanks for being with us. Do stay
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00:23:31welcome to the pod. The recovered recovered heat is channelled to food
00:23:34food growing pods converted from from shipping containers. Here we
00:23:38we try with microgreens because they're
00:23:40they're super efficient. After carrying
00:23:42carrying out trials at a data centre, centre, this demonstration unit has
00:23:46has now been set up in a business business park to run test simulations.
00:23:50simulations. We connect directly directly to the exhaust from the
00:23:53the data centre. The heat is coming coming through that wall. Everything
00:23:55Everything is happening behind this
00:23:57this wall to mix the air and making making sure we have a homogeneous
00:24:01homogeneous temperature all around around the pod. The idea is to tackle
00:24:04tackle two issues in one go. 80% 80% of our fresh fruits and vegetables
00:24:08vegetables are imported. This is is a huge carbon footprint for the the island and also the variety of
00:24:12of fruits and vegetables you can
00:24:14can get is limited. Less than 20km
00:24:1820km from this geothermal plant, plant, indoor growing systems have
00:24:21have been taken to another level.
00:24:25level. So here we have the green green face. So everything is green.
00:24:29green. This dazzling display is part
00:24:31part of an aquaculture facility where
00:24:33where Icelandic firm Al-khalaf is
00:24:36is cultivating microalgae. We are are growing the algae from just small
00:24:39small flasks up to the big reactors
00:24:41reactors you can see here. Each reactor
00:24:44reactor you see is 10,000l. The light light is helping the algae photosynthesise
00:24:48photosynthesise the more light we we can get, the more the algae will
00:24:51will grow. The algae is fed CO2 and
00:24:55and releases oxygen while lighting
00:24:57lighting pH and temperature are all
00:24:59all tightly controlled. After removing
00:25:02removing the water and drying the the algae, they produce a compound
00:25:06compound used in dietary supplements. supplements. We have. To break the
00:25:09the cells apart to release the astaxanthin, astaxanthin, and that goes into making
00:25:12making an oil like a resin. We then then sell on to other companies that
00:25:16that make small capsules. And so so in a country where the climate
00:25:19climate limits what can be grown, grown, innovators have found new
00:25:23new ways to produce.
00:29:15What new industries are created? Because what we've seen
00:29:17seen throughout history is new industries industries are created, and it's
00:29:20it's that process that actually opens opens new doors. That was the that
00:29:24that was the mandate from Prime Minister Minister Starmer. He wants the UK
00:29:27UK to be an AI superpower. He recognises
00:29:31recognises that the ingredients are
00:29:32are all right here. AI is real AI
00:29:35AI in total pay off just like cars cars in total paid off TV in total
00:29:39total paid off. But most people involved involved and didn't do well. It's
00:29:43It's a revolutionary, you know, time time upon us and I think, you know,
00:29:47know, all industries will be adopting
00:29:48adopting AI in some shape or form.
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00:30:19Washington has to make Russia respect. respect. An energy ceasefire announced
00:30:22announced by Donald Trump after Russian
00:30:25Russian strikes hit Ukrainian infrastructure
00:30:26infrastructure overnight. It was
00:30:29was clear that Putin does not read
00:30:34read through social. And his cheeky
00:30:36cheeky drones follow a different
00:30:39different set of instructions. Saudi Saudi officials say one person has
00:30:42has been killed and nearly a dozen dozen others injured in the latest
00:30:46latest attack on Riyadh's international international airport by the Iran-backed
00:30:48Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen.
00:30:51Yemen. As America's mid-term elections elections loom, a special report
00:30:54report into why data centres powering powering the AI boom are becoming
00:30:57becoming a political flashpoint.