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00:00:09Hello, live from London. This
00:00:12is BBC News. President Zelensky says says Washington has to make Russia
00:00:15Russia respect. An energy ceasefire ceasefire announced by Donald Trump
00:00:19Trump after Russian strikes hit Ukrainian
00:00:21Ukrainian infrastructure overnight.
00:00:23overnight. It was clear that Putin
00:00:27Putin does not read through social
00:00:31social and his cheeky drones follow
00:00:32follow a different set of instructions.
00:00:36instructions. Saudi officials say say one person has been killed and
00:00:38and nearly a dozen others injured injured in the latest attack on Riyadh's
00:00:42Riyadh's international airport by by the Iran-backed Houthi group in
00:00:45in Yemen. As America's mid-term elections elections loom, a special report
00:00:48report into why data centres powering powering the AI boom are becoming
00:00:52becoming a political flashpoint.
00:00:56flashpoint. Big night planned. And And Robert Pattinson tells the BBC
00:00:59BBC why he took on the role of a
00:01:01a journalist who helps expose child
00:01:03child predators in his new film Primetime.
00:01:16Hello, I'm Geeta Guru-Murthy. Thanks for being with us. Ukraine
00:01:19Ukraine says Russia has continued continued carrying out deadly attacks
00:01:23attacks despite a so-called energy energy ceasefire proposed by President
00:01:26President Trump. President Zelensky Zelensky said Russia hit power plants
00:01:29plants and civilian areas following following the announcement. This
00:01:32This footage shows damage from an
00:01:34an industrial site near Kyiv. Yesterday, Yesterday, President Trump posted
00:01:37posted this, claiming the two sides sides had agreed to stop attacks
00:01:41attacks on energy facilities effective effective immediately. But the Kremlin
00:01:44Kremlin has yet to comment. Mr Zelensky Zelensky said the announcement was
00:01:47was news to him, but that Ukraine Ukraine would support a ceasefire
00:01:50ceasefire if Russia sticks to the the terms. Relations between Mr Zelensky
00:01:54Zelensky and Mr Trump have deteriorated deteriorated as the US President
00:01:57President tries to get the cost of
00:01:58of oil and diesel down before the
00:02:01the US mid-terms. Dan Johnson reports
00:02:03reports from Kyiv. On the edge of
00:02:05of Kharkiv. Last night. A reminder
00:02:10reminder Russia has not stopped attacking
00:02:14attacking Ukraine. This woman was
00:02:17was filming after the sirens asking
00:02:18asking where would be hit. She was
00:02:22was lucky to survive a strike on on a shop that killed three people
00:02:26people and injured more than 20.
00:02:2920. This just hours after Donald
00:02:31Donald Trump announced his partial
00:02:34partial truce on Truth Social, he he wrote effective immediately, there
00:02:38there is an energy ceasefire in the the war between Russia and Ukraine.
00:02:42Ukraine. Both parties have agreed
00:02:44agreed do not break it. Ukraine's
00:02:49Ukraine's been targeting Russian Russian oil refineries in response
00:02:51response to attacks on its own power
00:02:53power grid. Ukraine said it was ready ready to cease if Russia did the
00:02:57the same. But Donald Trump's announcement announcement appeared to come as
00:03:00as a surprise to President Zelensky.
00:03:04Zelensky. Ukraine is ready to refrain
00:03:06refrain from striking Russia's energy energy infrastructure, and we expect
00:03:10expect Russia to show the same readiness readiness and honour. The agreement
00:03:13agreement reached with the President President of the United States. He'd
00:03:17He'd better damn well stop. It was
00:03:20was a tense weekend of fractured fractured US Ukraine relations. I
00:03:24I suggest they get a new leader who
00:03:26who can make a deal. The row started
00:03:29started when Donald Trump lifted lifted export restrictions on Russian
00:03:32Russian diesel. Many believe to ease ease fuel prices driven up by the
00:03:36the war in Iran. In Kyiv, the streets
00:03:42streets have fallen dark and quiet
00:03:44quiet as its power network has been
00:03:46been pounded. Many people here are are without light, heat or water
00:03:50water because electricity is needed needed to pump it. Ukrainians were
00:03:53were braced for a very difficult difficult few months ahead into the
00:03:56the winter, so there's a lot riding riding on this cease fire. But even
00:04:00even if it holds, the war is not
00:04:03not over. That was hammered home
00:04:07home with more drones heading for
00:04:09for the capital. And within two hours
00:04:14hours this was Kharkiv's main power power station, leaving Ukrainians
00:04:17Ukrainians questioning what impact impact this cease fire will have.
00:04:21have. Dan Johnson, BBC News in Kyiv. Kyiv. President Zelensky has been
00:04:25been addressing the Warsaw Security Security Forum. He says reassurances reassurances from President Trump
00:04:28Trump of an energy cease fire have
00:04:30have not held. Russia launched a
00:04:34a targeted strike on a power plant
00:04:37plant in Kharkiv causing further
00:04:43further damage to our energy system.
00:04:45system. It was clear that Putin does
00:04:49does not read through social and
00:04:53and he is cheeky. Drones follow a
00:04:54a different set of instructions,
00:04:57instructions, but this post is actually
00:05:00actually about something that affects
00:05:02affects the lives of millions of
00:05:05of people, and that makes it very,
00:05:08very, very important. First of all
00:05:11all in Ukraine because Russia is
00:05:13is trying to use another winter,
00:05:15winter, another period of cold weather
00:05:18weather against our country taking
00:05:20taking our power plants, power grids
00:05:23grids and all parts of our energy
00:05:26energy infrastructure every single single day. Speaking in the same
00:05:30same forum in Warsaw, Poland's Prime Prime Minister Donald Tusk said this
00:05:32this latest so-called energy ceasefire
00:05:34ceasefire followed a similar pattern.
00:05:36pattern. Response. From Russia to
00:05:40to this good proposal was an attack
00:05:44attack against energy infrastructure
00:05:45infrastructure in Kharkiv. It's every
00:05:48every time the same. If you propose
00:05:53propose Russia to cease fire to stop stop bombing critical infrastructure,
00:05:57infrastructure, to seize bombing
00:06:01bombing civilian facilities, which which Russia does on regular basis
00:06:05basis is met with brutal and arrogant
00:06:10arrogant answer. I'm going to take
00:06:15take you now to a speech by the AI
00:06:17AI minister in the UK, Kanishka Narayan
00:06:20Narayan MP, who's talking about safety safety of AI systems. Let's listen.
00:06:24listen. In an insufficient to the the scale of the challenge, but it
00:06:28it established a deeply important important principle when technology
00:06:31technology changes the balance of
00:06:33of power and society, the government government has to protect those who
00:06:37who bear the costs. Crucially, to
00:06:40to do so means more than simply passing
00:06:42passing new laws. It means creating
00:06:44creating the institutions with deep
00:06:47deep expertise to act. That belief
00:06:49belief that who has power matters matters as much as what powers they
00:06:53they have is a core foundational foundational belief of the labour
00:06:56labour movement. Progress must serve serve the people whose work has made
00:07:00made it possible. Technological change change should serve human dignity.
00:07:03dignity. The state has a responsibility responsibility to ensure that its
00:07:07its benefits are shared. We are once
00:07:09once again living through a technological technological revolution whose consequences
00:07:13consequences will be felt for generations generations as we cross the threshold
00:07:16threshold into the age of superintelligence, superintelligence, the choices we
00:07:20we make now matter. And so I'm making
00:07:23making a simple choice we must build
00:07:26build machines that serve US, machines
00:07:28machines that help scientists discover discover new medicines, machines
00:07:32machines that give care workers more more time with the people who depend
00:07:34depend on them, machines that help
00:07:36help British businesses become more
00:07:39more productive above all machines
00:07:41machines that leave us human beings
00:07:43beings in charge. But if that is is our defining belief, we must be
00:07:47be prepared to put it into swift
00:07:50swift action and we must do so now.
00:07:53now. Meeting this critical moment, moment, the British public is right
00:07:56right to expect that this government government ought to take the risks
00:07:59risks of AI seriously. Our first first responsibility is to keep our
00:08:03our country safe. That is why the the Prime Minister decided to give
00:08:06give me a seat at the cabinet table table in recognising that Britain
00:08:10Britain takes artificial intelligence intelligence seriously, we recognise
00:08:14recognise its extraordinary potential, potential, but we're equally determined
00:08:17determined to confront its risks.
00:08:20risks. I understand why people are
00:08:22are naturally anxious about their their jobs and what artificial intelligence
00:08:26intelligence means for their children's children's future. I feel that concern,
00:08:29concern, that anxiety to. I won't
00:08:31won't promise that we can stop change. change. We can't. But this government
00:08:35government will make a central promise promise to the British public that that we will never leave working
00:08:39working people to bear the cost of of this change, and I will work with
00:08:42with my colleagues every hour of of every day to secure our kids and
00:08:46and their kids future, their opportunity.
00:08:49opportunity. Now, in recent weeks, weeks, the British public has heard
00:08:52heard extraordinary predictions from from both companies and employees
00:08:55employees at the forefront of this this technology. The public is right
00:08:59right to expect that in the face face of these, the government ought
00:09:02ought to take warnings extremely
00:09:05extremely seriously and we do the
00:09:08the responsibility then begins with with protecting people from new social
00:09:11social harms. I was proud to be the the minister who banned the appalling
00:09:14appalling use of AI to create intimate intimate images of women and girls
00:09:18girls without their consent. I was was proud, alongside the Secretary Secretary of State, to stand up to
00:09:21to the richest man in the world and and have our British position upheld
00:09:25upheld in practice, and I was proud proud to be the minister who put
00:09:27put our children's future above companies companies profits. Announcing a social
00:09:30social media ban for Under-16s wherever
00:09:34wherever new new harms emerge, we we have acted decisively and we will
00:09:38will continue to act decisively. decisively. I'm working hand in glove glove with my colleague the Secretary
00:09:42Secretary of State, Lisa Nandy, to
00:09:44to do just that. In doing so, I also
00:09:47also want to convey honesty. Many
00:09:49Many of technology's new challenges challenges extend far beyond our
00:09:53our own borders, increasingly capable
00:09:55capable models are distributed openly. openly. They make it impossible to
00:09:59to be an isolated island. That is
00:10:01is why the Prime Minister has made made artificial intelligence a central
00:10:05central focus of Britain's G20 presidency.
00:10:08presidency. Next year. We know that that these challenges cannot be addressed
00:10:12addressed by a single country alone,
00:10:15alone, but by virtue of our capability, capability, by virtue of the foundations
00:10:17foundations of our trust, Britain
00:10:19Britain will play its part. The AI AI Security Institute will take a
00:10:23a significant role in shaping our our collective understanding of technical
00:10:27technical standards, and to kick kick that off, just this afternoon, afternoon, shortly after my speech,
00:10:31speech, we will be publishing an an initial view of areas where we we want to see particular progress.
00:10:35progress. This afternoon doing our our bit globally but also acting
00:10:39acting at home. We will uniquely uniquely shape a British approach,
00:10:42approach, bringing the best of what what makes this country the pragmatic,
00:10:46pragmatic, forward facing country country that it is and through it
00:10:49it I will be guided by a non-negotiable non-negotiable priority the safety
00:10:53safety of the British public. We We will use every power at our disposal.
00:10:57disposal. We will legislate wherever wherever necessary and we won't look
00:11:00look to law alone. We will look to to British ingenuity, our scientific
00:11:04scientific expertise, our technical technical capabilities, our institutions
00:11:07institutions to understand these these increasingly powerful systems,
00:11:11systems, defend against emerging emerging threats, to respond when
00:11:13when things go wrong. All of that
00:11:16that starts with understanding what what we're in fact dealing with.
00:11:20with. Britain has a proud history history of bringing together brilliant
00:11:22brilliant minds to tackle the great great technological challenges of
00:11:25of our time. From the codebreakers codebreakers at Bletchley Park to
00:11:28to the scientists and engineers working
00:11:30working at the AI Security Institute Institute today, the AI Security
00:11:34Security Institute is a brilliant brilliant part of the British state,
00:11:36state, bringing together over 100 100 exceptional technical experts
00:11:40experts to understand these systems systems and how they behave. Many
00:11:43Many of these people could earn far far more elsewhere. Instead, they
00:11:47they have chosen to put their talents talents to work in keeping our country
00:11:51country safe. We should be enormously enormously proud of them, and I want
00:11:54want to personally thank them for for all the work that they have done,
00:11:57done, and I know we'll continue to to do. That is why over the last
00:12:00last few weeks, we have been working
00:12:02working closely with the US government,
00:12:05government, the labs from His Majesty's Majesty's gathering of leading AI
00:12:08AI developers at Dumfries House in in Scotland to discussions of the
00:12:12the United Nations General Assembly Assembly in New York to retain access
00:12:15access for Britain's AI Security Security Institute to the most powerful
00:12:19powerful AI models before they are
00:12:21are released. And I can confirm that
00:12:23that AI scientists at the AI Security
00:12:26Security Institute are now conducting conducting rigorous evaluations of
00:12:29of the latest generation of models,
00:12:31models, including Gemini for argon argon to identify risks early to
00:12:35to test robust safeguards to help
00:12:37help keep people safe. Of course,
00:12:41course, I know that understanding understanding of these systems must must look ahead and not just look
00:12:44look back. It means finding new ways
00:12:46ways to verify and discern capabilities.
00:12:49capabilities. One avenue is hardware hardware enabled verification drawing
00:12:53drawing on Britain's expertise in in semiconductor design, this is
00:12:57is early research, but I am determined determined that Britain will lead
00:13:00lead it, bringing these together together both our existing expertise
00:13:03expertise in the testing of models models new prospective capabilities
00:13:07capabilities in verification. Britain's Britain's unparalleled position of
00:13:10of understanding will be the foundation foundation on which our AI security
00:13:14security will be built. Now understanding understanding risks is essential,
00:13:17essential, but we must also make make Britain harder to attack and
00:13:21and better prepared when AI systems systems behave unexpectedly. Take
00:13:24Take a look at what happened in Australia
00:13:26Australia just earlier this year.
00:13:28year. An OpenAI agent went looking looking for information about public
00:13:32public spending on medicines. It It arrived on a government website website where restrictions were placed
00:13:36placed on what it could access, so
00:13:39so it found another way in its task
00:13:42task was benign, legitimate but without without being asked to do so, the
00:13:46the agent gained access to information information that it was not authorised
00:13:50authorised to have. The Australian Australian government has said that
00:13:53that no personal medical records records are known to have been accessed,
00:13:56accessed, and there is no evidence evidence of wider compromise. But
00:13:59But the incident should concern us.
00:14:02us. It concerns me. It seems likely,
00:14:05likely, if not inevitable, that our
00:14:07our own cyber defences will be breached.
00:14:10breached. Our National Cyber Security Security Centre has warned that AI
00:14:13AI will almost certainly make elements
00:14:15elements of cyber intrusion more
00:14:17more effective, more efficient. So So my colleague the Security Minister,
00:14:21Minister, Dan Jarvis, the government's government's lead Security Minister,
00:14:23Minister, has been the Security Minister Minister will be leading a cross-government
00:14:27cross-government programme to strengthen strengthen our defences against cyber
00:14:29cyber attacks, including from AI. AI. We published the government's
00:14:32government's cyber Action Plan earlier earlier this year addressing these
00:14:35these concerns and soon we will be
00:14:37be launching the National Cyber Action
00:14:39Action Plan. But if AI gives those those who could attack Britain's
00:14:43Britain's new capabilities significant significant new capabilities, we
00:14:45we must use the same technology to
00:14:48to make sure Britain is harder to to attack. And so today I'm sharing
00:14:52sharing findings of work already. already. Way to do that across two
00:14:55two government pilots, frontier AI AI has helped identify and address
00:14:59address more than a thousand vulnerabilities vulnerabilities alongside other threats
00:15:02threats to our public services. Our
00:15:05Our central vulnerability monitoring monitoring service has already helped
00:15:08helped reduce the time taken to fix
00:15:10fix identified weaknesses from 50
00:15:1450 days to just eight. Built on these
00:15:16these advances, I want us to go further. further. So today I'm announcing
00:15:19announcing that the DCMS Cyber Minister, Minister, the Security Minister and
00:15:23and I will lead the urgent use of
00:15:25of frontier AI capabilities to find
00:15:28find weaknesses within government government systems before attackers attackers exploit them, protect essential
00:15:32essential government systems and and respond more effectively to emerging
00:15:35emerging threats. I want Britain Britain to become one of the hardest
00:15:38hardest countries in the world to
00:15:39to attack using artificial intelligence
00:15:43intelligence wherever stronger defences defences will need stronger legislative
00:15:46legislative support, we will secure secure it. The Cyber Security and
00:15:49and Resilience Bill gives us an opportunity opportunity to do precisely that.
00:15:53that. We will work with Parliament Parliament and technical experts
00:15:56experts to assess how we can strengthen strengthen the regime to better protect
00:15:59protect Britain for AI driven cyber cyber threats and loss of control
00:16:02control risks. That includes identifying identifying and reporting on serious
00:16:06serious incidents and near misses, misses, including reducing AI driven
00:16:10driven risk across essential services services and ensuring serious AI
00:16:14AI incidents can be properly reviewed. reviewed. Beyond defence, we will
00:16:17will also prepare Britain to respond
00:16:19respond to incidents as AI systems
00:16:21systems are used more widely with with less human oversight. Incidents
00:16:25Incidents like the one in Australia Australia will become more likely
00:16:28likely and their effects could spread spread across systems faster than
00:16:31than anyone could trace them. When When that happens, government must
00:16:34must be able to establish quickly
00:16:36quickly what an agent was asked to
00:16:39to do, what it accessed, why it acted acted as it did, and whether the
00:16:42the same failure could occur elsewhere.
00:16:46elsewhere. That is specialist work. work. It needs expertise that the
00:16:49the state has not needed before.
00:16:51before. So we are taking the first first step, working with the Department
00:16:55Department for digital, culture, culture, Media and Sport. The National
00:16:58National Cyber Security Centre and and the AI Security Institute. We
00:17:02We will now develop robust ways for for government to respond to Agentic
00:17:05Agentic AI incidents. Looking in in particular at how incidents can
00:17:09can be contained and how those affected
00:17:11affected can be supported. Early Early factory laws mattered because
00:17:14because Parliament was prepared to to establish institutions capable
00:17:18capable of enforcing them. Our responsibility
00:17:20responsibility today is no different. different. As artificial intelligence
00:17:24intelligence becomes more capable, capable, Britain must become more
00:17:27more capable at protecting its people.
00:17:31people. Now that task cannot be carried carried by government alone. I want
00:17:34want cyber security discussed in in every boardroom in Britain rather
00:17:37rather than simply delegated to middle middle management and to the companies
00:17:41companies developing the world's world's most powerful AI systems.
00:17:43systems. My message is this listen,
00:17:46listen, when your scientists warn
00:17:48warn of severe dangers, investigate
00:17:51investigate unexpected behaviours. behaviours. And if you can't adequately
00:17:54adequately control the risks, do do not release the system. I want
00:17:58want the labs to be honest and in
00:18:00in turn, Britain too must be honest
00:18:03honest about its position. Much of of the technology that will shape
00:18:06shape our economy, our public services, services, our national security is
00:18:10is being developed outside this country
00:18:12country in the last technological technological revolution, Britain
00:18:15Britain became increasingly dependent dependent on technologies developed
00:18:19developed and controlled elsewhere. elsewhere. That is now a question
00:18:23question of national security. Also
00:18:24Also a question of democratic power.
00:18:27power. If the British state cannot cannot exercise meaningful control
00:18:30control over the technologies on on which our country depends, neither
00:18:33neither can the people that it represents. represents. So Labour governments
00:18:37governments have historically always always confronted technological change.
00:18:41change. Harold Wilson understood understood that the scientific revolution
00:18:45revolution demanded new institutions. institutions. His government helped helped establish the Open University.
00:18:48University. Widening access to education.
00:18:52education. In 1978, James Callaghan's Callaghan's government backed Inmos Inmos with £50 million of public
00:18:56public investment. Its pioneering pioneering work in Bristol and in
00:18:59in Newport helped establish an industrial industrial legacy that remains important
00:19:02important to South Wales semiconductor semiconductor industry. When I visited
00:19:06visited that cluster, I saw young young people, including brilliant
00:19:09brilliant women, undertaking advanced advanced engineering apprenticeships, apprenticeships, developing the skills
00:19:12skills to build the next generation generation of technology. Britain's
00:19:16Britain's early leadership and personal personal computing helped give rise
00:19:19rise to ARM, now one of the world's world's most important semiconductor
00:19:22semiconductor design companies. The The bitter lesson of the past is
00:19:26is that an early lead in technology
00:19:28technology is not the same as retaining
00:19:30retaining the power to shape its
00:19:33its future. And so I come to my final
00:19:35final theme. Yes, we will convene convene countries to keep Britain
00:19:38Britain safe. Yes, we will test models models to keep the British public
00:19:41public safe. Yes, we will harden harden our defences to keep the British
00:19:45British public safe. But most crucially, crucially, we will and we must build
00:19:48build in Britain to keep the public public safe. In Britain. That is
00:19:52is why we are backing British capability capability through our sovereign sovereign AI programme and through
00:19:55through our AI hardware plan. We We one the world's leading companies
00:19:59companies investing here. But we we will not accept dependence as
00:20:02as the price of that investment, investment, nor should we build infrastructure
00:20:06infrastructure simply because a company company wants it. We must be clear
00:20:09clear about what Britain needs and
00:20:10and what our people receive in return.
00:20:14return. The British national interest interest will be and must be our
00:20:17our guiding principle. And so this this brings me to the political tradition
00:20:20tradition that brought me into public public life. Labour's historic task
00:20:23task has been to guide Britain through
00:20:26through profound economic change, change, defending human dignity,
00:20:29dignity, widening opportunity, giving giving people greater security. Those
00:20:32Those values remain fundamental, fundamental, but I believe the age
00:20:36age of artificial intelligence demands.
00:20:39demands. Another agency the power power of working people to influence influence how technology changes
00:20:43changes their jobs of citizens to to challenge decisions affecting
00:20:46affecting their lives of democratic democratic government to determine
00:20:49determine the country's future. I I will not accept a future in which
00:20:52which Britain depends on technologies technologies it cannot understand
00:20:55understand or control. While working working people bear the costs of
00:20:58of progress, they had no power to to shape. Britain must have the power
00:21:02power to build its own future and and the British people must have
00:21:04have the power to shape it. That That is the central responsibility
00:21:08responsibility of this Labour government government and it is one I'm determined determined we will meet with the
00:21:12the defining principle of our approach. approach. We must build machines
00:21:14machines that serve us. I will take
00:21:17take a series of questions from the the floor and then I'm conscious
00:21:20conscious there's some media questions questions that are to come as well.
00:21:23well. I know some of you had named named questions here, so why don't
00:21:26don't I take a round of three in in the first instance? I'll come come to you. If you could tell us
00:21:30us your name at the very outset as as well. And then I'll come to Mary
00:21:33Mary afterwards as well. Tom Coates, Coates, professor in the Department
00:21:36Department of Mathematics. Thank Thank you for the clear eyed vision.
00:21:40vision. If we're thinking about the the resilience and the economic security
00:21:43security of the UK, what are the
00:21:45the key outcomes that UK AI investment investment should target and how
00:21:49how do we get there? Great. Mary.
00:21:55Mary. Hi. Thanks. Mary Ryan. I'm I'm the vice provost for research
00:21:58research and enterprise at Imperial. Imperial. Really appreciate the vision
00:22:02vision of the speech. And I guess guess the holistic way that you framed
00:22:05framed the government's approach approach to AI and AI safety benefiting
00:22:08benefiting society. But I guess within within that there's a there's an
00:22:12an assertion that there will be skills skills developed at all levels throughout throughout society in order that
00:22:16that each part of society has agency. agency. So I guess I'm interested
00:22:19interested in what the government government is is planning in terms
00:22:23terms of upskilling from you know,
00:22:25know, teenagers through to the government government civil servants, how are
00:22:28are we going to get the capacity capacity to deliver on this vision?
00:22:31vision? Great question. Rupert, do do you have a question? Yeah. Thanks
00:22:34Thanks so much for really inspiring
00:22:36inspiring stuff. And as the MP for
00:22:39for Ealing Central and Acton in this this fabulous. Kanishka Narayan,
00:22:42Narayan, the UK AI minister there
00:22:45there outlining outlining a plan plan for greater resilience, especially
00:22:49especially from cyber defences, he
00:22:51he says he does believe, as we saw
00:22:53saw in Australia, with the health health system being hacked, that
00:22:56that cyber defences will be attacked attacked in the UK and so they're
00:22:59they're trying to develop a bigger
00:23:04bigger cross department cross-government
00:23:06cross-government plan to secure the the UK infrastructure. He talked
00:23:09talked about wanting a more sovereign sovereign sense for UK power though
00:23:13though of course, like all countries,
00:23:15countries, the UK is very reliant
00:23:17reliant on the US and China and a
00:23:20a small handful of very powerful powerful companies. But he said that
00:23:23that he was going to keep supporting
00:23:26supporting the AI Security Institute
00:23:29Institute and the scientists there.
00:23:31there. So a strong statement on trying
00:23:33trying to protect resilience of the
00:23:37the UK, on the cyber front to AI
00:23:41AI threats. Let's move on. And Yemen's
00:23:43Yemen's Houthi rebels have renewed renewed their warnings against using
00:23:47using airports in Saudi Arabia. It It comes after two deadly strikes
00:23:50strikes on Riyadh's main international international airport in as many
00:23:53many days. Saudi officials say one one person was killed and 11 wounded
00:23:56wounded in an attack on King Khalid Khalid International Airport on Sunday,
00:23:59Sunday, the day before 13 people people were killed and more than
00:24:02than 300 injured in a missile strike. strike. The deadliest attack on Saudi
00:24:04Saudi soil in more than a decade. decade. The Houthis, who are backed
00:24:07backed by Iran, say they're targeting targeting Saudi Arabia over its support
00:24:10support for government forces in in Yemen's civil war. Here's our
00:24:13our world news correspondent Joe
00:24:15Joe Inwood. Saturday morning. One
00:24:18One of Saudi Arabia's busiest airports. airports. Hundreds of people from
00:24:22from all over the world waiting for
00:24:24for their flight. Then this a missile
00:24:27missile hitting a crowded terminal, terminal, killing more than a dozen
00:24:30dozen people, wounding over 300.
00:24:33300. The emergency services were were said to be overwhelmed. Late
00:24:36Late last night, a group called the the Houthis claimed responsibility
00:24:40responsibility not just for Saturday's Saturday's attack but for this one.
00:24:43one. Last Thursday at the same airport,
00:24:46airport, another one yesterday, as as well as one at a state run gas
00:24:50gas plant with the help of Almighty Almighty God, the armed forces carried
00:24:54carried out for qualitative operations operations over the past 24 hours
00:24:57hours using a number of ballistic ballistic and winged missiles as
00:25:00as well as drones. The first operation operation targeted King Khalid Airport
00:25:03Airport in Riyadh. The second operation
00:25:05operation targeted an Aramco gas
00:25:08gas plant. The Houthis are a group group that control large parts of
00:25:11of Yemen just to the south of Saudi
00:25:14Saudi Arabia. For more than a decade, decade, there's been a brutal civil
00:25:17civil war there. The Houthis on one
00:25:20one side, the internationally recognised recognised government, which is backed
00:25:23backed by Saudi Arabia, on the other, other, for the last couple of years
00:25:26years there's been an uneasy truce. truce. But that's been shattered.
00:25:30shattered. The Houthis made lightning lightning advances down the coast
00:25:34coast last month, allowing them to to threaten Saudi shipping in the
00:25:37the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia responded
00:25:40responded with air strikes. The Houthis Houthis have been firing back. As
00:25:43As we've seen this weekend, President
00:25:45President Trump is an ally of the the Saudis. He condemned the attack
00:25:49attack on Riyadh airport but did
00:25:51did not say he would get involved. involved. I think it's terrible,
00:25:54terrible, terrible. The Saudis able able to defend themselves without
00:25:58without us. Well, they're able to to defend look, the Saudis are good
00:26:01good fighters. But I think the attack attack was a terrible thing. This
00:26:05This attack was the most severe on on Saudi soil in over a decade. Some
00:26:09Some of those killed are now being
00:26:11being identified. One of them, Buthaina Buthaina Awada, was a mother of four
00:26:15four from Syria. She was a victim victim of a conflict that she had
00:26:18had no part in. But that seems to
00:26:21to be escalating dangerously. Joe
00:26:24Joe Inwood, BBC News. BBC News. I'm
00:26:27I'm Geeta Guru-Murthy stay with us. us. I'm back soon. But first Lukwesa
00:26:30Lukwesa is here with all the business
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