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00:00:10Live from London. This is BBC
00:00:13News. In a warning to Russia, Nato's Nato's top military commander says
00:00:16says the alliance would block blunt
00:00:19blunt and break any attack on its
00:00:21its members as fears grow over the
00:00:23the threat from Moscow. Ukraine's Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky
00:00:26Zelensky says Russia hit a power power plant in Ukraine immediately
00:00:29immediately after Donald Trump announced announced what he called an energy
00:00:32energy ceasefire. It was clear that
00:00:36that Putin does not read Truth Social
00:00:41Social and his cheeky drones follow
00:00:42follow a different set of instructions.
00:00:46instructions. The comedian and actor actor Russell Brand has appeared appeared in court for the start of
00:00:50of his trial on charges of rape and
00:00:52and sexual assault. He denies the
00:00:54the charges. Flights remain suspended
00:00:57suspended at Saudi Arabia's main main international airport after
00:01:00after deadly strikes by Houthi rebels.
00:01:03rebels. Thousands of people march march in Delhi calling for the electoral
00:01:06electoral commission head to quit quit over names being removed from
00:01:09from voter lists. And as America's
00:01:12America's mid-term elections loom, loom, a special report into why data
00:01:16data centres powering the AI boom
00:01:17boom are becoming a political flashpoint.
00:01:30flashpoint. Hello, I'm Annita McVeigh. McVeigh. Good to have you with us
00:01:33us on BBC News Now. Nato's top commander commander has warned Russia that
00:01:37that his forces could destroy anything anything and everything involved
00:01:41involved in a potential attack if if Moscow chose to launch an assault
00:01:45assault on Alliance territory. Alexis
00:01:47Alexis Grynkiewicz spoke at the Warsaw Warsaw Security Forum in the last
00:01:50last few hours. He said Nato was
00:01:52was first and foremost a defensive defensive alliance, but that it would
00:01:56would block blunt and break any attack
00:01:58attack against a member state, adding adding that the alliance could deal
00:02:01deal with more than one conflict
00:02:03conflict at any time. We had a very
00:02:06very useful from a military observation
00:02:08observation standpoint. Look at this this when we had conflict ongoing
00:02:12ongoing in the Middle East at the the same time as the conflict in
00:02:14in Ukraine, and it gave us real insight insight on what the stresses on our
00:02:17our warfighting system would be and and how we needed to adapt it. So So some of the things in the theory
00:02:21theory of victory, like depending depending on large amounts of affordable affordable mass to pair with our
00:02:25our high end precision weapons, are are part of the things that we've
00:02:28we've learned here that we are going going to need to use kind of a high,
00:02:31high, low mix of capabilities in in order to achieve the things that
00:02:33that we need to do. Nato Supreme Supreme Allied Commander for Europe
00:02:37Europe also gave this warning to to Russia. Whenever the nation that's
00:02:41that's come under attack is ready ready and has met their legal requirements
00:02:44requirements to attribute the attack, attack, we ought to do that. That
00:02:47That lets the Russians know a that that we're onto them. It lets them them know that their network wasn't
00:02:51wasn't as unattributable as they they thought it was. They think they they can get away with this because
00:02:54because we won't be able to figure figure out who it is. We ought to
00:02:57to tell them. We can figure out who who it is. The second thing that that I mentioned is one of the main
00:03:01main objectives is to break the West's West's will to continue flowing support
00:03:04support to Ukraine. So one of the
00:03:06the best responses is to prove that that false to them. And when they
00:03:10they come in, when one of these attack attack happens, respond by increasing
00:03:13increasing your contributions to to the Perl programme or respond
00:03:16respond with a donation of air defence defence interceptors and show that
00:03:19that the Russian premise for their their activity is false and you're
00:03:22you're only strengthening our resolve.
00:03:25resolve. President Zelensky spoke spoke to the Warsaw Security Forum
00:03:29Forum a little earlier today, and and large parts of Ukraine are without
00:03:33without power following Russian strikes strikes on energy infrastructure. infrastructure. That's despite claims
00:03:37claims by President Trump that a a so-called energy ceasefire had
00:03:40had been agreed. President Zelensky Zelensky expressed surprise at that
00:03:44that assertion, while Moscow has has yet to say anything definitive
00:03:47definitive about it. Our world affairs
00:03:49affairs correspondent Joe Inwood
00:03:51Inwood reports. Vladimir Putin may
00:03:57may not have formally responded to to Donald Trump's claim of an energy
00:04:01energy ceasefire, but in the city
00:04:03city of Kharkiv, people feel they've
00:04:05they've received his answer an overnight overnight strike near a shop killing
00:04:09killing at least three people and
00:04:11and injuring nine more. But according according to one woman who saw the
00:04:15the attack, the actual target was
00:04:16was the city's thermal power plant.
00:04:20plant. We'd already seen the statement statement that they wouldn't target
00:04:23target energy facilities, and we we really believed it. Ten minutes minutes had passed and there had
00:04:27had already been five strikes. My My child and I saw a missile hit
00:04:30hit thermal power plant number five
00:04:32five and watched it burn there. It's
00:04:35It's horrific. This weekend has seen
00:04:37seen a head spinning, chaotic series series of events, all stemming from
00:04:41from rising fuel costs in the US.
00:04:44US. On Friday, Donald Trump announced announced he'd done a deal to buy
00:04:47buy Russian diesel completely reversing
00:04:50reversing previous policy and seen seen as a betrayal by Ukraine and
00:04:53and many others. On Saturday, Volodymyr Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian
00:04:57Russian glide bomb attacks were a
00:04:59a thank you for what he called a
00:05:01a weak deal. Later that day, Donald Donald Trump blamed Ukrainian attacks
00:05:05attacks on Russian refineries for
00:05:07for rising diesel prices and called
00:05:10called on President Zelensky to quit quit before last night announcing
00:05:14announcing on his Truth Social platform platform that both Russia and Ukraine
00:05:17Ukraine had agreed to stop attacking attacking each other's energy infrastructure,
00:05:21infrastructure, seemingly without without either side's knowledge.
00:05:24knowledge. The Ukrainians have repeatedly repeatedly called for an energy ceasefire
00:05:27ceasefire but say the Russians have
00:05:29have refused to sign up. It was clear
00:05:32clear that Putin does not read Truth
00:05:37Truth Social. Speaking at the Warsaw Warsaw Security Forum, President
00:05:40President Zelensky said if Russia Russia continued to attack his power
00:05:44power plants, he would target their
00:05:46their refineries. Those refineries
00:05:49refineries that Putin is so shamelessly
00:05:52shamelessly trying to sell to the
00:05:54the wall at the solution, claiming
00:05:58claiming they can somehow make up
00:06:00up for the losses in global oil supplies
00:06:03supplies caused by the crisis in
00:06:06in the Strait of Hormuz. He mentions mentions the Strait of Hormuz, and
00:06:09and in some ways this weekend's events events come back to the war with
00:06:12with Iran. The real reason that diesel
00:06:14diesel prices are so high. Donald Donald Trump is facing a vital set
00:06:18set of mid-term elections. He knows
00:06:21knows many voters hold him responsible responsible for rising oil prices.
00:06:24prices. He's hoping to deflect some
00:06:26some of that anger onto Ukraine.
00:06:30Ukraine. Back in Kharkiv and the the clear up is under way. This country
00:06:34country has faced many dark nights nights with an energy cease fire
00:06:37fire looking highly unlikely. There
00:06:40There may be many more to come. Joe
00:06:43Joe Inwood, BBC News. Alexander Kara
00:06:46Kara is the former adviser to the the Ministry of Defence in Ukraine
00:06:49Ukraine and is now executive director director of the centre for Defence
00:06:52Defence Strategies. He says Russia's Russia's recent strikes are because
00:06:55because Vladimir Putin knows Ukraine Ukraine is not able to rebuild quickly,
00:06:59quickly, especially with the winter winter months ahead. Yesterday the
00:07:02the Russians targeted one of the the water pumping stations in Kyiv.
00:07:06Kyiv. So for the half of the day day they didn't have running water
00:07:10water in my apartment. And for several
00:07:13several weeks we have power cuts.
00:07:15cuts. We don't have electricity for
00:07:17for 3 or 4 hours a day. And the metro
00:07:23metro operation is disrupted. So So we need to find a way how to get
00:07:27get I live actually on the left bank
00:07:28bank of the river, so I use electric
00:07:31electric scooter to get to the downtown
00:07:33downtown to bypass the public administration administration and transportation.
00:07:37transportation. So yes, the Russians
00:07:40Russians are not stopping attacking attacking us for the simple reason
00:07:43reason they scale up production of of their missiles and drones. And
00:07:47And given that Mr Trump wasted a a huge amount of patriotic interceptors
00:07:50interceptors in Iran and is not providing providing Ukraine with any Patriot
00:07:54Patriot interceptors any more, the the Russians are able to use their
00:07:57their ballistic missiles to destroy destroy our critical infrastructure.
00:08:00infrastructure. And the most important important Putin. See, Trump is an
00:08:04an ally to undermine the defence defence of Ukraine and try to solve
00:08:08solve the discord between the Europeans
00:08:10Europeans and Americans. And we know know that President Zelensky continues
00:08:13continues to develop his relationship, relationship, strong relationships
00:08:17relationships with allies in Europe Europe who are building up their
00:08:20their defence capabilities to help
00:08:22help Ukraine. But in that speech speech to the Warsaw security for
00:08:26for him, we saw for and we saw him
00:08:29him make really direct appeals to to America, to President Trump to
00:08:32to put real pressure, as he put it it on Russia. But so long as the
00:08:36the diesel deal between Russia and
00:08:39and the US is in place in advance advance of the mid-term elections
00:08:42elections in America in November,
00:08:44November, it seems unlikely that that America is going to do more
00:08:48more on that. Would you agree? Oh
00:08:51Oh yes, I would agree. Since the the beginning of this second term
00:08:54term of office, Mr Trump, he instructed
00:08:56instructed his diplomats not to support
00:08:59support even the United Nations General General Assembly resolution supporting
00:09:02supporting Ukraine. The United States
00:09:05States permanent representative abstained abstained from all those resolutions.
00:09:08resolutions. And we've seen how this
00:09:10this administration is trying to
00:09:12to erode the overall Western sanctions
00:09:15sanctions regime against Russia.
00:09:18Russia. And is an. Before. Mr Oh,
00:09:23Oh, apologies for the loss of sound sound just at the end of that clip.
00:09:26clip. That was Alexander Hara. Now Now the comedian and actor Russell
00:09:30Russell Brand has appeared in court court for the start of his trial
00:09:32trial on charges of rape and sexual
00:09:34sexual assault. 51-year-old brand, brand, once one of Britain's most
00:09:38most high profile broadcasters, has has pleaded not guilty to seven charges,
00:09:42charges, three of rape and four of
00:09:44of indecent or sexual assault allegedly
00:09:48allegedly committed between 1999 1999 and 2009. Our correspondent
00:09:51correspondent Helena Wilkinson has has the latest from Southwark Crown
00:09:54Crown Court in London. Russell Brand Brand arrived here at Southwark Crown
00:09:58Crown Court just after 830 this morning. morning. I think we can show you
00:10:01you the pictures of him arriving arriving at court wearing a suit.
00:10:04suit. He was with his wife Laura
00:10:07Laura and you can see there just
00:10:09just how much of an interest there there is in this case. There were
00:10:12were dozens of photographers and and journalists waiting to capture
00:10:16capture his arrival at court. Let Let me just take you through the
00:10:19the seven charges Russell Brand faces.
00:10:21faces. They are three counts of rape,
00:10:24rape, three charges of sexual assault assault and one allegation of indecent
00:10:28indecent assault. They are alleged
00:10:29alleged to have occurred between
00:10:33between 1999 and 2009 and relate relate to six female complainants.
00:10:37complainants. He has denied the charges charges just a bit more about what
00:10:39what happened in court this morning.
00:10:42morning. Prospective jurors were were selected. They were then told
00:10:45told to return back here at Southwark Southwark Crown Court tomorrow. They
00:10:49They will be whittled down even further further and then the remaining 12
00:10:5212 jurors will then be sworn in. in. Russell Brand, of course, rose
00:10:56rose to fame as a comedian before before hosting TV and radio shows.
00:11:00shows. He went on to have a successful successful Hollywood career. The
00:11:03The trial here, expected to last
00:11:06last around six weeks. Helena Wilkinson Wilkinson reporting and you can follow
00:11:09follow the trial day by day on the
00:11:12the BBC podcast Fame Under Fire Russell
00:11:14Russell Brand on trial that's available
00:11:16available on BBC Sounds YouTube iPlayer
00:11:18iPlayer or wherever you get your
00:11:21your BBC podcasts. Pope Leo XIV is
00:11:25is expected to be admitted to Rome's Rome's Gemelli Hospital late on Tuesday
00:11:28Tuesday morning as he prepares for
00:11:30for surgery to remove a small nodule
00:11:33nodule on one of his lungs. The Vatican Vatican says the growth was found
00:11:36found on a recent check-up and had had been spotted early. There's been
00:11:40been no precise confirmation when when the surgery will take place.
00:11:43place. The 71-year-old pontiff has
00:11:45has no previously known health issues.
00:11:47issues. We're back after this short short break. Do stay with us around
00:11:50around the world and across the UK.
00:12:55security. Brief live with an audience
00:12:55audience here on BBC News. Officials
00:13:04Officials in Saudi Arabia say they they are dealing with new drone and
00:13:07and missile threats facing the country country from Houthi rebels in Yemen.
00:13:11Yemen. Flights remain suspended at at Saudi Arabia's main international
00:13:15international airport after a series series of deadly strikes by the Houthis
00:13:18Houthis over the weekend. This is is footage from an attack on Saturday
00:13:22Saturday and we should warn you, you, the pictures are quite graphic.
00:13:25graphic. 13 people were killed in
00:13:27in this strike when a missile hit
00:13:30hit King Khalid International Airport Airport in Riyadh. Hundreds more
00:13:33more were injured. One person was
00:13:35was killed in another attack on Sunday. Sunday. The Houthis,
00:13:42Sunday. The Houthis, who are backed by Iran, say they're targeting targeting Saudi Arabia because of
00:13:45of its support for government forces forces in Yemen's civil war. Muhammad Muhammad Ali Ash-har Quraishi is is foreign editor of The National
00:13:49National in Abu Dhabi. I asked him him what these attacks mean for Saudi
00:13:53Saudi Arabia. Well, this is certainly
00:13:56certainly turning into a defining defining moment in the history of
00:13:58of Saudi Arabia and probably a turning
00:14:01turning point in GCC relations to to the attack that killed 13 people
00:14:04people on Saturday is the biggest
00:14:07biggest attack in Saudi Arabia since since more than a decade when Isis
00:14:10Isis was claiming bombings in the
00:14:12the kingdom. It is also the largest largest attack by a foreign power
00:14:16power in from a foreign country against against Saudi Arabia. So there is
00:14:20is definitely a lot of pressure on on the Saudi crown prince, on the
00:14:23the Saudi government and on the Saudi Saudi army to. We've heard the Saudis
00:14:27Saudis speak up today and explain explain that Saudi Arabia is a very
00:14:30very vast country and you cannot cannot defend against every missile
00:14:34missile and every drone. And so even even if you protect the borders,
00:14:38borders, there are missiles that that cannot be intercepted at some
00:14:41some times. So the pressure is growing.
00:14:44growing. And as the attacks multiply, multiply, we will see more reaction
00:14:48reaction from the Saudis. And we we are expecting more action in Yemen.
00:14:51Yemen. They have started to claim
00:14:55claim operations against the Houthis. Houthis. Dozens of operations on on daily basis. But maybe in the
00:14:58the next few hours or the next few few days, we'll see more surgical surgical operations. The pressure
00:15:02pressure is growing. You say is the
00:15:05the Houthis confidence also growing?
00:15:08growing? Oh, absolutely. Causing
00:15:10Causing a massive casualty incident
00:15:13incident in Saudi Arabia, forcing
00:15:16forcing the airport to close, attacking attacking other airports and oil
00:15:19oil facilities. This is definitely definitely something that the Houthis
00:15:22Houthis were seeking and wanted to to happen. But it's not only Houthis
00:15:26Houthis that are gaining from this. this. It's also Iran because the
00:15:30the Houthis, as you mentioned at at the beginning, are backed by Iran.
00:15:32Iran. They are Iranian proxy. And
00:15:35And they when they escalate. Every Every time Iran felt pressure from
00:15:38from the US or felt that there is
00:15:40is a war resuming, resuming, the the Houthis escalated more against
00:15:44against the Saudi, which is a major major US ally. So it's not only the
00:15:48the Houthis, but it's only Iran benefiting benefiting and putting more pressure
00:15:51pressure on the US through Saudi Saudi Arabia. What are the implications
00:15:54implications for Saudi's neighbours, neighbours, the wider region? Well,
00:15:58Well, this is like I said at the the beginning, it's could be a major
00:16:02major turning point also for GCC GCC relations and for other countries.
00:16:06countries. We've heard the Emiratis Emiratis say today that that this
00:16:10this attack on Saudi Arabia means means that the UAE and other Gulf
00:16:13Gulf countries are being attacked attacked too, because the security
00:16:15security of Saudi Arabia is very very tightly related and linked to
00:16:19to the security of other countries countries in the region. We've also
00:16:23also heard the Saudis say a few days
00:16:25days ago that the security of the
00:16:28the Gulf is one security and cannot
00:16:30cannot be divided. So we'll definitely definitely see more action from a
00:16:34a joint action from the GCC leaders
00:16:37leaders and GCC countries. There
00:16:39There is a GCC Gulf mechanism that
00:16:43that requires or that indicates that
00:16:45that GCC countries have to act together. together. It has been activated twice
00:16:49twice before, once in Kuwait during
00:16:50during the Gulf War and once in Bahrain
00:16:53Bahrain when there were protests.
00:16:56protests. So will we see the Saudis Saudis asking for this mechanism
00:17:00mechanism to be activated again? again? It's yet to be seen, but the
00:17:03the pattern and the path is that
00:17:05that we're seeing more more push
00:17:07push towards a collective GCC reaction.
00:17:10reaction. Mohamed Ali Ash-har Quraishi Quraishi Protesters led by India's
00:17:14India's main opposition the Congress Congress Party, have been marching
00:17:17marching in Delhi towards the Supreme Supreme Court there demanding the
00:17:20the resignation of the Chief election election commissioner after the removal
00:17:23removal of millions of names from from voter lists. This comes after
00:17:27after thousands of protesters were were detained, then released over
00:17:31over the weekend, including the leaders leaders of the Gen Z movement. The
00:17:34The Cockroach Janta Party. Our reporter
00:17:36reporter Jugal Purohit was at the
00:17:38the march in Delhi. For days now,
00:17:41now, protesters have been
00:17:45and heard in India's national capital. capital. However, what we are seeing
00:17:48seeing today is unlike what we've
00:17:50we've seen on any other day. Look
00:17:53Look behind me from this side. There
00:17:56There is a huge crowd coming being
00:17:58being led by India's opposition leader
00:18:01leader Rahul Gandhi and several other
00:18:05other parliamentarians from this
00:18:06this side and this side. They are
00:18:09are merging onto this main carriageway.
00:18:12carriageway. As I said, it hasn't hasn't been as big in the last several
00:18:16several days. The plan is to march
00:18:18march from here to the Supreme Court
00:18:20Court of India, and the idea is to
00:18:24to press for the resignation of India's India's Chief Election Commissioner
00:18:28Commissioner and initiate a slew
00:18:30slew of electoral reforms. Now the
00:18:32the government says that this area
00:18:35area is, is is there's a notification notification which prevents the assembly
00:18:38assembly of more than four people
00:18:41people at any place in this
00:18:43vicinity. But as you can see that
00:18:45that particular piece of law has has been breached and the police
00:18:49police is moving in, as you can see,
00:18:51see, because there's also a huge huge police deployment and now they're
00:18:55they're moving in to try and make
00:18:57make sure that the protests remain remain confined to this spot. Our
00:19:01Our reporter Isha Lahiri in Delhi
00:19:04Delhi has more now on the background background to these protests and
00:19:07and whether there are any signs of
00:19:09of a resolution. This entire exercise
00:19:12exercise has been at the centre of of a lot of controversy since it
00:19:15it was announced. So critics say say that it is unfair to poorer sections
00:19:19sections of society and migrants
00:19:21migrants who do not have the documentation
00:19:24documentation required by the Sur Sur process to prove themselves.
00:19:27themselves. Eligible voters. People
00:19:29People also say that this entire entire exercise has been carried
00:19:32carried out in an extremely hurried hurried manner. In election going
00:19:36going states and India's opposition opposition specifically has alleged
00:19:39alleged that voter lists are being
00:19:43being manipulated to help India's India's ruling party, the Bharatiya
00:19:46Bharatiya Janata Party. Now, all all of these allegations have of
00:19:48of course been denied by both the the BJP government and the Election
00:19:52Election Commission. But it is in
00:19:54in this context that an investigation investigation by Indian newspaper
00:19:58newspaper Indian Express, which comes
00:20:00comes in which says that certain
00:20:02certain decisions regarding this
00:20:04this key exercise were taken unilaterally
00:20:07unilaterally by India's Chief Election
00:20:09Election Commissioner Ganesh Kumar, Kumar, in spite of objections by
00:20:12by his fellow election commissioners.
00:20:16commissioners. Now this has created created an uproar in the country
00:20:18country and many are alleging that
00:20:20that Ganesh Kumar is directly responsible
00:20:24responsible for about 130 million million people who have been left
00:20:28left off the new voters list. And
00:20:30And that is why the youth in the
00:20:33the country, as well as the opposition opposition opposition parties, have
00:20:35have come out on the streets demanding demanding his resignation. And I
00:20:39I note that the Chief Justice has
00:20:41has told reporters that he declined
00:20:44declined a meeting with opposition
00:20:47opposition lawmakers without giving giving specific reasons why. But
00:20:49But is there any sign of a resolution
00:20:51resolution to all of this? Well,
00:20:54Well, we must remember that this
00:20:56this is the second such mass protest protest against the BJP dispensation
00:21:01dispensation in India in a very short short period of time. The last time
00:21:05time such a protest happened just just a few months ago, called by
00:21:08by the called by India's newest pressure pressure group youth pressure group
00:21:12group the Cockroach Janta Party. Party. It led to the resignation
00:21:15resignation of India's education education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan,
00:21:18Pradhan, who was a very key leader
00:21:20leader in the BJP ecosystem and in
00:21:22in Mr Modi's cabinet. Now we have
00:21:25have seen that over the past few
00:21:28few days the government has responded responded with a massive crackdown
00:21:31crackdown on these protests. There There is unprecedented security cover
00:21:35cover in Delhi and the government government for this reason will be
00:21:38be watching the protests closely. closely. But there has been no signs
00:21:42signs of a dialogue between the government government and the protesters. So
00:21:45So there is no evidence sign of a a resolution any time soon. Now,
00:21:49Now, as America's mid-term elections elections approach just three weeks
00:21:52weeks away, now the data centre is
00:21:54is powering the AI boom, are becoming becoming a political flashpoint.
00:21:57flashpoint. A new proposal in Washington Washington would require them to
00:22:00to cover the additional electricity electricity infrastructure costs
00:22:04costs they create. President Trump Trump champions their expansion,
00:22:07expansion, but Arizona's Attorney Attorney General has called for a
00:22:09a pause on new approvals. Our North North America correspondent Shaimaa
00:22:13Shaimaa Khalil has been hearing what what it means to live alongside these
00:22:17these giant facilities. Get off it.
00:22:20it. Put people over profit. A backlash
00:22:22backlash to the data centre boom
00:22:24boom is happening across America.
00:22:29America. Here in Arizona, protesters protesters are fighting against upcoming
00:22:32upcoming expansions. The point of of technology is to make things more
00:22:35more efficient, not to coat the earth
00:22:38earth in rapidly depreciating chips chips that heat, you know, neighbourhoods.
00:22:42neighbourhoods. We can't have. Another Another data centre. We don't have
00:22:44have enough water as it is. This
00:22:46This is what America's AI ambitions ambitions look like. President Trump
00:22:50Trump says any slowdown means losing losing to China. At first glance,
00:22:54glance, this looks like an ordinary ordinary suburban neighbourhood.
00:22:57neighbourhood. That is, until huge huge data centres started sprawling
00:23:00sprawling around. And in a place place like Arizona, already struggling
00:23:04struggling with soaring temperatures temperatures and drought, people people here worry about what that
00:23:08that will mean more pressure on the the power grid, potentially higher
00:23:12higher bills, more demand on scarce
00:23:14scarce water. We love our house,
00:23:18house, but if we had known that was was going in, we never would have
00:23:21have bought here. It's enough to
00:23:24to make the difference between a
00:23:27a pleasant lifestyle and wondering
00:23:30wondering how much noise is going
00:23:32going to be coming up and what's
00:23:34what's next. This is essentially
00:23:37essentially a data logger. A noise
00:23:40noise isn't the only concern. Scientists Scientists say the data centres are
00:23:43are making scorching Arizona even
00:23:44even hotter. Driving around this
00:23:48this neighbourhood, what worries worries you about its proximity to
00:23:51to that data centre? The residents
00:23:53residents here are all going to feel
00:23:57feel a couple of degree Fahrenheit
00:23:58Fahrenheit warming on a typical day,
00:24:01day, and that will translate to higher higher energy costs for them running
00:24:05running air conditioners probably
00:24:07probably higher landscape water use use costs. Reporter but some residents
00:24:11residents see these facilities as as part of the technology they already already rely on. I don't think it's
00:24:14it's a problem and I'm kind of excited. excited. I just recently bought a
00:24:18a Tesla with full Self-Driving, and and I know that uses a lot of data
00:24:22data and it's awesome. So I don't don't have a problem with it. We
00:24:25We need that water. And if it's not
00:24:28not there, how do we farm? But Nancy Nancy Caywood worries about what
00:24:31what gets left behind. Her family family has farmed this land since
00:24:35since 1930. Drought is making that that harder now, but she says she's
00:24:38she's refused offers to sell to data data centre developers. Knowing my
00:24:42my granddad worked so hard to for
00:24:45for this farm, just not having it it here would just be. It would be
00:24:48be hard. What do you say to President
00:24:50President Trump? Because he's a big
00:24:53big advocate of data centres. He He can't eat data centres, can't
00:24:56can't eat them. They're not going going to provide food for you. As
00:24:59As voters head to the polls in November, November, many issues will weigh
00:25:03weigh heavily on their minds. Among Among them, the expansion of AI,
00:25:07AI, changing their lives and the
00:25:09the landscape around them. Shaimaa
00:25:12Shaimaa Khalil, BBC News Arizona. Arizona. This year's Nobel Prize
00:25:16Prize for economics has been awarded awarded to two American economists,
00:25:20economists, Robert E Hall and Michael Michael Woodford won the award for
00:25:22for their work in the microeconomic
00:25:26microeconomic foundations of Macroeconomic Macroeconomic stabilisation. And And essentially what that means is
00:25:29is their work looks at how monetary monetary policy can be used to stop
00:25:33stop fluctuations in economies, to to bring more stability. The Swedish
00:25:36Swedish Academy said they'd help help the world respond to supply
00:25:40supply shocks and economic downturns. downturns. Business is up next here
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00:25:46interview with Navi Pillay, who has has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
00:25:50Prize. The South African former ICC
00:25:52ICC judge has been speaking to the
00:25:54the BBC about the importance of international international law and what it means
00:25:58means to win the award. So do stay
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00:30:21Today. Wall Street is off to a flat
00:30:22flat start this Monday as oil tops
00:30:25tops $106 a barrel and inflation inflation data and bank earnings
00:30:28earnings loom. Oil under pressure. pressure. The energy chiefs pull
00:30:32pull out of a major gathering in in Riyadh as Iran backed Houthi strike
00:30:35strike the airport again. Also, AI
00:30:39AI warning Microsoft's president
00:30:41president tells the BBC AI needs
00:30:44needs urgent global safety rules rules and tough choices. Finance
00:30:48Finance ministers meet in Bangkok Bangkok as the head of the IMF warns
00:30:52warns countries to rein in spending spending as debt levels and borrowing
00:30:56borrowing costs surge.