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00:00:10Live from London. This is BBC News with me, Ben Brown. Our latest
00:00:14latest headlines. Saudi Arabia threatens
00:00:16threatens what it calls a serious serious response to deadly Houthi
00:00:20Houthi attacks on Riyadh's international international airport. Flights remain
00:00:23remain suspended. We'll have a special special report from inside Yemen,
00:00:27Yemen, where the long running civil civil war is escalating. We've been
00:00:31been told that there are Houthi fighters
00:00:33fighters in position up in the mountains. mountains. About 500 of them. And
00:00:37And since we've been here, the forces forces are keeping an eye on the
00:00:40the sky just to make sure that there
00:00:42there are no more drones coming.
00:00:46coming. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia hit
00:00:48hit a power plant in Ukraine immediately
00:00:50immediately after US President Donald Donald Trump claimed that both sides
00:00:53sides in the war had agreed to an
00:00:55an energy ceasefire. The UK Prime
00:00:59Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, says says he will push for new post-Brexit
00:01:02post-Brexit trade deals with the
00:01:05the EU and that the status quo with
00:01:07with Europe is not good enough for
00:01:09for Britain. Federal agents in the the United States searched the home
00:01:13home of the Democratic congresswoman congresswoman Ilhan Omar just weeks
00:01:17weeks before the mid-term elections. elections. The Justice Department
00:01:19Department says it is part of a criminal
00:01:23criminal investigation.
00:01:33Officials in Saudi Arabia say
00:01:35they are dealing with new drone and and missile threats facing the country
00:01:39country from Iranian backed Houthi Houthi rebels in Yemen. Flights are
00:01:43are still suspended at Saudi Arabia's Arabia's main international airport
00:01:46airport after a series of deadly deadly strikes by Houthis over the
00:01:49the weekend. This is footage from from the attack on Saturday. The
00:01:53The pictures are quite graphic. 13
00:01:5613 people were killed in this attack
00:01:58attack when a missile hit King Khalid
00:02:00Khalid International airport in Riyadh. Riyadh. Hundreds of people were injured.
00:02:04injured. Another person was killed
00:02:05killed in the attack there on Sunday. Sunday. Well, these pictures show
00:02:09show the burned out fuselage of a
00:02:12a plane sitting on the tarmac after
00:02:14after an attack on Thursday. Yemen's
00:02:17Yemen's long running civil war, meanwhile,
00:02:20meanwhile, is escalating and expanding.
00:02:22expanding. Houthi rebels backed by
00:02:24by Iran have been striking key targets, targets, as we've just seen in Saudi
00:02:28Saudi Arabia over the last few days.
00:02:29days. Well, the war first began in
00:02:32in 2014 when Houthi fighters gained gained control of the capital Sanaa.
00:02:36Sanaa. Since the year after that, that, a Saudi led coalition has been
00:02:40been trying with heavy air strikes strikes to restore the internationally
00:02:43internationally recognised government government to power. Well, in recent
00:02:47recent weeks the Houthis swept along along the west coast of the country,
00:02:50country, taking control of the Bab
00:02:52Bab el Mandeb Strait, which is a a key maritime corridor and choke
00:02:56choke point. Since then, Saudi backed
00:03:00backed government forces have retaken retaken some territory. Well, our
00:03:03our senior international correspondent correspondent Orla Guerin reports reports now from Yemen's west coast.
00:03:07coast. You may find some of her report
00:03:11report distressing. Crossing the
00:03:14the desert, a remote battlefield battlefield in a civil war that is
00:03:17is fast becoming a major regional
00:03:20regional threat. We travelled with
00:03:23with Yemen's southern forces fighters fighters loyal to the internationally
00:03:27internationally recognised government government in this landscape of harsh
00:03:31harsh beauty. They have regained
00:03:34regained lost ground and took us
00:03:36us to see it here. The wreckage of
00:03:38of a Houthi drone shot out of the
00:03:41the sky. How much damage could this
00:03:45this have done? Commander Tawfik
00:03:47Tawfik Al Haugen says it contained
00:03:50contained explosives. And could kill
00:03:54kill 10 to 15 people. This whole
00:03:58whole area has just been retaken retaken by pro-government forces.
00:04:02forces. They captured it about three
00:04:05three days ago. Until then, the Houthis
00:04:06Houthis were in control here. They've They've been pushed back. And we've
00:04:10we've been told that there are Houthi
00:04:12Houthi fighters in position up in in the mountains. About 500 of them.
00:04:16them. And since we've been here, here, the forces are keeping an eye
00:04:19eye on the sky just to make sure
00:04:21sure that there are no more drones
00:04:23drones coming. And hear scenes from
00:04:26from the battle to retake this territory.
00:04:32territory. No military precision
00:04:33precision in this desert campaign.
00:04:36campaign. Just a loose alliance of of pro-government fighters. Some
00:04:40Some of them barefoot. As we left
00:04:46left front lines about a mile from
00:04:49from the Houthis government reinforcements
00:04:51reinforcements were heading in. Along
00:04:55Along the way, a tableau of suffering
00:04:58suffering for some of those who have
00:05:00have fled the fighting. The only
00:05:03only shelter is the trees. Aisha
00:05:05Aisha tells me she has been here
00:05:08here for 30 days with no money, no
00:05:12no food and no water. Not even a
00:05:15a blanket. Yemen's civil war is casting
00:05:18casting a shadow well beyond its
00:05:21its borders. The Houthis are a threat
00:05:23threat to international shipping shipping and increasingly a threat
00:05:27threat to Saudi Arabia. But for their
00:05:29their backers in Iran, they provide
00:05:34provide leverage in operating rooms
00:05:35rooms in the city of Aden. Geopolitics
00:05:38Geopolitics feels remote. Night and
00:05:40and day, doctors are treating wounded
00:05:43wounded fighters. That includes the
00:05:46the enemy. This man is a Houthi.
00:05:49Houthi. But most here are from the
00:05:52the government side. When you get get a real sense here of how fierce
00:05:56fierce the fighting is, this hospital
00:05:58hospital alone has received 51 wounded
00:06:01wounded fighters today. Every bed bed in the intensive care unit is
00:06:05is full. They've been arriving with
00:06:07with gunshot wounds with shrapnel.
00:06:10shrapnel. Some have had limbs amputated. amputated. And the casualties keep
00:06:13keep coming. We've been told there
00:06:14there are three more on the way.
00:06:18way. The battles in Yemen are ebbing
00:06:21ebbing and flowing with no clear
00:06:24clear victor, but plenty more trauma.
00:06:26trauma. For some, the war will always
00:06:29always be with them. Some still have
00:06:32have their fighting spirit. Like
00:06:35Like Ahmed Ali Mahmoud. He wants
00:06:36wants to get back to the front despite
00:06:40despite multiple fractures. I'm not
00:06:46not waiting to be fully recovered, recovered, he told us. I just want
00:06:48want to be able to stand. I think
00:06:51think it's a religious duty and a
00:06:53a national duty. The Houthis have
00:06:56have destroyed the country. In the
00:07:00the next ward, Ali, who is 121 year
00:07:03year older than Yemen's war. He was
00:07:06was injured by a drone and is now
00:07:08now facing a complicated surgery.
00:07:11surgery. There is shrapnel near his
00:07:13his spine, says Doctor Ammar Al-sakkaf.
00:07:16Al-sakkaf. The operation won't be be easy, but God willing our staff
00:07:20staff will be able to handle it.
00:07:23it. But will war follow Ali into
00:07:26into adulthood? Orla Guerin, BBC
00:07:29BBC News Southern Yemen. And just
00:07:32just on that story, we've heard that that Houthi officials are warning
00:07:35warning of, quote, a swift, painful
00:07:37painful response if the United States
00:07:40States enters the war in Yemen. And
00:07:42And also Houthi officials are warning
00:07:45warning workers in Saudi Arabia to
00:07:46to stay away from Saudi oil facilities.
00:07:50facilities. So let's talk to our
00:07:51our global affairs correspondent, correspondent, Sebastian Usher, who
00:07:55who joins me now. Seb, how do you
00:07:58you see this conflict going in terms terms of Saudi Arabia saying there
00:08:02there will be a response to what what happened, especially those attacks
00:08:05attacks on the airport in Riyadh. Riyadh. But what realistically are
00:08:09are the Saudis likely or able to to do against the Houthis? That's
00:08:12That's their dilemma, essentially. essentially. I mean, of course, they've they've got all the wealth. They've
00:08:16They've got billions and billions
00:08:18billions that they've spent on weapons.
00:08:21weapons. They have a defence pact pact with Pakistan and Turkey. They
00:08:25They signed recently. They have us
00:08:26us as a very strong ally. The US
00:08:29US has carried out attacks on the
00:08:32the Houthis in the past. So, you you know, theoretically they can
00:08:36can call on a lot of support and and they have a lot of resources.
00:08:39resources. The problem is who they're they're fighting against the Houthis,
00:08:41Houthis, you know, are a group in
00:08:44in Yemen that fight asymmetrically, asymmetrically, obviously, who have have a very strong power base up
00:08:48up in the north and the West, which which no one has been able to dislodge
00:08:52dislodge them from for a decade now.
00:08:55now. And before that, they fought
00:08:57fought six wars with the then Yemeni Yemeni government, 2004 to 2010,
00:09:012010, which were again fought to to a standstill. So they are a very,
00:09:05very, very difficult. Combatant to
00:09:10to really inflict the kind of pain pain the Houthis are able to inflict
00:09:14inflict on the Saudis with these
00:09:16these huge targets airports, oil
00:09:18oil facilities, etc the Houthis don't
00:09:20don't have that. And the Houthis Houthis are able to soak up pain
00:09:24pain in a microcosm, a way that Iran
00:09:27Iran has done with the US. So the
00:09:29the Saudis have to decide they've they've already essentially gone
00:09:32gone in very hard backing pro-government
00:09:36pro-government forces on the ground ground against the Houthis. A major major offensive was launched just
00:09:39just a few days ago. At the moment moment we don't really. I mean, from
00:09:42from all his report there and also also what we've seen, we don't have
00:09:45have any real indication of who he's he's been forced back that much.
00:09:49much. So how much do the Saudis step step this up and how much pain are
00:09:52are the Saudis happy to take? And And you mentioned Iran and the Houthis
00:09:56Houthis are backed by Iran. To what what extent is this conflict and
00:10:00and the reigniting of this conflict conflict in the last few weeks linked
00:10:03linked to the war in Iran? I mean,
00:10:05mean, the Houthis have existed without
00:10:09without needing the support of Iran
00:10:10Iran all the time. The internal dynamics
00:10:15dynamics of the war in Yemen didn't
00:10:17didn't really involve Iran to that
00:10:20that degree. But obviously, the fact fact that they moved against the
00:10:23the Bab el Mandeb Strait, which was was the way that the Saudis were
00:10:27were getting vessels exporting oil oil out, has to be seen as a way
00:10:31way of helping Iran in the pressure pressure that it's putting enantiomer enantiomer us by putting pressure
00:10:35pressure on the global economy, by by preventing oil from being exported.
00:10:39exported. That is adding to that
00:10:41that pressure. So, I mean, they're
00:10:43they're doing this to help Iran in
00:10:46in its war against the US. But the
00:10:49the Houthis have that aim in any
00:10:51any case. I mean for more than two
00:10:54two decades, 30 years or so, their
00:10:57their whole agenda has been about about facing off against Israel,
00:11:00Israel, facing off against the West. West. So to them, this is a continuation
00:11:04continuation of that. This in a sense, sense, almost an opportunistic way way of using what's happened with
00:11:08with the Iran war to advance what what they see as their own interests
00:11:11interests within Yemen, but also also beyond Yemen. So at the moment,
00:11:15moment, Iran and the Houthis essentially essentially have, have come to the
00:11:18the same position of where they stand stand in terms of their strategy
00:11:21strategy that could shift, that could could change. But at the moment, moment, yes, they're doing it in
00:11:25in support of Iran, but not necessarily necessarily entirely because Iran
00:11:28Iran has told them to do so. All All right. Sebastian Usher, thank
00:11:31thank you so much. Our global affairs affairs correspondent there. We'll
00:11:35We'll be looking at the latest on on the war in Ukraine in just a moment.
00:11:38moment. We'll take a short break break around the world and across
00:11:40across the UK. You're
00:12:41social media has shaped the story. story. It's all on The Media Show
00:12:45Show on BBC News. Now. Let's bring
00:12:53bring you the latest from the United United States because federal authorities
00:12:57authorities there have carried out out an early morning raid on the
00:13:00the Washington home of the Democratic Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar,
00:13:03Omar, as part of an investigation. investigation. They say the congresswoman
00:13:07congresswoman represents a district district in Minnesota and has not
00:13:11not publicly commented so far. But
00:13:13But the investigation does come just
00:13:15just three weeks before Ilhan Omar
00:13:17Omar seeks re-election in the crucial crucial American mid-term elections.
00:13:21elections. And that has raised concerns
00:13:23concerns that this may be politically
00:13:25politically motivated. Ilhan Omar
00:13:28Omar came to the United States from
00:13:30from Somalia as a child. There are are reports that the investigation
00:13:33investigation does concern immigration immigration paperwork that was submitted
00:13:36submitted by her late father when when she was a child. So let's go
00:13:40go to our North America correspondent, correspondent, Ione Wells, who's
00:13:43who's outside the congresswoman's congresswoman's home in Washington
00:13:45Washington right now. I only what
00:13:47what is the latest on the investigation
00:13:49investigation and those
00:13:53politically motivated investigation?
00:13:58investigation? Well, I counted at at least a dozen federal agents from
00:14:01from the Department of Homeland Security Security Investigations who were
00:14:04were inside and outside Ilhan Omar's
00:14:07Omar's house here in Washington. Washington. It's not clear if anyone anyone was actually home when they
00:14:11they arrived early this morning, morning, or indeed, what exactly exactly they might have seized from
00:14:15from this home. I did see them carrying carrying what appeared to be cardboard
00:14:18cardboard boxes into a van before before they drove away. Now, sources
00:14:22sources familiar with the investigation
00:14:24investigation say that this was then then carrying out a criminal warrant
00:14:27warrant and that it relates to her her immigration paperwork. We
00:14:31know that she first came to the US
00:14:33US as a refugee from
00:14:36before becoming naturalised as a a US citizen in the year 2000. But
00:14:40But the authorities haven't really really provided any detail at all
00:14:43all about this investigation, what what evidence they may have. She
00:14:46She has in the last couple of moments moments responded to this, saying,
00:14:50saying, make no mistake, this is is an attempt to target political
00:14:54political enemies and weaponise federal federal law enforcement. She has has also gone on to say that for
00:14:58for ten years, Donald Trump has targeted targeted her with what she describes
00:15:01describes as baseless lies and smear smear campaigns and that this is
00:15:05is the latest escalation in his campaign campaign of political intimidation
00:15:08intimidation that echoes really concerns concerns that have been raised by
00:15:11by other Democratic lawmakers as as well, who have called this an
00:15:14an abuse of power by federal authorities. authorities. There are concerns that
00:15:17that this has happened just three three weeks before crucial mid-term
00:15:21mid-term elections, where the Republicans Republicans will be defending thin
00:15:23thin majorities in both houses of
00:15:26of Congress. Donald Trump has repeatedly
00:15:30repeatedly targeted her made personal personal insults towards the representative
00:15:33representative Ilhan Omar, but also also accused the Somali-American Somali-American community more widely,
00:15:37widely, particularly in Minnesota, Minnesota, where she's a representative representative of being a threat
00:15:41threat to the community, something something which she and other Democrats
00:15:44Democrats have long disputed. OK, OK, thank you very much. Ione Wells
00:15:47Wells with the latest there from
00:15:50from Washington. Ukraine says Russia Russia has attacked its power plants
00:15:53plants despite a claim from President President Trump that both sides in
00:15:56in the war had agreed to an energy energy ceasefire. Ukraine says attacks
00:16:00attacks on energy infrastructure infrastructure in the capital Kyiv
00:16:03Kyiv and in the city of Kharkiv caused
00:16:05caused power blackouts, raising fresh fresh doubts about that supposed
00:16:09supposed energy agreement. Well, Well, President Zelensky has said
00:16:12said he was surprised by Donald Trump's Trump's claim that a ceasefire had
00:16:15had been agreed. Moscow has yet to
00:16:17to comment. Here's Joe Inwood. Vladimir
00:16:24Vladimir Putin may not have formally formally responded to Donald Trump's
00:16:28Trump's claim of an energy ceasefire,
00:16:30ceasefire, but in the city of Kharkiv,
00:16:32Kharkiv, people feel they've received
00:16:34received his answer. An overnight overnight strike near a shop killing
00:16:37killing at least three people and
00:16:40and injuring nine more. But according according to one woman who saw the
00:16:43the attack, the actual target was
00:16:45was the city's thermal power plant.
00:16:48plant. We'd already seen the statement statement that they wouldn't target target energy facilities, and we
00:16:52we really believed it. Ten minutes had passed and there had
00:16:55had already been five strikes.
00:16:57My child and I hit thermal power plant number five
00:17:01five and watched it burn there. It's
00:17:03It's horrific. This weekend has seen
00:17:06seen a head spinning, chaotic series series of events, all stemming from
00:17:10from rising fuel costs in the US
00:17:12US on Friday, Donald Trump announced announced he'd done a deal to buy
00:17:15buy Russian diesel completely reversing
00:17:18reversing previous policy and seen seen as a betrayal by Ukraine and
00:17:22and many others. On Saturday, Volodymyr Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian
00:17:25Russian glide bomb attacks were a
00:17:27a thank you for what he called a
00:17:30a weak deal. Later that day, Donald Donald Trump blamed Ukrainian attacks
00:17:34attacks on Russian
00:17:37for rising diesel prices and called called on President Zelensky to quit.
00:17:41quit. Before last night announcing announcing on his Truth Social platform
00:17:44platform that both Russia and Ukraine Ukraine had agreed to stop attacking
00:17:47attacking each other's energy infrastructure, infrastructure, seemingly without
00:17:50without either side's knowledge,
00:17:52knowledge, the Ukrainians have repeatedly repeatedly called for an energy ceasefire
00:17:55ceasefire but say the Russians have
00:17:57have refused to sign up. It was clear
00:18:01clear that Putin does not read Truth
00:18:05Truth Social. Speaking at the Warsaw Warsaw Security Forum, President
00:18:08President Zelensky said if Russia Russia continued to attack his power
00:18:12power plants, he would target their
00:18:14their refineries. Those refineries
00:18:17refineries that Putin is so shamelessly
00:18:20shamelessly trying to sell to the
00:18:22the world. The solution claiming
00:18:26claiming they can somehow make up
00:18:28up for the losses in global oil supplies
00:18:31supplies caused by the crisis in
00:18:35in the Strait of Hormuz. He mentions mentions the Strait of Hormuz and
00:18:37and in some ways this weekend's events events come back to the war with
00:18:40with Iran. The real reason that diesel
00:18:42diesel prices are so high. Donald
00:18:45Donald Trump is facing a vital set
00:18:47set of mid-term elections. He knows
00:18:49knows many voters hold him responsible responsible for rising oil prices.
00:18:53prices. He's hoping to deflect some
00:18:55some of that anger onto Ukraine.
00:18:59Ukraine. Back in Kharkiv and the the clear up is under way. This country
00:19:02country has faced many dark nights nights with an energy cease fire
00:19:06fire looking highly unlikely. There
00:19:08There may be many more to come. Joe
00:19:11Joe Inwood. BBC News. A BBC investigation
00:19:16investigation has revealed the world's world's biggest accountancy firm
00:19:19firm helped in falsifying documents documents in order to hide the former
00:19:23former Chelsea football Club owner owner Roman Abramovich is wealth.
00:19:27wealth. BBC Panorama's uncovered uncovered hundreds of documents that
00:19:30that were backdated by the Russian Russian billionaires advisers. Well,
00:19:33Well, many were drawn up with the the help of Deloitte. Roman Abramovich
00:19:37Abramovich denies any wrongdoing wrongdoing and Deloitte says it complies
00:19:40complies with applicable laws. Here's
00:19:42Here's Richard Bilton. Things have
00:19:46have changed for Roman Abramovich. Abramovich. He has been sanctioned
00:19:50sanctioned because of his links to to Vladimir Putin. He's been forced
00:19:53forced to sell his beloved Chelsea
00:19:56Chelsea and now revelations from from inside his financial empire.
00:19:59empire. If you want to understand understand Roman Abramovich, follow
00:20:03follow the money. This is Cyprus,
00:20:06Cyprus, home to a web of companies
00:20:08companies that were holding his wealth
00:20:11wealth working with the Bureau of
00:20:13of Investigative Journalism. Panorama Panorama has been investigating a
00:20:17a data leak which shows the lengths
00:20:19lengths some of his Cypriot advisers
00:20:21advisers went to hide his billions.
00:20:24billions. They falsified and backdated backdated hundreds of documents.
00:20:28documents. It is trying to cover
00:20:30cover up something. And what we appear
00:20:32appear to have here is a fiddle factory
00:20:35factory in a fiddle factory you fiddle
00:20:37fiddle the transactions, you backdate
00:20:39backdate them and that is what appears appears to have been happening here
00:20:43here regularly. In 2003, one of Roman
00:20:46Roman Abramovich's Cypriot companies
00:20:49companies called Kravin Investments, Investments, had almost $2 billion
00:20:52billion of his money in the bank. bank. Deloitte confirmed certain
00:20:56certain changes will have to be made
00:20:59made to the accounts. That's Deloitte
00:21:01Deloitte apparently advising on falsifying
00:21:04falsifying financial records by backdating
00:21:06backdating them. The evidence suggests
00:21:08suggests it allowed Mr Abramovich
00:21:10Abramovich to evade millions in tax.
00:21:14tax. It's a straightforward and blatant
00:21:21blatant move to protect from legitimate
00:21:25legitimate taxation assets which which should otherwise have been
00:21:28been subject to tax. So it's tax tax evasion. Yeah. Straightforward.
00:21:31Straightforward. And how serious serious is that? Well, again, if
00:21:34if it happened in England and it it was in the millions His Majesty's
00:21:37Majesty's Revenue and Customs would
00:21:39would be thinking about a prosecution.
00:21:42prosecution. Roman Abramovich's lawyers
00:21:44lawyers say he denies he evaded tax
00:21:46tax or concealed his fortune. They
00:21:50They say he was not involved in the
00:21:51the day to day operation of the companies,
00:21:54companies, and Panorama has provided provided no evidence that he knew
00:21:57knew of authorised or directed the
00:22:00the falsification or backdating of
00:22:02of any documents. Deloitte Cyprus
00:22:04Cyprus says it's unable to comment comment because the documents are
00:22:08are more than 20 years old and no
00:22:10no longer accessible. Richard Bilton, Bilton, BBC News. And just to say,
00:22:14say, if you're here in the UK, you
00:22:15you can see that programme Panorama,
00:22:18Panorama, Roman Abramovich how he he hid his fortune. It's on the iPlayer
00:22:22iPlayer right now or on BBC One tonight
00:22:25tonight at 8pm. The President of
00:22:28of Microsoft says that work on the the regulation of artificial intelligence
00:22:32intelligence should start immediately. immediately. He was speaking to his
00:22:34his to my colleague Will Bayne for for the BBC's Big Boss interview,
00:22:38interview, and he said that the current
00:22:40current system of self-regulation self-regulation simply is not working.
00:22:44working. When you look at AI agents
00:22:47agents that have escaped human control, control, when you look at models
00:22:50models that are so powerful that that they're putting the world's
00:22:54world's cybersecurity at risk, I I would say, look, the moment has
00:22:57has arrived. Let's speak calmly,
00:23:00calmly, maybe even softly but firmly, firmly, and start to bring people
00:23:04people together. I hope that's the the role we can play as a company.
00:23:07company. I hope that's the role the the UK can play as a country. So
00:23:11So there was this accord that came came out of the White House, wasn't wasn't it? You were notably not one
00:23:14one of the signatories as a company
00:23:17company of that, but that was all all about I'm quoting the President President again here, tremendous
00:23:21tremendous self-regulation. It sounds sounds like from what you're saying saying to me, without putting words words in your mouth, you don't think
00:23:25think self-regulation actually goes goes far enough. There should be
00:23:27be one body somewhere that people people are compelled. Forced what
00:23:30what is it legally forced to put put their models through to test?
00:23:33test? I would say two things. First, First, I applaud, I applaud, we applaud
00:23:37applaud as a company that statement statement and we're happy to sign
00:23:40sign it. It's a good step. It's a a necessary step. And fundamentally
00:23:44fundamentally what it does is it it says companies should have internal internal controls. It should have
00:23:48have its internal auditors looking looking at things like AI safety.
00:23:51safety. We've been doing that since since almost a decade ago, and there
00:23:54there ought to be some external evaluators
00:23:56evaluators as well, all to the good.
00:24:00good. It's necessary. I don't think
00:24:01think it's sufficient any longer
00:24:05longer because the challenge for for any self-regulatory regime is
00:24:08is if it's left to the industry alone,
00:24:12alone, frankly, the good companies companies will do what you want.
00:24:15want. It's the companies that are are not as responsible that you need
00:24:18need to worry about. We should always always worry that regulation can
00:24:21can become too heavy-handed. It can
00:24:24can slow innovation. And I think think President Trump is right to
00:24:28to remind us to think about even
00:24:29even worry about those concerns.
00:24:32concerns. But right now I'd argue
00:24:34argue that AI is moving forward faster
00:24:37faster than the speed of safety.
00:24:39safety. That's not good for the protection protection of the public. It's not
00:24:42not even good for the industry itself.
00:24:45itself. And usually what happens happens and you take I'll just say,
00:24:48say, our Congress in the United States, States, if a product moves faster
00:24:51faster than the speed of safety accidents
00:24:55accidents happen and then Congress Congress moves faster than the speed speed of thought. And then you just
00:24:59just end up with a dynamic where where everything comes to a halt.
00:25:03halt. I don't think that should be
00:25:05be our goal either. AI is an extraordinary
00:25:07extraordinary resource to grow the the economy, to solve societal problems,
00:25:11problems, or at least help. Let's
00:25:13Let's strike the right balance. That's
00:25:15That's the President of Microsoft
00:25:17Microsoft and now Pope Leo is expected
00:25:20expected to be admitted to hospital hospital late on Tuesday morning
00:25:23morning this week, as he prepares prepares for surgery to remove a
00:25:27a small nodule which is on one of
00:25:29of his lungs. The Vatican said that that the growth has been found on
00:25:33on a recent check up and has been
00:25:35been spotted early. There's been been no confirmation so far when
00:25:39when the surgery will take place.
00:25:41place. The 71-year-old Pope has no
00:25:43no previously known health problems.
00:25:47problems. These are live pictures. pictures. The Vatican there and the
00:25:50the Pope then heading to hospital
00:25:53hospital on Tuesday morning. Plenty Plenty more to come, so do stay tuned.
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