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00:00:02Now on BBC News. The latest business
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00:00:09globe. Business Today. Affordability.
00:00:21Affordability. Election Wall Street Street readies for a big week as as America heads to the polls for
00:00:25for the midterms. What could it tell tell us about the state of the world's
00:00:28world's biggest economy? More people
00:00:30people are working than at any time
00:00:33time in the history of our country.
00:00:38country. Back online investors pull pull over $3 billion of assets out
00:00:42out of Binance as withdrawals resume. resume. After last week's massive
00:00:45massive hack. And room for judgement. judgement. The boss of signal tells
00:00:48tells the BBC. Artificial intelligence
00:00:51intelligence development needs to
00:00:54to slow down. Welcome you with Business Business Today in London with me
00:00:57me Sally Bundock. So we start in in the US where President Trump has
00:01:01has been making his last campaign campaign speeches ahead of Tuesday's
00:01:05Tuesday's midterm elections. The The President has been calling on
00:01:07on voters to consider his name to to be on the ballot during an extremely
00:01:11extremely busy month of rallies across
00:01:13across multiple US states. The vote,
00:01:16vote, which is being called the most
00:01:18most consequential US midterms in
00:01:20in years, could see the ruling Republican Republican Party lose its majority
00:01:24majority in the House of Representatives
00:01:27Representatives and potentially even even the Senate, according to some
00:01:30some polls, something that could could slow down President Trump's
00:01:33Trump's ability to enact his policies policies during the final two years
00:01:37years of his term. For financial financial markets, the results, which
00:01:41which include key governor races, races, could change the trajectory
00:01:44trajectory of closely watched policies policies from US public spending
00:01:48spending to the AI build out all all at a time when US government
00:01:52government borrowing costs courtesy courtesy of bond markets have been
00:01:55been soaring and US national debt
00:01:57debt is at an all-time high. One
00:02:00One major issue is the rising cost cost of living inflation, driven
00:02:03driven by surging oil prices largely
00:02:05largely due to the war in Iran. But But President Trump says the US has
00:02:09has never been in a better position.
00:02:12position. Under my leadership income income for hard working Americans
00:02:15Americans has soared to the highest
00:02:18highest level ever recorded. More More Americans are working today
00:02:21today than at any time in the history history of our country. The poverty
00:02:25poverty rate has reached its best
00:02:27best and lowest level in American
00:02:29American history with African American American poverty, Hispanic American
00:02:33American poverty, Asian American American poverty, Native American
00:02:36American poverty rates at their best
00:02:38best and lowest levels ever recorded.
00:02:42recorded. And exports have soared
00:02:44soared to the highest level in American
00:02:47American history. Well, Janet Mui Mui is head of market analysis at
00:02:51at RBC Brewin Dolphin and tells us
00:02:52us why investors are staying on the
00:02:56the sidelines ahead of tomorrow's tomorrow's election. The thing is,
00:03:00is, according to the polls and according according to the betting markets,
00:03:03markets, the Democrats are likely
00:03:06likely to take up both sides of the
00:03:08the Congress. So I think this is is a huge uncertainty that a lot
00:03:12lot of investors would actually like
00:03:14like to just step aside for now because
00:03:18because if we have a Democratic win
00:03:19win in the Congress, it means a lot
00:03:22lot of the ambitious spending plans
00:03:25plans could be on hold and debated debated and under more scrutiny.
00:03:29scrutiny. And I think for investors, investors, a major risk is really
00:03:32really about the build-up of the the AI centre. If the Democrats take
00:03:35take control of the Congress, that that could potentially slow down
00:03:38down because it is facing increasing increasing scrutiny. So I guess,
00:03:41guess, you know, it is a I think
00:03:44think the House is very likely to to be gone. But in terms of the Senate
00:03:48Senate is really a very close call.
00:03:51call. So I think people are just just stepping aside for now and see
00:03:54see what the results are. Yeah, absolutely. absolutely. And as you say, that's
00:03:58that's what the polls predict. But But as we know, as history tells
00:04:02tells us, polls often do get it wrong.
00:04:03wrong. So we'll all be watching very
00:04:06very closely to see what the outcome
00:04:07outcome is. If the outcome is is
00:04:10is worst case scenario for President President Trump and the Republicans, Republicans, what will the reaction
00:04:14reaction on markets be like? Do you
00:04:16you think? I think the potential
00:04:20potential reaction could be initially initially negative. I think because
00:04:22because as I mentioned, I think the
00:04:26the AI build out could be more at
00:04:28at risk under a Democratic control control of the Congress. And as we
00:04:31we know, the market is all about
00:04:33about the AI trade. So if that is
00:04:36is being slowed down just a bit,
00:04:38bit, I think markets would be very very worried. Particularly we already
00:04:42already have seen quite a lot of
00:04:44of wobble in the AI trade. The most most recently. And of course I think
00:04:48think if you're talking about fiscal fiscal spending that is very likely
00:04:52likely to be curtailed. The stimulus
00:04:53stimulus checks may not happen. So
00:04:56So I think that that is a concern. concern. And of course I think a
00:05:00a more immediate worry is that right
00:05:02right after the midterms we could
00:05:04could see strikes at Iran again because
00:05:08because it has been stopped because because President Trump said because
00:05:10because of the midterms. But it could
00:05:13could escalate afterwards. So again, again, that puts more immediate risk
00:05:17risk to market in terms of the oil oil prices. Absolutely. And I'm going
00:05:20going to dig a little bit deeper deeper into that in a moment with with my next guest, Janet. But let's
00:05:24let's just get your take on the AI AI trade at the moment because we
00:05:27we saw a huge sell off at the end end of last week on Wall Street.
00:05:30Street. The Nasdaq at one point falling
00:05:33falling into correction territory.
00:05:34territory. We had so many of the
00:05:37the major high hyperscalers revealing revealing their earnings and it detailed
00:05:41detailed enormous sums that they're
00:05:43they're spending and raising to finance
00:05:46finance AI. So will we see that concern
00:05:49concern continue this week? Do you
00:05:51you think? I think absolutely I think
00:05:55think markets are in a more scrutinising
00:05:57scrutinising stage. Unfortunately.
00:05:59Unfortunately. The AI build out continues, continues, but it is at risk if the
00:06:03the Democratic control of the Congress.
00:06:05Congress. And the thing is, we are
00:06:07are seeing increasing debt financing
00:06:11financing and a lot of these hyperscalers hyperscalers are just simply losing
00:06:15losing their free cash flow for these these build out. We're seeing increasing
00:06:17increasing evidence of that. So that that scrutiny is not going to stop.
00:06:20stop. OK. And yeah, so so this is
00:06:22is going to continue for a
00:06:27while. Janet Mui there with her take take on markets and what to watch watch this week. Well let's now talk
00:06:30talk about the Middle East. Iranian Iranian negotiators were in Qatar
00:06:33Qatar on Sunday for the third consecutive consecutive day of talks to end the
00:06:37the US-Iran war. The Iranian foreign
00:06:39foreign minister said Tehran is prepared
00:06:41prepared for both defence and diplomacy
00:06:44diplomacy amid growing concern that that American and Israeli attacks
00:06:47attacks could resume after the US US midterm elections. Iranian state
00:06:51state TV has reported on Sunday that
00:06:53that two oil tankers exploded after
00:06:56after striking mines were travelling
00:06:59travelling through an unauthorised unauthorised route in the Strait
00:07:01Strait of Hormuz, citing the Islamic Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
00:07:05Corps Navy. Now we can't verify when
00:07:09when these pictures were taken at at this point, but it just highlights
00:07:13highlights the issues at play here.
00:07:15here. International benchmark Brent
00:07:17Brent crude oil prices remain elevated
00:07:20elevated with futures trading at
00:07:24at around $110 per barrel. Well, Well, Kate Dorian is a fellow at
00:07:27at the Energy Institute in the UK
00:07:29UK and told me more about the current
00:07:32current status of the conflict. The The Israeli elections were inconclusive,
00:07:36inconclusive, so Mr Netanyahu is
00:07:38is is going to remain as caretaker. caretaker. So and we know what his
00:07:41his position is. He wants you know,
00:07:44know, he wants Iran. He wants more
00:07:48more attacks against Iran. He wants wants regime change. But at the same
00:07:51same time, we're seeing some diplomatic diplomatic moves. Qatar obviously
00:07:55obviously is one of those Gulf countries countries that was really, really
00:07:57really hit hard by the closure of of the Strait of Hormuz. And, you
00:08:01you know, because they don't have
00:08:02have the option to move their tankers
00:08:06tankers and export LNG, which is is why we've seen such very, very
00:08:09very high prices for gas in Europe
00:08:12Europe in recent weeks. They've come
00:08:14come off a little bit, but it's you
00:08:17you know, the market is also bracing bracing for the possibility that
00:08:21that after the midterm elections elections in the US, there may be
00:08:23be renewed attacks against Iran. Iran. Iran has said that there would
00:08:27would be no geographic limits to
00:08:29to its response. So, you know, we're we're still in a state of no war,
00:08:33war, no peace, diplomatic efforts efforts ongoing. But the US doesn't
00:08:37doesn't seem to be involved. It's It's between Qatar and Iran. So we
00:08:41we just have to wait and see. But But prices have come off on, on expectations
00:08:45expectations that there may be a a diplomatic solution. Yeah, on the
00:08:48the hope so a bit more positive than than negative today. But in the meantime,
00:08:52meantime, in Saudi Arabia, the attacks
00:08:53attacks continues. The Iran backed
00:08:56backed Houthis in Yemen continue
00:08:59continue to target Saudi Arabia and and that is ongoing, isn't it? Despite
00:09:02Despite all the efforts to end that
00:09:04that war that we heard from the internationally internationally backed government
00:09:08government of Yemen? Well, exactly. exactly. Yes. You've seen attacks.
00:09:11attacks. I mean, the Red Sea, the
00:09:14the routes out of the Red Sea in in the south, the Bab el Mandeb is
00:09:18is still under the control of the the Houthis. So Saudi Arabia is shipping
00:09:22shipping more crude through the Strait Strait of Hormuz, which is quite
00:09:24quite risky because you have to and and it's also a costly exercise because
00:09:28because you need two tankers to conduct
00:09:30conduct these ship to ship transfers
00:09:34transfers and then through Bab el el Mandeb. If you can't go through through the south, you have to go
00:09:38go through the north, through the the Suez Canal, which means going going around the Horn of Africa because
00:09:42because the main market is in Asia. Asia. So that ties up your tankers,
00:09:46tankers, which is why we're seeing seeing very high freight rates. We're
00:09:48We're seeing high insurance rates rates and we're seeing a shortage
00:09:52shortage of refined fuels like diesel,
00:09:55diesel, which is much higher than
00:09:58than oil than crude oil. So that's that's why, you know, if you look
00:10:01look at just the price of oil futures, futures, it doesn't really reflect
00:10:04reflect the realities of the market.
00:10:07market. And just quickly, Kate, if
00:10:09if President Trump was to lose majorities majorities in both the House of Representatives
00:10:13Representatives and the Senate, what
00:10:16what do you think might be his next
00:10:18next move when it comes to this
00:10:23war? Well, I don't think he's really really consulted the House. You know,
00:10:26know, he's he I don't he didn't go
00:10:29go to, to the house to seek permission
00:10:32permission for the war. I don't think think it's going to change anything.
00:10:34anything. I think he will challenge challenge any outcome that he doesn't
00:10:38doesn't like as he's done in the the past. And I don't think it's
00:10:41it's really going to have an impact
00:10:42impact on. On his foreign policy.
00:10:46policy. So I don't expect that it'll
00:10:47it'll be all right. Kate Dorian with
00:10:51with her take on things from Energy Energy Institute in the UK. Let's
00:10:54Let's bring you some other business business stories. Ryanair says it's
00:10:57it's reviewing all its costs due due to soaring fuel prices and may
00:11:00may ask staff to take temporary pay pay freezes. Europe's biggest airline
00:11:04airline by passenger numbers is also also warning short haul airfares
00:11:07airfares will rise next year, but but that won't be enough to offset
00:11:10offset a jump in its fuel bill of
00:11:14of some $2.2 billion for the current current financial year. Ryanair says
00:11:17says profits for the three months
00:11:18months to September were down 6%.
00:11:216%. The BBC understands that Virgin Virgin Media O2 is to announce plans
00:11:25plans later this week for thousands thousands of job cuts. The exact
00:11:28exact details are yet to be finalised, finalised, but the firm, which employs
00:11:31employs 16,000 people, is also expected expected to halt investment in its
00:11:35its fibre network as investors raise
00:11:37raise concerns about its debt of
00:11:40of more than £20 billion and coming
00:11:43coming up calling for the an AI slowdown,
00:11:45slowdown, the BBC speaks to the boss
00:11:48boss of Signal around the world
00:12:51major source of solutions. So how how can we build more climate friendly
00:12:53friendly cities? That's coming up
00:12:57up on BBC News.
00:13:03. You're with BBC News. Investors have withdrawn over $3
00:13:07$3 billion worth of assets from Binance
00:13:09Binance after the world's largest largest cryptocurrency exchange came
00:13:12came back online on Sunday following
00:13:14following a huge hack. Binance says says withdrawals were stabilising
00:13:18stabilising after an initial spike spike and the deposit volumes remained
00:13:22remained substantial. The exchange
00:13:24exchange says it has covered around
00:13:28around 95% of the $6.3 billion taken
00:13:30taken in what is suspected to be
00:13:32be crypto's biggest hack on record.
00:13:34record. Last week. Over the weekend, weekend, the FBI said that North
00:13:38North Korea was responsible for the the attack. Well, Alice Taylor is
00:13:42is a digital forensics researcher researcher at Oxford Information
00:13:45Information Labs and says this is is a key moment for confidence in
00:13:48in crypto. There is this huge impact
00:13:52impact of just sort of like reputational
00:13:55reputational damage really of people
00:13:58people losing confidence and obviously obviously with a cryptocurrency exchange,
00:14:01exchange, it's so obvious to see,
00:14:03see, you know, the impact of that
00:14:05that kind of lack of confidence.
00:14:09confidence. And a lot of people are
00:14:11are sort of questioning, you know, know, like is the FBI have now linked
00:14:14linked the cyber attack to North North Korea. So it is definitive definitive and they've said that
00:14:18that very clearly. It's not just just sort of knowledge from private
00:14:21private research companies. They're They're sort of saying is cryptocurrency
00:14:24cryptocurrency now just kind of like
00:14:26like a funnel for North Korean state
00:14:29state sanctioned warfare? I think
00:14:32think this is definitely a moment moment of reflection for cryptocurrency
00:14:36cryptocurrency generally. Well, let's
00:14:38let's now talk about AI safety. Meredith
00:14:41Meredith Whittaker is the boss of of the Signal Foundation, which runs
00:14:45runs the encrypted messaging app app signal. She's a former AI researcher
00:14:48researcher at Google and is calling calling for AI development to be
00:14:52be slowed down. She spoke to our
00:14:56our reporter Megha Mohan. The risk
00:14:58risk is very real, but it's not the
00:15:01the shiny ghost stories that the
00:15:03the wild eyed boys are telling us
00:15:06us right now. AI doom is dominating
00:15:08dominating the headlines, but the the President of signal, the encrypted
00:15:13encrypted messaging app and one of of the most influential women in
00:15:16in the space, is telling us to slow
00:15:19slow down. You would have to draw
00:15:21draw back on a lot of this. You would
00:15:23would have to put measures in place
00:15:26place that slow things down, that
00:15:27that leave room for judgement, that
00:15:30that allow institutions and experts experts to say AI is not appropriate
00:15:33appropriate here. We should be insisting
00:15:37insisting on robust engineering, engineering, robust technical practices,
00:15:40practices, all of which slow down down markets, all of which might
00:15:44might affect valuations. Meredith
00:15:47Meredith Whittaker leads signal a a messaging app built around privacy
00:15:51privacy as a core tenet with an estimated
00:15:55estimated 40 to 70 million users. users. When you and I are talking
00:15:59talking on signal only, you and I
00:16:01I can read that messages. We live
00:16:03live in a world where almost everything
00:16:06everything we do, our connections, connections, our communities, our
00:16:10our locations, our preferences, our
00:16:13our communications are surveilled surveilled and logged by a handful
00:16:16handful of companies that use them them to sell ads that can give them
00:16:19them to governments that are picked
00:16:20picked up by data brokers, sold to
00:16:24to ideological fringe groups. Around
00:16:28Around 2017. Whitaker gained public
00:16:31public recognition as a co-organiser
00:16:32co-organiser of the Google walkout. walkout. Hey hey
00:16:37Cover ups have got to go. Which
00:16:38saw more than 20,000 employees and
00:16:42and contractors take part. A former
00:16:45former AI researcher at Google, she she had raised concerns about the
00:16:49the ethical risks of AI systems,
00:16:52systems, including their potential potential use in military applications.
00:16:56applications. I was alarmed by this.
00:16:58this. This is going to supercharge supercharge mistakes. This is going
00:17:02going to launder bad intelligence intelligence and bad data. This is
00:17:05is going to paint a veneer of objectivity
00:17:08objectivity and intelligence on systems systems that are basically just sort
00:17:11sort of, you know, drawing on the the same bad Intel that we've always
00:17:14always had access to. Whitaker and
00:17:17and apps such as signal face criticism
00:17:19criticism of their own. Not everyone
00:17:23everyone supports absolute privacy. privacy. This year, the UK government
00:17:26government said encrypted messaging messaging apps could face restrictions
00:17:30restrictions as part of efforts to
00:17:32to tackle child abuse and the sharing
00:17:34sharing of explicit imagery. Private
00:17:37Private communication. Is a fundamental
00:17:40fundamental human right for a reason reason and you undermine end to end
00:17:43end encryption in one point and you
00:17:45you poisoned it for everyone. It
00:17:49It no longer protects anyone. If
00:17:51If you and I talk. In five years'
00:17:54years' time what is the what kind kind of conversation do you hope
00:17:58hope that we'll be having. Right Right now? Our visions are being
00:18:01being written by people whose motivations motivations are often aligned with
00:18:04with the profit and growth of a very
00:18:06very narrow industry. Products and
00:18:10and technologies should not be dominating dominating the vision for what it
00:18:13it looks like to move forward as
00:18:16as a human population. Meredith Whittaker.
00:18:19Whittaker. They're the boss of the
00:18:22the Signal Foundation now to something something that more and more of us
00:18:26us may be feeling or experiencing experiencing in the workplace amid
00:18:29amid our fast changing technological technological world. And of course,
00:18:32course, the challenges that can bring.
00:18:34bring. And I'm talking about stress
00:18:37stress left unaddressed, stress can can affect your health wellbeing.
00:18:41wellbeing. It increases sickness sickness and it can impact absence
00:18:44absence at work and productivity. productivity. Well, Nick Propper
00:18:48Propper is a human performance expert expert who trains people who work
00:18:50work in some of the most high pressure pressure environments, including
00:18:53including the US Air Force or the the sales floors at Goldman Sachs.
00:18:57Sachs. He took me through some of of the advice he gives to help. Stress
00:19:01Stress in and of itself actually actually is is not the issue. And
00:19:04And the avoidance of stress certainly certainly isn't the answer. But stress
00:19:08stress in the absence of recovery recovery does become problematic.
00:19:11problematic. So the main message message is we need the stress that
00:19:15that actually creates the opportunity opportunity to optimise performance. performance. The opportunity for
00:19:19for us to grow as humans. But we
00:19:21we also have to pay attention to to where the growth happens and the
00:19:25the growth happens in the recovery recovery phase. And that's the part
00:19:29part that's missing for most people people in business. And candidly,
00:19:32candidly, most people out there trying trying to do hard things, whatever
00:19:35whatever the endeavour. Is it true
00:19:37true to say, Nick, that currently
00:19:39currently stress levels are higher
00:19:42higher in any in any work environment, environment, partly because of just
00:19:45just what's going on in the world? world? Something that I'm talking
00:19:48talking about in my workplace all
00:19:50all the time. The concern about what's
00:19:52what's happening in, in the Middle Middle East, in, in, in countries
00:19:56countries across Europe. And we saw saw very a lot of stress across Europe
00:19:59Europe over the weekend where we we saw riots in Germany and France
00:20:03France and protests and all
00:20:08sorts. Yeah. And I think this is is really an issue of what we would would call locus of control when
00:20:11when we talk about these stressors. stressors. So that's an important
00:20:14important word. The stressor is the
00:20:17the thing that's delivering the stress stress to the individual. We often
00:20:20often talk about them in very big big kind of macro descriptions like
00:20:23like what's happening in the Middle Middle East, what's happening in
00:20:26in my company, the brain fundamentally fundamentally doesn't like that because
00:20:29because it feels like it has no control.
00:20:32control. We're just reacting to whatever whatever this thing is going to do do to us. So so for example, what
00:20:36what we need to do in those situations situations is start to pay attention
00:20:40attention to what we can control.
00:20:42control. And that shifts the locus locus from external to internal.
00:20:45internal. Now I'm going to decide
00:20:47decide how I interact with this situation, situation, however big, however complex,
00:20:50complex, I'm going to do it on my
00:20:53my terms and that calms the psychology psychology down. And that then in
00:20:57in turn calms off physiology down, down, which is very important in
00:20:59in our ability to sustain our performance
00:21:02performance without getting exhausted, exhausted, overwhelmed or burning
00:21:05burning out. Nick Propper there with
00:21:08with his take on stress in the workplace. workplace. Plenty more on our website.
00:21:11website. Do take a look. MUSIC
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00:21:38Meghan Owen. Seven-month-old Maeve
00:21:42Maeve doesn't know it yet, but the
00:21:43the way she came into the world was
00:21:46was rather unusual. When her mum mum Leah went into labour, she'd
00:21:49she'd spent months planning for every
00:21:51every possibility. I would have loved
00:21:53loved a waterbirth. However, the the other things that I didn't really
00:21:56really want is that an assisted birth birth or an emergency C-section. C-section. It was a really long hard
00:22:00hard labour and then by the time
00:22:01time we got to the pushing, it felt
00:22:05felt like there was not much happening happening in that I was trying my my best. Nothing was really happening.
00:22:09happening. I could feel her inch inch down slightly, but it just wasn't
00:22:12wasn't going where we needed it to
00:22:13to go. Leah isn't alone. Around 1
00:22:171 in 8 births in the UK require some
00:22:19some form of assistance during delivery.
00:22:22delivery. Doctors at the Royal London London Hospital recommended something
00:22:25something Leah had never even heard
00:22:27heard of. She's got a contraction.
00:22:30contraction. I just gently pull. pull. The device is called the Odon
00:22:34Odon Assist. It's designed for assisted
00:22:36assisted vaginal births. When labour labour has stalled and a baby needs
00:22:40needs help to be delivered rather rather than using metal forceps or
00:22:44or suction, it uses a soft inflatable inflatable cuff designed to help
00:22:48help guide the baby through the birth
00:22:49birth canal. So you can see from
00:22:52from here we've gone from a tiny tiny little viewing window through
00:22:56through to a larger viewing window.
00:22:58window. Before it was ever used on
00:23:00on a patient. Researchers spent years years testing it using specially
00:23:04specially designed mannequins fitted
00:23:05fitted with pressure sensors. From
00:23:09From 2015 to 2018 we did over 2800
00:23:132800 simulations. Those simulations simulations suggested the device
00:23:16device spread pressure more evenly
00:23:19evenly across a baby's head. Traditional Traditional forceps and vacuum cups
00:23:22cups can sometimes leave babies bruised bruised and can also cause injury
00:23:26injury to mothers. If you look at at forceps and forceps definitely definitely have their place and can
00:23:30can be very life saving, but they they really haven't changed much
00:23:33much in the last 400 years. There There is very few things in medicine
00:23:37medicine that if we go back to 400 400 years in any other aspect of
00:23:40of medicine, that is almost exactly exactly the same. We're going to
00:23:44to do some training on instrumental instrumental birth. After years of
00:23:48of development and testing. The next next challenge is getting the device
00:23:51device into hospitals. I think we
00:23:52we can use a device called an Ode
00:23:56Ode on assist. It's a plastic device device with an inflatable cuff that
00:23:59that sits around the baby's head, head, and then we use it to guide
00:24:02guide the baby out. It doesn't suffocate suffocate my baby. So it doesn't
00:24:06doesn't suffocate your baby. It's
00:24:07It's a very safe procedure, but as as with any procedure, there are
00:24:11are some risks involved. We feel feel very responsible for the fact
00:24:15fact that we are using it, and we we know that we're ahead of the curve
00:24:18curve in using it. And we know that that we have an additional level level of responsibility to make sure
00:24:21sure that what we're doing is is is safe. And if at any point we were
00:24:24were there was something pointing pointing out that that was not the the case, then we would obviously
00:24:28obviously have to reconsider. But But because we are being very data
00:24:31data driven in our approach, we know know that we're still on the right right track, which is great. Yeah.
00:24:34Yeah. We have fed back through groups
00:24:37groups in the UK, groups across Europe Europe as to best techniques and
00:24:40and how to develop practice, and and we're constantly feeding back
00:24:43back so that we can learn and teach teach the trainees that are coming
00:24:45coming through. It's still early
00:24:48early days, but after decades with with little change in assisted childbirth,
00:24:52childbirth, doctors hope it could could offer women another option
00:24:55option when labour doesn't go to to plan. We know that it's safe.
00:24:58safe. We know that it's been approved approved and we wanted to bring it
00:25:01it in and we want to now support support bringing it in by being a
00:25:04a flagship hospital. The fact that that Maeve came out unscathed completely
00:25:08completely is a huge plus and then then had no kind of like feeding feeding issues or anything like that
00:25:12that that we had to take care of
00:25:14of was a huge plus to us. And obviously obviously at that point, that's all
00:25:17all you want. Is your baby safe in in your arms? And it was relatively
00:25:21relatively quick. It was painless painless for her. It was controlled
00:25:24controlled for me and the recovery recovery was great.
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