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00:00:22Headline
00:00:22news
00:00:28economics.
00:00:30Worried about the escalating crisis in the Strait of Hormuz,
00:00:33Bab al-Mandab, Saudi Arabia promises a decisive
00:00:36response to Houthi attacks. Iran says
00:00:39equations related to oil and straits have
00:00:43changed.
00:00:45Confirmation of strategic arms shortages due to the war with
00:00:49Iran in the report of the Inspector General of the US
00:00:52Department of Defense. Trump had repeatedly dismissed concerns about declining
00:00:56arms stockpiles. The
00:01:00plan to annex part of the perimeter of Persepolis to
00:01:04Marvdasht County. Cultural heritage activists
00:01:07say they are worried about the start of construction
00:01:11and destruction of the perimeter of this
00:01:14ancient site.
00:01:18A proposal from one of the technology
00:01:21giants to create an emergency stop switch
00:01:25for artificial
00:01:26intelligence systems.
00:01:49it will respond decisively to Yemeni Houthi
00:01:53attacks. According to Riyadh, in the latest
00:01:55attacks by the Iran-backed group, 12 people from
00:01:59Saudi Arabia were injured. Houthis
00:02:02recently, in addition to escalating attacks on Saudi Arabia,
00:02:06captured strategic points on Yemen's western coast
00:02:09and consolidated their control over the Strait of
00:02:12Bab al-Mandab. The
00:02:16possibility of further disruption to shipping in this important waterway,
00:02:19alongside the Strait of Hormuz, has increased
00:02:23concerns about an escalating energy crisis in the
00:02:26world. Brent oil prices rose by two percent today
00:02:30to over $18 per
00:02:33barrel. Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi Crown Prince, met yesterday
00:02:37with the commander of the US Army Central Command
00:02:39regarding this crisis and is scheduled to meet
00:02:43with the Egyptian president today.
00:02:47More details from Barana
00:02:48Abbasi.
00:02:52Taiz, southwest Yemen. The Houthis' advance
00:02:55after capturing several strategic cities
00:02:59that were previously in the hands of the official Yemeni
00:03:01government. Perim Island at the mouth of the
00:03:05Bab al-Mandab Strait, which has consolidated the control
00:03:08of this Iran-backed group over this important waterway.
00:03:11A waterway whose potential closure could
00:03:14exacerbate the energy crisis in the world.
00:03:17What Qatar has warned about its severe
00:03:21consequences. The
00:03:24world is already facing enough problems with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and we cannot allow
00:03:27the Bab al-Mandab Strait to be added to this
00:03:31equation. This would be catastrophic for the entire
00:03:35world. Therefore, Qatar emphasizes diplomacy and
00:03:39dialogue. The
00:03:41Houthis have banned Saudi ships from passing through this strait for weeks.
00:03:45At the same time, the group has escalated its attacks
00:03:49on Saudi territory. This
00:03:52photo, which the Saudi Civil Defense Organization
00:03:56says is the aftermath of one of these attacks on a mosque in Jizan. However, the Houthis
00:03:59say they targeted military targets in response to these
00:04:03attacks by Saudi Arabia and the official Yemeni government.
00:04:07This has raised concerns about further disruption to energy
00:04:10supplies, especially after the attack a few days ago on the
00:04:14east-west pipeline in Saudi Arabia. This
00:04:17satellite image shows a section of this pipeline south of Medina
00:04:21before the attack, and this is the same location after the
00:04:24incident. Saudi Arabia blames Iran's proxies in
00:04:28Iraq for this attack.
00:04:30An attack that has currently halted oil flow through this
00:04:34pipeline. Saudi Arabia's tool to transfer
00:04:37oil to the Red Sea without needing to pass through the Strait of
00:04:40Hormuz.
00:04:42The Islamic Republic says the Houthis and other militias supported by it
00:04:46act independently. However, the escalation of
00:04:49tensions in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, alongside the Strait of
00:04:53Hormuz, has become another pressure lever in Iran's
00:04:56hands. Over the past few days,
00:05:06with the contradictory messages from the US president, "There are no negotiations," to "We are
00:05:10ready for talks." Don't get distracted. The equations
00:05:13related to oil and the straits have changed.
00:05:17Efforts to manage the damage cannot
00:05:20stop what is coming. As long as Iran's
00:05:23conditions are not met, there will be no
00:05:27negotiations. That's it. Conditions that,
00:05:30according to the IRGC spokesman, also include what has been called
00:05:34the end of the siege of Yemen. Along with the
00:05:37complete cessation of the war, Israel's withdrawal from
00:05:40Lebanon, the release of $24 billion of Iran's blocked
00:05:44assets, and the end of what has been described as US interference in Iran's
00:05:48nuclear and missile capabilities. The
00:05:51question is whether relying on the levers of the Strait of Hormuz and now
00:05:55Bab al-Mandab may bring Iran to these
00:05:58demands. Or will increasing pressure on vital energy
00:06:02transit routes ultimately lead to a bigger crisis
00:06:05whose consequences will be difficult for Iran
00:06:08to control. Baran Abbasi, BBC.
00:06:14Ammar Goli, international affairs analyst from
00:06:24look at this situation of war in Saudi Arabia between
00:06:28Saudi forces and the Houthis,
00:06:31Saudi Arabia's statement today is that
00:06:34we will give a decisive response to the Houthis.
00:06:37Well, the question that arises is why these
00:06:41gentlemen did not give a decisive response
00:06:44before. Now, three or four weeks have passed since this
00:06:55Saudi Arabia or Saudi Arabian officials have
00:06:58announced does not have a fundamental difference
00:07:01from what happened before. Let's not forget that this war, which
00:07:05is currently more ignited, started at least in
00:07:082015 with the Arab coalition that Saudi
00:07:12Arabia formed. At that time, even
00:07:15ground forces
00:07:18entered. The United Arab Emirates sent troops, even
00:07:21partially Egypt sent troops, and many
00:07:25Arab countries in the region, from Sudan
00:07:28and even mercenaries
00:07:30who came from Libya and other countries,
00:07:33and in the end, the result
00:07:36they got was to sit at the negotiating
00:07:40table and reach an agreement.
00:07:46Currently, the situation has not
00:07:49only not changed compared to the previous
00:07:52round of conflicts, but in my opinion, the situation is not in
00:07:56favor of Saudi Arabia, because currently, neither the
00:07:59forces supported by the United Arab Emirates
00:08:03are willing to actively engage in the conflict,
00:08:06nor is Egypt willing to send
00:08:10significant ground forces into this conflict. And on the other
00:08:13hand, the forces supported by Saudi Arabia, the Saleh
00:08:17forces, have not been able to hold
00:08:21their ground, despite the amount of weaponry
00:08:25and support they have received.
00:08:28On the other hand, the Houthis have been able to control
00:08:31a very important and strategic geographical area in less
00:08:34than two weeks,
00:08:43statement. If the so-called
00:08:46Yemeni government forces cannot stand
00:08:50against the Houthis, so to speak, this question
00:08:53arises: Well, they must have had Saudi Arabian
00:08:57airstrikes behind them,
00:09:01right? Or if they didn't,
00:09:04why didn't they, and why did this
00:09:07happen? They actually had
00:09:11air support. Saudi Arabia has increased its
00:09:14air attacks as much as it could.
00:09:18The naval blockade of the Houthis has continued,
00:09:21both logistically and
00:09:24in terms of weaponry, to put pressure on the Houthis.
00:09:27But as I mentioned,
00:09:30this conflict specifically in Yemen, the northern
00:09:33part, or the northeast or northwest, is not an area
00:09:36where any army can easily or any military force
00:09:40can stand against the forces present in that
00:09:44area, whether Houthis or Houthi
00:09:47allies, and have a very
00:09:50strong ability to confront them. Let's not forget that in the 1960s,
00:09:54Egyptian army forces
00:09:58sent about 70,000 to 80,000 troops to support the republicans
00:10:02and faced a very major defeat
00:10:06that even Gamal Abdel Nasser called those conflicts
00:10:09Egypt's Vietnam.
00:10:12Therefore, I don't think that militarily, Saudi
00:10:16Arabia has the ability to at
00:10:20least reverse the
00:10:22fronts and push back
00:10:26the Houthi forces. And I think
00:10:29it's possible that in the coming days, weeks, even the city of
00:10:33Taiz will be completely besieged, and its
00:10:36fall is very likely. Very briefly, how likely
00:10:39is it that Egypt will send troops now? Very briefly.
00:10:42It's very unlikely that Egypt will send
00:10:46troops. The most Egypt can do is send its
00:10:49naval forces to control the logistical
00:10:52routes to prevent
00:10:55an economic problem in the
00:11:07of the US Department of Defense, in a report, confirmed
00:11:11strategic arms shortages as a result of the war with Iran.
00:11:14An issue that US President Donald Trump had repeatedly denied.
00:11:18The report states that ammunition consumption in the war
00:11:22with Iran, with the operation dubbed "Massive Fury," has led to
00:11:26strategic shortages in stockpiles
00:11:30and has exposed bottlenecks in the industrial
00:11:33base for ammunition supply. To
00:11:37further review this report, Bahman
00:11:41Kalbasi, our colleague from
00:11:47to ask if the publication
00:11:51of such a report on the state of
00:11:54ammunition in the middle of a
00:11:58war is not strange. This is
00:12:01part of a US Congress resolution that every six months after the
00:12:05war, a report must be submitted by the Inspector General
00:12:08to the Department of Defense regarding the
00:12:11overall existing stockpiles, strategic weapons, etc.
00:12:15As a result, the publication of this report
00:12:19was in compliance with the law, despite the fact that
00:12:22one might imagine that the Trump are not interested
00:12:26in such reports being published. Before that, a large part of
00:12:29the information that reached the American media about the shortage
00:12:32of stockpiles and the consumption of many of these strategic
00:12:35weapons was from leaks,
00:12:39information leaks that the body of the Department
00:12:43of Defense and the body of the American army provided to the American
00:12:46media. As a result, this
00:12:49is just stating the obvious, and everyone knew it before. Mr.
00:12:53Trump, even while denying it, it is clear
00:12:57that they know the situation is not good, because he has repeatedly said
00:13:00that our situation is good, but he has emphasized
00:13:04that we are replacing them quickly. If there was no shortage, there would be no need
00:13:08for quick replacement. As a result, this is a picture that has been
00:13:11established in America for
00:13:13weeks that the situation is not
00:13:17good, and the speed of manufacturing these weapons
00:13:20is also not such that it can replace
00:13:24everything that has been consumed, or a large part of what has been consumed,
00:13:28and the other costs of war are also naturally
00:13:31increasing. The figure we had was from 25
00:13:34billion to 29 billion, now nearly 40 billion
00:13:38is just the costs of the army, and many experts say this is also much
00:13:42less than what is actually happening, because
00:13:45calculations are based on the cost of buying these
00:13:49munitions several years ago, 10 years, 5 years, 3 years
00:13:52ago, but to buy them again,
00:13:55the US government now has to pay higher prices to the
00:13:58US arms industry. As a result, in
00:14:02total, the cost and shortage
00:14:05of stockpiles are beyond what the government, the Secretary of Defense, and Mr.
00:14:08Trump want. The image they want to create,
00:14:17my colleague from New York, with us.
00:14:19Thank you. A few short
00:14:22news items. The United Nations has called
00:14:26for inspectors to have access to all areas of Gaza. This
00:14:30request comes as hundreds of other bodies
00:14:33have been recovered from under the rubble of destroyed
00:14:36buildings in recent days. Volker Turk,
00:14:40the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said
00:14:44that the discovery of remains,
00:14:47most of which belong to women and
00:14:50children, years after their homes were bombed in
00:14:53Israeli attacks, indicates that war crimes may
00:14:57have occurred. He called for more efforts
00:15:01to identify victims, preserve forensic information and
00:15:05evidence, record the burial locations
00:15:08of the bodies, and inform the victims' families.
00:15:11China,
00:15:14warning about an arms race in space, has
00:15:18asked the US not to seek to create war in
00:15:21space. Beijing's response
00:15:25came hours after the US confirmed that it had deployed
00:15:28a space weapon in Earth's orbit, an
00:15:31action that Washington publicly confirmed for the first
00:15:35time. Senior US military
00:15:38officials had previously cited Russia and China's
00:15:41plans to disrupt US satellites
00:15:45as the reason for this action in space.
00:15:48Russia
00:15:51and Ukraine continued their attacks on each other's
00:15:55energy facilities last night. This comes as US President
00:15:58Donald Trump claimed yesterday that the two sides had agreed
00:16:02not to target energy facilities.
00:16:05Last night's Russian attacks
00:16:08led to power disruptions in some areas of Ukraine
00:16:12and damage to port infrastructure in Odesa.
00:16:15In response, Ukraine also targeted
00:16:17the region
00:16:21with missiles and drones.
00:16:25At the same time, Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine
00:16:29is ready to de-escalate if Russia
00:16:32is willing to end the war.
00:16:35In Japan, for the first
00:16:39time, the number of people aged 100 and above
00:16:43exceeded 100,000. About 90 percent of them
00:16:46are women. The oldest person
00:16:50is a 114-year-old woman from Kyoto.
00:16:54This is while in 1963,
00:16:57when official recording of these statistics began, only
00:17:00153 people aged 100 lived in
00:17:04Japan. Reports
00:17:07published from Iran indicate that, according to
00:17:11a document approved in Marvdasht County,
00:17:15a part of the Persepolis
00:17:17perimeter is to be annexed to this county.
00:17:21Cultural heritage activists have strongly
00:17:24protested and are concerned that parts of Persepolis
00:17:28will be subjected to urban construction
00:17:31and developments due to this resolution, which will
00:17:34damage this site.
00:17:38Siavash Ardalan
00:17:39reports.
00:17:43Nowhere else symbolizes ancient Iran like Persepolis.
00:17:47Therefore, the news that the perimeter of
00:17:50Persepolis might be subjected to urban construction has
00:17:54enraged cultural heritage enthusiasts.
00:17:58Marvdasht County is located 45 kilometers
00:18:01from Shiraz and 12 kilometers from Persepolis.
00:18:04But its municipal officials are now eyeing
00:18:08parts of the Persepolis perimeter. They have
00:18:12approved a document called the "Comprehensive Plan for Marvdasht
00:18:15City," according to which tens of hectares of Persepolis
00:18:19land will become part of the official Marvdasht
00:18:22area. As a result, concern about the encroachment
00:18:25of land speculators and builders towards Persepolis
00:18:29and multi-story buildings and density sales near
00:18:32the most famous archaeological site has
00:18:36intensified.
00:18:47Mining and agriculture, especially the depletion of groundwater wells, have made the entire
00:18:51Persepolis perimeter vulnerable. It is said
00:18:55that the head of an organization called the Persepolis World
00:18:58Heritage Site resigned in protest.
00:19:00However,
00:19:04Marvdasht officials, including the representative,
00:19:54and cultural heritage enthusiasts had warned
00:19:56that Marvdasht Municipality was seeking to generate
00:19:59revenue through tower construction, land sales,
00:20:03and land use changes in an area known
00:20:06as Zone 2 of Persepolis. This is a
00:20:09conflict between preserving cultural
00:20:12heritage and economic and urban
00:20:15development. Only direct intervention by the
00:20:18Cultural Heritage Organization and serious efforts by civil
00:20:21society may be able to prevent
00:20:24the annexation of part of Persepolis to
00:20:28Marvdasht. Siavash Ardalan, BBC.
00:20:31Ahmad Shahroudi,
00:20:34forensic engineering expert and construction
00:20:38litigation judge from Ottawa, Canada, is with us. Mr. Shahroudi,
00:20:41thank you for being with us. Mr. Shahroudi, the Member of
00:20:45Parliament from Marvdasht is not concerned. Should we be
00:20:49concerned?
00:20:51Hello to you and your esteemed viewers.
00:20:55Yes, we should be concerned because
00:20:58the Persepolis complex, the Persepolis site,
00:21:02which has three zones, this Zone 2
00:21:06is relatively close to it, and yes, transferring
00:21:09its ownership to the municipality and then
00:21:12acting for construction, which they now call actually
00:21:16disciplining and organizing existing constructions, but
00:21:20no one really believes this, and it will lead to development
00:21:23and more construction and revenue for the municipality. For the
00:21:27Persepolis monument and the historical site of Persepolis, it will
00:21:31certainly be harmful. What is this story of the second
00:21:34perimeter? Apparently, there is a primary perimeter and a
00:21:37second perimeter, and this second
00:21:41perimeter is not insignificant.
00:21:45We even have a third perimeter for Persepolis, which is a mountainous
00:21:49area. Yes, many structures that are registered,
00:21:52and even structures that are sometimes not registered, but
00:21:56in fact, around the structure, there are still other
00:22:00structures, either surface or underground historical structures.
00:22:03They are demarcated and named according
00:22:07to the center, which is Persepolis here, and perimeter number one is located.
00:22:10And in fact, in this particular
00:22:14case, in the second perimeter, I almost have the statistics,
00:22:16there are over 100 historical
00:22:20sites, which, although not as important as Persepolis, are completely
00:22:24important from a cultural and heritage perspective for us
00:22:27Iranians, and therefore the second perimeter is also very important,
00:22:31and its transfer to the municipality for construction, especially in the way
00:22:35the municipality does it, which we have seen
00:23:30Anthropic, one of the largest artificial intelligence companies in the
00:23:34world, told the BBC that perhaps companies in this field should
00:23:37be required to have an emergency kill
00:23:40switch so that if this
00:23:43technology gets out of control, it can be
00:23:46stopped. On the other hand, US President Donald
00:23:50Trump called concerns about the threat of artificial intelligence
00:23:53to humanity a big hoax. Faisal
00:23:57Islam, BBC economics reporter, has a report
00:24:00whose translation we will watch together.
00:24:04One of the giants of artificial intelligence, Anthropic
00:24:07company, has called for a slowdown in competition in this field.
00:24:10One of the whistleblowers and a number of safety experts at this company
00:24:14say that there is a 10% chance that this technology
00:24:17could lead to the destruction of all humans.
00:24:36Threats that were once only discussed in academia or at a theoretical
00:24:40level, we are now seeing their initial signs. What
00:24:44do you think is the main threat? That groups of artificial intelligence
00:24:47systems take control of the
00:24:50internet, shut down power plants, or destroy financial institutions?
00:24:54I think it's time to clarify what this threat actually
00:24:57looks like. The main threat is how much
00:25:01chance we have of confronting a system that is 100 times smarter than the smartest
00:25:05human on Earth? In my opinion, the probability that you can
00:25:08control such a situation and emerge from it safely is very low.
00:25:12In a general sense, artificial intelligence should be controlled as a technology,
00:25:16because we are building things that may be smarter than humans.
00:25:20And things that are smarter than humans can be very
00:25:23dangerous. This is an issue that raises
00:25:26the discussion of some kind of emergency kill switch. Do
00:25:30you have such a capability? Can you shut down the system? I think
00:25:33most companies have various ways to stop their systems.
00:25:37Yes, we also have some ways to do this, but this issue should be part of
00:25:40a broader discussion about policymaking. Should companies
00:25:44be required to have a kill switch? Can an independent body
00:25:48ensure the actual functioning of this switch? I think society wants
00:25:51answers to these questions, and perhaps ultimately,
00:25:55laws will need to be enacted in this regard. But it might already be too
00:25:59late.
00:26:30The only place where control is needed is within itself.
00:26:33Calls for international cooperation and establishing a set of basic
00:26:37principles in this area are increasing. This has happened before
00:26:40with technologies that have dual use, meaning they have both beneficial
00:26:44and harmful applications. Let's not forget that artificial intelligence has tremendous
00:26:48benefits for us, but we must also be fully aware
00:26:52of its potential harms. Currently, investment in artificial intelligence
00:26:56seems to be helping the UK economy grow. There is even
00:27:00talk of using this technology to treat cancer.
00:27:26If we develop this technology correctly, we can change the
00:27:30world in many positive ways.
00:27:36We can truly revolutionize the face of science and healthcare services, and expand the boundaries of our own capabilities and those of our children.
00:27:39But if we make a mistake, we will severely
00:27:43disrupt the economy and plunge people into poverty
00:27:45and misery.
00:27:50The clear message is that we still have the ability to control
00:27:54the pace of artificial intelligence development, but not
00:27:57much time is left.
00:27:59The news is ending.
00:30:29TV, a documentary.