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00:00:22Headline
00:00:22news.
00:00:28The world economy is concerned about the increasing crisis in the Strait of
00:00:32Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb. Saudi Arabia promised a decisive
00:00:35response to Houthi attacks. Iran says the equations
00:00:39related to oil and straits have changed.
00:00:42Confirmation of a shortage of strategic
00:00:46weapons due to the war with Iran
00:00:49in the report of the Inspector General of the US Department of Defense.
00:00:53Trump has repeatedly denied concerns about
00:00:57dwindling weapon stockpiles.
00:01:00The impact of the continued naval blockade on Iran's
00:01:03imports. The head of the Tehran City Council says subway
00:01:07wagons and buses purchased from China
00:01:11are stuck in China and Pakistan.
00:01:13And a charity's program to help
00:01:17patients who lose their hair due to cancer.
00:01:20give up.
00:01:39Hello and good evening. Saudi Arabia says it will decisively
00:01:42respond to Houthi attacks in Yemen.
00:01:45According to Riyadh, in the latest attacks by the
00:01:49Iran-backed group, 13 people were
00:01:52injured in Saudi Arabia. The Houthis have recently, in addition
00:01:56to renewed attacks on Saudi Arabia,
00:02:00in western Yemen, consolidating their control
00:02:03over the Bab al-Mandeb strait. The possibility of
00:02:07further disruption to shipping in this
00:02:10important waterway, alongside the Strait of Hormuz,
00:02:13has raised concerns about an escalating
00:02:17energy crisis in the world. Brent crude oil prices
00:02:21rose by 2% today to over
00:02:24$18 per barrel. Mohammed
00:02:27bin Salman, the Saudi Crown Prince, met with the commander
00:02:31of the US Army Central Command yesterday to discuss
00:02:35this crisis and today spoke with the Egyptian
00:02:38president in Cairo. Baran
00:02:40Abbasi reports. Ta'izz,
00:02:44southwest of Yemen. Houthi forces are consolidating
00:02:47their gains after capturing several strategic
00:02:50cities that were previously under the control of the official
00:02:54Yemeni government, including Perim Island at the mouth
00:02:58which is controlled by this Iran-backed group.
00:03:40This group to Saudi territory. This image, which the Saudi
00:03:44Civil Defense says is the aftermath of one of these
00:03:47attacks on a mosque in Jizan. The Houthis, however, say
00:03:51they targeted military objectives. In response to
00:03:54these attacks by Saudi Arabia and the official Yemeni
00:03:58government, what has raised concerns about
00:04:02further disruption to energy supply, especially after
00:04:05the attack a few days ago on the East-West pipeline
00:04:09of Saudi Arabia. This satellite image shows a part of this
00:04:12pipeline south of Medina before the attack, and
00:04:15this is the same point after the incident. Saudi Arabia
00:04:19has blamed Iranian proxies in Iraq for this attack,
00:04:22an attack that has temporarily halted oil transfers
00:04:25through this pipeline. Saudi Arabia's tool for
00:04:28transferring oil to the Red Sea without needing to pass
00:04:31through the Strait of Hormuz. The Islamic Republic says
00:04:35the Houthis and other militias it supports
00:04:39operate independently. However, escalating tensions
00:04:42in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, alongside the Strait of Hormuz,
00:04:45have become another leverage for Iran. Over the past few
00:04:49days, and this is the response of the Secretary of Iran's
00:04:52Supreme National Security Council to the possibility
00:04:56of resuming negotiations With conflicting
00:05:00From "no negotiations" to "we are ready to talk."
00:05:03Don't get distracted. The equations regarding
00:05:07oil and the straits have changed. Efforts to manage the
00:05:11damage cannot stop what is to come. As long as Iran's
00:05:14conditions are not met, there will be no negotiations.
00:05:18That's all. Conditions that,
00:05:21according to the IRGC spokesman, also include
00:05:25what has been called the end of the Yemen blockade.
00:05:28In addition to a complete cessation of war,
00:05:31Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, the release of
00:05:34$24 billion of Iran's frozen assets, and the end
00:05:38of what has been described as US interference in Iran's
00:05:42The question is whether relying on the Strait of Hormuz
00:05:46and now Bab al-Mandeb can bring Iran to these
00:05:49demands? Or will increasing pressure on vital energy
00:05:53transit routes eventually lead to a larger crisis
00:05:56whose consequences will also be difficult for Iran
00:06:00to control? Baran Abbasi.
00:06:03BBC. Mehdi Chamran,
00:06:06head of the Tehran City Council, said that due
00:06:10to the US naval blockade,
00:06:12buses and subway trains purchased from China
00:06:16cannot enter the country. He said that some of the
00:06:19buses have been transferred to Pakistan, but there
00:06:23are also problems with their transportation. This is while
00:06:27Pakistan had previously said that it would allow Tehran
00:06:30to use its ports. The second round of the US
00:06:34naval blockade against Iran began about a month
00:06:37ago and is still ongoing.
00:06:40Ahmad Alavi, an economics researcher.
00:06:43From Stockholm, Sweden, he is with us. Mr. Alavi,
00:06:46thank you very much for being with us and giving us your
00:06:50time. Mr. Alavi, it seems that this naval blockade
00:06:53is accumulating problems in Iran. How much has it
00:06:57affected Iran's economy? Well,
00:07:00if we express our opinion based on the statements
00:07:03of government officials, because we do not yet have
00:07:07precise, comprehensive information, it is that
00:07:10many of the goods that were supposed to enter
00:07:14Iran through the Persian
00:07:17Gulf must now enter through land borders, and this,
00:07:20in the absence of
00:07:21logistics
00:07:24and administrative and communication infrastructures
00:07:28between countries, does not have the capacity to handle
00:07:31this volume of imports. Of course, we should note
00:07:35that in addition to this naval blockade,
00:07:37we are witnessing a comprehensive blockade.
00:07:41That is, the entire so-called logistics
00:07:44chain is now locked. Therefore, circumventing
00:07:48sanctions requires that the cost of transportation
00:07:51and banking insurance, making this transportation
00:07:54or, for example, communication between countries,
00:07:58has become more difficult. This greatly increases
00:08:01costs, as it has been said that, for
00:08:05example, the prices of some goods for their
00:08:08imports have increased transportation costs. It
00:08:12is natural that this will lead to inflation in
00:08:15Iran and will have unpleasant consequences,
00:08:19such as lack of access in Iran, or their
00:08:23exorbitant prices, which, given the current
00:08:26reduction in household purchasing power, households
00:08:30cannot afford. Many essential goods that
00:08:33are very sensitive to the people
00:08:36are reported
00:08:39to have increased in price
00:08:42tenfold. Yes, that's right.
00:08:46Now, at the borders of Turkey or, for example, Pakistan,
00:08:49due to the lack of adequate logistics and roads,
00:08:53and of course the administrative mechanism there, trucks
00:08:56are queuing up, and this means that
00:08:59they sometimes have to wait for weeks there,
00:09:02and this waste of time means
00:09:06higher prices for goods, and that's if the goods
00:09:09even reach their destination correctly. We are witnessing
00:09:13obstruction by some Pakistani officials,
00:09:16and given the administrative corruption there, and
00:09:20even in Turkey or Iraq, we can expect
00:09:23that the administrative cost for these goods
00:09:26to leave those countries and enter Iran
00:09:30will be very high and this administrative
00:09:33process will be lengthy, and also when it
00:09:36reaches Iran, it will face disorganization.
00:09:40In the past few months, perhaps this
00:09:46railway line from China to Iran had
00:09:50become active. To what extent
00:09:53can that solve the problem in these
00:09:56circumstances? But we should also
00:09:59keep in mind that new US sanctions have also
00:10:03been added to the organization.
00:10:06Well, we should note that no land
00:10:09or rail route can replace
00:10:13the Persian Gulf route, neither in terms of speed
00:10:17nor in terms of the simplicity
00:10:20of transportation, or, for
00:10:24example,
00:10:28UAE had become a regional
00:10:31hub, a place that could quickly attract
00:10:35goods, even dual-use and sanctioned goods,
00:10:39and export them to Iran. This has also been lost.
00:10:42The trade that constituted nearly one-third
00:10:46of Iran's foreign trade. Apart from this issue,
00:10:50this naval blockade has caused insurance
00:10:54companies to be cautious. And even if they are
00:10:58going to cooperate, they drastically
00:11:00increase their prices. And
00:11:04rail lines or, for example,
00:11:07highways, cannot replace
00:11:10ordinary roads that are used for land
00:11:14transport. They cannot replace sea transport,
00:11:17as government officials themselves have expressed
00:11:21in various ways. Mr. Alavi, thank you very much, Ahmad.
00:11:25From Stockholm, with us. Thank you.
00:11:29The Office of the Inspector General of the US Department
00:11:32of Defense confirmed a shortage of strategic weapons
00:11:35as a result of the war with Iran. An issue that
00:11:39US President Donald Trump has repeatedly denied.
00:11:43The report states that ammunition consumption
00:11:47in the war with Iran, with Operation
00:11:49Epic Fury, has led to strategic shortages
00:11:53in stockpiles and has exposed gaps in the industrial
00:11:56base for ammunition supply.
00:12:00Earlier, we asked Shahin Modares,
00:12:04a political analyst, about the reduction in US
00:12:07armaments and Saudi Arabia's options in confronting
00:12:11the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Good evening.
00:12:14This issue you are raising has two dimensions, quantitative
00:12:18and qualitative. The quantitative dimension of the issue is first
00:12:21the numbers that show $33-44
00:12:25billion, and according to a relatively
00:12:28credible estimate from Harvard, it reaches
00:12:32$2 billion per day, meaning $80
00:12:35billion in total. When we place this
00:12:38estimate in the context of the US defense budget
00:12:41of $1.5 trillion in 2026,
00:12:45it amounts to about 3.2%,
00:12:49and when we divide it by the per capita
00:12:52income of the country, it will be
00:12:55about less than $70. Now, in such a situation,
00:12:59we need to consider something. Why did the
00:13:02United States not respond to the message from
00:13:06Bin Salman to Mr. Trump? What could be the main
00:13:10reason? One main reason could be that the United
00:13:13States is trying to increase its defense
00:13:16budget to $1.5 trillion by 2027,
00:13:20and at the same time, it is in a
00:13:23way trying to reduce the angle that prevented
00:13:27the Saudi monarchy and Israel from entering
00:13:30into a form of the Abraham Accords. This is because
00:13:34what awaits Saudi Arabia is that
00:13:37they will eventually reach a point that the
00:13:41United Arab Emirates reached after the Arab Spring,
00:13:45meaning they will reach the point where, other
00:13:48than Israel, they cannot have an ally in the Middle
00:13:52East to confront the animosity of the Islamic
00:13:56That was Shahin Modarres from Italy.
00:14:00These days mark the fourth anniversary of the
00:14:03killing of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the
00:14:07Guidance Patrol, and the Woman, Life, Freedom movement
00:14:11that followed. A movement that signaled a profound
00:14:14transformation in Iranian society and forced the
00:14:17government to make effective changes regarding
00:14:20women's attire. To further examine what
00:14:23happened in these four years, Asal Abbasian, a feminist
00:14:27activist, is on the line with us from Paris. Thank
00:14:31you very much for being with us. Let's start
00:14:34here. In your opinion, beyond the issue of
00:14:37hijab, what achievements did the Woman, Life,
00:14:41Freedom movement have in your opinion?
00:14:44If we want to look back at Woman, Life, Freedom
00:14:48four years later, I think its most important
00:14:51achievement should not be sought
00:14:55in changes in laws or in the government's retreat
00:14:58from enforcing official laws and policies,
00:15:02or even in a specific feminist achievement.
00:15:05The main achievement, in my opinion, was a profound
00:15:09change in the political language and in society's
00:15:12perception of the ruling power. The killing of
00:15:15Mahsa Jina Amini was a moment when an issue that seemed
00:15:19to be related to compulsory hijab, the Guidance Patrol,
00:15:23quickly turned into a much larger question and triggered
00:15:26international solidarity among women around the world:
00:15:30who has the right to dominate our bodies, our lives,
00:15:34our choices, and ultimately our future? For this
00:15:38reason, I see Woman, Life, Freedom not just as a feminist
00:15:41achievement in the sense that it was
00:15:44only against the repression of women's bodies,
00:15:47but rather I see it
00:15:51as an achievement that women and the issue
00:15:54of their choice over their destiny
00:15:56and their bodies transformed into a tangible
00:16:00achievement from the beginning of the Islamic government
00:16:03of the Islamic Republic against and patriarchy, against
00:16:07a system that in reality still
00:16:10enforces the laws of Sharia from
00:16:131400 years ago, and not just in the family
00:16:17and private matters. That is, hijab was
00:16:20no longer considered a private matter and personal choice,
00:16:24but rather as a movement against repression,
00:16:28and it challenged the political power of the Islamic
00:16:31Republic in a very tangible way, including its political
00:16:35power, its mafia-like economy, its international relations,
00:16:39and its repression of
00:16:40ethnic and gender
00:16:43minorities. It challenged all of these, and it created
00:16:47the perception that collective power
00:16:50is actually much more effective
00:16:53and much more powerful than one imagines
00:16:57when an revolutionary moment occurs,
00:17:00and I think this was one of the most important
00:17:04moments when women transitioned from being the subject
00:17:13of a very bad situation, like their cars being
00:17:16confiscated. For a long
00:17:19time, excuse me, I'm interrupting
00:17:22you, but I wanted to ask you this. Okay, how
00:17:26do you see the consequences today? The manifestation
00:17:28of this movement today, especially
00:17:32after the December killings, after the start
00:17:35of this war we are witnessing?
00:17:39In my opinion, a very clear
00:17:41achievement that remains as a legacy from the
00:17:45era of the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution for the Iranian
00:17:49people and, in my opinion, has a clear message for the
00:17:53international community is that the right of self-determination
00:17:56of the Iranian people, overthrowing the regime, and
00:18:00all this is in the hands of the people themselves
00:18:03and Iran's civil society. Just today, in Arab Weekly,
00:18:07one of my senior researchers at Civics and I published
00:18:10an article arguing that war is never justified
00:18:14as a package of humanitarian intervention, and that
00:18:18the people are still bearing the main cost of
00:18:20the militarization that the Islamic Republic
00:18:24has imposed, and at the same time, it seems that
00:18:27war is the international actors' response to it,
00:18:30but at the same time, it is the Iranian people's
00:18:34civil resistance that determines their destiny, not
00:18:37any humanitarian intervention. Asal Abbasian, thank
00:18:41you very much for your
00:18:42time. Thank you.
00:18:45A few short news items:
00:18:48The United Nations has called for access by inspectors
00:18:52to all areas of Gaza.
00:18:55This request comes as hundreds more bodies
00:18:59have been pulled from the rubble of destroyed
00:19:02buildings in recent days, and Volker Türk,
00:19:06the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said
00:19:10the discovery of remains, most of them belonging
00:19:13to women and children, years after their homes
00:19:16were bombed in Israeli attacks, indicates that
00:19:20war crimes may have occurred. He called
00:19:23for greater efforts to identify victims,
00:19:26preserve information and forensic evidence,
00:19:30record burial locations of bodies, and notify
00:19:33the families of the victims.
00:19:35China, warning about the formation
00:19:39of an arms race in space, has asked the United
00:19:42States not to seek war in space.
00:19:46Beijing's reaction came hours after the United
00:19:50States confirmed that it had deployed a space
00:19:53weapon in Earth's orbit.
00:19:55The deployment of a space weapon in Earth's orbit,
00:19:59an action that Washington has publicly confirmed
00:20:03for the first time. Senior US military officials
00:20:07had previously cited Russia's and China's
00:20:11plans to disrupt American satellites
00:20:15as the reason for
00:20:16this action in space.
00:20:22Hair loss due to cancer treatment
00:20:26can be very difficult and upsetting for
00:20:29women and can reduce their
00:20:33self-confidence. But choosing when and
00:20:36how to cut their hair can help
00:20:40them have more control
00:20:43over the situation. Now, a charity
00:20:46with registration. and a program to help
00:21:20make it as positive an experience as possible
00:21:23for her two daughters. Sam Graner-Walters also
00:21:27had a similar experience from South Wales. Her
00:21:31young son had a special request for her: a Ronaldo
00:21:34hairstyle. He always asked me, "Mom, when you shave
00:21:37your hair, can you do it like this?" I always
00:21:41did it. When I took my son to school, I always
00:21:43asked him, "Is it okay if I don't wear a hat?"
00:21:47I asked the same question to my two daughters. I was
00:21:50worried. I just wanted to make sure. But he said, "Why should
00:21:54it matter?" Rihanna is 36 years old. Last November,
00:21:58after feeling a lump in her breast while showering,
00:22:02she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Since then, one
00:22:05of her breasts has been surgically removed. She has undergone
00:22:07chemotherapy and is now receiving radiation therapy.
00:22:11I remember when my parents saw me, I knew from
00:22:13their faces that it was
00:22:18difficult for them.
00:22:20It hasn't been easy for her to come to terms
00:22:23with her new appearance. But Sam's cancer is incurable.
00:22:27Five years ago, she was first diagnosed with breast
00:22:30cancer. Two years ago, doctors said the cancer
00:22:34had spread to her lungs. Subsequent tests also showed
00:22:36the cancer had reached her liver and lymph nodes.
00:22:40It was very hard to tell my children. You have to
00:22:44fight. You have to keep going. You have to do
00:22:47everything you can because I want to see my children
00:22:50grow up. Sam and Rihanna met through the Bulls
00:22:54campaign, part of the Pink Ribbon breast cancer
00:22:57charity. This campaign showcases the courage and
00:23:01confidence of women who have lost their hair due to
00:23:05breast cancer. They, along with nine other women
00:23:09from Wales, spent a day in Cardiff in front of
00:23:13Dutch photographer Carolien Scholtes' camera. These photos
00:23:16will be exhibited in London next month. I couldn't
00:23:20believe some of the photos I saw. I was thrilled.
00:23:23I was really proud of them. I told myself how
00:23:27beautiful and confident I look. I look at the
00:23:31photos and say, "You are really strong." Participating
00:23:35in this project has helped Sam accept herself and
00:23:38her new appearance more. My hair doesn't define
00:23:41who I am. It's that
00:23:48simple, I'm getting through this stage and I'm strong.
00:23:51The founder of one of the world's largest artificial
00:23:55intelligence companies told the BBC that companies
00:23:58in this field might need to be required
00:24:02to have an emergency kill switch so that if this
00:24:05technology gets out of control, it can be stopped.
00:24:09Jack Clark, the CEO of Anthropic, says that
00:24:12AI is getting smarter and more capable every
00:24:16few months, and this could pose a serious threat
00:24:19to humanity. Donald Trump has angrily rejected
00:24:22calls to slow down the development of AI
00:24:26and has called concerns about its threat to
00:24:30humanity a "hoax." Faisal Islam, the BBC's
00:24:33economics editor, has a
00:24:35report that you can see translated.
00:24:39One of the giants of artificial intelligence,
00:24:42Anthropic, has called for slowing down the
00:24:46competition in this field. One whistleblower and a number
00:24:50of the company's safety experts say there is
00:24:53a 10% or even greater chance that this technology
00:24:57could lead to the destruction of all humanity. Jack Clark,
00:25:00a British manager and co-founder of Anthropic,
00:25:03spoke exclusively to the BBC from Silicon Valley.
00:25:06How did you and your colleagues in this industry let
00:25:09it get to this point? What has happened is
00:25:13that this technology has become very powerful. Risks that
00:25:16were once only theoretical or discussed in academic circles are now showing
00:25:33their first signs. What do you think is the main
00:25:37danger? The main danger is that we have
00:25:40very little chance of controlling a system that
00:25:44is 100 times smarter than the smartest human
00:25:47on Earth, and coming out of it unscathed. In
00:25:51be controlled as a technology,
00:25:55because we are building things that might be
00:25:58smarter than humans, and things that are
00:26:02smarter than humans can be very dangerous. This
00:26:05brings up the issue of having an emergency
00:26:09kill switch. Do you have such a capability?
00:26:12Can you shut down the system? I think most companies
00:26:15have various ways to stop their systems.
00:26:19Yes, we also have some ways to do this,
00:26:23but this issue should be part of a broader
00:26:27discussion about policymaking. Should companies be required
00:26:30to have a kill switch?
00:27:02Can an independent body ensure the actual functioning
00:27:05of this switch? I think society wants to know
00:27:09the answers to these questions, and perhaps
00:27:12eventually, laws will need to be enacted
00:27:16in this regard. But it might already be
00:27:19too late. And he said the only place that
00:27:23needs control is himself. Calls for
00:27:27cooperation between countries and the establishment
00:27:31of a set of basic principles in this
00:27:35area are increasing. This has also happened
00:27:38before with technologies that have dual uses,
00:27:42meaning they have both beneficial and harmful
00:27:46applications. Let's not forget that AI
00:27:49has incredible benefits for us, but we must
00:27:53also be fully aware of its potential
00:27:57harms. Currently, investment in AI
00:28:01seems to be helping
00:28:32the growth of the British economy, as well
00:28:35as talks of using this technology for cancer