Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a quotation record.
00:00:22Breaking news.
00:00:25I can say that we have now reached a two-day plan.
00:00:27Tehran's readiness for the opening of the Strait of Hormuz in 48 hours.
00:00:31Mohsen Rezaei talked with Putin. Beijing said it supports
00:00:34Iran's right to defend itself.
00:00:38حمایت می
00:00:38Controversy in Michigan.
00:00:44One day before the midterm elections in the US.
00:00:48A Democratic representative supported the Republican candidate
00:00:51with an Arab candidate from his party.
00:00:54Hacking of supermarket refrigerators
00:00:58in seven European countries, from Sweden to Luxembourg.
00:01:02The European Union says there is a deliberate attempt
00:01:05to weaken the food supply chain on the continent.
00:01:08And
00:01:39to this news program. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi
00:01:43said that as a result of ongoing talks with Qatari
00:01:46mediators, Iran's proposed seven-day plan has now
00:01:50been reduced to two days, so that if the US meets
00:01:53Iran's conditions on the first day, the Strait of Hormuz will be opened
00:01:57on the second day. On the other hand, in continuation of efforts.
00:02:25Simultaneously with these developments, however, several other commercial ships in the Persian Gulf
00:02:29were targeted. One of these vessels was carrying
00:02:32Qatari gas, and the attack on it has faced widespread
00:02:36condemnation. Kasra Naji reports.
00:02:38In Mahabad,
00:02:42in western Iran, today we witnessed a parade
00:02:46of the Unity Brigade of the Islamic Revolutionary
00:02:49Guard Corps and the heroic army, a ceremony
00:02:52to mobilize more forces on the eve of what
00:02:56could be a new round of a major war with America.
00:03:08At the same time, you are talking about threats and diplomacy. What has been the result
00:03:11of the bilateral consultations? The talks continue. In any case,
00:03:15the issue is a complex one, or rather, the issues are
00:03:18very complex, and the passage
00:03:21of time, given America's performance,
00:03:25has added to the complexities. You cannot talk about the Strait
00:03:29of Hormuz. Be concerned about insecurity
00:03:32in the Strait of Hormuz, but still continue
00:03:35the economic blockade of Iran and all
00:03:38those things that you accepted in the framework
00:03:42of the Islamabad understanding. Put them all aside
00:03:46and expect Iran to unilaterally
00:03:49accept commitments. In the
00:03:52US, these are the latest remarks of US President Donald Trump.
00:03:55The only reason we're not finishing the job immediately
00:03:59is because I want to do them a favor. I want to try to save a lot of lives.
00:04:03My opponent is sitting there doing nothing. Eventually, at some
00:04:06point, we have to deal with them with a hammer.
00:04:10Iranian newspapers today are busy preparing public opinion
00:04:14inside. Iran has said that if war resumes, it will attack
00:04:18not only targets in the region but beyond.
00:04:21The countries of the region,
00:04:24unfortunately, I have to say some of them even America.
00:04:28The best way is for friends to convince
00:04:38their friends in America that a new war should not
00:04:42start because we are forced
00:04:44to defend ourselves. The Secretary
00:04:48of Iran's Supreme National Security Council spoke by phone with the Russian
00:04:51leader today. Iran expects more help
00:04:55from its allies Russia and China and intervention
00:04:59to prevent war. Beijing
00:05:02is concerned about the consequences of such a war for the region
00:05:05and the world. This meeting today between the Chinese Foreign Minister and the Deputy
00:05:09Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council. Beijing
00:05:13is expected to send a special envoy of the president to Iran
00:05:16and the region soon. China wants the Strait
00:05:20of Hormuz to return to the pre-war arrangements. This
00:05:23country has started a series of new consultations with the leaders
00:05:27of the region's countries to intensify diplomatic
00:05:30efforts to prevent war. Kasra Naji,
00:05:34BBC. Abbas Faiz, China affairs analyst
00:05:37from London, is with us. Mr. Faiz, how much can
00:05:41China really play a critical role here? And the fact that it is said
00:05:45that it has defended Iran's right to self-defense
00:05:48and taken this stance is important for Iran.
00:05:52I think that, well, to the extent
00:05:55of, I would say, a kind
00:05:59of diplomatic support, it has been
00:06:03very valuable and perhaps will be valuable,
00:06:06but it cannot go beyond that,
00:06:10because if, for example, it is said
00:06:14that it supports Iran's right to defend itself,
00:06:17well, this is something that any country can say
00:06:21in relation to another country. But at
00:06:24the same time, it is also a message to,
00:06:27in fact, America that if things
00:06:31become much more complicated, the slogans that China
00:06:35gives or the words that China says will actually
00:06:38be more severe, but it does not
00:06:41seem that at present, for example,
00:06:44China will prepare itself to enter Iran
00:06:48for military defense. Firstly, military defense is not possible
00:06:52for China, because there is
00:06:54no agreement between Iran
00:06:58and China for military support for each other,
00:07:02and secondly, China will not
00:07:05want to do anything, meaning if it enters Iran,
00:07:09it will have to spoil its relations with the countries
00:07:12of the Persian Gulf and with other countries. I don't think
00:07:16this is actually more than
00:07:19diplomatic support, but Mr. Faiz, it is also said
00:07:23in some academic circles that China is not interested
00:07:27in America winning
00:07:30the conflict it has started with Iran. It does not see this
00:07:34as being in its long-term interest, and they say
00:07:38that there is also evidence
00:07:41that the Chinese have helped Iran in various
00:07:45fields. How true is this?
00:07:48Yes, there are relatively
00:07:51credible reports that China has provided
00:07:54facilities to the leaders
00:07:58of the Islamic Republic in a way that is not really
00:08:01obvious, but if
00:08:04you look at the statement that China,
00:08:08the Chinese government, issued today regarding
00:08:11its work with the Sultan
00:08:15of Oman, you will see that in that statement,
00:08:19the tone that the Chinese government
00:08:21has towards the developments in the
00:08:25Persian Gulf region and generally
00:08:28the Middle East is a much softer tone.
00:08:31In that statement, it is directly stated
00:08:34that it is up to Iran and America to resolve
00:08:38their differences, and there is no mention
00:08:41at all that China is going
00:08:45to defend Iran. The only thing said
00:08:48in that statement is that
00:08:51China will send several of its
00:08:55political and diplomatic envoys
00:08:58to the region in the near future,
00:09:01and that will not be only to Iran but to other places,
00:09:05meaning that what China said about
00:09:08Iran, Mr. Wang Yi said about Iran,
00:09:12is somewhat different from the statement that
00:09:16China issued about the Middle East and about
00:09:19America and Iran during
00:09:22Mr. Xi Jinping's meeting with the Sultan
00:09:26of Oman today. Thank you very much,
00:09:28Mr. Faiz, Abbas Faiz, China affairs
00:09:32analyst from London.
00:09:34In the
00:09:37remaining hours until the official start of voting in the midterm
00:09:41congressional elections, Democrats and Republicans
00:09:44are engaged in their final efforts to win over voters.
00:09:47More than 50 million Americans have already
00:09:51cast their ballots. Polls show increasing support for Democrats
00:09:55in key Senate races, including in the states
00:09:59of Ohio, Texas, and Maine. Donald Trump, minutes ago, in front
00:10:02of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, once again urged voters to support
00:10:06him and his party. He called the Democratic Party's
00:10:10electoral rivals dangerous radicals.
00:10:24Imagine
00:10:30my name is on the ballot papers. This means
00:10:34he hoped that his supporters would feel
00:10:37that this election, voting for his party members, is like voting
00:10:41for himself. Well, this is in a situation where Mr. Trump's popularity
00:10:44is below 35%. Naturally, it ended up benefiting
00:10:48the Democrats, because they say exactly the same thing. They say,
00:10:51don't imagine that you are voting between Republican
00:11:04The important thing is that if that governor, that representative, that senator
00:11:08you want to vote for is a Republican, according to Mr. Trump himself,
00:11:11you are actually voting for Mr. Trump. And this is actually
00:11:15nationalizing and making nationwide an election that in each electoral
00:11:18district has its own specific characteristics.
00:11:22In some electoral districts,
00:11:25the Republican candidate may have more
00:11:28popularity among the people of that region, have a longer
00:11:31historical record, or have no violations in his record.
00:11:35But all of this is now overshadowed by the fact that this election
00:11:39is in a way a referendum on Mr. Trump.
00:11:41Now, if Mr. Trump's popularity was above 50% or
00:11:45around that, then this strategy might have benefited the Republicans.
00:11:49But given the 65% to 70% dissatisfaction of the people
00:11:52with Mr. Trump, it could naturally be to his detriment.
00:12:03His policies over the past two years. He also emphasized
00:12:07that the price of oil has dropped $10 today, and all these are signs
00:12:11that the steps he has taken have been effective. But in any
00:12:14case, in this situation and atmosphere we are in, if this election,
00:12:18as Mr. Trump's words have helped, and Democrats have pursued,
00:12:21turns into a referendum on Mr. Trump's two-year term,
00:12:25then it should be assumed that the polls' predictions
00:12:29are correct. Based on these polls, in the House
00:12:32of Representatives, Democrats are almost certain to win the majority, and then
00:12:36the competition will be for the Senate. Whether Republicans
00:12:39will lose their majority, and if Democrats win,
00:12:43by how many seats they can gain the majority in the Senate.
00:12:47These are all questions that we must
00:12:50wait until at least Wednesday morning
00:12:52to get a picture of whether these
00:12:56polls predicted correctly or not. In the US, it is common,
00:13:00with one or two exceptions, for a president to lose one of the
00:13:04houses in his second term, but it is very
00:13:14the size of the defeat, the number of seats that one
00:13:17party concedes to another, is important. And as
00:13:21a result, if the number, for example, in the House of Representatives,
00:13:24you need 18-20 seats to reach a majority. If the
00:13:27Democrats at the end of the count
00:13:30have 230 seats, 239 seats, according to
00:13:33the prediction of one of the most reputable polls, this indicates
00:13:37that this defeat was not just
00:13:40a usual, traditional midterm defeat
00:13:44for the president, but rather a resounding rejection where the majority
00:13:47of public opinion decisively voted against the president. That will naturally
00:13:51have deeper consequences for the Republicans, and also regarding
00:13:55the Senate, if Democrats win with 51
00:13:58seats, or 53, 54, it will
00:14:01have different meanings and consequences.
00:14:05Thank you very much, Bahman Kalbasi,
00:14:08our correspondent in New York.
00:14:12We continue the program with a few short news items. In
00:14:16the United Arab Emirates, the CEO of Abu Dhabi's
00:14:19state oil company has warned that global
00:14:23crude oil reserves are severely
00:14:25depleted. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber said that since the disruption
00:14:29of tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, nearly one billion barrels
00:14:33of crude oil have been drawn from global reserves. According to the Emirati
00:14:36official, the cost of transportation and logistics, which was previously
00:14:405% of the price of each barrel, has now reached over 30%.
00:14:44He has called for an increase in strategic
00:14:47reserve capacity.
00:14:49The Ansar Allah
00:14:51group in Yemen, known as the Houthis, says
00:14:55that seven people were injured in Saudi airstrikes
00:14:59on the port of Ras Isa on the Red Sea coast and an oil facility
00:15:03in Hodeidah province. The spokesperson for the Houthi
00:15:06Ministry of Health called these attacks a clear violation of
00:15:10international humanitarian law. The Saudi-led coalition
00:15:13says the goal of these operations was to disable resources
00:15:17used by the Houthis. According to the United
00:15:20Nations, more than 160 people have been killed
00:15:24in the Yemeni conflict this year.
00:15:26The governor of Hebron
00:15:28says that Israeli forces have withdrawn from the center of the province
00:15:32in the southern occupied West Bank after a 10-day siege.
00:15:36He said that Palestinian security forces
00:15:39have taken control of the area. The mayor of Hebron
00:15:43also said that families who were forced to leave their homes can
00:15:46now return. Students and university students also went
00:15:50to schools and universities for the first time in 10 days.
00:15:53The Israeli army besieged the city about 10 days ago
00:15:57after a deadly shooting of its soldiers.
00:16:00British Home Secretary
00:16:03Shabana Mahmood announced changes
00:16:06in recent hours.
00:16:10Based on this, immigrants who earn less than £50,000 a year
00:16:14will be eligible for permanent residency after 10 years.
00:16:18This residency period is more than 5 years for those who earn
00:16:21more than £50,000, and 3 years for immigrants
00:16:25whose income is between £125,000 and more than £125,000.
00:16:29According to current regulations, this period was
00:16:325 years for all immigrants. Also, from now on,
00:16:35immigrants who, instead of following the rules,
00:16:58According to him, the building of this school in the Zaporizhzhia region
00:17:02was used for distributing humanitarian aid. Mr. Zelensky
00:17:05said that this school has been attacked more than ten times.
00:17:09He says that Moscow knew that humanitarian aid was being
00:17:13distributed in this building. According to local officials,
00:17:17rescue operations are continuing. Ukraine
00:17:21and Russia accused each other of hacking into each other's
00:17:25emergency warning systems. It has been reported that in both
00:17:28countries, fake warning messages about chemical attacks,
00:17:32nuclear attacks, and street clashes have been sent
00:17:35to citizens. Nazanin Samsami reports.
00:17:40On one side, war and airstrikes, and on the other side,
00:17:43cyber warfare. A warning about the risk
00:17:46of radiation in Kyiv. One minute later, a message
00:17:50in Russian about a missile on its way. Then a chemical
00:17:54attack warning and street fighting. These were
00:17:57fake messages that Ukrainian citizens received
00:18:01on their phones only a few minutes after
00:18:04the ceasefire with Russia ended. Telegram,
00:18:39for example, which is Russian, we are at risk regarding cybersecurity. Now all these accounts are being hacked.
00:18:43In the fake warning, subscribers were told that they were
00:18:46at risk and that nuclear warheads had been fired
00:18:50at all regions of Russia.
00:18:53This means that such applications, which are designed
00:18:57for civilian safety, when they become targets
00:19:00of war, are hacked. They can
00:19:04create confusion and tension, leading to dangerous
00:19:07consequences for citizens. Russia
00:19:11and Ukraine accuse each other of these attacks.
00:19:14But regardless of where the hackers infiltrated
00:19:18these applications, the main question is, when these
00:19:21systems are hacked, what is
00:19:29and loudspeakers informed people of danger.
00:19:31And its meaning is an air
00:19:35raid.
00:19:45But now these warnings are often published on mobile phones.
00:19:49A fast way, especially
00:19:51for places where the sound of the siren does not reach
00:19:55everyone. But
00:19:59in Iran, where the shadow of war still hangs heavy over the people,
00:20:02there is no news of these warning applications. Even
00:20:06when the US and Israel attacked Iran, no air raid
00:20:10siren sounded, nor was any warning message sent to people's
00:20:13phones. Nazanin Samsami,
00:20:16BBC. Dozens of supermarkets
00:20:18سی.
00:20:21in 7 countries, including the Netherlands, Sweden,
00:20:25Belgium, Luxembourg, and Ireland, reported
00:20:28malfunctions in their refrigerators. It is likely that the cause
00:20:31of this malfunction is a cyber attack on the software controlling
00:20:35these systems. The CEO of a company
00:20:37that installs cooling equipment in Belgium says that during the night,
00:20:41the temperature of the freezers rose, and the food inside them spoiled.
00:20:45A few weeks ago, hackers took control of the refrigerators
00:20:49of several chain stores across France. Mohsen
00:20:52Behzad-Karimi, EU affairs analyst from Brussels, Belgium. Mr.
00:20:56Behzad-Karimi, given that this happened in France before,
00:20:59and now in several other countries, is this
00:21:03a targeted and coordinated
00:21:05campaign? Look, this
00:21:08kind of behavior in today's world of communications
00:21:11and in today's cyber world is like a series
00:21:14of actions that we have always witnessed throughout human history.
00:21:18Now, in a way, we find these new and frightening.
00:21:22It seems to me that the news you were just reading about Ukraine,
00:21:26well, if you study the history of wars and political
00:21:29tensions, at every point in time,
00:21:33in a way, during the Second World War,
00:21:36news that was dropped from airplanes in paper form,
00:21:40or changing road signs to confuse the enemy.
00:21:44And now, these cyber actions, in my opinion,
00:21:48are actually a wake-up call
00:21:50that puts this integrated coordination structure
00:21:53in Europe at the top of the agenda,
00:21:57and it will receive more attention. In the past months and weeks,
00:22:01an article that I myself published in one of the magazines I work with
00:22:05was about a warning to this sorcerer's apprentice,
00:22:08a sorcerer's apprentice that we designed as
00:22:12AI or that integrated cyber structure, and there are still
00:22:15some bugs in it, and these bugs create
00:22:20a kind of fragility. These actions, in a way,
00:22:24can eliminate these bugs from now on
00:22:27and we can deal with them in a more integrated
00:22:35referred to the loopholes that exist. We know
00:22:38that Europe
00:22:40is in tension with Russia over the Ukraine issue.
00:22:44Now, the issue of Iran is also raised, and then some other countries,
00:22:48too.
00:23:21These two categories of news aside, what we are actually witnessing
00:23:25is not that tangible. Even in Belgium, where I live,
00:23:28or those I am in contact with in France and Luxembourg,
00:23:32they were not that shocked by this news,
00:23:35or they didn't even know about it. In any case, it's not the first time.
00:23:39During this war in Ukraine and Russia, we are seeing
00:23:43the issue of even fuel, the issue of gas that was fueled
00:23:46last year, the issue of monitoring gas reserves
00:23:50for the winter period. None of these could create instability,
00:23:54as this passive defense system of all these member countries,
00:23:57although they exchange information with each other in an integrated
00:24:01way, they also exchange necessities,
00:24:04so to speak, when needed, as we saw with fuel and gas
00:24:08and diesel and so on and so forth. But these are also decentralized
00:24:12and at the same time they are also decentralized.
00:24:16In fact, there is a double emphasis that on the one hand, this harmonization,
00:24:20the coordination that is on Europe's agenda, on the one hand, and on the other
00:24:23hand, decentralizing these structures for times when,
00:24:27like today, it becomes necessary. At any rate, it is more
00:24:30psychological warfare, and this issue is very
00:24:33easily solved. Even Carrefour had 15 supermarkets
00:24:36attacked in Belgium. Now, hundreds of its supermarkets
00:24:40in France, with a very small change
00:24:43in the programming structure, they can very
00:24:46easily define a threshold for the maximum temperature,
00:24:50and this issue will be solved. It is not a complex issue,
00:24:54or the issue of food security that we witnessed, or
00:24:58the issue that even during the Corona period, outside
00:25:01of this category of war and Russia and North Korea
00:25:05and Iran, even during the Corona period, we witnessed
00:25:08that the production chain, the transportation
00:25:11chain of food and daily
00:25:15necessities, experienced a new resilience,
00:25:19which, based on this resilience that is defined in the legislation
00:25:22and that harmonization, well, many things are not legislation,
00:25:26but harmonizations that are at the European level are being taken into consideration.
00:25:30Mohsen Reza Karimi, EU affairs analyst. Thank you very much.
00:25:33Unfortunately, our time is up.
00:27:32It tracks the flight and burns their wings with a laser.
00:27:36This device is almost the size of a brick and uses
00:27:40the technology used in self-driving cars to find mosquitoes.
00:27:44Artificial intelligence also detects when it is safe
00:27:47to fire the laser. According to the company's CEO,
00:27:51these mosquitoes can no longer fly and bother
00:27:54people. Thank you for
00:27:58being with us.
00:28:01until the time of the individual,