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00:00:24Headline news.
00:00:26I can say that we have now reached a two-day plan.
00:00:30Tehran's readiness to open the Strait of Hormuz in 48
00:00:34hours. Mohsen Rezaei spoke with Putin. Beijing said
00:00:37it supports Iran's right to defense.
00:00:40Chaos in Michigan, one
00:00:46day before the midterm elections in
00:00:50America. The Democratic representative, with the rejection of the Arab-origin candidate of
00:00:53his party, supported the Republican candidate.
00:00:56جمهوریخواهان حمایت کرد.
00:01:41Hello and welcome to this news program. Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign
00:01:44Minister, said that as a result of ongoing talks with Qatari
00:01:48mediators, Iran's proposed seven-day plan has now been reduced to two
00:01:51days, such that if America fulfills Iran's
00:01:55conditions on the first day, the Strait of Hormuz will be opened on the second
00:01:59day. On the other hand, in continuation of Tehran's diplomatic efforts,
00:02:02the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council spoke with the Russian President by
00:02:06phone today, and the Deputy also met with the Chinese Foreign
00:02:09Minister. The Chinese Foreign Minister, in a meeting with Ali
00:02:13Bagheri Kani, said that China supports Iran's right to defend its sovereignty
00:02:17and security. China's Foreign Ministry also
00:02:20announced that the country's special envoy will travel to
00:02:24Iran, Oman, and Saudi Arabia in the next two weeks. Simultaneously with these
00:02:28developments, however, several other commercial ships were targeted in the Persian
00:02:31Gulf. One of these vessels was carrying Qatari
00:02:35gas, and the attack on it faced widespread
00:02:38condemnation. Kasra Naji reports.
00:02:40دهد.
00:02:44In Mahabad, in western Iran, today, we witnessed the parade of the
00:02:47'Unity' unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
00:02:51Corps, the heroic army, a ceremony
00:02:54to further mobilize forces, on the eve of what
00:02:58might be a new round of war.
00:03:11You say that the result of the two-day consultations
00:03:14has been diplomacy and threat? The talks continue, in any case, the issue is a complex
00:03:18one, or rather, the issues are very complex
00:03:21and the passage of time, also, given America's performance,
00:03:25has added to the complexities.
00:03:29You cannot talk about the Strait of Hormuz
00:03:32and be concerned about insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz, but
00:03:35still continue the economic blockade of Iran
00:03:38and disregard everything
00:03:42you accepted in the framework of the Islamabad agreement
00:03:46and expect Iran to unilaterally
00:03:49accept commitments.
00:03:52In America, these are the latest words of
00:03:55Donald Trump, the US President. The only reason
00:03:59we're not finishing the job immediately is because I want to do them a favor. I want to try to save many lives.
00:04:03He's sitting there doing nothing. Eventually, at some point,
00:04:07we have to deal with them with a hammer.
00:04:10Iranian newspapers today
00:04:13are busy preparing public opinion inside. Iran
00:04:17has said that if the war resumes, it will attack not only targets
00:04:21in the region, but also beyond. Regional
00:04:24countries, unfortunately,
00:04:28I must say,
00:04:30some of them have even encouraged Americans to attack Iran.
00:04:33I hope that
00:04:37they have also learned their lessons. The best way is for
00:04:41friends to convince their friends in America not to start a new war,
00:04:45because we are forced to
00:04:48defend ourselves. The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council
00:04:52spoke with the Russian leader by phone today.
00:04:55Iran expects more help from its allies, Russia and
00:04:59China. Intervention to prevent
00:05:02war. Beijing is concerned about the consequences
00:05:05of such a war for the region and the world. This meeting today
00:05:09between the Chinese Foreign Minister and the Deputy Secretary of the Council.
00:05:22Hormuz is to the arrangements before the war. This country
00:05:25has started a new series of consultations with the leaders of the region's countries
00:05:29to intensify diplomatic efforts to
00:05:33prevent war. Kasra Naji, BBC.
00:05:36Abbas Feyz, analyst of Chinese issues,
00:05:39is with us from London. Mr. Feyz, how much.
00:06:13because if he wants to, for example, he said
00:06:16that he supports Iran's right to defend itself.
00:06:19Well, this is something that any country can say about another
00:06:23country, but at
00:06:25the same time, it is also, for example, a message to
00:06:29America that if things get very
00:06:33complicated, the slogans that China
00:06:36gives or the words that China says will actually
00:06:39be more severe, but it does not
00:06:42seem that China is currently
00:06:45preparing to enter Iran
00:06:49militarily to defend it. First, military defense
00:06:52is not possible for China because
00:06:56there is no agreement between Iran and China
00:07:00for military support for each other,
00:07:03and second, China will not
00:07:07want to do anything, meaning entering Iran.
00:07:11Well, it would severely damage its relations with the countries of the
00:07:14Persian Gulf and with other countries. I don't think
00:07:18this is actually
00:07:21more than diplomatic support. But Mr. Feyz, it is also
00:07:24said in some academic circles
00:07:27that China does not want
00:07:30America to win the conflict it started with Iran.
00:07:34It does not see this as beneficial to itself in the long
00:07:38run, and they say
00:07:41that
00:07:43there is also evidence that, for example, the Chinese have helped Iran
00:07:47in various fields. How true is this?
00:07:50Yes, these are
00:07:53relatively credible reports that
00:07:56China, in a way that is not
00:07:59obvious, has provided resources to the leaders
00:08:03of the Islamic Republic,
00:08:05but if you look at the statement
00:08:09that the Chinese government issued today
00:08:12regarding its meeting with
00:08:15the Sultan of Oman,
00:08:19we see that the tone that the Chinese government
00:08:21uses regarding
00:08:25the developments in the Persian Gulf and the
00:08:28Middle East in general is a much
00:08:31milder tone. In that statement,
00:08:35it directly states that it is up to Iran and
00:08:38America to resolve their differences, and there is no mention
00:08:42at all that China is going to
00:08:45defend Iran. The only thing said
00:08:49in that statement
00:08:53is that China will send
00:08:56several of its political
00:08:59and diplomatic envoys to the region in the near
00:09:03future, and that will not be only to Iran, but also to other
00:09:06places. That is, in fact, what China said about
00:09:09Iran, Mr. Wang Yi said about
00:09:12Iran is somewhat different from the statement
00:09:16that China issued about the Middle
00:09:19East, about America, and
00:09:22Iran during Mr. Xi Jinping's meeting with
00:09:26the Sultan of
00:09:29Oman today. Thank you very much,
00:09:32Mr. Feyz, Abbas Feyz, an analyst of Chinese issues from
00:09:36London.
00:09:38In the remaining hours until the official start of voting in the US
00:09:44Congressional elections, Democrats and Republicans are making their final efforts
00:09:47to win over voters. More than 50
00:09:51million Americans have already cast their votes.
00:09:54Polls show increasing support for Democrats in key Senate races,
00:09:58including in the states of Ohio, Texas, and
00:10:01Maine. Donald Trump, moments ago, in front of the Lincoln Memorial in
00:10:05Washington, once again called on voters to support him and his party.
00:10:08He described his Democratic election opponents
00:10:12as dangerous radicals.
00:10:14Bahman Kalbasi, our correspondent from
00:10:17New York, is with us. Bahman, tell us a little more about Mr. Trump's latest
00:10:21remarks. Well, Mr. Trump made an important decision
00:10:24during this election, and that was to
00:10:27tell voters and supporters that when you go to the polls,
00:10:31imagine that my name is on the ballot.
00:10:35This means that he hoped that his supporters would feel
00:10:38that this election, voting for his party members, is like
00:10:42voting for himself. Well, in a situation where Mr. Trump's popularity is below
00:10:4535 percent, it naturally ended up favoring
00:10:49the Democrats, because they say exactly the same thing. They say, don't
00:10:52imagine that you are choosing between a Republican and a Democrat in your electoral
00:10:56district. This is not important. What is important is not what your governor's
00:11:00name is
00:11:03or what policies he has, but that
00:11:07if that governor, that member of parliament, that senator you want to vote
00:11:10for is a Republican, according to Mr. Trump
00:11:13himself, you are actually voting for Mr. Trump, and this is actually
00:11:17nationalizing and generalizing elections that in each electoral
00:11:20district have a certain set of unique characteristics.
00:11:24In some electoral districts, a Republican
00:11:27candidate may have more popularity among the people of that
00:11:30region, has a longer historical
00:11:33record, or has not had any violations in his record,
00:11:37but all of these have now been overshadowed by the fact that this election is in a way
00:11:40a referendum on Mr.
00:11:43Trump. Now, if Mr. Trump's popularity was above 50 percent or
00:11:47around that, well, this strategy might have ended up favoring the Republicans, but given
00:11:51the 65 to 70 percent dissatisfaction of the people with Mr. Trump.
00:12:05his policies in the past two years. He also emphasized
00:12:09that the price of oil dropped by $10 today, and all of these are signs
00:12:12that the steps he has taken have been effective. But in any
00:12:16case, in this situation and atmosphere that we are in, if this election
00:12:20happens the way Mr. Trump's words have helped and the Democrats have pursued
00:12:23it, there is a
00:12:29high probability that the polls' predictions are correct. Based on these
00:12:32polls, in the House of Representatives, Democrats will almost
00:12:36certainly win the majority, and then the competition will be for the Senate,
00:12:39whether Republicans will lose their majority,
00:12:43and if Democrats win, with what
00:12:46number can they take the majority of the Senate? These are all
00:12:49questions that we must wait until at least
00:12:53Wednesday morning for a picture to emerge
00:12:57of whether these polls predicted correctly or not. In
00:13:00America, it is common, with one or two exceptions, for a president
00:13:04in his second term to lose one of the houses of Congress,
00:13:07but it is very unusual to lose both houses. Correct.
00:13:11درسته
00:13:14It's both unusual and the size of the defeat,
00:13:17the number of seats that one party concedes to another, is also
00:13:21important. As a result, if, for
00:13:24example, in the House of Representatives, you need 218 seats to
00:13:28reach a majority. If Democrats have 230 seats
00:13:31or 239 seats at the end of the count,
00:13:35according to the prediction of one of the most reputable polls, this indicates
00:13:39that this defeat was not just
00:13:41a usual traditional midterm defeat for a president,
00:13:45but rather a clear rejection by the majority
00:13:49of public opinion of the president. That will naturally
00:13:53have deeper consequences for
00:13:55Republicans. Also, regarding the Senate, if
00:13:58Democrats win with 51 seats or 53
00:14:02or 54, each has different
00:14:05meanings and consequences.
00:14:08Thank you very much, Bahman Kalbasi, our correspondent in
00:14:11New York.
00:14:14We continue the program with a few short news items. In the
00:14:18United Arab Emirates, the CEO of the state-owned
00:14:21Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has warned that global
00:14:25crude oil reserves have sharply declined. Sultan Ahmed
00:14:28Al Jaber said that since the disruption of tanker traffic
00:14:31in the Strait of Hormuz, nearly one billion barrels of crude
00:14:35oil have been withdrawn from global reserves. According to the Emirati
00:14:38official, the cost of oil transportation, which was previously
00:14:425% of the price of each barrel, has now risen to over 30%.
00:14:45He called for an increase in strategic
00:14:49reserve capacity.
00:14:50شده.
00:14:53The Ansar Allah group in Yemen, known as the Houthis, says
00:14:57that 7 people were injured in Saudi airstrikes on the port of Ras Isa
00:15:01on the Red Sea coast and an oil facility in Hodeidah
00:15:04province. The Houthi Health Ministry spokesman
00:15:08called these attacks a clear violation of international humanitarian
00:15:11law. The Saudi-led coalition says
00:15:15the aim of these operations was to disable the resources that the Houthis
00:15:18use. According to the United
00:15:22Nations, in the Yemen conflict this year.
00:15:30The governor of Hebron says that Israeli forces, after 10 days of siege,
00:15:34withdrew from the center of this province in the southern occupied West Bank.
00:15:41They took
00:15:43control of the area. The mayor of Hebron also said that families who were forced to leave their homes
00:15:47can now return. Students and
00:15:50university students also went to schools and universities for the first time in 10
00:15:54days. The Israeli army besieged this city about 10 days
00:15:58ago following a deadly shooting at its soldiers.
00:16:02کرد.
00:16:05Shabana Mahmood, the UK Home Secretary, announced the changes to immigration
00:16:08regulations an hour ago.
00:16:12Accordingly, immigrants who earn less than 50,000 pounds a year
00:16:16will be allowed to receive permanent residency after 10 years.
00:16:19This period of residency will be more than 5
00:16:23years for individuals earning more than 50,000 pounds and 3 years for immigrants earning
00:16:27between 125,000 and more than 125,000 pounds.
00:16:31Under current regulations, this period was 5
00:16:34years for all immigrants. Also, from now on,
00:16:37immigrants who enter Britain via small boats across the English
00:16:41Channel instead of legal routes may have their waiting
00:16:44period for permanent residency extended to 30
00:16:48years.
00:16:51Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that at least 18 people
00:16:55were killed in successive Russian attacks on a school in the southeastern part of the
00:16:58country. According to him, the school building in
00:17:02the Zaporizhzhia region was used to distribute humanitarian
00:17:05aid. Mr. Zelenskyy
00:17:07said that the school has been attacked more than 10 times. He says
00:17:11that Moscow knew that humanitarian aid was being distributed in this
00:17:15building. According to local officials, rescue and
00:17:19relief operations are ongoing.
00:17:23Ukraine and Russia accused each other of having infiltrated each other's emergency
00:17:26alert systems. It has been reported that in both
00:17:30countries, fake warning messages about chemical
00:17:33attacks, nuclear attacks, and street clashes were sent to citizens.
00:17:50One minute later, a message in Russian about an incoming
00:17:53missile, then a warning of a chemical attack
00:17:57and street fighting. These were fake messages that
00:18:00Ukrainian citizens received on their phones only a few minutes after
00:18:04the end of the ceasefire with Russia, through
00:18:07the widely used system that Ukrainians
00:18:11rely on to be informed of air attacks.
00:18:14Ukraine's
00:18:17Center for Strategic Communications has blamed Russia for
00:18:21hacking this application and has asked the country's people not to pay
00:18:25attention to fake warnings. However, some
00:18:28Ukrainian citizens say that they are used to these fake messages and
00:18:32hackers.
00:18:36Now we are all in the same situation. With all these applications like Telegram, which
00:18:40is Russian, we are at risk in terms of cyber security. Now they are hacking
00:18:44all these accounts. In the fake
00:18:47warning, subscribers were told that they were in danger and
00:18:51nuclear warheads had been fired towards all regions of Russia.
00:18:54This means that such applications,
00:18:58which are designed for the safety of civilians, when they are placed on the list
00:19:02of war targets, are hacked, they can create confusion
00:19:06and tension, and have dangerous consequences for citizens.
00:19:09پرخطری برای شهروندان در پی داشته باشند.
00:19:13Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of these attacks.
00:19:16But regardless of where the hackers infiltrated these
00:19:19applications, the main question is what is the alternative
00:19:23solution when these systems are hacked?
00:19:26Attention, attention. Just a few
00:19:29decades ago, sirens and loudspeakers warned people of
00:19:33danger. And the meaning and concept of that
00:19:36is that everyone.
00:20:00But in Iran, where the shadow of war still hangs heavy over the people,
00:20:04there is no news of these warning applications.
00:20:07Even when America and Israel attacked Iran, neither a warning siren
00:20:11sounded nor a warning message was sent to people's
00:20:15phones.
00:20:18Nazanin Samsami, BBC.
00:20:20سی.
00:20:23Dozens of grocery stores in seven countries, including the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium,
00:20:27Luxembourg, and Ireland, have reported malfunctions in their refrigerators.
00:20:30It is likely that the cause of this malfunction is a
00:20:34cyber attack on the software controlling these systems.
00:20:38The CEO of a company that installs cooling equipment in
00:20:41Belgium says that during the night, the temperature of the freezers rose and the food
00:20:45inside them spoiled. A few weeks ago, hackers also took control
00:20:48of the refrigerators of several chain stores across
00:20:52France. Mohsen Behshad Karimi, analyst of EU affairs from Brussels,
00:20:56Belgium. Behshad Karimi, given that this happened
00:21:00before in France, and now in several other
00:21:03countries, is this a targeted and coordinated
00:21:06campaign? Look, this
00:21:10is an example of behavior in today's world
00:21:13of communication and in today's cyber
00:21:16world, like a series of actions that we have always
00:21:20witnessed throughout history. Now, in a way, these seem new and scary to me. The news
00:21:24you were just reading about Ukraine,
00:21:27well, if you study the history of wars and political tensions,
00:21:31at every point in time, in a way,
00:21:35now, during the Second World War, news
00:21:38was dropped from airplanes or road signs were changed
00:21:42to confuse the enemy,
00:21:46and now these cyber actions, in my opinion,
00:21:50are a wake-up call that this unified and coordinated structure
00:21:53in Europe will be placed at the top
00:21:57of the agenda and will receive more attention. As I wrote in an
00:22:01article that I published last month and week
00:22:04in one of the magazines I work with, regarding the warning to
00:22:08this sorcerer's apprentice, the sorcerer's apprentice that we
00:22:12designed as an AI or that unified cyber
00:22:15structure, and there are still some bugs in it, and these
00:22:19bugs create a kind of vulnerability.
00:22:22These seemingly trivial actions can
00:22:24neutralize these bugs from now on
00:22:28and deal with them in a more unified
00:22:31way. We are correct.
00:22:34Well, you referred
00:22:36to the gaps that exist. We know that
00:22:40Europe is in tension with Russia over
00:22:44the Ukraine issue. Now, the Iran issue is also raised,
00:22:48and then some other countries.
00:22:51How much does this vulnerability really affect
00:22:55judicial security and general public opinion in
00:22:59Europe? Look, those who are
00:23:03skeptical of Europe, those we call
00:23:05"skeptics," are fueling
00:23:08this trend of pessimism towards Europe. Others are waging psychological
00:23:12warfare,
00:23:16powers outside the framework of the European Union trying
00:23:20to create instability. These two sets
00:23:23of news are one thing, but what we are actually witnessing
00:23:27is not that tangible. Even in Belgium,
00:23:31where I live, or those in France or Luxembourg with whom I am in contact,
00:23:34were not really shocked by this news, or didn't even know about it.
00:23:38Anyway, it's not the first time. During this Ukraine-Russia war,
00:23:42we are seeing the issue of fuel, even the issue of gas,
00:23:46which they fueled last year, the issue.
00:23:55create instability, as this passive defense system of
00:23:59all these member countries, although in a unified way, exchanges
00:24:02information with each other. They also exchange
00:24:06supplies, so to speak, when needed, as we saw with
00:24:10fuel and gas and diesel and so on. But these are also
00:24:13decentralized and non-centralized at the same
00:24:16time. In fact, there is a double emphasis that
00:24:22is on Europe's agenda, on the one hand, and on the other
00:24:25hand, decentralizing these structures
00:24:29for times when it is needed, like today.
00:24:32Anyway, it's more of a psychological war, which is
00:24:35very easy to deal with. Even Carrefour company had
00:24:3815 of its supermarkets attacked in Belgium. Now hundreds
00:24:41of its supermarkets in
00:24:44France, with a very small change in the structure
00:24:48of their programming, they can very
00:24:51easily define a threshold for the maximum temperature, and this problem will be
00:24:55solved. That is, it is not a complicated problem,
00:24:58or the issue of food security that we witnessed, or the
00:25:01issue that even during the Corona period, outside of this
00:25:05category of war and Russia and North Korea and Iran, even during
00:25:08the Corona period, we witnessed that the supply
00:25:11chain, the transportation
00:25:14chain of food and daily necessities,
00:25:18was disrupted.
00:27:32has launched a device that tracks mosquitoes in flight and burns their
00:27:36wings with a laser. This device is almost
00:27:40the size of a brick and uses technology used in
00:27:43self-driving cars to find mosquitoes.
00:27:47Artificial intelligence also determines when it is safe
00:27:51to fire the laser. According to the CEO of the
00:27:54company, these mosquitoes can no longer fly and cause
00:27:58problems for people.