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00:00:00has forced a 125,000 people from their
00:00:03homes just since the start of this
00:00:07of month, and Iran's revolutionary guard says an oil
00:00:10tanker exploded and caught fire after it hit mines in
00:00:14prohibited areas
00:00:15of the straight of hormous. The US military though says that the vessel was
00:00:19in stripped by a drone while sitting in waters off the coast of
00:00:21of a
00:00:22man.
00:00:26Let's turn to Gaza
00:00:27a now where overnight drone strikes and sniper. fire have killed at
00:00:31least one person in
00:00:32of Gaza City and the northern camps. Officials reported a
00:00:35pre-dawn drone strike hit Gaza city leaving two
00:00:39wounded. Monday, separate series of strikes killed a senior
00:00:43Hamas military commander in the north of Gaza. Cars's health
00:00:46ministry says Israeli attacks
00:00:48a since the ceasefire came into effect in October 2025 and now
00:00:52de killed more than 1,300 and 70
00:00:54Palestinians. The
00:00:58war's also taken ahead. toll on animals in the Gaza Strip.
00:01:02Thousands
00:01:03of them have been killed injured or left without food, now
00:01:07displaced from its main shelter, one animal rescue group is
00:01:10struggling to keep the animals it is saved alive. I don't have
00:01:14Hamat reports from Central
00:01:17in Gaza. Sulala is an organization that has been caring
00:01:21forestry and injured
00:01:23in animals across Gaza. It's main children was in Gaza city, home to
00:01:27more than 450
00:01:28of dogs before the war. but as
00:01:30of Israel is a slot to spread, it had to be evacuated and the hard
00:01:34to breaking decision had to be
00:01:36made, i founded sulala in
00:01:402006 to protect stry animals, when we were forced to evacuate we
00:01:44could only bring 25 disabled dogs with us because we didn't have enough
00:01:50of transportation, the animals that made it out now depend a small
00:01:53team working with very limited supplies, veterinary
00:01:57medicine and equipment are difficult to find. so even
00:02:00simple treatments can require some
00:02:02creativity. we have to find our own
00:02:06solutions. when a dog named lucy had severe ear infection, we
00:02:10made corn for her from a plastic bowl. even before the war we made
00:02:14wheelchairs and
00:02:15in prosthetics for animals that had lost
00:02:17of a limbs. we still make them from whatever materials we can
00:02:22a find. food is another daily struggle as supplies
00:02:26became harder to find and more expensive. keeping the animals fit.
00:02:31of out
00:02:35of food
00:02:39a we had and medical run supplies, we started using whatever food we could find and when necessary some human medicines to keep the animals
00:02:43alive. we also treat animals brought to us by displace families
00:02:46and share whatever supplies we have with them. since october
00:02:502023, 97% of gaza's lifestock
00:02:54and animal wealth has been destroyed according to the
00:02:57UN
00:02:58of food and agriculture organization. and the human rights
00:03:01monitors. Thousands of pits have also been left
00:03:04behind, as families flee without food,
00:03:08of chilter or proper care. Some animals arrive
00:03:12here after their owners can no longer look after
00:03:17living in them. tense,
00:03:18families there For may simply not be enough space, food or water to
00:03:22keep up it. I rescued a cat and her
00:03:26kittens from the street. I was living
00:03:28in a small
00:03:28of tent with my own pets. and didn't have enough space or food to keep
00:03:32them, so i brought them here, animals feel pain just like we
00:03:36do, so lalala's team knows it cannot
00:03:40save every animal, but in gaza where so much has been
00:03:43lost, they continue to care for the ones they
00:03:47can, abdul wahab hammed, trt
00:03:50of world, gaza, former columbia
00:03:54university student and pro palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil
00:03:58has fired
00:03:58of a lawsuit, against the university and one of its deans, allegging
00:04:02discrimination against Palestinian students. Khalil was arrested by
00:04:06immigration agents in March
00:04:08of of
00:04:08of 2025, after he taken part in protests against Israel's war on
00:04:12Gaza. He was detained for 104 days. Khalil accuses Colombia
00:04:16of laying the
00:04:16of ground in work for the Trump administration to target
00:04:20of him. We are suing because no student,
00:04:24regardless
00:04:28of of their background, should go through the hill that could... put us through over all these
00:04:32years, year and a
00:04:33of half since my unlawful detention, colombia has not reached out
00:04:37one time to offer any support to me, on
00:04:40of the
00:04:40of contrary, they barred me from campus,
00:04:44the only time they emailed us was actually to ask us to leave colombia
00:04:48housing,
00:04:48it is time to hold those
00:04:52who discriminate against palestinians
00:04:55of accountable, the US Supreme Court has blocked
00:04:59President Trump to tighten mail-in voting rules just weeks before
00:05:02November's mid-term elections. The high court rejected emergency
00:05:06request from the administration allowing states to keep
00:05:09of their existing
00:05:10of ballot systems. The White House wanted to block mailing ballots from voters
00:05:14not on lists provided in advance to the US postal service.
00:05:18critics though argued the president lacked the authority to rewrite election rules at
00:05:22the last minute. nearly a third of US voters use male ballots
00:05:26making the decision important in the race for control of
00:05:28congress. on
00:05:32president Trump's also pushing back against growing fears over artificial
00:05:36intelligence calling efforts to reign in the technology part of
00:05:39sick conspiracy. the US president dismissing
00:05:43warnings from tech leaders at companies including Anthropic, Open AI
00:05:47and SpaceX, who have been calling for greater government oversight
00:05:50of AI and warning that it could pose an existential threat to
00:05:54humanity. From Washington DC, Erondo Olu explains why the US
00:05:57administration is so wary of regulating
00:06:00AI. While the
00:06:03AI companies are concerned about the risks of
00:06:06AI, the government is weighing the risks of
00:06:10AI against competition. with China, they are arguing
00:06:14that the AI companies are America's great strength
00:06:18against their competitor, China, and that the regulations
00:06:22might slow them down, and similar things were
00:06:26happening previously with social media companies right, the government
00:06:30that time wanted to put guard rails on them, and that actually
00:06:33escalated further, and they testified in Congress, we
00:06:37saw Mark Zuckerbert appear in Congress, but this is part
00:06:41the same story. one the major reasons America is able to
00:06:45keep its competitive advantage against China alive is its
00:06:49companies uh constantly innovating, it was social
00:06:53media companies in the previous decade and now it's
00:06:57AI companies and for the government while there are risks
00:07:00involved they're clearly also keeping in mind the
00:07:04competition with China and they don't want to
00:07:07impede the companies and they want to keep the innovation the pace
00:07:11of innovation forward. uh as as the current
00:07:14government, of course, the Republican administration, they are they're
00:07:18also historically resistant against guard rails
00:07:22on open market uh competition,
00:07:25so that's currently where everything stands with AI,
00:07:29the Trump administration is hoping to
00:07:33uh limit the amount of guard rails and hoping to uh
00:07:37increase the speed of innovation with AI companies at the cost
00:07:41of not seeing I with the heads the companies
00:07:44themselves. joined now by
00:07:48barat ready, associate fellow with the high tech geopolitics program
00:07:52at theila institution, he just be live from Bengaluru in India,
00:07:56appreciate it. so I mean, as I just detail the tech leader statements and
00:08:00it was unexpected really, calling for more cautious approach with
00:08:03AI. um, the anthropics chief calling for kill
00:08:07switch, do you agree with their
00:08:09caution? uh, definitely
00:08:13need more guard rails, there are there
00:08:15is evidence of greater capabilities, especially cyber
00:08:18capabilities, we have seen that with the recent hugging face
00:08:22attack, we have also seen AI being able to solve math
00:08:25problems which were which are really which have really puzzled us for
00:08:29generations, so you see these new capabilities emerging and
00:08:33and while that is true,
00:08:37i don't agree with the with the characterization of
00:08:41existential risk to human. so these are tools that are
00:08:45going to be used by humans and maybe it gives malicious
00:08:49actors abilities to carry out these attacks,
00:08:52but this this idea
00:08:55that AI is becoming sentient or is
00:08:59becoming more capable and will take actions against
00:09:02humans that I don't think is is still
00:09:05justified, so you we definitely need guard trails, you
00:09:09need different layers of protection and one them might be kill...
00:09:12which in case of incidents like the ones we have seen,
00:09:16so you need better testing, you need third party, red
00:09:20teaming, all these different garls which will
00:09:23help build trust in this system as well, so
00:09:27but nothing to indicate that we are a point when AI
00:09:30is becoming
00:09:33you know sentient or is causing an
00:09:36existential risk to humans itself, okay you don't think this that that physical risk, what
00:09:40about the risk of not being first? because the same big tech companies,
00:09:44many leaders said previously, whoever gets their first wins everything, there's no
00:09:48second place, no third place, whoever gets like the singularity first, will just wipe the
00:09:52floor with all the other companies, so that seems to be perhaps the concern of
00:09:55President Trump, he doesn't want regulations slowing down US companies, do you see this as
00:09:59a straight up race, the US against China winner takes
00:10:02all? there's there's definitely a
00:10:06geopolitical race here, and it's not, it's one, one is at the
00:10:10level of between the US and... china who are at the forefront of this innovation,
00:10:14but also between the countries themselves, between the companies themselves, so you see
00:10:18anthropic and open AI in race to capture market share,
00:10:21both them are headed towards an IPO and you need... you
00:10:25know paying customers who can and they would like to
00:10:29demonstrate these capabilities and all these are happening at the same time
00:10:33right so what you what you see is a collective action problem
00:10:37so no one wants to slow down because they risk losing market
00:10:41share but at the same time you you see that if you
00:10:44see that there are certain risks all them are individually willing to say that
00:10:48there are risks but no one is willing to take that step unilaterally and say
00:10:52that we are going to slow down so unless that's that you
00:10:56know response comes from
00:10:59maybe a collective
00:11:02level, it might be at the level of a country or at at an
00:11:06international level, I don't think we'll see any slowing down, so but
00:11:10on the question about do you see
00:11:13singularity, I don't think that might
00:11:17be something that is on the horizon yet, you see lot
00:11:21of capabilities being increased, you see that...
00:11:25honestly they are able to execute a lot of task, very complex task, but are we
00:11:29at the point of reaching a singularity? that's still
00:11:32debatable, there are experts who argue on both
00:11:36sides right, so and i would tend to prefer, mean it makes more
00:11:40sense to me that you see a increasing capability, but it's still
00:11:44a normal technology, one of everyday use a general purpose technology a
00:11:48sense, not something that is you know reaching the
00:11:51singularity at all, but when you hear though big names, chiefs
00:11:55of of major US companies involved in AI saying,
00:11:59there's a risk, perhaps we need to slow down
00:12:02and for everybody to be, perhaps have some
00:12:06regulation, does that suggest to you that actually these companies think they're losing this
00:12:10race and they want to slow everybody down, drag them down to the same
00:12:13level? not really,
00:12:17so one is that they're trying to call
00:12:20for these regulations and you can think of it as a generous way to look it is that
00:12:25you you look at these companies and saying
00:12:27and and they see something some risks that they are able to see in their internal testing and
00:12:31they want to maybe call for some
00:12:34collective guard rails to be put in place or some
00:12:38some kind of slowing down for everybody right so that's that's a generous kind of
00:12:42reading the situation but another way to look at is that maybe there
00:12:46is reason for them to impose these
00:12:49guards because they have a big advantage over their rivals and having these
00:12:53kind of stricter guard. stricter regulatory compliance requirements
00:12:57gives the first moves an advantage and in
00:13:01you know capturing that market right, so it's in a sense regulatory
00:13:05capture of sort,
00:13:06so you you reach there first and you are able to ask for
00:13:09stricter regulations and that kind of makes it harder for
00:13:13anyone who is now trying to compete to capture the same market,
00:13:17it also creates this the sense that this is
00:13:21something really dangerous and we are the only ones who can build it responsibly, so
00:13:25don't trust the Chinese or don't trust
00:13:27you know this small startup because they might not take it as
00:13:31seriously as we do so you see both these and there is some truth to
00:13:35both ways of looking at it and but we definitely need
00:13:39a consensus on what those
00:13:43risks are, you need more capacity within government to
00:13:46evaluate those risks and to take those build those safe guards as well
00:13:50so and and wel definitely see some
00:13:53these in... playing out and and that will hopefully raise awareness about
00:13:57what the risks are and how we should respond to them, yeah, perhaps an attempt to lock in
00:14:01advantages, that's that's one perspective, i've not even considered and that's why we get you
00:14:05on, barret, great to speak to you, barret ready, associate fellow with the high tech
00:14:09geopolitics program at the taxashila
00:14:11institution,
00:14:22protesters are expected to take to the streets in the... sees capital
00:14:25Kinshasa on Tuesday as parliament opens its doors, the rally targets a
00:14:29proposed constitutional change that could let the president Felix
00:14:32Chisicady run for a third term. Okay, let's go to our correspondent
00:14:36prosper Arian Garora who is live for us in Goomar in the
00:14:40DRC, um, so it seems like people unhappy about a
00:14:44changing regulations, why would they be so opposed to another term for the
00:14:48leader?
00:14:53so in Democratic Republic of Congo, in recent months
00:14:56there is debate about the constitutional
00:15:00change and then in democratic republic of Congo,
00:15:04presidenti the country has
00:15:07stated that if Congolese people allows
00:15:11him to run for a third term, he might not
00:15:14exclude that possibility, and after his
00:15:17announcements, there are terms in Democratic
00:15:21Republic of Congo, especially opposition leader.
00:15:25are calling Congolese people to go into the
00:15:28street to show their opposition or to show their
00:15:32protest against the possibility the
00:15:36President of. Democratic Republic of Congo to
00:15:39run for the third term, while Constitution of
00:15:43Democratic Republic of Congo allows only two
00:15:46terms or two 10 years for
00:15:49president wook might be in charge of ruling
00:15:53of Democratic Republic of Congo. This
00:15:56week opposition leaders are calling for
00:15:59populations especially in all the country and in
00:16:03Kinshasa to go into the streets while.
00:16:07this time it is the start of parliament
00:16:11recession and many believe that the matter
00:16:15of constitutional change must be at the center
00:16:19of discussions and then Kongolese leaders
00:16:22especially from opposition are calling population
00:16:26to go in front of palais la
00:16:30nation or the the
00:16:33siege or to go at the member of
00:16:37go at the parliament building to show their protest
00:16:41against this possibility of changing
00:16:45the constitution and to allow presidenti to
00:16:49run in the third term. many observers, especially in
00:16:52eastern Congo are saying that say they don't
00:16:55understand why the current
00:16:59regime prioritizes constitutionally change
00:17:02while the country is dealing with the ebola epidemic
00:17:07east. country also the ongoing conflict due
00:17:10to fighting between congolase army and
00:17:14m23 fighters and
00:17:18right now the situation might change in
00:17:21Kinshasa while while kongoles security
00:17:25forces have stated that they will reinforce
00:17:28security around the parliament to avoid
00:17:32any problem prosp thanks for clarifying
00:17:36the situation for us the latest from around there from garora who's in
00:17:39Goma. Let's turn to Nigeria
00:17:43now. Uber has ended 12 years of operations there shutting down with immediate
00:17:47effect on September 2nd the exit part of a global restructuring
00:17:51that has also seen the company withdraw from Uganda. So for thousands of
00:17:55drivers it could likely mean an abrupt loss of income,
00:17:58as Akinalaka reports from
00:18:02Lagos. If has been driving for Uber since
00:18:052018. federal f has built most of his
00:18:09household income around this road and this
00:18:12app, this week the app went
00:18:16dark without notice, the major challenge there,
00:18:19the the income that was that used to come will
00:18:23not coming the way used to come, you know everything
00:18:26will at least if you are getting 70% now it
00:18:30will be going
00:18:31to be 45%, even he is not alone,
00:18:34dispatch riders on this route describing years of running the
00:18:38numbers just to break even, we buy foil
00:18:42very core and seriously as we don't
00:18:46have anything to do, that's why we are just using it because we don't have any
00:18:50option, but at least sometime we don't have any
00:18:54profit much. uber's exit comes as a company
00:18:57restructures globally cutting about 10% of its
00:19:00workforce while reviewing its investment. this
00:19:04particular exit of uber was born out. of two things,
00:19:08their global strategy, and of course how easy it was
00:19:11considering the complaints that were coming from drivers with
00:19:15regards to fairs and all of that that tied into or you know
00:19:19just made it much more easy to do what they wanted to do from
00:19:23a global standpoint. Uber's rivers
00:19:26face many the same pressures, but bolds has
00:19:30adapted eight pricing to the local market, while
00:19:34indrive allows drivers and passengers to...
00:19:37negotiate first directly. Uber may have
00:19:41left Nigeria, but the roles it once help drivers
00:19:44navigate are still busy. For drivers like efan,
00:19:48the challenge is to find another way to make living a
00:19:51market where competition is fears costs
00:19:55arising and the platform the ones paid, some the bills
00:19:59is no longer there. The exit could also reshape
00:20:02Nigeria's ride healing market. When the competitors will be able to
00:20:06absorb the... riders increase their market share, have more drivers
00:20:10that
00:20:11you know they can deploy to carrying out this particular ride healing
00:20:14business. the bigger question for former uber
00:20:18drivers is what replaces their income and how soon
00:20:21i alaka (TRT World
00:20:25Legus) the race to explore the
00:20:28moon is gathering pace and turkey is stepping up its own lunar
00:20:32ambitions. Turkey is preparing to send its first spacecraft to the moon where it will
00:20:36study the lunar. magnetic fields and interaction with
00:20:40solar winds as well as how water forms
00:20:42on the moon. the spacecraft is designed to operate for at least three months with the
00:20:46mission potentially extended
00:30:10Welcome back, you're watching TRT World, I'm Neil Harvey, and these are your headlines:
00:30:14three people, including two children, have been killed in Saudi Led
00:30:17coalition air strikes in Yemen's Taise province, according to Hoothi run
00:30:21media, the strikes coming as Saudi Arabia, it said it would respond
00:30:25firmly to Huthi attacks that injured 13 civilians in three
00:30:29Saudi cities. The UN says fighting in Yemen has forced a...
00:30:33people from their homes since just the start the
00:30:36month. At least 18,00 households or
00:30:40125,00 people have been displaced since the start the
00:30:43month. The toll on civilians is increasing. Between September 1st
00:30:47and today, our colleagues at the UN human rights office have verified 40
00:30:51civilian casualties. Iran's state media says
00:30:54a drone strikers it to Iranian fishing boats along the straight of Horamiz
00:30:58leaving several people missing.