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00:00:13fighting escalates in Yemen as Antar Alathies and Saudi backed
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00:00:28a Hello and welcome
00:00:29of to TRT World. Live from Istanbul, I'm Oscar Sabakti, also
00:00:33ahead on the program. At least eight Palestinians are killed in Israeli
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00:00:41US senator Bernie Sanders and Trump allies Steve Bannon unite over
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00:01:06Fighting is escalating in Yemen with the Hutis and Saudi-backed
00:01:10of forces exchanging fresh
00:01:12of attacks. The Hutis say they'll keep fighting until the Saudiled blockade
00:01:16ends, while Riad has vowed a
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00:01:19in response. The violence has also
00:01:20of sent to global oil prices higher, and the UN says at least
00:01:24125,00 people have been displaced. TRT
00:01:28World's Victoria Inner's reports.
00:01:34footage showing
00:01:36in ansarahuthi attacks on Saudi backed forces in
00:01:39al-Jaf in northern
00:01:42of Yemen. The group is continuing to target Saudi
00:01:45infrastructure, predominantly
00:01:47of oil and military, using dozens of ballistic missiles and
00:01:51drones, while on the
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00:01:53of this of it is the most significant escalation
00:01:57in Yemen in years and Saudi backed.
00:02:00of forces are responding with dozens of air strikes against
00:02:04toothy targets. seasing much
00:02:06of the red sea coast and babal mandab straight last
00:02:11of week appears to have given the hoothis
00:02:12confidence. the goal of our
00:02:16military operations is not the closure of pabal mandab, instead
00:02:20it is to open it for the freedom of maritime navigation to all.
00:02:24Saudi Arabia and its allies instead are the
00:02:27of ones of in really restricting
00:02:28of freedom of maritime navigation. those in the region want to
00:02:32solution and fast, especially when it comes to the
00:02:35straight,
00:02:37of Egypt and Saudi Arabia have both condemned its closure, while from
00:02:41Qatar came a warning, the world is suffering enough
00:02:44with
00:02:45the the closure
00:02:45of the straight of hermus, so we cannot also afford to
00:02:49add the bubble mendup into
00:02:51a that equation, the whole world is going to suffer and it's going to
00:02:55be a catastrophic for the entire
00:02:57of world, the conflict meanwhile is forcing
00:03:09We arrived today, displaced from Mocca because
00:03:11of the war, a
00:03:13a drone of hit us
00:03:14of and my wife died after being struck by a shrap now
00:03:17here, she died, my three children were left, I
00:03:21fled with them to Aiden as
00:03:24of displaced, by god, we do not possess even a single grain of
00:03:28of flour. United Nations is warning humanitarian
00:03:32supplies and funding is running critically low. At
00:03:36least 18 thousand households or 125,00 people have been
00:03:40displaced since the start
00:03:41of the month. The toll on civilians is increasing. Between September
00:03:451st and today, our colleagues at
00:03:46the UN Human rights office have verified 40 civilian casualties,
00:03:50eight people killed and 32 others injured. In Jibuti aid
00:03:54groups say they are doing what they can. There may
00:03:58of be a time if they continue. to come where they may overm
00:04:02of the capacity
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00:04:06of of the country to to house and accommodate all of them, they return to fighting, prompting fears, yemen is heading
00:04:10back into civil war. Victoria Innis, TRT
00:04:14World. Mohammed Alatab has
00:04:18the latest from the Yemeni capital
00:04:20Sana. What we are witnessing that
00:04:23the the violence and the conflict in Yemen is is is
00:04:26moving rapidly and also having. a great
00:04:30impact on the civilians, we are talking about the the hotis, they have
00:04:33of mentioned during the latest pressure that the saudi
00:04:37fighter judge have weiged nearly 54 air rates
00:04:41just in the within the 24 hour last 24 hours, they
00:04:45accused Saudi Arabia of attacking and targeting what the
00:04:47of said civilian infrastructure and also uh
00:04:51civilian areas, they also mentioned that the uh
00:04:55the the latest attacks also in the morning they have talked about targeting
00:04:59of saadan and also ts, they also accused Saudi Arabia of targeting civilian
00:05:03areas
00:05:03of and the the claim
00:05:04that at least three people have
00:05:06in been killed and other other four others have been inj injured,
00:05:10there are
00:05:11of also what they have with the... prime minister the internationally recognized government, he said that
00:05:15the situation has become out their hand, that they couldn't deal with this with
00:05:19the with the with the ansar
00:05:22allah's development and escalations by themselves and it has
00:05:26become not only an internal issue and it become
00:05:29assuring that it has become
00:05:32international affair, he said that the the
00:05:36is are backed by Iran according to his words and that they are threatening what he
00:05:40said the interests the international community. unity so far the
00:05:44situation also as i mentioned that the the houthies say that the
00:05:47the with the latest distribution their
00:05:50these the attacks against what they said that the the
00:05:54international international recognized government's forces trying to
00:05:58advance towards positions that belong to the his in
00:06:02the in the j that they have showed that they have killed and injured
00:06:06hundreds the international recognized
00:06:08government's
00:06:12forces at the middle east council on global affairs, he says keeping
00:06:16critical shipping roots open is a shared responsibility for the
00:06:19international community. before the war
00:06:23around like fifth the world's oil passed through
00:06:27hormos, Saudi Arabia had the foresight to invest
00:06:30in in uh in the rid sea route and that
00:06:34route played a major role in keeping oil like
00:06:37flowing to the world during this crisis.
00:06:41now uh being targeted as well,
00:06:45it's also important to remember that some gulf states, for example like
00:06:49Qatar, Kuwait and the Bahrain have no root to
00:06:53avoids hermus, the only way was to through
00:06:56Hurmus, and this is not only about energy, like
00:07:00the Gulf imports like a large share of its food
00:07:04and goods by sea, so when shipping
00:07:07becomes risky, it affects daily life, this is
00:07:11why protecting these borderways is is a shared international
00:07:15responsibility, not only like not only a
00:07:18golf one like as I said it's it's like more than
00:07:2220% the oil and gas trade is
00:07:25is is exported through hormones so we are
00:07:29like the impact is gna reach everywhere in the world the
00:07:32hooties launched like attacks recently to on
00:07:36saudis I think they are looking for like leverage more than
00:07:40territory by moving along the coast and
00:07:44taking mukha and
00:07:46pirum island, they have placed themselves at one the
00:07:49most important shipping routes in the
00:07:53world, publicly they say have they have no further like territorial
00:07:57ambitions and that peace is their
00:08:00choice, but what i'm witnessing their actions
00:08:04till different story,
00:08:08oil loading at Saudi Arabia's red sea port of yanbu has reportedly
00:08:11been... spended days after the world's biggest crude exporter was
00:08:15forced to shut a major oil pipeline following attack. the
00:08:19east-west pipeline carries crewed from Saudi Arabia's main oil field
00:08:23to the Yanvu terminal on the Red Sea. It's become
00:08:27a critical route for Riyad's exports after Iran
00:08:30effectively blocked the straight of Hormus, the kingdom's main outlet for
00:08:34shipping crew. since the Iran war began, Saudi oil
00:08:38exports through Yanbu have surged five fold, reaching nearly 4
00:08:41million barrels. a day, but Riyad is facing another major
00:08:45obstacle. In July, the Hutis imposed naval blockade on
00:08:49Saudi Arabia, severely disrupting exports through the Bab
00:08:53Almandab straight. Since then, the kingdom has increasingly turned to the
00:08:56suez canal and Egypt's Sumed pipeline to move crew
00:09:00towards the Mediterranean.
00:09:04Saudi Arabia's crown prince Muhammad bin Salman and Egypt's
00:09:07presidenti are calling for free and secure
00:09:11navigation.
00:09:12the hormos and Babalmandab straits. The two leaders
00:09:16in Cairo on Tuesday. Their appeal comes as Iran
00:09:19continues to disrupt traffic through Hormus, and its hoothy
00:09:23allies tightened their group around the Red Sea Choke Point. Meanwhile,
00:09:27the US says it has no plans for direct military action against the Hutis
00:09:31despite rising oil prices and fears the conflict could spread
00:09:34further across the region. Lawrence is a professor of
00:09:38economics at Boston University and the president of economic.
00:09:42security planning, he says the US should send in the marines to
00:09:46reopen the key waterways in the middle
00:09:48east, we saw the price of
00:09:51oil go up by 12% over the
00:09:55last week and mostly in
00:09:58the last few days, so that's a huge increase up to
00:10:01about dollar f from about
00:10:0494, so mean
00:10:07$100 versus $94, and if it gets up to
00:10:11$200, if this uh, if if we
00:10:15imagine all the oil from the middle east
00:10:17being uh stopped and our reserves
00:10:21around the world uh drying up and others not
00:10:25other countries not being able to produce rapidly and you end up with
00:10:29$200 a barrel oil, which is not in conceivable
00:10:33in this context, you could have 10% inflation
00:10:37over the next 12 months in the US and that would
00:10:41be
00:10:42that would reduce bond prices, reduce
00:10:46stock prices, we'd have probably crash of our financial markets,
00:10:50global financial markets, we're talking about recession
00:10:54potentially. is major thing
00:10:56and then we have the US sitting there impotent
00:11:00imponent um suggesting it's not a global power and
00:11:03then Saudi Arabia is not a close
00:11:06ally they've been
00:11:10working with us for for decades and helping us we've
00:11:14been helping them and well I think they're they're finding
00:11:18that when push comes ash the US is not around and the rest the world is
00:11:22seeing that as well so I'm not sure
00:11:26um, I think the whole situation is one where you call on the
00:11:29marines, where we should be sending in the marines is is the
00:11:33classic expressions and taking back those islands and
00:11:37establishing
00:11:39some some some security in
00:11:43this part the world a manner that will require
00:11:46ground troops and will require more American uh
00:11:50lost lives. The US military is
00:11:54running. critically short on munitions after months of war with Iran,
00:11:58that's according to the Pentagon's inspector general warning a report to
00:12:02congress that US stockpiles have been significantly
00:12:05depleted, our North America correspondent John Braine
00:12:08reports.
00:12:13From February the 28th this year, the US threw everything at
00:12:16Iran, pounding targets across the country, from the
00:12:20air and from the sea, but the
00:12:24early... collapse the regime predicted by the Trump administration
00:12:28never materialized, so the campaign
00:12:31continued, as it did so, the military burnt through
00:12:34supplies of missiles and interceptors. According to the
00:12:38Pentagon's inspector general, by the end of June, the conflict had
00:12:42already cost the US more than $3 billion
00:12:45dollars, and over $22 billion dollars of that was
00:12:49expenditure on munitions, the expector general says the
00:12:53munitions expenditure on epic theory has
00:12:56resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and
00:13:00revealed industrial-based bottlenecks for munitions
00:13:04resupply. Donald Trump has consistently
00:13:07denied that there's any problem with the US military resources. We
00:13:11have so much ammunition and munitions as they like to call all
00:13:15over the world that we can always take from if we want
00:13:19and this is a relatively little war for us, this is not a big
00:13:22war, but the defense secretary.
00:13:24recently appealed to congress for billions of dollars
00:13:28of extra funding for the war. This request is an urgent,
00:13:32necessary injection of resources to address the immediate needs of
00:13:36our department. It seems clear that one the reasons the US has
00:13:40scaled down its military operation against Iran is this
00:13:44depletion of missiles and interceptors. It's
00:13:48also mindful the impact on American operations
00:13:51across the globe until stops. be
00:13:55replenished, the US's role may be diminished. I think the real
00:13:59challenge will be on the other regional commanders
00:14:03who are currently uh looking at their
00:14:07war plans for say
00:14:09China uh parts of Europe supporting for
00:14:13Ukraine, they're the ones that I suspect are most
00:14:16concerned, because they're the ones that are watching
00:14:20those inventories go down as they're committed to the current
00:14:24war. US may still be the world's most powerful military,
00:14:28but the past few months have revealed that is subject to some the same
00:14:32pressures on resources as its rivals. TRT
00:14:36World, Washington. For more on
00:14:40this, Republican strategist Jennifer Yuing joins us now from New
00:14:43York. Welcome to the program, Jennifer. The non-partisan
00:14:47congressional budget office has found that the Iran war has now cost the
00:14:50US some $38 billion dollars and another $3 billion.
00:14:55each month, how much political pressure does that put on the Trump
00:14:58administration to end the conflict?
00:15:02well, not as much as it should to be honest, and you will
00:15:06recall that the president one in 2024
00:15:10with a coalition that included a lot of
00:15:12independences and lot of young men who usually vote
00:15:16democrat, and those people are incredibly
00:15:19anti-war. you'll remember that President Trump
00:15:22campaigned on "let's get out the middle." No new forever
00:15:26wars, that sort of thing, and yet here we are, uh,
00:15:30it did not end a weekend, like I believe he was
00:15:34convinced it would, sort of one these Venezuela.
00:15:38uh, you know, you go in and 72 hours later, it's done, so it's a
00:15:42problem, and um, whether this uh,
00:15:4638 billion with the clock still ticking our money is
00:15:50enough to pressure him to get out, i don't know,
00:15:53but uh, we do know that the number one voting
00:15:57issue for all Americans, republicans, democrats,
00:16:00independence, uh, in the midterms is the cost of
00:16:03living, and uh, that includes inflation of course, and...
00:16:08what you know this Iran war of course the
00:16:10you know the downstream effects is whether it's the diesel prizes uh hitting
00:16:13all-term highs you know I think well today actually or
00:16:17inflation or other things you know this is it's not great for uh
00:16:21the Republicans yes and and ahead of those mid-term elections in
00:16:25November how difficult will it be for Republicans to
00:16:29defend this massive military spending as
00:16:32Americans face a continued pressure from rising living
00:16:36costs. Well um, it I guess
00:16:40it depends on what you want to believe. I've been in New York for
00:16:44few days and uh the the news that comes out of some
00:16:48the TV stations here,
00:16:50you know, would would really have you believe that uh, you, this
00:16:54is all going swimmingly well, and we've been it a war with Iran for
00:16:5847 years and this is just sort of cleaning it all up, so everything's going
00:17:01swimmingly well, um, however, you know, because it's a
00:17:05very unpopular war, I think tword. of Americans, but just from
00:17:09a generic b do not like this, so um,
00:17:13you know, I think the people that have defended this
00:17:17from the beginning, let's say since February, are
00:17:21almost like doubling down, tripling down saying, we're doing this for
00:17:25the next generation, and I, I, I, I'd like to believe that they think
00:17:29that, but the fact the matter is,
00:17:31you know, it's as time ticks on and it costs more and more
00:17:35money, um, it's not great for the... republican party, and
00:17:39also all of this money that's being spent is money that we're not
00:17:42spending on you, deportations, we're not spending on domestic
00:17:46infrastructure, we're not spending on getting our deficit down, which is
00:17:50$40 trillion dollars, so there's a lot of other uses that this
00:17:53money could be put towards and lot of independents and
00:17:57indeed Republicans who voted for Trump have a
00:18:01problem with the fact that we're still in this war. Jennifer, the
00:18:05congressional budget office also says that... rebuilding depleted
00:18:08US munition stocks could take five years, how
00:18:12do Republicans reconcile that with President Trump's claim that
00:18:16America has more than enough
00:18:18ammunition? yeah,
00:18:21you know, that's a great question, and I will leave that to a military
00:18:24expert to uh to answer whether you know how true
00:18:28uh, whether the CBO office estimated shoot, whether Trump's estimate to
00:18:32show, I will say however that um, before he
00:18:36was the vice president "we had the now vice president JD
00:18:39Vence commenting on the Ukraine Russia
00:18:43war and he commented on hey we're kind of getting a little tight
00:18:47here um on unitions you know because we can't produce them as
00:18:50quickly as Russia can so this whole um idea
00:18:54of maybe munitions becoming um
00:18:58you know lowering day by day
00:18:59it is is not necessarily something new to the Iran war though
00:19:03that's only depleted it
00:19:19least eight people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, despite
00:19:23the ceasefire that took effect last October. Israel says a Hamas
00:19:26commander has been killed in Roffer. Drone strikes on Gaza City and
00:19:30Kanunis are said to have killed at least six people, including young girl.
00:19:34And in Jabalya, in the north the strip, one person was killed by sniper
00:19:38fire. Ashraf Shanan is in Gaza City where he says a
00:19:4115-year-old boy and a civil defense officer were among those
00:19:45killed. Two rockets were fired and
00:19:49as people try tried to help, another rocket
00:19:53was even captured on camera as it killed the young boy and
00:19:57the civil defense uh officer uh
00:20:01earlier attacks also uh killed uh more people here
00:20:05in in Gaza City while in in. that in Jabalya and
00:20:08Northern Gaza, early man, 69 year old man was
00:20:12shot by Israel snipers, there are already more than
00:20:1573,00 people have been confirmed dead by the ministry of health
00:20:19as well as international agencies
00:20:23working in Gaza, among them some 21 thousand
00:20:27children, while thousands of bodies are still under the rubble
00:20:30despite the repeated attempts by civil defense and
00:20:33even families in Gaza, they've managed to...
00:20:37recover 700 uh bodies
00:20:40now uh the UN uh has uh
00:20:44raised concern uh regarding what could have could have amount to
00:20:48war crimes or crimes against human.
00:20:52and let's listen to what the UN spokes person had to say, the remains
00:20:55recovered so far may only be the tip the
00:20:59iceberg. much of gaza has been flattened by
00:21:03Israeli bombing or demolition and clearing by heavy
00:21:06machinery and explosives. it is
00:21:10critical that evidence of violations including destroyed
00:21:14sites be preserved given ongoing legal
00:21:17proceedings regarding the conduct of. facilities in Gaza,
00:21:21what's making things extremely difficult for several defense teams
00:21:25is the fact that Israel destroyed most the heavy equipment in Gaza
00:21:29and and is not hadn't allowed new
00:21:31equipment. more than 150
00:21:35illegal Israeli settlers have entered the alaxamos compound in
00:21:39occupied east Jerusalem escorted by Israeli forces. the
00:21:42Jerusalem governor it says they entered through the bab al
00:21:46magariba or Moroccan gate before performing prayers. in the
00:21:50Mosk courtyard, illegal settler groups are calling for further
00:21:53incursions during the Jewish New Year holiday. Palestinians say
00:21:57the repeated visits are part of an effort to challenge the longstanding status
00:22:01quo at one of Islam's holiest
00:22:04sites.
00:22:08Turkia is stepping up efforts to keep the Russia-Ukraine war from spilling
00:22:12into the black sea. Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan says
00:22:15Ankara is intensifying diplomacy to help create the conditions for
00:22:19peace.
00:22:19civilian
00:22:24casualties
00:22:24and
00:22:28destruction are increasing with each passing day. since the beginning
00:22:32the crisis, we have made significant efforts to keep
00:22:36the black sea out the conflict. thanks to our strict
00:22:39implementation the montro convention and our efforts to
00:22:43facilitate the black sea grain initiative. we were able to
00:22:47achieve these objectives successfully until... recently,
00:22:50however, the increasing attacks on civilian vessels in the black
00:22:54sea in recent months have been seriously undermining the safety
00:22:58of life, property, navigation and the environment in the
00:23:02region. Unfortunately, Turkish and Azerbaijany sea
00:23:06faarers have also lost their lives in these
00:23:09attacks. It is not acceptable for the war to
00:23:13spread into the black sea and threaten the lives of our citizens
00:23:17and the operation of our companies. We have
00:23:20intensified our efforts to reach an agreement and we are taking
00:23:24the necessary steps to bring these efforts to a
00:23:27conclusion. As Turkey, we will continue to make
00:23:31every effort to achieve
00:23:33peace. Somalis have taken to the
00:23:37streets and cities across the country to show their support for the growing
00:23:40partnership with Turkia. Turkish flags filled the stands of a
00:23:44stadium in the city of Baidoa as crowds gathered to thank Ankara
00:23:48for its longstanding support. In 2024, the two countries
00:23:52signed a 10-year defense and economic agreement.
00:23:56Mohammed Kahir reports from
00:23:58Mogatishu. Somalia and Turkey
00:24:02have developed close and wide ranging partnership with
00:24:05cooperation extending from healthcare and education to
00:24:09security, infrastructure and humanitarian assistance.
00:24:13Over the past years, Turkey has significantly expanded its engagement
00:24:17in Somalia becoming one the country's key. development and
00:24:20strategic partners in healthcare Turkish supported
00:24:24institutions in Mudishu have provided medical treatment
00:24:28and special services to thousands of Somalis, including patients
00:24:32receiving essential care for chronic conditions such as
00:24:36kidney failure. Turkey has also invested heavily in
00:24:39education and training or foreign scholarships and supporting
00:24:43programs that provide Somali students and professionals with
00:24:47opportunities to study and develop new skills.
00:24:50Security is another major pillar the relationship.
00:24:53Turkey has supported the training and development of Somali security
00:24:57forces as the country works to strengthen its national
00:25:00institutions and take greater responsibility for its
00:25:04security. The partnership also covers
00:25:07infrastructure, humanitarian assistance and economic development
00:25:11with Turkish institutions and companies involved in
00:25:14projects aimed at supporting Somalia's long-term
00:25:17growth. The cooperation. has also attracted
00:25:21public support in different parts the country. In
00:25:25byido, residents gathered Karin, Somali and Turkish
00:25:28flags, expressing their appreciation for the relationship and
00:25:32Turkia's assistance to
00:25:33Somalia. In the Democratic
00:25:37Republic the Congo, police have fired teagas and warning shots to
00:25:41break up an opposition protest in the capital Kinshasa.
00:25:44Demonstrators are demanding the government drop proposed constitutional
00:25:48changes that could clear. the way for President Felix
00:25:51Shakedy to seek a third term. What began as a
00:25:55peaceful march reportedly turned violent after pro-government
00:25:59supporters joined the root sparking clashes. The parliament. approved the
00:26:03bill in June, paving the way for constitutional changes to be put
00:26:06to
00:26:07referendum. They
00:26:11have gone too far, they try to take our lives and why?
00:26:14because this government has completely gone off the rails. I'm calling on the
00:26:18international community to sanction Mr. Chisakedi's government,
00:26:22because it's an irresponsible government, a government that terrorizes its
00:26:26own population and uses weapons against its
00:26:29citizens. Prosper Harry.
00:26:32Mogora has more from Goma on what's driving the protests and
00:26:36the growing economic pressure on the
00:26:38region. In Democratic Republic of
00:26:42Congo, in recent months, there is debate
00:26:45about the constitutional change, and then in
00:26:49Democratic Republic of Congo, presidenti
00:26:53the country has estated better,
00:26:56if a Congolase people allows him to run for a
00:27:00third term, he might not. include that
00:27:03possibility, and after his announcement, there are
00:27:07artiles in Democratic Republic of Congo,
00:27:10especially opposition leaders are calling
00:27:13Congolese people to go into the street to show
00:27:17their opposition or to show their protest against
00:27:21the possibility the Presidenti of Democratic
00:27:25Republic of Congo to run for the third term, while
00:27:29Constitution of Democratic Republic of Congo... allows
00:27:33only two terms or two 10 years for
00:27:36president wook might be in charge of ruling
00:27:40of democratic republic of
00:27:42Congo. In the Philippines, the
00:27:46first Democratic election in the Bangsomoro autonomous region
00:27:50in Muslim Mindenao has produced a hung parliament. The landmark
00:27:54vote is major step a decades long struggle for greater
00:27:57autonomy, but the fragmented result could make governing and
00:28:01advancing the regions econ. and political agenda more
00:28:04challenging broomby has
00:28:07more
00:28:08weeks of political campaigning and decades of fighting
00:28:12here to establish the balm region and its first
00:28:16directly democratically elected government, it's going to be a
00:28:20hung parliament and that really brings up few new
00:28:23questions, one of which is how are the political relationships between the
00:28:27leaders the two main parties, one them the UBJP, one
00:28:31them the BF. going to play out in the
00:28:34coming weeks. Let's not forget that these two parties themselves
00:28:37emerged from a high level split in
00:28:41the rebel group that was fighting for the establishment of this
00:28:45autonomous region, some bad blood then potentially between those
00:28:49senior political figures. Can they figure out a way to move
00:28:53from the fighting towards political negotiation? Can they figure out a way to
00:28:56hash out deal? Or is one the smaller
00:29:00parties, perhaps the grand samoro coalition going to
00:29:04become kingmaker, they're the party that came in third place in
00:29:08these elections, are they going to be the important political figures
00:29:11that help tip the balance and help swing one these parties
00:29:15over that all important 41 seat threshold that would be required
00:29:19to govern here. another question of course is can the
00:29:23peace last? it has been remarkable, the level
00:29:27of peace that we've seen across the region, there have of course been explosions, there were
00:29:31shootings especially here in... kotatto city, but
00:29:34broadly comelect, the election officials from Manila
00:29:38were pretty happy it seems with the way in which the elections
00:29:42have gone, despite some allegations of fraudulent
00:29:46voting, some allegations of election interference and of course spats
00:29:49of violence, they are pretty happy with how things are, especially when when
00:29:53compared to the large scale violence that we've seen in decades gone
00:29:57by. the question then is can the peace last, can these
00:30:00political agents, can these politicians find a way
00:30:04on the negotiating table to make things work, to come
00:30:07together and to work for the sake the bangsa people, that's what
00:30:11they've been saying that their aim is after all.
00:30:15the US house speaker is pushing back against growing warnings over the
00:30:19risks posed by artificial intelligence, echoing president Donald
00:30:22Trump's claim that fears about AI are hoax. Mike Johnson
00:30:26says the real threat isn't AI itself, but allowing China to
00:30:30pull ahead in the race to dominate the... technology, his comments come as
00:30:34pressure builds on congress to act after insiders at open
00:30:38AI and anthropic warned AI could pose an
00:30:41existential threat. they can
00:30:45self-police, they can self-regulate, they don't need the government to tell them to slow it down
00:30:49if they want to slow it down they should, but we cannot exactly, we cannot
00:30:53have moratorium on the development of AI, okay, because then
00:30:57we will lose our edge to China, and that has serious national