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US President Donald Trump defended former Brazilian President Bolsonaro, calling him 'a very honest man' and criticising the current Brazilian leadership. Trump also announced 35% tariff on Canadian goods starting August 1st.
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00:00Hello and welcome. I'm Geeta Mohan and you're watching World Today. Some big breaking news
00:20coming in at the top of this bulletin. President Donald Trump has reacted to questions from
00:26reporters on his jibe at Brazil, his interference in terms of who should really be calling the
00:34shots in the country and on Canada. Listen into what he has to say about Bolsonaro, again saying
00:41he's an honest man and he can tell an honest man from a crooked man. A straight attack on the
00:49current president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.
00:54He was a very tough negotiator and I can tell you he was a very honest man and he loved the people of Brazil.
01:00He was a very tough guy to negotiate with. I shouldn't like him because he was very tough in negotiation but he was also very honest.
01:08And I know the honest ones and I know the crooked ones. He was a very tough negotiator and I can tell you
01:15I can tell you he was a very honest man and he loved the people of Brazil. He was a very tough guy to negotiate with. I shouldn't like him because he was very tough in negotiation but he was also very honest. And I know the honest ones and I know the crooked ones.
01:32It's Canada now. A day after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose 50% tariff on Brazil and demanded that the witch hunt against former President Jair Bolsonaro be immediately stopped.
01:45Trump on his Truth Social account posted that 35% tariff will be levied on Canada starting the 1st of August.
01:53After Brazil, the Trump administration has now gone after Canada.
02:00Less than a month after US President Donald Trump attended the G7 summit in Canaaniscus, Canada is now going to face 35% tariffs on goods starting August 1st.
02:12Trump announced the tariff on Canada by posting the letter on his Truth Social.
02:18He also threatened additional blanket tariffs of 15% or 20% on most trade partners.
02:27A day before Trump threatened to impose 50% tariff on Brazil starting August 1st.
02:33Canadian PM Mark Carney said his government is committed to protecting the interests of its people.
02:39A blanket tariff of 25% has already been imposed on some Canadian goods.
02:45The country has also been impacted by global tariffs on steel, aluminium and auto.
02:52Trump also blames Canada for not being able to stop the flow of fentanyl into the US.
02:58Canadian PM Mark Carney in his response said on X that Canada has made vital progress to stop the scourge of fentanyl in North America.
03:08U.S.'s global threats of tariffs and Trump's interference in the domestic matters of other countries, forcing some of them to act according to his whims by threatening heavy tariffs has been condemned by China.
03:23Sovereign equality and non-interference in internal affairs are fundamental principles of the UN Charter and basic norms of international relations.
03:38Brazilians protested in Sao Paulo against Trump threatening to levy 50% tariffs.
03:45Brazil does business with other countries, so just as we depend on them, they also depend on us and perhaps even a little more.
03:58But it's time for them to understand that Brazil, Latin America is not their backyard.
04:03We cannot be taxed and think that's okay.
04:05As Trump widens his tariff war on other countries, the recent being Canada, Europeans are bracing themselves against what comes next.
04:18With Mahashweta Lala, Bureau Report, India Today.
04:25A bipartisan bill to protect Taiwan's undersea communication cables from China has been introduced in the U.S. Senate.
04:32A bipartisan bill to protect Taiwan's undersea communication cables from Chinese grey zone tactics was introduced in the U.S. Senate.
04:53The Taiwan Undersea Cable Resilience Initiative Act was introduced by U.S. Senators John Curtis and Jackie Rawson, both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
05:06The Act urges the Department of State along with the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security and the Coast Guard to deploy real-time monitoring systems, improved maritime surveillance and enhanced international cooperation to defend against sabotage.
05:25Grey zone refers to unconventional tactics used to gain a strategic advantage without provoking open conflict.
05:33According to the Taiwan International Solidarity Act, UN Resolution 2758 does not prevent the U.S. from using its vote, voice and influence to oppose efforts to undermine Taiwan's position on the world stage.
05:50The solidarity legislation also encourages U.S. to work with allies and partners to oppose China's efforts to undermine Taiwan's diplomatic relationships and partnerships globally.
06:04Since February 2023, at least 11 undersea cable disruptions have been reported around Taiwan, most of them linked to vessels suspected of deliberate interference.
06:16A version of the bill introduced by U.S. representatives passed the U.S. House of Representatives in May.
06:27The two bills introduced must pass the Senate and the House before the U.S. President can sign or veto them.
06:35With Mahashwai Talala, Bureau Report, India Today.
07:05And how important are these undersea communication cables?
07:08Well, this bill signals a desire to support Taiwan in protecting itself against one of the greatest threats to its continuity.
07:17Submarine cables provide 99% of the telephonic and Internet communication that we rely on today.
07:22And cutting that off means cutting us off from the entire world.
07:25So many systems would go down from cash and ATM points to all the systems that we rely on for defense and security, all the way just to basic communication.
07:35So the need for those cables to be intact is absolutely critical.
07:39And this bill affords an opportunity for the U.S. government to provide additional support and be creative in how it helps protect Taiwan's resilience against any kind of interaction with those cables that China might try to interfere and cause disruption.
07:54Okay. Ian, what really prompted U.S. lawmakers to take the step now? Why a bill focused specifically on protecting Taiwanese cables?
08:05Well, I think this is symbolic of a broader review of just how fragile and vulnerable our infrastructure is relating to submarine cables.
08:14We are reliant on cables that are literally the size of a garden hose for so much.
08:19And this signals that we need to do something in order to make sure that China, which has in multiple cases in the past disrupted Taiwan's cables, aren't as easily able to do so in the future.
08:31And so this is perhaps a microcosm of a bigger problem where we see cable cutting in the Red Sea, in the Baltic Sea and elsewhere.
08:40And we're trying to come to terms with how best to approach it because right now we have a limited number of tools for protecting them and we have a limited number of tools legally for what we can do outside of our own territorial waters.
08:51So China's advancement of technology specifically designed to cut cables and cause this kind of catastrophic disruption is what I think has prompted the bipartisan action on this front.
09:03Okay. The bill also, you know, has mentioned gray zone tactics. Can you explain to our viewers, Ian, what that really means? How does China use such tactics to target undersea infrastructure?
09:16Okay. The gray zone is conceptually the space between peace and war. We all can feel that the maritime domain, particularly in critical places like around Taiwan and the South China Sea, are a bit more conflictual than peaceful, but aren't quite to the level of war.
09:33So these tactics are used in order to create doubt and uncertainty and cause a disruption to our normal thinking process.
09:40Now, what China has done very successfully is attack critical infrastructure in subtle ways.
09:46Now, submarine cable infrastructure is a particularly vulnerable piece of material.
09:50It is so easily disrupted that even sharks in the past have been able to bite cables and cause disruption.
09:57And so this is kind of low hanging fruit for attempting to cause uncertainty and instability.
10:03If China is looking in some ways to advance through a sort of non aggressive or directly aggressive hostile means, this is a very good way to do so because it cuts people off.
10:15It slows down Internet and it diminishes the ability to engage in transactions.
10:19Ten trillion dollars of economic activity go through those cables every single day.
10:23And so any kind of disruption, particularly at scale, causes all kinds of economic hardship and logistical nightmares.
10:31And so this is a way of softening the will of Taiwan, perhaps, to be able to be more susceptible to other types of attack and other types of advance.
10:41And so this is a bill that would help support Taiwan in trying to become more resilient against that.
10:48But it is something that we need to look at around the world because the operational tools for protecting cables are limited.
10:55The legal tools are even more so.
10:57And we need to do a lot more to come up with a way to safeguard this infrastructure in which we rely so critically today.
11:04Ian Rolby, thank you so much for joining us and explaining to us what this really means.
11:10Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was indicted by Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal.
11:20The tribunal accepted charges of crimes against humanity filed against the ousted Prime Minister.
11:26A three-member panel indicted Hasina, former Home Minister Asad Uzzaman Khan and former Police Chief Chaudhry Abdullah Al-Mamun on five charges.
11:36Hasina and Khan are being tried in absentia.
11:39The Awami League has condemned the trial and called the tribunal a kangaroo court.
11:44The trial started on the 5th of June.
11:47Bangladesh's interim government, headed by Muhammad Yunus, had sent a formal request to India for Hasina's extradition.
11:54The charges against Hasina include mass killings, murder and torture.
11:58Chaudhry Abdullah Al-Mamun, who is in custody, has requested to become an approver, which has been accepted by the bench.
12:05Now, the Houthis released footage of what they claim is the sinking of the Greek-operated Liberia-flagged vessel called Eternity Sea in the Red Sea.
12:19The damaged ship is shown partially submerged before sinking, leaving behind a whirlpool and oil slick.
12:26The ship Eternity Sea has been verified. Details matched, such as onboard cranes, hull paint, bridge structure.
12:35Though the location is not verified, the vessel's last reported location through its automatic identification system was in the Red Sea.
12:43Eternity Sea is the second ship that the Houthis have attacked this week.
12:48Houthis had attacked more than 100 ships from November 2023 to December 2024.
12:54This, they said, was their solidarity with the Palestinians.
12:59It is not permissible for any company to transport goods for the Israeli enemy through the declared area of operations.
13:08Our position in this regard is firm.
13:10What happened is a clear lesson to all maritime transport companies operating to serve the Israeli enemy,
13:17that they will be dealt with all this level of firmness.
13:20Our Yemeni position is firm and decisive.
13:23And our decision to prevent navigation for the Israeli enemy in the Red Sea, Gulf of Eden and Arabian Sea is permanent
13:31as long as the Israeli enemy continues the aggression and siege of Gaza.
13:43Federal immigration agents detained Mahmoud Khalil on March 8th, the first arrest under Trump's crackdown on students
13:51who joined campus protests against Israel's devastating war in Gaza.
13:56Khalil, a legal U.S. resident, was then taken to an immigration detention center in Jena,
14:02a remote part of Louisiana, thousands of miles from his attorney and his wife.
14:07Today, he sues the Trump administration.
14:10Here's a report.
14:11He's not resisting.
14:13Put your arms around.
14:14There's no use for this.
14:15Don't worry.
14:16I won't be happy.
14:17You're going to have to come with us.
14:20Education on deportation!
14:22Education on deportation!
14:24Deportation no more!
14:27Deportation no more!
14:32Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist and alumni of Columbia University,
14:37filed a complaint against Trump administration seeking $20 million in damages,
14:43alleging that he was falsely imprisoned and maliciously prosecuted.
14:48His complaint accuses President Donald Trump and other officials as an illegal campaign to terrorize him and his family post his arrest.
15:01She said they're taking him to 26 Federal Plaza.
15:04He named the United States Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of State as defendants for unlawfully imprisoning him.
15:16I'm initiating a process to seek accountability from the Trump administration for false imprisonment, for warrantless arrest, for intentional inflection, emotional distress.
15:39All of these things that I had to go through for over 100 days.
15:46And also for the chilling effect that such actions had on our community, the group supporting Palestine, on students in general, and just on the American public as well.
16:06Khalil further stated that he either wants an apology or the money.
16:11What I'm asking for, it's either this sum of money or an apology, an official apology from the administration for the wrongdoings that they did against me and against others as well.
16:25After U.S. President Donald Trump took over office in January, Trump issued executive orders for the removal of foreign nationals deemed to have hostile attitudes towards the U.S. or who were accused of supporting threats to the national security.
16:41One of the order instructed federal authorities to take action and remove such aliens from the U.S.
16:56Khalil was the first major arrest in Trump's crackdown on the student protests.
17:01He was arrested on March 8th and was later released after serving 104 days in custody on June 20th after a federal judge found that government's attempt to deport Khalil on foreign policy grounds were unlikely unconstitutional.
17:17Khalil is a legal U.S. resident and a face for the Palestinian solidarity movement in the U.S. after the start of Israeli's war on Gaza in October 2023.
17:30While Khalil pledged to continue his efforts to fight against Israel's war in Gaza, the question is how will the Trump administration react to his claims?
17:42Free Palestine! Free Palestine! Free Palestine!
17:47Reneha Kumari, Bureau Report, India Today.
17:54China will sign up to a Southeast Asian treaty banning nuclear weapons in the region as soon as all documentation is ready.
18:02Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamed Hassan, while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Minister's meeting,
18:09said China made a commitment to ensure that they will sign the treaty without reservation.
18:14Beijing's move to agree on the treaty was welcomed as top diplomats met in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Foreign Minister's meeting.
18:24ASEAN's objective is for the world's five major nuclear powers – China, the United States of America, Russia, France and the United Kingdom –
18:32to sign the treaty and commit to non-use or movement of nuclear weapons in the region, including nations' exclusive economic zones and continental shelves.
18:43Meanwhile, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that it is in communication with ASEAN countries regarding the signing of the treaty.
18:50After four decades of conflict with the Turkish state, the outlawed Kurdish PKK held a ceremony to mark a symbolic first act in laying down its arms.
19:05About 30 fighters, men and women, placed their weapons in a cauldron, starting a disarmament process expected to last all summer.
19:13Turkish President Rasip Tayyip Erdogan said the ceremony marked an important step towards our goal of a terror-free Turkey.
19:22Unquote.
19:23Since the PKK launched its insurgency against Turkey in 1984, originally with the aim of creating an independent Kurdish state,
19:32the conflict has killed more than 40,000 people, imposed a huge economic burden and fueled social tensions.
19:39The PKK is listed as a terror group in Turkey, the US, European Union and the United Kingdom.
19:46Once the wall of terror is torn down, God willing, everything will change.
19:55More pain and tears will be prevented.
19:58The winners of this will be the whole of Turkey, Turks, Kurds and Arabs.
20:05Then it will be our entire region and all our brethren in the region.
20:11A French appeals court cleared convictions against two women who allegedly claimed that France's first lady, Brigitte Macron, was a male before she married French President Emmanuel Macron.
20:28The court ruling has now sparked a wide controversy.
20:31Take a look at this report by Neha Kumari.
20:33A French appeals court cleared convictions against two women who allegedly claimed that France's first lady, Brigitte Macron, was a male before she married French President Emmanuel Macron.
20:50The court ruled that Amandine Roy, a self-described spiritual medium, and Natasha Ray, an independent journalist, had every legal right to make the allegation.
21:00The charges first surfaced in December 2021 during a four-hour YouTube interview hosted by Amandine Roy.
21:08Natasha Ray claimed to have uncovered what she described as a state lie, alleging that Brigitte Macron was originally a man named Jean-Michel Tronieu who transitioned before marrying the French President.
21:23The sensational claims went viral, fueling conspiracy theories online.
21:29Brigitte Macron responded by filing a libel lawsuit against the pair.
21:35In September 2023, a court initially ordered the women to pay 8,000 euros in damages to first lady and an additional 5,000 euros to her brother.
21:46The French President called the rumors false information that disturbed intimacy.
21:52President Emmanuel Macron married Brigitte Tronieu, a woman who is 24 years older to him.
21:59Macron then, a 15-year-old schoolboy, met Brigitte who was a teacher at a private school in northern France.
22:06With Neha Kumari, Bureau Report, India Today.
22:09From the brass alleys of Moradabad to the global headquarters of Apple in Cupertino, Sabi Khan's journey is nothing short of iconic.
22:21Born in Moradabad in 1966, Khan spent his early years in India before his family moved to Singapore.
22:28A brilliant student, he pursued economics and mechanical engineering at Tufts University, followed by a master's from RPI.
22:36Here is more.
22:39From the brass alleys of Moradabad to the global headquarters of Apple in Cupertino, Sabi Khan's journey is nothing short of iconic.
22:53Born in Moradabad in 1966, Khan spent his early years in India before his family moved to Singapore.
23:00A brilliant student, he pursued economics and mechanical engineering at Tufts University, followed by a master's from RPI.
23:08Khan joined Apple in 1995 and spent three decades building the backbone of Apple's global operations, from procurement to sustainability.
23:17He was instrumental in reducing Apple's carbon footprint by over 60% and played a key role in reshoring manufacturing to the US and India.
23:26On the 9th of July 2025, Sabi Khan was officially named Apple's chief operating officer, succeeding Jeff Williams in a planned transition.
23:38Apple CEO Tim Cook hailed Khan as a brilliant strategist who has been one of the central architects of Apple's supply chain, adding that Khan leads with his heart and values.
23:50Social media lit up with pride, especially about the techies' incredible journey from Moradabad to Cupertino.
23:57The elevation also sparked hopes that Apple will make its production debut in Uttar Pradesh soon.
24:04Sabi Khan joins a growing league of Indian origin leaders commanding global tech giants.
24:11Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet.
24:14Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft.
24:17Shantanu Narayan, CEO of Adobe.
24:20Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM.
24:22Neel Mohan, CEO of YouTube.
24:25Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks.
24:29Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud.
24:32Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of Micron Technology.
24:35George Kurian, CEO of NetApp.
24:38Jayashree Ulal, CEO of Arista Networks.
24:41Vimal Kapoor, CEO of Honeywell.
24:44Anirudh Devgan, CEO of Cadence Design Systems.
24:47And Revithi Adayvithi, CEO of Flex.
24:51Together they represent a powerful diaspora, controlling companies with a market value of nearly $6 trillion, 50% more than India's GDP.
25:01And even as US President Donald Trump forces Apple to quit India, the company is deepening its Desi footprint.
25:08And Sabi Khan's ascent is both a personal mind stone and a strategic signal.
25:13Bureau Report, Business Today TV.
25:21That's all in this edition of World Today.
25:23But before I go, here's what I leave you with.
25:26Ina Dema bids farewell to Balenciaga, which he led as creative director for the last decade.
25:32Kim Kardashian, Naomi Campbell and Isabel Oupair walked the runway along with other models who had collaborated with Demna in the past.
25:42Kardashian's look was Demna's ode to Elizabeth Taylor.
25:46She wore a mink coat made of embroidered feathers over a silk slip.
25:51And Taylor's diamond pendant earrings, which now belong to a private collection.
25:56Goodbye and take care.
25:58Take care.
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