Iran's peace proposal, OpenAI image leak and FIFA reform

Hi, I'm Elena Kassas in London. It's Saturday, September 26th. Today, Iran awaits a U.S. response to its peace proposal. OpenAI says its rogue agents leaked images from chat GPT users. Why a Texas redistricting push is at risk of backfiring with Latino voters. And is there a new war over power at FIFA? This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, 7 days a week. It's a first-of-its-kind plan. Created for how Texans actually use energy. Discover how much more you could save with free nights and cool summer. TXU Energy. Energy for everything. Visit TXU.com for more information. Rep number 10004. China says it has reached an agreement with the U.S. to cut $30 billion of tariffs following President Trump and Xi Jinping's three-day summit in Washington. The deal comes after the two sides extended their trade truce by two months. Beijing says they're also launching talks on artificial intelligence and setting up a communication channel for AI-related incidents. The U.S. has not yet commented on the agreement. Iran is awaiting an official response from the U.S. after it proposed a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and halt fighting within seven days. The Wall Street Journal reports President Trump has rejected the offer and told his staff more bombing is likely after the deal. The U.S. has also announced a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and halt fighting within seven days. Pakistan has said that it's a defensive pact. It's supposed to help Saudi Arabia defend itself against aggression from abroad. But at the same time, a lot of the signals that have been given by the Saudi government, by Saudi officials over the last days have been that they're seeking for robust defense, that they're looking for a robust defense, and they're hoping that Pakistan and Turkey will come to its support. Pakistan already has soldiers based in Saudi Arabia, already has weapons and other technology in the country to help Saudi Arabia defend itself. So the question here is, what else is Saudi Arabia looking for? In India, police use water cannons on protesters demanding protection against aggression. The arrest of the country's chief election officer. Earlier, a newspaper reported that Gyanesh Kumar had been questioned by his deputies over changes to voter lists. It sparked a political furore, with opposition parties saying those changes benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party. The youth-led Cockroach Janta Party says it will launch nationwide protests if Kumar doesn't resign. The CJP is fresh off successful youth demonstrations in July, which led to the education minister stepping down. Modi's party has defended the election commission. It says all its actions were lawful. It says there will be no government support for Modi in the future. While India's opposition is challenging how elections are being run, in the U.S., the focus is on how electoral maps could shape future results. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Missouri from using a Republican-drawn congressional map designed to favor the party in November. The U.S. The map erased a Democratic-held district, and the justices warn changing the boundaries after voting is already underway could cause electoral chaos. It's the Supreme Court's third intervention in the dispute. Last year, Republicans in Texas redrew congressional maps in the hope that Latino voters, who helped power Trump's 2024 win, would stick with them. That bet may be backfiring. Trump's approval has fallen to 32%. And in South Texas districts that swung heavily Republican two years ago, frustrated Latino voters say they're open to Democrats again, given high prices and harsh immigration policies. He's been really gone back on a lot of things he said he was going to do. I do not like what ICE is doing right now to our fellow people, you know. Reporter David Hood-Nuno has been speaking with Latino voters across the region. Everything costs too much in South Texas. From the beef, from the claddoa-coa, to the gasoline that voters put into their trucks. That poses a problem for Republicans who redrew congressional maps in the state, assuming that President Donald Trump would help lower prices, and keep the high number of Latinos who voted for him to vote for congressional candidates. Used to be a conservative far-right, big Trump. I voted, we voted for him. We voted for him. We voted for him. We voted for him. We voted for him. All three times. However, I've put politics behind me a little bit. One of the voters we spoke to was Saul Guajardo. He is Latino, who lives in McAllen, who worked in sales. And we met him and his wife, Terry, outside of church on Sunday. And they voted for Trump three times, he said. They loyal to the Republican Party. But now. More than ever, they're open to voting for Democrats. To better our, you know, living situation. But, you know, something else that they told me, Terry specifically said that, you know, Trump's strict immigration enforcement policy has really affected the way that they look at the party. Open AI says it still doesn't know the full scope of what its rogue agents have been up to. The company says they leaked 53 images, and they're not sure if they're going to be able to get the full picture. But they're also saying that they're not going to be able to get the full picture. They're going to have to get the full picture. According to an exclusive Reuters report, Meta is finding that humans may still have an important role to play. Here's our correspondent, Katie Poole. It can carry out a whole array of tasks for you. It can book a trip. It can make purchases. It can schedule appointments. It takes a lot off your plate, and that's basically the sales pitch. Starting in the days after Muse's debut, Meta started rolling out another service that the agent could perform, which is placing phone calls. It could call a restaurant and make a booking for you. What Meta had been finding as it was having its employees test that even before the launch of Muse is that sometimes people don't want to receive a call from a robot, and so they were hanging up on the other end. And so the company has been testing internally And so the company has been testing internally what it calls a human concierge or human agent calls, which in practice just means having people in a call center make those calls instead of having the actual digital assistant make the calls. Meta employees have raised a bunch of privacy concerns about this approach because the company has been very heavily marketing the security of its agent experience. They put a lot of thought into building a kind of secure virtual machine a kind of secure virtual machine where the agent could live and giving consumers assurances that when they share information with this agent it's going to be held securely. That information is then shared with people in call centers. It raises some obvious privacy concerns. Manchester City Football Club has reportedly been found guilty of all but one of 115 alleged breaches of the Premier League's financial rules. A guilty verdict would be one of the most significant rulings in English soccer history. The club is expected to appeal. City has always denied wrongdoing and says the process is still ongoing. Well, FIFA is facing its own battle over the future of the game. The soccer federation has been in crisis for months ever since its president Gianni Infantino introduced a controversial private investment plan in late July. Associate federations include including Europe's UEFA and North America's CONCACAF, rebelled, demanding Infantino's resignation. Infantino seems to have weathered the storm, at least for now, by offering reforms. But will they be enough? Here's our Julien Préteau in Paris. I think we're increasingly looking at two scenarios. The first is a compromise. Infantino stays as president, but he agrees to reforms that reduce the amount of power concentrated around the presidency, and he gives confederations and other stakeholders a greater role in major decisions. The second is more confrontational and is more likely at the moment. It's what senior football figures describe to us as a permanent hot-cold war. UEFA, CONCACAF, clubs, prayer representatives, national associations, challenge FIFA issue by issue over competitions, Club World Cup, the calendar, money, commercial decisions. So the battle, it may not be primarily about removing Infantino anymore. It looks like he's going to stay. It could become a battle over how much power he has if he remains. Infantino has opened the door to reform, and the question is whether what eventually comes through that door is substantial enough to rebuild trust. But it is very unlikely. Now, Coach Hank saves up to 25% off grocery store prices, 30 pounds of pasta, three cases of protein bars, 75 sports drinks. And that's just pregame. He knows teamwork, and BJ's knows savings. This is your home, Coach. Home of the Save. Join for just $20 at bjs.com slash mesquite and save 10 cents per gallon for six months. Open soon. Limited time offer, new members only. BJ's, home of the Save. For more on Infantino, visit www.infantino.com. For any of the stories from today, as well as more analysis and news shaping our world, check out Reuters.com or the Reuters app. There's a link in the description to download it and start getting pure news straight from the source. Don't forget to follow us on your favorite podcast player. 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