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[00:00:13] Live from London. This is BBC
[00:00:16] News. Iran says a deal with Oman Oman on a shipping route through
[00:00:19] through the Strait of Hormuz is in
[00:00:20] in its final stages. Ukraine carries
[00:00:23] carries out strikes on oil refineries
[00:00:26] refineries as Kyiv continues to target
[00:00:28] target Russian energy infrastructure. infrastructure. Four women tell the
[00:00:32] the BBC they were sexually assaulted assaulted at an army training college college for teenagers in North Yorkshire.
[00:00:36] Yorkshire. We'll have a special report.
[00:00:39] report. The Fifa president, Gianni Gianni Infantino, apologises after
[00:00:42] after a backlash over his proposal proposal to sell shares in the World
[00:00:46] World Cup to private investors. And
[00:00:49] And Afghanistan's exiled women footballers footballers make an international
[00:00:53] international comeback after a change
[00:00:54] change in Fifa's rules. Hello, I'm
[00:01:06] I'm Karin Giannone. We begin in the the Middle East, where there are
[00:01:09] are reports of a possible breakthrough breakthrough over one of the world's
[00:01:13] world's most critical waterways. waterways. Iran says it's close to
[00:01:16] to finalising an interim agreement agreement with Oman over the Strait
[00:01:19] Strait of Hormuz, the narrow channel channel through which much of the
[00:01:22] the global energy supply passes. passes. Pakistan, which is mediating
[00:01:26] mediating between the United States States and Iran, says it hopes an an agreement will lead Washington
[00:01:30] Washington and Tehran to resume talks
[00:01:32] talks and resolve their conflict. conflict. If confirmed, a deal might
[00:01:36] might begin to ease a crisis that's
[00:01:38] that's shaken markets. But it could
[00:01:40] could also cement Iranian control
[00:01:43] control over the vital maritime choke
[00:01:45] choke point. Meanwhile, in his first first meeting with his US counterpart
[00:01:49] counterpart Marco Rubio, the new new UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband
[00:01:52] Miliband said Britain would work
[00:01:54] work with the US to secure a lasting lasting ceasefire in the Iraq war
[00:01:58] war and reopen the strait. But in in a broadcast interview after the
[00:02:02] the meeting, he insisted the UK would
[00:02:03] would never take part in offensive
[00:02:06] offensive military action. He's been been speaking to our correspondent correspondent Helena Humphrey, who
[00:02:09] who asked him what he and the US US Secretary of State had achieved.
[00:02:13] achieved. Well, the number one priority priority for this government is to
[00:02:16] to tackle the cost of living crisis crisis that people are facing. And
[00:02:20] And my job as Foreign Secretary most most immediately is to work with
[00:02:24] with our closest ally, the United
[00:02:25] United States, on getting a ceasefire
[00:02:29] ceasefire and a lasting ceasefire ceasefire in relation to the Iran
[00:02:32] Iran war. Now we are working night night and day to try and make that
[00:02:35] that happen. That was a large part
[00:02:38] part of our discussions today. I
[00:02:40] I am hopeful that this may happen, happen, but we are not there yet
[00:02:44] yet and we've got to do everything everything we can to get this ceasefire
[00:02:47] ceasefire in place. The work between between Iran and Oman is obviously
[00:02:50] obviously crucial to that, but then then we've got to make sure it is
[00:02:53] is an enduring ceasefire, that we
[00:02:55] we don't have a nuclear Iran. Well,
[00:02:57] Well, Nasser Hadian is professor professor of political science and
[00:03:01] and international relations at the the University of Tehran, and he
[00:03:04] he told me why Oman is so crucial
[00:03:06] crucial to a deal over the Strait Strait of Hormuz. As I expected,
[00:03:10] expected, you know, we have a very very good relationship with Oman.
[00:03:13] Oman. In fact, even before the revolution
[00:03:16] revolution and certainly after the
[00:03:19] the revolution, thus there was a
[00:03:22] a dispute between Iran and US in
[00:03:25] in terms of understanding, of memorandum,
[00:03:27] memorandum, of understanding. And And since the other side of the strait
[00:03:31] strait is Oman, it was natural for
[00:03:33] for both of us to get together to
[00:03:36] to discuss and negotiate. And we
[00:03:39] we finally are come to an agreement.
[00:03:41] agreement. We finally came to an an agreement with the Omanis, and
[00:03:45] and I guess that would pave the way
[00:03:47] way for going back to the MOU Memorandum
[00:03:50] Memorandum of Understanding with with the US. And that's a good news
[00:03:53] news for everyone. So so you talk talk about going back to the memorandum
[00:03:56] memorandum of understanding and that that was heavily criticised for not
[00:03:59] not having enough detail in it to
[00:04:01] to stop fighting breaking out again. again. What would be different this
[00:04:05] this time? There is a good possibility
[00:04:08] possibility that we may have a dispute
[00:04:11] dispute again, but I guess right right after this agreement we tried
[00:04:14] tried to establish a mechanism for
[00:04:17] for addressing the disputes. The The emerging dispute between Iran
[00:04:21] Iran and the US. But let's not forget
[00:04:22] forget that's a very temporary understanding.
[00:04:25] understanding. We are supposed to
[00:04:28] to engage in a negotiation to come
[00:04:29] come up with an agreement, to address
[00:04:34] address a number of issues, including, including, including by far the most
[00:04:38] most important one, the nuclear issue. issue. And with the nuclear issue,
[00:04:41] issue, then the situation would be
[00:04:43] be very different. Not only in the
[00:04:46] the region, but basically, like I I say in the world, particularly particularly between Iran and the
[00:04:50] the US. We hear a great deal about
[00:04:53] about how much Donald Trump is said said to want this war to be over,
[00:04:57] over, particularly with the forthcoming forthcoming mid-term elections approaching approaching in November. How much
[00:05:00] much does Iran want this war to be
[00:05:02] be over? How long can it continue?
[00:05:06] continue? We absolute majority of of Iranians and also the elite of
[00:05:10] of the society and the government government officials wants to end
[00:05:12] end the war as quickly as possible. possible. And in fact, not only the
[00:05:16] the war, but rather this no war,
[00:05:19] war, no peace. That situation should should be over to. In other words,
[00:05:22] words, we have to move toward the
[00:05:25] the peace, sort of a situation that
[00:05:28] that we can build, our society and
[00:05:31] and our economy with that. I wonder
[00:05:33] wonder what you made of what we heard heard from the Iranian president,
[00:05:37] president, Mahmoud Pezeshkian, yesterday, yesterday, that communication with
[00:05:40] with the new Supreme Leader Khamenei
[00:05:42] Khamenei is difficult. What did he
[00:05:45] he mean? Because, you know, he used
[00:05:48] used to meet with the previous Supreme
[00:05:50] Supreme leader once a week at least.
[00:05:53] least. So they had a regular meeting meeting and they can communicate
[00:05:57] communicate with one another and
[00:05:58] and make a decision. But now it is
[00:06:01] is very difficult. The communication.
[00:06:03] communication. There is a very frequent
[00:06:06] frequent communication, but it is
[00:06:09] is mostly through, written statements
[00:06:11] statements or people who are mediating
[00:06:13] mediating between them or rather
[00:06:16] rather sending the messages. So that
[00:06:18] that makes it difficult. It makes makes it very difficult comparing
[00:06:22] comparing with the past. He has only only been to meet him once in the
[00:06:26] the last five months. So that's why
[00:06:29] why he is, he is saying that, you
[00:06:31] you know, the communication is difficult. difficult. Professor Nasser Hadian
[00:06:35] Hadian from the University of Tehran. Tehran. Well, with more on the Iranian
[00:06:39] Iranian President Masoud saying communication communication with the supreme leader,
[00:06:42] leader, Mojtaba Khamenei is very very difficult. I've been speaking
[00:06:45] speaking to BBC Persian's Baran Abbas.
[00:06:48] Abbas. Well, nobody's seen him in in public since his father was killed
[00:06:51] killed on the first day of the war, war, and he was injured. We don't
[00:06:55] don't know his health conditions. conditions. He hasn't been seen in
[00:06:58] in public. No videos or videos of
[00:07:01] of him have been published. Only Only statements, written statements
[00:07:04] statements attributed to him have
[00:07:06] have been released. And the fact
[00:07:09] fact that there are divisions inside inside the political establishment.
[00:07:12] establishment. His condition is is
[00:07:16] is also not helping that to resolve
[00:07:18] resolve because every faction inside
[00:07:20] inside of Iran is saying that the
[00:07:23] the supreme leader are on their side
[00:07:26] side and he has the final authority authority in Iran. He is the one
[00:07:29] one who has to actually sign off off on a deal between Iran and Oman,
[00:07:32] Oman, or between Iran and the United United States. So the fact that he
[00:07:36] he hasn't been seen in public, the the President says that it's difficult
[00:07:39] difficult to talk to him. It means
[00:07:42] means that it's difficult to know
[00:07:45] know what his conditions for peace peace is, whether he does want peace
[00:07:49] peace or he doesn't want want peace.
[00:07:51] peace. So hardliners say that negotiations
[00:07:54] negotiations with the United States
[00:07:56] States is a treasonous act because
[00:07:59] because it's with those who are responsible responsible for the killing of the
[00:08:02] the former supreme leader. The current current leader is father, so they
[00:08:06] they don't want any negotiations negotiations whatsoever. The President
[00:08:09] President positions government and and his team do want negotiations.
[00:08:12] negotiations. They want the Strait
[00:08:14] Strait of Hormuz open and they want
[00:08:17] want political and economic pressure
[00:08:19] pressure lifted from Iran. But the
[00:08:21] the fact that we are receiving conflicting
[00:08:24] conflicting reports about the condition condition of the Supreme leader, leader, his political position, it
[00:08:28] it makes it very difficult to understand.
[00:08:32] understand. From BBC Persian some some breaking news this hour. Black
[00:08:35] Black smoke is hanging over the Russian Russian city of Yaroslavl, the home
[00:08:39] home of one of the country's biggest biggest oil refineries, after a Ukrainian
[00:08:43] Ukrainian drone attack. President President Zelensky of Ukraine said
[00:08:47] said they targeted the refinery and
[00:08:50] and another in Bashkortostan as part part of the effort to cut the oil
[00:08:53] oil revenues that fund Russia's war war effort. The region's governors
[00:08:57] governors called it the largest ever
[00:09:00] ever attack, saying 93 drones were were destroyed. But that's only part part of the picture across Russia,
[00:09:04] Russia, the military says it has
[00:09:06] has intercepted and destroyed over
[00:09:09] over 600 Ukrainian drones. The attacks attacks have also continued the other
[00:09:13] other way. Five Ukrainians were reported reported to have been killed in Russian Russian attacks overnight. These
[00:09:17] These are images from Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia where Russian drones
[00:09:20] drones hit an apartment block, injuring injuring two civilians. Well, let's
[00:09:23] let's speak to our correspondent correspondent from BBC Russian Olga
[00:09:26] Olga Ivshina. Hello to you, Olga. Olga. Just bring us up to date with
[00:09:29] with what's been happening overnight.
[00:09:31] overnight. Yeah. So there have been,
[00:09:34] been, missile strikes, drone strikes
[00:09:37] strikes on both sides. So as you you rightly said, Ukraine have been
[00:09:41] been hit. 94 drones and two ballistic
[00:09:45] ballistic missiles. Only 66 of those those drones have been intercepted,
[00:09:49] intercepted, as stated by Ukraine. Ukraine. Ukrainian officials. So
[00:09:52] So this shows one of the big problems
[00:09:54] problems which exists now for Ukraine. Ukraine. They, they lack intercepting
[00:09:57] intercepting facility. And of course, course, most importantly, they don't
[00:10:01] don't have capabilities currently currently to intercept Russia's ballistic
[00:10:05] ballistic missiles, which can bring
[00:10:07] bring significant troubles. And significant
[00:10:11] significant destructions for different different facilities in Ukraine.
[00:10:14] Ukraine. Olha on apologies. Do carry carry on. On the other side, Russia
[00:10:18] Russia has also been hit. So Russian
[00:10:22] Russian mod, this morning reported
[00:10:24] reported over 600 drones being, flown flown over Russia. They claim most
[00:10:28] most of them have been intercepted, intercepted, but there has been successful
[00:10:32] successful strike on Russian oil oil facilities in Yaroslavl. That's
[00:10:36] That's roughly 300km from Moscow.
[00:10:39] Moscow. And, that's 1300km from Moscow. Moscow. This shows you what the deep
[00:10:43] deep range Ukrainian drones are now now reaching. And it has been quite
[00:10:47] quite a long and successful campaign campaign of Ukrainian drone strikes
[00:10:50] strikes on Russian facilities. Mostly Mostly industrial, but also some
[00:10:54] some civilian facilities have been
[00:10:57] been hit Wildberries, storage facilities facilities that Russian analogue
[00:11:00] analogue of Amazon Ukraine claims
[00:11:02] claims it's being hit because it
[00:11:04] it sells, some military related products.
[00:11:07] products. Moscow strongly denies denies that. And do we know to what
[00:11:12] what extent the strikes by Ukraine
[00:11:14] Ukraine FA inside Russia are having having an effect on Russian public
[00:11:17] public opinion? That's a good question. question. First of all, you know, know, Russia is an authoritarian
[00:11:21] authoritarian society. So it's very
[00:11:23] very hard to measure the real sort
[00:11:26] sort of public opinion, public climate climate inside. But based on the
[00:11:30] the polls, we get public opinion,
[00:11:33] opinion, you know, public, mood is
[00:11:35] is being affected. Putin's rating rating is at its lowest since the
[00:11:39] the start of the invasion in February
[00:11:41] February 2022. It has dropped from
[00:11:45] from 87% last year to 76, or 74%
[00:11:49] 74% in July. So that's a big drop.
[00:11:54] drop. And, but the trouble is, and and the amount of people who according
[00:11:58] according to the polls, people who who support possible peace negotiations, negotiations, peace deal is around
[00:12:02] around 60%. But the big problem is
[00:12:04] is public opinion. They don't decide
[00:12:07] decide there is one man in the Kremlin Kremlin who calls the shots and he
[00:12:11] he repeatedly says that he wants wants to continue this invasion. invasion. And as well as all the
[00:12:15] the strikes on oil refineries, we've we've seen strike after strike by
[00:12:18] by Ukraine on, on the Russian the the Russian retail chain. Wildberries
[00:12:22] Wildberries what sort of effect is
[00:12:23] is this having on, on life in Russia?
[00:12:28] Russia? Well, it depends which part part of Russia we are talking about.
[00:12:30] about. Russia is huge, right? In In those particular places where
[00:12:34] where those, storage facilities were
[00:12:37] were placed, of course, people feel feel the effect. People are in shock,
[00:12:40] shock, etc but overall we don't see
[00:12:43] see significant disturbance. So, So, the overall, the business continues.
[00:12:47] continues. Of course, people lose
[00:12:48] lose their money. The, the Wildberries
[00:12:51] Wildberries chain itself is significantly significantly affected. But, the
[00:12:55] the sales continue. People can't can't get the everyday goods they
[00:12:58] they need. Of course, there are some
[00:13:01] some minor disruptions, but Russia Russia tries to find alternative
[00:13:04] alternative ways, for example, with with petrol, because of oil strike,
[00:13:08] strike, oil facility strikes. Russia Russia started buying petrol from
[00:13:12] from Morocco from India. So they're they're trying to play things down
[00:13:15] down and to try to find alternative alternative routes. Olha thank you
[00:13:18] you very much. Olga Ivshina BBC Russian
[00:13:21] Russian the head of football's governing governing body has apologised for
[00:13:25] for errors made in the pursuit of of his controversial plan to sell
[00:13:28] sell off stakes in competitions to to private investors. But Gianni
[00:13:31] Gianni Infantino plans to remain remain in his role as Fifa's president
[00:13:34] president after senior executives executives rallied behind him, releasing
[00:13:37] releasing a statement of support. support. I asked Mark Palios, the
[00:13:41] the former chief executive of the the English FA, what he made of the
[00:13:44] the emergency meeting in Rabat. I
[00:13:47] I think Infantino people expected expected him to fight to keep his
[00:13:50] his job and I think he's got over
[00:13:52] over the first major hurdle or seemingly seemingly got over that because you
[00:13:56] you simply can't run such a public
[00:13:58] public organisation, a public facing facing organisation when your senior
[00:14:02] senior staff are offside, you know, know, you have leaks etc. And presumably
[00:14:06] presumably he's persuaded them that that they will be able to change
[00:14:09] change the government or get the the government. Right. But actually
[00:14:12] actually that's quite strange because because in the statement itself he
[00:14:16] he sort of accepts that mistakes mistakes were made and the processes
[00:14:19] processes can be improved. But then then he goes on to threaten regarding
[00:14:22] regarding criticism. You know, we'll we'll not tolerate attacks on our
[00:14:26] our integrity, good governance and and due process, which sort of means
[00:14:29] means he doesn't quite get it. But But the next step is he's got to
[00:14:33] to really start working and get the the confederations onside. And do
[00:14:37] do you think he might will be able able to do that because, you know,
[00:14:40] know, obviously this is being described described as a Uefa led rebellion.
[00:14:43] rebellion. Will others follow? Yeah,
[00:14:47] Yeah, it's where the battleground battleground will be. I suspect he's he's going to find it more difficult
[00:14:51] difficult to persuade the confederations
[00:14:53] confederations that governments will will be improved under him. I mean,
[00:14:56] mean, he's already had a few shots
[00:14:58] shots at that in terms of that was was the mandate upon which he sort
[00:15:02] sort of got elected last time with
[00:15:06] with transparency, etc. And the real
[00:15:08] real question is will the confederations
[00:15:11] confederations stick to their threats threats because they're talking about about a separate tournament. Well,
[00:15:14] Well, that takes a lot of organising. organising. But actually the threat
[00:15:18] threat that may well work is the the fact that they're going to paralyse
[00:15:21] paralyse Fifa by just not joining
[00:15:22] joining in. I think Infantino will
[00:15:26] will play for time. He's aware of
[00:15:28] of their weaknesses and their weaknesses weaknesses that whilst you've got
[00:15:32] got 55 members for example in Uefa
[00:15:35] Uefa when the vote comes on, on the the candidates, if there's more than
[00:15:39] than one candidate or on Infantino, Infantino, that's a secret ballot.
[00:15:42] ballot. So you can't guarantee that that the whole federation will vote
[00:15:45] vote in the same way. And he's also
[00:15:48] also and he knows that there has
[00:15:50] has been a historical bias against
[00:15:53] against European dominance within within Fifa. And so I think his best
[00:15:56] best bet is, is to take the heat heat out of the situation now, which
[00:16:00] which is what he seems to be trying trying to do and possibly try to
[00:16:04] to isolate Uefa from the other confederations,
[00:16:07] confederations, especially the Asian Asian Confederation, and characterised
[00:16:10] characterised the whole thing as
[00:16:12] as another European plot so he can
[00:16:14] can get to the election in the spring.
[00:16:17] spring. And during that time seek seek to pick off individual federations
[00:16:21] federations in the interim. That's That's Mark Palios, former chief
[00:16:25] chief executive of the English FA FA around the world
[00:17:27] able to afford the £4,000 funerals. funerals. He tried to act like he he was their friend. Paul's heart-wrenching heart-wrenching stuff that made me me feel sick. The big cases, funeral
[00:17:31] funeral Home horror. Watch on BBC
[00:17:34] BBC News. Four women have told the
[00:17:41] the BBC they were sexually assaulted assaulted and harassed at an Army
[00:17:43] Army training college for teenagers teenagers in North Yorkshire. The
[00:17:47] The Army Foundation College in Harrogate Harrogate is the largest military
[00:17:50] military training establishment for for under 19 seconds in the UK and
[00:17:53] and receives all the Army's 16-year-old 16-year-old recruits. The Ministry
[00:17:56] Ministry of Defence says the culture culture of care at the establishment
[00:17:59] establishment was recognised in its its latest Ofsted report, as well
[00:18:02] well as during a visit from the Children's Children's Commissioner and safeguarding
[00:18:06] safeguarding authorities in January. January. Our senior UK correspondent correspondent Sima Kotecha has more.
[00:18:09] more. A warning her report contains
[00:18:11] contains distressing details. It
[00:18:14] It ruined my life. I've lost all
[00:18:18] all my confidence. The words of women women who went to the largest army
[00:18:21] army training college in the country
[00:18:24] country for 16 and 17 year-olds. year-olds. Speaking to the BBC for
[00:18:27] for the first time. It needs to be be closed down and I don't get why
[00:18:31] why it hasn't. It just doesn't make
[00:18:33] make sense. The Army Foundation College College in Harrogate is for teenagers
[00:18:36] teenagers who want a life in the the armed forces, but now it's at
[00:18:40] at the centre of serious allegations allegations from several women who
[00:18:43] who went to the college in recent
[00:18:45] recent years. Claims of harassment harassment and sexual assault. They
[00:18:49] They were like. Do you want to come
[00:18:50] come into the room? And me being
[00:18:53] being a naive 17-year-old girl was
[00:18:55] was like, yeah, fine. Tilly, not
[00:18:57] not her real name, says she was raped
[00:18:59] raped by fellow recruits. They started started taking my clothes off and
[00:19:03] and then this led to them doing stuff
[00:19:06] stuff I didn't consent to. There
[00:19:09] There were a lot of them. They touched
[00:19:11] touched me in places, made inappropriate inappropriate comments, calling me
[00:19:14] me a thing rather than a girl. Like Like some of the other women we spoke
[00:19:17] spoke to, Tilly reported it to the the police. We're not providing the
[00:19:21] the full details of all their investigations
[00:19:23] investigations to protect their identity.
[00:19:26] identity. Monica, also not her real real name, says she too was attacked
[00:19:30] attacked by a junior soldier. Stood Stood against the door so I couldn't
[00:19:33] couldn't get out. He then pushed pushed himself up against me and
[00:19:35] and started kissing my face and touching
[00:19:38] touching me all over. He sexually sexually assaulted me. All of the
[00:19:41] the women we've spoken to went to to this college over the last five
[00:19:45] five years. Data obtained by the
[00:19:47] the BBC through a Freedom of Information
[00:19:49] Information request shows that North North Yorkshire Police recorded 16
[00:19:53] 16 sexual offence crimes over the
[00:19:56] the last year at this college, including
[00:19:59] including voyeurism and exposure exposure and sexual assault. These
[00:20:03] These are recorded complaints and and it's not clear how many led to
[00:20:06] to prosecutions. If this was anywhere anywhere else it would have been been closed down by now. I think
[00:20:10] think as a matter of urgency, there
[00:20:12] there should be an independent inquiry
[00:20:14] inquiry into the college led by someone
[00:20:16] someone with significant safeguarding
[00:20:19] safeguarding expertise. A recent recent Ministry of Defence survey
[00:20:22] survey suggests almost 70% of women women in the armed forces experienced
[00:20:26] experienced at least one sexualised sexualised behaviour in the last
[00:20:30] last year. In 2021, gunner JAAC Beck
[00:20:32] Beck took her own life at her barracks barracks in Wiltshire months after
[00:20:36] after she was sexually assaulted assaulted by Warrant Officer Michael
[00:20:40] Michael Weber. Last year, a coroner coroner ruled the assault and the
[00:20:43] the army's failure to take appropriate
[00:20:45] appropriate action more than minimally
[00:20:48] minimally contributed to her death.
[00:20:49] death. Weber was jailed for six months.
[00:20:52] months. The government defines a
[00:20:54] a child as anyone under 18. In response
[00:20:57] response to the allegations made made in this report, the Ministry
[00:21:00] Ministry of Defence says unacceptable unacceptable and criminal behaviour
[00:21:03] behaviour has absolutely no place place in our armed forces and these
[00:21:06] these reports are extremely distressing distressing and serious. It says
[00:21:10] says it's created the defence Serious
[00:21:12] Serious Crime Command, which is independent independent and outside of the army
[00:21:16] army chain of command and has a specialist specialist team who help victims
[00:21:20] victims throughout the process of
[00:21:23] of justice. The Army is a tough training
[00:21:27] training environment with high standards, standards, but the supervision and
[00:21:30] and discipline of junior recruits recruits and their instructors is
[00:21:33] is now in sharp focus. After so many
[00:21:37] many serious allegations. Sima Kotecha,
[00:21:40] Kotecha, BBC News and Seema is with with me now. And Seema, just tell
[00:21:44] tell us a little bit more detail detail about the sort of stories
[00:21:47] stories that you heard. Yeah. I mean, mean, there's no doubt about it.
[00:21:50] it. These are incredibly alarming alarming allegations. As you heard heard in that report. I've been speaking
[00:21:54] speaking to four women who allege allege serious sexual assault. One
[00:21:58] One of them claims that she was raped
[00:22:01] raped by multiple junior soldiers. soldiers. The allegations are said
[00:22:04] said to have happened over the last last five years, and they're raising
[00:22:07] raising serious concerns not only only about what they describe as
[00:22:11] as predatory sexual behaviour, but but they're also saying there is
[00:22:13] is a deep rooted culture of misogyny misogyny at this college, that some
[00:22:17] some of it stems from the instructors.
[00:22:20] instructors. They have told me stories stories where they've heard instructors
[00:22:24] instructors say incredibly crude crude things, which I can't even even repeat on air. And they're saying
[00:22:28] saying that that sort of language
[00:22:30] language is encouraging young soldiers
[00:22:32] soldiers to behave in a predatory
[00:22:34] predatory way. Obviously the Mod
[00:22:37] Mod is saying it's doing all it can
[00:22:40] can to combat this sort of behaviour. behaviour. It says it's put many
[00:22:43] many policies in place, says it has has a zero tolerance approach. I
[00:22:47] I was told that everyone who is recruited
[00:22:50] recruited at that college is told told from day one that this type
[00:22:53] type of behaviour will not be stood
[00:22:56] stood for and that nobody can behave behave in this way or there will
[00:22:59] will be serious consequences. The The Mod has made that abundantly
[00:23:02] abundantly clear. But these women
[00:23:04] women are saying that somebody independent independent needs to either go into
[00:23:08] into this college and do a proper proper assessment, or it needs to
[00:23:12] to be closed down. And I think if if you look at the evidence and you
[00:23:15] you look at the data, there is a a breadth of data that raises serious
[00:23:18] serious questions. We put in a freedom freedom of information request to
[00:23:22] to North Yorkshire Police, which
[00:23:23] which revealed that there had been
[00:23:26] been 16 reports of sexual assaults assaults at the college over the
[00:23:30] the last year alone. We don't know
[00:23:31] know how many of those led to prosecutions,
[00:23:35] prosecutions, but there is other other data that has come out over
[00:23:38] over the last year or so. That is
[00:23:41] is just as alarming. There was a a parliamentary question asked last
[00:23:44] last year and that revealed that
[00:23:47] that there had been 176 sexual allegations allegations reported between January
[00:23:51] January 2018 and June last year connected connected to that college alone.
[00:23:55] alone. And Seema, you've talked about about what the Mod has said about about what has been unveiled and
[00:23:58] and what's happened in the past. past. How has it said things will
[00:24:01] will be different from now? Well, Well, they are adamant that they
[00:24:04] they want to bring about change. change. But there is also speaking speaking to insiders. There's also
[00:24:08] also an awareness that there is a a problem here, that there is misogyny
[00:24:11] misogyny and that this behaviour behaviour does happen. And we know know that from various convictions
[00:24:15] convictions that we've seen. I mean, mean, five instructors have been
[00:24:18] been convicted by court martial of
[00:24:20] of sexual assault linked to this
[00:24:23] this college in the last 5 or 6 years.
[00:24:26] years. And although none of these these allegations are related to
[00:24:29] to those instructors, the women do do say that it raises questions about
[00:24:32] about the overall culture, which which is, you know, it is concerning.
[00:24:35] concerning. But let me just tell tell you what the Ministry of Defence Defence says. It says that unacceptable
[00:24:39] unacceptable and criminal behaviour behaviour has absolutely no place
[00:24:41] place in our armed forces. And these these reports are extremely distressing
[00:24:45] distressing and serious. It said said it's created the defence Serious
[00:24:49] Serious Crime Command, which is independent independent and outside of the army
[00:24:52] army chain of command and has a specialist specialist team who help victims
[00:24:56] victims throughout the process of of justice. It says that it has a
[00:24:58] a zero tolerance for this kind of
[00:25:00] of behaviour, and anybody who has has experienced it must come forward.
[00:25:04] forward. Seema, thank you very much.
[00:25:05] much. Sima Kotecha, a senior UK correspondent.
[00:25:10] correspondent. Let's just show you you what's up and running on the
[00:25:12] the BBC website. If you are interested
[00:25:15] interested in the Fifa latest Gianni
[00:25:18] Gianni Infantino that apology that
[00:25:21] that came after that plan to sell sell stakes in the World Cup to private
[00:25:24] private investors. That plan was
[00:25:27] was scrapped because of such negative
[00:25:28] negative reaction from so many places.
[00:25:32] places. It's an updated minute by
[00:25:33] by minute live page. President Gianni
[00:25:36] Gianni Infantino remains Fifa president president after receiving the backing
[00:25:40] backing yesterday. At that emergency emergency meeting in Morocco in Rabat,
[00:25:44] Rabat, of senior executives where where he apologised for errors, he
[00:25:48] he made a very united front coming
[00:25:51] coming from Fifa in a statement saying saying that Fifa Management Board
[00:25:55] Board reaffirmed their full support support for Fifa president Gianni
[00:25:58] Gianni Infantino. So do take a look
[00:26:01] look at the website, the BBC sports sports website and
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