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[00:01:13] America. Ukrainian forces hit two oil refineries
[00:01:17] far inside Russia amit a wave of deadly Russian
[00:01:20] strikes on Ukraine. Questions
[00:01:24] mount about the state
[00:01:25] of the US military arsenal after President Trump denies reports of
[00:01:29] a minute. shortage that could hinder its
[00:01:33] in readiness,
[00:01:34] of the
[00:01:34] in English of FA withdraw support for Infantino, as
[00:01:41] of of UEFA says that the World Cup boycot may still go
[00:01:42] of ahead, and President Trump signs two
[00:01:45] executive orders aimed at denying citizenship to certain
[00:01:49] children born in the United
[00:01:51] States.
[00:02:04] Good to have you with us. Ukraine says that it has hit two oil
[00:02:07] a refineries in multiple strikes deep inside Russia.
[00:02:11] Thick smoke was seen in the Russian
[00:02:14] of city of
[00:02:14] a Yadislav about 600 kilometers from the Ukrainian
[00:02:17] of border. President Valodimir Zelensky says that the attacks on Thursday
[00:02:21] sought to limit
[00:02:22] of oil of revenues that Moscow uses to finance its
[00:02:26] war. Well Ukrainian authorities say that Russia
[00:02:29] of killed at 11 people in overnight strikes, the attacks
[00:02:33] also
[00:02:34] of caused a total blackout in the city of Herson. President Zelensky
[00:02:37] also said that Ukraine had hit
[00:02:39] me Russian tankers, illegally
[00:02:42] of exporting sanctioned oil in the black sea. Well, our diplomatic correspondent, Paul
[00:02:46] Adams has been granted rare access to Ukraine's navy as
[00:02:50] it patrols dangerous waters in the black sea. Access was given on the
[00:02:54] strict condition that the
[00:02:55] in navy's precise location was not
[00:02:57] revealed. "We're going on
[00:03:01] patrol with the Ukrainian navy, out into waters made
[00:03:04] increasingly dangerous by Russian
[00:03:06] of attacks, rare access to a unit facing constant
[00:03:10] of danger,
[00:03:11] in a part
[00:03:11] of the country where a drone or ballistic missile can arrive with little
[00:03:14] warning, everyone is focused, on
[00:03:18] alert, they fire their guns every
[00:03:21] in day. This morning it looks deceptively calm. With its
[00:03:25] guns, its netting and
[00:03:27] some of the other equipment on board, this vessel can look after itself." off
[00:03:30] of more or less, but what it can't do is
[00:03:32] to stop
[00:03:33] in Russia attacking civilian ships coming in and out of
[00:03:37] Ukraine's ports. those
[00:03:39] in attacks in are increasing and it's a major problem. there's a
[00:03:43] war out at sea. Russia and
[00:03:46] of Ukraine
[00:03:47] of of in hitting each other's ships, hundreds
[00:03:48] of them. For the past month, the images have been pouring
[00:03:53] of in. Every day we have to rescue crews and
[00:03:56] of take measures to prevent these attacks and reduce their number. "we're doing
[00:04:00] everything we possibly can. Ukraine is one
[00:04:04] of the world's largest
[00:04:05] of grain exporters before the
[00:04:06] a war, when these pictures were taken, Odessa's ports helped feed the
[00:04:10] world. The country's grain exporters are
[00:04:14] worried, the summer harvest is in full swing, Russia's attacks
[00:04:18] coming at the worst possible time. I would say that uh we
[00:04:22] already have uh lost the ability to deliver
[00:04:25] to global consumer around half
[00:04:31] in of in million." 700 thousand metric tons of Ukrainian greats and well seats.
[00:04:33] a The war at
[00:04:34] a sea is raging, some of it out over the horizon, some of it right
[00:04:38] here along the
[00:04:39] a coast. Ukraine and Russia are
[00:04:41] of looking to exert maximum economic
[00:04:44] a pressure on each other, for those who live and work
[00:04:47] a here, life is becoming increasingly
[00:04:49] dangerous. Sitlana works in Odessa's
[00:04:53] port, she's been limping for the past year ever since a Russian missile
[00:04:57] a exploded nearby, killing two of her.
[00:05:04] of
[00:05:21] Look at my
[00:05:21] hands,
[00:05:26] for all its dangers, this is summer, in Odessa, Ukrainians have
[00:05:30] flopped to the beach,
[00:05:34] mostly ignoring the sirens and showing only mild interest
[00:05:37] earlier this week when a Russian drone washed
[00:05:40] ashore. 'at the
[00:05:44] other end the black sea, on the same
[00:05:45] day, seven Russians were
[00:05:49] killed when an intercepted Ukrainian drone fell on their
[00:05:53] beach. Back near Odessa, we go looking for the
[00:05:57] sight of an explosion we heard earlier. We find
[00:06:00] 83-year-old Andre Dudik in the shattered ruins of his
[00:06:04] house and garden. It's been just five hours since a jet-powered
[00:06:08] drone interrupted his afternoon nap. Somehow, he
[00:06:11] escaped without a'. scratch: you think that you
[00:06:15] are the accidental victim of Russia's
[00:06:18] attacks on the ports? absolutely, he
[00:06:22] says. i won't forget
[00:06:25] this. this war on ships and ports has
[00:06:29] many casual victims, sailors, dock workers, or people
[00:06:32] simply unlucky enough to live or work nearby. paul
[00:06:36] adams, bbc news, odessa. and
[00:06:40] you can see more of
[00:06:42] Paul adams. trip to Odessa on BBC News YouTube
[00:06:45] channel. Well, President Trump is denying reports that
[00:06:48] Washington has exhausted his weapon stock piles during the Iran
[00:06:52] war. Details on US stock piles are classified, but
[00:06:56] CBS News, the BBC's US partner cited two unnamed sources
[00:07:00] saying that the US has gone through much of its long-range
[00:07:04] precision missile stock pile. Here's what the president told
[00:07:07] reporters at the White House on Thursday. I rebuilt the
[00:07:11] military and also. loaded it up with lot of stuff, that we have certain
[00:07:15] types of munitions that are very powerful, that we
[00:07:19] have unlimited virtual unlimited supply, we have others where it's a
[00:07:23] little bit tighter and we're getting them in a daily
[00:07:27] basis. well this comes as Iran
[00:07:30] seeks to finalize deal directly with a man over the straight of
[00:07:34] homoz. the two countries are engaged in talks to
[00:07:38] jointly manage the straight, which before the war channeled fifth the...
[00:07:42] world's oil. now oil prices, they rose on Thursday after Iranian
[00:07:46] media reported a parliamentary committee is weighing a ban
[00:07:50] on US and Israeli vessels passing through the
[00:07:54] straight. joining me live now is Noam Raiden, senior
[00:07:58] fellow at the Washington Institute for near East Policy with focus on
[00:08:01] energy and maritime risks in the Middle East. Good evening to you, good to have you
[00:08:05] on the program, so I mean we're kind of a holding pattern where we've been
[00:08:09] hearing for number of days that there is a potential for a... deal on the
[00:08:13] straight from both Iran and the United States, what do you make
[00:08:17] of what we've been hearing? good evening and thank you for having me,
[00:08:21] here's what's happening, the straight of hormos has
[00:08:25] been Iran's key strategic asset throughout this
[00:08:28] war, Iran has managed to establish new
[00:08:31] navigational order, what is happening right now is that
[00:08:35] Iran wants to shape this new navigational order, meaning
[00:08:39] how ships enter and exit the region through the straight... according to
[00:08:42] its own terms, this is why we're seeing them negotiating with
[00:08:46] ourman, and we are hearing different narratives from
[00:08:50] different officials, especially out of Iran, but what
[00:08:54] Iran wants to establish is a
[00:08:57] long-term control the straight of hormos, we should not expect
[00:09:01] Tahran to let go of this control, it has managed
[00:09:05] to uh gain throughout uh this
[00:09:09] war, which brings me to the question, Noam, "even if we
[00:09:13] talk about deal being close, would the contours of this deal be anything
[00:09:17] that would satisfy President Trump, and of
[00:09:20] course number of countries around the world which want to see toll-free
[00:09:24] access? the issue of fees
[00:09:28] is very controversial issue, it has always been controversial a
[00:09:32] mid this war. we are again, we are hearing different narratives from
[00:09:36] Iranian officials, but even if Iran wants to
[00:09:39] establish any form of payment, it will f'. Iran will
[00:09:43] face uh uh several barriers, these include
[00:09:47] US sanctions, uh, the US treasury, even
[00:09:50] late, in late July, excuse me, sanctioned at least
[00:09:54] two firms, Iranian firms for trying, reportedly
[00:09:58] trying to monetize the straight, so we have the sanctions and also we
[00:10:02] have the issue of vessels themselves, the operators of
[00:10:05] ships that will face lot of problems if they end up
[00:10:09] paying uh any sort of fee to Iran, because they
[00:10:13] may lose their insurance, so even if Iran insists a
[00:10:17] payment mechanism, they will face several
[00:10:20] barriers. I mean, we're also seeing that there is the potential here
[00:10:24] for a ban when..." it comes to US and Israeli vessels
[00:10:28] through the street straight,
[00:10:30] you know, what would that mean? and I also just want to put to you the
[00:10:34] question, how much of an impact would that actually have, for example on the
[00:10:37] US, how much commercial
[00:10:40] shipping is destined for the
[00:10:43] US? we've seen this type
[00:10:46] of threat happening elsewhere, such as in the red sea. in
[00:10:50] the red sea, for instance, yeman's hees have managed to
[00:10:54] prevent. certain companies from returning to the Red Sea. um,
[00:10:58] I my concern is that Iran might actually also succeed in
[00:11:02] doing that, and we need to bear in mind that the risks Iran
[00:11:06] has established in the straight of formost, in the Persian Gulf and surrounding
[00:11:09] waterways will prevent some ships from using
[00:11:13] these waterways uh for some time again, because the risks were
[00:11:17] remain very high, specifically with respect to vessels that may be
[00:11:21] linked to US, Israel or the United Kingdom.
[00:11:25] so what does all of this mean for the global economy? right
[00:11:29] now oil prices are up again with this uncertainty, we know
[00:11:33] that the straight certainly wouldn't be
[00:11:36] unblocked overnight, the pressure will remain on
[00:11:39] energy markets, because we are also
[00:11:42] seeing problems in other critical
[00:11:46] waterways in the region, and mean here the red sea
[00:11:50] bable mandab, which is another critical choke point, so
[00:11:54] we have press. right now that are increasing on two
[00:11:57] critical choke points, the straight of hormos because of Iran and also
[00:12:01] Babbul in the red sea because the hooties, this is why I
[00:12:05] expect the pressure to be maintained on
[00:12:08] regional oil producer exporters as well as on the
[00:12:12] global economy and of course the energy markets. now
[00:12:16] r down there, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for neareast
[00:12:19] policy, very good to get your thought, thank you. Thank
[00:12:23] you. Now Yemen's defense ministry says that it will
[00:12:27] respond after Hoofi rebels killed at least 30 Yemeny
[00:12:31] government troops in attack on military camps. The ministry says
[00:12:35] that missiles and drones hit several camps in the central part
[00:12:39] the country. A military spokesperson for the Hutis who control much the
[00:12:43] northwest of Yemen say that they were targeting large
[00:12:46] Saudi military buildups at the camps. Now a Saudi led
[00:12:50] coalition has supported Yemen's government against the Iran aligned
[00:12:54] tothies. throughout the country's 12 years civil war, and
[00:12:58] that fighting has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced
[00:13:01] millions more. well let's turn now to the fragile situation in
[00:13:05] Lebanon. the Israeli army has carried out strikes in the
[00:13:09] south on Thursday, killing one person and wounding 11, it
[00:13:13] marks the first Israeli strikes on Lebanon in more than a
[00:13:16] month. well, the IDF called its retaliation for the deaths
[00:13:20] of two Israeli soldiers and an explosion on Wednesday, an
[00:13:24] Israeli... forces still maintain control of much of southern
[00:13:28] Lebanon, topic that dominated the latest round of talks between the two
[00:13:32] countries with the goal of expanding Lebanese control of
[00:13:35] so-called pilot zones. Hezbulah rejects the direct talks
[00:13:39] and refuses to surrender its weapons. We'll still to
[00:13:43] come on World News America, four women tell the
[00:13:46] BBC that they were sexually assaulted and harassed at an army
[00:13:50] training college for teenagers in North Yorkshire. We have a special
[00:13:54] report. Next, around the world and across the UK. This is BBC
[00:13:58] News.
[00:15:10] You're live with BBC News, now
[00:15:12] the next World Cup tournament could still be in peril despite FIFA
[00:15:16] president Janny Infantino scrapping his widely condemned
[00:15:20] plan to sell stakes in the competition to private equity
[00:15:23] investors. Well that led investor, that lead investor,
[00:15:27] excuse me, would have been Joshua Kushner, the brother of President Trump's
[00:15:31] son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Now UEFA, European football's
[00:15:35] governing body, is refusing to withdraw. or its threat to boycott the next
[00:15:39] World Cup, saying that its conditions have not been met. Well, the
[00:15:43] English Football Association is also officially withdrawn its support
[00:15:47] for Janny Infantino, but the Confederation of African Football's
[00:15:51] executive Committee has unanimously confirmed its
[00:15:54] support for him. We're joining me live now as BBC
[00:15:58] Sport presenter Hugue Ferris. Huw, good to see you,
[00:16:02] just bring us up to date with the response that we are seeing to FIFA's
[00:16:05] stance. Yeah, that's right, over the last 24
[00:16:09] hours or so, Helena, there has been if FIFA wanted to draw a line under the
[00:16:13] fair, very much the opposite happening, rather an
[00:16:17] entrenching of positions, those in favor have restated that
[00:16:21] support, those against, rather than backing down as Gianny
[00:16:24] Fentontino might have hoped to do after his statement on Wednesday night,
[00:16:28] the pretty much doubling down, you mention you for reaffirming its
[00:16:32] stance that they could well boycot any FIFA tournaments coming up
[00:16:36] if G remains in post not only because
[00:16:40] the conditions that they say that have not been met following their initial rejection of
[00:16:44] those plans that you outline, but also saying that nothing has
[00:16:47] changed after that statement from FIFA in the last
[00:16:51] 24 hours. FEF
[00:16:54] Pro who are the players Union Globally, they have called that statement and
[00:16:57] indeed the meeting that it followed, a profound abuse
[00:17:01] of presidential power, but on the other side of things, you mentioned the
[00:17:05] Confederation of African Football. long supporters of Gintino
[00:17:08] as a whole, but also the constituent member
[00:17:11] associations as well, talking about the fact that they
[00:17:15] unanimously reconfirmed it support for the FIFA
[00:17:18] president Jenny Infantino, indeed they thanked him for his support for African
[00:17:22] football over the years, they say they endorse also the FIFA statement
[00:17:26] from Wednesday night, so there are those in support and there
[00:17:30] are those who are not, pretty much
[00:17:33] every single member association or confederation have... about the
[00:17:37] fact they didn't like how the plans would come about and
[00:17:41] indeed how they were announced, but those in favor of Jenny and fentino
[00:17:45] remain so, those against are doubling down. hue, how
[00:17:49] does all of this get sorted out then? what does
[00:17:52] resolution look like here? well,
[00:17:56] certainly the first test of any boycott that UEFA are threatening will be within
[00:18:00] a month or so, because just a month's time the women's
[00:18:03] under 20 World Cup takes place in Poland, are you?
[00:18:07] nation, it has six UEFA competitors
[00:18:11] within it too, so will those nations withdraw, will Poland
[00:18:15] still host the competition, if that is resolved in time
[00:18:19] for that, then aside from the competition, you have numbers
[00:18:22] game to be played, will Jenner Fintino be
[00:18:26] defeated by number of people who could be able to
[00:18:29] unify against him, whether it's a new candidate or whether it's simply to
[00:18:33] attempt to Aust him, now the 211 FIFA.
[00:18:37] associations, it needs to be just majority, so that's
[00:18:41] 106, if you look at those who have already
[00:18:44] professed opposition to him, that is 55 member
[00:18:48] associations from within UEFA and potentially Concercaff, the north and
[00:18:52] central American confederation might add another
[00:18:56] 35, but that if you do the maths is just 90, so
[00:18:59] 16 more will be needed, that either to
[00:19:02] opentino or unite behind an alternative candidate
[00:19:06] or...
[00:19:07] Okay, they
[00:19:08] are
[00:19:15] is against not
[00:19:16] this ending. division H Ferris doing the maths for us. Thank you very
[00:19:19] much. And the family of a
[00:19:23] Scottish AID worker Lisa Ross who was killed in Greece have paid tribute
[00:19:27] to her describing her as kind, principled and
[00:19:30] self selfless person. when Afghan boxer Sheriff
[00:19:34] Ahmad Zai appeared in court in Athens this morning. He was. with
[00:19:38] killing lisa as well as robbery and weapons offenses from Greece, our
[00:19:42] correspondent Ben Philipp reports. This
[00:19:46] was Shariff amaz. being
[00:19:50] taken to prison after being charged with killing. his
[00:19:54] head held down by police in, he said
[00:19:57] nothing. Elizabeth from Edinburgh was found dead on the 18th of
[00:20:01] July, the 38-year-old's body was discovered at this dedilic
[00:20:04] building inside suitcase. today, a mad's... was charged with
[00:20:08] homicide with intent equivalent to murder in the
[00:20:11] UK. alongside robbery and weapons
[00:20:14] offenses. born in Afghanistan, the
[00:20:18] 26-year-old is a champion boxer. he arrived in Greece as
[00:20:21] refugee in 2016. the Greek police have said that his
[00:20:25] American wife provided them with decisive details which led to his
[00:20:29] arrest. the BBC understands that Amadzay and his wife new Lisa
[00:20:33] after they volunteer together at refugee charity here in Athens,
[00:20:37] Court documents claim she told police that her husband had been at Lisa's
[00:20:41] apartment on the night the 15th of July after checking his
[00:20:44] location on her phone. She asked her husband why and he told her he
[00:20:48] went in to use the toilet after watching football a
[00:20:51] cafe. After learning woman was found dead close to
[00:20:55] where they live, madzi's wife told investigators that Lisa's
[00:20:59] messages were not in her style or level of English. She became
[00:21:02] concerned the woman in the suitcase was her friend. Today
[00:21:06] Lisa's family said she will always be remembered as kind,
[00:21:09] principled and selfless. Her integrity was absolute
[00:21:13] and she dedicated her life to helping others in need. We are in deep
[00:21:17] pain and ask for time and privacy, they said. "We spoke to one of
[00:21:21] Lisa's friends who she previously worked with a Christian aid
[00:21:24] charity. That's a bit emotional for me, but she's the one who
[00:21:28] would always give, like she would give to other
[00:21:32] people, she would be there for people,
[00:21:34] um, even to the point that she could
[00:21:38] sometimes forget about herself. Amadzi didn't
[00:21:42] respond to today's charges. His defense told the BBC their
[00:21:45] client's presumption of innocence has been damaged by leaks to the
[00:21:49] media. added that Amad Zai had exercised his right to remain
[00:21:53] silent, pending forensic and toxicology examinations of
[00:21:56] Lisa. He was remanded in custody until his trial, which could
[00:22:00] be up to 18 months away. It could be some time until Lisa's family find
[00:22:04] out what happened to her so far from home. Ben Philipp,
[00:22:08] BBC News, Athens.
[00:22:12] Where are calls for an independent inquiry into an army training college for
[00:22:16] teenagers in Yorkshire where four young women say that they were sexually assaulted.
[00:22:20] and harassed. They told the BBC that the incidents happened at the Army
[00:22:24] Foundation College in Haragut. The Army said that the claims were
[00:22:27] extremely distressing and serious. Well, this report from our senior UK
[00:22:31] correspondent Sieme Katetcha contains details of abuse
[00:22:34] allegations. It ruined my
[00:22:37] life. I've lost all my
[00:22:39] confidence. The words of women who went to the
[00:22:43] largest army training college in the country for 16 and
[00:22:46] 17-year-olds, speaking to the BBC for the first.
[00:22:50] time, it needs to be closed down, and I don't get why it hasn't,
[00:22:54] just doesn't make sense. The Army Foundation College
[00:22:58] in Haraguat is for teenagers who want life in the armed
[00:23:01] forces, but now it's at the center of serious allegations
[00:23:05] from several women who went to the college in recent years, claims
[00:23:09] of harassment and sexual assault. Tilly, not her
[00:23:12] real name, says she was raped by fellow recruits. They
[00:23:16] started taking my clothes off and then this led to their... doing
[00:23:20] stuff didn't consent to, there were lot
[00:23:24] them, they touched me in places made inappropriate
[00:23:27] comments, calling a thing rather than a
[00:23:30] girl. like some the other women we spoke to, tilly reported it to
[00:23:34] the police, we're not providing the full details of all their
[00:23:38] investigations to protect their identity.
[00:23:42] Monica, also not her real name, says she too was attacked by a junior
[00:23:46] soldier, so against the door so I couldn't get out, he then pushed himself.
[00:23:50] up against me and started kissing my face and touching me all
[00:23:53] over, he sexually assaulted me. all the women
[00:23:57] we've spoken to went to this college over the last five years,
[00:24:01] data obtained by the BBC through a freedom of information
[00:24:04] request shows that North Yorkshire police recorded
[00:24:08] 16 sexual offense crimes over the last year
[00:24:12] at this college, including voyarism and
[00:24:15] exposure and sexual assault. these are recorded
[00:24:19] complaints and It's not clear how many led to prosecutions. If
[00:24:23] this was anywhere else
[00:24:24] it would have been closed down by now. I think as matter of urgency there should
[00:24:27] be an independent inquiry into the college led by
[00:24:31] someone with significant safeguard and expertise. This woman is
[00:24:35] the mother of
[00:24:36] a former soldier. She says her daughter was touched
[00:24:39] inappropriately. She was literally recruited from
[00:24:42] school, sold a dream, and then had to navigate
[00:24:46] all this daily sexual harassment. And it just...
[00:24:50] my heart, because what you forget about is that she's
[00:24:54] just a child. the government defines a child
[00:24:58] as anyone under 18. in response to the allegations
[00:25:01] made in this report, the ministry of defense says,
[00:25:05] unacceptable and criminal behavior has absolutely no place in our
[00:25:09] armed forces, and these reports are extremely distressing and
[00:25:13] serious. it says it's created the defense serious crime
[00:25:16] command, which is independent and outside the army. chain of
[00:25:20] command and has a specialist team who help victims
[00:25:24] throughout the process of
[00:25:25] justice.
[00:25:29] the army is tough training environment with high standards, but the
[00:25:33] supervision and discipline of junior recruits and their instructors is
[00:25:37] now in sharp focus after so many serious
[00:25:41] allegations. seam katetcher, bbc
[00:25:44] news. well still to come, president Trump
[00:25:48] signs new executive orders. targeting birthright
[00:25:51] citizenship, and we meet the 97-year-old woman who
[00:25:54] broke her own world record, becoming the oldest woman to
[00:25:58] complete a wingwalk. you won't want to miss that. i'll see you soon.
[00:26:05] Hello there with high pressure building back in across Western Europe temperatures will be on
[00:26:09] the rise again into the weekend with plenty of sunshine. This is the
[00:26:13] high that I'm talking about moving in from the Atlantic
[00:26:17] and slowly pushing across the continent and moving these
[00:26:21] weather fronts further eastwards which will continue to develop some
[00:26:25] heavy showers and thunderstorms pretty much from the alps across in towards
[00:26:28] eastern Europe and few down into the southeast perhaps into the balcans. "It is
[00:26:32] still very hot in towards the eastern Mediterranean, high
[00:26:36] 30s uh there for Cyprus, closer to
[00:26:39] average for Greece and the islands, it's still very hot in Italy with warnings
[00:26:43] in force, temperatures will be building again across Liberia, certainly inland
[00:26:47] close to 40 degrees, hotter as well for France and into
[00:26:51] central and southern England, but still cooler and a bit more showery
[00:26:55] for Scandinavia and the Baltic states, so for
[00:26:58] Saturday that area of high pressure building back in to give yet more..." more
[00:27:02] heat and sunshine to western
[00:27:05] parts reaching the mid-30s in Bordeau
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[00:27:21] see further warnings for Rome with those values hitting the 40
[00:27:25] celsius mark temperatures though in Athens generally around average
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[00:30:17] Welcome back to Wild News America, a US senate committee
[00:30:21] voted to hold former white house chief medical advisor Dr.
[00:30:25] Anthony Faulchi, in contempt of Congress, that's a citation with no
[00:30:29] legal consequences, unless criminal. ution is
[00:30:33] then pursued while Senate Republicans voted along party lines on
[00:30:36] Thursday to hold Fouti in contempt for his
[00:30:40] refusal to answer questions at recent committee hearing on
[00:30:44] the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fouchy's
[00:30:47] attorney called Thursday's contempt vote, crude political stunt
[00:30:51] intended to punish Dr. Falchi for exercising
[00:30:55] his constitutional rights, adding that Dr. Falchi has committed no
[00:30:59] crime. He described the resolution as a continuous. of a
[00:31:03] personal vendetta by committee chair Republican senator Ran
[00:31:06] Paul, something that the senator denies, well senator Paul told
[00:31:10] reporters that he now intends to send the contempt resolution to the
[00:31:14] U.S. department for potential
[00:31:17] prosecution, as a committee we have voted the majority to
[00:31:21] refer this,
[00:31:23] so that will be accomplished today. Mr. Chairman, Dr. Fouti has said that you
[00:31:27] are out to get him, if you're circumventing the normal senate procedure, aren't you proving
[00:31:30] his point? A million Americans died,
[00:31:33] and I think they deserve to know the truth.
[00:31:37] Well, joining me to discuss live is our White House reporter, Bern
[00:31:41] debusman Jr. Burn, good to have you with us, just bring us up to date.
[00:31:45] the very latest in this: well, after that vote
[00:31:49] from the the house committee, for the senate committee
[00:31:51] rather, rand paul said that that message
[00:31:55] would be hand delivered to the department of justice today itself, and now
[00:31:59] it really becomes up to them whether they pursue criminal charges,
[00:32:03] it's by no means clear that they'll do so, and doing so would be very,
[00:32:07] very rare and even more rare would be successful
[00:32:11] prosecution uh in the previous administration former Trump's.
[00:32:15] Steve Bannon and Peter Navara who's now in the administration, they were both
[00:32:19] charged and went to jail for very brief time, but
[00:32:23] before that it was since the 1980s that that had taken place, so that just shows how rare a
[00:32:27] conviction would be and a prosecution. And what have we
[00:32:30] heard from Dr. Fouty and his
[00:32:33] team? Well, Dr. Fauti himself hasn't commented on the
[00:32:36] latest vote to to prefer him
[00:32:40] to for to the department of justice, but his lawyer is
[00:32:43] essentially called as a... stunt and part of
[00:32:46] years-l kind of witch hunt by by Rand
[00:32:50] Paul um, so there's been quite
[00:32:52] a lot of condemnation here,
[00:32:53] but they've also expressed quite a lot of optimism that he's on the right
[00:32:56] side the law and that there won't be any sort of prosecution in
[00:33:00] the future,
[00:33:01] and has there been further reaction? well,
[00:33:05] democrats on the committee, such as the ranking democrat Gary Peters, have kind of
[00:33:09] echoed that sentiment and accused Ran Paul of essentially
[00:33:13] being out to get Dr. for for many, many years now,
[00:33:17] I think, as you mentioned, this has fallen largely along party lines and and
[00:33:20] many democrats that have spoken out have spoken about Dr. Fouti's
[00:33:24] work during the pandemic and come to his defense, whereas many Republicans
[00:33:28] still want to know more about the origins of COVID
[00:33:32] and how it was handled, in particular, many them are very uh
[00:33:35] still asking questions about lockdowns,
[00:33:39] social distancing, school closures, and it could be in the future that
[00:33:43] Dr. Fouti is still open. to state or local
[00:33:47] prosecution, then we know for example that Florida has already opened a separate
[00:33:50] investigation that wouldn't be covered by any, the pardon that
[00:33:54] Joe Biden gave him just before he left office. Berned
[00:33:58] debusman, there are white house correspondent, many thanks
[00:34:00] indeed. Well, President Trump has signed
[00:34:04] two executive orders in attempt to curb birthright citizenship,
[00:34:08] which is enshrined in the US constitution. It comes weeks after the
[00:34:12] Supreme Court rejected a previous order deeming.
[00:34:15] unconstitutional, well the orders deny citizenship to
[00:34:19] children whose parents come to the United States on purpose
[00:34:23] for their children to become citizens, such births a
[00:34:27] rare according to the migration policy institute. The order also
[00:34:30] threatens the US citizenship of those born in the US territory such as
[00:34:34] Puerto Rico, but only if Congress changes the law
[00:34:38] to end automatic citizenship there. Here's our North America
[00:34:42] editor, Sarah Smith. well, as you know, the
[00:34:46] initial executive orderry signing his first day back in office was
[00:34:49] struck down by the Supreme Court in June and he was clearly
[00:34:53] furious about that, so it appears that inside his administration they
[00:34:56] have come up with new ideas how to get around that ruling um
[00:35:00] and what they're doing is using immigration law to say that if
[00:35:04] people come here expressly with the idea of giving birth so that their children
[00:35:08] can obtain an american passport
[00:35:10] but they claimed they were here as tourists that they claimed that they were coming here on
[00:35:13] vacation then that is fraud and that for that
[00:35:17] reason they could be denied automatic birth right citizenship for
[00:35:21] their babies, and president Trump claimed, as he was speaking in the
[00:35:25] Oval Office as he was signing these orders that hundreds of thousands of people come to the
[00:35:29] United States every year uh for this birthright tourism, he said there
[00:35:33] are companies whose entire business is bringing people here so that they can give birth
[00:35:37] in the United States, although has to be said that the administration's lawyer when
[00:35:40] arguing the Supreme Court case few months ago said that they had no
[00:35:44] statistics. on how often this happens, but it's clearly
[00:35:48] trying to use different law, different route to achieve some of what Donald
[00:35:52] Trump wanted to get to with the original birthright
[00:35:55] citizenship ruling that he signed and then watch speed struck down by the
[00:35:59] Supreme Court. Sarah Smith there, well I'm joined
[00:36:03] in the studio tonight by Stephen Kent a conservative
[00:36:06] commentator and Danielle Butterfield, president at
[00:36:10] Priorities USA, welcome to you both, very good to have you
[00:36:13] in the studio, the... evening um Sir Daniel, coming to you on
[00:36:17] these executive orders, the Trump administration says that this is
[00:36:21] about stopping people whose parents come to the United States
[00:36:25] with the very design of... having their children
[00:36:29] here on US soil to become American, um,
[00:36:33] do you think that's fair? you, I think that this is yet another
[00:36:37] example of Trump trying to skirt the law, he if he
[00:36:41] wants to accomplish this, he has to get Congress on his side, he has to get the Supreme
[00:36:44] Court on his side, we learned earlier this summer that he was unsuccessful
[00:36:48] in doing that with birthright citizenship, and so I just see this
[00:36:52] as the clock starting yet again on Trump trying to move the goal
[00:36:56] post of, what the law is in the United States, because he wants to
[00:37:00] accomplish something, and if he wants to do that, he has to have the law on his
[00:37:03] side. Stephen, what do you say to that? I mean, do you think
[00:37:07] essentially we're gearing up for a further legal battle on all of this? Do you
[00:37:11] think President Trump is right to do this by executive order?
[00:37:15] So I don't think that there will be a particularly heated legal battle on this issue.
[00:37:18] A lot of how this story was teed up is incorrect, this is not
[00:37:22] crackdown on birthright citizenship. They already lost that
[00:37:26] case uh. They are now going a different route of having the
[00:37:30] department of homeland security put extra scrutiny on and
[00:37:34] allow them to deny non-immigrant visas of people
[00:37:38] coming into the country, so they're going to look, especially at pregnant women
[00:37:41] on non-immigrant visas coming into the country and assessing, what
[00:37:45] are you here for? Stephen, you say
[00:37:48] you know you don't anticipate much legal pushback, but just on that very
[00:37:51] point, people coming into the United States, pregnant
[00:37:55] women at the border. Yep, I mean, and proving that
[00:37:59] they are here to give birth, could that not potentially be very
[00:38:03] tricky legal territory? I imagine that there are going to be
[00:38:07] lawyers who are going to do their work on this issue, but I think the
[00:38:11] administration is going to actually be able to pull this through. Non-immigrant visas
[00:38:14] as an area, particularly through the department of homeland security where they have broad
[00:38:18] scrutiny. I have colleagues who live in uh, both Ukraine and
[00:38:22] Georgia and Eastern Europe, they can't come over here for business trip. It
[00:38:26] is very, very... hard to come over here a non-immigrant
[00:38:30] visa, both for tourism and for business, and so
[00:38:34] you are able to look at that and go, you're in the final couple months of your
[00:38:37] pregnancy, why are you here, who's your sponsor, where are you
[00:38:41] going, and they are actually all going to be able to crack down on
[00:38:44] the numerous thousands of Chinese travel agencies that
[00:38:48] operate, particularly in southern California, to facilitate the travel
[00:38:52] and time it perfectly for women coming from China to have
[00:38:56] babies.
[00:38:57] in the United States who are going to be raised in Beijing. Can I put that
[00:39:01] to you, Danielle, just if we look at the
[00:39:04] practicalities of all of this, what you think this potentially could
[00:39:07] mean? Stephen, there raising the point about women potentially facing
[00:39:11] scrutiny if they try to come into the United States while they're pregnant, it could be
[00:39:15] for work, it could be for example to see ill relative, do you for
[00:39:19] see potential problems? You know, Donald Trump has certainly not had the best
[00:39:23] track record this year or last year on getting America on his side on his.
[00:39:27] is very unpopular immigration policies and so look forward to seeing
[00:39:31] him try to convince the US that this is a popular thing for him to pursue. all right, well let's
[00:39:35] turn to some other uh issues then on all of this uh and we know that President
[00:39:39] Trump has been speaking about reports about
[00:39:43] munitions, shortages. uh, he has said that he would seek
[00:39:46] jail terms for leakers. we saw that a truth social post
[00:39:50] earlier today. um, Stephen, I wonder what you make
[00:39:54] of all of this, whether you think that there is also... question of
[00:39:58] press freedom in this? I do not think there's an issue of press freedom
[00:40:01] uh, the the president needs to address whether or not he has leakers
[00:40:05] within his administration, people who are government employees,
[00:40:09] possibly his own vice president who is aligned against him on
[00:40:13] the issue the Iran war, and whether or not these people are sharing
[00:40:16] information with journalists in order to undermine the negotiating
[00:40:20] position the White House. That has nothing to do with the press, that has everything to
[00:40:24] do with the leakers themselves. However, "the president's
[00:40:28] message is muddled, he is saying both that there are leaks
[00:40:32] coming out the government, that we are running out of munitions, and it's threatening
[00:40:36] our position, and also it's not true, he's saying on
[00:40:40] truth social that we have everything that we could ever need, there are no
[00:40:43] shortages, which means there's no problem, it means there's no problem
[00:40:47] here,
[00:40:48] I mean, Danielle, your thoughts on that, Stephen doesn't feel that this is
[00:40:52] a press freedom issue, I wonder if the argument could also be
[00:40:55] raised that if there is a potential..." shortage a war
[00:40:59] that didn't have congressional sign off, that that reporting is
[00:41:02] also important. you know, color me shocked that
[00:41:06] we're in another situation where it's very clear that Donald Trump is
[00:41:10] likely lying to the American public about what's going on, but I think this is
[00:41:14] all, you know, yet again a distraction from his inability to end
[00:41:18] the conflict in Iran, and just
[00:41:20] you know, the he he cannot see finish line that's going to
[00:41:24] alleviate the the harm that is being ca on American people
[00:41:28] right now, and so any story that I see about Iran is just another
[00:41:32] reminder that there's no end in sight and the American people are going to continue to feel
[00:41:36] con if let's say that this is true, let's say
[00:41:39] the that it's is accurate that four fifths of our thad missiles
[00:41:43] are burnt through, that half of our interceptors are gone, and we
[00:41:47] are actually facing a shortage, and we're trying to negotiate it into this conflict.
[00:41:51] why is it good for a government employee or someone in the administration to be
[00:41:55] leaking? is that a good thing?
[00:41:56] i don't think i ever said it was a good thing. i think if there is, you're attacking the
[00:42:00] administration generally on this position, so like why is it good that they
[00:42:04] be leaking this information? i think it's seems bad, it can be a good
[00:42:07] thing to call out someone. breaking the law
[00:42:11] and saying that we should not like get,
[00:42:14] communicate on public information, there a further question about all of this
[00:42:18] with regards to threatening long jail
[00:42:21] sentences, do you think that's appropriate? i think it's appropriate
[00:42:25] if you are undermining within the administration the
[00:42:29] negotiating hand of your own government a
[00:42:32] serious shooting war with foreign enemy, that seems quite
[00:42:36] serious to me, i'm putting aside the issue of a journalist, i i'm not in interested
[00:42:40] in the journalist to reports this story, this country has been through this million
[00:42:44] times, people would argue that this is intimidation tactic.
[00:42:47] i don't care if it's an intimidation tactic. the administration needs to be clear
[00:42:51] within its own lines, within the white house, whoever is being
[00:42:55] a leaker here, whoever is sharing this information is threatening american
[00:42:58] diplomats, american troops, and they should be fired, and
[00:43:02] charges should be pressed, but again, i'm not sure that this is accurate, the
[00:43:06] president is not being clear on whether or not this is actually a sub'.
[00:43:10] problem that we're short on missiles, so they need to get clear on their own message.
[00:43:14] Daniel, finally, I mean, you, just
[00:43:18] the the amount of lies that are coming out of this administration, I would so much rather the
[00:43:21] president focus on actually solving the crisis at hand instead of
[00:43:25] jailing his political enemies. I think that we have to separate them as two different issues. Well,
[00:43:29] certainly of course the war in Iran continues to be a talking point
[00:43:33] that we could talk about for very long time indeed, and I thank you both for
[00:43:37] coming in to debate all of those issues. It Stephen Kentar
[00:43:41] conservative commentator and Danielle Butterfield,
[00:43:44] president at Priorities,
[00:43:46] USA. We're still to come on while news
[00:43:50] America in the five years since the Taliban returned to power in
[00:43:53] Afghanistan, its women footballers have found a way back onto
[00:43:57] the international stage against all odds. We have a special report
[00:44:01] on the team next around the world and across the UK. This is
[00:44:05] BBC
[00:44:06] News.
[00:45:17] You're live with BBC News: eight countries have
[00:45:21] issued a joint statement condemning ongoing Israeli
[00:45:23] violations in Gaza. The foreign ministers the
[00:45:27] UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi
[00:45:31] Arabia and Egypt said on Thursday that the deliberate
[00:45:34] targeting of hospitals, ambulances and medical personnel
[00:45:38] is a grave breach. of international humanitarian
[00:45:42] law, well Israel has increased its attacks across
[00:45:45] Gaza in the month since the ceasefire was agreed saying that
[00:45:48] it is targeting hamas which is retooling. now the UN's
[00:45:52] children fund known as UNICEF says that at least 300
[00:45:56] children have been killed in the 300 days since a US broker
[00:46:00] cease fire between Israel and Hamas was announced in October of
[00:46:04] 2025. now in the five
[00:46:08] years since the Taliban return to power in Afghanistan, women have been
[00:46:12] banned from all organized sport, but against the odds,
[00:46:15] Afghanistan's women footballers now scattered across the
[00:46:19] world, have found a way back onto the international stage
[00:46:22] after FIFA changed its rules, allowing them to officially
[00:46:26] represent Afghanistan. Majuba Naruzi from BBC Global
[00:46:30] Women followed their journey as they travel to New Zealand for their first
[00:46:34] training camp and
[00:46:35] match.
[00:46:42] A song for Afghanistan, team reunited.
[00:46:46] These players have traveled from across the world for two
[00:46:50] friendlies in Oakland against. the cook
[00:46:53] islands. the first sinsureifa allowed
[00:46:56] afghanistan's team in exile back into international
[00:47:00] football. we want Afghanistan to be free and we want Afghan girls
[00:47:04] and womans to be free to be able to choose
[00:47:08] who they want to be. we want to prove that we are still here, we
[00:47:12] still fighting for the rice that you took away from us. five
[00:47:16] years ago everything changed for them almost
[00:47:19] overnight. when the tolibon return to... power women were
[00:47:23] banned from playing sports. Afghanistan's women's
[00:47:27] team was forced into exile, unable to represent
[00:47:30] their country. They were scattered across the world. I was
[00:47:34] bullied throughout high school and football gave me the confidence to be who I am
[00:47:38] today and to be able to speak loud. So I don't know where I would
[00:47:41] be. Now they are back together rebuilding
[00:47:45] the team they thought they had lost. For these players,
[00:47:49] football is more than a game. I want to.
[00:47:52] is this platform to advocate for the women
[00:47:54] of Afghanson who haven't been allowed to study for the past five years,
[00:47:58] obviously the book, the Rose who
[00:48:02] is representation of women and the date august
[00:48:05] 15th and the date that Afghanistan
[00:48:08] fell, these matches are
[00:48:12] only the beginning, the aim is to rebuild Afghanistan's
[00:48:16] team and exile and to compete for a place at
[00:48:19] the 2028 Olympic Games. "i will be proud
[00:48:23] the team and proud of myself that i was part the journey and
[00:48:27] we made the history by being the first like football team to get
[00:48:31] our recognition without the approval the taliban. i'm so proud of
[00:48:35] our young players who played today, great game, don't cry, don't put your heads
[00:48:39] down, it's more than football for us. Afghanistan lost both
[00:48:42] matches to the Coke Islands, but after years in
[00:48:46] exile simply wearing their country's colors again is
[00:48:50] victory, their olympic dream. is still
[00:48:53] alive. We don't know when we're going to see each other again, but it's just always
[00:48:57] amazing to have the
[00:48:58] second.
[00:49:03] BBC, Oakland.
[00:49:07] US health officials have given the green light to new flu vaccine, the
[00:49:11] first in the nation to use MRNA technology.
[00:49:14] Well, vaccine manufacturer Moderner said on Wednesday that the US food and
[00:49:18] drug administration had approved its new Influenza.
[00:49:22] vaccine, that's despite the FDA originally refusing to review
[00:49:26] its application, it quickly reversed course earlier this year
[00:49:30] after public outcry. now US health secretary Robert F
[00:49:34] Kennedy Jr. is vocal vaccine skeptic and has
[00:49:37] criticized MRNA technology. he's cancelled more than 20
[00:49:41] projects designed to develop MRNA vaccines, that
[00:49:45] is the same technique used in COVID vaccines, which were given to
[00:49:48] hundreds of millions of people around the world. now Modern's...
[00:49:52] flu shot is authorized for all adults, aged 50 and
[00:49:56] older, it's expected to be ready for the upcoming respiratory virus
[00:50:00] season. well let's talk more about this now. i'm joined by Christina
[00:50:03] Dewit, FDA reporter for the New York Times. welcome to you
[00:50:07] Christina. firstly, just fill us in on what is different
[00:50:11] with this vaccine compared to other flu shots and how
[00:50:15] COVID played role in its development? well, the real
[00:50:19] advantage to this vaccine is that it can't made
[00:50:23] lot faster than traditional flu vaccines. there's a very
[00:50:27] old fashion decade decades old process where you put
[00:50:30] um virus a a fertilized chicken egg and wait months
[00:50:34] for that to develop, deactivate it and put it a vaccine. but for
[00:50:38] this vaccine you can start with um the flu vaccine you're targeting
[00:50:42] in June and have it ready for distribution in
[00:50:45] August. and just talk us through the
[00:50:48] approval process um and whether it faced challenge.
[00:50:53] It was rocky process, it was shocking um in
[00:50:57] February when Moderna got refused to file letter from
[00:51:01] the FDA, the FDA saying we will not accept your application, which you
[00:51:05] don't really see with a large study and a well established
[00:51:09] company, and essentially at the time the um former
[00:51:13] regulator in charge decided that the company had used
[00:51:16] a basically a standard comparator vaccine a
[00:51:20] major 40 thousand person study. but not the best
[00:51:24] possible best in class vaccine um and that their
[00:51:27] opinion was that the company had sort of put their thumb on the scale
[00:51:31] toward showing um that their vaccine was effective and
[00:51:35] so this was um very quickly walked back after some
[00:51:39] public outcry it came out that the company had secured a
[00:51:43] 750, i'm sorry 750
[00:51:46] million investment to study this vaccine and that all of that had
[00:51:50] been put on the line by this sort of what seemed like rash
[00:51:54] decision and it was walked back relatively quickly and then things sort of
[00:51:58] proceeded as normal. so as I understand it,
[00:52:02] this flu shot is authorized for all adults, aged
[00:52:05] 50 and older, but more broadly um, will people be
[00:52:09] able to access it, because vaccines typically formally
[00:52:13] recommended by the CDC's vaccine advisory
[00:52:16] committee, um, I understand federal judge has blocked
[00:52:20] a committee from convening on that, it will be
[00:52:24] available, it is um, the company can can make
[00:52:28] it, the company can sell it, um, there are some
[00:52:32] insurance policies, some state rules and laws
[00:52:35] around sort of those those committee decisions in terms of what's
[00:52:39] recommended, so it's a little bit in flux whether um that
[00:52:43] committee will
[00:52:43] get a chance to consider or potentially recommend this um
[00:52:47] before the fall respiratory virus season, but but the
[00:52:51] company can can make it and can't sell it. Christina
[00:52:55] Juwit, the FDA reporter for the New York Times, thank
[00:52:59] you, thank you. now
[00:53:02] 97-year-old Betty Bromage from Cheltonham already held
[00:53:06] the world record for the oldest person to complete a wingwalk a
[00:53:10] moving plane. The former nurse initially took up the extreme sport to raise
[00:53:14] money for charity. Now she's done it again and she's been telling us her
[00:53:18] story.
[00:53:21] I just get bored with life otherwise.
[00:53:25] When you get old you can't go here, you can't do this, you can't drive, you
[00:53:29] can't see, I can't see very well, and I get a bit
[00:53:32] frustrated. do they loop the loop and the
[00:53:36] barrel rolls, so they go round a loop, turn your rover a barrel and do
[00:53:40] round the loop and back down
[00:53:42] again, it's a bit hair
[00:53:45] raising and it's you're concentrating, you're moving so
[00:53:49] fast, just think, well it'll be over in few minutes so it'll be all
[00:53:53] right, was a trained
[00:53:56] children's nurse and i went to work in dr bernardos home in Bristol
[00:54:00] and above my bed it said we passed through this world but once any
[00:54:04] good can do, any kindness we can show, do it now,
[00:54:08] do not defer or neglected, you'll not pass this way
[00:54:11] again, but you
[00:54:15] know, I can do what I want, I'm old enough to do just what I
[00:54:18] want,
[00:54:23] there was 97-year-old Betty Bromidge there who says that she plans to take on
[00:54:26] another daring challenge when she turns
[00:54:29] 100, well let's turn now to some other important news
[00:54:33] around the world, health. officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo
[00:54:37] say
[00:54:37] that they are carrying out bowler and cholera screening for more than 200
[00:54:41] passengers aboard boat intercepted on the Congo River. The
[00:54:45] boat was halted about 40 miles upstream from the capital
[00:54:49] Kinshasa and the country's health minister says that the screening was being
[00:54:53] carried out as a precautionary measure after a passenger with
[00:54:56] fever and diarrhea died in hospital. For the two adults, a
[00:55:00] three-year-old child and newborn have also
[00:55:03] died. Budget airline
[00:55:07] Easyjet has agreed to be taken over by the US firm
[00:55:11] Apollo, the 5.7 billion pound deal was announced
[00:55:15] after the rival suitor Castle Lake said that it was ending its
[00:55:18] bid for the Nofrells airline. Well easy jet is one of Europe's
[00:55:22] largest airlines, it employs more than 19,000 people
[00:55:26] and it flies 1,200 routes across
[00:55:30] 35 European countries. And
[00:55:33] officials in England. say that all the country's rivers, lakes and
[00:55:37] coastal waters are a challenging state with only around
[00:55:41] one in seven classes are being a good ecological
[00:55:45] condition. the environment agency said this is due to legacy
[00:55:48] substances such as heavy metals and so-called forever chemicals
[00:55:52] which are building up. the environment secretary said it
[00:55:56] underlines the need for change. you're watching BBC
[00:56:00] News, I'll have more for you at the top the hour. stay with us if you
[00:56:03] can.
[00:56:12] Hello there, lots of thunderstorms, to end the week across the eastern
[00:56:16] United States, parts of Quebec, all thanks
[00:56:18] to low pressure, which has been pulling away - leaving legacy of
[00:56:22] storms uh for Thursday and Fridays, these will be
[00:56:25] erupting
[00:56:26] over the appelations as well, some heavy downpools in places, so
[00:56:30] number of warnings in force for these, it is hot, humid through
[00:56:34] the central. plains and very hot towards the desert
[00:56:37] southwest. showers continue most frequent through
[00:56:41] central and southern parts of central america and
[00:56:45] across more northern parts the Caribbean, otherwise quite a lot of sunshine
[00:56:49] here to end the working week. heavy rain continues across the
[00:56:53] northwest of South America, particularly towards Colombia, Ecuador
[00:56:57] and even into central western parts of Venezuela. staying
[00:57:01] cold for Patagonia, southern Chile where we'll see further snow certainly over the...
[00:57:05] mountains,
[00:57:05] but even some sleetiness down to lower levels with more low pressure
[00:57:09] pushing in from the west. Friday across Europe, some thunderstorms
[00:57:13] across the alps in towards eastern Europe, it is still very hot through central.
[00:57:17] and the eastern parts the continent, but we're seeing heat building back in again
[00:57:21] across Iberia, France as we head into the
[00:57:25] weekend, and it's staying hot across much of North Africa, particularly towards the
[00:57:29] northwest, scattered showers and thunderstorms become more
[00:57:32] widespread across the equatorial countries, a low pressure
[00:57:36] moving close to the eastern cape of South Africa on Friday, otherwise mostly
[00:57:40] dry with widespread sunshine here, the Middle East, dry,
[00:57:44] sunny, very hot, not as hot as it has been for the... temperatures have
[00:57:48] come down a few degrees, but it stays very hot through
[00:57:52] the gulf region. monsoon rains, pretty incesson, the
[00:57:56] western gat into much of northeast India
[00:57:59] and across into West Bengal and Bangladesh, risk
[00:58:03] of some localized flooding to end the week. this intense feature, this
[00:58:07] is a strong typhoon dolphin which is heading
[00:58:11] westwards towards the coast of eastern China, likely to make
[00:58:14] landfall there late in the weekend, Sunday probably. into Monday, heavy
[00:58:18] rain, strong winds and a storm surge. A lot of Indonesia central
[00:58:22] and southern parts though, looking dry with widespread sunshine, that
[00:58:26] dry weather extends into much of central northern Australia, we've got 32
[00:58:29] degrees in Darwin on Friday, a little bit milder across
[00:58:33] Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania with some sunshine, got a
[00:58:37] weatherfront barreling into New Zealand to bring some wet weather for
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[01:00:06] live from Washington, this is BBC News: Ukrainian forces
[01:00:10] hit two oil refineries far inside Russia amid a wave of
[01:00:14] deadly Russian strikes on Ukraine. President
[01:00:18] Trump signs two executive orders aimed at denying citizenship to certain
[01:00:22] children born in the US.
[01:00:25] Questions mount about the state the US military arsenal after
[01:00:29] President Trump denies reports of a munitions
[01:00:32] shortage that could hinder his
[01:00:34] readiness.
[01:00:44] I'm Helena Hompfrey. Good to have you with us. Ukraine says. It hit two
[01:00:48] oil refineries in multiple strikes deep inside
[01:00:51] Russia, thick smoke was seen in the Russian city of
[01:00:54] Yatislav, about 600 kilometers from the Ukrainian
[01:00:58] border, President