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[00:00:01] MUSIC
[00:00:13] Live from Washington. This is
[00:00:15] BBC News. Ukrainian forces hit two two oil refineries far inside Russia
[00:00:20] Russia amid a wave of deadly Russian
[00:00:23] Russian strikes on Ukraine. President President Trump signs two executive
[00:00:26] executive orders aimed at denying
[00:00:28] denying citizenship to certain children
[00:00:30] children born in the US questions
[00:00:33] questions mount about the state of of the US military arsenal after
[00:00:36] after President Trump denies reports
[00:00:38] reports of a munitions shortage that
[00:00:40] that could hinder his readiness.
[00:00:51] readiness. I'm Helena Humphrey good good to have you with us. Ukraine
[00:00:53] Ukraine says that it hit two oil
[00:00:56] oil refineries in multiple strikes strikes deep inside Russia. Thick
[00:00:59] Thick smoke was seen in the Russian
[00:01:02] Russian city of Yaroslavl, about
[00:01:04] about 600km from the Ukrainian border. border. President Volodymyr Zelensky
[00:01:07] Zelensky says that the attacks on
[00:01:09] on Thursday sought to limit oil revenues
[00:01:11] revenues that Moscow uses to finance finance its war. Ukrainian authorities
[00:01:16] authorities say that Russia killed killed at least 11 people in overnight
[00:01:19] overnight strikes. The attacks also
[00:01:21] also caused a total blackout in the the city of Kherson. President Zelensky
[00:01:25] Zelensky also said that Ukraine had had hit Russian tankers illegally
[00:01:28] illegally exporting sanctioned oil oil in the Black Sea. Our diplomatic
[00:01:32] diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams Adams has been granted rare access
[00:01:34] access to Ukraine's navy as it patrols patrols dangerous waters in the Black
[00:01:38] Black Sea. Access was given on the the strict condition that the Navy's
[00:01:42] Navy's precise location was not revealed.
[00:01:44] revealed. Here's his report. We're
[00:01:47] We're going on patrol with the Ukrainian
[00:01:50] Ukrainian Navy out into waters made made increasingly dangerous by Russian
[00:01:53] Russian attacks. Rare access to a
[00:01:56] a unit facing constant danger in in a part of the country where a
[00:01:59] a drone or ballistic missile can
[00:02:01] can arrive with little warning. Yeah,
[00:02:04] Yeah, everyone is focused on alert. alert. They fire their guns every
[00:02:08] every day. This morning it looks
[00:02:10] looks deceptively calm with its guns,
[00:02:12] guns, its netting and some of the the other equipment on board. This
[00:02:15] This vessel can look after itself itself more or less. But what it
[00:02:19] it can't do is to stop Russia attacking
[00:02:21] attacking civilian ships coming in
[00:02:24] in and out of Ukraine's ports. Those Those attacks are increasing and
[00:02:28] and it's a major problem. There's
[00:02:29] There's a war out at sea. Russia
[00:02:33] Russia and Ukraine hitting each other's other's ships, hundreds of them.
[00:02:36] them. For the past month, the images
[00:02:37] images have been pouring in. Every
[00:02:41] Every day we have to rescue crews crews and take measures to prevent
[00:02:45] prevent these attacks and reduce reduce their number. We're doing
[00:02:48] doing everything we possibly can. Ukraine is one of the world's
[00:02:52] world's largest grain exporters. exporters. Before the war, when these
[00:02:55] these pictures were taken, Odesa's
[00:02:56] Odesa's ports helped feed the world.
[00:02:59] world. The country's grain exporters exporters are worried the summer
[00:03:02] summer harvest is in full swing. swing. Russia's attacks coming at
[00:03:05] at the worst possible time. I would
[00:03:08] would say that we already have lost
[00:03:11] lost the ability to deliver to global
[00:03:16] global consumer around half 1 million million or 700,000 metric tonnes tonnes of Ukrainian grain and oilseeds.
[00:03:20] oilseeds. The war at sea is raging,
[00:03:23] raging, some of it out over the horizon,
[00:03:24] horizon, some of it right here along along the coast. Ukraine and Russia
[00:03:28] Russia are looking to exert maximum maximum economic pressure on each
[00:03:31] each other. For those who live and
[00:03:34] and work here, life is becoming increasingly
[00:03:38] increasingly dangerous. Svetlana Svetlana works in Odesa's port. She's
[00:03:41] She's been limping for the past year
[00:03:43] year ever since a Russian missile missile exploded nearby, killing
[00:03:47] killing two of her colleagues the the last few weeks, she says, have
[00:03:50] have been grim. Oh. Watching low
[00:03:53] low morale. It's very difficult.
[00:03:56] difficult. A lot of sirens, a lot
[00:03:59] lot of drones, a lot of hits. And
[00:04:01] And for morale it's even more difficult.
[00:04:04] difficult. People are very tense.
[00:04:06] tense. What can I say? Look at my
[00:04:10] my hands. For all its dangers, this
[00:04:15] this is summer in Odesa. Ukrainians
[00:04:17] Ukrainians have flocked to the beach.
[00:04:21] beach. Mostly ignoring the sirens sirens and showing only mild interest.
[00:04:25] interest. Earlier this week, when
[00:04:26] when a Russian drone washed ashore.
[00:04:30] ashore. At the other end of the Black
[00:04:32] Black Sea on the same day. Seven
[00:04:36] Seven Russians were killed when an an intercepted Ukrainian drone fell
[00:04:40] fell on their beach back near Odesa. Odesa. We go looking for the site
[00:04:44] site of an explosion we heard earlier.
[00:04:47] earlier. We find 83-year-old Andre Andre Dudek in the shattered ruins
[00:04:50] ruins of his house and garden. It's It's been just five hours since a
[00:04:54] a jet powered drone interrupted his
[00:04:57] his afternoon nap. Somehow he escaped
[00:04:59] escaped without a scratch. You think
[00:05:03] think that you are the accidental accidental victim of Russia's attacks
[00:05:07] attacks on the ports? Absolutely,
[00:05:10] Absolutely, he says. I won't forget
[00:05:13] forget this. This war on ships and
[00:05:15] and ports has many casual victims, victims, sailors, dock workers or
[00:05:19] or people simply unlucky enough to
[00:05:21] to live or work nearby. Paul Adams,
[00:05:25] Adams, BBC News, Odesa. And you can
[00:05:27] can see more of Paul Adams trip to
[00:05:30] to Odesa on the BBC News YouTube YouTube channel. Well, President
[00:05:33] President Trump has signed two executive executive orders in an attempt to
[00:05:36] to curb birthright citizenship, which
[00:05:39] which is enshrined in the US constitution. constitution. It comes weeks after
[00:05:42] after the Supreme Court rejected rejected a previous order deeming
[00:05:46] deeming it unconstitutional. Well, Well, the orders deny citizenship.
[00:05:48] citizenship. Who two children whose
[00:05:50] whose parents come to the US on purpose
[00:05:53] purpose for their children to become
[00:05:55] become citizens. Such births are
[00:05:58] are rare, according to the Migration Migration Policy Institute. The order order also
[00:06:05] The order also threatens the US citizenship of those born in US territories territories such as Puerto Rico,
[00:06:08] Rico, but only if Congress changes changes the law to end automatic automatic citizenship there. Well,
[00:06:12] Well, let's unpick all of this now
[00:06:15] now with Gabriel Chin, distinguished distinguished professor of law and
[00:06:19] and the director of clinical legal legal education at the UC Davis School
[00:06:23] School of Law. Welcome to you. Good Good to have you on the programme.
[00:06:26] programme. Thank you. These executive executive orders, you know, they
[00:06:29] they only came out a couple of hours
[00:06:31] hours ago, but from what you've been
[00:06:33] been able to surmise, do you see
[00:06:35] see them as being compatible with
[00:06:38] with the Constitution? Well, the
[00:06:40] the one that restricts birth, tourism tourism and directs immigration enforcement
[00:06:44] enforcement against people coming coming to the United States to engage
[00:06:47] engage in birth tourism may be good
[00:06:50] good policy or bad policy, but I
[00:06:54] I think it's probably not unconstitutional. unconstitutional. The other executive
[00:06:58] executive order restricting birthright
[00:07:01] birthright citizenship to a whole whole category, a whole range of
[00:07:03] of categories of people who are currently currently understood to enjoy it,
[00:07:07] it, I think raises serious constitutional
[00:07:09] constitutional questions. I would would say under the latest Supreme
[00:07:13] Supreme Court decision, Trump versus versus Barbara. Most of it is or
[00:07:16] or all of it is unconstitutional.
[00:07:19] unconstitutional. Stephen Miller Miller has said that the President
[00:07:23] President can do this under travel travel law. Just explain that if
[00:07:27] if you would. Can he actually do
[00:07:29] do that? I think that again, in terms
[00:07:34] terms of the restricting immigration immigration of people coming to the
[00:07:37] the United States for the purpose purpose of having a child in the
[00:07:40] the US so that that child could gain
[00:07:43] gain US citizenship, I think the the President does have some power
[00:07:46] power to restrict that from happening. happening. But once it does happen,
[00:07:50] happen, once the child a child is
[00:07:52] is born in the United States, I don't
[00:07:56] don't think that the President has
[00:07:57] has any power to decide that child
[00:08:02] child is not a citizen. I think that
[00:08:04] that issue really was resolved in
[00:08:06] in Trump versus Barbara and the earlier earlier Supreme Court cases on that
[00:08:10] that issue. A lot of people who come come to the United States come to
[00:08:14] to the United States so that their their child can have the benefits
[00:08:17] benefits of living in the United
[00:08:20] United States and participating economically economically and politically in the
[00:08:24] the United States. And the mere fact
[00:08:29] fact that the parents came here to to do that, I don't think, gives
[00:08:33] gives the President special powers powers to deny the citizenship. Do
[00:08:36] Do we have any data about how common
[00:08:40] common birth tourism actually is?
[00:08:44] is? Well, we're talking about a secret
[00:08:47] secret intention in the mind of the the mother or the parents. And so
[00:08:51] so I don't think we have a comprehensive
[00:08:55] comprehensive data on that issue. issue. But from all the reports that
[00:08:59] that I've seen, it's a relatively
[00:09:01] relatively unusual thing. It's a
[00:09:03] a drop in the bucket in terms of
[00:09:06] of the millions of births that occur occur in the United States every
[00:09:09] every year. And therefore the new
[00:09:11] new citizens that are created, it
[00:09:14] it it's not as though any significant
[00:09:17] significant number of people that
[00:09:20] that we have some mass of people
[00:09:24] people who were born here as birth
[00:09:25] birth tourists. It's an unusual phenomenon.
[00:09:28] phenomenon. And there's another issue issue in this, which you have touched
[00:09:32] touched on, professor, that executive executive order pertaining to people
[00:09:35] people born in US territories not
[00:09:38] not automatically becoming American. American. So for example, Puerto
[00:09:41] Puerto Rico, for example, although although it has to get congressional
[00:09:45] congressional sign off is that likely, likely, do you think how challenging
[00:09:49] challenging could that be? I think
[00:09:51] think it's pretty unlikely that they're they're going to deny citizenship
[00:09:55] citizenship to people born in the
[00:09:57] the US territories. And if they do,
[00:10:01] do, that just raises the question
[00:10:03] question of whether that restriction
[00:10:05] restriction is constitutional. The The Supreme Court decided over 100
[00:10:09] 100 years ago that people born in in the territories were not automatically
[00:10:13] automatically US citizens, but a a number of justices over the years
[00:10:16] years have criticised that doctrine. doctrine. Most recently, Justice
[00:10:19] Justice Gorsuch, who was one of the the dissenters in Trump versus Barbara.
[00:10:22] Barbara. He thinks it's well past past time to get rid of the idea
[00:10:26] idea that that there's a separate separate constitutional status for
[00:10:29] for the territories. And so I think
[00:10:32] think it's unlikely that a law will will be passed denying those people
[00:10:36] people citizenship. And if it does
[00:10:39] does happen, I think there's a serious
[00:10:43] serious likelihood that that the
[00:10:44] the Supreme Court would say that
[00:10:48] that they are citizens under the the Constitution anyway. Gabriel
[00:10:51] Gabriel Chin, distinguished professor professor of law and the director
[00:10:54] director of clinical legal education education at the UC Davis School
[00:10:58] School of Law. Good to have your
[00:10:59] your analysis. Thank you. Thank you.
[00:11:02] you. Well, President Trump is denying
[00:11:04] denying reports that Washington has
[00:11:06] has exhausted its weapons stockpiles stockpiles during the Iran war. Details
[00:11:10] Details on US stockpiles are classified,
[00:11:12] classified, but CBS News, the BBC's
[00:11:15] BBC's US news partner, cited two
[00:11:17] two unnamed sources saying that the
[00:11:19] the US has gone through much of its its long range precision missile
[00:11:23] missile stockpile. Here's what the the President told reporters at the
[00:11:26] the White House on Thursday. I rebuilt
[00:11:29] rebuilt the military and also loaded loaded it up with a lot of stuff.
[00:11:32] stuff. We have certain types of munitions
[00:11:34] munitions that are very powerful powerful that we have unlimited,
[00:11:38] unlimited, virtually unlimited supply. supply. We have others where it's
[00:11:41] it's a little bit tighter and we're
[00:11:43] we're getting them in on a daily
[00:11:45] daily basis. Well, this comes as as Iran seeks to finalise a deal
[00:11:49] deal directly with Oman over the the Strait of Hormuz. The two countries
[00:11:52] countries are engaged in talks to to jointly manage the strait, which
[00:11:56] which before the war channelled a
[00:11:58] a fifth of the world's oil. Now oil
[00:12:00] oil prices rose on Thursday after after Iranian media reported that
[00:12:04] that a parliamentary committee is is weighing a ban on US and Israeli
[00:12:08] Israeli vessels passing through the
[00:12:10] the strait. Now, Yemen's defence
[00:12:12] defence ministry says that it will will respond after Houthi rebels
[00:12:16] rebels killed at least 30 Yemeni Yemeni government troops in an attack
[00:12:19] attack on military camps. The ministry
[00:12:22] ministry says that missiles and drones drones hit several camps in the central
[00:12:25] central part of the country. A military military spokesperson for the Houthis,
[00:12:28] Houthis, who control much of northwest northwest Yemen, say that they were
[00:12:32] were targeting large Saudi military military build ups at the camps.
[00:12:36] camps. A Saudi led coalition has has supported Yemen's government
[00:12:39] government against the Iran aligned aligned Houthis throughout the country's
[00:12:43] country's 12 year civil war. Now Now the fighting has killed hundreds
[00:12:45] hundreds of thousands of people and and it's displaced millions more.
[00:12:49] more. Let's talk about all of this
[00:12:51] this now with Fatimah Abu Ali, a
[00:12:54] a Yemeni scholar, a non-resident non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf
[00:12:57] Gulf States Institute. Good to have
[00:12:58] have you with us on the programme. programme. Firstly, how significant
[00:13:02] significant do you see these Houthi Houthi rebel attacks on military
[00:13:06] military camps in central Yemen as
[00:13:08] as being. Is this an escalation?
[00:13:12] escalation? Thanks for having me,
[00:13:13] me, Helena. This is one of the deadliest
[00:13:17] deadliest attacks that Yemen have
[00:13:20] have seen inside its territory since
[00:13:22] since the truce in 2022. It's a major
[00:13:28] major escalation and Yemeni soldiers
[00:13:30] soldiers were killed for and you
[00:13:34] you know, this has just have been
[00:13:37] been completely unprovoked. And it's it's not really something that happened
[00:13:41] happened in the battlefield. It's
[00:13:43] It's just the Houthis proactively
[00:13:47] proactively expanding the war, expanding expanding their escalation. We've
[00:13:50] We've seen them initially go after
[00:13:52] after Saudi Arabia and now they're
[00:13:55] they're going after government forces. forces. They're framing it as pre-emptive
[00:13:59] pre-emptive escalation. But at the
[00:14:02] the same time, Houthis have been
[00:14:04] been mobilising for ground war in
[00:14:08] in this entire duration of the truce.
[00:14:10] truce. So, Fatima, if the Yemeni
[00:14:15] Yemeni government responds, what what does this mean for the civil
[00:14:18] civil war? What does this mean for for those hundreds of thousands of
[00:14:22] of people who have been displaced displaced over the past 12 years?
[00:14:25] years? I mean, there has been this
[00:14:27] this kind of status quo in the country
[00:14:30] country where people are actually
[00:14:32] actually fed up the from the insecurity
[00:14:34] insecurity that's brought in that
[00:14:36] that Houthis brought at their doorstep
[00:14:40] doorstep because of their regional regional connections with the Islamic
[00:14:43] Islamic Republic of Iran. And when
[00:14:46] when it's becoming increasingly clear
[00:14:48] clear for locals and the international international community as well,
[00:14:52] well, that whenever Iran wants to
[00:14:55] to use a card in negotiations, it
[00:14:58] it activates the Houthis as a partner partner that would disrupt in order
[00:15:02] order for Iran to gain strategic
[00:15:04] strategic leverage. So what happens
[00:15:07] happens here is that Houthis are
[00:15:11] are primarily a regional they're
[00:15:15] they're a regional problem wearing
[00:15:17] wearing local clothing. It stresses stresses the local communities. And
[00:15:21] And this is why we've been seeing
[00:15:24] seeing calls to dislodge the Houthis Houthis and confront them. So there's
[00:15:28] there's a there's an overwhelming
[00:15:30] overwhelming desire from Yemeni locals
[00:15:34] locals to expand actually, the war
[00:15:37] war and remove the Houthis once and and for all. But there are risks
[00:15:41] risks with that kind of. There are
[00:15:44] are risks that we've seen, you know, know, the consequences today is that
[00:15:48] that the Houthis are capable. You
[00:15:51] You know, they're not just a small. small. They're not that the same
[00:15:54] same actor that they were in 2015.
[00:15:57] 2015. They've acquired ballistic
[00:15:59] ballistic missile capabilities, drone
[00:16:03] drone technology that they're using using to attack their opponents.
[00:16:07] opponents. So this and they rely
[00:16:10] rely increasingly on asymmetric methods
[00:16:11] methods to achieve the power. So
[00:16:14] So it becomes a very complicated
[00:16:17] complicated question. But I think
[00:16:19] think war is, is is likely the civil
[00:16:22] civil conflict is likely to, to resume. resume. And Fatima, when we look
[00:16:26] look at the broader picture of the
[00:16:29] the Iran war as well, I mean, we've
[00:16:31] we've seen Iran considering the leverage
[00:16:34] leverage that it has when it comes comes to the Strait of Hormuz, when
[00:16:37] when it comes to the Houthi maritime
[00:16:41] maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia
[00:16:44] Arabia and Bab-el-Mandeb, do you you see them ever wanting to give
[00:16:48] give up that leverage there with
[00:16:50] with the blockade to that waterway?
[00:16:53] waterway? Yeah, absolutely not. They They will not give up that leverage.
[00:16:57] leverage. Iran spent years investing investing in the Houthis because
[00:17:00] because they give Tehran strategic strategic depth on the Arabian Peninsula.
[00:17:04] Peninsula. So they're not just the
[00:17:05] the local militia. They're one of
[00:17:09] of Iran's most capable Arab regional
[00:17:11] regional partners. So when the Houthis,
[00:17:14] Houthis, you know, escalate, they're they're not only just trying to change
[00:17:18] change the military balance inside
[00:17:20] inside Yemen, they're also preserving
[00:17:23] preserving their credibility as Iran's
[00:17:25] Iran's most important regional relationship
[00:17:28] relationship and allowing Iran, you you know, that kind of power projection.
[00:17:32] projection. And what I'm really concerned concerned about is the Houthis are
[00:17:36] are an expansion, expansionist militia. militia. They started out of nothing
[00:17:39] nothing in the mountains of southern
[00:17:41] southern and south of Saudi Arabia, Arabia, and they continue to grow.
[00:17:45] grow. So my concern is that they they grow into the government areas.
[00:17:48] areas. They continue to expand. They
[00:17:49] They don't have Bab-el-Mandeb now,
[00:17:52] now, but they can if they continue
[00:17:55] continue with their ground, any kind kind of ground mobilisation and escalation.
[00:17:58] escalation. So it's extremely risky risky for the government of Yemen
[00:18:02] Yemen as well. Fatima Abo Alasrar,
[00:18:05] Alasrar, their non-resident fellow fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute.
[00:18:08] Institute. Thank you for being with with us. Thank you for having me.
[00:18:12] me. Well, we can turn now to the the fragile situation in Lebanon.
[00:18:15] Lebanon. And the Israeli army has has carried out strikes in the South
[00:18:19] South on Thursday, killing one person
[00:18:21] person and wounding 11 people. It It marks the first Israeli strikes
[00:18:25] strikes on Lebanon in more than a
[00:18:27] a month. Well, the IDF called it it retaliation for the deaths of
[00:18:30] of two Israeli soldiers in an explosion
[00:18:33] explosion on Wednesday. Israeli forces forces still maintain control of
[00:18:36] of much of southern Lebanon, a topic topic that dominated the latest round
[00:18:40] round of talks between the two countries,
[00:18:41] countries, with the goal of expanding expanding Lebanese control of the
[00:18:45] the so-called pilot zones, where where Hezbollah rejects the direct
[00:18:49] direct talks and refuses to surrender surrender its weapons. Reporting
[00:18:53] Reporting from Beirut is Carine Torbey.
[00:18:55] Torbey. As the Lebanese and Israeli Israeli teams continued their talks
[00:18:59] talks in the US embassy in the Italian
[00:19:01] Italian capital Rome. Israel was
[00:19:03] was intensifying its attacks in southern
[00:19:06] southern Lebanon amid concerns of
[00:19:08] of a renewed escalation. One person person was killed in Lebanon and
[00:19:12] and others were injured in a number
[00:19:14] number of Israeli strikes on villages
[00:19:17] villages in the tyre district in
[00:19:19] in south Lebanon. That's on Wednesday Wednesday and today, Thursday. There
[00:19:23] There was also Israeli artillery
[00:19:25] artillery shelling of several towns, towns, Israel said that those attacks
[00:19:29] attacks were in response to what
[00:19:30] what it claimed is Hezbollah's violation
[00:19:33] violation of the ceasefire after after two Israeli soldiers were killed
[00:19:37] killed and four were seriously wounded
[00:19:40] wounded after being hit by an explosive explosive device in the southern
[00:19:44] southern town of Mark Doyle zone.
[00:19:47] zone. Hezbollah has not claimed responsibility responsibility for the attack, and
[00:19:50] and it isn't clear when the explosive
[00:19:52] explosive device was placed in the the area that is currently under
[00:19:56] under Israeli occupation and control. control. Another matter of concern
[00:20:00] concern in Lebanon is the repetition
[00:20:02] repetition of incidents of Israeli Israeli civilians crossing into Lebanon.
[00:20:06] Lebanon. The Israeli army has said
[00:20:09] said that 15 Israeli civilians damaged
[00:20:11] damaged the border fence and entered entered Lebanon, and that they were
[00:20:14] were all returned to Israel by the
[00:20:17] the Israeli troops. This isn't the
[00:20:19] the first time such an incident happens,
[00:20:21] happens, and there are fears in Lebanon
[00:20:24] Lebanon of this leading to a potential
[00:20:27] potential Israeli settlement activity
[00:20:29] activity on Lebanese occupied territory.
[00:20:31] territory. Carine Torbey there in in Beirut. Well, still to come, the
[00:20:35] the English Football Association Association withdraw support for
[00:20:39] for Infantino as Uefa says that the
[00:20:40] the World Cup boycott may still go go ahead.
[00:21:43] and Democrats and for the American American people. For the latest, latest, follow us on the President's
[00:21:47] President's path here. On BBC News.
[00:21:54] News. You're live with BBC News. News. Let's turn now to some other
[00:21:58] other important news around the world. world. And Italian officials have
[00:22:01] have placed all of the country's country's major cities on the highest
[00:22:05] highest level of health alert due due to soaring temperatures as large
[00:22:08] large parts of Europe remain in the the grip of a heatwave. Well, drought
[00:22:11] drought related disruption is affecting affecting shipping as well as energy
[00:22:15] energy supplies in Central Europe, Europe, where several major rivers
[00:22:19] rivers are at record low levels. levels. In Hungary, the dwindling
[00:22:22] dwindling flow of water in the Danube
[00:22:24] Danube has led to power shortages.
[00:22:27] shortages. The budget airline Easyjet
[00:22:29] Easyjet has agreed to be taken over
[00:22:31] over by US firm Apollo. The £5.7
[00:22:34] £5.7 billion deal was announced after after rival suitor Castlelake said
[00:22:38] said that it was ending its bid for
[00:22:40] for the no frills airline. Now EasyJet EasyJet is one of Europe's largest
[00:22:44] largest airlines, it employs more
[00:22:46] more than 19,000 people and flies
[00:22:50] flies across some 1200 routes across
[00:22:53] across 35 European countries. The
[00:22:56] The next World Cup tournament could could still be in peril, despite
[00:22:59] despite Fifa president Gianni Infantino
[00:23:02] Infantino scrapping his widely condemned condemned plan to sell stakes in
[00:23:05] in the competition to private equity equity investors. Well, the lead
[00:23:08] lead investor would have been Joshua Joshua Kushner, the brother of President
[00:23:12] President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Jared Kushner. And now Uefa, European
[00:23:16] European football's governing body, body, is refusing to withdraw its
[00:23:19] its threat to boycott the next World World Cup, saying that its conditions
[00:23:23] conditions have not been met. The The English Football Association
[00:23:26] Association has also officially withdrawn withdrawn its support for Infantino,
[00:23:29] Infantino, but the Confederation Confederation of African Football
[00:23:32] Football Executive Committee has has unanimously confirmed its support
[00:23:35] support for him. Well, BBC Sport Sport presenter Hugh Ferriss gave
[00:23:39] gave me his analysis on the response
[00:23:42] response to Fifa's stance. Yeah that's that's right. Over the last 24 hours
[00:23:46] hours or so, Helena, there has been. been. If Fifa wanted to draw a line
[00:23:49] line under the fair very much the
[00:23:51] the opposite happening rather entrenching
[00:23:54] entrenching of positions. Those in in favour have restated that support
[00:23:58] support those against rather than than backing down as Gianni Infantino
[00:24:01] Infantino might have hoped to do do after his statement on Wednesday
[00:24:04] Wednesday night, pretty much doubling doubling down. You mentioned Uefa
[00:24:08] Uefa reaffirming its stance that that they could well boycott any
[00:24:11] any Fifa tournaments coming up if
[00:24:12] if Gianni Infantino remains in post, post, not only because of the conditions
[00:24:16] conditions that they say that have have not been met following their their initial rejection of those
[00:24:20] those plans that you outlined, but
[00:24:22] but also saying that nothing has has changed after that statement
[00:24:26] statement from Fifa in the last 24
[00:24:29] 24 hours, FIFPRO, who are the players players union globally? They have
[00:24:32] have called that statement and indeed indeed the meeting that it followed
[00:24:36] followed a profound abuse of presidential
[00:24:39] presidential power. But on the other other side of things, you mentioned
[00:24:41] mentioned the Confederation of African African Football, long supporters
[00:24:44] supporters of Gianni Infantino as
[00:24:45] as a whole, but also the constituent
[00:24:48] constituent member associations as as well, talking about the fact that
[00:24:51] that they unanimously reconfirmed reconfirmed its support for the Fifa
[00:24:55] Fifa president, Gianni Infantino. Infantino. Indeed, they thanked him him for his support for African football
[00:24:58] football over the years. They say
[00:25:00] say they endorse also the Fifa statement
[00:25:03] statement from Wednesday night. So So there are those in support and
[00:25:06] and there are those who are not.
[00:25:09] not. Pretty much every single member member association or confederation
[00:25:13] confederation have talked about the the fact they didn't like how the
[00:25:16] the plans would come about and indeed indeed how they were announced, but
[00:25:19] but those in favour of Gianni Infantino Infantino remain. So those against
[00:25:23] against are doubling down. Hugh Ferris
[00:25:26] Ferris there from BBC Sport. Now Now a rare tiger has been released
[00:25:30] released in Kazakhstan for the first
[00:25:31] first time in some 70 years. Umit,
[00:25:35] Umit, a female Amur tiger, has been
[00:25:37] been released into a nature reserve reserve in Kazakhstan. It is all
[00:25:41] all part of a programme to restore
[00:25:43] restore the animals population, which
[00:25:45] which was wiped out in Central Asia
[00:25:48] Asia a century ago. Now Umit is one
[00:25:50] one of four Amur tigers transferred transferred from Russia. She'll be
[00:25:54] be monitored on how she takes to to the new habitat before a decision
[00:25:57] decision is made on when to release
[00:26:01] release the other three. Well, you're you're watching BBC News. I'm Helena Helena Humphrey in Washington. Thanks Thanks for
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