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[00:00:17] These are the latest headlines
[00:00:19] from BBC News. A drone is shot down
[00:00:21] down over European Union airspace airspace by Nato fighter jets. Lithuania's
[00:00:25] Lithuania's president says such readiness
[00:00:27] readiness is vital as Russia intensifies
[00:00:30] intensifies its aggression against against Ukraine. President Trump
[00:00:33] Trump says safety fears over artificial artificial intelligence are a hoax.
[00:00:37] hoax. As the co-founder of one of of the world's biggest AI firms tells
[00:00:41] tells the BBC, a compulsory kill
[00:00:43] kill switch for the technology might might be needed. The findings of
[00:00:47] of a public inquiry into how baby
[00:00:50] baby killer Lucy Letby was able to
[00:00:52] to murder seven babies is out. Later Later it looked as if action could
[00:00:56] could have been taken sooner to stop
[00:00:58] stop the former nurse. Prince Harry
[00:01:01] Harry and Meghan's police protection protection is being reviewed as they
[00:01:04] they change their children's school. school. Just two days into the new
[00:01:08] new term over security concerns.
[00:01:11] concerns. Job vacancies across the
[00:01:13] the UK fall to their lowest level
[00:01:16] level since 2021, new figures show.
[00:01:17] show. Average wages are 3.5% higher
[00:01:21] higher than a year ago, and Welsh
[00:01:24] Welsh actor Matthew Rhys makes history history at the Emmy Awards, becoming
[00:01:28] becoming the first person to win
[00:01:30] win two leading acting prizes in
[00:01:32] in one night. You're with BBC News
[00:01:41] News with Me, Karin Giannone and and Sally Bundock and Sally has more
[00:01:45] more on those UK jobs numbers. I I do indeed, and I need that little
[00:01:48] little sneaky device just so that that I can see what's on the screen.
[00:01:51] screen. So we've got, as you were were just hearing there, we've got
[00:01:54] got the labour numbers out for the
[00:01:56] the UK market showing that this jobs jobs market here is still under quite
[00:02:00] quite a bit of pressure. It's a tricky tricky jobs environment out there.
[00:02:03] there. So if we take a look first first at employment, provisional
[00:02:06] provisional figures show there's there's been a slight fall in August
[00:02:10] August compared to the previous month.
[00:02:11] month. That represents around 26,000
[00:02:14] 26,000 fewer employees in the workforce. workforce. And the drop has been
[00:02:17] been mainly in retail and hospitality.
[00:02:19] hospitality. The quarterly rate of of unemployment remains unchanged
[00:02:23] unchanged at 4.9% in the three months months to the end of July. On top
[00:02:27] top of that, as you are hearing, hearing, job vacancies remain at
[00:02:30] at their lowest level outside of of the pandemic. Meanwhile, if you
[00:02:33] you look at wages annual growth in
[00:02:36] in employees average regular earnings, earnings, including bonuses, was
[00:02:40] was 3.9% in May to July 2026 and
[00:02:43] and that is unchanged from the previous previous time. But this figure is
[00:02:46] is likely to be the defining factor factor in the rise in the state pension
[00:02:50] pension next April. The Bank of England,
[00:02:51] England, of course, will be scrutinising scrutinising all this information
[00:02:54] information before they meet on Thursday Thursday for their latest decision
[00:02:58] decision on interest rates. They're They're looking for whether there's there's any clues that higher energy
[00:03:01] energy prices caused by the Iraq Iraq war are having an impact on
[00:03:05] on wage growth and underlying inflation
[00:03:08] inflation in the UK. This time tomorrow, tomorrow, will have the latest inflation
[00:03:11] inflation numbers. Maxine Bligh is is interim chief executive of the
[00:03:15] the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. Confederation. I asked her what stood
[00:03:18] stood out for her in today's data. data. Overall, it's really the continuation
[00:03:21] continuation of the picture that that we've been seeing for a while.
[00:03:24] while. It remains just a really challenging challenging market for job creation
[00:03:27] creation and hiring. And I think think what stands out is, given that
[00:03:30] that growth was stronger than expected expected for the last quarter, we
[00:03:34] we might have hoped for slightly slightly better in the employment
[00:03:36] employment figures, but as the ONS ONS points out itself, its high cost
[00:03:39] cost of doing business and high costs costs of hiring, particularly for
[00:03:43] for small companies that are behind behind some of this continuing caution.
[00:03:46] caution. But also as well, Maxine, Maxine, when you think about it,
[00:03:49] it, if you're running a business
[00:03:52] business right now, it's so difficult difficult to know what's ahead. Currently
[00:03:56] Currently we've got, you know, a a recently appointed Prime Minister. Minister. We've got a new chancellor,
[00:03:59] chancellor, we've got a budget coming coming up at the end of October.
[00:04:02] October. I mean, I can understand understand why businesses are saying
[00:04:06] saying we are just not hiring currently, currently, especially when you think
[00:04:08] think of the wider geopolitics with
[00:04:10] with the Middle East, etc. Yeah,
[00:04:12] Yeah, exactly that. I mean, our surveys surveys show that actually businesses
[00:04:16] businesses are quite confident in
[00:04:18] in their own business potential and and do see potential to hire in the
[00:04:22] the future. But as you say, there's there's so much caution about the
[00:04:25] the business environment at the moment. moment. And I think that's why there's there's so much riding really. On
[00:04:29] On the outcome of the government's government's decisions at the moment.
[00:04:32] moment. So things like the consultation consultation on guaranteed hours,
[00:04:35] hours, the decisions it makes in
[00:04:36] in the budget, the plan it sets out
[00:04:39] out national minimum and living wage wage discussions. All of these can
[00:04:42] can just help signal to business business that the government is doing
[00:04:46] doing all it can to help unlock some
[00:04:48] some of the potential that's there,
[00:04:50] there, given how unstable the picture picture is geopolitically. I just
[00:04:54] just wonder, you know, we've mentioned mentioned the Bank of England is is going to be going through all
[00:04:58] all these figures, as will the Chancellor, Chancellor, John Healey, because
[00:05:02] because there is real concern. I've I've noticed that since the last
[00:05:04] last set of employment figures we've
[00:05:06] we've had, you know, a leading retail
[00:05:09] retail recruitment not retail sorry sorry recruitment company saying
[00:05:12] saying graduate jobs are down 50% 50% in the past year. We've got the
[00:05:15] the issue of those not in education, education, employment or training.
[00:05:19] training. So so-called NEETs still still sitting at around a million.
[00:05:22] million. And there's various incentives incentives to get people back into into the workforce. I just wonder
[00:05:26] wonder what could be in the budget budget to change this. Yeah. Well,
[00:05:30] Well, what we're calling for is the the government to relook at the Nick
[00:05:34] Nick Watt thresholds. So to think
[00:05:36] think about a pathway to reverse.
[00:05:39] reverse. NICs, National Insurance Insurance contributions. That's right.
[00:05:43] right. And so to restore a pathway pathway to restore the level that
[00:05:46] that it was at, that was obviously
[00:05:49] obviously lowered last year and has
[00:05:52] has impacted significantly on business business costs and particularly,
[00:05:55] particularly, I think, led to decisions
[00:05:57] decisions at the entry level in terms
[00:05:59] terms of bringing people into work work and, you know, into part time
[00:06:03] time work as well, which I think
[00:06:05] think does impact on NEETs and young
[00:06:07] young people in particular. There's There's also more to do on the growth
[00:06:10] growth and skills levy to think about
[00:06:13] about reforming that and think about
[00:06:15] about more agility in skills funding,
[00:06:18] funding, as you say, you know, the the environment is very uncertain
[00:06:20] uncertain at the moment. Labour market market flexibility is is critical
[00:06:24] critical to that and businesses are
[00:06:25] are really looking at, you know,
[00:06:28] know, short-term, where is the opportunity? opportunity? How can they deploy
[00:06:30] deploy people for that opportunity opportunity and be agile around that?
[00:06:34] that? What that looks like over the the longer term. So I think this
[00:06:37] this is, you know, quite structural structural change in the labour market market that the government needs
[00:06:40] needs to respond to in policy terms.
[00:06:45] terms. That's Maxine Bligh there there from the recruitment and Employment
[00:06:48] Employment Confederation with her her take on the latest jobless numbers. numbers. Let's bring you up to date
[00:06:51] date on what's going on with oil oil prices and the situation in the
[00:06:55] the Middle East. It's also having having an effect on financial markets
[00:06:58] markets in other areas. So on Monday, Monday, the yield on ten year US
[00:07:01] US government bonds briefly exceeded
[00:07:03] exceeded 5% for the first time since
[00:07:06] since 2023, which hit thresholds thresholds that ring alarm bells.
[00:07:09] bells. The rise in yields comes during during a continuing sell off in US.
[00:07:13] US. The Treasury market, which is
[00:07:15] is estimated to be worth just over
[00:07:18] over $31 trillion in total. And this
[00:07:20] this comes at a time when the Federal Federal Reserve, the US central bank,
[00:07:24] bank, is expected to raise interest
[00:07:26] interest rates. Its meetings take
[00:07:28] take place today and tomorrow. Jane Jane Foley, who's head of foreign
[00:07:31] foreign exchange strategy at Rabobank, Rabobank, explained what's going
[00:07:35] going on. This is the first time
[00:07:38] time since 2023 we've seen this sort sort of level, but actually if we
[00:07:41] we stand back and look at the long-term long-term trend, it's the first time
[00:07:45] time we've sort of held assuming assuming we do hold above these levels
[00:07:48] levels really since the time of before before the global financial crisis.
[00:07:51] crisis. And so, you know, we stand stand back and say, well, look, is
[00:07:54] is this an anomaly? Are they going going to come back down? Or actually
[00:07:57] actually many people would say, look, look, this is more like a normalisation.
[00:08:01] normalisation. Perhaps the years years since the global financial
[00:08:05] financial crisis, we had extraordinarily extraordinarily low long-term interest interest rates. And we think about
[00:08:09] about the reasons why. Well, you've you've been talking about oil prices.
[00:08:12] prices. Yes. That's a significant
[00:08:14] significant driver of long-term interest
[00:08:16] interest rates that inflationary inflationary push, but also another
[00:08:19] another driver of long-term interest interest rates is the fiscal situation.
[00:08:23] situation. There's a lot more government government debt out there than there
[00:08:26] there was before the global financial financial crisis years. And this
[00:08:29] this is another big driver of long-term
[00:08:31] long-term interest rates. What does does it mean for federal government
[00:08:35] government in the US in terms of of servicing its debt? Does it mean
[00:08:39] mean it's more expensive? It's something something we talk about here in the
[00:08:41] the UK a lot. The fact that the Chancellor's Chancellor's fiscal headroom is shrinking
[00:08:44] shrinking and that kind of thing, thing, is that the same story in
[00:08:46] in the US? Yes, it is much more expensive.
[00:08:49] expensive. And what's also really really worrying, particularly in
[00:08:52] in the US, is the size of the budget budget deficit. Now if you like,
[00:08:55] like, if you have a big budget deficit
[00:08:58] deficit every year, then that means means you've got an accelerating
[00:09:02] accelerating pile of debt every year. year. And so many people would think
[00:09:05] think it's that pace of that growth growth of the debt, the budget deficit.
[00:09:08] deficit. That's perhaps the most most worrying. Now here in the UK,
[00:09:12] UK, for instance, many people say, say, well look, there's a plan. There's There's those fiscal rules, there's
[00:09:16] there's some discipline here. What What is the plan in the US? Well,
[00:09:19] Well, that's not so clear. We know
[00:09:22] know that, for instance, a lot of of the tax implications that we've
[00:09:26] we've seen from the current administration administration have sort of added
[00:09:29] added to the budget deficit. And And the markets perhaps are clamouring
[00:09:33] clamouring for a little bit more
[00:09:35] more fiscal discipline from the Trump Trump administration. OK. Well, we'll
[00:09:38] we'll see some discipline when we we from the Federal Reserve, it will will play its part in all of this.
[00:09:42] this. It's likely to raise rates. rates. Do you think tomorrow and
[00:09:45] and if so that puts Kevin Warsh on on a collision course with President
[00:09:49] President Trump. It does. But perhaps perhaps it's something that the markets
[00:09:52] markets need to hear because the the markets want an independent Federal
[00:09:55] Federal Reserve. They don't want want one that is under the thumb
[00:09:58] thumb of the President. That perhaps perhaps would make inflation fears
[00:10:01] fears even worse and drive up those
[00:10:02] those long-term interest rates even
[00:10:05] even more so given the inflationary inflationary concerns. I think the
[00:10:08] the market needs to see some hawkish hawkish response from the Federal
[00:10:12] Federal Reserve. And at this point,
[00:10:14] point, with 90% of a hike priced
[00:10:16] priced in, if he doesn't hike interest interest rates, that would likely
[00:10:20] likely drive long-term interest rates rates up even more and more accelerated
[00:10:23] accelerated pace. So the market perhaps perhaps needs to see that hawkish
[00:10:27] hawkish response from the central central bank. Jane Foley there now
[00:10:30] now the Trump administration has
[00:10:32] has repealed regulations which limit
[00:10:34] limit how many greenhouse gases power power stations can emit. The move
[00:10:38] move was announced by the head of of the Environmental Protection Agency.
[00:10:42] Agency. Samira Hussain has more from from New York. President Trump has
[00:10:45] has described man made climate change
[00:10:47] change as the greatest con job ever
[00:10:50] ever perpetrated on the world. Accordingly, Accordingly, his administration has
[00:10:54] has long indicated that it wants wants to ditch the restrictions that
[00:10:57] that his predecessors placed on how how many greenhouse gases, coal and
[00:11:01] and natural gas fired power stations stations could emit. Now, the rule
[00:11:05] rule change announced by EPA administrator administrator Lee Zeldin, will make
[00:11:08] make it possible for the power generating
[00:11:11] generating sector to put many more
[00:11:12] more of the gases that cause global
[00:11:15] global warming into the atmosphere. atmosphere. Now, the power generating generating sector is already the
[00:11:19] the second biggest source of greenhouse greenhouse gases in America, after
[00:11:23] after transportation. Mr Zeldin says
[00:11:25] says his moves will save the industry
[00:11:29] industry over $300 billion. Now this this comes as the rapid construction
[00:11:32] construction of data centres has
[00:11:34] has created huge new demand for electricity.
[00:11:38] electricity. Samira Hussain there there in New York. That's all from from me and I'll see you later. Sally.
[00:11:42] Sally. Thank you very much. Still Still to come, British success. Lots
[00:11:46] Lots of it at the Emmys. Matthew Matthew Reese makes history with
[00:11:50] with two Best Lead Actor awards as
[00:11:52] as Kate O'Flynn and Alan Cumming
[00:11:54] Cumming also take trophies home.
[00:11:57] home. Let's bring you some breaking
[00:12:00] breaking news from Denmark. The Danish
[00:12:03] Danish Prime Minister has slammed
[00:12:05] slammed what is called reckless action
[00:12:08] action after a Russian frigate fired fired flares at a Danish military
[00:12:12] military helicopter. A little more
[00:12:13] more detail on that. Denmark reporting
[00:12:16] reporting that the Russian frigate frigate fired two flares towards
[00:12:19] towards a Danish military helicopter
[00:12:21] helicopter off its coast on Monday. Monday. The flares narrowly missed
[00:12:25] missed the aircraft, which had been been on a mission to photograph the
[00:12:29] the ship. Russia's ambassador to
[00:12:32] to Denmark has been summoned. We We will bring you any more, we get
[00:12:36] get on that story Yemen's Houthi
[00:12:39] Houthi movement says Saudi Arabia Arabia has launched renewed air strikes
[00:12:42] strikes across the west of the country country after the Iran backed group
[00:12:46] group announced it had targeted military military bases in the kingdom. The
[00:12:49] The Houthis said the Saudi attacks
[00:12:51] attacks hit areas including Taiz,
[00:12:54] Taiz, al-Jawf and Hudaydah. The group group had earlier targeted the King
[00:12:57] King Khalid air base in southern southern Saudi Arabia. The extent
[00:13:00] extent of the damage in both attacks attacks hasn't been verified and
[00:13:02] and there's been no reaction from from Riyadh. Last week, the Houthis
[00:13:06] Houthis seized control of Yemen's
[00:13:07] Yemen's Red Sea coast and Bab al
[00:13:10] al Mandab Strait from Jerusalem. Jerusalem. Our Middle East correspondent
[00:13:14] correspondent Hugo Bachega reports. reports. The Houthis say they fired
[00:13:16] fired dozens of missiles and drones
[00:13:18] drones at a military base in southern
[00:13:21] southern Saudi Arabia, targeting targeting radar systems, runways
[00:13:24] runways and ammunition depots, and and there were emergency alerts issued
[00:13:27] issued by the Saudi authorities for
[00:13:29] for several locations around this
[00:13:32] this base and in Yemen, government government forces supported by Saudi
[00:13:36] Saudi Arabia are trying to fight fight back. The Houthis have accused
[00:13:40] accused Saudi Arabia of carrying
[00:13:42] carrying out more than 300 air strikes
[00:13:44] strikes in the past five days. This This has been a rapid advance by
[00:13:48] by the Houthis, capturing a key territory
[00:13:52] territory along the Red Sea. And And the fear here is that this could
[00:13:55] could reignite the civil war in Yemen.
[00:13:58] Yemen. The United Nations says that
[00:14:01] that more than 80,000 people have have already been displaced because
[00:14:04] because of the fighting, and we still still don't know if the Houthis will
[00:14:08] will try to seize even more territory
[00:14:10] territory or if there will be a larger
[00:14:13] larger offensive by the government government and its allies. But the
[00:14:17] the violence in Yemen is also putting
[00:14:19] putting pressure on energy supplies supplies because the Red Sea has
[00:14:22] has become a key alternative for
[00:14:25] for Saudi oil exports. Given that that the Strait of Hormuz has been
[00:14:29] been effectively closed because of
[00:14:31] of the US war against Iran. And it
[00:14:34] it isn't clear if the Houthis have
[00:14:36] have the ability or are planning
[00:14:39] planning to disrupt shipment in this
[00:14:42] this vital waterway. And finally, finally, reports say that a crucial
[00:14:46] crucial Saudi pipeline that was struck struck in a drone attack a few days
[00:14:50] days ago is likely to remain closed
[00:14:53] closed for a few weeks for the damage
[00:14:56] damage to be repaired, and this could
[00:14:59] could squeeze oil prices even further.
[00:15:02] further. Hugo Bachega well, several several Gulf states are struggling
[00:15:05] struggling because of the stalemate stalemate between the US and Iran.
[00:15:08] Iran. Alia Al-Khaled is a former
[00:15:10] former member of Kuwait's National National Assembly, and she explained
[00:15:13] explained how her country is being being affected. Kuwait air Defence
[00:15:17] Defence has repeatedly intercepted intercepted Iranian ballistic missiles
[00:15:20] missiles and drones, and some of of those strikes affected energy
[00:15:24] energy facilities and have caused caused some infrastructure damage
[00:15:27] damage and electricity, electricity electricity plants and some oil fields
[00:15:31] fields and multiple injuries among
[00:15:34] among personnel and workers at those
[00:15:36] those areas. The blockage of the
[00:15:39] the Strait of Hormuz by Iran has
[00:15:41] has severely restricted Kuwait primary
[00:15:43] primary shipping lanes, causing a
[00:15:46] a backlog in oil exports and increasing
[00:15:49] increasing state revenues. So therefore,
[00:15:52] therefore, to combat mounting budget
[00:15:56] budget deficit that Kuwait is suffering
[00:15:59] suffering from and massive reconstruction reconstruction costs, the Kuwaiti
[00:16:03] Kuwaiti government issued emergency
[00:16:05] emergency decrees allowing it to
[00:16:08] to borrow up to 10% from its future
[00:16:12] future Generation Fund. President President Trump has said fears about
[00:16:16] about the safety of AI are a hoax,
[00:16:18] hoax, as he criticised calls to have have more guardrails for the fast
[00:16:22] fast moving technology. And this this comes after Jack Clark, a co-founder
[00:16:26] co-founder of AI giant Anthropic, Anthropic, told the BBC that a kill
[00:16:29] kill switch for dangerous AI that that can be checked by a third party
[00:16:33] party may need to be mandatory for for the industry here in the UK.
[00:16:36] UK. The Business Secretary, Jonathan Jonathan Reynolds, has been speaking speaking to BBC Breakfast, reassuring
[00:16:40] reassuring the public that the government
[00:16:42] government is taking AI safety seriously.
[00:16:44] seriously. We should never be complacent complacent nor should we be hyperbolic
[00:16:48] hyperbolic about this. AI is a very very powerful technology. It's used
[00:16:51] used in a lot of very positive ways
[00:16:53] ways in the UK from how we diagnose
[00:16:56] diagnose medical conditions to, you you know, the fact that it's contributing
[00:16:59] contributing such a large amount amount to our economy. As the last
[00:17:01] last month's figures showed, but but also the UK is a world leader
[00:17:05] leader in something called the AI AI Safety Institute. That means that
[00:17:09] that models developed in other countries countries are often given to us to
[00:17:12] to test. In the UK it's a difficult difficult situation and that a lot
[00:17:15] lot of this technology, the frontier frontier technology does in the main
[00:17:18] main come from the US and China. China. But I would want people to
[00:17:21] to be reassured that safety is taken taken exceptionally seriously, that
[00:17:24] that we have institutions in place place in the UK that are playing
[00:17:27] playing a leading role. And of course, course, as ever with technology, technology, it's not just about the
[00:17:31] the technology itself, it's how it's it's used, it's how you regulate regulate the rest of the economy
[00:17:35] economy to make sure they're ready ready for the changes coming their
[00:17:38] their way. So please don't be concerned concerned listening at home about
[00:17:41] about some of the things that you you have heard. We take this very
[00:17:43] very seriously and we can have confidence confidence in our systems in place
[00:17:46] place in the UK. Well, we've been been talking a lot about AI in recent
[00:17:50] recent days. A police force is now
[00:17:52] now using it to help cut down on
[00:17:55] on non-urgent inquiries. Merseyside Merseyside Police have started using
[00:17:58] using an AI chatbot named Bobbi to to answer questions from the public.
[00:18:02] public. The force says 1 in 5 calls calls doesn't require a police operator
[00:18:05] operator and that this will free free up staff to deal with genuine genuine emergencies. Our reporter
[00:18:09] reporter Phil McCann went to find find out more. Meet Bobbi, he's on
[00:18:13] on the screen, not on the beat, but but he could still save lives. It's
[00:18:17] It's there. To deal with routine
[00:18:21] routine calls, inquiries, advice advice or problems that doesn't need
[00:18:24] need a human to actually answer it
[00:18:26] it and therefore frees up the time time of the contact resolution officers.
[00:18:30] officers. That's because the police police staff who answer 101 non-emergency
[00:18:33] non-emergency calls in this call call centre are the same staff who
[00:18:37] who answer 999 emergency calls. You You can't talk to Bobbi on the phone.
[00:18:41] phone. You first meet him or she she or it on the Merseyside Police
[00:18:44] Police website where it pops up in in the corner. So if, for example,
[00:18:48] example, you see or hear a trapped trapped cat, Bobbi will tell you
[00:18:52] you to go to the RSPCA, not the police.
[00:18:54] police. But often things aren't that that simple. What if you spot someone
[00:18:58] someone as does happen shooting at at the cat with an air rifle? Well,
[00:19:00] Well, then Bobbi decides it is a
[00:19:02] a police matter and brings in a human human being. It could be. A noise
[00:19:06] noise complaint, for example, or or an abandoned vehicle. It could could be, as you've just mentioned,
[00:19:10] mentioned, that example, a dog barking barking an animal issue which RSPCA
[00:19:13] RSPCA would take primacy for. Those Those can be taken or those calls
[00:19:16] calls can take a few minutes, up up to multiple minutes, tens of minutes
[00:19:19] minutes to be dealt with. And every every time a contact is dealing with with those calls is meaning it's
[00:19:23] it's time away from being able to to answer the 999 calls where someone
[00:19:27] someone is in significant danger
[00:19:28] danger or needs help straight away.
[00:19:31] away. 95% of Merseyside's 999 calls calls were answered in less than
[00:19:34] than 10s last month, a figure that that it's hoped this new Bobbi can
[00:19:37] can improve. Phil McCann, BBC News.
[00:19:42] News. Powers to stop people wearing wearing face coverings including
[00:19:46] including balaclavas, come into force force today and Nottingham city centre.
[00:19:49] centre. Police will be able to ask ask people to remove coverings if
[00:19:52] if they reasonably believe they're they're being used to conceal their
[00:19:55] their identity to commit crime or
[00:19:57] or anti-social behaviour, Navtej
[00:20:00] Navtej Johal reports. Intimidating
[00:20:04] Intimidating and aggressive that's that's how many feel about scenes
[00:20:07] scenes like these where people are are wearing balaclavas. But from
[00:20:10] from today in Nottingham city centre, centre, the police will have the
[00:20:13] the power to ask anyone wearing a
[00:20:14] a face covering to remove it if they they reasonably believe it's being
[00:20:18] being used to conceal their identity, identity, to commit crime or anti-social
[00:20:22] anti-social behaviour. Over the last
[00:20:24] last 12 months we've experienced experienced a lot of crime and anti-social
[00:20:27] anti-social behaviour here in the
[00:20:29] the city centre whereby predominantly predominantly young people are wearing
[00:20:33] wearing face coverings. They're normally
[00:20:37] normally balaclavas, a few nights nights earlier in Nottingham we came came across a. Young man wearing
[00:20:40] wearing a face covering, playing playing loud music. He didn't want
[00:20:43] want to talk to us but the officer officer who spoke to him did and
[00:20:46] and he had told him about the upcoming
[00:20:48] upcoming ban. How receptive was he he to that message? Oh yeah. Loved
[00:20:51] Loved it. Loved the. Idea of this. this. Yeah. Hopefully he's going
[00:20:55] going to pay attention to it. I really really do hope everybody does pay
[00:20:58] pay attention to it and I think it'll it'll make the streets safer. Well, Well, as part of this plan, if someone
[00:21:02] someone refuses to remove their face. face. Covering when asked to do so
[00:21:04] so by police, they could be given
[00:21:07] given an on the spot £70 fine or
[00:21:10] or face prosecution with a maximum
[00:21:12] maximum penalty of up to £1,000.
[00:21:15] £1,000. With young people, we're we're clearly not going to issue
[00:21:19] issue a monetary fine. They will will come here back into the city
[00:21:22] city centre and they will take part part in reparative activities. So
[00:21:26] So that might be litter picking or or graffiti removal. And we'll also
[00:21:29] also do a diversionary course with with young people because we want
[00:21:33] want them to understand why their their behaviour is intimidatory.
[00:21:37] intimidatory. 12341. Oh. But these these teenagers at a youth outreach
[00:21:41] outreach project in the city, some some of whom wear balaclavas, say
[00:21:44] say young people wearing them are
[00:21:45] are often judged unfairly. If I had
[00:21:48] had a nice bike and I wore a balaclava, balaclava, it could be because I I didn't want people to know who
[00:21:52] who I was. Come to my house to take take my bike could be some committing committing crime. It could be because
[00:21:56] because I'm cold. There's so many many different reasons that people people wear them. I've had some friends
[00:21:59] friends that wear badges when they're they're being mischievous. I've got got friends that wear badges because
[00:22:02] because they just want to wear it. it. Do you think this ban is going
[00:22:05] going to make a difference? Well,
[00:22:08] Well, for me, I'll be honest, if if someone wants to wear a balaclava, balaclava, they're going to wear
[00:22:12] wear a balaclava regardless. I think think one or two people might stop
[00:22:15] stop wearing them and that's it.
[00:22:17] it. Why? Just because if they're
[00:22:21] they're using them to commit crime, crime, then what's another crime
[00:22:23] crime going to do? Police say they they won't target people wearing wearing face coverings for religious
[00:22:27] religious work or any other legitimate legitimate reasons. They say they
[00:22:30] they have the resources to enforce enforce the new rules and believe
[00:22:33] believe they will make the city safer.
[00:22:37] safer. Navtej Johal, BBC News, Nottingham.
[00:22:39] Nottingham. Now billed as TV's biggest biggest night, the Primetime Emmy
[00:22:43] Emmy Awards have been taking place place in Los Angeles. Winners so
[00:22:47] so far include talk show host Stephen Stephen Colbert, Allison Janney you
[00:22:51] you Might Remember Her from The West West Wing, made history with her
[00:22:54] her eighth award and Welsh actor
[00:22:57] actor Matthew Rhys has made history
[00:22:59] history with wins in two lead actor
[00:23:02] actor categories. Our North America America correspondent David Willis
[00:23:05] Willis has been on the red carpet
[00:23:07] carpet in LA. Emmy winner and Law
[00:23:09] Law and Order star Mariska Hargitay
[00:23:12] Hargitay got a celebration of the
[00:23:13] the best in television. Off to a
[00:23:16] a high energy start. The Emmy. And
[00:23:19] And the Emmy goes to Kate O'Flynn
[00:23:22] O'Flynn Widow's Bay. The first award award of the night going to Kate
[00:23:26] Kate O'Flynn from Greater Manchester Manchester for her role as the awkward
[00:23:29] awkward assistant Patricia in the the quirky new comedy Widow's Bay.
[00:23:32] Bay. Hello, my name is Patricia. Patricia. It's the Treasure. Thank
[00:23:36] Thank you Katie and Hiro for trusting trusting this Lancashire lass to
[00:23:40] to play a sassy broad like Patricia.
[00:23:43] Patricia. And the Emmy goes to Matthew
[00:23:48] Matthew Rhys The Beast In Me. Matthew Matthew Rhys is the star of Widow's
[00:23:51] Widow's Bay, but his history making making moment was still to come.
[00:23:54] come. His first award of the night
[00:23:56] night was for his role in the Netflix
[00:23:59] Netflix miniseries The Beast In Me.
[00:24:01] Me. Don't Let Me Down. Matthew Rhys.
[00:24:04] Rhys. His Emmy for Widow's Bay, made made him the first actor to win two
[00:24:08] two lead acting trophies in a single
[00:24:10] single night. He is also the first first performer in history to have
[00:24:13] have won the lead acting award in
[00:24:16] in all three fields limited series,
[00:24:19] series, drama and now comedy. Sorry
[00:24:21] Sorry buddy. To the great and good good people of Wales who were as
[00:24:25] as much a nurture as anyone else, else, we are a small but mighty nation.
[00:24:29] nation. This is incredible. Thank
[00:24:30] Thank you very much. Thank you. In
[00:24:33] In his native Welsh, Matthew Rhys
[00:24:35] Rhys crowned Widow's Bay his rapid
[00:24:38] rapid transformation from quirky quirky newcomer to mainstream hit.
[00:24:40] hit. He plays the hapless mayor of
[00:24:42] of a New England town that he refuses
[00:24:44] refuses to believe is haunted. Apple
[00:24:47] Apple TV has commissioned a second second series for the fifth year
[00:24:50] year in a row. 75-year-old Jean Smart,
[00:24:53] Smart, the star of Hacks, was named
[00:24:55] named best comedy actress. Jean Smart
[00:24:59] Smart Hacks. The hospital drama The
[00:25:01] The Pitt went into these awards with
[00:25:04] with 25 Emmy nominations, collecting collecting his Best Dramatic Actor
[00:25:07] Actor award. Its star, Noah Wyle
[00:25:09] Wyle paid tribute to fellow contender
[00:25:12] contender Sir Gary Oldman. Mr Oldman,
[00:25:13] Oldman, I have to tell you I don't
[00:25:16] don't know that as an actor my age age that didn't look at Prick Up
[00:25:19] Up Your Ears and Sid and Nancy and and think that's the benchmark that
[00:25:22] that I want to hit one day in my my career. The leading award of the
[00:25:26] the night for best Drama went to
[00:25:28] to The Pitt amid the fall in Hollywood
[00:25:31] Hollywood production and flight to to other, less expensive corners
[00:25:34] corners of the world, including the
[00:25:36] the UK and Canada. The success of of The Pitt provides at least a crumb
[00:25:40] crumb of comfort. It was made not
[00:25:42] not in Pittsburgh but on a soundstage
[00:25:44] soundstage here in Los Angeles, and and it's already been commissioned
[00:25:48] commissioned for a third series. series. David Willis, BBC News. At
[00:25:52] At the Emmys. And there is an article
[00:25:55] article on the BBC News website and and app. All the results from the
[00:25:59] the Emmys and the red carpet, all all the outfits as well. I'm Karin
[00:26:03] Karin Giannone. That's it from me. me. Kasia Madera will be here soon.
[00:26:06] soon. See you soon.
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[00:30:10] Live from London. I'm Kasia
[00:30:11] Madera. This is BBC News. Authorities
[00:30:15] Authorities in Lithuania spend the the night searching for debris after
[00:30:18] after a drone enters EU airspace airspace and was shot down by Nato
[00:30:22] Nato jets. The public inquiry into into how the former nurse, Lucie
[00:30:26] Lucie Letby, was able to murder seven seven babies and attempt to kill
[00:30:30] kill seven more is due to publish
[00:30:32] publish its findings. The co-founder
[00:30:35] co-founder of Anthropic says that that AI firms may need a compulsory
[00:30:38] compulsory kill switch to stop the the technology spiralling out of
[00:30:42] of control. Prince Harry and Meghan's Meghan's police protection is to
[00:30:45] to be reviewed as they change their
[00:30:47] their children's school over security
[00:30:49] security concerns. The US confirms confirms it has weapons deployed
[00:30:53] deployed in space, in what's believed
[00:30:54] believed to be the first public acknowledgement
[00:30:57] acknowledgement of such capabilities. capabilities. And British