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[00:00:11] the latest
[00:00:11] of headlines from BBC News. The king issues an unusually pointed
[00:00:15] response after Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's brother, makes fresh claims
[00:00:19] about him in his new book. Fiji declares national emergency
[00:00:22] of following alarming surge in HIV cases.
[00:00:25] of One in 60 adults in the Pacific Island nation now live with the virus that causes
[00:00:29] AID. The Bank of England is expected to hold interest rates
[00:00:33] in
[00:00:33] the face of rising prices as the US highs borrowing
[00:00:37] in costs. My Microsoft's head of
[00:00:40] AI tells the BBC his competitors approach to training their models
[00:00:44] could have
[00:00:45] a disastrous impact on the well-being of humanity.
[00:00:49] The boss of social media company Snapchat says the firm would be willing
[00:00:52] implement time limits for teenagers
[00:00:55] of as an important step forward for the industry. And Lena
[00:00:58] Dunham, creator
[00:01:00] of of the Hit TV series Girls has welcomed her first child with her husband
[00:01:04] via a surrogate after years of openly speaking about her struggles with
[00:01:11] of fertility.
[00:01:14] of in Let's get some business news now with Sally
[00:01:18] and Sally, busy day. Indeed, yeah, absolutely. We've got our
[00:01:22] eyes firmly on the world's top central banks today. If we start with what has
[00:01:26] happened, what we do know, and that is in the US, they have... raised
[00:01:30] interest rates for the first time in three years as inflation worries Trump,
[00:01:34] the pressure from
[00:01:36] of their president, so is a unanimous decision on the part
[00:01:38] of the federal reserve team, they raised the cost of borrowing by a quarter of
[00:01:42] 1% to range of between 3.75 and
[00:01:45] 4%, and the decision comes as ratesters attempt to
[00:01:49] curb price rises driven by soaring energy costs and that's
[00:01:53] largely due to the conflict in the middle east. commenting on the
[00:01:56] move, fed chair Kevin Walsh said that inflation had been too... high for
[00:02:00] too long, but it's fair to say President Trump doesn't agree with the
[00:02:04] economic medicine, so taking to social media he posted
[00:02:07] of that interest rates in the United States should be 1% or less, because we
[00:02:11] are the best credit in the world by far. Samir Hussein in
[00:02:15] New York has more. By raising interest rates a quart of a
[00:02:19] percentage point in saying that inflation is the big reason
[00:02:23] why, the federal reserve did what it was expected to
[00:02:26] do. Now the Fed also said that, look, the US economy. is
[00:02:30] growing a pretty healthy rate despite
[00:02:34] geopolitical developments, presumably referring to the
[00:02:38] war with Iran, which has really driven up
[00:02:42] of inflation. In a press conference, Fed share Kevin Warsh admitted,
[00:02:45] look, this rate
[00:02:47] of hike won't reopen the Straight of Hormus. quarterpoint rate hike does not
[00:02:51] reopen the straight of Hormus, and so I wonder how you think these smaller
[00:02:55] of rate of hikes will be effective when it can't necessarily address the
[00:02:59] energy supply. of inflationary pressures, we cannot affect
[00:03:03] any individual price, whether it be oil prices, whether it be
[00:03:07] food stuffs at the grocery store, but what we can do and will
[00:03:10] do is ensure that any change in relative
[00:03:14] prices don't broaden out. so how will all of this make
[00:03:17] a difference? well, the federal reserve really made it clear that this is all
[00:03:21] about the American consumer, and specifically
[00:03:25] those that
[00:03:25] of are less well off, that they really want to try and get the
[00:03:29] cost. living under control, and this is one way that they can do
[00:03:35] of that. Can the Bank of England do that? That is the question. It's going to make its
[00:03:38] decision on interest rates today. The central banks widely expected to hold the
[00:03:42] cost of borrowing on
[00:03:44] of hold this time, despite facing increasing
[00:03:47] rate of price risings. The latest figures out though that were out this time
[00:03:51] yesterday showed that inflation hit 3.1% in August, the
[00:03:55] highest level five months driven largely by increases in fuel
[00:03:59] costs. Kathline Brooks who's research director at the trading
[00:04:02] platform, XTB, explained why she believes the Bank of England will
[00:04:06] not move on rates today. There's individual
[00:04:10] reasons why the Bank of England doesn't need to follow the ECB in the Fed for
[00:04:13] now. The first thing of course is that our interest rates have been higher certainly than the
[00:04:17] ETB anyway. And the dilemma here is different
[00:04:21] a isn't of it? I mean, when you look at the US and you hear their raising rates, you're kind of thinking, oh,
[00:04:24] well, maybe we need to do the same thing, but the American economy is much more
[00:04:28] robust than the... UK economy and
[00:04:31] our our growth is absolutely minimal at the moment, isn't it? and our labour market is not
[00:04:34] looking that healthy
[00:04:36] of either. yeah, I would agree that the labour market is a really, really weak
[00:04:40] point. we've seen private sector wage growth is now below the
[00:04:44] level of inflation and we've also seen payrolled employment, that's
[00:04:47] actually been falling. so yeah, you're completely right, the US economy is on
[00:04:51] track to
[00:04:52] of increase by 5.1% this quarter, and our growth rates
[00:04:55] of are just a mere fraction of that, and I think that the Bank of England, they'll want to...
[00:05:00] see more evidence that this inflation spike caused by the
[00:05:04] energy spike, caused by geopolitics is having a bigger and a broader
[00:05:08] impact on the economy before they hike, but I do think that there's a potential for a
[00:05:11] hike in november. remember are you how worried are you Kathline
[00:05:15] about inflation going forward because of course you
[00:05:18] Andrew Bailey was talking about it himself in front of a trees you in front
[00:05:22] of a common select committee recently and he was saying you know he is quite
[00:05:26] concerned and they're obviously watching everything incredibly closely in the months
[00:05:30] ahead it's not just energy it's going to be food prices rising soon as
[00:05:34] well yeah those those headline prices
[00:05:38] are for the longer the longer that um NG prices remain
[00:05:41] high "it it is more worrying for sure and it gets harder for the
[00:05:45] Bank of England to maintain that they can keep you know lid on
[00:05:49] price pressures by keeping interest rates on hold, which is essentially what they've
[00:05:53] done for this year. um, inflation is already,
[00:05:57] sorry, energy prices are already above the Bank of England's adverse scenario,
[00:06:01] which they only set out in July, so something does have to
[00:06:04] change, um, you know, food prices, energy prices, they're the real
[00:06:08] key, but we don't have any evidence that that they are..."
[00:06:12] feeding into they're having second round effects essentially our economy is
[00:06:16] quite weak so even if there is an interest rate hike in November I
[00:06:20] don't think we're going to be a a longer rate hiking cycle
[00:06:23] it could be quite a shallow hiking cycle and I think that will be different from
[00:06:27] the U.S. interesting Kathline Brooks there just to say of course
[00:06:31] we'll be live with that rate decision from the Bank of England here on BBC News for you at
[00:06:35] lunchtime but now let's focus on tech and a company looking to step
[00:06:39] into the controversial eyeware market is Snap. It's
[00:06:43] just launched its latest model called Specs, which it says
[00:06:46] enables an augmented reality experience using artificial
[00:06:50] intelligence for its users. Our North America Technology correspondent Lily
[00:06:54] Jamali has been trying them out. Snap Ink
[00:06:58] here in Santa Monica, California is rolling out what they're calling
[00:07:02] specs. These are augmented reality glasses that
[00:07:05] they say act as a fully stand-alone computer, but you
[00:07:09] might look a little different walking down the street. Now to use these
[00:07:13] AR glasses, I begin by pressing the home button
[00:07:17] on my hand, and in front of me what I see is a home
[00:07:21] screen. Hey Specs, play my morning
[00:07:23] playlist. The idea is to be able to play
[00:07:26] music, take me the long way, offer real-time
[00:07:29] navigation, watch TV and movies and enable
[00:07:33] working, shopping and real-time translation in dozens of
[00:07:37] languages. So if I press this button, I
[00:07:41] can capture. video, you should be able to see a
[00:07:44] white flashing uh light right here in between my
[00:07:48] eyes on the glasses, that's there to indicate that filming is taking
[00:07:52] place. one criticism that's come up with this form factor in general
[00:07:56] is privacy. many people don't like being filmed in public without their
[00:08:00] knowledge. i've seen instructions online about how to hide the led. meta for
[00:08:04] example says it's remotely disabled the camera its devices when the firm
[00:08:08] is detected users tampering with the indicator light. these aren't
[00:08:11] available to consumers just yet, they are available for
[00:08:14] pre-order uh, but consumers can actually get their hands on these in
[00:08:18] the UK, in the US as well as France in the fall, so in
[00:08:22] just a couple of months, and the retail price is
[00:08:25] $2,195. so they're not
[00:08:29] cheap. uh, Lily sat down with Snap's chief executive, that's
[00:08:32] Evans Speagle, and a time where there's so much being
[00:08:36] said currently about AI, it's development and the
[00:08:39] risks. she asked him if he believes AI is
[00:08:43] developing too quickly? what's most important for us is that we
[00:08:47] keep humanity at the center. i think technology has
[00:08:50] great opportunity to enhance our lives, enhance humanity, and
[00:08:54] that's how we've thought about developing specs and specs intelligence, because
[00:08:58] specs are all about improving your capabilities, right?
[00:09:02] so when you're using specs and you're practicing basketball, you're the one who's getting
[00:09:05] better at dribbling. you're the one who's working on your basketball skills. if
[00:09:09] specs are helping you learn how to draw, it's not the computer. drawing for you,
[00:09:13] specs are helping assist you learn that new, assist you and learning
[00:09:17] that that new skill, and so I think for us Specs and you know
[00:09:20] AI are really about enhancing what we can do as humans rather
[00:09:24] than replacing us, and I think that's something that's really important to us, but do you think that
[00:09:28] those other companies are moving too
[00:09:31] quickly?
[00:09:36] I think there's you know a real difference
[00:09:39] between doing cutting edge research. uh
[00:09:43] and then how that's actually implemented in the world,
[00:09:46] and so I think it's a really important moment to be thoughtful in terms the way that we're
[00:09:49] actually using this new technology to make sure it's furthering what's
[00:09:53] best for humanity, what's best for our society, and I'm glad that there's
[00:09:57] a really thoughtful conversation happening right now about the best way to do
[00:10:01] that. do you have any position on what all these
[00:10:05] policy makers here in the US and around the world are
[00:10:09] clamming clamoring for, which is more regulation or... some form
[00:10:13] of guard rails on this development? i think it's
[00:10:16] really important that we focus on the most tangible risks
[00:10:20] rather than imagined risks. it's really really hard to build thoughtful and
[00:10:24] effective. regulation around imagined risk, and so what I would
[00:10:28] really encourage,
[00:10:29] you know, policy makers, regulators around the world to do, is to
[00:10:33] really think deeply about what the tangible risks to AI development are,
[00:10:37] and then work to figure out what the best guard rails are for those real
[00:10:41] risk. There you have it, another opinion on
[00:10:45] that hot topic at the moment, the CEO there of Snap. Now,
[00:10:48] what makes a good business book? Well, according to this year's
[00:10:52] business book awards winner is... all about being
[00:10:56] experimental, it is the book is called tiny
[00:11:00] experiments, how to live freely a goal obsessed
[00:11:03] world. it's written by neuroscientist and entrepreneur
[00:11:07] and lord who is apparently packed full of tools
[00:11:11] to help you break free from limiting beliefs to
[00:11:14] create meaningful, productive life. well, I spoke
[00:11:18] to Annelaw earlier and I asked her for her tips on how we can
[00:11:22] improve our lives. one the problems is that we're
[00:11:26] often told that to be successful you need to have a big goal and then you
[00:11:30] have you need to have the perfect plan and then just stick to it, but
[00:11:34] we all know I think that life and work really unfold
[00:11:37] a straight line, and especially today with the world changing so
[00:11:41] quickly, trying to predict exactly where we end up tends to
[00:11:45] create just more pressure. so the book instead
[00:11:49] asks, if instead of trying the future, what if you treated the
[00:11:53] things that you want to explore as tiny
[00:11:56] experiments, so you try something, you see what happens,
[00:12:00] and then from this you keep iterating and adapting, so it's
[00:12:04] really ultimately about replacing the pressure of
[00:12:07] control with curiosity and using experimentation
[00:12:11] to build life and career that feels like your
[00:12:14] own, in order to do that, you've you've got to
[00:12:18] be prepared to fail, haven't you?
[00:12:20] you are you asking people to be more risktakers?
[00:12:24] well, mean there's always a possibility for failure, the idea
[00:12:28] here is to change your relationship to failure and to
[00:12:32] see this as source of data, as a way to learn more about
[00:12:36] yourself, about your studies, your work or even
[00:12:40] what you might want to do in retirement, so failure all of sudden
[00:12:43] becomes a partner, something you can learn from, and how
[00:12:47] many experiments do you suggest, is
[00:12:49] there a list of experiments you should try or do you suggest people come up with
[00:12:53] their own? thanks for asking because the kind of people
[00:12:57] who tend to enjoy the book are very curious and they get excited and they want to run
[00:13:01] a thousand experiments and tell them i'm sorry
[00:13:05] but one experiment a time and the reason why is
[00:13:08] because if you're changing every single variable in your life it's going
[00:13:12] to be really hard to know what exactly is working and not
[00:13:15] working that was
[00:13:17] Anne Lakonfo's the winner the business book the year I must admit it
[00:13:21] really put me on edge I don't like experimenting. "no,
[00:13:25] I'm not sure learning, using failure as a learning tool, time, I
[00:13:29] haven't got time for tiny experiments, well got to crack on, I mean Elizabeth
[00:13:33] day's done pretty well out of
[00:13:34] you know learning to fail, hasn't she and sort of moving on, so it is, yeah, I i get
[00:13:38] the sense, but I imbracing failure, which is something they're
[00:13:42] really good at doing in the United States, certainly in the business world, it's really encouraged,
[00:13:46] actually talking about the many, many failures before you hit, yeah, hit the
[00:13:50] goal, but it was just really interesting, what tiny experiment are you going to
[00:13:53] do today, Sally, oh my..." Goodness, I i could just thinking about that
[00:13:57] stresses me out. I've got to be honest, I don't have time for
[00:14:00] experiment. I've got to run home now, yeah, get on with the domestic chors.
[00:14:04] It's all very boring. I say
[00:14:09] them my kids would say that most of my meals I prepare for them are tiny experiments, not some necessarily very successful. You see she's she's
[00:14:12] smashing it. Thanks, Sally. Uh,
[00:14:16] you are watching BBC News. Now, Fiji has declared
[00:14:20] national emergency following alarming surge in
[00:14:24] HIV case. the Pacific Island nation with fewer than
[00:14:27] million people recorded more than 200 new HIV
[00:14:31] cases in 2025, a 16-fold increase from
[00:14:35] 2019. One in 60 adults in Fiji
[00:14:39] are currently living with the virus that causes AIDS. Well, Dr.
[00:14:43] Dashika Balak is care and support lead for HIV treatment at the Fiji
[00:14:47] Ministry of Health and she told my colleague Steve Ly, how the number
[00:14:51] of infected people had grown so quickly? um, I think over the...
[00:14:55] es the number of cases have increased and we've been trying to
[00:14:59] um catch up on these numbers, we have extended our testing in the
[00:15:02] countries and so therefore
[00:15:04] you know we are testing more infections that were already existing in the
[00:15:08] communities but now we are playing catch up with these cases as we know
[00:15:11] that I mean the new cases are across all the
[00:15:15] divisions in our countries, our towns and cities, even rural and maritime
[00:15:19] communities are now having to see new cases and
[00:15:23] this is what has led the government declaring a national
[00:15:27] emergency because we need a whole of national
[00:15:30] response which is led by the cabinet and supported across all party
[00:15:34] lines because this epidemic has become so wide spread
[00:15:38] that it needs every sector working together, not just health
[00:15:42] alone, yes and what should we understand then about how it has spread so
[00:15:46] quickly through injectable transmission? yes,
[00:15:49] sofitamine use has rapidly grown in the country and
[00:15:53] with it comes injecting and sharing of needles and
[00:15:56] syringes, where we know
[00:16:00] the people who have acquired HIV, around half these new
[00:16:03] cases were linked to injecting drug use, so
[00:16:07] HIV then moves
[00:16:09] to to their partners and to their families, so we are treating drug use as
[00:16:12] health issue, which includes harm reduction, testing and
[00:16:16] treatment taken to where people are and working with community
[00:16:19] organizations whom people trust, so again tackling the
[00:16:23] drug problem also needs health, law enforcement, social services,
[00:16:27] education and so forth, and this is exactly what
[00:16:31] this emergency needs a cabinet l response, yeah,
[00:16:34] and just tell us as well, I mean the numbers, I want to... 60 adults, this
[00:16:38] cuts across men and women, I presume,
[00:16:42] yes, so basically what we have seen over the last
[00:16:46] five years or so, we have seen that most the cases are concentrated
[00:16:50] among males, so about 70% the cases were among
[00:16:53] males and the rest females or as minute population among the
[00:16:57] transgender population, however we are seeing that this gap is closing
[00:17:01] now, so we are picking up more women living with HIV
[00:17:05] over the past couple of years as compared. Mails as
[00:17:08] well, that was Dr. Dashika Ballak from the Fiji Ministry
[00:17:12] of Health. Let's get some the day's other news now. President Trump has
[00:17:16] threatened to cut trade with the European Union if it pursues a proposal to make
[00:17:19] Canada the block's first ever associate member, describing the plan as
[00:17:23] laughable, Mr. Trump said he would view it as hostile act that could
[00:17:27] prompt further tariffs on the EU. The European Commission
[00:17:30] president Vonderlion had earlier told the European Parliament that she wanted
[00:17:34] to work on opening the door for Canada. Torrential
[00:17:38] rain is causing havock to northeastern Spain, flooding houses and
[00:17:42] closing roads, metros and airports. Residents the
[00:17:45] Catalonia and Valencia regions have been urged to avoid unnecessary
[00:17:49] travel and exercise extreme caution. A formal
[00:17:53] request has been lodged by British prosecutors for the extradition from the
[00:17:56] U.S. of brothers Andrew and Tristin Tate to face rape and sex
[00:18:00] trafficking charges, but a lawyer for the social media influencers has
[00:18:04] accused the UK authorities of failing to provide.
[00:18:07] documentation required. There are yet more
[00:18:11] concerns about global oil supplies after Saudi Arabia, the world's
[00:18:15] second largest oil producer, accused the Iran-backed
[00:18:18] Huthies of a cowardly terrorist attack on Islam's holiest city,
[00:18:22] Mecca. The Yemen-based Rebel group have claimed
[00:18:26] responsibility for attacks a Saudi Airbase and oil facilities,
[00:18:29] but they denied attacking Mecca. Here's our security correspondent Frank
[00:18:33] Gardner.
[00:18:38] down in the desert, Yemen's Hoothi rebels, displaying a Saudi
[00:18:42] Air Force F-15 fighter jet, they brought down with a
[00:18:45] missile. They may not look the most professional of armies, but their
[00:18:49] actions reach far beyond their borders. The
[00:18:53] hoothies in this shaded area here, can now threaten almost
[00:18:57] any shipping passing Yemen's Red Sea coast. Now,
[00:19:01] remember that on the other side the Arabian peninsula, the straight of
[00:19:05] Homus is largely blocked. to the US Iran war,
[00:19:09] to get around this, Saudi Arabia has been pumping around six million
[00:19:13] barrels of oil a day through this east-west pipeline to
[00:19:16] their export terminal at Yanbur on the red sea. From
[00:19:20] there, Saudi tankers have been taking the oil south,
[00:19:24] heading for the Asian markets f the Babbal Mandeb
[00:19:27] straight, but the hooties are at war with the Saudis and
[00:19:31] they vowed to target all Saudi shipping. The
[00:19:35] Saudi Houti conflict has... escalated
[00:19:38] dramatically, and that helps Iran. Iran
[00:19:42] now can go to the Trump administration and actually negotiate on
[00:19:46] better terms, now they don't just control the straight off, but actually
[00:19:49] very two important choke points and control over
[00:19:53] almost 35% the global oil
[00:19:57] economy.
[00:20:01] Yemini government forces are tough tribal fighters from the
[00:20:04] highlands, but they've also been armed and trained. by
[00:20:07] Iran, that's allowed them to strike targets in Saudi
[00:20:11] Arabia, like airports, oil depots and
[00:20:14] pipelines. All this is a counterbalance to the US Navy's
[00:20:18] blockade of Iran's gulf ports, a
[00:20:22] blockade that Iran and its mural say America
[00:20:26] cannot win. Frank Gardner, BBC
[00:20:29] News. From today, patients in England with a
[00:20:33] type of incurable breast cancer will be able to get life-extending
[00:20:36] drug. the NHS: two years ago it was rejected as not
[00:20:40] good value for money, but that decision has been reversed. here's Katherine
[00:20:44] Burns, oh my
[00:20:48] god.
[00:20:52] when, what, how? this is the moment when Kate Wills
[00:20:56] found out she will be able to have a drug that could keep her alive
[00:21:00] for longer. I am, I can't really believe
[00:21:03] it. You know, I just said to you, I've got scan
[00:21:07] results. I have another scan in two weeks that may show that I
[00:21:11] need this drug,
[00:21:13] and
[00:21:15] I haven't really dared to think about what would happen.
[00:21:22] 'I am, I can't believe
[00:21:25] it. Kate's a busy woman, keeping fit,
[00:21:29] working and being with her family. She's also living with secondary
[00:21:33] breast cancer, it's spread to her bones and
[00:21:36] lungs. We first met her and her friend Genie
[00:21:40] almost two years ago. They wanted a drug that could slow
[00:21:44] down the progression their cancer and her to. Genie was
[00:21:47] frustrated that she couldn't get in her to.' the health advisory body
[00:21:51] nice had said it wasn't value for money in England. Wales and
[00:21:55] Northern Ireland followed that advise too. When we first covered
[00:21:59] this story, patients in 19 countries in Europe, including
[00:22:03] Scotland, could get in her to. Over time that's gone
[00:22:06] up to 27. All along, Kate and others have
[00:22:10] kept fighting, including at this protest in July.
[00:22:14] The empty shoes were to represent women who died before they could get in
[00:22:18] her to, including genie who died in
[00:22:21] January, but from today NH2 will be
[00:22:25] available on the NHS in England, so what's changed, we
[00:22:28] understand that drug companies haven't particularly lowered their prices and
[00:22:32] that this is actually the result of a trade deal with the USA, where the UK
[00:22:36] government has agreed to spend 25% more on medicines, some of
[00:22:40] those changes have just kicked in, which has tipped the balance.
[00:22:44] Helen K is director of Medicine's evaluation at Nice and says
[00:22:48] we know this decision comes to... late for many families and our
[00:22:51] thoughts are with them today. Our role is important ensuring
[00:22:55] NHS spending on new medicines reflects the benefits they
[00:22:58] deliver. Wales is going to make in her to available soon, but this
[00:23:02] decision doesn't automatically apply in Northern Ireland. Kate's
[00:23:06] first thought is for friends she's lost including Genie, but she
[00:23:10] knows this decision could make all the difference for her
[00:23:13] family. Catherine Burns, BBC
[00:23:16] News. It's been more than 80 years.
[00:23:20] Since Thomas The Tank Engine and his friends first appeared in Children's
[00:23:24] books before their runaway success on screen.
[00:23:27] Today, new adventures from the Blue Locomotive are being launched
[00:23:31] online. Our reporter, John Maguire can tell us more.
[00:23:35] Thomas the tank engine has worked his branch line for many
[00:23:38] years, and from the imagination of vicker in Birmingham trying
[00:23:42] to entertain his poorly son, Thomas the Tank Engine
[00:23:45] traveled not just around his fictional home, the island of
[00:23:49] Sodom. but around the world, the bedtime stories
[00:23:53] were followed by Reverend Wilbert Audrey's books, then the
[00:23:56] BBC TV series narrated famously by
[00:24:00] Siringo Star: stupid old board said Thomas, there's no
[00:24:04] danger, there's no danger, look out, shouted his
[00:24:07] driver, come back,
[00:24:11] fire and smoke, said Thomas, I'm sunk, and he
[00:24:15] later Thomas and his friends were reborn as an
[00:24:18] animation and now returned to the rail line
[00:24:22] online through youtube. The new voice the cheeky little
[00:24:25] engine is 13-year-old Harry Sparks. Let's
[00:24:29] go to Napford station, that's where I'll find
[00:24:33] a big job to do. And taking over the mic as
[00:24:36] narrator, standing on the shoulders of giants, including
[00:24:40] beatle and bond, is the actor Henry Golding, and
[00:24:44] Paul Thomas was hurtling towards it, unable to start his engine.
[00:24:48] I mean, Ringo Star, what? what a champ huh? i think he did it for
[00:24:52] multiple years, so he's he's still got a couple up on me.
[00:24:55] um, but uh, of course an absolute legend. and and you've had
[00:24:59] a whole host of uh amazing stars including pierce
[00:25:03] brosnan. um, but uh, you know, i'm
[00:25:07] i'm in the shadow of giants. the characters remain hugely
[00:25:10] popular, inspiring young visitors to thomas land in
[00:25:14] staffordshire. he loves the trains, he loves the engines, he
[00:25:18] loves the tracks, uh, he loves the
[00:25:21] stories, we've got all the Thomas pictures from here all around
[00:25:25] your bedroom, and we taking one tomorrow we print one,
[00:25:29] we told one with Thomas with all the
[00:25:32] coaches, and then we put them all around his
[00:25:34] bedroom, the new series titled really
[00:25:38] helpful engines will, as always be underpinned by
[00:25:42] moral message, as young Thomas learns the ways the
[00:25:46] world with his trusty friends to keep him on track.
[00:25:54] Oh great to see Thomas back, current we'll be here at nine, do stay with his hair on
[00:25:58] BBC News!
[00:26:10] Hello, and the prayer of high pressure is going to be bringing hot weather to the southeast
[00:26:14] the United States over the next few days with temperatures reaching 38 celsius on
[00:26:18] Thursday up to about 100 fahrenheit. Few thunderstorms for the
[00:26:21] northeast to watch out for, we've also got some fairly active
[00:26:24] thunderstorms across parts of Arizona into New
[00:26:28] Mexico, Colorado and Utah, one or two of those could bring areas of...
[00:26:32] flash flooding now we're looking at some fairly widespread downpours
[00:26:36] at the moment in the lesser antis as easterly wave pushes through
[00:26:40] here, those showers will work across Puerto Rico and end up across Haiti, Dominican
[00:26:44] Republic and eastern areas of Cuba, so a high chance of seeing some showers and
[00:26:48] thunderstorms for these areas. an upper area of high pressure bringing a lot of dry and
[00:26:51] sunny weather to Argentina and Uruguay, but it stays
[00:26:55] cloudy through Esperito Santo, Rio de Janeiro State and
[00:26:59] São Paulo state with some outbreaks of light rain and... 'cuse
[00:27:03] some thunderstorms and the forecast moving into Italy affecting eastern
[00:27:07] areas of Spain and we have had some very big looking storms increats,
[00:27:11] they're going to be affecting parts of Turkey and even Cyprus over the next few
[00:27:14] days with a bit of sahara and dust running in ahead of those very active
[00:27:18] thundery downpours, in Africa we've seen some heavy showers
[00:27:22] in Cameroon over the last 24 hours and its areas around
[00:27:25] Cameroon, northern Gabon, Nigeria, the
[00:27:29] Democratic Republic of Congo and also the Central African'. public that
[00:27:33] will see some fairly heavy showers and thunderstorms through
[00:27:36] Thursday. looking at the weather pitch across the Middle East now, we've got some showers
[00:27:39] working into areas near the Mediterranean coasts into Lebanon and
[00:27:43] Syria. away from that, lot of dry, hot and sunny weather. temperatures
[00:27:47] in Iraq reaching as high as 45 celsius. we've seen some
[00:27:51] sorrental rain in Gujarat over the last 24 hours, 280 millimeters of
[00:27:54] rain. the area of low pressure responsible is weakening, but there will be some further
[00:27:58] heavy downpours here. so there is risk of seeing some flooding issues. through
[00:28:02] Thursday and Friday as well. Tropical Storm Dewan
[00:28:06] may well become a typhoon over the next few days, it's heading in the general
[00:28:10] direction of Japan, area of low pressure bringing quite heavy
[00:28:13] down to the Philippines that stays put over the next few days and we've got some
[00:28:17] very heavy rain from the southwesterly monsoon affecting southern areas of
[00:28:21] Thailand, northern areas of Malaysia that could bring some localized flooding. High
[00:28:24] pressure in charge in Australia, many air is dry with some sunshine, but it could be
[00:28:28] quite cloudy with a bit of drizzle towards the coast of Victoria for a time. and it
[00:28:32] looks quite wet for the north island of New Zealand on Friday, rain arriving late in
[00:28:36] the day in the
[00:28:37] south.
[00:28:41] Brazil is the biggest economy in Latin America, it's one the
[00:28:45] largest democracies in the world and it's home to largest
[00:28:50] the the portion Amazon rain forest, so what happens here can affect
[00:28:53] things well beyond the country, from climate and
[00:28:57] trade to the fight against international drug
[00:29:00] trafficking. Brazil's
[00:29:04] left-wing president Lula, who is running for re-election, is leading in
[00:29:08] several polls. Among his main proposals are expanding
[00:29:11] social programs and investing in public education and
[00:29:15] healthcare. The other leading
[00:29:18] candidate is right-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of
[00:29:22] former president Jair Bolsonaro. He says he will stay true to
[00:29:26] his father's controversial legacy and take tough approach to
[00:29:29] crime. The outcome could have major.
[00:30:06] Live from London, this is BBC News. The king issues an
[00:30:10] unusually pointed response after Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's
[00:30:14] brother, makes fresh claims about him in his new book.
[00:30:18] Microsoft's head of AI tells the BBC his competitors approach to
[00:30:21] training their models could have disastrous impact on the wellbeing of
[00:30:25] humanity. I think that if we all
[00:30:29] create AIs that are able to act or... anonomously that
[00:30:33] can define their own objectives. um, we're essentially
[00:30:36] seeding new silicon species, which will no doubt
[00:30:40] compete with us for resources. the bank of England is
[00:30:44] expected to hold interest rates in the face of rising prices,
[00:30:48] the US hikes borrowing costs. Russia
[00:30:52] heads to the polls for parliamentary elections, the first since Russia's
[00:30:55] full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and is that?