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[00:00:13] Live from London. This is BBC
[00:00:16] News. Another strike hits Riyadh
[00:00:18] Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia a
[00:00:21] a day after 12 people were killed killed and hundreds wounded in a
[00:00:24] a Houthi attack. President Zelensky
[00:00:27] Zelensky has denied knowledge of of an energy cease fire with Russia
[00:00:31] Russia announced by Donald Trump. Trump. But he says Ukraine supports
[00:00:34] supports the idea if Russia does
[00:00:37] does to at least 139 people have
[00:00:39] have been killed, including 15 children, children, in a deadly shipwreck off
[00:00:43] off the coast of Djibouti. Flash
[00:00:46] Flash floods in central Nepal sweep
[00:00:47] sweep away bridges and homes as five
[00:00:50] five people reported missing. Manchester
[00:00:54] Manchester City win 3-0 against Liverpool Liverpool in their first match since
[00:00:57] since being found guilty of breaching
[00:01:00] breaching financial rules. Pope Leo
[00:01:02] Leo says he is to undergo surgery surgery after his doctors detected
[00:01:06] detected what he called a very early
[00:01:07] early stage nodule in his lung. Hello,
[00:01:20] Hello, this is BBC News. I'm Catherine Catherine Byaruhanga. In a major
[00:01:24] major escalation in the Middle East, East, Yemen's Houthis say they've
[00:01:27] they've attacked energy facilities facilities and two airports in Saudi
[00:01:30] Saudi Arabia. Blasts were heard at
[00:01:32] at Dammam airport and at King Khalid
[00:01:34] Khalid Airport in Riyadh, where injuries injuries have been reported. The
[00:01:38] The attack comes a day after 12 people people were killed and hundreds wounded
[00:01:41] wounded in a strike by the Iran-backed Iran-backed group. The deadliest
[00:01:45] deadliest attack on Saudi soil in in more than a decade. The Houthis
[00:01:48] Houthis have warned airlines and and passengers not to use airports
[00:01:52] airports in Saudi Arabia. A number number of Western diplomatic missions,
[00:01:55] missions, including the UK and the the US, have warned their nationals
[00:01:58] nationals to stay away from the airport.
[00:02:01] airport. A world news correspondent, correspondent, Joe Inwood reports.
[00:02:05] reports. May I have your attention,
[00:02:07] attention, please? Has been detected
[00:02:10] detected in the building. Chaos at at one of Saudi Arabia's most important
[00:02:14] important airports. Inside the terminal, terminal, the damage is clear. The
[00:02:18] The result of a missile strike. More
[00:02:20] More than 300 people injured. Emergency
[00:02:22] Emergency services said to be overwhelmed. overwhelmed. Although they've not
[00:02:26] not officially claimed credit. It's It's thought it was carried out by
[00:02:29] by the Houthis, who had already struck struck the airport twice this week.
[00:02:33] week. This footage from Thursday
[00:02:36] Thursday the Iran-backed group control control large parts of Yemen. Saudi
[00:02:40] Saudi Arabia's strategically significant significant southern neighbour. For
[00:02:43] For more than a decade, the Houthis Houthis have been involved in a brutal
[00:02:46] brutal civil war with the internationally internationally recognised government,
[00:02:49] government, which has Saudi backing. backing. Now, for the last couple couple of years, there's been an
[00:02:53] an uneasy truce. But that was shattered
[00:02:55] shattered in recent months. The Houthis Houthis made lightning advances down
[00:02:59] down the Red Sea coast last month, month, giving them an even greater
[00:03:03] greater ability to threaten shipping shipping in the Red Sea. Now Saudi
[00:03:07] Saudi Arabia responded with air strikes
[00:03:09] strikes and with the government recently recently retook some territory. The
[00:03:13] The Houthi response to that could
[00:03:15] could be seen at Riyadh airport last
[00:03:18] last night from the US President. President. Condemnation of the attack,
[00:03:21] attack, but no promise of support.
[00:03:23] support. I think it's terrible, terrible.
[00:03:27] terrible. Terrible because I'm south south southwest. Well they're able able to defend. Look, the Saudis
[00:03:31] Saudis are good fighters. But I think think the attack was a terrible thing.
[00:03:35] thing. This attack was the most severe
[00:03:36] severe on Saudi soil in over a decade.
[00:03:39] decade. It has already claimed many many lives. But more than that, it
[00:03:43] it strikes at the heart of the kingdom's
[00:03:45] kingdom's image for stability and
[00:03:47] and security. There will surely be
[00:03:50] be a retaliation. Joe Inwood. BBC
[00:03:52] BBC News. Our senior international international correspondent Orla
[00:03:56] Orla Guerin, who's in Yemen in the
[00:03:57] the city of Aden, has more on the the significance of this attack.
[00:04:01] attack. The Houthis have managed
[00:04:02] managed to strike not only an economically economically important target by
[00:04:06] by hitting the airport in Riyadh,
[00:04:07] Riyadh, but also a very politically politically sensitive target. Now,
[00:04:11] Now, they have already said that
[00:04:13] that they consider airports in Saudi
[00:04:16] Saudi Arabia to be potential targets. targets. They have warned airlines
[00:04:19] airlines to stay out of the airspace, airspace, and they have said people
[00:04:22] people should take those warnings warnings seriously. So that suggests
[00:04:25] suggests more attacks are to come. come. I certainly think we can expect
[00:04:29] expect to see a significant retaliation
[00:04:32] retaliation by Saudi Arabia. They They will want to do something of
[00:04:35] of some serious measure to send a
[00:04:38] a message to the Houthis. We did did have air strikes today in the
[00:04:42] the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, but there
[00:04:44] there is no word yet about any casualties casualties from those attacks. But
[00:04:48] But I think one of the big questions questions now is what does President
[00:04:51] President Trump do? He will be under
[00:04:53] under growing pressure from Saudi
[00:04:56] Saudi Arabia, who are close allies, allies, to get more involved. Now
[00:04:59] Now that has been something he has
[00:05:02] has resisted in recent weeks, and and he would probably prefer to resist
[00:05:05] resist it again. He has the US mid-terms
[00:05:08] mid-terms coming up and getting involved involved in another foreign war.
[00:05:12] war. I will not be popular with American American voters, but Riyadh will
[00:05:15] will certainly be pushing for help. help. And I think we have to remember
[00:05:19] remember you cannot divorce all of
[00:05:21] of this from the broader context
[00:05:23] context of conflict and tension and and escalation in the Middle East,
[00:05:27] East, and particularly the war by
[00:05:29] by America and Israel on Iran. The
[00:05:32] The Houthis are major Iranian allies. allies. And what the Houthis have
[00:05:35] have done now by striking Saudi Arabia
[00:05:38] Arabia so hard will certainly please
[00:05:40] please Tehran. Well, for more on
[00:05:42] on who the Houthis are and what they're they're hoping to achieve, I've been
[00:05:45] been speaking to our world news correspondent
[00:05:48] correspondent Joe Inwood. The Houthis
[00:05:50] Houthis are allied with the Iranians. Iranians. They're not a proxy in
[00:05:54] in the same way, quite the same way way Hezbollah are. They are an independent independent group with their own
[00:05:57] own power base and objectives. But
[00:06:00] But they do share connections. They've They've got training with the IRGC.
[00:06:04] IRGC. And so and they consider themselves themselves part of this axis of resistance.
[00:06:08] resistance. So they are an allied allied force, an associated force,
[00:06:11] force, but not a directly kind of of controlled group. But what we've
[00:06:14] we've seen is all was pointing out
[00:06:16] out there, these actions are going going to be useful for the Iranian
[00:06:20] Iranian overall Iranian kind of cause cause and mission. And part of the
[00:06:23] the reason for that is because it
[00:06:26] it opens up another sort of front front in this conflict, but also
[00:06:28] also it brings into play another another straight. Now, of course, course, we've spoken many, many times
[00:06:32] times about the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:06:34] Hormuz. That's the one to kind of
[00:06:37] of to the east of the Saudi Arabian
[00:06:39] Arabian Peninsula to the west of of it you have the Red Sea and the
[00:06:43] the Bab al-Mandab Strait. And by by bringing kind of bringing their
[00:06:47] their forces down to the coast there, there, they threaten that. And it
[00:06:50] it further puts pressure on international international shipping, which is
[00:06:53] is of course useful to the Iranians. Iranians. Yes. And a lot of people
[00:06:56] people will be surprised about these these attacks that have happened
[00:06:58] happened this week. Just remind us us who the Houthis are and what their
[00:07:02] their objectives are. So the Houthis Houthis are a kind of a tribal group,
[00:07:06] group, a group that have, you know, know, they're a Yemeni group. They're They're not some external force,
[00:07:10] force, although as I said, they're they're allied with the Iranians Iranians and they have been fighting
[00:07:14] fighting a civil war for many, many
[00:07:16] many years against what are kind kind of commonly called the internationally
[00:07:20] internationally recognised government
[00:07:20] government of Yemen. Now, they were
[00:07:24] were supported the Houthis supported supported by the Iranians, the internationally internationally recognised government
[00:07:28] government supported by the Saudis Saudis and the UAE. That coalition,
[00:07:31] coalition, as it was called, has has all kind of fractured. But there
[00:07:34] there was a really, really brutal brutal ten year civil war. The Saudis
[00:07:37] Saudis and the UAE tried to push push the Houthis out, basically have
[00:07:40] have failed. They are still there.
[00:07:42] there. And that civil war had died died down, to use the correct phrase.
[00:07:46] phrase. There had been an uneasy uneasy truce and that has been shattered
[00:07:48] shattered in the last few
[00:07:52] months. Ukraine's President Zelensky Zelensky says he's awaiting details details from America after Donald
[00:07:56] Donald Trump claimed Ukraine and and Russia had agreed to an energy
[00:08:00] energy ceasefire. Mr Trump wrote wrote on his Truth Social Platform
[00:08:03] Platform that an agreement between between the two sides will halt attacks
[00:08:05] attacks on each other's energy facilities
[00:08:08] facilities and would come into effect effect immediately in September.
[00:08:10] September. A similar promise of such
[00:08:13] such a ceasefire failed to materialise. materialise. Initially, President
[00:08:16] President Zelensky said the announcement announcement was news to him, but
[00:08:19] but he's now posted to say that he's he's discussed the energy ceasefire
[00:08:22] ceasefire with the leaders of Nato, Nato, Canada and Finland and that
[00:08:25] that it's important Russia supports supports it. To. Our correspondent
[00:08:29] correspondent Dan Johnson spoke to to us from Kyiv and told us if Ukraine
[00:08:32] Ukraine knew this announcement was was coming. This seems to have come
[00:08:36] come as a big surprise. Out of the the blue, Donald Trump says both
[00:08:39] both parties have agreed. We don't don't know what the Russian involvement
[00:08:43] involvement is, but for Ukrainians Ukrainians this seemed to come out
[00:08:46] out of nowhere and there was no response. response. For a time. The latest
[00:08:49] latest that we've had is a post on
[00:08:52] on X from President Volodymyr Zelensky, Zelensky, who said he'd been discussing
[00:08:56] discussing this with other world world leaders and that he supports
[00:08:59] supports the ceasefire. And it's it's important for Russia to support
[00:09:02] support it as well. He said we are
[00:09:04] are awaiting details from the American American side. From our side there
[00:09:08] there is always full support for for de-escalation steps, protection
[00:09:11] protection of lives and the necessary
[00:09:13] necessary decisions to end the war war and ensure lasting peace. So
[00:09:17] So it seems like rather than being being negotiated jointly, this was
[00:09:19] was announced unilaterally by Donald Donald Trump not the first time that that has happened, but it does look
[00:09:24] look like it will be signed up to to by the Ukrainian side because
[00:09:27] because people here in this city, city, which is currently in darkness,
[00:09:29] darkness, having just had another another air raid alert, know how
[00:09:33] how critical their energy infrastructure infrastructure is and how devastating
[00:09:36] devastating Russia's attacks on it
[00:09:38] it have been. Russia wants the strikes
[00:09:41] strikes on its oil refineries to to stop. And the backdrop to this
[00:09:44] this is the deal that Donald Trump Trump announced with Vladimir Putin
[00:09:47] Putin to allow Russia to export diesel
[00:09:50] diesel again, to get that income income to actually fulfil those orders
[00:09:53] orders and supply that fuel. Russia Russia needs Ukraine to stop its
[00:09:57] its long range strikes on that infrastructure. infrastructure. But the big question
[00:10:01] question is will this hold? Will Will both sides respect it? Now Donald
[00:10:04] Donald Trump announced something something similar about a month ago,
[00:10:06] ago, but Russia's attacks on Ukrainian
[00:10:09] Ukrainian energy infrastructure continued. continued. Well, let's take you through
[00:10:12] through how the past few days have have unfolded. On Friday, Donald
[00:10:16] Donald Trump announced a deal to
[00:10:17] to import Russian diesel into the
[00:10:20] the US. Ukraine's president condemned condemned the deal, calling it a
[00:10:23] a gift to Putin. The US President President hit back saying he thought
[00:10:27] thought it was time for Ukraine to to get a new president. President
[00:10:30] President Zelensky said Ukraine would would stop striking Russian oil refineries
[00:10:34] refineries if Russia stopped striking striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
[00:10:38] infrastructure. In an interview with
[00:10:40] with US network ABC, Zelensky then then said he would organise elections
[00:10:44] elections in Ukraine if President President Putin agrees to a 60 day
[00:10:47] day ceasefire. The US President posted
[00:10:49] posted on Truth Social saying Russia
[00:10:51] Russia and Ukraine agreed to an immediate immediate ceasefire. President Zelensky
[00:10:55] Zelensky told US media it was news news to him. Zelensky then posted
[00:10:59] posted on X saying he backs a ceasefire ceasefire but that it's important
[00:11:03] important Russia supports it too too and that he's awaiting details
[00:11:06] details from the US. Our political political correspondent Joe Pike
[00:11:09] Pike has been telling me about the
[00:11:11] the UK's response to all of this.
[00:11:14] this. UK politicians in the government government don't normally ever want
[00:11:17] want to criticise Donald Trump or or distance themselves from his policy.
[00:11:21] policy. Normally what we do see, see, though, is visible physical
[00:11:24] physical examples of politicians politicians agreeing with President President Zelensky. Certainly the
[00:11:27] the current Prime Minister, Andy Andy Burnham, and his predecessor
[00:11:31] predecessor Keir Starmer would on on camera hug the Ukrainian president,
[00:11:34] president, making that support clear clear but not wanting to voice disagreement
[00:11:37] disagreement with Donald Trump. That That has, though, changed today with
[00:11:40] with the UK Defence Secretary, a a man called Wes Streeting, distancing
[00:11:44] distancing himself from the UK's UK's decision. The US's decision
[00:11:47] decision to have that deal on diesel diesel something the UK government government clearly disagrees with.
[00:11:52] with. This is what Wes Streeting Streeting said to Radio Four's Broadcasting
[00:11:55] Broadcasting House. We don't support support that decision. As the Prime
[00:11:58] Prime Minister set out, we are strengthening strengthening sanctions against Russia. Russia. So is the President wrong,
[00:12:02] wrong, Wes Streeting well, look, look, I think the way I have interpreted
[00:12:06] interpreted what President Trump Trump has done is very much in the
[00:12:08] the context of the US mid-term elections elections that are taking place and
[00:12:12] and the inevitable pressure that that all of us are feeling at the the moment to try and ease the cost
[00:12:16] cost of living. And on that cost cost of living point, there are various
[00:12:20] various levers the UK government government can pull on diesel prices, prices, which are of course affecting
[00:12:24] affecting people here as they are are in the US and elsewhere in the
[00:12:27] the world. With the UK's budget approaching approaching just two and a half weeks'
[00:12:30] weeks' time, Catherine, one of the the ways they can try and change
[00:12:32] change things is tax because for
[00:12:35] for every £2 you spend on a litre litre of diesel going into your car
[00:12:39] car and costs are around £2 each
[00:12:41] each at the moment, £0.86 of that that £2 is currently taxed. Partly
[00:12:44] Partly fuel duty, partly value added added tax or VAT. So there's pressure
[00:12:47] pressure on the UK Finance Minister, Minister, John Healey, to try and
[00:12:50] and reduce that fuel duty. But it it could be pretty expensive, reducing
[00:12:53] reducing fuel duty by £0.10 a litre
[00:12:57] litre for just three months. Would
[00:12:58] Would Catherine cost the UK £2 billion?
[00:13:02] billion? Joe Pike there at least
[00:13:05] least 139 people have died, including
[00:13:08] including 15 children. Offshore boats
[00:13:09] boats sank off the shores of Djibouti.
[00:13:12] Djibouti. That's according to the the International Organisation for
[00:13:14] for migration. Survivors said the the vessel, which was carrying around
[00:13:18] around 350 people from Djibouti to
[00:13:20] to Yemen, capsized north of the town
[00:13:22] town of Obock overnight on October
[00:13:24] October the 8th. 82 people, all Ethiopian
[00:13:27] Ethiopian nationals, were rescued. rescued. It's among the deadliest deadliest shipwrecks recorded on,
[00:13:31] on, on this route used by migrants migrants from the Horn of Africa
[00:13:34] Africa trying to reach the Gulf states
[00:13:36] states through Yemen. Alexandre Coissac
[00:13:39] Coissac is the International Organisation Organisation for Migration's chief
[00:13:41] chief of mission in Djibouti. He's He's visited the shoreline where
[00:13:45] where the shipwreck took place and and has been telling me more about
[00:13:48] about it. I arrived one day after
[00:13:51] after and I saw I mean, it's very very tragic. It's very difficult
[00:13:54] difficult to describe. Sorry, but but many, many, many dead bodies
[00:13:58] bodies that were on the scene that that have been pushed on the sea.
[00:14:01] sea. The day just before the army, army, which was the first to intervene
[00:14:05] intervene together with the local
[00:14:06] local authorities. And already buried
[00:14:09] buried 67 bodies, but more were being
[00:14:11] being pushed by the sea. So I saw saw devastation. That's what I've
[00:14:15] I've seen. Yes. And what have survivors
[00:14:18] survivors had to say? We've met some
[00:14:21] some survivors actually. As we were
[00:14:22] were going there with the car somebody
[00:14:26] somebody was in the desert, got lost lost and ran towards US, very frankly.
[00:14:29] frankly. I mean, the one I met could
[00:14:31] could hardly speak. He had been lost
[00:14:33] lost in the desert for one and a a half when we met him. We brought
[00:14:37] brought him to our centre. We are
[00:14:39] are providing support to another
[00:14:42] another 8081 of them altogether. altogether. It's 82 people that we
[00:14:46] we are currently helping in a migrant migrant response centre that we have
[00:14:49] have in Obock. There are all, instead
[00:14:51] instead of shock it's very difficult
[00:14:53] difficult for them to, to express express what happened and what we
[00:14:56] we are trying to do for them is to to provide food, water, shelter.
[00:15:00] shelter. I mean human contact. And
[00:15:03] And we have our health doctors and and psychologists who are also working
[00:15:06] working with them. Why is this route
[00:15:09] route so deadly? Boats crossing from
[00:15:11] from Djibouti to Yemen. I mean, the the dangers are nearly everywhere.
[00:15:15] everywhere. I mean, first crossing
[00:15:17] crossing Djibouti is not easy because because it's a very deserted country.
[00:15:21] country. There is a lack of I mean,
[00:15:23] mean, it's very hot weather, extremely
[00:15:26] extremely hot weather, difficulty difficulty to access water. So just
[00:15:28] just the journey in Djibouti can can be deadly, especially during
[00:15:32] during the hot month. And then you you have the crossing the Strait
[00:15:35] Strait of Bab al-Mandab Strait. It's
[00:15:37] It's not very large on the map. Anything
[00:15:39] Anything can happen in the sea in
[00:15:42] in this specific event. What was
[00:15:46] was deadly is the fact that the boat
[00:15:47] boat was a small boat and 305 people
[00:15:51] people boarded the boat. It was impossible impossible for the boat to just leave.
[00:15:54] leave. That's why actually it sunk sunk very close to the shore. We
[00:15:57] We can't. We could see the boat right right there. We could nearly touch
[00:16:00] touch it. It was so close to the the shore. It didn't get very far.
[00:16:04] far. As we've been hearing in the
[00:16:06] the news, the situation is also dangerous dangerous in Yemen itself. There's
[00:16:09] There's a civil war there. There's There's a humanitarian crisis. Why
[00:16:12] Why do people continue to travel
[00:16:15] travel into Yemen? It's a very good
[00:16:18] good question. It's there is this
[00:16:21] this seems so determined to leave
[00:16:25] leave with your dream to finally finally reach the Gulf countries,
[00:16:28] countries, Saudi Arabia being one one of them. The idea that they can
[00:16:31] can get a better life over there.
[00:16:34] there. They can get jobs, economic
[00:16:36] economic opportunities. So when we
[00:16:38] we talk to some of the migrants before before they cross the sea, some of
[00:16:42] of them have no idea what's happening happening in Yemen. So we are trying
[00:16:45] trying to talk to them and explain explain them. I mean, the what's
[00:16:49] what's currently going on in Yemen Yemen with all the internal displacement
[00:16:52] displacement that the country is
[00:16:53] is also suffering inside. Some are
[00:16:56] are aware of it and others have just
[00:16:58] just never heard about it. Actually,
[00:17:02] Actually, to one thing that's so so striking, some of the migrants,
[00:17:05] migrants, when they arrive in Djibouti Djibouti do not know that there is
[00:17:09] is a sea state that needs to be crossed
[00:17:11] crossed in order for them to continue
[00:17:14] continue towards Yemen and the Gulf
[00:17:15] Gulf countries. What are authorities authorities there in Djibouti in
[00:17:19] in the region doing to make sure
[00:17:22] sure tragedies like this do not happen?
[00:17:25] happen? It's they have the Coast Coast Guard that are always patrolling,
[00:17:29] patrolling, but it can't be everywhere. everywhere. Fortunately, you can't can't be there all the time. So I
[00:17:32] I know they are always on the sea
[00:17:33] sea in order to, to be able to provide
[00:17:36] provide rescue. I mean, first what what they are doing is always to
[00:17:39] to respond when there is such tragedy. tragedy. Unfortunately this time
[00:17:42] time because it happened at night. night. We were not they were not
[00:17:46] not able to respond immediately, immediately, but they were there there very shortly after. Unfortunately
[00:17:50] Unfortunately too late. And they they immediately provided support
[00:17:53] support to the survivors. And they
[00:17:55] they ensured that the one that survived survived could get proper care. And
[00:17:59] And there are so much work to do
[00:18:01] do as well in order to bury all the
[00:18:03] the bodies. So it reply it implied
[00:18:07] implied involvements of different different actors from the local authorities,
[00:18:11] authorities, from the Navy, Army Army and also from the local authority,
[00:18:14] authority, the prefecture. And that
[00:18:17] that was Alexandra Kozak from the
[00:18:19] the IOM in Djibouti. In India, protesters
[00:18:23] protesters have returned to central central Delhi for a second day, with
[00:18:26] with much of the area barricaded barricaded and offices, shops and
[00:18:30] and restaurants shut and internet internet services curtailed. The
[00:18:33] The Cockroach Janta Party and other other opposition parties are calling
[00:18:37] calling for the Election Commission Commission to be sacked over revisions
[00:18:40] revisions to the electoral roll, roll, an accusation denied by the
[00:18:43] the authorities. This comes as the
[00:18:45] the leader of the Cockroach protest protest movement has been released
[00:18:49] released from detention. The Cockroach Cockroach Janta Party said. They
[00:18:52] They said its founder, Abhijeet Dipke, Dipke, was detained with other leaders
[00:18:55] leaders shortly after landing in in Delhi to lead protests seeking
[00:18:59] seeking electoral reforms just months months before crucial state elections.
[00:19:02] elections. He began the movement movement in May after India's chief
[00:19:06] chief justice likened some jobless
[00:19:07] jobless young people to cockroaches.
[00:19:11] cockroaches. A flash flood in central central Nepal has left at least five
[00:19:15] five people missing. More than 140
[00:19:18] 140 houses were fully or partially
[00:19:21] partially submerged or damaged, and and bridges and hydropower infrastructure
[00:19:24] infrastructure were swept away. Officials Officials suspect a dry landslide
[00:19:28] landslide had blocked the river in
[00:19:29] in the area before it burst. More
[00:19:32] More than 90 people, including nine nine foreigners, have been rescued
[00:19:35] rescued so far. Residents living living downstream have been told
[00:19:38] told to leave for their safety. A
[00:19:40] A disaster management official said
[00:19:43] said MSMS alerts helped avert a major major loss of life. The country remains
[00:19:47] remains on high alert after devastating devastating floods swept thousands
[00:19:50] thousands of people away seven weeks
[00:19:52] weeks ago, triggered by a glacier glacier collapse along the border
[00:19:56] border with Tibet. Kenya has not
[00:19:59] not recorded any new cases of Ebola
[00:20:02] Ebola after conducting almost 300 300 tests since a positive patient
[00:20:06] patient died there earlier this week. week. The country confirmed its first
[00:20:09] first imported case of Ebola on October October the 6th, after a citizen
[00:20:12] citizen who travelled from the Democratic Democratic Republic of Congo died
[00:20:16] died of the virus in Kenya's capital capital Nairobi. For the latest on
[00:20:19] on how Kenya has been managing its
[00:20:21] its Ebola outbreak, I've been speaking
[00:20:23] speaking to Dr Jean Kaseya director-general
[00:20:26] director-general of the Africa Centers Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[00:20:30] Prevention. Now that we started the
[00:20:31] the process in Kenya, we are at protocol.
[00:20:34] protocol. We have all people in the
[00:20:37] the contact list. It will take at
[00:20:40] at least 21 days without any new
[00:20:44] new case. That will be locally transmitted.
[00:20:47] transmitted. If we have no new case case after 21 days, all of these
[00:20:52] these people in the contacts will will be out. Then we can say you
[00:20:55] you are. Kenya is out of the outbreak.
[00:20:59] outbreak. Part of the challenge here here is that the patient travelled
[00:21:03] travelled through several provinces provinces within the Democratic Republic
[00:21:06] Republic of Congo, crossed by road
[00:21:08] road into Uganda, then flew into
[00:21:10] into Kenya. Just highlighting the the risk that transmission could
[00:21:13] could spread from the DRC to the
[00:21:15] the rest of the region. You know,
[00:21:18] know, just for you to have an idea,
[00:21:21] idea, the distance that this person
[00:21:25] person made from butter to Kenya
[00:21:30] Kenya is like a cost. 11 European
[00:21:32] European countries. You can imagine
[00:21:35] imagine number of contacts from where where himself. He got it because
[00:21:39] because he was sick for more than
[00:21:41] than one month to are all of these
[00:21:46] these places. Now what is the risk?
[00:21:49] risk? The risk is still there. And And this is what I was saying from
[00:21:52] from the very first day. This is
[00:21:54] is a regional. This is a regional
[00:21:58] regional outbreak and we need to
[00:22:00] to treat it like that. If today we
[00:22:03] we don't control that in DRC. Yes,
[00:22:05] Yes, other countries can be
[00:22:10] affected. Other countries can get get the virus. But give us a sense
[00:22:13] sense of what's being done to stop
[00:22:16] stop this, this spread of the virus virus because you say you've been been warning about this since day
[00:22:19] day one, but it seems to still be
[00:22:21] be happening. You know what is making
[00:22:27] making me a little bit comfortable
[00:22:30] comfortable is I can see the political
[00:22:33] political commitment from president
[00:22:35] president to stop that. Now, how
[00:22:37] how can we translate this political
[00:22:40] political commitment? It. This is is the what we are working on. And
[00:22:44] And I'm meeting president on Tuesday.
[00:22:46] Tuesday. It means in, in two days
[00:22:49] days and to discuss how we can strengthen
[00:22:52] strengthen the response. Yes, there
[00:22:54] there are still some factors like like insecurity, humanitarian issue.
[00:22:57] issue. But we also need to see what
[00:23:00] what we are not doing well so far far and what we can strengthen. And
[00:23:04] And he really knows that. And this
[00:23:06] this is so supportive. Here. Visitors
[00:23:10] Visitors to a wildlife park in South South Yorkshire, northern England,
[00:23:13] England, have been describing their their shock and distress after a
[00:23:16] a man was killed when he entered entered the tiger enclosure yesterday.
[00:23:19] yesterday. He died at the scene.
[00:23:21] scene. The park remains closed while
[00:23:23] while investigation continues. Yunus
[00:23:25] Yunus Mulla reports. A Siberian tiger
[00:23:30] tiger filmed, relaxed and in the the sunshine just minutes before
[00:23:33] before a man entered this enclosure enclosure at the Yorkshire Wildlife
[00:23:37] Wildlife Park and was attacked. The The entire incident at the Land of
[00:23:40] of Tigers section was witnessed by
[00:23:42] by Ella Ford. She was on a raised raised walkway with her boyfriend.
[00:23:46] boyfriend. She climbed up and some some woman was there talking to him
[00:23:49] him and he climbed up onto the barriers barriers onto like a metal bar. And
[00:23:53] And then next thing you know, he
[00:23:54] he just jumped in and then he like
[00:23:57] like crawled towards in front of of the tiger where the tiger was
[00:24:00] was perched and just lay there. We've We've seen the tiger get down and
[00:24:04] and come over to him and obviously obviously grab on to him. And then
[00:24:07] then he was shouting for help. And And then people around us were obviously
[00:24:11] obviously trying to get the kids kids away, and they'd gone to try
[00:24:14] try and find help. And then that's that's when all the staff ran over
[00:24:18] over and I'd obviously had to block block the whole bridge that everyone
[00:24:20] everyone was on and got everyone
[00:24:22] everyone off the bridge. Staff evacuated
[00:24:25] evacuated around 15 to 20 people people from the enclosures raised
[00:24:29] raised platform and emergency services services were called, but the man
[00:24:32] man died at the scene. Went past past the tiger walkway. My family
[00:24:35] family said, oh, that's it there there look. And there were a load
[00:24:38] load of police loads of rangers and and this black tarpaulin thing up
[00:24:42] up to cover people from seeing in.
[00:24:44] in. The two acre reserve is home home to Amur tigers, an endangered
[00:24:48] endangered subspecies with around around 500 left in the wild. The
[00:24:52] The high fence walkway allows visitors
[00:24:53] visitors to see the animals roaming
[00:24:57] roaming below the park, said today today its thoughts and sympathies sympathies remain with the family
[00:25:01] family of the man who has died. Staff
[00:25:03] Staff here will also be given specialist
[00:25:06] specialist support and the tiger, tiger, it said, is safe and will
[00:25:09] will not be euthanized as a result
[00:25:11] result of the attack. The park remains
[00:25:14] remains closed. Yunus Mulla BBC News
[00:25:18] News Doncaster. Before we go, I want
[00:25:20] want to show you some stunning images images that BBC Weather Watchers
[00:25:23] Watchers have captured of the Northern
[00:25:25] Northern Lights, the natural phenomenon phenomenon known as the Aurora borealis,
[00:25:29] borealis, which is the result of of increased solar activity, was
[00:25:32] was seen across large parts of the
[00:25:34] the UK. Such occurrences are mostly
[00:25:37] mostly visible near the Arctic Circle Circle and northern Scotland, but
[00:25:40] but particularly strong activity activity levels meant there could
[00:25:42] could be seen as far south as Devon,
[00:25:45] Devon, Hampshire and Kent on Saturday Saturday night, the Met Office says
[00:25:49] says sightings could continue to to be possible during clear skies
[00:25:53] skies until Tuesday. Experts have have previously said 2026 will be
[00:25:57] be a peak year for Aurora spotting, spotting, as the sun has been in
[00:26:00] in a heightened state of activity
[00:26:01] activity as part of its 11 year natural
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