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[00:00:13] Live from London. This is BBC
[00:00:17] News. Ukraine accuses Russia of ongoing
[00:00:23] ongoing deadly attacks despite the
[00:00:26] the so-called energy ceasefire announced
[00:00:27] announced by President Trump. Two
[00:00:30] Two missile strikes on the international
[00:00:33] international airport in Riyadh within within two days as Yemen's Houthis
[00:00:36] Houthis escalate their attacks on
[00:00:38] on Saudi Arabia. Coming up in business,
[00:00:41] business, energy chiefs pull out out of a major gathering in Riyadh
[00:00:45] Riyadh as the Houthi attacks intensify.
[00:00:50] intensify. Big night planned. And And the actor Robert Pattinson tells
[00:00:53] tells the BBC why he took on the the role of a journalist who helps
[00:00:57] helps expose child predators in his
[00:00:59] his new film Prime Time. It's
[00:01:04] both. The most terrifying thing that that can happen to you, whether you're you're if you're a parent or even
[00:01:07] even if you're not. It's like the.
[00:01:09] the. It's like the most unimaginable
[00:01:12] unimaginable sin possible. Hello
[00:01:22] Hello and a very warm welcome. I'm
[00:01:25] I'm Sally Bundock. Ukraine is accusing
[00:01:27] accusing Russia of ongoing deadly deadly attacks despite a so-called
[00:01:31] so-called energy ceasefire proposed
[00:01:33] proposed by President Trump. President President Zelensky said Russia struck
[00:01:36] struck power plants following the the announcement and has continued
[00:01:39] continued to strike civilian areas. areas. This footage shows damage
[00:01:43] damage from an industrial site near
[00:01:45] near Kyiv. Yesterday, President Trump Trump posted this, claiming the two
[00:01:49] two sides agreed to stop attacks
[00:01:51] attacks on energy facilities effective effective immediately. But the Kremlin
[00:01:54] Kremlin has yet to comment. Mr Zelensky
[00:01:57] Zelensky said the announcement was was news to him, but that Ukraine
[00:02:00] Ukraine would support a ceasefire
[00:02:02] ceasefire if Russia sticks to the
[00:02:05] the terms. Relations between Mr Zelensky
[00:02:07] Zelensky and Mr Trump have deteriorated deteriorated as the US President
[00:02:11] President tries to get the cost of
[00:02:12] of oil and diesel down before the
[00:02:15] the US mid-term elections. Dan Johnson
[00:02:18] Johnson reports from Kyiv. On the
[00:02:21] the edge of Kharkiv last night. A
[00:02:25] A reminder Russia has not stopped
[00:02:30] stopped attacking Ukraine. This woman woman was filming after the sirens
[00:02:34] sirens asking where would be hit.
[00:02:37] hit. She was lucky to survive a strike
[00:02:40] strike on a shop that killed three three people and injured more than
[00:02:43] than 20. This just hours after Donald
[00:02:47] Donald Trump announced his partial
[00:02:50] partial truce on Truth Social, he he wrote effective immediately, there
[00:02:54] there is an energy ceasefire in the
[00:02:56] the war between Russia and Ukraine.
[00:02:58] Ukraine. Both parties have agreed
[00:03:00] agreed do not break it. Oh. Ukraine's
[00:03:05] Ukraine's been targeting Russian Russian oil refineries in response
[00:03:07] response to attacks on its own power power grid. Ukraine said it was ready
[00:03:11] ready to cease if Russia did the the same. But Donald Trump's announcement
[00:03:15] announcement appeared to come as
[00:03:16] as a surprise to President Zelensky.
[00:03:20] Zelensky. Ukraine is ready to refrain
[00:03:22] refrain from striking Russia's energy energy infrastructure, and we expect
[00:03:25] expect Russia to show the same readiness readiness and honour. The agreement
[00:03:29] agreement reached with the President President of the United States. He
[00:03:33] He better damn well stop. It was
[00:03:36] was a tense weekend of fractured fractured US Ukraine relations. I
[00:03:39] I suggest they get a new leader who
[00:03:42] who can make a deal. The row started
[00:03:45] started when Donald Trump lifted lifted export restrictions on Russian
[00:03:48] Russian diesel. Many believe to ease ease fuel prices driven up by the
[00:03:52] the war in Iran. In Kyiv, the streets
[00:03:57] streets have fallen dark and quiet
[00:04:00] quiet as its power network has been
[00:04:02] been pounded. Many people here are are without light, heat or water
[00:04:06] water because electricity is needed needed to pump it. Ukrainians were
[00:04:09] were braced for a very difficult difficult few months ahead into the
[00:04:12] the winter. So there's a lot riding riding on this cease fire. But even
[00:04:15] even if it holds, the war is not
[00:04:18] not over. That was hammered home
[00:04:23] home with more drones heading for
[00:04:24] for the capital. And within two hours
[00:04:29] hours this was Kharkiv's main power power station, leaving Ukrainians
[00:04:33] Ukrainians questioning what impact impact this cease fire will have.
[00:04:37] have. Dan Johnson, BBC News in Kyiv.
[00:04:40] Kyiv. And I'll be speaking to Dan Dan shortly. We'll be connecting
[00:04:43] connecting with him live this morning
[00:04:45] morning in Kyiv. Major General Mick
[00:04:48] Mick Ryan is senior military fellow fellow at the Lowy Institute. He
[00:04:51] He gave us his thoughts on President
[00:04:54] President Trump's energy cease fire.
[00:04:57] fire. Well, I think the energy cease cease fire was a concoction of Donald
[00:05:00] Donald Trump's brain. It was a lie.
[00:05:03] lie. Neither side knew about it as as President Zelensky was very clear
[00:05:07] clear in stating. And if the Russians Russians knew about it, they certainly
[00:05:10] certainly didn't abide by it by attacking
[00:05:12] attacking a power station within within two hours of this so-called
[00:05:16] so-called energy truce, the Ukrainians Ukrainians would love an energy truce
[00:05:18] truce and part of their campaign campaign to attack oil refineries
[00:05:22] refineries has to has been to give give them the kind of leverage to
[00:05:25] to stop the Russians killing their their people. Whether the Russians Russians will agree to that remains
[00:05:29] remains to be seen. How does the
[00:05:31] the diesel deal between President President Trump and President Putin
[00:05:34] Putin play into all of this? It was
[00:05:38] was probably one of the most appalling appalling decisions we've seen out
[00:05:40] out of an American President for
[00:05:43] for many decades to give comfort
[00:05:45] comfort and support to an adversary
[00:05:47] adversary who's providing weapons
[00:05:49] weapons and information to the Iranians, Iranians, who is killing Americans.
[00:05:52] Americans. I mean, it's just the
[00:05:54] the most awful decisions. It's disheartening disheartening for the Ukrainians.
[00:05:57] Ukrainians. It will certainly not not have a big impact on their morale.
[00:06:01] morale. They've come to expect this
[00:06:03] this from Donald Trump. I think Europe
[00:06:06] Europe will be once again relooking relooking at its relationships with
[00:06:09] with America. And you know, the accusations
[00:06:15] accusations against the Ukrainian Ukrainian president made by Donald
[00:06:17] Donald Trump just are without foundation.
[00:06:19] foundation. And the point of those those accusations is Donald Trump
[00:06:22] Trump pitching those to his domestic
[00:06:24] domestic audience. Oh, absolutely.
[00:06:26] absolutely. This is part of the preparation
[00:06:30] preparation for assembling a group
[00:06:31] group of characters that he can blame
[00:06:35] blame for the very likely loss of of both the House and the Senate
[00:06:38] Senate in the mid-term elections elections in November. And Zelensky
[00:06:41] Zelensky will be one of many people
[00:06:44] people that Trump will have assembled assembled to be able to blame. So
[00:06:47] So there's no blame attributed to
[00:06:49] to him. So what should Ukraine do
[00:06:52] do now? Well, first and foremost, foremost, Ukraine has to continue
[00:06:55] continue defending its people and and defending its territory and giving
[00:06:58] giving us all a profound example example of what courage and defence
[00:07:02] defence of democracy looks like in in the 21st century. Clearly the
[00:07:05] the President of Ukraine has been been very cautious in his language.
[00:07:08] language. He hasn't wanted to overreact
[00:07:11] overreact and inflame an already already frazzled and frustrated Donald
[00:07:14] Donald Trump. But I expect it will will be doubling down on its relationships
[00:07:18] relationships with countries across across the European Union and talking
[00:07:21] talking to Nato about what else might
[00:07:24] might be done to prevent these attacks
[00:07:26] attacks on its cities and murdering
[00:07:28] murdering its civilians. And as I I mentioned, we'll be live to Kyiv
[00:07:32] Kyiv shortly to get the very latest latest this morning on what's been
[00:07:35] been going on overnight. But now now let's turn our attention to the
[00:07:38] the Middle East and Yemen's Houthi
[00:07:40] Houthi rebels have renewed their their warnings against using Saudi
[00:07:44] Saudi airports after two deadly strikes strikes on Riyadh's main international
[00:07:48] international airport in as many many days. Saudi officials say one
[00:07:51] one person was killed and 11 were
[00:07:53] were wounded in an attack on King
[00:07:56] King Khalid International Airport Airport on Sunday. That came a day
[00:07:59] day after 13 people were killed and
[00:08:01] and more than 300 injured in a missile missile strike, the deadliest attack
[00:08:05] attack on Saudi soil in more than
[00:08:07] than a decade. We've received CCTV
[00:08:11] CCTV pictures of the moment Saturday Saturday of Saturday's attacks, which
[00:08:14] which we are choosing not to show show you some of them because they
[00:08:18] they are too distressing. But in
[00:08:20] in this footage from Saudi state state television, all the passengers
[00:08:24] passengers seen waiting for their
[00:08:26] their flights do manage to get up
[00:08:29] up and escape after the bright orange
[00:08:31] orange flash of the missile tearing tearing through the building, the
[00:08:35] the Iran-backed Houthis have said said they're targeting Saudi Arabia
[00:08:39] Arabia over its support for government government forces in Yemen's civil
[00:08:41] civil war. And in a post on X Britain's
[00:08:44] Britain's embassy in Saudi Arabia Arabia advises British citizens against
[00:08:48] against all but essential travel
[00:08:49] travel to Jeddah. Dammam and all
[00:08:52] all airports in the kingdom except except for Medina. Here's our world
[00:08:56] world news correspondent Joe Inwood.
[00:08:59] Inwood. Saturday morning. One of of Saudi Arabia's busiest airports.
[00:09:02] airports. Hundreds of people from from all over the world waiting for
[00:09:06] for their flight. Then this a missile
[00:09:09] missile hitting a crowded terminal, terminal, killing more than a dozen
[00:09:12] dozen people, wounding over 300.
[00:09:15] 300. Emergency services were said said to be overwhelmed late last
[00:09:19] last night. A group called the Houthis
[00:09:21] Houthis claim responsibility not not just for Saturday's attack but
[00:09:25] but for this one. Last Thursday at
[00:09:26] at the same airport, another one
[00:09:29] one yesterday, as well as one at at a state run gas plant with the
[00:09:33] the help of Almighty God, the armed
[00:09:35] armed forces carried out for qualitative
[00:09:37] qualitative operations over the past past 24 hours using a number of ballistic
[00:09:41] ballistic and winged missiles as as well as drones. The first operation
[00:09:44] operation targeted King Khalid Airport Airport in Riyadh. The second operation
[00:09:48] operation targeted an Aramco gas
[00:09:50] gas plant. The Houthis are a group group that control large parts of
[00:09:54] of Yemen just to the south of Saudi
[00:09:56] Saudi Arabia. For more than a decade, decade, there's been a brutal civil
[00:10:00] civil war there. The Houthis on one
[00:10:02] one side, the internationally recognised recognised government, which is backed
[00:10:05] backed by Saudi Arabia on the other. other. For the last couple of years
[00:10:09] years there's been an uneasy truce. truce. But that's been shattered.
[00:10:13] shattered. The Houthis made lightning lightning advances down the coast
[00:10:16] coast last month, allowing them to to threaten Saudi shipping in the
[00:10:20] the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia responded
[00:10:23] responded with air strikes. The Houthis Houthis have been firing back, as
[00:10:26] as we've seen this weekend, President
[00:10:28] President Trump is an ally of the the Saudis. He condemned the attack
[00:10:31] attack on Riyadh airport but did
[00:10:33] did not say he would get involved. involved. I think it's terrible,
[00:10:36] terrible, terrible. What the Saudis Saudis able to find themselves without
[00:10:40] without US.. Well, they're able to to defend. Look, the Saudis are good
[00:10:44] good fighters. But I think the attack attack was a terrible thing. This
[00:10:47] This attack was the most severe on on Saudi soil in over a decade. Some
[00:10:51] Some of those killed are now being
[00:10:54] being identified, one of them, Buthaina Buthaina Awada, was a mother of four
[00:10:58] four from Syria. She was a victim victim of a conflict that she had
[00:11:00] had no part in. But that seems to
[00:11:03] to be escalating dangerously. Joe
[00:11:07] Joe Inwood, BBC News. Well, Benjamin Benjamin Raad is senior fellow at
[00:11:10] at the UCLA Burkle Centre for International
[00:11:13] International Relations and he talked talked about how this these events
[00:11:17] events demonstrate the growing power power of the Houthi rebels. This
[00:11:20] This does demonstrate that. Well, Well, two things. Number one, yes,
[00:11:22] yes, the increasing ability of the the Houthis to cause disruption in
[00:11:26] in the region, but also what's notable notable here is that they have refrained
[00:11:29] refrained from attacking US targets, targets, US vessels, Israeli targets,
[00:11:33] targets, commercial shipping going going through the Red Sea. They've
[00:11:36] They've kept this isolated to Saudi Saudi targets again in retaliation
[00:11:39] retaliation for what they saw was was an unjustified strike against
[00:11:42] against their airport earlier against against the plane that was coming
[00:11:46] coming back from Iran carrying allegedly
[00:11:48] allegedly weapons and military officers. officers. And so and those weapons
[00:11:52] weapons were seen as being potentially potentially used against the Saudis.
[00:11:55] Saudis. So this is you know, we're we're seeing here two things their
[00:11:58] their ability to really cause trouble trouble and disruption and dysfunction,
[00:12:01] dysfunction, but also the red lines lines they have not crossed, which which is directly targeting Americans,
[00:12:05] Americans, although apparently one one American was killed in this most
[00:12:08] most recent attack. How do you expect
[00:12:10] expect Saudi Arabia to react to this?
[00:12:13] this? It is very difficult. The Saudis, Saudis, short of deploying ground
[00:12:16] ground troops, they are using coalition coalition forces. They're leaning
[00:12:20] leaning heavily on Yemen's opposition
[00:12:23] opposition military, which is plagued plagued with infighting and has not
[00:12:25] not been able to really address the the Houthi problem. And add to that
[00:12:28] that the Houthis basically have nothing nothing to lose. They are able to
[00:12:31] to move their missile launchers and and their rockets from place to place
[00:12:35] place within the mountainous region region in the northwest that they
[00:12:38] they control, and for them, it's it's much cheaper to launch these these munitions and the drones than
[00:12:42] than it is for the Saudis to use
[00:12:46] use interceptors to, to catch these these munitions coming in. And so
[00:12:49] so also the Saudis have targets that that are exposed. They have airports,
[00:12:52] airports, they have pipelines, they they have refineries, things of that that nature. The Houthis simply don't
[00:12:56] don't have the same exposure. So So this creates an asymmetric situation.
[00:13:00] situation. Despite the Saudis overwhelming overwhelming military power. Benjamin
[00:13:03] Benjamin Radd they're from the UCLA UCLA Burkle Centre for international
[00:13:07] international relations. Well, for for more now on the energy cease cease fire, which Donald Trump claims
[00:13:10] claims that Russia and Ukraine have
[00:13:13] have agreed to, Kyiv has said it it would support such a move, but
[00:13:17] but Moscow is yet to comment on this.
[00:13:18] this. Let's go live to Kyiv now on
[00:13:21] on our correspondent there, Dan Johnson. Johnson. Morning to you, Dan. So
[00:13:25] So first of all, tell us how the
[00:13:28] the night has been. Yeah, there have
[00:13:32] have been continued Russian attacks attacks on different targets across
[00:13:34] across Ukraine. Perhaps not as bad bad as previous nights. So a little
[00:13:38] little bit quieter, everyone waiting waiting to see if this energy cease
[00:13:42] cease fire will actually exist in in the real world. Has Russia signed
[00:13:46] signed up to it? Will it respect respect it? There's been absolutely absolutely no comment from the Kremlin
[00:13:49] Kremlin and Ukrainians would be doubtful doubtful anyway. But in the first
[00:13:52] first couple of hours after Donald Donald Trump announced it, there
[00:13:55] there were further attacks on the the energy infrastructure of Kyiv
[00:13:59] Kyiv and Kharkiv too. There were were already struggling with power
[00:14:03] power cuts and electricity interruptions interruptions that have left people
[00:14:05] people in the dark without heat and and without water because they need
[00:14:08] need electricity to pump the water water supplies. In some places we've
[00:14:12] we've seen disruption to metro trains trains to trolley bus services, so
[00:14:16] so everyone knew it was going to to be a difficult winter if Russia
[00:14:20] Russia continued with those attacks attacks on the power network, they'll they'll be hoping that this cease
[00:14:23] cease fire has an impact. But without without a clear commitment from the
[00:14:27] the Russians, they'll be suspicion suspicion that it's not going to
[00:14:29] to make much of a difference. And
[00:14:32] And Dan, we've mentioned President President Zelensky saying that Kyiv
[00:14:35] Kyiv would support an energy cease
[00:14:37] cease fire if Russia were to do so
[00:14:39] so as well. What is the general view,
[00:14:42] view, though, in Kyiv about this?
[00:14:46] this? Yeah, the Ukrainians seem to
[00:14:48] to be taken by surprise when Donald Donald Trump announced this on social
[00:14:52] social media, not the first time time he's done that. It seemed like
[00:14:55] like he said both sides had signed signed up to it. But the Ukrainians Ukrainians started off by saying
[00:14:59] saying it was news to them. They They then seem to have gone along
[00:15:02] along with it thinking, well, this this is what we've been calling for. for. This is what we need. So if
[00:15:06] if Russia will abide by it, then then it works in our favour. It would
[00:15:09] would be a positive step and it would would help us through the winter.
[00:15:12] winter. And Ukraine had already signalled signalled that it was willing to
[00:15:14] to cease attacking Russian oil refineries
[00:15:17] refineries if indeed its power supply
[00:15:19] supply infrastructure was to be protected. protected. But they are doubtful
[00:15:23] doubtful this will have an actual actual impact. Donald Trump announced announced something similar about
[00:15:26] about a month ago, only for Russia Russia to continue its attacks. And
[00:15:30] And then there is the question about, about, well, where will those drones drones and missiles be redirected
[00:15:34] redirected instead? Because this this certainly would not mean an an end to the war. And the expectation
[00:15:38] expectation is that Russia will continue continue to hit other targets. OK.
[00:15:41] OK. Thank you for now. Dan Johnson
[00:15:43] Johnson in Kyiv for us almost 140
[00:15:47] 140 people are now known to have have been killed when their boat,
[00:15:50] boat, which was carrying over 300,
[00:15:52] 300, capsized off the coast of Djibouti. Djibouti. It's among the deadliest
[00:15:56] deadliest shipwrecks on a route used used by migrants from the Horn of
[00:16:00] of Africa seeking to reach the Gulf
[00:16:02] Gulf states through war torn Yemen. Yemen. Around
[00:17:06] when reporting on the case and how how social media has shaped the story.
[00:17:09] story. It's all on The Media Show
[00:17:12] Show on BBC News. You're with. Business
[00:17:19] Business Today on BBC News. Pope
[00:17:22] Pope Leo says he will undergo surgery
[00:17:24] surgery after doctors detected what
[00:17:26] what he called a very early stage
[00:17:29] stage nodule in his lung. The Vatican Vatican said the operation scheduled
[00:17:33] scheduled for the first days of this
[00:17:35] this week and the estimated post-operative post-operative recovery time will
[00:17:38] will be about one week. The 71-year-old
[00:17:41] 71-year-old pontiff has no previously
[00:17:44] previously known health problems.
[00:17:47] problems. A BBC investigation has has revealed that the world's biggest
[00:17:50] biggest accountancy firm helped falsify falsify documents that allowed the
[00:17:54] the former Chelsea Football Club
[00:17:57] Club owner Roman Abramovich to hide
[00:17:59] hide his wealth and evade tax. BBC
[00:18:02] BBC Panorama has uncovered hundreds hundreds of documents that were backdated
[00:18:05] backdated by the Russian billionaires billionaires advisers. Many were
[00:18:08] were drawn up with the help of Deloitte.
[00:18:11] Deloitte. Roman Abramovich denies denies any wrongdoing. Deloitte says
[00:18:15] says it complies with applicable
[00:18:17] applicable laws. Richard Bilton reports.
[00:18:22] reports. Things have changed for for Roman Abramovich. He has been
[00:18:26] been sanctioned because of his links links to Vladimir Putin. He's been
[00:18:28] been forced to sell his beloved Chelsea
[00:18:32] Chelsea and now revelations from from inside his financial empire.
[00:18:36] empire. If you want to understand understand Roman Abramovich, follow
[00:18:39] follow the money. This is Cyprus,
[00:18:42] Cyprus, home to a web of companies
[00:18:44] companies that were holding his wealth
[00:18:48] wealth working with the Bureau of
[00:18:50] of Investigative Journalism. Panorama Panorama has been investigating a
[00:18:53] a data leak which shows the lengths
[00:18:56] lengths some of his Cypriot advisers advisers went to hide his billions.
[00:19:00] billions. They falsified and backdated backdated hundreds of documents.
[00:19:04] documents. It is trying to cover
[00:19:06] cover up something and what we appear
[00:19:08] appear to have here is a fiddle factory
[00:19:11] factory in a fiddle factory you fiddle
[00:19:13] fiddle the transactions, you backdate
[00:19:15] backdate them and that is what appears appears to have been happening here
[00:19:19] here regularly. In 2003, one of Roman
[00:19:22] Roman Abramovich's Cypriot companies
[00:19:25] companies called Kravin Investments Investments had almost $2 billion
[00:19:29] billion of his money in the bank.
[00:19:31] bank. Deloitte confirms certain changes changes will have to be made to the
[00:19:35] the accounts. That's Deloitte apparently
[00:19:39] apparently advising on falsifying falsifying financial records by backdating
[00:19:42] backdating them. The evidence suggests
[00:19:44] suggests it allowed Mr Abramovich
[00:19:46] Abramovich to evade millions in tax.
[00:19:50] tax. It's a straightforward and blatant
[00:19:57] blatant move to protect from legitimate
[00:20:01] legitimate taxation assets which which should otherwise have been
[00:20:04] been subject to tax. So it's tax tax evasion. Yeah. Straightforward.
[00:20:07] Straightforward. And how serious serious is that? Well, again, if
[00:20:10] if it happened in England and it it was in the millions. His Majesty's
[00:20:13] Majesty's Revenue and Customs would
[00:20:15] would be thinking about a prosecution.
[00:20:18] prosecution. Roman Abramovich's lawyers lawyers say he denies he evaded tax
[00:20:22] tax or concealed his fortune. They
[00:20:26] They say he was not involved in the the day to day operation of the companies
[00:20:30] companies and Panorama has provided provided no evidence that he knew
[00:20:33] knew of authorised or directed the
[00:20:37] the falsification or backdating of of any documents. Deloitte Cyprus
[00:20:41] Cyprus says it's unable to comment comment because the documents are
[00:20:44] are more than 20 years old and no
[00:20:46] no longer accessible. Richard Bilton,
[00:20:49] Bilton, BBC News. Let's get some some of the day's other news now.
[00:20:53] now. South Korea says North Korea Korea has fired multiple ballistic
[00:20:57] ballistic missiles, with one flying flying more than 900km. They come
[00:21:00] come at a time when tensions have have been rising between the two
[00:21:04] two Koreas in recent weeks amid weapons
[00:21:07] weapons tests by both countries. countries. The presidential office
[00:21:09] office in Seoul is urging an immediate immediate halt to the repeated ballistic
[00:21:13] ballistic missile launches, which which it says violate UN Security
[00:21:17] Security Council resolutions. A US
[00:21:19] US federal judge has ordered an immediate immediate halt to taxpayer funded
[00:21:23] funded adverts promoting President President Trump in the run up to
[00:21:25] to next month's mid-term elections.
[00:21:27] elections. The ruling follows a public public outcry over the adverts, which
[00:21:31] which the government acknowledged acknowledged in court filings have
[00:21:34] have cost it at least $19 million.
[00:21:37] million. Plaintiffs, including the the watchdog group Common Cause,
[00:21:41] Cause, brought the lawsuit alleging
[00:21:41] alleging the ads were political propaganda
[00:21:46] propaganda in central Nepal. More More severe flash flooding has destroyed
[00:21:49] destroyed bridges and damaged a hydropower
[00:21:51] hydropower facility. At least 95 95 people have been rescued and residents
[00:21:55] residents have been told to leave leave the area. The country remains
[00:21:59] remains on high alert after the devastating devastating floods two months ago,
[00:22:02] ago, which swept away thousands of
[00:22:04] of people following a glacier collapse
[00:22:06] collapse on the border with Tibet.
[00:22:10] Tibet. Manchester City have won their
[00:22:12] their first match since being found found guilty of all charges related
[00:22:16] related to breaches of the financial financial rules governing the game.
[00:22:19] game. The team were met by boos in in Liverpool as they arrived for
[00:22:23] for the game, which they won 3-0. 3-0. The club maintained they haven't
[00:22:27] haven't broken any rules and have have appealed against the verdict.
[00:22:30] verdict. Our sports editor Dan Roan Roan reports from Anfield. Now city
[00:22:34] city have won convincingly here today. today. I think that is the result result that many fans, not just Liverpool
[00:22:38] Liverpool fans but supporters of of other clubs would have feared feared because it does mean that
[00:22:41] that their perfect start to the season season continues that six wins out
[00:22:45] out of six, there are three points points clear at the top of the table,
[00:22:48] table, nine points ahead of Liverpool. Liverpool. But how much does it actually
[00:22:52] actually mean that? That is a hard hard question to answer. If city
[00:22:55] city go on and win or even just if if they're in the title race, how
[00:22:59] how much pride can they take? How
[00:23:01] How much excitement can it spark spark when you know, when everybody
[00:23:04] everybody knows that there is a very very real prospect that they could
[00:23:07] could be handed a huge points deduction deduction that would condemn them
[00:23:09] them to relegation or even expulsion expulsion from the league? And until
[00:23:13] until we know what that punishment punishment is, and until we know know the outcome of any appeal, we
[00:23:17] we know that city have appealed but but we don't know how long that will
[00:23:19] will take or whether indeed they'll they'll then go beyond football jurisdiction
[00:23:23] jurisdiction and take it to the courts.
[00:23:26] courts. Then this sense of limbo limbo will hang over this campaign.
[00:23:30] campaign. And what many will fear
[00:23:31] fear is future seasons. If it's not
[00:23:35] not concluded before the start of
[00:23:36] of next season. Now to entertainment.
[00:23:39] entertainment. The actor Robert Pattinson Pattinson was in London last night
[00:23:42] night at the premiere of his new new film Primetime. The movie dramatises
[00:23:46] dramatises the production of the the American reality television series
[00:23:48] series To Catch a Predator, which
[00:23:52] which aired between 2004 and 2007. 2007. Pattinson stars as its host
[00:23:56] host Chris Hansen, an NBC journalist journalist who worked with the vigilante
[00:23:59] vigilante group to expose child predators predators in sting operations, and
[00:24:02] and the movie has got rave reviews
[00:24:05] reviews so far, with many saying saying it is going to get an Oscar
[00:24:08] Oscar nomination. Let's have a look.
[00:24:14] look. Are you sure your parents aren't
[00:24:16] aren't home? I'm sure. Big night
[00:24:20] night planned. Well, who are you?
[00:24:22] you? Why don't you have a seat right
[00:24:26] right there? I'm Chris Hansen with
[00:24:29] with Dateline NBC. Well, our culture culture correspondent Noor Nanji
[00:24:33] Nanji was on the red carpet with
[00:24:35] with Robert Pattinson. I mean, it's
[00:24:39] it's both the most terrifying thing thing that can happen to you, whether whether you're if you're a parent
[00:24:43] parent or even if you're not. It's
[00:24:45] It's like the it's like the most
[00:24:48] most unimaginable sin possible. And
[00:24:50] And it's a kind of a it's like an
[00:24:53] an unknown entity, which is kind kind of it's been going on since
[00:24:57] since mediaeval times thinking that that there's a kind of almost it
[00:25:01] it can come in this case through through the internet and attack vulnerable
[00:25:04] vulnerable children. And the show
[00:25:07] show was a kind of a microcosm of
[00:25:10] of saying like, oh, we can do something something about it and we can do do something about it really, really,
[00:25:13] really, really quickly. And in some
[00:25:16] some ways that's correct. But it
[00:25:18] it also makes for incredibly powerful powerful TV. And that's when it kind
[00:25:21] kind of gets a slightly dicey territory. territory. Do you think attitudes
[00:25:24] attitudes towards entertainment have
[00:25:26] have changed now? I think on mainstream
[00:25:30] mainstream TV, but then it's just just been replaced. I mean, that's
[00:25:33] that's kind of why I was interested interested in this show because I I could see the beginning of a new
[00:25:37] new wave of predator catching in in pretty much the same format that
[00:25:40] that it was in the early 2000, and and it was really taking off on TikTok,
[00:25:44] TikTok, and I was just interested
[00:25:45] interested as to why that was happening
[00:25:48] happening and whether it was a algorithmically
[00:25:51] algorithmically based interest or
[00:25:53] or what I mean, what was causing causing it. And it got bigger and
[00:25:57] and bigger and bigger and now it's it's one of the most it's a massive massive thing on social media. So
[00:26:00] So it's just very interesting to to me. Business Today is next. We've
[00:26:04] We've got lots to discuss.
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