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[00:00:08] MUSIC
[00:00:16] Live from Singapore. This is
[00:00:18] BBC News. Democratic congresswoman congresswoman Haley Stevens endorses
[00:00:21] endorses the Republican Party's Senate
[00:00:24] Senate candidate in a key battleground battleground state of Michigan. The
[00:00:26] The latest twist in a crucial Senate
[00:00:29] Senate race two days ahead of the
[00:00:31] the US midterm elections. Ukraine's Ukraine's military says its air raid
[00:00:34] raid alert app is likely to have
[00:00:37] have been hacked after citizens received received false warnings about threats
[00:00:41] threats of radiation and chemical chemical attacks. Buckingham Palace
[00:00:44] Palace says King Charles will speak
[00:00:47] speak with unflinching honesty and
[00:00:48] and sincere sorrow about slavery
[00:00:51] slavery at the Commonwealth Leaders Leaders Summit in the Caribbean and
[00:00:54] and on Business Today, the world's world's largest cryptocurrency exchange,
[00:00:58] exchange, Binance, sees record withdrawals
[00:01:00] withdrawals after it reopened on
[00:01:02] on Sunday following a massive hack.
[00:01:16] You're watching news I'm
[00:01:18] Vandhna Bhan the US midterm elections
[00:01:21] elections are just two days away. away. Millions of voters across the
[00:01:25] the country will determine the balance balance of power in Congress. And
[00:01:29] And while the Democrats are widely widely predicted to flip the House
[00:01:32] House of Representatives, the Senate Senate is still up for grabs. Candidates
[00:01:36] Candidates in battleground states states like Texas and Michigan
[00:01:43] Texas and Michigan are making the final push to voters in the hopes hopes of swaying Tuesday's results.
[00:01:46] results. Now, these are some live live pictures from Kansas where President President Donald Trump is speaking
[00:01:49] speaking as part of his months long
[00:01:51] long campaign blitz for Republicans
[00:01:54] Republicans ahead of polling day.
[00:01:56] day. Now in Michigan, Democratic Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens
[00:02:00] Stevens broke with her party by endorsing
[00:02:03] endorsing Republican Senate candidate candidate Mike Rogers. It follows
[00:02:05] follows a rift with her fellow Democrat
[00:02:07] Democrat and nominee for Senate Abdul
[00:02:10] Abdul El-Sayed, who defeated her her in the primary. Stevens criticised
[00:02:13] criticised him over a political ad
[00:02:15] ad by an outside group blaming Israel
[00:02:17] Israel for high grocery prices. Stevens
[00:02:20] Stevens then appeared with Rogers Rogers on the campaign trail, where
[00:02:23] where she explained a little more more of why her support has shifted.
[00:02:27] shifted. My vote for Senate is going going to be with Mike Rogers, and
[00:02:30] and I will tell you why. Because
[00:02:34] Because we have to stand with country. country. We can't stand with hate.
[00:02:38] hate. I'm sorry. People are upset
[00:02:40] upset and I understand that I did did endorse the Democratic nominee
[00:02:44] nominee and he chose to close this this campaign by saying I wasn't
[00:02:48] wasn't welcome. I've never been invited invited to a campaign event. That's That's fine. You know, he's busy.
[00:02:51] busy. He's running all around. I've I've had primaries before myself.
[00:02:54] myself. It's not about that. It's It's this is about leadership and
[00:02:58] and integrity. Now, President Trump
[00:03:00] Trump praised Stevens for her decision decision to endorse Rogers, saying
[00:03:04] saying he would welcome her to the
[00:03:06] the Republican Party. El-Sayed, meanwhile, meanwhile, called the endorsement
[00:03:09] endorsement a distraction and spoke spoke out against his former primary
[00:03:13] primary challenger. So look, if you're you're somebody who believes that
[00:03:16] that we ought to have more rights, rights, not less than I would think
[00:03:19] think you would support me in this this race. If you are somebody who
[00:03:22] who believes that we should stand stand up to hate and you have watched
[00:03:25] watched this last campaign, I think think we probably would not want
[00:03:28] want to support Mike Rogers and Donald Donald Trump and JD Vance. Now to
[00:03:31] to the state of Texas, more than
[00:03:34] than half $1 billion has been spent spent on advertising alone, making
[00:03:38] making it the most expensive non-presidential non-presidential race in American
[00:03:42] American history. Democrat James James Talarico and Republican Ken
[00:03:45] Ken Paxton are in a race that's too
[00:03:48] too close to call. So what would would it mean for Republicans if
[00:03:51] if they were to lose Texas? Our correspondent
[00:03:55] correspondent Will Grant explains. explains. It would be huge. It's
[00:03:58] It's you know, it's been decades decades since there's been a Democratic
[00:04:02] Democratic senator in Texas. It's It's such a vital state. And I think
[00:04:05] think what makes it so important important is that what it would tell
[00:04:08] tell us if there was a Democratic Democratic senator out of Texas for
[00:04:12] for the rest of the races, particularly,
[00:04:15] particularly, you know, looking at at President Trump's dwindling popularity
[00:04:19] popularity at the moment, the importance importance of the Latino vote. Obviously,
[00:04:22] Obviously, in a state like Texas
[00:04:24] Texas where people are reacting against against a number of things, first
[00:04:28] first and foremost, of course, the
[00:04:29] the cost of living. That's a an issue
[00:04:34] issue across the nation. It has resonance, resonance, particularly in Texas,
[00:04:38] Texas, particularly in rural states states where the war with Iran is
[00:04:42] is pushing up the cost, obviously, obviously, of fuel, but also the
[00:04:45] the cost of fertiliser. You know,
[00:04:48] know, other products, oil based products products are all rising. And of course,
[00:04:51] course, the cost of living in terms terms of filling up your car with
[00:04:54] with gas. So these are the things
[00:04:57] things that if it does swing to a
[00:04:59] a Democratic senator out of Texas,
[00:05:02] Texas, you know, an almost unthinkable
[00:05:05] unthinkable prospect for the Republican Republican Party in many ways, it
[00:05:08] it really is an it would be an indication
[00:05:11] indication of where the night will will be heading or where the race
[00:05:15] race will be heading more broadly.
[00:05:17] broadly. Let's get more with IMC IMC Eghbal, a Democratic strategist
[00:05:21] strategist and former chief of staff staff to the Biden White House press
[00:05:24] press office now IMC. Just want to to start off because in the last
[00:05:27] last hour we've heard from a campaign campaign official for Abdul El-Sayed
[00:05:30] El-Sayed who confirmed to the BBC
[00:05:32] BBC that they've raised over $1.2
[00:05:35] $1.2 million since his fellow Democrat
[00:05:38] Democrat Haley Stevens, publicly publicly backed his Republican rival
[00:05:41] rival in Michigan's tight Senate Senate race. I mean, does this show
[00:05:45] show that Haley Stevens defection defection is actually backfiring
[00:05:47] backfiring here? It does. I live
[00:05:50] live in Washington, DC and this morning morning when she pulled the stunt
[00:05:53] stunt of walking into a historic historic black church with Mike Rogers
[00:05:57] Rogers and then releasing at the the same time a video endorsing him,
[00:06:00] him, it fired up a lot of Democrats. Democrats. It felt like this race
[00:06:04] race between Mike Rogers and Abdul Abdul El-Sayed was neck and neck.
[00:06:08] neck. And this, I think, is really
[00:06:10] really the energy a lot of Democrats
[00:06:13] Democrats across the nation, the the Democratic base in DC and also
[00:06:16] also the state Democratic Party in in Michigan needed to fire up because
[00:06:20] because Haley Stevens is simply wrong wrong on her calculation today about
[00:06:23] about Mike Rogers. I would say her her calculation about him just a
[00:06:26] a few days ago is correct that he
[00:06:29] he is a rubber stamp for this administration's
[00:06:31] administration's agenda. And look, look, we know that, you know, going
[00:06:35] going into these US midterm elections, elections, biggest topic at the top
[00:06:39] top of people's minds is the US economy.
[00:06:41] economy. But how effectively do you you think, especially the Democrats
[00:06:45] Democrats have conveyed their message
[00:06:46] message on the economy here? I think
[00:06:49] think they've really stuck to the the values that people care about
[00:06:53] about their constituencies care about. about. Look, there are a lot of great
[00:06:56] great candidates that are running running from Josh Turek and Rob Sand
[00:06:59] Sand in Iowa looking at James Talarico Talarico in Texas, what has their
[00:07:03] their constant question been to constituencies? constituencies? Has your life gotten
[00:07:06] gotten better since Donald Trump Trump has been president? Has the
[00:07:09] the never ending wars done anything anything to lower gas prices? Do
[00:07:12] Do you feel safer? Do you feel like like there is economic opportunity
[00:07:15] opportunity not just for yourself yourself but for your children? That
[00:07:17] That has been the through line message message for a lot of Democrats that
[00:07:20] that are running across this country. country. A lot of Democrats, mind
[00:07:23] mind you, that are running for the the first time that feel emboldened
[00:07:27] emboldened by this second Trump administration. administration. So not only has the
[00:07:31] the President given Democrats a message
[00:07:35] message by being 27% of approval approval rating and also giving us
[00:07:37] us this economy, but I think he's he's also helped birth a new generation
[00:07:41] generation of Democratic lawmakers lawmakers that we might soon see
[00:07:44] see in Congress. Do you think turnout
[00:07:45] turnout is matching Democratic expectations
[00:07:48] expectations in key districts? Look, Look, one thing about a Democrat Democrat is that you never trust
[00:07:52] trust the polling. We've been we've we've been scarred before. However,
[00:07:56] However, the ground game and also also a lot of the national polling
[00:07:59] polling is showing that enthusiasm enthusiasm from Democratic voters
[00:08:02] voters is matching with the polling polling that we are seeing. We know,
[00:08:05] know, of course, that polling from from even the 2018 midterms was correct.
[00:08:09] correct. Midterms tend to always always be a referendum on the current
[00:08:12] current administration. So no matter matter what, Democrats do have an
[00:08:15] an advantage there. We are looking looking at the map. We can see that
[00:08:18] that the House is inevitable. I do do believe we will get a speaker.
[00:08:21] speaker. Jeffries. The amount of of seats that the Democrats get in
[00:08:24] in the House is still up for debate. debate. The Senate itself, we saw
[00:08:27] saw some good polling today from from the New York Times that even
[00:08:29] even showed Abdujalil up by 11. It It showed us getting great numbers
[00:08:33] numbers in Kansas and in Texas, both
[00:08:35] both Republican held states. However,
[00:08:38] However, we cannot say that we have have this in the bag until election election day. Yeah, we'll have to
[00:08:42] to see how the next few days go.
[00:08:44] go. MC really great to get your analysis.
[00:08:47] analysis. There as well. Now the the Ukrainian Air Force has said
[00:08:50] said its air alert app is likely likely to have been compromised in
[00:08:54] in an apparent hacking attack on on Sunday evening. Many Ukrainians
[00:08:58] Ukrainians using the app received received false notifications about
[00:09:02] about a radiological threat, a chemical chemical attack and even a message
[00:09:05] message about possible street fighting fighting in Kyiv, the authorities
[00:09:09] authorities say functionality in in the app is gradually being restored.
[00:09:13] restored. Meanwhile, on Monday, Russia's Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations
[00:09:17] Situations said its mobile app had had been subjected to what it called
[00:09:20] called a massive cyber attack. It It said this had resulted in the
[00:09:24] the distribution of fake information information to the public, and that
[00:09:27] that work was under way to fix the the vulnerability while to understand
[00:09:30] understand the impact of the hacking hacking attacks, I spoke to Herbert
[00:09:34] Herbert Lin, a senior research scholar scholar for cyber policy and security
[00:09:37] security at Stanford University. University. Herbert previously served
[00:09:40] served on President Obama's Commission Commission on Enhancing National
[00:09:44] National Cybersecurity, and he told told me more. Apparently, it was
[00:09:47] was used just to distribute false
[00:09:52] false messages to the Ukrainian public public to, you know, disturb them.
[00:09:56] them. I mean, the information was
[00:09:58] was false. And if you took it literally,
[00:10:02] literally, it would be upsetting upsetting and, you know, concerning
[00:10:03] concerning and, you know, and perhaps
[00:10:07] perhaps life threatening. But I think
[00:10:09] think that the Iranian sorry, the
[00:10:11] the Ukrainians are really quite familiar
[00:10:14] familiar with this. And so my guess
[00:10:17] guess is that in the long run, it
[00:10:20] it didn't have very much impact.
[00:10:21] impact. And the Ukrainian government government corrected it pretty quickly.
[00:10:25] quickly. Given I mean, talking about about the attack itself, given the
[00:10:28] the sophistication required to carry carry out such cyber attacks. I mean,
[00:10:32] mean, what does this tell us about
[00:10:33] about the evolution of Russian cyber
[00:10:37] cyber operations in this war? Well,
[00:10:40] Well, Russia has conducted a variety variety of cyber operations against
[00:10:43] against Ukraine during the war since
[00:10:44] since it started and before, you
[00:10:48] you know, for - it's had cyber operations
[00:10:50] operations against Ukraine for a
[00:10:52] a very long time. This particular
[00:10:55] particular hack doesn't seem to me
[00:10:57] me to be out of the ordinary in the
[00:11:00] the sense that it is a you know, know, it's a serious hack it you
[00:11:03] you know, it compromises an important
[00:11:06] important channel for communicating communicating with the Ukrainian
[00:11:08] Ukrainian public. But you have to
[00:11:12] to expect that good hackers, which which the Russians are, will get
[00:11:15] get in every now and then and will will do their you know, their nasty
[00:11:19] nasty things. So this is you know,
[00:11:22] know, this is concerning. And I think think it's the first time that this
[00:11:25] this has happened to an official
[00:11:29] official Ukrainian information app
[00:11:33] app but I suspect it won't be the the last. Are they getting more sophisticated?
[00:11:37] sophisticated? Well, somewhat. We We don't know how they did it yet.
[00:11:40] yet. Maybe they used tools from AI AI and so on. And maybe they will
[00:11:44] will in the future be able to do do it more. But we don't we just
[00:11:47] just don't know that yet. Now there
[00:11:50] there have been clashes between police
[00:11:52] police and rioters in cities across
[00:11:54] across Germany late on Saturday after
[00:11:56] after peaceful protests by a youth youth movement called Gen Z Takes
[00:12:01] Takes Charge turned violent. They They followed similar protests in
[00:12:04] in France, where more than 300,000 300,000 people marched on Saturday.
[00:12:07] Saturday. Protests also took place
[00:12:09] place in Albania and Portugal. This This report from our correspondent
[00:12:13] correspondent Joe Inwood contains contains flashing images from the
[00:12:16] the start. These are not scenes Germans
[00:12:18] Germans are used to on their streets.
[00:12:20] streets. Youth anger boiling over.
[00:12:25] over. In Frankfurt, Germany's financial financial heart. Small groups took
[00:12:28] took the opportunity to loot shops,
[00:12:31] shops, including a gun store. But
[00:12:33] But these were relatively isolated isolated incidents and a long way
[00:12:37] way from the central message of protests, protests, which had been largely
[00:12:41] largely peaceful. Hundreds of thousands
[00:12:43] thousands of mostly young Germans
[00:12:46] Germans calling for equality, better better public services and an ease
[00:12:48] ease to the costs of living. Young
[00:12:51] Young people are taking to the streets streets to gather as Gen Z, to say
[00:12:54] say that we want a future in which
[00:12:56] which we can lead a good life. We
[00:12:59] We must distance ourselves from radical
[00:13:01] radical protest. Our primary focus
[00:13:03] focus is on education, climate change change and democracy. What took place
[00:13:07] place in Germany is part of a wider wider trend started in France but
[00:13:11] but now spreading to Italy, Spain
[00:13:13] Spain and here in Portugal where where a housing crisis is said to
[00:13:17] to have hit the youngest hardest
[00:13:20] hardest in France two there were were massive protests for a third
[00:13:23] third weekend in a row. Like in Germany, Germany, they were for the most part
[00:13:27] part peaceful and good natured. They
[00:13:29] They take us for clowns. This woman's
[00:13:31] woman's sign reads. But France is
[00:13:34] is a country with deep fiscal problems
[00:13:36] problems and even deeper political
[00:13:39] political divisions. The authorities authorities say they've opened an
[00:13:42] an attempted murder investigation investigation after police were attacked
[00:13:45] attacked by petrol bombs. In total,
[00:13:49] total, more than 700 people were
[00:13:51] were arrested. In every march. There
[00:13:54] There were groups of rioters and
[00:13:55] and looters, many driven by the far
[00:13:58] far left. Their sole aim was to retake retake city centres with extraordinary
[00:14:01] extraordinary violence. Across Europe,
[00:14:04] Europe, there seems to be a growing growing sense of anger and unrest
[00:14:07] unrest amongst the young, a feeling feeling the social contract has been
[00:14:11] been broken by governments of left,
[00:14:14] left, right and centre. They are
[00:14:15] are making their voices heard. Joe
[00:14:18] Joe Inwood, BBC News. Now we'll be
[00:14:20] be right back with more including including Buckingham Palace confirming
[00:14:24] confirming that King Charles will will speak about slavery when he
[00:14:28] he addresses the Commonwealth Leaders Leaders Summit in Antigua. Around
[00:15:31] gains. Follow our coverage right
[00:15:32] right here on BBC News. You're live
[00:15:42] live with BBC News. Buckingham Palace Palace says King Charles will speak
[00:15:46] speak about slavery with unflinching
[00:15:49] unflinching honesty and sincere sorrow sorrow when he addresses the Commonwealth
[00:15:52] Commonwealth Leaders Summit in Antigua Antigua on Tuesday. The King is starting
[00:15:56] starting three days of formal engagements engagements there as part of a wider
[00:15:59] wider tour of the Caribbean. It's It's understood his speech won't
[00:16:02] won't be affected by comments made made by the UK Prime Minister, Andy
[00:16:06] Andy Burnham, raising the possibility possibility of a formal apology for
[00:16:09] for Britain's role in trans-Atlantic trans-Atlantic transatlantic slave
[00:16:12] slave trade. The British government government has never made a formal
[00:16:16] formal apology for slavery or offered offered to pay reparations. Here's
[00:16:20] Here's our political correspondent correspondent Joe Pike. Throughout
[00:16:23] Throughout his Caribbean tour, the the King has acknowledged slavery's
[00:16:26] slavery's place in the history of
[00:16:28] of these islands. The Caribbean community
[00:16:31] community have a ten-point plan for for reparations, including investment
[00:16:34] investment in education and public public health. But Andy Burnham has
[00:16:37] has ruled out anything financial. financial. The Chancellor explained
[00:16:40] explained his bosses thinking the. the. Prime Minister has said look,
[00:16:44] look, we are open to a discussion
[00:16:46] discussion about an apology. He feels feels that that's the right thing,
[00:16:50] thing, particularly ahead of the the Commonwealth Leaders Conference.
[00:16:53] Conference. But he doesn't believe believe that reparations are the
[00:16:56] the right approach and considering considering a formal apology doesn't
[00:16:59] doesn't mean accepting that British British people now should accept
[00:17:02] accept the financial liability for
[00:17:04] for any party. In things that happened
[00:17:06] happened hundreds of years ago in
[00:17:08] in which they had no role. For the the Conservatives, even the offer
[00:17:11] offer of an apology is navel gazing
[00:17:14] gazing and a distraction. It is time time for the Commonwealth to start
[00:17:17] start looking forwards, not endlessly endlessly backwards. And why now?
[00:17:20] now? Why not? In the 60s, 70s, 80s? 80s? Why are we - why are we having
[00:17:24] having this conversation today? What What is it? Because lots of Commonwealth
[00:17:26] Commonwealth leaders are asking for for it, which is why that's what what I mean. Why are they asking
[00:17:30] asking for it now? It is because because many of these countries are
[00:17:33] are struggling with the same issues issues that we're struggling with. with. They're not becoming richer.
[00:17:36] richer. They don't know what to do. do. So they want to ask Britain for
[00:17:40] for more money. My answer. Is no. no. We should not even be entertaining
[00:17:43] entertaining the idea of reparations.
[00:17:46] reparations. In Antigua, where Andy Andy Burnham will arrive tomorrow.
[00:17:49] tomorrow. Views on an official apology
[00:17:51] apology are mixed. If someone is is apologising, I mean they've done
[00:17:54] done something wrong. And if they've
[00:17:57] they've done wrong, apology is a a good start. No, I don't think the
[00:18:01] the UK should apologise for anything anything because the slave trade
[00:18:04] trade has happened years ago and and what's in the past should stay
[00:18:07] stay in the past and people should should learn from the past and not
[00:18:09] not try to live in the past. The
[00:18:12] The King will address the Commonwealth Commonwealth Heads of Government Government on Tuesday. A message
[00:18:16] message of unflinching honesty and
[00:18:18] and sincere sorrow is expected to
[00:18:21] to feature in that speech. Joe Pike,
[00:18:23] Pike, BBC News. Well, let's get more
[00:18:25] more with Earl Bousquet, who is chair
[00:18:27] chair of the Saint Lucia National National Reparations Committee. Earl,
[00:18:30] Earl, great to be able to speak with with you here. And look, King Charles
[00:18:33] Charles had quite the warm welcome
[00:18:35] welcome last week to the Caribbean.
[00:18:38] Caribbean. But he did say that he
[00:18:41] he won't be issuing a formal apology,
[00:18:43] apology, let alone reparations. How
[00:18:45] How are Caribbean leaders seeing
[00:18:48] seeing this? Caribbean leaders are
[00:18:52] are welcoming his statement having
[00:18:54] having indicated that he is in fact
[00:18:57] fact joining the King in considering
[00:19:00] considering that the time has come
[00:19:02] come for a conversation on reparations reparations and in so doing, the
[00:19:06] the two of them will be joining that
[00:19:09] that conversation in one of the regions
[00:19:11] regions of the world most affected.
[00:19:15] affected. And it is one where Caricom
[00:19:18] Caricom leaders have welcomed the
[00:19:21] the move from refusal. But it is
[00:19:23] is one that also reflects the trend
[00:19:26] trend from Buckingham Palace as far
[00:19:30] far back in 2021, when Queen Elizabeth,
[00:19:33] Elizabeth, on her dying bed, offered
[00:19:35] offered some royal statements of of sorrow, stopping just short of
[00:19:39] of an apology which was repeated
[00:19:42] repeated by then. Prince Charles,
[00:19:45] Charles, in her message to Barbados Barbados when it became a republic
[00:19:48] republic in November of that year,
[00:19:54] year, then 2024 in at the Commonwealth
[00:19:57] Commonwealth Summit in Samoa, the the King made that statement that
[00:20:00] that the time has come for the conversation
[00:20:04] conversation and the Caribbean is
[00:20:06] is very glad and they are being welcomed
[00:20:10] welcomed by the chairman of the Caricom
[00:20:12] Caricom Reparations Commission. So
[00:20:14] So Hilary Beckles, who is looking
[00:20:18] looking forward along with the other
[00:20:20] other member Heads of government
[00:20:22] government of Caricom, to that conversation.
[00:20:26] conversation. The King never said said that he would apologise. And
[00:20:30] And therefore those who expect him
[00:20:32] him to may be expressing hopes rather
[00:20:37] rather and wishes rather than dealing
[00:20:39] dealing with the reality. Secondly,
[00:20:42] Secondly, you cannot divorce an apology
[00:20:45] apology from reparations. And thirdly,
[00:20:48] thirdly, reparations is not only only about money. The ten-point plan
[00:20:51] plan points out. All of what we are
[00:20:54] are requesting by way of reparations
[00:20:57] reparations and it's not about giving giving us a cheque. I just want to to ask I mean, you've spent decades
[00:21:01] decades campaigning on this. How How close do you think you are to
[00:21:05] to any breakthrough? Briefly. I think
[00:21:06] think we'll see it in our
[00:21:10] lifetime. Alex Carey really great great to be able to get your analysis
[00:21:12] analysis there. Chair of the Saint
[00:21:15] Saint Lucia National Reparations
[00:21:18] Reparations Committee now heavily heavily armed Australian police officers
[00:21:21] officers have started patrolling patrolling the streets of Sydney
[00:21:23] Sydney in response to last year's year's deadly attack on Bondi Beach.
[00:21:27] Beach. The Armed Response Command
[00:21:29] Command was established after gunmen gunmen killed 15 people during last
[00:21:33] last year's celebrations for the the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah.
[00:21:36] Hanukkah. Well, let's get more with with our Sydney correspondent Katy
[00:21:39] Katy Watson. Katy. Sydney is obviously obviously heading into summer Bondi
[00:21:43] Bondi beach heaving during this time time of year. Authorities clearly
[00:21:47] clearly on edge and on high alert.
[00:21:52] alert. Yeah. So this armed Response
[00:21:55] Response command is an elite police police unit that was set up, as you
[00:21:58] you said, in the wake of what happened happened in Bondi, which is coming
[00:22:01] coming up to nearly a year ago. Now,
[00:22:05] Now, when the attack happened, the the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese,
[00:22:08] Albanese, came under a lot of pressure. pressure. Authorities were accused
[00:22:12] accused of not having done enough
[00:22:14] enough to prevent such an attack.
[00:22:17] attack. And after the attack there
[00:22:19] there was a crackdown on gun laws
[00:22:21] laws and as well as on, on political
[00:22:24] political protest. And so this elite
[00:22:27] elite unit also comes about as a
[00:22:30] a result of what we saw last year.
[00:22:32] year. So there will be eventually eventually about 250 officers. They've
[00:22:36] They've been given special training. training. They will be armed with
[00:22:38] with rifles. They've been given special special driving training. So they'll
[00:22:42] they'll have specialist vehicles vehicles as well. And the idea is
[00:22:45] is that they will patrol big tourist tourist hotspots of course like Bondi.
[00:22:49] Bondi. But you know all around Sydney
[00:22:52] Sydney those kind of famous places places that tourists will visit as
[00:22:56] as well as sporting events, major major events and places of worship.
[00:23:00] worship. So there'll be pretty visible. visible. And I think that's what's what's going to be quite surprising
[00:23:04] surprising for many Australians and and not used to that. Of course,
[00:23:07] course, tourists aren't either. This This is a country that is seen as,
[00:23:10] as, you know, incredibly safe. And
[00:23:13] And there has been some criticism
[00:23:14] criticism that this is a kind of of militarisation of police, a kind
[00:23:18] kind of US style police presence. presence. Some people concerned about
[00:23:22] about that, but it's also been welcomed welcomed by many to especially Jewish
[00:23:26] Jewish communities who, you know, know, feel that much more could have have been done to protect. And that's
[00:23:30] that's the idea that it's to prevent prevent and deter and to rapidly
[00:23:34] rapidly respond to any threats, including including kind of armed threats,
[00:23:38] threats, and to give communities communities people much more kind
[00:23:40] kind of reassurance that the police
[00:23:42] police can deploy quickly and effectively effectively if any major attack was
[00:23:46] was to happen again. Katy Watson Watson really appreciate you getting
[00:23:50] getting us across those details from from Sydney. Well, let's take a look
[00:23:53] look at some other stories in the
[00:23:55] the headlines. In Bulgaria, the Kremlin Kremlin presidential candidate Iliana
[00:23:59] Iliana Iotova has won the country's
[00:24:01] country's run-off election. The Bulgarian
[00:24:03] Bulgarian presidency is largely ceremonial. ceremonial. Miss Latvia, who favours
[00:24:07] favours dialogue with Russia and and opposes military aid to Ukraine,
[00:24:11] Ukraine, will become Bulgaria's first
[00:24:13] first elected female head of state.
[00:24:15] state. A private plane has crashed crashed in a residential area in
[00:24:19] in Florida, killing all nine people
[00:24:21] people on board the aircraft. A ledge
[00:24:23] ledge at 60 was on its way to the
[00:24:26] the Bahamas after taking off from from Texas when it nosedived in Palm
[00:24:29] Palm Beach County, bursting into into flames as it hit the ground.
[00:24:33] ground. The cause of the crash is
[00:24:36] is unclear. Opposition parties in
[00:24:38] in India have renewed calls for the the resignation of the country's
[00:24:42] country's election chief over an an overhaul of voter lists. They
[00:24:46] They say unfairly benefits the governing governing party. They held a massive
[00:24:50] massive rally in Delhi, joined by
[00:24:52] by tens of thousands of people from
[00:24:54] from across the country to press press their demand. Seen as the latest
[00:24:58] latest display of public dissent dissent against Prime Minister Narendra
[00:25:02] Narendra Modi's government. 130 million
[00:25:05] million names have been removed from from the draft rolls. The Election
[00:25:09] Election Commission has denied favouring
[00:25:12] favouring any party. Now Kimi Antonelli,
[00:25:15] Antonelli, who comes from a racing
[00:25:18] racing family, has apologies for
[00:25:20] for this. Anthony comes from a racing
[00:25:23] racing family and has been made the the Italian driver. Apologies for
[00:25:27] for this Italian driver. Kimi Antonelli
[00:25:29] Antonelli is becoming Formula One's One's youngest ever champion at the
[00:25:33] the Grand Prix in Mexico City. It
[00:25:35] It makes the Mercedes driver the the first Italian to win the Grand
[00:25:39] Grand Prix for two decades. Antonelli
[00:25:42] Antonelli comes from a racing family
[00:25:44] family and at 20 years and 68 days
[00:25:47] days old, finished the race in a
[00:25:49] a third behind Red Bull's Max Verstappen
[00:25:52] Verstappen and Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton.
[00:25:54] Hamilton. That's it for this edition edition of Newsday. Do stay with
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