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[00:00:10] Live from London. This is BBC
[00:00:13] News. Millions prepare to vote on on the eve of Americas crucial midterm
[00:00:17] midterm elections. Can Donald Trump
[00:00:19] Trump and the Republicans keep control
[00:00:22] control of the US Congress? We want want them out. We want them out.
[00:00:24] out. And I am excited that if we we can flip Kansas, we give hope
[00:00:27] hope to the rest of the country. country. He says what he's going
[00:00:30] going to do it just I have a lot
[00:00:32] lot of faith in the man. We'll speak
[00:00:35] speak live to our correspondents correspondents Tom Bateman and Samira
[00:00:37] Samira Hussain in some of the key key battleground states. Our other
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[00:01:29] welcome to BBC News. We start in in the US on the eve of the crucial
[00:01:33] crucial midterm elections. There There is a huge amount at stake.
[00:01:36] stake. Millions are preparing to to vote and these elections will
[00:01:39] will decide who controls Congress, Congress, the House and the Senate.
[00:01:42] Senate. Well, these are live pictures pictures from Washington and Capitol
[00:01:45] Capitol Hill. Democrats are hoping hoping to take control of the House
[00:01:49] House of Representatives. They also also have in their sights flipping
[00:01:52] flipping the Senate. That has big big implications when it comes to
[00:01:55] to what Donald Trump would be able able to do in his last two years
[00:01:59] years domestically and on foreign foreign policy. Well, we have correspondents
[00:02:02] correspondents in most of the key
[00:02:04] key battleground states Ohio, Iowa,
[00:02:07] Iowa, Kansas, Texas and Alaska. Remarkably, Remarkably, traditional Republican
[00:02:11] Republican states like Texas are are in play for Democrats. Kansas,
[00:02:15] Kansas, which could also switch, switch, hasn't sent a Democrat to
[00:02:17] to the Senate since 1932. National
[00:02:20] National polling for Donald Trump Trump has been terrible. The war
[00:02:23] war with Iran, the cost of living living corruption all making this
[00:02:25] this a tough, tough set of elections elections for Republican candidates.
[00:02:29] candidates. So let's start this hour hour with the latest from our correspondents
[00:02:33] correspondents on the ground. Tom Tom Bateman is in Ohio. Samira Hussain
[00:02:36] Hussain is in Iowa for us. Tom, I
[00:02:39] I will start with you. Just set the
[00:02:41] the scene for us. Well, welcome,
[00:02:45] welcome, Matthew, to what has become become an unexpected battleground
[00:02:49] battleground state here in Ohio. Ohio. The Democrats haven't won for
[00:02:52] for the Senate here in eight years. years. Now this is a conservative
[00:02:56] conservative state with two Republican Republican Senate seats and the governor's
[00:03:00] governor's mansion all held by the the Republican Party. But the Democrats
[00:03:03] Democrats are increasingly hopeful hopeful that they can break that
[00:03:06] that monopoly, particularly when when it comes to that Senate seat.
[00:03:08] seat. And a New York Times Siena
[00:03:11] Siena poll out today suggesting that that the Democratic candidate is
[00:03:14] is now six points ahead of his Republican
[00:03:17] Republican rival. Absolutely crucial crucial here will be the issue of
[00:03:21] of turnout. It's something we've we've been sensing as we've been
[00:03:24] been talking to voters in the last
[00:03:27] last few days, that there is a sense
[00:03:29] sense of Democrats feeling energised, energised, that they're getting their
[00:03:32] their base out. While some Republicans Republicans particularly moderate
[00:03:35] moderate Republicans, more likely likely to stay at home, at least
[00:03:38] least some of the opinion polling
[00:03:40] polling is concerned. Now this state, state, like a lot of traditional
[00:03:43] traditional Midwestern states in in the rural areas, very heavily
[00:03:46] heavily Republican voting here in in the cities like Columbus tend
[00:03:50] tend to lean much more heavily towards towards the Democrats. We were out
[00:03:53] out yesterday at the end of early early voting, early in-person voting
[00:03:57] voting as people flocked to an election election board near here to cast
[00:04:01] cast their early votes. Now, this
[00:04:03] this is that particular area is heavily heavily democratic, and we chatted
[00:04:06] chatted to some of those voters in
[00:04:08] in the line. People are dying. People
[00:04:12] People are starving. They're starving. starving. You don't know whether
[00:04:15] whether to buy gas or get a piece
[00:04:17] piece of baloney, a slice of bread.
[00:04:20] bread. I've just been waiting maybe maybe like a little over an hour.
[00:04:24] hour. Why was it important for you you to come and vote today? Change,
[00:04:27] Change, change. I'm so sick of what's what's going on right now. It's insane.
[00:04:31] insane. Prices have not gone down.
[00:04:33] down. Wars have not stopped. They've
[00:04:37] They've continued and we just have have to we have to work on taking
[00:04:41] taking first steps to get back to
[00:04:44] to what we you know, we just need
[00:04:46] need to change. This is not the right
[00:04:49] right direction. Now the race for
[00:04:52] for the Senate here between the Republican
[00:04:56] Republican incumbent, Jon Husted Husted and his Democratic rival Sherrod
[00:04:58] Sherrod Brown, there is also a race race for the governor's mansion between
[00:05:02] between a once presidential hopeful hopeful Republican Vivek Ramaswamy
[00:05:05] Ramaswamy and Amy Acton, the Democrat Democrat that has been mired in controversy
[00:05:09] controversy with the very, very acrimonious acrimonious row over an attack ad
[00:05:13] ad featuring the mother of the Democratic Democratic candidate calling her
[00:05:16] her own daughter a liar. It is a
[00:05:18] a sense of just how bitterly contested
[00:05:21] contested this state is, as the Democrats Democrats hope and think that they
[00:05:25] they can flip Congress towards them.
[00:05:27] them. Tom, thanks very much. Let's Let's go to Samara and Samara. You
[00:05:31] You two have been talking to voters.
[00:05:32] voters. Just give me an idea of what
[00:05:35] what is driving them in this set set of elections. Donald Trump says,
[00:05:38] says, imagine it's me on the ballot ballot paper. But what are voters
[00:05:41] voters saying to you? Well, for voters,
[00:05:46] voters, a lot of the issues really really centre around the cost of
[00:05:50] of living, and nowhere is that more
[00:05:52] more apparent than here on the farms farms of the state in the state of
[00:05:56] of Iowa. Now, remember that high
[00:05:59] high cost of diesel has a massive
[00:06:01] massive impact on farm workers because
[00:06:03] because it is diesel that operates
[00:06:06] operates this heavy machinery and
[00:06:08] and farmers have by and large been
[00:06:10] been in support of the Republican Republican Party. And President Trump.
[00:06:14] Trump. President Trump in fact, took
[00:06:15] took the state of Iowa by more than
[00:06:18] than 13 percentage points in 2024.
[00:06:21] 2024. But now that is in jeopardy.
[00:06:23] jeopardy. As people look around and
[00:06:25] and see how much more expensive everything everything has become and feel that
[00:06:29] that there is a lot of that responsibility
[00:06:32] responsibility is being placed on
[00:06:33] on President Trump. You know, this
[00:06:37] this is another state in which Democrats
[00:06:39] Democrats feel that they could possibly
[00:06:41] possibly flip the Senate. You have
[00:06:43] have the Republican candidate, Ashley
[00:06:46] Ashley Hinson, who is campaigning campaigning against the Democrat
[00:06:49] Democrat Josh Turek, and that actually actually polls have the race quite
[00:06:53] quite close and within the margin
[00:06:54] margin of error. And that's probably
[00:06:57] probably why President Trump actually
[00:06:59] actually came here to Iowa, Dubuque, Dubuque, which is about 20 minutes
[00:07:03] minutes away from here to campaign
[00:07:05] campaign to really rally his base.
[00:07:08] base. And so the message very much
[00:07:10] much was demonising the Democrats, Democrats, making it clear that a
[00:07:13] a vote for the Democrats would be
[00:07:16] be destructive to the way of life
[00:07:17] life here in Iowa and that you must
[00:07:21] must re-elect Republicans. Now, hopefully
[00:07:23] hopefully in for the President. That's That's going to be enough to reenergize
[00:07:27] reenergize his base that some of
[00:07:29] of whom are really quite angry about about just how expensive everything
[00:07:33] everything has become. Just a brief brief follow up point because at
[00:07:36] at different points in the campaign campaign trail at these rallies.
[00:07:40] rallies. The President has sometimes sometimes rambled, gone off point,
[00:07:43] point, not really acknowledged some some of exactly what you were talking talking about, the cost of living
[00:07:46] living issues. Is he seen when you you talk to voters? Is he seen as
[00:07:50] as an asset in these elections or
[00:07:52] or a liability? I think that is a
[00:07:56] a very, very good question because because you'll remember that this
[00:08:00] this rally in Iowa, you know, it it was announced weeks ago and then
[00:08:03] then it was abruptly cancelled. And And then within 24 hours it was back
[00:08:07] back up again. And I think there there is a sense about whether or
[00:08:11] or not the President is actually
[00:08:13] actually a liability or if he is
[00:08:16] is an asset, as he's been in past
[00:08:19] past elections for the people that that went and attended that rally,
[00:08:21] rally, I went and spoke with a lot
[00:08:23] lot of them, and they wanted to be
[00:08:26] be there. This was very much him him speaking to the base, energising
[00:08:29] energising his base and speaking speaking to people that already knew
[00:08:32] knew that they were going to vote
[00:08:34] vote Republican. But outside there
[00:08:37] there were also some Democrats that
[00:08:40] that were protesting there that were
[00:08:42] were jeering and calling out to the the Republicans that had gone in
[00:08:45] in to go and support Donald Trump, Trump, many of whom say really talking
[00:08:49] talking about the cost of living
[00:08:51] living and also the language and
[00:08:55] and the temperament and just the
[00:08:57] the kinds of words that are being
[00:08:59] being exchanged in this election. election. Yes, that the temperature
[00:09:01] temperature needs to be taken down down just a little bit. Samara, thanks
[00:09:05] thanks very much for that. Thanks Thanks to you, Tom. Those are the
[00:09:08] the latest details from two of the the key states throughout these next
[00:09:12] next 2 or 3 hours will be in different different states. So many battlegrounds
[00:09:15] battlegrounds in play for both sides. sides. So we'll reflect more from
[00:09:18] from more states through the next next couple of hours. But let's head
[00:09:21] head to Kansas. I was talking about about Kansas a short while ago in
[00:09:24] in the Midwest, which has long been been a Republican stronghold. The
[00:09:27] The race apparently too close to
[00:09:30] to call. Have a listen to voters.
[00:09:32] voters. There we are one of the reddest
[00:09:34] reddest states in the Union. And
[00:09:37] And like I. I believe if we can flip
[00:09:41] flip Kansas, that will give the rest rest of the nation hope that that
[00:09:45] that these. Even if you don't think think that coming to a protest and
[00:09:48] and holding a sign. Whatever your
[00:09:51] your message is, if you don't think think that's effective, it is effective.
[00:09:55] effective. Making a stink going in in lobbying, advocating it makes
[00:09:58] makes a difference. It opens people's people's eyes, but it also shows
[00:10:01] shows other people that we believe believe the same way and they go go like, I didn't know anybody else
[00:10:05] else felt that way in Kansas. And And the more you realise, the more
[00:10:08] more you look around. You see a lot lot of purple, I see a lot of purple.
[00:10:12] purple. I think people are really really sick of the status quo. They're They're sick of this Maga. They're
[00:10:15] They're sick of $6 a gallon diesel. diesel. Our farmers are hurting.
[00:10:18] hurting. I'm boring me, he says what
[00:10:20] what he's going to do it just I have
[00:10:22] have a lot of faith in the man he
[00:10:24] he is for our country and for our our veterans and for the people.
[00:10:28] people. And that is what we need. need. Someone who loves our country
[00:10:31] country and he loves it more than than anyone. Socialism doesn't work
[00:10:34] work if it's that big part of it,
[00:10:35] it, you know? So because a big part
[00:10:39] part of it too is people need to
[00:10:41] to be personally responsible. And And regardless of the party, that's
[00:10:45] that's important. Otherwise we'll we'll never be able to attain what
[00:10:48] what we won the change. So some voters voters there from Kansas one more
[00:10:51] more significant development to update update you on the extraordinary twist
[00:10:55] twist and split in the Democrats Democrats yesterday in the key Senate
[00:10:59] Senate race in Michigan. Haley Stevens, Stevens, who lost the primary to
[00:11:02] to be the Democratic candidate, ended ended up endorsing the Republican
[00:11:06] Republican Mike Rogers instead of of Abdul El-Sayed from her own party
[00:11:10] party after a bitter spat between between those two, Nada Tawfik is
[00:11:13] is in Michigan for us. A shock here here in the high profile Michigan
[00:11:17] Michigan Senate race is rocking the the Democratic Party. Congresswoman
[00:11:20] Congresswoman Haley Stevens has very very publicly endorsed the Republican
[00:11:24] Republican Mike Rogers over her own own party's nominee, Abdul El-Sayed,
[00:11:27] El-Sayed, who she lost to in the the primary. In recent days. She
[00:11:30] She has gone after him again for for his stance on Israel. In reaction,
[00:11:33] reaction, El-Sayed, who hopes to to become Michigan's first Muslim
[00:11:36] Muslim senator, said he wasn't thinking thinking of Haley Stevens. But the
[00:11:39] the concerns of voters in these final final hours, this last minute stunning
[00:11:43] stunning break with her party has has been swiftly condemned by Democrats
[00:11:46] Democrats here, who almost certainly certainly need to hold the state
[00:11:49] state to have a fighting chance of of retaking the Senate. Many of her
[00:11:52] her own staffers have resigned, including including her chief of staff, who
[00:11:55] who said the election was too important important to sow division and Democratic
[00:11:59] Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said said the party was united against
[00:12:03] against Mike Rogers, who he called called a tool of Donald Trump. But
[00:12:06] But this remarkable public feud points points to the deep divisions among
[00:12:10] among Democrats. Nada Tawfik let's let's take a quick look at Texas.
[00:12:13] Texas. Always a red state. Our chief chief North America correspondent,
[00:12:17] correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue is is there for us. This state is shaping
[00:12:19] shaping up to be one of the most
[00:12:21] most consequential contests in these these elections. I'm in Texas, where
[00:12:25] where the battle for a single Senate Senate seat could end up deciding
[00:12:29] deciding who controls Congress. More More than half $1 billion has been
[00:12:33] been spent on advertising alone, alone, making it the most expensive
[00:12:37] expensive non-presidential race in
[00:12:38] in American history. Democrat James James Talarico and Republican Ken
[00:12:42] Ken Paxton are in a race that's too
[00:12:45] too close to call. Democrats haven't
[00:12:48] haven't won here statewide since
[00:12:50] since 1994. If they manage it this
[00:12:53] this time around, it'll be the big big story of the night. Well. That
[00:12:57] That was Gary O'Donoghue. Now, before before I talk live to Tom Perez,
[00:13:00] Perez, the former chair of the Democratic Democratic National Committee who
[00:13:03] who worked for Barack Obama and Joe Joe Biden organising all of those
[00:13:07] those elections over those years. years. Let me just break down, though.
[00:13:09] though. First, what Americans are are actually voting for tomorrow.
[00:13:12] tomorrow. The Republicans have held held both houses of Congress since
[00:13:15] since Donald Trump retook the White
[00:13:17] White House in 2020. For all the the seats in the House of Representatives
[00:13:21] Representatives on Capitol Hill are
[00:13:22] are up for grabs, along with a little
[00:13:25] little over a third from the Senate. Senate. Both those chambers in Congress
[00:13:29] Congress pass laws applicable across across the country, and they can
[00:13:32] can act as a check on presidential presidential power. So let's talk
[00:13:35] talk live to Tom Perez. Tom, thank thank you so much for being here here with us. Pleasure to be with
[00:13:39] with you on the BBC. Summarise then
[00:13:41] then what is at stake in these elections elections and how optimistic you
[00:13:45] you are? Well, both houses of Congress Congress are at stake. And right
[00:13:49] right now, if you look at the polling,
[00:13:52] polling, President Trump is at historically historically low levels. The last
[00:13:56] last time a president entered a midterm
[00:13:58] midterm election this low in, in
[00:14:01] in popularity, it was Harry Truman
[00:14:03] Truman in 1950. And so the question
[00:14:05] question in the House is not whether whether the Democrats will take it.
[00:14:08] it. It's what the margins will be.
[00:14:10] be. And my best guess is it's going
[00:14:13] going to be somewhere between 20
[00:14:14] 20 and 30 seats that will will flip
[00:14:17] flip in the Senate. What you're reporting
[00:14:20] reporting that you just had is remarkable remarkable because you had Texas,
[00:14:24] Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, you're
[00:14:27] you're not going to the traditional traditional states that you would would go to. And that is because
[00:14:30] because the issues that are animating animating people are very straightforward. straightforward. It's the economy,
[00:14:34] economy, stupid. Yes. And it's so so interesting because that's where where Donald Trump has constantly
[00:14:38] constantly returned to. And those those are ordinarily in his pocket,
[00:14:41] pocket, but they are in play exactly exactly as you're saying. We'll talk talk more about the races in a second.
[00:14:45] second. I just want to you saw in
[00:14:47] in the piece from Michigan the whole whole Haley Stevens endorsement of
[00:14:50] of a I mean, what is going on there?
[00:14:53] there? Well, they obviously did not
[00:14:55] not come together individually after
[00:14:57] after the election. But what's most
[00:15:00] most notable is folks understand
[00:15:02] understand after the primary that
[00:15:05] that it's important to have a Democrat Democrat in that seat. The New York
[00:15:08] York Times had a poll that came out
[00:15:10] out today, actually, or yesterday yesterday showing el-saeed up by
[00:15:14] by 11. The race is going to be closer. closer. It is. And so the impact
[00:15:18] impact of that of her standing there there alongside the Republican candidate,
[00:15:21] candidate, how damaging is that in in a close race? Well, we'll find
[00:15:25] find out tomorrow. Again, an issue
[00:15:28] issue that we haven't talked about
[00:15:29] about in Michigan and in Maine is
[00:15:32] is Canada. The integration in Michigan,
[00:15:36] Michigan, Maine and across the United
[00:15:38] United States, Canada is our friend.
[00:15:40] friend. And what's happened is Canadians Canadians are not coming into the
[00:15:43] the United States to spend money. money. That is a big problem. Our
[00:15:46] Our supply chains are so integrated
[00:15:49] integrated and the attacks on Canada
[00:15:51] Canada by this president are having having a real impact in those border
[00:15:55] border states like Maine and Michigan.
[00:15:57] Michigan. So the Michigan election election will, like many of these
[00:16:00] these states, be a close election. election. But I think that El-saeed
[00:16:04] El-saeed will will win by a single single digit margin, not the double
[00:16:08] double digit margin. And talk me me through then those other races,
[00:16:11] races, the territory we were talking talking about, the Texass, the Kansas's,
[00:16:15] Kansas's, the Alaska. What you think think might happen because they're
[00:16:19] they're all tight races. They could could go the other way. They could could stay Republican. Well, they're
[00:16:22] they're all tight races. But what's
[00:16:24] what's happened in the country right
[00:16:26] right now is that, again, affordability
[00:16:29] affordability in Iowa, you talk to to soybean farmers and they've taken
[00:16:32] taken a huge hit because of tariffs.
[00:16:34] tariffs. A tariff is a tax and they've
[00:16:37] they've been just really undermined
[00:16:40] undermined by that. You look at Texas
[00:16:42] Texas and Ken Paxton was impeached
[00:16:45] impeached by his own Republican House House of Representatives. And so
[00:16:49] so candidate quality does matter. matter. Adam Hamilton in Kansas,
[00:16:52] Kansas, the pastor of the largest largest church in Kansas, talks about
[00:16:56] about the return to common decency
[00:16:58] decency and the one of the big issues issues coming up for all voters,
[00:17:02] voters, Republicans and Democrats Democrats alike is corruption. Just
[00:17:06] Just a couple of sentences because because we're short of time and I've
[00:17:08] I've got a lot still to ask you in in terms of the polling in this country.
[00:17:12] country. We used to have a phrase phrase of shy Tories, people who who were reluctant to come forward
[00:17:16] forward and say we would vote conservative. conservative. But then they did.
[00:17:18] did. The same is true in the States,
[00:17:21] States, isn't it? Around 2024 Maga Maga because they got it wrong. They're
[00:17:25] They're polling. Well, polling is
[00:17:28] is never perfect. And so the only
[00:17:30] only polling that counts is tomorrow. tomorrow. What I've seen in Texas
[00:17:34] Texas and I've been out there and
[00:17:35] and I've gotten to know James Talarico Talarico there's a lot of folks coming
[00:17:39] coming up to him and it's a variant variant on what you said. And they
[00:17:42] they say, I don't want your I don't don't want your lawn sign. I don't
[00:17:45] don't want your bumper sticker. I'm I'm voting for you. So the other
[00:17:48] other way round. These are loyal
[00:17:52] loyal Republicans who cannot countenance countenance Ken Paxton. So two, two
[00:17:54] two final questions because post
[00:17:57] post these elections, how worried worried are you about any sort of
[00:18:00] of election interference? We've already already seen numerous court challenges.
[00:18:03] challenges. We expect more or delayed delayed results or Republicans claiming
[00:18:06] claiming victory even for the count count is is actually how worried
[00:18:09] worried are you about that potentially? potentially? Well, there's a very,
[00:18:13] very, very robust election protection protection apparatus. I used to enforce
[00:18:16] enforce these laws in the Civil Rights Rights division of the Justice Department.
[00:18:20] Department. Our elections are remarkably
[00:18:21] remarkably fair. Remarkably clean,
[00:18:24] clean, and I hope that the Trump
[00:18:27] Trump administration and his supporters supporters will acknowledge that
[00:18:30] that accept that after this election. election. You hope a final minute
[00:18:34] minute thought, because I've read read a lot over the weekend about
[00:18:36] about the White House preparing for
[00:18:39] for perhaps losing both houses but but preparing to actually govern
[00:18:42] govern and ignoring Congress through through a sort of slew of executive
[00:18:46] executive orders. Now, the Democrats Democrats and Congress have been
[00:18:49] been rather impotent over the last last two years. They haven't been
[00:18:51] been able to rein in the President. President. There is the potential
[00:18:54] potential that that continues if if that case plays out. Well, when
[00:18:58] when you control the House and the the Senate, you have the power of
[00:19:01] of the gavel. You have subpoena power.
[00:19:03] power. You have the ability to hold hold others accountable. And that's
[00:19:07] that's what you will see. The American.
[00:19:08] American. People will see that. Corruption.
[00:19:12] Corruption. A Fox News poll showed
[00:19:13] showed that corruption was ahead
[00:19:16] ahead of costs. It was the top of of the order. But you can't if there
[00:19:20] there are executive order after executive executive order, whether it's wars,
[00:19:23] wars, whether it's tariffs, Congress Congress can't stop that. I sure
[00:19:26] sure hope that President Trump comes comes together. You know, he wrote
[00:19:29] wrote the book the Art of the deal.
[00:19:31] deal. The American people want folks folks to work in a bipartisan fashion.
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[00:20:59] Carter for Texture Japan from east
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[00:21:07] Welcome back. Now cyber attacks appear appear to have hit both Ukraine and
[00:21:10] and Russian apps designed to tell tell people about imminent danger
[00:21:13] danger with fake warnings of nuclear, nuclear, chemical and other attacks
[00:21:16] attacks being issued to the public public in both countries. Moscow
[00:21:19] Moscow said it doesn't know who was was behind those attacks. Ukraine
[00:21:23] Ukraine said Russia was likely to
[00:21:25] to blame Joe Inwood has this report.
[00:21:28] report. There are parts of Ukraine Ukraine where this is still the reality
[00:21:32] reality of war in the 21st century.
[00:21:34] century. They call this her son's son's kill zone, an area along the
[00:21:38] the front lines inaccessible for for most of the war. Until last week,
[00:21:42] week, a brief humanitarian ceasefire
[00:21:44] ceasefire that allowed rescue teams teams to get to people who had been
[00:21:48] been entirely cut off like Natalia.
[00:21:52] Natalia. You can see my house has has been damaged by drones, she says.
[00:21:56] says. The 53-year-old is one of a a handful of people who stayed in
[00:21:59] in the village of Coxsackie. Her Her life has been reduced to basic
[00:22:03] basic survival drinking rainwater, rainwater, gathering firewood and
[00:22:06] and staying alive. They've dropped
[00:22:11] dropped mines everywhere. You can't can't get through. I gather firewood
[00:22:14] firewood for my stove. I don't hide hide if a drone hovers over me for
[00:22:18] for too long. I come out holding
[00:22:20] holding a white cloth. The ceasefire
[00:22:25] ceasefire has given her some respite,
[00:22:27] respite, but she knows it is only
[00:22:30] only temporary. We need silence.
[00:22:36] silence. We need to talk and negotiate. negotiate. Because war in the 21st
[00:22:39] 21st century is nonsense. And modern modern war is presenting a whole
[00:22:43] whole new set of challenges for those those fighting it. Warnings of attacks
[00:22:46] attacks like this are usually sent sent to an app that many Ukrainians
[00:22:49] Ukrainians use. But last night it
[00:22:51] it appears to have been hacked, sending
[00:22:54] sending dire warnings of fighting fighting in the streets of an impending
[00:22:57] impending chemical weapons attack, attack, even of a nuclear strike.
[00:23:01] strike. None of it was real. And
[00:23:03] And on the streets of Kyiv, people
[00:23:05] people seem to have taken it in their
[00:23:09] their stride. On the one hand, you
[00:23:11] you can laugh about it, but on the
[00:23:14] the other they were able to hack hack the programme, but it did not
[00:23:17] not trigger the kind of reaction reaction in society that they expected.
[00:23:20] expected. Speaking at a meeting in in Brussels, the UK's Defence Secretary
[00:23:23] Secretary warned the hack was part part of a wider threat. We don't
[00:23:27] don't yet know who. Is behind this
[00:23:30] this particular cyber attack in Ukraine. Ukraine. We'll follow those developments
[00:23:34] developments closely. But what we're we're in no doubt about is that right
[00:23:36] right across Europe we have seen,
[00:23:39] seen, you know, these hybrid or state
[00:23:41] state sponsored terrorist attacks attacks driven by Moscow. But it's
[00:23:45] it's also reported that a similar similar message was sent to Russians,
[00:23:48] Russians, which apparently read risk risk things could get lively. Don't
[00:23:52] Don't worry. Nuclear warheads have have been launched at all regions
[00:23:55] regions of Russia. It's not yet confirmed
[00:23:57] confirmed who was behind either message message back with the rescue teams
[00:24:01] teams in Kherson and what was the the most successful ceasefire of
[00:24:04] of the war has now come to an end.
[00:24:06] end. The realities of conflict in
[00:24:09] in the 21st century once again upon
[00:24:11] upon those who live through it, Joe
[00:24:15] Joe Inwood, BBC News. Now supermarkets supermarkets across seven European
[00:24:19] European countries have reported reported problems with their refrigeration refrigeration systems because of
[00:24:22] of a suspected cyber attack. These
[00:24:24] These pictures are from the Belgian Belgian supermarket chain Delhaize.
[00:24:28] Delhaize. The refrigeration systems systems at more than 40 of their
[00:24:32] their supermarkets were disrupted disrupted by what the company called
[00:24:35] called an IT incident. The fridge fridge temperatures increased overnight,
[00:24:38] overnight, spoiling the food inside. inside. Local media says that millions
[00:24:41] millions of euros of food in Luxembourg Luxembourg has been thrown away.
[00:24:44] away. Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Netherlands, Estonia and Finland
[00:24:48] Finland were also affected. Well, Well, our senior technology reporter
[00:24:51] reporter Shiona McCallum told us us more about the scale of this attack.
[00:24:54] attack. Well, we now know that six six countries have been affected
[00:24:58] affected by this hack. You've got got Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden,
[00:25:01] Sweden, Ireland, Estonia and Finland. Finland. Supermarkets. They're saying
[00:25:05] saying that it's mainly their fridge fridge freezers that have been affected.
[00:25:08] affected. And that has caused a lot
[00:25:10] lot of the units to defrost and leaving
[00:25:13] leaving a lot of food spoilt. So
[00:25:14] So workers arriving at work coming
[00:25:18] coming into a lot of chaos. This This morning we've heard in Belgium
[00:25:21] Belgium that's the worst affected affected around 40 Delhaize stores
[00:25:25] stores 15 Carrefour stores in Ireland,
[00:25:28] Ireland, 13 SuperValu stores and and reports now coming in from Finland
[00:25:31] Finland as well. This follows last
[00:25:34] last month when in France we saw
[00:25:36] saw over 700 stores affected in the the same way. We don't know who's
[00:25:39] who's behind it, but what we are are seeing is similarities of what
[00:25:43] what happened in France. And there
[00:25:45] there we saw that because a lot of
[00:25:48] of these fridge freezers are now now connected to the internet, there
[00:25:51] there are vulnerabilities that hackers hackers can exploit. A lot of those
[00:25:55] those were made by the Danish company
[00:25:57] company Danfoss. And today we see
[00:26:00] see those same manufacturers being being involved. So hackers can get
[00:26:04] get into those vulnerabilities and and they can start tampering with
[00:26:07] with the system. And of course, changing changing the temperature causes all
[00:26:11] all sorts of problems. Shiona McCallum McCallum we'll keep an eye on that
[00:26:14] that story. It is clearly developing. developing. Before we take a break, break, let me show you the latest
[00:26:18] latest pictures that have come in in to the BBC just in the last few
[00:26:21] few minutes from Antigua. As the
[00:26:23] the King continues his final leg leg of his Caribbean tour. He addresses,
[00:26:27] addresses, of course, Commonwealth Commonwealth leaders tomorrow. So
[00:26:30] So much focus on the lasting pain
[00:26:33] pain of the transatlantic slave trade
[00:26:35] trade and comments he is likely to to make tomorrow. He's already spoken
[00:26:39] spoken about that on the tour, but but Buckingham Palace already putting
[00:26:42] putting out a couple of lines in in the last few minutes saying as as head of the Commonwealth, His
[00:26:45] His Majesty's contribution is best best understood as one of inspiring
[00:26:48] inspiring and convening rather than than policy making, hemp helping, helping, bringing people together
[00:26:52] together from both the public and
[00:26:54] and private sectors across the whole
[00:26:58] whole family of 56 nations. So those those are the latest comments from
[00:27:00] from Buckingham Palace. The latest latest pictures from the tour. More
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