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[00:00:00] There when the story breaks. BBC
[00:00:04] of news. Welcome back to BBC News. Let's get more on the
[00:00:08] US mid-term elections, which is a day away. Let me show you the live
[00:00:12] pictures. First of all, from Washington, Capital Hill. Tomorrow, millions of
[00:00:16] voters across the country will determine the balance of power in
[00:00:20] Congress. Well, Roz Atkins
[00:00:21] in explains just why these midterm elections are so
[00:00:24] important. Let's remind ourselves of what's at stake. The
[00:00:28] midterms are all about who controls. the two houses of congress, the house of
[00:00:31] representatives and the Senate. This matters because it's the part
[00:00:35] of the US government that
[00:00:36] of makes laws for the country as a whole on everything from
[00:00:40] of immigration to taxes to defense. And right now, both houses
[00:00:44] are controlled by the Republicans, as you can see, which is very helpful to
[00:00:47] President Trump. Now, the House of Representatives is where proposed laws are
[00:00:51] introduced and debated. Each state gets number of seats
[00:00:55] proportionate to its population. Members serve two-year terms,
[00:00:58] which means that all
[00:01:00] of the seats in the house are up for grabs in this election, there are
[00:01:03] 435
[00:01:05] of them, so to control the house, a party needs at least
[00:01:08] 218, and according to the polls, the Republicans may have
[00:01:12] their work cut out holding to the House of Representatives. Then
[00:01:16] there's the Senate, one of its main jobs is to approve or
[00:01:19] reject those laws proposed by the House. Each state has
[00:01:23] two senators, so there are 100 in total. They serve
[00:01:27] six-year terms every two years, roughly. a third of senate seats
[00:01:31] are contested, so it's 35 this year, to control the senate
[00:01:35] a party needs 51 or more, though if
[00:01:39] it's 50/50, the vice president can cast the deciding vote,
[00:01:42] so that favors the Republicans at the moment, so there is lot
[00:01:46] at stake, and who controls Congress is not just relevant to
[00:01:50] the laws that get made for America as a whole, of course it's also relevant to
[00:01:54] whoever is president, as a Donald Trump goes into the last two years of his
[00:01:58] presidency, well... "when voters are making their choices in this election, of
[00:02:02] course they're telling us something about what they think
[00:02:04] of the two main parties, but they're also telling us something about what they
[00:02:08] think
[00:02:09] of their president. well, that was Roz Atkins, that's the backdrop,
[00:02:13] but when can we expect the results to actually come in?
[00:02:16] of Katrina Perry has been looking at that. when will we know the outcome
[00:02:20] of the U.S. mid-term elections? well, there's no easy answer to that. we won't get
[00:02:24] any results until the polls start closing, beginning at 6 p.m.
[00:02:27] eastern, 11 pm in the UK. even then it may take some
[00:02:31] time. the results in areas where one party is dominant could come in
[00:02:35] quite quickly and that may
[00:02:36] of give us a sense of any swing
[00:02:38] of against
[00:02:38] in President Trump's Republican Party. but unlike a presidential election, this time
[00:02:42] it's about which party will be in control
[00:02:44] of the house of representatives and the senate, so we're not waiting on the outcome
[00:02:48] of a single person, but rather the whole team, and only then will we
[00:02:52] know who's in control of Congress. now for races that are close, it could take days
[00:02:56] or even weeks to count the votes, but it's completely normal. the... fast
[00:03:00] polls don't close until it's evening time in Alaska which is 1
[00:03:04] am here on the east coast Wednesday morning 6 am in the
[00:03:07] UK
[00:03:08] of and indeed this year that could be one
[00:03:10] of the seats we're waiting on that will decide the balance of power in the
[00:03:14] Senate. Katrina Perry, you can watch a special program here on
[00:03:18] BBC News bring you all the results
[00:03:20] of these mid-terms as they actually happen. It's live from Washington with Clive
[00:03:24] May with Sumi, Soma Skander and Katrina Perry. It's tomorrow
[00:03:28] and it starts at 11. 30
[00:03:30] p.m. now history was
[00:03:34] made in Mexico last night as the Italian driver Kimmy Antonelli
[00:03:38] became Formula One's youngest ever world champion. The
[00:03:41] 20-year-old
[00:03:42] in has won nine races this season and a third place in yesterday's
[00:03:46] in Mexico City Grand Prix was enough to scure him that title. Well, Formula
[00:03:50] 1 has released this video of Antonelli talking about his
[00:03:53] victory. It's incredible. It's a dream that I've had since
[00:03:57] I was since I was kid and to finally achieve. is uh is
[00:04:01] really special and this uh this has to be new starting
[00:04:05] point as well for me you know is uh this is has to be just the beginning
[00:04:09] and i feel like is is new starting point for
[00:04:12] you know from where i can build again and come back even
[00:04:15] stronger i already started to get emotional in the in the
[00:04:19] last lap and uh yeah just lot of
[00:04:22] memories uh going through the mine and uh
[00:04:26] you know when i finally crossed the finish line i just let it all loud because
[00:04:30] "you know it's been an incredible year um
[00:04:35] of and you know so much work, so much effort and
[00:04:38] of to to achieve this goal and finally achieving it has been a
[00:04:42] big relief as well and uh of course
[00:04:45] also you know i felt incredible
[00:04:48] and uh that's why i felt like letting it all loud
[00:04:52] of because
[00:04:52] of it was the moment to do so and uh definitely will is memory
[00:04:56] that we live forever well christian hug a presenter and host
[00:04:59] of of the podcast" the fast and the curious and f1 explains shared his
[00:05:03] thoughts on Antonelli's achievements and he's not long turn 20 years
[00:05:06] of age for most of his championship winning year, he was teenager, he was 19 and
[00:05:10] you think back to
[00:05:11] of the of previous..." "youngest ever formula one world champion Sebastian
[00:05:15] Vettle, when he won his first title, he was 23, so
[00:05:19] he's not just beating this record, he's absolutely smashed it, and the
[00:05:23] significance is enormous, because this is a driver
[00:05:27] who few years ago, more casual Formula One fans wouldn't even heard
[00:05:31] of, let alone think he'd be winning the championship a few years
[00:05:34] time, his his task was enormous, replacing the
[00:05:38] great Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes when he shot the world to go to Ferrari."
[00:05:42] "last year was his first year and everybody was thinking, how is
[00:05:46] this comparative child going to do in this huge
[00:05:50] team and and actually at various points the season it looked like he was struggling with that
[00:05:54] pressure, but in my time covering the sport and even my time watching the
[00:05:58] sport as a fan, i've never seen anybody make such a
[00:06:01] big jump in performance from one season to the next, because last year
[00:06:05] it looked like he was struggling at times, whereas this year he
[00:06:09] has just been phenomenal and has dismantled his opposition." so it's it's
[00:06:13] a truly historic Formula One World Championship victory, it
[00:06:16] really is, well a really incredible
[00:06:20] achievement. I'm back with the latest on all our main stories here in
[00:06:23] 10 minutes time. Say with
[00:06:25] us!
[00:06:54] I'm heading to CCOM, which launched Africa's first private
[00:06:58] subsea fiber optic cable in
[00:06:59] 2009,
[00:07:03] headquartered in Mauritius with hubs across southern in eastern
[00:07:07] Africa, it connects millions to the web.
[00:07:11] Now CCOM is planning. a $2 billion dollar cable connecting
[00:07:14] Africa to not just Europe but
[00:07:16] Asia.
[00:07:20] What is the opportunity you're seeing in Africa's digital economy that gives
[00:07:24] you the confidence to make such a large investment? So if you just take
[00:07:28] map the subsea connectivity throughout the world, what you
[00:07:32] will find is between sort of Europe and North America lots of
[00:07:36] connectivity, but if you just blow that map up and look at the Indian Ocean
[00:07:39] bason, you'll find it's fairly devoid of connectivity. and very
[00:07:43] little sub-sea uh cables in that area, so the
[00:07:47] opportunity here is to really connect Africa to the rest the world
[00:07:51] a meaningful way, with high speed connectivity,
[00:07:55] and it's a really ambitious project, but I think vitally needed for the
[00:07:58] African continent. While
[00:08:02] hyperscalers like Google and Meta build cables to push content
[00:08:05] into Africa, Secom operates an open network
[00:08:09] designed to connect African businesses out to... global
[00:08:12] opportunities, do you find that to be key
[00:08:16] component for success being able to own and
[00:08:19] control more the value chain? why is it important to have that
[00:08:23] autonomy? what hyperscales are doing today is exactly that,
[00:08:26] they've realized that outsourcing all of this doesn't allow them to control their own
[00:08:30] destiny. the reason they're rolling out these cable infrastructures is so they can drive
[00:08:34] down the cost for their connectivity, which is exactly the same model we've been
[00:08:37] using since 2009 or before that. and how does
[00:08:41] AI affect? what you're able to
[00:08:44] provide and what you need to provide in terms of how the demand is
[00:08:48] going to grow or change? what you are going to find is that
[00:08:52] AI will drive high speed connectivity a very
[00:08:55] elastic way, so not what we typically have a
[00:08:59] home today, but now you're looking at tens or hundreds of gigabits of
[00:09:02] capacity. if you look at the cables that exist today, that
[00:09:05] technology won't run on those older cables, so we building newer cable with
[00:09:09] newer technology that allows us to have. of high speed
[00:09:13] connectivity.
[00:09:17] To compete globally, African businesses need massive AI
[00:09:21] bandwidth, but transferring that data brings
[00:09:24] risks. How are you thinking about the
[00:09:27] cyber security threats? That for
[00:09:31] us is an ongoing sort of consideration. What we starting to look
[00:09:35] at now, and this is a proper tongue twister, post quantum
[00:09:39] cryptography, so we're using quantum physics or we start to... use quantum
[00:09:43] physics to encrypt data, cyber criminals will continue to be
[00:09:46] there and all these threat actors will continue to be there, it's about being one step ahead
[00:09:50] them. looking to the future, you've got this
[00:09:54] big project that should come online in
[00:09:57] 2030, what do you hope that project will
[00:10:01] achieve? i think it will go part
[00:10:04] the way to unleash the African continent. for many many years i
[00:10:08] said connectivity should be considered as an essential
[00:10:11] service. to electricity and water, if you start to look
[00:10:15] at it like that, you will then start to understand that this has become the
[00:10:19] lifeline for many things people can't do, having pieces of
[00:10:23] connectivity all over the continent, a growing population that's starting to use
[00:10:27] technology and adopting technology much faster than most the world,
[00:10:31] that's where the opportunity start to come on board and that's what it comes down
[00:10:34] to
[00:10:54] hello there. Let's take a look at North America to begin with, and there's plenty to
[00:10:58] talk about here as we see a frontal system moving its way out the
[00:11:01] rockies, it's going to bring some pretty heavy rain, possibility of
[00:11:05] some damaging gusts of wind, some tornadic activity as well, now it'll
[00:11:09] split into two with some of it moving up into eastern Canada, this trailing
[00:11:13] front bringing heavy rain into Texas, Louisiana as
[00:11:17] well, behind it a little quieter, a quite a story for Mexico
[00:11:21] in comparison to of late, we have seen some pretty heavy showers across the carib.
[00:11:25] and they will continue so lightly few and further between across
[00:11:28] Haiti and the Dominican Republic, some heavy rain to come across parts
[00:11:32] of Costa Rica and Nicaragua and also some heavier rain across
[00:11:36] parts of Colombia and into Peru, also pretty wet across
[00:11:40] northern Argentina into southern Brazil a across
[00:11:44] Uruguay to to the south of that it's a little quieter but still quite
[00:11:48] windy and we've got a storm, this is Agnita continues to
[00:11:52] track its way by Tuesday across parts of Greece
[00:11:55] and that could enhance the flooding issues that we've already seen, some sharper
[00:11:59] showers moving their way across the balliarics as well, to the north
[00:12:03] of that it's cooler with a cold northerly wind across Scandinavia
[00:12:07] and Baltic states. Now the Agnita could produce
[00:12:11] some showers across Morocco, across Algeria and
[00:12:14] also into Tunisia. We'll see some lifted dust some poor
[00:12:18] visibility here, some sharper showers through the east of South Africa,
[00:12:22] but quietening down a little later on. Across the Middle East, it's largely
[00:12:26] fine and quiet, showers are easing away closing towards the Caspian and perhaps
[00:12:30] into North Iran, but elsewhere it's a quiet story, this is
[00:12:33] Storm Murasu making landfall across Andhra Pradesh
[00:12:37] bringing a lot of heavy rain as this system continues to track
[00:12:41] its wayuh northwest across India in the coming
[00:12:45] days. Now over into Asia, this is Storm Infa,
[00:12:49] it will brush to the south of Japan, but we're not too
[00:12:52] concerned about it, some heavier showers out... moment across central China
[00:12:56] moving over to Shanghai, to the south of that it's
[00:13:00] sunny spells and heat the day showers, business as usual,
[00:13:04] and then finally over into Australia and New Zealand, got some pretty intense showers
[00:13:08] along that Queensland coast, little bit cooler behind it across
[00:13:12] parts of New South Wales and Victoria. Into New Zealand, we have
[00:13:15] got this moist flow bringing some pretty intense showery
[00:13:19] rain across the South Island in the coming
[00:13:22] days.
[00:13:29] what new industries are created cuz what we've seen throughout history is new
[00:13:32] industries are created and it's that process that actually opens new
[00:13:36] doors. that was the that was the mandate from prime minister
[00:13:40] stomer. he wants the UK to be an AI superpower. he
[00:13:43] recognizes that the ingredients are all right here.
[00:13:47] put the customer at the center of everything we do. i really think that's how the
[00:13:51] company started uh, but i think we lost our focus. because we got a
[00:13:55] little too distracted on efficiency and
[00:13:59] technology, AI is real,
[00:14:03] AI in total pay off, just like cars in total pay off, tv
[00:14:07] in total pay off, but most people involved it didn't do well. it's a
[00:14:10] revolutionary, you know, time upon us, and and i
[00:14:14] think all in the streets will be adopting AI in some shape or
[00:14:17] form.
[00:15:06] Live from London, this is BBC News. Millions
[00:15:10] prepared to vote on the eve of America's crucial mid-term elections,
[00:15:14] can Donald Trump and the Republicans keep control the US
[00:15:17] Congress? We want them out, we want them out, and I am
[00:15:21] excited that if we can flip Kansas, we give hope to the rest the country.
[00:15:25] He says what he's going to do, and just I have lot of faith in the
[00:15:28] man. We'll get the latest from our correspondents on the ground in some
[00:15:32] the key battleground states. We'll also hear from the former chair the
[00:15:36] Democratic. national committee: our other main headlines: the home
[00:15:40] secretary scraps plans for migrant care workers already in the UK
[00:15:44] to wait 15 years for permanent
[00:15:47] settlement. cyber attacks on the emergency
[00:15:50] warning systems of both Russia and Ukraine, residents in Keeve were
[00:15:54] sent false radiation alerts. supermarkets
[00:15:58] in seven European