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[00:00:18] These are the latest headlines from BBC News. Millions prepare to
[00:00:21] to vote on the eve of Americas crucial
[00:00:24] crucial midterm elections. Can Donald Donald Trump and the Republicans
[00:00:27] Republicans keep control of the US US Congress as Democrats look to
[00:00:29] to flip the House of Representatives Representatives and the Senate? Ukraine
[00:00:33] Ukraine and Russia's emergency alert alert apps are both hit by cyber
[00:00:37] cyber attacks, with users alerted alerted of nuclear and other threats.
[00:00:40] threats. Meanwhile, Ukraines president president says Russian forces have
[00:00:43] have bombed a village in the southeastern southeastern Zaporizhzhia region,
[00:00:47] region, killing 24 people and injuring injuring five. A business jet crashes
[00:00:51] crashes in a neighbourhood in Florida, Florida, killing all nine people
[00:00:54] people on board. Supermarkets and
[00:00:56] and seven European countries report report problems with their refrigeration
[00:01:00] refrigeration systems in a suspected suspected cyber attack. The Home
[00:01:03] Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, Mahmood, scraps plans for migrant migrant care workers already in the
[00:01:07] the UK to wait 15 years for permanent
[00:01:09] permanent settlement. King Charles Charles will address Commonwealth
[00:01:13] Commonwealth leaders about the lasting lasting pain of the transatlantic transatlantic slave trade during
[00:01:16] during the final leg of his Caribbean
[00:01:19] Caribbean tour in Antigua. Let's
[00:01:27] Let's cross live now to President President Trump, who is giving his
[00:01:30] his final address ahead of those those crucial midterm elections tomorrow.
[00:01:33] tomorrow. Let's listen in. Voted Voted in the last election where
[00:01:36] where we had such a great victory.
[00:01:38] victory. If they go out and vote vote just a good portion of them,
[00:01:42] them, we will win in a landslide. landslide. Now that doesn't happen
[00:01:45] happen because usually whoever the
[00:01:48] the sitting president is Republican
[00:01:50] Republican or Democrat, good or bad,
[00:01:52] bad, good president, great president,
[00:01:54] president, bad. For some reason the the sitting president doesn't win
[00:01:58] win the midterms. But we gave this
[00:02:01] this a very strong shot. So in terms
[00:02:05] terms of things, we have the most most secure border in our history.
[00:02:08] history. We have the largest tax
[00:02:10] tax cuts in our history. We stopped
[00:02:13] stopped foreign fraudsters and welfare
[00:02:16] welfare amnesty for illegals. And And we were able to catch billions
[00:02:19] billions and billions of Democrat
[00:02:21] Democrat approved fraud in Minnesota
[00:02:23] Minnesota and other places. And that's that's just beginning. We're going
[00:02:26] going to catch hundreds of billions. billions. We've already got tens
[00:02:29] tens of billions. We actually already
[00:02:32] already have over 100 billion. It's It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
[00:02:35] barrel. So corrupt. A lot of states,
[00:02:39] states, Maine, Minnesota many, many
[00:02:42] many states mostly, I will say mostly
[00:02:45] mostly run by Democrats. Low cost
[00:02:47] cost energy versus the green new new scam and record inflation. That's
[00:02:51] That's what they had. They have re
[00:02:55] re they had literally record inflation inflation the highest prices in history,
[00:02:58] history, the highest inflation in in history. They had the green new
[00:03:01] new scam where everybody was going
[00:03:03] going to be dead in 12 years. And
[00:03:06] And here we are. Here we are. We're We're not dead. We're a long way
[00:03:10] way from dead. And we had an expression expression drill, baby, drill. And
[00:03:13] And that's what's happened. And we're we're making an absolute fortune
[00:03:17] fortune in our country again, more
[00:03:20] more than Saudi Arabia and Russia.
[00:03:23] Russia. They're the second and third.
[00:03:24] third. We would be if I were president,
[00:03:28] president, we would be in no place.
[00:03:29] place. And now we're in first place
[00:03:32] place and we have no nuclear weapons weapons for Iran. We're not going
[00:03:36] going to allow Iran ever to have have a nuclear weapon. And they understand
[00:03:39] understand that they've understood understood that. And they've said
[00:03:42] said it even recently. We will not not have a nuclear weapon and we
[00:03:46] we want to protect our Second Amendment, Amendment, and we're not going to
[00:03:50] to let you we're not going to let
[00:03:51] let these people do anything to disturb
[00:03:55] disturb the Second Amendment of our our country. It's very important important thing. And we're going
[00:03:58] going to protect our children from
[00:04:02] from the transgender sexual violations,
[00:04:05] violations, the horrible treatment treatment that they've gotten. So
[00:04:07] So I just want to say that we're
[00:04:10] we're very proud of what's behind behind me, but we're much even more
[00:04:13] more proud of all the statues that that we've done all over Washington
[00:04:17] Washington and even more proud than
[00:04:18] than that of having stopped crime
[00:04:21] crime in Washington. And the police police have been unbelievable. The
[00:04:25] The you guys have done a great job.
[00:04:29] job. Once you had a little leadership, leadership, it was sort of easy, easy, wasn't it? But you've done
[00:04:32] done a great job. We let you do your your job. Nobody does it better.
[00:04:35] better. That goes for New York too. too. You know, New York, if they
[00:04:38] they would call us if Chicago or
[00:04:40] or Illinois would call us and if
[00:04:43] if California, namely Los Angeles, Angeles, would call us, we would would love to go there. We would
[00:04:47] would solve the problem we did in in Memphis, Tennessee. They had the
[00:04:50] the worst crime rate in the whole
[00:04:51] whole country. And it's down 83%. 83%. And a friend of mine who was
[00:04:55] was leaving Memphis is going to stay stay now, he said. I've never seen seen anything like it. The difference
[00:04:59] difference between now and one year year ago, the. They have to ask the
[00:05:03] the governor and the mayor called
[00:05:04] called and they asked New Orleans,
[00:05:08] Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans, Orleans, as they call it. The crime
[00:05:10] crime rate was out of control. I
[00:05:12] I got a call from Jeff Landry, the
[00:05:15] the governor of Louisiana. He said,
[00:05:18] said, please, we have a big event event coming up. We have our biggest
[00:05:21] biggest event coming up. And he said, said, it's a crime haven. So many
[00:05:25] many people are being killed. They They have Mardi Gras. And they said,
[00:05:29] said, could you please help us? This
[00:05:31] This was six, seven months ago. We
[00:05:33] We did crime rates down 82%. So think
[00:05:36] think of it Memphis and New Orleans.
[00:05:40] Orleans. But more importantly, I I mean, from my standpoint, Washington,
[00:05:43] Washington, DC, our great capital capital has to be crime free. And
[00:05:47] And it is now just about crime free. free. Soon it will be crime free.
[00:05:50] free. And it's also a beautiful place.
[00:05:53] place. And the beauty is very important. important. But without the great
[00:05:57] great stats that I gave you on crime, crime, it all wouldn't matter. So
[00:05:59] So we're not calling people now from from Iowa to tell them that their
[00:06:03] their son has been killed. He'll
[00:06:04] He'll be coming home in a casket.
[00:06:08] casket. Somebody from Indiana, family family from Indiana. I'm sorry to
[00:06:11] to inform you, but your son was standing
[00:06:15] standing at the base of a very beautiful beautiful monument, and he was killed
[00:06:19] killed instantly. And he'll be coming
[00:06:20] coming home to you in a coffin. We
[00:06:23] We don't do that any more. We have have a safe city. And if people do
[00:06:27] do things that are wrong, we've removed
[00:06:30] removed over 5000 career criminals. criminals. We've removed them. They're
[00:06:32] They're out of here. And you know, know, one stat. I'll just leave this
[00:06:36] this with you on crime. 2% of the
[00:06:40] the people create 91% of the crime.
[00:06:43] crime. So we can handle those numbers.
[00:06:46] numbers. It was 50% or 20% or 10%,
[00:06:50] 10%, 2% create 90%, 91% of the crime.
[00:06:53] crime. And we've removed those 2%
[00:06:55] 2% from Memphis and we removed them
[00:06:58] them from New Orleans. And we really
[00:07:01] really removed them from Washington. Washington. So I just want to thank
[00:07:05] thank everybody. Reflecting pool pool is great. It's a beautiful,
[00:07:08] beautiful, beautiful thing to watch. watch. And it's been again, 1922.
[00:07:12] 1922. I'm not blaming anybody. It's It's 1922. It's never worked the
[00:07:15] the way it should. And now it's a a beautiful reflection. The pipes
[00:07:19] pipes have just been changed. The The whole thing is in great shape.
[00:07:22] shape. And we're going to make sure sure nobody vandalises it. And I'm
[00:07:25] I'm going to ask the park police police and the people to really watch
[00:07:28] watch because a lot of people were were sort of watching as this group
[00:07:31] group of people slashed the hell hell out of it. And I think they
[00:07:35] they were a little bit like it was
[00:07:37] was a weird feeling came upon them
[00:07:41] them and they didn't get it. But But we learned a lot. We learned
[00:07:44] learned a lot. So I just want to to thank everybody you've all done done and in particular, I'd like
[00:07:47] like to thank Doug Burgum. What a a job you're doing. You're a real
[00:07:50] real leader. Would you like to say
[00:07:52] say a few words, Doug, please. Well,
[00:08:02] Well, there we have the President
[00:08:03] President addressing some of the
[00:08:06] the issues ahead of those midterms. midterms. A little bit earlier, after
[00:08:09] after spending about 25 minutes talking
[00:08:13] talking about renovation and the the reflective pool behind him, he
[00:08:15] he talked a little bit about Democratic Democratic candidates. He talked
[00:08:18] talked about the Democrat Party nominating nominating the most extreme and dangerous
[00:08:22] dangerous slate of candidates in in American history. He went on to
[00:08:25] to accuse the Democrats of pursuing
[00:08:27] pursuing what he called a radical radical agenda and dangerous ideologies.
[00:08:31] ideologies. He also talked a lot
[00:08:33] lot about his record during his second
[00:08:35] second term, and talked about keeping keeping every single promise that
[00:08:38] that he made. Well, let's cross live live now once again to our White
[00:08:41] White House reporter Bernd Debusmann, Debusmann, who is also listening listening in on that. It took him
[00:08:45] him a while to warm up and actually actually address the midterms. When
[00:08:49] When he did, he talked in quite a a lot of detail about what he thinks
[00:08:52] thinks his administration has achieved achieved so far. But American politics
[00:08:55] politics is a funny thing, isn't isn't it? And I think that people people watching around America will
[00:08:59] will be more focused on their everyday everyday lives and the dollar in
[00:09:03] in their pocket, rather than talking talking about achievements that President
[00:09:06] President Trump has addressed this
[00:09:09] this evening. It certainly and I
[00:09:11] I think President Trump made midterms midterms kind of the secondary part
[00:09:14] part of his speech versus the reflecting reflecting pool on the various construction
[00:09:18] construction projects, which I think think many Republican strategists
[00:09:21] strategists will wonder why the midterms
[00:09:24] midterms weren't really the core core of this speech. And when he
[00:09:28] he did speak, he spoke in kind of of generalities that he tends to
[00:09:32] to mention quite often the level level of foreign investment into
[00:09:35] into this country, the taxes, for
[00:09:37] for example, that he thinks and claims
[00:09:40] claims his administration has improved improved the lot of Americans across
[00:09:44] across the country. But the fact fact is that that's not reflective
[00:09:47] reflective of where public opinion opinion currently stands. Polls show
[00:09:51] show that many Americans disapprove disapprove of how he's handled the
[00:09:53] the economy. When he speaks about
[00:09:55] about oil being shipped from Venezuela,
[00:09:58] Venezuela, I think in polls show show that that rings slightly hollow
[00:10:02] hollow to many Americans who are
[00:10:03] are still paying in some cases over
[00:10:06] over $5 at the petrol pump. So I
[00:10:09] I think he's ultimately said very
[00:10:11] very little. That was new in most most of the campaign rallies he's
[00:10:15] he's been in the last few weeks. weeks. He's kind of gone to those
[00:10:17] those same topics and framed this
[00:10:19] this as a choice between kind of
[00:10:22] of extreme fringe candidates on the the left and Republicans. But that's
[00:10:25] that's not particularly a message message that has so far really landed
[00:10:29] landed with the average American American voter. Now we know there
[00:10:32] there are 435 seats in the House House up for grabs, seats in the
[00:10:36] the Senate as well. There are expectations, expectations, aren't there? High
[00:10:39] High expectations from the Democrats? Democrats? I wonder if we can reflect
[00:10:42] reflect a little bit about what would
[00:10:45] would happen if those expectations
[00:10:48] expectations weren't met. Well, I I think that would certainly be a
[00:10:51] a defeat for the Democrats, many many of whom have kind of been working
[00:10:55] working almost under the assumption assumption that at the very least,
[00:10:57] least, the House would flip over over to the Democrats and it would
[00:11:01] would also call into question some some of the polling. I mean, some
[00:11:04] some of the polling in these very very hotly contested Senate races
[00:11:07] races in places like Michigan, Texas
[00:11:10] Texas has suggested that Democrats Democrats were kind of pulling slightly
[00:11:14] slightly ahead in the waning days days of the campaign. I think many
[00:11:17] many Democrats on Capitol Hill had had already been kind of planning.
[00:11:21] planning. And I've spoken to Democrats Democrats on Capitol Hill that were
[00:11:23] were already kind of looking at the the day after in the assumption that
[00:11:27] that they'll be in a position to
[00:11:29] to issue subpoenas, for example, example, and investigate things that
[00:11:33] that they think have been carried carried out incorrectly or in some
[00:11:37] some cases they allege illegally illegally by the Trump administration,
[00:11:40] administration, whether that be these these sort of construction projects
[00:11:43] projects that President Trump has has ordered immigration enforcement.
[00:11:46] enforcement. And I think many of of those people are already working
[00:11:49] working under the assumption that that victory will allow that to happen.
[00:11:52] happen. So if that were to happen,
[00:11:54] happen, I think many Democrats would would be would question how they
[00:11:57] they got the polls. So wrong band. band. OK, well, it's been great to
[00:12:01] to talk to you, Bernd Debusmann thank thank you very much indeed for taking
[00:12:04] taking the time to spend with us us this evening watching President
[00:12:07] President Trump. Well, you can watch watch a special programme here on on BBC News. It's going to bring
[00:12:11] bring you all the results of the the US midterm elections as they
[00:12:14] they happen. That's live from Washington,
[00:12:17] Washington, DC with Clive Myrie Sumi Sumi Somaskanda and Caitriona Perry.
[00:12:20] Perry. It starts tomorrow at 11:30pm
[00:12:25] 11:30pm UK time. Short break now now around
[00:13:27] in our bio data. Join me. Paul Carter Carter for Explore Japan from east
[00:13:31] east to West on BBC News. To Ukraine
[00:13:40] Ukraine now where we've been hearing hearing that at least 24 people have
[00:13:43] have been killed in a Russian attack attack on a settlement in the Zaporizhzhia
[00:13:46] Zaporizhzhia region. Dozens more more are said to be missing. President
[00:13:49] President Zelensky shared a video video on X. He says the settlement
[00:13:53] settlement was hit several times times today and that a school being
[00:13:56] being used for humanitarian purposes purposes was struck. President Zelensky
[00:13:59] Zelensky said after the first aerial aerial bomb strike, there was a double
[00:14:02] double tap strike with nine more more bombs specifically targeting
[00:14:06] targeting the shelter where people
[00:14:07] people were taking cover. Well, with
[00:14:11] with more, here's our correspondent correspondent in Kyiv. Dan Johnson. Johnson. He's posted some information
[00:14:15] information but also a video that that shows the aftermath of these
[00:14:18] these strikes. He's described this
[00:14:20] this as a double tap attack, which which is essentially where there's
[00:14:24] there's one round of strikes. And
[00:14:26] And then after a short delay, perhaps perhaps when rescue workers have
[00:14:29] have come to the scene, there is is a further round of strikes. In
[00:14:32] In fact, the President says after after the first aerial bomb, there
[00:14:35] there was a double tap strike with
[00:14:37] with nine more bombs. And that's
[00:14:40] that's the sirens just going off off here in Kyiv. As I'm speaking
[00:14:44] speaking to you, the President has has described this attack in the
[00:14:47] the Zaporizhzhia region as utterly utterly horrific. And he said that
[00:14:50] that the Russians could not have have been unaware that the building
[00:14:53] building that was hit was a school school that was actually being used
[00:14:57] used to distribute aid. Well, earlier,
[00:14:59] earlier, both Russia and Ukraine Ukraine reported cyber attacks on
[00:15:03] on their apps designed to warn people people of incoming drone attacks.
[00:15:06] attacks. With more on that story,
[00:15:10] story, here's Joe Inwood. There are are parts of Ukraine where this is
[00:15:13] is still the reality of war in the
[00:15:15] the 21st century. They call this
[00:15:17] this her son's kill zone, an area area along the front lines inaccessible
[00:15:21] inaccessible for most of the war.
[00:15:22] war. Until last week, a brief humanitarian
[00:15:26] humanitarian ceasefire that allowed allowed rescue teams to get to people
[00:15:29] people who had been entirely cut
[00:15:32] cut off like Natalia. You can see
[00:15:34] see my house has been damaged by
[00:15:36] by drones, she says. The 53-year-old 53-year-old is one of a handful of
[00:15:39] of people who stayed in the village village of Coxsackie. Her life has
[00:15:43] has been reduced to basic survival
[00:15:45] survival drinking rainwater, gathering
[00:15:47] gathering firewood and staying alive.
[00:15:51] alive. They've dropped mines everywhere. everywhere. You can't get through.
[00:15:55] through. I gather firewood for my
[00:15:56] my stove. I don't hide. If a drone drone hovers over me for too long.
[00:16:00] long. I come out holding a white
[00:16:03] white cloth. The ceasefire has given
[00:16:08] given her some respite, but she knows
[00:16:10] knows it is only temporary. We need
[00:16:17] need silence. We need to talk and and negotiate. Because war in the
[00:16:20] the 21st century is nonsense. And And modern war is presenting a whole
[00:16:24] whole new set of challenges for those those fighting it. Warnings of attacks
[00:16:28] attacks like this are usually sent sent to an app that many Ukrainians
[00:16:31] Ukrainians use. But last night it
[00:16:33] it appears to have been hacked, sending
[00:16:35] sending dire warnings of fighting fighting in the streets of an impending
[00:16:39] impending chemical weapons attack, attack, even of a nuclear strike.
[00:16:43] strike. None of it was real. And And on the streets of Kyiv, people
[00:16:47] people seem to have taken it in their
[00:16:50] their stride. On the one hand, you
[00:16:53] you can laugh about it, but on the the other they were able to hack
[00:16:57] hack the programme. But it did not not trigger the kind of reaction
[00:17:00] reaction in society that they expected. expected. Speaking at a meeting in
[00:17:03] in Brussels, the UK's Defence Secretary Secretary warned the hack was part
[00:17:07] part of a wider threat. We don't
[00:17:09] don't yet. Know who is behind this
[00:17:12] this particular cyber attack in Ukraine. Ukraine. We'll follow those developments
[00:17:15] developments closely. But what we're we're in no doubt about is that right
[00:17:18] right across Europe we have seen,
[00:17:21] seen, you know, these hybrid or state
[00:17:23] state sponsored terrorist attacks attacks driven by Moscow. But it's
[00:17:27] it's also reported that a similar similar message was sent to Russians,
[00:17:30] Russians, which apparently read risk risk things could get lively. Don't
[00:17:33] Don't worry. Nuclear warheads have have been launched at all regions
[00:17:37] regions of Russia. It's not yet confirmed
[00:17:39] confirmed who was behind either message. message. Back with the rescue teams
[00:17:43] teams in Kherson and what was the the most successful ceasefire of
[00:17:46] of the war has now come to an end.
[00:17:48] end. The realities of conflict in
[00:17:51] in the 21st century once again upon
[00:17:53] upon those who live through it. Joe
[00:17:56] Joe Inwood, BBC News. Dozens of supermarkets
[00:17:59] supermarkets across six European European countries have been hit
[00:18:01] hit by a suspected cyber attack affecting affecting their refrigerators and
[00:18:05] and freezers. Around 40 supermarkets supermarkets were hit in Belgium
[00:18:09] Belgium and Luxembourg, and a smaller smaller number of shops were hit
[00:18:11] hit in Sweden. In Ireland and Estonia,
[00:18:14] Estonia, as well as the Netherlands. Netherlands. It's believed the attack attack used the same method as last
[00:18:18] last month's incident that hit hundreds hundreds of French supermarkets,
[00:18:22] supermarkets, where hackers turned turned the machines to defrost mode.
[00:18:25] mode. Nick Beake has more. Everything
[00:18:29] Everything must go. Not a sale, but
[00:18:32] but a binning of once frozen food.
[00:18:34] food. Just some of the damage in
[00:18:36] in this latest cyber attack to hit hit European supermarkets. All that
[00:18:40] that you can see here is having to to be thrown away. But come and have
[00:18:43] have a look at this because it tells tells the story. The boss of this
[00:18:46] this supermarket just outside Brussels
[00:18:48] Brussels reckons that about 100,000
[00:18:50] 100,000 worth of produce is having
[00:18:52] having to be thrown away. That's That's more than £80,000 worth of
[00:18:56] of stock. So here we've got ice creams,
[00:19:00] creams, pizza all that useless. Now
[00:19:03] Now this is one of 40 Delhaize stores
[00:19:06] stores in Belgium hit by the attack, attack, which boosted the temperature
[00:19:09] temperature of fridges and freezers
[00:19:13] freezers to 50 Celsius in Sweden Sweden and five more European countries.
[00:19:16] countries. The same cyber hack switched switched on the defrost mode, making
[00:19:20] making the food warm up. In some.
[00:19:24] some. Organisation has hacked into into the temperature monitor system
[00:19:28] system for refrigerators and freezers. freezers. They've gained access and
[00:19:31] and tampered with settings and the the like. It's insane. I don't see see where they stand to gain from
[00:19:35] from it. It's a form of terrorism, terrorism, really. Terrorism that
[00:19:37] that are you. Cyber security agencies
[00:19:40] agencies from the affected countries countries are now trying to work
[00:19:43] work out who was behind this. We We definitely should be worried about
[00:19:47] about this happening again. It's It's not the first time that it's it's happening. It has happened just
[00:19:50] just a couple of weeks ago in France France and now it's happening throughout
[00:19:53] throughout the rest of Europe. It's It's thought many supermarkets had
[00:19:57] had tried to tighten their security
[00:19:59] security since the French cyber attacks attacks last month. But once again,
[00:20:03] again, hackers have caused disruption
[00:20:05] disruption and damages running into
[00:20:07] into millions of euros. Nick Beake,
[00:20:10] Beake, BBC News Brussels. The King
[00:20:13] King is preparing to address Commonwealth Commonwealth leaders tomorrow at
[00:20:16] at a summit in the Caribbean. Buckingham Buckingham Palace says he'll speak
[00:20:19] speak with unflinching honesty and
[00:20:21] and sincere sorrow about the lasting lasting pain of the transatlantic
[00:20:25] transatlantic slave trade. The King King and the Queen both attended
[00:20:28] attended an Independence Day ceremony ceremony in Antigua last night that
[00:20:31] that left the King drenched. Our Our senior royal correspondent Daniela
[00:20:35] Daniela Relph has more. Royal tours
[00:20:39] tours are. Meticulously planned except
[00:20:42] except for the weather. As the Antiguan
[00:20:44] Antiguan rain hit, the Queen moved
[00:20:46] moved fast, taking cover, leaving
[00:20:49] leaving her unhappy husband. Umbrellas
[00:20:52] Umbrellas until a royal aide belatedly belatedly came to the rescue. But
[00:20:55] But the King was drenched. Although Although eventually saw the funny
[00:20:59] funny side. Aleem Maqbool water Chris
[00:21:03] Chris Mason. Yeah, so I think. An
[00:21:06] An exhibition on the history of the the slave trade on this island formed
[00:21:09] formed part of the King's first engagement engagement today at government House.
[00:21:12] House. Another sign of Buckingham Buckingham Palace's efforts to, as
[00:21:15] as they say, not shy away from colonial
[00:21:19] colonial legacy. With the Prime Minister Minister arriving here tonight and
[00:21:22] and the King addressing leaders tomorrow. tomorrow. The palace has also reiterated
[00:21:26] reiterated the King's role within within the Commonwealth as one that
[00:21:30] that isn't political. They say, but but is instead focused on inspiring
[00:21:34] inspiring and getting people together
[00:21:36] together rather than making policy.
[00:21:39] policy. Daniela Relph BBC News Antigua.
[00:21:49] Antigua. MUSIC
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[00:21:59] seven-month-old Maeve doesn't know know it yet, but the way she came
[00:22:03] came into the world was rather unusual
[00:22:05] unusual when her mum Leah went into
[00:22:07] into labour. She'd spent months planning
[00:22:09] planning for every possibility. I I would have loved a water birth.
[00:22:13] birth. However, the other things things that I didn't really want want is that an assisted birth or
[00:22:16] or an emergency C-section. It was was a really long hard labour and
[00:22:19] and then by the time we got to the the pushing and it felt like there
[00:22:23] there was not much happening and and I was trying my best. Nothing
[00:22:26] Nothing was really happening. I could could feel her inch down slightly,
[00:22:30] slightly, but it just wasn't going going where we needed it to go. Leah
[00:22:34] Leah isn't alone. Around 1 in 8 births
[00:22:36] births in the UK require some form
[00:22:38] form of assistance during delivery.
[00:22:41] delivery. Doctors at the Royal London London Hospital recommended something
[00:22:44] something Leah had never even heard
[00:22:45] heard of. She's got a contraption.
[00:22:49] contraption. I just gently pull. pull. The device is called the Odon
[00:22:52] Odon Assist. It's designed for assisted
[00:22:55] assisted vaginal births when labour labour has stalled and a baby needs
[00:22:58] needs help to be delivered. Rather Rather than using metal forceps or
[00:23:02] or suction, it uses a soft inflatable inflatable cuff designed to help
[00:23:06] help guide the baby through the birth
[00:23:08] birth canal. So you can see from from here we've gone from a tiny
[00:23:12] tiny little viewing window through through to a larger viewing window.
[00:23:16] window. Before it was ever used on
[00:23:18] on a patient, researchers spent years years testing it using specially
[00:23:22] specially designed mannequins fitted
[00:23:24] fitted with pressure sensors. From
[00:23:27] From 2015 to 2018, we did over 2800
[00:23:32] 2800 simulations. Those simulations simulations suggested the device
[00:23:35] device spread pressure more evenly
[00:23:37] evenly across a baby's head. Traditional Traditional forceps and vacuum cups
[00:23:41] cups can sometimes leave babies bruised bruised and can also cause injury
[00:23:44] injury to mothers. If you look at at forceps and forceps definitely
[00:23:48] definitely have their place and can can be very life saving, but they they really haven't changed much
[00:23:52] much in the last 400 years. There There is very few things in medicine
[00:23:55] medicine that if we go back to 400 400 years in any other aspect of
[00:23:59] of medicine, that is almost exactly
[00:24:00] exactly the same. We're going to to do some training on instrumental
[00:24:04] instrumental birth. After years of
[00:24:06] of development and testing, the next next challenge is getting the device
[00:24:10] device into hospitals. I think we
[00:24:11] we can use a device called an Odon
[00:24:14] Odon assist. It's a plastic device device with an inflatable cuff that
[00:24:17] that sits around the baby's head, head, and then we use it to guide
[00:24:20] guide the baby out. It doesn't suffocate suffocate my baby. So it doesn't
[00:24:24] doesn't suffocate your baby. It's
[00:24:26] It's a very safe procedure. But as
[00:24:28] as with any procedure, there are are some risks involved. We feel
[00:24:31] feel very responsible for the fact fact that we are using it, and we
[00:24:35] we know that we're ahead of the curve curve in using it, and we know that that we have an additional level
[00:24:38] level of responsibility to make sure sure that what we're doing is is
[00:24:41] is safe. And if at any point we were were there was something pointing pointing out that that was not the
[00:24:45] the case, then we would obviously obviously have to reconsider. But But because we are being very data
[00:24:49] data driven in our approach, we know know that we're still on the right
[00:24:52] right track, which is great. Yeah. We have fed back through groups
[00:24:55] groups in the UK, groups across Europe Europe as to best techniques and
[00:24:59] and how to develop practice, and and we're constantly feeding back
[00:25:01] back so that we can learn and teach teach the trainees that are coming
[00:25:04] coming through. It's still early
[00:25:07] early days, but after decades with with little change in assisted childbirth,
[00:25:11] childbirth, doctors hope it could could offer women another option
[00:25:13] option when labour doesn't go to to plan. We know that it's safe.
[00:25:17] safe. We know that it's been approved approved and we wanted to bring it it in and we want to now support
[00:25:21] support bringing it in by being the the flagship hospital. The fact that
[00:25:24] that Maeve came out unscathed completely completely is a huge plus and then
[00:25:28] then had no kind of like feeding feeding issues or anything like that
[00:25:30] that that we had to take care of.
[00:25:33] of. Was a huge plus to us. And obviously obviously at that point, that's all
[00:25:36] all you want. Is your baby safe in in your arms? And it was relatively
[00:25:39] relatively quick. It was painless painless for her. It was controlled
[00:25:42] controlled for me and the recovery recovery was great.
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[00:30:16] Hello and welcome to The
[00:30:17] Context USA, our first in a series series of special programming from
[00:30:21] from our studios here in Washington, Washington, DC I'm Sumi Somaskanda.
[00:30:24] Somaskanda. And I'm Caitriona Perry Perry ahead this hour. It's the vote
[00:30:28] vote that could drastically change change the course of politics here
[00:30:30] here in the US and maybe around the
[00:30:32] the world. We're focusing on what
[00:30:35] what else the 2026 midterm
[00:30:38] elections. I'm not thinking about about myself on this election. I'm
[00:30:41] I'm thinking about the whole community. community. We should all be together
[00:30:45] together in the community as one
[00:30:47] one and try to vote for our best
[00:30:50] best interests, which is not the the current administration. As you
[00:30:53] you know, this is the last day before before the midterm elections. The
[00:30:56] The most important midterm, I believe believe in our lifetime.