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[00:00:25] A warm welcome to another
[00:00:30] This week, the group leading an Ethiopian Opposition Alliance says it has
[00:00:33] withdrawn from Mikele, the capital
[00:00:36] of the northern region of Tigry, after an advanced by governed forces
[00:00:40] and allied fighters. The Tigran People's liberation front said
[00:00:44] it has temporarily moved out of Michael to operate from somewhere
[00:00:47] else. This comes after Ethiopia and Eritrea severed all
[00:00:51] diplomatic ties on October 2nd, 2026, amit an
[00:00:55] escalating military conflict in Northern
[00:00:57] Ethiopia.
[00:01:02] Ethiopia and the reach severe diplomatic
[00:01:04] of ties on October 2nd, closing each other's embassies and Ethiopia
[00:01:08] ordered 10 reitirant diplomats to leave
[00:01:10] the country within 48
[00:01:15] a hours. Ethiopias said the diplomats were declared persona
[00:01:19] non-gratter over the alleged activities posing a direct threat to the
[00:01:23] country's
[00:01:24] of national
[00:01:26] of security. Ethiopia. accuses
[00:01:30] Eritrea of direct and indirect hostility,
[00:01:34] specifically
[00:01:35] in alleging that Asmara was backing and forming alliances with
[00:01:38] rubble groups like the Tagray People's Liberation
[00:01:41] Front.
[00:01:45] Oricha rejected Ethiopia's allegation, accused Adisababa of
[00:01:49] pursuing hostile policies and said it will severe all diplomatic
[00:01:53] ties with Ethiopia in
[00:01:57] of response. The diplomatic row,
[00:02:00] sended to Ethiopia and Egypt, so ordering diplomats to leave within 48
[00:02:04] hours.
[00:02:07] Ethiopia declared Egyptian diplomat Ahmed Maharam Ahmed
[00:02:11] Solemon personan on Grata on Thursday and ordered him to leave the
[00:02:15] country within 48
[00:02:16] hours.
[00:02:20] Egypt hit back by expelling a counselor at Ethiopian embassy in
[00:02:24] Cairo, also giving him two days to
[00:02:27] of leave. Cairo described Ethiopia's move. has
[00:02:30] unjustified and rejected accusations that was
[00:02:33] interfering in the country's internal affairs. In the
[00:02:37] meantime, the leaders of Egyptia, Sudan and
[00:02:40] Somalia are meeting in Egypt to coordinate and consult on
[00:02:44] regional issues of interest to the four countries. Sources
[00:02:48] say the meeting would announce several measures to consolidate the
[00:02:52] alliance
[00:02:53] of the four nations, including wider
[00:02:55] of military corporation. Captain Smith
[00:02:59] Machar has.
[00:03:00] has been held a true
[00:03:01] of hero in his homeland India and in Israel. He was the
[00:03:05] co-pilot
[00:03:05] of the Fly Dubai flight was stabbed because the other pilot now
[00:03:09] identified as hammam alhammami stabbed him while
[00:03:13] trying to crash the flight as it traveled from Dubai to Tel Aviv.
[00:03:17] The captain has recounted what happened on the flight and so much has been
[00:03:21] uncovered since the incident. The Israeli
[00:03:24] consulate in Mumbai put up a digital billboard thanking
[00:03:28] Indian pilot Captain. in Smith Machacha, days after he was
[00:03:32] stabbed while fighting off his co-pilots who had tried to crash the
[00:03:36] plane. the fly dubai flight
[00:03:39] fz1073 traveling from Dubai to Tel
[00:03:43] Aviv, Israel, with more than 170 people on board
[00:03:47] made emergency landing at Prince Sultan bin
[00:03:50] of Abdul Aziz International Airport in Tabok, Saudi
[00:03:53] Arabia,
[00:03:59] the UAE Attorney General, Dr. Hamad Saiif Al
[00:04:02] Shamsi said investigation found that the co-pilot
[00:04:06] had planned and attempted to carry out a terrorist act during the
[00:04:10] flight. He said the co-pilot attacked Machacha inside the
[00:04:14] cockpit with
[00:04:15] a crash ax and tried to seize control
[00:04:17] of the aircraft flight controls. Investigators
[00:04:21] are still working to establish the full circumstances,
[00:04:25] motive and any possible links as well as examining
[00:04:28] physical and digital. evidence, final findings have
[00:04:32] not yet been released, fly dubai has temporarily suspended
[00:04:36] its Dubai Tel Aviv
[00:04:38] flights.
[00:04:46] The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier said Machacha was
[00:04:50] attacked by his
[00:04:51] of co-pilot of who he claimed had apparently
[00:04:53] of attempted to
[00:04:54] of crash the plane. Prime Minister Netanyahu praised the wounded
[00:04:58] Indian pilot for helping. stopped the attack, saying
[00:05:01] Machacha fought back, resisted, opened the
[00:05:05] cockpit
[00:05:06] of door and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the
[00:05:09] attacker.
[00:05:13] Earlier, I spoke to acting Israeli ambassador and charge the affair in
[00:05:17] Nigeria, Richelli Staviski about Israel's views on the incidents
[00:05:21] and the ripping
[00:05:45] uh is said
[00:05:46] to be quite unprecedented, does this raise flags as
[00:05:50] to the kind of screening done for flight crew and other people
[00:05:54] serving in public spaces as to they being used to cause
[00:05:57] harm to Israel worldwide for
[00:06:00] you. this is indeed an
[00:06:03] unprecedented event, but unfortunately
[00:06:07] this is not the first time that an airplane has been uh
[00:06:11] hijacked. in the sky with Israeli passengers
[00:06:15] or other passengers, so it is
[00:06:19] surprising, unprecedented with fly
[00:06:22] dubai, but we are,
[00:06:26] the people of Israel, we are resilient people, we are
[00:06:30] well prepared for you know every
[00:06:33] possibility, and we are
[00:06:37] going to investigate all the security gaps
[00:06:40] that has occurred, during this incident,
[00:06:44] because there have been some security malfunctions in several
[00:06:48] areas, such as for example, how can
[00:06:52] a co-pilot from Omani descent been
[00:06:56] on an airplane flying Israeli citizens to
[00:06:59] Israel, as the state of Israel and the state
[00:07:03] of Oman do not have diplomatic
[00:07:06] relations, so this is just an example of
[00:07:10] one the things that we
[00:07:10] are going to investigate, but um, the other things,
[00:07:14] yeah, definitely we're going to look into all the security gaps, not only
[00:07:18] us, but also the UAE, and we're going
[00:07:22] to to have more concrete information and see how we can
[00:07:26] prevent these incidents to happen ever again in the future, because
[00:07:29] this was so so traumatic for
[00:07:32] everyone, from the pilot, the brave
[00:07:35] pilot from of fly dubai, from
[00:07:39] Indian descent to the Israeli passenger.
[00:07:42] 'who were just so courageous and brave
[00:07:46] and to the fly dubai crew and the other team of pilots who
[00:07:50] eventually managed to land the plane safely in Saudi
[00:07:54] Arabia? had that
[00:07:58] co-pilot succeeded with his mission on the plane, I mean the
[00:08:02] Omani pilots, this would have been a purely terrorist plot that it
[00:08:06] would have be succeeded, it still is a terrorist plot given that he's
[00:08:10] stabbed his fellow pilot, how does this change however? the perception
[00:08:13] the Israeli government is regards new terror threats in the
[00:08:24] the special advisor to the United United Arab Emirates
[00:08:28] President, has indeed confirmed that after
[00:08:31] investigation of this Omanico pilot, this
[00:08:35] is a terror attack. it was not attempted, it was not
[00:08:39] a speculation. he said that he was trying to
[00:08:42] commit a 9/11 style terror attack and to
[00:08:46] crash this airplane on Israeli grounds
[00:08:50] just to kill as many people as possible, not only the
[00:08:54] people on the plane but people on the ground, who knows where the plane
[00:08:57] would have crashed, but
[00:09:01] this doesn't change much for the state of Israel
[00:09:05] as we are, um,
[00:09:09] sadly I might say, we are trained for.
[00:09:13] terror attacks, so it doesn't change much about the
[00:09:16] perception of how the state of Israel should
[00:09:20] conduct in the world when it comes to
[00:09:23] attempted terror attacks or terror attacks that
[00:09:26] actually happened and were executed
[00:09:30] like the Hamas terror attack on October the 7th
[00:10:07] is the nature of discussions going on now between is
[00:10:11] governments?
[00:10:28] while being stabbed, while bleeding, he operated to
[00:10:32] save the lives of everyone on this aircraft, together
[00:10:36] with the brave Israeli passengers who managed to neutralize the
[00:10:39] terrorist, stabilized the airplane and led the other
[00:10:43] pilots on the aircraft to land it, so
[00:10:47] this is a perfect example the cooperation
[00:10:50] between Israelis and the United Arab
[00:10:53] Emirates, this is a true
[00:10:57] um Abrahamic accords demonstration, this is what we are talking
[00:11:01] about. six years ago, the UAE and Israel
[00:11:04] decided that we are heading into a new middle
[00:11:07] east, a middle east of peace, a middle east of cooperation, a
[00:11:11] middle east of working closely together, no matter our religions,
[00:11:15] because we have a shared goal, we want peace, we want
[00:11:19] prosperity and we want security for our people. this has been
[00:11:23] demonstrated when Iran launched an attack uh last
[00:11:27] March, March 2026, on Israel and on
[00:11:31] the Gulf countries, and the state of Israel has provided aid
[00:11:34] in the form of iron dome to UAE, and the United
[00:11:38] Arab Emirates stood beside the state of Israel. This is just
[00:11:42] another demonstration of how united we are. Of course, there are
[00:11:46] some tensions because of suspended flights, because the
[00:11:49] uncertainty, there is still a lot of
[00:11:53] uncertainty because the investigation is not finalized yet, as
[00:11:57] we are speaking, Israeli security forces
[00:12:01] are investigating the Omani co-pilot after the
[00:12:04] UAE have finalized their investigation with him,
[00:12:08] the questioning with the co-pilot from Oman,
[00:12:11] so the relationship is very, very
[00:12:15] strong, we are working together to solve this,
[00:12:18] and rest assure that the flights will be
[00:12:22] renewed, I'm not sure if you've known, but before the... incident, Fly
[00:12:25] Dubai has operated 70 weekly flights from Dubai
[00:12:29] to Tel Aviv, this is truly incredible, um, it's
[00:12:33] a huge number, and we are very proud of this relationship, and we are
[00:12:37] not going to let this incident, which is, as you mentioned,
[00:12:41] unprecedented, first of its kind between
[00:12:45] our countries ever since we had the Abrahamhamic accords, and we
[00:12:49] will not let this incident define the nature the relationship between
[00:12:53] the countries, I think... quite the opposite, we will learn from
[00:12:56] this, we will overcome this together, and we
[00:13:00] will step into a better future with a more powerful
[00:13:09] the the pilots in question, the omani pilot, what do
[00:13:11] you think could happen to him at the end of
[00:13:13] investigations?
[00:13:17] i am honestly not sure what happened at the end the
[00:13:20] investigations, hope that whatever punishment.
[00:13:26] and the authorities in the United Arab Emirates decide that he
[00:13:30] deserves, he will get, because he is
[00:13:34] a terrorist that admitted to a terror attack. We
[00:13:38] cannot tolerate terrorism, I'm sure, I'm speaking to a
[00:13:41] Nigerian audience, I'm sure that all Nigerians can agree with
[00:13:45] me that there is no place for
[00:13:48] terrorism, in 2026, in our
[00:13:51] world, in the western society, this is not... what we
[00:13:55] aspired to do, this is not how we want our future to look
[00:13:59] like, no one should be afraid to catch a flight,
[00:14:03] to try to go home, and then to be afraid that
[00:14:06] the pilot will try to crash the airplane to hijack it, to kill
[00:14:10] everyone, and to rely on passengers who were brave
[00:14:13] enough to take control the situation, and a super brave
[00:14:17] pilot who saved lives, no one should ever have to
[00:14:21] experience this in his lifetime, sorry in his lifetime or ever.
[00:14:25] so I am not sure what's going to happen to
[00:14:29] him, but what I do know is that this will
[00:14:32] not go on quietly, um, and we
[00:14:36] are still looking into the possibility that maybe he was not
[00:14:40] operating on his own, maybe he was backed up by
[00:14:44] a country or an organization that shared the same
[00:14:47] radical islamist jihadist ideology that
[00:14:51] wants to spread terror, that wants to kill all is
[00:14:55] is that say and claim that Israel does not belong in the middle
[00:14:59] east or in the world and we will not let it
[00:15:02] happen, so I'm sure he will get what
[00:15:06] he deserves as far as the authorities
[00:15:09] decide. more on my conversation with action
[00:15:12] ambassadorlis Davissky coming up after the break, stay with
[00:15:54] may change flight protocol for those wishing to travel to Israel. Accent
[00:15:57] ambassador Richard Listoviski talks about the world becoming more dangerous for
[00:16:01] Israelis. The Omani Pilot is said to have been radicalized
[00:16:05] online. "he was radicalized
[00:16:09] individual uh when he made the plan and thought the idea
[00:16:13] to carry out this terrorist plot, do you think this you know
[00:16:17] raises a bigger issue here, the radicalization that could have happened
[00:16:21] in Oman or perhaps in the UAE, who knows where
[00:16:25] he was getting his material
[00:16:26] from? I think it's
[00:16:29] definitely a problem, I would not point fingers any
[00:16:33] specific place because this um radical..."
[00:16:38] Islamist ideology is currently being worldwide
[00:16:41] spread. We see it in the United States, we see it
[00:16:45] in the UK, we see it in Europe, we see it in Africa, we see it in the far
[00:16:49] east, we see it
[00:17:07] know... that radical Islamism is spreading worldwide
[00:17:10] and nothing is happening a void, you
[00:17:13] know, ever since the October seventh massacre,
[00:17:17] Israelis are being targeted, Israelis are
[00:17:21] being targeted, Israelis are
[00:17:24] more more scared to
[00:17:50] and this is the precaution that sadly Israelies around the world
[00:17:54] need to take, and it is, it
[00:17:57] is just crazy and sad, and
[00:18:01] it's not right, it's not right that we are the ones who should walk
[00:18:05] with fear in the world. "I think that those who want to spread
[00:18:09] terror, those who want to spread fear, those who want to
[00:18:12] kill out of an ideology, out of radical
[00:18:16] ideology, those are the people that the world should
[00:18:19] condemn, those are the people that should walk with fear,
[00:18:23] and those are the people that the authorities should look very carefully
[00:18:27] into, and not the people who are always advocating for peace,
[00:18:31] who are always advocating for saving lives and who are always advocating
[00:18:35] for a peaceful middle east and a peaceful..." world and acting
[00:18:39] upon it, not just
[00:18:52] you know more Israelies have become target because of
[00:18:56] um you know also Israeli um attacks
[00:19:00] on you know the war the middle east on Hamas in
[00:19:03] Gaza as well as Hizbullah in Lebanon.
[00:19:09] This is definitely part of this Islamic
[00:19:11] radicalization, um, as I was saying, yes,
[00:19:15] Israelies are being more targeted because of this extreme
[00:19:18] ideology. As prime minister Netanyahu said
[00:19:22] few days ago, this war that was imposed on
[00:19:26] Israel is not a war that we can afford to lose, it's
[00:19:30] yes, but I could not agree more, this is not a war that we can
[00:19:34] afford to lose, because losing this war will... mean
[00:19:38] that there will no longer be a state of Israel, perhaps you know the
[00:19:41] famous quote by former prime minister gold mayor,
[00:19:45] um, if the arab lay down their arms, there
[00:19:49] will be no more war, but if Israel lay down its
[00:19:53] arms, there will be no more Israel, and it is
[00:19:56] still sadly relevant to this
[00:20:19] program, Miss Yanuching will now be known as the former
[00:20:23] Consul General for China as she's completed her tenure in
[00:20:26] Lagos. Last week she hosted her last party
[00:20:30] celebrating the mid autumn festival with Nigerian government officials, the
[00:20:34] Chinese community in Lagos, the Business Community and friends of
[00:20:38] china. It's another mid autumn
[00:20:42] festival by the consulates the people's republic of China in
[00:20:45] Lagos, but it's a beta sweet one as it is the
[00:20:49] last. for consul general yanging whose time
[00:20:53] in Nigeria has come to an end, government officials,
[00:20:57] diplomats, business people and friends of China have come to
[00:21:01] honor
[00:21:01] her.
[00:21:20] As always, China uses every landmark opportunity for
[00:21:24] relations between both
[00:21:25] countries.
[00:21:47] In this instance,
[00:21:49] it is not just... the mid autumn festival, it is also the celebration
[00:21:53] of 77 years the people's republic of China, Nigeria's
[00:21:57] 66th independence anniversary and 55 years of
[00:22:00] diplomatic relations between the two being
[00:22:02] nations. of our
[00:22:04] the well people has improved across
[00:22:07] the
[00:22:09] China has been actively implementing a
[00:22:12] global development, security,
[00:22:15] civilization and the fness initiative.
[00:22:19] i quality b growth cooperation is trying global
[00:22:23] growth and the building stability, stability
[00:22:27] and positive energy to
[00:22:29] board of turbinence and
[00:22:33] transformation. this year is the first year
[00:22:37] of china's 15th five year
[00:22:40] plan. china remains formally
[00:22:44] committed to high quality development. we are
[00:22:48] expanding high standard. opening up
[00:22:51] king barriers and the keeping trade
[00:22:55] close to in braking the world with the given
[00:22:58] all open artitude. the world with china
[00:23:02] is the world with opportunity to invest
[00:23:06] in china is to invest in the
[00:23:10] future. the event quickly transits into a farewell
[00:23:13] ceremony for the outgoing consul general, one with tributes
[00:23:17] pouring in from top officials. we particularly
[00:23:20] appreciate the important role your excellency,
[00:23:24] I has played through the Chinese Councilate
[00:23:28] in facilitating and deepening engagements in
[00:23:32] trade and investment, agriculture,
[00:23:35] education, healthcare, technology, renewable
[00:23:39] energy, culture, skills development and people to
[00:23:43] people exchanges. These partnerships
[00:23:47] are helping to create opportunities for Knowledge
[00:23:50] transfer, investment, institutional
[00:23:53] cooperation and improved livelihoods for our
[00:23:57] people. Your excellency, the lagos
[00:24:01] chin down and lagos sister city
[00:24:04] initiative represent an important
[00:24:07] dimension of this growing partnership. They
[00:24:11] have opened promising avenues for
[00:24:14] cooperation in trade, science and
[00:24:17] technology, education. capacity building
[00:24:21] and shared economic advancement, even
[00:24:25] where from our documents may yet remain to the stand,
[00:24:29] posterity will remember you, consel general
[00:24:32] as more than a coroner and the one who laid the
[00:24:36] foundation for these partnerships, but most
[00:24:40] importantly,
[00:24:42] thank you, but most importantly, as the
[00:24:46] diplomats who have open the doors and and creates the
[00:24:50] pathways to which this relationships could become
[00:24:54] a reality. even the Lagos State first
[00:24:58] lady Dr. ibijakeson speaks about the consul general and
[00:25:02] the friendships she has formed in Lagos. a point
[00:25:05] when the SS was talking, you could
[00:25:08] see the kind of bonds, the passionate
[00:25:12] bond that had been formed in her
[00:25:15] and the counsel general, and we pray that we will
[00:25:19] have more. more relationships like that between many of our
[00:25:23] people and the numerous um diplomatic call that
[00:25:26] we have in Lagos. On behalf of my family, the
[00:25:30] government and the good people of Lagos State permit me to once again
[00:25:34] extend my warmest congratulations to the people and
[00:25:37] government the people's Republic of China on the occasion the
[00:25:41] 77th anniversary the founding the people's republic of
[00:25:45] China and also to say very big thank
[00:25:49] you to... to the outgoing counsel
[00:25:52] general, thank you very much
[00:25:55] for your contributions, thank you for representing china
[00:25:59] very well, thank you for all that you've done and like
[00:26:03] he has said, we are taking a part of Legos
[00:26:06] with you, and you have put a part of
[00:26:10] China, you have left it with us, we always
[00:26:21] though it is night in her honor, she takes the time to hand out
[00:26:24] awards and
[00:26:25] recognitions.
[00:26:59] Lagos sends off consul.
[00:27:03] and wishes her safe travels back to her home
[00:30:44] Hello!