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00:00:16With BBC News our main headlines headlines now. Iran says a deal with
00:00:19with Oman on a shipping route through through the Strait of Hormuz is in
00:00:23in its final stages. Israel says says two of its soldiers have been
00:00:26been killed in southern Lebanon as
00:00:28as it resumed strikes on the country.
00:00:31country. Plans for walk in mental mental health centres to be open
00:00:34open in banks and libraries across
00:00:36across England are unveiled by the the government. Afghanistan's exiled
00:00:40exiled women footballers make an an international comeback after a
00:00:44a change in Fifa's rules and we meet
00:00:47meet the 97-year-old woman who has
00:00:49has successfully broken her own world world record, becoming the oldest
00:00:52oldest woman to complete a wing walk.
00:01:00walk. So much more on all of those those stories coming up. But right
00:01:03right now we're going to get a full full update on the business news
00:01:07news and Tiger, I guess is the business business community watching what
00:01:10what is happening in the Middle East? East? Yeah, absolutely. Obviously, Obviously, the passage through the
00:01:14the Strait of Hormuz, what that means means for oil is that very important
00:01:17important to the business community community and the rest of us as well.
00:01:20well. And as we've been reporting, reporting, an Iranian spokesperson
00:01:23spokesperson says that a deal has has been reached with Oman on a new
00:01:26new shipping route through the Strait Strait of Hormuz. This all following
00:01:30following promises from President President Trump and other senior
00:01:32senior US officials that a deal was
00:01:35was imminent to resume safe passage
00:01:37passage for ships, oil tankers and and others through that vital Gulf
00:01:41Gulf waterway. Uncertainties do remain,
00:01:43remain, though the Iranians have have stressed that the agreement
00:01:47agreement cannot mean there is a a safe passage through the strait
00:01:50strait as long as the US maintains
00:01:53maintains a naval blockade on Iranian
00:01:55Iranian ports. It's also unclear unclear whether Washington will accept
00:01:59accept any deal in which Iran will
00:02:01will retain some control over the
00:02:03the channel. For now, though, oil oil prices appear largely unmoved
00:02:07unmoved by the latest developments. developments. A barrel of Brent crude,
00:02:10crude, currently trading at around
00:02:13around $79. West Texas Intermediate
00:02:16Intermediate at $75 a barrel. I've I've been speaking to Cormac McGarry,
00:02:19McGarry, a maritime expert and director
00:02:22director at the Control Risks Advisory, Advisory, and he's been trying to
00:02:26to decipher the mixed messages coming
00:02:28coming from all sides. Well, in the
00:02:31the past 24, 48 hours, there's clearly clearly there's, signals kind of
00:02:35of being clearly deliberately leaked leaked into the media by both the
00:02:39the US, Iran and probably Oman as
00:02:41as well. A lot of mixed mixed signals, signals, but they're all indicating
00:02:45indicating that something is about about to happen. So what I want to
00:02:47to say is kind of caution. We don't
00:02:49don't know exactly what's about to
00:02:52to happen, but the indications are are that an agreement is about to
00:02:55to be announced that might look something something like this, where if ships
00:02:59ships are going to go into the Gulf. Gulf. So westward through the Strait
00:03:02Strait of Hormuz, they would enter enter through an Iranian route and
00:03:05and then coming out, exiting eastwards, eastwards, they would go through
00:03:09through an Oman controlled route. route. So basically one through Iran
00:03:12Iran and one out through Oman. But
00:03:15But that would involve acknowledging acknowledging that Iran has at least
00:03:18least some control over the Strait Strait of Hormuz. And that would
00:03:20would be a bitter pill for the US
00:03:22US to swallow. Right. Did the harsh
00:03:25harsh tactical reality of the Strait Strait of Hormuz is that Iran has
00:03:29has emerged from this war with almost almost full tactical control of the
00:03:32the Strait of Hormuz. So the long-term long-term scenario planning that
00:03:35that we're trying to do at Control
00:03:37Control Risks for our clients in in all the scenarios, scenarios we
00:03:41we look at realistically, they include include Iran maintaining some level
00:03:45level of control. So what we see
00:03:47see in the next few days, if it does does actually emerge into reality,
00:03:51reality, it's probably going to be
00:03:52be a reality in which Iran has realistic
00:03:56realistic control of the strait. strait. Yeah. I mean, in that context,
00:03:59context, how significant is it that
00:04:02that the Houthis, that significant
00:04:05significant force within Yemen who who are allied with Iran, have been
00:04:08been attacking ships elsewhere in in the region, specifically in the
00:04:12the Red Sea? Another important channel.
00:04:16channel. It is all part of the picture. picture. Now, we don't want to mistake
00:04:20mistake the Houthis for being Iran. Iran. They are allied with each other. other. But the Houthis don't just
00:04:24just do what the Iranians tell them. them. The Houthis are pursuing their
00:04:26their own aims and purposes, and and that's a blockade of Saudi Arabia
00:04:30Arabia effectively, is what they're they're doing. It is part of the the picture, however, because that
00:04:34that that will be part of the pressure
00:04:36pressure on the US. To concede something something to Iran. It's part it's
00:04:40it's all part of that grand strategic
00:04:43strategic picture that that is basically basically saying the US cannot control control that strait. And then the
00:04:47the broader picture, it cannot control control the strait and the southern
00:04:49southern Red Sea at the same time. time. And if it wants business to
00:04:53to get back to some form of normal, normal, it's going to have to concede
00:04:57concede militarily. And what would would you say Cormac is different
00:05:00different this time as compared with
00:05:02with a few months ago when we thought thought we had the outline of a deal
00:05:06deal that would reopen that strait strait all over again. I think what's
00:05:10what's different is that so back back in maybe two months ago in early
00:05:13early June, the MOU was announced announced and we were forecasting
00:05:17forecasting that. So the system that that was announced effectively allowed
00:05:21allowed some ships to get through. through. We thought Iran would turn
00:05:24turn a blind eye. Iran was saying saying that it would administer the
00:05:27the strait. We thought they would would turn a blind eye to the fact
00:05:30fact that a lot of ships were going going to sail without asking their
00:05:34their permission, but Iran shut that that down pretty quickly and started started attacking ships again. And
00:05:37And then we entered the round of of violence that we've seen for the
00:05:40the past month or so. What's different
00:05:42different now is that we know Iran Iran has asserted itself and said
00:05:46said if ships sail without its permission, permission, it will attack them.
00:05:50them. And there's there's no doubt
00:05:52doubt about it that shipping, getting getting back to normal is going to
00:05:55to have some form of normal is going going to happen under some sort,
00:05:58sort, some form of Iranian regime.
00:06:01regime. The Trump administration administration has had to refund
00:06:04refund $100 billion of its so-called so-called Liberation Day tariffs
00:06:08tariffs to businesses after they they were ruled to have been illegal.
00:06:11illegal. That's around 60% of all all the revenue collected by the
00:06:14the US government under the policy, policy, according to a recent court
00:06:18court filing from US Customs and and Border Protection. Meanwhile,
00:06:22Meanwhile, 25 US states are now suing suing the Trump administration over
00:06:25over the latest wave of tariffs on
00:06:27on imports from dozens of countries,
00:06:30countries, including Australia and and Norway, because of accusations accusations they weren't doing enough
00:06:33enough to tackle forced labour. The
00:06:36The states, all led by the Democratic Democratic Party, called the new
00:06:39new tariffs arbitrary, capricious capricious and contrary to law. I've
00:06:43I've been speaking to Professor Barry Barry Appleton, a co-director of
00:06:47of the centre for International Law Law at New York Law School. He testified
00:06:50testified to the US Trade Representative Representative on the issue of forced
00:06:54forced labour and has been explaining explaining the legal complexities
00:06:56complexities of it. Well, it's kind
00:07:00kind of complicated. Look, nobody nobody is in favour of the use of
00:07:03of forced labour in imports where where everybody all the countries
00:07:06countries have laws that deal with with it. The difference is their
00:07:10their laws are different from the
00:07:11the way the US does it. The US has
00:07:15has put in a reverse onus. They've They've said everything is deemed
00:07:18deemed to be use of forced labour
00:07:21labour unless you can prove it to
00:07:24to the alternative. And so many countries countries like the UK, Australia,
00:07:27Australia, Canada have forced labour
00:07:28labour laws. But they say you have
00:07:31have to only prosecute those who who have an allegation of use of
00:07:34of forced labour. And the Americans Americans have imposed a tax on that.
00:07:38that. So it's not that there's a a proof of any link to forced labour.
00:07:41labour. It's simply that there's there's a difference in the way that
00:07:45that everybody's enforcing it. And And that seems pretty unfair. So
00:07:49So looking at the specifics of the the case that these 25 individual
00:07:52individual US states have taken,
00:07:54taken, how strong would you say it
00:07:57it is? Well, you know, what's interesting interesting about this is that this
00:08:01this is the third time now that something something is going to the US courts.
00:08:04courts. If you remember, on the trade trade liberation tariffs, the US
00:08:08US Supreme Court struck that down. down. That was the first time anyone
00:08:10anyone had ever used the Ieepa tariff.
00:08:13tariff. And they said that that was was improper. It wasn't properly
00:08:16properly connected. And there was
00:08:18was another power owned by the Congress.
00:08:21Congress. This area, section 301, 301, is very established. It's been
00:08:24been used for over 60 years. The
00:08:28The difficulty here is, is that there there was a very shortened period.
00:08:32period. There's no link whatsoever whatsoever to the proof of forced
00:08:35forced labour that's here. And so so the fairness, the discrimination
00:08:39discrimination you'd want to show
00:08:40show the rationality is absent. So
00:08:43So normally a 301 doesn't have a
00:08:44a good shot. But this particular
00:08:47particular tariff looks and doesn't doesn't smell right. It just doesn't
00:08:51doesn't seem to have the right fit. fit. So I would say that this has
00:08:54has a better chance than most to
00:08:56to be able to succeed. But it's going
00:08:58going to take time. Would you welcome
00:09:01welcome big trading nations such such as the United States? More of
00:09:04of them doing more to prevent forced
00:09:07forced labour, even if it involves
00:09:09involves the use of tariffs. Well,
00:09:12Well, tariffs are not a very effective effective tool with respect to forced
00:09:16forced labour. But a it's not that
00:09:20that we're it's not that anyone would would be opposed to the use of tariffs
00:09:22tariffs per se if there was actually actually a link. But remember in
00:09:26in this case the 59 countries in
00:09:28in the EU, the 60 affected participants,
00:09:31participants, there's no proof whatsoever whatsoever that they're using forced forced labour. It's simply they're
00:09:35they're enforcing it in a different different way. And somehow that doesn't
00:09:38doesn't seem to be right. Shares
00:09:41Shares in the Google owner alphabet alphabet have been falling after
00:09:44after a shake-up at the top of the
00:09:46the company's AI business. Demis Demis Hassabis, the chief executive
00:09:49executive of Google DeepMind, is
00:09:51is going to become chief scientist
00:09:54scientist at alphabet. This all comes comes as four of Google's AI researchers
00:09:58researchers announced they were leaving leaving to start their own company.
00:10:01company. Here's our North America America business correspondent Samira
00:10:03Samira Hussain. Google is under immense
00:10:07immense pressure as it competes with
00:10:08with the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI.
00:10:11OpenAI. It is why this big shake-up
00:10:14shake-up of their AI leadership has has investors just so nervous. There
00:10:17There are worries that alphabet has
00:10:19has actually fallen behind in the
00:10:21the AI race, even though it created
00:10:24created some of the key technologies technologies that are underpinning
00:10:28underpinning current AI models. Now Now also remember like other tech
00:10:31tech firms, Google continues to spend spend big on AI data centres and
00:10:35and such to the tune of somewhere
00:10:39somewhere between 195 to $205 billion. billion. That's an awful lot of money
00:10:43money to spend on a division of a a company that is going through such
00:10:46such a massive shake up. Well staying staying on the subject of AI it's
00:10:50it's proving to be a useful tool
00:10:52tool in tackling this summer's record.
00:10:55record. Wildfires in Europe, coupled
00:10:57coupled with satellite imagery, artificial artificial intelligence models are
00:11:01are helping emergency services to
00:11:03to detect fires earlier and to forecast
00:11:06forecast how they'll spread. I've I've been speaking to Doctor Axel
00:11:10Axel Riniker of Aurora tech, which
00:11:12which helps to develop Greece's first first national wildfire detection
00:11:15detection system. He told me how
00:11:17how it works. So from space we can
00:11:21can continuously monitor fires with
00:11:25with satellites that measure infrared.
00:11:27infrared. So we measure heat rather
00:11:30rather than visible smoke or flames.
00:11:31flames. And we scan the Earth's surface
00:11:35surface surface looking for heat
00:11:37heat signatures frequently and globally. globally. So with that information
00:11:40information combined with. Weather
00:11:43Weather vegetation and terrain data,
00:11:46data, our AI turns millions of data
00:11:49data points into a simple alert and
00:11:51and actionable insight like how the
00:11:54the fire evolves, where it goes.
00:11:55goes. And how important it is. Europe
00:11:58Europe is getting used to more wildfires. wildfires. It's probably going to
00:12:01to have to. Other parts of the world world are more accustomed to dealing
00:12:04dealing with them. And I wonder,
00:12:06wonder, is this part of that Europe
00:12:09Europe becoming more capable of managing
00:12:13managing wildfires? Wildfires need
00:12:17need to be detected earlier if you
00:12:18you want to if you want to act on
00:12:21on a manageable size of the fire.
00:12:23fire. Once fires get beyond a certain
00:12:27certain size, there is no control. control. So the earlier you can detect
00:12:30detect a fire and even predict where
00:12:32where fires are likely to happen,
00:12:34happen, you can put forces on the the ground, be prepared and react
00:12:38react when the fire is still manageable. manageable. And this is where we
00:12:41we need to get to go. Obviously there's there's like also in the prevention
00:12:45prevention part that we need to do
00:12:47do things like, removing vegetation
00:12:49vegetation early enough, etc. Is
00:12:53Is there a risk that this kind of of technology could promote maybe
00:12:56maybe some complacency about climate climate change that we rely on technology
00:13:00technology to help mitigate its worst
00:13:03worst impacts? No, we are currently
00:13:07currently using firefighting often often technologies that are, you
00:13:09you know, 100 years old and we just
00:13:11just need to catch up and use what,
00:13:14what, what we have at hand, to, battle
00:13:19battle wildfires, with the appropriate appropriate means. OK. And setting
00:13:22setting up systems and infrastructure. infrastructure. This is like roads
00:13:24roads and bridges and IT infrastructure.
00:13:28infrastructure. This is something something that every country should
00:13:30should have. Yeah, it certainly is.
00:13:32is. And honestly, I coming back, back, just having been to Greece,
00:13:36Greece, beautiful, beautiful country country with so much concern about about the various wildfires there,
00:13:40there, many around Athens, the capital. Yeah, we're all in this this part of the world becoming more
00:13:43more accustomed to more and more more frequent wildfires. You've just just come back from Greece. I've
00:13:47I've just come back from wine country country in California, where I noticed
00:13:51noticed nearly every half mile on on the road. Fire stations, fire
00:13:55fire trucks. They're keenly aware aware of the danger of fires. And
00:13:58And I guess that's how we're going going to have to develop ourselves ourselves in Europe as well. Indeed.
00:14:02Indeed. And of course, concern also also in France you're talking about
00:14:06about Bordeaux, Bordeaux as well. well. A lot of concern about those
00:14:09those vineyards and all of that. that. The damage and destruction. destruction. Tyg as always, thank
00:14:13thank you so much for the business business news. We will be back to
00:14:16to you. Tomorrow. Tomorrow? Yeah,
00:14:19Yeah, I'm going home now. OK. It It is an early start. I will admit admit it's an early start. Not as
00:14:23as a morning person. Yeah, makes makes me confused. Tadhg Enright
00:14:26Enright there lots more still to to come here on the BBC News channel.
00:14:30channel. We are going to be meeting
00:14:32meeting Afghanistan's exiled women women footballers because they are
00:14:35are making an international comeback
00:14:37comeback after a change in Fifa's
00:14:41Fifa's rules. Now, Africa's richest
00:14:44richest man, Aliko Dangote has told told the BBC about his plans to build
00:14:48build a new oil refinery in Kenya,
00:14:50Kenya, which he says will help African African countries become energy self-sufficient.
00:14:54self-sufficient. My colleague Nancy
00:14:56Nancy Kacungira caught up with Mr Mr Dangote in Lagos and began by
00:15:00by asking him just how advanced the
00:15:02the plans are for the refinery. The
00:15:05The plans have actually gone very
00:15:08very far with Kenya and because what
00:15:11what we are trying to do really is
00:15:12is to try and make sure that you
00:15:15you know, most African countries
00:15:17countries we make them self-sufficient
00:15:21self-sufficient in their own, you
00:15:23you know, energy needs energy needs
00:15:26needs fertiliser. And so going back
00:15:29back to your question, how far we've
00:15:31we've gone, we've gone very far.
00:15:34far. And I think by latest by October
00:15:38October we'll be doing, groundbreaking
00:15:42groundbreaking once we break ground,
00:15:44ground, we will start the construction
00:15:46construction very soon. We are really really planning something very big
00:15:50big within the African continent continent and a lot of people say,
00:15:54say, well, does the refinery in East East Africa, does it make sense?
00:15:56sense? It makes a lot of sense because
00:15:59because the refinery is not only
00:16:01only for Kenya. That's why we are
00:16:03are calling it East African refinery,
00:16:06refinery, you know, so that can serve
00:16:10serve a lot of countries up to even even Egypt. How much do you expect expect the East African refinery
00:16:13refinery to. I think we. Thought Thought it was going to cost 17 billion.
00:16:17billion. But it's going to cost much. much. It will cost less than that.
00:16:20that. We are looking at about 15.5,
00:16:2315.5, $16 billion. Why will it cost
00:16:25cost less than you originally anticipated?
00:16:28anticipated? Because this one will
00:16:29will be faster. So in terms of financing
00:16:33financing costs will be less. And
00:16:35And then also you know, we are wiser
00:16:39wiser as a company than that time time we built this one because we
00:16:43we are just learning when we built built the one here. So that is really
00:16:47really what is helping us. So in
00:16:49in terms of timing, we'll be able
00:16:51able to build in less than four years.
00:16:53years. So the location is decided. decided. What about the financing.
00:16:56financing. Are you looking at cash cash debt equity. Yeah. Well look
00:16:59look at. All that. You know looking
00:17:01looking at equity and debt. So 30%
00:17:0530% is going to be equity. And then
00:17:09then 70% will be debt. But we know know we don't have any problem raising
00:17:13raising the money. So what do you
00:17:16you see as the impact that this refinery
00:17:18refinery could have on energy security? It's going to have a massive
00:17:22massive impact really. And then also
00:17:24also it guarantees the countries countries getting their own products.
00:17:27products. They are not going to live live hand to mouth. You know, they
00:17:30they are listening. And then, you you know, the refinery is there.
00:17:33there. It's for them. And that's that's his full interview is going
00:17:36going to be available on a new Africa Africa business programme, which
00:17:38which starts right here on the BBC
00:17:41BBC News channel in October. Now, Now, in the five years since the
00:17:44the Taliban returned to power in
00:17:46in Afghanistan, women have been banned banned from all organised sport.
00:17:50sport. But against the odds, Afghanistan's Afghanistan's women footballers now
00:17:54now scattered across the world, have have found a way back onto the international
00:17:57international stage. It's after Fifa Fifa changed its rules, allowing
00:18:00allowing them to officially represent
00:18:03represent Afghanistan. Mahjooba Nowrouzi Nowrouzi from BBC Global Women followed
00:18:06followed their journey as they travelled travelled to New Zealand for their
00:18:09their first training camp and match.
00:18:14match. At the time, the. A song for
00:18:19for Afghanistan, a team reunited. reunited. These players have travelled
00:18:23travelled from across the world for
00:18:25for two friendlies in Auckland against
00:18:28against the Cook Islands. The first
00:18:31first century FA allowed Afghanistan's
00:18:33Afghanistan's team in exile back back into international football.
00:18:36football. We want Afghanistan to to be free and we want Afghan girls
00:18:39girls and women to be free, to be
00:18:42be able to choose who they want to
00:18:44to be. We want to prove that we are are still here. We still fighting
00:18:48fighting for the rights that you you took away from us. Five years
00:18:51years ago. Everything changed for
00:18:53for them almost overnight when the
00:18:56the Taliban returned to power, women
00:18:58women were banned from playing sports.
00:19:01sports. Afghanistan's women's team team was forced into exile, unable
00:19:05unable to represent their country. country. They were scattered across
00:19:08across the world. I was bullied throughout throughout high school and football football gave me the confidence to
00:19:12to be who I am today and to be able
00:19:14able to speak loud so I don't know
00:19:16know where I would be. Two three. three. Now they are back together
00:19:20together rebuilding the team. They
00:19:21They thought they had lost for these
00:19:24these players, football is more than than a game. I wanted to use this
00:19:28this platform to advocate for the the women of Afghanistan who haven't
00:19:30haven't been allowed to study for for the past five years. Obviously
00:19:34Obviously the book the Rose, who
00:19:37who is a representation of women
00:19:40women and the date August 15th and
00:19:42and the date that Afghanistan fell.
00:19:46fell. These matches are only the
00:19:48the beginning. The aim is to rebuild
00:19:50rebuild Afghanistan's team in exile
00:19:52exile and to compete for a place
00:19:56place at the 2028 Olympic Games. Games. I will be proud of the team
00:19:59team and proud of myself that I was was part of the journey and we made
00:20:03made history by being the first like
00:20:05like football team to get our recognition
00:20:07recognition without the approval approval of the Taliban. I'm so proud proud of our young players who played
00:20:11played today. Great game. Don't cry. cry. Don't put your heads down. It's
00:20:14It's more than football for us. Afghanistan
00:20:17Afghanistan lost both matches to
00:20:18to the Cook Islands, but after years
00:20:21years in exile simply wearing their
00:20:23their country's colours again is
00:20:25is a victory. Their Olympic dream dream is is still alive. We don't
00:20:29don't know when we're going to see see each other again, but it's just
00:20:32just always amazing to have the second
00:20:34second family. Out. Mahjooba Nowrouzi
00:20:39Nowrouzi BBC Auckland. Great to see see them back together now the Nigerian
00:20:42Nigerian government says that more more than 300 people have been freed
00:20:45freed in what's described as the the largest ever rescue operation
00:20:49operation by the security forces forces in a single day. More than than half of the kidnapped victims
00:20:53victims were seized by suspected suspected jihadists six months ago.
00:20:56ago. The rest were taken from Niger
00:20:58Niger State. Now the attack in Kwara Kwara targeted two villages near
00:21:02near the border with Benin. At least
00:21:05least 75 people were killed. The
00:21:09The UK, the UK government has set set out plans for more than 150 walk
00:21:13walk in mental health centres across
00:21:16across England, Chloe Hayward reports.
00:21:19reports. 123 a year ago, a new mental mental health facility opened in
00:21:23in east London and its success means means the model is now being rolled
00:21:26rolled out across England. The NHS
00:21:29NHS centre brings specialist teams teams to the community, helping people
00:21:32people in crisis and preventing A&E
00:21:34A&E admissions. We want to have conversations conversations with people really
00:21:37really early on so we can work out out what people need and also point
00:21:40point them in the right direction. direction. Once we've worked out
00:21:42out what the problem is, just walking walking around to the main entrance.
00:21:45entrance. This facility is one of
00:21:47of six pilot centres that have had had a big impact. Local hospital
00:21:51hospital stays have halved in length length and over three months. The
00:21:54The total number of hospital bed
00:21:56bed days went down from 216 to just
00:21:59just 81. And straight away you can can see it's quite an open area.
00:22:02area. Today's announcement by the the Department of Health means 100
00:22:05100 community mental health hubs hubs on top of the six pilots will
00:22:09will be open by 2029, offering walk
00:22:12walk in support without an appointment. appointment. There will also be 59
00:22:1559 new dedicated mental health emergency emergency departments, giving people
00:22:19people specialist care when in crisis.
00:22:21crisis. The rollout is backed by
00:22:25by nearly £350 million from the capital capital investment. Starmer's government
00:22:28government announced. The hope is is that bringing more accessible
00:22:30accessible help closer to home for
00:22:33for patients will reduce A&E admissions admissions overall and for those
00:22:36those in crisis, bring them the right right care rather than a long wait
00:22:39wait in a busy and inappropriately inappropriately equipped emergency
00:22:42emergency unit. The pilots have worked. worked. The evidence is there that
00:22:45that it's better for people. It's It's more helpful for the investment
00:22:48investment that we're putting into into the health system. So now we we need to get moving, rolling these
00:22:52these out as fast as possible, getting getting them across every part of
00:22:56of the country so that we deliver deliver the care that people actually
00:22:58actually need to help them get better, better, get back to work and actually
00:23:02actually live a full and flourishing flourishing life. Demand for mental
00:23:05mental health services has risen risen sharply, particularly among
00:23:08among children and young people, people, with around 1 in 5 experiencing
00:23:12experiencing a common mental health health condition each year. The Samaritans
00:23:16Samaritans say they receive a call
00:23:18call every 10s and that these facilities
00:23:21facilities need to open as fast as
00:23:22as possible. Chloe Hayward BBC News.
00:23:27News. Now a 97-year-old woman has has successfully broken her own world
00:23:30world record to become the oldest
00:23:32oldest woman to complete a wing walk. walk. Betty Bromage raised money
00:23:35money for staff who helped her recover recover from a stroke. Well, Steve
00:23:39Steve Knibbs was there to see her
00:23:41her fly high. Betty's back 97 years
00:23:47years young and taking to the skies skies again. I just get bored with
00:23:51with life. Otherwise when you get get old you can't go here. You can't
00:23:55can't do this. You can't drive, you you can't see. I can't see very well.
00:23:58well. And I get a bit frustrated.
00:24:02frustrated. Up in the air. Betty's Betty's at home in her element on
00:24:05on the ground, her friends and neighbours neighbours from her retirement village
00:24:08village in Cheltenham watch on nervously.
00:24:13nervously. Betty. Betty started all all this ten years ago at the age
00:24:17age of 87. She's since abseiled down down a tower in Cheltenham and took
00:24:20took on a zipwire in Snowdonia. And And today she pushed the envelope
00:24:24envelope even further, asking the
00:24:25the pilot to throw in a barrel roll.
00:24:28roll. Oh, my God. All of this was
00:24:31was done to raise money for the stroke stroke unit in Cheltenham. They helped
00:24:35helped Betty when she had a stroke stroke last year. So kind to me and
00:24:38and straight away the treatment I
00:24:43I got it affects my words. I go to to say a word and it doesn't always
00:24:47always come out. But the rest of of me I'm fit as a fiddle. Well for
00:24:50for a 97 year. Old. Today the staff
00:24:53staff sent her a good luck message.
00:24:56message. Grateful for the support.
00:24:57support. Thank you Betty. It's just
00:25:01just amazing that she's doing this this for us. We're so grateful. And
00:25:05And to, you know, go up and wing wing walk and take on such a daring
00:25:09daring and incredible challenge and and to support our stroke services services team. It's just amazing.
00:25:12amazing. We're so grateful. We really really appreciate what she's doing.
00:25:16doing. Back on the ground, Betty Betty took it all in her stride with
00:25:19with confirmation that she broke broke her own world record yet again
00:25:23again as the oldest female wing,
00:25:24wing, Walker. Officially. Amazing.
00:25:28Amazing. I was a trained children's children's nurse and I went to work work in Doctor Barnardo's home in
00:25:32in Bristol and above my bed it said. said. We passed through this world,
00:25:35world, but once any good we can do
00:25:37do any kindness we can show. Do it
00:25:39it now. Do not defer or neglect it.
00:25:42it. You shall not pass this way again. again. In two and a half years' time
00:25:45time Betty has promised to take to to the skies again when she turns
00:25:48turns 100 to become a magnificent magnificent centenarian on a flying
00:25:52flying machine. Steve Knibbs, BBC
00:25:54BBC News Renkum. And of course she
00:25:57she will be like Betty. That's the the motto for today, I think. Lots
00:26:00Lots more coming up here on the BBC
00:26:02BBC News channel with Karin Giannone, Giannone, but for me and the team
00:26:06team right now, as always, thanks thanks for being
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