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00:00:14with BBC News. I'm Karin Giannone Giannone the headlines. Iran says
00:00:17says a deal with Oman on a shipping shipping route through the Strait
00:00:20Strait of Hormuz
00:00:24final stages. Plans for walk in mental mental health centres to open in
00:00:27in banks and
00:01:11continuing its crackdown on Russia Russia with tough new sanctions.
00:01:13sanctions. In the words of this release release from the Foreign Office.
00:01:16Office. The Foreign Secretary, Ed Ed Miliband, says he is stepping
00:01:19stepping up the UK's action against against Russia with new sanctions
00:01:23sanctions targeting the Kremlin's Kremlin's military machine, oil and
00:01:26and gas revenues and ageing shadow
00:01:28shadow fleet. It goes on to say that
00:01:30that the government continues to to support Ukraine after the Prime
00:01:33Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Secretary welcomed President Zelensky
00:01:36Zelensky to the UK last week. The The statement goes on to say that
00:01:39that Russian banks shadow fleet ships ships and shady businesses have been
00:01:43been slapped with UK sanctions for
00:01:45for their role in Russias barbaric
00:01:48barbaric war on Ukraine. They say.
00:01:50say. In his first major sanctions sanctions package, Ed Miliband is
00:01:54is in the statements words reinforcing reinforcing the UK's commitment to
00:01:57to the people of Ukraine by announcing announcing new measures against those
00:02:00those supporting the Kremlin's war
00:02:01war effort. And the package targets
00:02:04targets individuals and businesses businesses enabling Russia's war
00:02:07war with Ukraine further constraining constraining the networks and revenue
00:02:10revenue streams on which the Kremlin Kremlin relies. We'll give you more
00:02:13more on that as we get it here on
00:02:17on BBC News. Here the government government says it's launching the
00:02:20the biggest redesign of mental health
00:02:22health services in a generation up
00:02:24up to 159 new NHS mental health centres centres are planned across England,
00:02:28England, but the scale of the challenge challenge is immense. 1 in 5 people
00:02:32people struggles with their mental mental health and thousands turn
00:02:34turn up in A&E when they get to crisis crisis point because they can't find
00:02:38find help elsewhere. With more, here's
00:02:41here's Chloe Hayward. 123. A year
00:02:44year ago, a new mental health facility
00:02:46facility opened in east London, and and its success means the model is
00:02:49is now being rolled out across England.
00:02:52England. The NHS centre brings specialist specialist teams to the community,
00:02:55community, helping people in crisis crisis and preventing A&E admissions.
00:02:59admissions. We want to have conversations conversations with people really really early on so we can work out
00:03:02out what people need and also point point them in the right direction. direction. Once we've worked out
00:03:06out what the problem is. Just walking walking round to the main entrance.
00:03:09entrance. This facility is one of of six pilot centres that have had
00:03:13had a big impact. Local hospital hospital stays have halved in length
00:03:17length and over three months. The The total number of hospital bed
00:03:20bed days went down from 216 to just
00:03:23just 81. And straight away you can can see it's quite an open area.
00:03:26area. Today's announcement by the the Department of Health means 100
00:03:29100 community mental health hubs hubs on top of the six pilots will
00:03:33will be open by 2029, offering walk
00:03:35walk in support without an appointment. appointment. There will also be 59
00:03:3959 new dedicated mental health emergency emergency departments, giving people
00:03:43people specialist care when in crisis.
00:03:45crisis. The rollout is backed by
00:03:48by nearly £350 million from the capital capital investment. Starmer's government
00:03:52government announced. The hope is is that bringing more accessible
00:03:55accessible help closer to home for
00:03:57for patients will reduce A&E admissions admissions overall and for those
00:04:00those in crisis, bring them the right right care rather than a long wait
00:04:04wait in a busy and inappropriately inappropriately equipped emergency
00:04:06emergency unit. The pilots have worked. worked. The evidence is there that
00:04:09that it's better for people. It's It's more helpful for the investment
00:04:13investment that we're putting into into the health system. So now we we need to get moving, rolling these
00:04:16these out as fast as possible, getting getting them across every part of
00:04:19of the country so that we deliver deliver the care that people actually
00:04:22actually need to help them get better, better, get back to work and actually
00:04:25actually live a full and flourishing flourishing life. Demand for mental
00:04:29mental health services has risen risen sharply, particularly among
00:04:33among children and young people, people, with around 1 in 5 experiencing
00:04:36experiencing a common mental health health condition each year. The Samaritans
00:04:40Samaritans say they receive a call
00:04:42call every 10s and that these facilities
00:04:44facilities need to open as fast as
00:04:47as possible. Chloe Hayward BBC News.
00:04:50News. With me is the BBC health correspondent correspondent Nick Triggle and Nick,
00:04:53Nick, whichever way you look at it, it, the need for mental health services
00:04:57services is enormous. Yes, many of of us do struggle with our mental
00:05:00mental health. 1 in 5 have a probable probable mental health condition.
00:05:04condition. But when we need help, help, it's often difficult to find
00:05:08find services that can support us. us. We know there's long waiting
00:05:12waiting times for many mental health health services. So what the government government is trying to do here is
00:05:15is make it easier to access this
00:05:18this network of what they're calling calling mental health hubs will be
00:05:21be based on a walk in service, so so people can just turn up when they
00:05:24they need it, when they're facing facing significant distress or facing
00:05:27facing a crisis. The idea is they they can just immediately access
00:05:31access these services. Some will will be in community locations close
00:05:34close to people's homes. Even as as we heard libraries and banks may
00:05:37may host these. Some will be in purpose
00:05:41purpose built buildings and a bunch
00:05:42bunch of them will also be attached attached to emergency departments.
00:05:46departments. Because we know a lot lot of people when they're struggling struggling and having a crisis, they
00:05:50they will turn up at an A&E department, department, but that's not the best
00:05:53best place for them to be so attached
00:05:55attached to. Some emergency departments departments will be these areas that
00:05:58that will be staffed by specialists specialists who can provide the support support people need when they're
00:06:02they're struggling. We hear so often often how stretched government finances
00:06:06finances are. Where is the money money coming from to build a network
00:06:10network like this? Well, this is is coming from within the NHS budget.
00:06:13budget. The government has announced announced the budget will be increasing
00:06:16increasing in the coming years. So So it's been found from that budget.
00:06:20budget. The other question that is is being asked by people working working in the NHS is what about
00:06:24about the staffing? Now a lot of of these services are bringing together
00:06:28together kind of existing services services that are sort of scattered,
00:06:31scattered, scattered around. So it's it's not clear how many new staff
00:06:35staff will be used in these services. services. And that's crucial because because of course there's huge demand
00:06:38demand and already services are overstretched.
00:06:42overstretched. So charities and the
00:06:43the Royal College of Nursing is asking asking about staffing. It will take
00:06:47take a number of years for these these services to open. The first
00:06:51first services. New services will will be open in the autumn, but it
00:06:54it could take till 2029 to get this this whole network going. There is
00:06:58is already some services open because because these are based on pilots
00:07:01pilots that have been run in the the last couple of years. So there's
00:07:04there's six mental health hubs in
00:07:05in the community and 23 mental health health emergency departments already
00:07:09already running. So some are already already there, but it will take a
00:07:12a while to get the whole network network going. And I imagine that that hope is that this would ease
00:07:16ease the pressure, particularly on on accident and emergency departments.
00:07:19departments. Yes. I mean, we know
00:07:21know many thousands, maybe 1 in 50
00:07:2350 people who attend A and E are are attending for a mental health
00:07:27health problem. So it should relieve relieve the pressure on those. And
00:07:29And those people often face long long waits because emergency departments departments aren't really set up
00:07:33up to deal with the problems they're they're presenting with what the
00:07:37the hope is. And in the pilot areas areas this has been shown to happen
00:07:40happen is that it reduces demand demand on the inpatient mental health
00:07:44health services, the mental health health hospitals we're seeing fewer
00:07:47fewer stays there because people people are getting help just before
00:07:51before they reach real crisis point.
00:07:53point. And of course, for any health health condition that's vital to
00:07:56to get that early support. Very interesting. interesting. Nick, thank you very
00:07:59very much. Nick Triggle. Japan's
00:08:03Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi Takaichi has for the first time led
00:08:06led commemorations in Hiroshima on on the anniversary of the world's
00:08:09world's first use of nuclear weapons weapons 81 years ago, the United
00:08:13United States dropped an atom bomb bomb on the city at the end of the
00:08:16the Second World War. An estimated
00:08:19estimated 140,000 people were killed. killed. In her address, Ms Takaichi
00:08:23Takaichi reaffirmed Japan's three three non-nuclear principles of not
00:08:26not possessing, producing or allowing
00:08:27allowing nuclear weapons on its territory.
00:08:31territory. The Nigerian government government says more than 300 people
00:08:34people have been freed in what it's it's described as the largest ever
00:08:37ever rescue operation by the security security forces in a single day.
00:08:40day. More than half of the kidnapped
00:08:42kidnapped victims were seized by by suspected jihadists jihadists
00:08:46jihadists in Kwara State six months
00:08:48months ago. The rest were taken from
00:08:50from Niger State. The attack in Kwara Kwara targeted two villages near
00:08:54near the border with Benin. At least
00:08:56least 75 people were killed. Ousted
00:09:00Ousted former Bangladesh Prime Minister Minister Sheikh Hasina says she plans
00:09:03plans to return to Bangladesh in in December despite facing the death
00:09:06death penalty there for crimes against against humanity. In her first virtual
00:09:10virtual media conference since fleeing fleeing to India, she said it was
00:09:13was her duty to return voluntarily
00:09:15voluntarily and help restore democracy democracy and justice. Hasina fled
00:09:18fled to India in 2024 after student
00:09:21student led protests forced her from from power and has remained in exile
00:09:24exile since. She denies the charges
00:09:29charges against her. The Afghan women's women's football team are banned
00:09:33banned from all organised sport at at home. The squad was evacuated
00:09:36evacuated and scattered across the the world but now, against the odds,
00:09:39odds, they've reunited and could could soon represent Afghanistan
00:09:42Afghanistan in official matches. matches. And that's because football's football's governing body changed
00:09:46changed its rules, giving them a a path back to the international
00:09:49international stage. Mahjooba Nowrouzi Nowrouzi from BBC Global Women travelled
00:09:52travelled with them on that journey.
00:09:57journey. At the time. A song for
00:10:02for Afghanistan, a team reunited.
00:10:04reunited. These players have travelled travelled from across the world for
00:10:08for two friendlies in Auckland against
00:10:10against the Cook Islands. The first
00:10:14first since Fifa allowed Afghanistan's
00:10:16Afghanistan's team in exile back back into international football.
00:10:19football. We want Afghanistan to to be free and we want Afghan girls
00:10:22girls and women to be free, to be
00:10:25be able to choose who they want to to be. We want to prove that we are
00:10:29are still here. We still fighting fighting for the rights that you
00:10:32you took away from us. Five years
00:10:34years ago. Everything changed for
00:10:36for them almost overnight when the
00:10:39the Taliban
00:11:13the women of Afghanistan who haven't haven't been allowed to study for
00:11:15for the past five years. Obviously,
00:11:17Obviously, the book The Rose, who
00:11:20who is a representation of women
00:11:23women and the date August 15th and
00:11:25and the date that Afghanistan fell.
00:11:29fell. These matches are only the
00:11:31the beginning. The aim is to rebuild
00:11:33rebuild Afghanistan's team in exile
00:11:35exile and to compete for a place
00:11:39place at the 2028 Olympic Games. Games. I would be proud of the team
00:11:42team and proud of myself that I was
00:11:44was part of the journey and we made made history by being the first like
00:11:48like football team to get our recognition recognition without the approval
00:11:51approval of the Taliban. I'm so proud proud of our young players who played played today. Great game. Don't cry,
00:11:55cry, don't put our heads down. It's
00:11:57It's more than football for us. Afghanistan
00:12:00Afghanistan lost both matches to
00:12:01to the Cook Islands, but after years
00:12:04years in exile, simply wearing their
00:12:06their country's colours again is
00:12:08is a victory. Their Olympic dream dream is still alive. We don't know
00:12:12know when we're going to see each each other again, but it's just always
00:12:15always amazing to have the second
00:12:16second family. I'm gonna talk. Mahjooba
00:12:21Mahjooba Nowrouzi BBC Auckland. Africa's Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote
00:12:25Dangote has told the BBC about his his plans to build a new oil refinery
00:12:29refinery in Kenya, which he says
00:12:31says will help African countries
00:12:33countries become energy self-sufficient. self-sufficient. Nancy Kacungira Kacungira caught up with Mr Dangote
00:12:37Dangote in Lagos and began by asking
00:12:38asking him how advanced the
00:12:42plans for the refinery are. The plans plans have actually gone very far
00:12:45far with
00:13:15think by latest by October we'll
00:13:16we'll be doing, groundbreaking once
00:13:20once we break ground, we will start
00:13:22start the construction very soon.
00:13:25soon. We're really planning something something very big within the African
00:13:29African continent. And a lot of people people say, well, does the refinery
00:13:32refinery in East Africa, does it it make sense? It makes a lot of
00:13:36of sense because the refinery is is not only for Kenya. That's why
00:13:40why we are calling it East African
00:13:44African refinery, you know, so that
00:13:46that can serve a lot of countries countries up to even Egypt. How much
00:13:49much do you expect the East African African refinery to cost? We. Thought
00:13:53Thought it was going to cost 17 billion, billion, but it's going to cost much.
00:13:56much. It will cost less than that.
00:13:58that. We are looking at about 15
00:14:0115 or $16 billion. Why will it cost cost less than you originally anticipated?
00:14:05anticipated? Because this one will
00:14:07will be faster. So in terms of financing
00:14:09financing costs will be less. And
00:14:12And then also you know, we are wiser
00:14:17wiser as a company then that when when we built this one because we
00:14:21we are just learning when we built built the one here. So that is really
00:14:24really what is helping us. So in
00:14:26in terms of timing, we'll be able
00:14:28able to build in less than four years.
00:14:31years. So the location is decided. decided. What about the financing.
00:14:33financing. Are you looking at cash cash debt equity. Yeah. Well looking
00:14:36looking at. All that you know equity
00:14:40equity and debt. So 30% is going
00:14:43going to be equity. And then, 70%
00:14:4770% will be debt. But we know we we don't have any problem raising
00:14:50raising the money. So what do you
00:14:53you see as the impact that this refinery refinery could have on energy security,
00:14:57security, not. Just to have a massive
00:15:00massive impact really, and then also also it guarantees the countries
00:15:04countries getting their own products products that are not going to live
00:15:06live hand to mouth. You know, this. this. And then, you know, the refinery
00:15:10refinery is there. It's for them. them. Around the world and across
00:15:14across the UK.
00:16:18question on BBC News. The family
00:16:25family of Meredith Kercher, the British British exchange student who was
00:16:29was murdered while studying abroad abroad in Italy in 2007, is calling
00:16:32calling for the cancellation of a a comedy show being performed by
00:16:36by Amanda Knox, Meredith's roommate roommate who was twice convicted
00:16:39convicted then acquitted of her murder. murder. Meredith was killed while
00:16:42while studying abroad in the Italian
00:16:44Italian city of Perugia in 2007. 2007. She was found dead in an apartment
00:16:48apartment she shared with Amanda
00:16:50Amanda Knox. Amanda and her then then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito
00:16:54Sollecito were initially convicted convicted of her murder and jailed, jailed, but both were later cleared
00:16:57cleared after years of court proceedings.
00:17:01proceedings. A third defendant, Rudy Rudy Guede, whose DNA was found at
00:17:03at the scene, was convicted of murdering
00:17:07murdering Meredith in 2008. He was
00:17:08was released from prison in 2021.
00:17:112021. Since being cleared of any any involvement in Meredith's death,
00:17:14death, Amanda has told her story story a number of times through books,
00:17:18books, documentaries and in a TV TV drama. Meredith's family have
00:17:21have spoken in the past of the pain. pain. Amanda's projects have caused
00:17:24caused them arguing they overshadow overshadow Meredith's memory. Amanda's
00:17:28Amanda's new show was due to place place at take the Edinburgh Fringe Fringe Festival. It's being described
00:17:32described as a stand up comedy show, show, referencing the time she spent
00:17:35spent in jail in Italy and how she's
00:17:37she's since tried to explain it to to her young children. Meredith's
00:17:41Meredith's sister Stephanie, told told BBC Breakfast the show makes
00:17:44makes light of violence against women women and causes pain for the family.
00:17:48family. 19 years on. The family obviously
00:17:52obviously it's very personal to us us and affects her friends as well. well. Still, obviously, you know
00:17:56know it's left a massive void in
00:17:58in our lives and Amanda is naturally
00:18:01naturally free to continue with her her life as she wishes. But I think
00:18:05think the problem with this particular
00:18:09particular project is that it is is comedy. And whilst I appreciate
00:18:13appreciate comedy, is there to push
00:18:14push the boundaries and you know
00:18:18know it very much normalises and and trivialises violence against
00:18:21against women and Meredith in particular.
00:18:24particular. I think in this case
00:18:28case it's a position where it's not
00:18:30not a generic topic. It's targeting
00:18:32targeting an individual traumatic traumatic case and an individual
00:18:36individual person and family. And
00:18:38And I feel very strongly that that that Meredith wouldn't agree with
00:18:42with that. And obviously I have read read certain comments that she's
00:18:45she's made that Meredith would have have found it funny. And Meredith
00:18:49Meredith absolutely wouldn't find find these topics of, you know, any
00:18:53any comedy value. Meredith's sister
00:18:56sister Stephanie shares in the Google Google owner alphabet, have been
00:19:00been falling after a shake up at at the top of the company's AI business.
00:19:04business. Demis Hassabis, CEO of of Google DeepMind, is set to become
00:19:07become chief scientist at alphabet. alphabet. It comes as four of Google's
00:19:11Google's AI researchers announced announced they were leaving to start start their own company. Here's our
00:19:14our North America business correspondent
00:19:16correspondent Samira Hussain. Google Google is under immense pressure
00:19:20pressure as it competes with the the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI.
00:19:24OpenAI. It is why this big shake
00:19:27shake up of their AI leadership has has investors just so nervous. There
00:19:30There are worries that alphabet has
00:19:32has actually fallen behind in the
00:19:35the AI race, even though it created
00:19:37created some of the key technologies
00:19:39technologies that are underpinning underpinning current AI models. Now
00:19:42Now also remember like other tech tech firms, Google continues to spend
00:19:46spend big on AI data centres and
00:19:48and such to the tune of somewhere
00:19:52somewhere between 195 to $205 billion. billion. That's an awful lot of money
00:19:56money to spend on a division of a a company that is going through such
00:19:59such a massive shake up. AI is proving
00:20:02proving to be a useful tool in tackling tackling this summer's record. Wildfires
00:20:06Wildfires in Europe coupled with with satellite imagery, artificial
00:20:10artificial intelligence models are are helping emergency services to
00:20:12to detect fires earlier and forecast forecast how they'll spread. We've
00:20:15We've been speaking to Doctor Axel Axel Roenneke of OroraTech, which
00:20:19which helped develop Greece's first first national wildfire detection
00:20:22detection system. He's been telling
00:20:24telling us how it works. So from
00:20:28from space we can continuously monitor
00:20:31monitor fires with satellites that
00:20:33that measure infrared. So we measure
00:20:37measure heat rather than visible visible smoke or flames. And we scan
00:20:40scan the Earth's surface surface
00:20:43surface looking for heat signatures
00:20:45signatures frequently and globally. globally. So with that information
00:20:49information combined with weather
00:20:51weather vegetation and terrain data,
00:20:54data, our AI turns millions of data
00:20:57data points into a simple alert and
00:20:59and actionable insight like how the
00:21:01the fire evolves, where it goes and
00:21:03and how important it is. Wildfires
00:21:08Wildfires need to be detected earlier earlier if you want to if you want
00:21:11want to act on a manageable size
00:21:13size of the fire. Once fires get
00:21:16get beyond a certain size, there
00:21:19there is no control. So the earlier earlier you can detect a fire and
00:21:22and even predict where fires are
00:21:24are likely to happen, you can put put forces on the ground, be prepared
00:21:28prepared and react when the fire fire is still manageable. And this
00:21:31this is where we need to get to go.
00:21:34go. Obviously there's like also in in the prevention part that we need
00:21:37need to do things like, removing
00:21:40removing vegetation early enough,
00:21:43enough, etc. Is there a risk that that this kind of technology could
00:21:46could promote maybe some complacency complacency about climate change
00:21:49change that we rely on technology
00:21:51technology to help mitigate its worst
00:21:54worst impacts? No, we are currently
00:21:58currently using in firefighting often often technologies that are, you
00:22:01you know, 100 years old and we just
00:22:03just need to catch up and use what,
00:22:05what, what we have at hand, to, battle
00:22:10battle wildfires, with the appropriate appropriate means. OK. And setting
00:22:13setting up systems and infrastructure. infrastructure. This is like roads
00:22:16roads and bridges and and IT infrastructure. infrastructure. This is something
00:22:20something that every country should
00:22:21should have. British scientists say say vaccines which don't need to
00:22:25to be kept cool in a fridge, have have been successfully trialled in
00:22:28in patients for the first time. Around
00:22:30Around half of all vaccines are wasted
00:22:33wasted each year, often after freezing freezing or becoming too hot. The
00:22:37The trials were of the tetanus diphtheria
00:22:40diphtheria jab, which is normally
00:22:41normally a liquid. A 97-year-old
00:22:4697-year-old woman has successfully successfully broken her own world
00:22:48world record to become the oldest oldest woman to complete a wing walk.
00:22:52walk. Betty Bromage started fundraising fundraising by completing the stunts
00:22:55stunts a decade ago. Her most recent recent attempt raised money for staff
00:22:58staff who helped her recover from from a stroke. Our reporter Steve
00:23:01Steve Knibbs was there to see her
00:23:04her flying high. Betty's back 97
00:23:0997 years young and taking to the
00:23:11the skies again. I just get bored bored with life. Otherwise when you
00:23:15you get old you can't go here. You You can't do this. You can't drive,
00:23:19drive, you can't see. I can't see
00:23:21see very well. And I get a bit frustrated.
00:23:25frustrated. Up in the air. Betty's Betty's at home in her element on
00:23:28on the ground, her friends and neighbours neighbours from her retirement village
00:23:31village in Cheltenham watch on nervously.
00:23:35nervously. Oh, Betty. Betty started started all this ten years ago at
00:23:39at the age of 87. She's since abseiled abseiled down a tower in Cheltenham
00:23:42Cheltenham and took on a zipwire zipwire in Snowdonia. And today she
00:23:46she pushed the envelope even further, further, asking the pilot to throw
00:23:49throw in a barrel roll. Oh, my God.
00:23:53God. All of this was done to raise raise money for the stroke unit in
00:23:57in Cheltenham. They helped Betty Betty when she had a stroke last
00:24:00last year. So kind to me and straight
00:24:01straight away the treatment I got
00:24:05got it affects my words. I'd go to to say a word and it doesn't always
00:24:09always come out. But the rest of of me I'm fit as a fiddle. Well for
00:24:13for a 97-year-old. Today the staff
00:24:16staff sent her a good luck message.
00:24:19message. Grateful for the support.
00:24:21support. Thank you Betty. It's just
00:24:24just amazing that she's doing this this for us. We're so grateful. And
00:24:28And to, you know, go up and wing wing walk and take on such a daring
00:24:31daring and incredible challenge and and to support our stroke services services team. It's just amazing.
00:24:35amazing. We're so grateful. We really
00:24:37really appreciate what she's doing. doing. Back on the ground. Betty
00:24:40Betty took it all in her stride with with confirmation that she broke
00:24:43broke her own world record yet again again as the oldest female wing,
00:24:47wing, Walker. Officially amazing.
00:24:50amazing. I was a trained children's children's nurse and I went to work
00:24:52work in Doctor Barnardo's home in in Bristol and above my bed it said
00:24:56said we've passed through this world, world, but once any good we can do
00:25:00do any kindness we can show. Do it it now. Do not defer or neglect it.
00:25:04it. You shall not pass this way again. again. In two and a half years' time
00:25:08time Betty has promised to take to to the skies again when she turns
00:25:11turns 100 to become a magnificent magnificent centenarian on a flying
00:25:15flying machine. Steve Knibbs, BBC
00:25:17BBC News Renkum. And obviously keeps
00:25:21keeps you young. Now before we go go they say you should never look
00:25:24look directly at the sun. But scientists scientists have been doing just that
00:25:27that and they have shed some light
00:25:29light on the surface of our nearest
00:25:31nearest star. Have a look at these.
00:25:34these. This is image captured using
00:25:36using the world's most powerful solar
00:25:38solar telescope. They show whirlpools whirlpools of activity that have
00:25:41have never been seen before. It's
00:25:44It's the sun's magnetic field actually actually being twisted and moved
00:25:48moved by the motion of the hot gas.
00:25:50gas. This unprecedented detail could could also help us back on earth.
00:25:53earth. We learn to predict the bursts bursts of energy that can disrupt
00:25:57disrupt satellites as well as power power grids. Amazing pictures from
00:26:01from the sun. I'll be back in a few few minutes with the headlines.
00:26:05from the sun. I'll
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00:30:11Live from London. This is BBC
00:30:13News. Iran says a deal with Oman Oman on a shipping route through
00:30:16through the Strait of Hormuz is in
00:30:18in its final stages. Ukraine carries
00:30:21carries out strikes on oil refineries
00:30:23refineries as Kyiv continues to target
00:30:26target Russian energy infrastructure. infrastructure. Four women tell the
00:30:29the BBC they were sexually assaulted assaulted at an army training college college for teenagers in North Yorkshire.
00:30:33Yorkshire. We'll have a special report.
00:30:36report. The Fifa president, Gianni Gianni Infantino, apologises after
00:30:40after a backlash over his proposal proposal to sell shares in the World
00:30:43World Cup to private investors. And
00:30:47And Afghanistan's exiled women footballers footballers make an international
00:30:50international comeback after a change
00:30:52change in Fifa's rules.