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00:00:13Live from London. This is BBC
00:00:16News. Iran says a deal with Oman Oman on a shipping route through
00:00:19through the Strait of Hormuz is in
00:00:20in its final stages. Ukraine carries
00:00:23carries out strikes on oil refineries
00:00:26refineries as Kyiv continues to target
00:00:28target Russian energy infrastructure. infrastructure. Four women tell the
00:00:32the BBC they were sexually assaulted assaulted at an army training college college for teenagers in North Yorkshire.
00:00:36Yorkshire. We'll have a special report.
00:00:39report. The Fifa president, Gianni Gianni Infantino, apologises after
00:00:42after a backlash over his proposal proposal to sell shares in the World
00:00:46World Cup to private investors. And
00:00:49And Afghanistan's exiled women footballers footballers make an international
00:00:53international comeback after a change
00:00:54change in Fifa's rules. Hello, I'm
00:01:06I'm Karin Giannone. We begin in the the Middle East, where there are
00:01:09are reports of a possible breakthrough breakthrough over one of the world's
00:01:13world's most critical waterways. waterways. Iran says it's close to
00:01:16to finalising an interim agreement agreement with Oman over the Strait
00:01:19Strait of Hormuz, the narrow channel channel through which much of the
00:01:22the global energy supply passes. passes. Pakistan, which is mediating
00:01:26mediating between the United States States and Iran, says it hopes an an agreement will lead Washington
00:01:30Washington and Tehran to resume talks
00:01:32talks and resolve their conflict. conflict. If confirmed, a deal might
00:01:36might begin to ease a crisis that's
00:01:38that's shaken markets. But it could
00:01:40could also cement Iranian control
00:01:43control over the vital maritime choke
00:01:45choke point. Meanwhile, in his first first meeting with his US counterpart
00:01:49counterpart Marco Rubio, the new new UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband
00:01:52Miliband said Britain would work
00:01:54work with the US to secure a lasting lasting ceasefire in the Iraq war
00:01:58war and reopen the strait. But in in a broadcast interview after the
00:02:02the meeting, he insisted the UK would
00:02:03would never take part in offensive
00:02:06offensive military action. He's been been speaking to our correspondent correspondent Helena Humphrey, who
00:02:09who asked him what he and the US US Secretary of State had achieved.
00:02:13achieved. Well, the number one priority priority for this government is to
00:02:16to tackle the cost of living crisis crisis that people are facing. And
00:02:20And my job as Foreign Secretary most most immediately is to work with
00:02:24with our closest ally, the United
00:02:25United States, on getting a ceasefire
00:02:29ceasefire and a lasting ceasefire ceasefire in relation to the Iran
00:02:32Iran war. Now we are working night night and day to try and make that
00:02:35that happen. That was a large part
00:02:38part of our discussions today. I
00:02:40I am hopeful that this may happen, happen, but we are not there yet
00:02:44yet and we've got to do everything everything we can to get this ceasefire
00:02:47ceasefire in place. The work between between Iran and Oman is obviously
00:02:50obviously crucial to that, but then then we've got to make sure it is
00:02:53is an enduring ceasefire, that we
00:02:55we don't have a nuclear Iran. Well,
00:02:57Well, Nasser Hadian is professor professor of political science and
00:03:01and international relations at the the University of Tehran, and he
00:03:04he told me why Oman is so crucial
00:03:06crucial to a deal over the Strait Strait of Hormuz. As I expected,
00:03:10expected, you know, we have a very very good relationship with Oman.
00:03:13Oman. In fact, even before the revolution
00:03:16revolution and certainly after the
00:03:19the revolution, thus there was a
00:03:22a dispute between Iran and US in
00:03:25in terms of understanding, of memorandum,
00:03:27memorandum, of understanding. And And since the other side of the strait
00:03:31strait is Oman, it was natural for
00:03:33for both of us to get together to
00:03:36to discuss and negotiate. And we
00:03:39we finally are come to an agreement.
00:03:41agreement. We finally came to an an agreement with the Omanis, and
00:03:45and I guess that would pave the way
00:03:47way for going back to the MOU Memorandum
00:03:50Memorandum of Understanding with with the US. And that's a good news
00:03:53news for everyone. So so you talk talk about going back to the memorandum
00:03:56memorandum of understanding and that that was heavily criticised for not
00:03:59not having enough detail in it to
00:04:01to stop fighting breaking out again. again. What would be different this
00:04:05this time? There is a good possibility
00:04:08possibility that we may have a dispute
00:04:11dispute again, but I guess right right after this agreement we tried
00:04:14tried to establish a mechanism for
00:04:17for addressing the disputes. The The emerging dispute between Iran
00:04:21Iran and the US. But let's not forget
00:04:22forget that's a very temporary understanding.
00:04:25understanding. We are supposed to
00:04:28to engage in a negotiation to come
00:04:29come up with an agreement, to address
00:04:34address a number of issues, including, including, including by far the most
00:04:38most important one, the nuclear issue. issue. And with the nuclear issue,
00:04:41issue, then the situation would be
00:04:43be very different. Not only in the
00:04:46the region, but basically, like I I say in the world, particularly particularly between Iran and the
00:04:50the US. We hear a great deal about
00:04:53about how much Donald Trump is said said to want this war to be over,
00:04:57over, particularly with the forthcoming forthcoming mid-term elections approaching approaching in November. How much
00:05:00much does Iran want this war to be
00:05:02be over? How long can it continue?
00:05:06continue? We absolute majority of of Iranians and also the elite of
00:05:10of the society and the government government officials wants to end
00:05:12end the war as quickly as possible. possible. And in fact, not only the
00:05:16the war, but rather this no war,
00:05:19war, no peace. That situation should should be over to. In other words,
00:05:22words, we have to move toward the
00:05:25the peace, sort of a situation that
00:05:28that we can build, our society and
00:05:31and our economy with that. I wonder
00:05:33wonder what you made of what we heard heard from the Iranian president,
00:05:37president, Mahmoud Pezeshkian, yesterday, yesterday, that communication with
00:05:40with the new Supreme Leader Khamenei
00:05:42Khamenei is difficult. What did he
00:05:45he mean? Because, you know, he used
00:05:48used to meet with the previous Supreme
00:05:50Supreme leader once a week at least.
00:05:53least. So they had a regular meeting meeting and they can communicate
00:05:57communicate with one another and
00:05:58and make a decision. But now it is
00:06:01is very difficult. The communication.
00:06:03communication. There is a very frequent
00:06:06frequent communication, but it is
00:06:09is mostly through, written statements
00:06:11statements or people who are mediating
00:06:13mediating between them or rather
00:06:16rather sending the messages. So that
00:06:18that makes it difficult. It makes makes it very difficult comparing
00:06:22comparing with the past. He has only only been to meet him once in the
00:06:26the last five months. So that's why
00:06:29why he is, he is saying that, you
00:06:31you know, the communication is difficult. difficult. Professor Nasser Hadian
00:06:35Hadian from the University of Tehran. Tehran. Well, with more on the Iranian
00:06:39Iranian President Masoud saying communication communication with the supreme leader,
00:06:42leader, Mojtaba Khamenei is very very difficult. I've been speaking
00:06:45speaking to BBC Persian's Baran Abbas.
00:06:48Abbas. Well, nobody's seen him in in public since his father was killed
00:06:51killed on the first day of the war, war, and he was injured. We don't
00:06:55don't know his health conditions. conditions. He hasn't been seen in
00:06:58in public. No videos or videos of
00:07:01of him have been published. Only Only statements, written statements
00:07:04statements attributed to him have
00:07:06have been released. And the fact
00:07:09fact that there are divisions inside inside the political establishment.
00:07:12establishment. His condition is is
00:07:16is also not helping that to resolve
00:07:18resolve because every faction inside
00:07:20inside of Iran is saying that the
00:07:23the supreme leader are on their side
00:07:26side and he has the final authority authority in Iran. He is the one
00:07:29one who has to actually sign off off on a deal between Iran and Oman,
00:07:32Oman, or between Iran and the United United States. So the fact that he
00:07:36he hasn't been seen in public, the the President says that it's difficult
00:07:39difficult to talk to him. It means
00:07:42means that it's difficult to know
00:07:45know what his conditions for peace peace is, whether he does want peace
00:07:49peace or he doesn't want want peace.
00:07:51peace. So hardliners say that negotiations
00:07:54negotiations with the United States
00:07:56States is a treasonous act because
00:07:59because it's with those who are responsible responsible for the killing of the
00:08:02the former supreme leader. The current current leader is father, so they
00:08:06they don't want any negotiations negotiations whatsoever. The President
00:08:09President positions government and and his team do want negotiations.
00:08:12negotiations. They want the Strait
00:08:14Strait of Hormuz open and they want
00:08:17want political and economic pressure
00:08:19pressure lifted from Iran. But the
00:08:21the fact that we are receiving conflicting
00:08:24conflicting reports about the condition condition of the Supreme leader, leader, his political position, it
00:08:28it makes it very difficult to understand.
00:08:32understand. From BBC Persian some some breaking news this hour. Black
00:08:35Black smoke is hanging over the Russian Russian city of Yaroslavl, the home
00:08:39home of one of the country's biggest biggest oil refineries, after a Ukrainian
00:08:43Ukrainian drone attack. President President Zelensky of Ukraine said
00:08:47said they targeted the refinery and
00:08:50and another in Bashkortostan as part part of the effort to cut the oil
00:08:53oil revenues that fund Russia's war war effort. The region's governors
00:08:57governors called it the largest ever
00:09:00ever attack, saying 93 drones were were destroyed. But that's only part part of the picture across Russia,
00:09:04Russia, the military says it has
00:09:06has intercepted and destroyed over
00:09:09over 600 Ukrainian drones. The attacks attacks have also continued the other
00:09:13other way. Five Ukrainians were reported reported to have been killed in Russian Russian attacks overnight. These
00:09:17These are images from Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia where Russian drones
00:09:20drones hit an apartment block, injuring injuring two civilians. Well, let's
00:09:23let's speak to our correspondent correspondent from BBC Russian Olga
00:09:26Olga Ivshina. Hello to you, Olga. Olga. Just bring us up to date with
00:09:29with what's been happening overnight.
00:09:31overnight. Yeah. So there have been,
00:09:34been, missile strikes, drone strikes
00:09:37strikes on both sides. So as you you rightly said, Ukraine have been
00:09:41been hit. 94 drones and two ballistic
00:09:45ballistic missiles. Only 66 of those those drones have been intercepted,
00:09:49intercepted, as stated by Ukraine. Ukraine. Ukrainian officials. So
00:09:52So this shows one of the big problems
00:09:54problems which exists now for Ukraine. Ukraine. They, they lack intercepting
00:09:57intercepting facility. And of course, course, most importantly, they don't
00:10:01don't have capabilities currently currently to intercept Russia's ballistic
00:10:05ballistic missiles, which can bring
00:10:07bring significant troubles. And significant
00:10:11significant destructions for different different facilities in Ukraine.
00:10:14Ukraine. Olha on apologies. Do carry carry on. On the other side, Russia
00:10:18Russia has also been hit. So Russian
00:10:22Russian mod, this morning reported
00:10:24reported over 600 drones being, flown flown over Russia. They claim most
00:10:28most of them have been intercepted, intercepted, but there has been successful
00:10:32successful strike on Russian oil oil facilities in Yaroslavl. That's
00:10:36That's roughly 300km from Moscow.
00:10:39Moscow. And, that's 1300km from Moscow. Moscow. This shows you what the deep
00:10:43deep range Ukrainian drones are now now reaching. And it has been quite
00:10:47quite a long and successful campaign campaign of Ukrainian drone strikes
00:10:50strikes on Russian facilities. Mostly Mostly industrial, but also some
00:10:54some civilian facilities have been
00:10:57been hit Wildberries, storage facilities facilities that Russian analogue
00:11:00analogue of Amazon Ukraine claims
00:11:02claims it's being hit because it
00:11:04it sells, some military related products.
00:11:07products. Moscow strongly denies denies that. And do we know to what
00:11:12what extent the strikes by Ukraine
00:11:14Ukraine FA inside Russia are having having an effect on Russian public
00:11:17public opinion? That's a good question. question. First of all, you know, know, Russia is an authoritarian
00:11:21authoritarian society. So it's very
00:11:23very hard to measure the real sort
00:11:26sort of public opinion, public climate climate inside. But based on the
00:11:30the polls, we get public opinion,
00:11:33opinion, you know, public, mood is
00:11:35is being affected. Putin's rating rating is at its lowest since the
00:11:39the start of the invasion in February
00:11:41February 2022. It has dropped from
00:11:45from 87% last year to 76, or 74%
00:11:4974% in July. So that's a big drop.
00:11:54drop. And, but the trouble is, and and the amount of people who according
00:11:58according to the polls, people who who support possible peace negotiations, negotiations, peace deal is around
00:12:02around 60%. But the big problem is
00:12:04is public opinion. They don't decide
00:12:07decide there is one man in the Kremlin Kremlin who calls the shots and he
00:12:11he repeatedly says that he wants wants to continue this invasion. invasion. And as well as all the
00:12:15the strikes on oil refineries, we've we've seen strike after strike by
00:12:18by Ukraine on, on the Russian the the Russian retail chain. Wildberries
00:12:22Wildberries what sort of effect is
00:12:23is this having on, on life in Russia?
00:12:28Russia? Well, it depends which part part of Russia we are talking about.
00:12:30about. Russia is huge, right? In In those particular places where
00:12:34where those, storage facilities were
00:12:37were placed, of course, people feel feel the effect. People are in shock,
00:12:40shock, etc but overall we don't see
00:12:43see significant disturbance. So, So, the overall, the business continues.
00:12:47continues. Of course, people lose
00:12:48lose their money. The, the Wildberries
00:12:51Wildberries chain itself is significantly significantly affected. But, the
00:12:55the sales continue. People can't can't get the everyday goods they
00:12:58they need. Of course, there are some
00:13:01some minor disruptions, but Russia Russia tries to find alternative
00:13:04alternative ways, for example, with with petrol, because of oil strike,
00:13:08strike, oil facility strikes. Russia Russia started buying petrol from
00:13:12from Morocco from India. So they're they're trying to play things down
00:13:15down and to try to find alternative alternative routes. Olha thank you
00:13:18you very much. Olga Ivshina BBC Russian
00:13:21Russian the head of football's governing governing body has apologised for
00:13:25for errors made in the pursuit of of his controversial plan to sell
00:13:28sell off stakes in competitions to to private investors. But Gianni
00:13:31Gianni Infantino plans to remain remain in his role as Fifa's president
00:13:34president after senior executives executives rallied behind him, releasing
00:13:37releasing a statement of support. support. I asked Mark Palios, the
00:13:41the former chief executive of the the English FA, what he made of the
00:13:44the emergency meeting in Rabat. I
00:13:47I think Infantino people expected expected him to fight to keep his
00:13:50his job and I think he's got over
00:13:52over the first major hurdle or seemingly seemingly got over that because you
00:13:56you simply can't run such a public
00:13:58public organisation, a public facing facing organisation when your senior
00:14:02senior staff are offside, you know, know, you have leaks etc. And presumably
00:14:06presumably he's persuaded them that that they will be able to change
00:14:09change the government or get the the government. Right. But actually
00:14:12actually that's quite strange because because in the statement itself he
00:14:16he sort of accepts that mistakes mistakes were made and the processes
00:14:19processes can be improved. But then then he goes on to threaten regarding
00:14:22regarding criticism. You know, we'll we'll not tolerate attacks on our
00:14:26our integrity, good governance and and due process, which sort of means
00:14:29means he doesn't quite get it. But But the next step is he's got to
00:14:33to really start working and get the the confederations onside. And do
00:14:37do you think he might will be able able to do that because, you know,
00:14:40know, obviously this is being described described as a Uefa led rebellion.
00:14:43rebellion. Will others follow? Yeah,
00:14:47Yeah, it's where the battleground battleground will be. I suspect he's he's going to find it more difficult
00:14:51difficult to persuade the confederations
00:14:53confederations that governments will will be improved under him. I mean,
00:14:56mean, he's already had a few shots
00:14:58shots at that in terms of that was was the mandate upon which he sort
00:15:02sort of got elected last time with
00:15:06with transparency, etc. And the real
00:15:08real question is will the confederations
00:15:11confederations stick to their threats threats because they're talking about about a separate tournament. Well,
00:15:14Well, that takes a lot of organising. organising. But actually the threat
00:15:18threat that may well work is the the fact that they're going to paralyse
00:15:21paralyse Fifa by just not joining
00:15:22joining in. I think Infantino will
00:15:26will play for time. He's aware of
00:15:28of their weaknesses and their weaknesses weaknesses that whilst you've got
00:15:32got 55 members for example in Uefa
00:15:35Uefa when the vote comes on, on the the candidates, if there's more than
00:15:39than one candidate or on Infantino, Infantino, that's a secret ballot.
00:15:42ballot. So you can't guarantee that that the whole federation will vote
00:15:45vote in the same way. And he's also
00:15:48also and he knows that there has
00:15:50has been a historical bias against
00:15:53against European dominance within within Fifa. And so I think his best
00:15:56best bet is, is to take the heat heat out of the situation now, which
00:16:00which is what he seems to be trying trying to do and possibly try to
00:16:04to isolate Uefa from the other confederations,
00:16:07confederations, especially the Asian Asian Confederation, and characterised
00:16:10characterised the whole thing as
00:16:12as another European plot so he can
00:16:14can get to the election in the spring.
00:16:17spring. And during that time seek seek to pick off individual federations
00:16:21federations in the interim. That's That's Mark Palios, former chief
00:16:25chief executive of the English FA FA around the world
00:17:27able to afford the £4,000 funerals. funerals. He tried to act like he he was their friend. Paul's heart-wrenching heart-wrenching stuff that made me me feel sick. The big cases, funeral
00:17:31funeral Home horror. Watch on BBC
00:17:34BBC News. Four women have told the
00:17:41the BBC they were sexually assaulted assaulted and harassed at an Army
00:17:43Army training college for teenagers teenagers in North Yorkshire. The
00:17:47The Army Foundation College in Harrogate Harrogate is the largest military
00:17:50military training establishment for for under 19 seconds in the UK and
00:17:53and receives all the Army's 16-year-old 16-year-old recruits. The Ministry
00:17:56Ministry of Defence says the culture culture of care at the establishment
00:17:59establishment was recognised in its its latest Ofsted report, as well
00:18:02well as during a visit from the Children's Children's Commissioner and safeguarding
00:18:06safeguarding authorities in January. January. Our senior UK correspondent correspondent Sima Kotecha has more.
00:18:09more. A warning her report contains
00:18:11contains distressing details. It
00:18:14It ruined my life. I've lost all
00:18:18all my confidence. The words of women women who went to the largest army
00:18:21army training college in the country
00:18:24country for 16 and 17 year-olds. year-olds. Speaking to the BBC for
00:18:27for the first time. It needs to be be closed down and I don't get why
00:18:31why it hasn't. It just doesn't make
00:18:33make sense. The Army Foundation College College in Harrogate is for teenagers
00:18:36teenagers who want a life in the the armed forces, but now it's at
00:18:40at the centre of serious allegations allegations from several women who
00:18:43who went to the college in recent
00:18:45recent years. Claims of harassment harassment and sexual assault. They
00:18:49They were like. Do you want to come
00:18:50come into the room? And me being
00:18:53being a naive 17-year-old girl was
00:18:55was like, yeah, fine. Tilly, not
00:18:57not her real name, says she was raped
00:18:59raped by fellow recruits. They started started taking my clothes off and
00:19:03and then this led to them doing stuff
00:19:06stuff I didn't consent to. There
00:19:09There were a lot of them. They touched
00:19:11touched me in places, made inappropriate inappropriate comments, calling me
00:19:14me a thing rather than a girl. Like Like some of the other women we spoke
00:19:17spoke to, Tilly reported it to the the police. We're not providing the
00:19:21the full details of all their investigations
00:19:23investigations to protect their identity.
00:19:26identity. Monica, also not her real real name, says she too was attacked
00:19:30attacked by a junior soldier. Stood Stood against the door so I couldn't
00:19:33couldn't get out. He then pushed pushed himself up against me and
00:19:35and started kissing my face and touching
00:19:38touching me all over. He sexually sexually assaulted me. All of the
00:19:41the women we've spoken to went to to this college over the last five
00:19:45five years. Data obtained by the
00:19:47the BBC through a Freedom of Information
00:19:49Information request shows that North North Yorkshire Police recorded 16
00:19:5316 sexual offence crimes over the
00:19:56the last year at this college, including
00:19:59including voyeurism and exposure exposure and sexual assault. These
00:20:03These are recorded complaints and and it's not clear how many led to
00:20:06to prosecutions. If this was anywhere anywhere else it would have been been closed down by now. I think
00:20:10think as a matter of urgency, there
00:20:12there should be an independent inquiry
00:20:14inquiry into the college led by someone
00:20:16someone with significant safeguarding
00:20:19safeguarding expertise. A recent recent Ministry of Defence survey
00:20:22survey suggests almost 70% of women women in the armed forces experienced
00:20:26experienced at least one sexualised sexualised behaviour in the last
00:20:30last year. In 2021, gunner JAAC Beck
00:20:32Beck took her own life at her barracks barracks in Wiltshire months after
00:20:36after she was sexually assaulted assaulted by Warrant Officer Michael
00:20:40Michael Weber. Last year, a coroner coroner ruled the assault and the
00:20:43the army's failure to take appropriate
00:20:45appropriate action more than minimally
00:20:48minimally contributed to her death.
00:20:49death. Weber was jailed for six months.
00:20:52months. The government defines a
00:20:54a child as anyone under 18. In response
00:20:57response to the allegations made made in this report, the Ministry
00:21:00Ministry of Defence says unacceptable unacceptable and criminal behaviour
00:21:03behaviour has absolutely no place place in our armed forces and these
00:21:06these reports are extremely distressing distressing and serious. It says
00:21:10says it's created the defence Serious
00:21:12Serious Crime Command, which is independent independent and outside of the army
00:21:16army chain of command and has a specialist specialist team who help victims
00:21:20victims throughout the process of
00:21:23of justice. The Army is a tough training
00:21:27training environment with high standards, standards, but the supervision and
00:21:30and discipline of junior recruits recruits and their instructors is
00:21:33is now in sharp focus. After so many
00:21:37many serious allegations. Sima Kotecha,
00:21:40Kotecha, BBC News and Seema is with with me now. And Seema, just tell
00:21:44tell us a little bit more detail detail about the sort of stories
00:21:47stories that you heard. Yeah. I mean, mean, there's no doubt about it.
00:21:50it. These are incredibly alarming alarming allegations. As you heard heard in that report. I've been speaking
00:21:54speaking to four women who allege allege serious sexual assault. One
00:21:58One of them claims that she was raped
00:22:01raped by multiple junior soldiers. soldiers. The allegations are said
00:22:04said to have happened over the last last five years, and they're raising
00:22:07raising serious concerns not only only about what they describe as
00:22:11as predatory sexual behaviour, but but they're also saying there is
00:22:13is a deep rooted culture of misogyny misogyny at this college, that some
00:22:17some of it stems from the instructors.
00:22:20instructors. They have told me stories stories where they've heard instructors
00:22:24instructors say incredibly crude crude things, which I can't even even repeat on air. And they're saying
00:22:28saying that that sort of language
00:22:30language is encouraging young soldiers
00:22:32soldiers to behave in a predatory
00:22:34predatory way. Obviously the Mod
00:22:37Mod is saying it's doing all it can
00:22:40can to combat this sort of behaviour. behaviour. It says it's put many
00:22:43many policies in place, says it has has a zero tolerance approach. I
00:22:47I was told that everyone who is recruited
00:22:50recruited at that college is told told from day one that this type
00:22:53type of behaviour will not be stood
00:22:56stood for and that nobody can behave behave in this way or there will
00:22:59will be serious consequences. The The Mod has made that abundantly
00:23:02abundantly clear. But these women
00:23:04women are saying that somebody independent independent needs to either go into
00:23:08into this college and do a proper proper assessment, or it needs to
00:23:12to be closed down. And I think if if you look at the evidence and you
00:23:15you look at the data, there is a a breadth of data that raises serious
00:23:18serious questions. We put in a freedom freedom of information request to
00:23:22to North Yorkshire Police, which
00:23:23which revealed that there had been
00:23:26been 16 reports of sexual assaults assaults at the college over the
00:23:30the last year alone. We don't know
00:23:31know how many of those led to prosecutions,
00:23:35prosecutions, but there is other other data that has come out over
00:23:38over the last year or so. That is
00:23:41is just as alarming. There was a a parliamentary question asked last
00:23:44last year and that revealed that
00:23:47that there had been 176 sexual allegations allegations reported between January
00:23:51January 2018 and June last year connected connected to that college alone.
00:23:55alone. And Seema, you've talked about about what the Mod has said about about what has been unveiled and
00:23:58and what's happened in the past. past. How has it said things will
00:24:01will be different from now? Well, Well, they are adamant that they
00:24:04they want to bring about change. change. But there is also speaking speaking to insiders. There's also
00:24:08also an awareness that there is a a problem here, that there is misogyny
00:24:11misogyny and that this behaviour behaviour does happen. And we know know that from various convictions
00:24:15convictions that we've seen. I mean, mean, five instructors have been
00:24:18been convicted by court martial of
00:24:20of sexual assault linked to this
00:24:23this college in the last 5 or 6 years.
00:24:26years. And although none of these these allegations are related to
00:24:29to those instructors, the women do do say that it raises questions about
00:24:32about the overall culture, which which is, you know, it is concerning.
00:24:35concerning. But let me just tell tell you what the Ministry of Defence Defence says. It says that unacceptable
00:24:39unacceptable and criminal behaviour behaviour has absolutely no place
00:24:41place in our armed forces. And these these reports are extremely distressing
00:24:45distressing and serious. It said said it's created the defence Serious
00:24:49Serious Crime Command, which is independent independent and outside of the army
00:24:52army chain of command and has a specialist specialist team who help victims
00:24:56victims throughout the process of of justice. It says that it has a
00:24:58a zero tolerance for this kind of
00:25:00of behaviour, and anybody who has has experienced it must come forward.
00:25:04forward. Seema, thank you very much.
00:25:05much. Sima Kotecha, a senior UK correspondent.
00:25:10correspondent. Let's just show you you what's up and running on the
00:25:12the BBC website. If you are interested
00:25:15interested in the Fifa latest Gianni
00:25:18Gianni Infantino that apology that
00:25:21that came after that plan to sell sell stakes in the World Cup to private
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00:25:32places. It's an updated minute by
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00:25:36Gianni Infantino remains Fifa president president after receiving the backing
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00:25:58Gianni Infantino. So do take a look
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