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00:00:16Welcome back to BBC News. Let's turn turn to our main. Headlines here.
00:00:19here. New strikes hit two refineries refineries deep inside Russia as
00:00:23as a wave of Ukrainian drones target
00:00:25target the country. Meta becomes becomes the latest firm to say one
00:00:29one of its AI models hacked another
00:00:32another company. The family of the the murdered British exchange student
00:00:35student Meredith Kercher calls on on Amanda Knox, originally a suspect
00:00:39suspect in the case, to abandon plans
00:00:40plans for a stand up comedy show. show. Think about the family here.
00:00:44here. Think about her friends and
00:00:49and to. Turn the tables. If it was
00:00:51was your sister that this had happened
00:00:54happened to. And Afghanistan's exiled
00:00:58exiled women footballers make an an international comeback after a
00:01:01a change in Fifa rules. Well, let's
00:01:07let's go straight back to that breaking breaking news for the last couple
00:01:10couple of moments. Reports of major major disruptions to rail services services across parts of England
00:01:14England due to an electrical failure. failure. Let's get more straight
00:01:17straight away from our correspondent correspondent Sean Dilley, who's who's joined me here in the studio.
00:01:21studio. So tell us more. Yeah, we we know from National Rail that there's
00:01:24there's major rail disruption. The
00:01:26The cause of that is a power failure failure at a communications centre.
00:01:30centre. And just to explain, there there are communications centres centres that co-ordinate train movements
00:01:33movements up and down the country.
00:01:35country. Those belonging to the rail
00:01:38rail track and individual companies. companies. Now we know that much
00:01:41much of this is in the north of England,
00:01:44England, Manchester and in the north-west.
00:01:47north-west. Trains across that area area are going to be cancelled, delayed
00:01:50delayed by up to 60 minutes or rescheduled.
00:01:52rescheduled. So in as far as possible possible we are keeping in touch
00:01:55touch with this via people contacting contacting us on the BBC app live
00:01:58live page. Keep those coming in. in. We're hearing obviously the train
00:02:02train companies are working as fast fast as they can to deal with this,
00:02:05this, but it's been very much a shock
00:02:09shock to those organising these things things as we speak. Managers will
00:02:12will be in meetings trying to move move people from A to B, but. It
00:02:15It will involve thousands of trains. trains. Tell me a little more then
00:02:19then about the sorts of stories and and accounts already that are coming
00:02:22coming in from passengers. Well, Well, we're hearing about people
00:02:24people being stopped on trains outside outside Manchester. Difficulties
00:02:28Difficulties in communication with with people asking staff questions. questions. They simply are. They're
00:02:31They're not going to know the answer
00:02:34answer to those questions. Much of of that is around how do I get from
00:02:38from station A to station B? But But at the moment and as we speak,
00:02:41speak, as you say, thousands of services services potentially impacted thousands
00:02:44thousands of passengers slightly slightly or potentially very delayed.
00:02:48delayed. But we do understand that that the disruption, though it should should continue through to the end
00:02:51end of today. They are working at at pace to make sure passengers can
00:02:55can seek alternative routes, and
00:02:57and those logistics and those contingencies contingencies are being put into
00:03:00into place as we speak. I know that that people are sort of trying to to actually battle through all of
00:03:04of this as we're talking now, but but when it comes to things like
00:03:07like compensation, a train companies companies already giving people details.
00:03:11details. Yes, slightly. We've got got some of the details of that.
00:03:14that. So for example, looking at
00:03:17at Avanti West Coast, they are talking talking about tickets being valid
00:03:20valid on various networks. The two two trains before or later in the
00:03:25the day. There is of course the delay delay repay scheme. So lots of those
00:03:27those details again available on
00:03:29on the BBC app as we speak. So anybody
00:03:32anybody can claim that delay, repay repay and speak to staff because
00:03:35because the advice is your ticket ticket may be valid on other services
00:03:38services throughout the day. Well Well thanks very much. Let me just
00:03:42just add a line that's come from from our North of England reporter reporter Rowan Bridge. He's on one
00:03:46one of those trains talking about about spending an hour and a quarter quarter caught up in the disruption.
00:03:49disruption. It came to a halt, he he says, outside of Manchester making
00:03:52making it to Macclesfield. And then then again it came to another standstill.
00:03:56standstill. So we hope to talk to to Rowan. He's still on the board
00:03:58board that train apparently, and and there on the screen is the live
00:04:02live page and that is constantly constantly being updated and that
00:04:05that would be so useful in the coming
00:04:07coming hours as we try to make sense
00:04:09sense of what trains are disrupted, disrupted, where they've got them
00:04:12them back running and the likely likely delays and how long they're
00:04:15they're going to go on for. So do
00:04:17do keep right up to date using that
00:04:21that page. Now let's return to one one of those headline stories because
00:04:24because the sister of the murdered murdered British exchange student
00:04:27student Meredith Kercher has appealed appealed to Amanda Knox not to go
00:04:30go ahead with a comedy show at the the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Amanda
00:04:34Amanda Knox was convicted but later later acquitted of the murder in
00:04:38in Italy in 2007. Meredith Kercher, Kercher, her sister, says the proposed
00:04:41proposed stand up show turns the
00:04:43the rape and murder of Meredith into
00:04:46into entertainment. Here's Emma Vardy.
00:04:49Vardy. Characterised in court as
00:04:51as a cold, manipulative femme fatale. fatale. For many years, Amanda Knox
00:04:55Knox was portrayed to the world as
00:04:57as a murderer convicted along with
00:05:00with her former boyfriend 21-year-old
00:05:0321-year-old Meredith Kercher was was found dead in the apartment they
00:05:06they shared. She had been stabbed
00:05:08stabbed in the throat. Amanda Knox
00:05:11Knox spent four years in prison, prison, but after years of appeals
00:05:15appeals and Retrials, Italy's highest highest court, finally acquitted
00:05:17acquitted her. I'm so grateful to to have my life back. She has since
00:05:21since spoken publicly about her experience experience through documentaries,
00:05:25documentaries, books and podcasts. podcasts. How many were in your prison?
00:05:28prison? So it was a relatively small small it's a women's prison. After
00:05:32After years of rebuilding her identity, identity, she is now bringing a stand
00:05:35stand up comedy show to the Edinburgh Edinburgh Fringe. We just released
00:05:39released ten more seats. We found found out there's a little extra extra room in the venue for people
00:05:43people who want to come see my show. show. Good morning. But Meredith's
00:05:46Meredith's family have told the BBC
00:05:48BBC their pain is being turned into into entertainment. Whilst I appreciate
00:05:51appreciate comedy is there to push
00:05:53push the boundaries and you know
00:05:56know it very much normalises and and trivialises violence against
00:06:00against women and Meredith in particular. particular. And it shouldn't be given
00:06:03given a platform for that specific
00:06:05specific topic that that's why I've
00:06:07I've spoken out this time. It's not not about whether people think she's
00:06:11she's guilty or innocent. They've They've backed a petition calling calling for the show to be cancelled.
00:06:15cancelled. It's not for me to tell tell her how to live her life. She
00:06:18She is free to do that. But what
00:06:21what I would say is to think about about the family here, think about
00:06:24about her friends. The venue for for the show says Edinburgh Festival
00:06:27Festival Fringe provides a platform platform for a wide range of voices
00:06:31voices and that it's committed to to freedom of expression. My friends
00:06:34friends and family are actually really really nervous for me despite my
00:06:37my spotless record in the court of
00:06:39of public opinion. In a statement,
00:06:42statement, Amanda Knox has said the the show honours Meredith's memory
00:06:46memory rather than making light of of it and argues those behind the
00:06:49the petition are mischaracterising mischaracterising it. The show, which which is said to be sold out, has
00:06:53has raised difficult questions for for the fringe over someone's right
00:06:56right to tell their own story and
00:06:58and the impact of that story on others.
00:07:02others. Nearly two decades on, it's it's another chapter for Amanda Knox
00:07:05Knox in a story she spent years trying
00:07:08trying to tell. Emma Vardy. BBC News.
00:07:11News. Now a US Senate committee has has voted to hold the former White
00:07:15White House Chief Medical Adviser Adviser Anthony Fauci in contempt contempt after he refused to answer
00:07:19answer questions about his handling handling of the Covid pandemic. The
00:07:22The infectious disease specialist specialist invoked his constitutional constitutional right to silence last
00:07:26last week when he was grilled by by senators about the pandemic and
00:07:30and whether he covered up its origin. origin. It's not clear if the vote
00:07:33vote to hold him in contempt will
00:07:35will lead to a criminal prosecution.
00:07:39prosecution. Now the Facebook owner owner Meta says an issue during testing
00:07:43testing allowed one of its AI models models to connect to the internet
00:07:46internet and hack another organisation organisation system. The announcement
00:07:49announcement follows recent incidents incidents across the AI industry
00:07:52industry that have raised cyber security security concerns. Well, let's speak
00:07:55speak to our senior technology reporter, reporter, Chris Vallance. And Chris,
00:07:57Chris, what a Meta saying here. Well, Well, we don't have a huge amount
00:08:01amount of details, but it seems like
00:08:03like another day if you like. And
00:08:06And another autonomous or highly
00:08:08highly autonomous AI system under under test being tested. If, as Meta
00:08:12Meta says, this was similar to previous
00:08:15previous incidents under test of of its cyber cyber capabilities,
00:08:18capabilities, its ability to perform
00:08:21perform cyber attack type casts tasks
00:08:23tasks was able to escape its test
00:08:28test environment, according to a a misconfiguration in the testing
00:08:31testing company's software, go out
00:08:34out and break into a third party
00:08:37party company. Now, this is obviously
00:08:40obviously caused added to the concern
00:08:42concern that already existed about
00:08:45about the capabilities of these models
00:08:49models and the risks associated with with these tools that are capable
00:08:52capable of acting and performing performing tasks very much on their
00:08:56their own. Once they're given an
00:08:58an instruction, the cyber risk they they might present. Yes. And that's
00:09:02that's the worry, isn't it, that that we've had a couple of breakouts
00:09:05breakouts now it's described as sort sort of going rogue and the possibility
00:09:09possibility what that opens up potentially. potentially. Yeah. The phrase going
00:09:13going rogue rogue is interesting interesting because in a sense the
00:09:16the rogue news is almost baked into into these systems. They're designed
00:09:19designed to take an instruction and
00:09:21and to be able to complete the task
00:09:24task using without many further instructions, instructions, without any further
00:09:27further instructions at all. In practice
00:09:31practice that obviously this is in
00:09:33in a sense a case of them being given
00:09:35given an inch, if you like, and taking taking a mile what they're designed
00:09:38designed to be able to go out and and do things on their own. The issue
00:09:42issue here is that they do things things that their creators didn't
00:09:46didn't anticipate, or that their their protections against them doing doing bad things were, were inadequate
00:09:50inadequate or unable to contain them. them. But the wrongness, if you like,
00:09:53like, is part of the system. Chris
00:09:57Chris Vallance, thanks very much
00:09:59much for that update. Thank you.
00:10:02you. Now let's turn to breaking news
00:10:05news again from the Middle East with with reports coming in that at least
00:10:08least 30 Yemeni government troops troops have reportedly been killed
00:10:12killed after a Houthi attack on a a military camp in the central part
00:10:16part of the country. An official official who didn't want to be identified
00:10:19identified said the missile hit soldiers soldiers during their morning formation
00:10:22formation at the camp in Marib province. province. The casualty figure apparently
00:10:26apparently is likely to increase.
00:10:28increase. As I say, a number of people.
00:10:30people. It is said that about 38 38 people I think, is the number
00:10:34number so far that they estimate estimate have been killed. And the
00:10:37the Houthis, of course, have been been at war with the Yemeni internationally
00:10:40internationally recognised government government since 2014. The Houthis,
00:10:43Houthis, of course, involved in those
00:10:46those various strikes on Saudi tankers
00:10:49tankers in that Red Sea waterway
00:10:50waterway in support of Iran. So,
00:10:53So, so many strands to what is going
00:10:55going on in Yemen with the Houthis.
00:10:57Houthis. But the Houthis making an an attack on Yemeni government troops,
00:11:00troops, as I say, at least 30 have
00:11:03have been killed in this strike, strike, with that number expected
00:11:06expected to rise. More on that as as we get it around the world
00:12:10their friend. Paul's heart-wrenching heart-wrenching stuff that made me me feel sick. The big cases, funeral
00:12:14funeral Home. Horror watch. On BBC
00:12:19BBC News. Welcome back. Now, in the
00:12:24the five years since the Taliban Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan,
00:12:27Afghanistan, women have been banned banned from all organised sport.
00:12:31sport. But against the odds, Afghanistan's Afghanistan's women footballers now
00:12:34now scattered right across the world, world, have found a way back onto
00:12:37onto the international stage after after Fifa changed their rules, allowing
00:12:40allowing them to officially represent represent Afghanistan well. Mahjooba
00:12:44Mahjooba Nowrouzi from BBC Global Global Women followed their journey
00:12:47journey as they travelled to New New Zealand for their first training
00:12:51training camp and match. Their the
00:12:56the Meghan Owen. A song for Afghanistan,
00:13:00Afghanistan, a team reunited. These These players have travelled from
00:13:04from across the world for two friendlies
00:13:06friendlies in Auckland against the
00:13:08the Cook Islands. The first since
00:13:11since Fifa allowed Afghanistan's
00:13:13Afghanistan's team in exile back back into international football.
00:13:16football. In Afghanistan to be free
00:13:18free and we want Afghan girls and
00:13:20and women to be free, to be able able to choose who they want to be.
00:13:24be. We want to prove that we are are still here. We still fighting
00:13:28fighting for the rights that you you took away from us. Five years
00:13:32years ago. Everything changed for
00:13:34for them almost overnight when the the Taliban returned to power, women
00:13:38women were banned from playing sports.
00:13:41sports. Afghanistan's women's team team was forced into exile, unable
00:13:45unable to represent their country. country. They were scattered across
00:13:48across the world. I was bullied throughout throughout high school and football football gave me the confidence to
00:13:52to be who I am today and to be able able to speak loud so I don't know
00:13:56know where I would be. Now they are
00:13:59are back together rebuilding the
00:14:00the team. They thought they had lost
00:14:03lost for these players, football football is more than a game. I wanted
00:14:07wanted to use this platform to advocate advocate for the women of Afghanistan Afghanistan who haven't been allowed
00:14:11allowed to study for the past five
00:14:13five years. Obviously the book The
00:14:17The Rose, who is a representation
00:14:18representation of women and the date
00:14:21date August 15th and the date that
00:14:23that Afghanistan fell. These matches
00:14:27matches are only the beginning. The The aim is to rebuild Afghanistan's
00:14:31Afghanistan's team in exile and to
00:14:33to compete for a place at the 2028
00:14:362028 Olympic Games. I would be proud proud of the team and proud of myself
00:14:40myself that I was part of the journey journey and we made the history by
00:14:43by being the first like football
00:14:45football team to get our recognition recognition without the approval
00:14:49approval of the Taliban. I'm so proud proud of our young players who played played today. Great game. Don't cry.
00:14:52cry. Don't put your heads down. It's
00:14:54It's more than football for us. Afghanistan
00:14:57Afghanistan lost both matches to to the Cook Islands, but after years
00:15:01years in exile simply wearing their
00:15:03their country's colours again is
00:15:05is a victory. Their Olympic dream
00:15:08dream is is still alive. We don't don't know when we're going to see
00:15:11see each other again, but it's just just always amazing to have the second
00:15:13second family. I've got to. Mahjooba
00:15:18Mahjooba Nowrouzi BBC Auckland. Well, Well, I'm pleased to say Matthew
00:15:21Matthew Barber joins us live now now from western Afghanistan and
00:15:25and wow, those were amazing scenes scenes filmed in your report. What
00:15:28What was it like to be with them? Oh, it was incredibly
00:15:35them? Oh, it was incredibly emotional emotional before the match, as you
00:15:38you saw the in the changing room
00:15:41room was filled with mixed excitement,
00:15:45excitement, nerves and pride. And
00:15:46And the players were hugging each
00:15:49each other, encouraging one another
00:15:51another and singing the Afghan national
00:15:55national anthem beneath their country's
00:15:56country's flag. Some were visibly
00:15:59visibly holding back tears. It struck
00:16:02struck me that this was about much
00:16:04much more than football for them.
00:16:07them. For many of them it was the
00:16:10the first time in years they had
00:16:13had been able to represent Afghanistan
00:16:16Afghanistan together. After being
00:16:18being forced into exile. They weren't
00:16:21weren't just preparing for a match,
00:16:23match, they were actually reclaiming
00:16:26reclaiming a part of their identity.
00:16:28identity. It looked to me that they
00:16:30they were. Yeah. Tell me you have
00:16:33have the Taliban reacted at all to
00:16:35to what we've seen there or to that
00:16:37that news that these women have been
00:16:40been representing Afghanistan around
00:16:42around the world under the Afghanistan
00:16:45Afghanistan flag? Well, I did try
00:16:48try to get the right of reply and
00:16:50and I contacted them several times.
00:16:52times. I asked the Taliban's director
00:16:56director for sports, Hamdullah, about
00:16:58about Fifa's recognition of the team.
00:17:00team. He declined to comment specifically
00:17:04specifically on the women's team.
00:17:06team. He did say that he would like
00:17:08like Fifa to return and resume supporting
00:17:11supporting football in Afghanistan
00:17:13Afghanistan more broadly. Fifa, however,
00:17:16however, has previously said that
00:17:19that any resumption of support depends
00:17:22depends on women being allowed to
00:17:28to play so there remains a fundamental
00:17:31fundamental difference between the
00:17:32the two positions. Just a final thought
00:17:36thought because as you mentioned, mentioned, as I said, there are so
00:17:38so many of these women had gone to to different countries. How did that
00:17:42that process work of gathering them them together saying, let's have
00:17:45have another go at this and trying trying to get Fifa to change their
00:17:49their rules. Well, it was, as I said
00:17:53said in the beginning for them it
00:17:55it was a very exciting match for for them it was something to prove
00:17:59prove themselves that they are still still there. They are trying to represent
00:18:02represent their country and they they were very proud. They were very
00:18:05very excited and they were very I
00:18:08I mean, at the same time emotional. emotional. And they wanted to some
00:18:11some of them were saying that the
00:18:14the fact that they were there and
00:18:16and representing their country as
00:18:18as a team, it was a slap on, on the the Taliban's face without their
00:18:22their approval. They were there to
00:18:25to take part in an international
00:18:27international match. So it was, as
00:18:30as I mentioned before, more than
00:18:32than football for them. So and they
00:18:35they were hoping so that in the future
00:18:37future they could take part in the
00:18:40the Olympic Games. And they have
00:18:42have a very high aspirations and
00:18:46and they want to just move on and
00:18:51and carry on their achievements and
00:18:53and represent their country well. It's an amazing first step, step, but we have to leave it there.
00:18:57there. But thank you for joining joining us on today's programme.
00:18:59programme. Thanks so much. Thank
00:19:01Thank you. Now here, a professor professor at Cambridge University
00:19:05University who was accused of plagiarism plagiarism and embellishing his achievements
00:19:08achievements has resigned. 37-year-old 37-year-old Jason Arday was the youngest
00:19:12youngest black professor in history history at the university. Noor Nanji
00:19:15Nanji explains more. Why is this this professor at one of the UK's
00:19:19UK's most prestigious universities universities giving up his post,
00:19:22post, Professor Jason Arday was Cambridge's Cambridge's youngest ever black professor
00:19:25professor when he joined in 2023, 2023, but he's been caught up in
00:19:28in a row after allegations of plagiarism, plagiarism, which is essentially
00:19:31essentially when someone steals someone someone else's work and questions
00:19:34questions over some of his stated stated achievements, such as his
00:19:37his marathon claims. He insisted insisted he isn't a liar and that that he's faced an unrelenting level
00:19:41level of public scrutiny and personal personal attack. He said some errors
00:19:45errors in his early academic work work were because of his autism, autism, and he also told The times
00:19:48times there had been a co-ordinated co-ordinated campaign to unseat him, him, which he argued was racially
00:19:52racially motivated. The allegations allegations came from another academic,
00:19:55academic, Nathan Cofnas, who was was sacked from his Cambridge role
00:19:59role in 2024 after a backlash to to his views on black people. Last
00:20:02Last night, Cambridge University University said it had launched a a probe into professor R day. Hours
00:20:06Hours later he announced he was quitting. quitting. Some say the claims of
00:20:09of plagiarism are legitimate, while while others argue his treatment
00:20:12treatment has been motivated by racism. racism. That was Noor Nanji. Now,
00:20:16Now, as weather events become more more extreme, fake videos are being
00:20:20being shared rapidly online and it's it's causing real world problems
00:20:23problems in China. The government government has vowed to crack down
00:20:26down on misinformation. But as our our China correspondent Stephen McDonnell
00:20:30McDonnell explains, identifying AI AI generated content is becoming
00:20:33becoming increasingly difficult. difficult. This isn't footage from from a natural disaster, it's AI.
00:20:38AI. As weather events become more more extreme, fake and misleading
00:20:41misleading videos are being shared shared more rapidly online with real
00:20:44real world consequences. In China, China, following recent typhoons,
00:20:48typhoons, the authorities say creators creators are making misleading content,
00:20:51content, some to attract viewers, viewers, others to cause panic or
00:20:55or social unrest. The Chinese government government pointed to this flood
00:20:58flood rescue video as an example example of how false and AI generated
00:21:02generated videos can mislead the the public about the emergency response.
00:21:05response. It's also vowed to crack crack down on misinformation. But
00:21:09But as we discovered, finding out out what's really AI generated can
00:21:12can be very difficult. Take this
00:21:14this video sent to the BBC by a shop shop owner in Guangdong. He says
00:21:17says it was filmed by a family member member after a recent flood. We ran
00:21:21ran it through AI checks and reached reached out to experts, but it came
00:21:24came back with conflicting results results as to whether it was AI generated.
00:21:27generated. The Chinese government government says this footage claiming
00:21:31claiming to show released crocodiles crocodiles in flood waters was old,
00:21:34old, likely from another country country and being misrepresented misrepresented as China. The earliest
00:21:38earliest related post we could find find featured a woman speaking Hindi
00:21:41Hindi who also had several AI videos
00:21:44videos on her Instagram profile. profile. One AI expert said that
00:21:47that the images are likely real, real, but that their test showed
00:21:50showed mixed results. Ours did too.
00:21:53too. Either way, whether it's old old footage being reshared or AI
00:21:56AI generated, it's still misinformation. misinformation. Recently, there have
00:21:59have been arrests and punishment punishment ranging from detention
00:22:02detention to fines for the creation creation of bogus reports and fake
00:22:05fake videos. It's clear, though, though, that as disasters become
00:22:08become more frequent and extreme
00:22:11extreme and AI continues to develop, develop, that protecting the public
00:22:14public is becoming ever more difficult.
00:22:17difficult. Stephen McDonnell, now now a 97-year-old woman, has successfully successfully broken her own world
00:22:21world record to become the oldest oldest person to complete a wing
00:22:24wing walk. Her most recent attempt attempt raised money for staff who
00:22:27who helped her recover from stroke. stroke. Our reporter Steve Knibbs
00:22:30Knibbs was there to see her fly.
00:22:36fly. Betty's back 97 years young young and taking to the skies again.
00:22:40again. I just get bored with life.
00:22:42life. Otherwise when you get old old you can't go here. You can't
00:22:45can't do this. You can't drive, you you can't see. I can't see very well.
00:22:49well. And I get a bit frustrated. frustrated. So I want to do the things
00:22:53things that I can do. Up in the air.
00:22:56air. Betty's at home in her element element on the ground, her friends
00:22:59friends and neighbours from her retirement retirement village in Cheltenham
00:23:02Cheltenham watch on nervously. Oh,
00:23:05Oh, Betty. What was it like watching watching her doing those loop the
00:23:08the loops in there? I was here four
00:23:10four years ago. Awful. Makes you
00:23:13you want to cry. But yeah, she got got on fantastic. Yeah. So proud
00:23:16proud of her. It's incredible. I I mean, she's partially sighted,
00:23:18sighted, in fact, almost blind. And
00:23:21And yet she can do this. This isn't isn't the first time she's done something
00:23:24something like this, but at her age age it's just amazing, isn't it?
00:23:28it? So, no, she's a wonder. Betty Betty started all this ten years
00:23:32years ago at the age of 87. She's She's since abseiled down a tower
00:23:35tower in Cheltenham and took on a a zipwire in Snowdonia. And today
00:23:39today she pushed the envelope even even further, asking the pilot to
00:23:42to throw in a barrel roll. Oh, my.
00:23:46my. God. She explained to me inside
00:23:49inside that something that she really really is keen to do all the time,
00:23:53time, even at her age. So so I just just think it's absolutely fantastic. fantastic. And for me, it's such
00:23:57such a privilege to be able to do do that. All of this was done to
00:24:00to raise money for the stroke unit unit in Cheltenham. They helped Betty
00:24:04Betty when she had a stroke last last year. So kind to me and straight
00:24:07straight away the treatment I got.
00:24:11got. It affects my words. I go to
00:24:14to say a word and it doesn't always always come out, but the rest of
00:24:17of me I'm fit as a fiddle. Well for
00:24:19for a 97-year-old. Today the staff
00:24:22staff sent her a good luck message.
00:24:25message. Grateful for the support.
00:24:26support. Thank you Betty. It's just
00:24:30just amazing that she's doing this this for us. We're so grateful. And
00:24:34And to, you know, go up and wing wing walk and take on such a daring
00:24:37daring and incredible challenge to to support our stroke services team. team. It's just amazing. We're so
00:24:41so grateful. We really appreciate appreciate what she's doing. Back
00:24:45Back on the ground. Betty took it it all in her stride with confirmation
00:24:48confirmation that she broke her own own world record yet again as the
00:24:52the oldest female wing, Walker. Officially
00:24:55Officially amazing. For Betty, there's there's the thrill, the fundraising,
00:24:58fundraising, the excitement. But But she lives by a motto she learned
00:25:02learned at a younger age. I was a a trained children's nurse and I
00:25:04I went to work in Doctor Barnardo's Barnardo's home in Bristol and above
00:25:08above my bed it said we passed through through this world, but once any
00:25:11any good we can do any kindness we
00:25:13we can show. Do it now. Do not defer defer or neglect it. You shall not
00:25:17not pass this way again. And it's
00:25:20it's so true, isn't it? 100%. And
00:25:23And of course this isn't over in in two and a half years' time, Betty
00:25:26Betty has promised to take to the the skies again when she turns 100
00:25:29100 to become a magnificent centenarian centenarian on a flying machine.
00:25:33machine. Steve Knibbs, BBC News Renkum.
00:25:38Renkum. Wow, wasn't that great. Let Let me tell you what we have coming coming up in the next hour we'll
00:25:41we'll return to that news from Uefa, Uefa, the European governing body
00:25:45body for football, saying that Fifa's
00:25:47Fifa's defence of Gianni Infantino
00:25:49Infantino changed nothing and they've they've repeated their threat to
00:25:53to boycott competitions, including including the World Cup. We'll talk
00:25:55talk to Jim Boyce, who's former Fifa Fifa Vice President, in the next
00:25:58next half hour. We'll also have the the very latest on those major, major
00:26:02major train disruptions in parts parts of England after an electricity
00:26:06electricity failure. All of that that coming up
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00:30:17News. Power failure causes major major disruption across railways
00:30:20railways in the Midlands and the
00:30:22the north-west of England. New strikes strikes hit two refineries deep inside
00:30:26inside Russia as a wave of Ukrainian
00:30:28Ukrainian drones target the country.
00:30:31country. Iran says a deal with Oman Oman on the Strait of Hormuz is in
00:30:34in its final stages. What are the the details, though, of any deal?
00:30:38deal? And will the US agree? Calls
00:30:41Calls for an independent inquiry inquiry into a military base in North North Yorkshire, where four young
00:30:45young women have told the BBC they
00:30:47they were sexually assaulted and
00:30:51and harassed and can Gianni Infantino Infantino remain as Fifa president?
00:30:54president? Uefa has insisted they
00:30:56they will still boycott the World World Cup.