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00:00:15I'm Sumi Somaskanda in Washington and this is BBC World
00:00:18World News America. Ukrainian forces forces hit two oil refineries deep
00:00:22deep inside Russia as a wave of drones drones target the country. Questions
00:00:25Questions mount about the state of of the US military arsenal after
00:00:29after President Trump denies reports reports of a munitions shortage that
00:00:32that could hinder readiness. And And President Trump signs two executive
00:00:35executive orders aimed at denying denying citizenship to some children
00:00:38children born in the US.
00:00:52Welcome to World News America. Thank you for joining us. Ukraine
00:00:56Ukraine says it hit two oil refineries
00:00:58refineries in multiple strikes deep deep inside Russia. Thick smoke was
00:01:01was seen in the Russian city of Yaroslavl,
00:01:04Yaroslavl, about 600km from the Ukrainian Ukrainian border. President Volodymyr
00:01:08Volodymyr Zelensky says the attacks attacks on Thursday sought to limit
00:01:10limit oil revenues. That Moscow uses
00:01:12uses to finance its war. Ukrainian Ukrainian authorities say Russia
00:01:15Russia killed at least 11 people people in overnight strikes. Those
00:01:18Those attacks also caused a total
00:01:20total blackout in the city of Kherson. Kherson. President Zelensky also
00:01:23also said Ukraine had hit Russian Russian tankers illegally exporting
00:01:27exporting sanctioned oil in the Black Black Sea. Our diplomatic correspondent
00:01:31correspondent Paul Adams has been been granted rare access to Ukraine's
00:01:33Ukraine's navy as it patrols dangerous dangerous waters in the Black Sea.
00:01:37Sea. Now access was given on the the strict condition that the Navy's
00:01:40Navy's precise location was not revealed.
00:01:42revealed. Here's his report. We're
00:01:46We're going on patrol with Ukrainian
00:01:49Ukrainian Navy out into waters made made increasingly dangerous by Russian
00:01:52Russian attacks. Rare access to a
00:01:54a unit facing constant danger in in a part of the country where a
00:01:58a drone or ballistic missile can
00:02:00can arrive with little warning. Yeah,
00:02:03Yeah, everyone is focused on alert. alert. They fire their guns every
00:02:06every day. This morning it looks
00:02:09looks deceptively calm with its guns, guns, it's netting and some of the
00:02:13the other equipment on board this this vessel can look after itself
00:02:16itself more or less. But what it
00:02:18it can't do is to stop Russia attacking
00:02:20attacking civilian ships coming in
00:02:22in and out of Ukraine's ports. Those
00:02:25Those attacks are increasing and and it's a major problem. There's
00:02:28There's a war out at sea. Russia
00:02:31Russia and Ukraine hitting each other's other's ships, hundreds of them.
00:02:34them. For the past month, the images
00:02:36images have been pouring in. Every
00:02:40Every day we have to rescue crews crews and take measures to prevent
00:02:43prevent these attacks and reduce reduce their number. We're doing
00:02:46doing everything we possibly can. can. Ukraine is one of the world's
00:02:50world's largest grain exporters. exporters. Before the war, when these
00:02:53these pictures were taken, Odesa's
00:02:55Odesa's ports helped feed the world.
00:02:58world. The country's grain exporters exporters are worried the summer
00:03:01summer harvest is in full swing. swing. Russia's attacks coming at
00:03:04at the worst possible time. I would
00:03:07would say that we already have lost
00:03:10lost the ability to deliver to global
00:03:13global consumer. Around half 1 million
00:03:16million or 700,000 metric tonnes tonnes of Ukrainian grains and oilseeds.
00:03:19oilseeds. The war at sea is raging,
00:03:21raging, some of it out over the horizon,
00:03:23horizon, some of it right here along along the coast. Ukraine and Russia
00:03:26Russia are looking to exert maximum maximum economic pressure on each
00:03:30each other. For those who live and
00:03:33and work here, life is becoming increasingly
00:03:36increasingly dangerous. Svetlana Svetlana works in Odesa's port. She's
00:03:39She's been limping for the past year year ever since a Russian missile
00:03:43missile exploded nearby, killing killing two of her colleagues. The
00:03:46The last few weeks, she says, have
00:03:48have been grim. Oh. Watching low
00:03:52low morale. It's very difficult.
00:03:55difficult. A lot of sirens, a lot
00:03:57lot of drones, a lot of hits. And
00:04:00And for morale, it's even more difficult.
00:04:03difficult. People are very tense.
00:04:05tense. What can I say? Look at my
00:04:08my hands. For all its dangers, this
00:04:13this is summer in Odesa. Ukrainians
00:04:15Ukrainians have flocked to the beach.
00:04:19beach. Mostly ignoring the sirens sirens and showing only mild interest.
00:04:24interest. Earlier this week, when
00:04:25when a Russian drone washed ashore.
00:04:29ashore. At the other end of the Black
00:04:30Black Sea. On the same day. Seven
00:04:35Seven Russians were killed when an an intercepted Ukrainian drone fell
00:04:39fell on their beach back near Odesa. Odesa. We go looking for the site
00:04:43site of an explosion we heard earlier.
00:04:46earlier. We find 83-year-old Andre Andre Dudek in the shattered ruins
00:04:49ruins of his house and garden. It's It's been just five hours since a
00:04:53a jet powered drone interrupted his
00:04:56his afternoon nap. Somehow he escaped
00:04:58escaped without a scratch. You think
00:05:02think that you are the accidental accidental victim of Russia's attacks
00:05:05attacks on the ports? Absolutely.
00:05:09Absolutely. He says. I won't forget
00:05:12forget this. This war on ships and
00:05:14and ports has many casual victims victims sailors, dock workers or
00:05:18or people simply unlucky enough to
00:05:20to live or work nearby. Paul Adams,
00:05:24Adams, BBC News Odesa. Here in the
00:05:27the US., President Trump is denying denying reports that the country
00:05:29country is suffering a munitions munitions shortage that could hinder
00:05:33hinder military operations. That That follows a report by our US partner,
00:05:36partner, CBS News, that American American forces have, through much much of the country's global stockpile
00:05:40stockpile of long, long range precision precision missiles missiles as a
00:05:43a result of strikes on Iran. Speaking Speaking to reporters at the Oval
00:05:47Oval Office earlier, this is what what President Trump had to say when
00:05:49when he was asked about the US weapons weapons stockpile. I rebuilt the
00:05:53the military. I also loaded it up
00:05:55up with a lot of stuff. We have certain certain types of munitions that are
00:05:59are very powerful that we have unlimited
00:06:02unlimited virtually unlimited supply. supply. We have others where it's
00:06:04it's a little bit tighter and we're
00:06:07we're getting them in on a daily
00:06:09daily basis. As the US war with Iran
00:06:11Iran enters its sixth month, precise precise information about US missile
00:06:16missile stockpiles still remains remains classified. Trump's remarks
00:06:18remarks come as Iran works on finalising finalising a deal with Oman to set
00:06:21set a route for ships through the the Strait of Hormuz. Both countries
00:06:24countries have been engaged in talks talks to jointly manage the strait,
00:06:27strait, which before the war channelled channelled a fifth of the world's
00:06:30world's oil. Let's speak about the the latest with Victoria Taylor,
00:06:33Taylor, former deputy assistant secretary
00:06:35secretary for Iraq and Iran in the the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
00:06:39Affairs in the. Biden and Trump administrations. administrations. She's currently currently the director of the Iraq
00:06:42Iraq Initiative at the Atlantic Council's Council's Middle East programme. programme. Victoria, thank you for
00:06:46for joining us. First, I want to to ask you what you make of these these reports of stockpiles being
00:06:49being low. Is this a serious issue
00:06:51issue or one you think the US can
00:06:54can remedy easily? Well, this is
00:06:56is an issue that even preceded this
00:06:58this latest round of fighting this
00:07:00this spring. And so it is a serious serious issue that cannot be solved
00:07:04solved quickly. These stockpiles
00:07:07stockpiles take a significant amount amount of time to restart production,
00:07:11production, to increase production.
00:07:13production. And the US has been expanding
00:07:17expanding these interceptors, you you know, at a really fast pace in
00:07:21in order to protect Israel, US bases
00:07:24bases throughout the region and our our Gulf allies. And so certainly
00:07:27certainly that may be one factor
00:07:30factor why the US and why President
00:07:31President Trump decided not to restart
00:07:35restart fighting over this weekend. Yeah, that's an interesting interesting point. I mean, President
00:07:37President Trump says that the US US has destroyed Iran's conventional
00:07:41conventional military capabilities. capabilities. But from what we know, know, what would it take to destroy
00:07:45destroy some of those other capabilities? capabilities? So the remaining missiles,
00:07:48missiles, the drones and so on? Well,
00:07:51Well, I think it's very challenging
00:07:53challenging to even find many of
00:07:55of the sites that house these weapons.
00:07:58weapons. You know, some of these
00:08:01these are on mobile launchers. They They can be moved around. They can
00:08:04can be put underground. And so even
00:08:06even as the US has really been able
00:08:09able to destroy quite a bit of Iran's
00:08:11Iran's military capability, I think
00:08:14think we can say with certainty based
00:08:16based on its ability to strike throughout throughout the region, we've not
00:08:19not been able to eliminate the threat
00:08:21threat that Iran can pose not only
00:08:23only to US bases, but also to Gulf
00:08:26Gulf and other regional partners. partners. I want to ask you about
00:08:29about negotiations. We understand understand Iran and Oman are getting
00:08:32getting close to some sort of agreement agreement that would allow for passage
00:08:36passage through the Strait of Hormuz Hormuz with a joint control. As we
00:08:39we understand it. Is this or would would this be a step forward or something?
00:08:43something? The US simply would not not agree to? Well, I think all signs
00:08:47signs are right now that the US would
00:08:51would accept such a deal. The reality
00:08:53reality is that the US does not have
00:08:55have any good options right now to
00:08:57to end the war, and that also really
00:09:01really reigniting conflict and striking
00:09:03striking Iran striking energy sites sites would be unlikely to achieve
00:09:07achieve US goals either. So it looks looks like President Trump would
00:09:11would be likely to accept such a
00:09:13a deal, even though it really does
00:09:15does cement Iranian control over
00:09:18over the Strait of Hormuz in a way
00:09:21way that did not exist prior to this this conflict. Well, President Trump
00:09:24Trump says he could end the war right right now, but his goal isn't to
00:09:27to ensure that Iran cannot get a a nuclear weapon. What does it take,
00:09:30take, do you think, to get to that
00:09:33that point? Well, I think one of of the challenges that we're facing
00:09:36facing right now is there's very very little trust on both sides.
00:09:39sides. There have been a couple points points during this conflict where
00:09:43where the US and Iran have claimed
00:09:45claimed to be close to an agreement,
00:09:48agreement, even agreed to terms of of a memorandum of understanding.
00:09:51understanding. But those diplomatic diplomatic discussions have frequently
00:09:54frequently been interrupted by renewed
00:09:56renewed conflict, whether started started by the United States or Iran.
00:10:00Iran. And I think that even a deal
00:10:02deal over the Strait of Hormuz would
00:10:04would not necessarily lead to a durable
00:10:08durable agreement that really fights fights this, ends this fighting once
00:10:11once and for all. Do you see the
00:10:13the scope for any agreement where
00:10:16where Iran then does agree to, for for example, not enrich uranium and
00:10:19and allow the US to come in and remove remove the enriched uranium stockpiles
00:10:23stockpiles that exist? I think that
00:10:26that right now Iran believes that that it has the upper hand. And so
00:10:30so because of that, it will be difficult difficult to get the kinds of concessions
00:10:33concessions that the US would like like to see, like a complete halt
00:10:36halt to enrichment or even the movement
00:10:41movement of the highly enriched uranium uranium outside of Iran. I think
00:10:44think it's possible. But I think think right now Iran does not feel
00:10:48feel that it needs to make significant
00:10:50significant concessions. And I think,
00:10:53think, unfortunately, this administration administration has misunderstood,
00:10:56misunderstood, you know, the willingness
00:10:58willingness of the Iranian regime regime to capitulate. This regime
00:11:01regime is willing to withstand significant
00:11:03significant military strikes and and pressure in order to maintain
00:11:07maintain some of its red lines. Victoria, Victoria, thank you so much for joining
00:11:11joining us today. Thank you. Yemen's
00:11:14Yemen's defence ministry says it it will respond after Houthi rebels
00:11:17rebels killed at least 30 Yemeni Yemeni government troops in an attack
00:11:21attack on military camps. The ministry ministry says missiles and drones
00:11:24drones hit several camps in the central central part of the country. A military
00:11:28military spokesperson for the Houthis, Houthis, who control much of northwest
00:11:31northwest Yemen, say they were targeting targeting large Saudi military build-ups
00:11:33build-ups at the camps. A Saudi led
00:11:35led coalition has supported Yemen's Yemen's government against the Iran
00:11:38Iran aligned Houthi throughout the the country's 12 year civil war. war. The fighting has killed hundreds
00:11:42hundreds of thousands of people and and displaced millions more. Eight
00:11:46Eight countries have issued a joint joint statement condemning ongoing
00:11:50ongoing Israeli violations in Gaza. Gaza. The foreign ministers of the
00:11:54the UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi
00:11:57Saudi Arabia and Egypt said on Thursday Thursday that the deliberate targeting
00:12:01targeting of hospitals, ambulances ambulances and medical personnel
00:12:04personnel is a grave breach of international international humanitarian law. Now
00:12:07Now Israel has increased its attacks attacks across Gaza. In the months
00:12:10months since the ceasefire was agreed, agreed, saying it is targeting Hamas,
00:12:14Hamas, which is retooling. Israeli Israeli officials have expressed expressed doubts over a proposed
00:12:17proposed US brokered deal that would would see Hamas give up its weapons
00:12:20weapons in exchange for Israeli forces forces leaving the Palestinian territory.
00:12:24territory. Now the UN Children's Children's Fund, known as Unicef,
00:12:27Unicef, says at least 300 children children have been killed in the
00:12:30the 300 days since the US brokered brokered cease fire between Israel
00:12:32Israel and Hamas was announced in in October of 2025. It says families
00:12:36families in Gaza are sheltering among among destroyed buildings and are
00:12:39are confined to one third of the
00:12:41the strip, with children facing acute
00:12:44acute malnutrition and disease. I I spoke to the Unicef spokesperson,
00:12:47spokesperson, James Elder, and I I asked him why we're seeing an increase increase in children's deaths since
00:12:51since the ceasefire was announced.
00:12:54announced. Yeah, Sue me. It's a question question for Israeli forces. I mean,
00:12:57mean, this is a it's a ceasefire ceasefire that is meant to mean it's
00:13:01it's a period defined by restraint, restraint, defined by protection.
00:13:05protection. But as you say, this this is a child killed on average
00:13:08average every single day during a
00:13:09a ceasefire. To add to the 20,000 20,000 girls and boys killed during
00:13:13during the war. So, I mean, it's it's important that we're clear on
00:13:17on this. These are not children who
00:13:19who were mistakenly killed in a battlefield. battlefield. These were boys and
00:13:22and girls killed while playing football football while in schools, while
00:13:26while in their homes, while fishing. fishing. They were shot. They were
00:13:29were bombed. They were killed by by quadcopters. These unfortunately,
00:13:33unfortunately, are not rare tragedies. tragedies. During this period of
00:13:36of the ceasefire. James, how has
00:13:39has access to aid and medical care
00:13:41care looked? Look, there's no doubt
00:13:43doubt it's improved. OK. I'm incredibly
00:13:46incredibly proud of my Unicef colleagues. colleagues. Palestinian colleagues,
00:13:49colleagues, internationals on the the ground. Education has been a a game changer. Sue me. We've gone
00:13:53gone from Unicef almost having no
00:13:54no children in classrooms to having having around 350,000. I've seen
00:13:58seen that right. I've been in a class class or a school and they've opened
00:14:01opened the gates and it's like this this rainbow of children sprinting
00:14:05sprinting in. But it's still 1 in in 2 children, so. Right. And they're
00:14:09they're not going to school all the
00:14:10the time. And education is a primacy
00:14:14primacy in, in Gaza for Palestinians.
00:14:16Palestinians. It is the reason still, still, after all the devastation, devastation, if there is genuine
00:14:20genuine peace and genuine aid flows, flows, it's the reason it can bounce
00:14:24bounce back because of those education education rates. But education is
00:14:28is the one high point in so many
00:14:29many other areas. Restrictions remain.
00:14:32remain. Look at pregnant women for for example. Based on our funding,
00:14:35funding, our funding crisis and on
00:14:38on supply, there is almost emergency emergency levels of malnutrition malnutrition in pregnant women because
00:14:41because that one meal a day they they give to their children and then then they become malnourished and
00:14:45and their unborn child, when that that child is born, become is malnourished,
00:14:49malnourished, it's that cycle. So So there are many, many restrictions restrictions still for an organisation
00:14:53organisation like Unicef who leads leads in water, who leads in solid
00:14:56solid waste, we have so much more more to do in trauma. So many, many
00:15:00many restrictions still remain on on what can come in to Gaza. Don't
00:15:04Don't forget Gaza I think is the
00:15:06the only place to me on the planet
00:15:08planet where another country decides
00:15:11decides what and how much another another population can eat. So there
00:15:14there is so much more for most people people in Gaza, and I'm in contact
00:15:18contact on a daily basis. They feel
00:15:20feel that life is suffocating. The The Israeli government has said that
00:15:24that they have to prevent Hamas from
00:15:27from rearming, and that these strikes strikes have been targeting Hamas.
00:15:30Hamas. What can Unicef say at this this point about how the ceasefire
00:15:33ceasefire has or has not been respected?
00:15:36respected? Well, it hasn't unfortunately, unfortunately, from all levels. We've We've heard that across the board
00:15:40board from all levels of anyone on
00:15:43on the ground. I mean, these are
00:15:44are we have to I think at some point point in this reporting we have to
00:15:48to have a look when there are so so many statements that have been
00:15:51been made that have clearly been been been shown at a later date to
00:15:55to be false. No one now disputes disputes the number of children killed
00:15:58killed during the war. More than
00:16:02than 2000 1000 1000 babies. OK. So So these are statements of fact that
00:16:05that everyone now agrees on. But But now we still somehow have to
00:16:08to discuss that, that these 300 children children were, were collateral damage
00:16:12damage or something. We've seen the the reports sue me. I've spent far
00:16:15far too many times in hospitals in
00:16:17in Gaza during the war and in the
00:16:20the cease seeing children with quadcopter
00:16:22quadcopter injuries, seeing similar
00:16:25similar wounds from a piece of military military equipment that can be very,
00:16:28very, very specific. Seeing children children on a Tuesday all shot in
00:16:31in the knee, these kinds of things.
00:16:34things. So unfortunately, the reality
00:16:35reality on the ground for Palestinians,
00:16:38Palestinians, particularly for Palestinian Palestinian children, is that even even during the so-called ceasefire,
00:16:42ceasefire, it remains a very, very very dangerous place. There is at
00:16:46at this point a roadmap to the next next phase of the ceasefire. Your
00:16:50Your organisation says that offers offers hope. I wonder how confident
00:16:54confident you feel about reaching
00:16:55reaching that next stage. Hope is
00:16:59is the one thing, certainly that that Palestinians hold on to, and and they're well aware of political
00:17:02political dynamics. I have had, you you know, young Palestinians say
00:17:06say to me, look, James, we understand understand international humanitarian
00:17:08humanitarian law doesn't apply to
00:17:10to us. It's a staggering thing for
00:17:13for someone to understand international international humanitarian law, but but to even say it. And yet they
00:17:16they hold on to hope because there
00:17:20there are deprivations everywhere. everywhere. You've got children who
00:17:23who have had amputations and are are now living in tents, and have
00:17:25have been doing so for a year, for for two years. I mean, a little boy,
00:17:29boy, shrapnel in the eye. I was in in touch with a few days ago and
00:17:32and he's again sent home because because hospitals are still not functioning
00:17:36functioning to any degree that is
00:17:37is needed. So Palestinian girls and
00:17:41and boys, Palestinian mums, Palestinian Palestinian women, civilians, they they need more than promises now.
00:17:45now. They've seen far too many. They've
00:17:47They've seen far too many promises promises broken over years and years
00:17:50years and air strikes and deprivations deprivations and a lack of water
00:17:54water and so on continue. They need
00:17:56need to see a reality on the ground
00:17:59ground so it's not mine to have hope
00:18:00hope or to dismiss it. But certainly
00:18:03certainly for Palestinians, they're
00:18:05they're exhausted. And I think that that many, many, unfortunately, sue
00:18:09sue me, say that they've run out out of hope and they don't have a
00:18:12a great deal of faith in the promises promises made. The reality on the
00:18:16the ground is that nor should they, they, because air strikes continue
00:18:20continue and you know, so does
00:18:24malnutrition. Now President Trump Trump has signed two executive orders orders to curb birthright citizenship
00:18:28citizenship enshrined in the US Constitution Constitution just weeks after the
00:18:31the Supreme Court rejected a previous previous order as unconstitutional.
00:18:34unconstitutional. The orders deny deny citizenship to children whose
00:18:36whose parents come to the US expressly expressly for their children to become
00:18:40become citizens. Such births are are rare, according to the Migration
00:18:44Migration Policy Institute. The order order also threatens the US citizenship
00:18:47citizenship of those born in US territories territories such as Puerto Rico,
00:18:50Rico, but only if Congress changes changes the law to end automatic
00:18:53automatic citizenship there. Let's Let's bring in our North America America editor, Sarah Smith, for
00:18:56for more on this. Sarah, good to to see you. Why are we seeing President
00:19:00President Trump issued these executive
00:19:03executive orders now? Well, as you
00:19:07you know, the initial executive order order he signed his first day back
00:19:10back in office was struck down by by the Supreme Court in June. And
00:19:14And he was clearly furious about about that. So it appears that inside
00:19:17inside his administration, they have have come up with a new idea how
00:19:20how to get around that ruling. And
00:19:22And what they're doing is using immigration
00:19:24immigration law to say that if people people come here expressly with the
00:19:28the idea of giving birth so that that their children can obtain an
00:19:31an American passport, but they claim claim they were here as tourists, tourists, that they claimed that
00:19:34that they were coming here on vacation, vacation, then that is fraud. And
00:19:38And that for that reason they could
00:19:40could be denied automatic birthright birthright citizenship for their
00:19:44their babies. And President Trump Trump claimed as he was speaking speaking in the Oval Office as he
00:19:48he was signing these orders, that that hundreds of thousands of people
00:19:50people come to the United States States every year for this birthright
00:19:53birthright tourism. He said there there are companies whose entire entire business is bringing people
00:19:57people here so that they can give give birth in the United States,
00:19:59States, although it has to be said said that the administration's lawyer, lawyer, when arguing the Supreme
00:20:03Supreme Court case a few months ago, ago, said that they had no statistics
00:20:06statistics on how often this happens. happens. But it's clearly trying
00:20:10trying to use a different law, a a different route to achieve some
00:20:13some of what Donald Trump wanted
00:20:14wanted to get to with the original original birthright citizenship ruling
00:20:18ruling that he signed. And then what's what's been struck down by the Supreme
00:20:21Supreme Court. Sarah, a different
00:20:22different route. Is this likely to
00:20:26to hold up? Well, it's bound to be
00:20:29be challenged in court, and it could could easily go all the way to the
00:20:32the Supreme Court. Again, this is is similar to what the administration
00:20:36administration is trying with tariffs tariffs as well. Something else that that was struck down by the Supreme
00:20:40Supreme Court. And now they're using using different laws in different
00:20:42different ways to try and impose impose the same policy. So it remains
00:20:46remains to be seen whether or not not the Supreme Court would think think that it is constitutional when
00:20:50when you do it under immigration immigration law, rather than an executive
00:20:52executive order challenging the Constitution. Constitution. But it could be months
00:20:55months before we see what the result result of that is. Our North America
00:20:58America editor, Sarah Smith, thank thank you very much. A US Senate
00:21:02Senate committee has voted along along party lines to hold former
00:21:05former White House chief medical medical adviser Doctor Anthony Fauci
00:21:08Fauci in contempt of Congress. The The vote on Thursday stems from the
00:21:12the Homeland Security Committee hearing hearing last week on the US response
00:21:15response to the Covid-19 pandemic. pandemic. Doctor Fauci invoked his
00:21:18his constitutional right against against self-incrimination more than
00:21:21than 100 times during that session, session, arguing that the committee
00:21:24committee chair, Republican Senator Senator Rand Paul, was trying to to put him behind bars. Doctor Fauci's
00:21:28Fauci's lawyer called the vote a a crude political stunt. Rand Paul
00:21:31Paul told our US partner, CBS News, News, that he now intends to send
00:21:35send that contempt resolution to to the US Justice Department for
00:21:39for potential prosecution. The 2030 2030 mens World Cup could still be
00:21:43be in peril, despite Fifa president president Gianni Infantino scrapping
00:21:47scrapping his widely condemned plan plan to sell stakes in the competition
00:21:49competition to private equity investors. investors. The lead investor would
00:21:52would have been Joshua Kushner, the the brother of President Trump's
00:21:56Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Kushner. Now Uefa, European football's
00:21:59football's governing body, is refusing refusing to withdraw its threat to
00:22:02to boycott the next World Cup, saying saying its conditions have not been
00:22:05been met. The English Football Association Association has also officially withdrawn
00:22:08withdrawn its support for Infantino, Infantino, but the Confederation
00:22:12Confederation of African Football Football Executive Committee has
00:22:14has unanimously confirmed its support
00:22:17support for Infantino. Our sports sports correspondent Andy Swiss has
00:22:20has more. He's fighting on. But so
00:22:24so are his opponents. Gianni Infantino Infantino might have apologised after
00:22:27after his ill-fated plans, but his his critics say that's not enough.
00:22:31enough. European football's governing governing body Uefa, said it changes
00:22:34changes nothing. They've still lost lost confidence in Infantino and
00:22:38and they could still boycott Fifa Fifa competitions. First, the proposals
00:22:41proposals to sell off the major competitions competitions had to be withdrawn,
00:22:45withdrawn, they said. And secondly, secondly, assurances have to be made
00:22:48made that such attempts to disfigure disfigure the game in this way will
00:22:50will never be made again. These conditions
00:22:53conditions have not been met. If
00:22:55If Uefa remains united and these these big countries, they're included.
00:22:59included. They're in Spain, ourselves, ourselves, Germany, Italy and so
00:23:02so on. Stick together. I believe believe that they can reach a positive
00:23:05positive conclusion, by which I mean mean Infantino will go. So you think
00:23:09think this threat of a boycott is
00:23:10is a good tactic? I think it's almost
00:23:13almost the only tactic. Last night night Infantino looked relaxed as
00:23:15as he watched a game in Morocco
00:23:24were handled. We sincerely apologise apologise for these errors, he wrote wrote to members and commit to them
00:23:27them not happening again. But the the backlash continues. The English
00:23:31English FA have now sent a letter letter withdrawing their support
00:23:34support for Infantino and the leader leader of one of the host nations
00:23:37nations of this summer's World Cup
00:23:39Cup says he has also lost confidence. confidence. The idea that proper
00:23:43proper governance is not to disclose disclose to your closest advisers
00:23:46advisers your chief operating officer,
00:23:48officer, your fellow board members, members, something of consequence
00:23:51consequence that you're even considering, considering, let alone proposing,
00:23:54proposing, and you lose confidence confidence in that individual. But
00:23:57But certainly I don't have confidence
00:23:59confidence in Mr Infantino after
00:24:01after this point. The global players
00:24:04players union FIFPRO have also hit hit out calling Infantino's proposals
00:24:08proposals a profound abuse of presidential
00:24:10presidential power. Despite the crisis crisis engulfing football, he is
00:24:14is still there. But so is the pressure.
00:24:17pressure. Andy Swiss, BBC News. Let's Let's get a quick look at some other
00:24:20other headlines. Italian officials officials have placed all of the the country's major cities on the
00:24:23the highest level of health alert alert due to soaring temperatures, temperatures, as large parts of Europe
00:24:27Europe remain in the grip of a heatwave. heatwave. Drought related disruptions
00:24:31disruptions affecting shipping and and energy supplies in Central Europe, Europe, where several major rivers
00:24:35rivers are at record low levels. levels. In Hungary, the dwindling
00:24:38dwindling flow of water in the Danube Danube has led to power shortages.
00:24:42shortages. Myanmar's military ruler ruler Min Aung Klang has received
00:24:44received a red carpet welcome to to Thailand as he seeks to break
00:24:47break his diplomatic isolation despite despite a continuing civil war. After
00:24:50After meeting Thailand's Prime Minister, Minister, he claimed Myanmar is on
00:24:53on the path of democracy and heading heading towards a better future.
00:24:56future. It's his first official visit visit to neighbouring Thailand since
00:24:59since he ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's
00:25:00Kyi's elected government in 2021. 2021. Human rights groups criticised
00:25:04criticised the visit as giving legitimacy legitimacy to Myanmar's military
00:25:07military regime. Thailand argues argues that it must re-engage with
00:25:10with Myanmar to address problems problems along their border. Budget
00:25:13Budget airline Easyjet has agreed agreed to be taken over by the US
00:25:16US firm Apollo. The £5.7 billion billion deal was announced after
00:25:20after rival suitor Castlelake said said it was ending its bid for the
00:25:23the no frills airline. EasyJet is is one of Europe's largest airlines
00:25:25airlines and employs more than 19,000
00:25:2819,000 people. It flies 1200 routes
00:25:31routes across 35 European countries. countries. Before we go. A rare species
00:25:34species of tiger has been released released in Kazakhstan for the first
00:25:38first time in 70 years. Umit, a female
00:25:40female Amur tiger, was released within within the Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve.
00:25:44Reserve. It's part of a programme programme to restore the animal's animal's population, which was wiped
00:25:48wiped out in Central Asia a century century ago. Umit is one of four
00:25:51four Amur tigers transferred from from Russia. She will be monitored
00:25:54monitored on how she takes to her her new environment before a decision
00:25:57decision is made on whether to release release the other three. Thank you
00:26:01you so much for watching World News News America and you stay
00:27:35into next week, hitting the 50 Celsius
00:27:36Celsius mark on Tuesday.
00:29:39editor in chief of The Economist Economist will tell us about her
00:29:42her experience. It's all on The Media
00:29:44Media Show on BBC News. One thing
00:29:53thing I can say which is true of of this region is that it's become
00:29:56become harder to be a journalist. journalist. It's really important
00:29:58important to be on the ground if
00:30:00if that means you've got to go to
00:30:03to hostile remote places, then we
00:30:05we have to do that. That's the opium opium resin is a very pungent smell
00:30:09smell of it in the air right now.
00:30:11now. The delta wave of Covid devastated
00:30:13devastated India, and I think it it was the coverage that we did for
00:30:16for the BBC at the time which brought
00:30:19brought international attention to to what's happening here could affect
00:30:23affect the world's ability to recover recover from the pandemic. We've
00:30:26We've met with families who've had had to do the unthinkable. Another
00:30:29Another person came up and asked asked if we'd like to buy their child.
00:30:33child. The desperation is hard to to put in words. Many of the stories
00:30:37stories we've had to tell are distressing. distressing. They're difficult, but
00:30:40but that's usually an indicator that
00:30:43that they're really important stories
00:30:45stories to tell.
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