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00:01:10a Helena Humpfrey in Washington and this is BBC World News
00:01:13America. Ukrainian forces hit two oil refineries
00:01:17far inside Russia amit a wave of deadly Russian
00:01:20strikes on Ukraine. Questions
00:01:24mount about the state
00:01:25of the US military arsenal after President Trump denies reports of
00:01:29a minute. shortage that could hinder its
00:01:33in readiness,
00:01:34of the
00:01:34in English of FA withdraw support for Infantino, as
00:01:41of of UEFA says that the World Cup boycot may still go
00:01:42of ahead, and President Trump signs two
00:01:45executive orders aimed at denying citizenship to certain
00:01:49children born in the United
00:01:51States.
00:02:04Good to have you with us. Ukraine says that it has hit two oil
00:02:07a refineries in multiple strikes deep inside Russia.
00:02:11Thick smoke was seen in the Russian
00:02:14of city of
00:02:14a Yadislav about 600 kilometers from the Ukrainian
00:02:17of border. President Valodimir Zelensky says that the attacks on Thursday
00:02:21sought to limit
00:02:22of oil of revenues that Moscow uses to finance its
00:02:26war. Well Ukrainian authorities say that Russia
00:02:29of killed at 11 people in overnight strikes, the attacks
00:02:33also
00:02:34of caused a total blackout in the city of Herson. President Zelensky
00:02:37also said that Ukraine had hit
00:02:39me Russian tankers, illegally
00:02:42of exporting sanctioned oil in the black sea. Well, our diplomatic correspondent, Paul
00:02:46Adams has been granted rare access to Ukraine's navy as
00:02:50it patrols dangerous waters in the black sea. Access was given on the
00:02:54strict condition that the
00:02:55in navy's precise location was not
00:02:57revealed. "We're going on
00:03:01patrol with the Ukrainian navy, out into waters made
00:03:04increasingly dangerous by Russian
00:03:06of attacks, rare access to a unit facing constant
00:03:10of danger,
00:03:11in a part
00:03:11of the country where a drone or ballistic missile can arrive with little
00:03:14warning, everyone is focused, on
00:03:18alert, they fire their guns every
00:03:21in day. This morning it looks deceptively calm. With its
00:03:25guns, its netting and
00:03:27some of the other equipment on board, this vessel can look after itself." off
00:03:30of more or less, but what it can't do is
00:03:32to stop
00:03:33in Russia attacking civilian ships coming in and out of
00:03:37Ukraine's ports. those
00:03:39in attacks in are increasing and it's a major problem. there's a
00:03:43war out at sea. Russia and
00:03:46of Ukraine
00:03:47of of in hitting each other's ships, hundreds
00:03:48of them. For the past month, the images have been pouring
00:03:53of in. Every day we have to rescue crews and
00:03:56of take measures to prevent these attacks and reduce their number. "we're doing
00:04:00everything we possibly can. Ukraine is one
00:04:04of the world's largest
00:04:05of grain exporters before the
00:04:06a war, when these pictures were taken, Odessa's ports helped feed the
00:04:10world. The country's grain exporters are
00:04:14worried, the summer harvest is in full swing, Russia's attacks
00:04:18coming at the worst possible time. I would say that uh we
00:04:22already have uh lost the ability to deliver
00:04:25to global consumer around half
00:04:31in of in million." 700 thousand metric tons of Ukrainian greats and well seats.
00:04:33a The war at
00:04:34a sea is raging, some of it out over the horizon, some of it right
00:04:38here along the
00:04:39a coast. Ukraine and Russia are
00:04:41of looking to exert maximum economic
00:04:44a pressure on each other, for those who live and work
00:04:47a here, life is becoming increasingly
00:04:49dangerous. Sitlana works in Odessa's
00:04:53port, she's been limping for the past year ever since a Russian missile
00:04:57a exploded nearby, killing two of her.
00:05:04of
00:05:21Look at my
00:05:21hands,
00:05:26for all its dangers, this is summer, in Odessa, Ukrainians have
00:05:30flopped to the beach,
00:05:34mostly ignoring the sirens and showing only mild interest
00:05:37earlier this week when a Russian drone washed
00:05:40ashore. 'at the
00:05:44other end the black sea, on the same
00:05:45day, seven Russians were
00:05:49killed when an intercepted Ukrainian drone fell on their
00:05:53beach. Back near Odessa, we go looking for the
00:05:57sight of an explosion we heard earlier. We find
00:06:0083-year-old Andre Dudik in the shattered ruins of his
00:06:04house and garden. It's been just five hours since a jet-powered
00:06:08drone interrupted his afternoon nap. Somehow, he
00:06:11escaped without a'. scratch: you think that you
00:06:15are the accidental victim of Russia's
00:06:18attacks on the ports? absolutely, he
00:06:22says. i won't forget
00:06:25this. this war on ships and ports has
00:06:29many casual victims, sailors, dock workers, or people
00:06:32simply unlucky enough to live or work nearby. paul
00:06:36adams, bbc news, odessa. and
00:06:40you can see more of
00:06:42Paul adams. trip to Odessa on BBC News YouTube
00:06:45channel. Well, President Trump is denying reports that
00:06:48Washington has exhausted his weapon stock piles during the Iran
00:06:52war. Details on US stock piles are classified, but
00:06:56CBS News, the BBC's US partner cited two unnamed sources
00:07:00saying that the US has gone through much of its long-range
00:07:04precision missile stock pile. Here's what the president told
00:07:07reporters at the White House on Thursday. I rebuilt the
00:07:11military and also. loaded it up with lot of stuff, that we have certain
00:07:15types of munitions that are very powerful, that we
00:07:19have unlimited virtual unlimited supply, we have others where it's a
00:07:23little bit tighter and we're getting them in a daily
00:07:27basis. well this comes as Iran
00:07:30seeks to finalize deal directly with a man over the straight of
00:07:34homoz. the two countries are engaged in talks to
00:07:38jointly manage the straight, which before the war channeled fifth the...
00:07:42world's oil. now oil prices, they rose on Thursday after Iranian
00:07:46media reported a parliamentary committee is weighing a ban
00:07:50on US and Israeli vessels passing through the
00:07:54straight. joining me live now is Noam Raiden, senior
00:07:58fellow at the Washington Institute for near East Policy with focus on
00:08:01energy and maritime risks in the Middle East. Good evening to you, good to have you
00:08:05on the program, so I mean we're kind of a holding pattern where we've been
00:08:09hearing for number of days that there is a potential for a... deal on the
00:08:13straight from both Iran and the United States, what do you make
00:08:17of what we've been hearing? good evening and thank you for having me,
00:08:21here's what's happening, the straight of hormos has
00:08:25been Iran's key strategic asset throughout this
00:08:28war, Iran has managed to establish new
00:08:31navigational order, what is happening right now is that
00:08:35Iran wants to shape this new navigational order, meaning
00:08:39how ships enter and exit the region through the straight... according to
00:08:42its own terms, this is why we're seeing them negotiating with
00:08:46ourman, and we are hearing different narratives from
00:08:50different officials, especially out of Iran, but what
00:08:54Iran wants to establish is a
00:08:57long-term control the straight of hormos, we should not expect
00:09:01Tahran to let go of this control, it has managed
00:09:05to uh gain throughout uh this
00:09:09war, which brings me to the question, Noam, "even if we
00:09:13talk about deal being close, would the contours of this deal be anything
00:09:17that would satisfy President Trump, and of
00:09:20course number of countries around the world which want to see toll-free
00:09:24access? the issue of fees
00:09:28is very controversial issue, it has always been controversial a
00:09:32mid this war. we are again, we are hearing different narratives from
00:09:36Iranian officials, but even if Iran wants to
00:09:39establish any form of payment, it will f'. Iran will
00:09:43face uh uh several barriers, these include
00:09:47US sanctions, uh, the US treasury, even
00:09:50late, in late July, excuse me, sanctioned at least
00:09:54two firms, Iranian firms for trying, reportedly
00:09:58trying to monetize the straight, so we have the sanctions and also we
00:10:02have the issue of vessels themselves, the operators of
00:10:05ships that will face lot of problems if they end up
00:10:09paying uh any sort of fee to Iran, because they
00:10:13may lose their insurance, so even if Iran insists a
00:10:17payment mechanism, they will face several
00:10:20barriers. I mean, we're also seeing that there is the potential here
00:10:24for a ban when..." it comes to US and Israeli vessels
00:10:28through the street straight,
00:10:30you know, what would that mean? and I also just want to put to you the
00:10:34question, how much of an impact would that actually have, for example on the
00:10:37US, how much commercial
00:10:40shipping is destined for the
00:10:43US? we've seen this type
00:10:46of threat happening elsewhere, such as in the red sea. in
00:10:50the red sea, for instance, yeman's hees have managed to
00:10:54prevent. certain companies from returning to the Red Sea. um,
00:10:58I my concern is that Iran might actually also succeed in
00:11:02doing that, and we need to bear in mind that the risks Iran
00:11:06has established in the straight of formost, in the Persian Gulf and surrounding
00:11:09waterways will prevent some ships from using
00:11:13these waterways uh for some time again, because the risks were
00:11:17remain very high, specifically with respect to vessels that may be
00:11:21linked to US, Israel or the United Kingdom.
00:11:25so what does all of this mean for the global economy? right
00:11:29now oil prices are up again with this uncertainty, we know
00:11:33that the straight certainly wouldn't be
00:11:36unblocked overnight, the pressure will remain on
00:11:39energy markets, because we are also
00:11:42seeing problems in other critical
00:11:46waterways in the region, and mean here the red sea
00:11:50bable mandab, which is another critical choke point, so
00:11:54we have press. right now that are increasing on two
00:11:57critical choke points, the straight of hormos because of Iran and also
00:12:01Babbul in the red sea because the hooties, this is why I
00:12:05expect the pressure to be maintained on
00:12:08regional oil producer exporters as well as on the
00:12:12global economy and of course the energy markets. now
00:12:16r down there, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for neareast
00:12:19policy, very good to get your thought, thank you. Thank
00:12:23you. Now Yemen's defense ministry says that it will
00:12:27respond after Hoofi rebels killed at least 30 Yemeny
00:12:31government troops in attack on military camps. The ministry says
00:12:35that missiles and drones hit several camps in the central part
00:12:39the country. A military spokesperson for the Hutis who control much the
00:12:43northwest of Yemen say that they were targeting large
00:12:46Saudi military buildups at the camps. Now a Saudi led
00:12:50coalition has supported Yemen's government against the Iran aligned
00:12:54tothies. throughout the country's 12 years civil war, and
00:12:58that fighting has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced
00:13:01millions more. well let's turn now to the fragile situation in
00:13:05Lebanon. the Israeli army has carried out strikes in the
00:13:09south on Thursday, killing one person and wounding 11, it
00:13:13marks the first Israeli strikes on Lebanon in more than a
00:13:16month. well, the IDF called its retaliation for the deaths
00:13:20of two Israeli soldiers and an explosion on Wednesday, an
00:13:24Israeli... forces still maintain control of much of southern
00:13:28Lebanon, topic that dominated the latest round of talks between the two
00:13:32countries with the goal of expanding Lebanese control of
00:13:35so-called pilot zones. Hezbulah rejects the direct talks
00:13:39and refuses to surrender its weapons. We'll still to
00:13:43come on World News America, four women tell the
00:13:46BBC that they were sexually assaulted and harassed at an army
00:13:50training college for teenagers in North Yorkshire. We have a special
00:13:54report. Next, around the world and across the UK. This is BBC
00:13:58News.
00:15:10You're live with BBC News, now
00:15:12the next World Cup tournament could still be in peril despite FIFA
00:15:16president Janny Infantino scrapping his widely condemned
00:15:20plan to sell stakes in the competition to private equity
00:15:23investors. Well that led investor, that lead investor,
00:15:27excuse me, would have been Joshua Kushner, the brother of President Trump's
00:15:31son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Now UEFA, European football's
00:15:35governing body, is refusing to withdraw. or its threat to boycott the next
00:15:39World Cup, saying that its conditions have not been met. Well, the
00:15:43English Football Association is also officially withdrawn its support
00:15:47for Janny Infantino, but the Confederation of African Football's
00:15:51executive Committee has unanimously confirmed its
00:15:54support for him. We're joining me live now as BBC
00:15:58Sport presenter Hugue Ferris. Huw, good to see you,
00:16:02just bring us up to date with the response that we are seeing to FIFA's
00:16:05stance. Yeah, that's right, over the last 24
00:16:09hours or so, Helena, there has been if FIFA wanted to draw a line under the
00:16:13fair, very much the opposite happening, rather an
00:16:17entrenching of positions, those in favor have restated that
00:16:21support, those against, rather than backing down as Gianny
00:16:24Fentontino might have hoped to do after his statement on Wednesday night,
00:16:28the pretty much doubling down, you mention you for reaffirming its
00:16:32stance that they could well boycot any FIFA tournaments coming up
00:16:36if G remains in post not only because
00:16:40the conditions that they say that have not been met following their initial rejection of
00:16:44those plans that you outline, but also saying that nothing has
00:16:47changed after that statement from FIFA in the last
00:16:5124 hours. FEF
00:16:54Pro who are the players Union Globally, they have called that statement and
00:16:57indeed the meeting that it followed, a profound abuse
00:17:01of presidential power, but on the other side of things, you mentioned the
00:17:05Confederation of African Football. long supporters of Gintino
00:17:08as a whole, but also the constituent member
00:17:11associations as well, talking about the fact that they
00:17:15unanimously reconfirmed it support for the FIFA
00:17:18president Jenny Infantino, indeed they thanked him for his support for African
00:17:22football over the years, they say they endorse also the FIFA statement
00:17:26from Wednesday night, so there are those in support and there
00:17:30are those who are not, pretty much
00:17:33every single member association or confederation have... about the
00:17:37fact they didn't like how the plans would come about and
00:17:41indeed how they were announced, but those in favor of Jenny and fentino
00:17:45remain so, those against are doubling down. hue, how
00:17:49does all of this get sorted out then? what does
00:17:52resolution look like here? well,
00:17:56certainly the first test of any boycott that UEFA are threatening will be within
00:18:00a month or so, because just a month's time the women's
00:18:03under 20 World Cup takes place in Poland, are you?
00:18:07nation, it has six UEFA competitors
00:18:11within it too, so will those nations withdraw, will Poland
00:18:15still host the competition, if that is resolved in time
00:18:19for that, then aside from the competition, you have numbers
00:18:22game to be played, will Jenner Fintino be
00:18:26defeated by number of people who could be able to
00:18:29unify against him, whether it's a new candidate or whether it's simply to
00:18:33attempt to Aust him, now the 211 FIFA.
00:18:37associations, it needs to be just majority, so that's
00:18:41106, if you look at those who have already
00:18:44professed opposition to him, that is 55 member
00:18:48associations from within UEFA and potentially Concercaff, the north and
00:18:52central American confederation might add another
00:18:5635, but that if you do the maths is just 90, so
00:18:5916 more will be needed, that either to
00:19:02opentino or unite behind an alternative candidate
00:19:06or...
00:19:07Okay, they
00:19:08are
00:19:15is against not
00:19:16this ending. division H Ferris doing the maths for us. Thank you very
00:19:19much. And the family of a
00:19:23Scottish AID worker Lisa Ross who was killed in Greece have paid tribute
00:19:27to her describing her as kind, principled and
00:19:30self selfless person. when Afghan boxer Sheriff
00:19:34Ahmad Zai appeared in court in Athens this morning. He was. with
00:19:38killing lisa as well as robbery and weapons offenses from Greece, our
00:19:42correspondent Ben Philipp reports. This
00:19:46was Shariff amaz. being
00:19:50taken to prison after being charged with killing. his
00:19:54head held down by police in, he said
00:19:57nothing. Elizabeth from Edinburgh was found dead on the 18th of
00:20:01July, the 38-year-old's body was discovered at this dedilic
00:20:04building inside suitcase. today, a mad's... was charged with
00:20:08homicide with intent equivalent to murder in the
00:20:11UK. alongside robbery and weapons
00:20:14offenses. born in Afghanistan, the
00:20:1826-year-old is a champion boxer. he arrived in Greece as
00:20:21refugee in 2016. the Greek police have said that his
00:20:25American wife provided them with decisive details which led to his
00:20:29arrest. the BBC understands that Amadzay and his wife new Lisa
00:20:33after they volunteer together at refugee charity here in Athens,
00:20:37Court documents claim she told police that her husband had been at Lisa's
00:20:41apartment on the night the 15th of July after checking his
00:20:44location on her phone. She asked her husband why and he told her he
00:20:48went in to use the toilet after watching football a
00:20:51cafe. After learning woman was found dead close to
00:20:55where they live, madzi's wife told investigators that Lisa's
00:20:59messages were not in her style or level of English. She became
00:21:02concerned the woman in the suitcase was her friend. Today
00:21:06Lisa's family said she will always be remembered as kind,
00:21:09principled and selfless. Her integrity was absolute
00:21:13and she dedicated her life to helping others in need. We are in deep
00:21:17pain and ask for time and privacy, they said. "We spoke to one of
00:21:21Lisa's friends who she previously worked with a Christian aid
00:21:24charity. That's a bit emotional for me, but she's the one who
00:21:28would always give, like she would give to other
00:21:32people, she would be there for people,
00:21:34um, even to the point that she could
00:21:38sometimes forget about herself. Amadzi didn't
00:21:42respond to today's charges. His defense told the BBC their
00:21:45client's presumption of innocence has been damaged by leaks to the
00:21:49media. added that Amad Zai had exercised his right to remain
00:21:53silent, pending forensic and toxicology examinations of
00:21:56Lisa. He was remanded in custody until his trial, which could
00:22:00be up to 18 months away. It could be some time until Lisa's family find
00:22:04out what happened to her so far from home. Ben Philipp,
00:22:08BBC News, Athens.
00:22:12Where are calls for an independent inquiry into an army training college for
00:22:16teenagers in Yorkshire where four young women say that they were sexually assaulted.
00:22:20and harassed. They told the BBC that the incidents happened at the Army
00:22:24Foundation College in Haragut. The Army said that the claims were
00:22:27extremely distressing and serious. Well, this report from our senior UK
00:22:31correspondent Sieme Katetcha contains details of abuse
00:22:34allegations. It ruined my
00:22:37life. I've lost all my
00:22:39confidence. The words of women who went to the
00:22:43largest army training college in the country for 16 and
00:22:4617-year-olds, speaking to the BBC for the first.
00:22:50time, it needs to be closed down, and I don't get why it hasn't,
00:22:54just doesn't make sense. The Army Foundation College
00:22:58in Haraguat is for teenagers who want life in the armed
00:23:01forces, but now it's at the center of serious allegations
00:23:05from several women who went to the college in recent years, claims
00:23:09of harassment and sexual assault. Tilly, not her
00:23:12real name, says she was raped by fellow recruits. They
00:23:16started taking my clothes off and then this led to their... doing
00:23:20stuff didn't consent to, there were lot
00:23:24them, they touched me in places made inappropriate
00:23:27comments, calling a thing rather than a
00:23:30girl. like some the other women we spoke to, tilly reported it to
00:23:34the police, we're not providing the full details of all their
00:23:38investigations to protect their identity.
00:23:42Monica, also not her real name, says she too was attacked by a junior
00:23:46soldier, so against the door so I couldn't get out, he then pushed himself.
00:23:50up against me and started kissing my face and touching me all
00:23:53over, he sexually assaulted me. all the women
00:23:57we've spoken to went to this college over the last five years,
00:24:01data obtained by the BBC through a freedom of information
00:24:04request shows that North Yorkshire police recorded
00:24:0816 sexual offense crimes over the last year
00:24:12at this college, including voyarism and
00:24:15exposure and sexual assault. these are recorded
00:24:19complaints and It's not clear how many led to prosecutions. If
00:24:23this was anywhere else
00:24:24it would have been closed down by now. I think as matter of urgency there should
00:24:27be an independent inquiry into the college led by
00:24:31someone with significant safeguard and expertise. This woman is
00:24:35the mother of
00:24:36a former soldier. She says her daughter was touched
00:24:39inappropriately. She was literally recruited from
00:24:42school, sold a dream, and then had to navigate
00:24:46all this daily sexual harassment. And it just...
00:24:50my heart, because what you forget about is that she's
00:24:54just a child. the government defines a child
00:24:58as anyone under 18. in response to the allegations
00:25:01made in this report, the ministry of defense says,
00:25:05unacceptable and criminal behavior has absolutely no place in our
00:25:09armed forces, and these reports are extremely distressing and
00:25:13serious. it says it's created the defense serious crime
00:25:16command, which is independent and outside the army. chain of
00:25:20command and has a specialist team who help victims
00:25:24throughout the process of
00:25:25justice.
00:25:29the army is tough training environment with high standards, but the
00:25:33supervision and discipline of junior recruits and their instructors is
00:25:37now in sharp focus after so many serious
00:25:41allegations. seam katetcher, bbc
00:25:44news. well still to come, president Trump
00:25:48signs new executive orders. targeting birthright
00:25:51citizenship, and we meet the 97-year-old woman who
00:25:54broke her own world record, becoming the oldest woman to
00:25:58complete a wingwalk. you won't want to miss that. i'll see you soon.
00:26:05Hello there with high pressure building back in across Western Europe temperatures will be on
00:26:09the rise again into the weekend with plenty of sunshine. This is the
00:26:13high that I'm talking about moving in from the Atlantic
00:26:17and slowly pushing across the continent and moving these
00:26:21weather fronts further eastwards which will continue to develop some
00:26:25heavy showers and thunderstorms pretty much from the alps across in towards
00:26:28eastern Europe and few down into the southeast perhaps into the balcans. "It is
00:26:32still very hot in towards the eastern Mediterranean, high
00:26:3630s uh there for Cyprus, closer to
00:26:39average for Greece and the islands, it's still very hot in Italy with warnings
00:26:43in force, temperatures will be building again across Liberia, certainly inland
00:26:47close to 40 degrees, hotter as well for France and into
00:26:51central and southern England, but still cooler and a bit more showery
00:26:55for Scandinavia and the Baltic states, so for
00:26:58Saturday that area of high pressure building back in to give yet more..." more
00:27:02heat and sunshine to western
00:27:05parts reaching the mid-30s in Bordeau
00:27:09on Saturday climbing into the low 30s for Paris and you'll
00:27:13see it stays hot and sunny in Paris for the upcoming weeks
00:27:17same to for London Madrid and Rome see some very high temperatures could
00:27:21see further warnings for Rome with those values hitting the 40
00:27:25celsius mark temperatures though in Athens generally around average
00:27:29for the time of year.
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00:30:17Welcome back to Wild News America, a US senate committee
00:30:21voted to hold former white house chief medical advisor Dr.
00:30:25Anthony Faulchi, in contempt of Congress, that's a citation with no
00:30:29legal consequences, unless criminal. ution is
00:30:33then pursued while Senate Republicans voted along party lines on
00:30:36Thursday to hold Fouti in contempt for his
00:30:40refusal to answer questions at recent committee hearing on
00:30:44the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fouchy's
00:30:47attorney called Thursday's contempt vote, crude political stunt
00:30:51intended to punish Dr. Falchi for exercising
00:30:55his constitutional rights, adding that Dr. Falchi has committed no
00:30:59crime. He described the resolution as a continuous. of a
00:31:03personal vendetta by committee chair Republican senator Ran
00:31:06Paul, something that the senator denies, well senator Paul told
00:31:10reporters that he now intends to send the contempt resolution to the
00:31:14U.S. department for potential
00:31:17prosecution, as a committee we have voted the majority to
00:31:21refer this,
00:31:23so that will be accomplished today. Mr. Chairman, Dr. Fouti has said that you
00:31:27are out to get him, if you're circumventing the normal senate procedure, aren't you proving
00:31:30his point? A million Americans died,
00:31:33and I think they deserve to know the truth.
00:31:37Well, joining me to discuss live is our White House reporter, Bern
00:31:41debusman Jr. Burn, good to have you with us, just bring us up to date.
00:31:45the very latest in this: well, after that vote
00:31:49from the the house committee, for the senate committee
00:31:51rather, rand paul said that that message
00:31:55would be hand delivered to the department of justice today itself, and now
00:31:59it really becomes up to them whether they pursue criminal charges,
00:32:03it's by no means clear that they'll do so, and doing so would be very,
00:32:07very rare and even more rare would be successful
00:32:11prosecution uh in the previous administration former Trump's.
00:32:15Steve Bannon and Peter Navara who's now in the administration, they were both
00:32:19charged and went to jail for very brief time, but
00:32:23before that it was since the 1980s that that had taken place, so that just shows how rare a
00:32:27conviction would be and a prosecution. And what have we
00:32:30heard from Dr. Fouty and his
00:32:33team? Well, Dr. Fauti himself hasn't commented on the
00:32:36latest vote to to prefer him
00:32:40to for to the department of justice, but his lawyer is
00:32:43essentially called as a... stunt and part of
00:32:46years-l kind of witch hunt by by Rand
00:32:50Paul um, so there's been quite
00:32:52a lot of condemnation here,
00:32:53but they've also expressed quite a lot of optimism that he's on the right
00:32:56side the law and that there won't be any sort of prosecution in
00:33:00the future,
00:33:01and has there been further reaction? well,
00:33:05democrats on the committee, such as the ranking democrat Gary Peters, have kind of
00:33:09echoed that sentiment and accused Ran Paul of essentially
00:33:13being out to get Dr. for for many, many years now,
00:33:17I think, as you mentioned, this has fallen largely along party lines and and
00:33:20many democrats that have spoken out have spoken about Dr. Fouti's
00:33:24work during the pandemic and come to his defense, whereas many Republicans
00:33:28still want to know more about the origins of COVID
00:33:32and how it was handled, in particular, many them are very uh
00:33:35still asking questions about lockdowns,
00:33:39social distancing, school closures, and it could be in the future that
00:33:43Dr. Fouti is still open. to state or local
00:33:47prosecution, then we know for example that Florida has already opened a separate
00:33:50investigation that wouldn't be covered by any, the pardon that
00:33:54Joe Biden gave him just before he left office. Berned
00:33:58debusman, there are white house correspondent, many thanks
00:34:00indeed. Well, President Trump has signed
00:34:04two executive orders in attempt to curb birthright citizenship,
00:34:08which is enshrined in the US constitution. It comes weeks after the
00:34:12Supreme Court rejected a previous order deeming.
00:34:15unconstitutional, well the orders deny citizenship to
00:34:19children whose parents come to the United States on purpose
00:34:23for their children to become citizens, such births a
00:34:27rare according to the migration policy institute. The order also
00:34:30threatens the US citizenship of those born in the US territory such as
00:34:34Puerto Rico, but only if Congress changes the law
00:34:38to end automatic citizenship there. Here's our North America
00:34:42editor, Sarah Smith. well, as you know, the
00:34:46initial executive orderry signing his first day back in office was
00:34:49struck down by the Supreme Court in June and he was clearly
00:34:53furious about that, so it appears that inside his administration they
00:34:56have come up with new ideas how to get around that ruling um
00:35:00and what they're doing is using immigration law to say that if
00:35:04people come here expressly with the idea of giving birth so that their children
00:35:08can obtain an american passport
00:35:10but they claimed they were here as tourists that they claimed that they were coming here on
00:35:13vacation then that is fraud and that for that
00:35:17reason they could be denied automatic birth right citizenship for
00:35:21their babies, and president Trump claimed, as he was speaking in the
00:35:25Oval Office as he was signing these orders that hundreds of thousands of people come to the
00:35:29United States every year uh for this birthright tourism, he said there
00:35:33are companies whose entire business is bringing people here so that they can give birth
00:35:37in the United States, although has to be said that the administration's lawyer when
00:35:40arguing the Supreme Court case few months ago said that they had no
00:35:44statistics. on how often this happens, but it's clearly
00:35:48trying to use different law, different route to achieve some of what Donald
00:35:52Trump wanted to get to with the original birthright
00:35:55citizenship ruling that he signed and then watch speed struck down by the
00:35:59Supreme Court. Sarah Smith there, well I'm joined
00:36:03in the studio tonight by Stephen Kent a conservative
00:36:06commentator and Danielle Butterfield, president at
00:36:10Priorities USA, welcome to you both, very good to have you
00:36:13in the studio, the... evening um Sir Daniel, coming to you on
00:36:17these executive orders, the Trump administration says that this is
00:36:21about stopping people whose parents come to the United States
00:36:25with the very design of... having their children
00:36:29here on US soil to become American, um,
00:36:33do you think that's fair? you, I think that this is yet another
00:36:37example of Trump trying to skirt the law, he if he
00:36:41wants to accomplish this, he has to get Congress on his side, he has to get the Supreme
00:36:44Court on his side, we learned earlier this summer that he was unsuccessful
00:36:48in doing that with birthright citizenship, and so I just see this
00:36:52as the clock starting yet again on Trump trying to move the goal
00:36:56post of, what the law is in the United States, because he wants to
00:37:00accomplish something, and if he wants to do that, he has to have the law on his
00:37:03side. Stephen, what do you say to that? I mean, do you think
00:37:07essentially we're gearing up for a further legal battle on all of this? Do you
00:37:11think President Trump is right to do this by executive order?
00:37:15So I don't think that there will be a particularly heated legal battle on this issue.
00:37:18A lot of how this story was teed up is incorrect, this is not
00:37:22crackdown on birthright citizenship. They already lost that
00:37:26case uh. They are now going a different route of having the
00:37:30department of homeland security put extra scrutiny on and
00:37:34allow them to deny non-immigrant visas of people
00:37:38coming into the country, so they're going to look, especially at pregnant women
00:37:41on non-immigrant visas coming into the country and assessing, what
00:37:45are you here for? Stephen, you say
00:37:48you know you don't anticipate much legal pushback, but just on that very
00:37:51point, people coming into the United States, pregnant
00:37:55women at the border. Yep, I mean, and proving that
00:37:59they are here to give birth, could that not potentially be very
00:38:03tricky legal territory? I imagine that there are going to be
00:38:07lawyers who are going to do their work on this issue, but I think the
00:38:11administration is going to actually be able to pull this through. Non-immigrant visas
00:38:14as an area, particularly through the department of homeland security where they have broad
00:38:18scrutiny. I have colleagues who live in uh, both Ukraine and
00:38:22Georgia and Eastern Europe, they can't come over here for business trip. It
00:38:26is very, very... hard to come over here a non-immigrant
00:38:30visa, both for tourism and for business, and so
00:38:34you are able to look at that and go, you're in the final couple months of your
00:38:37pregnancy, why are you here, who's your sponsor, where are you
00:38:41going, and they are actually all going to be able to crack down on
00:38:44the numerous thousands of Chinese travel agencies that
00:38:48operate, particularly in southern California, to facilitate the travel
00:38:52and time it perfectly for women coming from China to have
00:38:56babies.
00:38:57in the United States who are going to be raised in Beijing. Can I put that
00:39:01to you, Danielle, just if we look at the
00:39:04practicalities of all of this, what you think this potentially could
00:39:07mean? Stephen, there raising the point about women potentially facing
00:39:11scrutiny if they try to come into the United States while they're pregnant, it could be
00:39:15for work, it could be for example to see ill relative, do you for
00:39:19see potential problems? You know, Donald Trump has certainly not had the best
00:39:23track record this year or last year on getting America on his side on his.
00:39:27is very unpopular immigration policies and so look forward to seeing
00:39:31him try to convince the US that this is a popular thing for him to pursue. all right, well let's
00:39:35turn to some other uh issues then on all of this uh and we know that President
00:39:39Trump has been speaking about reports about
00:39:43munitions, shortages. uh, he has said that he would seek
00:39:46jail terms for leakers. we saw that a truth social post
00:39:50earlier today. um, Stephen, I wonder what you make
00:39:54of all of this, whether you think that there is also... question of
00:39:58press freedom in this? I do not think there's an issue of press freedom
00:40:01uh, the the president needs to address whether or not he has leakers
00:40:05within his administration, people who are government employees,
00:40:09possibly his own vice president who is aligned against him on
00:40:13the issue the Iran war, and whether or not these people are sharing
00:40:16information with journalists in order to undermine the negotiating
00:40:20position the White House. That has nothing to do with the press, that has everything to
00:40:24do with the leakers themselves. However, "the president's
00:40:28message is muddled, he is saying both that there are leaks
00:40:32coming out the government, that we are running out of munitions, and it's threatening
00:40:36our position, and also it's not true, he's saying on
00:40:40truth social that we have everything that we could ever need, there are no
00:40:43shortages, which means there's no problem, it means there's no problem
00:40:47here,
00:40:48I mean, Danielle, your thoughts on that, Stephen doesn't feel that this is
00:40:52a press freedom issue, I wonder if the argument could also be
00:40:55raised that if there is a potential..." shortage a war
00:40:59that didn't have congressional sign off, that that reporting is
00:41:02also important. you know, color me shocked that
00:41:06we're in another situation where it's very clear that Donald Trump is
00:41:10likely lying to the American public about what's going on, but I think this is
00:41:14all, you know, yet again a distraction from his inability to end
00:41:18the conflict in Iran, and just
00:41:20you know, the he he cannot see finish line that's going to
00:41:24alleviate the the harm that is being ca on American people
00:41:28right now, and so any story that I see about Iran is just another
00:41:32reminder that there's no end in sight and the American people are going to continue to feel
00:41:36con if let's say that this is true, let's say
00:41:39the that it's is accurate that four fifths of our thad missiles
00:41:43are burnt through, that half of our interceptors are gone, and we
00:41:47are actually facing a shortage, and we're trying to negotiate it into this conflict.
00:41:51why is it good for a government employee or someone in the administration to be
00:41:55leaking? is that a good thing?
00:41:56i don't think i ever said it was a good thing. i think if there is, you're attacking the
00:42:00administration generally on this position, so like why is it good that they
00:42:04be leaking this information? i think it's seems bad, it can be a good
00:42:07thing to call out someone. breaking the law
00:42:11and saying that we should not like get,
00:42:14communicate on public information, there a further question about all of this
00:42:18with regards to threatening long jail
00:42:21sentences, do you think that's appropriate? i think it's appropriate
00:42:25if you are undermining within the administration the
00:42:29negotiating hand of your own government a
00:42:32serious shooting war with foreign enemy, that seems quite
00:42:36serious to me, i'm putting aside the issue of a journalist, i i'm not in interested
00:42:40in the journalist to reports this story, this country has been through this million
00:42:44times, people would argue that this is intimidation tactic.
00:42:47i don't care if it's an intimidation tactic. the administration needs to be clear
00:42:51within its own lines, within the white house, whoever is being
00:42:55a leaker here, whoever is sharing this information is threatening american
00:42:58diplomats, american troops, and they should be fired, and
00:43:02charges should be pressed, but again, i'm not sure that this is accurate, the
00:43:06president is not being clear on whether or not this is actually a sub'.
00:43:10problem that we're short on missiles, so they need to get clear on their own message.
00:43:14Daniel, finally, I mean, you, just
00:43:18the the amount of lies that are coming out of this administration, I would so much rather the
00:43:21president focus on actually solving the crisis at hand instead of
00:43:25jailing his political enemies. I think that we have to separate them as two different issues. Well,
00:43:29certainly of course the war in Iran continues to be a talking point
00:43:33that we could talk about for very long time indeed, and I thank you both for
00:43:37coming in to debate all of those issues. It Stephen Kentar
00:43:41conservative commentator and Danielle Butterfield,
00:43:44president at Priorities,
00:43:46USA. We're still to come on while news
00:43:50America in the five years since the Taliban returned to power in
00:43:53Afghanistan, its women footballers have found a way back onto
00:43:57the international stage against all odds. We have a special report
00:44:01on the team next around the world and across the UK. This is
00:44:05BBC
00:44:06News.
00:45:17You're live with BBC News: eight countries have
00:45:21issued a joint statement condemning ongoing Israeli
00:45:23violations in Gaza. The foreign ministers the
00:45:27UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi
00:45:31Arabia and Egypt said on Thursday that the deliberate
00:45:34targeting of hospitals, ambulances and medical personnel
00:45:38is a grave breach. of international humanitarian
00:45:42law, well Israel has increased its attacks across
00:45:45Gaza in the month since the ceasefire was agreed saying that
00:45:48it is targeting hamas which is retooling. now the UN's
00:45:52children fund known as UNICEF says that at least 300
00:45:56children have been killed in the 300 days since a US broker
00:46:00cease fire between Israel and Hamas was announced in October of
00:46:042025. now in the five
00:46:08years since the Taliban return to power in Afghanistan, women have been
00:46:12banned from all organized sport, but against the odds,
00:46:15Afghanistan's women footballers now scattered across the
00:46:19world, have found a way back onto the international stage
00:46:22after FIFA changed its rules, allowing them to officially
00:46:26represent Afghanistan. Majuba Naruzi from BBC Global
00:46:30Women followed their journey as they travel to New Zealand for their first
00:46:34training camp and
00:46:35match.
00:46:42A song for Afghanistan, team reunited.
00:46:46These players have traveled from across the world for two
00:46:50friendlies in Oakland against. the cook
00:46:53islands. the first sinsureifa allowed
00:46:56afghanistan's team in exile back into international
00:47:00football. we want Afghanistan to be free and we want Afghan girls
00:47:04and womans to be free to be able to choose
00:47:08who they want to be. we want to prove that we are still here, we
00:47:12still fighting for the rice that you took away from us. five
00:47:16years ago everything changed for them almost
00:47:19overnight. when the tolibon return to... power women were
00:47:23banned from playing sports. Afghanistan's women's
00:47:27team was forced into exile, unable to represent
00:47:30their country. They were scattered across the world. I was
00:47:34bullied throughout high school and football gave me the confidence to be who I am
00:47:38today and to be able to speak loud. So I don't know where I would
00:47:41be. Now they are back together rebuilding
00:47:45the team they thought they had lost. For these players,
00:47:49football is more than a game. I want to.
00:47:52is this platform to advocate for the women
00:47:54of Afghanson who haven't been allowed to study for the past five years,
00:47:58obviously the book, the Rose who
00:48:02is representation of women and the date august
00:48:0515th and the date that Afghanistan
00:48:08fell, these matches are
00:48:12only the beginning, the aim is to rebuild Afghanistan's
00:48:16team and exile and to compete for a place at
00:48:19the 2028 Olympic Games. "i will be proud
00:48:23the team and proud of myself that i was part the journey and
00:48:27we made the history by being the first like football team to get
00:48:31our recognition without the approval the taliban. i'm so proud of
00:48:35our young players who played today, great game, don't cry, don't put your heads
00:48:39down, it's more than football for us. Afghanistan lost both
00:48:42matches to the Coke Islands, but after years in
00:48:46exile simply wearing their country's colors again is
00:48:50victory, their olympic dream. is still
00:48:53alive. We don't know when we're going to see each other again, but it's just always
00:48:57amazing to have the
00:48:58second.
00:49:03BBC, Oakland.
00:49:07US health officials have given the green light to new flu vaccine, the
00:49:11first in the nation to use MRNA technology.
00:49:14Well, vaccine manufacturer Moderner said on Wednesday that the US food and
00:49:18drug administration had approved its new Influenza.
00:49:22vaccine, that's despite the FDA originally refusing to review
00:49:26its application, it quickly reversed course earlier this year
00:49:30after public outcry. now US health secretary Robert F
00:49:34Kennedy Jr. is vocal vaccine skeptic and has
00:49:37criticized MRNA technology. he's cancelled more than 20
00:49:41projects designed to develop MRNA vaccines, that
00:49:45is the same technique used in COVID vaccines, which were given to
00:49:48hundreds of millions of people around the world. now Modern's...
00:49:52flu shot is authorized for all adults, aged 50 and
00:49:56older, it's expected to be ready for the upcoming respiratory virus
00:50:00season. well let's talk more about this now. i'm joined by Christina
00:50:03Dewit, FDA reporter for the New York Times. welcome to you
00:50:07Christina. firstly, just fill us in on what is different
00:50:11with this vaccine compared to other flu shots and how
00:50:15COVID played role in its development? well, the real
00:50:19advantage to this vaccine is that it can't made
00:50:23lot faster than traditional flu vaccines. there's a very
00:50:27old fashion decade decades old process where you put
00:50:30um virus a a fertilized chicken egg and wait months
00:50:34for that to develop, deactivate it and put it a vaccine. but for
00:50:38this vaccine you can start with um the flu vaccine you're targeting
00:50:42in June and have it ready for distribution in
00:50:45August. and just talk us through the
00:50:48approval process um and whether it faced challenge.
00:50:53It was rocky process, it was shocking um in
00:50:57February when Moderna got refused to file letter from
00:51:01the FDA, the FDA saying we will not accept your application, which you
00:51:05don't really see with a large study and a well established
00:51:09company, and essentially at the time the um former
00:51:13regulator in charge decided that the company had used
00:51:16a basically a standard comparator vaccine a
00:51:20major 40 thousand person study. but not the best
00:51:24possible best in class vaccine um and that their
00:51:27opinion was that the company had sort of put their thumb on the scale
00:51:31toward showing um that their vaccine was effective and
00:51:35so this was um very quickly walked back after some
00:51:39public outcry it came out that the company had secured a
00:51:43750, i'm sorry 750
00:51:46million investment to study this vaccine and that all of that had
00:51:50been put on the line by this sort of what seemed like rash
00:51:54decision and it was walked back relatively quickly and then things sort of
00:51:58proceeded as normal. so as I understand it,
00:52:02this flu shot is authorized for all adults, aged
00:52:0550 and older, but more broadly um, will people be
00:52:09able to access it, because vaccines typically formally
00:52:13recommended by the CDC's vaccine advisory
00:52:16committee, um, I understand federal judge has blocked
00:52:20a committee from convening on that, it will be
00:52:24available, it is um, the company can can make
00:52:28it, the company can sell it, um, there are some
00:52:32insurance policies, some state rules and laws
00:52:35around sort of those those committee decisions in terms of what's
00:52:39recommended, so it's a little bit in flux whether um that
00:52:43committee will
00:52:43get a chance to consider or potentially recommend this um
00:52:47before the fall respiratory virus season, but but the
00:52:51company can can make it and can't sell it. Christina
00:52:55Juwit, the FDA reporter for the New York Times, thank
00:52:59you, thank you. now
00:53:0297-year-old Betty Bromage from Cheltonham already held
00:53:06the world record for the oldest person to complete a wingwalk a
00:53:10moving plane. The former nurse initially took up the extreme sport to raise
00:53:14money for charity. Now she's done it again and she's been telling us her
00:53:18story.
00:53:21I just get bored with life otherwise.
00:53:25When you get old you can't go here, you can't do this, you can't drive, you
00:53:29can't see, I can't see very well, and I get a bit
00:53:32frustrated. do they loop the loop and the
00:53:36barrel rolls, so they go round a loop, turn your rover a barrel and do
00:53:40round the loop and back down
00:53:42again, it's a bit hair
00:53:45raising and it's you're concentrating, you're moving so
00:53:49fast, just think, well it'll be over in few minutes so it'll be all
00:53:53right, was a trained
00:53:56children's nurse and i went to work in dr bernardos home in Bristol
00:54:00and above my bed it said we passed through this world but once any
00:54:04good can do, any kindness we can show, do it now,
00:54:08do not defer or neglected, you'll not pass this way
00:54:11again, but you
00:54:15know, I can do what I want, I'm old enough to do just what I
00:54:18want,
00:54:23there was 97-year-old Betty Bromidge there who says that she plans to take on
00:54:26another daring challenge when she turns
00:54:29100, well let's turn now to some other important news
00:54:33around the world, health. officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo
00:54:37say
00:54:37that they are carrying out bowler and cholera screening for more than 200
00:54:41passengers aboard boat intercepted on the Congo River. The
00:54:45boat was halted about 40 miles upstream from the capital
00:54:49Kinshasa and the country's health minister says that the screening was being
00:54:53carried out as a precautionary measure after a passenger with
00:54:56fever and diarrhea died in hospital. For the two adults, a
00:55:00three-year-old child and newborn have also
00:55:03died. Budget airline
00:55:07Easyjet has agreed to be taken over by the US firm
00:55:11Apollo, the 5.7 billion pound deal was announced
00:55:15after the rival suitor Castle Lake said that it was ending its
00:55:18bid for the Nofrells airline. Well easy jet is one of Europe's
00:55:22largest airlines, it employs more than 19,000 people
00:55:26and it flies 1,200 routes across
00:55:3035 European countries. And
00:55:33officials in England. say that all the country's rivers, lakes and
00:55:37coastal waters are a challenging state with only around
00:55:41one in seven classes are being a good ecological
00:55:45condition. the environment agency said this is due to legacy
00:55:48substances such as heavy metals and so-called forever chemicals
00:55:52which are building up. the environment secretary said it
00:55:56underlines the need for change. you're watching BBC
00:56:00News, I'll have more for you at the top the hour. stay with us if you
00:56:03can.
00:56:12Hello there, lots of thunderstorms, to end the week across the eastern
00:56:16United States, parts of Quebec, all thanks
00:56:18to low pressure, which has been pulling away - leaving legacy of
00:56:22storms uh for Thursday and Fridays, these will be
00:56:25erupting
00:56:26over the appelations as well, some heavy downpools in places, so
00:56:30number of warnings in force for these, it is hot, humid through
00:56:34the central. plains and very hot towards the desert
00:56:37southwest. showers continue most frequent through
00:56:41central and southern parts of central america and
00:56:45across more northern parts the Caribbean, otherwise quite a lot of sunshine
00:56:49here to end the working week. heavy rain continues across the
00:56:53northwest of South America, particularly towards Colombia, Ecuador
00:56:57and even into central western parts of Venezuela. staying
00:57:01cold for Patagonia, southern Chile where we'll see further snow certainly over the...
00:57:05mountains,
00:57:05but even some sleetiness down to lower levels with more low pressure
00:57:09pushing in from the west. Friday across Europe, some thunderstorms
00:57:13across the alps in towards eastern Europe, it is still very hot through central.
00:57:17and the eastern parts the continent, but we're seeing heat building back in again
00:57:21across Iberia, France as we head into the
00:57:25weekend, and it's staying hot across much of North Africa, particularly towards the
00:57:29northwest, scattered showers and thunderstorms become more
00:57:32widespread across the equatorial countries, a low pressure
00:57:36moving close to the eastern cape of South Africa on Friday, otherwise mostly
00:57:40dry with widespread sunshine here, the Middle East, dry,
00:57:44sunny, very hot, not as hot as it has been for the... temperatures have
00:57:48come down a few degrees, but it stays very hot through
00:57:52the gulf region. monsoon rains, pretty incesson, the
00:57:56western gat into much of northeast India
00:57:59and across into West Bengal and Bangladesh, risk
00:58:03of some localized flooding to end the week. this intense feature, this
00:58:07is a strong typhoon dolphin which is heading
00:58:11westwards towards the coast of eastern China, likely to make
00:58:14landfall there late in the weekend, Sunday probably. into Monday, heavy
00:58:18rain, strong winds and a storm surge. A lot of Indonesia central
00:58:22and southern parts though, looking dry with widespread sunshine, that
00:58:26dry weather extends into much of central northern Australia, we've got 32
00:58:29degrees in Darwin on Friday, a little bit milder across
00:58:33Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania with some sunshine, got a
00:58:37weatherfront barreling into New Zealand to bring some wet weather for
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01:00:06live from Washington, this is BBC News: Ukrainian forces
01:00:10hit two oil refineries far inside Russia amid a wave of
01:00:14deadly Russian strikes on Ukraine. President
01:00:18Trump signs two executive orders aimed at denying citizenship to certain
01:00:22children born in the US.
01:00:25Questions mount about the state the US military arsenal after
01:00:29President Trump denies reports of a munitions
01:00:32shortage that could hinder his
01:00:34readiness.
01:00:44I'm Helena Hompfrey. Good to have you with us. Ukraine says. It hit two
01:00:48oil refineries in multiple strikes deep inside
01:00:51Russia, thick smoke was seen in the Russian city of
01:00:54Yatislav, about 600 kilometers from the Ukrainian
01:00:58border, President