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00:00:13Live from Washington. This is
00:00:15BBC News. Ukraine's president repeats
00:00:18repeats his plea for more missiles missiles to intercept air strikes
00:00:22strikes after another deadly Russian
00:00:27After another deadly Russian attack just outside the capital, capital, Kyiv. Football's world body body Fifa responds as questions mount
00:00:30mount about president Gianni Infantino? Infantino? S personal and professional
00:00:34professional conduct. And police police in the UK urge others who
00:00:38who might be the victim of the convicted
00:00:40convicted murderer and rapist. Simon
00:00:42Simon Levy to come forward. I'm Helena
00:00:53Helena Humphrey good to have you you with us. Ukraine's President President Volodymyr Zelensky is again
00:00:57again appealing to allies for interceptor interceptor missiles after a Russian
00:01:01Russian attack killed three people, people, including a child. The strikes
00:01:04strikes happened early on Saturday Saturday to the east of the capital,
00:01:07capital, Kyiv. Witnesses say that that residential buildings were among
00:01:11among those hit. Russia's defence defence ministry says that it struck
00:01:14struck a factory producing components
00:01:16components for Ukrainian cruise missiles. missiles. Also on Saturday, Ukraine
00:01:20Ukraine said that its drones struck struck two Russian oil refineries
00:01:23refineries from Kyiv. Dan Johnson
00:01:25Johnson sent this report. This is
00:01:28is the level of destruction Russian Russian drones are inflicting on
00:01:31on Ukrainian family homes. They struck struck after midnight here, taking
00:01:35taking the lives of a three-year-old three-year-old boy and his grandparents,
00:01:39grandparents, his brother and their their parents were injured, along along with a neighbour who tried
00:01:43tried to save them. Ukrainian prosecutors
00:01:47prosecutors say this could amount
00:01:47amount to a war crime. Svetlana lives
00:01:51lives next door. My husband rushed
00:01:54rushed to get water to put out the the fire, but that didn't help. The
00:01:57The neighbours rushed out trying trying to rescue a small child but
00:02:01but they couldn't find the child.
00:02:06child. This is where the sacrifices sacrifices of Ukrainian soldiers
00:02:10soldiers are commemorated. But recent recent strikes have highlighted the
00:02:13the ongoing risk to ordinary people people because Ukraine says it just
00:02:17just doesn't have what it needs to
00:02:19to defend its skies. The other key key priority here is pushing for
00:02:22for tougher sanctions against Russia.
00:02:27Russia. And so President Zelensky Zelensky is for the first time visiting
00:02:31visiting Serbia, a traditional Russian Russian ally and one of the few countries
00:02:34countries not to impose sanctions.
00:02:38sanctions. In a time of war, we value value and are deeply grateful for
00:02:42for the help Ukraine receives from
00:02:43from other countries and other nations.
00:02:46nations. Ukraine has again been targeting targeting Russian oil facilities
00:02:50facilities in the latest round of of attacks. Both sides have exchanged
00:02:53exchanged in this increasingly dangerous
00:02:55dangerous phase of the war. Dan Johnson,
00:02:58Johnson, BBC News, Kyiv. Well, this this comes as a Russian strike in
00:03:01in Dnipro severely damaged one of
00:03:04of Ukraine's largest pharmaceutical pharmaceutical warehouses, risking
00:03:06risking vital medical supplies relied relied on by the International Rescue
00:03:10Rescue Committee and other humanitarian humanitarian organisations. Doctor
00:03:13Doctor Marko Isailovic, the senior senior health co-ordinator at the
00:03:17the IRC Ukraine, told me about the
00:03:19the scale of the damage. The warehouse.
00:03:22warehouse. So at the moment we cannot
00:03:24cannot access the warehouse. We only
00:03:27only received information from the
00:03:30the warehouse staff that the warehouse warehouse is completely destroyed.
00:03:33destroyed. All of the medication,
00:03:34medication, all the medical supplies.
00:03:38supplies. More than 70 million words
00:03:40words in US dollars of medical supplies supplies has been completely destroyed
00:03:43destroyed and if not destroyed, they've they've been exposed to fire and
00:03:47and water so they cannot be used
00:03:49used any more. At the moment. Firefighters
00:03:52Firefighters and emergency services services are at the site, so we cannot
00:03:56cannot access. But we are hoping
00:03:59hoping as of Monday we can go and
00:04:02and assess the situations ourselves
00:04:05ourselves and confirm the damage.
00:04:06damage. I mean this is a huge stock
00:04:09stock of medication that has been
00:04:10been lost. What does that mean for
00:04:14for patients and the treatment of of people? I mean could their lives
00:04:17lives be at risk? Exactly. Because
00:04:20Because this is not the first attack. attack. Our International Rescue
00:04:24Rescue Committee has already suffered
00:04:26suffered the attack back in December
00:04:29December 2025, when more than $200,000
00:04:32$200,000 worth of supplies were also
00:04:34also lost in the attack of one of
00:04:37of the largest pharmaceutical warehouses
00:04:40warehouses in Ukraine. And now it
00:04:43it was not only I. International International Rescue Committee who
00:04:46who had the medicine and medical medical supplies in this warehouse.
00:04:50warehouse. It was World Health Organization,
00:04:53Organization, many other humanitarian humanitarian organisations, but as
00:04:57as well, hospitals and primary health health care centres. And this attack
00:05:00attack is not only on the pharmaceutical
00:05:03pharmaceutical warehouse or on the
00:05:05the medication. It's attack on every
00:05:08every patient who needs chronic medication, medication, who needs critical care.
00:05:12care. It's attack on every healthcare
00:05:15healthcare professional who cannot cannot provide the quality care to
00:05:19to their patients because they don't
00:05:20don't have medicine to provide. And
00:05:23And we already are seeing some shortages
00:05:26shortages in the medication at the
00:05:28the moment in the local market. Luckily,
00:05:31Luckily, the supply chain outside outside of Ukraine is still well
00:05:35well functioning. So we are able
00:05:36able to import medication. But again,
00:05:39again, it's going to take much more
00:05:42more time and we are hoping it will will not create additional problems
00:05:46problems for the patient who need need emergency care. IRC has said
00:05:50said in a statement that medicine medicine medical supplies should
00:05:53should be off limits. Do you have
00:05:55have any evidence that Russia deliberately deliberately targeted this warehouse,
00:05:58warehouse, or do you simply not know
00:06:00know at this stage? I don't have
00:06:03have sufficient information nor I'm I'm in the position to say that this
00:06:07this was a deliberate attack. But
00:06:08But what we can see is a trend that
00:06:12that as WHO has been reporting, that
00:06:15that since the beginning of the escalation escalation or the full-scale war
00:06:19war in February 2022, there were
00:06:24were more than 3100 recorded attacks
00:06:25attacks on healthcare. More than
00:06:29than 240 of our colleagues healthcare healthcare professionals have lost
00:06:32lost their life during the line of
00:06:35of duty, 80% of those attacks were
00:06:38were also on the medical team. Emergency
00:06:41Emergency services who are coming coming to provide critical care after
00:06:44after the attacks. So yeah, this
00:06:48this has been a trend and a sign
00:06:53sign that there are no safe places places nor safe professions in Ukraine.
00:06:55Ukraine. Yeah. And you've repeatedly
00:06:58repeatedly called for an end to attacks
00:07:00attacks on civilian infrastructure infrastructure through your organisation.
00:07:04organisation. And those appeals have have been made throughout this war.
00:07:06war. Those attacks continue. So what
00:07:09what specifically do you want from from Ukraine's international partners
00:07:13partners to do differently to try try and stop this? Yes, you're completely
00:07:17completely right. We've been advocating
00:07:18advocating for the past four and
00:07:21and a half years. We feel that the
00:07:23the international community is not not supporting sufficiently the war
00:07:26war in Ukraine. We feel that everybody everybody is forgetting that the
00:07:30the war is ongoing and is very much
00:07:32much ongoing. More than 15,000 civilians civilians have lost their lives since
00:07:35since the beginning of the full-scale
00:07:38full-scale war and the trend is is
00:07:41is much higher since the beginning
00:07:44beginning of 2026, we have been seeing. seeing. I'm based in Kyiv and every
00:07:47every other night there is a mass
00:07:50mass attack in the city. The attacks
00:07:53attacks on the critical infrastructure, infrastructure, on the civilians,
00:07:56civilians, on the water supply, energy
00:07:59energy supply, as has been aggregating
00:08:02aggregating the suffering of the
00:08:05the people, the impacts on the mental
00:08:07mental health of people is tremendous
00:08:11tremendous sleep deprivation, the the inability to go to work in a
00:08:15a normal circumstances. All of these
00:08:18these has has been ongoing for four
00:08:20four and a half years. And with winter
00:08:22winter approaching, we feel that
00:08:24that the humanitarian aid is needed
00:08:27needed more than ever. But as well,
00:08:29well, the support from the international international community to Ukrainian
00:08:32Ukrainian people. Doctor Marko Isailovic
00:08:35Isailovic there from the International International Rescue Committee. Now
00:08:37Now Iran says that the US must meet
00:08:40meet its demands in order for the the Strait of Hormuz to reopen. On
00:08:44On Saturday, Iran's foreign minister minister tempered expectations for
00:08:47for a full reopening of the strait strait any time soon. An Iranian
00:08:50Iranian military spokesperson said said that Tehran will leverage the
00:08:54the power it has by virtue of geography.
00:08:57geography. Let's have a listen. Wow.
00:09:01Wow. The enemy is compelled for the
00:09:03the strait to be reopened to accept accept Iran's conditions and refrain
00:09:06refrain from interfering in the negotiations negotiations between Iran, Oman and
00:09:10and other countries which have almost almost reached their conclusion.
00:09:13conclusion. It must refrain from from such interference and accept
00:09:16accept Iran's conditions whenever whenever it accepts Iran's conditions.
00:09:20conditions. The Strait of Hormuz
00:09:21Hormuz will certainly be reopened.
00:09:24reopened. The talks with Oman are are about a temporary route. We're
00:09:27We're very close to the result. Determining Determining this route by Iran and
00:09:30and Oman does not necessarily mean mean the reopening of the Strait
00:09:33Strait of Hormuz. That is dependent dependent on other factors. The violations
00:09:36violations of the memorandum of understanding understanding by America should be
00:09:40be compensated. Well, let's go live
00:09:42live now to Imran Bayoumi, former
00:09:44former policy adviser at the US Department
00:09:46Department of Defence, now deputy
00:09:48deputy director of the Atlantic Council's Council's Geostrategy initiative.
00:09:51initiative. Good to have you with with us. So we've got those new demands
00:09:55demands from Iran on the Strait. Strait. Does that effectively mean
00:09:58mean that we're back to square one
00:10:01one here? I think throughout this
00:10:03this entire war we've seen this cycle
00:10:07cycle of escalation or threats of of escalation, seeming progress on
00:10:10on a peace deal and then the crumbling
00:10:14crumbling of that progress and back back to threats of escalation. So
00:10:16So I think we're stuck in this cyclical
00:10:21cyclical trap and it's really underscores underscores just how difficult these
00:10:25these negotiations are and how much much leverage Iran believes it holds
00:10:28holds over the Strait of Hormuz. Hormuz. I just want to take a look
00:10:31look at some of the conditions that that we were hearing from Iran. So
00:10:34So they include sanctions relief,
00:10:37relief, war repatriations and immediate immediate end to the US blockade
00:10:40blockade of Iranian ports. Is there
00:10:44there any realistic prospect that that the US would agree to those
00:10:48those terms? I think that's up to
00:10:50to the President to decide. But again, again, this is an indication that
00:10:54that Iran believes it has leverage,
00:10:56leverage, and I think it has time.
00:10:58time. Tehran believes it can outlast
00:11:01outlast the United States. It sees sees the same news reports we do
00:11:04do that the United States is is facing
00:11:06facing a shortage of interceptors interceptors that the President has
00:11:10has this pressure to wind down the
00:11:13the war ahead of the mid-terms and and that, you know, the really only
00:11:15only option left for the United States States is is military escalation,
00:11:19escalation, which would be costly. costly. And it's something the President President doesn't want to do with
00:11:22with all those factors. Iran believes believes it can outlast the US here
00:11:26here and drag out these negotiations negotiations in an attempt to gain
00:11:29gain more from them. And on that that point, we have also been hearing
00:11:33hearing reports that General Dan Dan Kane, the chairman of the Joint
00:11:36Joint Chiefs of Staff, is looking
00:11:38looking for an off ramp in this war.
00:11:42war. What do you make of those reports?
00:11:45reports? You know, I think the chairman's
00:11:48chairman's job is to provide sound sound military advice to the President.
00:11:51President. I think in this instance,
00:11:54instance, I'm not sure it's just just him looking for an off ramp. ramp. I think the United States as
00:11:57as a whole has been looking for a
00:12:00a way out of this conflict. You know,
00:12:03know, I think the way out is through
00:12:06through negotiation. It's just a a matter of what is the US willing
00:12:09willing to give up to get there? there? When will Iran be willing willing to come to the table, meet
00:12:13meet halfway? And you know, I think
00:12:15think the key thing here is that that right now we're negotiating
00:12:19negotiating for the opening of the the Strait of Hormuz and then you'll
00:12:22you'll deal with all the bigger problems problems like Iran's missile programme,
00:12:25programme, its support for proxies, proxies, its nuclear programme, and
00:12:28and that will all come at a later later date. So this is going to be
00:12:31be a lengthy, lengthy process. And And in the meantime, we know that
00:12:35that countries in the region are
00:12:36are also very concerned about the the prospect of escalation here.
00:12:40here. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan Pakistan this week signing a defence
00:12:44defence agreement stating that an an attack on one would be considered
00:12:47considered an attack on all three
00:12:49three countries. Do you think that
00:12:51that that signals growing doubts
00:12:53doubts among US allies about whether
00:12:57whether Washington is still seen seen as reliable when it comes to
00:12:59to its allies? You know, I think
00:13:02think that President Trump has been
00:13:04been clear even before this war that
00:13:07that he's reconsidering America's America's global posture. I think
00:13:11think this new pact is a sign of
00:13:13of a few things. One, that there's there's a recognition that during
00:13:16during the course of this war, the
00:13:18the Gulf countries have really bore
00:13:20bore the brunt of Iran's attacks.
00:13:23attacks. Maybe. And without maybe maybe all the support they wanted
00:13:26wanted from the United States. So So that's, I think, why you see Saudi
00:13:29Saudi Arabia entering this partnership. partnership. But longer term, it's
00:13:32it's also about Saudi Arabia trying
00:13:34trying to grow as a regional power
00:13:36power and stabilise itself in a still
00:13:39still tumultuous region and looking looking beyond the war with a potentially
00:13:43potentially emboldened Iran and Iraqi Iraqi militias, the Houthis as well.
00:13:47well. So it's seeking security from
00:13:49from those threats. And then to your
00:13:51your point, it's a recognition that that America's security umbrella
00:13:53umbrella is maybe no longer guaranteed. guaranteed. And there needs to be
00:13:57be a solution to that. Imran Bayoumi,
00:14:00Bayoumi, former policy adviser at
00:14:01at the US Department of Defence. Defence. Thanks for your analysis.
00:14:05analysis. Thank you. Fifa spokesperson
00:14:08spokesperson has now responded after after a tumultuous week for the group's
00:14:11group's president, Gianni Infantino.
00:14:13Infantino. In just the last hour, hour, football's international governing
00:14:17governing body released a statement statement saying in part, quote,
00:14:20quote, the Fifa president was democratically
00:14:23democratically elected by Fifa's Fifa's member associations and continues
00:14:26continues to serve with their mandate. mandate. It's increasingly evident
00:14:30evident that there is a concerted concerted and ongoing effort by some
00:14:33some to undermine Fifa and its president.
00:14:36president. Recent reporting has included
00:14:39included unsubstantiated assertions assertions and demonstrably false
00:14:41false claims concerning Fifa and and its president. Well, the Fifa
00:14:45Fifa statement comes after European European football's governing body
00:14:49body Uefa, confirmed that it made made a departure payment to a woman
00:14:52woman alleged to have been Mr Infantino's Infantino's lover. The current Fifa
00:14:56Fifa boss was UEFA's general secretary secretary in 2016 when the money
00:15:00money was paid. Uefa says that the the money, which also included covering
00:15:03covering the fees for a course at at a business school, met its rules
00:15:06rules at the time, but they have
00:15:07have since been tightened. Gianni
00:15:12Gianni Infantino was already under under pressure over his future as
00:15:15as Fifa president. Now he's facing facing fresh questions over claims
00:15:19claims a woman he allegedly had an an affair with was given a six figure
00:15:23figure severance payment by Uefa.
00:15:25Uefa. The Daily Telegraph says the the alleged relationship happened
00:15:28happened while Infantino, who is is married, was UEFA's general secretary.
00:15:32secretary. He strongly denies it. it. His spokesman told the paper
00:15:35paper the claims are categorically
00:15:38categorically untrue and says there there was never a complaint about
00:15:41about his behaviour. In a statement, statement, Uefa said it was aware
00:15:45aware of the allegations and can can confirm a departure payment was
00:15:48was made to the individual in question, question, coupled with the payment
00:15:51payment of fees for an MBA course course at a local business school,
00:15:55school, the payment was in line with with the regulations that existed
00:15:58existed for departing staff at the
00:16:00the time. This comes after calls
00:16:03calls for Infantino to resign over over a completely separate controversy.
00:16:06controversy. He wanted to sell stakes stakes in the World Cup to private
00:16:10private investors. That caused a
00:16:12a huge backlash, and the plan was
00:16:14was eventually dropped. Gianni Infantino Infantino has since apologised for
00:16:18for what he called errors, but he he hasn't stepped down. He's been
00:16:22been busy trying to strengthen his his relationships with officials
00:16:26officials and politicians who back back him, like here in Colombia.
00:16:29Colombia. He's had the support from from senior figures at Fifa and from
00:16:33from football authorities in Africa Africa and South America. But with
00:16:36with his future still in question,
00:16:38question, the BBC's South America America correspondent Ione Wells
00:16:41Wells later asked him if he would would step down. Infantino, will
00:16:45will you resign after your plan to to sell off part of Fifa failed?
00:16:49failed? A word for BBC News. What's What's your response to Europe? Who
00:16:52Who say they'll boycott the World
00:16:54World Cup? Infantino. For now, he
00:16:58he remains in the job. But these
00:16:59these latest claims mean the questions
00:17:02questions around his future aren't
00:17:04aren't going away. Leigh Milner BBC
00:17:06BBC News. Counter-Terrorism police
00:17:09police looking into the death of of Ann Widdecombe have reopened an
00:17:13an investigation into attempted burglary burglary in London last year. The
00:17:16The BBC understands that it relates relates to an incident at Nigel Farage's
00:17:20Farage's address. At the time, he
00:17:22he said that a lit incendiary device
00:17:24device was pushed through his letterbox.
00:17:27letterbox. Thomas Magill reports. reports. Brutally murdered in her
00:17:30her own home a month ago today, Ann
00:17:33Ann Widdecombe was attacked minutes minutes before she was due to make
00:17:36make a television appearance less
00:17:38less than two weeks after her killing
00:17:41killing 28-year-old Joshua Kerry, Kerry, from South Yorkshire, was
00:17:44was charged with her murder. Now Now counter-terrorism police who
00:17:48who are leading the investigation investigation into what happened,
00:17:51happened, say they have reopened reopened inquiries into an attempt
00:17:54attempt at burglary at a property property in the Greater London area
00:17:57area in April last year. The BBC
00:18:01BBC understands the property in question question is used by the reform UK
00:18:05UK leader Nigel Farage. He has previously
00:18:08previously referred to the incident incident as a lit incendiary device
00:18:11device being pushed through his letterbox.
00:18:15letterbox. This latest statement statement says following the reopening
00:18:18reopening of an attempted burglary
00:18:21burglary investigation, counter-terrorism counter-terrorism Policing London
00:18:23London identified a line of inquiry inquiry which was not identified
00:18:27identified and pursued by them at
00:18:28at the time, which may have been
00:18:31been relevant and there is a further further development. Counter-Terrorism
00:18:34Counter-Terrorism police based in in London have made a mandatory referral
00:18:38referral to the police watchdog,
00:18:40watchdog, the IOPC, after their handling
00:18:42handling of the initial investigation investigation last year. For now,
00:18:46now, it's unknown how the murder murder of Ann Widdecombe in Devon
00:18:49Devon may be linked to an attempted attempted burglary in London. Just
00:18:53Just one of the many questions yet
00:18:55yet to be answered. Thomas Magill, Magill, BBC News. Police in the UK
00:18:59UK are urging anyone who believes believes that they may have been
00:19:02been a victim of the convicted sex
00:19:05sex offender and murderer Simon Levy Levy to come forward. He was found
00:19:08found guilty yesterday of murdering murdering two women and raping another.
00:19:11another. There are calls for a major major review into how he was able
00:19:15able to continue offending. Tom Symonds
00:19:17Symonds report contains some distressing
00:19:19distressing details. Simon, Simon,
00:19:23Simon, stay where you are. Simon
00:19:26Simon Levy the sexual predator and and killer arrested. Time you're
00:19:30you're under arrest on suspicion
00:19:30suspicion of murder. After time and
00:19:34and freed, allowing him to carry carry out a string of sexual assaults
00:19:37assaults and eventually two murders.
00:19:40murders. The Metropolitan Police Police admits he could have been
00:19:42been stopped before killing his second
00:19:44second victim. Now there are inquiries inquiries into what went wrong inside
00:19:49inside two police forces and the the criminal justice system. Levy
00:19:52Levy was free to carry out a series
00:19:54series of sexual assaults on the the London Underground, including
00:19:57including one filmed by a woman he
00:19:59he had already assaulted. The police police watchdog is investigating
00:20:03investigating an officer for potential potential gross misconduct and a
00:20:06a detective sergeant for misconduct misconduct were policies designed
00:20:09designed to protect women followed. followed. Are there any lessons to
00:20:13to be learnt? And now there are demands
00:20:15demands for a wider look at how the the system failed. We need all the
00:20:19the agencies involved to answer for for why there wasn't better information
00:20:22information sharing and why the assessment assessment of risk he posed wasn't wasn't good enough. And then the
00:20:26the response that he received by by the police, by the CPS and the
00:20:30the courts, the fact he wasn't placed placed on remand earlier, the police
00:20:32police didn't treat his first murder murder as a murder. There was a lack
00:20:36lack of restrictions that could have have been placed on him. After all,
00:20:39all, Levy was released on bail despite despite the British Transport Police
00:20:42Police warning the courts at one one point he was a danger to the
00:20:46the public at high risk of predatory predatory sexual offending against
00:20:50against women. The families of Carmenza
00:20:54Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and Sheryl Sheryl Wilkins have now seen him
00:20:56him jailed. The Metropolitan Police
00:20:58Police has actively investigated investigated whether he committed
00:21:01committed other murders, but today today police said they wanted to
00:21:04to hear from anyone he might have
00:21:08have assaulted Tom Symonds, BBC News. Well, turning now to some other
00:21:12other stories making headlines around around the globe. More than 2000
00:21:162000 people in British Columbia have have been forced to evacuate as wildfires
00:21:20wildfires continue to sweep across across western Canada. The bald range
00:21:23range wildfire was first reported reported on Friday evening but grew
00:21:27grew within hours. Officials say say it's one of the quickest moving
00:21:30moving wildfires that the region region has ever seen. Now Canada
00:21:32Canada has faced a summer of large large wildfires with blazes burning
00:21:36burning through provinces including
00:21:39including Ontario and Quebec. Hundreds
00:21:41Hundreds of people in the Spanish
00:21:43Spanish island of Mallorca have joined
00:21:45joined a protest against mass tourism tourism in the Balearic Islands.
00:21:49Islands. Protesters said that locals locals are finding it increasingly
00:21:52increasingly difficult to access access housing and that mass tourism
00:21:55tourism is forcing traditional businesses businesses to close. Spain is the
00:21:58the world's second most visited country
00:22:00country after France and welcomed welcomed more than 96 million tourists
00:22:04tourists last year. The government government estimates that tourists
00:22:07tourists will contribute $73 billion billion to the economy this summer.
00:22:11summer. That's up 10% from the same
00:22:13same period last year. The US Senate
00:22:17Senate has confirmed Todd Blanche Blanche as the nation's next Attorney
00:22:21Attorney General in a narrow 50 to
00:22:23to 49 overnight vote. Well, the vote vote early on Saturday cements President
00:22:27President Trump's former personal personal defence lawyer as the head
00:22:31head of the US Justice Department. Department. It follows a heated confirmation
00:22:35confirmation battle over the department's department's independence. Blanche
00:22:38Blanche has led the agency in an
00:22:39an acting capacity since April. Two
00:22:42Two Republicans joined all Senate
00:22:44Senate Democrats in voting against against his nomination. Our White
00:22:47White House reporter Bernd Debusmann Debusmann has more now. Todd Blanche,
00:22:50Blanche, the former personal lawyer lawyer of Donald Trump, was confirmed
00:22:53confirmed as the new US Attorney Attorney General in a razor thin
00:22:56thin 50 to 49 vote in the US Senate. Senate. Blanche's confirmation ends
00:23:00ends weeks of uncertainty in Washington Washington and a tense political
00:23:03political standoff between the Trump Trump administration and Senate Republicans.
00:23:06Republicans. Some of those Republicans Republicans had expressed concern concern over Blanche's handling of
00:23:10of a now scrapped $1.8 billion anti
00:23:13anti weaponization fund, which the the administration hoped to use to
00:23:16to compensate victims of what they they said was persecution by the
00:23:19the Justice Department. The deciding deciding vote was cast by Louisiana
00:23:23Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, a
00:23:24a frequent critic of President Trump's
00:23:27Trump's before casting his vote, vote, Cassidy said that he believed
00:23:30believed that Mr Blanche was the the best option that President Trump
00:23:32Trump would put forward. Critics, Critics, however, have expressed expressed concern that Blanche might
00:23:36might try revive the Anti Weaponization Weaponization Fund under a different
00:23:40different name, and Democrats have have said they fear that Blanche Blanche will be used to target President
00:23:43President Trump's perceived political political enemies here in Washington.
00:23:47Washington. Spain has brought in in border checks on people travelling
00:23:50travelling from Italy, escalating escalating a migration dispute between
00:23:53between the two EU countries. Madrid's Madrid's month long suspension applies
00:23:57applies to Italian nationals and
00:23:59and citizens of third countries arriving
00:24:01arriving from Italy. Spain was angered
00:24:03angered by Italy's response to last last week's sudden crossing of tens
00:24:07tens of thousands of would be migrants migrants into the Spanish territory
00:24:11territory of Ceuta on Morocco's coast. coast. Most of those who entered
00:24:14entered Ceuta later returned to Morocco.
00:24:17Morocco. Italy then imposed border border restrictions on third country
00:24:21country travellers from Spain, which which will last until at least mid-August.
00:24:24mid-August. Our southern Europe correspondent correspondent Sarah Rainsford is
00:24:26is in Rome. She explained how the the standoff is putting a strain
00:24:30strain on the principle of freedom freedom of movement in the European
00:24:34European Union. All of this began, began, of course, in Ceuta, when
00:24:37when tens of thousands of migrants
00:24:38migrants from Morocco swam into the
00:24:41the Spanish enclave following social social media posts that went viral,
00:24:44viral, saying that the borders with with Spain were open. Now the vast
00:24:47vast majority of those people have have gone back, but the political political fallout is continuing and
00:24:51and it all began here in Italy because because it was the Italian hard right
00:24:55right government that first introduced introduced border checks with Spain
00:24:58Spain saying that anyone arriving arriving from Spain would would face
00:25:01face extra border checks citing security security threats. According to the
00:25:04the government here, from that incursion incursion from Morocco. Now the.
00:25:08the. It also accused the Spanish Spanish socialist government of being
00:25:11being too soft on illegal migration. migration. The Spanish were furious. furious. The government. They're
00:25:15They're accusing the government here here of political point scoring and
00:25:18and asked them to drop those measures. measures. Italy refused. Spain has
00:25:22has now retaliated. Retaliated. Now Now what does that mean in terms terms of checks? It means police
00:25:26police are now meeting planes from from Italy to Spain, checking passengers
00:25:29passengers on board. About 10% of of the passengers now being checked.
00:25:32checked. So problems at the height height of the tourist season for
00:25:35for travellers, but also a huge symbolic
00:25:38symbolic moment in terms of migration migration policy in Europe and a
00:25:41a serious rift in that in attitudes attitudes towards that right at the
00:25:44the heart of Europe. Sarah Rainsford
00:25:47Rainsford there reporting from Rome. Rome. I'm Helena Humphrey in Washington,
00:25:50Washington, DC. Thanks for your company. company. I'll have more for you on
00:25:53on the way at the top of the hour.
00:25:55hour. See you then.
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