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00:00:10Live from London. This is BBC News. The United States confirms
00:00:14confirms for the first time its deployed deployed space weapons. China urges
00:00:18urges the US to stop preparing for
00:00:20for war in space. Authorities in in Lithuania locate the debris of
00:00:24of a drone that entered EU airspace
00:00:27airspace overnight and was shot down
00:00:29down by Nato jets. The co-founder
00:00:32co-founder of Anthropic says AI firms firms may need a compulsory kill
00:00:36kill switch to stop the technology technology spiralling out of control.
00:00:39control. The public inquiry into into how former nurse Lucy Letby
00:00:42Letby was able to murder seven babies babies and attempt to kill seven
00:00:46seven more, is due to publish its
00:00:48its findings. Prince Harry and Meghan's Meghan's police protection is to
00:00:52to be reviewed as they change their
00:00:54their children's school over security
00:00:58security concerns and TV series. series. Widow's Bay breaks the record
00:01:01record for the most Emmys won by
00:01:03by a comedy in a single season. Welcome
00:01:15Welcome to BBC News. I'm Kasia Madera. Madera. The US military has confirmed
00:01:19confirmed that it has deployed weapons weapons in space. It's believed to
00:01:22to be the first public acknowledgement
00:01:25acknowledgement by Washington of of such capabilities. Officials say
00:01:27say that weapons are already in operation
00:01:30operation and capable of defending defending American assets. Now in
00:01:33in response, China has urged the
00:01:35the US to stop preparing for war
00:01:38war in space. And in just the last last few hours, we've been hearing
00:01:41hearing from China and the reaction reaction there to this news. Here's
00:01:45Here's what their foreign ministry ministry spokesperson had to say.
00:01:48say. China has always been committed committed to the peaceful use of
00:01:51of outer space and safeguarding security security in outer space. We urge
00:01:55urge the US to stop its military military build up and war preparations
00:01:58preparations in outer space, and and take concrete actions to safeguard
00:02:02safeguard global strategic stability. stability. Well, CBS correspondent
00:02:06correspondent Bradley Blackburn explains explains what the US Space Force
00:02:09Force actually is. Well, Kasia the the US Space Force was created during
00:02:13during the first Trump administration administration as a new branch of
00:02:16of the US military with a mandate
00:02:18mandate to protect and defend American American interests in space. And
00:02:21And we know that they have been preparing preparing for what real life Star
00:02:24Star Wars might look like. Space Space warfighting. But as you said,
00:02:28said, this is the first time that that we know of when operational
00:02:31operational ability has been publicly publicly acknowledged with space space based weapons. And what have
00:02:35have they said about what? What is
00:02:38is this on orbit weapon? What have have they explained as to what is
00:02:42is going on up there? Not a lot of
00:02:47of detail, right? Kasia but they
00:02:48they do say that this weapon is capable
00:02:51capable of kinetic and non-kinetic non-kinetic action and that it could
00:02:54could be used for defensive and offensive
00:02:57offensive purposes, including potentially potentially destruction in space.
00:03:01space. So you can imagine that this this is something that might be able
00:03:04able to target satellites, but they they aren't saying Kasia exactly
00:03:07exactly what the payload is on this
00:03:09this weapon or how it works. So they're they're not saying much. China has has said something though. Just talk
00:03:13talk us through their reaction because because they are really not impressed
00:03:16impressed with what we're hearing
00:03:17hearing from the US. Yeah, they are
00:03:21are saying that they're warning about
00:03:23about an arms race in space here,
00:03:26here, warning about the US encouraging encouraging further development and
00:03:30and saying that the US should stand stand down from trying to develop
00:03:33develop this capability. But Kasia Kasia that is not likely because
00:03:36because we know that US leaders are
00:03:38are very concerned about Chinese Chinese and Russian abilities in
00:03:42in space, and particularly the potential
00:03:45potential of those adversaries targeting targeting US resources there, like
00:03:49like satellite technology. A few few years ago, lawmakers warned about
00:03:53about Russia's development of a space space based weapon that could go
00:03:56go after satellites in low orbit. orbit. And when you think about it,
00:03:59it, the US in particular is very
00:04:01very reliant on satellite technology technology for telecommunications,
00:04:05telecommunications, GPs navigation navigation systems and phones and and cars, spy satellites that are
00:04:09are critical for intelligence gathering. gathering. And all of those are potential
00:04:12potential targets in space for an an adversary. And so that is one
00:04:16one of the mandates for the Space Space Force here to protect those
00:04:18those assets. Bradley Blackburn they're they're from our partner station,
00:04:22station, CBS, with a little bit more
00:04:24more detail. Let's unpack some of
00:04:26of what we're learning right now.
00:04:28now. Juliana Suess is the associate associate of strategic threat at
00:04:32at the German Institute for International International and Security Affairs,
00:04:35Affairs, and Giuliana is an expert expert on space security. We were
00:04:38were hearing that we don't have many many details, but the understanding
00:04:41understanding is this is something something that has kinetic and non-kinetic
00:04:44non-kinetic actions. It can potentially
00:04:46potentially be defensive and offensive.
00:04:49offensive. What is your assessment assessment about what has been sent
00:04:51sent up there? Well, as you say,
00:04:54say, we don't currently know what
00:04:57what exactly what exact capabilities capabilities this weapon has. Obviously
00:05:00Obviously knowing that it could have
00:05:02have kinetic or non kinetic capabilities
00:05:04capabilities does suggest it's perhaps perhaps more than just a signal jammer
00:05:08jammer for example, because if we
00:05:10we look at the spectrum of yeah,
00:05:12yeah, counterspace capabilities, capabilities, we have a spectrum
00:05:16spectrum leading from temporary and
00:05:17and reversible effects all the way
00:05:20way to the kinetic end of the spectrum. spectrum. So that's what we're talking
00:05:22talking about. Permanent damage non-reversible non-reversible effects on satellites.
00:05:26satellites. So this could be a number number of capabilities. Obviously
00:05:29Obviously we'll have to we'll have have to wait for further statements. statements. At the same time, the
00:05:33the US Space Force has said that
00:05:36that this is a strategic decision decision to not disclose further further information. So we might
00:05:39might wait for quite some time. This
00:05:42This is the first. Time that the the US has confirmed it's deployed
00:05:46deployed a space weapon in Earth's Earth's orbit, the first time it's
00:05:50it's acknowledged such offensive offensive capabilities. Is there there a potential that it could have
00:05:53have done this without giving any any details about this, that there
00:05:57there could actually be more of these these types of weapons up in Earth's
00:06:01Earth's orbit? So while it is possible,
00:06:05possible, I would, however, warn warn that space situational awareness
00:06:08awareness and space domain awareness awareness capability. So radars that
00:06:11that are able to look into space space and discern what kind of capabilities,
00:06:14capabilities, what kind of satellites satellites are up there are getting
00:06:17getting better. Space is becoming becoming much more transparent as
00:06:20as a domain, not just for the US
00:06:23US but also for China, Russia, but
00:06:26but also through the advances in in the commercial sector. So space space is becoming more transparent.
00:06:30transparent. We are seeing more of of what's up there. So while it is
00:06:34is technically possible that, you you know, assets are placed up there
00:06:37there without us exactly knowing knowing what kind of capabilities capabilities they harbour, I feel
00:06:41feel like that or that probability
00:06:43probability is dwindling. Senior
00:06:46Senior US military leaders, they
00:06:48they point to Russia and China's
00:06:50China's programmes. They say that that potentially they're developing
00:06:53developing ways to attack and disrupt
00:06:56disrupt US satellites in, in possible
00:06:59possible future conflict. Talk us us through what's your understanding understanding as to what other nations
00:07:03nations are doing, in particular particular China and Russia? So in
00:07:07in general, we are seeing a very
00:07:09very you know, dynamic, vastly accelerating accelerating domain in space. So,
00:07:13So, you know, specifically if we're we're looking at Russia and China,
00:07:16China, you know, for Russia, for for example, we have seen certain
00:07:19certain space activities that could could point towards potential weapon
00:07:23weapon tests. For example, we have
00:07:25have seen satellites, you know, I
00:07:27I would say spit out other yeah,
00:07:30yeah, other assets potentially projectiles, projectiles, for example, at the
00:07:33the velocities at which they were
00:07:35were dispensed. Likewise for China,
00:07:37China, we have seen certain space
00:07:39space activities and tests, for example, example, where other satellites were
00:07:43were manoeuvred through the use of of robotic arms. Obviously, all these
00:07:47these tests, whenever they were carried carried out, were carried out on
00:07:50on their own satellites. So they they did not sort of cross the red
00:07:53red line of actually damaging or or interfering with or interfering
00:07:56interfering physically with other
00:07:58other satellites. But they have demonstrated
00:08:01demonstrated capability of interfering interfering with other satellites.
00:08:03satellites. Obviously, this also also comes on top of the kinetic
00:08:07kinetic anti-satellite weapons tests tests that both China and Russia
00:08:09Russia have carried out in 2007 and
00:08:13and 2021, respectively. Really interesting. interesting. Thanks for your expertise. expertise. Really appreciate it.
00:08:17it. Giuliana Zohar from the German German Institute for International International and Security Affairs.
00:08:21Affairs. Thank you. And as our previous previous guest said, they're all
00:08:24all at it. So it's certainly a developing developing story, so we'll have to
00:08:27to keep an eye on that. The President President of Lithuania says that
00:08:30that Nato fighter jets have shot shot down a drone that entered the
00:08:34the country's airspace overnight. overnight. This was the moment that
00:08:37that the drone was brought down by
00:08:39by Italian Nato jets in central Lithuania,
00:08:41Lithuania, near the city of Kaunas. Kaunas. The interception, caught
00:08:45caught by a resident security camera. camera. The debris, which was scattered
00:08:49scattered over a wide area, is now now being collected and examined
00:08:52examined by military police. It's It's the latest security incident
00:08:56incident in the Baltic states since since Russia launched its full-scale
00:08:59full-scale invasion of Ukraine back
00:09:01back in 2022. Well, posting on X,
00:09:04X, the UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting Streeting has said thanks to the
00:09:07the swift and professional actions actions of Lithuanian and Italian
00:09:11Italian forces, Nato once again demonstrated demonstrated our readiness to protect
00:09:15protect our airspace. We stand united united around the clock in defence
00:09:18defence of every inch of Nato territory.
00:09:21territory. Well, in a separate development, development, Denmark has reported
00:09:24reported that a Russian frigate fired fired two flares towards a Danish
00:09:28Danish military helicopter off its its coast on Monday, narrowly missing
00:09:32missing the aircraft. The incident incident happened during a routine
00:09:34routine Danish military mission to to photograph a Russian frigate.
00:09:38frigate. Russia's ambassador to Denmark Denmark has been summoned. All this
00:09:41this comes as Russia launches jet jet powered drone attacks on Ukraine.
00:09:45Ukraine. The head of the country's country's state Post Office of Ukraine
00:09:48Ukraine has told the BBC that Russia Russia is deliberately targeting
00:09:51targeting his branches and his delivery delivery vans. Our Eastern Europe
00:09:55Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford
00:09:56Rainsford has this report from Vilnius.
00:09:59Vilnius. It was just after midnight midnight this morning here in Vilnius Vilnius that my phone screeched with
00:10:03with an alert and when I checked checked the message it said there
00:10:06there was a suspected drone. Keep Keep safe, it said, and wait for
00:10:10for the all clear. Now that all clear clear came about 20 minutes later
00:10:14later and we now know that there there was a drone confirmed that
00:10:17that it was in Lithuanian airspace airspace for around about half an an hour before it was intercepted
00:10:21intercepted and shot down by Nato
00:10:22Nato fighter jets belonging to Italy.
00:10:25Italy. We still don't know who that that drone belonged to. We don't don't know whether it was launched
00:10:29launched deliberately or it might might have strayed into Lithuanian
00:10:31Lithuanian airspace. We know that that it entered from neighbouring
00:10:35neighbouring Belarus and that after after it was shot down, the debris debris was scattered over a wide
00:10:39wide area. So it's being collected collected up and examined to see
00:10:42see where it came from, who it was was launched by and whether or not
00:10:46not it was armed. In fact, whether whether or not there was any explosives.
00:10:50explosives. But this has happened happened at a nervous time here in
00:10:53in this region because Russia is is escalating its full-scale war
00:10:57war on Ukraine, and it is also escalating escalating its hybrid attacks on
00:11:01on Ukraine's greatest supporters. supporters. Vilnius, Lithuania has
00:11:04has always been a staunch supporter supporter of Ukraine ever since the
00:11:07the full-scale invasion. This city city is still covered in Ukrainian
00:11:11Ukrainian flags. There's lots of
00:11:14of messages of solidarity for Kyiv
00:11:16Kyiv here in this city, in this country,
00:11:20country, in the past, when there there have been drone incursions incursions into other countries,
00:11:23countries, including Poland and other other Baltic states, experts have
00:11:27have suggested that Moscow could could be testing Nato's reactions.
00:11:30reactions. At the moment here in in Lithuania, there are still more
00:11:32more questions than answers, but
00:11:35but certainly there is now a full-scale full-scale investigation into what
00:11:38what happened and who might be behind behind it. Sarah Rainsford in Vilnius.
00:11:41Vilnius. Of course, the capital of
00:11:44of Lithuania. The co-founder of one one of the world's biggest artificial
00:11:48artificial intelligence companies companies has told the BBC that AI
00:11:50AI firms may need a compulsory kill
00:11:53kill switch to prevent the technology technology spiralling out of control.
00:11:57control. Anthropic Jack Clark says says AI is getting smarter and more
00:12:00more capable every few months, which which could become a major risk to
00:12:04to society. President Trump has angrily angrily rejected calls to slow down
00:12:07down the development of AI, describing describing fears that it poses a
00:12:11a threat to humanity as a big hoax.
00:12:13hoax. Well, our chief political correspondent correspondent Henry Zeffman told
00:12:16told us about the UK government's government's response to the pace
00:12:20pace of AI development. It's been been striking over the past few days,
00:12:23days, perhaps understandably, given given these are principally American
00:12:26American based entrepreneurs who who are calling for greater government government regulation. We haven't
00:12:30haven't really heard much from the the British government and that is
00:12:33is going to change later today when when Louise Haig, who is essentially
00:12:36essentially the deputy Prime Minister, Minister, gives a speech at the annual
00:12:40annual conference of the Trades Union Union Congress. It's a speech that
00:12:43that actually Andy Burnham was going going to give. But his father died.
00:12:45died. So Louise Haig is giving this this speech and she will become by
00:12:49by far the most senior government government minister to speak about
00:12:53about these issues. She will say say that the government must heed
00:12:56heed the warnings of those who are are at the forefront of developing
00:12:59developing this technology. She will will say that the government is ready
00:13:02ready to work with international international partners to prioritise
00:13:04prioritise public safety and national
00:13:07national security. Of course. What
00:13:09What does it mean to work with international
00:13:11international partners? Given that that the UK clearly has a much smaller
00:13:14smaller role to play here than the the US than China, and given some
00:13:17some of the things that Donald Trump Trump has been saying about this this over the past few days, well,
00:13:21well, that I think is much less clear. clear. Well, thanks to Henry Zeffman, Zeffman, I'm back in just a moment
00:13:25moment after this very short break break around the world across the
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00:14:36News. Welcome back. You are with
00:14:38with BBC News. The findings of a
00:14:41a UK public inquiry into how Lucy
00:14:43Lucy Letby was able to repeatedly repeatedly murder and harm babies
00:14:46babies will be published later today. today. The Thirlwall Inquiry was
00:14:49was set up to look into what happened
00:14:52happened at the Countess of Chester
00:14:56Chester Hospital between 2015 and and 2016, while Letby was working
00:14:58working as a nurse in the neonatal
00:15:00neonatal unit well. Now aged 36,
00:15:0236, Letby is serving 15 whole life
00:15:05life prison terms. The inquiry was was not tasked with examining Letby
00:15:08Letby guilt as Lauren Moss now reports. reports. The offences of murder and
00:15:12and attempted murder have been identified identified and you have been identified
00:15:15identified as a suspect for these these offences. Lucy Letby, seen
00:15:19seen here on police body camera footage footage arrested at her home on suspicion
00:15:23suspicion of murdering vulnerable vulnerable babies on a neonatal hospital
00:15:26hospital ward. You're going to have have to go to the police station station to be questioned about these
00:15:30these allegations. Being a nurse nurse was her dream job. Is it a
00:15:34a job that you enjoyed? You care?
00:15:39care? Love my job. She would go on
00:15:41on to be convicted of murdering seven seven babies, making her the UK's
00:15:45UK's most prolific child serial killer
00:15:48killer of modern times. Now the findings findings of an inquiry looking into
00:15:52into how Letby was able to harm those
00:15:54those in her care but not reviewing reviewing her convictions, will be
00:15:58be published later. This whole process process has been very, very difficult
00:16:01difficult and at times very, very very traumatic for them. Lawyer Richard
00:16:05Richard Scorer represents some of
00:16:07of the babies families. It's very
00:16:10very clear that there were serious
00:16:13serious failings and the responsibility responsibility for ensuring that that the police were brought in and
00:16:17and brought in at an early stage stage when it was clear that there
00:16:20there was potential criminal activity, activity, that responsibility ultimately
00:16:22ultimately rested with the senior senior managers and they failed.
00:16:26failed. Between June 2015 and 2016, 2016, a number of babies collapsed
00:16:29collapsed and died at the Countess Countess of Chester Hospital. In
00:16:33In August 2023, Lucy Letby was found found guilty of murdering seven babies
00:16:37babies and the attempted murder of of six others. A year later, she
00:16:40she was convicted of the attempted attempted murder of a seventh baby
00:16:43baby and is serving 15 whole life
00:16:45life sentences in prison. The government government launched the Thirlwall
00:16:48Thirlwall Inquiry into what happened happened and hearings began in September
00:16:52September 2024. They concluded in in March last year and the report
00:16:56report will be published later. It
00:16:58It is not the actions of Lucy Letby
00:17:01Letby that I am scrutinising. It
00:17:03It is the actions of all those who who were in the hospital. What they
00:17:07they did at the time, in the light
00:17:09light of what they knew at the time time and in the light of what they
00:17:13they should have known at the time. time. The inquiry is taking place.
00:17:17place. While a campaign by some to
00:17:19to prove Lucy Libby's innocence has has grown in the background, her
00:17:22her legal team wants her convictions convictions reviewed and a group
00:17:25group of medical experts have questioned questioned the evidence. In summary,
00:17:29summary, ladies and gentlemen, we we did not find any murders. The
00:17:32The families of Letby's victims who who suffered at the Countess of Chester
00:17:35Chester Hospital. They say they hope hope the inquiry leads to lasting
00:17:39lasting change. The legal reality reality is that Lucy Letby has been
00:17:42been convicted. We have these long,
00:17:45long, often long running and often
00:17:47often expensive inquiries and they're they're very important for learning
00:17:50learning lessons. But often the recommendations recommendations are never implemented
00:17:54implemented and it's a betrayal not not just of the people who've suffered
00:17:58suffered in these cases. Families Families like those I represent.
00:18:00represent. It's actually betrayal betrayal of the public. The inquiry's
00:18:04inquiry's conclusions will be published published this afternoon. Lauren
00:18:08Lauren Moss, BBC News. Well, Emily Emily Townsend from trade magazine,
00:18:10magazine, the Health Service Journal Journal explains the scope of this
00:18:14this inquiry. The inquiry is asked
00:18:17asked to investigate under three three strands. So the first was parents
00:18:20parents experiences. So what families families were told what they were
00:18:24were told about Letby and whether whether she was suspected. And the
00:18:27the second part was the conduct of
00:18:29of people at the Countess of Chester.
00:18:31Chester. So what concerns were raised raised and when how those who raised
00:18:35raised them were treated? Board oversight
00:18:37oversight and any referrals to regulators,
00:18:39regulators, etc. And then the third third is the wider NHS. So whether
00:18:43whether previous inquiries recommendations recommendations were implemented,
00:18:46implemented, where gaps remain and and what structural and regulatory
00:18:49regulatory changes needed. And that's that's where we're expecting to see
00:18:53see potential regulation for senior
00:18:55senior managers. Before we move on
00:18:57on to that, just one of the key things things that people will want to know,
00:19:00know, and I wonder whether you will will be able to answer this, will
00:19:03will this report be able to answer answer whether any of those babies
00:19:07babies could have lived or avoided avoided injury if action had been
00:19:10been taken earlier? I think it will.
00:19:12will. It will perhaps look at whether whether some of those deaths could
00:19:16could have been avoidable and whether whether the concerns that consultants
00:19:19consultants had could have been escalated escalated earlier and whether board
00:19:22board members should have acted on on them. So I would imagine that
00:19:26that that may be the case. It may may not go that far, but I would
00:19:29would imagine that there will be
00:19:31be something about why managers did
00:19:33did not escalate or when concerns concerns were escalated to them.
00:19:37them. They did not act in the way way that they should have done. So
00:19:40So you mentioned regulation and obviously obviously the inquiry. We don't have
00:19:44have the report yet is a long time time coming. Incredibly expensive
00:19:47expensive as well over £18 million
00:19:49million in cost. But just in terms
00:19:52terms of regulation, what could it it suggest to prevent a future case
00:19:56case like that of Lucy Levy's? So
00:19:59So what it could do is there could could be statutory powers which would
00:20:02would essentially disbar NHS leaders leaders in senior roles who have
00:20:05have committed senior misconduct misconduct from holding roles again.
00:20:08again. So if there has been a concern
00:20:11concern about a manager's misconduct, misconduct, it will go on their record.
00:20:14record. And if they then try to apply apply to another job that will be
00:20:18be on the record. So particularly particularly serious misconduct will
00:20:21will be kind of acts designed to to suppress whistleblowing, those
00:20:24those sorts of things, which obviously obviously there is concern about
00:20:27about in this case. Emily Townsend Townsend from the Health Service
00:20:30Service Journal. When that inquiry, inquiry, of course, does publish, publish, we'll have special coverage.
00:20:34coverage. It's emerged that the Duke Duke and Duchess of Sussex have pulled
00:20:37pulled their children out of their their new school in the UK, just
00:20:40just two days into the start of term. term. A spokesperson said that the
00:20:44the decision was taken after a discussion discussion with the family's protection
00:20:48protection team about the practicalities practicalities of their original original arrangements. The children
00:20:51children are now at another school school and it's understood that the
00:20:55the committee overseeing royal and and VIP security is to review the
00:20:58the level of protection for the family family now that they're living in
00:21:01in the UK. Well, former head of royal
00:21:04royal security and former divisional
00:21:06divisional commander in the Metropolitan Metropolitan Police, di Metropolitan
00:21:09Metropolitan Police, Dai Davies gave
00:21:12gave his assessment. It's a very very good question and it's a question
00:21:15question I certainly would be asking asking of them. Did they not prepare?
00:21:18prepare? Did they not do any kind
00:21:20kind of runs? How far the home where
00:21:23where they're currently living to to the school is. These are all issues
00:21:27issues you would hope and think that that the security team and those
00:21:31those advising them would have thought thought about prior to. But the other
00:21:34other big thing I say is if you are are going to have protection in any
00:21:37any shape or form, keep a very low
00:21:40low profile. Stop briefing favoured
00:21:43favoured journalists newspapers as as to what you're doing almost on
00:21:46on a daily basis. I just find this
00:21:49this beyond belief, frankly, that that whoever is advising them on
00:21:53on security, if they actually listen listen to it, are not complying with
00:21:57with that because most of us wouldn't wouldn't know when they're in the
00:21:59the country, wouldn't know anything anything about them unless they and
00:22:03and the so-called team choose to to tell the world what they are doing,
00:22:07doing, including putting film and and photographs. I just don't understand
00:22:10understand their strategy and tactics tactics unless it is to force Ravec
00:22:14Ravec to actually give them protection. protection. And I
00:22:20And I hope Ravec will take a cold, hard view as to whether now
00:22:23now they are private citizens, whether whether they deserve it any more
00:22:26more than countless others, including
00:22:27including female MPs, which I worry worry tremendously in the current
00:22:31current climate about whether they they deserve protection. Whether Whether Meghan, who now is going
00:22:35going to be reviewed as well, whether whether they deserve it more than
00:22:39than numerous others ex-soldiers, ex-soldiers, ex-military who also
00:22:42also are at risk from a variety of
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00:23:00history with her eighth award. Welsh Welsh actor Matthew Rhys made history
00:23:03history with wins in two lead actor
00:23:05actor categories. Our very own superstar
00:23:07superstar David Willis was there.
00:23:09there. Emmy winner and Law and Order
00:23:12Order star Mariska Hargitay got a
00:23:14a celebration of the best in television. television. Off to a high energy
00:23:18energy start. The Emmy. And the Emmy
00:23:22Emmy goes to Kate O'Flynn Widow's Widow's Bay. The first award of the
00:23:26the night going to Kate O'Flynn from from Greater Manchester for her role
00:23:30role as the awkward assistant Patricia Patricia in the quirky new comedy
00:23:33comedy Widow's Bay. Hello, my name
00:23:35name is Patricia. It's Patricia.
00:23:38Patricia. Thank you Katie and Hiro Hiro for trusting this Lancashire
00:23:40Lancashire lass to play a sassy broad
00:23:43broad like Patricia. And the Emmy
00:23:48Emmy goes to Matthew Rhys The Beast Beast In Me. Matthew Rhys is the
00:23:52the star of Widow's Bay, but his his history making moment was still
00:23:55still to come. His first award of of the night was for his role in
00:23:59in the Netflix miniseries The Beast
00:24:01Beast In Me. Don't Let Me Down. Matthew
00:24:04Matthew Rhys. His Emmy for Widow's
00:24:06Widow's Bay, made him the first actor
00:24:09actor to win two lead acting trophies trophies in a single night. He is
00:24:12is also the first performer in history history to have won the lead acting
00:24:16acting award in all three fields.
00:24:19fields. Limited series, drama and
00:24:21and now comedy. Sorry buddy. To the.
00:24:24the. Great and good people of Wales Wales who were as much a nurture
00:24:27nurture as anyone else. We are a a small but mighty nation. This is
00:24:30is incredible. Thank you very much.
00:24:33much. Thank you. In his native Welsh,
00:24:36Welsh, Matthew Rhys crowned Widow's Widow's Bay rapid transformation
00:24:39transformation from quirky newcomer newcomer to mainstream hit. He plays
00:24:43plays the hapless mayor of a New New England town that he refuses
00:24:46refuses to believe is haunted. Apple
00:24:48Apple TV has commissioned a second second series for the fifth year
00:24:52year in a row. 75-year-old Jean Smart,
00:24:54Smart, the star of Hacks, was named
00:24:56named best comedy actress. Jean Smart
00:25:00Smart Hacks. The hospital drama The
00:25:03The Pitt went into these awards with
00:25:06with 25 Emmy nominations, collecting collecting his Best Dramatic Actor
00:25:09Actor award. Its star, Noah Wyle
00:25:11Wyle paid tribute to fellow contender
00:25:14contender Sir Gary Oldman. Mr Altman,
00:25:15Altman, I have to tell you I don't
00:25:18don't know that as an actor my age age that didn't look at Prick Up
00:25:21Up Your Ears and Sid and Nancy and and think that's the benchmark that
00:25:23that I want to hit one day in my my career. The leading award of the
00:25:27the night for best drama went to
00:25:29to The Pitt amid the fall in Hollywood
00:25:33Hollywood production and flight to to other less expensive corners of
00:25:36of the world, including the UK and
00:25:38and Canada. The success of The Pitt
00:25:40Pitt provides at least a crumb of
00:25:42of comfort. It was made not in Pittsburgh
00:25:45Pittsburgh but on a soundstage here here in Los Angeles, and it's already
00:25:49already been commissioned for a third
00:25:51third series. David Willis, BBC News
00:25:53News at the Emmys. David, they're they're looking very much the part
00:25:57part in LA. Our thanks to him. I I will be back in about 15 minutes,
00:26:00minutes, but now it is time for all all your business news that's coming
00:26:03coming up with Ben.
00:29:40coping? For more coverage join me me James Landale here on BBC News.
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00:30:02Now on BBC News. The latest
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00:30:06globe. Business Today. Tough choices
00:30:17choices UK state pensions are set
00:30:18set to rise by nearly £500 a year.
00:30:21year. But can the country afford afford the triple lock policy? And
00:30:25And the price of debt? The yield
00:30:26yield on US Treasury bonds hits its
00:30:29its highest level since 2023, with
00:30:31with a fed rate rise now looming.
00:30:35looming. Hello. Welcome. This is is Business Today I'm Ben Thompson
00:30:38Thompson and we start in the UK where where the latest employment data
00:30:41data paints a picture of a rather rather tricky jobs market. If you
00:30:45you take a look first of all at the the employment numbers, those figures figures show that there's been a
00:30:49a slight fall in August. That compares
00:30:51compares to the previous month. It
00:30:55It represents around 26,000 fewer fewer employees in the workforce. workforce. That drop has been mainly
00:30:59mainly in