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00:00:10Live from London. This is BBC
00:00:12News. Babies could have been saved saved at the hospital where child
00:00:16child killer Lucy Letby worked. That's That's according to an inquiry into
00:00:19into the crimes of the former nurse. nurse. A drone was shot down over
00:00:23over European Union airspace by Nato Nato fighter jets. Lithuania's president
00:00:27president says such readiness is
00:00:29is vital as Russia intensifies its its aggression against Ukraine. The
00:00:33The United States confirms for the the first time its deployed space
00:00:37space weapons. China urges the US
00:00:38US to stop preparing for war in space. space. Trains across large parts
00:00:42parts of the Netherlands grind to to a halt because of what authorities
00:00:46authorities suspect are co-ordinated co-ordinated acts of sabotage on
00:00:49on the tracks. Nairobi in Kenya is is to become the first African city
00:00:52city to host the World Athletics Athletics Championships, beating
00:00:55beating rival bids from London and
00:00:57and Rome for the 2029 event. And And horror comedy Widow's Bay is
00:01:01is the big winner at the TV Emmy Emmy Awards, taking home 14 at the
00:01:05the ceremony in Los Angeles. Hello,
00:01:17Hello, I'm Lucy Hockings, welcome welcome to BBC News Now here in the
00:01:20the UK, an inquiry has found that that some of the deaths of babies
00:01:24babies murdered by neonatal nurse nurse Lucy Letby could have been
00:01:27been prevented if safeguarding practices practices had been followed. Letby
00:01:31Letby was convicted in 2023 of seven
00:01:33seven murders of babies and attempting attempting to murder seven more.
00:01:37more. Lady Justice Thirlwall's report report sets out 17 recommendations
00:01:41recommendations the NHS must take take to prevent, detect and act when
00:01:45when deliberate harm is suspected. suspected. Lauren Moss reports. The
00:01:49The offences of murder and attempted attempted murder have been identified
00:01:52identified and you have been identified identified as a suspect of these
00:01:55these offences. Lucy Letby, seen seen here on police body camera footage
00:01:58footage arrested at her home on suspicion suspicion of murdering vulnerable
00:02:02vulnerable babies on a neonatal hospital
00:02:04hospital ward in 2015 and 2016. Is
00:02:06Is it a job that you enjoyed? I love
00:02:12love my job. She would go on to be be convicted of murdering seven babies
00:02:16babies and attempting to murder seven seven others, making her the UK's
00:02:19UK's most prolific child killer of of modern times. Now, the findings
00:02:23findings of an inquiry led by a senior senior judge looking into how Letby
00:02:27Letby was able to harm those in her
00:02:30her care, has found huge failures failures in the NHS trust where she
00:02:33she worked and that babies may have have lived if senior managers had
00:02:37had acted sooner. The report describes
00:02:40describes dysfunctional management management and governance, a gulf
00:02:43gulf between hospital leadership leadership and clinicians and failure
00:02:47failure to understand the fundamentals
00:02:51fundamentals of safeguarding errors errors were made by nurses, doctors
00:02:54doctors and managers at the time time of these events. I've set these
00:02:58these out in the report and will
00:03:00will turn to this topic later. There
00:03:03There was also complete failure at
00:03:05at all levels to invoke safeguarding
00:03:08safeguarding procedures at any point. point. The inquiry has found there
00:03:12there was a complete failure to protect
00:03:15protect babies on the neonatal unit. unit. There was a failure to understand
00:03:19understand the fundamentals of safeguarding safeguarding and that parents of
00:03:22of the babies were kept in the dark dark for years over concerns that
00:03:26that their babies may have been deliberately
00:03:29deliberately harmed, it says the the NHS must take steps to prevent,
00:03:33prevent, detect and act when deliberate
00:03:35deliberate harm is suspected. The
00:03:38The inquiry hasn't reviewed Letby
00:03:40Letby convictions. Protesters campaigning campaigning about Letby innocence
00:03:44innocence gathered outside Liverpool Liverpool town Hall ahead of the
00:03:48the inquiry's report. Her legal team team asked for the inquiry to be
00:03:51be paused while her case is looked looked at by the Criminal Cases Review
00:03:54Review Commission. But that was denied. denied. A group of medical experts
00:03:58experts have questioned the evidence. evidence. In summary, ladies and
00:04:02and gentlemen, we did not find any any murders. The inquiry found clinicians
00:04:06clinicians who raised concerns about about Letby were themselves made
00:04:09made the subject of investigation investigation and forced to apologise
00:04:12apologise to her. It also found lessons lessons from previous scandals, including
00:04:15including the Harold Shipman case,
00:04:17case, had not been learnt. Solicitors Solicitors representing some of the
00:04:21the families of the babies say the
00:04:23the inquiry, which started hearing hearing evidence two years ago, has
00:04:27has been traumatic. The legal reality reality is that Lucy Letby has been
00:04:30been convicted. We have these long,
00:04:32long, often long running and often
00:04:35often expensive inquiries and they're they're very important for learning
00:04:38learning lessons. But often the recommendations recommendations are never implemented.
00:04:42implemented. And it's a betrayal betrayal not just of the people who've
00:04:45who've suffered in these cases. Families Families like those I represent.
00:04:48represent. It's actually a betrayal
00:04:50betrayal of the public. The inquiry
00:04:52inquiry makes 17 urgent recommendations. recommendations. Lady Justice Thirlwall
00:04:56Thirlwall says nothing like this this must ever be allowed to happen
00:04:59happen again. Tamlin Bolton is a
00:05:02a solicitor representing the families families of six babies killed by
00:05:06by Lucy Letby. She made a short statement statement to the media after the
00:05:09the publication of the Thirlwall
00:05:11Thirlwall report. Today is an emotional emotional day for the families, many
00:05:15many of whom continue to live with
00:05:17with the consequences of what happened happened to their children, lady
00:05:21lady Justice Thirlwall's report paints paints a damning picture of what
00:05:25what happens when concerns over patient patient safety are not listened to
00:05:28to or acted on. In her words in the
00:05:32the report, a dispiriting and shocking shocking account of multiple and
00:05:35and repeated failings by organisations
00:05:38organisations and individuals, failures failures to escalate, concerns failing
00:05:42failing to appreciate the risks, risks, failures in safeguarding,
00:05:45safeguarding, failures in governance governance and oversight, failures
00:05:48failures in the HR and the whistleblowing whistleblowing protections. Failures
00:05:52Failures in their interactions with with external patient safety bodies.
00:05:55bodies. Direct and frank criticism criticism of the senior management
00:05:59management team. A CEO with an intention
00:06:01intention to stall or obstruct a
00:06:04a police investigation so determined
00:06:05determined to bring down the doctors,
00:06:08doctors, he lost objectivity. The The director of Nursing's misguided
00:06:12misguided determination to protect protect a fellow nurse overriding
00:06:15overriding her professional judgement judgement to the extent that the
00:06:19the executives thought about the the parents at all, they considered
00:06:22considered it better to say nothing
00:06:23nothing in the belief a police investigation
00:06:26investigation would lead nowhere. nowhere. At the Countess of Chester
00:06:30Chester Hospital, patient safety safety should have come first. It
00:06:33It did not. The families recognise
00:06:36recognise no system can guarantee guarantee the deliberate acts that
00:06:40that are criminal will never occur. occur. But when concerns are raised
00:06:43raised they must be acted on without
00:06:45without delay. The report, its criticisms
00:06:48criticisms and failings cannot be be the end of this matter today.
00:06:52today. The inquiry has made a series series of recommendations the government
00:06:56government and relevant public bodies bodies must now demonstrate how they
00:07:00they will respond to them and those those responsible for patient safety
00:07:03safety must ensure that the lessons lessons learned are translated into
00:07:07into meaningful and lasting change. change. Ultimately, that is how we
00:07:11we honour the children at the centre
00:07:13centre of this inquiry. On behalf behalf of the families, they would
00:07:16would like to thank Lady Justice Justice Thirlwall, counsel to the
00:07:19the inquiry. The inquiry team and and everyone who contributed to this
00:07:23this process. The families will now now take some time to reflect on
00:07:26on the report and its findings in
00:07:28in full. Tamlin Bolton there. The
00:07:31The President of Lithuania says Nato Nato fighter jets have shot down
00:07:34down a drone that entered the country's country's airspace overnight from
00:07:37from neighbouring Belarus. This was was the moment the drone was brought
00:07:41brought down by Italian Nato jets jets near the city of Kaunas. The
00:07:44The interception, caught by a resident resident security camera. The debris
00:07:48debris was scattered over a wide wide area and it's now being collected
00:07:51collected and examined by military military police. It's the latest
00:07:54latest security incident in the Baltic Baltic states since Russia launched
00:07:57launched its full-scale invasion
00:07:59invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Separately, Separately, Denmark as well reporting
00:08:03reporting that a Russian frigate frigate fired two flares towards
00:08:05towards a Danish military helicopter helicopter off its coast on Monday.
00:08:08Monday. The flares narrowly missed missed the aircraft, which had been
00:08:11been on a mission to photograph the
00:08:13the ship. Russia's ambassador to to Denmark has been summoned. Moscow
00:08:17Moscow has accused the Danish helicopters
00:08:19helicopters of making dangerous manoeuvres manoeuvres near its warships. These
00:08:22These incidents also come as Russia Russia and Ukraine exchanged aerial
00:08:25aerial attacks overnight. The government government of the governor of Zaporizhzhia
00:08:29Zaporizhzhia said power had been been cut to some areas while ships
00:08:32ships were struck in Odesa and the
00:08:35the Russian city of Taganrog came came under large-scale. Ukrainian
00:08:38Ukrainian drone attack as well. Our Our diplomatic correspondent in Kyiv,
00:08:42Kyiv, James Landale, has more on on claims by President Trump on Monday
00:08:45Monday that Russia and Ukraine agreed agreed to stop hitting each other's
00:08:48other's energy targets. President
00:08:50President Trump spoke of an agreement
00:08:54agreement both Ukraine and Moscow Moscow are talking about a proposal,
00:08:58proposal, an idea. There is clearly clearly a suggestion doing the rounds.
00:09:01rounds. And clearly the Americans Americans are backing it because
00:09:05because they are desperate to have have some kind of good news that
00:09:07that can suggest that perhaps oil oil the price of fuel might be falling
00:09:11falling ahead of the elections in
00:09:12in November. But both Moscow and
00:09:16and Kyiv here have been sort of falling falling over themselves to sort of
00:09:20of put dampers on this without actually actually upsetting Washington. President
00:09:23President Zelensky said in his overnight overnight address. Look. Yeah. You
00:09:27You know, it's a strong proposal proposal from Washington that there
00:09:30there should be some kind of pause pause in the fighting in terms of
00:09:33of energy targets. And in theory, theory, Ukraine is willing to consider
00:09:37consider de-escalatory moves, but but only if Russia shows a willingness willingness to end the war. And you
00:09:41you know, that hasn't happened yet. yet. Likewise, the Kremlin this morning
00:09:45morning said that this idea of some some kind of pause in the fighting
00:09:48fighting would be a good idea. But But again, you know, with lots of
00:09:52of conditions attached, we've been
00:09:53been down this route before. It hasn't
00:09:57hasn't materialised. It hasn't worked. worked. So nobody here, I think,
00:10:00think, in Kyiv is holding their breath breath expecting that to happen,
00:10:02happen, not least on the basis of of the attacks overnight, especially.
00:10:06especially. James, can we get your your views on what we saw in Lithuania
00:10:10Lithuania overnight with this drone drone being shot down by Nato jets
00:10:13jets and the different considerations considerations that Baltic governments
00:10:16governments are having to make now, now, as well as Nato when this is
00:10:20is an increasingly happening. Yeah.
00:10:23Yeah. Well, look, it's not a new new thing for a drone to enter Nato
00:10:27Nato airspace as a result of this this war that has happened pretty
00:10:30pretty much on a regular basis since since Russia's full-scale invasion
00:10:34invasion in 2022. The big question, question, of course, is this sometimes sometimes those drones and missiles
00:10:38missiles that cross into Nato territory, territory, you know, their missiles missiles and drones out of control,
00:10:42control, they have been fired by by one side or the other. They've
00:10:45They've been disrupted by some kind kind of electronic countermeasures
00:10:48countermeasures or air defences, defences, and they're just a spill-over
00:10:51spill-over of this conflict. Other Other times, though, these drones
00:10:54drones are deliberately sent by Russia
00:10:57Russia to test Nato airspace and and Nato defences. And this drone
00:11:01drone that was that ended up in Lithuania. Lithuania. I mean, it came a long long way. We don't know where it
00:11:05it originated, but it came west through
00:11:08through Belarus and then went straight straight into southern Lithuania.
00:11:11Lithuania. You know, that's a long
00:11:13long way from this particular battlefield.
00:11:16battlefield. So the suggestion, the the consensus among analysts is that
00:11:19that it's more likely to have been
00:11:21been a deliberate deployment of a
00:11:24a drone by Russia. And again, it's it's part of a piece, you know, at
00:11:27at the same time we've got sort of
00:11:32of a conflict, if you like, between
00:11:33between a Russian frigate and a Danish
00:11:36Danish helicopter in the Baltic Sea.
00:11:39Sea. You've got Russian drones, Russian
00:11:42Russian bombers in the air over the
00:11:44the Norwegian Sea. That's just reported.
00:11:47reported. I can hear another air air alert alarm firing as we speak
00:11:51speak because Russia's new tactic tactic now is for daily round the
00:11:54the clock attacks rather than just
00:11:56just at night. I think this is part part of a piece Russia is escalating
00:12:00escalating in this country in Ukraine, Ukraine, but it's also escalating
00:12:03escalating its push against Nato
00:12:05Nato countries. I've also been speaking
00:12:08speaking to the Lithuanian Minister Minister of National Defence, Robertas Robertas Kaunas, and I asked him
00:12:12him whether he believes this was
00:12:14was a spill-over incident or a deliberate deliberate act by Russia. Actually,
00:12:17Actually, it's a good, good question. question. We last night we faced
00:12:21faced drone entered Lithuanian airspace
00:12:24airspace from Belarus. And during
00:12:26during this. This time there were
00:12:30were no huge attacks from Russia
00:12:34Russia in Ukraine. So it could be
00:12:39be a deliberate provocation from from Russia. We will collect all
00:12:42all data. We will find answers and
00:12:46and we will ask questions because
00:12:50because it is very dangerous when when not only Lithuanian airspace
00:12:53airspace facing incursion, but Nato,
00:12:57Nato, Nato, air space facing incursion
00:13:00incursion from Belarus and Nato jets
00:13:03jets had to scramble to intercept
00:13:05intercept those targets. I want to
00:13:08to express my sincere gratitude to
00:13:11to Italian pilots, to Italian armed
00:13:16armed forces because only working
00:13:18working together we can mitigate
00:13:21mitigate this threat and show to
00:13:24to Putin that we will defend our
00:13:26our ground. Were you satisfied then
00:13:30then with how quickly the Italians
00:13:32Italians and Nato responded? Minister
00:13:35Minister calmness. Yes, it actually
00:13:37actually it is example how Lithuanian
00:13:41Lithuanian armed forces should co-operate
00:13:44co-operate with Nato and air forces.
00:13:47forces. And this is an example of
00:13:50of how Italians pilots actually shows
00:13:53shows example to all Nato how to
00:13:55to react. I think that reaction was
00:13:58was great. Of course we will collect
00:14:00collect data. Of course we will provide
00:14:04provide some investigation. We will
00:14:06will do our lessons. But this example
00:14:09example shows that Nato air defence
00:14:12defence mission is working. What What happens though next time if
00:14:15if one drone gets this far into Lithuania?
00:14:18Lithuania? What if next time there there are ten. Those are cheap drones.
00:14:22drones. They're easy to deploy. You're You're putting up there a very expensive
00:14:25expensive fighter jet from Nato to
00:14:27to counter them. I believe that security
00:14:31security of our people, security
00:14:35security of our society. Is most
00:14:37most important thing. We are not
00:14:40not counting how much does it cost.
00:14:41cost. We will provide what is necessary
00:14:44necessary to secure our ground, our
00:14:48our air and our nation. I think that
00:14:52that we need air defence mission
00:14:54mission proved itself and we will
00:14:56will continue in this way. Many would
00:14:59would say that that Russia is just
00:15:02just constantly testing that. There's There's this ambiguity, there's this
00:15:05this grey zone they're pushing to
00:15:08to see what they can do, what they
00:15:10they can get away with. What would
00:15:12would your red line be in your country
00:15:16country in terms of collective defence defence and a collective response
00:15:17response to some of these actions?
00:15:21actions? We shouldn't speak as separated
00:15:22separated country. We are Nato alliance.
00:15:25alliance. We are working together.
00:15:28together. And I already mentioned
00:15:32mentioned that Russia is attacking
00:15:34attacking Nato. They are attacking attacking at the moment, but they
00:15:38they are not working in that real
00:15:43real world war, real world as we
00:15:46we understand it. They are working
00:15:48working in that grey zone. They are
00:15:50are providing hybrid attacks against
00:15:52against Nato. So we must respond
00:15:55respond as a single alliance, as
00:16:00as a single unit. United Alliance.
00:16:03Alliance. One final question. Did
00:16:05Did people in Lithuania feel a bit bit frightened today by what had
00:16:08had happened? People reacted very
00:16:11very well. They were informed on
00:16:13on time. All messages were sent on
00:16:17on time. Just scrambled on time.
00:16:21time. And I think this is an example
00:16:23example of how we should react. Minister Minister of defence for Lithuania,
00:16:27Lithuania, speaking to me a short short time ago around the world and
00:16:31and across the UK. This
00:17:33driver. Join me Martin Sharkey of
00:17:36of Tech, now on BBC News. Welcome
00:17:42Welcome back. Russia has called for for weapons to be kept out of space
00:17:46space after the US military confirmed confirmed for the first time that
00:17:49that it's deployed weapons in Earth's Earth's orbit. It's believed to be
00:17:52be the first public acknowledgement acknowledgement by Washington of
00:17:55of such capabilities. US officials officials say weapons are already
00:17:58already in operation and capable capable of defending American assets.
00:18:01assets. China also criticising Washington's Washington's move, urging the US
00:18:05US to stop preparing for war in space. space. I've been speaking to Doctor
00:18:08Doctor Mark Hilborne, who is a senior senior lecturer in the defence studies
00:18:11studies department at King's College College London. He also set up the the Space Security Research Group
00:18:15Group to further understand space. space. I asked him what the US had
00:18:19had revealed and why they've done
00:18:20done it now. Well, the US hasn't hasn't said precisely what they've
00:18:24they've done. They have said they they have orbital capabilities. They've
00:18:28They've probably done it now as a a form of deterrence and in response
00:18:32response to certain activities they've
00:18:34they've seen by the Chinese and the the Russians. So that probably explains
00:18:37explains the timing, although we we did know that there was a sort
00:18:40sort of testing process going on on since 2023. So something was in
00:18:44in the works. So are we talking about about something in space that could
00:18:47could do something like destroy a
00:18:49a satellite? What they've what they
00:18:52they haven't revealed is probably probably not that kind of capability. capability. We know that exists.
00:18:56exists. We have ground based interceptors. interceptors. But what the US is
00:18:59is talking about are probably things things like electronic warfare or
00:19:03or jamming abilities or spoofing spoofing abilities, possibly things
00:19:07things like what we call co-orbital co-orbital weapons, which you have
00:19:10have another satellite that's orbiting orbiting alongside another satellite
00:19:13satellite and could bang into it it or grapple with it or manoeuver
00:19:16manoeuver itself in some way to find find out more information. And is
00:19:20is destructive. OK, nothing destructive, destructive, but is it the sort of of thing that China also has? Like,
00:19:23Like, how much do we know about China's
00:19:25China's space programme? Well, we we don't know necessarily. I mean,
00:19:29mean, it's not beyond the bounds bounds of possibility that they could
00:19:31could create the same kind of ability, ability, you know, electronic warfare.
00:19:34warfare. We see that being waged waged from the ground by Russia,
00:19:37Russia, for instance, against Starlink
00:19:39Starlink to undermine the Ukrainian Ukrainian use of Starlink. So these
00:19:43these kind of capabilities exist, exist, whether they've put them in
00:19:46in orbit is another question. China
00:19:49China also has a kind of space plane, plane, much the same as the American
00:19:52American X-37, which can do a number number of different things in orbit.
00:19:55orbit. So, you know, they certainly certainly have growing capabilities capabilities in the space domain.
00:19:59domain. And what about the Russians?
00:20:01Russians? Russia as well? I mean, mean, they've been actively using
00:20:05using these kind of capabilities, capabilities, jamming GPs. And we've we've seen a number of stories of,
00:20:09of, you know, commercial flights flights being disrupted by this,
00:20:11this, but specifically for military military purposes. And they've been
00:20:14been doing so over some time prior
00:20:17prior to the invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine, very again, whether they
00:20:20they have anything in space is another
00:20:22another question. There has been been persistent rumours and I'm always
00:20:26always careful as to the credence credence I put in these rumours. rumours. But they're long standing
00:20:29standing of a Russian kind of nuclear nuclear explosive device that they
00:20:32they can put in space. And this would would have a sort of game changing
00:20:35changing effect that it would be be able to take out many numbers
00:20:39numbers of satellites, something something like Starlink, which is is very difficult to take out individual
00:20:42individual satellites and have any any effect on. Train travel across
00:20:45across large parts of the Netherlands Netherlands has ground to a standstill
00:20:49standstill hours before the ceremonial ceremonial state opening of parliament, parliament, services in central and
00:20:53and eastern parts of the country country are suffering from severe
00:20:57severe disruption, and authorities authorities suspect this was a co-ordinated
00:20:59co-ordinated act of sabotage. A statement statement from the Dutch rail operator
00:21:03operator Prorail said objects had had been found attached to train
00:21:06train tracks in multiple locations. locations. It said no suspect or
00:21:10or motive had been identified, but but that the national Police unit
00:21:13unit was investigating. Here's Nick
00:21:15Nick Beake. Yes, mainly in the north north and the east of the country
00:21:19country where the disruption has has been seen from early this morning.
00:21:22morning. It has to be said and the the information we've got is from
00:21:25from the Dutch rail operator saying
00:21:27saying that there thinking that this
00:21:29this is a co-ordinated act of sabotage.
00:21:32sabotage. They're talking about around
00:21:34around 30 spots, mainly in rural rural locations. These are places
00:21:38places where it seems that someone someone has attached some sort of
00:21:41of tube or pipe to the track. And
00:21:43And the problem is that the computer
00:21:46computer system detects this as being being a part of the track that's
00:21:49that's occupied. So in other words, words, the computer thinks that there
00:21:52there is some sort of train there there at the moment. So that kicks
00:21:56kicks into place a red light. And
00:21:57And so you get all this disruption
00:22:00disruption along the tracks. And And we've seen this today, lots of
00:22:04of cancellations, lots of problems. problems. The big question, I guess
00:22:07guess Lucy, is who is behind this? this? And we don't have an answer
00:22:10answer to that. We know that the
00:22:12the various authorities, the police
00:22:14police prosecutors also intelligence intelligence agencies in the Netherlands Netherlands are looking into this.
00:22:18this. One thing to say, though, this this is the Dutch equivalent of the
00:22:22the state opening of Parliament. Parliament. It's when the King gives
00:22:25gives a speech, the government sets
00:22:26sets out its budget for the next
00:22:29next year and farmers had said that that they were going to protest in
00:22:32in some way today. They haven't said said that they're behind this, but
00:22:35but certainly lots of people, lots lots of groups in the Netherlands Netherlands unhappy about the budget
00:22:39budget for the year ahead. And so so that will certainly be one line
00:22:42line of inquiry that the authorities authorities will be looking at. Kenya
00:22:45Kenya is set to become the first
00:22:47first African country to host the the World Athletics Championships.
00:22:51Championships. Its capital Nairobi, Nairobi, beating off competition competition from London and Rome
00:22:54Rome to host the 2029 tournament. tournament. Munich in Germany has
00:22:58has been selected for the 2031 event.
00:23:01event. Kenya has recently hosted hosted major tournaments as its stadiums
00:23:05stadiums are being renovated as it it prepares to host next year's Africa
00:23:07Africa Cup of Nations. We've heard heard from Kenya's President William
00:23:10William Ruto describing this as Kenya's Kenya's moment, Africa's moment and
00:23:14and a victory for generations of
00:23:16of athletes who made our nation synonymous
00:23:19synonymous with excellence. Excellence Excellence on the track, on the road,
00:23:21road, he said. And across the country, country, the East African country
00:23:25country has produced numerous Olympic Olympic world champions as well.
00:23:27well. I spoke to our sports reporter reporter Celestine Karoney who joined
00:23:31joined us from Nairobi and asked asked her how well this news has
00:23:35has been received. It has received received a massive. There's massive,
00:23:39massive, massive excitement around around this decision by World Athletics
00:23:42Athletics and there's one line that that has been repeated online that
00:23:45that a lot of England fans might might be familiar with when it comes
00:23:48comes to sport, and that is it's it's coming home. And this is because
00:23:52because Kenya sees itself as the
00:23:54the home of distance running owing owing to its huge heritage. They
00:23:57They have produced a lot of Olympic Olympic and world champions, and and so a lot of them are feeling
00:24:01feeling that this is a time for them them to. It's going to be a time
00:24:03time for them to celebrate that heritage heritage with the world. And it's
00:24:07it's not just Kenya celebrating. celebrating. It is also Africa celebrating celebrating the first time it's coming
00:24:11coming to the continent. And there's there's been massive reaction as as well. A lot of celebration across
00:24:15across the continent for this decision. decision. Lucy. Where is it going
00:24:18going to be held? How's it all going
00:24:21going to work? So Kenya, Kenya. First
00:24:24First of all sold its decision its
00:24:27its bid on a couple of things. And And that was first of all, the fact
00:24:30fact that I mean they are the they they see themselves as a home of
00:24:33of athletics. Secondly they also also sold themselves as having experience
00:24:37experience because they have hosted hosted a age group tournaments when when it comes to World Athletics
00:24:41Athletics Championships and also also the World Cross Country Championships.
00:24:43Championships. And so they say these these are buys them some. This shows
00:24:47shows evidence that they are able able to host major global sporting
00:24:50sporting events. But there has been been areas that Kenya has not done
00:24:54done very well when it comes to these
00:24:56these events. And in 2025, they lost
00:24:58lost the bid to host the 2025 edition edition to Tokyo because the infrastructure
00:25:02infrastructure the stadium was deemed deemed inadequate. Kenya have said
00:25:04said they have now fixed that, that that they are fixing their infrastructure
00:25:08infrastructure when it comes to stadiums stadiums because of hosting the 2027
00:25:122027 Africa Cup of Nations alongside alongside Tanzania and Uganda. And
00:25:15And so these are the things that that they have put forward. They've They've said there are big tourism
00:25:18tourism hub the city is known for for having enough hotels. They have
00:25:21have the road infrastructure. And
00:25:23And so Kenya feels that this is what
00:25:26what helped them get this bid. And And World Athletics President Sebastian
00:25:30Sebastian Coe also said that another another thing that worked for Kenya Kenya was the fact that they have
00:25:34have a massive fan base and that that their research showed that 68%
00:25:3768% of Kenyans are ranked, that they
00:25:40they are huge athletics fans. And And so they said why not bring the
00:25:44the competition to not just the continent continent for the first time, but but also to a country that has a
00:25:48a massive, massive following in the the sport. A huge amount of excitement
00:25:52excitement to that news in Kenya Kenya do stay with us. Samara is
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