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00:00:15MUSIC These These are the latest headlines from
00:00:17from BBC News. Baby wards in England England are to get cot cams after
00:00:21after an inquiry into nurse Lucy Lucy Letby, who murdered seven babies,
00:00:25babies, found that lives could have have been saved. OpenAI Anthropic
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00:00:32standards body as concerns over the
00:00:34the technology grow. The leader of
00:00:37of Reform UK in Wales, Dan Thomas, Thomas, has stood down after he was
00:00:40was arrested at the weekend on suspicion suspicion of controlling or coercive
00:00:44coercive behaviour. China warns against
00:00:46against turning outer space into into a battlefield as the US confirms
00:00:50confirms for the first time its deployed deployed space weapons. And former
00:00:54former England footballer Raheem Raheem Sterling has admitted dangerous
00:00:58dangerous driving after he crashed crashed a Lamborghini into motorway
00:01:01motorway barriers in May. Let's return
00:01:11return now to one of our top stories stories as China has urged the United
00:01:14United States to stop preparing for for war in space. In response to
00:01:18to confirmation that America has has deployed weapons into orbit.
00:01:21orbit. My colleague Matthew Amroliwala Amroliwala has been taking a look
00:01:24look for the big story. Over the
00:01:27the next ten minutes, we're going going to focus on the big story of
00:01:29of the day the US deploying weapons
00:01:32weapons into outer space. The United United States confirms for the first
00:01:35first time that it's deployed space
00:01:37space weapons. China urges the US
00:01:39US to stop preparing for war in space. space. My guess is probably something
00:01:43something along the lines of lasers. lasers. I would be guessing that
00:01:46that an electronic warfare platform platform of some kind is likely.
00:01:49likely. Or jamming abilities or spoofing
00:01:51spoofing abilities, possibly things things like what we call co-orbital co-orbital weapons. We know that
00:01:55that they have been preparing for for what real life Star Wars might
00:01:58might look like space war fighting
00:02:00fighting warnings. Of an arms race
00:02:03race in space should concern us all.
00:02:05all. So the US says it has weapons weapons in space. What are they?
00:02:09they? Why are they there and are are they allowed to be there? And
00:02:13And how is the rest of the world world responding? Well, over the the next ten minutes we're going
00:02:17going to try to answer all of those those questions. But first let's
00:02:20let's start with the comments that that kicked off all of this. The
00:02:23The Air Force secretary Troy Meink Meink told a conference in Maryland
00:02:26Maryland that the US has on orbit
00:02:29orbit space control weapons capable
00:02:31capable of defending against hostile hostile adversary action, adding
00:02:34adding they needed to be ready to to meet the challenges of evolving
00:02:38evolving threats wherever they exist.
00:02:40exist. Well, Russia responded by by saying space should be kept free
00:02:44free of any weapons, while China
00:02:46China warned the US not to turn outer
00:02:49outer space into a battlefield. China China has always been committed to
00:02:53to the peaceful use of outer space space and safeguarding security in
00:02:56in outer space. We urge the US to to stop its military build-up and
00:03:00and war preparations in outer space
00:03:02space and take concrete actions to
00:03:04to safeguard global strategic stability. stability. So what sort of weapons
00:03:08weapons are up there? We don't know
00:03:10know for sure, but Kari Bingen is
00:03:12is an aerospace security expert, expert, and she explained some of
00:03:16of the options. This is a some sort sort of space weapon or weapons that
00:03:19that are orbiting the earth versus
00:03:22versus land based weapons like a a GPs or Starlink jammer that we're
00:03:25we're seeing in Ukraine, or a missile missile that would be launched from
00:03:28from the ground against a satellite.
00:03:30satellite. We won't know the specifics
00:03:33specifics on how, but let's look look at basic physics. There could
00:03:35could be a range of options that that are employed. Anything from
00:03:39from a kinetic kill mechanism, say,
00:03:43say, ramming a space weapon or spacecraft spacecraft into another spacecraft.
00:03:47spacecraft. Perhaps you release pellets pellets or something non kinetic
00:03:49kinetic and even what we call reversible.
00:03:51reversible. So a jammer where you're you're jamming a signal from one
00:03:55one satellite to another satellite, satellite, you're using a laser weapon
00:03:58weapon to affect another satellite. satellite. So there are several different
00:04:02different modes. The thing I'd also also though be sensitive to here
00:04:05here is just a reminder of the physics
00:04:07physics of space. And so any weapon
00:04:10weapon that is used these planners,
00:04:11planners, I believe will be careful
00:04:14careful about the creation of debris.
00:04:17debris. But why does the US have have weapons in space and why are
00:04:20are they talking about it now? Well, Well, to help answer those questions,
00:04:23questions, I'm joined by our correspondent correspondent in Washington, Bernd
00:04:26Bernd Debusmann and Berndt. Why does
00:04:28does the US want weapons in space?
00:04:32space? Well, although we don't know know exactly what this on orbit weapon
00:04:36weapon that Secretary Meink was discussing
00:04:39discussing actually does US defence defence officials have for years
00:04:42years now warned that other countries,
00:04:44countries, particularly China and
00:04:46and Russia, have been developing developing weapons that would essentially
00:04:49essentially challenge US dominance dominance in space, specifically
00:04:52specifically against satellite systems systems that are really crucial for
00:04:55for US command and control, that
00:04:56that allow US commanders to communicate communicate with units in the field,
00:05:00field, whether those be aircraft, aircraft, naval vessels or forces
00:05:04forces on the ground. And Secretary Secretary Meink said that such a
00:05:06a system is required to safeguard safeguard against this system. In
00:05:09In a subsequent statement, the Air
00:05:11Air Force said that both offensive offensive and defensive weapons are
00:05:15are necessary to safeguard US possibilities possibilities in space, and this
00:05:18this is something that the Trump Trump administration has been eyeing
00:05:21eyeing for quite some time now. The The Trump administration has said
00:05:24said that space is a crucial part part of its Golden Dome defence plan.
00:05:28plan. Lots of people asking, but
00:05:31but what is Golden Dome? Well, the
00:05:34the Golden Dome is a project of President President Trump's that he announced
00:05:37announced last year. The concern concern from the Trump administration
00:05:41administration was that existing existing defence systems that were
00:05:43were essentially created in the Cold Cold War to fight against the threat
00:05:47threat of ballistic and nuclear missiles missiles coming from the Soviet Union.
00:05:50Union. That that's very much outdated outdated given advances in aerial
00:05:54aerial threats and missile technology.
00:05:56technology. So President Trump has
00:05:59has announced a system costing more
00:06:02more than 350 billion that essentially essentially will combine ground based
00:06:05based systems and space based systems systems to defend against these new
00:06:09new generation aerial threats. Now, Now, part of that does include interceptor
00:06:13interceptor missiles that are based based in space that would essentially
00:06:16essentially be used to attempt to
00:06:18to knock out ballistic missiles in
00:06:20in orbit before they fall back into into North America. Now, of course,
00:06:24course, we've been sending people people and spacecraft into orbit
00:06:27orbit for decades, but why has that
00:06:30that so far remained peaceful? Well, Well, during the Cold War, the Outer
00:06:34Outer Space Treaty was signed in
00:06:36in 1967 by the UK, the USA and the
00:06:39the USSR. This banned the placement
00:06:41placement of nuclear weapons in space
00:06:44space or on the moon, and the testing
00:06:45testing of weapons in space or on
00:06:48on the moon. So what would happen
00:06:50happen if a country broke that treaty?
00:06:52treaty? Will space lawyer Deepika Deepika Jayakodi explained. Nothing
00:06:56Nothing really stops any country country from disobeying the Outer
00:07:00Outer Space Treaty in general, space
00:07:04space is a special field. It is for
00:07:06for everyone. So if someone disobeys
00:07:10disobeys a law then they lose to.
00:07:14to. So this is the core principle
00:07:17principle that urges countries to
00:07:20to behave in space. Now back in 2019,
00:07:232019, President Trump launched the
00:07:24the US Space Force as a way to protect
00:07:27protect American assets in space. space. It was the first new branch
00:07:30branch of the US military for more more than 70 years. Well, let's go
00:07:34go back to burnt because burnt. What
00:07:36What does the US Space Force actually
00:07:39actually do? Well, the Space Force
00:07:42Force was, as you mentioned, was
00:07:44was created by President Trump during during his first administration.
00:07:47administration. It's essentially essentially rather than sending people people into space in any way, it's
00:07:50it's essentially taking ownership ownership of US military operations
00:07:54operations from space. Now that includes includes tracking potential threats
00:07:56threats in space, such as those missiles missiles I mentioned that could strike
00:08:00strike US satellites, but also working working with other government agencies.
00:08:03agencies. The US Air Force and the the National Reconnaissance Office,
00:08:07Office, for example, to detect threats threats on earth from outer space.
00:08:10space. For example, a satellite can
00:08:12can tell within just a few milliseconds milliseconds whether a ballistic ballistic missile has been launched
00:08:16launched on the other side of the the world, often in places like North
00:08:20North Korea, for example, the Space Space Force, the National Reconnaissance
00:08:23Reconnaissance Office would be the the first to get that signature of
00:08:26of a launch on earth, and therefore therefore it could respond should
00:08:29should there be a threat to the US US or its allies in the future. It's
00:08:32It's very much still in its infancy infancy compared to the other service.
00:08:36service. But the Trump administration administration and President Trump
00:08:38Trump in particular are very, very very proud that the Space Force was
00:08:41was created and have been given it
00:08:43it more responsibilities over US
00:08:46US national security policy. Thank Thank you. Worth looking at what
00:08:49what other countries are doing when when it comes to space weapons. Do
00:08:53Do Russia and China have similar similar capabilities as the US.?
00:08:56US.? Well, Mikey Kay from the security security brief explains. The rules
00:09:00rules that apply to space when it it comes to military application
00:09:04application are unsurprisingly not not tightly defined. In 2007, China
00:09:07China did launch a ballistic missile missile with what's called an anti-satellite
00:09:11anti-satellite device on it or an
00:09:13an Asat. China's aim was to destroy destroy one of their own weather
00:09:17weather satellites, which it did did successfully. The problem, however,
00:09:20however, was the ensuing debris that that remained in orbit to the extent
00:09:23extent that the International Space Space Station or the ISS had to dodge
00:09:27dodge a piece of that debris. In
00:09:29In November 2021. This kind of operation
00:09:32operation was replicated by Russia, Russia, targeting one of its own
00:09:36own satellites with similar consequences consequences to the ISS. Now speaking
00:09:39speaking to military sources, they they say that when it comes to space,
00:09:43space, it is better to be in a position
00:09:45position of competition rather than
00:09:47than conflict, using a strategy of of deterrence by denial, but also
00:09:51also having the capability to conduct conduct deterrence with what's called
00:09:55called by punishment. They say there
00:09:56there are two key capabilities reversible, reversible, which is disabling using
00:10:00using a pulse and creating no debris
00:10:03debris or non-reversible, which is is destroying the satellite. There
00:10:07There are currently over 16,000 active
00:10:10active and operational satellites satellites in the Earth's orbit,
00:10:13orbit, delivering communications, communications, navigation, earth earth monitoring and military intelligence.
00:10:17intelligence. For example. Now Starlink
00:10:20Starlink operates roughly 11,000 11,000 of that contingent. So you
00:10:23you can see that should there be be any direct military confrontation
00:10:26confrontation in space causing large large debris fields, it would highly
00:10:29highly likely incur significant disruption
00:10:32disruption to the current satellite satellite inventory in operation.
00:10:34operation. One thing to me is obvious obvious the application of space
00:10:38space for military use is on the
00:10:40the rise. Until now it has remained
00:10:43remained passive. Today that looks
00:10:44looks like things have changed. Well,
00:10:48Well, weapons in space may seem like like a distant issue, but how could
00:10:52could conflicts in space affect us us here on earth? And how concerned
00:10:56concerned should we be? Here's our our defence correspondent Jonathan
00:10:58Jonathan Beale. For most of us it it should be concerning because we
00:11:02we use space every day in terms of
00:11:06of communications, internet banking, banking, transfers and there is the
00:11:09the potential to take out satellites. satellites. I think when I went to to US briefings about five years
00:11:13years ago, the emphasis was on the the importance of the peaceful use
00:11:16use of space. And now I think everybody everybody accepts that, you know,
00:11:20know, they need to defend what they they have in space. And remember,
00:11:22remember, there are about 18,000
00:11:2518,000 satellites, functioning satellites satellites in space, and they are
00:11:29are taking steps. These big countries.
00:11:32countries. So I'd say China, which which is as far as the US is concerned,
00:11:35concerned, the pacing challenge Russia Russia and now the US to protect
00:11:39protect their own satellites, which which they need for fighting wars
00:11:43wars on the ground. And that's all all you need to know about the US
00:11:46US deploying weapons in space. And
00:11:54And that was the big story. Now the
00:11:57the leader of Reform UK in Wales,
00:11:59Wales, Dan Thomas, has stood down down for personal reasons after he
00:12:03he was arrested at the weekend on on suspicion of controlling or coercive
00:12:07coercive behaviour. Mr Thomas became became the Welsh leader in February
00:12:09February and helped reform become become the second largest party in
00:12:12in the Senate during the elections elections in May. Hywel Griffith
00:12:16Griffith is in Cardiff and gave us
00:12:17us the background to the story. Well,
00:12:20Well, this has come on the first first day back for Senate members
00:12:24members since their Senate break break and Mr Thomas was expected
00:12:27expected in the chamber this afternoon afternoon to be leading the opposition
00:12:30opposition in the first First Minister's Minister's Questions. But he was
00:12:33was absent, leading to questions. questions. Then a couple of hours
00:12:37hours later, he released a statement statement in which he said he decided
00:12:40decided to stand down as reform's reform's leader in Wales, having
00:12:44having been reported to the police
00:12:46police over the weekend. And he said said later released. Now we've been
00:12:50been given a statement by Gwent Police Police that explains that on Sunday,
00:12:54Sunday, a 45-year-old man from Aberbargoed
00:12:56Aberbargoed was arrested on suspicion
00:12:58suspicion of assault and controlling controlling or coercive behaviour
00:13:02behaviour and that he's been bailed bailed pending further enquiries.
00:13:05enquiries. Now in his statement, statement, Mr Thomas insisted that
00:13:08that he'd done nothing wrong. Was Was standing down only not to be
00:13:11be a distraction from the work of
00:13:13of reform within the Senate. It is
00:13:16is the largest opposition party.
00:13:18party. He was only appointed in February, February, personally by Nigel Farage,
00:13:21Farage, led the party to a historic historic result in May's election
00:13:25election with 34 members. However, However, on the same day, one of
00:13:28of those other members has also left left Reform Wales and defected to
00:13:32to Plaid Cymru. Hywel Griffith and and we're back after this short break
00:13:36break around the world and across across the UK. This
00:14:41Martin Sharkey of Tech, now on BBC
00:14:41BBC News. Welcome back to the programme.
00:14:48programme. The President of Lithuania Lithuania says Nato fighter jets
00:14:51jets have shot down a drone that that entered the country's airspace
00:14:54airspace from neighbouring Belarus. Belarus. This was the moment the
00:14:57the drone was brought down by Italian Italian Nato fighter jets near the
00:15:01the city of Kaunas. The interception, interception, caught by a resident
00:15:04resident security camera. The debris, debris, which was scattered over over a wide area, is being collected
00:15:08collected and examined by military military police. It's the latest
00:15:11latest security incident in the Baltic Baltic states since Russia launched
00:15:14launched its full-scale invasion
00:15:16invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Our Our Eastern Europe correspondent
00:15:20correspondent Sarah Rainsford sent sent this report from the capital
00:15:22capital Vilnius. It was just after after midnight this morning here
00:15:26here in Vilnius that my phone screeched screeched with an alert and when
00:15:29when I checked the message, it said said there was a suspected drone.
00:15:32drone. Keep safe, it said, and wait
00:15:35wait for the all clear. Now that that all clear came about 20 minutes
00:15:39minutes later and we now know that that there was a drone confirmed
00:15:42confirmed that it was in Lithuanian Lithuanian airspace for around about about half an hour before it was
00:15:46was intercepted and shot down by by Nato fighter jets belonging to
00:15:50to Italy. We still don't know who who that drone belonged to. We don't
00:15:53don't know whether it was launched launched deliberately or it might
00:15:56might have strayed into Lithuanian Lithuanian airspace. We know that
00:15:58that it entered from neighbouring neighbouring Belarus and that after
00:16:01after it was shot down, the debris debris was scattered over a wide
00:16:04wide area. So it's being collected
00:16:06collected up and examined to see see where it came from, who it was
00:16:10was launched by and whether or not not it was armed. In fact, whether
00:16:13whether or not there was any explosives.
00:16:15explosives. But this has happened happened at a nervous time here in
00:16:19in this region because Russia is is escalating its full-scale war
00:16:22war on Ukraine, and it is also escalating
00:16:24escalating its hybrid attacks on
00:16:26on Ukraine's greatest supporters. supporters. Vilnius Lithuania has
00:16:30has always been a staunch supporter supporter of Ukraine ever since the
00:16:32the full-scale invasion. This city city is still covered in Ukrainian
00:16:36Ukrainian flags. There's lots of
00:16:39of messages of solidarity for Kyiv
00:16:42Kyiv here in this city, in this country,
00:16:45country, in the past, when there there have been drone incursions incursions into other countries,
00:16:48countries, including Poland and other other Baltic states, experts have
00:16:52have suggested that Moscow could could be testing Nato's reactions. reactions. At the moment here in
00:16:56in Lithuania, there are still more more questions than answers, but
00:17:00but certainly there is now a full-scale full-scale investigation into what
00:17:03what happened and who might be behind
00:17:05behind it. Sarah Rainsford both Ukraine
00:17:08Ukraine and Russia have continued continued their strikes on one another.
00:17:12another. Ships and a warehouse were were struck in Odesa. These images
00:17:15images show firefighters tackling tackling a blaze at a warehouse in
00:17:18in the region after a Russian strike. strike. The Russian city of Taganrog
00:17:22Taganrog also came under a large-scale large-scale Ukrainian drone attack.
00:17:25attack. Meanwhile, the head of Ukraine's Ukraine's state Post Office has told
00:17:29told the BBC that Russia is deliberately deliberately targeting his branches
00:17:32branches and delivery vans. Igor
00:17:35Igor Smelyansky said this was because because his staff provided a lifeline
00:17:38lifeline for millions left isolated isolated by the war. A diplomatic
00:17:42diplomatic correspondent, James Landale Landale has been out on the road road in Ukraine, meeting some of
00:17:46of the men and women who deliver
00:17:48deliver more than just parcels. This
00:17:51This is all that's. Left of Katarina's
00:17:54Katarina's Post Office. Widowed by
00:17:56by war, forced from her home. It
00:17:58It was in this building she rebuilt rebuilt her life until March when
00:18:02when a Russian drone struck targeting
00:18:05targeting soldiers who'd worked nearby.
00:18:07nearby. So that was your desk? Yeah.
00:18:11Yeah. From here. For two years, she
00:18:13she served as the village postmistress.
00:18:16postmistress. It's a great pity for
00:18:18for me to lose this room. This was
00:18:21was your life. This was your work?
00:18:23work? Yeah yeah, I. Didn't visit
00:18:28visit this room. It's the first time.
00:18:32time. Today, Katerina's new office office is this van. One of thousands
00:18:36thousands of mobile branches providing providing vital services to people
00:18:40people on the margins of society. society. And they don't just deliver
00:18:43deliver parcels. Most here in this this village near Zaporizhzhia are
00:18:46are collecting pensions or paying
00:18:50paying bills. It's a long way for
00:18:52for us to travel to Zaporizhzhia,
00:18:54Zaporizhzhia, especially now at a a time when there are attacks all
00:18:58all around. They also deliver medicines
00:19:00medicines and food and something
00:19:03something more intangible. It's very
00:19:06very important. It's one of the few few joys of the month. You come out,
00:19:09out, have a chat with people, collect
00:19:11collect your pension and go home.
00:19:14home. For security. Katerina travels travels with Slava, who's armed,
00:19:17armed, and they go from home to home
00:19:20home helping those most in need.
00:19:22need. Where would you be without
00:19:24without Kate? We would be stuffed.
00:19:29stuffed. Ukraine is a vast rural rural country made up of thousands
00:19:33thousands of remote villages just just like this. And the Postal Service
00:19:36Service is part of the glue that
00:19:38that holds it all together. And for for these people, not too far from
00:19:42from the front line, this van can
00:19:44can be their last link to the Ukrainian
00:19:46Ukrainian state. What do you think
00:19:48think people here think about you?
00:19:52you? They proud of me. They love
00:19:56love me. Are they need me. But this
00:20:03this is dangerous work. Russia has has destroyed hundreds of branches
00:20:07branches and vans and more than 50
00:20:0950 postmen and women have lost their
00:20:11their lives. Supply Sumy region.
00:20:13region. The head of Ukrposhta told told me they were deliberately targeted
00:20:16targeted and he faced a daily decision decision about where to deploy his
00:20:20his teams. If we don't go, they don't don't have basic supply. They don't
00:20:23don't have food, they don't have have medicine. I mean, people will
00:20:27will struggle. If we do go they may
00:20:30may delay the decision to evacuate
00:20:33evacuate from the areas they probably probably should have evacuated. For
00:20:36For their safety. Katerina and Slava
00:20:38Slava have just one antenna to detect
00:20:40detect drones. Do you not feel scared?
00:20:43scared? No. Why not? It's my luck.
00:20:51luck. Yeah yeah. If I can't, who
00:20:56who will do my job? Ukraine's defence
00:20:59defence comes in many forms and it's
00:21:01it's not always delivered at the the barrel of a gun. James Landale,
00:21:05Landale, BBC News near Zaporizhzhia.
00:21:19world on BBC News in association association with Turkish Airlines.
00:21:23Airlines. I'm travelling through through Japan, going off the beaten
00:21:26beaten track to find out what makes
00:21:28makes this country unique. This is
00:21:30is ultimate Japan. This time I visit
00:21:35visit Toba in the south to witness witness the ultimate Japanese fishing
00:21:39fishing tradition. I'm on a small
00:21:41small island in an area called Toba,
00:21:44Toba, which is home to one of Japan's
00:21:46Japan's most unusual communities, communities, a group, mostly women
00:21:50women who over generations have forged forged a really tight bond with both
00:21:54both the sea and nature generally.
00:22:03generally. AMA are iconic Japanese
00:22:05Japanese freedivers who collect seafood, seafood, seaweed and even pearls
00:22:09pearls from the sea floor. Almost
00:22:12Almost all AMA are women and many
00:22:14many keep diving until their 70s.
00:22:1670s. 80s and even 90s diving without
00:22:21without oxygen in their traditional traditional white outfits. It's a a centuries old way of life that's
00:22:25that's been passed down through generations,
00:22:28generations, but today's divers under under threat from all the pressures
00:22:32pressures of modernity, are having having to adapt. Like here, displaying
00:22:35displaying their skills for tourists.
00:22:39tourists. Tell me, what is this show
00:22:41show about? Koro ni? I know. I know
00:22:51know sono. Which do you prefer? Getting
00:22:56Getting real fish or do you like like doing this and performing to
00:23:00to tourists. Or not? Oh, no no no.
00:23:05no. Hi. It's kind of ironic because
00:23:09because for a long time Japan was
00:23:12was a homogenous and quite inward
00:23:14inward looking society. But it's
00:23:17it's outsiders, tourists who are are now providing a major industry
00:23:20industry here. But rest assured elsewhere elsewhere there is still some genuine
00:23:24genuine armour diving going on. A
00:23:26A few miles along the shore in Asatsu,
00:23:28Asatsu, I meet some divers who are are still making a living from this
00:23:32this traditional form of fishing.
00:23:40fishing. Hugo Bachega. Mr Obasanjo.
00:23:46Obasanjo. Tim Muffett Watashi wa
00:23:52wa Umi Asa yukimasu. So I don't know.
00:24:00know. Oyo State mo mo. Jeremy Bowen.
00:24:14Bowen. Yet these AMA still need to
00:24:16to supplement their income by preparing preparing meals for, well, people
00:24:20people like me. How is it different
00:24:24different now? Diving to when you
00:24:25you first started doing it. So Johnny
00:24:36Johnny Marr. And why do you think
00:24:40think that is? Do you think AMA diving
00:24:44diving will carry on? I know I know
00:24:52know what. MUSIC
00:25:02MUSIC Even Even having spent just a few hours hours with these charming ladies
00:25:05ladies has made me realise that the
00:25:07the traditional old ways aren't just just romantic. They actually offer
00:25:11offer a viable way of life for the the next generation. It was really
00:25:14really interesting to learn that that people are coming back here
00:25:17here to actually live and work as
00:25:19as AMA divers. Maybe it's just very
00:25:22very Japanese. The past is also the
00:25:26the future.
00:25:38on BBC News in association with Turkish
00:25:40Turkish Airlines.
00:29:18I was on air when the London seven over seven attacks happened.
00:29:22happened. That day was different different because of the sheer volume
00:29:25volume of information we were grappling grappling with in real time. We couldn't
00:29:28couldn't let the desperation for for news influence our reporting
00:29:31reporting or be overwhelmed by the the magnitude of what we were witnessing
00:29:35witnessing today. As we wade through through endless waves of misinformation,
00:29:39misinformation, it's vital that we we don't just ask the questions.
00:29:42questions. We question the answers. answers. I'm Matthew Amroliwala on
00:29:46on Verified Live for BBC News.
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00:30:13Hello and welcome to The
00:30:15Context USA with me Caitriona Perry Perry in Washington. And with me,
00:30:18me, Ben Brown here in London and
00:30:20and this hour the US military confirms
00:30:22confirms for the first time that that it has deployed weapons in space.
00:30:26space. I went to the US Space Force
00:30:29Force in Colorado last year and they
00:30:31they made clear that they were going
00:30:34going to defend their interests in
00:30:37in space. Pentagon leadership under under the spotlight. New information
00:30:41information on the cost of the US US war with Iran. While the Secretary
00:30:44Secretary of Defence is threatened threatened with impeachment by a
00:30:48a Republican congressman. The Secretary Secretary Hegseth has acted in a
00:30:52a manner contrary to his trust as
00:30:54as Secretary of Defence and subversive subversive of constitutional government.
00:30:58government. Plus, the head