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00:00:11the latest
00:00:11of headlines from BBC News. The king issues an unusually pointed
00:00:15response after Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's brother, makes fresh claims
00:00:19about him in his new book. Fiji declares national emergency
00:00:22of following alarming surge in HIV cases.
00:00:25of One in 60 adults in the Pacific Island nation now live with the virus that causes
00:00:29AID. The Bank of England is expected to hold interest rates
00:00:33in
00:00:33the face of rising prices as the US highs borrowing
00:00:37in costs. My Microsoft's head of
00:00:40AI tells the BBC his competitors approach to training their models
00:00:44could have
00:00:45a disastrous impact on the well-being of humanity.
00:00:49The boss of social media company Snapchat says the firm would be willing
00:00:52implement time limits for teenagers
00:00:55of as an important step forward for the industry. And Lena
00:00:58Dunham, creator
00:01:00of of the Hit TV series Girls has welcomed her first child with her husband
00:01:04via a surrogate after years of openly speaking about her struggles with
00:01:11of fertility.
00:01:14of in Let's get some business news now with Sally
00:01:18and Sally, busy day. Indeed, yeah, absolutely. We've got our
00:01:22eyes firmly on the world's top central banks today. If we start with what has
00:01:26happened, what we do know, and that is in the US, they have... raised
00:01:30interest rates for the first time in three years as inflation worries Trump,
00:01:34the pressure from
00:01:36of their president, so is a unanimous decision on the part
00:01:38of the federal reserve team, they raised the cost of borrowing by a quarter of
00:01:421% to range of between 3.75 and
00:01:454%, and the decision comes as ratesters attempt to
00:01:49curb price rises driven by soaring energy costs and that's
00:01:53largely due to the conflict in the middle east. commenting on the
00:01:56move, fed chair Kevin Walsh said that inflation had been too... high for
00:02:00too long, but it's fair to say President Trump doesn't agree with the
00:02:04economic medicine, so taking to social media he posted
00:02:07of that interest rates in the United States should be 1% or less, because we
00:02:11are the best credit in the world by far. Samir Hussein in
00:02:15New York has more. By raising interest rates a quart of a
00:02:19percentage point in saying that inflation is the big reason
00:02:23why, the federal reserve did what it was expected to
00:02:26do. Now the Fed also said that, look, the US economy. is
00:02:30growing a pretty healthy rate despite
00:02:34geopolitical developments, presumably referring to the
00:02:38war with Iran, which has really driven up
00:02:42of inflation. In a press conference, Fed share Kevin Warsh admitted,
00:02:45look, this rate
00:02:47of hike won't reopen the Straight of Hormus. quarterpoint rate hike does not
00:02:51reopen the straight of Hormus, and so I wonder how you think these smaller
00:02:55of rate of hikes will be effective when it can't necessarily address the
00:02:59energy supply. of inflationary pressures, we cannot affect
00:03:03any individual price, whether it be oil prices, whether it be
00:03:07food stuffs at the grocery store, but what we can do and will
00:03:10do is ensure that any change in relative
00:03:14prices don't broaden out. so how will all of this make
00:03:17a difference? well, the federal reserve really made it clear that this is all
00:03:21about the American consumer, and specifically
00:03:25those that
00:03:25of are less well off, that they really want to try and get the
00:03:29cost. living under control, and this is one way that they can do
00:03:35of that. Can the Bank of England do that? That is the question. It's going to make its
00:03:38decision on interest rates today. The central banks widely expected to hold the
00:03:42cost of borrowing on
00:03:44of hold this time, despite facing increasing
00:03:47rate of price risings. The latest figures out though that were out this time
00:03:51yesterday showed that inflation hit 3.1% in August, the
00:03:55highest level five months driven largely by increases in fuel
00:03:59costs. Kathline Brooks who's research director at the trading
00:04:02platform, XTB, explained why she believes the Bank of England will
00:04:06not move on rates today. There's individual
00:04:10reasons why the Bank of England doesn't need to follow the ECB in the Fed for
00:04:13now. The first thing of course is that our interest rates have been higher certainly than the
00:04:17ETB anyway. And the dilemma here is different
00:04:21a isn't of it? I mean, when you look at the US and you hear their raising rates, you're kind of thinking, oh,
00:04:24well, maybe we need to do the same thing, but the American economy is much more
00:04:28robust than the... UK economy and
00:04:31our our growth is absolutely minimal at the moment, isn't it? and our labour market is not
00:04:34looking that healthy
00:04:36of either. yeah, I would agree that the labour market is a really, really weak
00:04:40point. we've seen private sector wage growth is now below the
00:04:44level of inflation and we've also seen payrolled employment, that's
00:04:47actually been falling. so yeah, you're completely right, the US economy is on
00:04:51track to
00:04:52of increase by 5.1% this quarter, and our growth rates
00:04:55of are just a mere fraction of that, and I think that the Bank of England, they'll want to...
00:05:00see more evidence that this inflation spike caused by the
00:05:04energy spike, caused by geopolitics is having a bigger and a broader
00:05:08impact on the economy before they hike, but I do think that there's a potential for a
00:05:11hike in november. remember are you how worried are you Kathline
00:05:15about inflation going forward because of course you
00:05:18Andrew Bailey was talking about it himself in front of a trees you in front
00:05:22of a common select committee recently and he was saying you know he is quite
00:05:26concerned and they're obviously watching everything incredibly closely in the months
00:05:30ahead it's not just energy it's going to be food prices rising soon as
00:05:34well yeah those those headline prices
00:05:38are for the longer the longer that um NG prices remain
00:05:41high "it it is more worrying for sure and it gets harder for the
00:05:45Bank of England to maintain that they can keep you know lid on
00:05:49price pressures by keeping interest rates on hold, which is essentially what they've
00:05:53done for this year. um, inflation is already,
00:05:57sorry, energy prices are already above the Bank of England's adverse scenario,
00:06:01which they only set out in July, so something does have to
00:06:04change, um, you know, food prices, energy prices, they're the real
00:06:08key, but we don't have any evidence that that they are..."
00:06:12feeding into they're having second round effects essentially our economy is
00:06:16quite weak so even if there is an interest rate hike in November I
00:06:20don't think we're going to be a a longer rate hiking cycle
00:06:23it could be quite a shallow hiking cycle and I think that will be different from
00:06:27the U.S. interesting Kathline Brooks there just to say of course
00:06:31we'll be live with that rate decision from the Bank of England here on BBC News for you at
00:06:35lunchtime but now let's focus on tech and a company looking to step
00:06:39into the controversial eyeware market is Snap. It's
00:06:43just launched its latest model called Specs, which it says
00:06:46enables an augmented reality experience using artificial
00:06:50intelligence for its users. Our North America Technology correspondent Lily
00:06:54Jamali has been trying them out. Snap Ink
00:06:58here in Santa Monica, California is rolling out what they're calling
00:07:02specs. These are augmented reality glasses that
00:07:05they say act as a fully stand-alone computer, but you
00:07:09might look a little different walking down the street. Now to use these
00:07:13AR glasses, I begin by pressing the home button
00:07:17on my hand, and in front of me what I see is a home
00:07:21screen. Hey Specs, play my morning
00:07:23playlist. The idea is to be able to play
00:07:26music, take me the long way, offer real-time
00:07:29navigation, watch TV and movies and enable
00:07:33working, shopping and real-time translation in dozens of
00:07:37languages. So if I press this button, I
00:07:41can capture. video, you should be able to see a
00:07:44white flashing uh light right here in between my
00:07:48eyes on the glasses, that's there to indicate that filming is taking
00:07:52place. one criticism that's come up with this form factor in general
00:07:56is privacy. many people don't like being filmed in public without their
00:08:00knowledge. i've seen instructions online about how to hide the led. meta for
00:08:04example says it's remotely disabled the camera its devices when the firm
00:08:08is detected users tampering with the indicator light. these aren't
00:08:11available to consumers just yet, they are available for
00:08:14pre-order uh, but consumers can actually get their hands on these in
00:08:18the UK, in the US as well as France in the fall, so in
00:08:22just a couple of months, and the retail price is
00:08:25$2,195. so they're not
00:08:29cheap. uh, Lily sat down with Snap's chief executive, that's
00:08:32Evans Speagle, and a time where there's so much being
00:08:36said currently about AI, it's development and the
00:08:39risks. she asked him if he believes AI is
00:08:43developing too quickly? what's most important for us is that we
00:08:47keep humanity at the center. i think technology has
00:08:50great opportunity to enhance our lives, enhance humanity, and
00:08:54that's how we've thought about developing specs and specs intelligence, because
00:08:58specs are all about improving your capabilities, right?
00:09:02so when you're using specs and you're practicing basketball, you're the one who's getting
00:09:05better at dribbling. you're the one who's working on your basketball skills. if
00:09:09specs are helping you learn how to draw, it's not the computer. drawing for you,
00:09:13specs are helping assist you learn that new, assist you and learning
00:09:17that that new skill, and so I think for us Specs and you know
00:09:20AI are really about enhancing what we can do as humans rather
00:09:24than replacing us, and I think that's something that's really important to us, but do you think that
00:09:28those other companies are moving too
00:09:31quickly?
00:09:36I think there's you know a real difference
00:09:39between doing cutting edge research. uh
00:09:43and then how that's actually implemented in the world,
00:09:46and so I think it's a really important moment to be thoughtful in terms the way that we're
00:09:49actually using this new technology to make sure it's furthering what's
00:09:53best for humanity, what's best for our society, and I'm glad that there's
00:09:57a really thoughtful conversation happening right now about the best way to do
00:10:01that. do you have any position on what all these
00:10:05policy makers here in the US and around the world are
00:10:09clamming clamoring for, which is more regulation or... some form
00:10:13of guard rails on this development? i think it's
00:10:16really important that we focus on the most tangible risks
00:10:20rather than imagined risks. it's really really hard to build thoughtful and
00:10:24effective. regulation around imagined risk, and so what I would
00:10:28really encourage,
00:10:29you know, policy makers, regulators around the world to do, is to
00:10:33really think deeply about what the tangible risks to AI development are,
00:10:37and then work to figure out what the best guard rails are for those real
00:10:41risk. There you have it, another opinion on
00:10:45that hot topic at the moment, the CEO there of Snap. Now,
00:10:48what makes a good business book? Well, according to this year's
00:10:52business book awards winner is... all about being
00:10:56experimental, it is the book is called tiny
00:11:00experiments, how to live freely a goal obsessed
00:11:03world. it's written by neuroscientist and entrepreneur
00:11:07and lord who is apparently packed full of tools
00:11:11to help you break free from limiting beliefs to
00:11:14create meaningful, productive life. well, I spoke
00:11:18to Annelaw earlier and I asked her for her tips on how we can
00:11:22improve our lives. one the problems is that we're
00:11:26often told that to be successful you need to have a big goal and then you
00:11:30have you need to have the perfect plan and then just stick to it, but
00:11:34we all know I think that life and work really unfold
00:11:37a straight line, and especially today with the world changing so
00:11:41quickly, trying to predict exactly where we end up tends to
00:11:45create just more pressure. so the book instead
00:11:49asks, if instead of trying the future, what if you treated the
00:11:53things that you want to explore as tiny
00:11:56experiments, so you try something, you see what happens,
00:12:00and then from this you keep iterating and adapting, so it's
00:12:04really ultimately about replacing the pressure of
00:12:07control with curiosity and using experimentation
00:12:11to build life and career that feels like your
00:12:14own, in order to do that, you've you've got to
00:12:18be prepared to fail, haven't you?
00:12:20you are you asking people to be more risktakers?
00:12:24well, mean there's always a possibility for failure, the idea
00:12:28here is to change your relationship to failure and to
00:12:32see this as source of data, as a way to learn more about
00:12:36yourself, about your studies, your work or even
00:12:40what you might want to do in retirement, so failure all of sudden
00:12:43becomes a partner, something you can learn from, and how
00:12:47many experiments do you suggest, is
00:12:49there a list of experiments you should try or do you suggest people come up with
00:12:53their own? thanks for asking because the kind of people
00:12:57who tend to enjoy the book are very curious and they get excited and they want to run
00:13:01a thousand experiments and tell them i'm sorry
00:13:05but one experiment a time and the reason why is
00:13:08because if you're changing every single variable in your life it's going
00:13:12to be really hard to know what exactly is working and not
00:13:15working that was
00:13:17Anne Lakonfo's the winner the business book the year I must admit it
00:13:21really put me on edge I don't like experimenting. "no,
00:13:25I'm not sure learning, using failure as a learning tool, time, I
00:13:29haven't got time for tiny experiments, well got to crack on, I mean Elizabeth
00:13:33day's done pretty well out of
00:13:34you know learning to fail, hasn't she and sort of moving on, so it is, yeah, I i get
00:13:38the sense, but I imbracing failure, which is something they're
00:13:42really good at doing in the United States, certainly in the business world, it's really encouraged,
00:13:46actually talking about the many, many failures before you hit, yeah, hit the
00:13:50goal, but it was just really interesting, what tiny experiment are you going to
00:13:53do today, Sally, oh my..." Goodness, I i could just thinking about that
00:13:57stresses me out. I've got to be honest, I don't have time for
00:14:00experiment. I've got to run home now, yeah, get on with the domestic chors.
00:14:04It's all very boring. I say
00:14:09them my kids would say that most of my meals I prepare for them are tiny experiments, not some necessarily very successful. You see she's she's
00:14:12smashing it. Thanks, Sally. Uh,
00:14:16you are watching BBC News. Now, Fiji has declared
00:14:20national emergency following alarming surge in
00:14:24HIV case. the Pacific Island nation with fewer than
00:14:27million people recorded more than 200 new HIV
00:14:31cases in 2025, a 16-fold increase from
00:14:352019. One in 60 adults in Fiji
00:14:39are currently living with the virus that causes AIDS. Well, Dr.
00:14:43Dashika Balak is care and support lead for HIV treatment at the Fiji
00:14:47Ministry of Health and she told my colleague Steve Ly, how the number
00:14:51of infected people had grown so quickly? um, I think over the...
00:14:55es the number of cases have increased and we've been trying to
00:14:59um catch up on these numbers, we have extended our testing in the
00:15:02countries and so therefore
00:15:04you know we are testing more infections that were already existing in the
00:15:08communities but now we are playing catch up with these cases as we know
00:15:11that I mean the new cases are across all the
00:15:15divisions in our countries, our towns and cities, even rural and maritime
00:15:19communities are now having to see new cases and
00:15:23this is what has led the government declaring a national
00:15:27emergency because we need a whole of national
00:15:30response which is led by the cabinet and supported across all party
00:15:34lines because this epidemic has become so wide spread
00:15:38that it needs every sector working together, not just health
00:15:42alone, yes and what should we understand then about how it has spread so
00:15:46quickly through injectable transmission? yes,
00:15:49sofitamine use has rapidly grown in the country and
00:15:53with it comes injecting and sharing of needles and
00:15:56syringes, where we know
00:16:00the people who have acquired HIV, around half these new
00:16:03cases were linked to injecting drug use, so
00:16:07HIV then moves
00:16:09to to their partners and to their families, so we are treating drug use as
00:16:12health issue, which includes harm reduction, testing and
00:16:16treatment taken to where people are and working with community
00:16:19organizations whom people trust, so again tackling the
00:16:23drug problem also needs health, law enforcement, social services,
00:16:27education and so forth, and this is exactly what
00:16:31this emergency needs a cabinet l response, yeah,
00:16:34and just tell us as well, I mean the numbers, I want to... 60 adults, this
00:16:38cuts across men and women, I presume,
00:16:42yes, so basically what we have seen over the last
00:16:46five years or so, we have seen that most the cases are concentrated
00:16:50among males, so about 70% the cases were among
00:16:53males and the rest females or as minute population among the
00:16:57transgender population, however we are seeing that this gap is closing
00:17:01now, so we are picking up more women living with HIV
00:17:05over the past couple of years as compared. Mails as
00:17:08well, that was Dr. Dashika Ballak from the Fiji Ministry
00:17:12of Health. Let's get some the day's other news now. President Trump has
00:17:16threatened to cut trade with the European Union if it pursues a proposal to make
00:17:19Canada the block's first ever associate member, describing the plan as
00:17:23laughable, Mr. Trump said he would view it as hostile act that could
00:17:27prompt further tariffs on the EU. The European Commission
00:17:30president Vonderlion had earlier told the European Parliament that she wanted
00:17:34to work on opening the door for Canada. Torrential
00:17:38rain is causing havock to northeastern Spain, flooding houses and
00:17:42closing roads, metros and airports. Residents the
00:17:45Catalonia and Valencia regions have been urged to avoid unnecessary
00:17:49travel and exercise extreme caution. A formal
00:17:53request has been lodged by British prosecutors for the extradition from the
00:17:56U.S. of brothers Andrew and Tristin Tate to face rape and sex
00:18:00trafficking charges, but a lawyer for the social media influencers has
00:18:04accused the UK authorities of failing to provide.
00:18:07documentation required. There are yet more
00:18:11concerns about global oil supplies after Saudi Arabia, the world's
00:18:15second largest oil producer, accused the Iran-backed
00:18:18Huthies of a cowardly terrorist attack on Islam's holiest city,
00:18:22Mecca. The Yemen-based Rebel group have claimed
00:18:26responsibility for attacks a Saudi Airbase and oil facilities,
00:18:29but they denied attacking Mecca. Here's our security correspondent Frank
00:18:33Gardner.
00:18:38down in the desert, Yemen's Hoothi rebels, displaying a Saudi
00:18:42Air Force F-15 fighter jet, they brought down with a
00:18:45missile. They may not look the most professional of armies, but their
00:18:49actions reach far beyond their borders. The
00:18:53hoothies in this shaded area here, can now threaten almost
00:18:57any shipping passing Yemen's Red Sea coast. Now,
00:19:01remember that on the other side the Arabian peninsula, the straight of
00:19:05Homus is largely blocked. to the US Iran war,
00:19:09to get around this, Saudi Arabia has been pumping around six million
00:19:13barrels of oil a day through this east-west pipeline to
00:19:16their export terminal at Yanbur on the red sea. From
00:19:20there, Saudi tankers have been taking the oil south,
00:19:24heading for the Asian markets f the Babbal Mandeb
00:19:27straight, but the hooties are at war with the Saudis and
00:19:31they vowed to target all Saudi shipping. The
00:19:35Saudi Houti conflict has... escalated
00:19:38dramatically, and that helps Iran. Iran
00:19:42now can go to the Trump administration and actually negotiate on
00:19:46better terms, now they don't just control the straight off, but actually
00:19:49very two important choke points and control over
00:19:53almost 35% the global oil
00:19:57economy.
00:20:01Yemini government forces are tough tribal fighters from the
00:20:04highlands, but they've also been armed and trained. by
00:20:07Iran, that's allowed them to strike targets in Saudi
00:20:11Arabia, like airports, oil depots and
00:20:14pipelines. All this is a counterbalance to the US Navy's
00:20:18blockade of Iran's gulf ports, a
00:20:22blockade that Iran and its mural say America
00:20:26cannot win. Frank Gardner, BBC
00:20:29News. From today, patients in England with a
00:20:33type of incurable breast cancer will be able to get life-extending
00:20:36drug. the NHS: two years ago it was rejected as not
00:20:40good value for money, but that decision has been reversed. here's Katherine
00:20:44Burns, oh my
00:20:48god.
00:20:52when, what, how? this is the moment when Kate Wills
00:20:56found out she will be able to have a drug that could keep her alive
00:21:00for longer. I am, I can't really believe
00:21:03it. You know, I just said to you, I've got scan
00:21:07results. I have another scan in two weeks that may show that I
00:21:11need this drug,
00:21:13and
00:21:15I haven't really dared to think about what would happen.
00:21:22'I am, I can't believe
00:21:25it. Kate's a busy woman, keeping fit,
00:21:29working and being with her family. She's also living with secondary
00:21:33breast cancer, it's spread to her bones and
00:21:36lungs. We first met her and her friend Genie
00:21:40almost two years ago. They wanted a drug that could slow
00:21:44down the progression their cancer and her to. Genie was
00:21:47frustrated that she couldn't get in her to.' the health advisory body
00:21:51nice had said it wasn't value for money in England. Wales and
00:21:55Northern Ireland followed that advise too. When we first covered
00:21:59this story, patients in 19 countries in Europe, including
00:22:03Scotland, could get in her to. Over time that's gone
00:22:06up to 27. All along, Kate and others have
00:22:10kept fighting, including at this protest in July.
00:22:14The empty shoes were to represent women who died before they could get in
00:22:18her to, including genie who died in
00:22:21January, but from today NH2 will be
00:22:25available on the NHS in England, so what's changed, we
00:22:28understand that drug companies haven't particularly lowered their prices and
00:22:32that this is actually the result of a trade deal with the USA, where the UK
00:22:36government has agreed to spend 25% more on medicines, some of
00:22:40those changes have just kicked in, which has tipped the balance.
00:22:44Helen K is director of Medicine's evaluation at Nice and says
00:22:48we know this decision comes to... late for many families and our
00:22:51thoughts are with them today. Our role is important ensuring
00:22:55NHS spending on new medicines reflects the benefits they
00:22:58deliver. Wales is going to make in her to available soon, but this
00:23:02decision doesn't automatically apply in Northern Ireland. Kate's
00:23:06first thought is for friends she's lost including Genie, but she
00:23:10knows this decision could make all the difference for her
00:23:13family. Catherine Burns, BBC
00:23:16News. It's been more than 80 years.
00:23:20Since Thomas The Tank Engine and his friends first appeared in Children's
00:23:24books before their runaway success on screen.
00:23:27Today, new adventures from the Blue Locomotive are being launched
00:23:31online. Our reporter, John Maguire can tell us more.
00:23:35Thomas the tank engine has worked his branch line for many
00:23:38years, and from the imagination of vicker in Birmingham trying
00:23:42to entertain his poorly son, Thomas the Tank Engine
00:23:45traveled not just around his fictional home, the island of
00:23:49Sodom. but around the world, the bedtime stories
00:23:53were followed by Reverend Wilbert Audrey's books, then the
00:23:56BBC TV series narrated famously by
00:24:00Siringo Star: stupid old board said Thomas, there's no
00:24:04danger, there's no danger, look out, shouted his
00:24:07driver, come back,
00:24:11fire and smoke, said Thomas, I'm sunk, and he
00:24:15later Thomas and his friends were reborn as an
00:24:18animation and now returned to the rail line
00:24:22online through youtube. The new voice the cheeky little
00:24:25engine is 13-year-old Harry Sparks. Let's
00:24:29go to Napford station, that's where I'll find
00:24:33a big job to do. And taking over the mic as
00:24:36narrator, standing on the shoulders of giants, including
00:24:40beatle and bond, is the actor Henry Golding, and
00:24:44Paul Thomas was hurtling towards it, unable to start his engine.
00:24:48I mean, Ringo Star, what? what a champ huh? i think he did it for
00:24:52multiple years, so he's he's still got a couple up on me.
00:24:55um, but uh, of course an absolute legend. and and you've had
00:24:59a whole host of uh amazing stars including pierce
00:25:03brosnan. um, but uh, you know, i'm
00:25:07i'm in the shadow of giants. the characters remain hugely
00:25:10popular, inspiring young visitors to thomas land in
00:25:14staffordshire. he loves the trains, he loves the engines, he
00:25:18loves the tracks, uh, he loves the
00:25:21stories, we've got all the Thomas pictures from here all around
00:25:25your bedroom, and we taking one tomorrow we print one,
00:25:29we told one with Thomas with all the
00:25:32coaches, and then we put them all around his
00:25:34bedroom, the new series titled really
00:25:38helpful engines will, as always be underpinned by
00:25:42moral message, as young Thomas learns the ways the
00:25:46world with his trusty friends to keep him on track.
00:25:54Oh great to see Thomas back, current we'll be here at nine, do stay with his hair on
00:25:58BBC News!
00:26:10Hello, and the prayer of high pressure is going to be bringing hot weather to the southeast
00:26:14the United States over the next few days with temperatures reaching 38 celsius on
00:26:18Thursday up to about 100 fahrenheit. Few thunderstorms for the
00:26:21northeast to watch out for, we've also got some fairly active
00:26:24thunderstorms across parts of Arizona into New
00:26:28Mexico, Colorado and Utah, one or two of those could bring areas of...
00:26:32flash flooding now we're looking at some fairly widespread downpours
00:26:36at the moment in the lesser antis as easterly wave pushes through
00:26:40here, those showers will work across Puerto Rico and end up across Haiti, Dominican
00:26:44Republic and eastern areas of Cuba, so a high chance of seeing some showers and
00:26:48thunderstorms for these areas. an upper area of high pressure bringing a lot of dry and
00:26:51sunny weather to Argentina and Uruguay, but it stays
00:26:55cloudy through Esperito Santo, Rio de Janeiro State and
00:26:59São Paulo state with some outbreaks of light rain and... 'cuse
00:27:03some thunderstorms and the forecast moving into Italy affecting eastern
00:27:07areas of Spain and we have had some very big looking storms increats,
00:27:11they're going to be affecting parts of Turkey and even Cyprus over the next few
00:27:14days with a bit of sahara and dust running in ahead of those very active
00:27:18thundery downpours, in Africa we've seen some heavy showers
00:27:22in Cameroon over the last 24 hours and its areas around
00:27:25Cameroon, northern Gabon, Nigeria, the
00:27:29Democratic Republic of Congo and also the Central African'. public that
00:27:33will see some fairly heavy showers and thunderstorms through
00:27:36Thursday. looking at the weather pitch across the Middle East now, we've got some showers
00:27:39working into areas near the Mediterranean coasts into Lebanon and
00:27:43Syria. away from that, lot of dry, hot and sunny weather. temperatures
00:27:47in Iraq reaching as high as 45 celsius. we've seen some
00:27:51sorrental rain in Gujarat over the last 24 hours, 280 millimeters of
00:27:54rain. the area of low pressure responsible is weakening, but there will be some further
00:27:58heavy downpours here. so there is risk of seeing some flooding issues. through
00:28:02Thursday and Friday as well. Tropical Storm Dewan
00:28:06may well become a typhoon over the next few days, it's heading in the general
00:28:10direction of Japan, area of low pressure bringing quite heavy
00:28:13down to the Philippines that stays put over the next few days and we've got some
00:28:17very heavy rain from the southwesterly monsoon affecting southern areas of
00:28:21Thailand, northern areas of Malaysia that could bring some localized flooding. High
00:28:24pressure in charge in Australia, many air is dry with some sunshine, but it could be
00:28:28quite cloudy with a bit of drizzle towards the coast of Victoria for a time. and it
00:28:32looks quite wet for the north island of New Zealand on Friday, rain arriving late in
00:28:36the day in the
00:28:37south.
00:28:41Brazil is the biggest economy in Latin America, it's one the
00:28:45largest democracies in the world and it's home to largest
00:28:50the the portion Amazon rain forest, so what happens here can affect
00:28:53things well beyond the country, from climate and
00:28:57trade to the fight against international drug
00:29:00trafficking. Brazil's
00:29:04left-wing president Lula, who is running for re-election, is leading in
00:29:08several polls. Among his main proposals are expanding
00:29:11social programs and investing in public education and
00:29:15healthcare. The other leading
00:29:18candidate is right-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of
00:29:22former president Jair Bolsonaro. He says he will stay true to
00:29:26his father's controversial legacy and take tough approach to
00:29:29crime. The outcome could have major.
00:30:06Live from London, this is BBC News. The king issues an
00:30:10unusually pointed response after Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's
00:30:14brother, makes fresh claims about him in his new book.
00:30:18Microsoft's head of AI tells the BBC his competitors approach to
00:30:21training their models could have disastrous impact on the wellbeing of
00:30:25humanity. I think that if we all
00:30:29create AIs that are able to act or... anonomously that
00:30:33can define their own objectives. um, we're essentially
00:30:36seeding new silicon species, which will no doubt
00:30:40compete with us for resources. the bank of England is
00:30:44expected to hold interest rates in the face of rising prices,
00:30:48the US hikes borrowing costs. Russia
00:30:52heads to the polls for parliamentary elections, the first since Russia's
00:30:55full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and is that?