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00:00:10Live from Washington. This is
00:00:13BBC News. Possible war crimes by by the US that is the verdict of
00:00:16of a United Nations panel investigating investigating two deadly strikes
00:00:19strikes in Iran from February. The The US rejects the report. President
00:00:22President Trump says the US is making making major progress towards opening
00:00:26opening its first permanent army army base in Poland, calling it an
00:00:29an historic step for both countries countries and King Charles urges
00:00:32urges leading tech bosses developing developing AI to protect humanity
00:00:35humanity as he warns of existential
00:00:38existential dangers. Those who have
00:00:42have created these technologies are are now increasingly warning that
00:00:46that AI risks developing darker capacities.
00:00:49capacities. Perhaps even to take
00:00:52take life. I'm Sumi Somaskanda it's
00:01:02it's good to have you with us tonight. tonight. The US Israel war with Iran
00:01:05Iran may be at a stalemate, but now now there is fallout from the height
00:01:09height of the conflict. United Nations Nations investigators say there are,
00:01:12are, quote, reasonable grounds to to believe that the US carried out out war crimes in the early days
00:01:16days of its war on Iran, the U. Independent
00:01:19Independent international fact finding finding mission on Iran found that
00:01:22that the US may have, quote, committed
00:01:24committed the war crime of launching launching an indiscriminate attack
00:01:27attack resulting in loss of life life or injury to civilians or damage
00:01:31damage to civilian objects. The report, report, submitted to the UN Human
00:01:34Human Rights Council, pointed to to two deadly missile strikes in
00:01:38in February, one on a primary school school in Minab and another that
00:01:41that hit a sports complex in Lamerd.
00:01:43Lamerd. It says at least 178 civilians
00:01:45civilians were killed in the two two attacks. Now, the State Department
00:01:49Department said it does not give give credibility to findings from from the report and that the protection
00:01:53protection of civilians is of the the utmost importance to the US..
00:01:56US.. The US previously said it is is investigating the Minab strike
00:02:00strike and denies the raid on Lamerd. Lamerd. The United Nations experts
00:02:03experts also found Iranian authorities
00:02:05authorities committed crimes against against humanity during a crackdown
00:02:08crackdown on mass anti-government anti-government protests in 2025
00:02:122025 and into 2026. Our State Department Department correspondent Tom Bateman
00:02:15Bateman has more. This was two incidents
00:02:17incidents on day one of the war. war. The strike on a school in Minab
00:02:21Minab and also on a sports complex
00:02:23complex in Lamerd in Iran. Now the
00:02:25the report goes through the evidence evidence that on the school strike
00:02:28strike that the US it believes was was using outdated targeting. We've
00:02:31We've heard quite a lot about this,
00:02:33this, and it says because of that,
00:02:35that, in the words of the fact finders, finders, this was more than mere
00:02:38mere negligence. They say that this this was reckless. And because of
00:02:42of that, the Americans either knew knew or should have known that this this was no longer a military complex,
00:02:46complex, that it was actually a school. school. And therefore it says there's
00:02:49there's reasonable grounds to say say that this was a war crime committed
00:02:53committed by the Americans. Similarly Similarly with Lamerd it calls this this an indiscriminate attack and
00:02:57and also reasonable grounds to say
00:03:00say that this is a war crime. So,
00:03:01So, you know, a very strong finding
00:03:04finding the State Department completely completely rejecting it. They say
00:03:07say that the Human rights Committee
00:03:10Committee Commission at the United United Nations, which appoints this this Fact-Finding mission, is anti-American.
00:03:14anti-American. They say the report report is not credible. Amid the
00:03:18the ongoing war in the Middle East, East, Iran's delegation will be allowed
00:03:21allowed to enter the US next week week for the United Nations General
00:03:24General Assembly. That's according according to a State Department spokesperson.
00:03:28spokesperson. But two Palestinian Palestinian sources tell the BBC
00:03:30BBC that the US denied an entry visa visa to Palestinian President Mahmoud
00:03:34Mahmoud Abbas for the Assembly for for the second year in a row, the
00:03:37the US had recently renewed sanctions sanctions against Palestinian officials. officials. Without naming Abbas,
00:03:41Abbas, accusing them of failing to to live up to peace process commitments.
00:03:44commitments. The US accused the Palestinian Palestinian Authority of glorifying
00:03:48glorifying terrorism and attempting attempting to internationalise the
00:03:51the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. conflict. Palestinian officials reject reject those claims, calling the
00:03:55the visa sanctions an unjustified unjustified measure. Abbas will instead
00:03:58instead make a video address to the the annual UN gathering in New York
00:04:02York City. Jennifer Gavito is a former former top State Department official
00:04:05official for the Middle East. She's She's currently a senior adviser
00:04:08adviser at the Cohen Group, an international international consulting group. I
00:04:10I asked her what she thought of the the findings of the UN experts on
00:04:13on those strikes in the early days
00:04:15days of the war in Iran. So this
00:04:19this is really damaging for US credibility.
00:04:20credibility. It is true that this this is not a criminal finding. But
00:04:24But nonetheless, this really damages, damages, I think, US credibility
00:04:28credibility and increases the urgency
00:04:30urgency of the United States conducting conducting a real investigation into
00:04:33into this. Initially, the Department
00:04:35Department of War did acknowledge acknowledge that it had found preliminarily
00:04:38preliminarily that the United States States was probably responsible for
00:04:41for this strike. But we've heard heard very little since. And I think
00:04:45think what is especially concerning concerning in this is that the Department
00:04:48Department of War Zone Inspector Inspector General has determined
00:04:51determined that the Department is
00:04:53is not able to carry out or is de-prioritized
00:04:57de-prioritized its responsibilities. responsibilities. Congressionally Congressionally mandated responsibilities responsibilities for civilian harm
00:05:01harm mitigation. So this raises a a lot of questions. I will just add,
00:05:05add, once again, a State Department Department official telling the BBC
00:05:08BBC that the Trump administration administration had formally withdrawn withdrawn from the UN Human Rights
00:05:12Rights Council, saying a consistent consistent failure was there to uphold
00:05:16uphold values as the council pushes pushes anti-American rhetoric. Among
00:05:19Among other points, I also want to to ask you in this context about
00:05:23about the UN General Assembly, which which will take place in New York
00:05:26York next week. And we mentioned mentioned that Palestinian sources
00:05:28sources have told the BBC that Mahmoud Mahmoud Abbas was denied a visa.
00:05:32visa. Again. What impact do you think
00:05:35think that has? Well, I think that that this is very difficult to explain,
00:05:39explain, let alone defend at a moment
00:05:43moment when the Board of Peace, which which is a body that was put forward
00:05:47forward by the United States to bring
00:05:52bring reconstruction to Gaza, that
00:05:53that that Board of peace and eventually
00:05:56eventually the Palestinian Authority Authority taking over control of
00:05:58of Gaza. And so the Palestinian Authority Authority and President Abbas have
00:06:02have to be partners with the United United States in order to achieve
00:06:06achieve those outcomes. It's especially especially baffling, given that we're
00:06:09we're now hearing that the Iranian Iranian delegation has been granted
00:06:12granted visas. And so I think, you you know, at the very least, this
00:06:15this raises questions about the United United States headquarters agreement
00:06:19agreement when it comes to its hosting
00:06:21hosting of the UN General Assembly.
00:06:24Assembly. Now, President Trump says says the US is working to set up
00:06:26up a new military base in Poland Poland riding on Truth Social, he
00:06:30he said major progress is being made made towards establishing a US Army
00:06:33Army base in Poland. If this happens, happens, the location will be announced
00:06:37announced very soon. This will be be an historic step for our great
00:06:40great US Polish alliance. That is is despite concerns in Europe that
00:06:43that an ongoing US review could drastically
00:06:46drastically reduce troop levels on
00:06:48on the continent. And this was the
00:06:52the scene in Poland earlier on Thursday. Thursday. Air raid sirens after a
00:06:55a Russian attack near the border border with Ukraine. Two Polish airports
00:06:59airports were temporarily closed. closed. No Russian aircraft crossed
00:07:01crossed the border, but Poland's Poland's Prime Minister warned Thursday Thursday that Russia will likely
00:07:05likely step up its aggression in in the coming months against Poland
00:07:08Poland and other nations supporting supporting Ukraine. Meanwhile, Nato
00:07:11Nato Secretary General said Russia's Russia's drone strikes near Poland
00:07:14Poland are evidence of Russia's desperation. desperation. Mark Rutte was in Britain
00:07:18Britain meeting the Prime Minister Minister and Defence Secretary for
00:07:20for the first time. Here's our political
00:07:24political editor, Chris Mason. Eastern
00:07:27Eastern Poland this morning, sirens
00:07:29sirens blaring Russia's war in Ukraine
00:07:33Ukraine sounds near drone strikes
00:07:34strikes over the border far too close
00:07:37close for comfort. Is this yet another another example of a dangerous escalation
00:07:41escalation in this war? It's clearly
00:07:42clearly an example of increasingly
00:07:46increasingly reckless behaviour by by Russia and its president, but
00:07:49but also evidence of him being increasingly
00:07:52increasingly desperate. Should Nato Nato intercept Russian drones that
00:07:56that are over Ukrainian territory territory if they are approaching
00:07:59approaching a Nato border. There There is a limit to what I can go
00:08:03go into in a public interview, but but I can assure you we do everything
00:08:06everything to make sure that Nato Nato stays safe. Nato territory stays
00:08:09stays safe, that we can defend every every inch of that that's happening
00:08:12happening again. I can never get get into those operational details.
00:08:16details. I was later told drones drones were not intercepted by Nato
00:08:19Nato while still over Ukraine, but but for how long? How worried are
00:08:23are you? How worried should we all
00:08:26all be that Russia will attack or
00:08:28or invade a Nato country in the coming
00:08:30coming years? If you're willing to to sacrifice 1.2 million of your
00:08:34your own people in this crazy, unprovoked
00:08:37unprovoked fight, let's not be naive naive about what Putin could do,
00:08:40do, but we are stronger. I mean, mean, in. Other words, it could happen. happen. It could happen in the coming
00:08:44coming years. I don't think so because because we are strong, so strong
00:08:47strong that he will not try. But But we have to make sure of is that
00:08:50that we are as strong in two, three,
00:08:52three, five years from now. As for
00:08:54for right now, this is the Red Sea
00:08:57Sea conflict in Yemen has escalated. escalated. The Houthis, backed by
00:09:01by Iran, have increased their control control over a key shipping route.
00:09:05route. Would it be in Europe's interest
00:09:08interest to do more, to try and keep
00:09:10keep those seaways open? Well, clearly clearly it's outside Nato territory,
00:09:14territory, but we are closely co-ordinating co-ordinating with allies. I would
00:09:17would not be surprised if some phone phone calls are taking place between between European allies. Hey, how
00:09:20how are we going to deal with this? this? Let's see what happens and
00:09:23and if Nato can help, we will always always be helpful. You've been here
00:09:26here meeting the Prime Minister, Minister, the Defence Secretary, Secretary, the Foreign Secretary,
00:09:29Secretary, as you all know, the Chancellor, Chancellor, John Healey, the former
00:09:33former Defence Secretary, resigned resigned because he wasn't certain. certain. You know, he didn't think
00:09:37think the previous government would would get to 3% of national income
00:09:40income on defence by 2030 and said said that was essential. The new
00:09:44new government hasn't yet explicitly explicitly committed to that. In
00:09:47In the conversations you've just just come from, are you confident confident they're going to manage
00:09:51manage that? I'm totally confident confident about what this government
00:09:53government wants to do. That is to
00:09:55to reach the 3.5 and 2035. Also understanding understanding that cannot be that
00:09:59that you stick to 2.6, 2.7 now and
00:10:02and then in one go in 2034 you would
00:10:05would go to 3.5. So you've long been. been. A sceptic to be a credible
00:10:08credible path. Yeah. Sounds like like they've not managed to be specific
00:10:11specific and reassure you that that
00:10:13that 3% target by 2030 is actually actually going to be met. I'm absolutely
00:10:16absolutely confident that when it it comes to the 3.5, they're I'm
00:10:20I'm absolutely confident that when when it comes to the yearly increments,
00:10:23increments, they totally take it it and accept it that they have to
00:10:26to be there. What exactly the pathway pathway will be. We will see next next year in the spending review.
00:10:30review. Secretary General, thank thank you. Thank you very much. Now
00:10:33Now three days of voting are getting getting under way in Russia's parliamentary
00:10:37parliamentary election, the first first since Russia's full-scale invasion invasion of Ukraine. Critics dismissed
00:10:40dismissed the vote as neither free free nor transparent. But the Kremlin
00:10:44Kremlin is expected to use it to to claim that the country is united
00:10:47united behind the policies of President President Putin. Our Russia editor,
00:10:50editor, Steve Rosenberg reports from
00:10:52from Moscow. In Russia. Ultimate
00:10:57Ultimate power lies here in the Kremlin.
00:11:01Kremlin. But across the road there there is a parliament and it's election
00:11:05election time. So what is a parliamentary
00:11:07parliamentary election like now in
00:11:09in Putin's Russia? Different. At
00:11:14At this TV debate for candidates,
00:11:16candidates, the presenter came. The
00:11:20The candidates didn't. Come. And
00:11:25And this party political was more
00:11:27more X factor than exit poll. Mind
00:11:31Mind you in the last Parliament everyone
00:11:33everyone was singing from the same
00:11:35same hymn sheet. Putin. All together
00:11:41together now Russia, Putin victory.
00:11:43victory. Chance. The Speaker of the
00:11:45the House, all MPs, all parties are
00:11:48are expected to back the President
00:11:50President and the war in Ukraine.
00:11:53Ukraine. There has been some campaigning campaigning and a bread and biscuit
00:11:56biscuit factory near Moscow. We caught
00:11:58caught up with the communists at at times, though, the ten parties
00:12:02parties allowed on the ballot are
00:12:05are hard to tell apart. None of them
00:12:07them criticised the Kremlin or the
00:12:09the war. The. As the Communist leader
00:12:13leader Gennady Zyuganov tells me, me, all parties in the last Duma
00:12:17Duma voted unanimously for 170 laws
00:12:20laws in support of the Special Military
00:12:22Military operation. Russia's political political system is often referred
00:12:26referred to as managed democracy, democracy, where the Kremlin does
00:12:29does the managing and the Kremlin Kremlin is likely to use this election
00:12:32election to claim that despite problems problems in the country, Russians
00:12:36Russians are united behind their
00:12:38their president and behind the war
00:12:41war in Ukraine. Grigory Grishin belongs
00:12:44belongs to the one party that is
00:12:47is publicly calling for peace. Yabloko
00:12:50Yabloko for freedom. Peace for a
00:12:52a ceasefire, he says for a Russia
00:12:55Russia free from political repressions.
00:12:57repressions. Yabloko was on the ballot
00:12:59ballot until the Supreme Court removed
00:13:01removed it from the party list. Some
00:13:05Some of its candidates, including including Grigory, are still competing
00:13:09competing in individual constituencies. constituencies. But in the run up
00:13:13up to the election, many of these these candidates have had problems
00:13:16problems with the police and the
00:13:17the courts, and some have been barred.
00:13:21barred. Grigory was questioned by
00:13:23by police, but he's still in the
00:13:25the race. The police are carrying
00:13:28carrying out a political order. The
00:13:30The demand for an end to the bloodshed
00:13:32bloodshed in Ukraine is very popular.
00:13:34popular. I think most people in Russia Russia now want peace and Yabloko
00:13:38Yabloko helped people express this. this. That's why it's been excluded
00:13:42excluded from the party lists and
00:13:44and why individual candidates are
00:13:47are being barred. 50 miles from Moscow
00:13:50Moscow in Dmitrov, there's little little sign of an election, but there
00:13:54there are signs of the war. A new
00:13:57new memorial to people from the town town who've been killed fighting
00:14:01fighting in Ukraine. And the war
00:14:02war is front and centre of people's
00:14:06people's minds. Of course we feel feel it, says Olga, whose son in
00:14:09in law is fighting in Ukraine. But
00:14:11But elections can't affect what happens
00:14:14happens there. I'd like our country country to be peaceful, Paulina tells
00:14:18tells me. So we don't have to worry worry that drones will fall in front
00:14:22front of us. This election is unlikely
00:14:24unlikely to deliver that in Russia.
00:14:26Russia. It's the Kremlin that decides
00:14:29decides on war and peace. Steve Rosenberg,
00:14:33Rosenberg, BBC News, Moscow. To the
00:14:37the UK now where King Charles is is warning tech leaders about the
00:14:41the existential dangers of artificial artificial intelligence. The monarch
00:14:44monarch called for more oversight oversight on AI, saying that it could
00:14:47could develop darker capabilities. capabilities. He made the comments comments on Thursday during a summit
00:14:51summit in Scotland to address mounting mounting security concerns posed
00:14:54posed by the technology. Tech giants
00:14:56giants including Nvidia, DeepMind, DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic were
00:15:00were together for the first time time since industry leaders called
00:15:02called for a co-ordinated slowdown slowdown in AI development. Our correspondent
00:15:06correspondent Shiona McCallum has
00:15:09has more. Not just another royal
00:15:12royal engagement for the King he he was hosting Jensen Huang, the
00:15:15the boss of one of the world's most
00:15:18most valuable companies, Nvidia and
00:15:20and Sir Demis Hassabis, the co-founder co-founder of Google DeepMind, along
00:15:23along with some of the world's most
00:15:25most influential voices on AI. And And as soon as pleasantries were
00:15:29were over, it was a stark warning.
00:15:31warning. There seems urgency in adequately
00:15:35adequately considering the existential existential dangers of such technologies
00:15:39technologies falling into the wrong wrong hands. The King addressed an
00:15:42an audience that included Tino Cuellar Cuellar from Anthropic, Sarah Friar
00:15:46Friar from OpenAI and Professor Chu
00:15:49Chu Lang from Shanghai University University in China. A Chinese presence
00:15:52presence in the room is significant, significant, too, with President
00:15:55President Trump framing AI as a race. race. America must win. The summit
00:15:59summit has been in the royal diary diary for six months, but the timing
00:16:03timing of it has become part of the
00:16:05the story. Last week, a former Anthropic Anthropic researcher said some of
00:16:08of the people building AI believe believe that it could kill us all
00:16:12all by the end of the decade. The
00:16:14The King has asked you here to give give reassurances that this technology
00:16:18technology won't harm humanity. Can
00:16:19Can you give those reassurances?
00:16:23reassurances? It is the responsibility responsibility of the AI companies
00:16:27companies ourselves to develop the the technology safely and to properly
00:16:30properly test it. As we move from
00:16:33from labs to product development. development. The companies have to
00:16:36to become much more rigorous in testing.
00:16:39testing. But other chief execs are
00:16:41are less optimistic. I think that
00:16:44that if we all create AI that are
00:16:47are able to act autonomously, that
00:16:48that can define their own objectives,
00:16:51objectives, that can earn money, money, that can own assets, that
00:16:54that could run businesses. We're
00:16:57We're essentially ceding a new silicon silicon species, which will no doubt
00:17:01doubt compete with us for resources, resources, no matter how much it
00:17:04it cares about humanity and loves loves us. Warnings like that mean
00:17:08mean governments are under pressure pressure to act. The main thing I
00:17:11I want to assure everyone listening listening and watching this is that
00:17:14that the British government has been been focused on it. We have some some of the best capability in testing,
00:17:18testing, understanding risks and and then mitigating them. We have have to take it seriously. That's
00:17:22That's exactly what we're doing. doing. This debate is not only about
00:17:25about safety and jobs. The data centres
00:17:28centres powering AI require enormous enormous amounts of electricity and
00:17:32and water, placing the tech's environmental environmental issues at the heart
00:17:35heart of a cause. The King has championed
00:17:39championed for decades the King cannot cannot regulate artificial intelligence,
00:17:42intelligence, but what he can do do is use his convening power to
00:17:45to get these rivals round the table. table. The question is now will there
00:17:49there be anything concrete produced produced from these private discussions
00:17:53discussions here at Dumfries House?
00:17:55House? This technology appears to to be advancing far faster than diplomacy
00:17:59diplomacy is right now. But to gain gain public trust in AI, it will
00:18:03will need something more than conversation.
00:18:06conversation. Shiona McCallum BBC
00:18:08BBC News Dumfries House. Still to
00:18:10to come on BBC News. Canada's Prime Prime Minister hails a prospective
00:18:14prospective associate membership membership in the EU while rejecting
00:18:17rejecting US criticism of the alliance. alliance. Around the world and across
00:18:21across the UK.
00:19:23Gdansk. Join me, Julie Lyn, for discovering discovering the world's table Poland
00:19:27Poland on BBC News. You're watching
00:19:33watching BBC News. Canadian Prime Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada
00:19:36Canada and Europe are stronger together. together. In an address to the European
00:19:39European Parliament. Now that comes comes one day after European Commission
00:19:42Commission President Ursula von der der Leyen announced plans to make
00:19:46make Canada the first associate member member of the European Union. The
00:19:50The majority of EU governments support support closer ties with Canada,
00:19:53Canada, but some are questioning questioning the practicalities of
00:19:56of associate member status. It could could take years for the bloc to
00:19:59to implement such a label. US President President Trump on Wednesday suggested
00:20:03suggested that the EU allowing Canada Canada to become an associate member
00:20:05member could be a hostile act towards towards the US.. I spoke earlier
00:20:09earlier to Stephane Dion, a diplomat diplomat in residence at the University
00:20:13University of Montreal and former former special envoy to Europe and
00:20:16and ambassador to Germany and France, France, and he explained Canada's
00:20:20Canada's foreign policy approach. approach. Yes, it's certainly the
00:20:23the goal in Canada to have a normal normal relationship with the US.,
00:20:27US., something we don't have since since a couple of years because of
00:20:30of President Trump. And to be open open to the world as a trading nation,
00:20:33nation, as a country that has a big big role to play in the world. And
00:20:36And that means that we are much closer
00:20:39closer with the EU, with Europe. Europe. The EU is the second biggest
00:20:43biggest economy of the world. We We are very close to them. We have have a strong partnership with them
00:20:47them and we want that to be stronger
00:20:49stronger ever. I spoke to a Conservative
00:20:52Conservative MP from Canada yesterday yesterday who said he doesn't want
00:20:55want to see Canada trading one difficult difficult relationship with another,
00:20:59another, the EU being bureaucratic bureaucratic and perhaps adding new new complications for Canada. What
00:21:03What do you think of that? Well,
00:21:05Well, it's because I think. From
00:21:09From the Alliance President from
00:21:11from the Alliance. She used the expression
00:21:14expression associate member and the
00:21:16the word member looks like if Canada
00:21:18Canada was now the 28th country of
00:21:22of the EU and there is no appetite
00:21:24appetite in Canada to transfer part
00:21:27part of our sovereignty to Brussels
00:21:30Brussels and there is no interest
00:21:31interest in Europe to give to a country
00:21:34country a full membership without without the obligations that come
00:21:37come with it. Regarding a financial
00:21:42financial contribution or alignment alignment of regulations and so on.
00:21:45on. So it's not what we are talking
00:21:46talking about. I think this expression
00:21:49expression associate member created created this confusion. The expression
00:21:52expression the Prime Minister is
00:21:53is using is more to have a strongest
00:21:58strongest alliance, a unique alliance, alliance, the country with which
00:22:01which the EU will have the strongest
00:22:03strongest alliance outside Europe Europe will be Canada. That's the
00:22:06the goal. What do you think of President President Trump's response to all
00:22:09all of this threatening more tariffs
00:22:11tariffs on the EU and saying that that anything that is a closer alliance
00:22:15alliance against the US would be be considered a hostile act? Well,
00:22:18Well, it's only in the mind of Donald
00:22:21Donald Trump. It doesn't make sense.
00:22:23sense. Canada is a trading nation.
00:22:25nation. We need to be in strong connection connection with the world. And in
00:22:29in doing so, we are a better partner
00:22:31partner for the US that if we were were isolated. So only him may think
00:22:34think this way and we will not be be intimidated by Donald Trump. We
00:22:38We have shown that the more he's he's speaking this way, the more
00:22:41more Canadians are resolute to have have an independent policy. When
00:22:45When Donald Trump is negotiating negotiating with the UK, with the
00:22:48the EU, with China, with India, it
00:22:51it doesn't fold. Ottawa to have the
00:22:54the OK of Ottawa as if we had a veto
00:22:57veto on this policy. So it will be be the same for us. Canada is a free
00:23:01free country. We need to strengthen strengthen our relationship with
00:23:04with the EU for the long haul. Even
00:23:08Even when Donald Trump will not be be there any more. And that will
00:23:11will have hopefully a normal president president in the White House. Canada
00:23:14Canada will have an interest in that.
00:23:17that. Have its eggs in the same basket
00:23:19basket and to have strong relationship relationship with the UK, with the
00:23:22the EU, with Asia, with Latin America
00:23:25America and so on. Now to an award
00:23:28award ceremony here in the US and
00:23:31and there were gasps of surprise surprise when a final video message
00:23:34message from Dolly Parton was played played to fans. The star died last
00:23:37last month at the age of 80 from
00:23:38from cancer. David Sillito reports.
00:23:52Just a few weeks ago, something
00:23:54utterly unthinkable happened. Dolly
00:23:57Dolly Parton left our world substance.
00:24:01substance. Her heart, her great heart heart and in true Dolly fashion,
00:24:05fashion, when she learned she would would be receiving this honour, she
00:24:08she didn't wait for the spotlight spotlight to find her. She stepped
00:24:11stepped right into it recording this
00:24:14this message with the same warmth,
00:24:17warmth, joy and sparkle she so generously
00:24:19generously shared with us throughout
00:24:22throughout her life. So honoured
00:24:24honoured to received the Lifetime
00:24:26Lifetime Achievement Award from the the Americana Music Association.
00:24:29Association. I mean music for what
00:24:31what is now called Americana music.
00:24:33music. So I grew up going back into
00:24:36into the smoky. MUSIC
00:24:50E. She would stay. I would only
00:25:01be in your air so I go. And I want
00:25:06want to thank everybody at the AMA
00:25:09AMA for recognising me with this
00:25:11this award. It's a great honour truly, truly, and just know that I will
00:25:15will always love you.
00:25:27OK, just before we go. Scientists have confirmed the discovery
00:25:31discovery of the first new cat species species to be identified in more
00:25:35more than a century. The wild cat,
00:25:37cat, known by its local name Tilcayo,
00:25:39Tilcayo, inhabits the jungles cloud cloud forests of Bolivia. It's part
00:25:42part of a group known as Tiger Cats. Cats. And it took genetic tests to
00:25:46to confirm it as a distinct species.
00:25:49species. Leopardus Tilcayo is a little little smaller than the average cat
00:25:52cat and has light brown fur with
00:25:54with irregular dark patches. All
00:25:58All right. Thank you so much for
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00:30:03stories. Now on BBC News Newscast.
00:30:08Newscast. A huge row has broken out out between Buckingham Palace and
00:30:12and Princess Diana's brother Earl Earl Spencer. It's around this moment
00:30:15moment when the very young princes princes William and Harry were walking
00:30:19walking behind their mother's coffin
00:30:20coffin at her funeral in 1997. Earl
00:30:23Earl Spencer's new book makes some some explosive claims about what
00:30:26what was said at the time by the
00:30:28the King. Then Prince Charles. We We will discuss what's going on in
00:30:31in this episode of Newscast. Hello,
00:30:34Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast Newscast studio. And it's Daniella
00:30:37Daniella also in the Newscast studio. studio. So we're recording this episode
00:30:40episode of Newscast on Thursday afternoon afternoon at just before 3:00. But
00:30:44But it seems to me all the action action on this story happened on
00:30:48on Wednesday night. Just explain explain to us what went on. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Because on Wednesday
00:30:51Wednesday night, the Daily Mail, Mail, who are Serialising Earl Spencer's
00:30:54Spencer's new book about his sister sister called Swan Song, dropped
00:30:58dropped a story ahead of