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00:00:14Live from London. This is BBC
00:00:16News. 12 people are killed and hundreds
00:00:20hundreds injured in a missile attack attack on Riyadh's international international airport, which Saudi
00:00:24Saudi authorities blame on the
00:00:28Houthis. The Saudis are good fighters, fighters, but I think the attack
00:00:30attack was a terrible thing. President President Trump says Ukraine needs
00:00:34needs a new president who can make make a deal after President Zelensky's
00:00:38Zelensky's criticism over the US., US., Russia diesel deal. A man is
00:00:42is mauled to death at a wildlife wildlife park in Yorkshire after
00:00:45after entering the tiger enclosure.
00:00:49enclosure. And Hurricane Simon heads heads for Mexico, bringing torrential
00:00:52torrential rain and winds of up to
00:00:55to 240km an hour. Hello, I'm Annita
00:01:06Annita McVeigh. Thanks for joining joining us on BBC News. And let's
00:01:10let's start with that major escalation escalation in the Middle East conflict
00:01:13conflict because Saudi Arabia says
00:01:14says a Houthi missile attack at Riyadh's
00:01:17Riyadh's international airport has has killed 12 people and injured
00:01:21injured more than 300. We've received received these pictures from inside
00:01:24inside the airport terminal. Reports
00:01:26Reports say there was a missile strike strike on one of the gates. It's
00:01:30It's the deadliest attack on Saudi Saudi soil in more than a decade.
00:01:34decade. The Saudi authorities are are calling it a war crime and have
00:01:37have promised a forceful response. response. The airport has been closed
00:01:39closed and hundreds of flights have have been cancelled or diverted.
00:01:43diverted. The UK Foreign Office has has told British nationals to stay
00:01:46stay away until the airport is secure,
00:01:49secure, with similar warnings from from a number of other countries.
00:01:53countries. While the strike has been been condemned by the United Nations
00:01:56Nations Secretary General and by by President Trump, who's indicated
00:01:59indicated the US may join the Saudis
00:02:02Saudis campaign against the Iran-backed Iran-backed Houthis. Well, you're
00:02:06you're going to find out, Steve, Steve, but I think it's terrible. terrible. Well, they're able to defend
00:02:10defend look, the Saudis are good good fighters. But I think the attack
00:02:14attack was a terrible thing. What What happened in Saudi Arabia is
00:02:17is not acceptable. Thank you. And And a correspondent Greg McKenzie
00:02:21McKenzie is with us. Greg, what's what's the latest we know about this
00:02:24this attack? Well, this is the third
00:02:26third attack on Riyadh's international international airport in just a week.
00:02:29week. And by far the deadliest. So So Saudi authorities say at least
00:02:33least 12 people have been killed
00:02:34killed and more than 300 injured.
00:02:37injured. Now, among those killed
00:02:39killed are Saudi and Bangladesh. Bangladesh. Bangladeshi nationals
00:02:42nationals and also an American citizen.
00:02:45citizen. Now eyewitnesses have described described chaos at the airport, describing
00:02:48describing seeing an object flying
00:02:50flying overhead before it landed
00:02:52landed and exploded at the terminal.
00:02:55terminal. Now, some say that ceilings ceilings were collapsing and there there was panic. People were just
00:02:59just simply trying to get out of
00:03:01of the airport desperate. Now hospitals
00:03:03hospitals are overwhelmed in the the area with casualties, some of
00:03:07of them critically injured. And what's
00:03:10what's particularly concerning is
00:03:11is that the attack reportedly happened
00:03:14happened without any warning from
00:03:16from Saudi Arabia's air defence alert
00:03:19alert system. Yeah, that is a very
00:03:21very significant point to make, Greg, Greg, and we saw that comment from
00:03:24from President Trump. Who else has has been reacting? Well, President President Trump has reacted. You
00:03:28You just heard him there. So that's that's a significant development.
00:03:31development. Speaking to reporters reporters outside the White House, House, President Trump has asked
00:03:35asked whether the United States might might join Saudi Arabia in carrying
00:03:39carrying out military strikes against against the Houthis in Yemen. He's
00:03:43He's yet to say yay or nay whether whether he will or not. And the US
00:03:46US Secretary of State has also condemned
00:03:48condemned the attack. So there's
00:03:50there's been no announcement of American
00:03:52American military involvement at at this stage. And president, the
00:03:56the President's comments kind of of raises the possibility of the
00:04:00the United States becoming directly directly involved in that escalating
00:04:03escalating conflict. And, Greg, tell tell us more then about the likely
00:04:07likely impact on flights both in in Saudi and the wider region. We
00:04:11We know obviously at the moment there there are lots of cancellations,
00:04:15cancellations, lots of diverted flights. flights. But clearly this is is going
00:04:17going to cause a major issue for for travel in the region. Well that's
00:04:20that's right. So it's an immediate immediate impact on air travel in
00:04:24in the region. Riyadh is a major
00:04:27major aviation hub serving the city
00:04:30city of around 8 million people. people. Flights have been cancelled
00:04:34cancelled or diverted, leaving passengers passengers facing significant disruption.
00:04:38disruption. But there's also a wider wider economic concern. Saudi Arabia
00:04:41Arabia is preparing to host a major
00:04:44major international energy and investment investment conference. And these
00:04:47these attacks are raising questions
00:04:50questions about security in the kingdom. kingdom. OK, Greg, thank you very
00:04:53very much for that. Greg McKenzie. McKenzie. And let's talk about this
00:04:56this some more now with Arman Mahmoudian,
00:04:59Mahmoudian, who is non-resident scholar scholar at George Washington University's University's Institute for Middle
00:05:02Middle East Studies. He joins us us from Tampa Amman. Thanks very
00:05:06very much for being on the programme. programme. And let's pick up on those
00:05:10those comments with from President President Trump. And, you know, do
00:05:13do do you think he will get more
00:05:16more involved specifically in what's what's happening between the Saudis
00:05:19Saudis and the Houthis in the context context of those mid-term elections
00:05:23elections in the US just a few weeks weeks away? Because obviously, there's
00:05:26there's a lot of nervousness that that his involvement in this war
00:05:29war in the Middle East is putting putting voters off the Republican Republican Party. Well, thank you
00:05:34you for inviting me, Anita, and that's that's a very good question. To be be honest. President Trump and the
00:05:37the United States is in a very complicated
00:05:41complicated position because we do do know that for the similar incidents
00:05:44incidents for one American casualty casualty in the past, the President
00:05:47President Trump made drastic military military measures in December 2019
00:05:512019 when the Iranian backed Shia Shia militias in Iraq, they killed
00:05:55killed an American contractor in in the Kirkuk base. President Trump,
00:05:58Trump, as the response to it, ordered ordered the attack against General
00:06:02General Qassem Soleimani, the former former commander of Iran's Quds Forces,
00:06:05Forces, and he was killed during during that retaliatory attack in
00:06:09in January of 2020, which many people people can make a case that that
00:06:12that attack the killing of Soleimani Soleimani triggered the current conflict.
00:06:15conflict. The gradual scope pattern
00:06:18pattern of the current conflict. conflict. So now he is in the crossroad.
00:06:22crossroad. On one hand, in the past past he showed that he's taking the
00:06:25the American casualty very serious. serious. And if he acts on it, if
00:06:29if he wants to retaliate again, that
00:06:31that would change the kind of de
00:06:33de facto unspoken arrangement that that the United States so far had
00:06:37had with the Houthis, which is very very fragile. Already, Houthis have
00:06:40have avoided largely to attack the the American cargos American ships
00:06:44ships in the region. If the United United States decides to get involved
00:06:48involved more directly, they may may change that. And if they change
00:06:51change that equation, if they try try to bring or open a new front
00:06:54front against the United States in in the region right before the election,
00:06:58election, the mid-term election that that would put the President Trump Trump in a very difficult position.
00:07:01position. On the other hand, if it it doesn't make any action, it basically
00:07:05basically let this go or, you know,
00:07:07know, tries to make a kind of contained contained limited response that would
00:07:11would make him appear weak. And we we do know for a fact appearance
00:07:14appearance as a weak leader is not not something that goes well with
00:07:17with his own base. So whatever he he chooses is going to have a political
00:07:21political collateral damage. The The question is which one and how how much of damage he's going to
00:07:25to take and he's going to inflict inflict on the Houthis. All important
00:07:28important questions. And Oman, we
00:07:30we often talk about the Houthis as
00:07:34as being the Iranian backed proxy
00:07:36proxy group. But would you describe describe this as a war within the
00:07:40the wider war, the US war with Iran,
00:07:42Iran, or is this a separate issue, issue, a distinctive issue for the
00:07:46the Houthis? What they're doing in in terms of the missiles that they're
00:07:49they're firing towards Saudi? Well, Well, I hate to answer it like that,
00:07:53that, but it's a kind of combination combination of both that is in the
00:07:56the middle way. The Houthis got involved involved in this round of the conflict
00:08:00conflict as what they, you know, know, articulated their response
00:08:03response to the killing of Ayatollah
00:08:05Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader
00:08:07leader of the Iran, in 20th February
00:08:09February of 28. After that, the Houthis Houthis tried to get involved slowly
00:08:12slowly but gradually got involved. involved. But they also have their
00:08:15their own interests in this thing. thing. They are advancing heavily
00:08:18heavily in Yemen, specifically speaking speaking towards the south of Yemen.
00:08:21Yemen. Up until two weeks ago, they
00:08:23they had a momentum to completely completely kick out the Saudis and
00:08:27and Saudi backed Yemeni government.
00:08:30government. Kind of out of all the
00:08:32the strategic zones, if they had had succeeded in this, one can make
00:08:35make a case that they would have have cemented their influence in
00:08:39in Yemen and the coastal shores of of the Red Sea for quite a while.
00:08:42while. So they have their own independent independent interests. But also there
00:08:46there is no doubt that what is happening happening in their Houthis, what what is happening between Houthis
00:08:50Houthis and the Saudi and in general, general, the tension in the Middle
00:08:53Middle East is largely influenced influenced by the conflict with Iran.
00:08:56Iran. At the end, Iran is the sole sole sponsor of the Yemeni Houthis.
00:09:00Houthis. There is no other country country on the face of earth that that provides them with the knowledge,
00:09:04knowledge, training, money or advisers advisers advisers to help them. So
00:09:07So the building of Iran, the Islamic Islamic Republic in Iran exists and
00:09:11and continues to exist for the Houthis Houthis is an important matter. They
00:09:14They will take action in it. But
00:09:16But beside and aside that they do do have their own independent interests
00:09:20interests in the region and Yemen. Yemen. OK. Arman Mahmoudian thank
00:09:23thank you very much. Thank you for
00:09:25for inviting me. President Trump Trump has hit out at Ukraine saying
00:09:29saying the country should get a new new president who will end the war
00:09:32war with Russia. He made the comments comments after Volodymyr Zelensky
00:09:35Zelensky criticised the US decision decision to lift sanctions and buy
00:09:39buy Russian diesel. Mr Trump appeared appeared to blame President Zelensky
00:09:43Zelensky for the diesel crisis, adding
00:09:45adding he'd quote, better damn well
00:09:47well stop attacking Russian oil refineries. refineries. Downing Street says Andy
00:09:50Andy Burnham has spoken to Mr Zelensky Zelensky to reiterate the UK's support
00:09:54support for Ukraine in its war with
00:09:56with Russia. Our world news correspondent
00:09:59correspondent Joe Inwood reports.
00:10:03reports. It is a slow and painful
00:10:06painful process. Under Buried the
00:10:10the rubble of their apartment is
00:10:12is Yana, Anton and the body of their their daughter Liza. At least 12
00:10:1612 people are now thought to have have been killed in a single Russian
00:10:20Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia. At
00:10:21At least three were children. May
00:10:26May all Russians die. Anatoly says
00:10:28says as he digests the news of the the death of his granddaughter. Much
00:10:32Much of Russia's war on places like like Zaporizhzhia has been funded
00:10:35funded by the sale of oil and gas.
00:10:37gas. Diesel is at the centre of a a major diplomatic row. That's a
00:10:41a war that should have never started, started, and I think it's time for
00:10:44for Ukraine to get a new president. president. It started with the announcement
00:10:48announcement that President Trump Trump had done a deal with Vladimir
00:10:51Vladimir Putin that would see about about 100,000 barrels a day enter
00:10:55enter the global market. That was was met with disbelief in Ukraine
00:10:59Ukraine and anger from President
00:11:01President Zelensky. All that money
00:11:05money goes towards the war against against people against Ukraine, against
00:11:09against all of US, in my view, this
00:11:11this is a weak decision. Unfortunately,
00:11:13Unfortunately, a weak decision by
00:11:16by strong partners. The United States
00:11:19States is currently seeing record record diesel prices and growing
00:11:23growing voter anger ahead of crucial crucial mid-term elections. Many
00:11:26Many blame President Trump and his his war with Iran for the rising
00:11:29rising costs they're seeing at the the pumps. But he said that the real
00:11:33real cause of the problem were these
00:11:37these Ukrainian strikes on Russian Russian oil facilities for Ukraine.
00:11:41Ukraine. They've been a key part
00:11:43part of their military strategy for
00:11:45for President Trump, a cause of his
00:11:48his problems. He wants to make problems
00:11:50problems for our farmers and ranchers
00:11:52ranchers with diesel fuel because because Russia supplies a large portion
00:11:56portion of the diesel fuel throughout throughout the world. You're in no
00:12:00no position to dictate. For more more than a year, President Zelensky
00:12:04Zelensky has been carefully and it it seemed successfully rebuilding
00:12:06rebuilding his relationship with with Donald Trump, left at rock bottom
00:12:10bottom by this notorious bust-up. bust-up. Seems much of that has been
00:12:13been undone. While undoubtedly falling falling Russian exports have played
00:12:17played a role, the real cause of
00:12:19of the rising cost of diesel lies
00:12:21lies here in the Strait of Hormuz
00:12:24Hormuz and in the war with Iran.
00:12:26Iran. The consequences of the failure failure to end that war continue
00:12:30continue to ripple around the world.
00:12:33world. Joe Inwood, BBC News. An investigation
00:12:37investigation has begun after a man man was killed by a tiger at Yorkshire
00:12:41Yorkshire Wildlife Park. He was attacked attacked when he entered the animal's
00:12:44animal's enclosure. Yorkshire Wildlife Wildlife Park says it is deeply saddened
00:12:47saddened by the incident and is working working closely with the authorities.
00:12:50authorities. The park will remain remain closed again today. Yunus
00:12:53Yunus Mulla reports. The Yorkshire
00:12:56Yorkshire Wildlife Park remains closed, closed, with officers guarding the
00:12:59the entrance. The attraction has has some of the world's most endangered
00:13:03endangered animals, including large large tigers in a huge enclosure
00:13:07enclosure where a man was attacked attacked and seriously injured after
00:13:10after somehow he managed to enter
00:13:13enter an air ambulance, two ambulances ambulances and a doctor were sent
00:13:16sent but the man died at the scene.
00:13:18scene. The animal remained in the
00:13:21the enclosure and there was no wider
00:13:23wider risk to the public. The Land
00:13:26Land of the Tigers opened in 2011
00:13:292011 with a 300 metre long raised raised walkway above, where visitors
00:13:33visitors can see the tigers roaming
00:13:35roaming freely below. The park has has said on social media that it
00:13:39it can confirm that there was a serious
00:13:41serious incident and that its emergency emergency response procedures were
00:13:45were activated. It's now working
00:13:46working with the authorities to ascertain
00:13:49ascertain exactly what happened. happened. It's not known why the
00:13:53the man was in the enclosure. The
00:13:55The park itself was evacuated and
00:13:58and will remain closed to visitors
00:14:00visitors over the weekend. Yunus
00:14:03Yunus Mulla BBC News, Doncaster. Doncaster. Let's get some of the the day's other news now. And it's
00:14:07it's been confirmed that Christa Christa Pike, who survived two lethal
00:14:11lethal injections during a failed failed execution attempt in Tennessee,
00:14:14Tennessee, has been discharged from from hospital. In a statement, her
00:14:17her legal team says she's been returned returned to the correctional facility
00:14:20facility where she has spent the the last 30 years, and that she'll
00:14:24she'll continue to receive medical medical treatment. Pike is believed
00:14:26believed to be the only person to
00:14:28to have ever survived a lethal injection.
00:14:31injection. The US military says its its forces have struck a commercial
00:14:35commercial cargo vessel in the Gulf
00:14:36Gulf of Oman after the crew ignored
00:14:39ignored repeated warnings. US Central Central Command says it disabled
00:14:42disabled the Panama flagged merchant merchant vessel Ocean Molica, stating
00:14:45stating that the vessel was attempting attempting to transit regional waters
00:14:49waters after departing an Iranian Iranian port. The crew are understood
00:14:53understood to be unharmed. The US
00:14:55US Department of Justice says it's it's investigating whether several
00:14:58several TV networks violated anti-trust
00:15:01anti-trust laws last month. Five
00:15:03Five TV pool members temporarily temporarily suspended presidential
00:15:06presidential coverage after the Trump Trump administration withdrew the
00:15:09the credentials of reporters from from three news organisations, including
00:15:13including CNN, which is one of the
00:15:16the pool members. Police in India
00:15:20India say they've released almost almost all of the thousands of people
00:15:23people detained protesting in the the capital, Delhi, on Saturday.
00:15:26Saturday. Four people remain in custody, custody, including Abhijeet Dipke,
00:15:30Dipke, the leader of the Cockroach Cockroach Janta Party, which organised
00:15:33organised the banned demonstration. demonstration. His party has called
00:15:36called for another protest on Sunday. Sunday. Police said permission for
00:15:39for Saturday's rally had been denied denied because of what they said
00:15:42said were broken promises. The BJP BJP and other opposition parties
00:15:46parties are calling for the election election commissioner to be sacked
00:15:49sacked over revisions to the electoral
00:15:51electoral roll, an accusation denied
00:15:53denied by the authorities. Our South South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri
00:15:56Moshiri sent us this update. We've
00:16:03We've seen multiple people detained detained in the last minute. Some
00:16:07Some are younger protesters, some some are people in their 40s and
00:16:11and their 50s. And this was what what we were expecting. Watch out.
00:16:14out. There's another one coming.
00:16:17coming. Up. Because police have announced
00:16:21announced that this protest by the the Cockroach Janta Party is illegal.
00:16:25illegal. Now just moments ago, we we got word that Abhijeet Dipke,
00:16:27Dipke, the founder of the Cockroach
00:16:29Cockroach Janta Party, along with with senior leaders Saurav Das and
00:16:33and Ashutosh Ranka have all been
00:16:35been detained as they were landing
00:16:37landing in Delhi. Police officers
00:16:40officers came onto the plane to escort
00:16:43escort them out. This is constant
00:16:48constant police. The last figure
00:16:50figure they gave was 500 people detained,
00:16:53detained, but that was a few hours hours ago. And so I'm assuming the
00:16:57the numbers gone up, given the fact fact that we just keep seeing protesters
00:17:00protesters detained. There is a ban
00:17:02ban on groups of five or more gathering gathering in parts of Delhi, and
00:17:05and no one is allowed to access not
00:17:08not even journalists. Jantar Mantar,
00:17:10Mantar, which is the designated protest
00:17:12protest area. Police are saying that
00:17:15that they can't just shut down the the city every single time. The Cockroach Cockroach Janta Party want to hold
00:17:19hold a protest that they remember
00:17:21remember from the summer they were were granted one day permission.
00:17:24permission. And yet the protests protests carried on for about a month.
00:17:28month. But a group of senior lawyers lawyers and the Supreme Court did
00:17:31did say in court yesterday that they
00:17:34they also can't shut down dozens
00:17:35dozens of metro stations, increase
00:17:38increase the security and the patrolling
00:17:40patrolling on roads and create obstacles
00:17:43obstacles to daily life in Delhi
00:17:45Delhi simply because they want to
00:17:47to prevent protesters from gathering gathering peacefully as well. It
00:17:50It does feel like this is a standoff standoff and anything could happen
00:17:53happen today. Azadeh Moshiri at least
00:17:56least four people have died in the the southeastern United States after
00:18:00after a hurricane battered the Gulf Gulf Coast, bringing torrential rain.
00:18:03rain. More than 500,000 homes were were left without power in the states
00:18:07states of Florida, Alabama and Georgia, Georgia, with trees brought down
00:18:10down and houses damaged as Hurricane Hurricane Isaias made landfall. The
00:18:14The storm, which is now heading north, north, has weakened to a post-tropical
00:18:18post-tropical cyclone. It was the
00:18:19the first hurricane of the Atlantic
00:18:23Atlantic season and another hurricane, hurricane, Simon, is now bearing
00:18:26bearing down on Mexico's Pacific Pacific coast, bringing torrential
00:18:29torrential rain and sustained winds
00:18:31winds of up to 240km an hour. The The category four storm is expected
00:18:35expected to make landfall near the the port city of Manzanillo in a
00:18:38a few hours' time. Residents on the
00:18:40the coast of Colima and Jalisco have have been warned that eight metre
00:18:44metre waves could bring storm surges surges and coastal flooding, and
00:18:47and people have been boarding up
00:18:49up windows and doors ahead of its
00:18:52its arrival. Simon, the latest in in a busy hurricane season in the
00:18:55the Pacific with a powerful El Nino Nino ocean warming phenomenon, is
00:18:59is allowing the storms to gain in
00:19:02in strength. Joining me now is Ioan Ioan Grillo, an independent journalist
00:19:06journalist who is in Mexico City. City. Johan, welcome to the programme.
00:19:09programme. So Simon is on track to to hit Mexico in the coming hours.
00:19:13hours. What's the latest there? There's
00:19:16There's been a lot of panic buying buying we've seen along the coast
00:19:19coast there in the city of Puerto Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo. Now
00:19:23Now these are very unpredictable, unpredictable, these hurricanes. hurricanes. And although Mexico is
00:19:27is very weathered by hurricanes all all the time, it's still very difficult
00:19:30difficult to prepare. Just three
00:19:31three years ago we saw Acapulco absolutely
00:19:35absolutely clobbered by a hurricane hurricane and more than 100 deaths.
00:19:38deaths. And we saw again as the hurricane hurricane went up the coast parallel
00:19:42parallel to Acapulco, we saw some some houses collapse again there
00:19:45there and a lot of fear there, some some roads being flooded. But we'll
00:19:48we'll see what happens now. Manzanillo Manzanillo is the biggest port in
00:19:52in Mexico. So as well as a human
00:19:55human risk, there's quite a big economic economic risk to Mexico as well.
00:19:58well. But these things are so unpredictable unpredictable they could you know,
00:20:01know, this is already a category category four hurricane. It could
00:20:04could suddenly get stronger. It could could get weaker. It could move very
00:20:07very fast. And we don't know. So
00:20:08So it could be a big test for President
00:20:11President Claudia Sheinbaum, who who hasn't prepared. How prepared
00:20:14prepared Johan is the country for
00:20:16for this. Well, you know, although although Mexico's been very weathered,
00:20:19weathered, you still have some very very bad conditions in many of the
00:20:23the cities along the coast. So some some of these areas that have just just been recently to some of these
00:20:27these coastal cities and you still still see neighbourhoods, poor neighbourhoods
00:20:31neighbourhoods built in very precarious precarious places where people have
00:20:34have squatted land and heavy rain
00:20:37rain could cause mudslides and cause cause deaths. So even though it's
00:20:40it's very weathered, it's still a
00:20:42a big risk and it could be a big big test of President Claudia Sheinbaum.
00:20:46Sheinbaum. It's her first real big big kind of weather test. So if it
00:20:49it is critical, how will she respond? respond? Will she rush out or let's
00:20:52let's see what happens in the next next few hours. We mentioned Jalisco.
00:20:56Jalisco. There's a big Kartal presence presence there. How is the Kartal
00:20:59Kartal likely to respond to this?
00:21:02this? Well, there certainly is the the Jalisco New Generation Kartal
00:21:04Kartal is the most powerful in the the country. Some people might remember
00:21:08remember when its leader was shot
00:21:09shot dead by soldiers in February
00:21:12February and the armed gunmen rose rose up in the state, killing soldiers.
00:21:15soldiers. Now, there's a couple of
00:21:17of ways that cartels do respond to
00:21:19to these hurricanes. One is sometimes
00:21:21sometimes you get smaller gangs organised organised carrying out looting in
00:21:25in taking advantage of the situation. situation. But a Kartal like the
00:21:28the Jalisco Kartal actually can be
00:21:31be involved in providing it sounds sounds funny, but providing relief relief sometimes giving out things
00:21:35things and ordering people to stay stay in their houses. They try to
00:21:38to show themselves as being like like almost like a power in these
00:21:41these areas. So we'll have to see see how bad it is to see what response
00:21:45response happens from the organised organised crime groups in that area.
00:21:48area. Now, you mentioned a moment
00:21:50moment ago Johann Acapulco, I understand
00:21:53understand there's already some flooding flooding there, and I know that there
00:21:56there are warnings about the dangers dangers of mudslides. So flooding
00:21:59flooding and mudslides, potentially potentially one of the biggest risks
00:22:02risks to life as a result of this
00:22:05this hurricane. Absolutely. I was was just in Acapulco about six weeks
00:22:09weeks ago, and one of the neighbourhoods neighbourhoods I went to there was
00:22:13was built in a place where I mean mean the neighbourhood, the people
00:22:16people in the area were complaining complaining the government is not
00:22:19not helping build any kind of roads. roads. It's a disaster waiting to
00:22:23to happen as soon as there's too too much rain, a lot of these houses
00:22:25houses could end up covered in mud
00:22:27mud and risk of death there. So certainly certainly some, you know, very precarious precarious places where people have
00:22:31have moved down from the mountains mountains and these neighbourhoods neighbourhoods have not really been
00:22:35been properly organised and properly properly built. And some of the images
00:22:38images I've just seen from some colleagues colleagues said to me from the area
00:22:42area there are of cars floating down down streets that are flooded. So
00:22:45So already a lot of things there. there. And Acapulco has really been
00:22:49been punished by weather the last
00:22:51last few years. OK, Ioan Grillo in
00:22:53in Mexico, thank you very much for
00:22:57for joining us. Top Fuel drag racing racing is often described as the
00:23:01the fastest sport on the planet and and is the only elite class of motor
00:23:04motor sport where women frequently frequently beat men to major titles.
00:23:07titles. BBC Global Women has been been following Swedish driver Susanne
00:23:11Susanne Callin, who won the European European Top Fuel Championship for
00:23:14for the second year in a row last
00:23:15last month. So is Top Fuel drag racing
00:23:18racing the first gender equal sport?
00:23:21sport? We start up the new flow rate.
00:23:27rate. Drag racing is the fastest
00:23:30fastest sport on earth. Side-by-side Side-by-side the whole way. Susanne
00:23:34Susanne Susanne Callin. Has just
00:23:36just won her second European Top Top Fuel Drag racing championship
00:23:40championship in a row. These racers
00:23:47racers regularly hit 300mph. What What can I say? You know, like short short of a cannon, you know, in a
00:23:51a rocket ship. You literally cannot
00:23:55cannot explain it unless you've done done it because I don't know anything
00:23:59anything that is even close to it.
00:24:02it. Yet I'm full up. But we haven't haven't tipped the car yet. Men and
00:24:06and women compete directly against against each other, and women have
00:24:10have been winning and breaking records
00:24:13records for decades. Why is it called
00:24:18called Man Eater? Because my competition. Are. Mainly men. In
00:24:22In fact. In this country they're
00:24:24they're all men. So that's why it's it's a little dig. Really? You're
00:24:28You're the man eater. I'm the man
00:24:30man eater. I don't know if anyone
00:24:33anyone noticed that the car was a
00:24:36a really moving very well. I don't don't know what you mean by. You
00:24:40You don't know what you mean. Campaigners Campaigners say drag racing is one
00:24:43one of the most gender equal sports sports in the world. I gotta say,
00:24:47say, it did move all the time, John.
00:24:49John. Just extremely, extremely
00:24:53slow. And I think one of the reasons reasons women are so successful is is because it's a family orientated
00:24:56orientated sport and girls get into into it at a young age. I grew up
00:24:59up in the track. All the girls have have grown up at the track. No Woman
00:25:03Woman or like even my girls, they're they're not going to be treated badly
00:25:07badly or big deal or lost to a girl girl or you can't do it that that
00:25:11that thing just doesn't exist. I
00:25:13I never feel I've been underestimated underestimated or treated badly for
00:25:17for being a woman in a male dominated
00:25:19dominated sport. No no, no. If you you go around the pits, which is
00:25:23is normal to us. In India, drag racing
00:25:26racing is less established. Yet women
00:25:28women are emerging and winning. There There are events. There is no women
00:25:31women at all. In four Wheeler I will will be the only person. But Yuvasri
00:25:35Yuvasri says reactions to female female drivers are sometimes mixed.
00:25:39mixed. Why? Why do they have to get
00:25:41get shocked? Anyone can drive right? right? Sometimes I feel proud also.
00:25:45also. OK, I'm breaking the barrier
00:25:47barrier of being in a male dominant
00:25:49dominant dominated sport. And you
00:25:53you can watch Global Women's Longer
00:25:54Longer film on iPlayer. Just search search Global Women International
00:25:58International viewers can watch it it on the BBC World Service's YouTube
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