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00:00:10Live from London. This is BBC
00:00:13News. The UK's Defence Secretary Secretary calls the attack on Riyadh's
00:00:16Riyadh's international airport dangerous dangerous escalation and contemptible
00:00:20contemptible after 12 people are are killed, Saudi authorities blame
00:00:22blame the Houthis for the attack.
00:00:25attack. There isn't a military solution solution to this conflict. There
00:00:28There was a truce. We need to see see a diplomatic solution and Saudi
00:00:32Saudi needs to do that from a position
00:00:34position of strength, Donald. Trump Trump says Ukraine needs a new leader
00:00:38leader who can end the war. After After President Zelensky's criticism
00:00:41criticism of the US, Russia diesel
00:00:43diesel deal the leader of India's India's Cockroach Janta Party is
00:00:47is released from detention after
00:00:49after protests in Delhi. An investigation investigation is under way after
00:00:53after a man who entered the tiger tiger enclosure of Yorkshire Wildlife
00:00:56Wildlife Park in northern England
00:00:57England was mauled to death and flash
00:01:00flash floods in central Nepal sweep sweep away bridges and homes as five
00:01:04five people are reported missing.
00:01:15missing. And a very warm welcome welcome to BBC News. I'm Mark Logan.
00:01:19Logan. We're going to begin this this hour with the major escalation escalation in the Middle East conflict
00:01:22conflict because Saudi Arabia says says a Houthi missile attack at Riyadh's
00:01:26Riyadh's international airport has has killed 12 people and injured
00:01:29injured more than 300. We've received received these pictures from inside inside the airport terminal. Reports
00:01:33Reports say there was a missile strike strike on one of the airport gates.
00:01:37gates. It's the deadliest attack attack on Saudi soil in more than than a decade. The Saudi authorities
00:01:41authorities are calling it a war war crime and have promised a forceful
00:01:44forceful response. The airport has has been closed and hundreds of flights
00:01:47flights have been cancelled or diverted diverted for the second time in less
00:01:50less than a month. Schools in Riyadh Riyadh have switched to remote learning
00:01:54learning for the week. A number of of Western diplomatic missions, including
00:01:57including the UK and US, have warned warned their nationals to stay away
00:02:01away from the airport. The strike strike has been condemned by the
00:02:04the United Nations Secretary General General and by President Trump, who
00:02:07who has indicated the US may join
00:02:09join the Saudis campaign against
00:02:11against the Iran-backed Houthis.
00:02:14Houthis. Well, you're going to find find out, Steve, but I think it's it's terrible. Well, they're able
00:02:18able to defend look, the Saudis are
00:02:19are good fighters. But I think the the attack was a terrible thing.
00:02:23thing. What happened in Saudi Arabia
00:02:26Arabia is not acceptable. Thank you. you. Lisa Cook. Our correspondent correspondent in the Middle East,
00:02:30East, Jon Donnison has the latest.
00:02:32latest. It's another dangerous moment
00:02:34moment in a region that is already already fraught with tension and
00:02:38and conflict. So we've seen those those pictures from the airport.
00:02:41airport. Clearly a lot of damage damage inside the terminal. Large
00:02:44Large plumes of black smoke rising
00:02:47rising above the building and reports
00:02:49reports that the hospitals in the the capital are overwhelmed or have
00:02:53have been overwhelmed just by the the sheer number of people injured.
00:02:56injured. More than 300. Now, the the conflict in Yemen has been going
00:03:00going on for more than a decade. decade. The civil war, and that is
00:03:04is between the Saudi backed, internationally internationally recognised government
00:03:08government and the Houthis, who are are supported by Iran. There have
00:03:12have been thousands of lives lost.
00:03:14lost. There has been a humanitarian humanitarian crisis in Yemen. But
00:03:17But in recent weeks the Houthis have
00:03:19have stepped up their attacks directly directly on Saudi Arabian soil. And
00:03:23And that, I think, is all tied into
00:03:25into the broader conflict that the
00:03:28the United States and Israel have
00:03:30have with Iran. You mentioned that that conflict with Iran at the source
00:03:34source of all of this. In a sense, sense, John, President Trump has
00:03:36has already said that he will resume
00:03:39resume bombing Iran after the mid-term mid-term elections, an indication
00:03:42indication of just the impact that that the Iran war is having on the
00:03:45the cost of diesel, of course. And
00:03:47And how much of an issue that is is in the mid-terms. But now, of
00:03:51of course, if the US is mulling getting
00:03:54getting involved in bombing the Houthis,
00:03:58Houthis, that could escalate that that issue again, given the Houthi
00:04:01Houthi control of Bab al-Mandab,
00:04:03al-Mandab, that other important oil
00:04:06oil strait. Exactly. And that the
00:04:09the Houthis are being used really really by the Iranians as another
00:04:12another arrow in their quiver to to try and exert economic pressure
00:04:16pressure on the United States to
00:04:17to try and get a better deal for
00:04:20for the Iranians in to try and end
00:04:23end that conflict with the United
00:04:25United States. But, you know, it
00:04:28it America, President Trump says says he may intervene in Yemen. I
00:04:31I mean, I think that is pretty unlikely, unlikely, certainly before those those mid-term elections, you have
00:04:35have to remember that he was re-elected re-elected promising to end America's
00:04:39America's involvement in conflicts conflicts around the world. Well,
00:04:43Well, America, under his presidency presidency this second term has been
00:04:46been directly and indirectly involved involved in three in this region
00:04:49region alone. So in Gaza, in Lebanon
00:04:52Lebanon and in Iran, I think it's it's unlikely that would go down
00:04:55down very well with US voters if
00:04:58if suddenly in the next few weeks, weeks, America was going to get directly
00:05:02directly involved in Yemen to. Jon Jon Donnison the British Defence
00:05:06Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting, Streeting, was asked for his reaction reaction to the attack and if the
00:05:10the UK would provide more support support to the Saudis. Well, we're
00:05:13we're already supporting Saudi Arabia,
00:05:16Arabia, we're supporting Saudi with with air to air refuelling support
00:05:19support that enables them to fly
00:05:21fly potentially. I've spoken to my
00:05:23my Saudi counterpart KBS, on a number number of occasions in recent weeks
00:05:26weeks to look at what more we can can do to support Saudi Arabia. And
00:05:30And I'm afraid last night explains
00:05:34explains precisely why we are providing providing that support. I mean, even
00:05:38even in the context of Houthi attacks attacks and an escalation, what we
00:05:41we saw in terms of the attack on
00:05:42on the airport in Riyadh was a shocking
00:05:45shocking escalation. Actually, hundreds hundreds of casualties and an attack
00:05:49attack on a civilian target that
00:05:51that can't be can't possibly be justified justified in any circumstances. So
00:05:54So we. You could get involved in,
00:05:57in, in the UK, could get involved involved in offensive operations. operations. Well, that's not what
00:06:01what we're looking at at this stage. stage. And we've always been clear
00:06:04clear that there isn't a military military solution to this conflict
00:06:07conflict as ruler was just setting
00:06:09setting out there. There was a truce.
00:06:12truce. We need to see a diplomatic diplomatic solution and Saudi needs
00:06:15needs to do that from a position position of strength. And so the
00:06:18the support we've been providing providing the air to air refuelling
00:06:21refuelling support, the ground based based air defences, those things
00:06:24things are having a positive impact. impact. But I think there is clearly
00:06:27clearly more to do, as evidenced evidenced by what we saw last night,
00:06:29night, which I think should be condemned condemned worldwide. UK Defence Secretary
00:06:33Secretary Wes Streeting. Ukraine Ukraine has continued to target Russian
00:06:37Russian infrastructure with another another drone attack on a data centre
00:06:40centre belonging to the Russian tech tech giant Yandex operations at the
00:06:44the facility in Vladimir, to the the east of Moscow, have been completely
00:06:47completely halted. The strike comes comes after President Trump accused accused Volodymyr Zelensky of prolonging
00:06:51prolonging the war and said it was was time for Ukraine to elect a new
00:06:55new leader. Mr Trump appeared to to blame President Zelensky for the
00:06:59the diesel crisis, adding he'd better
00:07:01better damn well stop attacking Russian Russian oil refineries here. Downing
00:07:05Downing Street says Andy Burnham Burnham has spoken to Mr Zelensky
00:07:08Zelensky to reiterate the UK's support support for Ukraine in its war with
00:07:12with Russia. Well, speaking to reporters reporters yesterday, President Trump
00:07:15Trump accused Zelensky of disrupting disrupting global fuel supplies and
00:07:19and choosing not to end the war with
00:07:20with Russia. You know what I suggest?
00:07:23suggest? I suggest they get a new
00:07:25new leader who can make a deal because because he could have made many deals
00:07:29deals and for some reason he never never does. And let me go a step
00:07:32step further. If I were president, president, you wouldn't have ever
00:07:35ever had that war. That war would would have never started. There was
00:07:39was no reason that that war with with Ukraine and Russia started.
00:07:42started. It started due to incompetence, incompetence, should have never started.
00:07:46started. You wouldn't have lost 30%
00:07:4830% of your country already. You've
00:07:50You've lost 30% of your country and
00:07:53and you've had over a million people people killed between the two of
00:07:57of them, over 2 million people killed. killed. That's a war that should
00:08:00should have never started. And I I think it's time for Ukraine to
00:08:02to get a new president. Mr president. president. President Trump turning
00:08:06turning his anger at Volodymyr Zelensky Zelensky while of course not blaming
00:08:09blaming Vladimir Putin for continuing continuing that war. Well, our correspondent correspondent Joe Inwood told us
00:08:13us how difficult the situation is is for Ukraine now that we are hearing
00:08:17hearing reports that the Americans Americans may cut off military intelligence
00:08:19intelligence if it continues to strike
00:08:21strike Russian refineries. What makes
00:08:24makes it really serious? We do know know that the Americans they're not not providing the material support
00:08:28support they once were in terms of of hardware, in terms of resources,
00:08:31resources, but they are still providing providing intelligence support. And
00:08:34And if that were to be cut off, I I think that would be considered considered to be very, very serious
00:08:38serious indeed. Of course, the Ukrainians Ukrainians are still reliant as well
00:08:42well on American manufactured weapons weapons purchased and paid for by
00:08:46by the Europeans. But, you know, know, American patriots and that
00:08:50that sort of thing. And if that were
00:08:52were to be if he were President Trump Trump were out of, you know, a fit
00:08:55fit of pique to say you're not we're we're not going to sell you weapons weapons any more. I mean, there's
00:08:59there's no suggestion of that at at this point, but that's the sort sort of thing that would be very,
00:09:02very, very serious indeed. So I think think the Ukrainians are going to
00:09:06to be viewing this as something they they want to try and dial down the
00:09:10the anger on because I think yesterday yesterday it was interesting listening
00:09:13listening to President Zelensky's Zelensky's statement, his reaction
00:09:16reaction to the news that Donald Donald Trump was going to be buying
00:09:19buying Russian diesel. He sounded sounded absolutely furious. I mean,
00:09:23mean, you can never know what's going going on inside someone's head. But But I listened to that interview
00:09:26interview and he sounded sounded sounded like a cold rage there. And
00:09:28And you wonder if he might have reacted reacted in that rage and now will
00:09:32will be trying to dial it back slightly slightly because the relations with
00:09:36with President Trump have they have have been improving and they've gone
00:09:39gone back many steps, I think. Yeah. Yeah. And of course, we always know
00:09:41know what happens when a world leader
00:09:43leader rises to the bait and counterattacks. counterattacks. Donald Trump, a man
00:09:46man not known for his thick skin.
00:09:50skin. What about whether this will
00:09:52will now spur others to leap ever ever further to Ukraine's defence?
00:09:55defence? We've already had that call call from Downing Street and Andy
00:09:59Andy Burnham promising to meet Zelensky Zelensky in the coming days. I mean,
00:10:03mean, there's going to be a kind kind of a greater rallying around around Ukraine by the other allies,
00:10:06allies, given the fact that the US US is no longer a sort of trusted trusted one, I suppose. Yeah, I think
00:10:10think if I think it is goes without without doubt, there's no no doubt
00:10:14doubt that we will see the Europeans Europeans rally round. But there's
00:10:16there's two things here aren't they. they. There's the metaphorical support
00:10:19support or the arm round the shoulder shoulder that they can give him.
00:10:22him. I mean, in the case of the famous famous White House bust-up, there
00:10:25there was a literal arm round the the shoulder for President Zelensky Zelensky from then Prime Minister
00:10:29Minister Sir Keir Starmer. But there
00:10:32there are there's a difference between between rallying round, showing support
00:10:34support and actually offering the
00:10:36the kind of material back up that that Ukraine really needs. They are
00:10:40are doing both of those things, but but there's a limit to the latter.
00:10:43latter. The former is basically an an unlimited supply. They will stand stand shoulder to shoulder, as they
00:10:47they always say. I think that's very very different from, for example,
00:10:50example, replacing the intelligence intelligence support that the Americans Americans give them. The Europeans Europeans are going to find that
00:10:54that much harder. Joe Inwood let's let's speak to Peter Dickinson now,
00:10:58now, who is editor of the Atlantic
00:11:01Atlantic Council's Ukrainealert and and joins us from Kyiv. Peter, thanks
00:11:04thanks very much for being with us.
00:11:06us. Your reaction to those words words from President Trump last night
00:11:10night in which he said that Ukraine
00:11:11Ukraine needs a new leader? Well,
00:11:14Well, I think a mixture of alarm alarm and anger in Kyiv here. Of
00:11:18Of course, this is not entirely new. new. We've had a lot of very strong
00:11:21strong rhetoric against Ukraine and and against Zelensky personally, personally, from President Trump
00:11:25Trump going back for the last year year and a half. Of course, the infamous
00:11:28infamous Oval Office bust-up and
00:11:30and many other incidents in between.
00:11:32between. So it's not entirely unprecedented. unprecedented. But there is a sense
00:11:35sense in Kyiv that Trump is looking looking to use Zelensky in Ukraine
00:11:39Ukraine as a scapegoat here for his his own electoral woes, for problems
00:11:42problems he's facing in his mid-term mid-term campaign as the electorate
00:11:46electorate in America turns on Trump Trump over what many see as the failure
00:11:50failure of his Iran war and the, the, you know, the very damaging
00:11:54damaging consequences of that for for the American economy and for
00:11:56for fuel prices. And there is a sense sense in Ukraine that that the country
00:12:00country is being used as a kind of of punchbag here to distract attention
00:12:03attention and to blame, you know, know, as a source of blame so that that Trump can point at them and
00:12:07and create create a scandal with with his statements and say, well,
00:12:10well, it's all about Ukraine. Ukraine Ukraine is the reason why the price
00:12:13price is so high. And so of course, course, the fear is that he'll go
00:12:16go further with this, that in the the coming weeks before the election, election, we'll see further attacks
00:12:20attacks on Ukraine and perhaps specific
00:12:23specific cutbacks in the support support that America supplies provides
00:12:26provides for Ukraine now mostly intelligence intelligence support, but also the the sale of weapons, which are so
00:12:30so important for the war effort.
00:12:33effort. With that diesel deal with
00:12:36with Russia, just explain if you you could, the feeling there in Ukraine, Ukraine, you alluded to it, but I
00:12:40I mean, is there a feeling now, frankly,
00:12:42frankly, that the US is no longer longer an honest broker? Yeah. I
00:12:46I mean, there's been there's been been huge scepticism about Trump's Trump's role in any peace process,
00:12:50process, I think, since day one. one. And that has only grown over
00:12:54over the over time. I think the main
00:12:55main issue here with this this Trump
00:12:58Trump Putin diesel deal is that this this is exactly what the Russians
00:13:02Russians have been waiting for. Putin's Putin's position essentially in terms
00:13:05terms of the geopolitical context context of the invasion is very much
00:13:08much he wants to wait it out. He He thinks the West is weak and divided.
00:13:11divided. And at some point he'll he'll be able to pick off the different
00:13:15different Ukraine's different Western Western partners through a combination
00:13:18combination of bullying and bribery. bribery. That's always been Russia's Russia's position. It's been their
00:13:22their modus operandi, essentially. essentially. And this plays into
00:13:24into that very much so. It will really really encourage the Russians. It It will embolden Putin. It will convince
00:13:28convince him that he's right and and it will convince the Russians
00:13:31Russians to continue the war. So So in terms of the actual deal, it's
00:13:34it's really all about the optics optics and creating perspective, perspective, which they regard as
00:13:37as being absolutely disastrous. You
00:13:39You talked about the potential cutting cutting off of military intelligence
00:13:42intelligence and even weapons support
00:13:45support to Ukraine in recent weeks, weeks, the Ukrainians have been making
00:13:49making incremental gains in the Donbas Donbas to prevent the Russians from
00:13:53from capturing more territory there
00:13:54there and key territory there. If
00:13:57If the Americans go ahead and cut
00:14:00cut off intelligence and weapons, weapons, could that be set back the
00:14:03the gains in the East and the overall overall Ukrainian military effort? effort? Just talk us through the
00:14:07the impact it would have. Well, I I mean, if we're talking about a
00:14:11a complete cut off, it would have have an impact across the board. board. Certainly it would have an
00:14:15an impact on the front lines. It It would have a significant impact
00:14:17impact in Ukraine's ability to defend defend itself against Russia's bombardment.
00:14:20bombardment. I think that's the most most that would be the highest priority
00:14:23priority from Ukraine's perspective. perspective. Ukraine is now Russia
00:14:26Russia has in recent months significantly significantly escalated the air war
00:14:30war against Ukraine civilians. We've We've seen dozens of civilians killed
00:14:33killed just in the last few days days in a number of attacks. And
00:14:36And Ukraine's cities are basically basically under constant bombardment
00:14:39bombardment at present. So if they they were to cut the intelligence intelligence support, one of the
00:14:43the key things would be reducing reducing Ukraine's ability to, you
00:14:46you know, visibility, their ability ability to see what was coming and
00:14:49and to defend themselves. But broadly broadly speaking, it would have an
00:14:52an impact across the front. Peter
00:14:54Peter Dickinson, editor of the Atlantic Atlantic Council's Ukraine Alert, Alert, thank you very much indeed
00:14:57indeed for speaking to us. Let's
00:15:01Let's turn to India now, where the
00:15:04the leader of the Cockroach protest protest movement has been released
00:15:07released from detention. It comes comes as police in Delhi say that that they will restrict access to
00:15:11to the city centre as the party threatens threatens another day of protests
00:15:14protests against revisions to the the electoral roll. The Cockroach
00:15:17Cockroach Janta Party said its founder founder Abhijeet Dipke, who began
00:15:20began the movement in May after India's India's chief justice likened some
00:15:24some jobless young people to cockroaches,
00:15:27cockroaches, was detained with other other leaders shortly after landing
00:15:30landing in Delhi. The Cjp and other other opposition parties are calling
00:15:33calling for the election commissioner commissioner to be sacked over revisions
00:15:36revisions to the electoral roll, roll, an accusation denied by the
00:15:40the authorities. While Abhijeet Dipke, Dipke, founder of that party, made
00:15:43made a brief statement to the press
00:15:45press a short while ago. Narendra Narendra Modi is the biggest coward
00:15:48coward this country has ever seen.
00:15:52seen. Let's go live now to Delhi Delhi and speak to our correspondent
00:15:56correspondent Arunoday Mukharji. Mukharji. Hi Aruna Iyengar. First
00:15:59First of all, the movement has been been speaking in more detail today.
00:16:02today. Holding a press conference conference in fact is still going going on. I know you've been watching
00:16:06watching it. Just give us some of of the top lines that we're getting
00:16:08getting from them. That's right.
00:16:11right. In fact, that is still continuing
00:16:14continuing and it is essentially essentially reiterating what they
00:16:18they have said for a while. But this
00:16:20this is the first time we're hearing
00:16:22hearing the senior members of the the Cockroach Janta Party movement
00:16:25movement essentially talking about about their experiences over the
00:16:29the last 24 to 48 hours, highlighting highlighting what happened to them
00:16:31them when the police detained them them and criticising the Delhi Police
00:16:35Police once again and essentially essentially very, very combative
00:16:38combative in their messaging targeting targeting Prime Minister Narendra Narendra Modi as well as the interior
00:16:42interior minister or the home minister, minister, as he's called here. Mr
00:16:44Mr Amit Shah, accusing them of shielding shielding the Chief Election Commissioner
00:16:47Commissioner for their own gains. gains. They've also said the way
00:16:50way in which the Delhi Police has
00:16:52has gone about carrying out these these detentions across Delhi to
00:16:55to the tune of thousands, they said said that demonstrates the fear that
00:16:59that the authorities have regarding
00:17:02regarding these protests. They have have not outlined what their next
00:17:05next plan of action is. That still still remains a bit of a question
00:17:09question at the moment, it is a press press conference that is still carrying
00:17:13carrying on, so we might get some some indication of what they're planning
00:17:15planning to do. All we've heard in
00:17:18in terms of them urging others to to continue their protest, they said
00:17:21said that this is just the beginning beginning of the battle. They've They've urged people from other states
00:17:25states to go ahead and protest in in any way that they can to ensure
00:17:28ensure their voices are heard. At
00:17:31At the moment over here we still still see some security that is there.
00:17:35there. It is not as strict as yesterday.
00:17:36yesterday. We've seen a little bit
00:17:39bit of relaxation, not completely, completely, but there has been a
00:17:43a little bit of difference compared compared to what it was yesterday.
00:17:46yesterday. But there are still barricades barricades in other parts of the the city. We've also heard from the
00:17:49the Supreme Court, which has now now said and asked the Delhi Police
00:17:53Police to review its security measures
00:17:55measures in place and only do it
00:17:58it where it is necessary. Arun, you
00:18:00you talk about how the movement is
00:18:02is saying this is the beginning of
00:18:04of the battle. I just wonder whether
00:18:06whether I mean, it has it feels like like it's got momentum. Of course course they got the education minister
00:18:10minister to resign over the summer. summer. Their target is now the chief
00:18:13chief election commissioner. Is that
00:18:15that does this feel like it has significant
00:18:18significant political ambition and and momentum now and could go further
00:18:21further even than this current cause?
00:18:26cause? Well, that is a question that that has been put to them in the the past, but they've been very categorical
00:18:30categorical saying that they are are not a political movement, but
00:18:32but they are instead a pressure group. group. That is the word that they
00:18:35they use that they are going to pick pick up important issues that affect
00:18:38affect ordinary Indians. So for instance, instance, it was educational reform reform which was affecting students,
00:18:42students, which is how this movement movement really began and picked picked up steam, which is when they
00:18:45they first sort of tasted their first first round of success. And now electoral
00:18:49electoral reforms again, another another issue, they say, where they they need to hold the authorities
00:18:52authorities accountable when they they are not answering to their demands
00:18:55demands of transparency. But, again, again, because of the numbers we
00:18:59we saw the last time, that's certainly certainly emboldened the movement. movement. And they're hopeful that
00:19:03that if they get the numbers and
00:19:04and they're able to sustain and maintain maintain this pressure, they will
00:19:08will be able to make some sort of of an impact or have some sort of
00:19:11of an impact. But in this case, the the government doesn't seem to be be in a mood to relent. The Election
00:19:15Election Commission has denied all all allegations of any kind of irregularities
00:19:19irregularities in voter lists. The The BJP, which is the ruling party
00:19:22party in the country, has also accused
00:19:24accused opposition parties of essentially essentially playing politics of having
00:19:27having political motives. But as as far as this movement is concerned, concerned, we don't know whether whether it could take a political
00:19:32political shape later on. At the the moment, they continue to themselves
00:19:34themselves declare that they are are a pressure group taking up important
00:19:38important issues that affect ordinary ordinary Indians. They say. Arunoday
00:19:42Arunoday Mukharji in Delhi, thanks
00:19:43thanks very much. Let me just bring
00:19:50bring you some comments that have have just come through to us from
00:19:53from Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's Ukraine's president, responding to
00:19:56to that current row with the US and
00:19:59and Russia over diesel. President President Zelensky has just posted
00:20:03posted to X, and it's a pretty long long post. But let me just show you
00:20:06you one particular element of it, it, he says. At the end of it, the
00:20:10the real causes of the war in Europe
00:20:12Europe is Russia and Russia alone. alone. It is possible to stop the
00:20:16the strikes on energy infrastructure infrastructure as early as today,
00:20:19today, but Putin does not want to
00:20:21to do so. Ukraine will be ready to
00:20:24to stop striking Russian oil refineries
00:20:26refineries if Russia stops striking striking our energy infrastructure,
00:20:29infrastructure, any de-escalation, de-escalation, he goes on, must be
00:20:32be reciprocal and backed by real
00:20:35real guarantees. So that comment comment coming through from the Ukrainian
00:20:39Ukrainian president after Donald Donald Trump said that Zelensky should
00:20:43should better damn well stop striking striking the refineries. Russia,
00:20:46Russia, of course, continuing to to strike Ukrainian energy infrastructure
00:20:49infrastructure and civilian infrastructure infrastructure and Zelensky saying
00:20:52saying that Ukraine willing to stop,
00:20:54stop, but only if Moscow does the
00:20:56the same. Let's move on with some
00:20:59some more developing news out of of Nepal, because the authorities authorities have called for the evacuation
00:21:03evacuation of villages on the banks banks of the Budhi Gandaki River
00:21:06River after severe flooding in the the centre of the country, Nepali
00:21:09Nepali officials say they've rescued rescued 24 people from areas impacted
00:21:12impacted by the flash flood, which which has washed away bridges and
00:21:16and damaged a hydropower facility. facility. Five people are missing. missing. It's believed the flash
00:21:19flash flood was caused by a landslide. landslide. Upstream, the country
00:21:22country remains on high alert after after devastating floods swept thousands
00:21:25thousands of people away seven weeks
00:21:28weeks ago, our BBC Nepali reporter reporter Phanindra Dahal has the
00:21:31the latest. Officials have said now
00:21:35now they have rescued 36 persons
00:21:36persons from different areas. Four
00:21:40Four helicopters are currently engaged engaged in search and rescue operations.
00:21:43operations. They say they are estimating
00:21:46estimating the losses caused by the
00:21:49the flash flood and rescue operations
00:21:53operations are under way at different different places. There was no massive
00:21:56massive rainfall in the area yesterday,
00:22:00yesterday, but officials have assumed
00:22:02assumed that there was a dry landslide
00:22:05landslide which caused the blockage
00:22:07blockage of the River Gandaki upstream
00:22:12upstream and the blockage collapsed
00:22:14collapsed and it caused a flash flood
00:22:17flood earlier this morning because because of the flash flood, huge
00:22:21huge amount of debris and water level
00:22:26level could be observed. There were
00:22:28were dramatic footages that were
00:22:30were shared from various various
00:22:33various villages in the downstream downstream areas, and people were
00:22:37were really worried. The disaster disaster have reminded the people
00:22:41people of the tragedy, the devastating devastating flood that occurred along
00:22:45along Nepal, China border one and
00:22:47and a half month ago. Phanindra Dahal
00:22:50Dahal there in Nepal, meanwhile, meanwhile, Hurricane Simon is bearing
00:22:53bearing down on Mexico's Pacific Pacific coast, bringing torrential
00:22:56torrential rain and sustained winds
00:22:58winds of up to 240km an hour. The The category four storm is expected
00:23:01expected to make landfall near the the port city of Manzanillo in a
00:23:04a few hours' time. Residents on the the coast of Colima and Jalisco have
00:23:08have been warned that eight metre metre waves could bring storm surges
00:23:12surges and coastal flooding. People People have been boarding up windows
00:23:14windows and doors ahead of its arrival. arrival. Hurricane Simon is the latest
00:23:18latest in a busy hurricane season season in the Pacific, where the
00:23:21the powerful El Nino ocean warming warming phenomenon is allowing the
00:23:24the storms to gain in strength. Our
00:23:27Our weather presenter Matt Taylor Taylor has more. Hurricane Simon.
00:23:31Simon. It's quite a phenomenal storm. storm. We measure hurricanes on a
00:23:34a scale of 1 to 5, this is right right at the top end of a. For sustained
00:23:37sustained winds. That's mean winds
00:23:40winds of 250km an hour, 155 miles
00:23:42miles an hour gusts much, much quicker quicker than that as well. If I just
00:23:45just show you the satellite imagery imagery of where that storm is at at the moment, you can see the well-defined
00:23:49well-defined eye there. It is getting getting close. It's about 60 miles
00:23:52miles offshore at the moment. The The big question mark, though forecasters
00:23:56forecasters are having, is just the the behaviour of what is going to to happen with this storm. Is it
00:23:59it going to come on land or is it it just going to skirt parallel to
00:24:02to the coast for a bit longer? Now Now that's crucial because the second
00:24:05second it goes on land because it's it's quite mountainous just inside inside of the coast, it will rip
00:24:09rip the storm apart quite quickly. quickly. But if it stays offshore offshore for a little bit longer,
00:24:12longer, it means those coastal areas areas will be battered by those catastrophic
00:24:16catastrophic winds for a much longer longer period. We're going to be
00:24:19be piling in more in the way of a a storm surge towards those coastal
00:24:22coastal districts as well. And then then the rainfall is going to be
00:24:24be piling in as well across the mountainous mountainous region just inland. Just
00:24:28Just explain that the links to the
00:24:30the El Nino sea warming phenomenon,
00:24:34phenomenon, because this is a rather rather delayed first storm of the the Atlantic season, isn't it? Well,
00:24:37Well, this one's a Pacific storm,
00:24:39storm, of course, with Simon. Yeah,
00:24:41Yeah, that was the one that was it's it's been a record breaking, quiet
00:24:45quiet season across the Atlantic. Atlantic. Isaias was the very first
00:24:48first hurricane we've had, whereas whereas the Pacific. It's been an
00:24:52an incredibly active season. Now Now it's all due to what we've just
00:24:55just mentioned, El Nino. It changes changes wind patterns around the
00:24:58the world and within the atmosphere. atmosphere. For hurricanes to form, form, you need big thunderstorms.
00:25:01thunderstorms. Those thunderstorms thunderstorms need to be able to to breed a little bit and get really
00:25:05really tall into the atmosphere before before they move into hurricanes. hurricanes. But because it's changing
00:25:07changing the wind patterns in the the Atlantic, the winds are actually
00:25:10actually shredding those hurricane hurricane those storms apart before
00:25:13before hurricanes can form, but they're they're actually encouraging them
00:25:16them on the other side of the Americas Americas into the Pacific, the warm
00:25:20warm waters as well, just helping helping to feed the moisture. We're
00:25:22We're talking as much as around 750mm
00:25:25750mm of rain in parts of Jalisco
00:25:28Jalisco and also Colima over just just a couple of days. And to put
00:25:31put that into perspective for UK UK viewers, that's about a year's
00:25:34year's worth of rain in parts of
00:25:36of the UK. And we mentioned Isaias
00:25:39Isaias there. The hurricane, which
00:25:41which has weakened as it's hit as as it's made landfall. But even though
00:25:44though it's weakened, it can still still cause flash flooding. It still still can. There's flash flooding
00:25:48flooding warnings out across parts parts of North and South Carolina Carolina at the moment. The storm
00:25:51storm itself, though, as it's moved moved inland, it's been shredded shredded apart. It doesn't have the
00:25:55the energy from the warm waters. waters. And so it's just batches batches of heavy rain and storms,
00:25:58storms, which will move across eastern eastern coasts through the rest of
00:26:01of today and tonight. Matt Taylor Taylor there. Headlines coming up. up. Don't go
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