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00:00:13Live from London. This is BBC News. The UK's Defence Secretary
00:00:17Secretary calls the attack on Riyadh's
00:00:19Riyadh's international airport dangerous dangerous escalation and contemptible
00:00:22contemptible after 12 people are are killed, Saudi authorities blame
00:00:25blame the Houthis for the attack.
00:00:27attack. There isn't a military solution solution to this conflict. There
00:00:31There was a truce. We need to see see a diplomatic solution and Saudi
00:00:35Saudi needs to do that from a position position of strength after President.
00:00:38President. Trump accused him of prolonging prolonging the war. Volodymyr Zelensky
00:00:42Zelensky says Ukraine will stop striking striking Russian oil refineries if
00:00:45if Russia stops hitting Ukrainian
00:00:48Ukrainian energy infrastructure. infrastructure. An investigation investigation continues after a man
00:00:52man who entered the tiger enclosure enclosure of Yorkshire Wildlife Park
00:00:55Park in northern England was mauled
00:00:57mauled to death. Flash floods in in central Nepal sweep away bridges
00:01:01bridges and homes as five people
00:01:03people are reported missing. A very
00:01:15very warm welcome to BBC News. I'm I'm Mark Logan. We're beginning with
00:01:18with that major escalation in the the Middle East conflict. Yemen's
00:01:21Yemen's Iran backed Houthi group
00:01:23group has warned airlines and passengers passengers not to use airports in
00:01:26in Saudi Arabia after the deadliest deadliest attack on Saudi soil in
00:01:30in more than a decade. Saudi Arabia Arabia says the Houthi missile attack
00:01:33attack at Riyadh's international international airport has killed
00:01:35killed 12 people and injured more more than 300. We've had these pictures
00:01:39pictures in from inside the airport airport terminal. Reports say that
00:01:42that there was a missile strike on on one of the airport gates. The The Saudi authorities are calling
00:01:46calling it a war crime and have promised promised a forceful response. The
00:01:50The airport has been closed and hundreds hundreds of flights have been cancelled
00:01:53cancelled or diverted for the second second time in less than a month.
00:01:56month. Schools in Riyadh have switched
00:01:58switched to remote learning for the
00:02:00the week, a number of Western diplomatic diplomatic missions, including the
00:02:03the UK and US, have also warned their their nationals to stay away from
00:02:07from the airport. Well, the strike strike has been condemned by the
00:02:10the United Nations Secretary General General and by President Trump, who's
00:02:13who's indicated the US may join the
00:02:15the Saudis campaign against the Iran-backed
00:02:18Iran-backed Houthis. Well, you're you're going to find out, Steve,
00:02:21Steve, but I think it's terrible. terrible. Well, they're able to defend
00:02:23defend look, the Saudis are good good fighters. But I think the attack
00:02:27attack was a terrible thing. What What happened in Saudi Arabia is
00:02:31is not acceptable. Thank you. Our Our correspondent in the Middle East,
00:02:35East, Jon Donnison, has the latest. latest. It's another dangerous moment
00:02:38moment in a region that is already already fraught with tension and
00:02:42and conflict. So we've seen those those pictures from the airport.
00:02:46airport. Clearly a lot of damage damage inside the terminal. Large
00:02:48Large plumes of black smoke rising
00:02:51rising above the building and reports
00:02:53reports that the hospitals in the
00:02:56the capital are overwhelmed or have have been overwhelmed just by the
00:02:59the sheer number of people injured.
00:03:02injured. More than 300 now, the conflict conflict in Yemen has been going
00:03:05going on for more than a decade.
00:03:07decade. The civil war, and that is
00:03:09is between the Saudi backed, internationally internationally recognised government
00:03:12government and the Houthis, who are
00:03:14are supported by Iran. There have
00:03:16have been thousands of lives lost.
00:03:19lost. There has been a humanitarian humanitarian crisis in Yemen. But
00:03:22But in recent weeks the Houthis have
00:03:24have stepped up their attacks directly directly on Saudi Arabian soil. And
00:03:28And that, I think, is all tied into
00:03:30into the broader conflict that the
00:03:32the United States and Israel have
00:03:34have with Iran. You mentioned that that conflict with Iran at the source
00:03:38source of all of this. In a sense, sense, John, President Trump has
00:03:41has already said that he will resume
00:03:44resume bombing Iran after the mid-term mid-term elections, an indication indication of just the impact that
00:03:48that the Iran war is having on the the cost of diesel, of course, and
00:03:52and how much of an issue that is is in the mid-terms. But now, of
00:03:56of course, if the US is mulling getting
00:03:59getting involved in bombing the Houthis,
00:04:02Houthis, that could escalate that that issue again, given the Houthi
00:04:05Houthi control of Bab al-Mandab,
00:04:07al-Mandab, that other important oil
00:04:10oil strait. Exactly. And that the
00:04:14the Houthis are being used really really by the Iranians as another
00:04:17another arrow in their quiver to to try and exert economic pressure
00:04:20pressure on the United States to
00:04:22to try and get a better deal for
00:04:25for the Iranians in to try and end
00:04:27end that conflict with the United
00:04:29United States. But, you know, in
00:04:32in America, President Trump says says he may intervene in Yemen. I
00:04:36I mean, I think that is pretty unlikely. unlikely. Certainly before those those mid-term elections, you have
00:04:40have to remember that he was re-elected
00:04:42re-elected promising to end America's America's involvement in conflicts
00:04:45conflicts around the world. Well, Well, America under his presidency
00:04:48presidency this second term has been
00:04:51been directly and indirectly involved involved in three in this region
00:04:54region alone. So in Gaza, in Lebanon
00:04:56Lebanon and in Iran, I think it's it's unlikely that would go down
00:05:00down very well with US voters if
00:05:03if suddenly in the next few weeks, weeks, America was going to get directly
00:05:07directly involved in Yemen. Two Jon Jon Donnison the British Defence
00:05:10Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting, Streeting, was asked for his reaction reaction to the attack and if the
00:05:14the UK would provide more support
00:05:16support to the Saudis. Well, we're. Already supporting Saudi Arabia,
00:05:20Arabia, we're supporting Saudi with with air to air refuelling support
00:05:23support that enables them to fly
00:05:25fly potentially. I've spoken to my
00:05:28my Saudi counterpart KBS, on a number number of occasions in recent weeks
00:05:30weeks to look at what more we can can do to support Saudi Arabia. And
00:05:34And I'm afraid last night explains
00:05:38explains precisely why we are providing providing that support. I mean, even
00:05:42even in the context of Houthi attacks attacks and an escalation, what we
00:05:45we saw in terms of the attack on on the airport in Riyadh was a shocking
00:05:49shocking escalation. Actually, hundreds hundreds of casualties and an attack
00:05:53attack on a civilian target that
00:05:55that can't be can't possibly be justified justified in any circumstances. Are
00:05:59Are you saying. You could get involved involved in an offensive? The UK
00:06:02UK could get involved in offensive offensive operations? Well, that's that's not what we're looking at
00:06:06at at this stage and we've always always been clear that there isn't
00:06:09isn't a military solution to this
00:06:11this conflict. As Royal Lodge just
00:06:14just setting out there. There was
00:06:15was a truce. We need to see a diplomatic diplomatic solution and Saudi needs
00:06:19needs to do that from a position position of strength. And so the
00:06:22the support we've been providing providing the air to air refuelling
00:06:25refuelling support, the ground based based air defences, those things
00:06:28things are having a positive impact. impact. But I think there is clearly clearly more to do, as evidenced
00:06:32evidenced by what we saw last night, night, which I think should be condemned
00:06:35condemned worldwide. British Defence Defence Secretary Wes Streeting,
00:06:39Streeting, now President Zelensky, Zelensky, says Ukraine will stop
00:06:41stop striking Russian oil refineries
00:06:43refineries if Russia stops striking striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
00:06:47infrastructure. His comments came came after President Trump accused
00:06:50accused him of prolonging the war war and said it was time for Ukraine
00:06:53Ukraine to elect a new leader. In
00:06:55In a post on social media, President President Zelensky wrote the real
00:06:58real cause of the war in Europe is
00:07:00is Russia and Russia alone. It is
00:07:02is possible to stop strikes on energy energy infrastructure as early as
00:07:06as today, but Putin does not want want to do so. Ukraine will be ready
00:07:09ready to stop striking Russian oil oil refineries, he goes on. If Russia
00:07:12Russia stops striking our energy energy infrastructure, any de-escalation
00:07:16de-escalation steps must be reciprocal
00:07:18reciprocal and backed by real guarantees.
00:07:21guarantees. Well, speaking again again to the BBC, Wes Streeting, Streeting, the Defence Secretary,
00:07:25Secretary, says the UK stands by
00:07:28by President Zelensky after the criticism criticism from the US President.
00:07:31President. You know what I suggest?
00:07:33suggest? I suggest they get a new
00:07:36new leader who can make a deal because because he could have made many deals
00:07:40deals but for some reason he never never does. And let me go step further.
00:07:43further. If I were president, you you wouldn't have ever had that war.
00:07:46war. That war would have never started. started. There was no reason that
00:07:49that that war with Ukraine and Russia
00:07:52Russia started. It started due to to incompetence, should have never
00:07:55never started. You wouldn't have
00:07:57have lost 30% of your country already.
00:08:00already. You've lost 30% of country
00:08:02country your and you've had over over a million people killed between
00:08:06between the two of them, over 2 million million people killed. That's a war
00:08:09war that should have never started. started. And I think it's time for
00:08:12for Ukraine to get a new
00:08:16president. Mr president. Speaking Speaking to reporters yesterday, yesterday, President Trump accused
00:08:19accused Volodymyr Zelensky of disrupting disrupting global fuel supplies and
00:08:23and choosing not to end the war with
00:08:25with Russia. What makes it really really serious? We do know that the
00:08:29the Americans they're not providing providing the material support they
00:08:31they once were in terms of hardware, hardware, in terms of resources,
00:08:34resources, but they are still providing providing intelligence support. And
00:08:37And if that were to be cut off, I I think that would be considered considered to be very, very serious
00:08:41serious indeed. Of course, the Ukrainians
00:08:43Ukrainians are still reliant as well well on American manufactured weapons
00:08:47weapons purchased and paid for by
00:08:49by the Europeans. But, you know, know, American patriots and that
00:08:53that sort of thing. And if that were
00:08:54were to be if he were President Trump Trump were out of, you know, a fit
00:08:58fit of pique to say you're not we're we're not going to sell you weapons weapons any more. I mean, there's
00:09:02there's no suggestion of that at at this point, but that's the sort sort of thing that would be very,
00:09:06very, very serious indeed. So I think think the Ukrainians are going to
00:09:09to be viewing this as something they they want to try and dial down the
00:09:13the anger on because I think yesterday yesterday it was interesting listening
00:09:16listening to President Zelensky's Zelensky's statement, his reaction
00:09:19reaction to the news that Donald Donald Trump was going to be buying
00:09:22buying Russian diesel. He sounded sounded absolutely furious. I mean,
00:09:26mean, you can never know what's going going on inside someone's head. But But I listened to that interview
00:09:29interview and he sounded sounded sounded like a cold rage there. And
00:09:31And you wonder if he might have reacted reacted in that rage and now will
00:09:35will be trying to dial it back slightly slightly because the relations with
00:09:39with President Trump have they have have been improving and they've gone
00:09:42gone back many steps, I think. Yeah. Yeah. And of course, we always know
00:09:44know what happens when a world leader
00:09:46leader rises to the bait and counterattacks. counterattacks. Donald Trump, a man
00:09:50man not known for his thick skin.
00:09:53skin. What about whether this will
00:09:55will now spur others to leap ever ever further to Ukraine's defence?
00:09:58defence? We've already had that call call from Downing Street and Andy
00:10:01Andy Burnham promising to meet Zelensky Zelensky in the coming days. I mean,
00:10:05mean, there's going to be a kind kind of a greater rallying around around Ukraine by the other allies,
00:10:09allies, given the fact that the US US is no longer a sort of trusted
00:10:12trusted one, I suppose. Yeah, I think
00:10:14think it goes without doubt. There's There's no no doubt that we will will see the Europeans rally round.
00:10:18round. But there's two things here here aren't they. There's the metaphorical
00:10:22metaphorical support or the arm round round the shoulder that they can
00:10:25can give him. I mean in the case case of the famous White House bust-up,
00:10:28bust-up, there was a literal arm arm round the shoulder for President President Zelensky from then Prime
00:10:32Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Starmer, but there are there's a
00:10:35a difference between rallying round, round, showing support and actually
00:10:38actually offering the kind of material material back up that Ukraine really
00:10:42really needs. They are doing both both of those things, but there's
00:10:45there's a limit to the latter. The The former is basically an unlimited unlimited supply. They will stand
00:10:48stand shoulder to shoulder, as they they always say. I think that's very
00:10:52very different from, for example, example, replacing the intelligence intelligence support that the Americans Americans give them. The Europeans
00:10:56Europeans are going to find that that much harder. Joe Inwood there.
00:10:59there. Well, Peter Dickinson is editor editor of the Atlantic Council's
00:11:03Council's Ukraine Alert. He joined joined me a little earlier and explained
00:11:05explained the impact of that US-Russia US-Russia deal. Well, I think a mixture
00:11:09mixture of alarm and anger in Kyiv Kyiv here. Of course, this is not
00:11:12not entirely new. We've had a lot lot of very strong rhetoric against
00:11:15against Ukraine and against Zelensky Zelensky personally from President President Trump going back for the
00:11:19the last year and a half. Of course, course, the infamous Oval Office
00:11:23Office bust-up and many other incidents
00:11:25incidents in between. So it's not not entirely unprecedented. But there
00:11:29there is a sense in Kyiv that Trump Trump is looking to use Zelensky
00:11:32Zelensky in Ukraine as a scapegoat scapegoat here for his own electoral
00:11:35electoral woes, for problems he's
00:11:37he's facing in his mid-term campaign campaign as the electorate in America
00:11:40America turns on Trump over what what many see as the failure of his
00:11:44his Iran war and the, you know, the
00:11:46the very damaging consequences of of that for the American economy
00:11:50economy and for fuel prices. And And there is a sense in Ukraine that
00:11:52that the country is being used as
00:11:54as a kind of punchbag here to distract distract attention and to blame,
00:11:58blame, you know, as a source of blame blame to Trump can point at them
00:12:01them and create create a scandal scandal with his statements and say,
00:12:04say, well, it's all about Ukraine. Ukraine. Ukraine's the reason why why the price is so high. And so
00:12:08so of course, the fear is that he'll he'll go further with this, that
00:12:11that in the coming weeks before the the election, we'll see further attacks
00:12:14attacks on Ukraine and perhaps specific
00:12:17specific cutbacks in the support support that America provides for
00:12:20for Ukraine now, mostly intelligence intelligence support, but also the the sale of weapons which are so
00:12:23so important for the war effort.
00:12:27effort. With that diesel deal with
00:12:30with Russia, just explain if you you could, the feeling there in Ukraine,
00:12:32Ukraine, you alluded to it, but I I mean, is there a feeling now, frankly,
00:12:36frankly, that the US is no longer
00:12:37longer an honest broker? Yeah. I
00:12:40I mean, there's been there's been been huge scepticism about Trump's Trump's role in any peace process.
00:12:44process. I think, since day one. one. And that has only grown over
00:12:47over the over time. I think the main
00:12:49main issue here with this this Trump
00:12:52Trump Putin diesel deal is that this
00:12:55this is exactly what the Russians Russians have been waiting for. Putin's
00:12:57Putin's position essentially in terms terms of the geopolitical context
00:13:00context of the invasion is very much much he wants to wait it out. He
00:13:03He thinks the West is weak and divided. divided. And at some point he'll
00:13:06he'll be able to pick off the different
00:13:09different Ukraine's different Western Western partners through a combination
00:13:12combination of bullying and bribery. bribery. That's always been Russia's Russia's position. It's been their
00:13:15their modus operandi, essentially. essentially. And this plays into
00:13:18into that very much so. It will really really encourage the Russians. It
00:13:21It will embolden Putin. It will convince convince him that he's right and and it will convince the Russians
00:13:24Russians to continue the war. So So in terms of the actual deal, it's
00:13:28it's really all about the optics optics from Ukrainian perspective, perspective, which they regard as
00:13:31as being absolutely disastrous. You You talked about the potential cutting
00:13:35cutting off of military intelligence intelligence and even weapons support
00:13:38support to Ukraine in recent weeks,
00:13:41weeks, the Ukrainians have been making making incremental gains in the Donbas
00:13:44Donbas to prevent the Russians from from capturing more territory there
00:13:48there and key territory there. If
00:13:51If the Americans go ahead and cut
00:13:54cut off intelligence and weapons, weapons, could that be set back?
00:13:56back? The gains in the East and the the overall Ukrainian military effort?
00:13:59effort? Just talk us through the the impact it would have. Well, I
00:14:03I mean, if we're talking about a a complete cut off, it would have have an impact across the board.
00:14:07board. Certainly it would have an an impact on the front lines. It It would have a significant impact
00:14:11impact in Ukraine's ability to defend defend itself against Russia's bombardment.
00:14:14bombardment. I think that's the most most that would be the highest priority
00:14:17priority from Ukraine's perspective. perspective. Ukraine is now Russia
00:14:20Russia has in recent months significantly significantly escalated the air war
00:14:23war against Ukraine's civilians. civilians. We've seen dozens of civilians civilians killed just in the last
00:14:27last few days in a number of attacks. attacks. And Ukraine's cities are
00:14:31are basically under constant bombardment
00:14:33bombardment at present. So if they they were to cut the intelligence intelligence support, one of the
00:14:36the key things would be reducing reducing Ukraine's ability to, you
00:14:40you know, visibility, their ability ability to see what was coming and and to defend themselves. But broadly
00:14:44broadly speaking, it would have an
00:14:45an impact across the front. I just
00:14:50just want to remind you of that breaking breaking news, which we received
00:14:53received just a few moments ago, ago, which is that the Polish security
00:14:57security services believe that they
00:14:59they have foiled a potential assassination
00:15:03assassination attempt towards the the Prime Minister, Donald Tusk,
00:15:05Tusk, and the Defence Minister Radislav
00:15:08Radislav Kociniak, who is also the
00:15:11the deputy Prime Minister and Poland's Poland's security services are holding
00:15:14holding meetings now to discuss that
00:15:17that there have been a series of
00:15:19of knife attacks in recent days and
00:15:22and weeks in Polish schools. At the the moment the security services
00:15:25services are not drawing a direct direct link, but they are simply
00:15:28simply saying that they were there, there, have received reports of a
00:15:31a possible assassination plot targeting
00:15:34targeting Donald Tusk and the Defence Defence Minister, and that meeting
00:15:37meeting is under way. We'll continue continue to monitor that and come
00:15:40come back to it a little bit later.
00:15:44later. So more developing news coming coming from a different part of the
00:15:46the world. At least 109 migrants
00:15:49migrants have been killed, including including 15 children, after a boat
00:15:53boat sank off the shore of Djibouti
00:15:55Djibouti in East Africa, according according to the International Organisation Organisation for Migration Survivors
00:15:59Survivors said the vessel, which which was carrying 350 people from
00:16:03from Djibouti to Yemen, capsized capsized north of Djibouti town of
00:16:06of Obock overnight on October the
00:16:08the 8th. Around 116 people are still
00:16:12still missing. Let's go to India India now, where the leader of the
00:16:15the Cockroach protest movement has has been released from detention. detention. It comes as police in
00:16:19in Delhi say they'll restrict access access to the city centre as the
00:16:22the party threatens another day of of protests against revisions to
00:16:26to the electoral roll. The Cockroach Cockroach Janta Party said its founder
00:16:30founder Abhijeet Dipke, who began began the movement in May after India's
00:16:33India's chief justice likened some some jobless young people to cockroaches,
00:16:37cockroaches, was detained with other other leaders shortly after landing
00:16:39landing in Delhi. The Cjp and other other opposition parties are calling
00:16:42calling for the election commissioner commissioner to be sacked over revisions
00:16:45revisions to the electoral roll, roll, an accusation denied by the
00:16:49the authorities. Abhijeet Dipke, Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Party,
00:16:52Party, made a brief comment to the the press. Narendra Modi is the biggest
00:16:56biggest coward this country has ever ever seen. Well, our correspondent
00:16:59correspondent in Delhi, Arunoday Arunoday Mukharji has the latest
00:17:02latest now from the protests in the the capital. This is the first time
00:17:06time we're hearing the senior members members of the Cockroach Janta Party
00:17:10Party movement essentially are talking
00:17:12talking about their experiences over
00:17:14over the last 24 to 48 hours, highlighting highlighting what happened to them
00:17:17them when the police detained them them and criticising the Delhi Police
00:17:20Police once again and essentially essentially very, very combative
00:17:23combative in their messaging targeting targeting Prime Minister Narendra Narendra Modi as well as the interior
00:17:27interior minister or the home minister minister as he's called here. Mr
00:17:29Mr Amit Shah, accusing them of shielding shielding the Chief Election Commissioner
00:17:33Commissioner for their own gains. gains. They've also said the way
00:17:35way in which the Delhi Police has has gone about carrying out these
00:17:39these detentions across Delhi to to the tune of thousands, they said
00:17:42said that demonstrates the fear that
00:17:45that the authorities have regarding
00:17:47regarding these protests. They have have not outlined what their next
00:17:51next plan of action is. That still still remains a bit of a question
00:17:54question at the moment. All we've we've heard in terms of them urging
00:17:58urging others to continue their protest, protest, they said that this is just
00:18:01just the beginning of the battle. battle. They've urged people from
00:18:03from other states to go ahead and and protest in any way that they
00:18:07they can to ensure their voices are
00:18:09are heard. At the moment over here
00:18:11here we still see some security that that is there. It is not as strict
00:18:15strict as yesterday. We've seen a
00:18:18a little bit of relaxation, not completely, completely, but there has been a
00:18:22a little bit of difference compared compared to what it was yesterday.
00:18:25yesterday. But there are still barricades barricades in other parts of the
00:18:28the city. We've also heard from the the Supreme Court, which has now now said and asked the Delhi Police
00:18:32Police to review its security measures
00:18:34measures in place and only do it
00:18:37it where it is necessary. Arun, you
00:18:39you talk about how the movement is
00:18:41is saying this is the beginning of
00:18:43of the battle. I just wonder whether whether I mean, it has it feels like
00:18:47like it's got momentum. Of course course they've got the education education minister to resign over over the summer. Their target is
00:18:51is now the chief election commissioner.
00:18:53commissioner. Is that does this feel
00:18:56feel like it has significant political political ambition and momentum now
00:18:59now and could go further even than
00:19:01than this current cause? Well, that
00:19:05that is a question that has been been put to them in the past, but but they've been very categorical
00:19:09categorical saying that they are are not a political movement, but
00:19:11but they are instead a pressure group. group. That is the word that they
00:19:14they use that they're going to pick pick up important issues that affect
00:19:17affect ordinary Indians. So for instance, instance, it was educational reform reform which was affecting students,
00:19:21students, which is how this movement movement really began and picked picked up steam, which is when they
00:19:25they first sort of tasted their first first round of success. And now electoral electoral reforms again, another
00:19:29another issue, they say, where they they need to hold the authorities authorities accountable when they
00:19:32they are not answering to their demands
00:19:34demands of transparency. Arunoday
00:19:37Arunoday Mukharji in Delhi here an an investigation has begun after
00:19:41after a man was killed by a tiger
00:19:43tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park Park in northern England. He was
00:19:47was attacked when he entered the the animal's enclosure. The wildlife wildlife park said it was deeply
00:19:51deeply saddened by the incident and and was working closely with the
00:19:54the authorities. It will remain closed closed again today. Yunus Mulla has
00:19:57has this report. The Yorkshire Wildlife
00:20:00Wildlife Park remains closed with with officers guarding the entrance.
00:20:04entrance. The attraction has some some of the world's most endangered
00:20:07endangered animals, including large large tigers in a huge enclosure
00:20:10enclosure where a man was attacked attacked and seriously injured after.
00:20:14after. Somehow he managed to enter
00:20:17enter an air ambulance, two ambulances ambulances and a doctor were sent,
00:20:20sent, but the man died at the scene.
00:20:22scene. The animal remained in the
00:20:24the enclosure and there was no wider
00:20:27wider risk to the public. The Land
00:20:30Land of the Tigers opened in 2011
00:20:332011 with a 300 metre long raised raised walkway above, where visitors
00:20:37visitors can see the tigers roaming
00:20:40roaming freely below the park, has has said on social media that it
00:20:42it can confirm that there was a serious
00:20:45serious incident and that its emergency emergency response procedures were
00:20:48were activated. It's now working
00:20:50working with the authorities to ascertain
00:20:53ascertain exactly what happened. happened. It's not known why the
00:20:56the man was in the enclosure. The
00:20:59The park itself was evacuated and
00:21:01and will remain closed to visitors
00:21:04visitors over the weekend. Yunus
00:21:06Yunus Mulla BBC News Doncaster. Let
00:21:13Let me bring you some breaking news news that we've just had from the
00:21:16the Vatican. Pope Leo XIV has said
00:21:19said that he has had an early stage
00:21:22stage lung nodule detected and that
00:21:26that he will undergo surgery in the
00:21:28the next few days. That is the live
00:21:31live shot of we were just watching watching this. We can see Pope Leo
00:21:34Leo there. He's 71 years old. He's
00:21:37He's coming off the plane after a a recent visit that was yeah, that
00:21:40that was the visit back from Spain. Spain. They're coming off the Iberia
00:21:43Iberia plane. Let's just go back back to the live shot of Saint Peter's
00:21:46Peter's Square. There. Which where
00:21:48where people are gathering for Angelus,
00:21:51Angelus, which is the Sunday morning
00:21:53morning prayer that the Pope gives
00:21:55gives typically from the balcony
00:21:58balcony of the papal apartments. apartments. So people are still gathering
00:22:01gathering there. No news yet as to to whether he will be giving that
00:22:05that address. It was meant to be
00:22:07be around now, actually, but Pope Pope Leo XIV saying that he has early
00:22:11early stage lung nodule detected detected and that he'll undergo surgery
00:22:15surgery in the coming days. We'll We'll continue to watch that and
00:22:19and bring any updates here on BBC
00:22:22BBC News. Some other news developing developing out of Nepal. The authorities
00:22:26authorities have called for the evacuation evacuation of villages on the banks
00:22:29banks of the Gandaki River after after severe flooding in the centre
00:22:32centre of the country. Nepali officials officials say they've rescued 24
00:22:3624 people from areas impacted by by the flash flood, which has washed
00:22:39washed away bridges and damaged a a hydropower facility. Five people
00:22:42people are missing. It's believed believed the flash flood was caused
00:22:45caused by a landslide. Upstream, Upstream, the country remains on
00:22:48on high alert after devastating floods floods swept thousands of people
00:22:51people away seven weeks ago, our our BBC Nepali reporter Phanindra
00:22:55Phanindra Dahal has the latest on
00:22:57on those floods. Officials have said
00:22:59said now they have rescued 36 persons
00:23:01persons from different areas. Four
00:23:04Four helicopters are currently engaged engaged in search and rescue operations.
00:23:08operations. They say they are estimating
00:23:11estimating the losses caused by the
00:23:14the flash flood and rescue operations
00:23:17operations are under way at different
00:23:19different places. There was no massive
00:23:21massive rainfall in the area yesterday,
00:23:24yesterday, but officials have assumed
00:23:26assumed that there was a dry landslide
00:23:30landslide which caused the blockage
00:23:32blockage of the River Budhi Gandaki
00:23:34Gandaki River upstream and the blockage
00:23:38blockage collapsed and it caused
00:23:39caused a flash flood earlier this
00:23:43this morning because of the flash
00:23:45flash flood, huge amount of debris
00:23:49debris and water level could be observed.
00:23:52observed. There were dramatic footages footages that were shared from various
00:23:56various footage. Various villages
00:23:58villages in the downstream areas
00:24:00areas and people were really worried. worried. The disaster have reminded
00:24:04reminded the people of the tragedy,
00:24:07tragedy, the devastating flood that
00:24:09that occurred along Nepal, China China border one and a half month
00:24:13month ago. Phanindra Dahal from the
00:24:15the BBC Nepali service. Meanwhile, Meanwhile, Hurricane Simon is bearing
00:24:19bearing down on Mexico's Pacific Pacific coast, bringing torrential
00:24:21torrential rain and sustained winds
00:24:23winds of up to 240km an hour. The The category four storm is expected
00:24:27expected to make landfall near the the port city of Manzanillo in a
00:24:31a few hours' time. Residents on the
00:24:33the coast of Colima and Jalisco have have been warned that eight metre
00:24:36metre waves could bring storm surges surges and coastal flooding. People
00:24:39People have been boarding up windows windows and doors ahead of its arrival.
00:24:43arrival. Simon is the latest in a a busy hurricane season in the Pacific,
00:24:46Pacific, where the powerful El Nino Nino ocean warming warming phenomenon
00:24:50phenomenon is allowing the storms
00:24:51storms to gain in strength. Our weather
00:24:55weather presenter Matt Taylor explains explains just how powerful this hurricane
00:24:57hurricane is. Hurricane Simon It's It's quite a phenomenal storm. We
00:25:00We measure hurricanes on a scale scale of 1 to 5, this is right at
00:25:03at the top end of a for sustained sustained winds. That's mean winds
00:25:07winds of 250km an hour, 155 miles miles an hour gusts much, much quicker
00:25:11quicker than that as well. If I just just show you the satellite imagery imagery of where that storm is at
00:25:15at the moment, you can see the well-defined well-defined eye there. It is getting
00:25:18getting close about 60 miles offshore offshore at the moment. The big question
00:25:22question mark though forecasters forecasters are having, is just the the behaviour of what is going to
00:25:25to happen with this storm. Is it it going to come on land or is it it just going to skirt parallel to
00:25:29to the coast for a bit longer? Now Now that's crucial because the second
00:25:33second it goes on land because it's it's quite mountainous just inside inside of the coast, it will rip
00:25:36rip the storm apart quite quickly. quickly. But if it stays offshore offshore for a little bit longer,
00:25:40longer, it means those coastal areas areas will be battered by those catastrophic
00:25:43catastrophic winds for a much longer longer period. We're going to be
00:25:46be piling in more in the way of storm storm surge towards those coastal
00:25:49coastal districts as well. And then then the rainfall is going to be
00:25:52be piling in as well across the mountainous mountainous region just inland. Matt
00:25:56Matt Taylor, our chief weather presenter presenter we'll have much more on
00:25:58on all the stories that we've covered covered here in the headlines coming coming up. And of course much more
00:26:02more as ever on our website. Do stay stay with us here
00:27:35Dhabi, some misty mornings.
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00:30:17These are the latest headlines from BBC News. The UK's Defence Secretary
00:30:21Secretary calls the attack on Riyadh's
00:30:23Riyadh's international airport dangerous dangerous escalation and contemptible
00:30:27contemptible after 12 people are are killed, Saudi authorities blamed
00:30:29blamed the Houthis for the attack attack after President Trump accused
00:30:33accused him of prolonging the war. war. President Zelensky says Ukraine
00:30:37Ukraine will stop striking Russian Russian oil refineries if Moscow
00:30:39Moscow stops hitting Ukrainian energy
00:30:42energy infrastructure. The leader leader of India's Cockroach Janta
00:30:45Janta Party has released, along with with two other senior leaders after
00:30:48after protests in Delhi. Earlier, Earlier, the police said thousands thousands of protesters detained
00:30:51detained on Saturday had also been been released. Nepal's authorities
00:30:55authorities called for the evacuation evacuation of villages on the banks banks of the Budhi Gandaki River
00:30:59River after severe flooding in the