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00:00:13Life in London. This is BBC
00:00:15News. The Houthis in Yemen warn against
00:00:18against the use of airports in Saudi Saudi Arabia after 12 people are
00:00:21are killed and hundreds wounded in in a deadly attack at Riyadh's international
00:00:25international airport. After President President Trump accused him of prolonging
00:00:28prolonging the war, President Zelensky Zelensky says Ukraine will stop striking
00:00:31striking Russian oil refineries if
00:00:33if Russia stops hitting Ukrainian Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
00:00:37infrastructure. Pope Leo is to have have an operation in the coming days days for what the Vatican says is
00:00:41is a nodule on his lungs. A second
00:00:44second day of protests in Delhi as as the leader of India's Cockroach
00:00:47Cockroach Janta Party says they will
00:00:49will neither back down nor be intimidated.
00:00:52intimidated. Flash floods in central central Nepal sweep away bridges
00:00:55bridges and homes as five people
00:00:57people are reported missing and eight
00:01:00eight orangutans are rescued from from wildfires in Indonesia's Borneo
00:01:03Borneo and they're to be released
00:01:05released into protected forest. Hello,
00:01:16Hello, everyone. Welcome to BBC News. News. I'm Mark Lowen. We're going
00:01:19going to start with a major escalation escalation in the Middle East conflict.
00:01:22conflict. Yemen's Iran backed Houthi Houthi group has warned airlines
00:01:26airlines and passengers not to use use airports in Saudi Arabia after
00:01:29after the deadliest attack on Saudi Saudi soil in more than a decade.
00:01:33decade. Saudi Arabia says the Houthi Houthi missile attack at Riyadh's Riyadh's international airport has
00:01:37has killed 12 people and injured injured more than 300. We received
00:01:40received these pictures from inside inside the airport terminal. Reports
00:01:43Reports say there was a missile strike strike on one of the airport gates.
00:01:46gates. The Saudi authorities are are calling it a war crime and have have promised a forceful response.
00:01:50response. The airport has been closed closed and hundreds of flights cancelled
00:01:54cancelled or diverted for the second second time in less than a month.
00:01:57month. Schools in Riyadh have switched switched to remote learning for the
00:02:00the week. A number of Western diplomatic diplomatic missions, including the
00:02:04the US and UK, have warned their their nationals to stay away from
00:02:07from the airport while the strike strike has also been condemned by
00:02:11by the United Nations Secretary General General and by President Trump, who
00:02:14who has indicated that the US may may join the Saudi campaign against
00:02:17against the 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 defend look, the Saudis are good
00:02:25good fighters. But I think the attack attack was a terrible thing. What
00:02:29What 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
00:02:39moment 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
00:02:49Large plumes of black smoke rising
00:02:52rising above the building and reports
00:02:54reports that the hospitals in the the capital are overwhelmed or have
00:02:57have been overwhelmed just by the the sheer number of people injured.
00:03:01injured. More than 300. Now, the the conflict in Yemen has been going
00:03:05going on for more than a decade. decade. The civil war, and that is
00:03:09is between the Saudi backed internationally internationally recognised government
00:03:13government and the Houthis, who are are 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
00:03:35have with Iran. You mentioned that
00:03:37that conflict with Iran at the source source of all of this. In a sense,
00:03:41sense, John, President Trump has has already said that he will resume
00:03:44resume bombing Iran after the mid-term mid-term elections, an indication
00:03:47indication of just the impact that that the Iran war is having on the
00:03:50the cost of diesel, of course. And And how much of an issue that is
00:03:54is in the mid-terms. But now, of
00:03:56of course, if the US is mulling getting
00:04:00getting involved in bombing the Houthis,
00:04:03Houthis, that could escalate that that issue again, given the Houthi
00:04:06Houthi control of Bab al-Mandab,
00:04:08al-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
00:04:28end that conflict with the United
00:04:30United States. But, you know, in
00:04:33in 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
00:05:06directly involved in Yemen to. Were
00:05:14Were already supporting Saudi Arabia.
00:05:16Arabia. We're supporting Saudi with with air to air refuelling support
00:05:20support that enables them to fly
00:05:22fly potentially. I've spoken to my
00:05:25my Saudi counterpart KBS, on a number number of occasions in recent weeks
00:05:27weeks to look at what more we can can do to support Saudi Arabia. And
00:05:31And I'm afraid last night explains
00:05:35explains precisely why we are providing providing that support. I mean, even
00:05:39even in the context of Houthi attacks attacks and an escalation, what we
00:05:42we saw in terms of the attack on
00:05:44on the airport in Riyadh was a shocking
00:05:46shocking escalation. Actually, hundreds hundreds of casualties and an attack
00:05:50attack on a civilian target that
00:05:52that can't be can't possibly be justified justified in any circumstances. So
00:05:56So saying. You could get involved involved in an offensive, the UK
00:05:59UK could get involved in offensive offensive operations. Well, that's that's not what we're looking at
00:06:02at at this stage and we've always always been clear that there isn't
00:06:06isn't a military solution to this this conflict, as Royal Lodge was
00:06:10was just setting out there. There There was a truce. We need to see
00:06:13see a diplomatic solution and Saudi Saudi needs to do that from a position
00:06:17position of strength. And so the the support we've been providing
00:06:21providing the air to air refuelling refuelling support, the ground based
00:06:24based air defences, those things things are having a positive impact.
00:06:26impact. But I think there is clearly clearly more to do, as evidenced
00:06:29evidenced by what we saw last night, night, which I think should be condemned
00:06:32condemned worldwide. Apologies for for the sound issue a moment ago
00:06:35ago that was Wes Streeting, the British British Defence Secretary, being
00:06:38being asked for his reaction and and whether the UK would be ready
00:06:40ready to support Saudi Arabia even
00:06:43even more. Now moving on to Ukraine, Ukraine, President Zelensky says
00:06:47says that Ukraine will stop striking striking Russian oil refineries if
00:06:50if Russia stops striking Ukrainian Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
00:06:53infrastructure. His comments came came after President Trump accused
00:06:55accused him of prolonging the war war and said it was time for Ukraine
00:06:58Ukraine to elect a new leader. In In a post on social media, President
00:07:02President Zelensky wrote the real real cause of the war in Europe is
00:07:05is Russia and Russia alone. It is is possible to stop strikes on energy
00:07:09energy infrastructure as early as as today, but Putin does not want
00:07:12want to do so, he went on. Ukraine Ukraine will be ready to stop striking
00:07:15striking Russian oil refineries if
00:07:17if Russia stops striking our energy
00:07:20energy infrastructure, any de-escalation de-escalation steps must be reciprocal
00:07:22reciprocal and backed by real guarantees. guarantees. Well, Wes Streeting,
00:07:26Streeting, that British Defence Secretary, Secretary, says the UK stands by
00:07:30by President Zelensky after that
00:07:31that criticism from the US President.
00:07:35President. Now, speaking to reporters reporters yesterday, President Trump
00:07:39Trump accused Volodymyr Zelensky Zelensky of disrupting global fuel fuel supplies and choosing not to
00:07:43to end the war with Russia. You know
00:07:46know what I suggest? I suggest they
00:07:48they get a new leader who can make
00:07:51make a deal because he could have have made many deals and for some
00:07:54some reason he never does. And let
00:07:55let me go a step further. If I were were president, you wouldn't have
00:07:59have ever had that war. That war war would have never started. There
00:08:03There was no reason that that war war with Ukraine and Russia started.
00:08:06started. It started due to incompetence, incompetence, should have never started.
00:08:10started. You wouldn't have lost 30%
00:08:1230% of your country already. You've
00:08:14You've lost 30% of your country and
00:08:17and you've had over a million people people killed between the two of
00:08:21of them, over 2 million people killed. killed. That's a war that should
00:08:24should have never started. And I I think it's time for Ukraine to
00:08:27to get a new president. Our correspondent correspondent Joe Inwood told us
00:08:30us how difficult the situation is is for Ukraine. Now that we're hearing
00:08:34hearing reports that the Americans Americans may cut off military intelligence
00:08:37intelligence if Kyiv continues to to strike Russian refineries. What
00:08:41What makes it really serious? We We do know that the Americans they're
00:08:44they're not providing the material material support that they once were were in terms of hardware, in terms
00:08:48terms of resources, but they are are still providing intelligence
00:08:51intelligence support. And if that that were to be cut off, I think think that would be considered to
00:08:55to be very, very serious indeed. indeed. Of course, the Ukrainians
00:08:58Ukrainians are still reliant as well well on American manufactured weapons
00:09:01weapons purchased and paid for by
00:09:03by the Europeans. But, you know, know, American patriots and that
00:09:08that sort of thing. And if that were
00:09:09were to be if he were President Trump Trump were out of, you know, a fit
00:09:13fit of pique to say you're not we're we're not going to sell you weapons weapons any more. I mean, there's
00:09:17there's no suggestion of that at at this point. But that's the sort sort of thing that will be very,
00:09:20very, very serious indeed. So I think think the Ukrainians are going to
00:09:24to be viewing this as something they they want to try and dial down the
00:09:27the anger on because I think yesterday yesterday it was interesting listening
00:09:31listening to President Zelensky's Zelensky's statement, his reaction
00:09:34reaction to the news that Donald Donald Trump was going to be buying
00:09:37buying Russian diesel. He sounded sounded absolutely furious. I mean,
00:09:40mean, you can never know what's going going on inside someone's head. But But I listened to that interview
00:09:43interview and he sounded sounded sounded like a cold rage there. And
00:09:46And you wonder if he might have reacted reacted in that rage and now will
00:09:50will be trying to dial it back slightly slightly because the relations with
00:09:53with President Trump have they have have been improving and they've gone
00:09:56gone back many steps, I think. Yeah. And of course, we always know
00:09:59know what happens when a world leader
00:10:01leader rises to the bait and counterattacks. counterattacks. Donald Trump, a man
00:10:04man not known for his thick skin.
00:10:08skin. What about whether this will
00:10:10will now spur others to leap ever ever further to Ukraine's defence?
00:10:13defence? We've already had that call call from Downing Street and Andy
00:10:16Andy Burnham promising to meet Zelensky Zelensky in the coming days. I mean,
00:10:20mean, there's going to be a kind kind of a greater rallying around around Ukraine by the other allies,
00:10:24allies, given the fact that the US US is no longer a trusted one, I
00:10:26I suppose. Yeah, I think it goes
00:10:30goes without doubt. There's no no no doubt that we will see the Europeans Europeans rally round. But there's
00:10:33there's two things here aren't they. they. There's the metaphorical support
00:10:37support or the arm round the shoulder shoulder that they can give him.
00:10:40him. I mean, in the case of the famous famous White House bust-up, there
00:10:43there was a literal arm round the the shoulder for President Zelensky Zelensky from then Prime Minister
00:10:47Minister Sir Keir Starmer. But there there are there's a difference between
00:10:51between rallying round, showing support support and actually offering the
00:10:54the kind of material back up that that Ukraine really needs. They are
00:10:58are doing both of those things, but but there's a limit to the latter.
00:11:00latter. The former is basically an an unlimited supply. They will stand stand shoulder to shoulder, as they
00:11:05they always say. I think that's very very different from, for example, example, replacing the intelligence
00:11:09intelligence support that the Americans Americans give them. The Europeans Europeans are going to find that
00:11:12that much harder. That's Joe Inwood Inwood well, we heard a moment ago
00:11:15ago from the British Defence Secretary, Secretary, Wes Streeting, on the
00:11:19the Saudi story. He's also been speaking speaking about Ukraine and he's been
00:11:22been saying it's important not to to overstate the impact on US support
00:11:25support for Ukraine caused by Donald Donald Trump's lifting of sanctions
00:11:29sanctions on Russian diesel. He was was speaking to the BBC's Paddy O'Connell
00:11:33O'Connell and he criticised the decision decision to lift sanctions. We don't
00:11:36don't support that decision. He's He's wrong. As the Prime Minister Minister set out, we are strengthening
00:11:40strengthening sanctions against Russia. Russia. So is the President wrong?
00:11:42wrong? Well, look, I think the way way I have interpreted what President
00:11:46President Trump has done is very very much in the context of the US
00:11:50US mid-term elections that are taking taking place and the inevitable pressure
00:11:53pressure that all of us are feeling feeling at the moment to try and and ease the cost of living. But
00:11:57But I guess the challenge I would would put to not just the United
00:12:01United States, but to all of our
00:12:05our allies is we can increase the
00:12:07the economic and other pressure on on Russia now to try and shorten
00:12:11shorten this war and bring it to
00:12:13to a conclusion and to secure Ukraine's
00:12:16Ukraine's freedom and independence. independence. Or we can risk lengthening
00:12:19lengthening the war if Putin miscalculates
00:12:22miscalculates a weakening of Western Western resolve. I don't think there
00:12:26there is a weakening of Western resolve. resolve. I think we are all absolutely
00:12:28absolutely determined to stand with with Ukraine to bring an end to this
00:12:32this war and to support Ukrainian
00:12:36Ukrainian freedom and self-determination. self-determination. And that's why why both through economic pressure
00:12:39pressure we're placing on Russia, Russia, but also the direct support
00:12:44support financial and in terms of of military capability we're providing
00:12:47providing to Ukraine. We're doing doing that because if Putin succeeds
00:12:51succeeds in Ukraine, he is very likely likely to try elsewhere. That is
00:12:54is what history teaches US, not just just in terms of our continent, but
00:12:58but also with Putin specifically. specifically. UK Defence Secretary
00:13:02Secretary Wes Streeting. Now Poland's Poland's Interior Ministry is holding
00:13:05holding an emergency meeting after after what it said were possible
00:13:09possible assassination attempts against against the country's Prime Minister Minister and the Defence Minister,
00:13:13Minister, a spokesperson said police police had received credible information
00:13:16information about possible attacks
00:13:17attacks against Donald Tusk and Wodzislaw
00:13:20Wodzislaw Kociniak Mccamish ministers ministers will be meeting secret
00:13:23secret services later today. The The announcement comes as authorities
00:13:26authorities in Poland have been on on high alert following a wave of
00:13:29of violence in schools that resulted resulted in the death of a school
00:13:33school caretaker on Thursday. Pope Pope Leo has announced that he is
00:13:37is to undergo surgery after his doctors doctors detected what he called a
00:13:40a very early stage nodule in his
00:13:43his lung. Leo, who is 71 years old, old, said it was found during a routine
00:13:47routine check-up and appeared to to be well contained. He thanked
00:13:51thanked people for their prayers. prayers. Recovery from surgery is
00:13:53is expected to take around a week. week. Let's go to India now, where
00:13:57where the leader of the Cockroach Cockroach protest movement has been
00:14:00been released from detention as the the city sees a second day of protests,
00:14:04protests, the Cockroach Janta Party Party said. Its founder, Abhijeet
00:14:07Abhijeet Dipke, was detained with with other leaders shortly after
00:14:09after landing in Delhi to lead protests protests seeking electoral reform
00:14:13reform just months before crucial crucial state elections. He began
00:14:16began the movement in May after India's India's chief justice likened some
00:14:20some jobless young people to cockroaches cockroaches in his first comments
00:14:23comments after his release, Dipke Dipke said the Cjp would neither
00:14:26neither back down nor be intimidated. intimidated. Narendra Modi is the
00:14:30the biggest coward this country has has ever seen. While protesters have
00:14:34have returned to central Delhi for for a second day, much of the area
00:14:37area has roads, barricaded. Offices, Offices, shops and restaurants are
00:14:40are shut and internet services are are curtailed. For now, demonstrators
00:14:44demonstrators are vastly outnumbered outnumbered by security personnel
00:14:46personnel and the BBC has witnessed witnessed many detentions. The BJP
00:14:50BJP and other opposition parties parties are calling for the election election commissioner to be sacked
00:14:54sacked over revisions to the electoral electoral roll, an accusation denied
00:14:58denied by the authorities. The Gen
00:15:00Gen Z the youth has been stopped
00:15:02stopped from being a voter since
00:15:05since 2024 and this is being done
00:15:07done because the government is scared
00:15:10scared that these young generation generation people who are awakened,
00:15:13awakened, who are asking questions, questions, who are asking for accountability
00:15:16accountability will come after them them and will seek answers from them.
00:15:19them. The government does not like
00:15:21like it and therefore it is resorting
00:15:23resorting to violence against the the citizens of this country. Our
00:15:27Our correspondent in Delhi, Arunoday Arunoday Mukharji, has the latest
00:15:31latest from the protests. This is is the first time we're hearing the
00:15:35the senior members of the Cockroach Cockroach Janta Party movement essentially
00:15:38essentially are talking about their their experiences over the last 24
00:15:4224 to 48 hours, highlighting what what happened to them when the police
00:15:44police detained them and criticising criticising the Delhi Police once
00:15:48once again and essentially very, very, very combative in their messaging
00:15:51messaging targeting Prime Minister Minister Narendra Modi as well as as the interior minister or the home
00:15:55home minister, as he's called here. here. Mr Amit Shah, accusing them
00:15:58them of shielding the Chief Election Election Commissioner for their own own gains. They've also said the
00:16:02the way in which the Delhi Police Police has gone about carrying out
00:16:06out these detentions across Delhi Delhi to the tune of thousands, they
00:16:09they said that demonstrates the fear
00:16:11fear that the authorities have regarding
00:16:14regarding these protests. They have
00:16:16have not outlined what their next next plan of action is. That still
00:16:20still remains a bit of a question question at the moment. All we've
00:16:23we've heard in terms of them urging urging others to continue their protest,
00:16:26protest, they said that this is just just the beginning of the battle.
00:16:29battle. They've urged people from from other states to go ahead and
00:16:32and protest in any way that they they can to ensure their voices are
00:16:36are heard. At the moment over here
00:16:38here we still see some security that that is there. It is not as strict
00:16:42strict as yesterday. We've seen a
00:16:45a little bit of relaxation, not completely, completely, but there has been a
00:16:49a little bit of difference compared compared to what it was yesterday.
00:16:52yesterday. But there are still barricades barricades and other parts of the the city. We've also heard from the
00:16:55the Supreme Court, which has now now said and asked the Delhi Police
00:16:58Police to review its security measures
00:17:01measures in place and only do it
00:17:04it where it is necessary. Arun, you
00:17:06you talk about how the movement is
00:17:08is saying this is the beginning of
00:17:10of the battle. I just wonder whether whether I mean, it has it feels like
00:17:14like it's got momentum. Of course, course, they got the education minister minister to resign over the summer.
00:17:17summer. Their target is now the chief chief election commissioner. Is that
00:17:21that does this feel like it has significant
00:17:24significant political ambition and and momentum now and could go further
00:17:27further even than this current cause?
00:17:32cause? Well, that is a question that that has been put to them in the the past, but they've been very categorical
00:17:36categorical saying that they are are not a political movement, but
00:17:38but they are instead a pressure group. group. That is the word that they
00:17:41they use that they are going to pick pick up important issues that affect
00:17:44affect ordinary Indians. So for instance, instance, it was educational reform reform which was affecting students,
00:17:48students, which is how this movement movement really began and picked picked up steam, which is when they
00:17:51they first sort of tasted their first first round of success. And now electoral
00:17:55electoral reforms again, another another issue, they say, where they they need to hold the authorities
00:17:58authorities accountable when they they are not answering to their demands
00:18:01demands of transparency. Arunoday Arunoday Mukharji staying in South
00:18:04South Asia, authorities in Nepal Nepal have called for the evacuation
00:18:07evacuation of villages on the banks banks of the Budhi Gandaki River
00:18:11River after severe flooding in the the centre of the country. Nepali
00:18:14Nepali officials say they've rescued rescued 49 people from areas impacted
00:18:17impacted by the flash flood, which which has washed away bridges and
00:18:20and damaged a hydropower facility. facility. Five people are missing. missing. It's believed the flash
00:18:24flash flood was caused by a landslide. landslide. Upstream, the country
00:18:27country remains on high alert after after devastating floods swept thousands
00:18:30thousands of people away seven weeks
00:18:32weeks ago. Our global affairs correspondent correspondent Anbarasan Ethirajan
00:18:35Ethirajan gave us this update. Officials
00:18:37Officials are now saying that up
00:18:40up to 40 houses have been damaged damaged because of this flooding
00:18:43flooding and also they were swept
00:18:45swept away, including one camp for
00:18:47for hydropower project. And the pictures pictures were terrifying. You know,
00:18:50know, you have a sludge of mud, rocks
00:18:54rocks and water sweeping away several
00:18:57several areas of this Budhi Gandaki Gandaki river. And many settlements
00:19:01settlements were damaged. And that's that's why Nepali government officials
00:19:04officials are now urging people living
00:19:06living downstream of the river to to evacuate. And the Nepali officials
00:19:10officials have also deployed about about four helicopters. The army
00:19:14army has been deployed and they have have rescued dozens of people, including
00:19:17including some trekkers. The most most important thing is the damage
00:19:20damage to some of the footbridges footbridges and also road bridges,
00:19:23bridges, because Nepal is a mountainous mountainous country, these bridges
00:19:26bridges play a crucial role in between between connecting various districts.
00:19:29districts. For example, this happened happened in Gorkha district. There
00:19:32There was one bridge that was completely completely destroyed snapping contact
00:19:35contact with the neighbouring district. district. So it makes it difficult
00:19:38difficult for the authorities to
00:19:40to move aid. And the weather is also
00:19:42also not favourable. So this comes comes after, you know, in August
00:19:45August you saw the massive floods
00:19:48floods in Koshi River that caused caused devastation. So still they
00:19:52they are looking for at least five
00:19:54five people unaccounted for and also
00:19:56also some shepherds are also missing missing and they are hoping to make
00:20:00make contact with them later in the the day. You mentioned those terrible terrible floodings floods, of course,
00:20:03course, on the border with Tibet
00:20:05Tibet from seven weeks ago are the
00:20:08the roads and paths still blocked blocked and damaged from those floods
00:20:11floods and making it harder even
00:20:13even to control these new ones? Nepal
00:20:16Nepal is already struggling to come come back from the devastating floods
00:20:19floods in late August, and many districts districts were impacted. In fact,
00:20:23fact, they have been building this this Bailey bridge connecting various
00:20:26various step by step several hydropower hydropower projects were completely
00:20:30completely wiped out and still there there are thousands of people living
00:20:33living in shelters or with relatives relatives and friends. They can't
00:20:36can't go back to their homes because because many of the villages were
00:20:38were wiped out. And that's why Nepal Nepal says that the reconstruction
00:20:42reconstruction costing cost would
00:20:43would be amounting to nearly $5 billion
00:20:47billion and still 5000 people are
00:20:48are unaccounted for. About 1500 people
00:20:52people confirmed dead and several several relatives are still coming coming and searching on the banks
00:20:55banks of the river and the settlements. settlements. So this has come as
00:20:59as another, you know, big shock for for Nepal. Now they have to deploy
00:21:03deploy more people and more resources resources to tackle this particular
00:21:05particular flooding. And briefly, briefly, are neighbouring countries
00:21:09countries also going to be deploying? deploying? Is there a call for international
00:21:12international support? Nepal is called called for international help and and that's why the Nepalese Prime
00:21:15Prime Minister, who spoke in the the UN General Assembly, called for for a billions of dollars of aid.
00:21:19aid. India and China have already already stepped in giving aid and
00:21:23and on for reconstruction work. Anbarasan
00:21:26Anbarasan Ethirajan there now at
00:21:28at least 109 migrants have been killed, killed, including 15 children, after
00:21:32after a boat sank off the shores shores of Djibouti. That's according
00:21:35according to the International Organisation Organisation for Migration Survivors Survivors said the vessel, which
00:21:38which was carrying 350 people from from Djibouti to Yemen, capsized
00:21:42capsized north of the Djibouti town town of Obock overnight on the 8th
00:21:468th of October. Around 116 are still
00:21:50still missing. Hurricane Simon is is bearing down on Mexico's Pacific
00:21:54Pacific coast, bringing torrential torrential rain and sustained winds
00:21:58winds of up to 240km an hour. The The category four storm is expected
00:22:01expected to make landfall near the the port city of Manzanillo in a
00:22:05a few hours' time. Residents on the
00:22:07the coast of Colima and Jalisco have have been warned that eight metre
00:22:11metre waves could bring storm surges surges and coastal flooding. People People have been boarding up windows
00:22:15windows and doors ahead of the arrival. arrival. Simon is the latest in a
00:22:19a busy hurricane season in the Pacific, Pacific, where the powerful El Nino
00:22:22Nino ocean warming phenomenon is
00:22:24is allowing storms to gain in strength. strength. Our weather presenter Matt
00:22:28Matt Taylor explains just how powerful powerful this hurricane is. Hurricane
00:22:31Hurricane Simon. It's quite a phenomenal phenomenal storm. We measure hurricanes
00:22:34hurricanes on a scale of 1 to 5. 5. This is right at the top end of
00:22:38of a four sustained winds. That's That's mean winds of 250km an hour,
00:22:42hour, 155 miles an hour gusts much, much, much quicker than that as well.
00:22:45well. If I just show you the satellite satellite imagery of where that storm storm is at the moment, you can see
00:22:49see the well-defined eye there it it is getting close. It's about 60
00:22:5260 miles offshore at the moment. moment. The big question mark though
00:22:56though forecasters are having, is is just the behaviour of what is is going to happen with this storm.
00:22:59storm. Is it going to come on land land or is it just going to skirt skirt parallel to the coast for a
00:23:03a bit longer? Now that's crucial crucial because the second it goes
00:23:06goes on land because it's quite mountainous, mountainous, just inside of the coast, coast, it will rip the storm apart
00:23:10apart quite quickly. But if it stays stays offshore for a little bit longer,
00:23:13longer, it means those coastal areas areas will be battered by those catastrophic
00:23:16catastrophic winds for a much longer longer period. We're going to be
00:23:19be piling in more in the way of storm storm surge towards those coastal
00:23:22coastal districts as well. And then then the rainfall is going to be
00:23:25be piling in as well across the mountainous mountainous region just inland. Just
00:23:29Just explain that the links to the
00:23:30the El Nino sea warming phenomenon,
00:23:34phenomenon, because this is the a a rather delayed first storm of the the Atlantic season, isn't it? Well,
00:23:38Well, this one's a Pacific storm,
00:23:40storm, of course, with Simon. Yeah,
00:23:42Yeah, that was the one that was it's it's been a record breaking quiet
00:23:46quiet season across the Atlantic. Atlantic. Isaias was the very first
00:23:49first hurricane we've had, whereas whereas the Pacific. It's been an
00:23:53an incredibly active season. Now Now it's all due to what we've just just mentioned El Nino. It changes
00:23:56changes wind patterns around the the world and within the atmosphere.
00:24:00atmosphere. For hurricanes to form, form, you need big thunderstorms. thunderstorms. Those thunderstorms thunderstorms need to be able to
00:24:03to breed a little bit and get really really tall into the atmosphere before before they move into hurricanes.
00:24:07hurricanes. But because it's changing changing the wind patterns in the the Atlantic, the winds are actually
00:24:11actually shredding those hurricane hurricane those storms apart before
00:24:14before hurricanes can form, but they're they're actually encouraging them
00:24:17them on the other side of the Americas Americas into the Pacific, the warm
00:24:20warm waters as well, just helping helping to feed the moisture. We're
00:24:23We're talking as much as around 750mm
00:24:25750mm of rain potentially in parts
00:24:28parts of Jalisco and also Colima Colima over just a couple of days.
00:24:31days. And to put that into perspective perspective for UK viewers, that's
00:24:34that's about a year's worth of rain
00:24:36rain in parts of the UK. And we mentioned
00:24:39mentioned Isaias there. The hurricane, hurricane, which has weakened as
00:24:42as it's hit as it's made landfall. landfall. But even though it's weakened, weakened, it can still cause flash
00:24:46flash flooding. It still can. There's There's flash flooding warnings out out across parts of North and South
00:24:50South Carolina at the moment. The The storm itself, though, as it's it's moved inland, it's been shredded
00:24:54shredded apart. It doesn't have the the energy from the warm waters. waters. And so it's just batches
00:24:57batches of heavy rain and storms storms which will move across eastern eastern coasts through the rest of
00:25:01of today and tonight. Matt Taylor Taylor From BBC Weather to football
00:25:05football now and in the Premier League, League, Manchester City will face
00:25:08face Liverpool this afternoon. The The fixture at Anfield comes amid
00:25:11amid heightening tension following following the Premier League's ruling
00:25:14ruling finding city guilty of all all charges related to breaches in
00:25:18in the financial financial rules rules governing the game. It's the
00:25:20the first time the club faces a rival rival team since that decision, and
00:25:24and security has been increased around around the stadium in advance of
00:25:27of their arrival by team bus. Now
00:25:32Now eight orangutans rescued from from the wildfires that recently
00:25:34recently swept through parts of Borneo Borneo have been released into a
00:25:38a protected forest. The orangutans orangutans three mother and baby
00:25:41baby pairs and two male teenagers
00:25:44teenagers were saved from various various locations in West Kalimantan
00:25:47Kalimantan on the Indonesian part part of the island. Their new home
00:25:51home is the Batu Nambu Reserve, chosen chosen by conservationists because
00:25:55because of the availability of food food and water sources as well as
00:25:58as its connectivity to other forests, forests, orangutans are critically
00:26:02critically endangered, with just just over 100,000 remaining in
00:27:35will emerge low 40s and Celsius in
00:27:38in Kuwait.
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