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00:00:11Live from London. This is BBC
00:00:13News. President Zelensky says if if Vladimir Putin agrees to a 60
00:00:1760 day ceasefire, he'll organise organise elections in Ukraine. Another
00:00:21Another strike hits Riyadh airport airport in Saudi Arabia, a day after
00:00:24after 12 people were killed and hundreds
00:00:26hundreds wounded in a Houthi attack.
00:00:29attack. Pope Leo is to have an operation operation in the coming days for
00:00:31for what the Vatican says is a nodule nodule on his lungs. A second day
00:00:35day of protests in Delhi as the leader leader of India's Cockroach Janta
00:00:39Janta Party says they'll neither neither back down nor be intimidated.
00:00:42intimidated. Flash floods in central central Nepal sweep away bridges
00:00:45bridges and homes as five people people are reported missing. Manchester
00:00:49Manchester City arrive at Anfield Anfield for their first match against
00:00:52against a rival team since being
00:00:53being found guilty of financial rule
00:00:56rule breaches. Hello and welcome.
00:01:07welcome. I'm Martine Croxall Manchester Manchester City kick off at Liverpool Liverpool in the next half hour.
00:01:10hour. The first game since the details
00:01:12details of the guilty verdicts on on 115 financial charges against
00:01:15against city came out, the Manchester
00:01:18Manchester club will get a hostile hostile reception on the pitch and
00:01:21and have already received a raucous
00:01:23raucous welcome for their team bus bus outside Anfield. Well, we've
00:01:27we've been hearing from Liverpool Liverpool fans ahead of the game.
00:01:31game. The atmosphere is going to
00:01:33to be volatile. I think it's always always a special game, not as big
00:01:36big as Man United and Everton, but but I think it's still up there with
00:01:39with the best, I think because they're they're dominating for a lot of years.
00:01:43years. I think once they get the the perch back from the year before.
00:01:47before. So I think it is more more more difficult because of what's
00:01:50what's going on, on city. Isn't it?
00:01:53it? It's more yeah, I think so. And
00:01:55And it's kind of also the whole saga saga really. I'm losing my passion
00:01:59passion for the game to be honest.
00:02:01honest. It just feels like it's no no longer for supporters, no longer
00:02:05longer for fans. It's all about the the money nowadays. Money, money.
00:02:08money. How many teams have been relegated
00:02:11relegated or lost Champions League
00:02:13League spots, Europe spots. I mean mean I'm a Liverpool supporter. I
00:02:17I don't want tainted titles. I just
00:02:19just like some justice. I speak to
00:02:22to on BBC sports editor Dan Roan. Roan. You can hear how fed up a lot
00:02:25lot of these fans are. Dan. I'm so
00:02:35so sorry. Dan we can't hear you. you. We can see that you're talking
00:02:37talking to us but we can't hear you
00:02:40you at the moment. Dan we can see see you're valiantly trying to talk
00:02:43talk to us. Can we try again? Are
00:02:45Are we getting any sound coming in? in? No we're not OK. Right. We'll
00:02:48We'll try again and speak to Dan
00:02:51Dan in a minute. Let's turn our attention.
00:02:53attention. Has it come back? We do
00:02:55do have we do have Dan. Dan, let's let's start again. Don't you love
00:02:59love live telly? We were saying. saying. Saying how fed up some of
00:03:03of those fans sounded ahead of this
00:03:06this match. Yeah. And that's to be be expected I think because of course
00:03:10course few clubs feel as aggrieved aggrieved about the rule breaking breaking that city are have been
00:03:14been found guilty of as Liverpool
00:03:17Liverpool because during the period period of financial rule breaches
00:03:20breaches they lost out to city for for the title. It happened again
00:03:23again in the Pep Guardiola era as as well on two occasions. And so
00:03:26so there's a great deal of anger anger and resentment and I think
00:03:30think that will be very apparent apparent today. This is always a
00:03:34a fiery fixture. It really has I
00:03:36I think been the best rivalry of of recent years in the Premier League.
00:03:39League. But the level of hostility hostility that city will experience, experience, I think inside Anfield
00:03:43Anfield this afternoon will be of of a level that we've yet to encounter.
00:03:47encounter. And a short time ago I I was on the Anfield Road behind
00:03:50behind me, just a short distance distance from the stadium on the
00:03:53the traditional route that team buses
00:03:56buses make to get inside the stadium. stadium. Liverpool, of course, were
00:03:59were greeted with cheers, but many many of the fans were waiting for
00:04:03for city's arrival. There were many many flags emblazoned with the word
00:04:07word cheats and guilty flares had had been lit as well. But the fans
00:04:10fans who had been intent on making
00:04:12making it very clear to the visitors
00:04:15visitors just how much fury has been been sparked by those rule breaks,
00:04:18breaks, those rule breaches didn't
00:04:20didn't get the opportunity as planned
00:04:22planned because city took an alternative alternative route to the stadium.
00:04:26stadium. A much quieter part of Anfield
00:04:29Anfield Road, and managed to go in in through the staff and contractors
00:04:33contractors entrance and thereby thereby avoided the worst of that that crowd and the abuse that no
00:04:37no doubt would have been rained upon upon them. But I think there'll be
00:04:40be little escape from that once the the match starts inside the stadium.
00:04:43stadium. I think there were a lot
00:04:45lot of issues that Man City were
00:04:48were facing 115 counts against them.
00:04:53them. Apologies. Sorry. The question question again. Sorry. I'm just saying
00:04:56saying that there was a there have
00:05:00have been a lot of counts on which
00:05:01which Manchester City have been found
00:05:05found guilty. Well, they've been
00:05:08been found guilty of all of the alleged
00:05:10alleged rule breaches that related related to financial regulations.
00:05:14regulations. The Premier League's League's Independent Commission has
00:05:16has made that very clear. And the
00:05:19the majority of those relating to to non-cooperation with the Premier
00:05:22Premier League's investigation. So So a damning verdict. City, of course,
00:05:25course, have appealed. They maintain maintain their innocence, but as
00:05:29as long as this continues without without us knowing what the punishment punishment is, a sanctions hearing
00:05:32hearing is yet to take place and and the outcome of any appeal. Then
00:05:36Then there is this sense of limbo limbo that overshadows the rest of
00:05:39of this campaign because of course course city, they started the season season really well before the international
00:05:43international break. It was during during that time that this seismic
00:05:46seismic news was announced. They They may well win today as well. well. They may well win the league.
00:05:50league. But of course everybody knows knows there is a very real prospect
00:05:53prospect of a major points deduction deduction that could relegate them
00:05:55them or even expulsion. We just don't don't know. But that hangs over the
00:05:59the rest of this campaign. And it it does. I think for many really
00:06:03really create an issue for the league league in terms of its credibility
00:06:05credibility going forward until this this is resolved. So it's not just just a massive issue this for city,
00:06:09city, but I think the whole of the the top flight in English football football as well. Dan, thank you
00:06:13you very much. I'm sure you'll agree agree that was a technical triumph.
00:06:16triumph. But we soldiered on. Thank
00:06:17Thank you very much. Dan Roan and
00:06:21and Anfield President Zelensky has has told the American Axios website
00:06:25website that it's news to him that that Ukraine and Russia have agreed
00:06:28agreed an energy ceasefire as claimed claimed by President Trump. Mr Trump
00:06:32Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform platform that the agreement that that the two sides will halt attacks
00:06:36attacks on each other's energy facilities facilities would come into effect
00:06:39effect immediately in September. September. A similar promise of such
00:06:42such a ceasefire failed to materialise. materialise. Meanwhile, President
00:06:45President Zelensky has told the US US network ABC that if President
00:06:49President Putin agrees to a 60 day day ceasefire, he'll organise elections
00:06:53elections in Ukraine. Mr Zelensky Zelensky was responding to comments
00:06:56comments made by President Trump Trump yesterday that Ukraine should
00:06:59should get a new president. Earlier,
00:07:01Earlier, the Ukrainian leader condemned condemned President Trump's decision
00:07:04decision to buy diesel from Russia.
00:07:06Russia. Joe Inwood. Night after night,
00:07:10night, Ukraine faces bombardment bombardment from above. This time
00:07:13time a warehouse on the outskirts outskirts of Kyiv. But the attacks
00:07:17attacks over the last 24 hours have
00:07:19have not only been physical but also
00:07:21also diplomatic with Donald Trump Trump doubling down on his calls calls for President Zelensky to go.
00:07:25go. Well, I think he should have have an election and he could have
00:07:29have settled this thing many times
00:07:32times and he should have an election election and he can't raise the price
00:07:35price of oil. He's done enough. His His reference there to the price
00:07:39price of oil indicates how this row row began with the remarkable news
00:07:43news that the US had done a deal deal with Russia to start buying
00:07:46buying their diesel. It was an attempt attempt by the Trump administration administration to bring down prices
00:07:50prices at the pumps ahead of mid-term mid-term elections, with many voters
00:07:53voters blaming his war on Iran for
00:07:55for causing record prices. That was
00:07:58was met with fury from Ukraine and
00:08:01and accusations of betrayal. President President Trump then went on to blame
00:08:05blame these Ukrainian strikes on on Russian refineries for being behind
00:08:08behind the rise in oil prices, saying
00:08:11saying they should stop or President President Zelensky should resign.
00:08:13resign. The choice as to who leads
00:08:15leads Ukraine is one for the Ukrainians. Ukrainians. Speaking to the BBC this
00:08:19this morning, the Defence Secretary Secretary criticised the US decision
00:08:21decision to buy Russian oil and gave gave his backing to President Zelensky.
00:08:25Zelensky. We stand with Ukraine, Ukraine, we stand with President
00:08:29President Zelensky and in terms of of what we've seen overnight, it's
00:08:32it's not the first time that we've we've seen a public disagreement
00:08:35disagreement between Washington and and Kyiv. And when these things happen,
00:08:38happen, we see it as our responsibility responsibility as the UK to try and
00:08:41and bring our friends back together together again. There was a defiant
00:08:45defiant response from President Zelensky, Zelensky, who said Ukraine will be
00:08:48be ready to stop striking Russian Russian oil refineries if Russia
00:08:52Russia stops striking our energy
00:08:55energy infrastructure. For now, there there is little sign of that happening.
00:08:59happening. Russia continues to strike
00:09:01strike Ukraine and will feel it now
00:09:03now has a new diplomatic advantage.
00:09:07advantage. Joe Inwood, BBC News. News. Natia Seskuria is head of the
00:09:11the Russia, Eurasia and Black Sea Sea programme at the think tank RUSI.
00:09:14RUSI. She's been giving her reaction reaction to President Zelensky's
00:09:17Zelensky's offer to organise elections elections if Vladimir Putin agrees
00:09:20agrees to a 60 day ceasefire. It's
00:09:22It's very hard to imagine that elections elections could be held in Ukraine
00:09:25Ukraine any time soon because, as as you mentioned, there is martial
00:09:28martial law in place. It is also
00:09:30also very difficult to trust Russians
00:09:32Russians even if they commit to any
00:09:35any of the temporary ceasefire. We We know that Russians have violated
00:09:38violated these sort of cease fires fires many times before. And on top
00:09:42top of that, there are so many Ukrainians Ukrainians who are outside of Ukraine
00:09:45Ukraine because of the war. So it it is very, very hard to imagine
00:09:49imagine that it's possible due to
00:09:51to all the constraints that Ukraine Ukraine has to hold elections. The
00:09:55The suggestion that elections could could be held at all stems from the
00:09:58the fact that President Trump has
00:10:00has said, you need to go, Zelensky,
00:10:02Zelensky, your time is up. You've
00:10:04You've prolonged this war. What are are comments like that from President
00:10:08President Trump going to do to Mr
00:10:10Mr Zelensky's popularity? Well, we we have the evidence that when the
00:10:14the first Oval Office meeting happened happened and we know how this meeting
00:10:18meeting went, unfortunately, this this was the lowest point in American
00:10:21American Ukrainian relations. And And back then, even though Zelensky
00:10:24Zelensky already had some issues issues when it comes to his popularity,
00:10:28popularity, his popularity went up.
00:10:30up. Ukrainians decided to back Zelensky
00:10:33Zelensky in this process. And since since then, obviously, there have
00:10:36have been many issues. Of course, course, some corruption cases that
00:10:39that have caused the fluctuation fluctuation in Zelensky's popularity.
00:10:43popularity. But I think this case case will help Zelensky to boost
00:10:45boost its popularity domestically
00:10:48domestically in Ukraine. Natia Seskuria Seskuria from the think tank RUSI
00:10:52RUSI in a major escalation in the the Middle East conflict, another
00:10:55another projectile has hit the main
00:10:57main airport in Riyadh a day after after 12 people were killed and hundreds
00:11:01hundreds wounded in an attack by by Yemen's Iran backed Houthi group.
00:11:04group. It comes as the Houthis have have warned airlines and passengers
00:11:08passengers not to use airports in in Saudi Arabia after that deadliest
00:11:11deadliest attack on Saudi soil in in more than a decade. Saudi Arabia
00:11:14Arabia says the Houthi missile attack attack at the airport killed 12 people
00:11:18people and injured more than 300.
00:11:20300. We received these pictures from from inside the airport terminal,
00:11:24terminal, reports say there was a a missile strike on one of the airport
00:11:27airport gates. The Saudi authorities authorities are calling it a war
00:11:30war crime and have promised a full full response. The airport has been
00:11:33been closed and hundreds of flights flights cancelled or diverted for
00:11:36for the second time in less than than a month, schools in Riyadh have have switched to remote learning
00:11:40learning for the week. A number of of Western diplomatic missions, including
00:11:44including the US and UK, have warned warned their nationals to stay away
00:11:48away from the airport. Let's speak speak to our Middle East correspondent correspondent Hugo Bachega, who's
00:11:52who's monitoring events from Beirut. Beirut. Hugo, tell us more about
00:11:56about this unidentified projectile.
00:12:00projectile. Yeah, so there's been been a very short statement from
00:12:03from the Saudi led coalition in Yemen,
00:12:06Yemen, the coalition fighting the the Houthis in Yemen, saying that
00:12:09that this projectile fell on terminal terminal four, resulting in a fire
00:12:13fire that the authorities were handling. handling. So this happens just a
00:12:17a day after that attack that killed
00:12:20killed 12 people. And it is an indication indication that the Houthis continue
00:12:24continue to carry out attacks deep
00:12:27deep inside Saudi Arabia. They've They've been saying that these attacks
00:12:30attacks are going to continue. And And again, I think there will be
00:12:33be more questions about how these
00:12:38these attacks have been happening.
00:12:40happening. Targeting a major civilian
00:12:44civilian facility in the capital. capital. We've seen that in recent
00:12:45recent weeks. The Houthis have carried carried out multiple missile and
00:12:49and drone attacks targeting not only
00:12:51only this airport in Riyadh, but
00:12:54but also a critical energy infrastructure
00:12:58infrastructure across the country. country. And this has disrupted daily
00:13:01daily life in Saudi Arabia and left
00:13:03left an entire nation in shock and
00:13:06and has put a lot of pressure on
00:13:09on the Saudi leadership as well.
00:13:11well. And I think, again, what is is happening here is linked to the
00:13:15the conflict in Yemen, a conflict conflict that has been raging for for more than ten years. Thousands
00:13:18Thousands of people have been killed. killed. There is a severe humanitarian
00:13:21humanitarian crisis in the country
00:13:22country as well. And this is a conflict
00:13:26conflict between the internationally internationally recognised government
00:13:30government supported by the Saudis Saudis against the Houthis, who are
00:13:33are backed by Iran. And this escalation
00:13:37escalation happens after those significant significant gains by the Houthis
00:13:40Houthis after they seized territory
00:13:43territory along the Red Sea, threatening threatening a vital shipping route.
00:13:46route. And now you have those forces
00:13:49forces linked to the government trying trying to seize territory back from
00:13:52from the Houthis. They have been been supported by the Saudis. The
00:13:55The Saudis have been carried out
00:13:58out carrying out air strikes in Yemen.
00:14:01Yemen. And finally, this is obviously
00:14:03obviously linked to the wider war
00:14:05war in the Middle East. The war between
00:14:08between the US and Iran. And as long
00:14:10long as this war continues, we're we're likely to see more violence
00:14:13violence and instability across the the region. Here you go for the moment.
00:14:16moment. Thank you. Hugo Bachega in
00:14:20in Beirut, Hesham Shawish from BBC BBC Monitoring has been telling us
00:14:24us how this latest escalation in in the Middle East is being discussed
00:14:26discussed in Saudi Arabia. So the
00:14:29the latest attacks on Saudi airports
00:14:31airports have been leading the media media coverage in Saudi media, as
00:14:35as well as messages of solidarity solidarity from around the region
00:14:38region and around the world. The The Saudi media outlets have really
00:14:40really been focusing on the latest
00:14:43latest statements by US President
00:14:45President Trump as well, saying that
00:14:48that he will make a decision very, very, very quickly. And at the same
00:14:51same time, they've also been reporting reporting that the president has
00:14:54has said that the Saudis are capable capable of defending themselves.
00:14:58themselves. So we're seeing very, very, very balanced messaging coming
00:15:01coming out from the US so far, the
00:15:04the Saudi coalition yesterday after
00:15:06after the attacks, described the
00:15:08the targeting of the airport as a a full-fledged war crime and a terrorist
00:15:12terrorist attack. And the Saudis Saudis have said that they'll be
00:15:15be responding decisively and firmly
00:15:18firmly to the attacks. It wasn't wasn't the first attack on Riyadh
00:15:22Riyadh airport. The airport was targeted
00:15:25targeted last week by the Houthis. Houthis. And we also saw attacks
00:15:28attacks on Abha International Airport
00:15:31Airport and the Saudi military airbase
00:15:34airbase last week as well. What's What's the reaction been then to
00:15:37to the comments from the Houthis Houthis that airlines and passengers
00:15:41passengers should avoid Saudi airports?
00:15:44airports? We haven't seen much reaction reaction by Saudi media yet, but
00:15:48but this warning does seem to be
00:15:51be upping the ante by the Houthis.
00:15:55Houthis. It's a psychological. Psychological
00:16:00Psychological way to kind of really
00:16:02really increase tensions in the region. region. It shows that the Houthis
00:16:06Houthis are not just signalling that that they're not just going to be
00:16:09be targeting military sites, but but also civilian infrastructure.
00:16:12infrastructure. It's now part of of the pressure campaign against
00:16:15against the Saudis to try and lift lift their blockade from Houthi controlled
00:16:18controlled areas. So this type of
00:16:20of warning by the Houthis is intended intended to amplify psychological
00:16:24psychological pressure, even if it
00:16:26it doesn't lead to physical damage
00:16:30damage of more Saudi sites. In the the past few minutes, I've also seen
00:16:34seen reporting that Sanaa International International Airport, which is Houthi
00:16:37Houthi controlled, has been hit in in Saudi air strikes. So we're seeing
00:16:41seeing a very heavy Saudi response. response. And that follows the Saudi
00:16:45Saudi and Yemeni air strikes targeting targeting Houthi areas since last
00:16:48last night. Hesham Shawish from BBC
00:16:51BBC Monitoring Hannah Porter is a a Yemen research specialist at ARK
00:16:55ARK Group and an expert on the Houthis. Houthis. She told us what this attack
00:16:58attack says about the Houthis military military strategy and capabilities
00:17:02capabilities at this time. Well, Well, certainly both of them are
00:17:05are pushing the Houthis and influencing influencing their behaviour and their
00:17:08their decision making. And I think think the dynamics surrounding both
00:17:11both of these conflicts are really really important to understanding understanding the Houthis decisions
00:17:15decisions right now to be attacking attacking Riyadh. And I think also
00:17:18also specifically their decision decision to attack airports repeatedly.
00:17:21repeatedly. It's interesting that that initially the Houthis had announced
00:17:25announced a maritime blockade on on the Saudis. But now if you look
00:17:28look at the language used by the the military spokesman for the Houthis,
00:17:31Houthis, Yahya Saraiya, he's focusing focusing on the targeting of airports
00:17:35airports with the exclusion they they note, of Mecca and Medina. And
00:17:38And I suspect that that is because because the Houthis are attempting
00:17:41attempting to stave off US involvement. involvement. And perhaps they believe
00:17:45believe that if they stick to targeting
00:17:48targeting Saudi airports rather than, than, for example, oil shipments
00:17:52shipments that may reduce the likelihood
00:17:54likelihood of increased US involvement.
00:17:57involvement. Hannah Porter in India, India, the leader of the Cockroach
00:18:01Cockroach protest movement has been been released from detention. The
00:18:04The Cockroach Janta Party said its its founder, Abhijeet Dipke, was
00:18:07was detained with other leaders shortly shortly after landing in Delhi to
00:18:10to lead protests seeking electoral
00:18:13electoral reform just months before before crucial state elections. He
00:18:15He began the movement in May after after India's chief justice likened
00:18:19likened some jobless young people people to cockroaches. The protesters
00:18:23protesters have returned to central central Delhi for a second day. Much
00:18:26Much of the area has seen roads barricaded
00:18:29barricaded offices, shops and restaurants restaurants are shut and internet
00:18:32internet services curtailed. For For now, demonstrators are vastly
00:18:36vastly outnumbered by security personnel personnel and the BBC has witnessed
00:18:39witnessed many detentions. The CJP CJP and other opposition parties
00:18:42parties are calling for the election election commissioner to be sacked
00:18:46sacked over revisions to the electoral
00:18:48electoral roll, an accusation denied
00:18:51denied by the authorities. At least
00:18:54least 139 people have died, including
00:18:56including 15 children, after a boat
00:18:58boat sank off the shores of Djibouti.
00:19:01Djibouti. That's according to the the International Organisation for
00:19:04for Migration Survivors said the the vessel, which was carrying around
00:19:08around 350 people from Djibouti to to Yemen, capsized north of the town
00:19:12town of Obock overnight on October
00:19:15October the 8th. 82 people all Ethiopian
00:19:18Ethiopian nationals, were rescued. rescued. It's among the deadliest deadliest shipwrecks recorded on
00:19:21on a route used by migrants from from the Horn of Africa trying to
00:19:24to reach the Gulf states. A flash
00:19:28flash flood in central Nepal has
00:19:29has left at least five people missing.
00:19:33missing. More than 140 houses were were fully or partially damaged and
00:19:37and bridges and hydropower infrastructure infrastructure were swept away. Officials
00:19:40Officials suspect a dry landslide landslide had blocked the Gandaki
00:19:43Gandaki River before it burst. More
00:19:46More than 90 people, including nine nine foreigners, have been rescued
00:19:48rescued so far. Residents living living downstream have been told
00:19:51told to leave for their safety, a a disaster management official said.
00:19:55said. SMS alerts helped avert a major major loss of life. Well, the country
00:19:59country remains on high alert after after devastating floods swept thousands
00:20:02thousands of people away seven weeks
00:20:04weeks ago, triggered by a glacier glacier collapse along the border
00:20:07border with Tibet. Our global affairs
00:20:11affairs correspondent Anbarasan Ethirajan Ethirajan told us about what we're we're seeing from the affected areas.
00:20:15areas. The pictures are really scary
00:20:17scary where you see that a torrent
00:20:19torrent of water, mud and rocks,
00:20:22rocks, the sledge sweeping through
00:20:24through some of these villages in
00:20:26in central part of Nepal in Gorkha
00:20:29Gorkha district and according to
00:20:31to officials, nearly 40 houses were were swept away and four bridges.
00:20:35bridges. And the bridges are very
00:20:36very key because Nepal is a mountainous mountainous country where the bridges
00:20:40bridges connect various districts. districts. So transport has been
00:20:43been snapped between two districts districts and also for hydroelectric
00:20:47hydroelectric power. Projects were
00:20:50were damaged in this flash flood, flood, but fortunately the authorities
00:20:53authorities were able to predict predict this early as one of the
00:20:57the disaster management officials officials was saying early that they
00:21:00they were able to give SMS alerts
00:21:02alerts to people living downstream downstream of the river. So that's
00:21:06that's why many people managed to
00:21:07to go to a safer location. And they
00:21:10they believe that this flooding was
00:21:13was caused by a landslide upstream, upstream, and it blocked the river's
00:21:16river's path. And then suddenly it
00:21:18it burst, causing this flooding.
00:21:21flooding. And so far they have rescued
00:21:24rescued more than 80 people and including
00:21:26including nine foreigners. And this this could be possibly trekkers is
00:21:29is also busy period for people going
00:21:32going for trekking in Nepal. But
00:21:34But the authorities have deployed deployed four helicopters in the
00:21:38the rescue work. So a different location,
00:21:40location, a different cause. But
00:21:43But how much more prepared and vigilant vigilant are the authorities being
00:21:47being now in response to the huge huge flood we saw seven weeks ago.
00:21:51ago. This time they had some response response time so that they can warn
00:21:55warn people. But it also shows the
00:21:57the danger, the climate change and and also how this Himalayan region
00:22:01region is sitting on this volcano volcano of landslides or glacial
00:22:04glacial ice fall So happening. Now Now this is happening frequently.
00:22:08frequently. It is not only in this this particular area, even bigger
00:22:12bigger cities and other parts of
00:22:14of Nepal, main highways have been been impacted because of repeated
00:22:17repeated landslides. It shows that
00:22:19that the land is loose or heavy rains
00:22:22rains or no forest cover or the impact impact of climate change as many
00:22:25many scientists would point away away point out. And at the same time,
00:22:28time, a study released last week
00:22:30week said nearly 300,000 people living
00:22:33living on various banks of the rivers rivers in Nepal, they are in danger
00:22:37danger of facing this flash flooding flooding because it is happening
00:22:40happening more frequently now and and without giving enough warning,
00:22:43warning, so they need to find a way way to resettle people or move people
00:22:46people away from the riverbanks. riverbanks. And that's a huge undertaking undertaking that's going to take
00:22:50take years. The country is already already reeling under what happened
00:22:52happened in the end of August, when
00:22:55when this flash floods and the glacial glacial ice fall on the border with
00:22:59with Tibet. It killed more than 1500
00:23:011500 people and 5000 are still missing. missing. And already the Nepalese Nepalese government says they need
00:23:05need at least $5 billion to rebuild
00:23:09rebuild some of these areas. People People are still living in shelters
00:23:11shelters with relatives and friends, friends, and they can't go back to
00:23:14to their villages because there is
00:23:16is a 4 to 5ft of mud above their their villages and market towns.
00:23:20towns. So people are still coming coming to terms with what happened.
00:23:22happened. And then you have this
00:23:24this new flooding. It shows the dangers dangers of what's happening in Nepal's
00:23:28Nepal's mountainous regions. Amazon,
00:23:32Amazon, Pope Leo has announced that that he is to undergo surgery after
00:23:36after his doctors detected what he he called a very early stage nodule
00:23:40nodule in his lung. Leo, who's 71
00:23:4271 years old, said it was found during during a routine check-up and appeared
00:23:45appeared to be well contained. He He thanked people for their prayers.
00:23:49prayers. Recovery from surgery is
00:23:50is expected to take around a week.
00:23:54week. Hurricane Simon is bearing bearing down on Mexico's Pacific
00:23:57Pacific coast, bringing torrential
00:23:58torrential rain and sustained winds
00:24:01winds of up to 240km an hour. The
00:24:04The category four storm is expected
00:24:06expected to make landfall near the the port city of Manzanillo in a
00:24:10a few hours' time. Residents on the
00:24:12the coast of Colima and Jalisco have have been warned that eight metre
00:24:16metre waves could bring storm surges surges and coastal flooding. People
00:24:19People have been boarding up windows
00:24:21windows and doors ahead of its arrival.
00:24:23arrival. Our weather presenter Matt Matt Taylor explains just how powerful
00:24:27powerful this hurricane is. Hurricane Hurricane Simon it's quite a phenomenal
00:24:30phenomenal storm. We measure hurricanes hurricanes on a scale of 1 to 5.
00:24:335. This is right at the top end of of a four sustained winds. That's
00:24:36That's mean winds of 250km an hour,
00:24:39hour, 155 miles an hour gusts much, much, much quicker than that as well.
00:24:43well. If I just show you the satellite satellite imagery of where that storm storm is at the moment, you can see
00:24:47see the well-defined eye there it it is getting close. It's about 60
00:24:5060 miles offshore at the moment. moment. The big question mark, though
00:24:54though forecasters are having, is is just the behaviour of what is is going to happen with this storm.
00:24:57storm. Is it going to come on land land or is it just going to skirt skirt parallel to the coast for a
00:25:01a bit longer? Now that's crucial crucial because the second it goes
00:25:04goes on land because it's quite mountainous mountainous just inside of the coast, coast, it will rip the storm apart
00:25:08apart quite quickly. But if it stays stays offshore for a little bit longer,
00:25:10longer, it means those coastal areas areas will be battered by those catastrophic
00:25:14catastrophic winds for a much longer longer period. We're going to be
00:25:17be piling in more in the way of storm storm surge towards those coastal
00:25:20coastal districts as well. And then then the rainfall is going to be
00:25:22be piling in as well across the mountainous
00:25:24mountainous region just inland. Matt
00:25:27Matt Taylor from BBC Weather eight
00:25:30eight orangutans rescued from the the wildfires that recently swept swept through parts of Borneo have
00:25:34have been released into protected protected forest. The orangutans
00:25:37orangutans three mother and baby
00:25:39baby pairs and two male teenagers teenagers were saved, saved from
00:25:43from various locations in West Kalimantan Kalimantan on the Indonesian part
00:25:46part of the island. Their new home
00:25:48home is at the Batu Nyambu Reserve, Reserve, chosen by conservationists
00:25:52conservationists because of the availability availability of food and water resources
00:25:56resources as well as its connectivity connectivity to other forests, orangutans
00:25:59orangutans are critically endangered, endangered, with just over 100,000
00:26:03100,000 of them remaining in Borneo Borneo and Sumatra.
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00:30:15These are the latest headlines from BBC News. President Zelensky
00:30:19Zelensky has told American news website
00:30:21website Axios that it's news to him him that Ukraine and Russia have
00:30:24have agreed an energy ceasefire as
00:30:27as claimed by President Trump. The The Houthis in Yemen have warned
00:30:30warned against the use of airports airports in Saudi Arabia after 12
00:30:3412 people were killed and more than than 300 injured in a deadly attack
00:30:37attack at Riyadh's international international airport. The leader
00:30:41leader of India's Cockroach Janta Janta Party says they will neither
00:30:43neither back down nor be intimidated. intimidated. He was earlier released
00:30:47released after being detained at
00:30:48at Delhi's airport on Saturday. Nepal's
00:30:51Nepal's authorities called for the the evacuation of villages on the
00:30:54the banks of the Budhi Gandaki River River after severe flooding in the
00:30:57the centre of the country. Five people people are reported missing.