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00:00:13Live from London. This is BBC
00:00:16News. Another strike hits Riyadh
00:00:18Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia a
00:00:21a day after 12 people were killed killed and hundreds wounded in a
00:00:24a Houthi attack. President Zelensky
00:00:27Zelensky has denied knowledge of of an energy cease fire with Russia
00:00:31Russia announced by Donald Trump. Trump. But he says Ukraine supports
00:00:34supports the idea if Russia does
00:00:37does to at least 139 people have
00:00:39have been killed, including 15 children, children, in a deadly shipwreck off
00:00:43off the coast of Djibouti. Flash
00:00:46Flash floods in central Nepal sweep
00:00:47sweep away bridges and homes as five
00:00:50five people reported missing. Manchester
00:00:54Manchester City win 3-0 against Liverpool Liverpool in their first match since
00:00:57since being found guilty of breaching
00:01:00breaching financial rules. Pope Leo
00:01:02Leo says he is to undergo surgery surgery after his doctors detected
00:01:06detected what he called a very early
00:01:07early stage nodule in his lung. Hello,
00:01:20Hello, this is BBC News. I'm Catherine Catherine Byaruhanga. In a major
00:01:24major escalation in the Middle East, East, Yemen's Houthis say they've
00:01:27they've attacked energy facilities facilities and two airports in Saudi
00:01:30Saudi Arabia. Blasts were heard at
00:01:32at Dammam airport and at King Khalid
00:01:34Khalid Airport in Riyadh, where injuries injuries have been reported. The
00:01:38The attack comes a day after 12 people people were killed and hundreds wounded
00:01:41wounded in a strike by the Iran-backed Iran-backed group. The deadliest
00:01:45deadliest attack on Saudi soil in in more than a decade. The Houthis
00:01:48Houthis have warned airlines and and passengers not to use airports
00:01:52airports in Saudi Arabia. A number number of Western diplomatic missions,
00:01:55missions, including the UK and the the US, have warned their nationals
00:01:58nationals to stay away from the airport.
00:02:01airport. A world news correspondent, correspondent, Joe Inwood reports.
00:02:05reports. May I have your attention,
00:02:07attention, please? Has been detected
00:02:10detected in the building. Chaos at at one of Saudi Arabia's most important
00:02:14important airports. Inside the terminal, terminal, the damage is clear. The
00:02:18The result of a missile strike. More
00:02:20More than 300 people injured. Emergency
00:02:22Emergency services said to be overwhelmed. overwhelmed. Although they've not
00:02:26not officially claimed credit. It's It's thought it was carried out by
00:02:29by the Houthis, who had already struck struck the airport twice this week.
00:02:33week. This footage from Thursday
00:02:36Thursday the Iran-backed group control control large parts of Yemen. Saudi
00:02:40Saudi Arabia's strategically significant significant southern neighbour. For
00:02:43For more than a decade, the Houthis Houthis have been involved in a brutal
00:02:46brutal civil war with the internationally internationally recognised government,
00:02:49government, which has Saudi backing. backing. Now, for the last couple couple of years, there's been an
00:02:53an uneasy truce. But that was shattered
00:02:55shattered in recent months. The Houthis Houthis made lightning advances down
00:02:59down the Red Sea coast last month, month, giving them an even greater
00:03:03greater ability to threaten shipping shipping in the Red Sea. Now Saudi
00:03:07Saudi Arabia responded with air strikes
00:03:09strikes and with the government recently recently retook some territory. The
00:03:13The Houthi response to that could
00:03:15could be seen at Riyadh airport last
00:03:18last night from the US President. President. Condemnation of the attack,
00:03:21attack, but no promise of support.
00:03:23support. I think it's terrible, terrible.
00:03:27terrible. Terrible because I'm south south southwest. Well they're able able to defend. Look, the Saudis
00:03:31Saudis are good fighters. But I think think the attack was a terrible thing.
00:03:35thing. This attack was the most severe
00:03:36severe on Saudi soil in over a decade.
00:03:39decade. It has already claimed many many lives. But more than that, it
00:03:43it strikes at the heart of the kingdom's
00:03:45kingdom's image for stability and
00:03:47and security. There will surely be
00:03:50be a retaliation. Joe Inwood. BBC
00:03:52BBC News. Our senior international international correspondent Orla
00:03:56Orla Guerin, who's in Yemen in the
00:03:57the city of Aden, has more on the the significance of this attack.
00:04:01attack. The Houthis have managed
00:04:02managed to strike not only an economically economically important target by
00:04:06by hitting the airport in Riyadh,
00:04:07Riyadh, but also a very politically politically sensitive target. Now,
00:04:11Now, they have already said that
00:04:13that they consider airports in Saudi
00:04:16Saudi Arabia to be potential targets. targets. They have warned airlines
00:04:19airlines to stay out of the airspace, airspace, and they have said people
00:04:22people should take those warnings warnings seriously. So that suggests
00:04:25suggests more attacks are to come. come. I certainly think we can expect
00:04:29expect to see a significant retaliation
00:04:32retaliation by Saudi Arabia. They They will want to do something of
00:04:35of some serious measure to send a
00:04:38a message to the Houthis. We did did have air strikes today in the
00:04:42the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, but there
00:04:44there is no word yet about any casualties casualties from those attacks. But
00:04:48But I think one of the big questions questions now is what does President
00:04:51President Trump do? He will be under
00:04:53under growing pressure from Saudi
00:04:56Saudi Arabia, who are close allies, allies, to get more involved. Now
00:04:59Now that has been something he has
00:05:02has resisted in recent weeks, and and he would probably prefer to resist
00:05:05resist it again. He has the US mid-terms
00:05:08mid-terms coming up and getting involved involved in another foreign war.
00:05:12war. I will not be popular with American American voters, but Riyadh will
00:05:15will certainly be pushing for help. help. And I think we have to remember
00:05:19remember you cannot divorce all of
00:05:21of this from the broader context
00:05:23context of conflict and tension and and escalation in the Middle East,
00:05:27East, and particularly the war by
00:05:29by America and Israel on Iran. The
00:05:32The Houthis are major Iranian allies. allies. And what the Houthis have
00:05:35have done now by striking Saudi Arabia
00:05:38Arabia so hard will certainly please
00:05:40please Tehran. Well, for more on
00:05:42on who the Houthis are and what they're they're hoping to achieve, I've been
00:05:45been speaking to our world news correspondent
00:05:48correspondent Joe Inwood. The Houthis
00:05:50Houthis are allied with the Iranians. Iranians. They're not a proxy in
00:05:54in the same way, quite the same way way Hezbollah are. They are an independent independent group with their own
00:05:57own power base and objectives. But
00:06:00But they do share connections. They've They've got training with the IRGC.
00:06:04IRGC. And so and they consider themselves themselves part of this axis of resistance.
00:06:08resistance. So they are an allied allied force, an associated force,
00:06:11force, but not a directly kind of of controlled group. But what we've
00:06:14we've seen is all was pointing out
00:06:16out there, these actions are going going to be useful for the Iranian
00:06:20Iranian overall Iranian kind of cause cause and mission. And part of the
00:06:23the reason for that is because it
00:06:26it opens up another sort of front front in this conflict, but also
00:06:28also it brings into play another another straight. Now, of course, course, we've spoken many, many times
00:06:32times about the Strait of Hormuz.
00:06:34Hormuz. That's the one to kind of
00:06:37of to the east of the Saudi Arabian
00:06:39Arabian Peninsula to the west of of it you have the Red Sea and the
00:06:43the Bab al-Mandab Strait. And by by bringing kind of bringing their
00:06:47their forces down to the coast there, there, they threaten that. And it
00:06:50it further puts pressure on international international shipping, which is
00:06:53is of course useful to the Iranians. Iranians. Yes. And a lot of people
00:06:56people will be surprised about these these attacks that have happened
00:06:58happened this week. Just remind us us who the Houthis are and what their
00:07:02their objectives are. So the Houthis Houthis are a kind of a tribal group,
00:07:06group, a group that have, you know, know, they're a Yemeni group. They're They're not some external force,
00:07:10force, although as I said, they're they're allied with the Iranians Iranians and they have been fighting
00:07:14fighting a civil war for many, many
00:07:16many years against what are kind kind of commonly called the internationally
00:07:20internationally recognised government
00:07:20government of Yemen. Now, they were
00:07:24were supported the Houthis supported supported by the Iranians, the internationally internationally recognised government
00:07:28government supported by the Saudis Saudis and the UAE. That coalition,
00:07:31coalition, as it was called, has has all kind of fractured. But there
00:07:34there was a really, really brutal brutal ten year civil war. The Saudis
00:07:37Saudis and the UAE tried to push push the Houthis out, basically have
00:07:40have failed. They are still there.
00:07:42there. And that civil war had died died down, to use the correct phrase.
00:07:46phrase. There had been an uneasy uneasy truce and that has been shattered
00:07:48shattered in the last few
00:07:52months. Ukraine's President Zelensky Zelensky says he's awaiting details details from America after Donald
00:07:56Donald Trump claimed Ukraine and and Russia had agreed to an energy
00:08:00energy ceasefire. Mr Trump wrote wrote on his Truth Social Platform
00:08:03Platform that an agreement between between the two sides will halt attacks
00:08:05attacks on each other's energy facilities
00:08:08facilities and would come into effect effect immediately in September.
00:08:10September. A similar promise of such
00:08:13such a ceasefire failed to materialise. materialise. Initially, President
00:08:16President Zelensky said the announcement announcement was news to him, but
00:08:19but he's now posted to say that he's he's discussed the energy ceasefire
00:08:22ceasefire with the leaders of Nato, Nato, Canada and Finland and that
00:08:25that it's important Russia supports supports it. To. Our correspondent
00:08:29correspondent Dan Johnson spoke to to us from Kyiv and told us if Ukraine
00:08:32Ukraine knew this announcement was was coming. This seems to have come
00:08:36come as a big surprise. Out of the the blue, Donald Trump says both
00:08:39both parties have agreed. We don't don't know what the Russian involvement
00:08:43involvement is, but for Ukrainians Ukrainians this seemed to come out
00:08:46out of nowhere and there was no response. response. For a time. The latest
00:08:49latest that we've had is a post on
00:08:52on X from President Volodymyr Zelensky, Zelensky, who said he'd been discussing
00:08:56discussing this with other world world leaders and that he supports
00:08:59supports the ceasefire. And it's it's important for Russia to support
00:09:02support it as well. He said we are
00:09:04are awaiting details from the American American side. From our side there
00:09:08there is always full support for for de-escalation steps, protection
00:09:11protection of lives and the necessary
00:09:13necessary decisions to end the war war and ensure lasting peace. So
00:09:17So it seems like rather than being being negotiated jointly, this was
00:09:19was announced unilaterally by Donald Donald Trump not the first time that that has happened, but it does look
00:09:24look like it will be signed up to to by the Ukrainian side because
00:09:27because people here in this city, city, which is currently in darkness,
00:09:29darkness, having just had another another air raid alert, know how
00:09:33how critical their energy infrastructure infrastructure is and how devastating
00:09:36devastating Russia's attacks on it
00:09:38it have been. Russia wants the strikes
00:09:41strikes on its oil refineries to to stop. And the backdrop to this
00:09:44this is the deal that Donald Trump Trump announced with Vladimir Putin
00:09:47Putin to allow Russia to export diesel
00:09:50diesel again, to get that income income to actually fulfil those orders
00:09:53orders and supply that fuel. Russia Russia needs Ukraine to stop its
00:09:57its long range strikes on that infrastructure. infrastructure. But the big question
00:10:01question is will this hold? Will Will both sides respect it? Now Donald
00:10:04Donald Trump announced something something similar about a month ago,
00:10:06ago, but Russia's attacks on Ukrainian
00:10:09Ukrainian energy infrastructure continued. continued. Well, let's take you through
00:10:12through how the past few days have have unfolded. On Friday, Donald
00:10:16Donald Trump announced a deal to
00:10:17to import Russian diesel into the
00:10:20the US. Ukraine's president condemned condemned the deal, calling it a
00:10:23a gift to Putin. The US President President hit back saying he thought
00:10:27thought it was time for Ukraine to to get a new president. President
00:10:30President Zelensky said Ukraine would would stop striking Russian oil refineries
00:10:34refineries if Russia stopped striking striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
00:10:38infrastructure. In an interview with
00:10:40with US network ABC, Zelensky then then said he would organise elections
00:10:44elections in Ukraine if President President Putin agrees to a 60 day
00:10:47day ceasefire. The US President posted
00:10:49posted on Truth Social saying Russia
00:10:51Russia and Ukraine agreed to an immediate immediate ceasefire. President Zelensky
00:10:55Zelensky told US media it was news news to him. Zelensky then posted
00:10:59posted on X saying he backs a ceasefire ceasefire but that it's important
00:11:03important Russia supports it too too and that he's awaiting details
00:11:06details from the US. Our political political correspondent Joe Pike
00:11:09Pike has been telling me about the
00:11:11the UK's response to all of this.
00:11:14this. UK politicians in the government government don't normally ever want
00:11:17want to criticise Donald Trump or or distance themselves from his policy.
00:11:21policy. Normally what we do see, see, though, is visible physical
00:11:24physical examples of politicians politicians agreeing with President President Zelensky. Certainly the
00:11:27the current Prime Minister, Andy Andy Burnham, and his predecessor
00:11:31predecessor Keir Starmer would on on camera hug the Ukrainian president,
00:11:34president, making that support clear clear but not wanting to voice disagreement
00:11:37disagreement with Donald Trump. That That has, though, changed today with
00:11:40with the UK Defence Secretary, a a man called Wes Streeting, distancing
00:11:44distancing himself from the UK's UK's decision. The US's decision
00:11:47decision to have that deal on diesel diesel something the UK government government clearly disagrees with.
00:11:52with. This is what Wes Streeting Streeting said to Radio Four's Broadcasting
00:11:55Broadcasting House. We don't support support that decision. As the Prime
00:11:58Prime Minister set out, we are strengthening strengthening sanctions against Russia. Russia. So is the President wrong,
00:12:02wrong, Wes Streeting well, look, look, I think the way I have interpreted
00:12:06interpreted what President Trump Trump has done is very much in the
00:12:08the context of the US mid-term elections elections that are taking place and
00:12:12and the inevitable pressure that that all of us are feeling at the the moment to try and ease the cost
00:12:16cost of living. And on that cost cost of living point, there are various
00:12:20various levers the UK government government can pull on diesel prices, prices, which are of course affecting
00:12:24affecting people here as they are are in the US and elsewhere in the
00:12:27the world. With the UK's budget approaching approaching just two and a half weeks'
00:12:30weeks' time, Catherine, one of the the ways they can try and change
00:12:32change things is tax because for
00:12:35for every £2 you spend on a litre litre of diesel going into your car
00:12:39car and costs are around £2 each
00:12:41each at the moment, £0.86 of that that £2 is currently taxed. Partly
00:12:44Partly fuel duty, partly value added added tax or VAT. So there's pressure
00:12:47pressure on the UK Finance Minister, Minister, John Healey, to try and
00:12:50and reduce that fuel duty. But it it could be pretty expensive, reducing
00:12:53reducing fuel duty by £0.10 a litre
00:12:57litre for just three months. Would
00:12:58Would Catherine cost the UK £2 billion?
00:13:02billion? Joe Pike there at least
00:13:05least 139 people have died, including
00:13:08including 15 children. Offshore boats
00:13:09boats sank off the shores of Djibouti.
00:13:12Djibouti. That's according to the the International Organisation for
00:13:14for migration. Survivors said the the vessel, which was carrying around
00:13:18around 350 people from Djibouti to
00:13:20to Yemen, capsized north of the town
00:13:22town of Obock overnight on October
00:13:24October the 8th. 82 people, all Ethiopian
00:13:27Ethiopian nationals, were rescued. rescued. It's among the deadliest deadliest shipwrecks recorded on,
00:13:31on, on this route used by migrants migrants from the Horn of Africa
00:13:34Africa trying to reach the Gulf states
00:13:36states through Yemen. Alexandre Coissac
00:13:39Coissac is the International Organisation Organisation for Migration's chief
00:13:41chief of mission in Djibouti. He's He's visited the shoreline where
00:13:45where the shipwreck took place and and has been telling me more about
00:13:48about it. I arrived one day after
00:13:51after and I saw I mean, it's very very tragic. It's very difficult
00:13:54difficult to describe. Sorry, but but many, many, many dead bodies
00:13:58bodies that were on the scene that that have been pushed on the sea.
00:14:01sea. The day just before the army, army, which was the first to intervene
00:14:05intervene together with the local
00:14:06local authorities. And already buried
00:14:09buried 67 bodies, but more were being
00:14:11being pushed by the sea. So I saw saw devastation. That's what I've
00:14:15I've seen. Yes. And what have survivors
00:14:18survivors had to say? We've met some
00:14:21some survivors actually. As we were
00:14:22were going there with the car somebody
00:14:26somebody was in the desert, got lost lost and ran towards US, very frankly.
00:14:29frankly. I mean, the one I met could
00:14:31could hardly speak. He had been lost
00:14:33lost in the desert for one and a a half when we met him. We brought
00:14:37brought him to our centre. We are
00:14:39are providing support to another
00:14:42another 8081 of them altogether. altogether. It's 82 people that we
00:14:46we are currently helping in a migrant migrant response centre that we have
00:14:49have in Obock. There are all, instead
00:14:51instead of shock it's very difficult
00:14:53difficult for them to, to express express what happened and what we
00:14:56we are trying to do for them is to to provide food, water, shelter.
00:15:00shelter. I mean human contact. And
00:15:03And we have our health doctors and and psychologists who are also working
00:15:06working with them. Why is this route
00:15:09route so deadly? Boats crossing from
00:15:11from Djibouti to Yemen. I mean, the the dangers are nearly everywhere.
00:15:15everywhere. I mean, first crossing
00:15:17crossing Djibouti is not easy because because it's a very deserted country.
00:15:21country. There is a lack of I mean,
00:15:23mean, it's very hot weather, extremely
00:15:26extremely hot weather, difficulty difficulty to access water. So just
00:15:28just the journey in Djibouti can can be deadly, especially during
00:15:32during the hot month. And then you you have the crossing the Strait
00:15:35Strait of Bab al-Mandab Strait. It's
00:15:37It's not very large on the map. Anything
00:15:39Anything can happen in the sea in
00:15:42in this specific event. What was
00:15:46was deadly is the fact that the boat
00:15:47boat was a small boat and 305 people
00:15:51people boarded the boat. It was impossible impossible for the boat to just leave.
00:15:54leave. That's why actually it sunk sunk very close to the shore. We
00:15:57We can't. We could see the boat right right there. We could nearly touch
00:16:00touch it. It was so close to the the shore. It didn't get very far.
00:16:04far. As we've been hearing in the
00:16:06the news, the situation is also dangerous dangerous in Yemen itself. There's
00:16:09There's a civil war there. There's There's a humanitarian crisis. Why
00:16:12Why do people continue to travel
00:16:15travel into Yemen? It's a very good
00:16:18good question. It's there is this
00:16:21this seems so determined to leave
00:16:25leave with your dream to finally finally reach the Gulf countries,
00:16:28countries, Saudi Arabia being one one of them. The idea that they can
00:16:31can get a better life over there.
00:16:34there. They can get jobs, economic
00:16:36economic opportunities. So when we
00:16:38we talk to some of the migrants before before they cross the sea, some of
00:16:42of them have no idea what's happening happening in Yemen. So we are trying
00:16:45trying to talk to them and explain explain them. I mean, the what's
00:16:49what's currently going on in Yemen Yemen with all the internal displacement
00:16:52displacement that the country is
00:16:53is also suffering inside. Some are
00:16:56are aware of it and others have just
00:16:58just never heard about it. Actually,
00:17:02Actually, to one thing that's so so striking, some of the migrants,
00:17:05migrants, when they arrive in Djibouti Djibouti do not know that there is
00:17:09is a sea state that needs to be crossed
00:17:11crossed in order for them to continue
00:17:14continue towards Yemen and the Gulf
00:17:15Gulf countries. What are authorities authorities there in Djibouti in
00:17:19in the region doing to make sure
00:17:22sure tragedies like this do not happen?
00:17:25happen? It's they have the Coast Coast Guard that are always patrolling,
00:17:29patrolling, but it can't be everywhere. everywhere. Fortunately, you can't can't be there all the time. So I
00:17:32I know they are always on the sea
00:17:33sea in order to, to be able to provide
00:17:36provide rescue. I mean, first what what they are doing is always to
00:17:39to respond when there is such tragedy. tragedy. Unfortunately this time
00:17:42time because it happened at night. night. We were not they were not
00:17:46not able to respond immediately, immediately, but they were there there very shortly after. Unfortunately
00:17:50Unfortunately too late. And they they immediately provided support
00:17:53support to the survivors. And they
00:17:55they ensured that the one that survived survived could get proper care. And
00:17:59And there are so much work to do
00:18:01do as well in order to bury all the
00:18:03the bodies. So it reply it implied
00:18:07implied involvements of different different actors from the local authorities,
00:18:11authorities, from the Navy, Army Army and also from the local authority,
00:18:14authority, the prefecture. And that
00:18:17that was Alexandra Kozak from the
00:18:19the IOM in Djibouti. In India, protesters
00:18:23protesters have returned to central central Delhi for a second day, with
00:18:26with much of the area barricaded barricaded and offices, shops and
00:18:30and restaurants shut and internet internet services curtailed. The
00:18:33The Cockroach Janta Party and other other opposition parties are calling
00:18:37calling for the Election Commission Commission to be sacked over revisions
00:18:40revisions to the electoral roll, roll, an accusation denied by the
00:18:43the authorities. This comes as the
00:18:45the leader of the Cockroach protest protest movement has been released
00:18:49released from detention. The Cockroach Cockroach Janta Party said. They
00:18:52They said its founder, Abhijeet Dipke, Dipke, was detained with other leaders
00:18:55leaders shortly after landing in in Delhi to lead protests seeking
00:18:59seeking electoral reforms just months months before crucial state elections.
00:19:02elections. He began the movement movement in May after India's chief
00:19:06chief justice likened some jobless
00:19:07jobless young people to cockroaches.
00:19:11cockroaches. A flash flood in central central Nepal has left at least five
00:19:15five people missing. More than 140
00:19:18140 houses were fully or partially
00:19:21partially submerged or damaged, and and bridges and hydropower infrastructure
00:19:24infrastructure were swept away. Officials Officials suspect a dry landslide
00:19:28landslide had blocked the river in
00:19:29in the area before it burst. More
00:19:32More than 90 people, including nine nine foreigners, have been rescued
00:19:35rescued so far. Residents living living downstream have been told
00:19:38told to leave for their safety. A
00:19:40A disaster management official said
00:19:43said MSMS alerts helped avert a major major loss of life. The country remains
00:19:47remains on high alert after devastating devastating floods swept thousands
00:19:50thousands of people away seven weeks
00:19:52weeks ago, triggered by a glacier glacier collapse along the border
00:19:56border with Tibet. Kenya has not
00:19:59not recorded any new cases of Ebola
00:20:02Ebola after conducting almost 300 300 tests since a positive patient
00:20:06patient died there earlier this week. week. The country confirmed its first
00:20:09first imported case of Ebola on October October the 6th, after a citizen
00:20:12citizen who travelled from the Democratic Democratic Republic of Congo died
00:20:16died of the virus in Kenya's capital capital Nairobi. For the latest on
00:20:19on how Kenya has been managing its
00:20:21its Ebola outbreak, I've been speaking
00:20:23speaking to Dr Jean Kaseya director-general
00:20:26director-general of the Africa Centers Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
00:20:30Prevention. Now that we started the
00:20:31the process in Kenya, we are at protocol.
00:20:34protocol. We have all people in the
00:20:37the contact list. It will take at
00:20:40at least 21 days without any new
00:20:44new case. That will be locally transmitted.
00:20:47transmitted. If we have no new case case after 21 days, all of these
00:20:52these people in the contacts will will be out. Then we can say you
00:20:55you are. Kenya is out of the outbreak.
00:20:59outbreak. Part of the challenge here here is that the patient travelled
00:21:03travelled through several provinces provinces within the Democratic Republic
00:21:06Republic of Congo, crossed by road
00:21:08road into Uganda, then flew into
00:21:10into Kenya. Just highlighting the the risk that transmission could
00:21:13could spread from the DRC to the
00:21:15the rest of the region. You know,
00:21:18know, just for you to have an idea,
00:21:21idea, the distance that this person
00:21:25person made from butter to Kenya
00:21:30Kenya is like a cost. 11 European
00:21:32European countries. You can imagine
00:21:35imagine number of contacts from where where himself. He got it because
00:21:39because he was sick for more than
00:21:41than one month to are all of these
00:21:46these places. Now what is the risk?
00:21:49risk? The risk is still there. And And this is what I was saying from
00:21:52from the very first day. This is
00:21:54is a regional. This is a regional
00:21:58regional outbreak and we need to
00:22:00to treat it like that. If today we
00:22:03we don't control that in DRC. Yes,
00:22:05Yes, other countries can be
00:22:10affected. Other countries can get get the virus. But give us a sense
00:22:13sense of what's being done to stop
00:22:16stop this, this spread of the virus virus because you say you've been been warning about this since day
00:22:19day one, but it seems to still be
00:22:21be happening. You know what is making
00:22:27making me a little bit comfortable
00:22:30comfortable is I can see the political
00:22:33political commitment from president
00:22:35president to stop that. Now, how
00:22:37how can we translate this political
00:22:40political commitment? It. This is is the what we are working on. And
00:22:44And I'm meeting president on Tuesday.
00:22:46Tuesday. It means in, in two days
00:22:49days and to discuss how we can strengthen
00:22:52strengthen the response. Yes, there
00:22:54there are still some factors like like insecurity, humanitarian issue.
00:22:57issue. But we also need to see what
00:23:00what we are not doing well so far far and what we can strengthen. And
00:23:04And he really knows that. And this
00:23:06this is so supportive. Here. Visitors
00:23:10Visitors to a wildlife park in South South Yorkshire, northern England,
00:23:13England, have been describing their their shock and distress after a
00:23:16a man was killed when he entered entered the tiger enclosure yesterday.
00:23:19yesterday. He died at the scene.
00:23:21scene. The park remains closed while
00:23:23while investigation continues. Yunus
00:23:25Yunus Mulla reports. A Siberian tiger
00:23:30tiger filmed, relaxed and in the the sunshine just minutes before
00:23:33before a man entered this enclosure enclosure at the Yorkshire Wildlife
00:23:37Wildlife Park and was attacked. The The entire incident at the Land of
00:23:40of Tigers section was witnessed by
00:23:42by Ella Ford. She was on a raised raised walkway with her boyfriend.
00:23:46boyfriend. She climbed up and some some woman was there talking to him
00:23:49him and he climbed up onto the barriers barriers onto like a metal bar. And
00:23:53And then next thing you know, he
00:23:54he just jumped in and then he like
00:23:57like crawled towards in front of of the tiger where the tiger was
00:24:00was perched and just lay there. We've We've seen the tiger get down and
00:24:04and come over to him and obviously obviously grab on to him. And then
00:24:07then he was shouting for help. And And then people around us were obviously
00:24:11obviously trying to get the kids kids away, and they'd gone to try
00:24:14try and find help. And then that's that's when all the staff ran over
00:24:18over and I'd obviously had to block block the whole bridge that everyone
00:24:20everyone was on and got everyone
00:24:22everyone off the bridge. Staff evacuated
00:24:25evacuated around 15 to 20 people people from the enclosures raised
00:24:29raised platform and emergency services services were called, but the man
00:24:32man died at the scene. Went past past the tiger walkway. My family
00:24:35family said, oh, that's it there there look. And there were a load
00:24:38load of police loads of rangers and and this black tarpaulin thing up
00:24:42up to cover people from seeing in.
00:24:44in. The two acre reserve is home home to Amur tigers, an endangered
00:24:48endangered subspecies with around around 500 left in the wild. The
00:24:52The high fence walkway allows visitors
00:24:53visitors to see the animals roaming
00:24:57roaming below the park, said today today its thoughts and sympathies sympathies remain with the family
00:25:01family of the man who has died. Staff
00:25:03Staff here will also be given specialist
00:25:06specialist support and the tiger, tiger, it said, is safe and will
00:25:09will not be euthanized as a result
00:25:11result of the attack. The park remains
00:25:14remains closed. Yunus Mulla BBC News
00:25:18News Doncaster. Before we go, I want
00:25:20want to show you some stunning images images that BBC Weather Watchers
00:25:23Watchers have captured of the Northern
00:25:25Northern Lights, the natural phenomenon phenomenon known as the Aurora borealis,
00:25:29borealis, which is the result of of increased solar activity, was
00:25:32was seen across large parts of the
00:25:34the UK. Such occurrences are mostly
00:25:37mostly visible near the Arctic Circle Circle and northern Scotland, but
00:25:40but particularly strong activity activity levels meant there could
00:25:42could be seen as far south as Devon,
00:25:45Devon, Hampshire and Kent on Saturday Saturday night, the Met Office says
00:25:49says sightings could continue to to be possible during clear skies
00:25:53skies until Tuesday. Experts have have previously said 2026 will be
00:25:57be a peak year for Aurora spotting, spotting, as the sun has been in
00:26:00in a heightened state of activity
00:26:01activity as part of its 11 year natural
00:27:36will emerge low 40s and Celsius in in Kuwait.
00:29:55means for you. Go online at bbc.com/business bbc.com/business to get the latest latest news wherever you are. Business
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