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00:00:14Live from London. This is BBC
00:00:16News. President Zelensky welcomes
00:00:19welcomes Donald Trump's idea of an an energy ceasefire, but says Russia
00:00:22Russia is continuing to attack Ukrainian
00:00:24Ukrainian power plants despite the
00:00:27the announcement by the US., another
00:00:29another strike hits Riyadh's international international airport in Saudi Arabia
00:00:33Arabia a day after 13 people were were killed and hundreds wounded
00:00:37wounded in a Houthi attack. At least
00:00:40least 139 people have been killed, killed, including 15 children, in
00:00:44in a deadly shipwreck off the coast
00:00:46coast of Djibouti. Reform UK say
00:00:48say that if they're elected at the the next election, they'll close
00:00:52close down the UK's asylum system
00:00:55system for five years here in the the UK, an investigation is under
00:00:58under way into the fatal mauling mauling of a man at a wildlife park
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00:01:04and Manchester City win 3-0 against against Liverpool in their first
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00:01:22rules. Hello, I'm Catherine Byaruhanga. Byaruhanga. President Zelensky has
00:01:25has accused Russia of striking Ukrainian
00:01:28Ukrainian energy infrastructure after after President Trump claimed both
00:01:31both sides had signed up to an energy
00:01:33energy ceasefire. Initially, President President Zelensky said the announcement
00:01:36announcement was news to him. He He has since posted to say he's discussed
00:01:40discussed the energy ceasefire with with various world leaders and Ukraine
00:01:44Ukraine backs the idea if Russia Russia supports it too. But questioned
00:01:48questioned if Moscow really wants wants peace. Earlier, Donald Trump
00:01:51Trump wrote on his Truth Social Platform Platform that an agreement between
00:01:55between Russia and Ukraine to halt halt attacks on each other's energy
00:01:59energy facilities would come into into effect immediately. In September.
00:02:02September. A similar promise of such
00:02:04such a ceasefire failed to materialise. materialise. Now it's been reported
00:02:08reported by the Financial Times that that the US is threatening to stop
00:02:11stop the procurement system that that provides Ukraine with weapons
00:02:14weapons as part of its efforts to to press Kyiv to halt its strikes
00:02:18strikes on Russian infrastructure. infrastructure. Our correspondent
00:02:21correspondent Dan Johnson is in Kyiv Kyiv and has more on that initial
00:02:24initial announcement from Donald Donald Trump. This seems to have
00:02:27have come as a big surprise. Out Out of the blue, Donald Trump says
00:02:31says both parties have agreed. We
00:02:32We don't know what the Russian involvement involvement is, but for Ukrainians
00:02:36Ukrainians this seemed to come out out of nowhere and there was no response.
00:02:39response. For a time. The latest
00:02:41latest that we've had is a post on
00:02:44on X from President Volodymyr Zelensky, Zelensky, who said he'd been discussing
00:02:47discussing this with other world world leaders and that he supports
00:02:51supports the ceasefire and it's important important for Russia to support it
00:02:54it as well. He said we are awaiting awaiting details from the American
00:02:58American side. From our side there there is always full support for
00:03:02for de-escalation steps, protection protection of lives and the necessary
00:03:05necessary decisions to end the war war and ensure lasting peace. So
00:03:08So it seems like rather than being being negotiated jointly, this was
00:03:11was announced unilaterally by Donald Donald Trump, not the first time time that has happened, but it does
00:03:15does look like it will be signed signed up to by the Ukrainian side
00:03:18side because people here in this this city, which is currently in
00:03:21in darkness, having just had another
00:03:22another air raid alert, know how
00:03:25how critical their energy infrastructure infrastructure is and how devastating
00:03:28devastating Russia's attacks on it
00:03:29it have been. Russia wants the strikes
00:03:33strikes on its oil refineries to to stop. And the backdrop to this
00:03:36this is the deal that Donald Trump Trump announced with Vladimir Putin
00:03:39Putin to allow Russia to export diesel
00:03:42diesel again, to get that income, income, to actually fulfil those
00:03:45those orders and supply that fuel fuel Russia needs Ukraine to stop
00:03:48stop its long range strikes on that that infrastructure. But the big
00:03:52big question is will this hold? Will Will both sides respect it? Now Donald
00:03:56Donald Trump announced something something similar about a month ago,
00:03:58ago, but Russia's attacks on Ukrainian
00:04:00Ukrainian energy infrastructure continued.
00:04:03continued. Dan Johnson in Kyiv. There.
00:04:04There. Katy Balls is the Washington Washington editor and columnist at
00:04:08at the Times and Sunday Times. She
00:04:10She gave me her analysis on the US US threatening to block arms for
00:04:14for Ukraine over attacks on Russian Russian refineries. Well, we know
00:04:18know that when it comes to the Trump
00:04:21Trump administration for, you know, know, over a month now, they've been
00:04:24been trying to get Ukraine to stop
00:04:26stop when it comes to hitting Russian
00:04:29Russian oil refineries. And Trump
00:04:32Trump has had various threats. Also Also previously announced a ceasefire ceasefire that didn't take hold.
00:04:36hold. And therefore this is an administration administration that's trying to press,
00:04:40press, you know, different pressure pressure points to get what they
00:04:42they want. And the FTT, the Financial Financial Times is reporting that
00:04:45that this you know, this is what what officials, EU officials speaking
00:04:49speaking to the Ukrainians are telling telling them that the US are doing.
00:04:52doing. And I think it we don't have have anything yet from the US on
00:04:56on it, but certainly there is just just a sense that, you know, Trump
00:04:59Trump has made pretty clear that that he is determined to stop Ukrainians
00:05:02Ukrainians from hurting Russian infrastructure. infrastructure. And the deal he announced
00:05:06announced obviously on Friday night,
00:05:07night, which caused lots of consternation,
00:05:11consternation, lots of you know, know, opposition quickly emerging emerging to it to say that Russia
00:05:15Russia was going to be supplying supplying America with a certain certain amount of diesel also is
00:05:18is tying US interests to Russian Russian infrastructure, making it
00:05:22it even harder for Ukrainians to
00:05:25to now strike them. And I think the the announcement that Zelensky wants
00:05:28wants to go along with this ceasefire ceasefire deal is perhaps a way for
00:05:31for all sides to walk down. But whether whether it holds is a different matter.
00:05:35matter. Yes. And what do you think think is the President's motivation
00:05:38motivation here? Is it simply energy
00:05:40energy prices in the United States States where you are, or does he
00:05:43he think this is a way of ending ending the war? I think there's a
00:05:46a few different things. Certainly Certainly energy prices are becoming becoming a political problem for
00:05:50for Donald Trump and the Republican Republican Party, and you cannot cannot get away from the fact that
00:05:54that there are the mid-term elections elections in just a couple of weeks'
00:05:57weeks' time at the very beginning beginning of November. So when Trump
00:06:00Trump unveiled his deal with Russia Russia on Friday on his true social
00:06:04social account, he said, you know, know, the big winner from this is
00:06:06is Americans and talked about the the American agricultural workers.
00:06:10workers. And that does come to the the fact that diesel in America last
00:06:13last month hit its highest ever recorded
00:06:15recorded price. And voters are linking linking that to the Iran war and
00:06:18and blaming Donald Trump. So any any tool he can do to either lower
00:06:21lower the prices ideally, but also also signal to American voters, which
00:06:24which might be more realistic given given the time frame that he's doing
00:06:27doing something is something he wants wants to grab. You also add to that,
00:06:31that, however, the fact that the the Ukrainian war is now being wrapped
00:06:35wrapped up with the Iranian war. war. Trump obviously did start their
00:06:38their Iran war. He says Ukraine would
00:06:41would never start without him, but but they're coming together to create
00:06:44create something of an energy crisis. crisis. And he also keeps saying
00:06:47saying he still wants a peace prize, prize, so he's looking for ways to
00:06:49to end it. It's just that getting getting closer to Russia, I think
00:06:53think still the jury is out speaking speaking to Europeans and some Republicans Republicans that that is the way
00:06:57way that this is going to come to to an end in a way the Ukrainians
00:07:00Ukrainians can get behind. We've We've seen the President take strong
00:07:03strong positions on Ukraine and then then walk them back. Could all of
00:07:06of this blow over in a few days? days? In a few weeks? Yeah. I think
00:07:09think this is the thing that's tricky. tricky. Obviously on Friday you have
00:07:12have Trump announcing this deal with
00:07:14with the Russians and you have then
00:07:17then Trump today announcing a ceasefire ceasefire and then minutes later,
00:07:20later, Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader, leader, saying, well, you know, well, well, he doesn't know anything about
00:07:24about it. Now, I think the Ukrainians Ukrainians still feel as though they
00:07:27they need to have their Americans Americans on side. I think they are
00:07:31are finding it harder sometimes to to walk that line. You saw Zelensky
00:07:34Zelensky on Friday criticising Trump Trump for this deal. Trump in turn
00:07:37turn saying Zelensky needs to go go and he also needs to hold an election
00:07:41election soon. So I think it's a a very fluid picture for being completely
00:07:44completely honest and no one can can predict how the next couple of
00:07:46of days and weeks are going to go. go. Certainly, I think what we can
00:07:50can say is right now Trump is tying tying American interests closer with
00:07:54with Russia, closer with Putin, and and that makes things harder for
00:07:58for the Ukrainians and the European European allies that are trying to
00:08:01to get Ukraine's voice heard. So So there'll be some relief for those
00:08:04those a ceasefire. But I think no
00:08:06no one is holding their breath, particularly particularly on this, because it
00:08:09it feels as though things are quite
00:08:11quite hard to predict, quite fragile. fragile. And Trump is leaning more
00:08:15more towards Russia than he had been
00:08:17been a few months ago. And that was
00:08:20was Katy Balls from the Times and and Sunday Times. Well, let's take
00:08:24take you through how the past few
00:08:25few days have unfolded. On Friday, Friday, Donald Trump announced a
00:08:29a deal to import Russian diesel into
00:08:32into the US.. Ukraine's president president condemned the deal, calling
00:08:35calling it a gift to Putin. The US
00:08:38US President hit back saying he thought thought it was time for Ukraine to
00:08:40to get a new president. President
00:08:43President Zelensky said Ukraine would would stop striking Russian oil refineries
00:08:47refineries if Russia stopped striking striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
00:08:50infrastructure. In an interview with with US network ABC, Zelensky then
00:08:54then said he would organise elections elections in Ukraine if President
00:08:57President Putin agrees to a 60 day
00:08:59day ceasefire. The US President posted
00:09:02posted on Truth Social saying Russia
00:09:04Russia and Ukraine agreed to an immediate immediate energy ceasefire. President
00:09:07President Zelensky told US media media it was news to him. Zelensky
00:09:11Zelensky then posted on X, saying saying he backs a ceasefire but that
00:09:15that it's important Russia supports
00:09:16supports it too and that he's awaiting
00:09:19awaiting details from the US well,
00:09:22well, let's speak to our correspondent correspondent Nada Tawfik, who's
00:09:25who's following developments for for us. So, Nedda, just talk us through
00:09:29through some of the reactions to
00:09:30to the President's proposals over
00:09:33over this weekend. Yeah. Well, it's it's been really interesting to see
00:09:37see that members of President Donald Donald Trump's own Republican Party
00:09:41Party have expressed reservations, reservations, for example, on the
00:09:44the earlier announced deal to have
00:09:47have Russian diesel hit US markets.
00:09:49markets. While just a few hours ago ago we had a bipartisan group of
00:09:53of senators saying that that ran ran directly counter to laws that
00:09:57that were passed to ensure that American
00:10:00American dollars were not used to to finance Russia's war against Ukraine.
00:10:04Ukraine. And they have urged President President Trump to reverse course.
00:10:08course. So while President Trump
00:10:09Trump is clearly focused on doing
00:10:13doing everything he can to lower lower fuel prices with the mid-term
00:10:16mid-term elections coming up in just
00:10:18just over three weeks, you have Republicans Republicans saying that that really
00:10:21really can't be done at the expense
00:10:23expense of Ukraine and the US., Nato
00:10:25Nato allies. Now, I think there is
00:10:27is still, like everyone else in Europe Europe and Ukraine among lawmakers
00:10:31lawmakers here in the US many questions questions about what this energy
00:10:35energy ceasefire entails, given the the Ukrainian President Zelensky
00:10:38Zelensky has said it was news to to him and that there's been no comment
00:10:41comment from Russia. So big question
00:10:43question marks there. But from those
00:10:46those who are concerned about having having no kind of daylight between
00:10:49between the US and its European allies,
00:10:51allies, there is concern that this
00:10:54this is taking pressure off of Russia
00:10:57Russia precisely when Europeans and
00:10:59and others want that pressure to to be maintained. So I would say
00:11:03say here in the US., many questions questions for Donald Trump, including
00:11:06including from his own party. And And how much of this is cutting through
00:11:09through to voters? What do voters
00:11:12voters make of the President's proposals? proposals? Is it all about fuel prices
00:11:16prices coming down, or does some some of the rhetoric cut through
00:11:19through to them? Well, look, I think
00:11:23think certainly when you're looking
00:11:25looking at Donald Trump's core base
00:11:28base announcement on Truth Social Social declaring success, you know,
00:11:31know, that will be welcomed by his
00:11:33his base. But you have to remember
00:11:37remember that his approval ratings ratings are near historic lows right
00:11:41right now in this country. The majority
00:11:43majority of Americans do not think
00:11:45think that he has handled the economy
00:11:48economy well and cost of living is
00:11:51is the dominant issue when it comes comes to the mid-term elections.
00:11:54elections. Coming up, poll after
00:11:55after poll has shown that. And so
00:11:58so these kind of pronouncements of, of, you know, something coming down
00:12:02down the line isn't really impacting impacting Americans immediately when
00:12:06when they are facing gas and diesel diesel prices that have more than
00:12:10than doubled since February, when when President Trump launched his
00:12:13his war with Iran. And so I think
00:12:16think Republicans are very aware aware of the difficulty they face
00:12:20face politically. Everyone pretty pretty much predicting that they
00:12:23they will lose control of Congress Congress with these upcoming elections.
00:12:26elections. Neda. Thank you. That's That's our correspondent Nada Tawfik
00:12:29Tawfik in New York. There now in
00:12:32in a major escalation in the Middle
00:12:34Middle East, Yemen's Houthi say they've they've attacked energy facilities
00:12:37facilities and two airports in Saudi Saudi Arabia. Blasts were heard at
00:12:41at Dammam airport and at the King
00:12:43King Khalid airport in Riyadh, where where injuries have been reported.
00:12:47reported. The attack comes a day day after 13 people were killed and
00:12:50and hundreds wounded in a strike strike by the Iran-backed group.
00:12:53group. The deadliest attack on Saudi Saudi soil in more than a decade.
00:12:57decade. The Houthis have warned airlines airlines and passengers not to use
00:13:01use airports in Saudi Arabia. A number number of Western diplomatic missions,
00:13:04missions, including the UK and the the US, have warned their nationals
00:13:07nationals to stay away from the airport.
00:13:10airport. Our world news correspondent
00:13:12correspondent Joe Inwood reports. May I have your attention,
00:13:16attention, please? This is a. Chaos
00:13:20Chaos at one of Saudi Arabia's most
00:13:22most important airports inside the the terminal. The damage is clear.
00:13:26clear. The result of a missile strike.
00:13:29strike. More than 300 people injured.
00:13:31injured. Emergency services are said
00:13:33said to be overwhelmed tonight. The The Houthis have claimed responsibility
00:13:36responsibility not just for this this attack but for this one. Last
00:13:40Last Thursday at the same airport airport as well as one at a state
00:13:44state run gas plant with the help
00:13:47help of Almighty God, the armed forces
00:13:49forces carried out for qualitative qualitative operations over the past
00:13:52past 24 hours using a number of ballistic
00:13:55ballistic and winged missiles as as well as drones. The first operation
00:13:58operation targeted King Khalid Airport Airport in Riyadh. The second operation
00:14:01operation targeted an Aramco gas
00:14:04gas plant. The Iran-backed group
00:14:06group control large parts of Yemen.
00:14:09Yemen. Saudi Arabia's strategically strategically significant southern southern neighbour for more than
00:14:13than a decade, the Houthis have been been involved in a brutal civil war
00:14:17war with the internationally recognised recognised government, which has
00:14:20has Saudi backing. Now, for the last last couple of years there's been
00:14:22been an uneasy truce, but that was
00:14:25was shattered in recent months. The The Houthis made lightning advances
00:14:29advances down the Red Sea coast last last month, giving them an even greater
00:14:33greater ability to threaten shipping shipping in the Red Sea. Now Saudi
00:14:36Saudi Arabia responded with air strikes
00:14:39strikes and with the government recently recently retook some territory. The
00:14:43The Houthi response to that could
00:14:44could be seen at Riyadh airport last
00:14:47last night from the US President. President. Condemnation of the attack,
00:14:51attack, but no promise of support.
00:14:53support. I think it's terrible, terrible.
00:14:55terrible. With the terrible to find find himself. Well they're able to
00:14:59to defend look, the Saudis are good
00:15:01good fighters. But I think the attack attack was a terrible thing. This
00:15:04This attack was one of the most severe
00:15:06severe on Saudi soil in over a decade.
00:15:09decade. Some of those killed are are now being identified. One of
00:15:13of them, Bethania Awada, was a mother
00:15:15mother of four from Syria. She was was a victim of a conflict she had
00:15:19had no part in, but that seems to
00:15:22to be escalating dangerously. Joe
00:15:24Joe Inwood, BBC News. This all comes
00:15:27comes as fighting between the Iran-backed Iran-backed Houthis and the Saudi
00:15:31Saudi supported government forces forces in Yemen has intensified in
00:15:34in recent weeks. We can now speak speak to our senior international
00:15:38international correspondent Orla Orla Guerin, who's in Yemen in the
00:15:41the city of Aden. Orla, what's the the significance of these attacks
00:15:44attacks inside Saudi Arabia? Well,
00:15:50Well, the conflicts here in this
00:15:51this region, Catherine, are intertwined. intertwined. And one of those conflicts
00:15:55conflicts is now very much getting getting worse. The strike that was
00:15:58was carried out by the Houthis on
00:15:59on the airport in Riyadh, in Saudi Saudi Arabia, was a major strike.
00:16:03strike. And it not only hit an economically
00:16:07economically important target but but also a politically sensitive
00:16:10sensitive target. Now, since that that strike, the Houthis have hit
00:16:13hit the airport once again and we
00:16:15we don't yet have any figures for for casualties or fatalities. But
00:16:19But the Houthis are saying that Saudi
00:16:23Saudi airports and airspace remain remain a possible target for them
00:16:27them and that airlines should stay stay away. And they say they should
00:16:30should heed that warning. Now, Saudi Saudi Arabia has promised a decisive
00:16:34decisive retaliation. We don't know know what that will be, but certainly
00:16:38certainly people here in the region
00:16:40region are bracing for an escalation. escalation. And then we have the
00:16:43the question of what all of this this means for Donald Trump. There
00:16:46There is now a dilemma for him, as
00:16:49as Saudi is a major ally of the United United States. It has been hit very
00:16:52very hard now by the Houthis. The
00:16:55The Saudis were already asking him him for more support, and he had
00:16:59had stopped short of providing direct
00:17:01direct military aid. He may now feel
00:17:04feel he has to change his position position on that or risk looking
00:17:07looking weak, which is something something we know that he hates to
00:17:10to do. But he also has the US mid-terms mid-terms coming up next week, which
00:17:14which is something he has to consider. consider. And I think something else
00:17:16else to think about is who benefits
00:17:20benefits from this strike. At face
00:17:21face value, it's good for Iran. Iran's
00:17:24Iran's regional rivals in Saudi Arabia
00:17:26Arabia have now taken a very decisive
00:17:28decisive blow. And also the Americans Americans now have something else
00:17:32else to worry about. As President President Trump mulls over what to
00:17:35to do in the war with Iran. So certainly
00:17:38certainly for now, it seems as if
00:17:40if this plays to Iran's agenda. And And Orla, what would you say are
00:17:44are the implications of all of this
00:17:47this beyond the region? I think there
00:17:52there are very big implications far
00:17:54far beyond the Middle East. This This escalating instability is going
00:17:57going to renew the concerns that
00:18:00that are already there about the the supply of oil from this region,
00:18:03region, about oil exports. The Houthis,
00:18:06Houthis, let's remember, took control
00:18:08control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Strait. Now that is a crucial maritime
00:18:12maritime artery for oil exports. exports. So that's already a problem.
00:18:16problem. The Strait of Hormuz oil oil exports there are already disrupted
00:18:19disrupted because of the war in Iran. Iran. So I think what we will see
00:18:22see now is even greater concern about
00:18:25about global oil exports, about supplies
00:18:28supplies and hence about prices. prices. So I think the impact of
00:18:31of all of this will be felt economically economically far beyond the region.
00:18:35region. Orla. Thank you. That's our
00:18:38our senior international correspondent correspondent Orla Guerin in Aden
00:18:40Aden in Yemen. There. In India, protesters
00:18:44protesters have returned to central central Delhi for a second day with
00:18:48with much of the area barricaded barricaded and officers shops and
00:18:52and restaurants shut and internet internet services curtailed. The
00:18:55The Cockroach Janta Party and other other opposition parties are calling
00:18:58calling for the election commissioner commissioner to be sacked over revisions
00:19:02revisions to the electoral, an accusation accusation denied by the authorities.
00:19:05authorities. This comes as the leader
00:19:07leader of the Cockroach protest movement
00:19:10movement has been released from detention.
00:19:12detention. The Cockroach Janta Party Party said its founder, Abhijeet
00:19:15Abhijeet Dipke, was detained with with other leaders shortly after
00:19:18after landing in Delhi to lead protests protests seeking electoral reforms
00:19:22reforms just months before crucial crucial elected state elections.
00:19:25elections. He began the movement movement in May after India's chief
00:19:29chief justice likened some jobless
00:19:30jobless young people to cockroaches.
00:19:35cockroaches. Hurricane Simon is bearing bearing down on Mexico's Pacific
00:19:38Pacific coast, bringing torrential
00:19:39torrential rain and sustained winds
00:19:42winds of up to 240km an hour. The
00:19:45The category four storm is expected
00:19:47expected to make landfall near the the port city of Manzanillo in the
00:19:51the coming hours. Residents on the
00:19:53the coast of Colima and Jalisco have
00:19:55have been warned that eight metre metre waves could bring storm surges
00:19:59surges and coastal flooding. People People have been boarding up windows
00:20:03windows and doors ahead of its arrival.
00:20:07arrival. Pope Leo has announced that that he is to undergo surgery after
00:20:11after his doctors detected what he
00:20:13he called a very a very early stage
00:20:16stage nodule in his lung. Leo, who who is 71 years old, thanked people
00:20:20people for their prayers. Recovery Recovery from surgery is expected
00:20:23expected to take around a week, but but let's now speak to our correspondent
00:20:27correspondent at the Vatican, Sarah Sarah Rainsford Sara. This was a
00:20:30a shock announcement for many, but but the Vatican, keen to show that
00:20:33that this is all under control. Yeah,
00:20:38Yeah, as you say, a real surprise, surprise, of course, for everybody everybody who had gathered here on
00:20:41on Saint Peter's Square at midday midday today. That's when Catholics
00:20:44Catholics come here to see the Pope, Pope, to have a blessing by the Pope
00:20:48Pope from the balcony here. After
00:20:50After that, though, the Pope then then delivered this announcement, announcement, as you say, a big shock
00:20:54shock for those who were listening. listening. He said that he had had
00:20:57had medical checks and that doctors doctors had discovered a nodule on on his lung. Now, he said, as he
00:21:01he put it, that this had been detected
00:21:03detected at a very early stage and and was well localised, but that
00:21:07that doctors had advised him he should should have it removed. So he is is going to have surgery and that
00:21:11that will take place in the next next few days here in Rome. The Vatican
00:21:15Vatican is not giving many more details details than that, just saying that
00:21:18that it will take him about a week week to recover from the surgery
00:21:21surgery itself. We do know that nodules nodules like this are relatively
00:21:24relatively common and that usually usually they're not cancerous. But But certainly I think Catholics around
00:21:28around the world are concerned are are watching this news very closely,
00:21:32closely, I think in particular, because because this is a relatively young
00:21:34young Pope. He's in his early 70s. 70s. He goes to the gym, he likes likes playing tennis. He's always
00:21:38always been thought of as fit and
00:21:40and as healthy. And this is the first first health scare that he's had
00:21:44had since he was elected last year. year. One encouraging note, I think,
00:21:48think, was perhaps his tone as he he made that announcement. He seemed seemed very calm. He even smiled
00:21:52smiled a couple of times during the the statement. And also he mentioned
00:21:55mentioned today a trip that's coming coming up in November to Peru, the the place where he was a missionary
00:21:59missionary for many years and a bishop. bishop. He has talked about that
00:22:02that with the suggestion that that that trip should still go ahead in
00:22:06in November. So perhaps encouraging encouraging news for Catholics even
00:22:08even as they absorb this. Pretty Pretty surprising and for some shocking
00:22:11shocking news. Sarah, thank you.
00:22:14you. That's our correspondent Sarah
00:22:16Sarah Rainsford at the Vatican Reform
00:22:18Reform UK say that if they're elected elected at the next election, they'll
00:22:22they'll close down the UK's asylum asylum system for five years. All
00:22:25All new applications for refugee
00:22:28refugee status would be declined declined and the estimated 90,000
00:22:3190,000 people currently waiting in
00:22:33in the asylum system would be deported.
00:22:35deported. Well, with me is our political political correspondent, Joe Pike.
00:22:38Pike. Joe, what more can you tell tell us about reforms plans? Well,
00:22:41Well, Catherine, the background of of this is if you are a refugee and
00:22:44and you want to stay in the UK because because it's not safe to return to
00:22:47to your country, you claim asylum asylum reform are basically saying
00:22:50saying they will close the whole whole asylum system from the next
00:22:54next election if they win it for for the whole parliamentary term.
00:22:56term. So about five years and legal
00:22:59legal refugee routes and resettlement resettlement schemes will also end.
00:23:02end. Of course, the scale of the the proposed deportations they're
00:23:05they're talking about here is pretty pretty striking. 90,000 people currently
00:23:09currently in the asylum system will will be deported. In addition to
00:23:13to the hundreds of thousands of people people the parties already claim
00:23:16claim that they will deport if they they get into power because those
00:23:20those people are in the country illegally. illegally. Where will those people
00:23:23people go? Well, the party argue argue to their home countries and
00:23:26and because that's been historically historically difficult for the UK UK government, they will put pressure
00:23:30pressure on those countries to take take their citizens by threatening threatening them with visa bans,
00:23:34bans, but also threatening them with with tariffs. It's unclear whether
00:23:37whether that will work. Other people,
00:23:39people, the party say, will go to to third countries if either it's
00:23:43it's not clear where they're from from or if their home country is is safe. But certainly there's been
00:23:47been quite a lot of political reaction reaction to this today. Talk us through
00:23:49through some of the reaction that's that's come in on this story. Well
00:23:53Well from a conservatives a party party on the right of British politics,
00:23:56politics, a bit like Reform UK. They They say that a lot of these policies
00:24:00policies have actually been copied copied from them. Labour who are
00:24:03are currently in government, and and Andy Burnham's party, have taken
00:24:06taken a different approach. They've They've said this is a clear sign
00:24:09sign of desperation and weakness. weakness. Nigel Farage, the leader leader of Reform UK, they argue,
00:24:13argue, is running away from basic basic decency by entirely abandoning
00:24:16abandoning those escaping war and and persecution. They say the vast
00:24:19vast majority of British people reject reject this policy as an assault
00:24:23assault on our common values. The The important context here, of course, course, Catherine, is that this party
00:24:27party Reform UK on the right of British British politics, have had a difficult
00:24:29difficult few months. A lot of questions
00:24:32questions about their finances, donations donations swirling. This does seem
00:24:35seem to be an attempt to try and and reset things with a bold new
00:24:38new policy. Yes, of course it is is a bold policy, but critics will
00:24:41will question whether it's actually actually practical. Jo thank you.
00:24:44you. That's our political correspondent,
00:24:46correspondent, Joe Pike. There. Poland's
00:24:51Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk Tusk says a man accused of plotting
00:24:55plotting an assassination attack attack against him and his Defence
00:24:59Defence Minister has been detained. detained. The country's Interior Interior Ministry reported earlier
00:25:03earlier that police had received received credible information about
00:25:07about possible attacks against the
00:25:09the to police. Polish security agencies agencies convened a special meeting
00:25:13meeting on Sunday after receiving receiving information about the planned
00:25:17planned attacks, with a spokesman spokesman saying officials were treating
00:25:19treating the threat as deadly serious. serious. Tusk thanked the police
00:25:23police for swift and decisive action
00:25:25action in arresting the suspect.
00:25:29suspect. Now eight orangutans rescued rescued from the wildfires that recently
00:25:32recently swept through parts of Borneo Borneo have been released into a
00:25:36a protected forest. The orangutans orangutans three mother and baby
00:25:39baby pairs and two male teenagers
00:25:42teenagers were saved from various
00:25:44various locations in West Kalimantan Kalimantan on the Indonesian part
00:25:47part of the island. Their new home
00:25:49home is the Batu Nyambu Forest Reserve,
00:25:53Reserve, chosen by conservationists conservationists because of the availability
00:25:55availability of food and water sources
00:25:58sources as well as its connectivity
00:25:59connectivity to other forests. You're You're watching BBC News. Stay with
00:26:03with us. We'll be back in just a
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00:30:00Make the connection. MUSIC
00:30:09MUSIC
00:30:18These are the latest headlines
00:30:20from BBC News. President Zelensky
00:30:23Zelensky welcomes Donald Trump's Trump's unexpected announcement of
00:30:26of an energy ceasefire, but says says Russia is continuing to attack
00:30:29attack Ukrainian power plants. Another
00:30:32Another strike hits Riyadh's international
00:30:34international airport in Saudi Arabia, Arabia, hours after Yemen's Houthis
00:30:38Houthis warned airlines to avoid avoid the country's airspace. 13
00:30:4113 people were killed and hundreds hundreds wounded in another Houthi
00:30:45Houthi attack on Saturday, Reform
00:30:47Reform UK has pledged to close down down the asylum system for five years
00:30:51years if it wins the next election. election. Labour has accused reform
00:30:55reform of running away from basic
00:30:58basic decency, an investigation is is under way into the fatal mauling
00:31:01mauling of a man at a wildlife park
00:31:03park in the north of England. And
00:31:06And victory for Manchester City, City, who beat Liverpool 3-0. Despite
00:31:09Despite the boos from home supporters supporters at Anfield in their first
00:31:13first match since being found guilty
00:31:15guilty of breaching financial rules.
00:31:28rules. Let's have more on that last
00:31:30last headline. Manchester City have have won their first match since
00:31:33since being found guilty of all charges charges related to breaches of the
00:31:37the financial rules governing the the game. The team were met by boos
00:31:41boos in Liverpool this afternoon. afternoon. Take a listen to this
00:31:44this crowd reaction from Sky sports
00:31:47sports match coverage. Of all the
00:31:50the games, of all the venues. But
00:31:59But it was city who took the victory,
00:32:02victory, securing a 3-0 win at Anfield. Anfield. The club maintained they
00:32:06they haven't broken any rules and
00:32:07and have appealed against the verdict. verdict. Security was stepped up
00:32:11up around the stadium ahead of the the arrival of the City team bus,
00:32:15bus, which was also greeted by boos
00:32:17boos and chants. We heard from some some Liverpool fans ahead of the
00:32:21the game. The atmosphere is going
00:32:25going to be volatile. I think it's it's always a special game. Not as
00:32:28as big as Man United and Everton, Everton, but I think it's still up
00:32:31up there with a with the best. I I think because they're dominating
00:32:34dominating for a lot of years. I I think once they get the perch back
00:32:37back from the year before. So I think think it is more more difficult because
00:32:41because of what's going on at City.
00:32:43City. It's isn't it? It's more. Yeah,
00:32:45Yeah, I think so. And it's kind of
00:32:48of also the whole saga really I'm
00:32:50I'm losing my passion for the game, game, to be honest. Just feels like
00:32:54like it's no longer for supporters, supporters, no longer for fans. It's
00:32:58It's all about the money nowadays. nowadays. Money, money. How many
00:33:02many teams have been relegated or or lost Champions League spots, Europe
00:33:05Europe spots. I mean I'm a Liverpool Liverpool supporter. I don't want
00:33:09want tainted titles. I just like
00:33:12like some justice. Our sports editor,
00:33:15editor, Dan Roan sent this update update after the final whistle and
00:33:18and says the whole Premier League League has been left waiting to see
00:33:21see what happens next. After another
00:33:23another Manchester City win. Now Now city have won convincingly here
00:33:27here today. I think that is the result result that many fans, not just Liverpool Liverpool fans but supporters of
00:33:30of other clubs would have feared feared because it does mean that that their perfect start to the season
00:33:34season continues that six wins out out of six. There are three points
00:33:38points clear at the top of the table,
00:33:40table, nine points ahead of Liverpool.
00:33:43Liverpool. But how much does it actually actually mean that? That is a hard
00:33:46hard question to answer. If city city go on and win or even just if
00:33:49if they're in the title race, how how much pride can they take? How
00:33:52How much excitement can it spark spark when you know, when everybody
00:33:56everybody knows that there is a very very real prospect that they could
00:33:59could be handed a huge points deduction deduction that would condemn them
00:34:01them to relegation or even expulsion expulsion from the league? And until
00:34:05until we know what that punishment punishment is and until we know the the outcome of any appeal, we know
00:34:09know that city have appealed, but but we don't know how long that will
00:34:11will take or whether indeed they'll they'll then go beyond football jurisdiction
00:34:15jurisdiction and take it to the courts.
00:34:18courts. Then this sense of limbo limbo will hang over this campaign.
00:34:22campaign. And what many will fear
00:34:23fear is future seasons. If it's not
00:34:27not concluded before the start of
00:34:28of next season. Dan Roan reporting
00:34:31reporting there. Meanwhile, Prime Prime Minister Andy Burnham says
00:34:35says he will publish all the details details of his past dealings with
00:34:38with Manchester City after he was was criticised for his response to
00:34:42to the clubs guilty verdict when
00:34:44when they were found to have breached breached Premier League financial
00:34:46financial rules. The Prime Minister Minister said he would be concerned
00:34:49concerned if the team were sold. sold. Mr Burnham's previous role
00:34:52role as mayor of Greater Manchester
00:34:54Manchester has led to questions about about his relationship with City's
00:34:58City's Abu Dhabi ownership. At least
00:35:02least 139 people have been killed,
00:35:05killed, including 15 children, after after a boat sank off the shores
00:35:08shores of Djibouti. That's according
00:35:10according to the International Organisation Organisation for migration. Survivors
00:35:13Survivors said the vessel, which which was carrying around 350 people
00:35:17people from Djibouti to Yemen, capsized
00:35:19capsized north of the town of Obock Obock overnight on October the 8th.
00:35:238th. 82 people all Ethiopian nationals,
00:35:27nationals, were rescued. It's among among the deadliest shipwrecks recorded
00:35:29recorded on a route used by migrants migrants from the Horn of Africa
00:35:32Africa trying to reach the Gulf states.
00:35:36states. Alexandre Coissac is the the International organisation for
00:35:40for Migration's chief of mission mission in Djibouti. He's visited
00:35:42visited the shoreline where the shipwreck shipwreck took place and has been
00:35:46been telling me more about it. I
00:35:49I arrived one day after and I saw saw I mean, it's very tragic. It's
00:35:53It's very difficult to describe. describe. Sorry, but many, many,
00:35:56many, many dead bodies that were were on the scene that have been
00:35:59been pushed on the sea. The day just
00:36:02just before the army, which was the the first to intervene together with
00:36:05with the local authorities, had already
00:36:08already buried 67 bodies, but more
00:36:10more were being pushed by the sea. sea. So I saw devastation. That's
00:36:14That's what I've seen. Yes. And what
00:36:16what have survivors had to say? We've
00:36:20We've met some survivors actually. actually. As we were going there
00:36:22there with the car somebody was in
00:36:25in the desert, got lost and run towards towards US, very frankly. I mean,
00:36:29mean, the one I met could hardly hardly speak. He had been lost in
00:36:33in the desert for one and a half half when we met him. We brought
00:36:37brought him to our centre. We are
00:36:38are providing support to another
00:36:41another 8081 of them altogether. altogether. It's 82 people that we
00:36:45we are currently helping in a migrant migrant response centre that we have
00:36:48have in Obock. There are whole instead
00:36:50instead of shock it's very difficult
00:36:53difficult for them to, to express express what happened and what we
00:36:56we are trying to do for them is to to provide food, water, shelter.
00:37:00shelter. I mean human contact. And
00:37:02And we have our health doctors and and psychologists who are also working
00:37:06working with them. Why is this route
00:37:08route so deadly? Boats crossing from
00:37:11from Djibouti to Yemen. I mean, the the dangers are nearly everywhere.
00:37:14everywhere. I mean, first crossing crossing Djibouti is not easy because
00:37:18because it's a very desert country. country. There is a lack of I mean,
00:37:22mean, it's very hot weather, extremely
00:37:25extremely hot weather, difficulty difficulty to access water. So just
00:37:28just the journey in Djibouti can can be deadly, especially during
00:37:31during the hot month. And then you you have the crossing the Strait
00:37:35Strait of Bab al-Mandab Strait. It's It's not very large on the map. Anything
00:37:39Anything can happen in the sea in
00:37:41in this specific event. What was
00:37:45was deadly is the fact that the boat
00:37:47boat was a small boat and 305 people
00:37:50people boarded the boat. It was impossible impossible for the boat to just leave.
00:37:54leave. That's why actually it sunk sunk very close to the shore. We
00:37:57We can we could see the boat right right there. We could nearly touch
00:38:00touch it. It was so close to the the shore. It didn't get very far.
00:38:03far. As we've been hearing in the
00:38:05the news, the situation is also dangerous dangerous in Yemen itself. There's
00:38:09There's a civil war there. There's There's a humanitarian crisis. Why
00:38:12Why do people continue to travel
00:38:15travel into Yemen? It's a very good
00:38:18good question. It's there is this
00:38:21this seems so determined to live
00:38:24live with your dream to finally reach
00:38:26reach the Gulf countries, Saudi Arabia Arabia being one of them. The idea
00:38:30idea that they can get a better life
00:38:32life over there, they can get jobs,
00:38:35jobs, economic opportunities. So
00:38:37So when we talk to some of the migrants migrants before they cross the sea,
00:38:41sea, some of them have no idea what's what's happening in Yemen. So we
00:38:44we are trying to talk to them and
00:38:46and explain them. I mean, the what's
00:38:48what's currently going on in Yemen Yemen with all the internal displacement
00:38:52displacement that the country is
00:38:53is also suffering inside. Some are
00:38:56are aware of it and others have just
00:38:58just never heard about it. Actually,
00:39:01Actually, to one thing that's so so striking, some of the migrants,
00:39:04migrants, when they arrive in Djibouti Djibouti do not know that there is
00:39:08is a sea strait that needs to be
00:39:10be crossed in order for them to continue
00:39:13continue towards Yemen and the Gulf
00:39:15Gulf countries. What are authorities authorities there in Djibouti in
00:39:19in the region doing to make sure
00:39:21sure tragedies like this do not happen?
00:39:24happen? It's they have the Coast Coast Guard that are always patrolling,
00:39:28patrolling, but it can't be everywhere. everywhere. Fortunately, you can't can't be there all the time. So I
00:39:31I know they are always on the sea
00:39:33sea in order to, to be able to provide
00:39:35provide rescue. I mean, first what what they are doing is always to
00:39:39to respond when there is such tragedy. tragedy. Unfortunately this time
00:39:42time because it happened at night. night. We were not they were not
00:39:45not able to respond immediately, immediately, but they were there
00:39:48there very shortly after, unfortunately unfortunately too late. And they
00:39:51they immediately provided support support to the survivors and they
00:39:54they ensured that the one that survived survived could get proper care. And
00:39:58And there are so much work to do
00:40:00do as well in order to bury all the
00:40:03the bodies. So it reply it implied
00:40:06implied involvements of different different actors from the local authorities,
00:40:10authorities, from the Navy, Army Army and also from the local authority.
00:40:13authority. The prefecture. Visitors
00:40:16Visitors to a wildlife park in South South Yorkshire in northern England
00:40:19England have been describing their their shock and distress after a
00:40:22a man was killed when he entered entered the tiger enclosure yesterday.
00:40:26yesterday. Yunus Mulla reports. A
00:40:31A Siberian tiger filmed, relaxed relaxed and in the sunshine just
00:40:34just minutes before a man entered entered this enclosure at the Yorkshire
00:40:37Yorkshire Wildlife Park and was attacked. attacked. The entire incident at
00:40:41at the land of Tiger Section was was witnessed by Ella Ford. She was
00:40:44was on a raised walkway with her
00:40:46her boyfriend. She climbed up and and some woman was there talking
00:40:50talking to him and he climbed up up onto the barriers onto like a
00:40:53a metal bar. And then next thing thing you know, he just jumped in
00:40:57in and then he like crawled towards
00:41:00towards in front of the tiger where where the tiger was perched and just
00:41:03just lay there. We've seen the tiger tiger get down and come over to him
00:41:07him and obviously grab on to him. him. And then he was shouting for
00:41:10for help. And then people around around us was obviously trying to
00:41:13to get the kids away and we'd gone
00:41:15gone to try and find help. Staff
00:41:19Staff evacuated around 15 to 20 people people from the enclosures raised
00:41:22raised platform and emergency services services were called, but the man
00:41:25man died at the scene. When the Tiger Tiger walkway my family said, oh,
00:41:29oh, that's it there, look. And there there were a load of police loads
00:41:32loads of rangers and this black tarpaulin tarpaulin thing up to cover people
00:41:36people from seeing in. The two acre
00:41:39acre reserve is home to Amur Tigers,
00:41:41Tigers, an endangered subspecies subspecies with around 500 left in
00:41:44in the wild. The high fenced walkway
00:41:47walkway allows visitors to see the the animals roaming below the park,
00:41:51park, said today its thoughts and and sympathies remain with the family
00:41:54family of the man who has died. Staff
00:41:56Staff here will also be given specialist
00:41:59specialist support and the tiger, tiger, it said, is safe and will
00:42:02will not be euthanized as a result result of the attack. The park remains
00:42:06remains closed. Yunus Mulla BBC News
00:42:10News Doncaster. Kenya has not recorded
00:42:13recorded any new cases of Ebola after
00:42:16after conducting hundreds of tests. tests. The country confirmed its
00:42:19its first imported case on October October the 6th after citizen who
00:42:23who travelled from the Democratic Democratic Republic of Congo died
00:42:26died in Nairobi. For more on how how Kenya has been managing the Ebola
00:42:29Ebola outbreak, I spoke to Dr Jean
00:42:31Jean Kaseya director-general of the
00:42:35the Africa Centers for Disease Control Control and Prevention. Now that
00:42:37that we started the process in Kenya,
00:42:40Kenya, we are at the protocol. We We have all people in the contact
00:42:43contact list. It will take at least
00:42:48least 21 days without any new case.
00:42:52case. That will be locally transmitted.
00:42:54transmitted. If we have no new case
00:42:57case after 21 days, all of these these people in the contact will
00:42:59will be out. Then we can say you
00:43:01you are. Kenya is out of the outbreak.
00:43:06outbreak. Part of the challenge here here is that the patient travelled
00:43:09travelled through several provinces provinces within the Democratic Republic
00:43:13Republic of Congo, crossed by road road into Uganda, then flew into
00:43:17into Kenya. Just highlighting the the risk that transmission could
00:43:20could spread from the DRC to the
00:43:22the rest of the region. You know,
00:43:25know, just for you to have an idea,
00:43:28idea, the distance that this person
00:43:32person made from butter to Kenya
00:43:36Kenya is like a cost. 11 European
00:43:39European countries. You can imagine
00:43:42imagine number of contacts from where where himself he got it because he
00:43:46he was sick for more than one month
00:43:50month to are all of these places.
00:43:54places. Now what is the risk? The The risk is still there. And this
00:43:57this is what I was saying from the
00:43:59the very first day. This is a regional.
00:44:03regional. This is a regional outbreak
00:44:05outbreak and we need to treat it
00:44:07it like that. If today we don't control
00:44:11control that in DRC, yes, other countries
00:44:14countries can be affected. Other
00:44:16Other countries can get the virus. virus. But give us a sense of what's
00:44:20what's being done to stop this, this this spread of the virus because
00:44:24because you say you've been warning warning about this since day one,
00:44:26one, but it seems to still be happening.
00:44:31happening. You know what is making
00:44:33making me a little bit comfortable
00:44:36comfortable is I can see the political
00:44:40political commitment from president
00:44:41president to stop that. Now, how
00:44:44how can we translate this political
00:44:46political commitment? It this is
00:44:49is the what we are working on. And And I'm meeting President Tshisekedi
00:44:53Tshisekedi on Tuesday. It means in,
00:44:55in, in two days and to discuss how
00:44:57how we can strengthen the response.
00:45:00response. Yes, there are still some some factors like insecurity, humanitarian
00:45:04humanitarian issue. But we also need need to see what we are not doing
00:45:07doing well so far and what we can can strengthen. And he really knows
00:45:11knows that. And this is so supportive.
00:45:15supportive. Two new films premiered premiered at the London Film Festival
00:45:19Festival this evening, Prime Time, Time, starring Robert Pattinson,
00:45:22Pattinson, is a psychological thriller thriller following the rise of US
00:45:25US TV phenomenon To Catch a Predator
00:45:28Predator and Animal sees actor Ashley Ashley Walters making his directorial
00:45:32directorial debut focusing on life
00:45:34life inside a young offenders institution.
00:45:37institution. Noor Nanji reports. reports. Well, I'm here at London London Film Festival where there
00:45:41there are a whole host of films generating generating a real buzz around them.
00:45:44them. One of them is animal, a new new drama by Ashley Walters. Now
00:45:47Now you probably know Ashley Walters Walters as usually being in front
00:45:50front of the camera, but he is now now directing this film. It is the
00:45:53the first feature film that he has has directed. Now the film itself
00:45:56itself is set in a youth detention detention centre, and it follows
00:45:59follows the young inmates as they they navigate friendship and identity,
00:46:03identity, all against the backdrop backdrop of something which is quite
00:46:05quite violent and often quite stressful. stressful. It has a whole number
00:46:09number of rising stars who are in
00:46:11in this film, but also Stephen Graham,
00:46:13Graham, who stars as a welfare officer
00:46:15officer in the prison and of course, course, Stephen Graham and Ashley
00:46:19Ashley Walters were recently together together in the TV series. The hit
00:46:23hit TV series Netflix drama adolescence
00:46:26adolescence last year. And I started started by asking Ashley Walters
00:46:29Walters whether he felt any pressure
00:46:31pressure living up to that. Of course course there's pressure. You know
00:46:35know you want to you want to win. win. You want to make a good movie
00:46:38movie or whatever. But I realised realised the good movie is subjective,
00:46:41subjective, right? It's like, you you know, as long as I push my vision
00:46:45vision and the idea that I had for for this film and I came out with
00:46:48with that or somewhat, you know, know, similar to what I'd envisaged,
00:46:52envisaged, then I'd be happy, I'd I'd be proud of myself. And however however anyone else took it, it's
00:46:56it's up to them. But to be here amongst amongst all these great people at
00:46:59at this festival is like amazing. amazing. It's overwhelming. And Stephen
00:47:02Stephen Graham and you are friends. friends. You are brilliant together together in adolescence. Now you're
00:47:06you're directing him. Was it strange strange to make that transition? transition? Oh, not at all. I'd already
00:47:10already directed him. I had a taster taster because I had him in a thousand
00:47:14thousand blows that I did for Disney Disney that I directed before. So
00:47:16So it was kind of we had a we already already had a rapport. I already
00:47:19already knew how he was working. working. I think in a thousand blows
00:47:22blows it was scarier than animal animal because I'd already done it.
00:47:25it. How did you draw on your own own experiences in a young offenders
00:47:29offenders institution for this film? film? Most of what you see in the
00:47:32the film is how I saw my Young Offenders Offenders Institute. I mean, we spent
00:47:36spent months and months and months months kind of going back and forth
00:47:39forth about prisons that we would would shoot in because I needed it
00:47:43it to look it feel like the same same prison that I was in. So we
00:47:46we found a prison that was that close, close, but down to the clothes, the
00:47:50the colours, you know, the sounds, sounds, everything comes from my
00:47:52my memory of being in a YOY when when I was. And this film will make
00:47:56make you smile. It'll make you cry. cry. What message do you want people
00:47:59people to take away from it? Hope
00:48:03Hope you know, pushing people to
00:48:05to be their authentic selves. And
00:48:08And shame. Sometimes a lot of the
00:48:09the time is like a construct, you
00:48:13you know, a lot of people do things things behind closed doors that they
00:48:15they don't want to talk about because because of how they think other people
00:48:19people will feel about them. And And I would say 95% of those things
00:48:23things you could probably tell someone someone and find support. A lot of
00:48:26of problems happen when we feel we're we're the only ones going through through something. And this film
00:48:30film is about, you know, saying first first of all, that you're not the
00:48:33the only person. And second, don't don't be ashamed of who ashamed of
00:48:36of who you are. You know. Well, another
00:48:39another film that has lots of people people talking over here is called
00:48:42called Prime Time and is the new new A24 crime thriller starring Robert
00:48:46Robert Pattinson. It is based on on the TV show called To Catch a
00:48:49a Predator, which ran from 2004 to
00:48:53to 2007, and it was based around around the concept of essentially
00:48:57essentially conducting these stings stings on alleged offenders and child
00:49:00child abusers. And as I say, it stars stars Robert Pattinson. He's playing
00:49:02playing the role of the American American TV journalist Chris Hansen,
00:49:06Hansen, who hosted To Catch a Predator. Predator. And I asked him why shows
00:49:10shows like that have such a draw
00:49:13draw on us. It's both the most terrifying terrifying thing that can. Happen
00:49:17Happen to you, whether you're if if you're a parent. Or even if you're
00:49:19you're not. It's like the it's like
00:49:23like the most unimaginable sin possible.
00:49:26possible. And it's a kind of. It's
00:49:28It's like an unknown entity, which which is kind of it's been going
00:49:32going on since mediaeval times thinking
00:49:33thinking that there's a kind of almost.
00:49:36almost. It can come in this case case through the internet and attack
00:49:40attack vulnerable children. And the
00:49:43the show was a kind of a microcosm microcosm of saying like, oh, we
00:49:46we can do something about it and and we can do something about it
00:49:49it really, really, really quickly. quickly. And in some ways that's
00:49:52that's correct. But it also makes makes for incredibly powerful TV.
00:49:56TV. And that's when it kind of gets gets into slightly dicey territory. territory. Do you think attitudes
00:50:00attitudes towards entertainment have
00:50:02have changed now? I think on mainstream
00:50:06mainstream TV, but then it's just just been replaced. I mean, that's that's kind of why I was interested
00:50:10interested in this show because I I could see the beginning of a new new wave of predator catching in
00:50:13in pretty much the same format that that it was in the early 2000, and
00:50:17and it was really taking off on TikTok. TikTok. And I was just interested
00:50:20interested as to why that was happening
00:50:24happening and whether it was a algorithmically
00:50:27algorithmically based interest or
00:50:29or what I mean, what was causing causing it. And it got bigger and
00:50:32and bigger and bigger and now it's it's one of the most it's a massive massive thing on social media. So
00:50:36So it's just very interesting to to me. Filming on the new Batman Batman has reportedly paused. Can
00:50:40Can you give us any indication of of when you'll be back to work? We
00:50:43We don't know yet, but yeah, kind kind of working on it. And you've
00:50:47you've had an exceptional year. Is Is this going to be the film that that gets you your first Oscar nomination?
00:50:51nomination? I don't know, I'm just just I am eternally grateful that
00:50:55that A I've got these jobs, but then then been able to even do them. I'm
00:50:58I'm like, this is one of the best
00:50:59best years of my life. Now. Recently
00:51:03Recently banished celebrity Triator Triator Richard E Grant and Christine
00:51:06Christine Baranski, famed for her her roles in The Good Wife and The
00:51:09The Gilded Age, are uniting on stage
00:51:11stage for a revival of the Noel Coward Coward classic Hay Fever. Victoria
00:51:15Victoria Derbyshire met them on Thursday Thursday ahead of the latest traitors
00:51:19traitors eliminations. They started started by talking about how Coward's
00:51:22Coward's century old comedy has relevance
00:51:24relevance today. He wrote it as a
00:51:28a comment on the age in which he
00:51:30he lived the 20s. He said it's a
00:51:33a very performative age, people terribly
00:51:35terribly concerned about their image
00:51:38image and you know how they present present themselves to society. And
00:51:42And so he's rather spoofing the age
00:51:43age in which he lives. And in particular,
00:51:46particular, this vain actress who
00:51:49who thought she could retire. But
00:51:52But clearly needs to have the adoration
00:51:55adoration and all of the things that
00:51:57that come with her fame. So it's
00:51:59it's an age obsessed with image. image. And I think we are very much
00:52:03much living in that kind of age.
00:52:05age. Witness the endless selfies
00:52:07selfies and pictures and people obsessing
00:52:10obsessing about fashion and cosmetic cosmetic surgery and everything.
00:52:13everything. We're quite obsessed obsessed with our identities. Do
00:52:16Do you agree with that, Richard? Richard? Completely. And they're
00:52:19they're all very self-involved and and self-obsessed in the way that,
00:52:22that, you know, there is the bubble bubble in which somebody lives and
00:52:25and they film every meal that they've they've eaten or every, you know, know, bark they've their dog makes
00:52:29makes and then put it out on social social media. Yes. Well, you're on
00:52:32on social media as well. I am indeed indeed guilty as charged. Right.
00:52:35Right. OK. Fair enough. The Radio
00:52:37Radio Times says that you bring chaos
00:52:39chaos to this role. I think that's that's a compliment. So I'm is that
00:52:43that deliberate? Yes. Because he's
00:52:45he's a he is a chaotic character
00:52:48character and the whole household household seems to thrive on bouncing
00:52:53bouncing off each other of what people people bring in from the outside.
00:52:56outside. If they're drama addicts. addicts. Yeah. If it's not dramatic,
00:52:58dramatic, they'll create the drama. drama. And so these houseguests, houseguests, these poor houseguests
00:53:02houseguests are used as supporting
00:53:04supporting supporting actors in their
00:53:07their drama. What are you Triator?
00:53:18Triator? You what Triator is a Triator?
00:53:19Triator? Are you. Yeah. Right. Richard.
00:53:23Richard. Can I ask you about Celebrity Celebrity Traitors? No, because I
00:53:26I have no answers. No no no. There There is stuff that's in the public
00:53:29public domain because we've all been been watching it. Have you actually actually watched it? And obviously
00:53:33obviously you're on stage each night, night, but have you watched it back back on iPlayer yet? No, really?
00:53:37really? No really not. Oh, my
00:53:40goodness. It's an interesting angle. angle. Yeah. You need to be very
00:53:43very clear that you're not. I'm gonna
00:53:47gonna pretend that I didn't hear
00:53:48hear that. And what are you what
00:53:51what are you Richard Faithful? Faithful.
00:53:54Faithful. Faithful. Yeah. I'm Faithful.
00:53:57Faithful. Yeah. Faithful. It's a
00:54:02a weird thing because as an actor actor and I don't know. Whether Christine,
00:54:05Christine, you have this. It's very very uncomfortable to watch yourself
00:54:09yourself very. And if you watch yourself yourself unscripted, which traitors
00:54:13traitors is completely unscripted, unscripted, then there's no place
00:54:15place to hide. You can't say, well, well, these are Noel Coward's words
00:54:18words and this is somebody else's else's costume that is unequivocally
00:54:21unequivocally you say, well, let let me ask you if I may. Then why
00:54:24why did you blurt out that you were were a Triator? Because I asked you.
00:54:27you. I never thought that that they they would take me seriously when
00:54:30when he said, are you a Triator? Triator? And we just come out of of the round table thing being nominated
00:54:34nominated or not? I thought, well, well, yeah, isn't everybody going
00:54:38going to say that? And of course course they didn't. So I paid the
00:54:41the price. Let's bring you some updates updates on one of our top stories,
00:54:45stories, which is the security situation
00:54:47situation in Saudi Arabia. The UK
00:54:50UK embassy in the country advises advises British citizens against
00:54:54against all essential travel to Saudi
00:54:56Saudi Arabia's Jeddah, Dammam and
00:54:59and to all Saudi airports except
00:55:01except the airport in Medina. This
00:55:03This is a post on the on X social
00:55:05social media. The UK Embassy in Saudi
00:55:08Saudi Arabia advises British citizens citizens against all but essential
00:55:11essential travel to Saudi Arabia's Arabia's Jeddah, Dammam and Saudi
00:55:15Saudi airports except the airport
00:55:17airport in Medina and the Federal
00:55:20Federal Aviation Administration in
00:55:22in the US urges US airlines to exercise
00:55:25exercise caution when flying to or or above Saudi Arabia. And this,
00:55:29this, of course, comes after those
00:55:33those attacks by Yemen's Houthi militant
00:55:36militant group on airports in Saudi Saudi Arabia. There were some big
00:55:40big strikes on the main international international airport in Riyadh.
00:55:43Riyadh. The Houthis have warned airlines
00:55:47airlines against travelling to Saudi
00:55:50Saudi airports, and those warnings warnings that caution coming in from
00:55:54from the US and the UK authorities
00:55:57authorities as well. You're watching
00:55:59watching BBC News with me Catherine
00:56:01Catherine Byaruhanga stay with us.
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01:00:16BBC News. The bloodshed in Ukraine
01:00:18Ukraine continues. Three dead in
01:00:21in this Russian strike, while President
01:00:23President Zelensky says Russia struck struck energy facilities after President
01:00:26President Trump's announcement of of an energy ceasefire. President
01:00:30President Zelensky welcomes Donald Donald Trump's announcement, but
01:00:33but Moscow has yet to comment. Another
01:00:36Another strike hits Riyadh airport
01:00:38airport in Saudi Arabia a day after
01:00:40after 13 people were killed and hundreds
01:00:43hundreds wounded in a Houthi attack. attack. And it was a frosty reception
01:00:46reception in Liverpool. But Manchester Manchester City secure a win in their
01:00:49their first match since being found
01:00:51found guilty of breaching all financial
01:00:55financial rules.