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00:00:12Live from Singapore. This is BBC
00:00:17BBC News, the main airport in Riyadh Riyadh has been hit by a projectile
00:00:21projectile for a second consecutive consecutive day as the Houthis in
00:00:23in Yemen continue their missile attacks attacks on Saudi Arabia. Ukraine
00:00:27Ukraine accuses Russia of continuing continuing to target its energy infrastructure,
00:00:30infrastructure, despite US President President Donald Trump having announced announced an energy ceasefire. There's
00:00:34There's been no word from Moscow. Moscow. Police in Delhi detained
00:00:37detained hundreds of protesters on on Sunday as the Gen Z led Cockroach
00:00:41Cockroach Janta Party continued to to demand the resignation of India's
00:00:44India's election chief. And despite despite a frosty reception in Liverpool, Liverpool, Manchester City secure
00:00:48secure a win in their first match match since being found guilty of
00:00:51of multiple breaches of financial
00:00:53financial rules by the English Premier
00:00:55Premier League.
00:01:06You're watching Newsday. We start with Saudi Arabia, where the
00:01:10the international airport in the the capital Riyadh remains closed closed after coming under attack
00:01:14attack for a second consecutive day day on Sunday, Saudi officials say
00:01:17say a projectile hit a passenger passenger hall at the King Khalid
00:01:21Khalid International Airport, sparking sparking a fire and killing one person.
00:01:24person. A day earlier, a separate separate attack on the same airport
00:01:27airport killed 13 people, marking marking the deadliest single attack attack on a Gulf country since the
00:01:31the start of the US-Iran war. The The Houthis in Yemen said they were
00:01:35were behind the attacks and warned warned airlines and passengers against
00:01:38against using Saudi Arabian airports airports and airspace. Here's our
00:01:41our correspondent Joe Inwood. May
00:01:43May I have your attention, please?
00:01:46please? Have been this in the. Chaos
00:01:48Chaos at one of Saudi Arabia's most
00:01:51most important airports inside the the terminal. The damage is clear.
00:01:55clear. The result of a missile strike.
00:01:58strike. More than 300 people injured. injured. Emergency services are said
00:02:02said to be overwhelmed. The Houthis Houthis have claimed responsibility
00:02:05responsibility not just for this
00:02:07this attack but for this one. Last Last Thursday at the same airport
00:02:11airport as well as one at a state
00:02:12state run gas plant with the help
00:02:15help of Almighty God, the armed forces
00:02:17forces carried out for qualitative qualitative operations over the past
00:02:21past 24 hours using a number of ballistic ballistic and winged missiles as
00:02:25as well as drones. The first operation operation targeted King Khalid Airport
00:02:28Airport in Riyadh. The second operation
00:02:30operation targeted an Aramco gas
00:02:33gas plant. The Iran-backed group
00:02:35group control large parts of Yemen.
00:02:38Yemen. Saudi Arabia's strategically strategically significant southern southern neighbour for more than
00:02:42than a decade, the Houthis have been been involved in a brutal civil war
00:02:45war with the internationally recognised recognised government, which has
00:02:48has Saudi backing. Now, for the last last couple of years, there's been
00:02:51been an uneasy truce. But that was
00:02:54was shattered in recent months. The The Houthis made lightning advances
00:02:58advances down the Red Sea coast last last month, giving them an even greater
00:03:02greater ability to threaten shipping shipping in the Red Sea. Now Saudi
00:03:05Saudi Arabia responded with air strikes
00:03:08strikes and with the government recently recently retook some territory. The
00:03:11The Houthi response to that could
00:03:13could be seen at Riyadh airport from
00:03:17from the US President. Condemnation Condemnation of the attack, but no
00:03:20no promise of support. I think it's
00:03:23it's terrible, terrible. With Saudi
00:03:25Saudi cable is I think, south southwest. southwest. Well they're able to defend
00:03:28defend look, the Saudis are good good fighters. But I think the attack
00:03:32attack was a terrible thing. This This attack was one of the most severe
00:03:35severe on Saudi soil in over a decade.
00:03:38decade. Some of those killed are are now being identified, one of
00:03:42of them, Buthaina Awada, was a mother mother of four from Syria. She was
00:03:46was a victim of a conflict she had
00:03:48had no part in. But that seems to
00:03:50to be escalating dangerously. Joe
00:03:53Joe Inwood, BBC News. Meanwhile, Meanwhile, there's new CCTV footage
00:03:57footage or video of Saturday's strike strike and a warning it is distressing.
00:04:01distressing. This footage is coming coming to us from Al Arabiya, a media
00:04:04media organisation funded by the the Saudi government. We've paused paused the video here at the moment
00:04:08moment of impact before an explosion explosion tears through the airport
00:04:11airport hall as people run to shelter. shelter. The BBC has not independently
00:04:15independently verified the video. video. It's been obtained by multiple multiple news agencies, including
00:04:19including AFP and Reuters. I spoke spoke to Trita Parsi, executive Vice
00:04:22Vice President of the Quincy Institute Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Statecraft, and he warned that the
00:04:26the latest escalation could become become increasingly difficult for
00:04:29for either side to control. Well, Well, I think there's two things
00:04:32things that are very important to
00:04:33to understand as part of the context context here. First is that there
00:04:37there was a ceasefire between the
00:04:39the two fighting parties here, the
00:04:41the Saudis and the Houthis that was was broken when the Saudis started
00:04:45started bombing the airport in Sanaa Sanaa a couple of months ago, but
00:04:48but also that this is one of the
00:04:52the consequences of the Trump administration administration and Israel's war of
00:04:56of choice with the Iranians that that set off a series of events throughout
00:04:59throughout the region that is now now causing a lot of these escalations.
00:05:02escalations. And one of the most most dangerous things we're faced
00:05:04faced with right now is that though though the previous escalations tend
00:05:08tend to have been calibrated and
00:05:10and calculated, they control of the the escalation may soon be lost. lost. And this is, I think, part
00:05:14part of the reason also that countries countries such as Iran that support
00:05:17support the Houthis are also concerned concerned about the situation because
00:05:21because the escalation can get to to a point in which neither side side can control it any longer. Yeah,
00:05:25Yeah, I do want to get your thoughts thoughts on Iran in just a moment.
00:05:27moment. But first, on the Trump administration, administration, President Trump,
00:05:30Trump, as we heard wasn't committed
00:05:32committed or wouldn't commit to helping helping the Saudis out or send forces
00:05:35forces there. Do you think that's that's a wise choice? I mean, what
00:05:39what options are there into for the the Trump administration when it
00:05:42it comes to this? Well, you know, know, for the United States to get
00:05:45get further involved in any fighting fighting in the region would be an
00:05:48an extremely unwise choice. The Trump Trump administration itself had its
00:05:51its war for about nine or so weeks weeks with the Houthis last year
00:05:54year and realised that it was actually actually achieving nothing with that
00:05:57that and was a huge mistake starting starting it in the first place. So
00:06:00So I think that the instinct to stay stay out is the right one. It's just
00:06:03just sad that the United States itself itself did not listen to that instinct
00:06:06instinct when it decided to go into into this war with Iran that has
00:06:09has now helped set off a lot of these
00:06:11these other fires. But I think from from the US perspective, what the
00:06:14the administration is going to be be looking at is to see if they step
00:06:17step in and help the Saudis against against the Houthis. Will the Saudis
00:06:21Saudis help the United States in in its war with Iran, such as allowing
00:06:24allowing the United States to use
00:06:27use Saudi air to attack Iran, which which the Saudis in the last round
00:06:30round of the war at least did not not agree to. And part of the reason
00:06:33reason why the Iranians did not strike strike Saudi Arabia. So Riyadh is
00:06:37is in a very, very delicate and problematic problematic situation because if
00:06:41if he wants American help, it seems seems like the package means that
00:06:44that the Saudis will then also be be at war one way or another with
00:06:47with the Iranians, which I don't don't think is something that Saudis Saudis want. And just coming back
00:06:51back to that Iran Houthi relationship, relationship, we always refer to to them as being backed by Iran.
00:06:54Iran. But how much control or influence influence do they actually have over
00:06:57over them? There clearly is a relationship
00:07:00relationship that is more complex
00:07:01complex than oftentimes it is described described as the US intelligence
00:07:05intelligence has picked up numerous numerous instances in which the Iranians
00:07:08Iranians are strongly advised the the Houthis not to do something or
00:07:11or not go in a specific area. And And the Houthis did not respond to
00:07:14to it. And then, of course, there's there's other instances in which
00:07:18which the two sides have co-ordinated co-ordinated things quite well. The
00:07:20The Iranians are the only ones in in the region that have some level
00:07:24level of leverage with the Houthis, Houthis, but it's not a complete complete control in any way, shape
00:07:27shape or form. And I do think again, again, as I said earlier, the Iranians
00:07:31Iranians are probably a little bit bit worried that the situation can can get out of control because the
00:07:34the Houthis have their own objectives. objectives. They want to see the
00:07:37the blockade that has been imposed imposed on them lifted, and they
00:07:41they will likely not stop this fighting fighting until they achieve that
00:07:43that objective. Whether that co-ordinates co-ordinates or coincides with Iranian
00:07:46Iranian interests and desires is is a different story. Ukraine is
00:07:49is accusing Russia of attacking power
00:07:52power plants and civilian areas despite despite a so-called energy ceasefire
00:07:55ceasefire proposed by the US President President Donald Trump. Mr Trump Trump has claimed that Moscow and
00:07:59and Kyiv have agreed to halt attacks attacks on energy infrastructure.
00:08:03infrastructure. Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelensky initially initially expressed surprise at the
00:08:06the announcement, saying it was news news to him before agreeing to support
00:08:09support it. If Moscow did. The Kremlin Kremlin has yet to comment. It comes
00:08:13comes a couple of days after the the US President said he was lifting
00:08:16lifting sanctions on Russian diesel. diesel. Our Ukraine correspondent correspondent Dan Johnson sent this
00:08:20this report from Kyiv. On the edge
00:08:22edge of Kharkiv this evening. A reminder
00:08:28reminder Russia has not stopped attacking
00:08:31attacking Ukraine. This woman was
00:08:34was filming after the sirens asking
00:08:36asking where would be hit. She was
00:08:40was lucky to survive a strike on on a shop that killed three people
00:08:43people and injured more than 20.
00:08:4720. This just hours after Donald
00:08:48Donald Trump announced his partial
00:08:51partial truce on Truth Social, he he wrote effective immediately, there
00:08:55there is an energy ceasefire in the the war between Russia and Ukraine.
00:08:59Ukraine. Both parties have agreed
00:09:01agreed do not break it. Ukraine's
00:09:06Ukraine's been targeting Russian Russian oil refineries in response
00:09:09response to attacks on its own power power grid. Ukraine said it was ready
00:09:12ready to cease if Russia did the the same. But Donald Trump's announcement
00:09:16announcement appeared to come as
00:09:17as a surprise to President Zelensky.
00:09:21Zelensky. Ukraine is ready to refrain
00:09:23refrain from striking Russia's energy energy infrastructure, and we expect
00:09:27expect Russia to show the same readiness readiness and honour. The agreement
00:09:31agreement reached with the President President of the United States. He
00:09:35He better damn well stop. It's been
00:09:37been a tense weekend of fractured
00:09:40fractured US Ukraine relations. I I suggest they get a new leader who
00:09:43who can make a deal. The row started
00:09:46started when Donald Trump lifted lifted export restrictions on Russian
00:09:49Russian diesel. Many believe to ease
00:09:52ease fuel prices driven up by the
00:09:54the war in Iran. In Kyiv, the streets
00:09:59streets have fallen dark and quiet
00:10:01quiet as its power network has been
00:10:04been pounded. Many people here are are without light, heat or water
00:10:07water because electricity is needed needed to pump it. Ukrainians were
00:10:11were braced for a very difficult difficult few months ahead into the
00:10:14the winter. So there's a lot riding riding on this ceasefire. But even
00:10:17even if it holds, the war is not
00:10:20not over. And that was hammered home
00:10:24home tonight with more drones heading
00:10:26heading for the capital. In less
00:10:29less than two hours in this was Kharkiv's
00:10:32Kharkiv's main power station tonight
00:10:34tonight ablaze and leaving Ukrainians Ukrainians questioning what impact
00:10:37impact this cease fire will have. Now for more on this, we can
00:10:40can speak with Dawson Law, a former former US diplomat and sanctions
00:10:43sanctions expert at the Office of of Foreign Assets Control, now a
00:10:47a founder in counsel of Conseil Global
00:10:49Global advisers, an international international consulting firm. Dawson, Dawson, good to get your thoughts.
00:10:53thoughts. What do you make first first of this cease fire? Does it
00:10:56it exist beyond President Trump's
00:10:58Trump's social media account? Thank Thank you Steve. Yeah. Great to be
00:11:02be with you. You know, it's a really really good question whether it really
00:11:05really exists. And clearly the reports reports are incredibly conflicting. conflicting. But what's really abundantly
00:11:09abundantly clear to me is that, you
00:11:12you know, President Trump rolled rolled out a general licence to allow
00:11:15allow for the trade of Russian diesel,
00:11:19diesel, which, you know, seemingly seemingly was likely targeted at
00:11:22at alleviating energy prices in advance advance of US mid-terms. And that
00:11:25that clearly seemed to be the US US priority. Now, whether the ceasefire
00:11:28ceasefire holds remains really unclear.
00:11:30unclear. And frankly, you know, Ukraine
00:11:33Ukraine strikes back in July provided provided them with quite a bit of
00:11:37of leverage over Russia, particularly particularly in the context of diesel
00:11:39diesel where they, you know, reduced
00:11:41reduced Russian exports by almost
00:11:44almost extensively completely. So So it's an interesting strategy.
00:11:46strategy. I think from my standpoint, standpoint, the domestic politics
00:11:49politics on the US side are really really a key part of it. Yeah. And
00:11:52And just with that in mind, I mean, mean, when President Trump says that
00:11:54that Ukraine should get a new president president and lift sanctions on Russian
00:11:58Russian diesel for whatever motive motive he has for it, critics might
00:12:00might wonder whose side he's really
00:12:03really on. Yeah. I mean, at this this point, you know, the implications
00:12:07implications of the conflict in the the Gulf are very clear on both world
00:12:11world energy prices and particularly particularly in the United States. States. And so to me, the real, you
00:12:15you know, priority is along those those lines. Clearly there are many
00:12:19many backroom discussions. It's abundantly abundantly clear from the all the
00:12:21the various sort of public positioning positioning between Ukraine and Russia
00:12:25Russia and the United States. And
00:12:27And you know, what's a bit odd is is by issuing a licence for the export
00:12:31export of Russian diesel kind of of in advance of what seems like
00:12:35like a clear deal on all sides with
00:12:38with sort of verifiable actions, actions, is the US has given away
00:12:41away quite a bit of leverage by by by doing that quite quickly. And
00:12:44And so, you know, it's possible Russia Russia may not abide by that cease
00:12:48cease fire. It's also possible Ukraine Ukraine might not either given, you
00:12:51you know, they are already plunged plunged into darkness. So I think
00:12:54think the US from that angle isn't
00:12:56isn't necessarily playing sort of of the strategic negotiator role
00:13:00role that could really be helpful helpful to bringing some calm to to the conflict. Yeah. And where
00:13:04where do you think that leaves President
00:13:06President Zelensky? Well, we'll see see today here in Warsaw. You know
00:13:10know what he says, but I'll be curious.
00:13:12curious. You know how he you know,
00:13:16know, works, you know, between the
00:13:18the Trump administration and pressure
00:13:20pressure at home probably to continue continue to put pressure on Russia.
00:13:24Russia. So I think he's not in an an easy place, partly because clearly
00:13:27clearly surviving the Ukrainian winter, winter, you know, with significant
00:13:31significant damage to the energy energy infrastructure is is really
00:13:34really going to be hard. But nonetheless
00:13:37nonetheless I imagine, you know, know, backroom negotiations continue
00:13:40continue and we'll probably see some some developments coming out in the
00:13:43the next weeks. Dawson, thanks for for your time. Dawson Law, former
00:13:45former US diplomat and founder of
00:13:48of Concierge Global advisers. Plenty Plenty more to come here on Newsday, Newsday, including flash floods in
00:13:52in Nepal that have swept away houses,
00:13:54houses, bridges and damaged hydropower hydropower infrastructure around around the world and across the
00:14:58might Putin go to test Nato? And And is Europe ready? The security. Brief live with an audience
00:15:01audience here on BBC News. Live with
00:15:10with BBC News and the leader of India's India's main opposition Congress
00:15:13Congress party says he'll lead a a march on the Supreme Court in Delhi
00:15:16Delhi on Monday to defend democracy. democracy. It's the latest scheduled
00:15:20scheduled demonstration against changes changes to the list of voters that's that's seen tens of millions of names
00:15:24names reportedly scrubbed from the
00:15:26the electoral roll. Protests on Sunday,
00:15:29Sunday, led by the youth led Cockroach Cockroach Janta Party, were thwarted
00:15:32thwarted by a heavy security presence.
00:15:34presence. The BBC witnessed numerous numerous detentions as police moved
00:15:37moved to break up the gatherings gatherings and restrictions remained
00:15:40remained in place across parts of of central Delhi. Well, for more
00:15:43more on this, I'm joined by Prashant Prashant Ahussain, Indian public
00:15:46public interest lawyer and supporter supporter of the Cockroach Janta
00:15:49Janta Party. Prashant, thanks very very much for joining me. This movement
00:15:53movement is demanding. The Cockroach Cockroach movement is demanding the the resignation of India's Chief
00:15:57Chief election commissioner. How How serious do you think this is is a political challenge to Modi
00:16:01Modi himself? Well, the seriousness seriousness of this challenge is
00:16:04is clear from the manner in which which the government virtually locked
00:16:08locked down the capital city of India.
00:16:10India. They cancelled all the trains
00:16:12trains coming to Delhi. They shut
00:16:15shut down 57 metro stations around
00:16:18around central Delhi. They blocked blocked all the roads leading to
00:16:21to central Delhi. They shut down
00:16:23down the internet all to thwart this
00:16:26this totally peaceful protest that
00:16:28that was declared by the youth led
00:16:33led movement in this country. So So it's clear that the government
00:16:36government is viewing it as perhaps perhaps a more serious challenge
00:16:39challenge than they have ever faced. faced. Now the Supreme Court does
00:16:43does actually have pathways, election election petitions, writs, public
00:16:46public interest litigation. If the the election commissioners conduct
00:16:49conduct is genuinely illegal, why why is the answer to go to the streets
00:16:52streets and not pursue those more
00:16:53more legal means? Yeah. Unfortunately,
00:16:56Unfortunately, the Supreme Court's Court's role in this whole what is
00:16:59is called the special intensive revision
00:17:01revision of the voters roll has been
00:17:04been quite suspect. And the general
00:17:07general feeling among the people people of this country is that the
00:17:10the Supreme Court is just going along along with whatever the Election
00:17:14Election Commission and the government government wants, despite the fact
00:17:17fact that so much has emerged in
00:17:20in the public domain about various various illegalities, violations
00:17:23violations of law and the unilateral unilateral functioning of the chief
00:17:27chief Election Commissioner who has has been functioning without taking
00:17:31taking the approval of the other other two election commissioners
00:17:34commissioners and sometimes and often, often, despite their opposition to
00:17:38to the moves that he is making. So
00:17:41So the people are very disappointed disappointed with the role that the
00:17:45the Supreme Court has been playing. playing. Of course, the matters are
00:17:48are still in the Supreme Court, but
00:17:51but people are very disappointed disappointed with the Supreme with
00:17:53with the role of the Supreme Court Court so far. And what do you make
00:17:57make of the fact that the main opposition opposition Congress party. The main
00:18:00main leader, says that he'll be marching marching as well today, effectively
00:18:03effectively joining forces with this
00:18:04this youth led movement? Yes. The
00:18:09The in all this, almost the entire
00:18:13entire opposition, the all the student
00:18:15student movements, etc have all come
00:18:18come together because they feel that
00:18:20that this is clearly a huge assault
00:18:23assault on India's democracy. This
00:18:26This manner in which the voters list
00:18:28list has been dealt with almost more
00:18:32more than 13 crore. That is 130 million
00:18:35million people being removed from
00:18:36from the voters list. And a lot of
00:18:41of people added to the voters list
00:18:42list in a very suspect manner. Totally
00:18:46Totally without any transparency transparency in violation of rules.
00:18:49rules. So therefore everybody has
00:18:52has joined together in this whole
00:18:56whole movement against the election election commissioner, the Chief
00:18:59Chief Election Commissioner and reform reform the demand to remove the Chief
00:19:02Chief Election Commissioner is only only one of the three main demands
00:19:05demands of all these people. The The second is that the process of
00:19:09of selecting and appointing the election election Commissioner should be made
00:19:13made neutral, should not be controlled controlled by the government, which
00:19:15which it has done. And the third
00:19:17third is that the whole process of
00:19:20of this special intensive revision revision and the changes that have
00:19:23have been made in the voter's list, list, should be rolled back to the
00:19:27the position where it was before before this intensive revision started.
00:19:30started. Prashant, thanks so much much for your thoughts today. Prashant Prashant Bhushan, the Indian public
00:19:33public interest lawyer and supporter supporter of the Cockroach Janta
00:19:36Janta Party. Now flash flood has has left at least five people missing
00:19:39missing in Nepal. More than 140 houses
00:19:42houses have been damaged either fully fully or partially, while bridges bridges and hydropower infrastructure
00:19:46infrastructure have been swept away. away. Officials suspect a landslide
00:19:50landslide blocked the Budhi Gandaki Gandaki River before the water burst
00:19:54burst its banks or burst through through more than 90 people, including
00:19:57including nine foreigners, have been been rescued so far, a disaster management
00:20:01management official says. SMS alerts alerts helped avert a much greater greater loss of life. The country
00:20:05country remains on high alert seven seven weeks after devastating floods
00:20:08floods swept away thousands of people
00:20:10people following a glacier collapse collapse along the border with Tibet.
00:20:14Tibet. Joining me from Kathmandu Kathmandu is BBC Nepal's Sanjaya
00:20:18Sanjaya Dhakal. Sanjaya, get us up up to speed with the latest of what
00:20:21what you've been hearing there. I
00:20:23I like you mentioned, the people
00:20:25people remain out of contact and
00:20:29and almost 200 houses have been damaged. damaged. And this has come as a jolt
00:20:33jolt to the people of Nepal who are
00:20:34are really concerned that so soon soon after that catastrophic flood
00:20:38flood in Vorticosae in August a similar
00:20:42similar kind of incident occurred
00:20:43occurred yesterday. Again, this was
00:20:46was this appears not to be induced
00:20:48induced by rainfall. We're in monsoon
00:20:51monsoon end of monsoon season, but
00:20:53but there was apparently no rainfall
00:20:55rainfall in that area. But suddenly
00:20:58suddenly the Budhi Gandaki River
00:21:00River it came up with a lot of massive
00:21:03massive amount of debris and it was
00:21:06was later informed that there was
00:21:08was a big landslide in the up in
00:21:10in the mountainous areas and that that blocked that river and suddenly
00:21:14suddenly it burst its bank and the
00:21:17the water and the debris came rolling rolling downwards downstream. Yeah. Yeah. The images that we're seeing
00:21:20seeing are quite striking on this, this, Sanjaya. And I suppose the
00:21:24the concern is that there could be be more of this to come. I mean,
00:21:27mean, this is the third such flash flash flood we've seen since that
00:21:30that first one occurred seven weeks
00:21:32weeks ago. People are really concerned, concerned, you know, what's happening
00:21:36happening in the mountains. There
00:21:38There are concerns that mountains mountains may have been destabilised
00:21:41destabilised due to change in the, the, you know, atmosphere. The temperature
00:21:44temperature is rising and all that.
00:21:46that. And so people are really concerned
00:21:48concerned that even in the you know,
00:21:51know, when there is no rainfall,
00:21:56rainfall, this sort of this sort sort of catastrophe can happen at
00:21:58at any time. And you know, yesterday
00:22:00yesterday when these news of certain
00:22:03certain flash flood of Budhi Gandaki
00:22:05Gandaki came, the people were scared
00:22:08scared and they went on the, you
00:22:10you know, upper areas of the villages.
00:22:13villages. So they it also could have
00:22:15have saved many lives because during
00:22:18during the earlier flooding, people
00:22:20people did not take it that much much seriously. Sanjaya, thanks very
00:22:24very much for getting us across those
00:22:26those recent details. Sanjaya from from the BBC Nepali service. Now,
00:22:30Now, if you'd like to keep up to to speed with events unfolding in
00:22:33in Nepal, you can go head over to to our live page on the fresh floods
00:22:37floods in Nepal. Just head over to
00:22:39to bbc.com/news. There is news that that Nepal's disaster Risk Reduction
00:22:43Reduction and Management Authority Authority says that 204 homes were
00:22:45were damaged and over 650 people people were impacted in Sunday's
00:22:49Sunday's floods. Now, Pope Leo made made a surprise health announcement
00:22:52announcement on Sunday, saying he'll he'll undergo surgery to remove a
00:22:55a small lung nodule. The Pope said said the nodule, which usually refers
00:22:59refers to a lump or tissue growth, growth, was detected at a very early
00:23:02early stage during a routine medical medical check up. The Vatican said
00:23:05said that the operation is scheduled scheduled for the first days of this
00:23:08this week, and the estimated post-operative post-operative recovery time will
00:23:11will be about one week. Our own correspondent correspondent Sarah Rainsford has
00:23:14has more. Yeah, as you say, a real real surprise, of course, for everybody
00:23:17everybody who gathered here on Saint Saint Peter's Square at midday today.
00:23:20today. That's when Catholics come come here to see the Pope, to have
00:23:23have a blessing by the Pope from from the balcony here. After that,
00:23:27that, though, the Pope then delivered delivered this announcement, as you
00:23:30you say, a big shock for those who who were listening. He said that
00:23:34that he had had medical checks and and that doctors had discovered a
00:23:37a nodule on his lung. Now, he said, said, as he put it, that this had
00:23:40had been detected at a very early early stage and was well localised,
00:23:44localised, but that doctors had advised advised him he should have it removed.
00:23:46removed. So he is going to have surgery surgery and that will take place
00:23:49place in the next few days here in in Rome. The Vatican is not giving
00:23:53giving many more details than that, that, just saying that it will take
00:23:56take him about a week to recover recover from the surgery itself. itself. We do know that nodules like
00:24:00like this are relatively common and and that usually they're not cancerous.
00:24:03cancerous. But certainly I think think Catholics around the world world are concerned are watching
00:24:07watching this news very closely. closely. I think in particular, because
00:24:10because this is a relatively young young Pope. He's in his early 70s. 70s. He goes to the gym. He likes
00:24:14likes playing tennis. He's always always been thought of as fit and
00:24:17and as healthy. And this is the first
00:24:19first health scare that he's had
00:24:21had since he was elected last year. year. One encouraging note, I think,
00:24:24think, was perhaps his tone as he he made that announcement. He seemed
00:24:27seemed very calm. He even smiled smiled a couple of times during the
00:24:30the statement and also he mentioned mentioned today a trip that's coming coming up in November to Peru, the
00:24:34the place where he was a missionary missionary for many years and a bishop.
00:24:37bishop. He has talked about that that with the suggestion that that
00:24:41that trip should still go ahead in in November. So perhaps encouraging encouraging news for Catholics even
00:24:45even as they absorb this. Pretty Pretty surprising and for some shocking
00:24:48shocking news. Some football news news for you. Manchester City defied
00:24:51defied a hostile reception by Liverpool Liverpool fans, beating their hosts
00:24:54hosts 3-0 in their first match since since being found guilty of multiple
00:24:57multiple breaches of financial rules rules by the English Premier League.
00:25:01League. Ahead of the game, Liverpool
00:25:03Liverpool fans were not impressed. The atmosphere is going
00:25:06going to be volatile. I think it's it's always a special game, not as
00:25:09as big as Man United and Everton, Everton, but I think it's still up
00:25:12up there with the best. I think they're they're dominating for a lot of years.
00:25:16years. I think when they get the the perch back from the year before.
00:25:20before. So I think it is more, more more difficult because of what's
00:25:23what's going on, on city. It's isn't
00:25:25isn't it? It's more yeah, I think
00:25:27think so. And it's kind of also the
00:25:30the whole saga really. I'm losing losing my passion for the game, to
00:25:34to be honest. It just feels like like it's no longer for supporters,
00:25:37supporters, no longer for fans. It's It's all about the money nowadays.
00:25:40nowadays. Money, money. How many
00:25:43many teams have been relegated or or lost Champions League spots, Europe
00:25:47Europe spots. I mean I'm a Liverpool Liverpool supporter. I don't want
00:25:51want tainted titles. I just like like some justice. I'll be back shortly
00:25:54shortly with more on Business Today.
00:25:56Today. See you soon.
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