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00:00:09It's 7pm in London. This is the
00:00:12world today with Maryam Moshiri. Moshiri. Ukraine's President Zelensky
00:00:15Zelensky says Russia hit a power power plant in Ukraine immediately
00:00:18immediately after Donald Trump claimed claimed both sides had agreed to
00:00:22to an energy ceasefire. We'll have have special coverage coming up on
00:00:25on the war in Ukraine as The Security
00:00:27Security Brief goes live. This evening evening we are diving deep into all
00:00:30all the issues that will affect Ukraine. Ukraine. We've got our resident military
00:00:34military analyst, Mikey Kay alongside. alongside. Also here, Doctor Fiona
00:00:38Fiona Hill, who led the White House House Russia policy in Donald Trump's
00:00:41Trump's first term. And Brigadier
00:00:43Brigadier Stu Nassar. Saudi Arabia Arabia threatens what it calls a
00:00:47a serious response to deadly Houthi Houthi attacks on Riyadh's international
00:00:51international airport. Flights remain
00:00:52remain suspended. The BBC reports
00:00:56reports from inside Yemen, where where the long running civil war
00:00:58war is escalating. We've been told told that there are Houthi fighters
00:01:02fighters in position up in the mountains. mountains. About 500 of them. And
00:01:06And since we've been here, the forces forces are keeping an eye on the
00:01:09the sky just to make sure that there
00:01:11there are no more drones coming.
00:01:14coming. It's emerged the man mauled
00:01:15mauled to death by a tiger was visiting
00:01:18visiting the Yorkshire Wildlife Park
00:01:21Park alone.
00:01:31Hello and a very warm welcome
00:01:34to The World Today on BBC News. Russia's Russia's foreign minister says Ukraine
00:01:37Ukraine doesn't deserve any respite. respite. Just a day after President
00:01:40President Trump announced Ukraine Ukraine and Russia had agreed to
00:01:43to stop attacking each other's energy energy infrastructure and Ukraine's
00:01:46Ukraine's President Zelensky, who who said he would support a ceasefire,
00:01:49ceasefire, accused Russia of attacking
00:01:52attacking six energy facilities. facilities. Less than 24 hours later.
00:01:55later. He's called on Donald Trump Trump to put increased pressure on
00:01:58on Vladimir Putin after more than
00:02:00than four years of war. Dan Johnson
00:02:02Johnson reports from Kyiv. This is
00:02:05is the. Soundtrack to Ukraine's energy
00:02:10energy crisis and the power cuts cuts continue despite Donald Trump's
00:02:14Trump's ceasefire announcement. We
00:02:17We just adapt, Natalia says. Putin
00:02:19Putin is a scoundrel. He doesn't
00:02:21doesn't want peace. At least businesses
00:02:25businesses have a way of keeping keeping the lights on. Many of the
00:02:28the residents here aren't so fortunate. fortunate. They don't have the option
00:02:30option of generators. And if you're you're living in a tower block like
00:02:34like that, when the lift stops working,
00:02:37working, that's 16 flights of stairs.
00:02:40stairs. And many are having to store store water ready for the next outage
00:02:44outage when the pumps stop. Olga
00:02:47Olga has lived through 81 winters
00:02:50winters but wasn't relishing another.
00:02:53another. Trump should hurry up and and put Putin in his place instead
00:02:57instead of pretending to be friends friends with him. All those phone
00:03:00phone calls between them. He should
00:03:02should come here to Ukraine and see
00:03:04see our homes, see how badly they've
00:03:07they've been destroyed. This started started with Donald Trump's deal
00:03:09deal to lift restrictions on Russian
00:03:12Russian diesel, a betrayal in Ukrainian Ukrainian eyes. The ceasefire came
00:03:15came as a surprise to Ukraine's president, president, who said he'd sign up
00:03:19up but claims Russia's hit six more
00:03:22more energy facilities. It was clear
00:03:25clear that Putin does not read Truth
00:03:29Truth Social. Russia is trying to
00:03:32to use another winter, another period
00:03:34period of cold weather against our
00:03:36our country, taking our power plants,
00:03:39plants, power grids and all parts
00:03:42parts of our energy infrastructure
00:03:45infrastructure every single day.
00:03:50day. Russia's first response was was this a strike on a Kharkiv suburb.
00:03:54suburb. People there think was destined
00:03:56destined for its power station. We'd
00:03:59We'd already seen the statement that that they wouldn't target energy
00:04:02energy facilities, and we really really believed it. Ten minutes had
00:04:04had passed and there had already already been five strikes. My child
00:04:08child and I saw a missile hit thermal thermal power plant number five and
00:04:11and watched it burn there. It's horrific.
00:04:15horrific. The Kremlin's only comment
00:04:17comment has been about Zelensky.
00:04:20Zelensky. I do not think he deserves deserves a respite. I don't think
00:04:24think we'll be buying into assurances
00:04:25assurances and promises again. So
00:04:28So many Kyiv streets remain in darkness
00:04:31darkness and Ukrainians are under under no illusions. Russia's war
00:04:35war continues. Dan Johnson, BBC News
00:04:38News in Kyiv. Well, Angela Stent
00:04:40Stent is a senior fellow at the American American Enterprise Institute and
00:04:44and author of the book Putin's World World Russia against the West. So
00:04:48So how unusual is it for a ceasefire ceasefire to be announced before
00:04:52before both sides have agreed to to its terms? That's a question I
00:04:55I put to Angela. So I think this this isn't the first time it's happened
00:04:59happened with President Trump. There There have been a couple of other other times when he's announced such
00:05:02such a ceasefire, and it's never
00:05:05never come into being. So for him, him, it isn't that unusual. But I
00:05:09I think in general, of course, it it would be because you would have
00:05:12have to have both parties agreeing
00:05:13agreeing to an energy cease fire. fire. Ukraine, as President Zelensky
00:05:17Zelensky said, is quite willing to to agree to that. But there's no
00:05:20no indication that Russia ever agreed agreed to it. And why would Russia Russia agree to it, given that it
00:05:24it spent many years targeting Ukraine's Ukraine's energy infrastructure?
00:05:27infrastructure? Angela? Well, it
00:05:30it wouldn't agree to it also because
00:05:33because even though the Ukrainians Ukrainians are striking Russian energy
00:05:37energy facilities, they now have have this deal announced at least
00:05:40least by President Trump. They're They're going to export more diesel. diesel. So they're still going to
00:05:43to earn the revenues they need to
00:05:45to keep their war machine going.
00:05:47going. Is the US prioritising energy energy stability over military pressure
00:05:51pressure on Russia? Do you think?
00:05:53think? I think what the US is doing
00:05:55doing now under President Trump, Trump, he's prioritising what's going
00:05:58going to happen in the mid-term elections elections that are going to happen.
00:06:01happen. I believe, in three weeks' weeks' time where it's said that
00:06:06that the Republicans aren't going going to do so well. And so he's
00:06:09he's trying to lower petrol prices prices in the United States, and
00:06:12and particularly diesel prices, which which are really quite high because
00:06:16because voters are quite dissatisfied dissatisfied with him. But I think
00:06:19think we have to remember the reason reason why petrol prices are so high
00:06:22high in the United States has much much more to do with the Iranian
00:06:26Iranian war than it does with the the Russia-Ukraine war. Let's talk
00:06:29talk a little bit about President President Putin. What do you think think he's thinking right now? Have
00:06:33Have you seen anything to suggest suggest that President Putin is in
00:06:35in any way, shape or form prepared
00:06:37prepared to compromise? Not at all.
00:06:40all. In fact, I think he's very happy
00:06:42happy that with this diesel deal deal announced the sanctions against
00:06:45against Russia are now being removed, removed, at least from the US side,
00:06:49side, not from the European side. side. He's going to earn more money
00:06:52money and he sees no reason to stop
00:06:54stop this war. As long as he can can humour President Trump into believing
00:06:58believing that at some point he will will do that because he believes
00:07:01believes that Russia is winning, winning, the winter is going to be
00:07:04be very difficult for Ukraine. European European countries are doing as much
00:07:07much as they can to support Ukraine, Ukraine, but there's a limit to how
00:07:10how much they can do. And US support
00:07:13support is certainly waning. So I
00:07:15I do not believe that Putin believes believes there's any necessity, any
00:07:19any urgency to engage either in an
00:07:20an energy cease fire or ready to
00:07:23to negotiate seriously to end the
00:07:25the war. Well, that's Angela Stent Stent they're talking to me a little
00:07:29little bit earlier, and there's more more on what's happening in Ukraine,
00:07:32Ukraine, of course, on the website. website. And as you can see on your
00:07:35your screen, The Security Brief will will be discussing Ukraine in a lot
00:07:39lot of detail in about 22 minutes'
00:07:41minutes' time. Yemen's Houthi rebels rebels have renewed their attacks
00:07:45attacks against Saudi Arabia, firing firing more drones and missiles into
00:07:48into the country. It all comes after after two deadly strikes on Riyadh's
00:07:52Riyadh's main international airport airport in as many months. In as
00:07:54as many days. Excuse me. Saudi officials
00:07:56officials say one person was killed killed and 11 wounded in an attack
00:08:00attack on the King Khalid International International Airport on Sunday.
00:08:03Sunday. That came just hours after after another Houthi claimed attack
00:08:06attack on the airport killed 13 people people and left hundreds of others
00:08:09others wounded. Operations at the the airport have now been suspended
00:08:13suspended until Sunday. The Iranian Iranian backed Houthi say they're
00:08:16they're targeting Saudi Arabia because because of its support for government government forces in Yemen's civil
00:08:20civil war. In recent weeks, the Houthi Houthi rebels have advanced along
00:08:23along the coast, capturing towns towns and cities and threatening
00:08:26threatening the critical Bab al-Mandab
00:08:29al-Mandab Bab al-Mandab Strait Frank
00:08:31Frank Gardner reports. A normal day
00:08:33day in Riyadh airports busy departure
00:08:35departure terminal. Then this with
00:08:38with no warning a Houthi missile
00:08:40missile fired from Yemen. 13 people people killed on Saturday hundreds
00:08:43hundreds injured. Three strikes over
00:08:46over four days. Saudi air defences
00:08:48defences penetrated. All this while
00:08:51while Saudi Arabia is hosting a major
00:08:54major international energy conference.
00:08:55conference. Resilience gives us the
00:08:58the capacity to sustain progress
00:09:01progress and continue shaping our
00:09:03our future. The events of recent
00:09:06recent weeks are serious. Our response
00:09:09response must be equally serious serious while remaining focused on
00:09:13on the decades ahead. But the Houthis
00:09:18Houthis have other plans. Responding Responding to recent Saudi air strikes,
00:09:22strikes, Yemen's Houthis have launched launched a barrage of missile and
00:09:25and drone strikes right across the
00:09:27the Saudi kingdom. Saudi Arabia spent
00:09:31spent more than $83 billion on defence defence last year. That made them
00:09:35them the eighth biggest defence spender
00:09:37spender in the world. Over the years, years, they've bought typhoon jets,
00:09:41jets, Patriot missiles and third
00:09:43third interceptors. So how is it
00:09:45it then that with all of this expensive
00:09:48expensive kit, they can't seem to to prevent these devastating Houthi
00:09:51Houthi missile strikes? The Houthis Houthis have a mixture of ballistic
00:09:54ballistic missiles, cruise missiles missiles and drones that all require
00:09:57require a lot of different defences. defences. So you can spend millions millions intercepting weapons that
00:10:01that cost a fraction of that. You You can shoot down lots of them,
00:10:04them, but you still suffer crippling crippling damage from the ones that
00:10:06that get through. The Saudis can can bomb Yemen extensively to try
00:10:10try and stop this, but it's really
00:10:12really hard to track down every launcher, launcher, every possible missile
00:10:15missile site, every small factory.
00:10:19factory. Especially in a country country racked by its own ongoing
00:10:22ongoing conflict. Forces loyal to
00:10:25to the ousted, internationally recognised recognised Yemeni government have
00:10:28have retaken land in places they've they've lost it in others. But all
00:10:32all the while, Iran is strengthening strengthening its hand, ready for
00:10:36for an eventual deal with America
00:10:38America to end this widening war.
00:10:42war. Frank Gardner, BBC News. Well, Well, our senior international correspondent
00:10:46correspondent Orla Guerin has this this special report from inside Yemen
00:10:49Yemen where the long running civil civil war is escalating. A warning
00:10:52warning you might find some of her
00:10:54her content distressing. Crossing
00:10:58Crossing the desert, a remote battlefield
00:11:01battlefield in a civil war that is is fast becoming a major regional
00:11:05regional threat. We travelled with
00:11:08with Yemen's southern forces fighters fighters loyal to the internationally
00:11:12internationally recognised government
00:11:15government in this landscape of harsh
00:11:17harsh beauty, they have regained regained some lost ground and took
00:11:21took us to see it here. The wreckage
00:11:24wreckage of a Houthi drone shot out
00:11:27out of the sky. How much damage could
00:11:29could this have done? Commander Tawfik
00:11:32Tawfik Al Haugen says it contained
00:11:35contained explosives. And could kill
00:11:39kill 10 to 15 people. This whole
00:11:43whole area has just been retaken retaken by pro-government forces.
00:11:47forces. They captured it about three
00:11:49three days ago. Until then, the Houthis Houthis were in control here. They've
00:11:53They've been pushed back. And we've we've been told that there are Houthi
00:11:57Houthi fighters in position up in in the mountains. About 500 of them.
00:12:01them. And since we've been here, here, the forces are keeping an eye
00:12:04eye on the sky just to make sure
00:12:05sure that there are no more drones
00:12:09drones coming here. Scenes from the
00:12:11the battle to retake this territory.
00:12:15territory. No military precision.
00:12:17precision. Some fighters are barefoot.
00:12:21barefoot. Many families have been been homeless since the Houthi advance
00:12:25advance last month. Their only shelter
00:12:28shelter is the trees. Aisha tells
00:12:31tells me she has no food, no animals
00:12:34animals and no water. She's borrowing
00:12:37borrowing money to survive. Yemen's
00:12:41Yemen's civil war is casting a shadow
00:12:45shadow well beyond its borders. The
00:12:46The Houthis are a threat to international international shipping and increasingly
00:12:50increasingly a threat to Saudi Arabia.
00:12:53Arabia. But for their backers in
00:12:55in Iran, they provide leverage. In
00:13:00In operating rooms in the city of
00:13:02of Aden. Geopolitics feels remote
00:13:05remote night and day. Doctors are are treating wounded fighters. When
00:13:09When you get a real sense here of
00:13:11of how fierce the fighting is, this
00:13:14this hospital alone has received
00:13:17received 51 wounded fighters today. today. Every bed in the intensive
00:13:20intensive care unit is full and the the casualties keep coming. We've
00:13:24We've been told there are three more
00:13:26more on the way. Some still have
00:13:29have their fighting spirit like Ahmed
00:13:32Ahmed Ali Mahmoud. He wants to get
00:13:34get back to the front. Despite multiple
00:13:38multiple fractures. I'm not waiting waiting to be fully recovered, he
00:13:42he told us. I just want to be able
00:13:44able to stand. I think it's a religious
00:13:47religious duty and a national duty.
00:13:49duty. The Houthis have destroyed
00:13:52destroyed the country. In the next
00:13:55next ward, 12-year-old Ali, he was
00:13:57was injured by a drone and a shrapnel
00:14:00shrapnel near his spine. Doctors
00:14:02Doctors hope to remove it. But will
00:14:05will war follow him into adulthood?
00:14:08adulthood? Orla Guerin, BBC News News Southern Yemen. Let's cross
00:14:12cross live now and speak to Ali Fathollah-Nejad,
00:14:15Fathollah-Nejad, who is the founder founder and director of the centre centre for Middle East and Global Global Order, an independent think
00:14:19think tank. Ali, thanks so much for for joining us. And let's just I
00:14:22I think it's important to contextualise contextualise what's happening with
00:14:26with the Houthis in terms of the the Iran war. So if you can do that
00:14:29that for us and just give us the the kind of background to that and and why we're seeing this escalating
00:14:33escalating now. Well, I believe that
00:14:36that there are certainly inter. Yemeni Yemeni domestic factors, but and
00:14:40and also the Houthi Saudi dynamic
00:14:43dynamic behind Houthi actions. But But I would rather, as you suggested,
00:14:47suggested, contextualise it in the the wider Iran war. We don't have
00:14:50have to forget that the Houthi escalation escalation has started precisely
00:14:53precisely a month ago. And this was
00:14:56was coinciding with several pressure pressure points as the Islamic Republic
00:14:59Republic of Iran, a major backer backer of the of Yemen's Houthis,
00:15:03Houthis, had been facing the resumption
00:15:05resumption of the US naval blockade
00:15:07blockade in mid-July that was crippling crippling increasingly so crucially,
00:15:11crucially, Iranian oil exports and
00:15:15and concerns by the Iranian regime regime that its control over the
00:15:18the Strait of Hormuz is going to
00:15:21to be eroding as any energy exports
00:15:24exports were on the rise, with alternative alternative export routes used by
00:15:27by the UAE but also the Kingdom of of Saudi Arabia. And later on we
00:15:31we saw that the Houthis were precisely
00:15:33precisely attacking also this energy energy infrastructure of the Saudis.
00:15:36Saudis. And also the US Navy escorting,
00:15:40escorting, you know, relatively quite quite a number of, you know, vessels
00:15:44vessels through the Oman route, through through the Strait of Hormuz, which
00:15:47which wasn't to the taste of Tehran. Tehran. And frustration, certainly
00:15:51certainly over the lack of US concessions concessions vis a vis Tehran. So
00:15:55So from the Iranian strategic perspective, perspective, the situation was getting
00:15:59getting worse and worse. And they
00:16:01they had to increase the pressure pressure upon the Americans, upon
00:16:05upon the GCC and to flex their negative
00:16:08negative power muscles, so to speak, speak, through the Houthis. And so
00:16:11so what choice now does the Saudis Saudis have given this pressure you're
00:16:14you're talking about from Iran as
00:16:16as well? Well, the Saudis have are
00:16:21are in a very delicate situation,
00:16:24situation, very obviously those attacks attacks not only against energy infrastructure
00:16:28infrastructure but also against the
00:16:30the civilian airports over the last
00:16:32last week have been quite costly.
00:16:34costly. There is some frustration, frustration, certainly over the extent
00:16:38extent of support within the so-called so-called Mecca pact, which is this
00:16:42this defence agreement that was forged
00:16:44forged between Saudi Arabia and Turkey Turkey and Pakistan, so that from
00:16:48from Turkey and Pakistan there they they cannot really expect any kind
00:16:52kind of active military support.
00:16:54support. But they're nevertheless nevertheless going to try to recapture
00:16:58recapture some of the lost territory. territory. And to, you know, push
00:17:01push away the Houthis from controlling
00:17:05controlling this second important important waterway next to the Strait
00:17:07Strait of Hormuz in this wider region,
00:17:09region, which is the Bab al-Mandab. al-Mandab. So I think, militarily
00:17:12militarily speaking, we're going
00:17:14going to see a lot of back and forth.
00:17:17forth. And it's very unclear how
00:17:19how on the military front things things are going to end. Ali, thanks
00:17:23thanks so much for your analysis.
00:17:25analysis. Thank you. Well, we'll
00:17:29we'll have a special live show with
00:17:31with so much more on the war in Ukraine Ukraine coming up as The Security
00:17:34Security Brief goes live in front front of a studio audience tonight.
00:17:37tonight. You can watch that here here on BBC News in just over 12
00:17:4112 minutes' time. You can also watch
00:17:42watch it on BBC iPlayer and of course
00:17:45course the BBC News YouTube channel. channel. Today, at 7:30 UK time,
00:17:49time, Christian and Mikey will have have their live analysis with a panel
00:17:53panel of very special guests. But But first, let's take a quick break
00:17:56break here on the world today, around around the world and across the UK.
00:17:59UK. This is The World
00:19:00security. Brief live with an audience
00:19:01audience here on BBC News. The Prime
00:19:10Prime Minister has given MPs his his clearest signal yet that he sees
00:19:13sees a closer relationship with the the EU as a key part of growing the
00:19:17the UK economy. He told MPs it would would be a dereliction of duty not
00:19:20not to push for closer ties with with the EU, and that the status
00:19:24status quo is not good enough. Our
00:19:25Our political editor, Chris Mason,
00:19:28Mason, has more. Remember when all
00:19:30all Westminster seemed to do was
00:19:33was row about Brexit? Of course you
00:19:35you do. And it's all gone quiet though
00:19:37though in recent years. But is that
00:19:40that now changing? Andy Burnham.
00:19:44Burnham. The Prime Minister, wants wants a closer relationship with
00:19:48with the European Union. If we are
00:19:52are serious about promoting growth
00:19:55growth controlling immigration, upholding upholding our values and security.
00:19:59security. It is a conversation we
00:20:01we must have. Sticking with the status
00:20:05status quo is not good enough for
00:20:06for Britain. Worse, it would be a
00:20:09a major dereliction of duty to turn
00:20:11turn away. A UK EU summit will take
00:20:14take place in Brussels at the end end of next month, and the Prime
00:20:17Prime Minister says he wants to reduce reduce the administrative burden
00:20:20burden on farmers, deepen co-operation co-operation on immigration and discuss
00:20:24discuss a youth mobility scheme.
00:20:26scheme. But with what trade offs
00:20:29offs and costs. His exact words earlier
00:20:31earlier this year were the last thing
00:20:33thing we should do right now is rerun
00:20:36rerun those arguments. And yet here
00:20:39here he is unpicking the deal this
00:20:41this country signed with the EU a
00:20:44a decade after the referendum. He He is not going to get a better deal.
00:20:48deal. And another thing the Prime Prime Minister said about Brexit
00:20:51Brexit has got some people Take talking. talking. A listen. I asked a question
00:20:55question coming into Downing Street.
00:20:57Street. Was there interference in in the 2016 referendum from Russia?
00:21:00Russia? And I've had the clear answer answer that yes, there was. Over
00:21:03Over the weekend on the Rest Is Politics
00:21:05Politics podcast. He implied that
00:21:08that the referendum result was illegitimate
00:21:10illegitimate because of Russian interference. interference. Where has this come
00:21:13come from? We all remember in 2018
00:21:162018 the head of MI5 said that there there was no evidence that Russia
00:21:19Russia had influenced the EU referendum referendum result. I implied no such
00:21:23such thing, the Prime Minister insisted,
00:21:25insisted, adding. It is a matter
00:21:28matter of record, Mr Speaker, that
00:21:30that Russian actors sought to interfere
00:21:34interfere in the 2019 general election
00:21:35election and we think it is inconceivable
00:21:39inconceivable that this was the first
00:21:41first time. The Liberal Democrats Democrats commended what they called
00:21:44called his courage in saying this, this, adding he should publish the
00:21:48the evidence. So will he now present
00:21:50present it to the House in full alongside
00:21:52alongside any evidence of interference
00:21:54interference in other UK votes? Mr
00:21:57Mr Burnham didn't promise to do so
00:22:00so earlier. The Reform UK leader
00:22:02leader was blunt in his assessment.
00:22:05assessment. The Prime Minister is
00:22:06is a liar. Yes, a liar. There was
00:22:12was no Russian interference and the
00:22:14the Russia hoax has run all the way
00:22:16way through this. A new Prime Minister
00:22:19Minister and our relationship with
00:22:21with the European Union. Brexit is
00:22:23is back in the political debate. debate. Incidentally, to complete
00:22:26complete the rather back to the future future feel of today, Boris Johnson
00:22:30Johnson has chipped in on this whole whole question of Russian interference,
00:22:34interference, saying that he asked asked the same question that Andy
00:22:36Andy Burnham did when he became Foreign
00:22:39Foreign Secretary of the Security Security services and was told at
00:22:41at the time there was no evidence
00:22:45evidence of any successful interference. interference. I think the debate
00:22:47debate will rumble about what interference
00:22:49interference amounts to and what what successful interference amounts
00:22:52amounts to. The bigger picture, though, though, is that the Prime Minister
00:22:55Minister is willing to lean in to to this wider argument about Brexit,
00:22:59Brexit, and we can expect him to to continue to do so in the coming
00:23:03coming weeks and months. He insists, insists, though, that this side of
00:23:05of a general election he'll be saying
00:23:08saying no to the customs union, the
00:23:10the single market and therefore freedom
00:23:12freedom of movement. That's our political
00:23:16political editor, Chris Mason, there. there. The Home Secretary, Shabana
00:23:19Shabana Mahmood, has announced an an urgent review of the security
00:23:22security arrangements of all high high profile public figures. It follows
00:23:25follows the murder of former Conservative Conservative Minister Ann Widdecombe
00:23:28Widdecombe at her Devon home in July.
00:23:31July. It is clear there is insufficient insufficient protection for those
00:23:35those who serve. I can therefore therefore announce today that I will
00:23:38will expand with immediate effect effect police support to political
00:23:42political figures who are not currently currently Members of Parliament.
00:23:45Parliament. This will include former
00:23:47former Members of Parliament, peers peers and party spokespeople giving
00:23:50giving them access to a named police
00:23:53police officer as well as help with with wider security measures. Staying
00:23:57Staying here in the UK, it's emerged emerged the man who was mauled to
00:24:00to death by a tiger after entering entering its enclosure on Saturday
00:24:03Saturday was visiting the Yorkshire Yorkshire Wildlife Park alone. An
00:24:07An investigation has started into into his death as the park near Doncaster
00:24:10Doncaster remains closed for a third
00:24:11third day. Jim Connolly reports.
00:24:15reports. Yorkshire Wildlife Park Park is normally busy with families families and school trips, all excited
00:24:19excited to see the animals. Today Today nobody's going in. It's after
00:24:23after a man climbed into the tiger tiger enclosure on Saturday afternoon
00:24:26afternoon and was fatally attacked.
00:24:28attacked. There's been a lot of speculation speculation online about the man
00:24:32man and what happened. Had he been been accompanied to the park? Well, Well, the police have confirmed to
00:24:35to us he was visiting on his own. own. An eyewitness described seeing
00:24:39seeing the man wearing headphones headphones and pacing around near near the enclosure before he went
00:24:43went in. We're not showing the videos videos of the attack circulating
00:24:46circulating online, but we've seen seen them and how the man interacts interacts with the tiger, the animal
00:24:50animal pawing at him and overpowering overpowering him. Then the attack
00:24:53attack happens, killing him at the the scene. We had these two shots
00:24:57shots and that's when we started started to question what's going
00:25:00going on. And then we came out of
00:25:02of the lemur enclosure and there there was another ranger saying,
00:25:05saying, I'm sorry, we're going to to have to evacuate. You all have
00:25:08have to make your way to the exit exit and say it took three quarters
00:25:11quarters of an hour for us to get get out. But all the way along the
00:25:14the Rangers then we saw the police. police. Then we saw the helicopter.
00:25:17helicopter. There was another two two shots at some point as well.
00:25:21well. It's eerily quiet, typically typically even on a wet, drizzly
00:25:25drizzly Monday like today, this place place would be busy. It's a popular
00:25:29popular tourist destination, but but now it's just a couple of security
00:25:31security guards and a lot of media media attention. This afternoon,
00:25:35afternoon, the City of Doncaster Doncaster Council told us they've
00:25:37they've launched a health and safety
00:25:39safety investigation. There are plenty plenty of unanswered questions. Why
00:25:43Why did the man enter the enclosure? enclosure? Who was he and how did
00:25:46did he get so close to such a dangerous
00:25:48dangerous animal? A park spokesperson spokesperson said their thoughts
00:25:52thoughts and heartfelt sympathies sympathies remain with the man's man's family, and it confirmed that
00:25:56that the tiger, called Altai, remained
00:25:58remained in the enclosure and would
00:26:00would not be euthanized. Jim Connolly, Connolly, BBC News, Doncaster. You've
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