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00:00:15BBC News. Democratic Congresswoman Congresswoman Haley Stevens endorses
00:00:18endorses the Republican Party's Senate Senate candidate in the key battleground
00:00:22battleground state of Michigan. The The latest twist in a crucial Senate
00:00:25Senate race just two days ahead of
00:00:27of the US midterm elections. Ukraine's Ukraine's military says its air raid
00:00:31raid alert app is likely to have
00:00:34have been hacked after citizens received received false warnings about threats
00:00:37threats of radiation and chemical
00:00:39chemical attacks. Buckingham Palace
00:00:41Palace says King Charles will speak speak with unflinching honesty and
00:00:45and sincere sorrow about slavery
00:00:47slavery at the Commonwealth Leaders Leaders Summit in the Caribbean and
00:00:51and on Business Today, the world's world's largest cryptocurrency exchange,
00:00:54exchange, Binance, sees record withdrawals withdrawals after it reopened on
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00:01:14Vandhna Bhan the US midterm elections
00:01:17elections are just two days away.
00:01:19away. Millions of voters across the the country will determine the balance
00:01:23balance of power in Congress. And And while the Democrats are widely
00:01:26widely predicted to flip the House House of Representatives, the Senate
00:01:29Senate is still up for grabs. President
00:01:32President Trump has just left Kansas,
00:01:34Kansas, where he held his final rally
00:01:36rally in the months long campaign campaign blitz for Republicans. He's
00:01:40He's just finished his speech in
00:01:41in the last few minutes. Along with
00:01:44with Florida and Iowa, Kansas was
00:01:46was once considered reliably a Republican
00:01:49Republican state, but the US President President spent the final weekend
00:01:52weekend before polling day campaigning
00:01:54campaigning there, highlighting how how competitive they have become
00:01:58become and how important they will will be in determining control of
00:02:01of Congress. In Michigan, Democratic
00:02:04Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens Stevens broke with her party by endorsing
00:02:08endorsing Republican Senate candidate candidate Mike Rogers. It follows
00:02:11follows a rift with her fellow Democrat
00:02:12Democrat and nominee for Senate Abdul
00:02:15Abdul El-Sayed, who defeated her her in the primary. Stevens criticised
00:02:19criticised him over a political ad
00:02:20ad by an outside group, blaming Israel
00:02:23Israel for high grocery prices. Stevens
00:02:25Stevens then appeared with Rogers Rogers on the campaign trail, there,
00:02:29there, she explained a little more
00:02:31more of why her support has shifted.
00:02:34shifted. My vote for Senate is going going to be with Mike Rogers, and
00:02:37and I will tell you why because we
00:02:41we have to stand with country. We
00:02:43We can't stand with hate. I'm sorry
00:02:45sorry people are upset and I understand
00:02:48understand that I did endorse the the Democratic nominee and he chose
00:02:51chose to close this campaign by saying saying I wasn't welcome. I've never
00:02:55never been invited to a campaign campaign event. That's fine. You You know, he's busy. He's running
00:02:58running all around. I've had primaries primaries before myself. It's not
00:03:01not about that. It's this is about
00:03:04about leadership and integrity. Now, Now, President Trump praised Stevens
00:03:07Stevens for her decision to endorse endorse Rogers, saying he would welcome
00:03:11welcome her to the Republican Party. Party. Al-Sayed, meanwhile, called
00:03:14called the endorsement a distraction distraction and spoke out against
00:03:18against his former primary challenger. challenger. So look, if you're somebody
00:03:21somebody who believes that we ought ought to have more rights, not less less than I would think you would
00:03:25would support me in this race. If If you are somebody who believes
00:03:29believes that we should stand up up to hate, and you have watched watched this last campaign, I think
00:03:33think we probably would not want want to support Mike Rogers and Donald
00:03:36Donald Trump and JD Vance. Our North North America correspondent Nada
00:03:40Nada Tawfik was at El-Sayed's rally rally in Michigan. We have been speaking
00:03:43speaking with voters all day long
00:03:45long who were just as stunned by
00:03:47by this move. By Haley Stevens who
00:03:50who remember, was running in the
00:03:53the primary to take on Mike Rogers
00:03:55Rogers before she lost to Mr El-Sayed.
00:03:58El-Sayed. Voters very much see this
00:04:00this as a disappointment, as a distraction distraction ahead of, you know, a
00:04:04a few days before the election when when this is such a critical seat
00:04:08seat for Democrats in their fight fight to retake the Senate, they
00:04:12they believe that this is a betrayal betrayal of the Democratic Party
00:04:15Party that Haley Stevens has abandoned
00:04:18abandoned or her core kind of beliefs
00:04:20beliefs as a Democrat. And we have
00:04:22have seen a flurry of reaction from
00:04:25from top Democrats, not just in Michigan
00:04:28Michigan but in Washington as well. well. The Democratic leader, Chuck
00:04:31Chuck Schumer in the Senate, also also trying to portray the party
00:04:35party as united. And we have heard heard from Haley Stevens' own staff,
00:04:39staff, including her chief of staff,
00:04:41staff, who said that many have resigned
00:04:43resigned because they don't want want to see this sowing of discord
00:04:47discord right before the election. election. Now to the state of Texas,
00:04:50Texas, more than half $1 billion billion has been spent on advertising
00:04:54advertising alone, making it the the most expensive non-presidential
00:04:58non-presidential race in American American history. Democrat James
00:05:01James Talarico and Republican Ken
00:05:03Ken Paxton are in a race that's too
00:05:05too close to call. So what would would it mean for Republicans if
00:05:08if they were to lose Texas? Our correspondent
00:05:11correspondent Rob Grant explains. explains. It would be huge. It's
00:05:15It's you know, it's been decades decades since there's been a Democratic
00:05:19Democratic senator in Texas. It's It's such a vital state. And I think
00:05:22think what makes it so important important is that what it would tell
00:05:25tell us if there was a Democratic Democratic senator out of Texas for
00:05:29for the rest of the races, particularly,
00:05:32particularly, you know, looking at at President Trump's dwindling popularity
00:05:36popularity at the moment, the importance importance of the Latino vote, obviously,
00:05:39obviously, in a state like Texas
00:05:41Texas where people are reacting against against a number of things, first
00:05:45first and foremost, of course, the
00:05:46the cost of living that's a an issue
00:05:51issue across the nation. It has resonance, resonance, particularly in Texas,
00:05:55Texas, particularly in rural states states where the war with Iran is
00:05:59is pushing up the cost, obviously, obviously, of fuel, but also the
00:06:02the cost of fertiliser. You know,
00:06:05know, other products, oil based products products are all rising. And of course,
00:06:08course, the cost of living in terms terms of filling up your car with
00:06:11with gas. So these are the things
00:06:14things that if it does swing to a
00:06:16a Democratic senator out of Texas,
00:06:19Texas, you know, an almost unthinkable
00:06:22unthinkable prospect for the Republican Republican Party in many ways, it
00:06:25it really is an it would be an indication
00:06:28indication of where the night will will be heading or where the race
00:06:32race will be heading more broadly. broadly. Well, let's get more with
00:06:35with Mike Madrid, a Republican strategist
00:06:37strategist and former political director director for the California Republican
00:06:40Republican Party. Great to be able able to speak with you, Mike. And
00:06:43And I just want to go back to the
00:06:46the Michigan Senate race and actually actually we understand that Abdul
00:06:49Abdul El-Sayed has brought in over
00:06:52over $1.2 million in funding in just
00:06:54just four hours after Haley Stevens
00:06:57Stevens backed the Republican leader. leader. I mean, well, Mike Rogers,
00:07:00Rogers, what do you think this defection defection from Stevens is going to
00:07:04to mean from the Dems heading into into the midterm elections? Well,
00:07:08Well, a couple of things have happened. happened. The last minute. Of course,
00:07:11course, as you just mentioned, this this extraordinary fundraising dynamic.
00:07:14dynamic. It's obviously too late late to actually spend money. I don't don't know what you could spend that
00:07:18that money on, given that it's 48 48 hours away. But also the New York
00:07:22York Times poll just came out showing showing side with an extraordinarily
00:07:26extraordinarily large lead. Given Given the closeness of the race.
00:07:28race. So it seems to from those two two data points seems to be that
00:07:32that the both bases are closing,
00:07:34closing, that the Democrats are rallying rallying around their candidate.
00:07:37candidate. And the defection of Haley Haley Stevens was probably just her
00:07:40her own vote and not bringing any any votes with her. Mike, look, there's
00:07:44there's a lot of comments saying saying that the midterms are going
00:07:46going to be a flood of blue. As a a strategist, what has been I guess,
00:07:49guess, the biggest downfall for the the Republicans leading up to these
00:07:53these midterms. Overwhelmingly the the economy. I can't stress that
00:07:56that enough. Donald Trump is sitting sitting at a historic low point not
00:07:59not just for his own presidency, presidency, but for any presidency presidency in the era of modern polling.
00:08:04polling. The complete fiasco with with the war in Iran, the way that
00:08:07that has driven up prices, the way
00:08:09way it's affecting people's pocketbooks,
00:08:12pocketbooks, the dollars problems,
00:08:14problems, the lack of stability of of our own currency, this chaotic
00:08:18chaotic tariff policy. I could go go on and on. Add on top of that,
00:08:22that, the ice crackdowns, the unconstitutionality unconstitutionality of what's happening, happening, and Americans are simply
00:08:26simply feeling that we're in a moment moment of chaos, a maelstrom here,
00:08:29here, and they're ready to take decisive
00:08:31decisive action if the polls are are correct against this administration.
00:08:35administration. What's the trajectory trajectory here, then, for the Republican Republican Party and especially for
00:08:38for the Maga base here? This is the
00:08:41the first time in ten years of watching watching this very closely, where where I'm seeing a deterioration
00:08:45deterioration in support among self-identified self-identified Maga Republicans.
00:08:49Republicans. Donald Trump is sitting sitting in the high 60s, low 70s
00:08:5370s with Republicans. That's a massive massive amount of defections, something
00:08:55something he rarely has dropped into
00:08:57into the 80s on. He's now a full
00:09:00full 15 points, sometimes more in in testing on that. And the question
00:09:03question becomes what happens in in the post-Trump era as he becomes
00:09:06becomes a super lame duck after this, this, assuming the Democrats win
00:09:10win both houses of Congress, which which seems increasingly likely,
00:09:13likely, you're going to have an old, old, feeble, erratic president who's
00:09:16who's not doing well in the first
00:09:17first two years of his term being
00:09:21being surrounded by his allies in
00:09:23in Europe who don't trust him, enemies
00:09:26enemies in the Middle East and domestic domestic opposition gathering steam.
00:09:29steam. I think it could be a very
00:09:32very erratic time in the history history of the United States. Coming
00:09:35Coming up. Mike Madrid really appreciate
00:09:37appreciate getting your analysis. analysis. Republican strategist.
00:09:41strategist. Now the Ukrainian Air Air Force has said its air alert
00:09:44alert app is likely to have been
00:09:46been compromised in an apparent hacking hacking attack on Sunday evening.
00:09:50evening. Many Ukrainians using the
00:09:52the app received false notifications notifications about a radiological
00:09:55radiological threat, a chemical attack attack and even a message about possible
00:09:59possible street fighting in Kyiv, Kyiv, the authorities say functionality
00:10:02functionality in the app is gradually gradually being restored. Meanwhile,
00:10:06Meanwhile, on Monday, Russia's Ministry Ministry of Emergency Situations
00:10:10Situations said its mobile app had had been subjected to what it called
00:10:13called a massive cyber attack. It It said this had resulted in the
00:10:17the distribution of fake information information to the public, and that
00:10:20that work was under way to fix the the vulnerability. Well, let's get
00:10:23get more on all of this with Matthew Matthew Warren, director of the Centre
00:10:27Centre of Cyber Security at RMIT RMIT Australia. Really great to be
00:10:31be able to speak with you. Just how
00:10:35how concerning is this attack, this this hacking of air raid at a flash,
00:10:38flash, a false nuclear warning? What
00:10:40What was the aim of this really?
00:10:43really? It's a big worry because
00:10:46because the Australian the Ukrainian Ukrainian air raid apps really trusted
00:10:50trusted source of information. The
00:10:51The fact that that's been compromised
00:10:54compromised and false information information was shared even for a
00:10:57a short period focuses on trying
00:11:01trying to cause distrust between, between, I suppose, trusted Ukrainian
00:11:05Ukrainian government sources of information
00:11:08information to its citizens, which
00:11:10which is a classic Russian information information warfare disinformation
00:11:13disinformation approach. And is this
00:11:15this more of, I guess, a psychological
00:11:18psychological tactic in warfare?
00:11:20warfare? So again, there's a number
00:11:23number of issues. One is the psychological psychological effect, the fact that
00:11:26that the Ukrainian population at at the moment is under increased
00:11:30increased aerial bombing from drones
00:11:33drones from the Russians. The fact
00:11:35fact that the Russians are, you know,
00:11:39know, trying to cause distrust between
00:11:44between the Ukrainian government government and its population. But
00:11:47But what's different is that Ukrainian Ukrainian government has invested
00:11:51invested a lot in civic resilience resilience that they know how to
00:11:55to deal with disinformation and they they know how to deal with these
00:11:58these sorts of situations. And what what do you make of Russia saying
00:12:00saying that they have also been subjected
00:12:04subjected to a massive cyber attack attack in their words, is this a
00:12:07a tit-for-tat? Do we believe Russia
00:12:09Russia here? Well, again, what's
00:12:14what's different with the Ukrainian
00:12:17Ukrainian example is that a cyber cyber incident occurred and false
00:12:21false information was shared. And
00:12:22And we've seen the evidence of that
00:12:25that in terms of Russia audit we've we've seen is what the Russian government
00:12:28government is saying that's happened. happened. And it may just be a case
00:12:31case that they're trying to distract distract people's attention with
00:12:35with the implication that there's
00:12:36there's somehow a third party involved,
00:12:40involved, which because of the sophistication sophistication of the attack on the
00:12:43the Ukrainian system, I think that's that's very unlikely. OK. Matthew
00:12:47Matthew Warren, really appreciate appreciate getting your analysis analysis there. Director at the Centre
00:12:51Centre of Cyber Security, RMIT Australia.
00:12:54Australia. Now there have been clashes clashes between police and rioters
00:12:58rioters in cities across Germany
00:13:00Germany late on Saturday after peaceful
00:13:02peaceful protests by a youth movement movement called Gen Z takes Charge
00:13:06Charge turned violent. They followed followed similar protests in France,
00:13:09France, where more than 300,000 people
00:13:12people marched on Saturday. Protests
00:13:14Protests also took place in Albania
00:13:17Albania and Portugal. This warning
00:13:19warning from the a warning this report
00:13:21report from our correspondent Joe Joe Pike Joe Inwood contains flashing
00:13:24flashing images from the start. These These are not scenes Germans are
00:13:28are used to on their streets. Youth
00:13:30Youth anger boiling over. In Frankfurt,
00:13:37Frankfurt, Germany's financial heart. heart. Small groups took the opportunity
00:13:40opportunity to loot shops, including including a gun store. But these
00:13:43these were relatively isolated incidents incidents and a long way from the
00:13:47the central message of protests, protests, which had been largely
00:13:50largely peaceful. Hundreds of thousands
00:13:53thousands of mostly young Germans Germans calling for equality, better
00:13:57better public services and an ease
00:13:58ease to the costs of living. Young
00:14:01Young people are taking to the streets streets to gather as Gen Z to say
00:14:04say that we want a future in which
00:14:06which we can lead a good life. Dass.
00:14:09Dass. We must distance ourselves ourselves from radical protest. Our
00:14:12Our primary focus is on education,
00:14:14education, climate change and democracy. democracy. What took place in Germany
00:14:18Germany is part of a wider trend
00:14:20trend started in France but now spreading
00:14:22spreading to Italy, Spain and here here in Portugal, where a housing
00:14:26housing crisis is said to have hit
00:14:27hit the youngest hardest in France
00:14:31France two there were massive protests protests for a third weekend in a
00:14:34a row, like in Germany, they were were for the most part peaceful and
00:14:38and good natured. They take us for
00:14:40for clowns. This woman's sign reads,
00:14:43reads, but France is a country with
00:14:44with deep fiscal problems and even
00:14:48even deeper political divisions. divisions. The authorities say they've
00:14:51they've opened an attempted murder murder investigation after police
00:14:55police were attacked by petrol bombs.
00:14:58bombs. In total, more than 700 people
00:15:00people were arrested. In every march.
00:15:03march. There were groups of rioters rioters and looters, many driven
00:15:07driven by the far left. Their sole
00:15:08sole aim was to retake city centres
00:15:11centres with extraordinary violence. violence. Across Europe, there seems
00:15:14seems to be a growing sense of anger
00:15:16anger and unrest amongst the young, young, a feeling the social contract
00:15:20contract has been broken by governments governments of left, right and the
00:15:24the centre. They are making their
00:15:26their voices heard. Joe Inwood, BBC
00:15:29BBC News. We'll be right back with
00:15:32with more including Buckingham Palace Palace confirming that King Charles
00:15:35Charles will speak about slavery slavery when he addresses the Commonwealth
00:15:38Commonwealth Leaders Summit in Antigua, Antigua, around the world and across
00:15:42across the UK.
00:16:44more climate friendly cities? That's
00:16:45That's coming up on BBC News. You're
00:16:52You're live with BBC News. Buckingham Buckingham Palace says King Charles
00:16:56Charles will speak about slavery slavery with unflinching honesty
00:17:00honesty and sincere sorrow when he he addresses the Commonwealth Leaders
00:17:03Leaders Summit in Antigua on Tuesday. Tuesday. The King, starting three
00:17:07three days of formal engagements engagements there as part of a wider
00:17:11wider tour of the Caribbean. It's It's understood his speech won't
00:17:14won't be affected by comments made made by the UK Prime Minister, Andy
00:17:18Andy Burnham, raising the possibility possibility of a formal apology for
00:17:21for Britain's role in the transatlantic
00:17:23transatlantic slave trade. The British British government has never made
00:17:26made a formal apology for slavery
00:17:28slavery or offered to pay reparations.
00:17:31reparations. Here's our political political correspondent Joe Pike.
00:17:35Pike. Throughout his Caribbean tour, tour, the King has acknowledged slavery's
00:17:38slavery's place in the history of
00:17:40of these islands. He has. The Caribbean
00:17:42Caribbean community have a ten-point ten-point plan for reparations, including
00:17:46including investment in education education and public health. But
00:17:48But Andy Burnham has ruled out anything anything financial. The Chancellor
00:17:52Chancellor explained his boss's thinking. thinking. The Prime Minister has
00:17:55has said look, we are open to a discussion
00:17:58discussion about an apology. He feels feels that that's the right thing,
00:18:02thing, particularly ahead of the the Commonwealth Leaders Conference.
00:18:05Conference. But he doesn't believe believe that reparations are the
00:18:07the right approach and considering considering a formal apology doesn't
00:18:11doesn't mean accepting that British British people now should accept
00:18:14accept the financial liability for for any party in things that happened
00:18:18happened hundreds of years ago in in which they had no role. For the
00:18:22the Conservatives, even the offer
00:18:23offer of an apology is navel gazing
00:18:26gazing and a distraction. It is time time for the Commonwealth to start
00:18:29start looking forwards, not endlessly endlessly backwards. And why now?
00:18:32now? Why not in the 60s 70s 80s? 80s? Why are we - why are we having
00:18:35having this conversation today? What What is it? Because lots of Commonwealth Commonwealth leaders are asking for
00:18:39for it? Yes, that's what I meant. meant. Why are they asking for it
00:18:43it now? It is because many of these these countries are struggling with
00:18:46with the same issues that we're struggling struggling with. They're not becoming becoming richer. They don't know
00:18:49know what to do. So they want to to ask Britain for more money. My
00:18:52My answer is no. We should not even
00:18:54even be entertaining the idea of
00:18:57of reparations. In Antigua, where where Andy Burnham will arrive tomorrow.
00:19:01tomorrow. Views on an official apology
00:19:03apology are mixed. If someone is is apologising, I mean they've done
00:19:07done something wrong and if they've they've done wrong, apology is a
00:19:11a good start. No, I don't think the
00:19:13the UK should apologise for anything anything because the slave trade
00:19:16trade has happened years ago and and what's in the past should stay
00:19:19stay in the past and people should should learn from the past and not
00:19:21not try to live in the past. The
00:19:24The King will address the Commonwealth Commonwealth Heads of Government
00:19:27Government on Tuesday. A message message of unflinching honesty and
00:19:30and sincere sorrow is expected to
00:19:33to feature in that speech. Joe Pike,
00:19:35Pike, BBC News. Now I spoke with
00:19:37with Earl Biskey, chair of the Saint Saint Lucian National Reparations
00:19:41Reparations Committee, and asked asked him how Caribbean leaders have
00:19:43have taken the news of King Charles
00:19:46Charles not apologising. Caribbean
00:19:48Caribbean leaders are welcoming his
00:19:52his statement having indicated that
00:19:54that he is in fact joining the King
00:19:58King in considering that the time
00:19:59time has come for a conversation
00:20:02conversation on reparations and in in so doing, the two of them will
00:20:06will be joining that conversation conversation in one of the regions
00:20:10regions of the world most affected.
00:20:13affected. And it is one where Caricom
00:20:16Caricom leaders have welcomed the
00:20:19the move from refusal, but it is
00:20:21is one that also reflects the trend
00:20:25trend from Buckingham Palace as far
00:20:29far back in 2021, when Queen Elizabeth,
00:20:31Elizabeth, on her dying bed, offered offered some royal statements of
00:20:35of sorrow, stopping just short of
00:20:37of an apology which was repeated
00:20:40repeated by then. Prince Charles
00:20:43Charles in her message to Barbados Barbados when it became a republic
00:20:47republic in November of that year,
00:20:52year, then in 2024, in at the Commonwealth
00:20:56Commonwealth Summit in Samoa, the the King made that statement that
00:20:59that the time has come for the conversation
00:21:03conversation and the Caribbean is
00:21:05is very glad and they are being welcomed
00:21:08welcomed by the chairman of the Caricom
00:21:11Caricom Reparations Commission. So
00:21:12So Hilary Beckles, who is looking
00:21:17looking forward along with the other
00:21:19other member heads of government
00:21:21government of Caricom to that conversation.
00:21:24conversation. The King never said
00:21:27said that he would apologise. And
00:21:28And therefore those who expect him
00:21:31him to maybe expressing hopes rather
00:21:35rather and wishes rather than dealing
00:21:38dealing with the reality. Secondly,
00:21:40Secondly, you cannot divorce an apology
00:21:43apology from reparations. And thirdly,
00:21:46thirdly, reparations is not only only about money. The ten-point plan
00:21:49plan points out. Yeah, all of what
00:21:52what we are requesting by way of
00:21:54of reparations. And it's not about
00:21:56about giving us a check. I just want want to ask I mean, you've spent
00:21:59spent decades campaigning on this. this. How close do you think you
00:22:02you are to any breakthrough? Briefly.
00:22:05Briefly. I think we'll see it in
00:22:06in our lifetime. And just flagging
00:22:10flagging that was in response to to Prime Minister Andy Burnham saying
00:22:12saying that he's open to a formal formal apology. Well, let's take
00:22:15take a look at some other stories
00:22:18stories in the headlines in Bulgaria, Bulgaria, the pro-Kremlin presidential
00:22:22presidential candidate Iliana Iotova, Iotova, has won the country's run-off
00:22:24run-off election. The Bulgarian presidency presidency is largely ceremonial.
00:22:28ceremonial. Miss Iotova, who favours favours dialogue with Russia and
00:22:31and opposes military aid to Ukraine,
00:22:33Ukraine, will become Bulgaria's first
00:22:36first elected female head of state.
00:22:38state. A private plane has crashed
00:22:40crashed in a residential area in in Florida, killing all nine people
00:22:44people on board the aircraft. A Learjet
00:22:46Learjet 60 was on its way to the
00:22:49the Bahamas after taking off from from Texas when it nosedived in Palm
00:22:52Palm Beach County, bursting into into flames as it hit the ground.
00:22:56ground. The cause of the crash is
00:22:58is unclear. Opposition parties in
00:23:01in India have renewed calls for the the resignation of the country's
00:23:05country's election chief over an an overhaul of voter lists. They
00:23:08They say unfairly benefits the governing
00:23:10governing party. They held a massive massive rally in Delhi, joined by
00:23:13by tens of thousands of people from from across the country to press
00:23:17press their demand. A 130 million
00:23:20million names have been removed from from the draft rolls. The Election
00:23:24Election Commission has denied favouring
00:23:27favouring any party. Now heavily heavily armed Australian police officers
00:23:31officers have started patrolling patrolling the streets of Sydney Sydney in response to last year's
00:23:35year's deadly attack on Bondi Beach. Beach. The Armed Response Command
00:23:38Command was established after gunmen
00:23:41gunmen killed 15 people during last last year's celebrations for the
00:23:44the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah. Hanukkah. Our correspondent Katy
00:23:47Katy Watson has more from Sydney.
00:23:49Sydney. This armed Response Command
00:23:52Command is an elite police unit that that was set up, as you said, in
00:23:55in the wake of what happened in Bondi, Bondi, which is coming up to nearly
00:23:58nearly a year ago now when the attack
00:24:02attack happened, the Prime Minister, Minister, Anthony Albanese, came
00:24:06came under a lot of pressure. Authorities Authorities were accused of not having
00:24:09having done enough to prevent such
00:24:12such an attack. And after the attack
00:24:15attack there was a crackdown on gun
00:24:16gun laws and as well as on, on political
00:24:21political protest. And so this elite
00:24:23elite unit also comes about as a
00:24:26a result of what we saw last year.
00:24:29year. So there will be eventually eventually about 250 officers. They've
00:24:32They've been given special training. training. They will be armed with
00:24:35with rifles. They've been given special special driving training. So they'll
00:24:38they'll have specialist vehicles vehicles as well. And the idea is
00:24:42is that they will patrol big tourist tourist hotspots of course like Bondi.
00:24:46Bondi. But you know all around Sydney, Sydney, those kind of famous places
00:24:50places that tourists will visit, visit, as well as sporting events,
00:24:53events, major events and places of of worship. So they'll be pretty
00:24:57pretty visible. And I think that's that's what's going to be quite surprising
00:25:00surprising for many Australians are are not used to that. Of course, course, tourists aren't either. This
00:25:04This is a country that is seen as,
00:25:07as, you know, incredibly safe and
00:25:09and there has been some criticism criticism that this is a kind of
00:25:13of militarisation of police, a kind kind of US style police presence.
00:25:16presence. Some people concerned about about that, but it's also been welcomed
00:25:20welcomed by many to especially Jewish Jewish communities who, you know,
00:25:23know, feel that much more could have have been done to protect. And that's
00:25:26that's the idea that it's to prevent prevent and deter and to rapidly
00:25:30rapidly respond to any threats, including
00:25:32including kind of armed threats and
00:25:34and to give communities people much much more kind of reassurance that
00:25:37that the police can deploy quickly
00:25:40quickly and effectively. If any major major attack was to happen again.
00:25:43again. And before we go, sporting sporting history has been made Italian
00:25:47Italian driver Kimi Antonelli has has clinched his first world title
00:25:51title and became Formula One's youngest
00:25:53youngest ever world champion after after competing at the Mexico City
00:25:57City Grand Prix. That's it for this this edition of Newsday. Do stay
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