Original Broadcaster Captioning (Enhanced). Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a quotation record.
00:00:08MUSIC
00:00:10Live from London. This is BBC News. News. I'm Martine Croxall Ukraine
00:00:14Ukraine and Russia's alert apps are
00:00:15are hit by an apparent cyber. Ukrainian
00:00:19Ukrainian residents get false notifications notifications about chemical attacks
00:00:21attacks and Street fighting in Kyiv.
00:00:24Kyiv. Just one day to the midterm midterm elections, with last minute
00:00:28minute twists in the Senate race race as a prominent Democrat announces
00:00:30announces her support for the Republican Republican candidate, the King will
00:00:34will address Commonwealth leaders leaders in the Caribbean about the
00:00:37the lasting pain of the transatlantic transatlantic slave trade. The Home
00:00:40Home Secretary lays out new rules rules on how long legal migrants migrants must live in the UK before
00:00:44before they're allowed to stay. But
00:00:46But what will it mean for care workers?
00:00:50workers? And I'm Sally Bundock coming coming up later in business. Binance
00:00:53Binance users withdraw over $3.6
00:00:56$3.6 billion after the record crypto crypto hack of last week. Italian
00:01:00Italian driver Kimi Antonelli makes makes history in Mexico as he becomes
00:01:03becomes Formula One's youngest ever
00:01:06ever world champion at 20. Welcome
00:01:17Welcome to the programme. Both Ukraine Ukraine and Russia say their emergency
00:01:20emergency alert apps have been hit hit by cyber attacks. Late on Sunday,
00:01:24Sunday, Ukraine warned that its air
00:01:25air alert app appeared to have been
00:01:28been compromised after citizens received received false notifications about
00:01:31about a radiological threat and other
00:01:33other attacks. Ukraine's Centre for for Strategic Communications blamed
00:01:37blamed Russia for the hack in a post post on its X account. It showed
00:01:40showed some of the alerts asking asking residents to disregard any
00:01:44any strange messages they might see see in the app, as well as warnings
00:01:47warnings of a radiological threat. threat. The false notifications warned
00:01:50warned of a chemical attack and even even possible street fighting in
00:01:53in Kyiv. The authorities say. Functionality
00:01:56Functionality in the app is gradually gradually being restored. Then early
00:01:59early this morning, Russia's Ministry Ministry of Emergency Situations
00:02:02Situations said its mobile app had had been subjected to what it called
00:02:06called a massive cyber attack. It It said this had resulted in the
00:02:09the distribution of fake information information to the public, and that
00:02:12that work was under way to fix the
00:02:14the vulnerability. Our Ukraine correspondent correspondent Dan Johnson explains
00:02:17explains how reliant people are on
00:02:19on these emergency alert apps. They're They're widespread, they're heavily
00:02:23heavily used and they are a good good back-up system because although
00:02:26although sirens sound in the streets streets when there is an air raid,
00:02:29raid, not everybody hears those. those. Not everybody has sirens.
00:02:32sirens. If they live somewhere a a bit more remote or on the edge
00:02:36edge of a city. So these apps are are heavily used and people do rely
00:02:39rely on them and they have been used used to getting these alerts because
00:02:43because there have been so many attacks attacks and they're used to taking
00:02:46taking action based on them. A siren siren goes off on your phone and
00:02:50and it tells you what is the threat.
00:02:53threat. Maybe a missile or a drone. drone. It gives you a sense of how how dangerous things are. There's
00:02:56There's two levels. It can either either be a yellow alert or a red
00:02:59red alert, and it'll give you a sense sense of exactly which area is is
00:03:03is under threat. So this is quite quite a sophisticated system that
00:03:06that people have grown used to relying
00:03:07relying on. But last night it started
00:03:10started issuing alerts that will will have unnerved people because
00:03:14because of the nature of how serious serious the threats it was describing
00:03:17describing nuclear war, chemical chemical attack, guerrilla warfare,
00:03:21warfare, fighting in the streets. streets. All these things were sent
00:03:24sent to people's phones at around
00:03:27around just before 1100 local time time last night, and those alerts
00:03:30alerts were in place in force for for more than an hour before all
00:03:33all clear messages followed and the
00:03:36the Air Force issued a statement statement saying that although those
00:03:40those alerts appeared genuine, they they were not based on a real threat
00:03:43threat and that people did not need need to panic. They've said the Ukrainian
00:03:47Ukrainian Air Force that they believe
00:03:49believe this was the result of enemy enemy influence. They're essentially
00:03:52essentially blaming Russian interference interference for this. But then the
00:03:56the Russians have said that they they suffered something similar not
00:03:59not long after. It's not clear if
00:04:01if these are linked, if that is the
00:04:03the same group that's hacked both both systems or one side hacking
00:04:07hacking the others in response. I've I've just seen one of the messages
00:04:10messages that was sent on the Russian Russian system that told Russians
00:04:14Russians that nuclear warheads had had been launched and that they needed
00:04:17needed to urgently stock up on food
00:04:19food ready for three weeks or using
00:04:21using some very strong language. language. They would be difficult.
00:04:24difficult. They would find it difficult difficult to survive. So this sort sort of thing has gone out on both
00:04:28both sides to both populations. People
00:04:30People are being urged not to be be unnerved by those messages that
00:04:34that went out last night. But the the authorities, at least here in in Ukraine, will be concerned that
00:04:38that people do still need to take take these warnings seriously when when they come because there's an
00:04:42an air raid alert in place this morning, morning, which appears to be genuine,
00:04:45genuine, and they'll still want people people to respect those alerts and
00:04:48and to take action needed to keep
00:04:50keep them safe. Dan Johnson in Kyiv.
00:04:52Kyiv. Peter Dickinson is the editor
00:04:55editor of Ukraine Alert at the Atlantic Atlantic Council, and he's in Kyiv
00:04:58Kyiv too. He told us more about last
00:05:00last night's alerts. The suspected
00:05:03suspected hack on the the air raid,
00:05:05raid, the Air Alarm app. You know, know, a fairly minor development
00:05:09development in some ways, but also also significant because everybody
00:05:12everybody relies on this app. It's It's absolutely crucial. It's a it's
00:05:15it's an essential tool for Ukrainians. Ukrainians. They you know, they live
00:05:18live their lives by it to a degree. degree. It gives you information information about the nature. It
00:05:22It gives you prior warning of air air raids. And it gives you information
00:05:25information about the location and and the nature of the threat. Is Is it drones? Is it ballistic missiles?
00:05:29missiles? You know, to what extent extent should you take precautions? precautions? Should you stop your
00:05:32your live your daily life? So I think, think, you know, many people understood
00:05:36understood very quickly that this this was some sort of a, you know,
00:05:39know, a hack. It wasn't a real warning
00:05:41warning of a coming nuclear war,
00:05:44war, but still the idea that it can can be hacked, that it's vulnerable
00:05:47vulnerable will damage will damage. damage. Faith in this will damage damage the credibility. And that
00:05:51that will create a sense of uncertainty. uncertainty. So it'll leave people, people, I think, feeling rather worried
00:05:55worried here. Can they trust this this information now? Can they trust
00:05:58trust this app? So not a good sign sign for Ukrainian you know, public
00:06:01public morale. Peter Dickinson from from the Atlantic Council as you
00:06:05you can see on your screen, there's
00:06:07there's a live page on this story
00:06:09story that you'll find on the BBC BBC News website, which will give
00:06:13give you a minute by minute updates updates about how the two countries
00:06:17countries are responding to those those attacks. Apparent attacks on
00:06:21on their alert apps. The US midterm
00:06:25midterm elections are just one day day away. This is the scene live
00:06:28live in Washington tomorrow. Millions Millions of voters across the country country will determine the balance
00:06:31balance of power in Congress. And And while the Democrats are widely
00:06:35widely predicted to flip the House House of Representatives, the Senate
00:06:38Senate is still up for grabs. And And there's been a last-minute twist
00:06:41twist in a key Senate race with the the loser of Michigan's Democratic
00:06:45Democratic primary representative representative Haley Stevens, endorsing
00:06:48endorsing the Republican nominee, nominee, Mike Rogers, instead of
00:06:51of her own party's candidate, Abdul
00:06:53Abdul El-Sayed. It comes after a a public feud between Mr Stevens
00:06:57Stevens and Mr El-Sayed about Israel, Israel, which led to the cancellation
00:07:01cancellation of public appearances appearances together just days before
00:07:04before tomorrow's election. Latest Latest polls put the Democrats just
00:07:07just ahead of the Republicans in in Michigan in one of the most important
00:07:10important Senate races of the year. year. Our North America correspondent
00:07:14correspondent will Grant sent this this update from Washington. Any
00:07:18Any high level political defection defection from the Democratic Party
00:07:21Party to the Republican one will
00:07:23will always create headlines. But
00:07:25But this coming this late in the
00:07:27the day and in this particular race
00:07:29race in Michigan really stands out.
00:07:32out. Could it have an effect? Well,
00:07:35Well, certainly already it is having
00:07:37having an effect in terms of funding.
00:07:40funding. Mr El-Sayed's campaign has
00:07:48has generated another $1.2 million million since, according to his campaign
00:07:52campaign officials, since Congresswoman Congresswoman Stevens came out in
00:07:55in support of Mike Rogers, it is
00:08:00is interesting that he received high high level support, for example,
00:08:04example, from the Senate Minority
00:08:06Minority leader Chuck Schumer, who
00:08:08who called the decision by Congresswoman
00:08:11Congresswoman Stevens a diabolical.
00:08:14diabolical. Betrayal. But of course, course, on the flip side, there is
00:08:18is Donald Trump, the Republican Party
00:08:20Party welcoming, welcoming her with
00:08:22with open arms, saying that she would would be welcome to join, calling
00:08:25calling her brave, calling her courageous. courageous. She herself has said,
00:08:29said, as she put it, there is no
00:08:31no place for her in Mr El-Sayed's
00:08:35El-Sayed's campaign. He has said said that he's simply concentrating
00:08:38concentrating on the race, on the the needs of the people of Michigan,
00:08:41Michigan, saying he prefers to concentrate
00:08:44concentrate not on the politics but but on the policies. Now this could
00:08:48could end up having the reverse effect
00:08:50effect than intended by Congresswoman Congresswoman Stevens in galvanising
00:08:54galvanising his support in galvanising
00:08:57galvanising money and bringing people people on board in these final few
00:09:00few days, these final few hours really
00:09:03really of a very, very tightly contested
00:09:06contested race. Will Grant reporting reporting from Washington, our North
00:09:09North America editor, Sarah Smith Smith sent this report from the key
00:09:11key state of Maine in the northeast.
00:09:15northeast. Most of the places where where the races look really tight
00:09:17tight are states where there is an
00:09:20an incumbent Republican facing a a Democratic challenger who is doing
00:09:24doing remarkably well in the polls. polls. Now we know that opinion polls polls have been wrong in the past,
00:09:28past, and there's no guarantee that that they're right this year. But But they have fairly consistently
00:09:31consistently been showing a major major surge in support for Democrats,
00:09:35Democrats, which means they could could be able to take some really
00:09:37really surprising seats like Iowa, Iowa, Ohio, maybe even Texas and
00:09:41and Kansas. Real Republican strongholds strongholds that have been that way
00:09:45way for decades now. I have travelled travelled across the country to a a number of these key states and
00:09:49and everywhere. Voters have told told me that they are very angry
00:09:52angry about the cost of living, and and they directly blame that on Donald
00:09:55Donald Trump and his decision to to go to war with Iran, but not everybody
00:09:59everybody in that position said they they were going to switch their votes. votes. Some are still planning to
00:10:02to vote for Donald Trump's Republicans.
00:10:05Republicans. It does seem likely likely Democrats will take a majority
00:10:08majority in the House of Representatives, Representatives, and if they do that,
00:10:11that, that will allow them to try try and block legislation that Donald
00:10:14Donald Trump has is an open some some investigations. It will be harder
00:10:18harder for them to win a majority
00:10:20majority in the Senate. But whatever whatever happens, it will have a
00:10:23a very big impact on Donald Trump's Trump's last two years in office.
00:10:27office. Sarah Smith so why are the the US midterm elections so important?
00:10:30important? Well, all of the seats seats in the House of Representatives Representatives on Capitol Hill in
00:10:34in Washington are up for grabs, along along with a little over a third
00:10:37third of the Senate. Both of those those chambers in Congress passed
00:10:40passed laws applicable across the the nation, and they can act as a
00:10:43a check on presidential power. So So the Democrats taking one or both
00:10:47both chambers would spell trouble trouble for Donald Trump and his
00:10:50his final two years in office. Clive
00:10:52Clive Myrie is in North Carolina, Carolina, and he's been talking to
00:10:55to some of Mr Trump's staunchest staunchest supporters and asking
00:10:58asking if they'll stick with him
00:10:59him or vote for the Democrats. It's
00:11:05It's morning in a divided America.
00:11:08America. What we need is not a political political revolution in America.
00:11:11America. What we need is a spiritual
00:11:13spiritual revival fought for at the the Lake. Church in North Carolina.
00:11:17Carolina. Local politician and pastor pastor Cameron McGill. Jennie are
00:11:20are becoming victims of their own own vice. Once his largely evangelical
00:11:24evangelical Republican flock to wake
00:11:26wake up. God's law is the foundation
00:11:30foundation of our laws. Our morality morality jurisdiction of right. He's
00:11:33He's worried they'll stay at home
00:11:36home during the crucial midterm elections.
00:11:38elections. We need to understand understand God's jurisdiction when when it comes to the matters that
00:11:42that have divided us as a nation.
00:11:45nation. Evangelical Christians have
00:11:47have solidly backed Donald Trump Trump and the Republicans. They looked
00:11:51looked away. But the man in the White White House. David, didn't turn back.
00:11:53back. Is testing their patience. patience. He was confident of that
00:11:56that victory. They say midterm elections elections are a referendum on the
00:12:00the guy in the White House. I'm not not saying it's the best there is.
00:12:03is. I mean, he has some childish
00:12:06childish habits that I don't really
00:12:07really care for. But in the end,
00:12:11end, versus the other choice, he he was the person. He was the man
00:12:14man for sure. You're a Vietnam vet?
00:12:16vet? Yes, sir. Yeah. And how important important are the coming elections
00:12:19elections for you? Do you think. think. They're important? I don't
00:12:23don't think it's a referendum on
00:12:25on him as much as it is on the general
00:12:31general direction of the nation. nation. Do you support him? I do
00:12:33do support him. I mean, you have
00:12:36have to ask yourself the question question am I better off than I was
00:12:40was two years ago or four years ago?
00:12:43ago? What do you think? I mean, yeah,
00:12:46yeah, I am so are you. Is the country
00:12:49country as a whole? I mean, that's
00:12:51that's I feel like it is, yeah. We We tell you thank you for all your
00:12:55your hands have provided. In another another corner of North Carolina
00:12:58Carolina a different pastor tends
00:13:00tends her flock. Transporters Daisy
00:13:04Daisy Brooks is using a megaphone megaphone because the parishioners
00:13:07parishioners are all in their cars.
00:13:08cars. Man, y'all blow your horn.
00:13:11horn. Seeking her help. Her church
00:13:18church is a food bank. This reaches
00:13:22reaches all the way to the South South Carolina line. To the border.
00:13:24border. How far is that? Oh, it's it's a few miles. A few miles down.
00:13:28down. You've got a line of cars stretching
00:13:32stretching for miles. And they're they're all people that need help.
00:13:34help. They are all people that need
00:13:36need help. The four wheeled bread
00:13:39bread line began snaking down the
00:13:42the highway at 5am the food bank
00:13:45bank opens at 11. Yeah, that's pretty
00:13:47pretty tight. In the queue. We found
00:13:50found Kathy, who arrived around 6am 6am did you imagine you'd ever end
00:13:53end up in a line like this? No. We're
00:13:58We're in the midterm elections. How
00:14:00How did you vote? I voted Democrat Democrat this year. In early voting,
00:14:04voting, you voted Democrat. And how how did you vote last time. I voted
00:14:07voted Republican last time. So you
00:14:10you switched. Why have you switched?
00:14:13switched? Cost of living for one,
00:14:16one, gas prices, grocery prices everything's
00:14:21everything's going up. He's going going to make America great again.
00:14:24again. You know, that was his main
00:14:28main slogan. Has he done that? Everything Everything was going to come back
00:14:32back down. I don't think so. So.
00:14:38So. Kathy's weary and worn out. How
00:14:44How are you doing? Good. Hey. From
00:14:46From England. England. BBC. Sherry's
00:14:48Sherry's also tired but angry and
00:14:51and sceptical of all politics. I'm
00:14:54I'm a Republican. You're a Republican. Republican. I am a Republican and
00:14:57and I am not happy. I was a Trump
00:14:59Trump supporter and I am so wish
00:15:02wish I regret I have many regrets regrets about doing that. But so
00:15:06so in the midterm elections, how how have you voted? I haven't I'm
00:15:10I'm not even I'm not even I'm. Going
00:15:13Going to stay home. I'm staying home home out of that thing, out of it.
00:15:16it. What's that number four. All All right. What are the worst examples
00:15:20examples of poverty that you've come come across in this region? I've
00:15:23I've had elderly people eating cat cat food or dog food. Whoa whoa.
00:15:26whoa. Whoa whoa whoa. Back up, back
00:15:27back up, back up. You're saying there
00:15:30there are people coming here who
00:15:32who are so poor, they're eating their
00:15:35their cat food. People are that destitute. destitute. Well. We've gone through
00:15:38through some really hard times, especially especially since Covid. You've got
00:15:40got people who've lost family members.
00:15:42members. Yeah, maybe the major breadwinner.
00:15:46breadwinner. The jobs are not where, where, you know, they're not paying
00:15:49paying what they people would desire desire them to pay. And sometimes
00:15:53sometimes it's a little tough. Politics
00:15:57Politics should be about people.
00:15:59people. No matter their church. A
00:16:02A nation divided will not stand.
00:16:06stand. Back at the Lake Church, George
00:16:09George Barber takes Pastor Cameron's
00:16:11Cameron's words to heart. He runs
00:16:16runs a vineyard in this corner of
00:16:18of America. So the grapes are harvested. harvested. They go somewhere else.
00:16:22else. He's voting Republican, but but he's fed up. Like so many we
00:16:24we spoke to. And here they are of
00:16:27of the divisiveness of American politics.
00:16:29politics. I think if both sides would
00:16:31would quit being so extreme one way
00:16:33way or the other and work together
00:16:36together for the betterment of this,
00:16:38this, this nation, our people, and
00:16:40and if we get better, the world might
00:16:43might get better. But are the midterm
00:16:46midterm elections capable of bringing bringing people together, or will
00:16:49will they simply push Americans further
00:16:53further apart? Clive Myrie In North North Carolina, you can watch a special
00:16:57special programme here on BBC News News bringing you the results of
00:17:00of the US midterm elections as they they happen. It's live from Washington
00:17:03Washington with Clive Sumi Somaskanda Somaskanda and Caitriona Perry tomorrow
00:17:07tomorrow at half past 11pm GMT. This
00:17:12This is BBC News still to come. Italian
00:17:15Italian driver Kimi Antonelli makes makes history in Mexico as he becomes
00:17:19becomes Formula One's youngest ever
00:17:21ever world champion at 20. Around
00:17:24Around the world and across the
00:18:27with us on BBC News and we'll bring bring you the with
00:18:30bring you the latest. This is BBC
00:18:37BBC News. The Home Secretary is due due to set out revised immigration
00:18:40immigration rules for legal migrants migrants later today. It comes amid
00:18:44amid pressure for Shabana Mahmood Mahmood to dilute her original plans
00:18:47plans on indefinite leave to remain. remain. She's proposed extending
00:18:50extending the wait for permanent permanent settlement for people who
00:18:52who move to the UK from five years
00:18:55years to ten. Henry Zeffman is our our chief political correspondent.
00:18:58correspondent. He says this is an an important day for the Home Secretary
00:19:01Secretary and the Prime Minister. Minister. Whatever Shabana Mahmood
00:19:04Mahmood says later, this is a very very big moment for her because she
00:19:08she first announced these proposals proposals almost a year ago now and
00:19:11and has been battling to get them them through the Labour Party and and through her own colleagues. But
00:19:15But also a big moment for Andy Burnham, Burnham, the still relatively new
00:19:19new Prime Minister, because he is
00:19:21is showing his hand on some of these
00:19:23these very thorny, very heated questions
00:19:26questions about how immigrants, legal legal immigrants should be treated
00:19:29treated once they've come to the the UK and the way in which they
00:19:32they should or should not in some some cases be integrated into British
00:19:36British society with permanent residents residents because that's what indefinite indefinite leave to remain is. It
00:19:39It is permanent residency giving giving people who have acquired that
00:19:43that status the ability to live, live, work, remain in the UK, doing
00:19:46doing whatever they want for however
00:19:48however long they want. And Shabana Shabana Mahmood, in her original
00:19:52original proposals, said that we're we're currently most migrants can
00:19:55can apply for indefinite leave to to remain after being here for five
00:19:58five years. That would for many of of them double to ten years. But
00:20:01But for some lower paid migrants,
00:20:04migrants, treble to 15 years and and many social care workers would
00:20:07would have been affected by that
00:20:10that 15 year wait, it seems likely likely that the social care worker
00:20:14worker element of this is going to to change. In particular. So some
00:20:17some social care workers perhaps perhaps won't have to wait anywhere
00:20:20anywhere near as long as that for
00:20:23for applying for indefinite leave leave to remain. That will deal with
00:20:26with criticism that Shabana Mahmood Mahmood has faced from some Labour
00:20:29Labour MPs. But other Labour MPs, MPs, including Angela Rayner, who
00:20:31who now sits around the cabinet table
00:20:33table with her, said that simply simply changing the waiting time
00:20:37time for anyone who was already here here was, in her words, un-British.
00:20:40un-British. It will be fascinating fascinating to see what Shabana Mahmood
00:20:42Mahmood says later today. Henry Zeffman
00:20:46Zeffman King Charles is expected expected to speak on the lasting lasting pain of the transatlantic
00:20:50transatlantic slave trade. In a speech speech addressing Commonwealth leaders leaders tomorrow. It comes at the
00:20:54the end of a nine day tour of the the Caribbean that has thrust King
00:20:57King Charles into the difficult debates
00:20:59debates over the UK's colonial legacy.
00:21:02legacy. Between the years 1518 hundred
00:21:04hundred British ships forcibly transported transported around 3.4 million people
00:21:08people from Africa to European colonies
00:21:11colonies and plantations. Our correspondent
00:21:13correspondent Sean Dilley reports.
00:21:19reports. The King and Queen smiling smiling on Antigua. And Barbuda's
00:21:22Barbuda's annual independence parade. parade. Guests of honour though they
00:21:25they may be all eyes and ears, are are on King Charles as pressure grows
00:21:29grows from Commonwealth leaders for for him to apologise for Britain's
00:21:32Britain's role in the transatlantic transatlantic slave trade, neither neither the royal family nor the
00:21:36the British government have ever ever formally apologised. But King
00:21:39King Charles has often spoken about about what he describes as the darkest
00:21:43darkest days in history. It is only
00:21:45only right that we should acknowledge
00:21:47acknowledge the great suffering and
00:21:49and injustices of the past in these
00:21:52these islands and beyond, even as
00:21:54as we rejoice in the successes of
00:21:56of the present and build new opportunities
00:21:59opportunities for the future. But But Commonwealth leaders believe
00:22:02believe the future depends on making making amends for the past, and they
00:22:05they have a ten-point plan for investing investing reparations in public health
00:22:09health and education. The Prime Minister, Minister, Andy Burnham, has ruled
00:22:12ruled out paying reparations. Writing Writing in the Guardian this weekend
00:22:15weekend that I do not think British British people today can be held
00:22:18held liable for historical wrongs, wrongs, however heinous that happened
00:22:21happened in a different age, under under different laws and in which
00:22:24which they paid no personal part.
00:22:26part. The guilty. But it seems negotiations
00:22:30negotiations about an apology continue. continue. While the King has shown
00:22:32shown he's not afraid to accept Britain's
00:22:35Britain's role in historical injustices, injustices, he's not expected to
00:22:38to apologise today or at the heads heads of government meeting in Chogm
00:22:41Chogm tomorrow. Discussions on a a possible future apology are likely
00:22:45likely to take some time. Sean Dilley,
00:22:48Dilley, BBC news. Investigations Investigations are under way after
00:22:51after a private jet crashed in Florida, Florida, killing all nine people
00:22:54people on board. The Learjet 60 had had taken off from Austin in Texas
00:22:58Texas and was heading to the Bahamas Bahamas when it came down in a residential
00:23:02residential area in Palm Beach County. County. No one on the ground was
00:23:05was hurt and the cause of the crash
00:23:07crash is still unclear. History was
00:23:12was made in Mexico last night as as the Italian driver Kimi Antonelli
00:23:16Antonelli became Formula One's youngest youngest ever world champion. The
00:23:19The 20-year-old has won nine races races this season and third place
00:23:22place in yesterday's Mexico City City Grand Prix was enough to secure
00:23:25secure him the title. Nestor McGregor
00:23:27McGregor reports. In Mexico City,
00:23:31City, an F1 Fiesta Kimi Antonelli Antonelli on top of the world 20
00:23:3520 years old but the sport's youngest youngest ever champion, the Mercedes
00:23:38Mercedes driver only needed to finish finish ninth or better to win the
00:23:42the title. But in this sport, staying staying out of trouble isn't always
00:23:45always easy. Antonelli, though safely safely through the first half of
00:23:49of the race, displaying the type type of skill he learnt as a six-year-old
00:23:52six-year-old back home in Bologna. Bologna. For a nation obsessed with
00:23:56with speed, Italy has had to wait
00:23:58wait more than 70 years for a Formula Formula One world champion. Alberto
00:24:02Alberto Ascari. Driving for Ferrari
00:24:04Ferrari was the last man to do so,
00:24:06so, but now he's joined by Antonelli, Antonelli, who, after a dramatic
00:24:09dramatic race clinched the title title by finishing third, a victory
00:24:13victory that came with all the emotions.
00:24:15emotions. We did it. We did it and
00:24:18and I'm just so happy you know it's
00:24:22it's to be here now. It's an incredible
00:24:25incredible moment, an incredible
00:24:27incredible feeling and I'm very grateful grateful for all the opportunity
00:24:31opportunity that I was given. From From wonderkid to world champion,
00:24:34champion, Italy has a new hero and and just like champagne surely will
00:24:38will only get better with age. Nesta
00:24:41Nesta McGregor, BBC News. Our reporter
00:24:44reporter Emily Brown has more on on Antonelli's achievements. The
00:24:48The previous record holder was Sebastian
00:24:50Sebastian Vettel, who was 23 when when he won in 2010. And this is
00:24:54is really important for the sport sport to have someone so young and
00:24:57and attracting young fans into F1,
00:25:00F1, something that Drive to survive survive has done well. Kimi has a
00:25:03a huge fan base in Italy where he's
00:25:05he's considered something of a superstar.
00:25:07superstar. He only joined F1 last last season in 2025, he replaced
00:25:11replaced Lewis Hamilton seat when when he went to Ferrari and he did
00:25:15did do fairly well in last last season. season. But this year is where he
00:25:19he has really shone. The cars are are different this year so they're
00:25:22they're roughly 50% combustion, roughly roughly 50% electric and that's been
00:25:25been quite difficult for some of of the experienced drivers to get
00:25:28get their heads around. And in a
00:25:30a way, Kimi's inexperience this has has worked to his advantage and he's
00:25:34he's really managed to control the
00:25:37the cars incredibly well. And he he had a really dominant period at
00:25:40at the start of the season, winning winning five consecutive races after
00:25:44after the second race and has really
00:25:46really impressed so many people.
00:25:50people. Emily Brown still to come
00:25:52come here on BBC News Binance users
00:25:56users withdraw more than $3.6 billion
00:26:00billion after the record crypto hack. hack. That and the rest of the business
00:26:03business news coming up very shortly shortly with Sally. Stay
00:29:40winter ahead. Stay with us on BBC BBC News and we'll bring you the
00:29:43the latest. Here at BBC Verify we
00:29:50we use forensic investigative techniques techniques and tools to fact check
00:29:53check stories, verify information information and counter disinformation disinformation using data analysis
00:29:57analysis and the latest technology, technology, our journalists examine
00:29:59examine the evidence and get to the the facts. Watch our BBC Verify reports
00:30:02reports on the BBC News channel or
00:30:04or go online to find out more. These
00:30:14These are the latest headlines from from BBC News. Ukraine and Russia's
00:30:18Russia's emergency alert apps are are hit by an apparent cyber attack.
00:30:22attack. Ukrainian residents reported reported getting false notifications
00:30:25notifications about chemical attacks attacks and Street fighting, while
00:30:28while Russian residents were warned warned of nuclear warheads. Just
00:30:31Just one day to the midterm elections. elections. With last minute twists
00:30:35twists in the Senate race as a sitting
00:30:37sitting Democratic congresswoman, congresswoman, Haley Stevens announces
00:30:39announces her support for her Republican
00:30:42Republican candidate. The Republican Republican candidate Mike Rogers,
00:30:45Rogers, the Democrat candidate Abdul
00:30:47Abdul El-Sayed said that he was unbothered unbothered by Stevens announcement.
00:30:51announcement. The King will address address Commonwealth leaders about about the lasting pain of the transatlantic
00:30:55transatlantic slave trade during during the final leg of his Caribbean
00:30:58Caribbean tour in Antigua,