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00:00:31Just one day to the midterm elections. elections. With last minute twists
00:00:35twists in the Senate race as a sitting
00:00:37sitting Democratic congresswoman, congresswoman, Haley Stevens announces
00:00:39announces her support for her Republican
00:00:42Republican candidate. The Republican Republican candidate Mike Rogers,
00:00:45Rogers, the Democrat candidate Abdul
00:00:47Abdul El-Sayed said that he was unbothered unbothered by Stevens announcement.
00:00:51announcement. The King will address address Commonwealth leaders about about the lasting pain of the transatlantic
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00:00:58Caribbean tour in Antigua, the Home Home Secretary lays out new rules
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00:01:23business news now and Sally is here here with all the top stories. I
00:01:26I am indeed. Nice to see you. Yes, Yes, we're going to start with what's
00:01:29what's going on in the Middle East East and the price of oil. It has
00:01:33has dipped on hopes of diplomatic diplomatic progress on ending the
00:01:36the US-Iran war, but remains at its
00:01:38its highest level for months. Iranian Iranian negotiators were in Qatar
00:01:41Qatar on Sunday for the third consecutive consecutive day of talks. Now they
00:01:45they have left. But Reuters is reporting
00:01:47reporting a draft proposal is being
00:01:49being circulated and a follow-up follow-up meeting is possible. Iranians
00:01:53Iranians foreign Iran's foreign minister, minister, though, has said Tehran
00:01:56Tehran is prepared for both defence
00:01:58defence and diplomacy amid growing
00:02:00growing concern. American and Israeli Israeli attacks could resume after
00:02:03after the US midterm elections. Meanwhile, Meanwhile, shipping in the Gulf continues
00:02:07continues to be under threat. On On Sunday, Iranian state TV reported
00:02:10reported that two oil tankers exploded
00:02:13exploded after striking mines while while travelling through an unauthorised
00:02:16unauthorised route in the Strait Strait of Hormuz, citing the Islamic
00:02:20Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
00:02:21Corps Navy. Now we cannot verify
00:02:24verify these pictures and where they they were taken. However, oil prices
00:02:27prices still remain around their their highest level for six months. months. The international benchmark
00:02:31benchmark Brent crude is currently currently trading at around $110
00:02:35$110 per barrel. Middle East energy energy analyst Kate Dorian has been
00:02:38been telling us about the current
00:02:40current state of play. The Israeli Israeli elections were inconclusive,
00:02:44inconclusive, so Mr Netanyahu is
00:02:45is is going to remain as caretaker. caretaker. So and we know what his
00:02:49his position is. He wants you know,
00:02:52know, he wants Iran. He wants more
00:02:55more attacks against Iran. He wants wants regime change. But at the same
00:02:59same time, we're seeing some diplomatic diplomatic moves. Qatar obviously
00:03:03obviously is one of those Gulf countries countries that was really, really
00:03:05really hit hard by the closure of of the Strait of Hormuz. And, you
00:03:09you know, because they don't have
00:03:10have the option to move their tankers
00:03:14tankers and export LNG, which is is why we've seen such very, very
00:03:17very high prices for gas in Europe Europe in recent weeks. They've come
00:03:21come off a little bit, but it's you
00:03:25you know, the market is also bracing bracing for the possibility that
00:03:28that after the midterm elections elections in the US, there may be
00:03:31be renewed attacks against Iran. Iran. Iran has said that there would
00:03:35would be no geographic limit to its its response. So, you know, we're
00:03:38we're still in a state of no war,
00:03:40war, no peace, diplomatic efforts
00:03:43efforts ongoing. But the US doesn't doesn't seem to be involved. It's
00:03:46It's between Qatar and Iran. So we
00:03:48we just have to wait and see. But
00:03:50But prices have come off on, on expectations
00:03:52expectations that there may be a a diplomatic solution. Yeah. On the
00:03:56the hope so a bit more positive than than negative today. But in the meantime,
00:03:59meantime, in Saudi Arabia, the attacks
00:04:01attacks continues. The Iran backed
00:04:04backed Houthis in Yemen continue
00:04:06continue to target Saudi Arabia. Arabia. And that is ongoing, isn't
00:04:09isn't it? Despite all the efforts
00:04:11efforts to end that war that we heard
00:04:14heard from the internationally backed backed government of Yemen? Well,
00:04:17Well, exactly. Yes. You've seen attacks.
00:04:19attacks. I mean, the Red Sea, the
00:04:22the routes out of the Red Sea in in the south, the Bab el Mandeb is
00:04:25is still under the control of the the Houthis. So Saudi Arabia is shipping
00:04:29shipping more crude through the Strait Strait of Hormuz, which is quite
00:04:32quite risky because you have to and and it's also a costly exercise because
00:04:36because you need two tankers to conduct
00:04:38conduct these ship to ship transfers
00:04:42transfers and then through Bab el el Mandeb. If you can't go through through the south, you have to go
00:04:46go through the north, through the the Suez Canal, which means going going around the Horn of Africa because
00:04:50because the main market is in Asia. Asia. So that ties up your tankers,
00:04:53tankers, which is why we're seeing seeing very high freight rates. We're
00:04:56We're seeing high insurance rates rates and we're seeing a shortage
00:04:59shortage of refined fuels like diesel,
00:05:03diesel, which is much higher than
00:05:06than oil than crude oil. So that's that's why, you know, if you look
00:05:09look at just the price of oil futures, futures, it doesn't really reflect
00:05:12reflect the realities of the market.
00:05:15market. Kate Dourian there. Now let's
00:05:18let's talk about Binance because because investors have withdrawn
00:05:22withdrawn over $3 billion worth of
00:05:24of assets from the cryptocurrency
00:05:27cryptocurrency site after its enormous enormous cyber attack at the end
00:05:29end of last week. So the exchange
00:05:31exchange came back online on Sunday.
00:05:33Sunday. And Binance says withdrawals withdrawals are stabilising after
00:05:37after an initial spike and that deposit
00:05:39deposit volumes remain substantial. substantial. The exchange says it's
00:05:43it's covered around 95% of the $6.3
00:05:47$6.3 billion taken in what is suspected suspected to be crypto's biggest
00:05:50biggest hack on record. Last week. week. Over the weekend, the FBI said
00:05:54said that North Korea was responsible responsible for the attack. Alice
00:05:57Alice Taylor is a digital forensics forensics researcher at Oxford Information
00:06:01Information Labs and says this is is a key moment for confidence in
00:06:04in crypto. There is this huge impact
00:06:08impact of just sort of like reputational
00:06:11reputational damage really of people
00:06:14people losing confidence and obviously obviously with a cryptocurrency exchange,
00:06:17exchange, it's so obvious to see,
00:06:19see, you know, the impact of that
00:06:21that kind of lack of confidence.
00:06:24confidence. And a lot of people are
00:06:26are sort of questioning, you know, know, like is the FBI have now linked
00:06:30linked the cyber attack to North North Korea. So it is definitive definitive and they've said that
00:06:34that very clearly. It's not just just sort of knowledge from private
00:06:37private research companies. They're They're sort of saying is cryptocurrency
00:06:40cryptocurrency now just kind of like
00:06:42like a funnel for North Korean state
00:06:45state sanctioned warfare? I think
00:06:47think this is definitely a moment
00:06:50moment of reflection for cryptocurrency
00:06:52cryptocurrency generally. Now to to something that more and more of
00:06:56of us may be feeling in the workplace
00:06:58workplace or experiencing, especially especially amidst the geopolitical
00:07:02geopolitical turmoil around the world world and fast changing technology.
00:07:05technology. Campaigners are trying trying to raise awareness this week
00:07:08week about stress and the impact impact it can have left unaddressed.
00:07:11unaddressed. Stress can affect your your health and wellbeing. Increasing
00:07:15Increasing sickness, absence and and impacting workplace performance.
00:07:18performance. We've been talking to to a human performance expert who's
00:07:21who's trained people working in some
00:07:22some of the most high pressure environments environments in the world from the
00:07:26the US Air Force to the sales floors floors of Goldman Sachs. He took
00:07:30took me through some of the advice
00:07:32advice he gives. Stress in and of
00:07:34of itself actually is is not the
00:07:36the issue. And the avoidance of stress stress certainly isn't the answer.
00:07:40answer. But stress in the absence absence of recovery does become problematic.
00:07:43problematic. So the main message message is we need the stress that
00:07:47that actually creates the opportunity opportunity to optimise performance. performance. The opportunity for
00:07:51for us to grow as humans, but we
00:07:53we also have to pay attention to
00:07:56to where the growth happens and the the growth happens in the recovery
00:07:59recovery phase. And that's the part part that's missing for most people
00:08:02people in business. And candidly, candidly, most people out there trying
00:08:05trying to do hard things, whatever whatever the endeavour. Is it true
00:08:09true to say, Nick, that currently
00:08:11currently stress levels are higher
00:08:14higher in any in any work environment, environment, partly because of just
00:08:17just what's going on in the world? world? Something that I'm talking
00:08:20talking about in my workplace all
00:08:22all the time. The concern about what's
00:08:24what's happening in, in the Middle Middle East in, in, in countries
00:08:28countries across Europe. And we saw saw very a lot of stress across Europe
00:08:31Europe over the weekend where we we saw riots in Germany and France
00:08:35France and protests and all sorts.
00:08:38sorts. Yeah. And I think this is is really an issue of what we would
00:08:42would call locus of control when when we talk about these stressors.
00:08:45stressors. So that's an important important word. The stressor is the
00:08:49the thing that's delivering the stress stress to the individual. We often
00:08:52often talk about them in very big big kind of macro descriptions like
00:08:56like what's happening in the Middle Middle East, what's happening in
00:08:58in my company, the brain fundamentally fundamentally doesn't like that because
00:09:01because it feels like it has no control.
00:09:04control. We're just reacting to whatever whatever this thing is going to do do to us. So so for example, what
00:09:08what we need to do in those situations situations is start to pay attention
00:09:12attention to what we can control.
00:09:14control. And that shifts the locus locus from external to internal.
00:09:17internal. Now I'm going to decide decide how I interact with this situation,
00:09:21situation, however big, however complex, complex, I'm going to do it on my
00:09:25my terms and that calms the psychology psychology down. And that then in
00:09:28in turn calms off physiology down, down, which is very important in
00:09:31in our ability to sustain our performance
00:09:34performance without getting exhausted, exhausted, overwhelmed or burning
00:09:36burning out. As you said, Nick, mental
00:09:40mental health and mental wellbeing wellbeing and reducing stress was
00:09:43was something that was, was not talked talked about until more recently.
00:09:47recently. Are we better at dealing dealing with it? Do you think? I
00:09:51I think we're on the way. That's That's why we do the work we do.
00:09:54do. That's why we've now taken the
00:09:56the book of our work Stressed Self Self to Best Self out into the world
00:09:59world so that anybody, anywhere can can get access to it. I think the
00:10:03the first thing is we have to recognise recognise our stress warning signs.
00:10:07signs. We've all we've got very good good at ignoring the way the body
00:10:10body is communicating with us, that that we are starting to experience experience stress. That's kind of
00:10:14of problem number one. So we have have to just learn what it looks
00:10:17looks like for us to be under stress, stress, whether that's a physical
00:10:20physical response or a mental response response that can be us getting hyper
00:10:24hyper distracted or hyper focused. focused. And those emotional responses
00:10:28responses anxiety, fear, being combative.
00:10:31combative. That's just useful information. information. And we do have to start start paying attention to that. And
00:10:34And then we've got to say what happens happens next. And the thing we need
00:10:37need to do next is almost often, often, you know, do something in
00:10:41in the heat of the moment to hold hold our performance level whilst
00:10:44whilst we're dealing with this stress.
00:10:48stress. Nick Propper there, there there you are talking to us earlier
00:10:51earlier about stress and the irony
00:10:52irony of this, Martin, was just moments
00:10:56moments before he was on air. My My other guest was a no show, so
00:10:59so so. You had a moment of stress. stress. Really stressed and. How
00:11:01How did you deal with it? Spoke slowly,
00:11:05slowly, probably speaking. Just keep keep you know. Yeah. It's amazing amazing how slowly you can speak.
00:11:08speak. In Finding Nemo. Just keep keep swimming. Just keep swimming.
00:11:11swimming. Definitely. That's all all you can do. It's all you can
00:11:14can do. Around the world and across
00:11:16across the UK.
00:12:19Ukrainians are braced for what could could be a very tough winter ahead. ahead. Stay with us on BBC News and and we'll Ukrainians are braced for what
00:12:22and we'll bring you the latest. This
00:12:28This is BBC News. Let's get more more on the US midterm elections,
00:12:32elections, which are just a day away.
00:12:33away. This is the scene live in Washington. Washington. Tomorrow, millions of
00:12:37of voters across the country will will determine the balance of power
00:12:40power in Congress. And while the the Democrats are widely predicted
00:12:43predicted to flip the House of Representatives, Representatives, the Senate is still
00:12:46still up for grabs. Ros Atkins explains explains why these midterm elections
00:12:50elections matter. Let's remind ourselves ourselves of what's at stake. The
00:12:53The midterms are all about who controls controls the two houses of Congress.
00:12:57Congress. The House of Representatives Representatives and the Senate. This This matters because it's the part
00:13:00part of the US government that makes makes laws for the country as a whole
00:13:04whole on everything from immigration immigration to taxes to defence.
00:13:07defence. And right now both houses houses are controlled by the Republicans,
00:13:10Republicans, as you can see, which which is very helpful to President
00:13:13President Trump. Now the House of of Representatives is where proposed
00:13:16proposed laws are introduced and and debated. Each state gets a number
00:13:20number of seats proportionate to to its population. Members serve
00:13:23serve two-year terms, which means means that all of the seats in the
00:13:26the House are up for grabs in this
00:13:29this election, there are 435 of them. them. So to control the house, a
00:13:32a party needs at least 218. And according
00:13:35according to the polls, the Republicans Republicans may have their work cut
00:13:38cut out. Holding on to the House House of Representatives. Then there's
00:13:42there's the Senate, one of its main main jobs is to approve or reject
00:13:45reject those laws proposed by the
00:13:47the House. Each state has two senators,
00:13:49senators, so there are 100 in total.
00:13:51total. They serve six year terms terms every two years. Roughly a
00:13:55a third of Senate seats are contested,
00:13:58contested, so it's 35 this year to
00:14:00to control the Senate. A party needs
00:14:03needs 51 or more, though if it's it's 50-50, the Vice President can
00:14:06can cast the deciding vote. So that that favours the Republicans at the
00:14:10the moment. So there is a lot at
00:14:12at stake. And who controls Congress Congress is not just relevant to
00:14:15to the laws that get made for America America as a whole. Of course, it's
00:14:18it's also relevant to whoever is is president, as Donald Trump goes
00:14:22goes into the last two years of his his presidency. Well, when voters
00:14:25voters are making their choices in in this election, of course they're they're telling us something about
00:14:29about what they think of the two two main parties, but they're also
00:14:32also telling us something about what
00:14:33what they think of their president. president. Ros Atkins our correspondents
00:14:37correspondents in the US have been been travelling to key places where
00:14:40where the race is too close to call.
00:14:42call. Our chief North America correspondent, correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue, is
00:14:46is in Texas. This state is shaping shaping up to be one of the most
00:14:50most consequential contests in these these elections. I'm in Texas, where
00:14:53where the battle for a single Senate Senate seat could end up deciding
00:14:57deciding who controls Congress. More
00:14:59More than half $1 billion has been been spent on advertising alone,
00:15:02alone, making it the most expensive
00:15:05expensive non-presidential race in
00:15:07in American history. Democrat James James Talarico and Republican Ken
00:15:10Ken Paxton are in a race that's too
00:15:13too close to call. Democrats haven't
00:15:16haven't won here statewide since
00:15:18since 1994. If they manage it this
00:15:21this time around, it'll be the big
00:15:23big story of the night. Tom Bateman
00:15:26Bateman is with early voters in Ohio.
00:15:28Ohio. We're. Just look how long this
00:15:31this line is for early voting here here in the state of Ohio. Some of
00:15:35of the guys here told me they've they've been waiting 2.5 hours already
00:15:37already to cast their ballot in the the building over there ahead of
00:15:41of Tuesday's midterm election. And And we're hearing that the rates
00:15:44rates of early in-person voting are
00:15:46are way up on what they were four
00:15:49four years ago. Here. Now, the big big issue, as soon as we got here,
00:15:52here, someone said to me the cost cost of gas price of petrol as it
00:15:56it is nationwide, of course, but but this state has been marked by
00:16:00by an incredibly acrimonious race.
00:16:03race. The Republicans hold this state state both in the Senate and for
00:16:07for the governor's mansion. There's There's been a big row as far as
00:16:09as that's concerned over the attack attack ads in that particular race.
00:16:13race. It all shows you just how bitterly
00:16:15bitterly fought the state of Ohio
00:16:18Ohio is going to be. Nada Tawfik
00:16:19Tawfik looks at the tight race in
00:16:22in Michigan. The tight race here
00:16:26here in Michigan has been one of of the nastiest, with the President
00:16:28President of the United States amplifying amplifying anti-Muslim rhetoric in
00:16:31in large part to help his fellow fellow Republican, Mike Rogers win
00:16:35win over black and Jewish voters voters who weren't enthusiastic about
00:16:37about left wing and Israel critic
00:16:40critic Abdul El-Sayed winning the the Democratic nomination. Doctor
00:16:42Doctor El-Sayed was born in the US US to Egyptian parents and would
00:16:45would be the first Muslim senator.
00:16:47senator. Trump has called him a jihadist jihadist and promoted the baseless
00:16:51baseless conspiracy theory that he he wants to impose Islamic law in
00:16:54in America. If El-Sayed wins despite despite that, in this swing state
00:16:58state with his populist platform, platform, it would be a big win for
00:17:01for the progressive movement as the the fractured Democratic Party fiercely
00:17:05fiercely debates its future direction direction ahead of presidential elections
00:17:08elections in 2028. Some of the key
00:17:10key battleground states there. But But when can we expect results to
00:17:14to come in? Caitriona Perry looks
00:17:16looks ahead. When will we know the
00:17:19the outcome of the US midterm elections? elections? Well, there's no easy
00:17:21easy answer to that. We won't get get any results until the polls start
00:17:25start closing beginning at 6pm eastern,
00:17:27eastern, 11pm in the UK. And even even then it may take some time.
00:17:30time. The results in areas where where one party is dominant could
00:17:33could come in quite quickly, and and that may give us a sense of any
00:17:37any swing against President Trump's Trump's Republican Party. But unlike unlike a presidential election this
00:17:41this time it's about which party party will be in control of the House
00:17:44House of Representatives and the the Senate. So we're not waiting waiting on the outcome of a single
00:17:48single person, but rather the whole whole team. And only then will we
00:17:52we know who's in control of Congress. Congress. Now for races that are are close, it could take days or
00:17:56or even weeks to count the votes, votes, but it's completely normal.
00:17:58normal. The latest polls don't close close until it's evening time in
00:18:02in Alaska, which is 1am here on the the East Coast Wednesday morning,
00:18:06morning, 6am in the UK. And indeed indeed this year that could be one
00:18:09one of the seats we're waiting on on that will decide the balance of
00:18:13of power in the Senate. Pollster
00:18:16Pollster Joe Lynskey explains how how the exit polls work for the midterms.
00:18:20midterms. Well, an exit poll is a a survey of voters after they voted,
00:18:24voted, whether that's in person on on election day, in person at early
00:18:27early voting stations around the the country or by mail voters who
00:18:31who may vote before election day.
00:18:33day. And we contact nearly 100,000
00:18:36100,000 voters randomly selected selected around the country to ask
00:18:39ask them questions about who they they are, why they voted the way
00:18:42way they voted, what issues were were important to them. And that
00:18:45that information is compiled so that that news organisations can analyse
00:18:48analyse that data to make profiles profiles of voters, see the trends
00:18:52trends over the decades in which which we've been conducting exit
00:18:55exit polls and to project outcomes
00:18:56outcomes of races around the country.
00:19:01country. Joe Lynskey waste industry industry leaders have written to to the Home Office calling for a
00:19:04a complete ban on the retail sale sale of nitrous oxide cylinders,
00:19:08cylinders, commonly used as laughing laughing gas. The firms say they
00:19:11they are seeing extraordinary numbers numbers of explosions at their sites
00:19:15sites each week, despite possession possession of nitrous oxide becoming becoming a criminal offence for recreational
00:19:19recreational use in England and Wales Wales three years ago. Many waste
00:19:22waste facilities are dealing with with canisters and cylinders in record
00:19:25record numbers. Fiona Lambden reports.
00:19:29reports. This eruption in the back back of a refuse lorry is down to
00:19:33to canisters of nitrous oxide exploding.
00:19:35exploding. Now millions of these
00:19:37these are ending up hidden in our
00:19:40our waste, which is a huge issue.
00:19:43issue. Nitrous oxide comes in two
00:19:45two sizes. These tiny little cartridges
00:19:48cartridges or these larger canisters. canisters. Now when these are empty,
00:19:51empty, they're empty. But these always
00:19:54always keep some of their pressure. pressure. And that's a problem when
00:19:56when they end up in here. For the
00:20:00the last three years, nitrous oxide oxide has been banned as a recreational
00:20:04recreational drug, but it remains remains legal when used for legitimate
00:20:07legitimate purposes like catering catering and medical treatment. I
00:20:10I imagine it's almost impossible impossible to spot one of these in
00:20:13in that massive pile of rubbish behind behind us. That's right. The bunker
00:20:16bunker behind us holds several thousand thousand tonnes of black bag waste
00:20:19waste in one go. So looking for something something like that is like looking
00:20:22looking for a needle in a haystack. haystack. Just based on the numbers
00:20:25numbers of pressurised nitrous oxide oxide cylinders that we're seeing
00:20:28seeing arrive at facilities like like this, there are millions of
00:20:31of them being sold on the UK market, market, and that clearly outstrips
00:20:35outstrips the legitimate use for for whipped cream. You know, not not that many people are whipping
00:20:38whipping cream with these, so they they are mostly being used by people
00:20:41people who are abusing it as a drug. drug. And so the way sector and local
00:20:45local councils now want a total ban
00:20:47ban on the larger pressurised cylinders. cylinders. The first thing we do
00:20:50do is a waste industry. When we come come and pick them up is we crush
00:20:53crush them in the back of a vehicle vehicle when they're mixed with other other waste, we then bring them to
00:20:57to facilities like this where we we put them through a furnace and and we expose them to heat. And of
00:21:01of course, each one of them is then then like a ticking time bomb and and they can explode with the same
00:21:05same power as a hand grenade. And And that causes huge amount of damage
00:21:08damage and it puts people at risk.
00:21:11risk. From February next year, new new EU rules are expected to restrict
00:21:15restrict the sale of nitrous oxide
00:21:17oxide to the general public. Well,
00:21:20Well, this is the before and the the after, and you can only imagine
00:21:23imagine the force of the explosion
00:21:26explosion which would decimate the the canister like this. OK, so we
00:21:29we can see the two furnaces, which which is where we burn the waste.
00:21:33waste. We can see. Tom says it's it's costing their plant millions
00:21:36millions of pounds each year. These These are probably the biggest issue issue we're seeing at the moment.
00:21:40moment. We see around 7000 explosions explosions a year across our sites.
00:21:44sites. And on average that's two two explosions per site per day.
00:21:47day. And here we produce electricity electricity for around 50,000 homes.
00:21:51homes. So when we're not processing, processing, we're also not producing
00:21:54producing electricity. We've just
00:21:56just left the waste facility. We've
00:21:58We've driven about 100m. And here here we found by the side of the
00:22:02the road seven cans of nitrous oxide.
00:22:04oxide. The advice if you find it,
00:22:07it, is to speak to your local recycling
00:22:10recycling centre and until there's there's a ban, campaigners say millions
00:22:13millions of canisters are entering entering the waste stream, turning
00:22:16turning everyday rubbish into a potential
00:22:19potential hazard. Fiona Lamdin, BBC
00:22:23BBC News. A man who set off to walk walk around the world 28 years ago,
00:22:27ago, is expected to return home today. today. Karl Bushby is due to become
00:22:30become the first person to complete
00:22:32complete a round the world walk of
00:22:35of 31,000 miles, or 50,000km. Paul
00:22:38Paul Murphy reports. All right guys,
00:22:41guys, thanks. The final leg. Of an an adventure that's consumed most
00:22:45most of his adult life. Karl Bushby
00:22:48Bushby and his trusty luggage carrier carrier known as the beast crossed
00:22:51crossed the Humber Bridge towards towards his home in Hull. Yeah, the
00:22:55the Humber Bridge has always been been that iconic landmark in my mind
00:22:58mind that I've, you know, has been
00:23:00been one of the big the big pieces.
00:23:02pieces. And that's final step. I I mean this is just amazing. Never
00:23:06Never could have imagined the kind kind of reception throughout the the country and it's really ramping
00:23:10ramping up now we're getting getting getting home. Karl Bushby left his
00:23:14his home in Hull in 1998 and flew
00:23:17flew to South America to begin his
00:23:20his walk under his own rules, he he wasn't allowed motorised transport
00:23:23transport for the challenge or to
00:23:25to return to the UK before the walk
00:23:27walk was done. You have to take that that that leap of faith. You've got
00:23:31got to take that jump. You've got got to you know, you've got to get
00:23:34get out there and find yourself one
00:23:37one day standing at the beginning
00:23:40beginning of a 50,000 kilometre road. road. The BBC caught up with him
00:23:44him 24 years ago after he'd made
00:23:46made the dangerous crossing between between South and North America.
00:23:49America. We found Karl Bushby in
00:23:52in the Arizona desert, relieved to to have made it through land controlled
00:23:56controlled by South American drug drug gangs. When you get out beyond
00:23:59beyond that second set of hills over over there, the problems begin. Me
00:24:03Me and the equipment could quite
00:24:05quite literally just mingle in. His His walk hasn't been continuous.
00:24:08continuous. He's often needed to to fly back to his base in Mexico
00:24:12Mexico after several delays, including including problems with visas, politics
00:24:16politics and the weather. If you you actually break down the amount
00:24:19amount of time actually spent walking, walking, you're looking at about
00:24:22about 15 years. The rest of it has
00:24:24has been spent dealing with stuff
00:24:27stuff or waiting because of those those rules and because we weren't
00:24:31weren't willing to compromise on on the route. This will be a test test because really not sure how
00:24:34how we're going to cope with the
00:24:36the other side. In 2006, shortly
00:24:39shortly after one of three visits visits from his mother, Carl crossed
00:24:42crossed the Bering Strait between
00:24:44between Alaska and Russia, only to to be detained by the Russians on
00:24:48on suspicion of spying. You know,
00:24:51know, we'd cross the Bering Straits Straits on foot. We thought that
00:24:54that we had got a warm reception
00:24:55reception than we did. We were wrong.
00:24:58wrong. Eventually, from when we landed landed on the Russian coast to get
00:25:02get into Mongolia, looking at I think think it was more than ten years.
00:25:05years. Just that section. It took took six years to do the entire length
00:25:08length of the Americas. He was looking
00:25:11looking Karl Bushby on the beaches
00:25:14beaches of the United Kingdom. Last Last month he swam across the Channel
00:25:17Channel to the Kent coast. He'll He'll be formally welcomed back by
00:25:21by Hull's Lord mayor greet his 36-year-old 36-year-old son and then walk the
00:25:25the final few miles to the home.
00:25:28home. He left 28 years ago where where his mum Angela says she'll
00:25:32she'll be waiting. Paul Murphy, BBC BBC News on the Humber Bridge in
00:25:35in East Yorkshire. Over the weekend. weekend. You may have seen lots of
00:25:39of pictures of the day of the dead dead celebrations in Mexico and other
00:25:43other countries in South America, America, but look at how they mark
00:25:46mark the day in Guatemala. This is is the annual Giant Kites Festival,
00:25:50Festival, which is held outside Guatemala Guatemala City. Some of the kites
00:25:53kites have a diameter of up to 15m
00:25:5615m and are handmade from bamboo bamboo fabric and tissue paper. They
00:26:00They take up to nine months to assemble. assemble. The tradition dates back
00:26:03back to the late 19th century and
00:26:05and attracts thousands of spectators.
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