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00:00:15MUSIC These These are the latest headlines from
00:00:16from BBC News. Ukraine and Russia's Russia's emergency alert apps are
00:00:20are hit by an apparent cyber attack. attack. Ukrainian residents reported
00:00:23reported getting false notifications notifications about chemical attacks attacks and Street fighting, while
00:00:27while Russian residents were warned
00:00:28warned of nuclear warheads just one one day to the midterm elections.
00:00:32elections. With last minute twists twists in the Senate race. As a sitting
00:00:36sitting Democratic congresswoman, congresswoman, Haley Stevens announces
00:00:38announces her support for the Republican Republican candidate Mike Rogers,
00:00:41Rogers, the Democrat candidate, Abdul Abdul El-Sayed said he was unbothered
00:00:45unbothered by Stevens announcement.
00:00:48announcement. King Charles will address address Commonwealth leaders about
00:00:50about the lasting pain of the transatlantic transatlantic slave trade during
00:00:53during the final leg of his Caribbean
00:00:55Caribbean tour in Antigua. Here, Here, the Home Secretary lays out
00:00:58out new rules on how long legal migrants migrants must live in the UK before
00:01:02before they're allowed to stay. And
00:01:05And the Italian driver Kimi Antonelli Antonelli makes history in Mexico
00:01:08Mexico as he becomes Formula One's
00:01:10One's youngest ever world champion
00:01:13champion at 20. Hello. Welcome back
00:01:21back to BBC News. I'm Mark Lowen. Lowen. I just want to bring you a
00:01:24a bit of breaking news that's coming coming in from Belgium, from Belgium.
00:01:28Belgium. The Prime Minister, Bart
00:01:29Bart De Wever, has offered his resignation
00:01:32resignation to the Belgian King, King, King Philippe, over a breakdown
00:01:36breakdown in budget talks. Belgium's
00:01:38Belgium's debt is very high. It's
00:01:41It's about 110% of GDP. That is almost
00:01:45almost double what the EU limit is, is, and its budget deficit is also
00:01:48also high. The government was trying
00:01:50trying to agree on a budget for next
00:01:52next year that has failed. The Belgian Belgian Prime Minister has tendered tendered his resignation. We understand
00:01:56understand that the royal palace palace is holding off its decision
00:02:00decision on whether to accept the the Prime Minister's Office to offer
00:02:03offer to resign. Let's go back to
00:02:07to our other top story now, because
00:02:09because both Ukraine and Russia say say that their emergency alert apps
00:02:13apps have been hit by cyber attacks. attacks. Ukraine warned late on Sunday
00:02:16Sunday that its air alert app appeared appeared to have been compromised
00:02:19compromised after citizens received received false notifications. Later,
00:02:22Later, Moscow said that an app belonging
00:02:24belonging to its emergencies ministry ministry had been targeted. Let's
00:02:28Let's speak to the Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Oleksandr Merezhko in Kyiv. He is
00:02:31is the chair of the foreign affairs affairs Committee in the Ukrainian Ukrainian parliament. Thank you very
00:02:35very much indeed for being with us.
00:02:39us. Who are you blaming for the hack
00:02:41hack on the Ukrainian app? Thank
00:02:44Thank you for having me. We don't don't know for sure whom to blame,
00:02:48blame, but seemingly it was Russia
00:02:50Russia and attempt to cause panic
00:02:52panic in Ukraine. But it definitely definitely failed because it didn't
00:02:56didn't cause absolutely no panic
00:02:58panic in Ukrainian cities. And then
00:03:01then there was an attack on the Russian
00:03:04Russian system early this morning. morning. Was that retaliation from
00:03:07from your government. As far as I
00:03:12I know the responsibility for this
00:03:13this action was claimed by so-called
00:03:17so-called a group of partisan group group or guerrilla group within Russia
00:03:21Russia called Artesh. And I don't
00:03:22don't have any official confirmation confirmation with regard to this.
00:03:26this. So we don't know what happened happened for sure. So you are not
00:03:30not saying either way whether there there was Ukrainian involvement in
00:03:34in this. Well, in such cases we have
00:03:37have the, so to speak, fog of war
00:03:39war and we usually don't confirm
00:03:42confirm or don't deny such cases.
00:03:44cases. You say that the attack on
00:03:47on Ukraine did not work, but even
00:03:50even if there may not have been panic, panic, presumably this would lessen
00:03:54lessen the confidence of Ukrainians
00:03:56Ukrainians in the system. Well, first
00:03:58first of all, during the war, the
00:04:00the full-scale invasion, we got used
00:04:02used to double check such kind of of information and additionally,
00:04:06additionally, people in Ukraine, Ukraine, we more trust loudspeaker
00:04:10loudspeaker devices and signals of
00:04:12of these loudspeakers. And besides,
00:04:15besides, we have different for example, example, Telegram channels where
00:04:18where we can check this information. information. Do you think that this
00:04:22this could have been a third party party attack that has decided to
00:04:26to attack both both systems, not
00:04:29not Ukrainian or Russian? Well, it's
00:04:31it's hard to say because we don't
00:04:34don't know details and there was
00:04:36was no at least as of now, official official investigation and its results.
00:04:40results. But seemingly it was Russia Russia because Russia is waging a
00:04:44a cyber attack. I remember the first
00:04:46first days after the full-scale invasion
00:04:48invasion and even before there was
00:04:50was a massive cyber attack, and it's
00:04:52it's nothing new on the part of Russia
00:04:55Russia to continue to wage such cyber
00:04:57cyber war against Ukraine. So the the prime suspect remains Russia.
00:05:01Russia. Can I ask you finally about
00:05:03about the situation in Kherson in in southern Ukraine, where there
00:05:06there was a ceasefire in recent days
00:05:08days around the Kherson region, which
00:05:11which allowed the residents of occupied
00:05:14occupied Oleshky to return to government
00:05:18government controlled Ukraine, has has the has in as far as you as you
00:05:21you understand it, have the Russians Russians resumed attacks in Kherson
00:05:25Kherson with the expiry of that cease
00:05:29cease fire? Unfortunately, the war
00:05:31war continues and Russians have used
00:05:33used this opportunity and they even
00:05:35even brought to Oleshky their weaponry.
00:05:38weaponry. And so they're trying to to use each opportunity. And the
00:05:41the thing is that the whole situation situation in Alaska was caused by
00:05:44by Russia because it was under Russian
00:05:48Russian occupation at that time. time. And unfortunately, hostilities
00:05:52hostilities and fighting continues.
00:05:54continues. And just while we have have you miss Russia because it's
00:05:57it's great to have you on the programme,
00:06:00programme, just turning to the issue
00:06:01issue of Patriot missiles, the US
00:06:05US says it will now provide Ukraine
00:06:08Ukraine with Patriot. Those long-range
00:06:11long-range missiles via a procurement procurement system that other Nato Nato countries buy directly from
00:06:15from the US. But the fear is that
00:06:19that it could take quite a long time time for those to arrive, because
00:06:21because they would be newly built built missiles. What is the your
00:06:25your understanding of that? How dire dire is the need for those long range
00:06:28range interceptors at the moment? moment? And how does it place Ukraine?
00:06:32Ukraine? What situation does it place place Ukraine in that it does not
00:06:35not have those. Well, on the one one hand, we are grateful to our
00:06:39our American partners that they at at least promised to make such sale
00:06:43sale as, as they put it, possible
00:06:44possible sale. But to go through
00:06:47through winter we need, according according to our president, at least
00:06:51least 300 such missiles like Patriot Patriot missiles, because for each
00:06:55each Russian ballistic missile we
00:06:59we need two interceptor missiles. missiles. Unfortunately, we haven't
00:07:03haven't received it yet and the situation situation remains very difficult
00:07:07difficult for us. We can rely on on our European partners. And by
00:07:10by the way, we are grateful to the
00:07:12the United Kingdom, to your government, government, because you promised
00:07:15promised to provide us with such
00:07:19such missiles and such weaponry during
00:07:21during the winter, before the winter
00:07:23winter and the amount of money is
00:07:28is around half 1 billion GBP. So
00:07:29So it's a very concrete and substantial substantial support of Ukraine on
00:07:33on the eve of very
00:07:38The eve of very difficult winter. OK. Oleksandr Merezhko, chair chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee Committee in the Ukrainian Parliament.
00:07:42Parliament. Thank you very much indeed. indeed. Let's get more now on the
00:07:45the US midterm elections, which are are just one day away. This is the
00:07:49the scene live in Washington beneath
00:07:52beneath that famous dome. It's about
00:07:55about 535 in the morning. Washington Washington time. So I'm sure the
00:07:58the early risers will have politics politics on their minds tomorrow.
00:08:01tomorrow. Millions of voters across across the country will determine
00:08:03determine the balance of power inside inside that building. And while the
00:08:07the Democrats are widely predicted predicted to flip the House of Representatives,
00:08:09Representatives, the Senate is still still up for grabs. Ros Atkins explains
00:08:13explains why these midterm elections elections matter. Let's remind ourselves
00:08:16ourselves of what's at stake. The The midterms are all about who controls
00:08:19controls the two houses of Congress, Congress, the House of Representatives
00:08:23Representatives and the Senate. This This matters because it's the part part of the US government that makes
00:08:26makes laws for the country as a whole whole on everything from immigration
00:08:29immigration to taxes to defence. defence. And right now both houses
00:08:33houses are controlled by the Republicans, Republicans, as you can see, which
00:08:36which is very helpful to President President Trump. Now the House of
00:08:39of Representatives is where proposed proposed laws are introduced and
00:08:42and debated. Each state gets a number
00:08:44number of seats proportionate to to its population. Members serve
00:08:47serve two-year terms, which means means that all of the seats in the
00:08:50the House are up for grabs in this
00:08:53this election, there are 435 of them. them. So to control the house, a
00:08:56a party needs at least 218. And according
00:09:00according to the polls, the Republicans Republicans may have their work cut
00:09:02cut out, holding on to the House House of Representatives. Then there's
00:09:06there's the Senate. One of its main main jobs is to approve or reject
00:09:10reject those laws proposed by the
00:09:12the House. Each state has two senators,
00:09:14senators, so there are 100 in total.
00:09:16total. They serve six year terms terms every two years. Roughly a
00:09:19a third of Senate seats are contested,
00:09:22contested, so it's 35 this year to
00:09:24to control the Senate. A party needs
00:09:27needs 51 or more, though if it's it's 50-50, the Vice President can
00:09:31can cast the deciding vote. So that that favours the Republicans at the
00:09:34the moment. So there is a lot at
00:09:36at stake. And who controls Congress Congress is not just relevant to
00:09:40to the laws that get made for America America as a whole. Of course, it's
00:09:43it's also relevant to whoever is is president, as Donald Trump goes
00:09:46goes into the last two years of his his presidency. Well, when voters
00:09:50voters are making their choices in in this election, of course they're they're telling us something about
00:09:53about what they think of the two two main parties, but they're also
00:09:56also telling us something about what
00:09:58what they think of their president. president. Ros Atkins there. Well,
00:10:01Well, our correspondents in the US US have been travelling to key places
00:10:04places where the race is too close
00:10:06close to call. Our chief North America America correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue,
00:10:09O'Donoghue, is in Texas. This state state is shaping up to be one of
00:10:12of the most consequential contests contests in these elections. I'm
00:10:16I'm in Texas, where the battle for for a single Senate seat could end
00:10:19end up deciding who controls Congress.
00:10:21Congress. More than half $1 billion billion has been spent on advertising
00:10:25advertising alone, making it the the most expensive non-presidential
00:10:29non-presidential race in American American history. Democrat James
00:10:33James Talarico and Republican Ken Ken Paxton are in a race that's too
00:10:37too close to call. Democrats haven't
00:10:40haven't won here statewide since
00:10:42since 1994. If they manage it this
00:10:44this time around, it'll be the big
00:10:46big story of the night. That is Texas.
00:10:49Texas. Well, Tom Bateman is with
00:10:51with early voters in Ohio. Just look
00:10:54look how long this line is for early early voting here in the state of
00:10:58of Ohio. Some of the guys here told told me they've been waiting 2.5
00:11:012.5 hours already to cast their ballot ballot in the building over there
00:11:05there ahead of Tuesday's midterm midterm election. And we're hearing
00:11:08hearing that the rates of early in-person in-person voting are way up on what
00:11:12what they were four years ago here.
00:11:14here. Now, the big issue as soon soon as we got here, someone said
00:11:17said to me the cost of gas price price of petrol as it is nationwide,
00:11:21nationwide, of course, but this state
00:11:22state has been marked by an incredibly
00:11:26incredibly acrimonious race. The The Republicans hold this state both
00:11:29both in the Senate and for the governor's governor's mansion. There's been
00:11:32been a big row as far as that's concerned
00:11:35concerned over the attack ads in in that particular race. It all shows
00:11:38shows you just how bitterly fought fought the state of Ohio is going
00:11:41going to be. Tom Bateman there well, well, Michigan's Senate race is shaping
00:11:45shaping up to be one of the most most closely watched contests in in the country. We've been reporting
00:11:49reporting on the shock endorsement endorsement of the Republican candidate
00:11:52candidate by Democratic congresswoman, congresswoman, but the race was already already facing controversy before
00:11:56before that from Michigan, Nada Tawfik Tawfik explains the backdrop to this
00:11:59this crucial contest. The tight race
00:12:04race here in Michigan has been one one of the nastiest, with the President
00:12:07President of the United States amplifying amplifying anti-Muslim rhetoric in
00:12:09in large part to help his fellow fellow Republican Mike Rogers, win
00:12:13win over Black and Jewish voters voters who weren't enthusiastic about
00:12:16about left wing and Israel critic critic Abdul El-Sayed winning the
00:12:20the Democratic nomination. Doctor Doctor El-Sayed was born in the US US to Egyptian parents and would
00:12:24would be the first Muslim senator.
00:12:26senator. Trump has called him a jihadist jihadist and promoted the baseless
00:12:29baseless conspiracy theory that he he wants to impose Islamic law in
00:12:33in America. If El-Sayed wins. Despite
00:12:35Despite that, in this swing state state with his populist platform,
00:12:38platform, it would be a big win for for the progressive movement as the
00:12:41the fractured Democratic Party fiercely fiercely debates its future direction
00:12:45direction ahead of presidential elections
00:12:46elections in 2028. That's Nada Tawfik
00:12:50Tawfik now King Charles is expected expected to speak on the lasting lasting pain of the transatlantic
00:12:54transatlantic slave trade. In a speech speech addressing Commonwealth leaders leaders tomorrow. It comes at the
00:12:57the end of a nine day tour of the the Caribbean that has thrust King
00:13:01King Charles into the difficult debates debates over the UK's colonial legacy.
00:13:04legacy. Between the years 1518 hundred
00:13:07hundred British ships forcibly transported transported around 3.4 million people
00:13:11people from Africa to European colonies colonies and plantations. Our correspondent
00:13:15correspondent Sean Dilley has this
00:13:17this report. The King and Queen smiling
00:13:23smiling on Antigua and Barbuda's Barbuda's annual independence parade. parade. Guests of honour though they
00:13:27they may be all eyes and ears, are
00:13:29are on King Charles as pressure grows grows from Commonwealth leaders for
00:13:32for him to apologise for Britain's Britain's role in the transatlantic
00:13:36transatlantic slave trade, neither neither the royal family nor the the British government have ever
00:13:40ever formally apologised. But King King Charles has often spoken about
00:13:43about what he describes as the darkest darkest days in history. It is only
00:13:47only right that we should acknowledge
00:13:49acknowledge the great suffering and
00:13:51and injustices of the past in these
00:13:54these islands and beyond, even as
00:13:55as we rejoice in the successes of
00:13:59of the present and build new opportunities
00:14:01opportunities for the future. But But Commonwealth leaders believe
00:14:04believe the future depends on making making amends for the past, and they
00:14:07they have a ten-point plan for investing investing reparations in public health
00:14:11health and education. The Prime Minister, Minister, Andy Burnham, has ruled
00:14:14ruled out paying reparations. Writing Writing in the Guardian this weekend
00:14:17weekend that I do not think British British people today can be held
00:14:20held liable for historical wrongs, wrongs, however heinous that happened
00:14:23happened in a different age, under under different laws and in which
00:14:26which they paid no personal part.
00:14:29part. The. But it seems negotiations
00:14:32negotiations about an apology continue continue while the King has shown
00:14:34shown he's not afraid to accept Britain's Britain's role in historical injustices,
00:14:38injustices, he's not expected to to apologise today or at the heads
00:14:41heads of government meeting in Chogm
00:14:43Chogm tomorrow. Discussions on a a possible future apology are likely
00:14:47likely to take some time. Sean Dilley,
00:14:51Dilley, BBC news. We're going to to take a short break around the
00:14:53the world and across the UK.
00:15:56Carter for Explore Japan from east
00:15:57east to West on BBC News. Welcome
00:16:04Welcome back waste industry leaders leaders have written to the Home Home Office here in the UK calling
00:16:08calling for a complete ban on the the retail sale of nitrous oxide
00:16:12oxide cylinders, commonly used as as laughing gas. The firms say they
00:16:15they are seeing extraordinary numbers numbers of explosions at their sites
00:16:18sites each week, despite possession possession of nitrous oxide becoming becoming a criminal offence for recreational
00:16:22recreational use in England and Wales Wales three years ago. Many waste
00:16:25waste facilities are dealing with with canisters and cylinders in record
00:16:29record numbers. Fiona Lamdin has
00:16:32has more. This eruption in the back
00:16:35back of a refuse lorry is down to
00:16:36to canisters of nitrous oxide exploding.
00:16:39exploding. Now millions of these
00:16:40these are ending up hidden in our
00:16:44our waste, which is a huge issue.
00:16:46issue. Nitrous oxide comes in two
00:16:48two sizes. These tiny little cartridges
00:16:52cartridges or these larger canisters. canisters. Now when these are empty,
00:16:55empty, they're empty. But these always
00:16:57always keep some of their pressure. pressure. And that's a problem when
00:17:00when they end up in here. For the
00:17:04the last three years, nitrous oxide oxide has been banned as a recreational
00:17:07recreational drug. But it remains remains legal when used for legitimate
00:17:10legitimate purposes like catering catering and medical treatment. I
00:17:14I imagine it's almost impossible impossible to spot one of these in
00:17:17in that massive pile of rubbish behind behind us. That's right. The bunker
00:17:20bunker behind us holds several thousand thousand tonnes of black bag waste
00:17:23waste in one go. So looking for something something like that is like looking
00:17:26looking for a needle in a haystack. haystack. Just based on the numbers
00:17:29numbers of pressurised nitrous oxide oxide cylinders that we're seeing
00:17:31seeing arrive at facilities like like this, there are millions of
00:17:35of them being sold on the UK market market and that clearly outstrips
00:17:38outstrips the legitimate use for for whipped cream. You know, not not that many people are whipping
00:17:42whipping cream with these, so they they are mostly being used by people
00:17:44people who are abusing it as a drug. drug. And so the waste sector and
00:17:48and local councils now want a total total ban on the larger pressurised
00:17:52pressurised cylinders. The first first thing we do is a waste industry.
00:17:54industry. When we come and pick them them up is we crush them in the back
00:17:58back of a vehicle when they're mixed mixed with other waste. We then bring bring them to facilities like this
00:18:01this where we put them through a a furnace and we expose them to heat. heat. And of course, each one of
00:18:05of them is then like a ticking time time bomb and they can explode with
00:18:08with the same power as a hand grenade. grenade. And that causes huge amount
00:18:11amount of damage and it puts people
00:18:13people at risk. From February next
00:18:16next year, new EU rules are expected expected to restrict the sale of
00:18:19of nitrous oxide to the general public.
00:18:23public. Well, this is the before before and the after and you can
00:18:26can only imagine the force of the
00:18:29the explosion which would decimate decimate the canister like this.
00:18:32this. OK, so we can see the two furnaces, furnaces, which is where we burn
00:18:35burn the waste. We can see. Tom says says it's costing their plant millions
00:18:39millions of pounds each year. These These are probably the biggest issue
00:18:42issue we're seeing at the moment. moment. We see around 7000 explosions
00:18:45explosions a year across our sites sites and of on average that's two
00:18:49two explosions per site per day.
00:18:51day. And here we produce electricity electricity for around 50,000 homes.
00:18:55homes. So when we're not processing, processing, we're also not producing
00:18:58producing electricity. We've just
00:18:59just left the waste facility. We've
00:19:02We've driven about 100m. And here here we found by the side of the
00:19:05the road seven cans of nitrous oxide.
00:19:08oxide. The advice if you find it,
00:19:10it, is to speak to your local recycling
00:19:14recycling centre and until there's there's a ban, campaigners say millions
00:19:17millions of canisters are entering entering the waste stream, turning
00:19:20turning everyday rubbish into a potential
00:19:23potential hazard. Fiona Lamdin, BBC
00:19:26BBC News. Investigations are under
00:19:28under way after a private jet crashed crashed in Florida, killing all nine
00:19:32nine people on board. This is the
00:19:33the moment the jet crashed. Well, Well, this is dashcam footage that
00:19:37that we are showing you. The Learjet Learjet 60, which was heading to
00:19:40to the Bahamas, came down in Palm Palm Beach County, a larger. A large
00:19:44large crater formed in the middle middle of a multi-lane road with
00:19:46with fires burning across it. Nobody Nobody on the ground was hurt and
00:19:49and the cause of the crash is still
00:19:53still unclear. To AI safety now.
00:19:56now. Meredith Whittaker is the boss boss of the Signal Foundation, which
00:19:59which runs the encrypted messaging messaging app Signal. She's a former
00:20:02former AI researcher at Google and and is calling for AI development
00:20:05development to be slowed down. She
00:20:07She spoke to our reporter Megha Mohan.
00:20:10Mohan. The risk is very real, but
00:20:13but it's not the shiny ghost stories
00:20:16stories that the wild eyed boys are
00:20:18are telling us right now. AI doom
00:20:21doom is dominating the headlines,
00:20:23headlines, but the President of Signal,
00:20:25Signal, the encrypted messaging app app and one of the most influential
00:20:29influential women in the space, is
00:20:30is telling us to slow down. You would
00:20:34would have to draw back on a lot
00:20:36lot of this. You would have to put
00:20:39put measures in place that slow things
00:20:40things down, that leave room for for judgement, that allow institutions
00:20:44institutions and experts to say AI AI is not appropriate here. We should
00:20:48should be insisting on robust engineering,
00:20:53engineering, robust technical practices, practices, all of which slow down
00:20:56down markets, all of which might
00:20:57might affect valuations. Meredith
00:21:01Meredith Whittaker leads Signal a a messaging app built. Around privacy
00:21:05privacy as a core tenet with an estimated
00:21:09estimated 40 to 70 million users. users. When you and I are talking
00:21:12talking on Signal only, you and I
00:21:14I can read that messages. We live
00:21:17live in a world where almost everything
00:21:19everything we do, our connections, connections, our communities, our
00:21:23our locations, our preferences, our
00:21:26our communications are surveilled surveilled and logged by a handful handful of companies that use them
00:21:30them to sell ads that can give them them to governments that are picked
00:21:34picked up by data brokers, sold to
00:21:37to ideological fringe groups. Around
00:21:41Around 2017. Whittaker gained public
00:21:44public recognition as a co-organiser
00:21:46co-organiser of the Google walkout. walkout. Hey hey
00:21:50Cover ups have got to go. Which
00:21:52saw more than 20,000 employees and
00:21:56and contractors take part. A former
00:21:58former AI researcher at Google, she she had raised concerns about the
00:22:02the ethical risks of AI systems, systems, including their potential
00:22:06potential use in military applications.
00:22:09applications. I was alarmed by this.
00:22:11this. This is going to supercharge
00:22:13supercharge mistakes. This is going going to launder bad intelligence
00:22:17intelligence and bad data. This is
00:22:18is going to paint a veneer of objectivity
00:22:22objectivity and intelligence on systems systems that are basically just sort
00:22:25sort of, you know, drawing on the
00:22:26the same bad Intel that we've. Now
00:22:29Now a man who set off to walk around around the world 28 years ago is
00:22:32is expected to return home today. today. Karl Bushby is due to become
00:22:35become the first person to complete
00:22:37complete a round the world walk of
00:22:41of 31,000 miles or 50,000km. Paul
00:22:44Paul Murphy has his. Story All right
00:22:46right guys, thanks. The final leg
00:22:48leg of an adventure that's consumed consumed most of his adult life.
00:22:52life. Karl Bushby and his trusty
00:22:54trusty luggage carrier known as the
00:22:57the beast, crossed the Humber Bridge Bridge towards his home in Hull.
00:23:00Hull. Yeah, the Humber Bridge has has always been that iconic landmark
00:23:04landmark in my mind that I've, you you know, has been one of the big
00:23:07big the big pieces. And that's final
00:23:09final step. I mean, this is just just amazing. Never could have imagined
00:23:13imagined the kind of reception throughout throughout the country and it's really
00:23:15really ramping up now we're getting getting getting home. Karl Bushby
00:23:19Bushby left his home in Hull in 1998
00:23:221998 and flew to South America to
00:23:24to begin his walk under his own rules,
00:23:27rules, he wasn't allowed motorised motorised transport for the challenge
00:23:30challenge or to return to the UK
00:23:32UK before the walk was done. You You have to take that that leap of
00:23:36of faith. You've got to take that that jump. You've got to you know,
00:23:38know, you've got to get out there
00:23:41there and find yourself one day standing
00:23:44standing at the beginning of a 50,000
00:23:4750,000 kilometre road. The BBC caught
00:23:48caught up with him 24 years ago after
00:23:51after he'd made the dangerous crossing crossing between south and North
00:23:55North America. We found Karl Bushby Bushby in the Arizona desert, relieved
00:23:59relieved to have made it through through land controlled by South
00:24:02South American drug gangs. When you you get out beyond that second set
00:24:06set of hills over there, the problems problems begin. Me and the equipment
00:24:09equipment could quite literally just
00:24:11just mingle in. His walk hasn't been been continuous. He's often needed
00:24:15needed to fly back to his base in
00:24:18in Mexico after several delays, including including problems with visas, politics
00:24:21politics and the weather. If you you actually break down the amount
00:24:25amount of time actually spent walking, walking, you're looking at about
00:24:29about 15 years. The rest of it has
00:24:30has been spent dealing with stuff
00:24:33stuff or waiting because of those those rules and because we weren't
00:24:36weren't willing to compromise on on the route. This would be a test
00:24:40test because I'm really not sure sure how we're going to cope with
00:24:42with the other side. In 2006, shortly
00:24:45shortly after one of three visits visits from his mother, Carl crossed
00:24:48crossed the Bering Strait between between Alaska and Russia, only to
00:24:52to be detained by the Russians on
00:24:54on suspicion of spying. You know, know, we'd cross the Bering Straits
00:24:58Straits on foot. We thought that that we had got a warm reception
00:25:02reception and we did. We were wrong. wrong. Eventually, from when we landed
00:25:06landed on the Russian coast to get get into Mongolia, looking at I think
00:25:09think it was more than ten years. years. Just that section. It took
00:25:13took six years to do the entire length length of the Americas. You were
00:25:16were looking Karl Bushby on the beaches
00:25:20beaches of the United Kingdom. Last Last month he swam across the Channel
00:25:23Channel to the Kent coast. He'll He'll be formally welcomed back by
00:25:27by Hull's Lord mayor, greet his 36-year-old
00:25:3036-year-old son and then walk the the final few miles to the home.
00:25:34home. He left 28 years ago where where his mum Angela says she'll
00:25:38she'll be waiting. Paul Murphy, BBC BBC News On the Humber Bridge in
00:25:41in East Yorkshire. What an amazing
00:25:43amazing story. He'll also be meeting meeting his 12-year-old grandson,
00:25:47grandson, who he hasn't ever met met before, and the crowds already
00:25:51already gathering in Hull in northern northern England. He's due to arrive
00:25:54arrive in about five minutes' time. time. We'll bring you more on that that and the rest of the stories
00:25:58stories in the next hour of BBC News. News. Don't go away. Do stay with
00:26:01with us. Plenty more to come.
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