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00:00:13News. Millions prepare to vote on on the eve of Americas crucial midterm
00:00:17midterm elections. Can Donald Trump
00:00:19Trump and the Republicans keep control
00:00:22control of the US Congress? We want want them out. We want them out.
00:00:24out. And I am excited that if we we can flip Kansas, we give hope
00:00:27hope to the rest of the country. country. He says what he's going
00:00:30going to do it just I have a lot
00:00:32lot of faith in the man. We'll speak
00:00:35speak live to our correspondents correspondents Tom Bateman and Samira
00:00:37Samira Hussain in some of the key key battleground states. Our other
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00:01:17his Caribbean tour. Hello and welcome
00:01:29welcome to BBC News. We start in in the US on the eve of the crucial
00:01:33crucial midterm elections. There There is a huge amount at stake.
00:01:36stake. Millions are preparing to to vote and these elections will
00:01:39will decide who controls Congress, Congress, the House and the Senate.
00:01:42Senate. Well, these are live pictures pictures from Washington and Capitol
00:01:45Capitol Hill. Democrats are hoping hoping to take control of the House
00:01:49House of Representatives. They also also have in their sights flipping
00:01:52flipping the Senate. That has big big implications when it comes to
00:01:55to what Donald Trump would be able able to do in his last two years
00:01:59years domestically and on foreign foreign policy. Well, we have correspondents
00:02:02correspondents in most of the key
00:02:04key battleground states Ohio, Iowa,
00:02:07Iowa, Kansas, Texas and Alaska. Remarkably, Remarkably, traditional Republican
00:02:11Republican states like Texas are are in play for Democrats. Kansas,
00:02:15Kansas, which could also switch, switch, hasn't sent a Democrat to
00:02:17to the Senate since 1932. National
00:02:20National polling for Donald Trump Trump has been terrible. The war
00:02:23war with Iran, the cost of living living corruption all making this
00:02:25this a tough, tough set of elections elections for Republican candidates.
00:02:29candidates. So let's start this hour hour with the latest from our correspondents
00:02:33correspondents on the ground. Tom Tom Bateman is in Ohio. Samira Hussain
00:02:36Hussain is in Iowa for us. Tom, I
00:02:39I will start with you. Just set the
00:02:41the scene for us. Well, welcome,
00:02:45welcome, Matthew, to what has become become an unexpected battleground
00:02:49battleground state here in Ohio. Ohio. The Democrats haven't won for
00:02:52for the Senate here in eight years. years. Now this is a conservative
00:02:56conservative state with two Republican Republican Senate seats and the governor's
00:03:00governor's mansion all held by the the Republican Party. But the Democrats
00:03:03Democrats are increasingly hopeful hopeful that they can break that
00:03:06that monopoly, particularly when when it comes to that Senate seat.
00:03:08seat. And a New York Times Siena
00:03:11Siena poll out today suggesting that that the Democratic candidate is
00:03:14is now six points ahead of his Republican
00:03:17Republican rival. Absolutely crucial crucial here will be the issue of
00:03:21of turnout. It's something we've we've been sensing as we've been
00:03:24been talking to voters in the last
00:03:27last few days, that there is a sense
00:03:29sense of Democrats feeling energised, energised, that they're getting their
00:03:32their base out. While some Republicans Republicans particularly moderate
00:03:35moderate Republicans, more likely likely to stay at home, at least
00:03:38least some of the opinion polling
00:03:40polling is concerned. Now this state, state, like a lot of traditional
00:03:43traditional Midwestern states in in the rural areas, very heavily
00:03:46heavily Republican voting here in in the cities like Columbus tend
00:03:50tend to lean much more heavily towards towards the Democrats. We were out
00:03:53out yesterday at the end of early early voting, early in-person voting
00:03:57voting as people flocked to an election election board near here to cast
00:04:01cast their early votes. Now, this
00:04:03this is that particular area is heavily heavily democratic, and we chatted
00:04:06chatted to some of those voters in
00:04:08in the line. People are dying. People
00:04:12People are starving. They're starving. starving. You don't know whether
00:04:15whether to buy gas or get a piece
00:04:17piece of baloney, a slice of bread.
00:04:20bread. I've just been waiting maybe maybe like a little over an hour.
00:04:24hour. Why was it important for you you to come and vote today? Change,
00:04:27Change, change. I'm so sick of what's what's going on right now. It's insane.
00:04:31insane. Prices have not gone down.
00:04:33down. Wars have not stopped. They've
00:04:37They've continued and we just have have to we have to work on taking
00:04:41taking first steps to get back to
00:04:44to what we you know, we just need
00:04:46need to change. This is not the right
00:04:49right direction. Now the race for
00:04:52for the Senate here between the Republican
00:04:56Republican incumbent, Jon Husted Husted and his Democratic rival Sherrod
00:04:58Sherrod Brown, there is also a race race for the governor's mansion between
00:05:02between a once presidential hopeful hopeful Republican Vivek Ramaswamy
00:05:05Ramaswamy and Amy Acton, the Democrat Democrat that has been mired in controversy
00:05:09controversy with the very, very acrimonious acrimonious row over an attack ad
00:05:13ad featuring the mother of the Democratic Democratic candidate calling her
00:05:16her own daughter a liar. It is a
00:05:18a sense of just how bitterly contested
00:05:21contested this state is, as the Democrats Democrats hope and think that they
00:05:25they can flip Congress towards them.
00:05:27them. Tom, thanks very much. Let's Let's go to Samara and Samara. You
00:05:31You two have been talking to voters.
00:05:32voters. Just give me an idea of what
00:05:35what is driving them in this set set of elections. Donald Trump says,
00:05:38says, imagine it's me on the ballot ballot paper. But what are voters
00:05:41voters saying to you? Well, for voters,
00:05:46voters, a lot of the issues really really centre around the cost of
00:05:50of living, and nowhere is that more
00:05:52more apparent than here on the farms farms of the state in the state of
00:05:56of Iowa. Now, remember that high
00:05:59high cost of diesel has a massive
00:06:01massive impact on farm workers because
00:06:03because it is diesel that operates
00:06:06operates this heavy machinery and
00:06:08and farmers have by and large been
00:06:10been in support of the Republican Republican Party. And President Trump.
00:06:14Trump. President Trump in fact, took
00:06:15took the state of Iowa by more than
00:06:18than 13 percentage points in 2024.
00:06:212024. But now that is in jeopardy.
00:06:23jeopardy. As people look around and
00:06:25and see how much more expensive everything everything has become and feel that
00:06:29that there is a lot of that responsibility
00:06:32responsibility is being placed on
00:06:33on President Trump. You know, this
00:06:37this is another state in which Democrats
00:06:39Democrats feel that they could possibly
00:06:41possibly flip the Senate. You have
00:06:43have the Republican candidate, Ashley
00:06:46Ashley Hinson, who is campaigning campaigning against the Democrat
00:06:49Democrat Josh Turek, and that actually actually polls have the race quite
00:06:53quite close and within the margin
00:06:54margin of error. And that's probably
00:06:57probably why President Trump actually
00:06:59actually came here to Iowa, Dubuque, Dubuque, which is about 20 minutes
00:07:03minutes away from here to campaign
00:07:05campaign to really rally his base.
00:07:08base. And so the message very much
00:07:10much was demonising the Democrats, Democrats, making it clear that a
00:07:13a vote for the Democrats would be
00:07:16be destructive to the way of life
00:07:17life here in Iowa and that you must
00:07:21must re-elect Republicans. Now, hopefully
00:07:23hopefully in for the President. That's That's going to be enough to reenergize
00:07:27reenergize his base that some of
00:07:29of whom are really quite angry about about just how expensive everything
00:07:33everything has become. Just a brief brief follow up point because at
00:07:36at different points in the campaign campaign trail at these rallies.
00:07:40rallies. The President has sometimes sometimes rambled, gone off point,
00:07:43point, not really acknowledged some some of exactly what you were talking talking about, the cost of living
00:07:46living issues. Is he seen when you you talk to voters? Is he seen as
00:07:50as an asset in these elections or
00:07:52or a liability? I think that is a
00:07:56a very, very good question because because you'll remember that this
00:08:00this rally in Iowa, you know, it it was announced weeks ago and then
00:08:03then it was abruptly cancelled. And And then within 24 hours it was back
00:08:07back up again. And I think there there is a sense about whether or
00:08:11or not the President is actually
00:08:13actually a liability or if he is
00:08:16is an asset, as he's been in past
00:08:19past elections for the people that that went and attended that rally,
00:08:21rally, I went and spoke with a lot
00:08:23lot of them, and they wanted to be
00:08:26be there. This was very much him him speaking to the base, energising
00:08:29energising his base and speaking speaking to people that already knew
00:08:32knew that they were going to vote
00:08:34vote Republican. But outside there
00:08:37there were also some Democrats that
00:08:40that were protesting there that were
00:08:42were jeering and calling out to the the Republicans that had gone in
00:08:45in to go and support Donald Trump, Trump, many of whom say really talking
00:08:49talking about the cost of living
00:08:51living and also the language and
00:08:55and the temperament and just the
00:08:57the kinds of words that are being
00:08:59being exchanged in this election. election. Yes, that the temperature
00:09:01temperature needs to be taken down down just a little bit. Samara, thanks
00:09:05thanks very much for that. Thanks Thanks to you, Tom. Those are the
00:09:08the latest details from two of the the key states throughout these next
00:09:12next 2 or 3 hours will be in different different states. So many battlegrounds
00:09:15battlegrounds in play for both sides. sides. So we'll reflect more from
00:09:18from more states through the next next couple of hours. But let's head
00:09:21head to Kansas. I was talking about about Kansas a short while ago in
00:09:24in the Midwest, which has long been been a Republican stronghold. The
00:09:27The race apparently too close to
00:09:30to call. Have a listen to voters.
00:09:32voters. There we are one of the reddest
00:09:34reddest states in the Union. And
00:09:37And like I. I believe if we can flip
00:09:41flip Kansas, that will give the rest rest of the nation hope that that
00:09:45that these. Even if you don't think think that coming to a protest and
00:09:48and holding a sign. Whatever your
00:09:51your message is, if you don't think think that's effective, it is effective.
00:09:55effective. Making a stink going in in lobbying, advocating it makes
00:09:58makes a difference. It opens people's people's eyes, but it also shows
00:10:01shows other people that we believe believe the same way and they go go like, I didn't know anybody else
00:10:05else felt that way in Kansas. And And the more you realise, the more
00:10:08more you look around. You see a lot lot of purple, I see a lot of purple.
00:10:12purple. I think people are really really sick of the status quo. They're They're sick of this Maga. They're
00:10:15They're sick of $6 a gallon diesel. diesel. Our farmers are hurting.
00:10:18hurting. I'm boring me, he says what
00:10:20what he's going to do it just I have
00:10:22have a lot of faith in the man he
00:10:24he is for our country and for our our veterans and for the people.
00:10:28people. And that is what we need. need. Someone who loves our country
00:10:31country and he loves it more than than anyone. Socialism doesn't work
00:10:34work if it's that big part of it,
00:10:35it, you know? So because a big part
00:10:39part of it too is people need to
00:10:41to be personally responsible. And And regardless of the party, that's
00:10:45that's important. Otherwise we'll we'll never be able to attain what
00:10:48what we won the change. So some voters voters there from Kansas one more
00:10:51more significant development to update update you on the extraordinary twist
00:10:55twist and split in the Democrats Democrats yesterday in the key Senate
00:10:59Senate race in Michigan. Haley Stevens, Stevens, who lost the primary to
00:11:02to be the Democratic candidate, ended ended up endorsing the Republican
00:11:06Republican Mike Rogers instead of of Abdul El-Sayed from her own party
00:11:10party after a bitter spat between between those two, Nada Tawfik is
00:11:13is in Michigan for us. A shock here here in the high profile Michigan
00:11:17Michigan Senate race is rocking the the Democratic Party. Congresswoman
00:11:20Congresswoman Haley Stevens has very very publicly endorsed the Republican
00:11:24Republican Mike Rogers over her own own party's nominee, Abdul El-Sayed,
00:11:27El-Sayed, who she lost to in the the primary. In recent days. She
00:11:30She has gone after him again for for his stance on Israel. In reaction,
00:11:33reaction, El-Sayed, who hopes to to become Michigan's first Muslim
00:11:36Muslim senator, said he wasn't thinking thinking of Haley Stevens. But the
00:11:39the concerns of voters in these final final hours, this last minute stunning
00:11:43stunning break with her party has has been swiftly condemned by Democrats
00:11:46Democrats here, who almost certainly certainly need to hold the state
00:11:49state to have a fighting chance of of retaking the Senate. Many of her
00:11:52her own staffers have resigned, including including her chief of staff, who
00:11:55who said the election was too important important to sow division and Democratic
00:11:59Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said said the party was united against
00:12:03against Mike Rogers, who he called called a tool of Donald Trump. But
00:12:06But this remarkable public feud points points to the deep divisions among
00:12:10among Democrats. Nada Tawfik let's let's take a quick look at Texas.
00:12:13Texas. Always a red state. Our chief chief North America correspondent,
00:12:17correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue is is there for us. This state is shaping
00:12:19shaping up to be one of the most
00:12:21most consequential contests in these these elections. I'm in Texas, where
00:12:25where the battle for a single Senate Senate seat could end up deciding
00:12:29deciding who controls Congress. More More than half $1 billion has been
00:12:33been spent on advertising alone, alone, making it the most expensive
00:12:37expensive non-presidential race in
00:12:38in American history. Democrat James James Talarico and Republican Ken
00:12:42Ken Paxton are in a race that's too
00:12:45too close to call. Democrats haven't
00:12:48haven't won here statewide since
00:12:50since 1994. If they manage it this
00:12:53this time around, it'll be the big big story of the night. Well. That
00:12:57That was Gary O'Donoghue. Now, before before I talk live to Tom Perez,
00:13:00Perez, the former chair of the Democratic Democratic National Committee who
00:13:03who worked for Barack Obama and Joe Joe Biden organising all of those
00:13:07those elections over those years. years. Let me just break down, though.
00:13:09though. First, what Americans are are actually voting for tomorrow.
00:13:12tomorrow. The Republicans have held held both houses of Congress since
00:13:15since Donald Trump retook the White
00:13:17White House in 2020. For all the the seats in the House of Representatives
00:13:21Representatives on Capitol Hill are
00:13:22are up for grabs, along with a little
00:13:25little over a third from the Senate. Senate. Both those chambers in Congress
00:13:29Congress pass laws applicable across across the country, and they can
00:13:32can act as a check on presidential presidential power. So let's talk
00:13:35talk live to Tom Perez. Tom, thank thank you so much for being here here with us. Pleasure to be with
00:13:39with you on the BBC. Summarise then
00:13:41then what is at stake in these elections elections and how optimistic you
00:13:45you are? Well, both houses of Congress Congress are at stake. And right
00:13:49right now, if you look at the polling,
00:13:52polling, President Trump is at historically historically low levels. The last
00:13:56last time a president entered a midterm
00:13:58midterm election this low in, in
00:14:01in popularity, it was Harry Truman
00:14:03Truman in 1950. And so the question
00:14:05question in the House is not whether whether the Democrats will take it.
00:14:08it. It's what the margins will be.
00:14:10be. And my best guess is it's going
00:14:13going to be somewhere between 20
00:14:1420 and 30 seats that will will flip
00:14:17flip in the Senate. What you're reporting
00:14:20reporting that you just had is remarkable remarkable because you had Texas,
00:14:24Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, you're
00:14:27you're not going to the traditional traditional states that you would would go to. And that is because
00:14:30because the issues that are animating animating people are very straightforward. straightforward. It's the economy,
00:14:34economy, stupid. Yes. And it's so so interesting because that's where where Donald Trump has constantly
00:14:38constantly returned to. And those those are ordinarily in his pocket,
00:14:41pocket, but they are in play exactly exactly as you're saying. We'll talk talk more about the races in a second.
00:14:45second. I just want to you saw in
00:14:47in the piece from Michigan the whole whole Haley Stevens endorsement of
00:14:50of a I mean, what is going on there?
00:14:53there? Well, they obviously did not
00:14:55not come together individually after
00:14:57after the election. But what's most
00:15:00most notable is folks understand
00:15:02understand after the primary that
00:15:05that it's important to have a Democrat Democrat in that seat. The New York
00:15:08York Times had a poll that came out
00:15:10out today, actually, or yesterday yesterday showing el-saeed up by
00:15:14by 11. The race is going to be closer. closer. It is. And so the impact
00:15:18impact of that of her standing there there alongside the Republican candidate,
00:15:21candidate, how damaging is that in in a close race? Well, we'll find
00:15:25find out tomorrow. Again, an issue
00:15:28issue that we haven't talked about
00:15:29about in Michigan and in Maine is
00:15:32is Canada. The integration in Michigan,
00:15:36Michigan, Maine and across the United
00:15:38United States, Canada is our friend.
00:15:40friend. And what's happened is Canadians Canadians are not coming into the
00:15:43the United States to spend money. money. That is a big problem. Our
00:15:46Our supply chains are so integrated
00:15:49integrated and the attacks on Canada
00:15:51Canada by this president are having having a real impact in those border
00:15:55border states like Maine and Michigan.
00:15:57Michigan. So the Michigan election election will, like many of these
00:16:00these states, be a close election. election. But I think that El-saeed
00:16:04El-saeed will will win by a single single digit margin, not the double
00:16:08double digit margin. And talk me me through then those other races,
00:16:11races, the territory we were talking talking about, the Texass, the Kansas's,
00:16:15Kansas's, the Alaska. What you think think might happen because they're
00:16:19they're all tight races. They could could go the other way. They could could stay Republican. Well, they're
00:16:22they're all tight races. But what's
00:16:24what's happened in the country right
00:16:26right now is that, again, affordability
00:16:29affordability in Iowa, you talk to to soybean farmers and they've taken
00:16:32taken a huge hit because of tariffs.
00:16:34tariffs. A tariff is a tax and they've
00:16:37they've been just really undermined
00:16:40undermined by that. You look at Texas
00:16:42Texas and Ken Paxton was impeached
00:16:45impeached by his own Republican House House of Representatives. And so
00:16:49so candidate quality does matter. matter. Adam Hamilton in Kansas,
00:16:52Kansas, the pastor of the largest largest church in Kansas, talks about
00:16:56about the return to common decency
00:16:58decency and the one of the big issues issues coming up for all voters,
00:17:02voters, Republicans and Democrats Democrats alike is corruption. Just
00:17:06Just a couple of sentences because because we're short of time and I've
00:17:08I've got a lot still to ask you in in terms of the polling in this country.
00:17:12country. We used to have a phrase phrase of shy Tories, people who who were reluctant to come forward
00:17:16forward and say we would vote conservative. conservative. But then they did.
00:17:18did. The same is true in the States,
00:17:21States, isn't it? Around 2024 Maga Maga because they got it wrong. They're
00:17:25They're polling. Well, polling is
00:17:28is never perfect. And so the only
00:17:30only polling that counts is tomorrow. tomorrow. What I've seen in Texas
00:17:34Texas and I've been out there and
00:17:35and I've gotten to know James Talarico Talarico there's a lot of folks coming
00:17:39coming up to him and it's a variant variant on what you said. And they
00:17:42they say, I don't want your I don't don't want your lawn sign. I don't
00:17:45don't want your bumper sticker. I'm I'm voting for you. So the other
00:17:48other way round. These are loyal
00:17:52loyal Republicans who cannot countenance countenance Ken Paxton. So two, two
00:17:54two final questions because post
00:17:57post these elections, how worried worried are you about any sort of
00:18:00of election interference? We've already already seen numerous court challenges.
00:18:03challenges. We expect more or delayed delayed results or Republicans claiming
00:18:06claiming victory even for the count count is is actually how worried
00:18:09worried are you about that potentially? potentially? Well, there's a very,
00:18:13very, very robust election protection protection apparatus. I used to enforce
00:18:16enforce these laws in the Civil Rights Rights division of the Justice Department.
00:18:20Department. Our elections are remarkably
00:18:21remarkably fair. Remarkably clean,
00:18:24clean, and I hope that the Trump
00:18:27Trump administration and his supporters supporters will acknowledge that
00:18:30that accept that after this election. election. You hope a final minute
00:18:34minute thought, because I've read read a lot over the weekend about
00:18:36about the White House preparing for
00:18:39for perhaps losing both houses but but preparing to actually govern
00:18:42govern and ignoring Congress through through a sort of slew of executive
00:18:46executive orders. Now, the Democrats Democrats and Congress have been
00:18:49been rather impotent over the last last two years. They haven't been
00:18:51been able to rein in the President. President. There is the potential
00:18:54potential that that continues if if that case plays out. Well, when
00:18:58when you control the House and the the Senate, you have the power of
00:19:01of the gavel. You have subpoena power.
00:19:03power. You have the ability to hold hold others accountable. And that's
00:19:07that's what you will see. The American.
00:19:08American. People will see that. Corruption.
00:19:12Corruption. A Fox News poll showed
00:19:13showed that corruption was ahead
00:19:16ahead of costs. It was the top of of the order. But you can't if there
00:19:20there are executive order after executive executive order, whether it's wars,
00:19:23wars, whether it's tariffs, Congress Congress can't stop that. I sure
00:19:26sure hope that President Trump comes comes together. You know, he wrote
00:19:29wrote the book the Art of the deal.
00:19:31deal. The American people want folks folks to work in a bipartisan fashion.
00:19:35fashion. Democrats are ready to do
00:19:36do that. But we also need to hold
00:19:39hold this administration accountable accountable for so many of the actions
00:19:43actions that are hurting people on on health care, hurting people in
00:19:46in the war in Iran, hurting people
00:19:49people in their pocketbook. Tom Perez Perez We have to leave it there. there. But thank you for talking
00:19:53talking to us here on BBC News. We're We're going to take a short break break around the world and across
00:19:57across the UK. You're
00:20:59Carter for Texture Japan from east
00:21:00east to West on BBC News. Welcome
00:21:07Welcome back. Now cyber attacks appear appear to have hit both Ukraine and
00:21:10and Russian apps designed to tell tell people about imminent danger
00:21:13danger with fake warnings of nuclear, nuclear, chemical and other attacks
00:21:16attacks being issued to the public public in both countries. Moscow
00:21:19Moscow said it doesn't know who was was behind those attacks. Ukraine
00:21:23Ukraine said Russia was likely to
00:21:25to blame Joe Inwood has this report.
00:21:28report. There are parts of Ukraine Ukraine where this is still the reality
00:21:32reality of war in the 21st century.
00:21:34century. They call this her son's son's kill zone, an area along the
00:21:38the front lines inaccessible for for most of the war. Until last week,
00:21:42week, a brief humanitarian ceasefire
00:21:44ceasefire that allowed rescue teams teams to get to people who had been
00:21:48been entirely cut off like Natalia.
00:21:52Natalia. You can see my house has has been damaged by drones, she says.
00:21:56says. The 53-year-old is one of a a handful of people who stayed in
00:21:59in the village of Coxsackie. Her Her life has been reduced to basic
00:22:03basic survival drinking rainwater, rainwater, gathering firewood and
00:22:06and staying alive. They've dropped
00:22:11dropped mines everywhere. You can't can't get through. I gather firewood
00:22:14firewood for my stove. I don't hide hide if a drone hovers over me for
00:22:18for too long. I come out holding
00:22:20holding a white cloth. The ceasefire
00:22:25ceasefire has given her some respite,
00:22:27respite, but she knows it is only
00:22:30only temporary. We need silence.
00:22:36silence. We need to talk and negotiate. negotiate. Because war in the 21st
00:22:3921st century is nonsense. And modern modern war is presenting a whole
00:22:43whole new set of challenges for those those fighting it. Warnings of attacks
00:22:46attacks like this are usually sent sent to an app that many Ukrainians
00:22:49Ukrainians use. But last night it
00:22:51it appears to have been hacked, sending
00:22:54sending dire warnings of fighting fighting in the streets of an impending
00:22:57impending chemical weapons attack, attack, even of a nuclear strike.
00:23:01strike. None of it was real. And
00:23:03And on the streets of Kyiv, people
00:23:05people seem to have taken it in their
00:23:09their stride. On the one hand, you
00:23:11you can laugh about it, but on the
00:23:14the other they were able to hack hack the programme, but it did not
00:23:17not trigger the kind of reaction reaction in society that they expected.
00:23:20expected. Speaking at a meeting in in Brussels, the UK's Defence Secretary
00:23:23Secretary warned the hack was part part of a wider threat. We don't
00:23:27don't yet know who. Is behind this
00:23:30this particular cyber attack in Ukraine. Ukraine. We'll follow those developments
00:23:34developments closely. But what we're we're in no doubt about is that right
00:23:36right across Europe we have seen,
00:23:39seen, you know, these hybrid or state
00:23:41state sponsored terrorist attacks attacks driven by Moscow. But it's
00:23:45it's also reported that a similar similar message was sent to Russians,
00:23:48Russians, which apparently read risk risk things could get lively. Don't
00:23:52Don't worry. Nuclear warheads have have been launched at all regions
00:23:55regions of Russia. It's not yet confirmed
00:23:57confirmed who was behind either message message back with the rescue teams
00:24:01teams in Kherson and what was the the most successful ceasefire of
00:24:04of the war has now come to an end.
00:24:06end. The realities of conflict in
00:24:09in the 21st century once again upon
00:24:11upon those who live through it, Joe
00:24:15Joe Inwood, BBC News. Now supermarkets supermarkets across seven European
00:24:19European countries have reported reported problems with their refrigeration refrigeration systems because of
00:24:22of a suspected cyber attack. These
00:24:24These pictures are from the Belgian Belgian supermarket chain Delhaize.
00:24:28Delhaize. The refrigeration systems systems at more than 40 of their
00:24:32their supermarkets were disrupted disrupted by what the company called
00:24:35called an IT incident. The fridge fridge temperatures increased overnight,
00:24:38overnight, spoiling the food inside. inside. Local media says that millions
00:24:41millions of euros of food in Luxembourg Luxembourg has been thrown away.
00:24:44away. Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Netherlands, Estonia and Finland
00:24:48Finland were also affected. Well, Well, our senior technology reporter
00:24:51reporter Shiona McCallum told us us more about the scale of this attack.
00:24:54attack. Well, we now know that six six countries have been affected
00:24:58affected by this hack. You've got got Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden,
00:25:01Sweden, Ireland, Estonia and Finland. Finland. Supermarkets. They're saying
00:25:05saying that it's mainly their fridge fridge freezers that have been affected.
00:25:08affected. And that has caused a lot
00:25:10lot of the units to defrost and leaving
00:25:13leaving a lot of food spoilt. So
00:25:14So workers arriving at work coming
00:25:18coming into a lot of chaos. This This morning we've heard in Belgium
00:25:21Belgium that's the worst affected affected around 40 Delhaize stores
00:25:25stores 15 Carrefour stores in Ireland,
00:25:28Ireland, 13 SuperValu stores and and reports now coming in from Finland
00:25:31Finland as well. This follows last
00:25:34last month when in France we saw
00:25:36saw over 700 stores affected in the the same way. We don't know who's
00:25:39who's behind it, but what we are are seeing is similarities of what
00:25:43what happened in France. And there
00:25:45there we saw that because a lot of
00:25:48of these fridge freezers are now now connected to the internet, there
00:25:51there are vulnerabilities that hackers hackers can exploit. A lot of those
00:25:55those were made by the Danish company
00:25:57company Danfoss. And today we see
00:26:00see those same manufacturers being being involved. So hackers can get
00:26:04get into those vulnerabilities and and they can start tampering with
00:26:07with the system. And of course, changing changing the temperature causes all
00:26:11all sorts of problems. Shiona McCallum McCallum we'll keep an eye on that
00:26:14that story. It is clearly developing. developing. Before we take a break, break, let me show you the latest
00:26:18latest pictures that have come in in to the BBC just in the last few
00:26:21few minutes from Antigua. As the
00:26:23the King continues his final leg leg of his Caribbean tour. He addresses,
00:26:27addresses, of course, Commonwealth Commonwealth leaders tomorrow. So
00:26:30So much focus on the lasting pain
00:26:33pain of the transatlantic slave trade
00:26:35trade and comments he is likely to to make tomorrow. He's already spoken
00:26:39spoken about that on the tour, but but Buckingham Palace already putting
00:26:42putting out a couple of lines in in the last few minutes saying as as head of the Commonwealth, His
00:26:45His Majesty's contribution is best best understood as one of inspiring
00:26:48inspiring and convening rather than than policy making, hemp helping, helping, bringing people together
00:26:52together from both the public and
00:26:54and private sectors across the whole
00:26:58whole family of 56 nations. So those those are the latest comments from
00:27:00from Buckingham Palace. The latest latest pictures from the tour. More
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