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00:00:00There when the story breaks. BBC
00:00:04of news. Welcome back to BBC News. Let's get more on the
00:00:08US mid-term elections, which is a day away. Let me show you the live
00:00:12pictures. First of all, from Washington, Capital Hill. Tomorrow, millions of
00:00:16voters across the country will determine the balance of power in
00:00:20Congress. Well, Roz Atkins
00:00:21in explains just why these midterm elections are so
00:00:24important. Let's remind ourselves of what's at stake. The
00:00:28midterms are all about who controls. the two houses of congress, the house of
00:00:31representatives and the Senate. This matters because it's the part
00:00:35of the US government that
00:00:36of makes laws for the country as a whole on everything from
00:00:40of immigration to taxes to defense. And right now, both houses
00:00:44are controlled by the Republicans, as you can see, which is very helpful to
00:00:47President Trump. Now, the House of Representatives is where proposed laws are
00:00:51introduced and debated. Each state gets number of seats
00:00:55proportionate to its population. Members serve two-year terms,
00:00:58which means that all
00:01:00of the seats in the house are up for grabs in this election, there are
00:01:03435
00:01:05of them, so to control the house, a party needs at least
00:01:08218, and according to the polls, the Republicans may have
00:01:12their work cut out holding to the House of Representatives. Then
00:01:16there's the Senate, one of its main jobs is to approve or
00:01:19reject those laws proposed by the House. Each state has
00:01:23two senators, so there are 100 in total. They serve
00:01:27six-year terms every two years, roughly. a third of senate seats
00:01:31are contested, so it's 35 this year, to control the senate
00:01:35a party needs 51 or more, though if
00:01:39it's 50/50, the vice president can cast the deciding vote,
00:01:42so that favors the Republicans at the moment, so there is lot
00:01:46at stake, and who controls Congress is not just relevant to
00:01:50the laws that get made for America as a whole, of course it's also relevant to
00:01:54whoever is president, as a Donald Trump goes into the last two years of his
00:01:58presidency, well... "when voters are making their choices in this election, of
00:02:02course they're telling us something about what they think
00:02:04of the two main parties, but they're also telling us something about what they
00:02:08think
00:02:09of their president. well, that was Roz Atkins, that's the backdrop,
00:02:13but when can we expect the results to actually come in?
00:02:16of Katrina Perry has been looking at that. when will we know the outcome
00:02:20of the U.S. mid-term elections? well, there's no easy answer to that. we won't get
00:02:24any results until the polls start closing, beginning at 6 p.m.
00:02:27eastern, 11 pm in the UK. even then it may take some
00:02:31time. the results in areas where one party is dominant could come in
00:02:35quite quickly and that may
00:02:36of give us a sense of any swing
00:02:38of against
00:02:38in President Trump's Republican Party. but unlike a presidential election, this time
00:02:42it's about which party will be in control
00:02:44of the house of representatives and the senate, so we're not waiting on the outcome
00:02:48of a single person, but rather the whole team, and only then will we
00:02:52know who's in control of Congress. now for races that are close, it could take days
00:02:56or even weeks to count the votes, but it's completely normal. the... fast
00:03:00polls don't close until it's evening time in Alaska which is 1
00:03:04am here on the east coast Wednesday morning 6 am in the
00:03:07UK
00:03:08of and indeed this year that could be one
00:03:10of the seats we're waiting on that will decide the balance of power in the
00:03:14Senate. Katrina Perry, you can watch a special program here on
00:03:18BBC News bring you all the results
00:03:20of these mid-terms as they actually happen. It's live from Washington with Clive
00:03:24May with Sumi, Soma Skander and Katrina Perry. It's tomorrow
00:03:28and it starts at 11. 30
00:03:30p.m. now history was
00:03:34made in Mexico last night as the Italian driver Kimmy Antonelli
00:03:38became Formula One's youngest ever world champion. The
00:03:4120-year-old
00:03:42in has won nine races this season and a third place in yesterday's
00:03:46in Mexico City Grand Prix was enough to scure him that title. Well, Formula
00:03:501 has released this video of Antonelli talking about his
00:03:53victory. It's incredible. It's a dream that I've had since
00:03:57I was since I was kid and to finally achieve. is uh is
00:04:01really special and this uh this has to be new starting
00:04:05point as well for me you know is uh this is has to be just the beginning
00:04:09and i feel like is is new starting point for
00:04:12you know from where i can build again and come back even
00:04:15stronger i already started to get emotional in the in the
00:04:19last lap and uh yeah just lot of
00:04:22memories uh going through the mine and uh
00:04:26you know when i finally crossed the finish line i just let it all loud because
00:04:30"you know it's been an incredible year um
00:04:35of and you know so much work, so much effort and
00:04:38of to to achieve this goal and finally achieving it has been a
00:04:42big relief as well and uh of course
00:04:45also you know i felt incredible
00:04:48and uh that's why i felt like letting it all loud
00:04:52of because
00:04:52of it was the moment to do so and uh definitely will is memory
00:04:56that we live forever well christian hug a presenter and host
00:04:59of of the podcast" the fast and the curious and f1 explains shared his
00:05:03thoughts on Antonelli's achievements and he's not long turn 20 years
00:05:06of age for most of his championship winning year, he was teenager, he was 19 and
00:05:10you think back to
00:05:11of the of previous..." "youngest ever formula one world champion Sebastian
00:05:15Vettle, when he won his first title, he was 23, so
00:05:19he's not just beating this record, he's absolutely smashed it, and the
00:05:23significance is enormous, because this is a driver
00:05:27who few years ago, more casual Formula One fans wouldn't even heard
00:05:31of, let alone think he'd be winning the championship a few years
00:05:34time, his his task was enormous, replacing the
00:05:38great Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes when he shot the world to go to Ferrari."
00:05:42"last year was his first year and everybody was thinking, how is
00:05:46this comparative child going to do in this huge
00:05:50team and and actually at various points the season it looked like he was struggling with that
00:05:54pressure, but in my time covering the sport and even my time watching the
00:05:58sport as a fan, i've never seen anybody make such a
00:06:01big jump in performance from one season to the next, because last year
00:06:05it looked like he was struggling at times, whereas this year he
00:06:09has just been phenomenal and has dismantled his opposition." so it's it's
00:06:13a truly historic Formula One World Championship victory, it
00:06:16really is, well a really incredible
00:06:20achievement. I'm back with the latest on all our main stories here in
00:06:2310 minutes time. Say with
00:06:25us!
00:06:54I'm heading to CCOM, which launched Africa's first private
00:06:58subsea fiber optic cable in
00:06:592009,
00:07:03headquartered in Mauritius with hubs across southern in eastern
00:07:07Africa, it connects millions to the web.
00:07:11Now CCOM is planning. a $2 billion dollar cable connecting
00:07:14Africa to not just Europe but
00:07:16Asia.
00:07:20What is the opportunity you're seeing in Africa's digital economy that gives
00:07:24you the confidence to make such a large investment? So if you just take
00:07:28map the subsea connectivity throughout the world, what you
00:07:32will find is between sort of Europe and North America lots of
00:07:36connectivity, but if you just blow that map up and look at the Indian Ocean
00:07:39bason, you'll find it's fairly devoid of connectivity. and very
00:07:43little sub-sea uh cables in that area, so the
00:07:47opportunity here is to really connect Africa to the rest the world
00:07:51a meaningful way, with high speed connectivity,
00:07:55and it's a really ambitious project, but I think vitally needed for the
00:07:58African continent. While
00:08:02hyperscalers like Google and Meta build cables to push content
00:08:05into Africa, Secom operates an open network
00:08:09designed to connect African businesses out to... global
00:08:12opportunities, do you find that to be key
00:08:16component for success being able to own and
00:08:19control more the value chain? why is it important to have that
00:08:23autonomy? what hyperscales are doing today is exactly that,
00:08:26they've realized that outsourcing all of this doesn't allow them to control their own
00:08:30destiny. the reason they're rolling out these cable infrastructures is so they can drive
00:08:34down the cost for their connectivity, which is exactly the same model we've been
00:08:37using since 2009 or before that. and how does
00:08:41AI affect? what you're able to
00:08:44provide and what you need to provide in terms of how the demand is
00:08:48going to grow or change? what you are going to find is that
00:08:52AI will drive high speed connectivity a very
00:08:55elastic way, so not what we typically have a
00:08:59home today, but now you're looking at tens or hundreds of gigabits of
00:09:02capacity. if you look at the cables that exist today, that
00:09:05technology won't run on those older cables, so we building newer cable with
00:09:09newer technology that allows us to have. of high speed
00:09:13connectivity.
00:09:17To compete globally, African businesses need massive AI
00:09:21bandwidth, but transferring that data brings
00:09:24risks. How are you thinking about the
00:09:27cyber security threats? That for
00:09:31us is an ongoing sort of consideration. What we starting to look
00:09:35at now, and this is a proper tongue twister, post quantum
00:09:39cryptography, so we're using quantum physics or we start to... use quantum
00:09:43physics to encrypt data, cyber criminals will continue to be
00:09:46there and all these threat actors will continue to be there, it's about being one step ahead
00:09:50them. looking to the future, you've got this
00:09:54big project that should come online in
00:09:572030, what do you hope that project will
00:10:01achieve? i think it will go part
00:10:04the way to unleash the African continent. for many many years i
00:10:08said connectivity should be considered as an essential
00:10:11service. to electricity and water, if you start to look
00:10:15at it like that, you will then start to understand that this has become the
00:10:19lifeline for many things people can't do, having pieces of
00:10:23connectivity all over the continent, a growing population that's starting to use
00:10:27technology and adopting technology much faster than most the world,
00:10:31that's where the opportunity start to come on board and that's what it comes down
00:10:34to
00:10:54hello there. Let's take a look at North America to begin with, and there's plenty to
00:10:58talk about here as we see a frontal system moving its way out the
00:11:01rockies, it's going to bring some pretty heavy rain, possibility of
00:11:05some damaging gusts of wind, some tornadic activity as well, now it'll
00:11:09split into two with some of it moving up into eastern Canada, this trailing
00:11:13front bringing heavy rain into Texas, Louisiana as
00:11:17well, behind it a little quieter, a quite a story for Mexico
00:11:21in comparison to of late, we have seen some pretty heavy showers across the carib.
00:11:25and they will continue so lightly few and further between across
00:11:28Haiti and the Dominican Republic, some heavy rain to come across parts
00:11:32of Costa Rica and Nicaragua and also some heavier rain across
00:11:36parts of Colombia and into Peru, also pretty wet across
00:11:40northern Argentina into southern Brazil a across
00:11:44Uruguay to to the south of that it's a little quieter but still quite
00:11:48windy and we've got a storm, this is Agnita continues to
00:11:52track its way by Tuesday across parts of Greece
00:11:55and that could enhance the flooding issues that we've already seen, some sharper
00:11:59showers moving their way across the balliarics as well, to the north
00:12:03of that it's cooler with a cold northerly wind across Scandinavia
00:12:07and Baltic states. Now the Agnita could produce
00:12:11some showers across Morocco, across Algeria and
00:12:14also into Tunisia. We'll see some lifted dust some poor
00:12:18visibility here, some sharper showers through the east of South Africa,
00:12:22but quietening down a little later on. Across the Middle East, it's largely
00:12:26fine and quiet, showers are easing away closing towards the Caspian and perhaps
00:12:30into North Iran, but elsewhere it's a quiet story, this is
00:12:33Storm Murasu making landfall across Andhra Pradesh
00:12:37bringing a lot of heavy rain as this system continues to track
00:12:41its wayuh northwest across India in the coming
00:12:45days. Now over into Asia, this is Storm Infa,
00:12:49it will brush to the south of Japan, but we're not too
00:12:52concerned about it, some heavier showers out... moment across central China
00:12:56moving over to Shanghai, to the south of that it's
00:13:00sunny spells and heat the day showers, business as usual,
00:13:04and then finally over into Australia and New Zealand, got some pretty intense showers
00:13:08along that Queensland coast, little bit cooler behind it across
00:13:12parts of New South Wales and Victoria. Into New Zealand, we have
00:13:15got this moist flow bringing some pretty intense showery
00:13:19rain across the South Island in the coming
00:13:22days.
00:13:29what new industries are created cuz what we've seen throughout history is new
00:13:32industries are created and it's that process that actually opens new
00:13:36doors. that was the that was the mandate from prime minister
00:13:40stomer. he wants the UK to be an AI superpower. he
00:13:43recognizes that the ingredients are all right here.
00:13:47put the customer at the center of everything we do. i really think that's how the
00:13:51company started uh, but i think we lost our focus. because we got a
00:13:55little too distracted on efficiency and
00:13:59technology, AI is real,
00:14:03AI in total pay off, just like cars in total pay off, tv
00:14:07in total pay off, but most people involved it didn't do well. it's a
00:14:10revolutionary, you know, time upon us, and and i
00:14:14think all in the streets will be adopting AI in some shape or
00:14:17form.
00:15:06Live from London, this is BBC News. Millions
00:15:10prepared to vote on the eve of America's crucial mid-term elections,
00:15:14can Donald Trump and the Republicans keep control the US
00:15:17Congress? We want them out, we want them out, and I am
00:15:21excited that if we can flip Kansas, we give hope to the rest the country.
00:15:25He says what he's going to do, and just I have lot of faith in the
00:15:28man. We'll get the latest from our correspondents on the ground in some
00:15:32the key battleground states. We'll also hear from the former chair the
00:15:36Democratic. national committee: our other main headlines: the home
00:15:40secretary scraps plans for migrant care workers already in the UK
00:15:44to wait 15 years for permanent
00:15:47settlement. cyber attacks on the emergency
00:15:50warning systems of both Russia and Ukraine, residents in Keeve were
00:15:54sent false radiation alerts. supermarkets
00:15:58in seven European