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00:00:09Live from London. This is BBC
00:00:12News. Millions prepare to vote on
00:00:14on the eve of Americas crucial midterm
00:00:17midterm elections. Can Donald Trump
00:00:19Trump and the Republicans keep control control of the US Congress? We want
00:00:22want them out. We want them out. out. And I am excited that if we
00:00:26we can flip Kansas, we give
00:00:32Flip Kansas, we give hope to the rest of the country. He says says what he's going to do and just
00:00:35just I have a lot of faith in the the man. We'll get the latest from from our correspondents on the ground
00:00:39ground in some of the key battleground battleground states will also hear hear from the former chair of the the Democratic National Committee.
00:00:43Committee. Our other main headlines headlines the Home Secretary scraps
00:00:45scraps plans for migrant care workers workers already in the UK to wait
00:00:49wait 15 years for permanent settlement.
00:00:52settlement. Cyber attacks on the the emergency warning systems of
00:00:55of both Russia and Ukraine. Residents
00:00:57Residents in Kyiv were sent false
00:01:00false radiation alerts. Supermarkets Supermarkets in seven European countries
00:01:03countries report problems with their
00:01:06their refrigeration systems in a
00:01:08a suspected cyber attack. And the
00:01:10the King will address Commonwealth Commonwealth leaders about the lasting
00:01:14lasting pain of the transatlantic transatlantic slave trade during
00:01:16during the final leg of his Caribbean
00:01:19Caribbean tour. Hello and welcome
00:01:30welcome 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
00:01:40will decide who controls Congress, Congress, the House and the Senate.
00:01:43Senate. Well, these are the live live pictures from Washington and and from Capitol Hill. Democrats
00:01:47Democrats are hoping to take control control of the House of Representatives.
00:01:50Representatives. They also have their their sights on flipping the Senate.
00:01:54Senate. Well, that has big implications implications when it comes to what what Donald Trump will be able to
00:01:58to do in his last two years as president
00:02:01president domestically and on foreign foreign policy. We have correspondents
00:02:04correspondents in most of the key
00:02:06key battleground states Ohio, Iowa,
00:02:09Iowa, Kansas, Texas and Alaska. Remarkably, Remarkably, traditionally Republican
00:02:12Republican states like Texas are are in play for Democrats. Kansas,
00:02:16Kansas, which also could switch, switch, hasn't sent a Democrat to
00:02:19to the Senate since 1932. Well, national
00:02:22national polling for Donald Trump Trump has been terrible. The war
00:02:24war with Iran, the cost of living living corruption, all making this
00:02:28this a tough, tough set of elections elections for Republican candidates.
00:02:31candidates. So let's get out on the the road. Let's go to Ohio and to
00:02:34to Tom Bateman and Tom just set the
00:02:35the scene for us. Well, the last
00:02:40last 24 hours of campaigning on the
00:02:42the campaign trail here in Ohio,
00:02:45Ohio, Matthew, where the Democrats Democrats feel that they could clinch
00:02:48clinch a Senate seat and flip. Crucially,
00:02:51Crucially, a Senate seat from red
00:02:53red to blue. Can they do that in
00:02:57in that time which would as you've you've been saying, try and achieve
00:03:00achieve their objective of making
00:03:02making the Senate a Democratic majority.
00:03:05majority. Now, Ohio was once a swing swing state in the era of Donald
00:03:09Donald Trump. It has been a reliable
00:03:11reliable Republican state. Both the the Senate seats currently in the
00:03:15the hands of the Republicans. The The governor's mansion to most of
00:03:19of the congressional districts for for the House of Representatives
00:03:22Representatives also Republican. Republican. But the opinion polling polling is putting the Democrats
00:03:26Democrats ahead. And so if they can can take this state, they may well
00:03:29well be on course to flip Congress Congress their way. The absolutely
00:03:33absolutely critical issue is going going to be about turnout. Now, in
00:03:37in very rural areas like this, they
00:03:39they are deeply Republican. Donald
00:03:42Donald Trump's party expects to capitalise capitalise on the vote here in the
00:03:46the cities nearby here, Columbus. Columbus. They lean Democratic now,
00:03:50now, we were out last night at one one of the polling stations there,
00:03:53there, speaking to people out in in the early in-person voting and
00:03:56and picked up a sense of the energy
00:03:59energy among voters there. People
00:04:01People are dying. People are starving.
00:04:04starving. They're starving. You don't don't know whether to buy gas or
00:04:08or get a piece of Bologna, a slice
00:04:11slice of bread. I've just been waiting waiting maybe like a little over
00:04:14over an hour. Why was it important important for you to come and vote
00:04:17vote today? Change, change. I'm so so sick of what's going on right
00:04:21right now. It's insane. Prices have
00:04:23have not gone down. Wars have not
00:04:25not stopped. They've continued and
00:04:29and we just have to. We have to work
00:04:32work on taking first steps to get
00:04:35get back to what we you know, we
00:04:38we just need to change. This is not
00:04:39not the right direction. Tom. Fascinating Fascinating listening to those voters.
00:04:43voters. Give me an idea of the big
00:04:44big issues that have been in play.
00:04:47play. Well, as you are hearing, they they are of course, the cost of living,
00:04:50living, the price of gas, petrol petrol and also health care costs
00:04:54costs coming up a lot actually. But
00:04:56But the other big thing in especially especially rural Midwestern states
00:05:00states like this and elsewhere is is the right growing issue of data
00:05:03data centres. Matthew, because Ohio Ohio is one of the places where over
00:05:07over the years it's opened its doors doors to these huge cloud computing
00:05:10computing and artificial intelligence intelligence data centres. One of
00:05:13of those is planned for the field field right behind me here there
00:05:16there is a big company buying up up the land now that has caused a
00:05:19a huge amount of consternation locally
00:05:22locally here. I've been speaking speaking to the farmer who lives
00:05:25lives here. Her family or her husband's husband's family bought this land
00:05:29land back in 1861. Just over this this way. They are desperately trying trying to prevent it and this has
00:05:33has been a huge issue between the
00:05:36the two parties likely to actually actually affect the vote tomorrow.
00:05:38tomorrow. She told me that she traditionally traditionally voted Republican. She
00:05:41She voted for Donald Trump three three times. She is not sure now
00:05:44now how she's going to vote tomorrow. tomorrow. There is a perception that
00:05:48that the Republican candidate for
00:05:50for the Senate, Jon Husted, is somebody somebody who hasn't done enough,
00:05:53enough, in their view, to prevent prevent these data centres. His opponent,
00:05:57opponent, Democrat Sherrod Brown, Brown, saying calling Mr Husted the
00:06:00the face of data centres here in in Ohio. Mr Husted, for his part,
00:06:04part, has said that the Democratic Democratic candidate or the Democrats
00:06:06Democrats actually blocked his plans plans to restrict data centres when
00:06:10when he was working on that in Congress. Congress. Tom, a final thought, because
00:06:13because just in the last few minutes minutes as you were talking, let
00:06:16let me tell you that Donald Trump's Trump's administration has asked
00:06:19asked the. US Supreme Court today
00:06:22today to temporarily block California California from counting mail in
00:06:24in ballots from more than 20,000
00:06:2720,000 registered voters who federal federal officials allege are likely
00:06:30likely non-U.S. Citizens. The firing
00:06:33firing gun has clearly been started
00:06:35started on what could be just a number
00:06:37number of legal challenges, contesting contesting all sorts of things in
00:06:41in these elections. Yeah, absolutely.
00:06:46absolutely. And President Trump throughout throughout the campaign and is a
00:06:49a lot closer to polling day, has
00:06:51has tried to make these allegations allegations of voter fraud. We've
00:06:54We've seen that in California. Also, Also, of course, in Alaska with this
00:06:58this very contentious race, there
00:07:00there is no evidence to suggest the
00:07:02the scope of these claims at all. all. Certainly for the Democrats,
00:07:06Democrats, they are suggesting that that Mr Trump will go down the playbook
00:07:09playbook of 2020. Of course, when
00:07:11when he falsely suggested the presidential presidential election was stolen
00:07:14stolen from him. And I think this this is now setting the stage for
00:07:17for what could be an extremely contentious contentious and acrimonious said
00:07:21said a few days. If those opinion
00:07:22opinion polls turn out to be right.
00:07:25right. In terms of Democrats taking taking critical seats in Congress.
00:07:28Congress. But of course, remember remember on that front, two polls polls have proved to be wrong in
00:07:32in the past and can tend to underestimate
00:07:35underestimate the Republican vote. vote. Tom Bateman with the latest.
00:07:38latest. Thanks very much. Well, let's let's stay on the road. Listen to
00:07:41to some of our other correspondents correspondents out and about across
00:07:45across the US taking the political political pulse. Let's start with with our North America editor, Sarah
00:07:49Sarah Smith. She's in Washington. Washington. Here at the White House.
00:07:53House. There will be watching the the results of these elections very
00:07:56very carefully. Donald Trump will will stay in office whatever happens.
00:07:58happens. But the results will determine determine what he's able to do over
00:08:01over the next two years. If Democrats
00:08:03Democrats win control of the House House of Representatives, they can
00:08:07can try to block many of his actions. actions. They could start to investigate
00:08:10investigate some of his most controversial controversial decisions. They could
00:08:13could even try to impeach him again.
00:08:15again. If Democrats also win the the Senate, then they could try to
00:08:18to pass their own laws and they might might try to force Donald Trump to
00:08:22to end the war with Iran. The President
00:08:25President is not on the ballot, but but his agenda and its implementation
00:08:29implementation very much is. It's
00:08:31It's quite astonishing that a place place like North Carolina could send
00:08:34send a Democrat senator back to Washington
00:08:37Washington for the first time in in almost 20 years. The Republicans
00:08:40Republicans have ruled the roost roost here, but they're in trouble
00:08:44trouble in these elections. Many Many we've spoken to say the economy economy is their big concern, and
00:08:48and the cost of living is simply simply too high. We found a two mile
00:08:52mile long queue of people trying
00:08:54trying to get help from a food bank. bank. Farmers here say they're angry
00:08:58angry about tariffs and trade policy,
00:09:00policy, though some maintain they'll they'll stick with the Republicans.
00:09:03Republicans. The Democrats are confident
00:09:05confident they can win and if they they do, that could spell big trouble
00:09:09trouble in Washington for Donald
00:09:12Donald Trump. A shock here in the the high profile Michigan Senate
00:09:14Senate race is rocking the Democratic Democratic Party. Congresswoman Haley
00:09:18Haley Stevens has very publicly endorsed endorsed the Republican Mike Rogers
00:09:21Rogers over her own party's nominee, nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, who she
00:09:24she lost to in the primary. In recent recent days. She has gone after him
00:09:28him again for his stance on Israel. Israel. In reaction, El-Sayed, who
00:09:31who hopes to become Michigan's first first Muslim senator, said he wasn't
00:09:34wasn't thinking of Haley Stevens Stevens but the concerns of voters
00:09:37voters in these final hours, this this last minute stunning break with
00:09:40with her party has been swiftly condemned condemned by Democrats here, who
00:09:44who almost certainly need to hold hold the state to have a fighting
00:09:47fighting chance of retaking the Senate. Senate. Many of her own staffers
00:09:50staffers have resigned, including including her chief of staff, who
00:09:52who said the election was too important
00:09:54important to sow. Division and Democratic Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said
00:09:58said the party was united against against Mike Rogers, who he called
00:10:01called a tool of Donald Trump. But
00:10:03But this remarkable public feud points
00:10:05points to the deep divisions among
00:10:07among Democrats. This state is shaping shaping up to be one of the most
00:10:11most consequential contests in these these elections. I'm in Texas, where
00:10:15where the battle for a single Senate Senate seat could end up deciding
00:10:18deciding who controls Congress. More
00:10:21More than half $1 billion has been been spent on advertising alone,
00:10:24alone, making it the most expensive
00:10:26expensive non-presidential race in
00:10:29in American history. Democrat James James Talarico and Republican Ken
00:10:32Ken Paxton are in a race that's too
00:10:35too close to call. Democrats haven't
00:10:38haven't won here statewide since
00:10:40since 1994. If they manage it this
00:10:43this time around, it'll be the big
00:10:45big story of the night. Well, fascinating fascinating that assessment on the
00:10:49the ground worth just breaking down down what Americans are actually
00:10:51actually voting for tomorrow. The The Republicans have held both houses
00:10:55houses of Congress since Donald Trump Trump retook the White House back
00:10:58back in 2024. All the seats in the the House of Representatives on Capitol
00:11:01Capitol Hill are up for grabs tomorrow, tomorrow, along with a little over
00:11:05over a third of the Senate. Both Both those chambers in Congress passed
00:11:08passed laws applicable right across across the country, and they can
00:11:12can act as a check on presidential presidential power. Well, Tom Perez
00:11:15Perez is the former chair of the the Democratic National Committee.
00:11:19Committee. This was his assessment assessment about what is at stake stake in these elections. Well, both
00:11:23both houses of Congress are at stake.
00:11:25stake. And right now, if you look
00:11:27look at the polling, President Trump Trump is at historically low levels.
00:11:31levels. The last time a president president entered a midterm election
00:11:35election this low in, in popularity,
00:11:37popularity, it was Harry Truman in
00:11:40in 1950. And so the question in the
00:11:42the House is not whether the Democrats Democrats will take it. It's what
00:11:45what the margins will be. And my
00:11:47my best guess is it's going to be
00:11:50be somewhere between 20 and 30 seats
00:11:52seats that will will flip in the
00:11:55the Senate. What you're reporting
00:11:57reporting that you just had is remarkable remarkable because you had Texas,
00:12:00Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, you're
00:12:03you're not going to the traditional traditional states that you would would go to. And that is because
00:12:07because the issues that are animating animating people are very straightforward. straightforward. It's the economy.
00:12:10economy. Stupid. Yes. And it's so so interesting because that's where where Donald Trump has constantly
00:12:14constantly returned to. And those those are ordinarily in his pocket,
00:12:17pocket, but they are in play exactly exactly as you're saying. And talk
00:12:20talk me through. Then those other other races that the territory we
00:12:23we were talking about the Texas,
00:12:25Texas, the Kansas, the Alaska, what
00:12:28what you think might happen because because they're all tight races. races. They could go the other way.
00:12:32way. They could stay Republican. Republican. Well, they're all tight tight races. But what's happened
00:12:35happened in the country right now
00:12:38now is that again, affordability affordability in Iowa. You talk to
00:12:41to soybean farmers and they've taken taken a huge hit because of tariffs.
00:12:45tariffs. A tariff is a tax and they've
00:12:48they've been just really undermined
00:12:51undermined by that. You look at Texas
00:12:53Texas and Ken Paxton was impeached
00:12:56impeached by his own Republican House House of Representatives. And so
00:12:59so candidate quality does matter. matter. Adam Hamilton in Kansas,
00:13:03Kansas, the pastor of the largest largest church in Kansas, talks about
00:13:07about the return to common decency decency and the one of the big issues
00:13:11issues coming up for all voters,
00:13:13voters, Republicans and Democrats Democrats alike is corruption. Just
00:13:17Just a couple of sentences because because we're short of time and I've
00:13:19I've got a lot still to ask you in
00:13:21in terms of the polling in this country. country. We used to have a phrase
00:13:24phrase of shy Tories, people who who were reluctant to come forward forward and say we would vote conservative.
00:13:28conservative. But then they did. did. The same is true in the States,
00:13:31States, isn't it? Around maca 2020 2020 for Maga because they got it
00:13:35it wrong. The polling. Well, polling
00:13:38polling is never perfect. And so so the only polling that counts is
00:13:42is tomorrow. What I've seen in Texas Texas and I've been out there and
00:13:46and I've gotten to know James Talarico,
00:13:49Talarico, there's a lot of folks folks coming up to him, and it's it's a variant on what you said.
00:13:52said. And they say, I don't want want your I don't want your lawn
00:13:55lawn sign. I don't want your bumper bumper sticker. I'm voting for you.
00:13:58you. The Democrats and Congress have have been rather impotent over the
00:14:01the last two years. They haven't haven't been able to rein in the
00:14:04the President. There is the potential potential that that continues if
00:14:07if that case plays out. Well, when
00:14:09when you control the House and the the Senate, you have the power of
00:14:13of the gavel. You have subpoena power.
00:14:14power. You have the ability to hold hold others accountable. And that's
00:14:18that's what you will see the American American people. You will see that.
00:14:22that. Oh, corruption. A Fox News
00:14:24News poll showed that corruption
00:14:27corruption was ahead of costs. It It was the top of the order. But
00:14:30But you can't if there are executive executive order after executive order,
00:14:33order, whether it's wars, whether whether it's tariffs, Congress can't
00:14:36can't stop that. I sure hope that that President Trump comes together.
00:14:39together. You know, he wrote the the book the Art of the deal. The
00:14:43The American people want folks to to work in a bipartisan fashion.
00:14:46fashion. Democrats are ready to do
00:14:48do that. But we also need to hold
00:14:51hold this administration accountable accountable for so many of the actions
00:14:55actions that are hurting people on on health care, hurting people in
00:14:57in the war in Iran, hurting people
00:15:01people in their pocketbook. That That was Tom Perez talking to me me a little while earlier. Don't
00:15:05Don't forget, live from Washington, Washington, DC, we have the results
00:15:09results programme with Clive Myrie Myrie Sumi Somaskanda and Caitriona
00:15:12Caitriona Perry. It starts tomorrow
00:15:15tomorrow at 11:30pm we're going to to take a short break around the
00:15:18the world and across the UK. You You are
00:16:22right here on BBC News. Welcome back.
00:16:30back. Now cyber attacks appear to to have hit both Ukraine and Russian
00:16:33Russian apps designed to tell people people about imminent danger, with
00:16:37with fake warnings of nuclear and and other attacks being issued to
00:16:39to the public in both countries. countries. Moscow said it didn't
00:16:42didn't know who was behind the cyber cyber attacks. Ukraine said Russia
00:16:45Russia was likely to blame Joe Inwood
00:16:48Inwood has this report. There are
00:16:51are parts. Of Ukraine where this this is still the reality of war
00:16:55war in the 21st century. They call
00:16:57call this her son's kill zone, an
00:17:00an area along the front lines inaccessible inaccessible for most of the war.
00:17:03war. Until last week, a brief humanitarian
00:17:07humanitarian ceasefire that allowed allowed rescue teams to get to people
00:17:09people who had been entirely cut
00:17:12cut off like Natalia. You can see
00:17:14see my house has been damaged by
00:17:17by drones, she says. The 53-year-old 53-year-old is one of a handful of
00:17:20of people who stayed in the village village of Coxsackie. Her life has
00:17:24has been reduced to basic survival
00:17:26survival drinking rainwater, gathering
00:17:28gathering firewood and staying alive.
00:17:32alive. They've dropped mines everywhere. everywhere. You can't get through.
00:17:35through. I gather firewood for my my stove. I don't hide. If a drone
00:17:39drone hovers over me for too long. long. I come out holding a white
00:17:43white cloth. The ceasefire has given
00:17:48given her some respite, but she knows
00:17:50knows it is only temporary. We need
00:17:58need silence. We need to talk and and negotiate. Because war in the
00:18:01the 21st century is nonsense. And And modern war is presenting a whole
00:18:05whole new set of challenges for those those fighting it. Warnings of attacks
00:18:09attacks like this are usually sent sent to an app that many Ukrainians
00:18:12Ukrainians use. But last night it
00:18:14it appears to have been hacked, sending
00:18:16sending dire warnings of fighting fighting in the streets of an impending
00:18:20impending chemical weapons attack, attack, even of a nuclear strike.
00:18:23strike. None of it was real. And
00:18:26And on the streets of Kyiv, people
00:18:28people seem to have taken it in their
00:18:31their stride. On the one hand, you
00:18:34you can laugh about it, but on the the other they were able to hack
00:18:38hack the programme, but it did not not trigger the kind of reaction
00:18:40reaction in society that they expected. expected. Speaking at a meeting in
00:18:44in Brussels, the UKs Defence Secretary Secretary warned the hack was part
00:18:47part of a wider threat. We don't
00:18:50don't yet know who is behind this
00:18:52this particular cyber attack in Ukraine. Ukraine. We'll follow those developments
00:18:55developments closely. But what we're we're in no doubt about is that right
00:18:59right across Europe we have seen,
00:19:02seen, you know, these hybrid or state
00:19:03state sponsored terrorist attacks
00:19:06attacks driven by Moscow. But it's it's also reported that a similar
00:19:09similar message was sent to Russians,
00:19:11Russians, which apparently read risk risk things could get lively. Don't
00:19:14Don't worry. Nuclear warheads have have been launched at all regions
00:19:17regions of Russia. It's not yet confirmed
00:19:20confirmed who was behind either message. message. Back with the rescue teams
00:19:23teams in Kherson and what was the the most successful ceasefire of
00:19:26of the war has now come to an end.
00:19:29end. The realities of conflict in
00:19:31in the 21st century once again upon
00:19:33upon those who live through it. Joe
00:19:36Joe Inwood, BBC News. Let's stay
00:19:39stay with Ukraine and a breaking breaking development. Just in the
00:19:41the last few moments as we were watching watching that because President Zelensky
00:19:45Zelensky has just posted on social
00:19:48social media that 18 people have have died in a Russian bombing of
00:19:51of an aid distribution centre and
00:19:53and a shelter in the Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia region. That is the
00:19:57the post that you currently see on on the screen. That's in southeastern
00:20:01southeastern Ukraine. So a major major Russian strike with Ukraine's
00:20:04Ukraine's president saying it has
00:20:06has killed 18 people. And President President Zelensky saying that was
00:20:10was an aid distribution centre very
00:20:13very early details. That is all we we know at the moment. So we will
00:20:16will keep an eye on that. And as as more comes in, we'll obviously
00:20:20obviously return to that story. Now Now the Home Secretary has unveiled
00:20:23unveiled a major overhaul of the the rules for migrants seeking permanent
00:20:26permanent settlement here in the
00:20:28the UK. Shabana Mahmood has dropped dropped plans to make existing migrant
00:20:32migrant care workers wait up to 15
00:20:3415 years for what's known as settled
00:20:36settled status, after criticism from from within the Labour Party and
00:20:39and the care sector. But under the the new system, many migrants will
00:20:43will still face a longer wait, with with ten years becoming the standard
00:20:46standard route to settlement. Higher Higher earners from see some key
00:20:50key public sector workers and eligible eligible care workers will continue
00:20:54continue to qualify after five years,
00:20:57years, so have a listen. A five year year path will remain open to all
00:21:00all higher earners on salaries of
00:21:04of over £50,000 and those who have have contributed in healthcare and
00:21:07and education in professions like like doctors, nurses and teachers.
00:21:11teachers. For those who make an exceptional exceptional contribution, even faster
00:21:15faster routes are available. The
00:21:16The highest rate taxpayers earning
00:21:19earning over £125,000 will, over
00:21:20over the course of their lifetime,
00:21:24lifetime, contribute £1.5 million. million. This funds the critical critical services that many, including
00:21:27including the poorest in these in in this country, rely upon. So under
00:21:31under these reforms they will be be able to apply for settlement after
00:21:34after three years, as will those those who arrive on our highest talent
00:21:37talent schemes. Everyone else will will be placed on a ten year path,
00:21:41path, including all those earning earning less than £50,000. Settlement
00:21:44Settlement will still be available available to them. They will simply
00:21:47simply have to show a sustained contribution contribution to this country and
00:21:50and they will be able to renew their their existing temporary visas until
00:21:54until that point. Conditionality
00:21:57Conditionality runs both ways. Those Those who commit an immigration breach
00:22:00breach will see settlement pushed pushed back to 20 years, while those
00:22:03those who have claimed benefits must must have had five continuous years
00:22:07years without falling on the state state before they make their application.
00:22:10application. A number of groups will will see their path to settlement
00:22:14settlement remain as today. These These include Hong Kong British nationals
00:22:18nationals overseas members of our our armed forces, those with a British
00:22:22British connection and those on legacy legacy routes such as Windrush. So
00:22:25So that was the Home Secretary. Let's Let's go to Westminster and our political
00:22:29political correspondent Jack Fenwick. Fenwick. So Jack, the Home Secretary
00:22:31Secretary has backtracked from the the original position. So tell us
00:22:34us more about those key changes. changes. That's right. While the
00:22:37the broad principle of changing most most people's settlement routes from
00:22:41from 5 to 10 years is still happening, happening, this announcement has
00:22:45has changed compared to the plans plans that were announced last year
00:22:47year by the Home Secretary, Shabana Shabana Mahmood. The biggest change
00:22:51change is around social care workers. workers. Under the original plans,
00:22:53plans, many social care workers would
00:22:55would have to wait 15 years before
00:22:58before they were eligible for settlement. settlement. That has now changed.
00:23:01changed. So for social care workers workers who came to the UK before
00:23:05before May 2025 and earn at least least £25,000, they will now be able
00:23:09able to qualify for settlement over
00:23:12over a five year period for other other social care workers. Outside
00:23:16Outside of those requirements, it it will be the standard ten which
00:23:19which is being introduced today. today. Now the rules also count for for social care workers dependants
00:23:23dependants as well. So what does does all of this mean? Well I'm told
00:23:26told that under the plans announced
00:23:28announced last year it would have
00:23:31have meant 799,000 people had their their settlement eligibility delayed
00:23:35delayed under the plans announced
00:23:37announced today, that number has
00:23:40has dropped to 517,000. So 282,000
00:23:43282,000 people who would otherwise otherwise have had that eligibility
00:23:46eligibility delayed today are being being told, actually you will qualify
00:23:49qualify after five years. And what what has been the reaction? There
00:23:53There was unhappiness in certain certain quarters within Labour with
00:23:57with the original announcement. Un-British,
00:23:59Un-British, I think was how it was
00:24:01was famously described by one of of the senior MPs. So how has it
00:24:05it gone down and how has it gone gone down with the other opposition opposition parties? So the reason
00:24:09reason these plans are different different to the ones announced last
00:24:11last year is because a sizeable chunk
00:24:13chunk of Labour MPs, including senior senior figures such as the housing
00:24:17housing secretary, Angela Rayner, Rayner, weren't very happy. Now there there were two things they weren't
00:24:20weren't very happy about in the main main one were those social care worker
00:24:23worker rules. The other was the fact fact that this was working retrospectively,
00:24:27retrospectively, that people who who came to the UK expecting to qualify
00:24:29qualify for settlement after five five years would now have to wait
00:24:33wait longer. Now, of course, as I've I've just been explaining, those those social care changes have now
00:24:36now been watered down, so I doubt doubt we'll get any Labour MPs being
00:24:40being annoyed about that. But the the retrospective nature is still
00:24:42still there. That's the thing that that people inside the Home Office Office will be looking out for to
00:24:46to see if Labour MPs criticise now now the early evidence from the House
00:24:50House of Commons is that actually actually that anger doesn't seem seem to be there. Some backbench
00:24:53backbench Labour MPs who you might might expect to be critical, have
00:24:56have sort of pulled their punches. punches. The opposition again, as
00:25:00as you would expect, are saying this this is a huge U-turn and that Shabana
00:25:03Shabana Mahmood has let down the the people who supported those initial
00:25:06initial proposals. Jack, thanks very very much for the latest. Now supermarkets
00:25:10supermarkets across seven European European countries have reported reported problems with their refrigeration
00:25:14refrigeration systems because of of a suspected cyber attack. These These pictures are from a Belgian
00:25:18Belgian supermarket chain. The refrigeration refrigeration systems at more than
00:25:21than 40 of their supermarkets were were disrupted by what they call
00:25:24call it problems. The fridge temperatures temperatures increased overnight,
00:25:27overnight, spoiling the food inside. inside. Local media say millions
00:25:30millions of euros of food in Luxembourg Luxembourg had to be thrown away.
00:25:33away. Sweden, Ireland, Netherlands, Netherlands, Estonia and Finland
00:25:36Finland also affected. Now do stay stay with us because here in the
00:25:40the next half hour we'll have more more coverage of King Charles's visit
00:25:44visit to Antigua as he continues continues his tour of the Caribbean
00:25:47Caribbean tomorrow. Of course, he he addresses Commonwealth leaders leaders at their summit, where he's
00:25:51he's expected to acknowledge the the legacy of the transatlantic slave
00:25:54slave trade. Andy Burnham, also due due to arrive there for that meeting,
00:25:58meeting, has indicated he was open open to a formal apology on the issue.
00:26:02issue. More on that and our headlines headlines here in a
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00:30:16News. The headlines. Well Sudan filed filed complaints with the United
00:30:20United Nations and the African Union Union accusing Ethiopia of allowing
00:30:24allowing the paramilitary Rapid Support
00:30:26Support Forces to launch drone strikes strikes from its territory. What
00:30:30What the RSS is attempting to do, do, especially as it concerns staff,
00:30:33staff, is trying to raise the costs costs of governance within a SAF
00:30:37SAF controlled territories without without actually needing to take
00:30:39take them. Meanwhile, has life become become safer for citizens since the
00:30:43the coups in Mali, Burkina Faso and
00:30:45and Niger? Well, Sudanese-british Sudanese-british billionaire businessman
00:30:48businessman and philanthropist Mo
00:30:50Mo Ibrahim says the evidence suggests
00:30:53suggests otherwise. We see major
00:30:57major deterioration in security rule rule of law and