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00:00:18These are the latest headlines from BBC News. Millions prepare to
00:00:21to vote on the eve of Americas crucial
00:00:24crucial midterm elections. Can Donald Donald Trump and the Republicans
00:00:27Republicans keep control of the US US Congress as Democrats look to
00:00:29to flip the House of Representatives Representatives and the Senate? Ukraine
00:00:33Ukraine and Russia's emergency alert alert apps are both hit by cyber
00:00:37cyber attacks, with users alerted alerted of nuclear and other threats.
00:00:40threats. Meanwhile, Ukraines president president says Russian forces have
00:00:43have bombed a village in the southeastern southeastern Zaporizhzhia region,
00:00:47region, killing 24 people and injuring injuring five. A business jet crashes
00:00:51crashes in a neighbourhood in Florida, Florida, killing all nine people
00:00:54people on board. Supermarkets and
00:00:56and seven European countries report report problems with their refrigeration
00:01:00refrigeration systems in a suspected suspected cyber attack. The Home
00:01:03Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, Mahmood, scraps plans for migrant migrant care workers already in the
00:01:07the UK to wait 15 years for permanent
00:01:09permanent settlement. King Charles Charles will address Commonwealth
00:01:13Commonwealth leaders about the lasting lasting pain of the transatlantic transatlantic slave trade during
00:01:16during the final leg of his Caribbean
00:01:19Caribbean tour in Antigua. Let's
00:01:27Let's cross live now to President President Trump, who is giving his
00:01:30his final address ahead of those those crucial midterm elections tomorrow.
00:01:33tomorrow. Let's listen in. Voted Voted in the last election where
00:01:36where we had such a great victory.
00:01:38victory. If they go out and vote vote just a good portion of them,
00:01:42them, we will win in a landslide. landslide. Now that doesn't happen
00:01:45happen because usually whoever the
00:01:48the sitting president is Republican
00:01:50Republican or Democrat, good or bad,
00:01:52bad, good president, great president,
00:01:54president, bad. For some reason the the sitting president doesn't win
00:01:58win the midterms. But we gave this
00:02:01this a very strong shot. So in terms
00:02:05terms of things, we have the most most secure border in our history.
00:02:08history. We have the largest tax
00:02:10tax cuts in our history. We stopped
00:02:13stopped foreign fraudsters and welfare
00:02:16welfare amnesty for illegals. And And we were able to catch billions
00:02:19billions and billions of Democrat
00:02:21Democrat approved fraud in Minnesota
00:02:23Minnesota and other places. And that's that's just beginning. We're going
00:02:26going to catch hundreds of billions. billions. We've already got tens
00:02:29tens of billions. We actually already
00:02:32already have over 100 billion. It's It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
00:02:35barrel. So corrupt. A lot of states,
00:02:39states, Maine, Minnesota many, many
00:02:42many states mostly, I will say mostly
00:02:45mostly run by Democrats. Low cost
00:02:47cost energy versus the green new new scam and record inflation. That's
00:02:51That's what they had. They have re
00:02:55re they had literally record inflation inflation the highest prices in history,
00:02:58history, the highest inflation in in history. They had the green new
00:03:01new scam where everybody was going
00:03:03going to be dead in 12 years. And
00:03:06And here we are. Here we are. We're We're not dead. We're a long way
00:03:10way from dead. And we had an expression expression drill, baby, drill. And
00:03:13And that's what's happened. And we're we're making an absolute fortune
00:03:17fortune in our country again, more
00:03:20more than Saudi Arabia and Russia.
00:03:23Russia. They're the second and third.
00:03:24third. We would be if I were president,
00:03:28president, we would be in no place.
00:03:29place. And now we're in first place
00:03:32place and we have no nuclear weapons weapons for Iran. We're not going
00:03:36going to allow Iran ever to have have a nuclear weapon. And they understand
00:03:39understand that they've understood understood that. And they've said
00:03:42said it even recently. We will not not have a nuclear weapon and we
00:03:46we want to protect our Second Amendment, Amendment, and we're not going to
00:03:50to let you we're not going to let
00:03:51let these people do anything to disturb
00:03:55disturb the Second Amendment of our our country. It's very important important thing. And we're going
00:03:58going to protect our children from
00:04:02from the transgender sexual violations,
00:04:05violations, the horrible treatment treatment that they've gotten. So
00:04:07So I just want to say that we're
00:04:10we're very proud of what's behind behind me, but we're much even more
00:04:13more proud of all the statues that that we've done all over Washington
00:04:17Washington and even more proud than
00:04:18than that of having stopped crime
00:04:21crime in Washington. And the police police have been unbelievable. The
00:04:25The you guys have done a great job.
00:04:29job. Once you had a little leadership, leadership, it was sort of easy, easy, wasn't it? But you've done
00:04:32done a great job. We let you do your your job. Nobody does it better.
00:04:35better. That goes for New York too. too. You know, New York, if they
00:04:38they would call us if Chicago or
00:04:40or Illinois would call us and if
00:04:43if California, namely Los Angeles, Angeles, would call us, we would would love to go there. We would
00:04:47would solve the problem we did in in Memphis, Tennessee. They had the
00:04:50the worst crime rate in the whole
00:04:51whole country. And it's down 83%. 83%. And a friend of mine who was
00:04:55was leaving Memphis is going to stay stay now, he said. I've never seen seen anything like it. The difference
00:04:59difference between now and one year year ago, the. They have to ask the
00:05:03the governor and the mayor called
00:05:04called and they asked New Orleans,
00:05:08Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans, Orleans, as they call it. The crime
00:05:10crime rate was out of control. I
00:05:12I got a call from Jeff Landry, the
00:05:15the governor of Louisiana. He said,
00:05:18said, please, we have a big event event coming up. We have our biggest
00:05:21biggest event coming up. And he said, said, it's a crime haven. So many
00:05:25many people are being killed. They They have Mardi Gras. And they said,
00:05:29said, could you please help us? This
00:05:31This was six, seven months ago. We
00:05:33We did crime rates down 82%. So think
00:05:36think of it Memphis and New Orleans.
00:05:40Orleans. But more importantly, I I mean, from my standpoint, Washington,
00:05:43Washington, DC, our great capital capital has to be crime free. And
00:05:47And it is now just about crime free. free. Soon it will be crime free.
00:05:50free. And it's also a beautiful place.
00:05:53place. And the beauty is very important. important. But without the great
00:05:57great stats that I gave you on crime, crime, it all wouldn't matter. So
00:05:59So we're not calling people now from from Iowa to tell them that their
00:06:03their son has been killed. He'll
00:06:04He'll be coming home in a casket.
00:06:08casket. Somebody from Indiana, family family from Indiana. I'm sorry to
00:06:11to inform you, but your son was standing
00:06:15standing at the base of a very beautiful beautiful monument, and he was killed
00:06:19killed instantly. And he'll be coming
00:06:20coming home to you in a coffin. We
00:06:23We don't do that any more. We have have a safe city. And if people do
00:06:27do things that are wrong, we've removed
00:06:30removed over 5000 career criminals. criminals. We've removed them. They're
00:06:32They're out of here. And you know, know, one stat. I'll just leave this
00:06:36this with you on crime. 2% of the
00:06:40the people create 91% of the crime.
00:06:43crime. So we can handle those numbers.
00:06:46numbers. It was 50% or 20% or 10%,
00:06:5010%, 2% create 90%, 91% of the crime.
00:06:53crime. And we've removed those 2%
00:06:552% from Memphis and we removed them
00:06:58them from New Orleans. And we really
00:07:01really removed them from Washington. Washington. So I just want to thank
00:07:05thank everybody. Reflecting pool pool is great. It's a beautiful,
00:07:08beautiful, beautiful thing to watch. watch. And it's been again, 1922.
00:07:121922. I'm not blaming anybody. It's It's 1922. It's never worked the
00:07:15the way it should. And now it's a a beautiful reflection. The pipes
00:07:19pipes have just been changed. The The whole thing is in great shape.
00:07:22shape. And we're going to make sure sure nobody vandalises it. And I'm
00:07:25I'm going to ask the park police police and the people to really watch
00:07:28watch because a lot of people were were sort of watching as this group
00:07:31group of people slashed the hell hell out of it. And I think they
00:07:35they were a little bit like it was
00:07:37was a weird feeling came upon them
00:07:41them and they didn't get it. But But we learned a lot. We learned
00:07:44learned a lot. So I just want to to thank everybody you've all done done and in particular, I'd like
00:07:47like to thank Doug Burgum. What a a job you're doing. You're a real
00:07:50real leader. Would you like to say
00:07:52say a few words, Doug, please. Well,
00:08:02Well, there we have the President
00:08:03President addressing some of the
00:08:06the issues ahead of those midterms. midterms. A little bit earlier, after
00:08:09after spending about 25 minutes talking
00:08:13talking about renovation and the the reflective pool behind him, he
00:08:15he talked a little bit about Democratic Democratic candidates. He talked
00:08:18talked about the Democrat Party nominating nominating the most extreme and dangerous
00:08:22dangerous slate of candidates in in American history. He went on to
00:08:25to accuse the Democrats of pursuing
00:08:27pursuing what he called a radical radical agenda and dangerous ideologies.
00:08:31ideologies. He also talked a lot
00:08:33lot about his record during his second
00:08:35second term, and talked about keeping keeping every single promise that
00:08:38that he made. Well, let's cross live live now once again to our White
00:08:41White House reporter Bernd Debusmann, Debusmann, who is also listening listening in on that. It took him
00:08:45him a while to warm up and actually actually address the midterms. When
00:08:49When he did, he talked in quite a a lot of detail about what he thinks
00:08:52thinks his administration has achieved achieved so far. But American politics
00:08:55politics is a funny thing, isn't isn't it? And I think that people people watching around America will
00:08:59will be more focused on their everyday everyday lives and the dollar in
00:09:03in their pocket, rather than talking talking about achievements that President
00:09:06President Trump has addressed this
00:09:09this evening. It certainly and I
00:09:11I think President Trump made midterms midterms kind of the secondary part
00:09:14part of his speech versus the reflecting reflecting pool on the various construction
00:09:18construction projects, which I think think many Republican strategists
00:09:21strategists will wonder why the midterms
00:09:24midterms weren't really the core core of this speech. And when he
00:09:28he did speak, he spoke in kind of of generalities that he tends to
00:09:32to mention quite often the level level of foreign investment into
00:09:35into this country, the taxes, for
00:09:37for example, that he thinks and claims
00:09:40claims his administration has improved improved the lot of Americans across
00:09:44across the country. But the fact fact is that that's not reflective
00:09:47reflective of where public opinion opinion currently stands. Polls show
00:09:51show that many Americans disapprove disapprove of how he's handled the
00:09:53the economy. When he speaks about
00:09:55about oil being shipped from Venezuela,
00:09:58Venezuela, I think in polls show show that that rings slightly hollow
00:10:02hollow to many Americans who are
00:10:03are still paying in some cases over
00:10:06over $5 at the petrol pump. So I
00:10:09I think he's ultimately said very
00:10:11very little. That was new in most most of the campaign rallies he's
00:10:15he's been in the last few weeks. weeks. He's kind of gone to those
00:10:17those same topics and framed this
00:10:19this as a choice between kind of
00:10:22of extreme fringe candidates on the the left and Republicans. But that's
00:10:25that's not particularly a message message that has so far really landed
00:10:29landed with the average American American voter. Now we know there
00:10:32there are 435 seats in the House House up for grabs, seats in the
00:10:36the Senate as well. There are expectations, expectations, aren't there? High
00:10:39High expectations from the Democrats? Democrats? I wonder if we can reflect
00:10:42reflect a little bit about what would
00:10:45would happen if those expectations
00:10:48expectations weren't met. Well, I I think that would certainly be a
00:10:51a defeat for the Democrats, many many of whom have kind of been working
00:10:55working almost under the assumption assumption that at the very least,
00:10:57least, the House would flip over over to the Democrats and it would
00:11:01would also call into question some some of the polling. I mean, some
00:11:04some of the polling in these very very hotly contested Senate races
00:11:07races in places like Michigan, Texas
00:11:10Texas has suggested that Democrats Democrats were kind of pulling slightly
00:11:14slightly ahead in the waning days days of the campaign. I think many
00:11:17many Democrats on Capitol Hill had had already been kind of planning.
00:11:21planning. And I've spoken to Democrats Democrats on Capitol Hill that were
00:11:23were already kind of looking at the the day after in the assumption that
00:11:27that they'll be in a position to
00:11:29to issue subpoenas, for example, example, and investigate things that
00:11:33that they think have been carried carried out incorrectly or in some
00:11:37some cases they allege illegally illegally by the Trump administration,
00:11:40administration, whether that be these these sort of construction projects
00:11:43projects that President Trump has has ordered immigration enforcement.
00:11:46enforcement. And I think many of of those people are already working
00:11:49working under the assumption that that victory will allow that to happen.
00:11:52happen. So if that were to happen,
00:11:54happen, I think many Democrats would would be would question how they
00:11:57they got the polls. So wrong band. band. OK, well, it's been great to
00:12:01to talk to you, Bernd Debusmann thank thank you very much indeed for taking
00:12:04taking the time to spend with us us this evening watching President
00:12:07President Trump. Well, you can watch watch a special programme here on on BBC News. It's going to bring
00:12:11bring you all the results of the the US midterm elections as they
00:12:14they happen. That's live from Washington,
00:12:17Washington, DC with Clive Myrie Sumi Sumi Somaskanda and Caitriona Perry.
00:12:20Perry. It starts tomorrow at 11:30pm
00:12:2511:30pm UK time. Short break now now around
00:13:27in our bio data. Join me. Paul Carter Carter for Explore Japan from east
00:13:31east to West on BBC News. To Ukraine
00:13:40Ukraine now where we've been hearing hearing that at least 24 people have
00:13:43have been killed in a Russian attack attack on a settlement in the Zaporizhzhia
00:13:46Zaporizhzhia region. Dozens more more are said to be missing. President
00:13:49President Zelensky shared a video video on X. He says the settlement
00:13:53settlement was hit several times times today and that a school being
00:13:56being used for humanitarian purposes purposes was struck. President Zelensky
00:13:59Zelensky said after the first aerial aerial bomb strike, there was a double
00:14:02double tap strike with nine more more bombs specifically targeting
00:14:06targeting the shelter where people
00:14:07people were taking cover. Well, with
00:14:11with more, here's our correspondent correspondent in Kyiv. Dan Johnson. Johnson. He's posted some information
00:14:15information but also a video that that shows the aftermath of these
00:14:18these strikes. He's described this
00:14:20this as a double tap attack, which which is essentially where there's
00:14:24there's one round of strikes. And
00:14:26And then after a short delay, perhaps perhaps when rescue workers have
00:14:29have come to the scene, there is is a further round of strikes. In
00:14:32In fact, the President says after after the first aerial bomb, there
00:14:35there was a double tap strike with
00:14:37with nine more bombs. And that's
00:14:40that's the sirens just going off off here in Kyiv. As I'm speaking
00:14:44speaking to you, the President has has described this attack in the
00:14:47the Zaporizhzhia region as utterly utterly horrific. And he said that
00:14:50that the Russians could not have have been unaware that the building
00:14:53building that was hit was a school school that was actually being used
00:14:57used to distribute aid. Well, earlier,
00:14:59earlier, both Russia and Ukraine Ukraine reported cyber attacks on
00:15:03on their apps designed to warn people people of incoming drone attacks.
00:15:06attacks. With more on that story,
00:15:10story, here's Joe Inwood. There are are parts of Ukraine where this is
00:15:13is still the reality of war in the
00:15:15the 21st century. They call this
00:15:17this her son's kill zone, an area area along the front lines inaccessible
00:15:21inaccessible for most of the war.
00:15:22war. Until last week, a brief humanitarian
00:15:26humanitarian ceasefire that allowed allowed rescue teams to get to people
00:15:29people who had been entirely cut
00:15:32cut off like Natalia. You can see
00:15:34see my house has been damaged by
00:15:36by drones, she says. The 53-year-old 53-year-old is one of a handful of
00:15:39of people who stayed in the village village of Coxsackie. Her life has
00:15:43has been reduced to basic survival
00:15:45survival drinking rainwater, gathering
00:15:47gathering firewood and staying alive.
00:15:51alive. They've dropped mines everywhere. everywhere. You can't get through.
00:15:55through. I gather firewood for my
00:15:56my stove. I don't hide. If a drone drone hovers over me for too long.
00:16:00long. I come out holding a white
00:16:03white cloth. The ceasefire has given
00:16:08given her some respite, but she knows
00:16:10knows it is only temporary. We need
00:16:17need silence. We need to talk and and negotiate. Because war in the
00:16:20the 21st century is nonsense. And And modern war is presenting a whole
00:16:24whole new set of challenges for those those fighting it. Warnings of attacks
00:16:28attacks like this are usually sent sent to an app that many Ukrainians
00:16:31Ukrainians use. But last night it
00:16:33it appears to have been hacked, sending
00:16:35sending dire warnings of fighting fighting in the streets of an impending
00:16:39impending chemical weapons attack, attack, even of a nuclear strike.
00:16:43strike. None of it was real. And And on the streets of Kyiv, people
00:16:47people seem to have taken it in their
00:16:50their stride. On the one hand, you
00:16:53you can laugh about it, but on the the other they were able to hack
00:16:57hack the programme. But it did not not trigger the kind of reaction
00:17:00reaction in society that they expected. expected. Speaking at a meeting in
00:17:03in Brussels, the UK's Defence Secretary Secretary warned the hack was part
00:17:07part of a wider threat. We don't
00:17:09don't yet. Know who is behind this
00:17:12this particular cyber attack in Ukraine. Ukraine. We'll follow those developments
00:17:15developments closely. But what we're we're in no doubt about is that right
00:17:18right across Europe we have seen,
00:17:21seen, you know, these hybrid or state
00:17:23state sponsored terrorist attacks attacks driven by Moscow. But it's
00:17:27it's also reported that a similar similar message was sent to Russians,
00:17:30Russians, which apparently read risk risk things could get lively. Don't
00:17:33Don't worry. Nuclear warheads have have been launched at all regions
00:17:37regions of Russia. It's not yet confirmed
00:17:39confirmed who was behind either message. message. Back with the rescue teams
00:17:43teams in Kherson and what was the the most successful ceasefire of
00:17:46of the war has now come to an end.
00:17:48end. The realities of conflict in
00:17:51in the 21st century once again upon
00:17:53upon those who live through it. Joe
00:17:56Joe Inwood, BBC News. Dozens of supermarkets
00:17:59supermarkets across six European European countries have been hit
00:18:01hit by a suspected cyber attack affecting affecting their refrigerators and
00:18:05and freezers. Around 40 supermarkets supermarkets were hit in Belgium
00:18:09Belgium and Luxembourg, and a smaller smaller number of shops were hit
00:18:11hit in Sweden. In Ireland and Estonia,
00:18:14Estonia, as well as the Netherlands. Netherlands. It's believed the attack attack used the same method as last
00:18:18last month's incident that hit hundreds hundreds of French supermarkets,
00:18:22supermarkets, where hackers turned turned the machines to defrost mode.
00:18:25mode. Nick Beake has more. Everything
00:18:29Everything must go. Not a sale, but
00:18:32but a binning of once frozen food.
00:18:34food. Just some of the damage in
00:18:36in this latest cyber attack to hit hit European supermarkets. All that
00:18:40that you can see here is having to to be thrown away. But come and have
00:18:43have a look at this because it tells tells the story. The boss of this
00:18:46this supermarket just outside Brussels
00:18:48Brussels reckons that about 100,000
00:18:50100,000 worth of produce is having
00:18:52having to be thrown away. That's That's more than £80,000 worth of
00:18:56of stock. So here we've got ice creams,
00:19:00creams, pizza all that useless. Now
00:19:03Now this is one of 40 Delhaize stores
00:19:06stores in Belgium hit by the attack, attack, which boosted the temperature
00:19:09temperature of fridges and freezers
00:19:13freezers to 50 Celsius in Sweden Sweden and five more European countries.
00:19:16countries. The same cyber hack switched switched on the defrost mode, making
00:19:20making the food warm up. In some.
00:19:24some. Organisation has hacked into into the temperature monitor system
00:19:28system for refrigerators and freezers. freezers. They've gained access and
00:19:31and tampered with settings and the the like. It's insane. I don't see see where they stand to gain from
00:19:35from it. It's a form of terrorism, terrorism, really. Terrorism that
00:19:37that are you. Cyber security agencies
00:19:40agencies from the affected countries countries are now trying to work
00:19:43work out who was behind this. We We definitely should be worried about
00:19:47about this happening again. It's It's not the first time that it's it's happening. It has happened just
00:19:50just a couple of weeks ago in France France and now it's happening throughout
00:19:53throughout the rest of Europe. It's It's thought many supermarkets had
00:19:57had tried to tighten their security
00:19:59security since the French cyber attacks attacks last month. But once again,
00:20:03again, hackers have caused disruption
00:20:05disruption and damages running into
00:20:07into millions of euros. Nick Beake,
00:20:10Beake, BBC News Brussels. The King
00:20:13King is preparing to address Commonwealth Commonwealth leaders tomorrow at
00:20:16at a summit in the Caribbean. Buckingham Buckingham Palace says he'll speak
00:20:19speak with unflinching honesty and
00:20:21and sincere sorrow about the lasting lasting pain of the transatlantic
00:20:25transatlantic slave trade. The King King and the Queen both attended
00:20:28attended an Independence Day ceremony ceremony in Antigua last night that
00:20:31that left the King drenched. Our Our senior royal correspondent Daniela
00:20:35Daniela Relph has more. Royal tours
00:20:39tours are. Meticulously planned except
00:20:42except for the weather. As the Antiguan
00:20:44Antiguan rain hit, the Queen moved
00:20:46moved fast, taking cover, leaving
00:20:49leaving her unhappy husband. Umbrellas
00:20:52Umbrellas until a royal aide belatedly belatedly came to the rescue. But
00:20:55But the King was drenched. Although Although eventually saw the funny
00:20:59funny side. Aleem Maqbool water Chris
00:21:03Chris Mason. Yeah, so I think. An
00:21:06An exhibition on the history of the the slave trade on this island formed
00:21:09formed part of the King's first engagement engagement today at government House.
00:21:12House. Another sign of Buckingham Buckingham Palace's efforts to, as
00:21:15as they say, not shy away from colonial
00:21:19colonial legacy. With the Prime Minister Minister arriving here tonight and
00:21:22and the King addressing leaders tomorrow. tomorrow. The palace has also reiterated
00:21:26reiterated the King's role within within the Commonwealth as one that
00:21:30that isn't political. They say, but but is instead focused on inspiring
00:21:34inspiring and getting people together
00:21:36together rather than making policy.
00:21:39policy. Daniela Relph BBC News Antigua.
00:21:49Antigua. MUSIC
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00:21:59seven-month-old Maeve doesn't know know it yet, but the way she came
00:22:03came into the world was rather unusual
00:22:05unusual when her mum Leah went into
00:22:07into labour. She'd spent months planning
00:22:09planning for every possibility. I I would have loved a water birth.
00:22:13birth. However, the other things things that I didn't really want want is that an assisted birth or
00:22:16or an emergency C-section. It was was a really long hard labour and
00:22:19and then by the time we got to the the pushing and it felt like there
00:22:23there was not much happening and and I was trying my best. Nothing
00:22:26Nothing was really happening. I could could feel her inch down slightly,
00:22:30slightly, but it just wasn't going going where we needed it to go. Leah
00:22:34Leah isn't alone. Around 1 in 8 births
00:22:36births in the UK require some form
00:22:38form of assistance during delivery.
00:22:41delivery. Doctors at the Royal London London Hospital recommended something
00:22:44something Leah had never even heard
00:22:45heard of. She's got a contraption.
00:22:49contraption. I just gently pull. pull. The device is called the Odon
00:22:52Odon Assist. It's designed for assisted
00:22:55assisted vaginal births when labour labour has stalled and a baby needs
00:22:58needs help to be delivered. Rather Rather than using metal forceps or
00:23:02or suction, it uses a soft inflatable inflatable cuff designed to help
00:23:06help guide the baby through the birth
00:23:08birth canal. So you can see from from here we've gone from a tiny
00:23:12tiny little viewing window through through to a larger viewing window.
00:23:16window. Before it was ever used on
00:23:18on a patient, researchers spent years years testing it using specially
00:23:22specially designed mannequins fitted
00:23:24fitted with pressure sensors. From
00:23:27From 2015 to 2018, we did over 2800
00:23:322800 simulations. Those simulations simulations suggested the device
00:23:35device spread pressure more evenly
00:23:37evenly across a baby's head. Traditional Traditional forceps and vacuum cups
00:23:41cups can sometimes leave babies bruised bruised and can also cause injury
00:23:44injury to mothers. If you look at at forceps and forceps definitely
00:23:48definitely have their place and can can be very life saving, but they they really haven't changed much
00:23:52much in the last 400 years. There There is very few things in medicine
00:23:55medicine that if we go back to 400 400 years in any other aspect of
00:23:59of medicine, that is almost exactly
00:24:00exactly the same. We're going to to do some training on instrumental
00:24:04instrumental birth. After years of
00:24:06of development and testing, the next next challenge is getting the device
00:24:10device into hospitals. I think we
00:24:11we can use a device called an Odon
00:24:14Odon assist. It's a plastic device device with an inflatable cuff that
00:24:17that sits around the baby's head, head, and then we use it to guide
00:24:20guide the baby out. It doesn't suffocate suffocate my baby. So it doesn't
00:24:24doesn't suffocate your baby. It's
00:24:26It's a very safe procedure. But as
00:24:28as with any procedure, there are are some risks involved. We feel
00:24:31feel very responsible for the fact fact that we are using it, and we
00:24:35we know that we're ahead of the curve curve in using it, and we know that that we have an additional level
00:24:38level of responsibility to make sure sure that what we're doing is is
00:24:41is safe. And if at any point we were were there was something pointing pointing out that that was not the
00:24:45the case, then we would obviously obviously have to reconsider. But But because we are being very data
00:24:49data driven in our approach, we know know that we're still on the right
00:24:52right track, which is great. Yeah. We have fed back through groups
00:24:55groups in the UK, groups across Europe Europe as to best techniques and
00:24:59and how to develop practice, and and we're constantly feeding back
00:25:01back so that we can learn and teach teach the trainees that are coming
00:25:04coming through. It's still early
00:25:07early days, but after decades with with little change in assisted childbirth,
00:25:11childbirth, doctors hope it could could offer women another option
00:25:13option when labour doesn't go to to plan. We know that it's safe.
00:25:17safe. We know that it's been approved approved and we wanted to bring it it in and we want to now support
00:25:21support bringing it in by being the the flagship hospital. The fact that
00:25:24that Maeve came out unscathed completely completely is a huge plus and then
00:25:28then had no kind of like feeding feeding issues or anything like that
00:25:30that that we had to take care of.
00:25:33of. Was a huge plus to us. And obviously obviously at that point, that's all
00:25:36all you want. Is your baby safe in in your arms? And it was relatively
00:25:39relatively quick. It was painless painless for her. It was controlled
00:25:42controlled for me and the recovery recovery was great.
00:29:37MUSIC
00:30:16Hello and welcome to The
00:30:17Context USA, our first in a series series of special programming from
00:30:21from our studios here in Washington, Washington, DC I'm Sumi Somaskanda.
00:30:24Somaskanda. And I'm Caitriona Perry Perry ahead this hour. It's the vote
00:30:28vote that could drastically change change the course of politics here
00:30:30here in the US and maybe around the
00:30:32the world. We're focusing on what
00:30:35what else the 2026 midterm
00:30:38elections. I'm not thinking about about myself on this election. I'm
00:30:41I'm thinking about the whole community. community. We should all be together
00:30:45together in the community as one
00:30:47one and try to vote for our best
00:30:50best interests, which is not the the current administration. As you
00:30:53you know, this is the last day before before the midterm elections. The
00:30:56The most important midterm, I believe believe in our lifetime.