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00:00:25A warm welcome to another
00:00:30This week, the group leading an Ethiopian Opposition Alliance says it has
00:00:33withdrawn from Mikele, the capital
00:00:36of the northern region of Tigry, after an advanced by governed forces
00:00:40and allied fighters. The Tigran People's liberation front said
00:00:44it has temporarily moved out of Michael to operate from somewhere
00:00:47else. This comes after Ethiopia and Eritrea severed all
00:00:51diplomatic ties on October 2nd, 2026, amit an
00:00:55escalating military conflict in Northern
00:00:57Ethiopia.
00:01:02Ethiopia and the reach severe diplomatic
00:01:04of ties on October 2nd, closing each other's embassies and Ethiopia
00:01:08ordered 10 reitirant diplomats to leave
00:01:10the country within 48
00:01:15a hours. Ethiopias said the diplomats were declared persona
00:01:19non-gratter over the alleged activities posing a direct threat to the
00:01:23country's
00:01:24of national
00:01:26of security. Ethiopia. accuses
00:01:30Eritrea of direct and indirect hostility,
00:01:34specifically
00:01:35in alleging that Asmara was backing and forming alliances with
00:01:38rubble groups like the Tagray People's Liberation
00:01:41Front.
00:01:45Oricha rejected Ethiopia's allegation, accused Adisababa of
00:01:49pursuing hostile policies and said it will severe all diplomatic
00:01:53ties with Ethiopia in
00:01:57of response. The diplomatic row,
00:02:00sended to Ethiopia and Egypt, so ordering diplomats to leave within 48
00:02:04hours.
00:02:07Ethiopia declared Egyptian diplomat Ahmed Maharam Ahmed
00:02:11Solemon personan on Grata on Thursday and ordered him to leave the
00:02:15country within 48
00:02:16hours.
00:02:20Egypt hit back by expelling a counselor at Ethiopian embassy in
00:02:24Cairo, also giving him two days to
00:02:27of leave. Cairo described Ethiopia's move. has
00:02:30unjustified and rejected accusations that was
00:02:33interfering in the country's internal affairs. In the
00:02:37meantime, the leaders of Egyptia, Sudan and
00:02:40Somalia are meeting in Egypt to coordinate and consult on
00:02:44regional issues of interest to the four countries. Sources
00:02:48say the meeting would announce several measures to consolidate the
00:02:52alliance
00:02:53of the four nations, including wider
00:02:55of military corporation. Captain Smith
00:02:59Machar has.
00:03:00has been held a true
00:03:01of hero in his homeland India and in Israel. He was the
00:03:05co-pilot
00:03:05of the Fly Dubai flight was stabbed because the other pilot now
00:03:09identified as hammam alhammami stabbed him while
00:03:13trying to crash the flight as it traveled from Dubai to Tel Aviv.
00:03:17The captain has recounted what happened on the flight and so much has been
00:03:21uncovered since the incident. The Israeli
00:03:24consulate in Mumbai put up a digital billboard thanking
00:03:28Indian pilot Captain. in Smith Machacha, days after he was
00:03:32stabbed while fighting off his co-pilots who had tried to crash the
00:03:36plane. the fly dubai flight
00:03:39fz1073 traveling from Dubai to Tel
00:03:43Aviv, Israel, with more than 170 people on board
00:03:47made emergency landing at Prince Sultan bin
00:03:50of Abdul Aziz International Airport in Tabok, Saudi
00:03:53Arabia,
00:03:59the UAE Attorney General, Dr. Hamad Saiif Al
00:04:02Shamsi said investigation found that the co-pilot
00:04:06had planned and attempted to carry out a terrorist act during the
00:04:10flight. He said the co-pilot attacked Machacha inside the
00:04:14cockpit with
00:04:15a crash ax and tried to seize control
00:04:17of the aircraft flight controls. Investigators
00:04:21are still working to establish the full circumstances,
00:04:25motive and any possible links as well as examining
00:04:28physical and digital. evidence, final findings have
00:04:32not yet been released, fly dubai has temporarily suspended
00:04:36its Dubai Tel Aviv
00:04:38flights.
00:04:46The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier said Machacha was
00:04:50attacked by his
00:04:51of co-pilot of who he claimed had apparently
00:04:53of attempted to
00:04:54of crash the plane. Prime Minister Netanyahu praised the wounded
00:04:58Indian pilot for helping. stopped the attack, saying
00:05:01Machacha fought back, resisted, opened the
00:05:05cockpit
00:05:06of door and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the
00:05:09attacker.
00:05:13Earlier, I spoke to acting Israeli ambassador and charge the affair in
00:05:17Nigeria, Richelli Staviski about Israel's views on the incidents
00:05:21and the ripping
00:05:45uh is said
00:05:46to be quite unprecedented, does this raise flags as
00:05:50to the kind of screening done for flight crew and other people
00:05:54serving in public spaces as to they being used to cause
00:05:57harm to Israel worldwide for
00:06:00you. this is indeed an
00:06:03unprecedented event, but unfortunately
00:06:07this is not the first time that an airplane has been uh
00:06:11hijacked. in the sky with Israeli passengers
00:06:15or other passengers, so it is
00:06:19surprising, unprecedented with fly
00:06:22dubai, but we are,
00:06:26the people of Israel, we are resilient people, we are
00:06:30well prepared for you know every
00:06:33possibility, and we are
00:06:37going to investigate all the security gaps
00:06:40that has occurred, during this incident,
00:06:44because there have been some security malfunctions in several
00:06:48areas, such as for example, how can
00:06:52a co-pilot from Omani descent been
00:06:56on an airplane flying Israeli citizens to
00:06:59Israel, as the state of Israel and the state
00:07:03of Oman do not have diplomatic
00:07:06relations, so this is just an example of
00:07:10one the things that we
00:07:10are going to investigate, but um, the other things,
00:07:14yeah, definitely we're going to look into all the security gaps, not only
00:07:18us, but also the UAE, and we're going
00:07:22to to have more concrete information and see how we can
00:07:26prevent these incidents to happen ever again in the future, because
00:07:29this was so so traumatic for
00:07:32everyone, from the pilot, the brave
00:07:35pilot from of fly dubai, from
00:07:39Indian descent to the Israeli passenger.
00:07:42'who were just so courageous and brave
00:07:46and to the fly dubai crew and the other team of pilots who
00:07:50eventually managed to land the plane safely in Saudi
00:07:54Arabia? had that
00:07:58co-pilot succeeded with his mission on the plane, I mean the
00:08:02Omani pilots, this would have been a purely terrorist plot that it
00:08:06would have be succeeded, it still is a terrorist plot given that he's
00:08:10stabbed his fellow pilot, how does this change however? the perception
00:08:13the Israeli government is regards new terror threats in the
00:08:24the special advisor to the United United Arab Emirates
00:08:28President, has indeed confirmed that after
00:08:31investigation of this Omanico pilot, this
00:08:35is a terror attack. it was not attempted, it was not
00:08:39a speculation. he said that he was trying to
00:08:42commit a 9/11 style terror attack and to
00:08:46crash this airplane on Israeli grounds
00:08:50just to kill as many people as possible, not only the
00:08:54people on the plane but people on the ground, who knows where the plane
00:08:57would have crashed, but
00:09:01this doesn't change much for the state of Israel
00:09:05as we are, um,
00:09:09sadly I might say, we are trained for.
00:09:13terror attacks, so it doesn't change much about the
00:09:16perception of how the state of Israel should
00:09:20conduct in the world when it comes to
00:09:23attempted terror attacks or terror attacks that
00:09:26actually happened and were executed
00:09:30like the Hamas terror attack on October the 7th
00:10:07is the nature of discussions going on now between is
00:10:11governments?
00:10:28while being stabbed, while bleeding, he operated to
00:10:32save the lives of everyone on this aircraft, together
00:10:36with the brave Israeli passengers who managed to neutralize the
00:10:39terrorist, stabilized the airplane and led the other
00:10:43pilots on the aircraft to land it, so
00:10:47this is a perfect example the cooperation
00:10:50between Israelis and the United Arab
00:10:53Emirates, this is a true
00:10:57um Abrahamic accords demonstration, this is what we are talking
00:11:01about. six years ago, the UAE and Israel
00:11:04decided that we are heading into a new middle
00:11:07east, a middle east of peace, a middle east of cooperation, a
00:11:11middle east of working closely together, no matter our religions,
00:11:15because we have a shared goal, we want peace, we want
00:11:19prosperity and we want security for our people. this has been
00:11:23demonstrated when Iran launched an attack uh last
00:11:27March, March 2026, on Israel and on
00:11:31the Gulf countries, and the state of Israel has provided aid
00:11:34in the form of iron dome to UAE, and the United
00:11:38Arab Emirates stood beside the state of Israel. This is just
00:11:42another demonstration of how united we are. Of course, there are
00:11:46some tensions because of suspended flights, because the
00:11:49uncertainty, there is still a lot of
00:11:53uncertainty because the investigation is not finalized yet, as
00:11:57we are speaking, Israeli security forces
00:12:01are investigating the Omani co-pilot after the
00:12:04UAE have finalized their investigation with him,
00:12:08the questioning with the co-pilot from Oman,
00:12:11so the relationship is very, very
00:12:15strong, we are working together to solve this,
00:12:18and rest assure that the flights will be
00:12:22renewed, I'm not sure if you've known, but before the... incident, Fly
00:12:25Dubai has operated 70 weekly flights from Dubai
00:12:29to Tel Aviv, this is truly incredible, um, it's
00:12:33a huge number, and we are very proud of this relationship, and we are
00:12:37not going to let this incident, which is, as you mentioned,
00:12:41unprecedented, first of its kind between
00:12:45our countries ever since we had the Abrahamhamic accords, and we
00:12:49will not let this incident define the nature the relationship between
00:12:53the countries, I think... quite the opposite, we will learn from
00:12:56this, we will overcome this together, and we
00:13:00will step into a better future with a more powerful
00:13:09the the pilots in question, the omani pilot, what do
00:13:11you think could happen to him at the end of
00:13:13investigations?
00:13:17i am honestly not sure what happened at the end the
00:13:20investigations, hope that whatever punishment.
00:13:26and the authorities in the United Arab Emirates decide that he
00:13:30deserves, he will get, because he is
00:13:34a terrorist that admitted to a terror attack. We
00:13:38cannot tolerate terrorism, I'm sure, I'm speaking to a
00:13:41Nigerian audience, I'm sure that all Nigerians can agree with
00:13:45me that there is no place for
00:13:48terrorism, in 2026, in our
00:13:51world, in the western society, this is not... what we
00:13:55aspired to do, this is not how we want our future to look
00:13:59like, no one should be afraid to catch a flight,
00:14:03to try to go home, and then to be afraid that
00:14:06the pilot will try to crash the airplane to hijack it, to kill
00:14:10everyone, and to rely on passengers who were brave
00:14:13enough to take control the situation, and a super brave
00:14:17pilot who saved lives, no one should ever have to
00:14:21experience this in his lifetime, sorry in his lifetime or ever.
00:14:25so I am not sure what's going to happen to
00:14:29him, but what I do know is that this will
00:14:32not go on quietly, um, and we
00:14:36are still looking into the possibility that maybe he was not
00:14:40operating on his own, maybe he was backed up by
00:14:44a country or an organization that shared the same
00:14:47radical islamist jihadist ideology that
00:14:51wants to spread terror, that wants to kill all is
00:14:55is that say and claim that Israel does not belong in the middle
00:14:59east or in the world and we will not let it
00:15:02happen, so I'm sure he will get what
00:15:06he deserves as far as the authorities
00:15:09decide. more on my conversation with action
00:15:12ambassadorlis Davissky coming up after the break, stay with
00:15:54may change flight protocol for those wishing to travel to Israel. Accent
00:15:57ambassador Richard Listoviski talks about the world becoming more dangerous for
00:16:01Israelis. The Omani Pilot is said to have been radicalized
00:16:05online. "he was radicalized
00:16:09individual uh when he made the plan and thought the idea
00:16:13to carry out this terrorist plot, do you think this you know
00:16:17raises a bigger issue here, the radicalization that could have happened
00:16:21in Oman or perhaps in the UAE, who knows where
00:16:25he was getting his material
00:16:26from? I think it's
00:16:29definitely a problem, I would not point fingers any
00:16:33specific place because this um radical..."
00:16:38Islamist ideology is currently being worldwide
00:16:41spread. We see it in the United States, we see it
00:16:45in the UK, we see it in Europe, we see it in Africa, we see it in the far
00:16:49east, we see it
00:17:07know... that radical Islamism is spreading worldwide
00:17:10and nothing is happening a void, you
00:17:13know, ever since the October seventh massacre,
00:17:17Israelis are being targeted, Israelis are
00:17:21being targeted, Israelis are
00:17:24more more scared to
00:17:50and this is the precaution that sadly Israelies around the world
00:17:54need to take, and it is, it
00:17:57is just crazy and sad, and
00:18:01it's not right, it's not right that we are the ones who should walk
00:18:05with fear in the world. "I think that those who want to spread
00:18:09terror, those who want to spread fear, those who want to
00:18:12kill out of an ideology, out of radical
00:18:16ideology, those are the people that the world should
00:18:19condemn, those are the people that should walk with fear,
00:18:23and those are the people that the authorities should look very carefully
00:18:27into, and not the people who are always advocating for peace,
00:18:31who are always advocating for saving lives and who are always advocating
00:18:35for a peaceful middle east and a peaceful..." world and acting
00:18:39upon it, not just
00:18:52you know more Israelies have become target because of
00:18:56um you know also Israeli um attacks
00:19:00on you know the war the middle east on Hamas in
00:19:03Gaza as well as Hizbullah in Lebanon.
00:19:09This is definitely part of this Islamic
00:19:11radicalization, um, as I was saying, yes,
00:19:15Israelies are being more targeted because of this extreme
00:19:18ideology. As prime minister Netanyahu said
00:19:22few days ago, this war that was imposed on
00:19:26Israel is not a war that we can afford to lose, it's
00:19:30yes, but I could not agree more, this is not a war that we can
00:19:34afford to lose, because losing this war will... mean
00:19:38that there will no longer be a state of Israel, perhaps you know the
00:19:41famous quote by former prime minister gold mayor,
00:19:45um, if the arab lay down their arms, there
00:19:49will be no more war, but if Israel lay down its
00:19:53arms, there will be no more Israel, and it is
00:19:56still sadly relevant to this
00:20:19program, Miss Yanuching will now be known as the former
00:20:23Consul General for China as she's completed her tenure in
00:20:26Lagos. Last week she hosted her last party
00:20:30celebrating the mid autumn festival with Nigerian government officials, the
00:20:34Chinese community in Lagos, the Business Community and friends of
00:20:38china. It's another mid autumn
00:20:42festival by the consulates the people's republic of China in
00:20:45Lagos, but it's a beta sweet one as it is the
00:20:49last. for consul general yanging whose time
00:20:53in Nigeria has come to an end, government officials,
00:20:57diplomats, business people and friends of China have come to
00:21:01honor
00:21:01her.
00:21:20As always, China uses every landmark opportunity for
00:21:24relations between both
00:21:25countries.
00:21:47In this instance,
00:21:49it is not just... the mid autumn festival, it is also the celebration
00:21:53of 77 years the people's republic of China, Nigeria's
00:21:5766th independence anniversary and 55 years of
00:22:00diplomatic relations between the two being
00:22:02nations. of our
00:22:04the well people has improved across
00:22:07the
00:22:09China has been actively implementing a
00:22:12global development, security,
00:22:15civilization and the fness initiative.
00:22:19i quality b growth cooperation is trying global
00:22:23growth and the building stability, stability
00:22:27and positive energy to
00:22:29board of turbinence and
00:22:33transformation. this year is the first year
00:22:37of china's 15th five year
00:22:40plan. china remains formally
00:22:44committed to high quality development. we are
00:22:48expanding high standard. opening up
00:22:51king barriers and the keeping trade
00:22:55close to in braking the world with the given
00:22:58all open artitude. the world with china
00:23:02is the world with opportunity to invest
00:23:06in china is to invest in the
00:23:10future. the event quickly transits into a farewell
00:23:13ceremony for the outgoing consul general, one with tributes
00:23:17pouring in from top officials. we particularly
00:23:20appreciate the important role your excellency,
00:23:24I has played through the Chinese Councilate
00:23:28in facilitating and deepening engagements in
00:23:32trade and investment, agriculture,
00:23:35education, healthcare, technology, renewable
00:23:39energy, culture, skills development and people to
00:23:43people exchanges. These partnerships
00:23:47are helping to create opportunities for Knowledge
00:23:50transfer, investment, institutional
00:23:53cooperation and improved livelihoods for our
00:23:57people. Your excellency, the lagos
00:24:01chin down and lagos sister city
00:24:04initiative represent an important
00:24:07dimension of this growing partnership. They
00:24:11have opened promising avenues for
00:24:14cooperation in trade, science and
00:24:17technology, education. capacity building
00:24:21and shared economic advancement, even
00:24:25where from our documents may yet remain to the stand,
00:24:29posterity will remember you, consel general
00:24:32as more than a coroner and the one who laid the
00:24:36foundation for these partnerships, but most
00:24:40importantly,
00:24:42thank you, but most importantly, as the
00:24:46diplomats who have open the doors and and creates the
00:24:50pathways to which this relationships could become
00:24:54a reality. even the Lagos State first
00:24:58lady Dr. ibijakeson speaks about the consul general and
00:25:02the friendships she has formed in Lagos. a point
00:25:05when the SS was talking, you could
00:25:08see the kind of bonds, the passionate
00:25:12bond that had been formed in her
00:25:15and the counsel general, and we pray that we will
00:25:19have more. more relationships like that between many of our
00:25:23people and the numerous um diplomatic call that
00:25:26we have in Lagos. On behalf of my family, the
00:25:30government and the good people of Lagos State permit me to once again
00:25:34extend my warmest congratulations to the people and
00:25:37government the people's Republic of China on the occasion the
00:25:4177th anniversary the founding the people's republic of
00:25:45China and also to say very big thank
00:25:49you to... to the outgoing counsel
00:25:52general, thank you very much
00:25:55for your contributions, thank you for representing china
00:25:59very well, thank you for all that you've done and like
00:26:03he has said, we are taking a part of Legos
00:26:06with you, and you have put a part of
00:26:10China, you have left it with us, we always
00:26:21though it is night in her honor, she takes the time to hand out
00:26:24awards and
00:26:25recognitions.
00:26:59Lagos sends off consul.
00:27:03and wishes her safe travels back to her home
00:30:44Hello!