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Transcripts For BBCNEWS BBC 20240704

Officials are worried about landslides and major flooding. The last Tropical Storm to hit california was in 1939, over 80 years ago. This map shows the predicted path this storm might take. As of early friday, the centre of the hurricane was located roughly 400 miles, thats 615 kilometers, south of mexicos southern edge. President joe biden spoke about the preparations underway. I also want to note that my team is closely monitoring hurricane hilary, which has the potential to bring significant rain and flooding to southern california. Fema has prepositioned personnel and supplies in the region, and they are ready to respond as needed. I urge everyone, everyone in the path of the storm, to take precautions and listen to the guidance of state and local officials. Were tracking multiple wildfires in canada as the country faces what is being called its worst fire season on record. Fires in the kelowna region of British Columbia and 1200 miles or 2000 kilometers north in the countrys Northwest Territory capital of yellowknife are some of the more than 1000 active wildfires across canada. 186,000 residents in both kelowna and west kelowna are under a State Of Emergency after fast burning and unpredictable wildfires forced evacuations early friday. In yellowknife, a wildfire continues to move closer to the city. It currently sits about 9 miles, or 15 kilometers away. Residents are still evacuating and Officials Say flights out of yellowknife will leave every hour. 0llie Williams is a journalist with cabin radio based in yellowknife, who has evacuated to a nearby village. He spoke to the bbc earlier. Air will become the only option at some point if the fire keeps encroaching further and further towards yellowknife. There is just the one road south to the rest of canada its a small road, one lane in either direction for about 400 miles, 600 or so kilometres. It is a huge distance theres virtually no infrastructure to get people out by road. So air is the only other alternative, and that means 20 plus flights today, the military adding extra flights on top of that. There are still some scheduled flights getting out of the airport, as well. A line up of people at the school in yellowknife, then a bus to the airport, and get them out that way. As far as i can tell, that system is operating about as well as it could so far today even to the point, in fact, that they were crying out for more people to get into the line because some flights were having to wait on the tarmac because they werent full. Its hard to tell if thats because other people got so bored of 12 hour lines yesterday that they decided to leave, or if people have managed to get other routes out of the city. Its so hard to know exactly whos where, and to know exactly how many people are out. Its hard not to see the striking similarities between the scenes in the Northwest Territories and those that played out last week six thousand kilometers away, in maui. Authorities there continue to search for victims in the rubble of the town of lahaina, where the death toll now stands at 111. Earlier this week, the source of those deadly fires seems to have been found. This Security Camera footage shows the moment a tree fell on a power line in mauis so called upcountry. Its believed to be the first in a chain of events that led to the widespread devastation we saw last week. Washington post reporter brianna sacks found data and Video Evidence indicating elctrical faults in the islands power grid likely ignited the most devastating wildfires on maui. Heres what she had to say. I found some Security Footage that took place at 10 47pm monday night in upcountry, which captured this bright flash which we now believe is whats called an arc flash, and thats what happens when the Electrical Grid faults meaning a line can come in contact with a tree, vegetation, another line falls to the ground. And the Woman Narrating that video said, i think a tree fell on a line, the power goes out, then fire sparks right in that same location. And i overlaid that with some Electrical Grid sensor data that i obtained from a Company Called whisker labs. And those things occurred at the exact same moment, so that was the first time that an electrical malfunction was caught on video which directly correlated with data confirming that the power system experienced a major problem at that time. The bbc has been told that at least 1,400 people have starved to death in ethiopias Northern Region of tigray since food aid was suspended in april. It comes after humanitarian aid to the region by the World Food Programme and its key donor the Us Government was terminated, due to corruption in the distribution system. In the uk, a nurse, lucy letby, has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others when they were in her care at a hospital in cheshire, in the north west of england. It means the 33 year old is the uks biggest killer of babies in modern times. In a statement, the families of lucy letby� s victims said thatjustice could not reduce the extreme hurt, anger and distress they had experienced, adding that they were heartbroken. Lucy letby was also acquitted of two counts of Attempted Murder and thejury were undecided on six charges of Attempted Murder. She will be sentenced on monday. The government have ordered an independent inquiry into the circumstances around the murders. The bbc� s anna foster joined my colleague carl nasman earlier to discuss the case. Anna, what more do we know . How did lucy letby do this . How did she go about carrying out these crimes . Well, this has been an extraordinary and shocking trial, one which has lasted nearly ten months and one which has been followed very closely, as you would expect here in the uk. This is a nurse who was working on the Neonatal Unit at the countess of chester hospital. She was dealing with premature babies, with some of the sickest and most Vulnerable Children you can imagine. And at a time when she was supposed to be caring for them, when she was supposed to be nurturing them and ensuring their survival, she was instead actively trying to murder them. And in some cases, as we now know, she was succeeding, and she used innocuous methods. It was described by the prosecution, one of them as her favourite method of trying to kill children, and that was injecting air into their bloodstream. She did things like injecting overdoses of insulin into their small bodies. At times, she would overfeed them with milk or with liquids. And it took a while for this pattern to be recognised there were occasions when these babies who seemed to be doing quite well would suddenly and inexplicably go into a collapse, into a crash, and medical staff for a time couldnt work out why this pattern was happening, why more babies were losing their lives there than they should have done until eventually that pattern was put together. And the nurse who was always present when these incidents happened was lucy letby. What was the jury told about lucy letby as a person . Well, they were painted really two very different pictures by the prosecution and the defence. The defence, first of all, they talked about a very normal, very ordinary woman who was in her 20s at the time when these crimes were carried out. The jury saw her text messages, her social media posts, heard about the nights out shed been on, heard about the holiday shed been on on the outside, a seemingly normal and caring woman. But the prosecution case, that was very different, that was in stark contrast, and they said that she used all of those things as a cloak of normality, a way to try and hide what she was doing. They produced, as part of their evidence, notes where lucy letby had scrawled in dark writing repeated words, things like help. She wrote on one note, im evil, i did this. And in some cases as well, after babies had died, she searched for the parents on facebook. She even at one point sent a Sympathy Card to the parents of a child that she had killed. Now, thejury, of course, heard all of this evidence, they deliberated for more than 110 hours. And, of course, the verdict that they delivered, the version that they chose was the Prosecution Version of a woman who was cold, calculating, and a serial killer. Weve also heard that concerns were raised by members of staff at the hospital about the number of babies that were dying there while lucy letby was working. What more do we know about that . That is something that has been revealed today at the conclusion of the trial, that people who were working alongside lucy began to have suspicions about her. They began to realise that she was the common factor here, she was the one that was always present when these babies were dying or having these acute medical episodes. But when they tried to raise concerns with hospital staff, they were very often not taken seriously in some cases, they were told that they needed to stop making complaints, or complaints would be made about them. And so, in some cases, they were even told to write a letter of apology to lucy letby for suggesting that she was not doing herjob properly. And that is one reason why the families in particular in this case want to see more than just this trial and these guilty verdicts they want to see an investigation. And in fact, the uk government announced not long after the conclusion of this trial that an independent inquiry would be carried out into lucy letby, into her offending to look at whether or not this was an isolated period of time, or whether in fact this would cover her whole nursing career, and also to look at how this could happen. And crucially, looking at hospitals up and down the uk, whether they are safe enough to stop Something Like this from happening again. The bbc� s anna foster outside Manchester Crown court, thank you very much. Leaders of the us, South Korea And Japan have accused china of dangerous and aggressive behaviour in the south china sea. The assertion was made in a joint Statement Issued at a summit hosted by President Biden at camp david, outside of washington. President biden, japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and south korean president Yoon Suk Yeol said that this first of its Kind Trilateral Summit marks a new chapter of cooperation with the three nations as they move to strengthen military ties amid chinas growing influence and Nuclear Threats from north korea. Some of what they discussed included a multi year Military Exercise Plan deeper coordination and integration on Ballistic Missile defence and improved Information Sharing and crisis communication. Leaders also committed to new economic measures, including an Early Warning mechanism for supply chain disruptions. President biden spoke in detail about how this three way alliance will be strengthened. Earlier, our state Department Correspondent Barbara Plett usher described the specifics of the agreement from todays summit. The specifics involve an agreement to consult in times of crisis, the duty to consult, so putting the response of the three on the same platform to whatever threat they might be and instituting a hotline to facilitate that, a Crisis Hotline that leaders would use, then you have those Military Exercises that are going to become annual events. They have had trilateral Military Exercises before occasionally, but this is now going to be something regular. Theyre also going to double down as President Biden said on Information Sharing, especially with regards to north Korean Missile launches. And theyre going to have regular summits. Theyre also, on the Economic Security side, going to have an Early Warning system so they can be alerted to any potential disruption in Global Supply chain. So really its about regularising and institutionalising a whole set of Security Measures and placing it on our foundation that has not really existed before. Barbara plett usher there. Now, a short while ago, my colleague carl nasman spoke with former Assistant Secretary for east asian and Pacific Affairs Danny Russell and director of the asia program at the Wilson Center and former Senior Analyst on korean issues, sue mi terry about the summit� s significance. Thank you both for being here. Its an interesting day and as we heard, this is really being hailed as historic. Danny, just to start with you, what did you make about the Details Behind this pact . The details are reflecting a transformation, not only in the relationship betweenjapan and korea but in the integration of the elements of the three governments. The details reflect both tremendous amount of work that has begun already among the three countries and also an Ambitious Programme of collaboration that i think vastly strengthens the deterrents, the defence, the intelligence, the technological and the other forms of influence and strength of these three countries. And, sue, how about you . People are going to pains to say, look, this is not an alliance, this isnt Something Like nato where you have that provision where if one country is attacked, the others are compelled to defend them. Given that, how concrete does this look to you . Its not nato but its close to it. This is a huge achievement. I agree with everything that danny said and danny knows its so hard anybody who has worked on these issues, its hard to overstate how difficult it is to bring Korean Leader and japanese leader together in this kind of setting and have this kind of ambitious agenda. The last several years particularly, their relationship has been in a deep freeze. The kudos really goes out to all three leaders of course, president Yoon For Making A Very Courageous Decision to have this very forward looking relationship withjapan, but also to Prime Minister kishida, who has this very pragmatic vision. And also President Biden, for prioritising improving trilateral relationship. So, this is a very significant event. I think for a lot of people out there, they will say korea and japan, they are the closest allies to United States, and i dont think people understand how difficult the relationship has been and what a symbolic moment it is today, so im kind of blown away and i expected it to be a good meeting but i didnt expect such an ambitious laying out of all the things that they are going to co operate on, so im very thrilled by this development. Danny, what about you . I mean, blown away as well, with the amount of work President Biden put into this and obviously work on all three sides but we heard that he really wanted to make this relationship a priority of his presidency. Why do you think President Biden worked so hard to bring these two countries closer together . Theres a very simple answer, carl because the inability of americas two closest allies in asia to fully co operate has been a major problem for americas own national security. We need, in order to face the direct threat from north korea, in order to deal with the aggression russia has demonstrated in its attack on ukraine and also with the myriad challenges emerging from china, we need the three nations, these three democracies, to be able to Work Together without political impediment, without the kinds of obstacles that in the recent past as sue pointed out, prevented japanese and korean senior government and military officials from even talking to each other and meeting, that prevented them from participating in joint Military Exercises where sharing data necessary to defend against a north korean Ballistic Missile. So, as President Biden said in his Press Conference in typically blunt terms, this is a big deal. I dont think that the us forced japan and korea into an Agreement Screaming and kicking. I think that the administration wisely seized the momentum and has created now a trilateral framework that embeds the bilateral detente, which is delicate, and i

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