Israel-bound flight diverted after fight between pilots

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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson and on Wednesday the 30th of September, these are our main stories. An Israel-bound passenger jet sends out a hijack alert as one pilot reportedly stabs the other before being overpowered. Russia pounds energy facilities in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. We hear how children in Gaza are coping in the territory which is still under near daily attack. Also in this podcast, researchers say they persuaded a Chinese AI system to give them the recipe for bioweapons and. We Africans will develop Africa. Whether they like it or they don't like it, we are moving. Africa's richest man leads a consortium to build an oil refinery on Kenya's coast, which he says will put out. Africa's richest man leads a consortium to build an oil refinery on Kenya's coast, Is that? it hit the Trepilska power station outside of Kiev, the largest supplier of electricity to the Ukrainian capital. The Ukrainians, they knew that this coming winter is going to be really, really tough. It looks like it's going to be much tougher than the previous winter when the Russians also attacked energy infrastructure. But this time around, they're also hitting supply chains, warehouses, supermarkets. And over the past month and a half, they've also knocked out a key sector of the Ukrainian economy, steelmaking, which used, before the war, it used to account for 10% of GDP and employed half a million people. So things are looking pretty grim for Ukrainians. Vitaly Shevchenko. Nearly a year after the war, the Ukrainian government has announced that it's going to a ceasefire was supposed to end the fighting in Gaza. Israeli forces still conduct near daily strikes against what it says are Hamas targets. For ordinary Palestinians in Gaza, life is precarious. The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 1,400 people have been killed since last October. And doctors say that Israel is restricting vital medical supplies to patients in hospitals. Israel denies this. The BBC's Emei Anada reports now on how the children, in particular, are coping. Six-year-old Rasil is getting ready for skin graft surgery. Earlier, she had seizures caused by a shrapnel fragment in her brain, which her doctors cannot remove. On July the 30th, Rasil was sleeping with her family in their tent in Almawasi camp in southern Gaza, when witnesses say they were hit by an Israeli airstrike. She was injured along with her mother and brother. Her nine-year-old sister, Ratil, was killed. Rasil's father, Mahmoud, watches over her in the hospital bed, the distress palpable on both their faces. I asked them, where is Ratil? Nobody answered. I asked my wife's cousins, where is Ratil? They said, in the morgue. I couldn't hold myself together. They used to play together all the time. It's only been two or three days since she started eating again. I'm afraid that if my daughter stays in Gaza, she'll die. Rasil has had more than 20 operations in order to clean wounds that keep getting infected. MSF's Dr. Awani Al-Jafarawi at Nasser Hospital is looking after her. Her current wounds have multi-drug-resistant bacteria, so the solution is to try and clean the wounds every day or every other day, washing them in the operation room and trying as much as possible to control the infections. Dr. Al-Jafarawi explains the long-term consequences of the failure of the wounds. She says, the wounds are very painful. In the long run, people's immunity weakens. A patient would need to undergo surgery every day or every other day. Over the coming years, you will see the number of amputees rise daily even if the war stops. Israel says it allows medicines to enter Gaza without restriction, including antibiotics. But multiple humanitarian organizations and medical staff across Gaza have told the BBC that there are major shortages of essential drugs. Other factors that risk people's health are also at play. Rats and other pests have spread. Neighborhood volunteer Mahmoud sprays pesticides around the rubble where he lives. The kids have developed severe allergies from these rodents and insects. They started bringing us diseases we had never heard of before. Honestly, we are sick, of this life. For children in Gaza, bombardment is an ever-present threat. On September the 1st, the Israel Defense Forces carried out a series of airstrikes during a raid near a school. At least four people were killed, including two children. The IDF says that it was part of an operation to capture the head of Hamas's internal security service. Doa Kudaih is a teacher at the school. What war is over? There were over 200 children in my kindergarten right now. We were all evacuated from the building under bombardment. September 1st was also 14-year-old Lara's birthday. She was supposed to go to school that day but didn't because her mother wanted to celebrate with her at home. There is school tomorrow. Are you going to go? No. Seriously? You don't want to go? No. Why? Just because. Lara's face is tearing up. She has already lost her father who was killed while trying to get food for the family a year ago. Her mother tries to comfort her. I mean, it'll be a day or two and after that, things calm down. Yes. What do you mean, yes? Why are you crying? I'm fed up. What are you fed up with? Life. UNICEF says that almost every child in Gaza requires urgent mental health and psychosocial support. Back at Nasser Hospital, Rasil, while waiting for a medical evacuation, has a new doll. She's named her after her dead sister, Ratil. The IDF says that they have no record of a strike that hit her family and regrets any harm to civilians. A few days ago, Rasil's father called the BBC to say they've been given permission to leave Gaza for treatment. But for the thousands of other children who are injured and traumatised, the wait for essential medicines or even a medical evacuation continues. That report by Emir Nada. Still to come in this podcast. Backpack tends to be an introverted bear. He's got quiet strength about him. That's one reason I like him. 89 Backpack wins the annual Fat Bear Week in Katmai National Park in Alaska. I'm Ryan Seacrest for Albertsons. And I'll see you next time. Tom Thumb. It's time to stock up and save now through October 27th. Get $10 off when you spend $25 or more on participating items. Just look for participating item tags to earn on eligible items from brands like Bubbler, Ghost Energy, Lindor, Halo Top, Vital Farms, Kellogg's, Campbell's and Heinz. Clip once and save through October 27th every time you shop. Grab these hot deals before they're gone. Restrictions apply. See website for full terms and conditions. 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On Tuesday, President Trump signed an agreement with top tech leaders saying they would implement safeguards as a form of protection from AI's potential risks. And now, the Chinese AI company Moonshot has announced that it's conducting an internal review after it discovered that an AI tool had told researchers how to make bioweapons. Our senior technology reporter Chris Valance told me more. There is an AI security company called MindGuard, and they figured out a way to persuade two versions of Moonshot's Kimmy model to disregard its own safety guardrails and pretty much discuss any topic they wanted it to. Some examples of the kind of things it discussed were biological weapons, chemical weapons, and ways in which you might carry out assassinations, to name but a few. This kind of disregarding of its own safety rules is called jailbreaking. And the interesting thing about that is if you look at, for example, last year's report by the UK's AI Security Institute, they say they were able to jailbreak pretty much every model that they tested, and that will include some of the big name models. So, you know, jailbreaking is something that the industry is very aware of. It's a risk that the industry takes very seriously because obviously they don't want people doing bad things with their models, persuading them to do things the safety rules are meant to stop. But it's a problem that people find they're certainly making it harder to jailbreak these models, but they find it very hard to remove the risk completely. What has been Moonshot's response? Well, Moonshot says it's still in discussions with MindGuard over what they found. It says it's conducting an internal review as well. It also says it welcomes third-party input to help make the model safer. And it says in an email it sent to MindGuard, which it shared part of that with us, it said that in its experience, the model generally refused these kinds of requests. Chris Vallance. After more than two decades of American military presence in Iraq, the last U.S. troops to be stationed there have now withdrawn. Iraq hailed the end of the U.S.-led anti-jihadist mission as the start of a new chapter. Here's Major General Tassin al-Khafaji from Iraq's Defense Ministry. Today is the completion of sovereignty for Iraq. Today is the end of the international coalition's mission and the start of a new era, an era of bilateral relations between us and the countries that supported Iraq in its war against the Islamic state terrorist organization. This new era depends on investment, arming, training, building a strong economy and securing the borders. Today, our security forces are able to carry out difficult operations, operations to preserve what we achieved through victory over Islamic State. Karen Giannone spoke to Toby Dodge, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics and author of Iraq from War to a New Authoritarianism. What did he make of the last few hundred U.S. troops? I don't actually think it's a particularly big story in terms of the ramifications that it has for Iraq. Iraq's security services have been functioning pretty well for the last five, six years. Islamic radicalism is at a historic low level. So the Iraqi system for all its multiple weaknesses and flaws is self-sustaining. And whether the Americans go or not has not got much to do with the future trajectory of the country. I don't think it's a particularly big story in terms of the ramifications that it has for Iraq. Right. So when we compare it, say, to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, we saw such a dramatic turn of events after that, that the Taliban sweeping back to power. That's an excellent comparison and is radically different. I think if you look at Ali Zaidi, the current prime minister, he's been in the United States twice in July and in September, both in New York and Washington. He's got good relations with President Trump. So the current Iraqi government are attempting to build as close relations with the United States as possible. They're offering oil deals to large United States companies. So the departure of a few hundred, I think it's probably about 500 troops here or there doesn't make a difference. Now, that's not to say that Iraq hasn't got profound problems. It's a deeply corrupt country. Its population, high unemployment, I think 700,000 young people joining the job market each year without jobs to go to. So there are profound problems, but I don't think American troops or a good or a bad relationship with the United States is going to make any difference. Right. And you're not fearing any kind of security vacuum as happened in 2011 when the U.S. withdrew? No, not at all. The two situations are not comparable. Now, there is a profound war going on. The war that the United States started with Iran in February, that's still very much ongoing. What the Iraqi government have tried to do is work very hard not to get drawn in. There have been people who have been caught in the war. They've been caught in the war. There have been periodic uses of Iraqi territory to strike the Arab Gulf states and other set of American allies. But the Iraqi government themselves really don't want anything to do with this conflict and are attempting to keep out. You mentioned Iran, and I wonder, will there be those who portray this U.S. withdrawal as a defeat for the U.S.? And I'm thinking of Iran trying to frame it in that way. Yeah, I think the Iraqi government's relations with Iran have been superb since 2003. The Iranian government have courted, anointed, made sure that there's no one in the Iraqi government that isn't directly and very closely aligned to them. But the idea that a few hundred American troops can do anything about that, I think, is pie in the sky. I think what Trump and his America First agenda has done is looked at the small amount of American troops on the ground. I think we can project as much influence or as little influence as we want into Baghdad. We can project as much influence or as little influence as we want into Baghdad. We can without our troops. And I think in this thing alone, he's probably right. I think we have lived and farmed on for generations. Walid Ali is co-founder of community-based organization Save Lamu. Our community concern as a civil society is an environmental issue because we are very much concerned there will be an environmental impact. And yet the investors, they have not yet been doing any comprehensive social assessment. So we are very scared as a civil society. And we are very scared that we are not going to be able to do anything about it. So we are very scared that we are not going to be able to do anything about it. So we are very scared that we will be neglecting of the environmental law in Kenya. Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, who is bankrolling the project, says it will go ahead whatever the protesters say. Nobody wants Africa to develop. That's why we Africans will develop Africa. It's a moving trade. Either you join it or you'll be crushed along the way. We don't have a problem with that. Nketchi Ogbonna, the BBC's Africa business reporter in Nigeria. Nairobi is following the story. This project aims to be a game changer for energy security in the East African region. President William Ruto has said repeatedly that this is not a Kenyan project, that it belongs to the entire East African community. It also hopes to encourage energy stability as well and ensure steady supply of fuel following the fallout of the US-Israel war with Iran and how fuel prices soared, in the region impacting most African countries. But as we heard in that clip, many, many protests against it. Yes. Yesterday in Lamu, there were protests against the construction of the project. Residents believe land is being grabbed, ancestral land in this case. They also have environmental concerns and they actually approached Kenya's high court to suspend the beginning of the construction. But the court had said these status quo would continue, although there is a hearing on the 14th of October for the case. And Lamu, it's a UNESCO heritage site, isn't it? Yes, it is. It's in the coastal part of Kenya, in the north eastern part of the country. It has beautiful beaches. It has huge tourist potential and it generates a lot of visitors every year. So residents are really very worried about this. Also, they say the population is about 160,000 people. In the entire county, and they are worried what this new construction would do to already scarce resources in the region. Aliko Dangote is Africa's richest man. Is the entire project funded essentially by African business? Well, he's spearheading the project, but it is believed that there is some funding from the Africa Finance Corporation, the AFC. It's also believed that Aliko is also going to work with regional governments. Local governments from the neighbouring Ethiopia and South Sudan and Uganda as well. And there is also going to be a pipeline that would provide the crude oil from South Sudan along the Ethiopia-Tanzania corridor. Nketchi Ogbonna. It's that time of the year when we get to find out the winner of the 2026 Fat Bear Week in Katmai National Park in Alaska. He is. 89 backpack. And his name comes from his habit as a cub of climbing onto the back of his mother Holly, who was a Fat Bear Week winner back in 2019. 16 bears took part in the contest, and more than 2 million votes were cast from 100 countries around the world. The US National Park Service described the competition as a battle of size, skill, snack acquisition and strategic loafing. Matt Johnson is one of the park rangers at Katmai National Park. This contest has been going for 14 years and the webcams have been set up in the park for the same amount of time. And a lot of people tune in from wherever they are in the world and people do to watch the bears. They're just so charming and fun. There's something new every day. The two finalists in the competition ended up being 89 backpack and also 910. He's got quiet strength. He's got a lot of energy. He's got a lot of strength at the bottom. Also 910 adopted a cub into her family and she's had a strong story as well. Both bears were looming very large for this contest and it ended up being number 89 voted as a champion. The key to survival for these bears and getting through the winter is the park's healthy ecosystem. Katmai National Park is a large park. It's a large park. It's the size of Yosemite and Yellowstone combined. Over four million acres and there's clean water that comes down from the mountains. There's a strong salmon run. And also these brown bears are one of the largest populations left on the planet. And here in Alaska, in Kami National Park, that ecosystem is intact and the bears are taking advantage of that. That's the reason they're getting fat and they're surviving for another year. Matt Johnson from Katmai National Park in Alaska. And that's all from us for now. If you want to get in touch, you can email us at globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also now watch our episodes in full. Just search for the Global News Podcast on YouTube. This edition was mixed by Chris Ablakwa and the producer was Judy Frankel. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye. Transcribed by ESO. Translated by —