Saudi airport strike, Trump-Zelenskiy spat and 'cockroach' leader freed

Hi, I'm Tara Oaks, in Liverpool. It's Sunday, October 11. Today. Saudi Arabia reels from a Houthi attack on Riyadh's airport, the worst on the kingdom in a decade. A war of words between Trump and the Lensky after the US-Russia diesel deal announcement. Hurricane Isias leaves hundreds of thousands without power as Hurricane Simon's strengthens off the coast of Mexico. And how Gen Z's preference for quiet luxury is hitting brands. This is Reuters' world news, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week. First to Saudi Arabia. Debris and dust fill Riyadh's international airport. After a strike that killed at least 12 people and left more than 300 wounded on Saturday. It's the deadliest attack on the kingdom in more than a decade. Authorities say the dead include four Saudis, two people from Bangladesh and one person from the US. U.S. President Donald Trump said afterwards that Washington is considering joining Saudi strikes on the Houthis in the conflict. Timorazari is a chief correspondent for Saudi Arabia. I think a lot of people are looking for answers today. This is the third attack on Riyadh's airport. An airport that services a city of 8 million people in a week. There was no early warning before this took place. Saudi Arabia has an early warning system. No alerts went off. Saudi Arabia also has air defenses and three times in the same week those air defenses fit. This is a huge deal for Saudi Arabia and the front between the Saudis and the Houthis has become the most active front in the wider Iran war. So the Houthis have been escalating for weeks and they've really been pushing the kingdom and the kingdom has gotten much more involved in this now. It's waging a massive air campaign. The question today is what does this mean for Iran and for the broader region. So far we haven't seen Iran get involved and we've seen the US administration say that they do not want to escalate before the mid-term elections but with such an attack everything is sort of in the air. Timorazari's the damage isn't just physical but strikes at the heart of Saudis pushed to rebrand as an international destination for business and tourism. That now is really a question. I mean, I have spoken with many people who are worried about the kingdom's ability frankly to defend itself just this week starting today and in fact you have a world conference on energy. So yes, there will be now a lot of questions about whether these major events can go ahead and whether people feel safe here. I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal because he could have made many deals and for some reason he never does. President Trump they're calling for Ukraine to replace this leader for Vladimir Zelensky. After the Ukrainian president offered a sharp rebuke to the US's new diesel supply deal with Russia. "Slavkeryeshania, Nazar." Calling the DL-A "week decision by strong partners" and saying the proceeds would fund Russia's war in Ukraine. A steep rise in diesel prices following the start of the Iran war has become a political liability for Trump's Republican party ahead of next month's midterm elections. But Ian Kelly, a former US ambassador to Georgia, says the volumes involved in the deal are unlikely to help Trump at the ballot box in November. A kind of volume that they're talking about. I mean, first of all, they're just notional right now, how something that Putin said. I'm not sure that the Russians can respond very quickly. So it's really not going to accomplish what he wants to accomplish, which is reducing the prices at the pump in the near term, especially before the midterms. Residents in death in Florida, soaring branches from fallen trees after Hurricane Isseus made landfall. Aliyanukone is saying he felt lucky that the damage wasn't worse than their community. Authorities say four people were killed and about 670,000 residents in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi were still without power as a storm weakened to a post-tropical cycle. Meanwhile, Hurricane Simon is expected to become a major hurricane near the West Central Coast of Mexico and move very close to the coast on Monday. That's India's Cockroach Group founder, Abhijit Deepka, after his release from detention in New Delhi. He and other senior leaders have been detained when they're playing landed in Delhi on Saturday. As the movement plan to gather thousands of people on the streets, thousands of police and paramilitary personnel continue to be deployed across the city today in expectation of a second day of protests. Although metro stations reopened and mobile internet services were back up, after the authorities locked down the city in an attempt to thwart earlier demonstrations. The group posted on its ex account shortly after Deepka's release. Cockroaches never die. Next, a new first for rogue AI agents, an attempt to send a bogus tip to authorities. Anthropic has disclosed that one of its AI models submitted a false homicide tip through a Philadelphia police website. Police laid the tip was flagged as "bam" and never forwarded for investigative vetting. But the incident is one in a string of cases and Anthropic said it involved websites from both federal, state and local agencies. Anthropic says it briefed the White House and notified all the agencies. And speaking of AI, in the US, if a conservative advocacy group gets its way, your phone could start ringing with a lot more political messages, not from volunteers, not from candidates, but from AI. The group, club for growth, has asked the FCC to allow AI-generated political robocalls to cell phones without voters consent. We asked reporter Dave Sheppardson if these kind of calls moves at needle. If the FCC approves this, it would certainly set a precedent and you could see they're relatively cheap to send these out and could it become really a hallmark at the end of campaigns? It's on the reason, the reason robocalls have been so successful over the years is because they worked, right? Because you send out all these calls and you don't need to get that highest success rate to see benefits, right? And so some of these elections that are so close in these contested races, if you put up millions of calls and even get a fraction of a fraction of a percent of people that are persuadable and opt to go the other way, could they make a difference in any election? And I think history shows, too, that when any party, liberal conservative Democrat Republican finds some new technique that's cost effective to reach voters, it's hard not to imagine that everybody's not going to follow suit and try to try to take advantage. And finally, luxury brands are preparing to report their third quarter results next week. Since the pandemic, many of the world's major labels have been struggling, but just when the luxury sector hoped it would recover, it's been dealt several blows. We're facing almost like a triple whammy of problems, so there is like a tax crackdown in China on the wealthy. There is also the rail war, which is stoking inflation and depressing spending on Europe. And for the first time, we've started to see also a slowdown in luxury spending from the US. That's where it is global industry editor Lisa Yuka. She says, despite the issues, some smaller, so-called "quiet luxury" labels are outperforming Louis Vuitton, Dior and Gucci. Cuccinelli or Loro Piana, they are both Italian brands. They are cashmere, you know, focused brands, and they are not, let's say, as bold that may be extravagant as some of the others. So this quite luxury, this sort of understated type of luxury, is fairing better in this very difficult environment. On one hand, some of these brands are really vying for the upper echelons, if you want, you know, the ultra wealthy, who are immune from, you know, the problem is, you know, the inflation problems. At the same time, we also have a Gen Z movement, and so like a new generation of shoppers who are less interested in the obvious status, you know, that some of these big logos, you know, carry with them, and they're kind of looking at something which is maybe the epitome of luxury without, you know, Being too bold or showing it off too much is so. 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