The Alleged Terror Plot Near a UK Air Base

Olen Shannon Maldonado, käsintehtyjä artesaanitua teitä myyvän jauji-lahjakaupan perustaja. Valitsin Shopify, koska alustoja testa testani totesin sen ehdottomasti yhdeksi helpokäyttöisimmistä alustoista. Minulla oli tärkeää pohtia kehittymistämme tulevaisuudessa. Kaikki myyntiin tarvittavat työkalut, kuten varaston suunnittelu ovat kätevästi dashboardissa. Aloita ilmainen kokeilu Shopify piste komsi vustolla. It's Monday, September 28. Our militaries used to being under attack, but not in England. You start here. British authorities say they thwarted a terror plot near an airbase used by American bombers. On police quickly responded to the school and arrested five men. But still a lot of unanswered questions over the intent and who was behind it. Assisted suicide is literally the last resort, but the people asking for it are growing younger. It's crazy. What are we going to do? I'm going with my son. Let another person to make him die. In some countries there's no longer just for physical ailments anymore. A fascinating heart-breaking debate is growing. And they're prepared for the next superstorm, but their streets are still flooding. We've hit peak high tide. It has breached the seawalls. Did a no-reaster just expose concerns up and down the east coast. From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milky. Representatives from the US and Iran met last week in New York during the UN General Assembly. Iran apparently laid out a plan that would end hostilities in seven days, these were apparently some of the same measures President Trump had once agreed to than backed off of months ago. Translation, don't expect the US to suddenly agree to a peace deal right now. Well, throughout this weekend, each side continued to threaten escalation. The president said he would not rule out wider strikes. Iran began to insinuate it might start attacking ships as far away as the Indian Ocean. Well, cut to yesterday morning. Even further away, a couple hours west of London, police said they had thwarted a bomb plot. Wasn't clear what this was. What was clear though was how sensitive the location was. An airbase that has been used by the US military for decades. Let's start the week with ABC's foreign correspondent Lama Hassan in London now Lama. Can you just walk us through what happened here and what we sort of initially learned? So Brad, police are declaring this a major incident. We understand the counter-terrorism police on our leading this investigation which just shows you the severity of this incident. We heard from the Assistant Chief Constable in Gloucestershire that's the area where the base is. And interestingly, he read a statement on camera. He didn't take any questions. But we got an idea of what happened in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police received a call relating to three suspicious vehicles traveling towards Arya Fairford. This is the base that is being used by the US to launch operations in Iran. Armed police quickly responded to this call and arrested five men on suspicion of terrorism and explosive offenses. The men were taken into custody where they remain. They are being held and questioned by detectives. And just as a side note under the Terrorism Act police can keep them in custody for up to 14 days without charging them. They are serious offenses. At this point, we don't know anything about these men, but what we do know is that Arya Fairford is on lockdown. Armed police, they're blocking the entrance to the base. We saw them use bomb disposal robots to examine the vehicles at the scene. There is a 400-yard cordon in place. As a precaution, around 85 households have been advised to evacuate while these examinations take place. On the base itself, they've raised the threat level to Delta, which is the highest alert level. How significant are these arrests in that case? Are authorities saying these were some guys with improvised explosive devices? Are they saying these guys were part of a major terror plot to hurt the US military? Something in between, do we know? I think it was serious enough for the police to move in. It's quite a big deal. It's not every day that police here declare a major incident like this and arrest people on suspicion of terrorism and explosive offenses. We don't have any more details apart from that. The British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, he posted on social media and he said, "As long as the investigation is taking place, we really shouldn't speculate until the authorities have established the full facts." They can say not to speculate, but the US, like the American President Donald Trump, sound like he was quickly speculating on this. He sounded like this was very serious. Well, he said that the arrest in the UK was fantastic. He said that working with Britain was an amazing job. He did say we had them under investigation. They were looking to do big damage to our fort and working with the British worked out great. It may have been Scotland yard, I don't know, that we worked with a lot of them. We had them under view for a long time and we got them. But I do need to stress here that this has not been corroborated by the British authorities at the moment. They've not said that these men were under surveillance. All we know at this point is that the police were called in the early hours of Sunday morning about three suspicious vehicles heading towards the base. And that's when the police swooped in and they arrested these five men on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offenses. Let's imagine for a moment, though, that this is not just five rogue individuals. It could be, like you said, we don't know, but if it's not, I mean, who could have been behind this? I mean, would it have been, is it crazy to think that Iran would be behind it somebody else, like another state? Is there speculation to consider? Yeah, you know, Brad, these are all legitimate questions. And I don't want to speculate at this moment, but we all know there are two ongoing conflicts. We know that Iran warned Britain about allowing the US to use their bases to attack their country. And the possible consequences that they become a legitimate target. They've said that. And of course, Russia's war in Ukraine could be a Russian strategy. We just don't know, but remember, Brad, remember what happened in Leipzig in Germany over the summer. Right? Germany even said that Russia was responsible for the drone attack at Leipzig Airport. Remember there was that drone that was found near Ukrainian cargo planes. It didn't explode because of a faulty detonator. But and that's interesting, Lama, because we've been hearing more and more of these, like just in the last couple weeks. Leipzig was like the beginning of now what looked like many, many, what European officials have called sabotage acts by the Russians, huh? Right, it could be, you know, and they're calling this like a hybrid war. It could be a possibility that Russia is behind this alleged attack that could have taken place at RAF effort. We just don't know at the moment. We really don't. Right, a lot of, a lot of like, could have been, might have been, and we still don't know what this even was necessarily. But a lot of attention now being devoted to this on both sides of the Atlantic. Lama, Hassan, there in London. Thank you. My pleasure, Brad. Next up on Start here, what would it be like to drive to the hospital with your loved one knowing they're about to take their own life? This is becoming a reality for more families than you might think, and we'll meet some of them after the break. This show is sponsored by Zippercruder. Think a moment to think about some of the things you do to save time. 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Several states allow assisted suicide to patients who are not expected to live longer than six to 12 months and feel their quality of life just makes it no longer worth living anymore. Often, this involves patients with terminal illnesses who are suffering, going through intense physical pain. But what if the pain isn't from a physical condition at all? What if it's a mental illness making life seem no longer worth living? Well, more and more, governments around the world are considering the implications of assisted suicide from mental health patients. And these conversations are getting even more fraught. ABC's Chief International Correspondent James Long has been covering this. It's part of a big ABC News Live special called Euthanasia Right to Die. He joins us now, James. How does this work? What are we talking about here? Well, people at home may be familiar with the term Euthanasia or assisted suicide. And they may be familiar with it in the case of someone who's dealing with a very difficult physical illness, a sickness, like cancer or some kind of other condition, which is going to kill them in possibly just the next few months. I mean, a lot of states in the US, where this is legal, do say that a person could qualify for assisted suicide or Euthanasia only if physicians agree that they would die anyway of their illness or their disability or their condition. What we're talking about here is assisted suicide for reasons of mental illness. And then the overarching kind of question here, the principle can one have a terminal mental illness? Is there such a thing as a mental health complaint, which you will never get over? And more precisely, is that mental health complaint so serious that you should be given the right to die? And should the government, should the state help you in that decision? And there are countries in the world where that has always been the case. Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, three countries, which are termed as Benilux. These are very liberal European countries where assisted suicide and Euthanasia have been legal for some time, most near the millennium they passed laws. And they never differentiated between physical and mental illness. But what we've seen in the just the last few years is that more and more people are choosing to end their lives for reasons of mental illness. And, Brad, the reason why we're interested in this is more and more young people are deciding to do this. And we know that all over the world, young people deal with more and more mental health issues, severe depression by polar disorder instances of schizophrenia. For these people, this is obviously something that is kind of massively pertinent, wherever you might live in the world. And Canada, a country with one of the most liberal assisted suicide laws in the world, is currently debating whether to open it up for people with a mental illness, as well as a physical one. And actually, some of the youngest people in the world who have done this already just in the last couple of years, in Europe, a 16-year-old was given permission with the blessing of their parents to go through with Euthanasia, a 17-year-old. I notice on your arm you have a tattoo that says, continue. Yes, yeah, yeah. What does continue mean? This tattoo, I got it a number of years ago, to help me give strength to continue in life. Oh, that's not translatable. How can we say this? The literal translation is, oh, we can cross a line through it. But in Dutch, that means ending things. Strike it. Yeah, we can strike it out. We followed a 23-year-old, a young woman called Nina, who dealt with such a difficult childhood, chronic depression, PTSD, a traumatic event in our life that she also was considering Euthanasia. Well, yeah, how does she-- So Nina, then, how does she describe that choice when so many people around her, I'm sure, are saying, you've got a full life ahead of you. You don't know what you're going to be like at 30 or 40. How does she describe this journey and this decision to you? She says, very clearly. She doesn't want to die, but she has less reason to live. That is not to the glow in the upper dose, yes. It took a long time to get to the point of Euthanasia. Actually, I don't want to die, but I cannot live anymore. It's not an easy decision for these people. She contemplates death a lot of the time. She has had multiple suicide attempts. And she believes, and those around her believe, actually, that it's better to go with the help of the state in a controlled environment, with the permission, or at least the blessing of your parents, your loved ones, to be there with you at the end. And that's better, she says, than going off on your own and ending your life in what can be a very traumatic or violent way. That only made all open. I understand the people very well that say, oh, you're so young, you've got your whole life ahead of you. But, on the other hand, if it doesn't change, it didn't change at all. It made me lost faith that it will get better. This is not an easy decision in a place like the Netherlands, for instance, you go to your physician and over a period of some years, actually, they have to assess you. You're given all kinds of different medications to see if they work, only then does the physician agree. And after that, a second physician who isn't related to the case at all, has to then assess it to establish whether or not they believe that you're right for this. If that person thinks it's okay, then you are given the permission. And actually, we spoke to the doctor who was working with Nina. I never say good idea, of course. Never, but I say, I hear you. And if that's still the case next week, or next time we see each other, we'll put it on the list of subjects to be talked about. And I asked her what it was like for her. This doctor has ended the lives of dozens of people for reasons of mental illness, to be in the room with someone going through that. And she believes that this is not a contradiction in terms. She's not portraying her oath as a doctor. She believes that that's what she's for. She's there to help ease suffering. Otherwise, they may take their lives themselves. And then they are in a very lonesome, isolated, bad way, bad situation when they die and they take their lives themselves. And in her mind, helping someone end their life in a kind of clinical and safe way is her duty. These are very, very heavy conversations with people who are in incredibly difficult places in their lives. But the sense I got from meeting a number of people and talking to a lot of people, Brad, we did, I spent three years doing this story. We've been speaking to people who have gone through the process, who've decided at the last minute, not to go through with it. I should say, actually, what we've noticed is that, you know, a person goes into this process, gets the permission. And actually, in more than half of instances, it's that permission that gives them some kind of agency over their lives where they believe, actually, you know, what life is worth living. I've walked to the edge. I know I can do it. It's enough that I've been taken seriously. Now I can keep living. - But here's the thing, James, is, I get that mental health issues and physical health issues are equally serious. I know that we've really learned more about that in recent years. But there's still not the same, right? Like the present in different ways. Is there a concern that the request for assisted suicide could just be the results of the mental illness itself, like how clear-eyed can you be that this is definitely what I want to do? That's the thing that I'm still trying to wrap my brain around. - Well, that's precisely put your finger on it, Brad. I mean, that's exactly the issue. And these physicians say, well, we've been working in these specialties for decades. We know what we're talking about. And we believe that we can differentiate. And that's why it's a period of many years. It's not just a few months, it's a really long time that you spend working with a physician and other medical professionals, but you're right. And that's the reason why it is so controversial, especially for young people, Brad. You know, the brain isn't developed, whether or not you have a mental illness. - Right. - At 16, at 17, at 23, you were old enough to be making these decisions. Critics of this will say, absolutely not. - The vast majority of colleagues would agree that there is no such thing as a terminal psychiatric illness. And I would challenge you to put any one patient before me that you would expect me to find untreatable. - There is a big medical community who believe in this kind of pure ideal of bodily autonomy that you have a right over your life and you have a right to decide when that life should end. And I don't want to kind of give people the wrong impression. This is not massively widespread. The numbers are not enormous, but they are actually growing. - It was time. It was the time to go. - He had to go and we saw that he couldn't anymore and we also couldn't anymore. - I spoke to parents, Caroline and Gilbert, of a man called David who went through with this and they described the last day where they all get in the car together to go to the hospital. It's crazy, what are we going to do? I'm going to. Going with my son, let another person to make him die. - That's the same time, it's okay. - It was okay, we, yes, it was okay. - She just said it was surreal, sitting in the car with my son, taking him to the hospital to have his life ended, even though he didn't have a physical illness. - Right, everything is like this is our last meal together, this is our last drive together, I can't imagine. - And the final conversations about life, about love, I mean, in those moments, they said to me, they felt more alive and more connected to their son than they had ever been. - We had in quality time, quality, quality, quality time with three stars. - We didn't talk about whether, we talked about life in death. - And they described, you know, playing his favorite music as they held his hand in the room at the end. But Brad, I mean, their story is particularly unique because their other son, six months later, also ended his life, except he did it on his own. He actually hanged himself in the woods. - You were so alone. I should be with him, we should be with him. - Should I hold his hand? - We should hold his hands and support him, and that's the great difference. - The story of their family is obviously very, very sad and mental illness runs in their family genetically, but they said we're in the kind of sadly tragic, but unique position of knowing what it feels like to hold the hand of one son who chooses this and to have the other do it himself. And they said, well, obviously we would always choose to want to be there with our son at the end. It's a very thought-provoking film, obviously, Brad. It's very moving. I don't want people to be afraid of watching or listening to this because it kind of asks questions about all of us and about how we view life and death. And it's personal for me. I mean, my father, he ended his life. And I spent the last three years meeting these people and with the back of my mind thinking if my dad came to me, he had a significant mental health issue as schizophrenia. And if he'd said to me, I'm thinking of this, James, what do you think? I mean, I honestly, Brad, I couldn't give you an answer. I still don't know. I'm still very torn over it even after having spent these three years with these people. So these are not simple stories, but they speak to kind of the heart of the human experience, I think. - It's just amazing reporting, like you said, over three years. As always, I should say, if anyone out there is struggling with thoughts of suicide or a family member who's struggling with thoughts of hurting themselves, you can always take advantage of free help that's available 24/7 through the suicide prevention lifeline that is 988 here in the States. James Longman, thank you so much. - Thanks a lot, Brad. - Okay, one more quick break. When we come back, their confidence is eroding just like the ground under their feet. One last thing is next. - I'm Shannon Maldonado, the director of the Artesan Institute of Technology, and I'm the director of the Institute of Health and Health. I'm the director of the Institute of Health and Health, which is a very important part of the project. I'm the director of the Institute of Health, which is a very important part of the project. I'm the director of the Institute of Health, On October 19th, 2025, the Louvre became the backdrop of something straight out of a heist movie. Now, nearly a year out, there are still critical questions to be answered. We're used to following heist in movies from the perspectives of the ever-so-glamorous and dangerous perpetrators, but when it happens in real life, the lines between good and bad guys aren't so clear. And even less clear is the fate of those French crown jewels. 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Crew ships were chaotic. Winds surged over 80 miles an hour in some areas. Our sliding closet door kept going back and forth throughout the entire night. But as the weekend wore on, it became obvious just how hard the system was especially hammering New York and New Jersey. In New York City, water started piling up on highways. Cars attempted driving into what looked like puddles, only to realize the water level was up around their windshields. Some took to kayaking in the streets, meanwhile in New Jersey. Look at the huge chunks of sand that have been carved out of the dunes by these huge waves. Our team at WABC watched seawater start to pile up. And in some areas, this was looking distressingly familiar. Remember, these are some of the same areas that were flooded by superstorm Sandy back in 2012. States spent billions of dollars rebuilding breakwaters and seawalls, hoping it could hold storms like this one one day at bay. Eventually, though, the water level started to rise. It has breached the seawalls in certain places. Look at that. There's a jellyfish in the parking lot right now where we are. One eye-opening example came from Atlantic City. In the wake of Sandy, taxpayers paid millions upon millions to replenish the dunes to protect the city streets and buildings. Well, in a two-hour time-lapse video, you can see the ocean literally eating away at years of work that protective wall quickly receded. There was severe dune loss in Brighantine and Atlantic City. Winds reached as high as 74 miles an hour in surf city. Overall, this storm was nothing like Sandy. Nothing like the number of deaths and destruction that we saw back then. But it does highlight the challenge facing local officials now. Preventing the type of damage we saw back in 2012? That isn't enough. As climate change threatens stronger and stronger storms, you're going to have to be ready for the weather of 2026, 2030, 2050, or to use Atlantic City terms the biggest gamble would be doing nothing at all. Also, you want to talk about freak weather. Let's talk about what's happening in Hawaii right now. It's being narrowly averted a hurricane that is swung to the south and west of them. But there's going to be high winds around the islands today. And wouldn't you know what officials have also detected precursor activity in the Kilauea volcano on the big island of Hawaii? That means ask to get blasted a thousand feet in the air. And with all that wind, they're not describing it kind of raining down all around the island. In pools and water systems, they're calling it a potential volcanic hail storm. Suddenly, the rain right outside my window in Brooklyn does not seem so bad right now. I'm Brad Milky. I'll see you tomorrow. Olen Shannon Maldonado. 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