house says president biden is partly responsible for an adviser to donald trump's campaign tells the bbc ukraine needs to admit it's lost crimea to russia. buckingham palace announces queen camilla will not attend remembrance events this weekend while she recovers from a chest infection. at least 25 people are killed in a bomb blast at a railway station in western pakistan. station in western pakistan. and mark cavendish — and mark cavendish — one of the most successful one of the most successful cylists in history — cylists in history — announces his retirerment. announces his retirerment. with the announcement hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones. hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones. the prospects for a middle the prospects for a middle

east peace deal have east peace deal have been dealt another blow been dealt another blow with the announcement by the mediators qatar that they are pulling out of the negitations. the gulf state has hosted talks since representatives of israel and hamas first agreed to enter discussions, as well as taking part in talks qatar has hosted the political office of hamas, allowing the group to operate with relative freedom. we will have plenty of reaction and get the context about what this decision means for the region later in this programme.

nancy pelosi, has put part of the blame for kamala harris�*s loss on president biden, suggesting that the party would have performed better if he'd left the race earlier. ms pelosi played a key role in convincing mr biden to end his re—election bid. speaking to the new york times, she said. there will be many reviews of timing and the who, what, when and why and where as we go forward, and book also be written about it. the fact is, she did a greatjob where the time constraint she had. had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race, kamala i think still would have won but she may have been stronger, having taken her case to the public sooner.

reading through the interview, she is really quite pragmatic, that that, i mean i i don't want to call it an attack on president biden, because it really, she's, and it is worth saying she has been published more of an interview so you see all the questions which were asked, which is is instructive and she is repeatedly asked about the fact that there wasn't a primary, and she has said before, as you were saying there, that kamala harris, she thinks would have benefitted from a primary, a process, from democrats and others, floating voters feeling like there had been a contest, she thinks it would have given kamala harris an opportunity to do what she can do, to set her credentials in stone, when pushed she concedes, had president biden decided to step aside and end his campaign earlier then there would have been the opportunity

to have that primary contest, but it, it is further than any senior democrats have gone in terms of acknowledging what went wrong, she is pragmatic during that interview, she says the time will come to look at the time will come to look at the message, to look at what went wrong but looking at it in the round, she isn't concedings much ground at the moment. she believes a lot what the democrats did was right, and correct, and i think all of the interviews, the conversations heard this week, people redesperate to hear senior democrats reflect op what went wrong but it feels they are not quite ready to do that in a therapeutic way yet, that is why we get hints from this, but nothing bigger or grander. thank you to anna for that. a campaign advisor to the us president—elect, donald trump, has told the bbc that the aim of ending the war in ukraine is about finding peace, not winning back territory. bryan lanza said ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky, needed to acknowledge that crimea, which russia

annexed in 2014, had been lost, and the priority of the united states was to stop the killing. here he is speaking earlier. i have a huge amount of respect for the ukrainian people. they've proven over the last, last couple of years that their hearts are made of lions. europe needs ukrainian people to protect them as well. i mean, these citizens know how to fight russia. they've done it successfully. now the challenge becomes when you have an honest conversation with your partners is, you know, what are the goals? zelensky, for example, he says his goal is to get crimea back. well, that's not the goal of the united states and that's not the goal of the european nation states. we learned that in 2014 that when putin invaded crimea, europe did nothing. and so now when zelensky says, you know, we will only stop this fighting, there will only be peace once

crimea is returned. we've got news for president zelensky. crimea is gone. and if that is your priority of getting crimea back and having american, you know, soldiers fight to get crimea back, you're on your own. that is not the priority of america, but the priority of america is peace and to stop the killing. his comments come after russian drones struck ukraine's black sea port of odesa, killing one person and injuring 13 others according to the regional governor. several residential and commercial buildings were damaged in what was the second day in a row of russian drone attacks on the city. and across the border, russia's aleksinsky chemical plant was struck — in an overnight ukrainian drone attack. the plant in the tula region produces gunpowder, ammunition and weapons. a source in the security service of ukraine told reuters that the attack was part of a broader strategy to target russia's munitions factories. jim townsend is deputy assistant secretary of defense for european and nato policy between 2009—2017. he explained what a trump administration strategy for ukraine might look like. right now you have particularly president trump, former president trump, former president trump, former president trump, soon to be in his second round, you have him

saying that he can do this peace within 2a hours, so, he hasn't said how he can do it but for sure that will be a priority for him, because in the first 100 days of his administration he will be asked about this in terms of what you have you done to bring peace to ukraine? so we have begun to hear posturing going on between russia, ukraine and the trump advisers talking about when a peace element could look like but the issue is, there is still a lot of fight to go, with ukraine, they want to be in a better position on the battlefield before this negotiation, so it is a bit premature right now for someone to suggest that zelensky admit anything, much less he has lost ukraine or other parts of like crimea. premature to make that kind of announcement.— kind of announcement. what do ou kind of announcement. what do you make _ kind of announcement. what do you make of _ kind of announcement. what do you make of the _ kind of announcement. what do you make of the announcement| you make of the announcement that a supporter of trump has said that, crimea has lost and that won't be the priority for the us? , ., ., .,

the us? there is a lot of --eole the us? there is a lot of peeple in _ the us? there is a lot of people in washington i the us? there is a lot of. people in washington now the us? there is a lot of- people in washington now who say they are advisers to trump and they are making a lot of statements, this is something in a long line of statements by people who feel they are closer to trumping than they really are, but, that aside, launching this kind of trial balloon if you will, putting this kind of thought into play, is something thatis thought into play, is something that is trumpian as well, this is something to cause, to cause debate, a bit of chaos, to send signals to putin, and to zelensky, so that is what this is, this remark by that so—called adviser but it doesn't necessarily represent what trump things.— doesn't necessarily represent what trump things. what about the funding _ what trump things. what about the funding and _ what trump things. what about the funding and the _ what trump things. what about the funding and the armings . what trump things. what about| the funding and the armings and aid flowing from the us to ukraine, what impact will a trump presidency have on that? well, right now, as you point out, under president biden, he, he unleashed the last bit of assistance that we had, in the

pipeline, to get to ukraine as quickly as possible. as you can imagine, it doesn't move that quickly so by the time trump becomes president for a second time, he might very well have the ability to stop all of that assistance that is in bound and use that as leverage over zelensky, and to try to manoeuvre zelensky into a certain position, so my guess is when he comes into power will put the brake on the assistance until he can use that as leverage to get what he wants, both out of kyiv as well as out of moscow. it's been announced that queen camilla is to miss remembrance events in the uk this weekend. a statement from buckingham palace said the decision was made to allow the queen time to recover from a chest infection — and to protect others from any potential risk. 0ur correspondent charlotte gallagher gave us the latest. the queen is going to miss two

key events this weekend for the rememberance service events, which is the royal british legion festival of remembrance at the royal albert hall on saturday evening, that's tonight, and she is not going to be at the remembrance day service at the cenotaph tomorrow. now a palace spokesperson said following doctors' guidance to ensure an full recovery from a seasonal chest infection, and to protect others from any potential risk, her majesty will not attend this weekend's events. while this is a source of a great disappointment to the queen, she will mark the occasion privately at home and hopes to return to public duties early next week. it is not thought her condition has got any worse, it is just that basically she doesn't want to pass on a lingering infection to other people that will be attending the events. however, the princess of walese, who we have rarely seen in public this year because she has been undergoing cancer treatment, she will be at the events this weekend, as will the king, who is also still undergoing cancer treatment.

around a0 civic groups and unions will take part in a protest in valencia later over the spanish regional government's handling of deadly flash flooding last week. around 220 people died in the floods — most of them around valencia. the protesters want the regional head — carlos mazon — to resign, saying his administration was unprepared for the disaster. let's speak to esperanza who lives in the municipality of catarroja where the clean—up is very much still under way. thank you for coming on the programme, we can see the mud still around you there, can you just describe the conditions now? ~ ., ., just describe the conditions now? . ., . , just describe the conditions now? ~ ., ., , ., now? well, now, at this moment, we are surrounded, _ now? well, now, at this moment, we are surrounded, by _ now? well, now, at this moment, we are surrounded, by cleaning, l we are surrounded, by cleaning, you can see taking all the rubbish and dirt out of the area, because 12 days after the

tragedy we don't have all the commodities, we don't have gas, some of people doesn't have, don't have water, so we need to clean. some people can, are infected. you have pain, we are infected. you have pain, we are in the water. the army is looking for people who disappear, and they suspect they are there, so, the area is not clean for a long time, and we are in danger of infections. and you have outlined all the

challenges and problems there, we know there are going to be protests think�*ve, can you feel the anger there? we protests think've, can you feel the anger there?— protests think've, can you feel the anger there? we are angry because nobody... _ the anger there? we are angry because nobody... expect- the anger there? we are angry because nobody... expect this| because nobody... expect this tragedy, on tuesday, in the morning, we only have orange alarm, so it was for full morning, we only have orange alarm, so it was forfull rain, so people was doing the normal life and at midday they advice they change to raise alarm and we think it was too late, because everyone was working and doing, going shopping and doing health and it was, mm, we any that, we don't have enough

time to take care, so... arrived very late and people were doing their lives. thank you very much for coming on the programme, good luck with the keen up and your operations there, we will keep an eye on those later. thank you for coming on the programme.— you for coming on the programme. hello from the bbc sport centre. manchester city manager pep guardiola has never lost four games in a row in his career — he's facing that prospect later — the premier league champions are away at brighton. rumours continue to swirl around when guardiola may call time on his incredible career at city — but he's not interested in speculation around whether he'll sign a new contract. i'm not going to talk about what is going to happen. we are in touch, regularly, what is going to happen

is going to happen. always for the benefit of the club. brighton against city is one of six premier league games. most of them are underway. winless wolves are at home to southampton — where it's currently 1—0. in the final game of the day, liverpool will look to keep their place at the top of the table when they welcome aston villa to anfield. arne slot�*s hoping to make it nine wins from 11 in the league. but he says they can't afford to get carried away with their great start to the season. for most of these players it's a normal situation. i don't think they get carried away at all by us being top of the league at the moment because they know how small the margins of. when it comes to our results and also scored, when you look at the amount of points we have had from the other teams. to spain now where real madrid

have beaten osasuna. 4—0nil the final score, thanks to a hat—trick from vinicius junior. jude bellingham getting the other goal. league leaders barcelona play real sociedad on sunday, and their boss hansi flick knows its not going to be easy. we focus on the next match, and this is, i think for us the key, because everyone is focussed on that, not only what they do in the last six pochettinos, now, we have to look, we have to see what is our match plan against san sebastian, they will be a tough match, and yeah, there is important that we have the focus bound there. in rugby union — three autumn internationals this saturday, including england against australia at twickenham's allianz stadium, with the hosts hoping to put last week's defeat to new zealand behind them. then later france host japan,

after italy take on argentina. england are 5—0 up. now to cycling and there was speculation that he might just give it one more year, but britain's sir mark cavendish has confirmed he will retire from the sport at sunday's singapore criterium. he's regarded as the greatest male sprinter to compete on the road. earlier this year he won a record—breaking 35th stage at the tour de france at the age of 39, having won his first as a 23—year—old back in 2008. he was the second british man to win the world road cycling championship, and has worn the leader's jersey at all three grand tours — as well as winning the madison world title twice on the track and taking 0lympic silver in the 0mnium at the rio games in 2016. cavendish confirmed the news on instagram, saying...

what he has achieved in the sport is phenomenal, to have the most tour de france wins, the most tour de france wins, the stage wins is incredible. absolutely incredible, and no easy feat, i mean i don't see that record being broken for a very long time. that record being broken for a very long time. and that's all the sport for now. there's been a powerful explosion in west pakistan at a railway station in quetta , the capital of the western province of balochistan. police say 1a soldiers are among 25 killed — dozens have been injured. the station superintendent said the blast took place near a platform as the jaffar express bound for

peshawar was about to leave. a militant group, the balochistan liberation army, said it carried out the bombing. for more on this attack, here the bbc�*s urdu correspondent saad sohail. we got confirmation from the local authorities in quetta, confirming there were military personnel part of the casualties, but we have talked to certain eyewitnesses, till now, and they describe the horrors of the scene, one of them told bbc that what he saw was like a day ofjudgment. other than that, the witnesses that we have spoken to, so far, that this was just before 9am local time, and the train that you mention, it is a very popular train which commutes daily from quetta in the west, to peshawar in the north east, so this is a very popular train. so just before the train was about on to board, and police confirms there were more than 100 people, you know, clustered together at the time when this blast took place.

we spoke to someone who mentioned how he stepped aside to the tea stall nearby, and as he was returning, this loud explosion took place. he could see the people laying on the floor, screaming for help, and he was, he mentions how lucky he was he survived. there are similar accounts of a government employee who also mentioned he was lucky that the, of his friend that he was there to drop off, survived this accident, this explosion. but until now we haven't heard a statement from pakistan army on this particular blast that took place. what do we are know about the organisation claiming responsibility? so balochistan liberation army is a separatist organisation, and this particular attack does not come as an isolated one, because this entire year

we have seen frequent attacks by balochistan liberation army. target military personnel and installations, we have seen a attacks in the past where civilians were also targeted. this is a province, the one we are talking about, balochistan, the largest province in pakistan, but it is also the least developed one and its history is marred with insurgency and human rights violation, so balochistan liberation army in this particular attack also claims they were targeting military personnel returning from a training course back to quetta, and as we repeat, we still haven't heard from the pakistan army on this particular attack. thank you. here in the uk, a campaign group is urging hundreds of thousands of former

university students to check if they're eligible for a refund from the student loans company. figures released for the first time show a total of £181; million has been overpaid. radio 4's money box dan whitworth, has more. student loans. everyone signs up for them when enrolling at university, and from september 2025, they'll increase for the first time in eight years. the government announced last week that tuition fees in england will increase by 3%, from £9,250 to £9,535. all in all, the average student leaves university education with almost £45,000 worth of maintenance loans and tuition fees to repay. repayments generally begin once individuals earn above the annual threshold to start paying back their fees and loans. but for a number of reasons, individuals can start paying back their debts too soon. of the money paid towards outstanding debts last year, £181; million was overpaid. the student loans company says that amount may be refundable to around

about one million former students. i think on average, it is somewhere in the kind of low hundreds so it is definitely worth doing because particularly, even the cost of living crisis, lingering on a bit, having that extra boost of cash can make an world of difference. people 1536 00:23:31,818 --> 00