Transcript of Sky News Breakfast: Russia launches one of its 'largest air attacks' Ukrainian foreign minister says

Hello. Good morning. It's 7:00. On today's show, Ukraine's defense minister accuses Russia of one of its biggest attacks yet on sleeping civilians and critical infrastructure.

We have a special report on how Ukrainian schools are going underground to avoid Russian missiles.

And heartbreak for the British boxer Chris Bill of Smith, who loses a ferocious fight in Riyadh to miss out on becoming the unified World Cruiserweight champion.

It's Sunday 17th November, teaching in a war zone how schools in Ukraine's second city have been forced underground. A Church of England bishop accuses her own colleagues of failing to speak out over child abuse because it could damage their promotion prospects. A murdered woman found in the boot of a car in East London has been named as 24 year old Hashita Barilla. Donald Trump takes a break from picking his cabinet to attend a UFC fight.

In New York and defeat for English cricketers as their hopes of completing a series whitewash over the West Indies end in a high scoring T20 loss in St. Lucia.

Hello, good morning, everyone, and welcome to the breakfast show. Ukraine's defense minister has accused Russia of launching one of its biggest attacks yet on the country's energy infrastructure. Explosions were heard overnight in the capital Kyiv, and at least one residential building is on fire. Airstrikes were also reported in the western city of Lviv, and critical infrastructure was hit in the southeastern Zaporizhia region. Well, in the last hour, the Minister for Foreign affairs said this. Russia launched one of the largest airstrike drones and missiles against peaceful cities, sleeping civilians, critical infrastructure. This is war criminal Putin's true response to all those who called and visited him recently. We need peace through strength, not appeasement. After nearly two years of war, children in some parts of the country have been forced underground to avoid Russian missiles. Stuart Ramsey reports from Kharkiv on the education frontline.

This might be the only school in the world that only has one corridor. You'd think these little ones couldn't get lost, but they're never alone here. Even bathroom breaks are a class affair. It is a school, but it's known by its official name, university, not the place of learning. The underground station. This remarkable school deep underground is one of six station schools across the city that daily teach 4,800 children whose families haven't fled the war. Built by the Soviets, the Kharkiv metro is the safest place in this city, constantly attacked by Russian missiles. At one stage, 160,000 people sheltered in it. Normal schools were deemed too unsafe, too vulnerable to attack. So the education Authority in the city came up with this idea, sealing off a walkway next to the tracks and building classrooms.

In the summer of 2023, the Defense Council didn't allow children to study in regular school buildings, so we had to find a solution. This is our front line, our educational frontline. The experiment succeeded because it was driven by a united team.

There are health concerns for both the teachers and the pupils spending so much time underground, so medical examinations are now part of the school day. It's an opportunity also for behavioral specialists to monitor the effects of the war on both the pupils and the teachers. The psychological effects of living in a war zone could last their lifetimes.

They live in a constant state of.

Stress, multifaceted stress caused by a range of factors.

They are exposed to things they see.

And hear, like alarms, explosions, and they feel it all.

Wrapped up warm. The pupils are led to the surface to catch a school bus to their old school, which has been bombed out. But it's where they meet their parents for a normal pickup. When school ends, the children emerge into Kharkiv. And you look around, right, these buildings here, they're all closed down. They've all been hit by Russian missiles. There's a massive building here. This was hit some time ago. It's a big government building. This is strange existence that people have in Kharkiv. And perhaps the most strange is these children having to be taken from busses through a town that is constantly under threat of missile attack and constant air raids. That's the life they have now. Remember, in school they are safe, up here they are not. The journey home is a risk every time. That's a siren taking. That's a air raid siren we can hear right now as we're on the bus trying to take the kids home. I think it's like this the whole time in Kharkiv. As you can see, everyone carries on acting pretty much normally. Alina, actually, tell me, you know, we hear air raid sirens going off.

Do people just accept it now? That's just part of life.

People have to some extent adapted. If we see missiles coming, heaven forbid.

We'Ll stop near a designated shelter following our evacuation plan.

And that's where the children will go for cover.

Many of these children are deeply traumatized. One of the teachers comforts Elisa. Her grandfather has been killed on the front line. She's now prone to tears. Everyone here has to carry their sadness. Everyone. The last stop is Saltivka, one of the most bombed districts in this city. Their parents picked them up after the first snowfall. Of the season. Another winter has come in this war that is nearly 1,000 days long. Stuart Ramsey, Sky News. Carl Keef.

The prime minister will travel to Brazil later this morning for the G20 summit where the war in Ukraine is likely to be discussed. Our political correspondent Amanda Acass is here. It's going to be such a big issue for world leaders. You know, you've got Donald Trump, President elect, who said he could end the war in Ukraine. What did he say in 48 hours?

Yes, on day one.

On day one, yeah. And then of course, aid, you know, and weaponry, how world leaders fund that. So this is going to be one of those hot potato issues, isn't it, for leaders?

I think so. And I think for secure Starmer and all of Ukraine's other key allies, they really know the clock is ticking to try and maximize the support for, for President Zelensky before Donald Trump takes office in January. Because, as you say, he's previously been very critical of the amount of financial support being given to Kiev and he's talked about ending the war immediately with a suggestion, therefore, that that would involve ceding land to Russia that it's seized by the illegal invasion. I think the prime Minister will be hoping to speak to President Biden. One big issue is about a $20 billion loan that was agreed by the Americans back in the summer as part of a broader 50 billion loan package to the Ukrainians that's based in part on money from the interests of assets of the Russians that were seized after the invasion. But that hasn't actually been handed over yet. So I think there'll definitely be discussions about making sure that gets over the line before Trump takes office. Also, the question over the long range missiles, the Storm Shadow missiles that are Anglo French weaponry, but they need US Technology to really work properly.

So Biden needs to give the go ahead for that. That's been an ongoing discussion. I think that's also going to come up again. We know that President Macron and talking about all these issues last week, and I think they'll be very keen to try and get progress on that at this summit. But Donald Trump not being there, still very much dominating proceedings. I think also on the issue of global trade is going to be very much on the agenda for the Prime Minister. He's threatened to slap 20% tariffs on all imports coming in to the US which would have a massive impact on the UK economy and elsewhere. There's a lot of discussions in the papers this morning about how the UK Government will play this. Really? Do we try and get closer to the US to try and avoid those tariffs. But could that involve accepting some US demands for a trade deal? Remember all those debates about chlorinated chicken and all of that which really not palatable to UK consumers. Whereas if we want to get closer to the EU with antagonize the us, but we do three times as much trade with the eu, so those discussions will be ongoing.

Also looking likely that the Prime Minister is going to meet with President Xi of China as well. Clearly there's been, there wasn't much engagement with the Tory administration, with the Chinese, but it looks like given the global circumstances, perhaps the government's looking at getting a bit closer to the Chinese again, as well as discussions about migration, which is another big priority for the Prime Minister. In terms of discussions in the papers today, could he be looking at paying countries where migrants are coming from more to kind of stop the small boats at source along the lines of what we've seen in Italy. But you know, all these are priorities domestically for the Prime Minister. Security, trade, migration. But also I think the fact that we're seeing him again going on this long haul flight, off to Rio, off to Brazil. Last week he was off to Baku altogether. Since the start of this parliamentary term, he's been away for three weeks. The government would argue, well, we're resetting our kind of global reputation. He's, you know, appearing statesman like filling a vacuum in some cases. He's only sort of major world leader to be there in, in the cop, for example.

But he's got big pressures domestically with all the protests from the farmers yesterday. So it is a bit of a gamble.

So much on the agenda. Amanda, thank you so much to pop back for the news review a bit later on. Meanwhile, the Bishop of Newcastle has accused some of her colleagues of refusing to speak out over child abuse because it could damage their career prospects. Last week, the Archbishop of Canterbury resigned over the handling of the abuse scandal. Dr. Helen Hartley told my colleague Trevor Phillips that others may also have to step down. And there is a culture of silence and fear in the Church of England.

Silence speaks in many ways. Some are silent perhaps because they see themselves as succeeding to be the new Archbishop of Canterbury. Others are fearful of being reprimanded and rebuked because I know that colleagues have received letters similar to mine which are quite heavy in tone. So I think genuinely they're motivated by a fear of just keeping their heads down and not feeling able to speak out, which I think is really unfortunate.

Well, we did approach the Church of England for a comment on that interview and they said they had nothing more to add. And you can watch the Full interview from 8:30 on Sky News. Trevor Phillips will also be joined by Transport Secretary Louise Hay, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp and President of the National Farmers Union, Tom Bradshaw. Sunday morning with Trevor Phillips from 8:30 this morning. Yeah. Incoming U.S. president Donald Trump has announced oil and gas industry executive Chris writes as his pick for energy secretary. The founder and chief executive of Liberty Energy is expected to support the president's plan to maximize oil and gas production. He said in a video last year that there is no climate crisis. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump himself has spent the night at the UFC being cheered by fans at Madison Square Garden in New York. He was also joined by his sons, UFC boss Dana White and two of his closest supporters. That's Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy. I love this next story. It's linked to Donald Trump, of course. For those Americans who are less enthused by another four years of a Trump presidency, a cruise company is offering an escape for the duration of his stay in the White House.

Now the cruise offers 600 passengers the chance to visit more than 140 countries over four years. Tempting. Let's take you through some of the day's other stories. This Sunday morning. Medics in Gaza say tens have been killed and wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern town of Beit Lahaina. A local authorities say that around 70 people lived in the building. Israel's made no comment on the incident. Super Typhoon Meni has hit the Philippines with more than 400,000 residents ordered to evacuate. It's a sick tropical cyclones hit the Southeast Asian country in the last month or so with gusts of around 150 miles per hour expected. Eight people have been killed in a stabbing at a school in the city of Wuxi in eastern China. Police say the suspect, a 21 year old male student, was detained at the scene. Israeli police have made three arrests after flares and flash bombs were fired towards the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Neither Mr. Netanyahu nor his family were inside the home at the time of the attempted attack. Labor peer Lord Blunkett is calling for an urgent review of tube platforms after he fell through a gap at Westminster tube station.

The labor peer, who is blind, was injured when he slipped while boarding a train with his guide dog. Transport for London have said they have written to Lord Blunkett and have offered to meet him to try to ensure it never happens again. The UK Health Security Agency has issued a cold weather alert for most of England this morning. It will be in place until Thursday. The Met Office is predicting snow and ice in some parts of Scotland this afternoon, with up to 20cm of snow a possibility in higher areas. A woman whose body was found in the boot of a car in Ilford in East London on Thursday has been named as 24 year old Hoshita Barela. To talk more about this is Adele Robinson. It's such a gruesome case. What more do we know? Adele. Morning.

Good morning. Yeah, it started, it all began on Wednesday when a member of the public contacted the police with concerns for the welfare of Harshita Brella. So it all began with a missing persons inquiry, effectively. They went to her home in Corby on Skegness Walk. She wasn't there. There was no answer and so they launched this missing persons inquiry and that led to the discovery of a body the next day, on Thursday morning, roughly 90 miles away in Ilford in East London, inside a car. A post mortem concluded on Friday at Leicester Royal Infirmary Hospital that she had been murdered and therefore a murder investigation was launched. Police say, though, that they believe that Harshi Tabrella may have been specifically targeted, that she may have been attacked by someone who knew her. But they are keeping an open mind and they're asking anyone who knew her to get in touch, any suspicions they had in anything they saw that was suspicious in the, in the week before her death to get in touch, even if they. Even if they don't think it's necessarily connected. And a statement has been released by the police. The senior investigating officer, Detective Chief Inspector Johnny Campbell, has said that she was a young woman in her early 20s with her whole life ahead of her and it's absolutely tragic that her life has been cut short in this way.

Detectives from EMSO East Midlands Special Operations Unit and Northamptonshire Police are working around the clock to establish the circumstances behind death, including the exact location and timeframe in which it took place. Also worth mentioning that Northamptonshire Police have made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct to the IOPC because of previous contact between The Force and Ms. Brella. But they haven't gone into any further details about that contact.

All right, Adele, for now, thank you so much for bringing us up to date on that case. Last year, almost 2,000 people died on Britain's roads. Nearly 29,000 were injured. Behind each of those numbers is a grieving family who are leading charity war. Being forgotten and failed by a lack of support was Guys. Matthew Thompson reports.

The Very picture of happiness a father plays with his young son. But before Seren's third birthday, he would lose his father to a fatal road accident. Eddie Lee was 46 years old when.

He was hit and killed by a.

Dangerous driver back in 2018.

When my son woke up and said, where's daddy? I said, daddy's dead. He's not coming back.

I knew I had to be really definite with it.

It was really important for me to tell him that it was not your.

Daddy'S choice to die. This, this was out of his control.

Eddie's story is a tragedy, but it's one of hundreds of such tragedies on Britain's roads every year. Road safety charity BRIC say 1,695 people died on UK roads in 2023 and.

Nearly 30,000 were seriously injured. And over the last five years, those.

Numbers have remained basically the same.

What we've seen at our National Road Victim Service is that need for support growing and growing as well, because it doesn't just go away after a week or two weeks.

What we want to see is a.

Strategy and plan in place in order to reduce road Deaths from that 1700 right down tomorrow.

The charity is launching a new road victims Charter in Westminster and calling on the government to back it. Amongst other things, they want drastic improvements.

To the support offered to victims.

It's massively valuable that people get the support they need. I was really lucky. I had an incredible support network around me. I've managed to rebuild my life. We carry a darkness and we'll never shake it because we know someone was taken from us. That should be here, that should be alive.

Of course, proper support requires funding, but road victims like Kira say they're only asking for parity with the support offered.

To victims of crime for recognition of.

Their loss and the hull it leaves behind.

Matthew Thompson, Sky News.

Well, in response to that, a spokesperson from the government said this. Every death on our roads is a tragedy and our thoughts remain with the families of everyone who has lost a loved one in this way. They go on to say, we're committed to reducing the number of those killed and injured on our roads. And we're developing a road safety strategy which will set out more details in due course. So that's very latest on that story from the government. But still to come, on Scarney's breakfast this Sunday, closer ties with the us, President Xi says he's ready to work with President elect Donald Trump after meeting President Biden. Should playtime be part of the school curriculum? We'll Hear from a children's welfare campaigner about why it's so important.

Migrants risk their lives climbing aboard these trains in search of a dream. The United States, it's really dangerous. They often get robbed on this train.

They suffer a lot by police, cartels.

What happens to them next? We just don't know. Do you miss your mom? With Trump coming to the presidency, how much longer will people be accommodated? The journey you've been through, it's been very difficult at times. Has it been worth it? This is a journey which goes by one name. The beast.

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Good morning.

Nice to see you. How are you feeling?

Looking forward to getting into the parliamentary chamber.

Is there any further forward to making a decision?

Not, no. It's an important day today.

All of the claims were in line.

With my parliamentary duties, so I'm making.

That clear to you.

Connor, he was a Scot through and through.

He was a very good politician.

Alex Salmond was convinced, controversial. He was a disruptor, but above all, he was respected. Will you resign if you lose this week again?

I'm not planning to, of course, lose.

The vote in the conference.

I plan to win that vote in the conference.

His face said it all.

My intention to stand down as party leader.

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They're a bit scared at the minute. They've been told to evacuate.

How are you feeling?

Devastated.

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Join me, Trevor Phillips, Sunday mornings on Sky News. Hello, everyone. Welcome back. Now, there's been a significant reduction in both physical spaces for children to play and the time to do so. With 800 play playgrounds closing in the last decade, campaigners are now calling for playtime to be part of the school curriculum. I'm pleased to say I'm joined by entrepreneur and children's welfare campaigner Paul Lindley. Great to have you with us on Sky News breakfast this morning. Paul, thank you very much. Listen, play on the curriculum. What do you mean by that?

Well, play is absolutely fundamental to how children develop. It's fundamental for thriving childhoods and therefore it's fundamental to society, to thriving society. And it's how children learn to explore the world, to find how their space themselves within the world is. It's how we learn cognitive skills, communication skills. It's how we learn creativity. It's how we learn to explore and find the right and wrong of what we can do in the world. And opportunities for children in this generation to play have reduced massively versus any other previous generations. As you just said, there's less spaces and places and time for children to play. And because they play less, our society thrives less. And through no fault of their own, they're not developing into the people that they have the potential to be. And we think we ought to do something about that.

And that's exactly what the commission is looking into. And your research suggesting that play improves learning, but children are spending less time because they have nowhere to play and to explore learning through play. There'll be lots of parents wondering why play is really critical to the curriculum, though. What would be your main argument to them who just don't understand it?

Well, our Play Commission is looking at much wider than just the benefits to play from learning. There are benefits all over to health. For example, 40% of our children are at an unhealthy weight this generation. About 20% of them have a mental health problem. So the health of children is not thriving at the time when this generation of children is not thriving too. School is obviously a space where children are fundamental part of their lives. So the opportunity to have more play time, to use play within the curriculum better, is obviously something that will help them thrive more. So our play Commission, which comes on the back of a book that I published last year called Raising the Nation, which explored what our country can do to help children thrive. More play was a theme that went through everything there. So I teamed up with the ex Children's Commissioner for England, Ann Longfield, and her Center for Young lives. We got 21 commissioners, play experts and childhood development experts from across the UK to come together. And we've been collecting evidence and examples and gone out to visit so many places where children are not playing where they used to, or where small spaces where they are playing more.

And we're putting all them together for next June to present to the government the framework so that they can create a play strategy, yes, part of the curriculum in the schools, but also to do with wellness and spaces and places where children play. As you said earlier, There are about 800 playgrounds that have closed in the last 10 years. About half of our youth centers for older children have closed. Nearly every sure Start center has closed. And in school, talking specifically about schools, we've managed to take out about an hour a day of break time in the last generation. So all of those things are culminating in these places where children are not thriving and something can be done about it.

And Paul, what's been the engagement from government, particularly the Labor government?

Well, this government has come in with a specific mission to help break down the opportunities, the barriers to opportunity. And we see players fundamental to that, absolutely delighted that they have announced in the last few days a national youth strategy. And we believe that play can be part of that. In that national youth strategy, they're offering to go out and speak to young people right across the country to understand their views of what they want, to help them thrive and grow up to be successful adults. And so we believe that the government is open to looking and play and to ensuring that young children and young people can thrive. And our play commission, when it comes to the framework that they can put together to create a play strategy like they did in 2008, is somewhere that they are open to listen to. And we're going to push them with the evidence and show them that it is an opportunity for them to break down barriers to opportunity.

Okay, great stuff. Paul Lindley, do get back to us when you've spoken to the government. It'd be great to get an update on that. Thank you.

Thank you, Leah.

Playing outside for hours without, you know, having a mom or a dad over your shoulder, it's a thing of the past, isn't it? Now kids don't get to play too far from the front yard. If you have one.

I always remember at school, you know, at playtime having a football and kicking it around or a ball that you've made out of socks. The headmaster came and took it away because it might break the window. Anyway, no Premier League football this weekend.

Still loads of sport to go on with.

We were talking about boxing yesterday.

I love how you do this.

Well, there's a lot of people very angry about that, that fight, saying, you know, it's not boxing, but there actually was some proper boxing on last night. It was a heartbreaking defeat for the British boxer Chris Bilham Smith in his world title fight. We will bring you some of the highlights from Riyadh. Plus this action from Solution as English cricketers attempt a T20 series whitewash over the West Indies. Could this six from Jacob Bethel help them achieve it? We'll let you know. Our reaction from England's under pressure. Rugby union coach Steve Warthwick after another bruising defeat for his team, this time to South Africa as their losing run stretches to five matches. And could this be the day that Rory McElroy matches a landmark achievement by the late great Seve Ballesteros? We'll tell you what he needs to do as he goes for back to back race to Dubai titles. This morning.

We arrive a secret hospital hidden in the Myanmar jungle treating the victims of this bloody war. This is Myanmar today. Its military rulers don't want the world to see, but we have.

I fight for my own future.

I fight for my generation futures.

This is an actual crime.

They don't care for death.

My my army is only a couple of kilometers away. So this is a major humanitarian disaster.

Sa.

Welcome back to the breakfast show. In a moment, we'll have the very latest on the G20 summit in Rio.

And I will have all the sport. There was no Premier League this weekend, but we're looking ahead to the internationals tonight. There was boxing last night as well. And another near miss for the England rugby team.

Yeah. But first, let's take a look at our top stories this morning for you. Quickly. Ukraine's defense minister has accused Russia of launching one of its biggest attacks yet on the country's infrastructure. Explosions were heard overnight in the capital, Kyiv, and at least one residential building is on fire. Air defenses were also deployed in the western city of Lviv. The prime Minister will travel to Brazil later this morning for the G20 summit. The war in Ukraine and the incoming US president are likely to be top of the agenda there. The Bishop of Newcastle has accused some of her colleagues of refusing to speak out over child abuse because it could damage their career prospects. The Archbishop of Canterbury resigned over his handling of the abuse scandal last week. Police have identified the woman whose body was found in the boot of a car in Ilford in East London on Thursday as 24 year old Ashita Barela. Well, let's head back to one of our top stories this morning for you. Chinese President Xi Jinping has told President Biden that he's ready to work with Donald Trump amidst a potential trade war from the US President elect.

Holding his final meeting with Mr. Xi, Joe Biden stressed the relationship between the two nations should be about competition, not conflict. As our security and defense editor Deborah Haynes reports.

It'S hello and goodbye. This is likely the last time Joe Biden as president will sit down.

With China's leader still deeply divided over.

Flashpoints like Taiwan, they are united in trying to prepare the ground for the return to power of Donald Trump.

China is ready to work with the new US Administration to maintain communication, expand.

Cooperation and manage differences.

These conversations prevent miscalculations and they ensure the competition between our two countries will not veer into conflict. Competition, not conflict.

Doubtful the next US President will heed the advice, given his hawkish views on China.

The Chinese and American leaders were meeting.

On the sidelines of an economic forum.

In Peru before they head to Brazil for an even bigger conference.

The G20 summit of global economic powers.

Here in Rio de Janeiro will be.

The first gathering of its kind since.

Donald Trump's reelection to the White House. And while he won't be here in.

Person, his name and what his next term might mean for America's friends and.

Its foes will surely loom large over the agenda.

Russia's war in Ukraine a key focus.

The change in US Leadership perhaps prompting.

A shift in tone from Kyiv on our part.

We must do everything to ensure that.

The war ends next year through diplomatic means. This is very important.

What that end looks like, though, will vary hugely depending on who's calling the shots.

Deborah Haynes, Sky News. Oh, I'm pleased to say Jack is here with all the sport. What did you make of the boxing?

Which boxing? The Mike Tyson.

Yes, I keep want to call him Tyson Fury.

Tyson Fury's name after Mike Tyson. It's very confusing when you're sort of trying to sort of. Yeah, he was retired. Oh, no, he's not retired. He's come back to box at the age of nearly 60.

Going into that sort of arena of boxing. It's all the kind of first that I don't know if I was sold over It.

Well, I think a lot of people were sold over it and I think a lot of people watched that fight. He wouldn't necessarily watch, you know, a Tyson Fury at USYK fight, for example. I think a lot, there were a lot of eyeballs on that fight who were sort of not traditional boxing fans and maybe they're fans now. I mean, it wasn't very high quality at all and it was all a bit slow because it was a 58 year old man. But I don't know, it was kind of. It was just curious.

Curiosity.

Curiosity. You wanted to watch him to see if he could just do it again, turn back time. But no one can, you see. No one can. And unlike the England rugby team, who are very young and are still learning and you would like to think lots ahead of them, but so many near misses. Is Steve Borthwick under pressure? We're going to have a look at that in just a sec.

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Firstly, how do you reflect on the decision that England made to retire you effectively earlier on this year?

Yeah, obviously I've made peace with it now a lot of times past, but it was tough at the time. I was coming into that summer thinking I still had a lot to give, a lot to offer the team. I still felt I was fit and playing well. So it did come as quite a shock at first. But yeah, I feel like I'm the sort of person that probably would have kept playing till I was 50 if I possibly could. So if they obviously, they want to look ahead to the future, which I'm obviously fine with. And it was nice that they wanted to keep me around the team as well. And I've enjoyed being part of the set up in a slightly different role.

And you asked if you could play one final Test at Old Trafford. Is there a disappointment that you weren't able to do that?

No, not really. I think again, a lot of times passed since that at my last Test match. So I was delighted that I got to play at Lords. I don't think a lot of people get that opportunity sometimes to go out like that and have that one last moment and to have the crowd and the team around me and my family there as well, I think was just a great week and a great way to go out.

As difficult as it was when you consider the development of, of Gus Atkinson and bridling cars in Pakistan in particular. Not that England vindicated the decision, but have they been able to make strides since then?

Yeah, definitely. I think it's been great to watch the guys come in and get opportunities and take those opportunities. The two guys you mentioned there, Gus Atkinson and Brydon Karst, I think have been standouts, but there's other guys as well. So many on the periphery, especially in the bowling group, that are really knocking on the door for a spot in that Ashes squad in a year's time.

And having won the Ashes down Under, do you think this squad is moving in the right direction? There's been bumps along the road. There's been some brilliant success over the last two years as well. But to go down under and really feel like you can be victorious, yeah.

I think we've got a really exciting squad. I think the batting group is really strong. We've seen some. You know, one of the best opening partnerships we've ever had has formed in the last year or so with Ben Duckett and Zach Crawley. And then we've got the quality of Ollie Pope, who's captain the side recently, Joe Root, Harry Brook, who I think is going to be a phenomenal player, and the captain, Ben Stokes at 6. So it feels like that's strong. And as I said, the bowling group, I think there's enough there, enough variation for the conditions we're going to come up against in Australia to do well.

You speak in your book about having hot wings with Joe Root At 5:30 in the morning, in the hours that followed your final Test match. Do you think he's now got the ability, considering what he's done the last few years in particular, to go on and break Satchin's record one day?

Yeah, I'd like. I'd like to see it, to be honest. I think he's just an amazing player. I think he's one of the best batters, if not the best batter in the world at the moment. The way he can score runs in all conditions, he's calm. He's a great influence around the dressing room as well. Brilliant person to have in the team, so I'd love to see him carry on playing for as long as he can.

It raised a few eyebrows earlier this week when you put yourself in the auction for the ipl. Are you confident that you will play cricket again?

Well, that's the whole point of going in the auction. I think I want to play cricket again. Whether I get picked up or not is a different matter, but I think there's definitely a feeling inside me that I've got more to offer in some shape or form. So however Long down the line that might be. In whatever capacity that might be. I'm not sure yet, but I'm really keen to play. I feel really fit. I've been bowling still ticking over, so I feel like I'm in a good place and I'd love to have an opportunity to play somewhere and have you.

Had conversations with Lancashire about featuring for them in 2025?

Yeah, ongoing talks. I mean, it's quite difficult at the minute with the coaching stuff that I've been doing. I'm trying to find a balance and still not quite sure which direction I want to go because I've only been retired sort of three or four months. So it's kind of. Yeah, trying to make those decisions is quite tricky, but it's just sort of day by day and trying to make sure I'm making the best decision, not just for me, but for the club as well.

Would you like the opportunity to play for them one last time, considering your history over 20 years and being a fan before that as well?

Yeah, of course. It's always been something that I've thought about is playing for Lancashire again. I think I owe a lot to the club for what they did for me growing up, bringing me on and turning me into a really good bowler. And then since I've had a central contract, obviously you don't play too much for your county, so it'd be always, whenever I go back to play, whenever I had gone back to play, I always try and have an impact. So, yeah, to play again, I think, would be really special.

Finally, any indication from any of the IPL franchises if they're potentially going to pick you up?

Nothing yet. We just have to wait and see. Keep your fingers crossed and see what happens.

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Welcome back. Let's begin our news review. Then we're joined by Politico reporter Bethany Dawson and broadcaster Matthew Stadlin. And, of course, Amanda Acas, our political correspondent. So let's kick off, then. I'd like to start with the Times. And we could all look back in our lives, couldn't we, and say, if only, if only but apparently Sunak ignored his top adviser, who said, look, a spring election is not the one. Wait until the autumn. Of course we know how that story ends, Bethany.

We do.

We've got this really interesting story from Tim Shipman. It's a preview from his new book looking at what happened in the Conservative Party during the election and just before. And it maybe, unsurprisingly, doesn't sound like it was totally smooth sailing. Inside cchq, Sunak was told, please don't do. Please wait until the autumn to do an election. We need to go in fighting with both fists. We need to wait for the economy to recover. But Sunak, of course, as we know, called that summer election and we all know how that went for them. It's a really, really interesting read, kind of about this chaos with a June 2023 quote from Sunak. Why do people not realize I'm right? Which is, I'm sure, a feeling we can all relate to. But, yeah, a really incredible look at.

Just what was going on. Love this article because it was this adviser saying that a memo was sent back in April. Just don't do it. And it's like when you're in a WhatsApp group and suddenly you haven't spoke for a long time and all these details come out because they can also reveal that Tory plotters forced a vote. If they forced a vote of no confidence in Sunak, he would have won, but then resigned anyway. So that was another detail.

The most extraordinary thing about the sense that Sunak actually, I mean, you could kind of guess by looking at him, but he basically was really fed up and really down essentially by the fact that nothing was working, that people didn't have faith in him, that, you know, he seemed to think he was always someone who got straight A's, he worked hard and that always worked out well for him. And then he sort of couldn't quite believe that everything wasn't going as he was.

You could kind of tell, couldn't you, in any media interviews that he did do during that time, he felt quite touchy. Yeah, except that.

And this will now feel so long ago, doesn't it? And the white heat of scrutiny is now firmly on the Labor government. So these Tory woes and should they go, shouldn't they go early, seem almost ancient history. But I do remember Sunak seeming to throw the kitchen sink at that election campaign. He did work tirelessly. I was no supporter of his or the Tories, but he really went for it. And he made the case as passionately as he Could. It was a hopeless campaign and it was law launched, of course, in the rain. Under that umbrella, I don't think the result would have been any different. But we know now that 0.1% growth for the first three months of labor, partly perhaps because there was uncertainty ahead of the budget, but 0.5% growth in those final three months of Tory government. I don't think it would have changed things, though, just because the narrative was so strong that they'd had 14 years in number 10 and it wasn't seeming to work.

Well, another crucial detail, according to. I promise I will move on from this article. They're saying that Boris Johnson urged Sunak to arm wrestle for the premiership after Liz Truss resigned as prime minister in October 2022.

I know that is an extraordinary anecdote, isn't it? This sense that he was sort of desperately coming up with.

Sort of.

Well, I think someone else suggests they could toss a coin for it. Then Boris wants to do the arm wrestleman.

And when I.

When I read it, and this is, hearing you say it, this is the first time that I think he actually meant it literally.

Yeah.

Not metaphorically. You could imagine it, couldn't you?

I think Johnson, let's. Let's be serious now. Let's be adults. Matthew, take me through the Observer. Fears grow over children at risk placed in a legal care home.

Yeah.

So this doesn't actually get any more serious than this, as indeed the Children's Commissioner herself has said, this is as serious as it gets. And this is about children. And we simply don't know quite how many children it is impacting. At least 1,000, though, have had their liberty taken away from them. This is under deprivation of liberty orders, so called dol, and some of these children are living in the most appalling conditions. And everyone watching this morning and every Labor Minister needs to sit up and pay attention, because we have a duty as a country to look after our children and to look after our most vulnerable. And you've got situations now where children, including a young woman who is physically sat on for an entire day by staff trying to restrain her, and a severely disabled child whose feeding tubes had been nibbled by rats. I mean, this is completely gobsmacking. And everyone watching, eating their breakfast, will be absolutely outraged by it. It needs to be great.

Just the idea that there are illegal settings that aren't, you know, officially registered, sanctioned as places where children who need this additional care are held and people.

Making money out of it and children ending up in the care of security guards. It's absolutely terrifying.

And we know we've got such a crisis within our health and social care system in this country and this is just such a sobering view of quite how crucial it is in the lives that it is affecting the young. Lives that undoubtedly will be kind of changed forever as a result of this lack of care. It is, you know, something that you really want the government to, as you say, kind of sit up and act on really quickly.

The Children's Commissioner, because I want to use direct quotations here because it's so powerful. Most of them are in solo placements and we know what being alone can do for adults, adults, let alone children. Socially isolated children. Absolutely universally said they wanted to be living closer to home, near family and friends, but rats nibbling at tubes.

I think there is a suggestion that the government are looking at doing something that will hear something about this early.

I'm sure they will take it seriously. But the scrutiny needs to be there.

And it's powerful case studies and testimony that's important to talk about. Bethany assisted dying we know that vote is going to be discussed and will have a result on the 29th of November and we've heard both sides. We know where Streeting his position on it. But talk us through the Sunday Telegraph and what they're saying today.

Well, it's this discussion that it could create this slippery slope. It could get people into, you know, force people to choose assisted dying, voluntary, non voluntary euthanasia is the wording used in the, in the Telegraph and it's this wider discussion. One of the reasons why people are positioning themselves against the legislation saying they don't think it is safe, that it is right. One of the major criticisms of the bill is that it's being done through a private member's bill which traditionally goes through a lot faster with less scrutiny. It doesn't have the kind of checks and balances as it were from departments that would be backing the bill. And this is one of the massive concerns around that.

To show how split people are and how split you can be yourself on this. Wes Streeting in 2015 voted in favor and now he is Secretary of State for Health. In this free move, he's against.

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Hello. Good morning, everyone. Welcome along to the breakfast show. Ukraine's defense minister has accused Russia of launching one of its biggest attacks yet on the country's energy infrastructure. At least two people have been killed. Airstrikes were reported across the country from the western city of Lviv and critical infrastructure was hit in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region. Well, explosions have also been heard in the capital Kyiv, with one building on fire. This latest barrage of strikes marked the first mass missile attack on Kyiv in over two months. Ukraine's minister for foreign affairs said this this morning, Russia launched one of its largest air attacks, drones and missiles against peaceful cities. Sleeping civilians, critical infrastructure. This is war criminal Putin's true response to all those who have called and visited him recently. We need peace through strength, not appeasements. Russia launched around 120 missiles and 90 drones in their combined airstrikes. After nearly two years of war, Children in some parts of the country have been forced underground to avoid Russian missiles. Stuart Ramsey reports from Kharkiv on education on the front line.

This might be the only school in the world that only has one corridor. You think these little ones couldn't get lost, but they're never alone here. Even bathroom breaks are a class affair. It is a school, but it's known by its official name, university, not the place of learning. The underground station. This remarkable school deep underground is one of six station schools across the city that daily teach 4,800 children whose families haven't fled the war. Built by the Soviets, the Kharkiv metro is the safest place in this city, constantly attacked by Russian missiles. At one stage, 160,000 people sheltered in it. Normal schools were deemed too unsafe, too vulnerable to attack. So the education authority in the city came up with this idea, Sealing off a walkway next to the tracks and building classrooms.

In the summer of 2023, the Defense Council didn't allow children to study in regular school buildings, so we had to. This is our front line, our educational front line. The experiment succeeded because it was driven by a united team.

There are health concerns for both the teachers and the pupils spending so much time underground. So medical examinations are now part of the school day. It's an opportunity also for behavior specialists to monitor the effects of the war on both the pupils and the teachers. The psychological effects of living in a war zone could last their lifetimes.

They live in a constant state of.

Stress, multifaceted stress caused by a range of factors.

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And hear, like alarms, explosions, and they feel it all.

Wrapped up warm. The pupils are led to the surface to catch a school bus to their old school, which has been bombed out. But it's where they meet their parents for a normal pickup. When school ends, the children emerge into Kharkiv. And you look around, right, these buildings here, they're all closed down. They've all been hit by Russian missiles. There's a massive building here. This was hit some. Some time ago. It's a big government building. This is strange existence that people have in Kharkiv. And perhaps the most strange is these children having to be taken from busses through a town that is constantly under threat of missile attack and constant air raids. That's the life they have now. Remember, in school they are safe. Up here, they are not. The journey home is a risk every time. That's a siren taking. That's a air raid siren we hear right now as we're on the bus trying to take the kids home. I think it's like this the whole time in. In Kharkiv, it's, as you can see, everyone carries on acting pretty much normally. Alina, actually, tell me, you know, we hear air raid sirens going off.

Do people just accept it now? That's just part of life.

People have to some extent adapted. If we see missiles coming, heaven forbid.

We'Ll stop near a designated shelter following our evacuation plan.

And that's where the children will go.

For.

Many of these children are deeply traumatized. One of the teachers comforts Elisa. Her grandfather's been killed on the front line. She's now prone to tears. Everyone here has to carry their sadness. Everyone. The last stop is Saltifka, one of the most bombed districts in this city. Their parents pick them up after the first snowfall of the season. Another winter has come in this war that is nearly a thousand days long. Stuart Ramsey, Sky News Card Keefe.

We just want to bring you a bit of breaking news now because Vladimir Zelensky has posted a statement on Telegram. I'll read a bit out to you. He says a massive combined strike on all regions of Ukraine during the night and morning. And he says Russian terrorists use drones of various types. In total, he says about 120 missiles and 90 drones. Our air defense forces destroyed more than 140 air targets. He's saying that the enemy's target was Ukraine's energy infrastructure throughout Ukraine, adding that unfortunately there is damage to object hits from falling debris. 2 He goes on to say we are grateful to all of our defense which involved repelling this attack too, and saying that anti aircraft missile troops and pilots of the F16s were able to help in that saying, signing off that message saying thank you for reliable protection. So that's the very latest there from Zelenskyy on those drone attacks that we've been reporting. At the top of this show, the Prime Minister will travel to Brazil later this morning for the G20 summit where the war in Ukraine is likely to be discussed. I'm joined now by our political correspondent Amanda Acas.

So we're hearing there from that statement from President zelensky confirming that 120 missile, 90 drones. And there will be a continued conversation at G20 from leaders across the world, not least with President elect Donald Trump in January taking over the Oval Office. And he said, you know, we can end this war in a day and what that looks like, Amanda, will be, who knows. But this will be top of the agenda today. Absolutely.

I mean, Trump may not be there in person, but very much in spirit dominating discussions, I think. And as we've seen today, the urgency of this, I think for Sikhist Dahmer, Ukraine, Ukraine's other allies will be very conscious of the clock tick ticking to try and maximize support for President Zelensky before Donald Trump takes office. We understand it's very likely that he's going to be seeking discussions with President Biden's and Biden and in particular trying to make sure that a $20 billion loan package which was agreed this summer from the US will actually get over the line before President Biden actually steps down. And that's part of a broader 50 billion pound package for Kiev which is actually largely being paid for by the interest from Russian assets which were seized after the invasion. Also likely to be discussions pushing the US for permission to enable the Ukrainians to use those long range Storm Shadow missiles to fire into Russia as well. I think more broadly there'll be a lot of discussion, discussions going on about trade as well, because of course, Trump has been threatening to slap tariffs of 20% or so on imports.

A lot of questions in the papers this morning about how the UK Government will play that, whether we try and move closer to the US to try and evade those tariffs if they end up happening, or rather go closer to the EU because three times more trade with the EU than with the US So, big questions for Star as he travels there. And of course, he's been out the country an awful lot since the start of this parliamentary session. Something like three weeks altogether. He's under a lot of pressure at home. We saw the farmers protests starting yesterday, continuing this week as well. But obviously number 10 decided that resetting British global relations with the rest of the world, more important.

Yeah, thank you, Amanda. Just to add to that telegram statement, Vladimir Zelensky also said two people were killed, six others were injured, including two children, and he was sending his condolences to those people who had deceased. The Bishop of Newcastle has accused some of her colleagues of refusing to speak out over child abuse because it could damage their career prospects. Well, last week the Archbishop of Canterbury resigned over his handling of the abuse scandal. Dr. Helen Hartley told my colleague Trevor Phillips that others may also need to step down because there's a culture of silence and fear in the Church of England.

Silence speaks in many ways. Some are silent perhaps because they see themselves as succeeding to be the new Archbishop of Canterbury. Others are fearful of being reprimanded and rebuked because I know that colleagues have received letters similar to mine which are quite heavy in tone. So I think genuinely they're motivated by fear of just keeping their heads down and not feeling able to speak out, which I think is really unfortunate.

We approached the Church of England for a comment on that interview and they said they had nothing more to add. We can watch the Full interview from 8:30 on Sky News. Trevor Phillips will also be joined by Transport Secretary Louise Hay, Shadow Homes Secretary Chris Philp and President of the National Farmers Union Tom Bradshaw that Sunday morning with Trevor Phillips from 8:30. Incoming U.S. president Donald Trump has announced oil and gas industry executive Chris Wright as his pick for energy secretary. The founder and chief executive of Liberty Energy is expected to support the president's plan to maximize oil and gas production. He said in a video last year, there is no climate crisis. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump himself has spent a night at the UFC, being cheered by fans at Madison Square Garden in New York. He was joined by his son, Ufe boss Donna White and two of his closest supporters, Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And for those Americans who are less enthused by another four years of Donald Trump presidency, a cruise company is offering, well, an escape for the duration of his stay in the White House. The cruise offers 600 passengers the chance to visit more than 140 countries over four years.

Well, let's take you through some of the day's other stories this Sunday and Medics in Gaza say that tens of people have been killed and wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern town of Bait Lahaya. Local authorities say that around 70 people lived in the building. Israel made no immediate comment on the incident. Israeli police have made three arrests after flares and flash bombs were fired towards the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Neither Mr. Netanyahu nor his family were inside the home at the time of the attempted attack. Super Typhoon Man Yee has hit the Philippines with more than 400,000 residents ordered to evacuate. It's the sixth tropical cyclone to hit Southeast Asia in the last month or so, with gusts of around 150 miles per hour expected. And eight people have been killed in a stabbing at a school in the city of Wuxi in eastern China. Police say the suspect, a 21 year old male student, was detained at the scene. And labor peer Lord Blunkers is calling for an urgent review of the tube platforms after he fell through a gap at Westminster tube station.

The labor peer, who's blind, was injured when he slipped while boarding a train with his guide dog. Transport for London have said they've written to Lord Blunkett and offered to meet with him to try and ensure it doesn't happen again. The UK Health Security Agency has issued a cold weather alert for most of England this morning. It'll be in place until Thursday. The Met Office is predicting snow and ice in some parts of Scotland this afternoon with up to 20cm of snow, a possibility in higher areas. Now, a woman's who bought it. A woman whose body was found in the boot of a car in Ilford in East London on Thursday has been named as 24 year old Hashita Barilla. Adele Robinson joins us now to discuss this case. Quite gruesome, Adele, this, but talk us through what we know so far.

Yeah, it was on Wednesday morning. It all began as a missing persons inquiry when a member of the public spoke to the police raising concerns about Harshita Brella's welfare. They went to her home in Corby. There was no answer and therefore this missing person's inquiry was launched. It was the next morning, on Thursday morning, that a body was discovered inside a car boot in Ilford in east London, roughly 90 miles away from where she lives. A post mortem was concluded on Friday at Royal Infirmary Hospital in Lester which concluded that she had been murdered. Now, police say that Harshita Brella may have been targeted. They believe she was attacked by someone known to her, although they have said that they're keeping an open mind. They're asking anyone who knows her, who has any information to get in touch. They've released a statement as well from the senior investigating officer, Detective Chief Inspector Johnny Campbell, who says this. First of all, I want to express my heartfelt condolences to everyone who loved Harshita Brella. She was a young woman in her early 20s with her whole life ahead of her and it's absolutely tragic that her life's been cut short in this way.

It continues. Detectives from Emsou and Northamptonshire police are working around the clock to establish to establish the circumstances surrounding her death. It's worth also mentioning that Northamptonshire police have referred themselves to the Independent Office for police conduct, the IOPC, because of previous contact that they had had with Ms. Brella, but they gave no further details on what exactly that contact was.

Okay, Adele, thank you so much for bringing us up to date on that story. If we get any more, we'll bring it to you. I'm so grateful for the sport. Jackie, how are you? What's coming up is all right.

Gloomy this morning. Well, you know what, there's actually lots of sports to get through even though there's no Premier League football. But I keep talking about defeats. There's a lot of defeats going on for English, British, British teens, British interests, defeats last night, for example, for Chris William Smith, the British boxer in his world title fight, as well as the England T20 cricket and rugby union teams. We will bring you the action from all of those fixtures Even though they were defeats. Also where they've all fallen short. Can Rory McElroy succeed a match. A landmark achievement by the late great Sevy Ballesteros today. Not latest as he goes for back to back race to Dubai titles at the DP Tour Championship.

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Firstly, how do you reflect on the decision that England made to retire you effectively earlier on this year?

Yeah, obviously I've made peace with it now a lot of times past, but it was tough at the time. I was coming into that summer thinking I still had a lot to give, a lot to offer the team. I still felt I was fit and playing well. So it did come as quite a shock at first. But, yeah, I feel like I'm the sort of person that probably would have kept playing till I was 50 if I possibly could. So obviously they want look ahead to the future, which I'm obviously fine with. And it was nice that they wanted to keep me around the team as well. And I've enjoyed being part of the set up in a slightly different role.

And you asked if you could play one final test at Old Trafford. Is there a disappointment that you weren't.

Able to do that?

No, not really. I think, again, a lot of times passed since my last Test match, so I was delighted that I got to play at Lords. I don't think a lot of people get that opportunity sometimes to go out like that and have that one last moment and to have the crowd and the team around me and my family there as well, I think was just a great week and a great way to go out.

And as difficult as it was, when you consider the development of Gus Atkinson and bridling cars in Pakistan in particular, not that England vindicated the decision, but have they been able to make strides since then?

Yeah, definitely. I think. I think it's been great to watch the guys come in and get opportunities and take those opportunities. The two guys you mentioned there, Gus Atkinson and Bryden Karst, I think have been standouts, but there's other guys as well. So many on the periphery, especially in the bowling group, that are really knocking on the door for a spot in that Ashes squad in a year's time.

And having won the Ashes down Under. Do you think this squad is moving in the right direction? There's been bumps along the road. There's been some brilliant success over the last two years as well. But to go down under it and really feel like you can be victorious.

Yeah, I think we've got a really exciting squad. I think the batting group is really strong. We've seen some. One of the best opening partnerships we've ever had has formed in the last year or so with Ben Duckett and Zach Crawley. And then we've got the quality of O Pope, who's captain the side recently, Joe Root, Harry Brook, who I think is going to be a phenomenal player, and the captain, Ben Stokes, at 6. So it feels like that's strong. And as I said, the bowling group, I think there's enough there, enough variation for the conditions we're going to come up against in Australia to do well.

You speak in your book about having hot wings with Joe Root At 5:30 in the morning, in the. The hours that followed your final Test match. Do you think he's now got the ability, considering what he's done the last few years in particular, to go on and break Sachin's record one day?

Yeah, I'd like to see it, to be honest. I think he's just an amazing player. I think he's one of the best batters, if not the best batter in the world at the moment. The way he can score runs in all conditions, he's calm. He's a great influence around the dressing room as well. Brilliant person to have in the team. So I'd love to see him carry on playing for as long as he can.

It raised a few eyebrows earlier this week when you put yourself in the auction for the ipl. Are you confident that you will play cricket again?

Well, that's the whole point of going in the auction. I think I want to play cricket again. Whether I get picked up or not is a different matter, but I think there's definitely a feeling inside me that I've got more to offer in some shape or form. So however long down the line that might be, in whatever capacity that might be, I'm not sure yet. But I'm really keen to play. I feel really fit. I've been bowling still ticking over, so I feel like I'm in a good place and I'd love to have an opportunity to play somewhere.

And have you had conversations with Lancashire about featuring for them in 2025?

Yeah, ongoing talks. I mean, it's. It's quite difficult at the minute, like with the.

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