Daily Briefing Sunday 11th October

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0:33Welcome to the Times Radio news briefing on Sunday the 11th of October. The Defence Secretary has told Times Radio that Britain is supporting Saudi Arabia after the Houthis of Yemen attacked Riyadh International Airport. At least 12 people have been killed and 300 injured. The Houthis say that Saudi Arabia bears responsibility for failing to intercept their weapons. West Treating says the UK is providing ground-based defences and air-to-air refuelling. We are looking at what more we can do to support the Saudis, given this reckless Houthi aggression, very much mindful that we're not going to see an end to this conflict militarily.

1:11We do need to see a negotiated end. But the Saudis are our friends, they're our allies, and we will support them as they defend their citizens. Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine will stop its attacks on Russian oil refineries if Moscow stops its own strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Donald Trump is calling for Zelensky to be ousted as the president of Ukraine. The US leader, who's agreed to buy diesel from Vladimir Putin, is angry about Ukrainian strikes on Moscow's refineries. The Conservatives' shadow chancellor, Andrew Griffith, says Trump has got this wrong. The Ukrainian people are engaged on the front line, dying in a war for their freedom against Russia's Putin.

1:53The only person that can end this war tomorrow is Putin, and it's wrong to be attacking President Zelensky. Reform UK says it would impose tariffs on countries that refuse to accept returning migrants. Nigel Farage is due to announce a series of policies aimed at forcing countries to agree to deportations. They're expected to include banning airlines from British airspace. Times Radio's politics reporter Ali Razamanji says this opens a gap between Farage's party and its rivals. Reform here is saying that they'll institute visa bans for people who want to enter legally, from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia and more.

2:33And that just sort of tells you that the scale of what reform is proposing here is much larger, but it comes up against the same challenges of what do you do when you're relying on countries like Pakistan for intelligence in the Middle East? What do you do when you're relying on all of these nations? And how do you actually make that feasible? Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster will remain closed today after a man was killed by a tiger. Emergency services were called yesterday afternoon after the man entered the tiger enclosure. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The head of the Born Free Foundation, Will Travers, has told Times Radio he's not entirely surprised by the tragic news.

3:08I've seen people actually on safari go off and walk into a herd of elephants, for example. And I think part of the psychology of that is that we've become confused. These are wild animals and in many cases dangerous wild animals. And the normal relationship between that animal, that species and us is for us to be apart, not together. You can follow the Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online. At PwC, we optimise the systems that put your data to work so you can scale your AI from proof of concept to competitive edge. and accelerate your tech evolution so you can redefine what's possible.

3:54From blueprint to breakthrough, we take you further with tech. So you can outthink, outpace, and outperform. PwC. So you can. PwC refers to the PwC network and or one or more of its member firms, each of which is a separate legal entity.