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BBC News Now
Wednesday 30 September 2026 · 12:00 BST · 30m · 4 stories · 15 annotated moments · 25 of 30 min on news stories (82%)
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An Israel-bound Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv landed safely at Tabuk Airport in Saudi Arabia after a fight between pilots triggered a hijacking alert. Passengers said the crew asked for help and that passengers tackled one pilot and tied him down, while Saudi authorities said the captain and first officer were hospitalised with injuries. Flydubai said all passengers were safe and accounted for, and Tabuk Airport said it was working with the airline to secure a replacement aircraft. A second Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, F71081, was diverted and headed back to Dubai. Later, Reuters reported that two Israeli officials said the Israeli government believed the incident may have been an attempted terror attack by one of the pilots, while a passenger described one pilot stabbing the other before relief pilots stabilised the plane and landed it in Saudi Arabia.
At least five people were killed and 14 injured across Ukraine in overnight Russian attacks, with President Volodymyr Zelensky saying missile and drone strikes targeted infrastructure and residential buildings in and around Kyiv. Russia's Defence Ministry said it hit a communications centre and energy facilities supporting military production, while Kyiv's mayor said fires affected private houses, a store and a warehouse, and power was cut in parts of the city. Ukraine's largest private energy company said power had been restored to around 18,000 homes. A BBC correspondent described thick smoke over the city and a likely strike on a power plant, and a Kyiv resident said air raids and alerts were occurring constantly and that critical infrastructure was being targeted before winter.
UK household energy prices are forecast to rise by 16% in January, adding around £276 to a typical annual bill in what would be the biggest increase for four years, according to Cornwall Insight. Diesel was averaging just under £2 per litre, and warnings said the UK was entering a second energy crisis; EDF's boss said a VAT cut taking effect on Thursday must be extended, and Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the situation was very difficult and that reopening the Strait of Hormuz was an urgent international priority. In the United States, Tennessee was preparing to execute Christa Pike, the first woman in two centuries, after the governor denied clemency and the Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch attempt to stop the lethal injection; she was convicted 30 years ago of murdering a teenage classmate and was the youngest person on death row at 18. An anaesthesiology expert, Dr Joel Zivot, questioned the claimed humanity of lethal injection and said autopsies had commonly shown fluid in the lungs, while noting the debate it raised about capital punishment for women.
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- 3:24
“Well, Saudi's Tabuk Airport says that it's coordinating with Flydubai to secure a replacement”
- 7:36
“Russia's Defence Ministry says it hit a communications center as well as energy facilities that support”
- 9:09
Max Kiachenko, Ukrainian actor
“Let's cross live to Kyiv, because we couldn't talk to Max Kiachenko, who's a Ukrainian actor.”
- 16:09
EDF, the supplier
“The boss of the supplier, EDF, says that the cuts to VAT that kicks in on Thursday”
- 17:15
Andy Burnham, Prime Minister
“Andy Burnham there.”
- 20:32
Dr. Joel Zivot, assistant professor of anesthesiology at Emory University
“Let's cross to Atlanta to speak to Dr. Joel Zivot, assistant professor of anesthesiology”
- 1:33
- 1:39
Claim Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
A Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted to Tabuk Airport in Saudi Arabia after an in-flight incident.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 1:39-1:48
- 2:14
Claim Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
Tabuk Airport said the captain and first officer were taken to hospital after sustaining injuries.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 2:14-2:23
- 2:14
Claim Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
Tabuk Airport said the captain and first officer were taken to hospital after sustaining injuries.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 2:14-2:23
- 2:14
Claim Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
Tabuk Airport said the captain and first officer were taken to hospital after sustaining injuries.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 2:14-2:23
- 3:44
Claim Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
A Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted to Tabuk Airport in Saudi Arabia after an in-flight incident.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 3:44-3:50
- 4:34
Contested quote Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
alerting the airports and the air traffic control that it had been hijacked. Now that turns out not to have been the case but what we've learned from passengers who've got off the plane is that there was a fight between the pilot and the co-pilot. Some reports that one of them was stabbed. We've seen images of people covered with blood on the plane and what one woman told
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 4:34-4:41
- 7:20
- 7:20
Claim Russian drone strikes kill civilians in Dnipro, Sumy and Kyiv
Russian overnight attacks killed at least five people across Ukraine and injured 14, with at least three killed in Kyiv including a 14-year-old child.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 7:20-7:27
- 7:20
Claim Russian drone strikes kill civilians in Dnipro, Sumy and Kyiv
Russian overnight attacks killed at least five people across Ukraine and injured 14, with at least three killed in Kyiv including a 14-year-old child.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 7:20-7:27
- 7:20
Claim Russian drone strikes kill civilians in Dnipro, Sumy and Kyiv
Russian overnight attacks killed at least five people across Ukraine and injured 14, with at least three killed in Kyiv including a 14-year-old child.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 7:20-7:27
- 7:20
Claim Russian drone strikes kill civilians in Dnipro, Sumy and Kyiv
Russian overnight attacks killed at least five people across Ukraine and injured 14, with at least three killed in Kyiv including a 14-year-old child.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 7:20-7:27
- 7:20
Claim Russian drone strikes kill civilians in Dnipro, Sumy and Kyiv
Russian overnight attacks killed at least five people across Ukraine and injured 14, with at least three killed in Kyiv including a 14-year-old child.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 7:20-7:27
- 7:27
Claim Russian drone strikes kill civilians in Dnipro, Sumy and Kyiv
Ukrainian officials and a BBC correspondent said the overnight strikes targeted energy infrastructure and residential buildings in and around Kyiv, including a power plant, and caused blackouts in the capital and other regions.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 7:27-7:36
- 15:21 Story begins UK household energy bills forecast to rise sharply
- 19:51 Story begins Tennessee prepares to execute Christa Pike
- 19:51
Claim Tennessee prepares to execute Christa Pike
Tennessee is preparing its first execution of a woman in roughly two hundred years.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 19:51-20:01
- 19:51
Claim Tennessee prepares to execute Christa Pike
Tennessee is preparing its first execution of a woman in roughly two hundred years.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 19:51-20:01
- 20:23
Claim Tennessee prepares to execute Christa Pike
The US Supreme Court rejected Christa Pike's last-minute effort to block her execution.
BBC News, BBC News Now, 30 September 2026, 20:23-20:29
- 26:10 ~4 min without annotations
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