Frank Gardner

If you haven't heard our full conversation yet, you can find it in the feed now.

And if Sir Richard's reflections on risk, duty and resilience struck a chord, I'd also recommend my conversation with the BBC security correspondent, Frank Gardner.

Frank was shot six times by an al-Qaeda cell in Saudi Arabia and left partially paralysed, but returned to work within 10 months.

It's an extraordinary conversation about adapting when life changes without warning.

These are seen as a crucial barometer for President Trump and the Republicans.

So for the very latest on both these elections, BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner joins us for more.

Frank, kia ora.

Welcome to the programme.

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You're listening to me, Kate Rodger.

We're talking to the BBC's security correspondent, Frank Gardner, on the implications of the results of the Israeli elections.

But let's move in now, Frank, and talk about the midterms in the US, because these are crucial elections as well.

Cables and pipes on the seabed provide almost all of the UK's internet traffic and around three quarters of its gas supply.

Our security correspondent Frank Gardner assesses the threat and what it could mean for daily life.

As an island nation, Britain is more dependent than most on a network of 60 or more fibre optic undersea cables.

Stretching for thousands of miles across seabeds in the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the English Channel, these carry vast volumes of data, including billions of pounds worth of daily financial transactions.

Meanwhile, more than three thousand Yemenis have fled across the Red Sea to Djibouti to escape the fighting between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed forces, and many more are likely to follow their lead.

The BBC's Frank Gardner visited a refugee camp in Obock, a small port town where officials are preparing for the arrival of up to ten thousand refugees.

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I'm inside a warehouse here at a place called Obock, which is on the Djiboutian, that's the African side of the Bab al-Mandab Strait that separates Africa from the Arabian Peninsula.

His country, Yemen, was once called Arabia Felix by the Romans, Happy Arabia.

Today, it's anything but.

Frank Gardner in Djibouti.

The FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, sparked an international outcry earlier this year with his proposal to privatize the Football World Cup.

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I mean, [clears throat] I think it's good that there is a dedicated unit to this, and one of the things that I found so interesting about the coverage of Ken McCallum's speech was Frank Gardner, who is obviously the BBC security correspondent, was very keen to be at pains to point out that they open the door when they want to, and they tell you what they want to.

Which is inherent, right, with security services.

And so what we're being told is probably only part of the story in terms of actual AI focus that they're doing here.

McCallum also warned of extreme right-wing terrorism and that the biggest threat from the misuse of AI was extremist groups using the technology to harness new and existing bioweapons.

Frank Gardner and Adam Goldsmith report for BBC News.

Becky Morton reports for BBC News.

Ethiopian government troops have advanced to Zelambessa, a town on the border with Eritrea previously controlled by Tigrayan rebels, sources told Reuters yesterday.

The number one threat, he said, remained Russia, and MI5 was now devoting more resources to countering state threats than during the Cold War.

Our security correspondent, Frank Gardner, reports.

MI5, said Sir Ken McCallum, has always had two jobs: protecting the nation from terrorism and countering state threats.

Delivering his annual public speech today inside MI5 headquarters, the Security Service boss said his teams were even busier now in confronting those state threats than during the Cold War.