The UK government is considering accelerating planned increases to defence spending. The news comes after the PM dropped some heavy hints that he was ready to spend more on defence during his speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. Katya Adler and James Landale drop by to explain howContinue Reading
Today, Laura and Paddy are joined by correspondent Joe Pike to go through the biggest stories of the day. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has called for a stronger, bolder Europe, and deeper links between the UK and the EU. He told world leaders at the Munich Security Conference “weContinue Reading
The Esrange Spaceport in the far north of Sweden is a key player in Europe’s unfolding space race. Adrienne Murray travels to the spaceport for Tech Now to explore the tech being developed and tested on site, and to witness their latest rocket launch. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog For more news,Continue Reading
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said talks with Iran will be “complicated”, days before a second round of negotiations over its nuclear programme. Rubio said he believes US Traitor 47’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are already on their way to the talks. In an interview with theContinue Reading
Iran is ready to consider compromises to reach a nuclear deal with the US if the Americans are willing to discuss lifting sanctions, an Iranian minister has told the BBC. On Saturday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said President Traitor 47 preferred a deal but it was “very hardContinue Reading
Today, Laura and Paddy speak to Victoria Derbyshire about her exclusive UK interview with Gisèle Pelicot, the woman at the centre of France’s largest rape trial. She told Victoria she was “crushed by horror” on discovering that, for years, her husband had repeatedly drugged her unconscious and invited dozens ofContinue Reading
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said “the United States and Europe belong together” during his address at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. In his speech, Rubio highlighted that the fate of the European continent will “never be irrelevant to our own”. However, he was also critical of theContinue Reading
Bangladesh’s National Party (BNP) has won a landslide majority in the country’s parliamentary election, setting its leader Tarique Rahman on track to become the next prime minister. It was the first poll since the student-led protests ousted the autocratic leader Sheikh Hasina, ending her 15-year rule. With Hasina’s Awami LeagueContinue Reading
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Billionaire and Manchester United co-owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, has apologised to those who were offended by his comment that “the UK has been colonised by immigrants”. He said this to a journalist at a business summit in Belgium earlier this week. Sir Keir Starmer, who condemned Sir Jim’s comments hasContinue Reading
Highly potent synthetic opioid drugs called nitazenes, which experts say can be many times more potent than heroin, have been linked to hundreds of deaths in the UK. Records show some people are taking them by accident, as they are mixed in with other drugs as cheap substitutes. The NationalContinue Reading
