total, but then you have china developing their nuclear program rapidly. they re at about 400 nuclear warheads stockpiled. that could grow, according to the u.s. assessment to 1500 by 2035. so they re saying the future of any arms agreement is going to be hinged on what china is doing with their nuclear program. that s a key question here. you also have the administration really keenly looking at the fact they now need to deal with both these countries that don t want to come to the table, and they re trying to tell them it s to their best benefit, best advantage to have these conversations about nuclear weapons. jim? so, the question is, is the intention here from the biden administration to make this a three-way negotiation in effect?
no new deal has been proposed. ministers have now added a one off payment for nhs staff in england for this financial year, and there is a pay offer of 5% for the next year, beginning in april. a spokesperson said the treasury and department of health would work out the required funding. it began with strikes called by the royal college of nursing followed by other health unions. now, it s got to the point of a pay offer to be put to members. ministers had said before there was no more money available for this financial year, but now, that has changed. the strikes have caused disruption around 140,000 operations and appointments were cancelled. nhs leaders say they are now keen to get on with tackling the backlog. obviously, this signals the opportunity to do that and to avoid all other disruption that we ve seen as a consequence of the industrial action and, crucially, a fair dealfor staff. chanting: claps | don t pay the bills! but thejunior doctors are not part of today s agreemen
lasted only about ten minutes and he had three points he made in this conversation. he pressed that russia should reverse the decision to get out of the new start treaty, the single lasting arms agreement between the u.s. and russia which russia announced they were going to be departing earlier this month and pressed for an m american, paul whelan, to be released. and now blinken and lavrov have been in the same place a number of times over the last year but they haven t actually had direct dialogue. that s why this is significant. i think it s important to note a senior state department official after this conversation said there s no expectation of near term changes after this conversation. so we re not looking at a
this includes trees and seeds in garden centres. the northern ireland assembly will be able to pull an emergency brake for changes to eu goods rules. here s how mr sunak presented the new deal. i believe the windsor framework marks a turning point for the people of northern ireland. it fixes the practical problems they face. it preserves the balance of the belfast good friday agreement. now, of course, parties will want to consider the agreement in detail. a process that will need time and care. today s agreement is written in the language of laws and treaties, but really it s about much more than that. it s about stability in northern ireland. it s about real people and real businesses. it s about showing that our union that has lasted for centuries can and will endure.