Doing so would be a serious escalation of the war, but Keir Starmer said moscow started the conflict and can end it by withdrawing its troops from ukraine. Our Political Editor Chris Mason was on the prime Ministers Plane, and sent this report shortly after landing. The Prime Minister arriving here in washington with the foreign secretary, David Lammy Sir Keir Starmer s second visit to the White House in two months. Ukraines allies remain rather guarded in their public remarks about a change in policy on the use of Western Missiles inside russia. But the diplomatic dashing to arrive at a decision is in plain sight and that has proved enough for President Putin to say this. Translation if this decision is made, it will mean nothing other than direct participation of nato countries, the United States, I European countries. In the war in ukraine. It is their direct participation and this, of course, significantly changes the very essence of the conflict. This will mean that nato countries
And Maja Stark looked like they might squander a strong position in their match against Ally Ewing and Jennifer Kupcho but they held their nerve on the last hole to claim europes first point. The Afternoon Fourballs are just getting under way. Well the fourballs have just got under way. And once again, the Home Side had Barack Obama on hand for support again, after surprising them at the pre match dinner, the former president turned up at the first tee to help get the team fired up for the second round of match play. Quite near washington, dc, this course. Great britains davis Cup Tennis Team are hoping to move a step closer to the finals in november. They won their Opening Group Tie against finland on wednesday and are now taking on argentina as we speak at the manchester arena. They are 1 0 down in the tie though after Dan Evans lost in straight sets to tomas martin etcheverry, despite saving five match points. So all eyes are now on the british Number One jack draper, whos back in t
Anglia, certainly warming up. High pressure stays with us through the weekend and into the start of next week, deflecting all of these Weather Fronts to the north and the wet so temperatures will certainly rise and it is looking mostly dry and settled. Here is the outlook for the capital cities. Thats it. Now, lets join our colleagues for the news where you are. Hello and welcome to sportsday this Friday Night. Im chetan pathak. Coming up on the programme. Fast start from the Usa Europe have work to do in virginia if theyre to to retain the Solheim Cup well bring you the latest. Laid to rest former England Manager sven goran eriksson s funeral is held in sweden. Four and a half hours until the Womens Football Transfer window closes well bring you up to date with the big moves so far and those yet to be completed. Also coming up on sportsday before 7. Davis Cup Defeat for draper Great Britain are stunned by argentina in manchester. And the World Number 0nes against the world champions e
Held by an independent commission. A final verdict is expected before the end of the current premier league season. Here s our chief football reporter simon stone, this could go on for months and we will not really know the detail of what is being said behind closed doors. Eventually we will get a verdict. The premier league, if city are found guilty, have unlimited punishment, so that is wideranging in itself. Clearly, if city are not found guilty of anything and they have absolutely declared their innocence on numerous occasions, there will be light firmly shone upon the premier league and its processes. Yes, it is a huge moment for the premier league. The manchester united manager, erik ten hag, has been responding to criticism from former striker cristiano ronaldo, who hit out at the dutchman for saying the club are a long way from winning the league and champions league. Ten hag pointed out that the portugal forward previously had admitted himself that united weren t placed to win
That s always say, hey, if you don t vote for this contract and you, we re taking the airplane out of washington state. There s always some kind of pressure to get us, to motivate us to vote in their favour. There s always something like that, you know, there s always an underlying threat. And if we re not doing the right thing, then we re hurting the company. We re not hurting them. They ve got, they make way more money than we do. Why don t they give up some of their money to get boeing out of the problem they re in? some very unhappy workers there. We are expecting results in the next few hours. The bbc s ritika gupta has more on what s at stake. They haven t had a new contract in 16 years of been bargaining for months of her higher pay, better benefits and job security. The latest dispute is centred around workers discontent with the tentative agreement reached over the weekend. The international associations of machinists and aerospace workers and boeing unveiled a package that in