To receive migrants who will be flown at of the country as a deterrent and this is very different way to eat into the numbers that are still waiting to be processed and we will get to that a little later. Let us focus because the head of the cia, william the head of the cia William Burns told the Senate Intel Committee last night that more losses are likely in ukraine unless congress can pass joe biden s ukraine aid package, which has been opposed by republicans. It is our assessment that with supplemental assistance, ukraine can hold its own on the front lines through 2024 and into 2025 and down another road without supplemental assistance, it seems to me that theres a much grimmer future. Ukraine is likely to lose ground and probably significant ground in 2024. There is a bi partisan majority in the house that would vote for the 60bn Dollars In Military Aid which the Senate Approved six weeks ago. But House Speaker mikejohnson is standing in the way. This afternoon the Senate Minorit
A member of this alliance. But even once that decision was made, none of this was easy, none of this was obvious. It has taken nearly three years of tireless diplomacy, together with extraordinary Secretary General of nato to achieve ratification by every nato member. Again, the determination of swedens leadership, the extraordinary diplomacy it has exerted, making sure every question was answered, every challenge met, every obstacle overcome, that is what brought us to today. Now, some doubted we would get here, we never did. Here we are. This of course is also built on an extraordinary foundation of partnership between sweden and nato that goes back many years. Sweden has long been an active partner with nato allies, training together, exercising, working together. Fundamentally, the reason this is such a strong powerful fit is because sweden embodies and promotes the core values that are at the heart of nato. Democracy, liberty, the rule of law. And it also brings unique capabilitie
And it is blowing at the moment. North east england, 2a miles an hour. 73 miles an hour over the tops of the pennines. At the moment we have got gusts of wind of 57 miles an hour, so two or three times the strength of the winds elsewhere in Northern England. Overnight it will stay quite blurry and there will be a lot of cloud around with Rain Pushing Northwards and westwards. None of the rate will be heavy. Temperatures four to seven overnight. The weekend whether prospect is dominated by this low Weather Pressure further south. It will throw in bands of rain across the uk, and on saturday we start off with Rain In The South West going into Northern England and that will move northwards to Reach Scotland and Northern Ireland in the afternoon. At the same time it will brighten up across east anglia and the midlands with hazy, sunny spells coming through. Could get up to 13 in the sunshine. But in the north sea coast cold again, temperatures just six or seven celsius. Saturday looks like
Lives he saved. Fi refox and aid corridor in gaza should Begin Operating this weekend. Aid agencies have said hunger has reached catastrophic levels. The us, uk and eu will open a maritime corridor is to allow the delivery of additional supplies. They will continue to to urge israel to allow more trucks into gaza. Ursula von der leyen is in cyprus and said the corridor should be operating within days. Today, the republic of cyprus, the european commission, the United Arab Emirates and the united states, of course supported by other critical partners, announced our intention to open the maritime corridor, to deliver much needed additional amounts of humanitarian assistance by sea. We are launching this Cyprus Maritime Corridor together. Cyprus, the eu, the United Arab Emirates and the eu, the United Arab Emirates and the united states. It is your relentless work to get the squad are up relentless work to get the squad are up and running despite all the challenges and this is truly inspi
Automatically qualify, while the third and fourth placed nations will go into the play . Offs. The 12 best ranked teams in league b will face eachother for a place in the final play off round. Scotland are in a group with serbia, slovakia and israel; Northern Ireland were drawn with portugal, Bosnia And Herzegovina and malta; while wales will play croatia, ukrane and kosovo. Qualifying begins in april. Former world number one simona halep has had herfour year ban for doping reduced to nine months by the court of arbitration for sport. The two time grand slam winner tested positive for an anti anaemia drug after the us open in 2022. Cas have since ruled halep did not take it intentionally. Having feared her career was over,s the 32 old can now return to tennis immediately. And thats all the sport for now. Heres the eastern time and gmt time, east coast west coast. Weve got a Night Of Special Coverage Tonight on the bbc, Super Tuesday will be coming from washington, dc, looked across to