brussels, ukrainian security analyst hanna shelest and from virginia, ian brzezinski, a former us deputy assistant secretary of defense for europe and nato. hello, welcome to the programme. the nato summit in madrid will go down as a major turning point. today, the alliance extended a formal invitation to finland and sweden that when ratified will extend nato s border with russia by more than 800 miles. alongside that, the alliance has outlined its new strategic vision, which puts a more muscularfocus on the defence of nato s eastern flank. the high readiness forces will be expanding seven fold to more than 300,000 troops. president biden has announced there will be a new permanent us base in poland, the first time the americans have had a standing force so close to russia s border, and he will also send two additional american destroyers to join the european fleet. we re going to approve a new nato strategic concept and reaffirm the unity and determination of our alliance to
channel islands, parts of the south west, all that humidity working in behind the outbreaks of rain, pretty soggy for the first part of the evening in yorkshire and lincolnshire, some patchy rain elsewhere. even when you get breaks in the cloud they will fill in with mist and fog tanks to thanks to the rising levels of humidity. low pressure with us for tomorrow, a couple of little weather fronts moving through, bringing shower, but all of us fining ourselves in the midst of this very humid air, but particularly humid in the south where across the south west, parts of wales will be murky start, some fog patches elsewhere. a fair amount of cloud in the sky. that cloud breaking from time to time to give spells of sunshine. best for northern ireland, the south east of england but equally that cloud producing a few showers here and there. 20 for glasgow, 21 for belfast but parts of east aping that getting up to 27 degrees. through tomorrow we see rain gathering to the south we
Four people are injured after horses bulled through central london. And gustav klimt s lost masterpiece is sold for an asking price of 30 Million Euros. Hello, im lucy grey, welcome to verified live three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. President biden has said that the us will begin sending new Military Assistance to ukraine within hours, after he signed a long awaited bill passed by congress. Speaking at a Press Conference at the white house, mr biden said the ai, worth 61 billion, would make america and the world safer. He said ukraine had the will and skill to win the war against russia. The package also includes billions of dollars in aid for israel and taiwan, as well as 1 billion in humanitarian assistance to gaza. Its a good day for america, a good day for europe, and a good day for world peace and freedom. This is consequential. Ijust signed into law the National Security package that was passed by house representatives this weekend and by th
room, theyjust wanted to stand outside and see him but will probably catch a glimpse of him very shortly. i think this was boris johnson s big moment, as he saw it, to set the record straight. it feels like we have been building up to this moment in the last two weeks. we ve heard from scientists, civil servants, other politicians, political aides. servants, other politicians, politicalaides. it servants, other politicians, political aides. it feels like it was building up to this man, boris johnson, who ultimately made all the big decisions. questions to answer about lockdowns, about how decisions were made, the culture within downing street, i m sure tomorrow we will get to the likes of partygate and some of the things that happened laterally into the pandemic. but i think the striking moment this morning was his apology, it had been trailed in the newspapers over the weekend that he would apologise, seek to set the record straight, he certainly did that, he saw two took pe
around the government s plans to send some asylum seekers to rwanda, which you remember faced a send some asylum seekers to rwanda, which you rememberfaced a number of legal challenges as soon as they were introduced more than a year and a half ago. the government is expected to introduce a bill that ministers say it will aim to block the legal challenges. there is debate within the conservative party about how far that bill should go, what that bill should include. the first thing is, suella braverman saying, it must come in her view, to supply the european convention on human rights. the second thing, suella braverman was sacked by rishi sunak as home secretary and since then she has really been seen as a potential flag then she has really been seen as a potentialflag bearer then she has really been seen as a potential flag bearer for the then she has really been seen as a potentialflag bearerfor the right potential flag bearer for the right of potentialflag bearerfor the r