president zelensky has appealled to european leaders for more weapons. addressing a new forum of a0 nations, he said his country had to defeat russia s invasion in order to protect freedom across europe. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the former trade minister, lord digbyjones, and rachel cunliffe, who s senior associate editor for the new statesman. the metro goes with the energy crisis and warns of a winter of disconnect after the national grid confirmed they had contingency plans for blackouts. the energy theme is followed in the i with electricty blackout warning this winter and the worst case scenarios with households facing three hour energy cuts. the guardian leads on suggestions from charities that rolling power cuts could put lives at risk. the theme is continued in the mail with the headlines blackout deal sparks a storm . the paper says households could be offered ten pounds a day not to u
president of the confederation of british industry, lord bilimoria, and the former mayor of baltimore, stephanie rawlings blake. welcome to the programme. the nato summit wrapped up today in madrid, with the alliance stronger than it has been in decades. leaders committed more money to ukraine and more troop numbers to the eastern flank. and in the face of russia s agression they reaffirmed their core commitment to each other under article five an attack on one, is an attack on all. we face the most serious security situation in decades. but we are rising to the challenge with unity and resolve. together deploy more assets and capabilities to both our alliances across all domains, land, air, sea, cyber and space. we have reaffirmed that our article five commitment is sacred. an attack on one is an attack on all and we will defend every inch of nato territory. if you want proof that nato i is a purely defensive alliance, you could have no more eloquent testimony that the acc
it comes after easyjet announced plans to cut more flights over summer. a setback for french president emmanuel macron as he loses his majority in parliament after elections over the weekend. a report into grooming and child sexual exploitation in oldham between 2011 and 2014 finds there were serious failings in the handling of some cases by the council and police. in sport, a first major trophy for england s matt fitzpatrick who s won the us open. and.up close and personal we have a special report from uganda on a successful conservation effort to increase the number of mountain gorillas he so close to us. whenever closest relatives on earth. one of our. wow! still no sign of a deal to avoid a strike. so, today, network rail has set out a plan for the limited number ido i do think it is important that we send out a message early this week that industrial action is likely to proceed and therefore people should take sensible preparations now because there is no point in g
punjabi singer, just a day after his security cover was reduced, sparks anger in india. and as stonehenge is lit with pictures of queen elizabeth for her jubilee, we look at the image of britishness the queen projects around the world. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. we start with some breaking news and more sanctions against russia. in the last hour, the european union has agreed to ban more than two thirds of russian oil imports. eu council president charles michel said this would cut a huge source of financing for moscow s war machine. in a tweet. the decisions came after a summit in brussels, where hungary heavily dependent on russian oil resisted a full oil embargo. for more on this story, i mjoined now by our reporter mark lobel. just talk us through this at this point. it s not a full band, how significant is it? that s right, this is the news in the last hour from brussels. as you had sedate heads of states are putting over a