Boris Johnsons Conservative Party with a working majority of just one seat. For joining us. Statess is withdrawing from the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty. In 1987 byluded ronald reagan. Was with the goal of limiting conventional and nuclear intermediate range missiles. S. This is withdrawing saying saying moscow did not respect it anyway. The u. N. Secretaryggeneral has called it a dangerous step. I asked philip from our International Affairs desk why the deal has fallen apart. If you go to 1987 when the treaty was summoned the first time, there was enthusiasm to limit the range of these weapons when it came to them being fired into europe by the then president of the soviet union, mikael gorbachev. End. Period has come to an those two leaders workrking to reduce arms. Now we are in a different period, where you have the russian leader, the u. S. Areident, and china, which all keen to develop Nuclear Weapons capacity. That explains why this deal has fallen through. Nato has
Demands coming from the gunman the other hostages either on their phones or social media. There is more from the New South Wales lease commissioner police commissioner. Certainly, they will be working with us to assist. The one thing that i can say is if people are being contacted by hostages, particularly the media , we would ask that you would put those people and ask them to ensure that the manning side speaks to police and trains negotiators, who can resolve this situation that the man inside speaks to police and trained negotiators, who can resolve this situation. For the latest on the situation, lets bring in Kristin Edwards in Christian Edwards. The police are being rightly tightly tightlipped. The fact that they are waiting out the gunman suggests there has been, if not a breakthrough in negotiations, a little bit of to and fro. It suggests an endgame. What more do we know, what details are there about the gunman himself and what he wants, exactly . Some photos emerged almost b
As u. S. Congressional leaders get set in the coming hours to sit down at the white house, the president warns not all issues will be solved in one go. The Tea Party Republican wing digging in its heels for a fight coming up against thursdays deadline to raise the debt ceiling. Could the battle over spending and health care go all the way and punish the rest of the planet into recession . We will ask our panel. The hour begins in the newsroom. These are the headlines. We are open to suspending new sanctions against iran if progress is made on the nuclear issue. Three red cross workers and one red crescent volunteer are freed by government in syria. Three other aid workers are still being held. Victory for Frances National front after a recent poll put the far right party in the lead in next mays european election. First, and a letter to barack obama, Nine American senators from both sides of the aisle have said they are open to suspending the implementation of new sanctions against ira
Military action against the serious government. President Francois Hollande made these comments following a decision by britain and germany not to back military intervention in serious conflict. It means now that the United States must look to its other allies for support of strike action. The u. K. Will not be joining a powerful military intervention in serious. The British Parliament narrowly voted against it, forcing David Cameron to give up on the idea. Is clear to me that the British Parliament, reflecting the views of the british people, does not want to see British Military action. I get that and the government will act accordingly. In the u. S. , the british vote is not really a game changer. First of all, i have not made a decision. I have gotten options from our military. The United Nations chief ban kimoon called on all parties to choose the paloma see over war. It seems certain heads of state want to push ahead even without a human mandate. If the Security Council is preven
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