of the evidence in these hearings. big news out of madrid tonight where turkey has given the green the light to finland and swedens membership of nato. it stretches nato s border with russia, and significantly bolsters europe s eastern flank and is this a 1937 moment, the head of the british army says the uk is under prepared to meet the renewed challenge from russia. tonight with the context, former adviser to hillary clinton amanda renteria the former uk national security adviser lord peter ricketts and former federal prosecutorjoe moreno. hello and welcome to the programme. in the last few hours we have heard some of the most stunning testimony from the january 6th committee. cassidy hutchinson, a senior aide to the white house chief of staff, has given evidence that former president trump and his senior aides not only knew there were plans to march on the capitol onjan 6th, they knew days before of the potential for violence. and ahead of the speech on the elipse that
would go through the roofs of the question always is, is about to spend more money now in order to avoid worse data. with energy prices where they are, with the looming food crisis, with the cost of living concerns across western countries this is a really bad time but britain is one of the few countries that are spending 2% of gdp and it isjust about that are spending 2% of gdp and it is just about that. similar countries are well below that. germany is now trying to catch up but to have percent of gdp on defence, i expect will be the kind of benchmark of their going be able to deter russia from this kind of reckless behaviour that they have been indulging in. that is a fundamental decision that politicians have said today that is the price of feed him and praise has to be paid unless you want to face worse later. that is the 1937 analogy. worse later. that is the 1937 analo: . , worse later. that is the 1937 analo: . ., ~ worse later. that is the 1937 analo . ., ~ analogy. boris john