by 11 of the 31 members of the alliance. uk prime minister rishi sunak is expected to urge nato allies to learn the lessons from russia s invasion of ukraine and invest more in defence. joining me now is hugo brennan, research director at the risk intelligence company verisk maplecroft. good morning to you, hugo. so, just talk us through the level of defence spending going on at the moment. because this has been a contentious issue for years within nato, hasn t it? it very much has been, yeah. i mean, the first thing to say is the question of who foots the bill to pay for the alliance? as you say, that s long been a question mark. you ll remember back to 2019, when donald trump made it very much top of the agenda. and again, it s going to be in this latest nato summit. as you said, we re expecting some sort of agreement that will make it a requirement for nato member states to spend at least 2% of their gdp on defence spending, which would build on that 2014 agreement you r
by a remotely operated vehicle deployed in the search. the bbc has been told that the debris includes parts of the missing sub. the submersible was about 435 miles south of stjohn s, newfoundland, on a voyage to the wreck of the titanic off the coast of canada, when it lost contact. its exact whereabouts and the condition of the five crew onboard are unknown. with rescuers in a race against time to find the sub, it s thought that the on board oxygen supply may have run out. more ships are now in the area helping with the search. let s just run through what s been happening over the last few hours. two deepwater remotely operated vehicles have been scanning the sea floor. the us coast guard said on social media a submersible attached to the canadian vessel horizon arctic had reached the sea bed. another one, operated from the french research vessel atalante, has also been deployed. another remotely operated vehicle is on its way from jersey in the channel islands and is due to
leader to retreat. yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner mercenary group, has been pictured apparently leaving the russian city of rostov on don along with his troops. only yesterday a heavily armed column of wagner troops was heading from rostov on don towards moscow, where defences were being prepared. those troops got to around 300 miles south of the russian capital. then, at around 6.30pm uk time, prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance, in a deal brokered by the belarusian leader. with all the details, here s our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford. mutineers cheered as heroes. this crowd are shouting wagner, the name of the mercenary group that led me to putin had said treason a couple of hours earlier. in a day of high drama. the wagner group had rolled into rostov on saturday morning, leasing attacks on city streets and taking over a military command post for the ukraine war. there, wagner s boss was filmed haranguing senior milita
sunday night in america. omor the race for the white house is kicking off in earnest tomorrow with the iowa caucus. iowa is the beginning, but the caucus does not always accurately predict how the story nd will end. a political graveyard is full of those who want iowa but did not go on to win the nomination but nevertheless winning is almost always better than not appear it polling indicates former president trump is the overwhelming favorite.ll are the poles right? and he emerge as the top challenger with poor showing persuade any candidate to exitig leftht or right? i joining us now is the host of good story and that debates c and town halls on election coverage, martha maccallum, who may have to pay taxes in t iowa because she s been there like weeks and weeks. jessica tarlov who is a cohost the five and wakes up every morning knowing she will be outnumbered even though that is not the name of the show but shs will be outnumbered 5:00 easter0 time when she more than h
i m yasmin vossoughian on a very busy start afternoon. breaking news, the president just signed the debt ceiling bill. into law. it happened just a couple of moments ago. it comes after the president took a victory lap, a victory many thought he could not achieve. i know bipartisanship is hard. and unity is hard. we can never stop trying. because in moments like this one, the ones we just faced, where the american economy in the world economy is at risk of collapsing, there s no other way, no matter how tough our politics get, we need to see each other not as evident adversaries, as fellow americans. fellow americans. right now in iowa, a cavalcade of gop presidential candidates, all in one place. with one notable exception. that exception may have bigger things to worry about, new reporting on the special counsel investigation in the former president, and the document donald trump s lawyers cannot seem to find. all of that, plus, we are following the horrific scene in in