we won t play her games, we won t play roles in a tense game, when there is real work to be done, real work on the cost of living crisis, real work to invest in public services. the white house calls the deaths of 46 people found in an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of the texan city of san antonio, absolutely horrific and heartbreaking . ghislaine maxwell is due to be sentenced in the next few hours for recruiting and grooming minors for herformer partner, paedophilejeffrey epstein. borisjohnson faces a row over increased defence spending, as he heads to a nato summit likely to be dominated by the need to boost military resources to counter russia in ukraine. the odds of it being a war in europe have shortened almost as much as the timeline, so we must act. we cannot protect the british people or our allies with transformation strategies and glossy equipment. and coming up in sport, we ll be live at wimbledon as 23 time grand slam champion serena williams prepares to go o
And indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi comes to washington for his first meeting with donald trump. Welcome to the programme, i am Christian Fraser in london katty kay is In Washington. Finally, the british Prime Minister has a Working Majority to keep her in office but only thanks to a expensive deal with the Largest Party in Northern Ireland. The agreement signed today with the dup ensures that ten unionist mps will side with the government on confidence votes and on key brexit issues. But its not cheap. The deal guarantees Northern Ireland an extra 1. 2 billion, or £1 billion of funding over the next two years. And the dup could even come back to ask for more after 2019. So mrs may has some explaining to do to her critics how come money is hard to find for schools and hospitals, but not when it comes to keeping the conservatives in power . Well today, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party said that the deal was of benefit to the whole of the uk. Throughout these discussions
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