and bowel cancer campaigner dame deborah james host of the bbc podcast you, me and the big c has died at the age of a0. three near williams suffers a shock first round defeat. she was playing herfirst singles match in more than a year. and serena williams. the inquiry into the riot at the us capitol last year has been hearing dramtic testomony from a former white house aide. cassidy hutchinson said donald trump knew supporters had weapons when he urged them to march to congress. she also said senior officials had warned repeatedly that mr trump s rally on that day to try to overturnjoe biden s victory could spiral out of control. our north america editor sarah smith has more. do you swear on. a surprise witness. her appearance, kept secret until today, delivered explosive testimony. describing how trump had been informed that many in the crowd on 6 january were carrying weapons. yet he was furious about security measures. metal detectors were used to find guns and knives.
court would be asked to decide turkey has changed its mind and has now agreed to support the nato membership applications from finland and sweden. the breakthrough came at the nato summit in madrid where again the war in ukraine dominated the discussions. 0ur europe editor katya adler reports from madrid. it s taken weeks of negotiations, but sweden and finland are now well on their way to becoming nato members, after they signed an agreement with turkey to counter threats to each other s security. applause. nato hopes to present this united front tonight, to send a clear message to vladimir putin. welcoming finland and sweden into the alliance will make them safer, nato stronger, and the mid atlantic area more secure. this is vital as we face the biggest
welcome to bbc news. i m nancy kacungira. our top stories: a former white house aide tells a congressional committee that president trump wanted to join the capitol hill rioters. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr engel grabbed his arm. he said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we re going back to the west wing. we re not going to the capitol. turkey drops its opposition to sweden and finland joining the nato military alliance after the three countries sign a joint agreement. in new york, ghislaine maxwell is sentenced to 20 years for helping jeffrey epstein abuse young girls.
lot of internal dissent and conflict from various sources and, more importantly, it has had a million refugees from syria arrive in its territory in the last decade. turkey saw an opportunity here to use this moment, where all of nato otherwise wanted to bring in sweden and finland and turkey realised it had some leverage, and it was going to insist that the president of the united states engage and deliver some results. it appears that between the president and the nato secretary general, turkey has been consulted and its concerns are been addressed in regard to potential kurdish separatists terrorists. some of us think they are more separatists but turkey sees them as terrorists and that has been clear that in the future, these countries will have to be very careful about how they absorb kurdish and tried to
security crisis in decades. ukraine, of course, is on everyone s minds here. but so is the wider security threat from russia. nato is ramping up its rapid reaction forces from a0,000 to 300,000, like these french paratroopers preparing to support nato countries close to russia, now feeling very exposed. we can t defend ourselves alone. we will never be alone strong. so we have to have, like, friends and allies. finland and sweden agree. just look at finland s long border with russia. hello. thank you so much for taking the time. moscow s aggression has shocked them. we realised that we have to make a change. well, it appeared that russia is ready to try to invade a neighbouring sovereign country. are you worried, though? because president putin told