Loses its conflict with russia. G7 Foreign Ministers are meeting now on the italian island of capri to discuss ukraines urgent appeal for more air defence support and how to use frozen russian assets to assist kyiv. Earlier, i spoke to our security correspondent gordon corera. Potentially, a significant series of arrests by German Authorities yesterday. Theyre certainly suggesting that today, with prosecutors arresting two men, one of those, it appears, had been spending some time carrying out reconnaissance of a Military Facilities. The second man is thought to have assisted him and then, in turn, they are thought to have been in contact with another person linked with russian intelligence services. Some details are emerging about what they may have been looking at. These are Military Facilities inside germany but the suggestion is this wasnt just spying, collecting intelligence that is something that happens normally but they were considering, particularly that one individual sabotag
Aus north korea as a brutal regime after a us student that was imprisoned there guys. Stay hydrated, as the uk heatwave continues. Imprisoned there guys. Imprisoned there has died. Good morning. Its tuesday 20th june. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The Serious Fraud office has charged barclays and four former executives including former chief Executivejohn Varley with fraud over the banks dealings with qatar at the height of the financial crisis. Barclays raised Emergency Funding from qatar in 2008 to avoid a government bail out. Now barclays has become the first bank to Face Criminal Charges for actions during the financial crisis. With me is ben thompson. The first Senior Executives to face charges over alleged activities in that period of the financial crisis. Tell us more period of the financial crisis. Tell us more about what the charges are. You have two turn the clock back to 2008, the height of the crisis. Three of the biggest banks said they we re three of th
if you would, on these reports from qatar suggesting they may end their role chairing negotiations. is there anything coming from various hostage families as a result of hearing things like that? well, look, there s obviously going to be concern by all those who have an interest in there being a cease fire in gaza. i think the sense here at the moment is this is qatar pushing back against some american politicians who have been critical of qatar, saying they re not putting enough pressure on hamas. this is qatarjust pushing back against that to try and put some pressure back on the americans. james landale there injerusalem. we are keeping an eye on that g7 gathering in capri. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.