So important today . Rob, tell us why this definition is so important today . Because the government so important today . Because the government says so important today . Because the government says it so important today . Because the government says it is so important today . Because the government says it is going so important today . Because the government says it is going to i so important today . Because the | government says it is going to use this definition to make a list of individuals and groups that essentially it doesnt want to do business any more with in terms of funding or in contact with them in terms of combating extremism in the uk. I should say, to get all of this in some kind of context, there is already an existing definition, and ive looked at it carefully, and it is not massively different to the old one, it is more specific about theissue old one, it is more specific about the issue of violence perhaps. If you like, the new element here is, and i will credit one
Automatically qualify, while the third and fourth placed nations will go into the play . Offs. The 12 best ranked teams in league b will face eachother for a place in the final play off round. Scotland are in a group with serbia, slovakia and israel; Northern Ireland were drawn with portugal, Bosnia And Herzegovina and malta; while wales will play croatia, ukrane and kosovo. Qualifying begins in april. Former world number one simona halep has had herfour year ban for doping reduced to nine months by the court of arbitration for sport. The two time grand slam winner tested positive for an anti anaemia drug after the us open in 2022. Cas have since ruled halep did not take it intentionally. Having feared her career was over,s the 32 old can now return to tennis immediately. And thats all the sport for now. Heres the eastern time and gmt time, east coast west coast. Weve got a Night Of Special Coverage Tonight on the bbc, Super Tuesday will be coming from washington, dc, looked across to
have to live in so far, we will talk tonight about the us to the decision tonight about the us to the decision to supply cluster munitions to ukraine and the latest request from president zelensky for long range weapons. the war in ukraine and the resulting energy crisis is weighing heavy on the german economy. figures out today such germany is heading into its longest sustained recession since 2008. data from the first two months of this quarter the alliance meets in vilnius next week, a summit at which ukraine s so lets start with ukraine. a lot of news in the past couple of hours. president zelensky has just landed in istanbul where he has been meeting president erdogan. the turkish leader touts a special relationship with president putin, and has in the past served as a go between. but he also, stands in the way of sweden s, full membership of nato. an issue that which will be a major part of the discussions when nato meets next week in vilnius. earlier in the day, on his
coastguard. it is only one line but it is sufficient for them to put it out and they have not been doing that to the course of the last few days so i suspect that is significant, but the detail also is very significant and certainly it is pushing back, normally when they talk to us and update us they give themselves more time to actually analyse what they have actually found. absolutely right and we have been waiting for this information all morning essentially. this urgent search has been going on for a few days now. every day the coastguard has been updating reporters and the press in the afternoon, but this particular press conference is going to be crucial because they will hopefully release more details on what those rovs remote operated vehicles have indeed discovered near the site of the titanic. i want to bring it our reporter carl because he has been here for a few days following all of this. you are at the press conference yesterday as well. they were really looking