it's upside down. on arrival at toronto airport. israel's military begins withdrawing from southern lebanon. trips remain temps-“sari?!" five key positions. those are the headlines. now let's get the latest business news with sally. as you would expect the business world is very focused on those talks are under way in riyadh, saudi arabia, the riyadh, saudi arabia, about the future of ukraine. defence have soared since monda stocks have soared since monday of a big in spendingion monday

increase in spending. on monday we had that emergency summits in paris, late yesterday, where european leaders stressed the need to take greater responsibility for their own security. the issue of how much countries across europe put aside amidst growing concerns that europe can no longer rely on the us for defence. the uk currently spends around two point 3% of its total the government has committed to increase that to 2.5% will be achieved. was $457 billion — that's around 2% of gdp. but many european leaders and defence experts

are saying this isn't enough. indeed, russia increased defence spending by 42% last year in real terms — around 6.7% for defence spending? is broadly about 2% of gdp. there are calls to raise that to 4%. meanwhile, the eu has been contributing about 60 billion for ukraine,

and there are estimates travel is continuing to grow despite the ongoing squeeze the owner of holiday inn — crowne plaza — a 3% growth in its annual room revenue. ihg says it's been boosted by a pick—up in demand in the united states. i to the boss of the country, of iht country, chief exemtiveof ht and

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for future growth. increase in dividend. clearly you are very bullish about what is experience, we are in over 100 countries. and the outlook is good and at the other end of the world, i was just in china three weeks ago at the same time travel and tourism is very strong, they asia—backed markets. our 800th hotel into , ,,..

under development. strong. post—pandemic there was all that pent—up demand, all the for a period of time. but we have been in a period for many compared to previous years, etc. growth. accelerated after the pandemic, which is people are spending in some of the major economies — north america,

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border is formidable. each drone, all made in ukraine, costs around £300. way cheaper than sophisticated american weapons, is one reason of the soviet union. about the cost of war.

pilot in the field. now too busy here to follow the news. it's like a 24/7 job. — the infantry. in the last few days hasn't reached this place. but suffice to say, it's close to the russian border. and the soldiers here are continuing doing is win the war against russia. a russian drone strike on sumy a fortnight ago hit this block

alone with president putin. she says, "there can only be peace when the borys, a retired soviet colonel, doesn't until we're stronger. europe seems ready to help. in fact, president putin has already said that he wants occupy at the moment.

but there's more than that. president putin effectively wants to so dilute ukrainian and that's something that the ukrainians, president zelensky, will not agree to, and that is another sign of the fact that making and it won't be easy. right through the evening, ukrainian anti—aircraft the ukrainians hit russia, too. he might try somewhere else. jeremy bowen, bbc news, sumy.

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police identify hundreds of thousands of new images this way, images often shared using encrypted messaging apps. of an unacceptable loophole in the online safety act, to take down illegal material. technically feasible. and adults could be exposed to child abuse content in group chats. to tackle this at the minute.

every single day. significant abuse online. of tech services. ofcom says the vast majority of platforms will be able to account if they don't. emergency legislation was passed last year sentenced to less than four years to be freed after a0 %

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again, and i thought my baby had been killed. so, it was horrific. she was given devastating news. i was put into an induced coma and the next day they bring me out. which was amazing. but then they break the news that she's fighting for her and it was the police officers that said to me, natalie, this, is your partner.

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release, four years earlier than i was expecting, years of a parole date, and there's no guarantee any prisoner will be granted the move. crimes isn't being taken into account, and victims are in the dark about it. so now that we know that this did happen last march, far better and ensure those victims impacted understand it as well, what it means for them. the ministry ofjustice says offenders are subject to a thorough risk assessment before they can be moved to open prison.

use of prison space. but natalie, who only found out about the change due exclusions for cases like hers. and that's why i feel domestic abuse offenders should be viewed differently to others. i can tell you that for me, it's my life, who get left behind. improving reasoning, computational power of this chatbot. they have been developing

it over the last year powerful than its predecessor. it is quite early to say. massively stiff competition from the likes of chatgpt, even deepseek — the new chinese model — for quite some time. the makers of chatgpt. kind of falling—out. since then, elon musk has filed lots of lawsuits against openai.

he has tried to actually buy openai recently for nearly $100 billion, along with a few other investors. are huge, and this latest version of grok, i suppose, keeps gathering speed. just time bring you these pictures. huge crowds have been flocking to a theme park in hong kong to see six—month—old twin panda cubs who have just been revealed to the public. and little brother. their mother, ying ying, is the world's oldest giant for some of us this morning, we started off with some rain, sleet and snow.

if you watch the isobars today, we're pulling in in england and wales, we'll see some hazy sunshine temperatures generally 5 to about 8 degrees. the risk of ice forming in scotland, and we've got a weatherfront bringing some rain in across parts of the west. central and eastern parts of the country.

to fizzle as it does so, so dry airahead of it and behind it, we're back into double figures, 10 to 12 celsius, but in central and eastern areas, some of the rain could be heavy with the odd rumble of thunder, windy with exposure in the north and the west, but these are the temperatures — 9 to about 14 degrees. it's going to be a windy day. the wind coming from the southwest. so we've got that milder weather with us, but you can see a lot of rain pushing from the west to the east. after a drier start in the southeast, we will hang behind the rain, it brightens up in northern ireland. we've got this southwesterly

flow, so as a result, temperatures up anyway, we're looking at 9 to 14.

live from london, this is bbc news.

in ukraine. but there's no seat at the table for president zelensky. we just wejust landed, our upside—down on arrival at toronto airport. all they said and everything just kind of sideways, and lastthing 7 lastthingi 7 last thing i there was = -= ' ”inrthe sat 7 77 ' ”inrthe sat el 77 ' ”inrthe iris ii a; kind in the blink and i am upside down but still strapped .w 231177 a. s w as”-.- into all they said and everything kind of went sideways. trying to look tough on crime for overcrowding in prisons. i'm nicky schiller, welcome to the programme. direct face—to—face talks

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