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romantic comedy _ by uk watchdog. anora. and a romantic comedy has - —— that took $6 to make has triumphed at the oscars. hello, am annita mcveigh and you are watching verified live. vowing that britain will play a leading role in bringing an end to fighting in ukraine. it comes after an intense the prime minister described weekend of diplomacy — leaders in london as productive sunday's meeting of world had been agreed by the group, listen to some of what which included european leaders and said a clear strategy as well as the canadian prime minister. sir keir called for the uk to stand by ukraine in the face of a menacing russia and said of a menacing russia and said the goal in ukraine had the goal in ukraine had to be a strong, just, to be a strong, just, and lasting peace. and lasting peace. let's just take another let's just take another listen to some of what the prime minister said in the last few minutes. a rediscovery of the old

post—war argument long held on these benches that economic security is national security, because, mr speaker, the demands we now have to make of britain must come alongside a new foundation of security for working people. the tough choices that we made last week, they are not done. we must use the process of getting to 3% of our national income spent on defence to fundamentally spending to create newjobs and apprenticeships in every part of the country. and that's why last night, i announced a deal that perfectly symbolises the new era, a partnership with ukraine that allows them to use £1.6 billion of uk export finance to buy 5,000 air defence missiles manufactured in belfast.

mr speaker, that means ukjobs, uk skills, uk finance pulling together for our national interests, putting ukraine in the strongest possible position for peace and protecting innocent civilians from the terror of russian drones. mr speaker, my efforts continued on thursday,

people may enjoy the simplicity of taking a side, this week in securing the peace we all want to see in ukraine. kemi badenoch, responded to sir keir starmer. have a listen. and sovereign country. we recognise that ukraine is fighting for her survival and fighting to have the same freedom, democracy and sovereignty which all of us here enjoy. that is why both the opposition

and the government are fully to convene european leaders, as well as the focus as part of this, the prime to support british jobs. as the prime minister knows, we welcomed the uplift in defence spending to 2.5% in defence spending to 2.5% of gdp by 2027. we also support the use of gdp by 2027. of foreign aid to achieve this. we welcome a commitment and we will support him to reach 3% in the years ahead, spending decisions, including in taking difficult on welfare, and we will return to the details of how the government will fund this in the near future. but for now, it is right but for now, it is right that the prime minister that the prime minister is working with allies is working with allies in europe and with in europe and with the united states to bring peace to ukraine and not a surrender to russia. and not a surrender to russia.

as part of this, the prime minister has suggested that british troops could be deployed in ukraine. for what such a deployment could look like, and we are keen to work with the government, but we will need details of any such plan. this will be a difficult but significant step. i know that many in parliament and across our country will be interested in what this entails, and i ask him to work with us so there can be effective scrutiny. i also welcome the coalition of the willing to support ukraine and agree that europe must do the heavy lifting. in the last few minutes there's been a statement from us president donald trump on his truth social media platform, saying, this is the restatement that could have been made by zelensky... he is referring to a comment by a lot of your zelensky saying the end of the war with russia is very, very far away —— volodymyr zelensky.

the post continues... donald trump then goes on, probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of the show of strength against russia. what are they thinking? let's go to nomia iqbal.

russia. what are they thinking? let's go to nomia iqbal happened the weekend over what happened on in the on friday, rin'the gwal foice, as mentioned there, is reaction to a that is—a— reactientea comment president zelensky that is—a— reactiontoa comment president zelensky is that president zelensky is said to have in ukraine when he to have made in ukraine when he was in london over the weekend —— and ukrainian. it feeds into something of national security �* michael ” ”h�*michaeliwaltzr adviser michael waltz claimed over the that this over the weekend, that this guy does not peace, he to continue. �*to continue. president is that he zelensky�*s argument is that he wants a piece, wants the war wants a piece, he wants the war to but he wants security to end, but he wants security assurances the to end, but he wants security ass not ces the —:2 :::: to end, but he wants security ass not giving the —:2 :::: are not giving him. but president trump they down and ' 77 77 "who? 7 7 all doubling down and actually all the republican are the reoe' olican—party are pretty coalescing much coalescing around donald trump and his vice president in defending the blow up the defending the blow up in the oval office. just defending the blow up in the oval office. there is a meeting mentioned, there is a meeting being held this afternoon on the next steps regarding the crisis with ukraine, and there are of this is not

are reports of this is not confirmed, that they could talk suspending military aid about suspending military aid to ukraine, and of course if happens, was hugely that haaaensc that was. huge!” ,,,,, e. . c. we ukraine's that haaaensc that was hugeh' a”, e — e— ”a, ukraine's ability that haaaensc that was hugeh' ewe ee e w we ukraine's ability to damagefttkraine�*s'aoility to itself face of defend itself in the face of russian aggression —— was russian aggression —— that was if russian aggression -- that was hugely. if that was to happen it would be — hugely. if that was to happen it would be after— —— extraordinary timing. to create a bridge of as circular —— starmer saw, building —— keir starmer saw, building bridge. -- starmer saw, building bridge. -- keir starmer saw, building bride. ~. ., -- starmer saw, building bride. ~. . _, bride. ~ . ., -- keir starmer saw, building bride. ~. . _, bridge. michael waltz was asked about that meeting, _ bridge. michael waltz was asked about that meeting, _ bridge. michael waltz was asked about that meeting, about - about that meeting, about the way you leaders were bridge. michael waltz was asked about that meeting, about - about that meeting, about the way you wrote's leaders were coming together to back way yea wrete�*s leaders were , , together way yea wrete's leaders were .,, . , together back coming together to back president zelensky he president zelensky and he it, said that welcomed it, he said that welcomed it, he said that europe should be doing europe should be doing that, and president trump has said president trum - president trum- has said and president trump has said that he thinks europe be that he thinks europe should be that he thinks europe should be doing of heavy lifting doing most of the heavy lifting 95.929 most'ofthe heavy lifting it géogigg most'ofthe heavy lifting it comes gojgg most'ofthe heavy lifting when it comes to finding peace, it comes to finding peace, when it comes to finding peace, but of course they need but of course they need america's backing, they need to need 7 donald 777 donald trump bac7k into it, trump back into it,

draw donald trump back into it, and the president has been draw donald trump back into it, and the president has been pretty clear in that he pretty clear in that he wants the war to end as quickly as possible, no matter what. the war to end as quickly as possible, no matterwhat. it is possible, no matter what. it is nomia. - possible, no matter what. it is mama. to i also interesting, nomia, to note that the trump administration has paused its cyber operations against russia with officials saying they are doing this as the diplomatic push continues to finish the war in ukraine. what's up you might look at that and say the trump administration is giving something to russia before anything has been agreed, it is not giving anything to ukraine. this has been the whole criticism of the trump administration, that if it is negotiating hard with russia, if it is playing hardball but it is totally not showing that. it seems to just be giving everything to russia. and all the concessions have to be made by ukraine, but the department of defence has said causing these cyber operations was something they had planned well in advance of that disastrous

meeting on friday.— in advance of that disastrous meeting on friday. 0k, nomia, thank you _ meeting on friday. 0k, nomia, thank you very _ meeting on friday. 0k, nomia, thank you very much _ meeting on friday. 0k, nomia, thank you very much for - meeting on friday. 0k, nomia, thank you very much for that. l thank you very much for that. we will keep you up—to—date on that meeting that nomia was mentioning there about nomia iqbal, our north america correspondent of which is happening this afternoon in washington on the crisis in ukraine. nomia said reports, nothing confirmed but reports, that that meeting could consider suspending us military aid to ukraine, we heard

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in the city of mannheim after a car drove were injured in the incident. this was the scene in the moments after the attack. they have given a further saying have found update saying they have found no immediate political motive behind crash. mannheim is located in the west of germany — between

stuttgart and frankfurt. the incident occurred as crowds gathered in cities across richard irvine brown from the bbc verify team a while for news cameras to get to the scene. this shows multiple emergency vehicles and was filmed it's called planken. by others at this point. then here, at the north—east

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an m where �* where it from. what reasons? what are the are the reasons? what are the to drive into motivations to drive into a pedestrian zone, to kill innocent people? so, we have to figure this out and then to draw and draw conclusions and hopefully to find some in order to find some solutions in order to find some solutions in order to decrease this risk, but nevertheless, there will be no complete, whatever, security such incidents. complete, whatever, security - such incidents.- z= 7 thomas koenig, thank professor thomas koenig, thank you very from the ”a ;; 7°7f , of mannheim, and 777 7 7 77o7f7ma7nnhei7m, and you find more reporting that can find more reporting on that story on the live page on the bbc website and app. the next stage of the uk's public covid inquiry is under during the pandemic. there'll be a focus on the so—called vip lane,

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