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that's a sir keir with russia. that's a sir keir starmer pushes for kyiv to join nato. meanwhile, former prime minister boris johnson has backed donald trump's message to europe, urging nations to, he says, man up and step up. their support for ukraine. in london, thousands are expected to march to the us embassy today in protest against donald trump's plans for gaza. well, it comes after the us president said he wanted to take over the territory and turn it into the
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police he'll stay in hospital. police are searching for a man after a woman was seriously injured at a pub near sevenoaks in kent. emergency services were called to the three horseshoes on friday evening, with witnesses claiming the woman was shot. the suspect, who is believed to know the victim, fled the scene and remains on the run. kent police say efforts to find him and establish what took place are
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ongoing. and two men have been
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' " assent w ' " clostebol last clostebol last year, substance clostebol last year, but was found to have been inadvertently contaminated by his physiotherapist. authorities had initially sought a ban of up to two years, but agreed to a
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reduced suspension after accepting that sinner had no intent to cheat. he'll miss major tournaments in both the us and in europe, but will be back on court in may for the italian open. those are the latest headlines. i'll be back with you for another look at the top stories in around half an hour now, though, straight over to dawn. >> for the very latest gb news,
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clear. he says, making it very clear. he says, it's not just about ukraine. don't think that a deal can be done. and the threat of putin goes away. he says that russia needs war to hold power together. and he said if they're not fighting in ukraine, that russia will have a surplus of battle hardened soldiers who know nothing but killing and looting. he suggested that kyiv has intelligence that russia is planning to send troops to belarus this year. he also said yesterday they have intelligence that russia is planning to invade. a member of nato next yeah >> catherine, how is that going down.7 what's the reaction from people there to what zelenskyy has had to say.7 >> well, i think it's no surprise really. of course, what he is calling for. but i think
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the intelligence that he says he has is very worrying. i think dutch intelligence have heard similar. and, you know, europe has been able to rely on america for decades since the second world war. effectively, we've been used to having the us as the sort of policeman of the world. and what's happened is it's allowed european leaders who really thought that the days of war in europe were long over not to really prioritise defence, not to spend anything like that 2% of gdp, which is supposed to be a minimum for nato membership and to get away with it. we've had this peace dividend, but donald trump did make clear back when he was president last time that this was really not good enough. as far as he can see, europe has been freeloading on the back of america. he's now saying, pay up, you need to spend 5%. and
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now i mean lots of countries, nowhere even near 2%. so this
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now i mean lots of countries, nowhere even near 2%. so prime president talk down to our prime minister, should, i think, send
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a shiver down your spine, the idea that somehow free speech has gone down the drain in this country is absolutely absurd. he referred to a case of someone who was praying near an abortion clinic, and he suggested that the fact that this person was punished for that under the law meant that we have a real issue with with free speech, you can have whatever you view, whatever view you like on abortion. and i think in the overwhelming majority in this country, we support the laws as they stand and women's right to choose up to a certain point in the pregnancy, you don't intimidate or or do something that might have the impact of intimidating a woman at such a vulnerable point in her life, and i think this particular individual claimed that he was he was praying for the aborted foetus of a previous partner of his. well, if you want to do that, praying you don't have to do that. praying outside an abortion clinic or near an abortion clinic or near an abortion clinic or near an abortion clinic where a woman is going through an extremely
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vulnerable point in her life. so i thought j.d. vance's speech was disgraceful. the idea that he's more threatened or feels more threatened by the threat from within, as he describes it in europe than russia or china, is absolutely appalling. >> okay, this is a yeah. vance was referring to adam smith conneh was referring to adam smith conner, who was arrested after refusing to leave a safe zone around an abortion clinic designed to protect, as we said, vulnerable women going in. what did you make of it, claire? >> what about that point in particular about what he said in general? let's take the whole thing that matthew started off by saying that the swathes of people on x r twitter would be open to j.d. vance's speech and practically be in agreement with it. one, i don't think a lot of our viewers are on x or twitter, but i think they would agree with it. i am on x and i certainly didn't spend a lot of time on it. yesterday or indeed today. i woke up to this speech this morning and read through it. i think he was right. he's cutting through all the rubbish. we do have an issue of free
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speech in this country. we are pilloried. we are a very divided country at the moment. europe is divided as well, but swathes of europe are. the us are divided. you only need to look at the percentage of people voting for democrats or republicans, and it's still incredibly close in this country. although it was a landslide victory for the labour party, i think there's a lot of post—purchase dissidence going on. a lot of people are regretting what they voted for now. sorry. back to the case of the chap outside the abortion clinic in scotland. jd vance quite rightly referred to the fact that the scottish government under the snp, brought in this ludicrous bill, this very divisive bill that allows you to rat on someone in your own family, in your own house for a thought crime. right. and it's extended by the fact that if anyone acts on that, if anyone actually says anything that people disagree with, therefore i'd say that
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infringes their free speech of using it. therefore, they could be investigated and reported to the local authority, to the police services and they would be arrested. case in point, it happened. now that stand away the side of the fact that i don't think abortion is healthcare. i don't think abortion helps society. who is praying for the right of the unborn child in this? because i believe it's a child that is being killed in abortion. it is a hugely emotive subject. the i mean, we don't even need to strip it back to women's choice. it's their bodies. it's this, this that. it takes two people to make a baby, a man and a female. where is the men's right to this? >> okay, matthew, just quickly, i want to bring you back in on this one. >> i mean, we could have a proper debate about abortion. >> this is not about abortion. >> this is not about abortion. >> this is about. the whole the idea. >> the speech issue in this. >> the speech issue in this. >> country that i, as a man, should be able to make a decision about my child or wife's body at that stage of a
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pregnancy, seems to me to be appalling. >> i don't think you have a say in. >> it, in.- >> it, no, i in.— >> it, no, i don't, i don't, i. >> don't for. >> don't for. >> the child being born. the law that said, let me be clear about my own position within my own sphere on abortion. i would never suggest to someone that i was with that they had an abortion because i wouldn't want to be a part of it, but i, i would respect my partner's right to decide. and also i would respect the law. and i don't think people should be influencing. i use the word intimidating earlier. i think maybe the word was influencing people outside an abortion clinic. and if you break the law in this country, then you pay pay in this country, then you pay pay the price. i just ask claire, on the wider issue of free speech, i heard your point about this snp bill. yeah, i'm not sure that i'm not sure it ever became law. and it sounds to me, and i've heard vaguely about that before, that it was overreach by the snp. i'm no fan of the snp in scotland. i'm not sure. by the way, it was a thought crime because someone would obviously have had to say something, but more widely on free speech. is there anything you feel you would like to say on you feel
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