to get donald trump for europe to get serious. but will it be enough? another day passes and yet another human rights deportation scam emerges. this time, an iraqi has been granted the right to stay after claiming he's become too westernised. british farmers have been busy reminding the public that labour's brutal tax regime will not only devastate the agricultural industry, but could also make british pancakes more expensive in time for lent. plus, as someone who has had his own reality television programme tonight, you've all been waiting for this. i will break my silence on the duchess of sussex's latest netflix programme. state of the nation starts now. i'll be joined by my most pugnacious panel the former editor of the sun, kelvin mackenzie, and the author and journalist michael crick. as always, it's a crucial part of the programme. i want to know your views. mailmogg@gbnews.com but now it's your favourite part of the day. the news bulletin

with samuel francis. >> chris billam—smith chris billam—smith. >> jacob, thank you very much. and jacob, thank you very much indeed and good evening to you. it's just after 8:00. volodymyr zelenskyy says ukraine is ready to work under donald trump's strong leadership to end the war in russia with russia if he returns to the white house. it follows a phone call with sir keir starmer, who welcomed mr zelenskyy's steadfast commitment to securing peace. the ukrainian leader is calling for a truce in the sky and see if russia agrees to the same as part of steps towards ending the conflict. it comes as tensions between kyiv and washington remain high, while the white house is pausing military aid to ukraine here at home. meanwhile, conservative leader kemi badenoch has praised the ukrainian president for keeping a cool head in difficult circumstances. the trial of triple killer karl clifford has heard he raped his ex—girlfriend

in a violent sexual act of spite before murdering her and her family with a crossbow and a knife. family with a crossbow and a ane.the family with a crossbow and a knife. the 26 year old admitted killing louise hunt, her mother carol and sister hannah at their home last july, but he denies rape. prosecutors say he carefully planned the attacks after miss hunt ended their relationship, and he bought weapons and deceived his way into the home, jurors were also told. louise described her relationship with karl as sucking the life out of her, before breaking up with him just weeks before the attack. the trial continues. a manhunt is underway tonight after a teenage boy was shot dead in broad daylight in london. the 16 year old was found with gunshot wounds this afternoon in clapham but sadly couldn't be saved. no arrests have been made so far, as police are racing to identify the victim and contact his family. officers are now combing cctv and speaking to witnesses. with the crime scene still in place, the met police say that they will continue their

investigation. chris billam—smith chris billam—smith and we're just turning now to royal news and the king has made a rare visit to a royal navy warship at sea. he's been meeting sailors at hms prince of wales before its biggest mission yet. his majesty flew by helicopter to that ship in the engush helicopter to that ship in the english channel, and he thanked the crew for their extraordinarily valuable service. the £3 billion ship will soon set sail forjapan, leading the uk's state strike group in a mission to boost defence partnerships. it is the first time, in fact, in nearly 40 years, that a reigning monarch has been on board a royal navy ship while it's at sea. here's what he had to say earlier. that's the latest news from gb news for now. i'll be back with you in around an hours back with you in around an hour's time now, though, let's head back to jacob. >> for the very latest gb news. direct your smartphone. sign up

to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com/advent. >> welcome back to state of the nafion >> welcome back to state of the nation van—tam pancakes. anyway, in economics, the term creative destruction was used by schumpeter to show how breaking up old systems could regenerate economic activity and lead to prosperity. is trump the political equivalent? the destruction was clear last week. the meeting with zelenskyy deteriorated in a way that's never before been televised. the ukrainian president was booted out of the white house and suppues out of the white house and supplies to his country to help it fight russia have abruptly been cut off. this has had two monumental effects. the eu has followed in the footsteps of the uk to boost defence spending. it is proposing a £650 billion fund, while starmer, sir keir took the politically brave step,

particularly for a socialist, of cutting overseas aid to boost defence. the us will no longer have to bear the bulk of the bill for the defence of the western world. other nato members are now going at least beginning to take some responsibility for themselves. the second effect is that zelenskyy has now proposed a ceasefire and wants to cooperate with america, to sign a mineral deal and to secure peace. watching macron and starmer last week was fascinating as they both sought to charm the american president. his meeting with zelenskyy, on the other hand, was grim. yet macron and starmer were right to be so obsequious as us. power is the reality. trump has the focus and the money to help or hinder ukraine, and currently no one else does. his shock tactics have changed international politics. but who will be the winner? a stronger nato, better funded by its other members, will certainly deter future russian aggression. but a perceived victory for putin does

the reverse. trump is playing cards for high stakes, but he seems to have gone nap on shaking things up. the old, polite international order seems to be fading away. the facade of equality between europe and the us has been shattered. raw, visceral power exudes from washington. but will it avert world war iii or precipitate it ultimately? is it more creative or more destructive? as ever, let me know your views via mailmogg@gbnews.com. well, i'm joined now by the historian and journalist owen matthews. owen, thank you very much for joining me. how do you put this in an historic context? what donald trump is, is doing, and how should the allies of the united states respond? well. >> you're right, jacob, that it's an extraordinary moment and the creative destruction seems to be working. the one thing i would say is that i'm not entirely sure how planned this was. i mean, there is a there is a theory that zelenskyy was

ambushed and this is all a setup in the oval office. i don't think that's true. i think it actually just went wrong in the room. the first 40 minutes, if you watched the whole the whole of that meltdown was, you know, perfectly cordial. then it all went south. so i don't think that there's necessarily a deep strategy, that of humiliating zelenskyy and then sort of coming back to him. but clearly it's been extremely effective. this double whammy of withdrawing aid. and then just hours later, getting jd vance to go on, your colleague sean hannity's show on fox news and saying, well, actually, the door is open. if ukraine is willing to talk peace. and guess what? literally within hours, ukraine is talking peace. it's hard to think of historical parallel, of a relationship where that kind of bullying has worked. those that kind of high pressure diplomacy has has worked. previous administrations have

been certainly more collegiate. but of course, if you look back at the famous sort of much vaunted and extremely important relationship between roosevelt and churchill, roosevelt took his pound of flesh, almost trump style. i mean, we have forgotten that roosevelt demanded all of the british empire's gold reserves, plus we were repaying lend—lease until right up until the 2000. you surely remember it when you were in government. so maybe it's just a question of style that trump is not afraid of being more thuggish than is the usual manner of us presidents. >> i think i think what you're saying. >> is extraordinary. >> is extraordinary. >> is extraordinary. >> i think what you're saying is so important that we need to remember that fdr roosevelt was not actually enormously generous to the uk. churchill, as starmer did with trump, sucked up to him like mad, was incredibly careful to build the relationship in as positive a way as he could. but

roosevelt took all that he could in an american first basis. and as you rightly say, we were paying as you rightly say, we were paying them back for decades after both the first and second world war. so although it's more public, it's not outside the norm of american politics. having the interests of the united states first. >> well, that's true. and also, i mean, the thing that's maybe sad to admit or is painful to admit, but i think we need sad to admit or is painful