now they are being recreated with the participation of artists from the middle kingdom. chinese art is an absolutely endless universe, and of course, i cannot single out what they are most strong in right now, because whatever traditional form of chinese art you take, they have achieved unprecedented things everywhere heights, this concerns both watercolor painting and images of hieroglyphs, and here is lacquer painting, which is now developing very successfully in china, very good examples were shown to us, but this is a completely different painting, not the one that... was delivered to us here in russia in the 18th century. it is noteworthy that during the cross year of cultures of russia, china opened to the public a masterpiece in the chinoiserie style. the chinese palace in ronnenbaum, built by the architect rinaldi for catherine the great. its value is also in the fact that it is the only one of the royal residences near st. petersburg, was not destroyed by the nazis during the great patriotic war. the palace is a tiny, shiny toy, its heart is the office, where th

restricted military base. 58 islands in the middle of the indian ocean and the whole maritime area around the islands that we control is two times the size of the united kingdomight in the middle of the indian ocean. these islands are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. but the most important thing is when we allow the americans to build the military base there, we ashamedly expelled the entire indigenous population, the chagossians. there were about 2 to 3000 of them. we expelled them. they went to mauritius, seychelles, britain and otherjurisdictions. britain and other jurisdictions. now we have met with them on many occasions in the house of commons. they are desperate to remain british. they want to return to their islands, having been expelled by us in 1968. it's perfectly reasonable for them to live on the other outer islands, not on diego garcia, where the main military base is. they want to return and they want to have a referendum as to who their islands belong to. this labour government has decided to completely bypass the wishes of the of the people whose islands these belong to, and hand the territory over to a foreign nation that is unforgivab

biden and olaf scholz with france and the united kingdom, the world leaders will discuss rising tensions and the middlet as well as support for ukraine. and it is the battle of the billionaires and both mark cuban and elon musk on the campaign trail and both want to sell you and your candidates economic message. >> todd: for control of the house and come down to iowa with several races and come down to the wire. iowa gimmick iowa congressman zach nonwho is on your screen, s us next. your gut is like a garden growing both good bacteria and bad. that balance is key to a healthy gut environment. benefiber's plant-based prebiotic fiber gently nourishes the good bacteria, working with your body to help your gut, and you, flourish. effortlessly. every day. grow what feels good. with benefiber. hi, i'm rashod and i've lost 118 pounds on golo. the highest i've seen on the scale was 417. it was a real reality check, it was really scary. diabetes and high blood pressure runs in my family. i knew i had to do something, so i starved myself and i lost 100 pounds. but i ended up with an injury and i gained almost al

. join with all the other great power, soviet union, united kingdom, and france, in a common effort to restore and maintain peace in the middle east to him, his motives are also, are always crystal clear, indeed, his motives are, if i may say so, as transparent. as his proverbs are obscure. in addition to these cases, the united nations can use its authority, such as article 22 of the un charter, to pile heavy pressure on the israeli regime implement the icj orders. effective media pressure on israel's crimes can lead to effective legal sanctions against israel, something that has happened several times in the un. a symbolic political move can become effective legal move and lead to revoke the israeli regime's membership in some human rights institutions and commissions. recommending economic sanctions, establishing special commissions and even creating a special court for israel or other legal capacities. what is also mentioned in article 22 of the un charter, the general assembly can establish such suborganizations as it deems necessary to carry out its duties. complete legal isolation. the tree of wish is in the yard of th

the tremendous issues and conflicts in the middle east or global affairs and geopolitical affairs more generally, it's hugely important that the united kingdomnd clear. so i'm looking forward to further discussions this morning. thank you very much. let's speak to our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. david lammy talking about those discussions, are they going to be anything of substance or is itjust be anything of substance or is it just diplomatic be anything of substance or is itjust diplomatic niceties, james? i it just diplomatic niceties, james? ~ , , it just diplomatic niceties, james? ~ , ., james? i think this is another step along — james? i think this is another step along the _ james? i think this is another step along the road _ james? i think this is another step along the road to - james? i think this is another step along the road to the - james? i think this is another step along the road to the uk in the eu getting closer together after brexit, as you say. this is a very unusual moment. in the past, before brexit, british ministers would be in luxembourg every day. this is unusual and representative of the labour gov

kingdom. join yours, this is russia 24 and we continue to talk about the main thing for today, the situation in the middleeating up. iran, against the backdrop of announcements of israeli airstrikes, closed the airspace over the western part of the country. officially, in connection with military exercises , it follows from aviation alerts. some media outlets report that iranian fighters are already in the air to repel a possible attacks. earlier, tehran, according to bloomberg, withdrew its tankers from the port terminal where they were waiting to unload, after reports that israel could be targeted.

kingdom. in 1910, on the night of october 4, a revolution began that swept away the portuguese monarchy. in the middletury, it was constitutional, but republicans demanded its complete liquidation. due to economic decline, social inequality, dominance of the church and international failures. the royal power failed to defend portugal's interests in africa. to unite its colonies of angola and mozambique, and this was perceived as a national humiliation. in 1908 , republican terrorists killed king carlos i and his eldest son. the younger manuel was only wounded, but he did not reign for long. the people raised an armed uprising, which was supported by the military. lisbon was approached the riders who opened fire on the royal palace. manuel and his family fled , a republic was proclaimed with civil liberties and an eight-hour working day. today, there are still supporters of the restoration of the monarchy in portugal. they have their own party, but it receives no more than half of 1% of the votes in elections. on october 4, 1946 , the first of the nakhamadi manuscripts arrived at the coptic museum in c

partners in the middle east, those partners with israel and the abraham accords, they all see iran as the great threat to their prosperity. so they all want to come together. the kingdomants to be involved in this as well and i think iran has pushed them much, much closer to israel and we hope that they are successful in getting this deal done with the assistance of the united states of america. >> if you're sitting in israel's position, senator, do you think now is the time from their perspective, if you believe that an iranian bomb is an existential threat to you, that religious fanatics with a nuclear weapon with threaten the existence of israel, if you were israel now, would you do more to preemptively strike nuclear capabilities or does that escalate in ways you don't want. >> if i was in a position of power in israel, yes, it's something i most concern certaid consider. i think it's important thats israel remains the right to existence. i just promoted a resolution, introduced it in the united states senate with the support of all of my run colleagues, saying that -- my republican colleagues, saying that israel has the right to exist. iran is a threat to their r

blinken was in the united kingdom meeting arab leaders after finishing a quick tour of the middle easts week, his 11th trip to the region since the war in gaza began after october 7. blinken says that there is quote, a real sense of urgency in getting to a diplomatic resolution hezbollah has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks against israel on friday, the iran-backed militant group says that it launched rockets, missiles, and drones. that targeted israeli military sites and troops trying to advance on the lebanese border. meanwhile, video shows plumes of smoke rising over beirut's international airport on friday as israeli strikes pounded the surrounding area, israel's military says that it will continue to defend its country and its people against hezbollah i'm alex marquardt to our breaking news coverage will continue after a quick break, stay with >> winning is everything's stupid. sunday at nine on cnn the virus that causes shingles is sleeping. it 99% of people over 50. it's lying dormant, waiting good reactivate shingles strikes as a painful, blistering rash that can la

middle east and where? >> we are sending hardware infrastructure that goes to train and inference models to the kingdom of saudia and aramco. it is a great company that has done tremendous things focusing on how to take a.i. into production and naturally driving significant value for the operations day-to-day. today, we power their internal technologies for saudi aramco. we have been there for a year. we continue to deliver that technology where you're training your private data into the models and be able to use it within your corporations to drive efficiencies in your day-to-day operaoperation. >> i appreciate you giving us context and understanding of exactly where the footprint is for sambanova and where it means for the regulatory changes we could see in the united states. rodrigo, let's push the c conversation forward. what is agentic a.i.? why is it different from other copilots? >> the world is going into production with artificial intelligence. by that, i mean you are starting to think about the little agents that can be very, very efficient and very accurate to do certain tasks and allowing you to sta

middle of the week. now, if we just break the timeline, this is hurricane kirk. it's out in the atlantic. it's working its way further northwards and eastwards towards the united kingdomrricane combined with ourjet stream and move across the uk, bringing very wet, very windy, very stormy conditions. but this is another solution here that the remnants of very heavy rain, the strong gusty winds will go over france and spain potentially. so a lot of uncertainty regarding the middle part of the week. it is likely to stay really quite unsettled. we will keep you informed, of course, and we could draw in more of a northerly wind as we head through saturday and sunday, making it feel really very cold indeed. bye—bye for now. live from london. this is bbc news. more israeli strikes on beirut — people are warned to leave their homes while israel claims a mosque it targeted in southern lebanon contained a hezbollah command centre. at least four hospitals are now closed in lebanon because of the airstrikes — leaving a humanitarian situation worsening by the hour. hamas says one of its leaders was killed in an israeli strike in the lebanese city of tripoli. anti—war protesters ar

how will israel retaliate and has this latest escalation in the middle east raise a domestic terror threat here in the united kingdom kingdom? well, to show always a pleasure to have your company. well, in about one hour's time, sir keir starmer is expected to address the european union and of course, the world telling us what his great reset with brussels means. now brussels want, of course, more concessions from the uk on fishing, on borders, on accepting freedom of movement for under 30s . would that be a for under 30s. would that be a betrayal of brexit, a surrender? doesit betrayal of brexit, a surrender? does it prove we never really got brexit done? let me know your thoughts and of course we'll have that reaction live in today's show with reaction from ben habib. you're not want to miss it? get in touch gbnews.com/yoursay but now here's your headlines with cameron walker . cameron walker. >> good afternoon. the top stories from the gb newsroom. the labour peer at the centre of a row over donations to sir keir starmer is under investigation by the lords standards watchdog, lord waheed alli is accused of allege

kingdom. he discussed working together to coordinate a response to iran's attack on israel. further discussed how to coordinate efforts to ensure stability in the middlet. the secretary join the call with the g7. they made sure the g7 condemned iran's attack on israel. go ahead. >> is that a redline for the u.s.? >> we made very clear what we do not support. we will continue to discuss with israel what the response will be. we have made clear this was an unprecedented escalation by iran . israel has a right to respond to it and we will discuss that response with them. >> do you have any inclination that israel is inclined to listen to the u.s.? >> they make their own decisions. we have talked to them on a number of different levels. ultimately it is up to them as it is to any sovereign country. >> is there any indication they are going to listen or coordinate with you? >> it is appropriate at this point we keep those conversations private. >> on the gaza cease-fire prospects, has there been any progress since the attack on hezbollah? are there any meetings taken place or has that been overtaken? >> it is not that it was overtaken by the conflicts betw

middle of a transition with that uh because - of the people uh who live in these various regimes? excellent question, especially jordan have to watch and listen, because the jordan cousin was ruling the hashhamite kingdom of iraq and the iraki people in the in the 50s rose of the revolution against them and early sixes and they lenched the king and his prime minister, the jordanian have to watch. what happened to them when they betrayed the iraki people? the iraki people made revolutionary courts in the street for the regime and the regime dismantled and destroyed. the jordanian people, they are watching their king as a part of the zionist occupation since they watching the the food coming from india going through the emirates and saudi arabia and coming to jordan to and go to through to the zist entity to feed them. when the our brothers in yemen stop them from from being able to use it, use the red sea for the the at port, so the jordanian find alternative while the palestinian people denied water, denied medic, denied anything, they are slaughtering them, so the jordanian people, they see the regime in jordan involved in supporting and protecting this entity, and this participation and trying to dow

across the united kingdom and beyond, that alex salmond has died at the age of 69 and the flags at half mast outside the scottish parliament building holyrood in edinburgh. to the middlekeeping mission in south lebanon, unifil, says another of its soldiers has been wounded, but says it doesn't yet know the origin of the fire. four un peacekeepers have been injured in previous incidents, which unifil blamed on israeli forces. the lebanese authorities say nine more people have been killed in israeli strikes on two villages north and south of beirut. the israeli army says hezbollah has again fired dozens of rockets into northern israel. 0ur correspondent anna foster is in beirut. unifil, which is the un peacekeeping mission in south lebanon, have once again issued a statement today. it's the third in three days because they are increasingly concerned about their peacekeepers coming under attack from israeli forces. now, they say again, their headquarters at naqoura, which is a well—known base that has been there for many years, has again, it seems, come into the crossfire of some sort of fighting that was going on between hezbollah and the idf. we know that the us presid

jordanian kingdom and many... other arab regimes to have a sense of arabism or this patriotism, the criminal netanyahu declared very openly that "this plot, this war is aimed at changing the face of the middle east, and that declaration proves the the truth behind their greed and their ambitions of this criminal netanyahu right after the assassination of the dear marturlah, to change the reality, the strategic reality in the middle east to focus on..." on various points: first of all, to change the power of balance in the region to the interest of the israeli enemy, and to end all forms of resistance movements in ghaza on the west bank, and to end the project of the palestinian state, and to take full control of many arab regimes and to mobilize them and their armies to be at the service of the zionist. enemy and to fight in their name and to face all those who are against the israeli regime and also under the context of facing iran and the fact that the israeli enemy needs to be the only strong army in the middle east and to reshuffle and redraw the borders and create this hegemony to create these changes in many countries. and to take advantage of the divisions, the internal divisions in

middle of a transition with that uh because of the people uh who live in these various regimes? excellent question, especially jordan have to watch and listen, because the jordan cousin was ruling the hashhamite kingdom of iraq, and the iraqi people in there in the 50s, rose of... revolution against them and early sis and they lenched the king and his prime minister, the jordanian have to watch what happened to them when they betrayed the iraqi people, the iraki people made revolutionary courts in the street for the regime, and the regime dismantled and destroyed, the jordanian people, they are watching their king as a part of the zionist occupation, since they watching the the food coming from india going through the emirates and sud. arabia and coming to jordan to and go to through to the zin entity to feed them, when the our brothers in yemen stop them from being able to use it, use the red sea for the the at port, so the jordanian find an alternative while the palestinian people denied water, denied medic, denied anything, they are slaughtering them, so the jordanian people, they see the regime in jordan involved in supporting and protecting the zinus entity. "and this participation and trying to

kingdom. and marissa is the, this is our to international. my name's you know, neil on 30 minutes of news and views starts not as tensions in the middle east sewer. the uranium supreme leader has addressed as nation and citizens of lebanon. i atalla ali, i'm in, i say is the region faces a common enemy that wants to oppress its people. the enemy of the iranian people is the same as the enemy of the palestinian people. he is the same enemy of the lebanese people. that same government is the enemy of the rocky people. the enemy of the people of egypt is the enemy of the people of syria and the enemy of the people of yemen. there is one enemy, joke, the methods of the enemy very in different countries. in one place with the psychological warfare and another with economic pressure in yet another with 2 ton bombs. they are advancing this policy with weapons in one hand and smiles and the other. are enemies, however, have a command room that is centralized. they receive orders from one place that nobody saw it coming back. all the one in supreme leader would come out and leave the friday prayer himself. i made out all the tensions and the escalation t

kingdom, good, secure jobs for the future. so in that sense, i'm pleased we've had headwinds of, say, donation staff. i've had headwinds of the riots and disorder suddenly in the middleeed to get off for that week's holiday. um, we had terrible riots going on, and the situation internationally has been a sort of constant, um, sort of pressure in terms of the decision making that we've had to do. do you acknowledge there's been sort of self—inflicted political damage around donations, around staffing in number ten, those headwinds that you talk about? i just look at some of the write ups this weekend on your first 100 days, the spectator — starmer�*s first 100 days couldn't have gone worse. the economist — a very wobbly start at the new statesman, a left leaning sympathetic to labour. 100 days that shook labour. they're not all wrong, are they? well, they are focusing on those issues rather than i don't know how many of them are referencing the stuff on investment. and we'll come on to talk more about the investments. but ijust wonder. i'm not, obviously, i was leader of the opposition before i did thisjob. there was always going to be choppy days, choppy moments. i'v

kingdom. first, it threatened the uk, us base from countering malign iranian activity in the middle east to ensuring surety of tenure, no base can operate effectively nor truly deter our enemies. critical investment decisions are already being delayed. second, it impacted on our relationship with the united states, who neither wanted nor welcomed the legal uncertainty and strongly encouraged us to strike a deal. mr speaker, i am a transatlanticist. we had to protect this important relationship and third, it undermined our international standing. we're showing that what we mean is what we say on international law. the law and our desire for partnerships with the global south. this strengthens our arguments when it comes to issues like ukraine or the south china sea. and mr speaken or the south china sea. and mr speaker, further legal wrangling served nobody's interests but our adversaries in a more volatile world. a deal benefited us all. the uk, the united states and mauritius. this government therefore, made striking the best possible deal a priority. we appointed jonathan powell as the prime minis

the bbc persian middle east correspondent, as you can see on your screen, there have been further israeli strikes on the period. also, just getting a break and live from the united kingdomn. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. good evening. a very messy and unsettled picture weather—wise as we head through the next few days. but it was a pretty start earlier on this morning. lots of red skies as captured by our weather watchers. and of course, the heaviest downpours today were out towards the west, some of the showers pushing further eastwards at times. not as much sunshine as we saw yesterday, but still the chance of some more bright and sunny spells as we go through the next few days, accompanied by some rather blustery showers. brisk southerly winds so the air is mild, warm for the time of year, even. and it's unsettled because low pressure is the dominant force. it's out towards the west of ireland. of course, all of these bands of rain showers swirling around it that sets the scene. for the rest of tonight there will be further bands of rain just gradually pushing northwards and eastwards, but some long clear spells across northern areas of england and thro

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middle east? is it a small country a long way away? as chamberlain said of czechoslovakia? well, in march a london based iranian journalist was stabbed outside his home, with the suspects fleeing the united kingdom afterwards . it was immediately afterwards. it was also the islamic republic that put a fatwa on the head of british author salman rushdie, which culminated in his near murder in 2022. things come back to britain in addition to instability, having all sorts of risks in the middle east, where, of course we get a great deal of oil from. but iran's desire to harm extends far beyond israel. iran is an enemy of the west and israel is fighting this war on our behalf. it is our proxy. if iran wins, we cannot be so naive to think that it will end with israel. we are all in this war together, which is why we must support israel in its war against the true coloniser of the middle east, the islamic repubuc the middle east, the islamic republic of iran. as always, let me know your views . me know your views. mailmogg@gbnews.com. but i'm pleased now to be joined by the israeli—lebanese activist jonathan el—khoury, who is in tel aviv. jonathan, what is happening in tel aviv at the moment after the

that's why the united kingdom was probably involved last night in shooting those missiles down. but should there be a conflagration in the middle the red sea that cut off trading routes, you could see an impact on on foodstuffs and imports coming to the united kingdom. you could see concern about oil because iran may threaten to damage the oil suppues threaten to damage the oil supplies throughout the throughout the region. that might affect us as well. and the sheer cost of any action in the region. if states like the united arab emirates were hit in revenge by iran , then you have a revenge by iran, then you have a major, a major cost to all the economies throughout the region, which would have a knock on effect. and someone once calculated on day one of a major conflagration in the middle east, it would cost dubai $1 trillion. but it. so that shows even if the whether or not the figure is accurate, it shows the concern in the region about the costs of an escalation in this. there would be costs to the united kingdom. that's why , united kingdom. that's why, despite all evidence to the contrary, that diplomacy isn't working.

middle east, africa and asia. >> we need to have an entire national conversation about fgm in the united kingdom.porting to nhs doctors since 2015, and there were 6655 last year alone. and that is up. these these numbers are going up every year. we've got a serious problem with female genital mutilation in britain happening either overseas and then the nhs has to deal with it. back on british soil or god forbid, its actually happening on british soil there. that man there , you soil there. that man there, you find it astonishing that the prosecutions for this are so few and far between. we need seriously to have a proper look at this, as we did with the grooming gangs. we cannot bury our head in the sand. this needs to be looked at pronto . now. now to be looked at pronto. now. now our next story is off the scales. we'll be speaking to a chip shop owner who's gone viral over what to name batus scraps. i call them batter bits, but the answer he's been getting all over the place. who writes this rubbish? i martin daubney on gb news britain's news channel >> join me nana akua for an informative inte

kingdom, which is a free and fair society. and we've been given those rights because a lot of countries, for example, in the middle east , africaa, etc, you're not allowed to protest if you protest the armed forces, the police, etcetera, come down on you really, really hard unless, you really, really hard unless, you know, the government authorises it. so the fact that we have those facilities available in the uk, we should take them at face value and let everybody protest. now, look, i might not agree with your opinions. you might not agree with my we might have opinions. political differences, we might have religious differences. but absolutely there must be peaceful and everybody should be allowed to protest. >> i think what maybe we're missing, the part of this story is the fact that these tensions wouldn't boil over in the way that they currently do. if we had been better at integrating different cultures and religions for not just the last 12 months, but frankly, for the last 20 years, because i think that's to some degree what's come home to roost here. josh, have we worked hard enough, do you think, to encourage communi

middle east conflict. does that make tom tugendhat county even more relevant? because he has got a he had a stellar military career. >> tom has served the united kingdom in variousquarter of a century, 25 years. so he's used to serving and as you say in the military, he has put his life on the line for our country. and he will do. he'll do that when he's asked to, when he needs to, because he cares so much. but i think with tom and what he always says is politics is not a game. he's seen the real world implications of when politics goes wrong, of what the actual impact of decisions which are made in westminster in other administrations around the world means, and why it's so important that we do not play games while we actually take this seriously, because we are in such a privileged position to serve the country, and we need to make sure that we are not doing that for any sort of personal advantage. we are there to serve. tom's there to serve, and that's why he will be the perfect leader of our party in these uncertain times. because, as you say, we can't be in a position where we are having missed slips or sort of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, and

middle east does not cause blood on our streets. >> okay, well, that was alicia kearns saying that potentially this has raised the terror threat over here in the west and in the united kingdombt about >> well, there's no doubt about that, because, you know, the conflict may be thousands of miles from the uk and other western nations, but the tentacles of the iranian regime and its related terrorist groups spread far and wide. and it's not just the terror threat. they are absolutely , potentially is are absolutely, potentially is that you mentioned those apparent attacks on the israeli embassies in denmark and in sweden last night . we've seen sweden last night. we've seen attacks in france, in germany, here in the uk, in hartlepool, in which lives were lost that have been linked to the conflict in gaza. so every reason to believe that the same issues could arise with a widening conflict that now takes in iran directly. and then there's the other issues, emily, that people back home really need to consider. and that's the economic shockwaves from this conflict. we're already seeing a surge in the oil price. we've seen two commercial ships in the past 24 hours struck by anoth

middle classes following recent tensions about potential tax rises and his definition of what a working person is. then several protests are taking place in the capital today, including unite the kingdom march, organised by tommy robinson, will be there live and more migrants are crossing the channel this year and the figure has reached more than the whole of 2023 already. i'm dawn neesom and the weekend starts right here. so thank you for joining me on the saturday afternoon. hope you're having a lovely weekend out there. and if you are travelling around or doing something in the garden or whatever, remember we're on your radio as well so you can listen to us as you're moving about. but the best thing to do is sit on the sofa and just enjoy yourself and get involved in the show. really, really simple. and you are the most important people either as well. it's not me, it's not my brilliant panellists who are brilliant, but it's not about them. it's about you. and you can get involved in the show really simply by going to gbnews.com/yoursay and join the conversation. whatever we're talking about, whatever you want to talk about, it's the weekend. we're light and easy here. keeping me c