it is a joint squadron of jets with the royal air force. it is based up in central britain.incredibly close relations. britain has pretty good relations with all the gulf arab states, but with qatar, it is almost a special case, because they are huge investors in things like harrods, the department store, the shard, heathrow, banks, at one point in the stock exchange. they have around $50 billion u.s. invested in the u.k. economy. of course, there is the role as you mention, as the mediators in the conflict between israel and hamas. they are the hosts of not only the largest u.s. military base in the middle east but also the hosts for the hamas political leadership, which is very controversial. at least the military part of hamas is described as a terrorist organization. but they provide a window for western governments to deal with organizations like the taliban in afghanistan, hamas in gaza. christian: in terms of what is going on tonight, obviously, this is the diplomacy end of the two-day visit but tomorrow they get down to business in terms of investment. what sort of m

the prime minister also addressed royal air force personnel at the akrotiri base in prrus.ily christmas celebrations back home. here's some of his message. iam also i am also aware that some quite a bit of what goes on here can't be talked about. although we are really proud of what you are doing, we can't really tell the world what you are doing here, and therefore it makes it really important to say thank you and to acknowledge that because although we are not saying it to the whole world for reasons that are obvious to you, the whole world is relying on you. everybody back at home is relying on you and knows that you will be there. so a big thanks from me. king charles will present the first elizabeth emblems today. the awards, named after the late queen, will be given to the families of emergency service workers and public servants who have died in the line of duty. our correspondent ellie price has more.(tx) our correspondent ellie price has more. two lives cut short in the line of duty. pc fiona bone and pc nicola hughes were killed responding to a bogus 999 call in g

monitoring the live shot because we expect the uk prime minister to appear imminently to address royal air forcetching that british air force base in the republic of cyprus in the greek cypriot —controlled south of the island. we are monitoring that and the moment the prime minister arrives we will bring that to you. let's turn to the iter states. —— let's turn to the united states. a court in the us city of nevada has denied rupert murdoch his bid to change his family trust, and give control of his media empire to his eldest son, lachlan. mr murdoch, who is 93 years old, owns major outlets like fox news and the wall streetjournal. the trust splits control of the media empire among his four children. the leaked court ruling stated that his attempt to change it was in bad faith. michelle fleury reports from new york. this is a case that has played out behind closed doors. rupert murdoch tried to amend a 1999 family trust to give his son lachlan more control over the family media empire, bypassing siblings prudence, elisabeth and james, who don't necessarily share his conservative views. now this

this follows a scandal at the royal air force and the resignation of the raf head air forc

this follows a scandal at the royal air force and the resignation of the raf head of recruitment, afterwas revealed that the service had effectively paused recruitment of white men to hit diversity targets , which she diversity targets, which she considered unlawful . now, if considered unlawful. now, if organisations take this approach correctly, they are not necessarily breaking the law like mi5 necessarily breaking the law like m15 and m16 at this particular occasion. but that doesn't stop it being deeply wrong. i believe in diversity. a diversity of views, a diversity of talents, a diversity of backgrounds, a diversity of religions, of genders, of races. absolutely. bring it on. but this increasingly pathetic country seems to be indulged now in a race to the bottom, with a focus on skin colour rather than equal opportunity. and the now blasphemous idea of the best person for the job. and here's the thing. if you want to play the thing. if you want to play the race card, perhaps i could draw your attention to the dreadful outcomes of poor white men in our society who, for example, pe