King Charles is visiting America at a tense moment for the ’special relationship’ between the United States and the United Kingdom. Can he help turn things around?

In a special live recording at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios in London, Asma and Tristan speak to the former British ambassador to the United States, Lord Kim Darroch.

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00:00 Introduction
02:35 The origin and history of the ‘special relationship’
07:10 The current US-UK relationship
10:13 Relationships with Donald Trump
13:26 King Charles as a diplomat
16:45 Does this look ‘a bit desperate’?
18:58 Dwindling trust between US and UK
20:58 The Peter Mandelson question

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Iran has attacked three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two, days after vowing retaliation for the US intercepting an …

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President Donald Trump and his officials were the “likely” targets of a suspected gunman who attempted to storm the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche has said.

The suspect, named by US media as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, was arrested after police said he opened fire near a security checkpoint during the event at a Washington DC hotel on Saturday.

Blanche, speaking to NBC News, said the alleged gunman’s motive is still under investigation, but that “preliminary” findings suggest he was targeting administration officials.

Trump, who was rushed off the stage to safety, told reporters at a briefing after the shooting on Saturday: “I can’t imagine that there’s any profession that’s more dangerous”.

In a statement on Sunday, the White House said Trump “stands fearless” after surviving, alongside cabinet members, “an assassination attempt when shots were fired”.

The White House Correspondents’ Association president, Weijia Jiang, called the attack “harrowing”.
On Sunday, Jiang, who was sat next to Trump at the dinner, thanked the Secret Service for actions which “protected thousands of guests”. She added the board will meet and determine how to proceed, and will release updates when available.

Trump told Fox News that the suspect “had a lot of hatred in his heart for a while”, and said his family knew he had “difficulties”. He added that the suspect had a “manifesto”.

Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Gary O’Donoghue, Tom Bateman, Regan Morris, Daniela Relph and Joe Pike.

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has hailed Moscow and Tehran’s “strategic relationship” as he meets Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks on the Iran war.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia is ready to offer “goodwill or mediation services” in future negotiations between Iran and the US.
It comes after Donald Trump cancelled a planned trip by US officials to Pakistan over the weekend for talks on the Iran war, claiming it would be wasting “too much time”.

In Lebanon, strikes continue – over the weekend the country’s health ministry said Israeli strikes killed 14 people on Sunday, while Israel’s military says an IDF soldier was killed in a Hezbollah drone attack.

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The Trump administration has reportedly developed what analysts have described as a “naughty and nice” list of its Nato allies — and discussed punishing those it believes have not sufficiently supported the US-Israel war with Iran.

An internal Pentagon email reported by the Reuters news agency suggests that Washington is considering suspending Spain from Nato, and reviewing its support of the UK’s claim to the Falklands islands in the south Atlantic.

BBC News, which has not been able to review the document, has contacted the Pentagon about it. Nato officials have said there is no provision for member states to be suspended or expelled from the alliance.

President Donald Trump has accused Nato members of making a “foolish mistake” by refusing to help the US secure the Strait of Hormuz during the war with Iran.

“We don’t need any help,” he said. “But they should’ve been there.”

We speak to the BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner.

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