The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency has travelled to Moscow for secret, unnannounced talks, according to multiple sources in the United States

John Ratcliffe is understood to have arrived in the Russian capital. Neither Washington or Moscow have confirmed the nature of the visit or who he was due to meet.

In-person talks between high-level American and Russian officials are rare.

Flight tracking data confirmed a large US military aircraft travelled to Russia from the US via Latvia. Footage posted on social media showed the C-17 transport plane approaching Moscow’s Vnukovo international airport.

It departed Riga airport at 05:50 GMT and appeared to have landed in the Russian capital at around 07:04 GMT, according to data from FlightRadar24. It returned to Riga shortly before 17:00 GMT.

Footage on social media also purported to show a diplomatic motorcade travelling through Moscow.

Ahead of the trip, the US told Ukraine that a senior delegation would be travelling to Moscow and asked Kyiv to suspend strikes until they had left, a senior Ukrainian official said.

Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Tom Bateman in Washington.

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Russia has threatened the UK with “consequences” and said it will pay a price, after it was confirmed that British drones had been …

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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham will hand over blueprints to Ukraine so Kyiv can build its own long-range missiles.

On a visit to Kyiv to meet with President Zelensky, the PM promised to keep up the pressure on Russia despite Moscow’s “outrageous threats”. Diplomatic correspondent James Landale is in the studio to discuss with Adam.

Plus, President Trump and Canada’s Mark Carney are in the midst of a trade war after negotiations between the two countries collapsed on Friday. Trump announced a 50% tariff on Canada goods, with Carney promising the same ‘dollar-for-dollar’.

How will this impact the US and Canadian economies? And what has the reaction been inside Canada and the US? Adam talks to chief Washington presenter Caitriona Perry, and presenter of CBC’s Front Burner podcast Jayme Poisson.

00:00 – Intro
00:52 – Andy Burnham’s first foreign trip to Ukraine
02:22 – The Storm Shadow missile deal explained
04:19 – Why the UK and France are sharing this technology
05:30 – The Patriot interceptors problem
07:02 – The Kremlin’s reaction
09:22 – The UK’s long-term commitment and defence spending
10:49 – Zelensky under pressure over elections
15:24 – US-Canada trade row
17:10 – Why Trump and Canada are at odds over trade

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There are more than two million robots working in China’s factories – which is more than anywhere else in the world – and they are continuing to scale up at extraordinary speed.

It is a commitment that will surely change the world, much like the last time the Chinese economy underwent a massive transformation.

It is already shipping its robots across the globe: more than half of the world’s industrial robots are now made in China.

What is less clear is the impact of such sweeping automation in a country that sits at the heart of global manufacturing, trade and innovation.

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US President Donald Trump said there are no talks taking place or planned between the US and Iran, after the Memorandum of Understanding came to an end.

Trump also posted a map labelling the Strait of Hormuz as a “new US territory”, which Iranian officials have called a “delusion”.

One person has been killed in a strike on a vessel in the Strait, which as at the centre of efforts to end the war.

And we consider the environmental impacts of oil spills in the Gulf, which Iran has blamed on US military operations.

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