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.

New episodes of the Global News Podcast are published twice a day. You can listen here: https://link.mgln.ai/GNP-YT

And you can find more of our Youtube episodes here: https://bbc.in/GlobalNewsPodcast

Subscribe to our channel here: https://bbc.in/bbcnews

For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news

#BBCNews

source

King Charles and Queen Camilla have been greeted by US President Donald Trump and the First Lady Melania Trump at the White House – at the start of their four day visit to the United States.

It marks the first British state visit to the US since Queen Elizabeth’s trip in 2007. The King’s arrival comes during a period of strained relations between the UK and US over the Iran war. It’s being regarded as the biggest diplomatic challenge of King Charles’s reign.

Buckingham Palace says the programme will go ahead largely as planned, after a gunman attempted to gain access to a dinner event attended by the US President on Saturday.

Fiona Bruce presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Daniela Relph.

Subscribe to our channel here: https://bbc.in/bbcnews

For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news

#BBCNews

source

Sex-criminal financier Jeffrey Epstein housed women who say he abused them in several London flats in the years after UK police decided not to investigate him, the BBC has revealed.

Many of them – from Russia, eastern Europe and elsewhere – were brought to the UK after the Metropolitan Police decided not to investigate Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 allegation that she had been a victim of international trafficking to London.

The Met said it followed “reasonable lines of inquiry” at the time, interviewing Giuffre on multiple occasions following her complaint and co-operating with US investigators.

Subscribe to our channel here: https://bbc.in/bbcnews

For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news

#JeffreyEpstein #London #UK #BBCNews

source

Cocaine, cannabis, laughing gas and prescription pills are being offered for sale in mini-marts on UK High Streets, a BBC …

source

In Putin’s Russia, authorities are increasing repressions on society, including bans on protests and restrictions on how people access the internet.

Access to global messaging apps has been restricted and there are widespread disruptions, even shutdowns of mobile internet.

Russian officials claim that internet curbs are necessary to keep the public safe. They declare the ultimate goal: a “sovereign internet” for a “sovereign Russia”.

As the BBC’s Russia editor Steve Rosenberg explains in this special report from Moscow and the city of Vladimir, Russia’s bright future now looks more like its repressive Soviet past.

Subscribe to our channel here: https://bbc.in/bbcnews

For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news

#Russia #Moscow #Putin #Kremlin #bbcnews

0:00 – Intro
0:46 – ‘Foreign agents’
03:19 – Internet restrictions
05:26 – Protests against restrictions
12:17 – Question to Kremlin

source