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US allies reject Trump’s appeal to send warships to Strait of Hormuz | BBC News
US allies have rejected President Trump’s appeal for them to send warships to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas usually passes.
Iran has closed the key sea lane in response to US and Israeli airstrikes, attacking ships with drones and missiles, leading to a sharp increase in global oil and gas prices and warnings of soaring inflation and an international economic crisis.
The British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said the UK would not be “drawn into the wider war”. He said: “Ultimately, we have to reopen the strait of Hormuz” and did not rule out any form of action, but she aid it would have to be agreed by as “many partners as possible”.
That led President Trump to again criticise Sir Keir’s response to the war, saying he had thought the UK was the “Rolls Royce of allies” but was disappointed by the lack of support.
European countries have turned down the callas for help from the US president, despite threats from Donald Trump hat Nato faces “a very bad future” if members fail to help reopen the vital waterway.
Germany ruled out participation in any military activity, saying it had not been a joint decision to launch military action against Iran. The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said: “That is why the question of how Germany might contribute militarily does not arise. We will not do so”.
Italy’s foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, said “diplomacy needs to prevail”. France, along with Japan and Australia, has also said it does not plan to send warships to the region.
US allies also expressed concern over the situation in Lebanon, where Israeli forces have begun ground operations against what they say are Hezbollah strongholds in the south of the country, after days of airstrikes.
Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Chris Mason, Jonathan Beale and Jeremy Bowen.
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Former Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who modernised the military and pioneered drone warfare, was fired last month after reportedly falling out with the head of Ukraine’s armed forces.
Now, he wants elections to be held in Ukraine.
BBC Correspondent Dan Johnson sat down with Fedorov to ask about his ambitions.
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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 threatens UK will “pay price” after drones strike targets deep inside country | BBC News
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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