it's 7pm in london. this is the world today with maryam moshiri. the uk is moving to "warfighting readiness" - as part of a major review of defence spending russia proposes a two-to three day partial truce during talks with ukraine in istanbul - but rejects kyiv's call for a three-month ceasefire. fresh searches are to be carried out in portugal by german police investigating the disappearance of madeleine mccann. also coming up on the world today: here comes the slam dunk! oregon zoo otters show off their basketball skills.

welcome to the world today - an hour of international news from the bbc. a major review of uk defence says britain is not ready for war and needs more drones, attack submarines, nuclear weapons and ai technology to deal with a new era of threat - particularly from russia. the government has accepted all the report's recomendations and says the uk military will move to "war-fighting readiness". the prime minister called for a battle-ready, armour-clad nation equipped for the decades to come. the new proposals include plans to spend £15 billion on nuclear weapons as well as building 12 new attack submarines. but questions remain over funding - the uk has committed to increasing defence

spending to 2.5% of gdp by 2027. but the pm could not set a precise date for when that would hit 3% - something he says is his 'ambition'. our defence correspondent jonathan beale has all the details. nation needs to be ready for the possibility of war. russia is described as an immediate threat, china a persistent challenge while iran and north korea are seen as regional disruptors. these threats that require britain's military to undergo a revolution, a pivot to new ways of fighting and there will be more drones and autonomous systems and a new technology using cyber warfare and artificial intelligence to speed up decisions on the battlefield. we are moving to war fighting readiness as the central purpose of our armed forces, we are threatened by states with advanced military powers and the most effective way to deter for them is to be

ready and show them that we are ready to deliver peace through strength. there's also an emphasis on national resilience. the review says meeting these threats must involve the whole of society and that includes investing in the defence industry with the promise of more factories to make missiles and drones. £15 billion would be spent on modernising britain's nuclear arsenal and review says it remains the bedrock of britain's defences and for stronger protections of undersea pipes and cables critical to secure our way of life and the governments as this review is the first in decades to avoid further cuts to the size of the armed forces in this graph your recent decline the regular army and more than 100,000 in 2010 to just over 70,000 and the review

recommends that there should now be an increase in their number. that of the armed forces says that britain's defences will be stronger. days like today are really important and reflect the importance of defence for the whole nation, representing the ambition of their defence and reflects the certainty about jobs in the future and the british defence that is getting stronger. the government is already committed to increasing defence spending to 2.5% of gdp by 2027 and it talks of an ambition to spread 3% into the 20 30s after the next election but the review says it may be necessary to increase that faster as this map shows, other allies are already doing that, the very dark blue poland, lithuania shows the countries already spending more than 3% and

nearly 5% of their gdp on the military and many agree with its review but the threats are rising and they concluded that they need to spend a lot more money. sir keir starmer called the review a blueprint to make britain safer and stronger. our poltical editor chris mason has more from glasgow if the aim was to find a big space for what would build us a big announcement, they certainly manage that. workers at bae systems standing atop a giant ship they are building and a vast warehouse on the banks in glasgow. we are in workers at bae systems standing atop the giant ship

that their building and a vast warehouse on the banks of the river clyde in glasgow. we are in a place using shipbuilding history and heritage. the prime minister has a vision for the country matching the scale of the backdrop that he'd chosen. to make britain safer and stronger battle ready armour clad nation with the strongest alliances and the most advanced capabilities equipped for the decades to come. listen to those words, intentionally muscular asking each of us to think again about the importance of our defence. for jobs as well as security. forces, an investment in british pride and the british people. the defence dividend that will be felt in the pockets of working people and the prosperity of the country. he says that he will do that by bubbling up defence spending as a proportion of national income in the next few years and eventually... selling the ambition to hit 3% in the next parliament. subject to economic and fiscal conditions. notice that normally shiny word ambition which sounds to me like he's leaving a lot of wiggle room. you are sounding a bit shaky prime minister on the funding of this. can you unequivocally say today that this will definitely be delivered? i can and i am 100% confident this can be delivered because that was beglin

from the start of the review because what i wanted was to meet the new threats and new instability with a plan that matched our capability with the risk we face as a nation. the secretary of state for defence john healey. 400 miles away in westminster this evening the debate on the practicality and viability of the plan begins. what they cannot hide is what has happened in plain sight. a total unravelling of their strategic defence review because quite simply they have not got a plan to fund it. and sdr without the funding is an empty wish list. the ships and submarines it talks about our fantasy fleet. there is a wider argument as well that if the money is found for more ships like this at what cost and with what consequences for other budgets?

let's speak to, emma baker, defence policy advisor for ads group - they're the uk trade association in aerospace, defence and security so, there is a push or a pressure on the uk to move faster when it comes to increasing defence spending but how is that going to impact the ability to plan and move commissions in the contracts sometimes of the essence? thank you for having me on it is great to be here and i think when the key things that they have which is welcomed is the plan of how to partner better with industries and made it very clear that industries are critical enabler and delivery for security and for making sure that the country can respond to the threats that we face and their art significant progress is being made on defence procurement in the

position and they have made to create markets and segmentation to speed up the processes and the part number collaboratively which is a huge step forwards and is critical to ensuring the industry can deliver the security of the country. and this adds mind to the economy and how does it do that? the uk defence secretary provides an incredible range and high skills all across the country and the majority of defence jobs outside the southeast and providing jobs in areas of cutting technologies and exciting areas and emerging technologies and so, is a real investment in the skills of the community and capability of the uk as a whole. and that is the key that it needs investment for any of that kind of elements really flourish and pay back where is that money going to come from? i think

we've seen from the government, a really clear commitment to investing defence and they have laid out the plans and so, hopefully they will then see through upcoming events made the defence investment plan and spending review and will see more details on that it has been detailed around the areas of again to have investment in defence that is for the importance of the industry can respond and invest in a plan to deliver that. so good to talk to you and thank you for taking the time to speak to us. russia and ukraine have failed to agree on any ceasefire at their latest talks in turkey. the second round of discussions between the two sides in istanbul lasted just over an hour.

russia rejected ukraine's demand for an unconditional three month ceasefire. instead proposing a two to three day partial truce in some areas. the sides did agree on a prisoner swap though, including troops under 25, and the seriously ill and wounded. russia and ukraine will also return the thousand opposing soldiers each. and ukraine has given russia a list of hundreds of children it says were taken during the invasion who should be returned. russia's lead negotiator says they're also planning more it is better to recover at home these swaps are set to take place on a regular basis in due course. after today's negotiations, the head of the ukrainian delegation says it's now time for the country's leaders to meet we firmly believe that all key issues can only be solved at a level of leaders. and, the leaders meeting could be with

possible involvement of other leaders such as the president of the united states. meanwhile ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky is in vilnius for a summit with the leaders of nato's eastern and nordic members. he laid out what he sees as the essential part of any peace negotiations. the key to lasting peace is clear, the aggressor must not receive any reward for war. putin must get nothing that would justify his aggression. any reward would only ensure him that war pays off. it all comes amid the backdrop of ukraine's audacious drone attack on russia. ukraine says it hit at least 40 russian warplanes at military bases across the country, describing the strikes as its biggest long-range attack of the war. they claim to have caused seven billion dollars worth of damage, although we can't

verify those numbers. one official said at least 13 aircraft were destroyed, and others damaged. codenamed "operation spider's web", it's reported that ukraine targeted five airbases inside russia, two which are thousands of miles from ukraine - towards the west of the country. it's thought to have taken 18 months to prepare the attack, with more than 100 small drones smuggled into russia in special compartments on trucks. they were then driven into position across russia and launched at nearby military bases. russia confirmed ukrainian attacks in five regions, admitting 'several aircraft caught fire' at two sites. russian authorities also claimed some of those involved in what they called 'terrorist attacks' had been arrested. bbc monitoring's russia editor, vitaly shevchenko has the latest from the talks in istanbul. on the one hand, nothing surprising came out of the talks. they agreed another

prisoner exchange which is significant in itself and so many people going home from the country and something interesting happened where most of the media left the scene and is stumble and the russian state news agency within the past minutes publish what they say is a memorandum which russia presented to ukraine at the talks and the conditions contained in this memorandum are extreme and this lists two conditions or two ways of the cease-fire in ukraine, two options, option one is a complete withdrawal of ukrainian troops from the four ukrainian regions that russia partially occupies and the second is the second extreme,

according to it, ukraine should stop mobilising new fighters into its army and should he mobilise the fighters were still there and it's not clear how many of them and foreign military aid to ukraine should stop and martial law in ukraine, martial law being lifted, fresh elections need to be held in ukraine and ukraine should remain neutral, ie not a member of nato and so, these conditions are, they're going to be really hard for ukraine to stomach but at least we know what russia's objectives are at the current state and what are the conditions with which it is prepared to cease-fire.

our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, has more on the reaction in kyiv on that ukrainian drone attack on russia depends on who you talk to, here on the streets of kyiv, we've encountered pretty mixed reactions, some people saying that an audacious attack like this could help to bring russia to its senses others suggesting that frankly russia was determined to keep the war grinding on and after three exhausting years of war, a lot of people here have concluded that russia will be satisfied with nothing less the complete subjugation of the country pretty much along the lines of what the tally was outlining from the russian memorandum and for his part, president zelensky was talking to his eastern european and nordic partners and representatives of nato and he is continuing to talk about the importance of military support for ukraine

and more sanctions on russia and talking about operation spiders web come the name they gave to the attack on the russian airfields saying that it was important for russia to feel what military losses felt like and that this might push russia around the path of diplomacy. we have seen in this temple is a partial success, it is kept the diplomatic ball rolling and certainly the ukrainians went there with a, kind of renewed sense of confidence being able to say to russia and to the world that look at what we did to you in russia yesterday, we are clearly not in the situation of defeated all. but as for the prospects of any kind of long-term cease-fire, let alone a wider settlement that might, in any way meet ukraine's demands and desires, we are still an awfully long way from

that. still to come on the world today - police launch a new search for madeline mccann in portugal, 18 years after she disappeared.

fresh searches are to be carried out in portugal by german police investigating the disappearance of madeleine mccann. madeleine, then aged three, disappeared in 2007 while on holiday with her family in the resort of praia da luz. her disappearance sparked a europe-wide police investigation, and has become one of the highest-profile unsolved missing person cases in the world. our berlin correspondent,

jess parker, has the latest. investigators are seeing little at this stage, they have confirmed that there are proceedings going on in portugal but they haven't really given details as to much else. however we have some information from other sources and other authorities in the metropolitan police and the united kingdom have said they are aware of searches taking place in portugal, although met offices are present and we just had a statement through from the portuguese authorities who are saying that at the request of german authorities, such as a due to be carried out from today they sing some initial report suggesting the principle such could begin tomorrow in the portuguese authorities saying that until friday, unconfirmed reports suggesting that the search area could focus on the area between when madeleine went missing in 2007 and you're just saying that she was in her families house and the chief suspect, christian

bruckner once lived in. christian bruckner identified as a chief suspect in 2020. he has denied involvement and has never been charged in the case. the un has called for an independent investigation after medecins sans frontieres said that people it treated at a us-backed aid site in gaza reported being shot at 'from all sides' by the israeli military. medical charities in gaza say at least 21 people have been killed, and more than a hundred injured, following disputed reports about an incident near the gaza humanitarian foundation's compound in rafah. the israeli military says it 'did not fire at civilians while they were near or within' the distribution site. the bbc has asked the gaza humanitarian foundation for an interview but it has declined our requests. israel doesn't allow the bbc

and other international media to report on the ground in gaza, but we do rely on trusted local freelancers sending footage. our reporter merlyn thomas has been following the story for bbc verify. a lot of claims and counterclaims swirling around this one particular incident in southern gaza we've been looking into into audio and into witness testimony as well to see what we can piece and talking through a particular series that the guys humanitarian foundation has shared with us and cctv footage from distribution sites in southern gaza and we verified where the service in the distribution and we can see people running away but we do not know we can hear because we cannot join the audio on this but at one particular point, you can see gunfire, around of gunfire that is eliminating what we have seen is well and

also we have seen videos from the corridor as well which also shows people running away and cowering and we can hear gunfire there as well of what is made are reporting particularly difficult as there are two separate incidents, it appears, different reports and one is near rafa and one is near the corridor that is in northern gaza and these are two separate incidents and so, this muddies the waters when we are trying to understand and verify these facts. we know where the distribution site is we can verify that cctv footage would it comes from one particular source and that is the gaza humanitarian foundation and we have tried to ask the more questions about this particular footage but they have not given us those answers so in the meantime, we're looking into more footage and trying to get to the bottom of this very unclear picture. us president donald trump has

condemned the attack on a rally in support of israeli hostages in colorado and vowed to prosecute the attacker to the fullest extent of the law. in his first comments since the attack on social media site truth social, president trump blamed joe biden for allowing the attacker into the country. and called for him to be deported. officials say the attacker, named as mohamed sabry soliman, shouted "free palestine" and started "setting people on fire", leaving eight people injured. soliman is expected to appear in court in the next few hours. the white house press secretary gave this update in the last hour we have seen two horrific cases of anti-semitic violence in our country in the last two weeks and it is unacceptable to this president and this white house and rest assured, to all jewish americans across our great country, this president has your back and he is not going to allow anyone to take part in violence, terrorism, acts of terrorism in our country. we know that this individual, this terrorist was allowed into this country by the previous

administration and was foolishly given a tourism visa and was legally allowed to stay there will be deported and we were not tolerate such violence in our country. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal has more details on the suspect in the case. he is due to appear in court in a few hours. and we know that he has been charged with two first-degree murder charges, it's not immediately clear why that is because nobody died in the attack, people had to be lifted to hospital with serious injuries but also just to add, he has been charged and looking at the court filing, he has been charged with a hate crime involving actual or perceived race, religion or national origin and so, we will get more details about this in a few hours and we are expecting a police presence of some point later today.

this is bbc news, the headlines... the uk is moving to "warfighting readiness" - as part of a major review of defence spending. russia proposes a two to three-day partial truce during talks with ukraine in istanbul - but rejects kyiv's call for a three-month ceasefire. police consider corporate manslaughter charges against an nhs trust in nottingham after the deaths and injuries to hundreds of babies in their care. fresh searches are to be carried out in portugal by german police investigating the disappearance of madeleine mccann.

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