in defence.so we will enhance and expand the industrial base right across the alliance. we will support and increase defence production, remove barriers to cooperation and harness cutting-edge technologies. to borrow from the former labour prime minister harold wilson, i want nato to forge its future in the white heat of innovation. to stay ahead of our effort -- adversaries we must adopt new technologies. they can be cost-effective and deliver the same effect as traditional military heavy metal. on the battlefields of ukraine $400 drums are taking out 2,000,000-dollar russian tanks. more defence spending and production provides effective deterrence, promote economic growth and create jobs. the summit in the hague will send a clear signal to industry and industry must meet all ambition. so we will make nato stronger by spending and producing more and we will make nato fairer by rebalancing the burden of our security with every ally contributing their fair share. we will benefit from the protectio

recognising in these dangerous times that when it comes to defence of the realm, and the defence of everything that we hold dear, nothing works unless we all work together. from every man and woman serving in uniform, to the workers building the next generation of subs, the brilliant workers and apprentice right here, building a new type 26 frigates like the two that you can see being built right behind me. to our tech experts, scientists, engineers who are pioneering battlefield innovations and cyber defences. every part of society, every citizen of this country has a role to play. because we have to recognise that things have changed, in the world of today the front line is here. the threat we now face is more serious, more immediate and more unpredictable than at any time work. -- since the cold war. face war in europe, daily cyber attacks, growing up russian aggression in our waters, menacing our skies, their reckless actions driving up the cost of living here at home, creating economic pain and hitting working people the hardest. a new era in the threat we face demands a new era for defen

uk defence. end 14 years of hollowing out and armed forces and instead, we will see investment increase in the navy expanding, the army growth, the air force upgraded, readiness restored. nuclear deterrent guaranteed, advanced technology developed and jobs, jobs created, jobs created in every nation and region of this country. mr speaker, the strategic defence review will make britain safer, more secure at home and stronger abroad. thank you, mr speaker, before i returned to the substance, respond to my point of order, the secretary of state said that when he was in opposition and i quote, we were not offered a briefing, we had no advance copy of the defence review. please. it has not been a good day so far and i do not want interrupted in a more. actually this occurred when i was a minister at mod in a march 2023, before i became a minister, he was invited to a reading room in the morning of publication. and the defence command people on july 2023, when i was a minister and he said he did not ge

nato allies have agreed a new defence investment pledge, raising defence and security spending to 5% of gdp by 2035. making it was stronger, fairer and more lethal than ever. this includes military spending as well as vital investments in our security and resilience. like protecting our cyber security and energy networks. allies also agreed that because at the threats are constantly evolving, we will review this pledge in 2029. the new national security strategy sets out our plans and priorities across these areas. so under the initial new definitions -- nato new definitions, we estimate we will reach at least 4.1% of gdp in 2027. keeping the british people safe and strengthening our leadership in a need further. -- in nato even further. sorry, just a bit of activity. the convoy behind me, but all ok. what is happening in the building behind me is that canada's new by minister, mark carney, is speaking. they have committed to the 5%. let's listen in. previously you have spoken about the fact canadians will need to make sacrifices to pay for defence spending. what sacrifices are you e

bbecause this is the defence of the uk. well, fiona, i'm glad you've found comfort doing all this work. and you'll sleep soundly tonight, because i'm not sure i will, having read all of this today. i've had more time to digest it. ok, dr hill, thank you. thanks so much, thanks for having me, bye-bye. we're listening to that here in the newscast studio. visiting us from ukraine is our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse. hello again. hello, adam. how's your recovery from your bike injury? yeah, fine, thanks. a little bit, the shoulder sticks a little bit. appreciate you asking. ok, and also chris is here. hello, chris. hi. well, i say you're here, you're actually in scotland, aren't you? i am in glasgow. where the prime minister was doing his bit of the launch of the defence review. and having just heard one of the authors he was then going to, he was then kind of selling it to the country. what do you, what do you make of of what keir starmer's pitch was today? so a couple of things. i mean, one is a continuation of an

it is not a defence bend in the 2%, but still you need to do it and develop the defence industrial base simply do not have enough and then we have the issue of societal preparedness, when we look towards norway or finland or sweden, what they are doing, in terms of having the whole of society to understand what their role will be, be it active or at least not getting in the way of the military people, if war breaks out, or a natural disaster hits, i mean, in many other countries, my country, many other countries, we are not merely there so all the spending needs to be done and we calculated this is roughly 1.5%, we are now discussing in brussels the more specific items but things like defence and industrial base, developing your infrastructure anyway that can help you to move from a to the with military and equipment, but also of this big issue of preparing your civilian populations for whatever might happen so we need to do that. ok, one in the... yes, and then coming to somewhat of a year. hello comedy times. you mentioned in your speech, improvement to the defence. -- hello, the time

it will go towards core defence as well as defence investments. this decision is deeply rooted in our core mission and is required to resource our plans. this will also make nato fairer to ensure anyone and everyone contributes in their fair share for our security. for too long, one ally, the usa, carried too much of the burden of that commitment and that changes today. president trump, dear donald, you made this change possible, your leadership on this has already produced $1 trillion in extra spending from european allies since 2016 and the decisions today will produce to william's more for common defence, trillions more, to make equal spending between america and its allies. allah is also agreed to further increase defence production to our armed forces have everything they need and that means a huge expansion of our defence industrial base on both sides of the atlantic. that's good for our security, it's good for our economies and good for our jobs. our decisions include continuing our support to ukraine while also pushing lasting peace. we al

when our correspondent jonathan beale, the defence correspondent, was asking a baltics defence minister, i believe they were, about 2.5%, 3%, they said, that's old news. the level we are looking to get two, 2.5%, its been dismissed by some nato allies is not nearly enough. we have heard the prime minister say that we can't ignore the threat from russia. and then later on in that speech, when he was answering questions from the media, he talked about russian aggression with regard to the far north, the nordic states. we are talking about a new threat over and above that, that which we have already seen in ukraine. there has been a lot of hope, and resort from the chief of the german defence staff a couple of days ago, they think within two or three years' time we could see another russian attack. there is a suggestion, and intelligence, and i have been briefed this by another european defence official, that the russians are producing more tanks than they are sending to the front lines, they are building up strategic reserves of armoured vehicles and tanks to allow them to do some sort of

in defence. speaking to people in and around defence, they say that so often with defence reviews, this is a recurring theme, that reviews are done with good intention, but then they encounter budgetary bumps. if russia turns the istanbul meeting into an empty talk, there must be a new level of pressure, new sanctions, and not just from europe. got a lot done with we got a lot coming up for you in the next hour. coming up on the context in the next hour... the uk prime minister, sir keir starmer, says the threat from russia cannot be ignored, as his government ramps up defence spending. we'll have full analysis. more talks but still no ceasefire, as russian and ukrainian representatives meet in turkey for a second round of negotiations. we'll assess where the talks are headed with a former senior nato figure. what does the election of a nationalist, anti-eu president mean for poland? we'll be live in warsaw. and the suspect in the fire-bomb attacks in colorado in the us is due in court. we'll bri

we are ensuring defence. the submarine base that has been left behind and neglected is fully invested on funding submarines. we more than have, go back to last november, but i want to move on. do you know what our submarine production currently stands? let's speak to shashank joshi, defence editor of the economist magazine. let me ask you a more general question, we heard a question about hirings and firings of the defence department. at different stages they have been unconfirmed reports of chaos behind-the-scenes, what are you hearing in terms of that area? i think the biggest challenge is the leadership, because what has happened in the last several months is that the defence secretary pete hegseth has lost many of his most important aids and personal stuff. this is not low-level employees, these are very, very senior people and they are not anti-pete hegseth or anti-trump figures. they are loyalist, pro-maga people. they lost their main communications aid, they lost many people working in their senior off

defence secretary, the strategic defence review talks a lot about cyber threats and you talked aboutw many the uk has seen, do you think you are not the point where we need greater clarity over whether that type of threat should warrant an article five response and to the other two ministers, when the strategic defence review is published, there's an expectation that there'll be some time for it to be dates listed in capitals around europe and i get the chance to look at it and what is view of that? you're right that uk will be the same for boris and in germany and has been subject to an increasing level of cyber attacks and we in the defence field have been the subject of 90,000, at least 90,000 attacks in the last year directed at the fence across the board and all of which can be linked in some way to states and so, there's a level of aggression... this is the defence minister speaking in brussels and the german, british and ukrainian defence, very interesting. johnson the presence of linsky will stand with ukraine to the end and a lot of question of the americans 25% of gdp cindy

the ambition of their defence and reflects the certainty about jobs in the future and the british defencehat 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 buil

defence spending and the uk.ut it this way, next year, poland aims to spend 5% of gdp on defence. their just at the paris of russia and the realities and threats of president putin. poland has the third-largest military in nato, just by the us and turkey, so that is what you have the height of nato orator congratulating this new president and saying hopes that nato will be able to work closely this country. when it comes to the eu, it is far more fractured because law and justice has had a troubled relationship with the eu. when you remember the governments of law and justice before donald tusk won the election back in 2023, brussels was threatening with halting covid aid to this country because they feared the then at law and justice government was breaching judicial law by packing the courts with biased judges. so it is real difficult relationship with law and justice with brussels and that will increase with this new presidency. the term does not start until august but there is already a lot to happen. the fir

nato allies have agreed a new defence investment pledge, raising defence and security spending to 5% of gdp. by 2035. making it a stronger, fairer, and more lethal than ever. this includes military spending as well as vital investments in our security and resilience. like protecting our cyber security and energy networks. allies also agreed that because the threats are constantly evolving, we will review this pledge in 2029. the new national security strategy sets out our plans and priorities across these areas. so under the nato new definitions, we estimate that we will reach at least 4.1% of gdp in 2027. keeping the british people safe, and are strengthening our leadership in nato even further. sir keir starmer there. we are waiting for president zelensky to leave, so that is the line of cars you can see behind me. let's bring in a firmer us to platt and director of global engagement at the white house. we are adjusting president zelensky leave right now, if i sent away, we can focus on him. let's take a moment to talk about ukraine. he had a meeting with president trump, but we ha

it's a very good defence review, it has been done by people who are experts in defence. i think they're right to focus on the russian threat, which has really intensified, not just of course, against ukraine and moldova and the balkan states... baltic states, without western european -- cyber attacks in western europe. i think they're right to focus on the need to modernise our response, to look at cyber and artificial intelligence, and drone capability, and all the things that we are beginning to learn from the conflict and you can let ukraine. he is right to accentuate our readiness. my only quarrel would be that he hasn't yet put a time on when we will get to the 3%. yes, it really fall short doesn't it. many companies let countries in nato committing to the 3%, he says by 2034. that's not soon enough for many. i welcome it as a target, but poland, the three baltic countries, even romania, they are spending 3% now, and we are still down there, hoping to get up to 2.5%. and with the prime minister says we should be leading, the danger now is that we will start slipping

review of defence spending. a bbc investigation into russian denounces, a special report. over 1,100 migrants reached the uk after crossing the english channel on saturday, the highest number on a single day so far in 2025. and a major study shows an exercise programme for colon cancer patients can improve survival rates. we speak to the author of that report. all of that is coming up, but first all the sport with sarah mulkerrins, good afternoon. action continues at the french open this monday with some blockbuster draws. world number one jannick sinner plays in the evening session, while novak djokovic is on court against britain's cameron norrie. it is early in that match, djokovic is leading 3-1 in the first set, and he is looking for a 25th grand slam title and a landmark 100th win at the french open, if he can get over the line today. and the winner of that match will meet third seed alexander zverev, who is through to the quarterfinals. he beat tallon griekspoor after the dutchman retired injured. zverev

we will speak to a defence and intelligence expert. justin, as i outlined some of the words we heard from the prime minister today, i wonder what you make about his change of tone and whether what he said is backed up by substance in terms of his plans? there has been a change from the uk government in the last 12 months. i think that's been very clear and particular things that starmer has said in terms of defence, which is great. it all comes down to money and the defence review being announced today is great but we have had many defence reviews, all of which have been caught out not just by a lack of clarity in terms of where our future strategy would lie but also the reality that finance was the ultimate thing that we had to deal with. i feel discussions of finance will continue, this idea of being war ready but arguably not spending enough on defence compared to the nature of the threat. today is going to be an effort to do as much as we can to undo the damage of the last 30 years in terms of investment but there are still financi

with defence and the additional 1.5 that gets you to the 5%. it is the strong recognition that aligns with policy documents we have seen coming out in recent days, which conflict and the fundamental nature is changing so increasing we'll be this hybrid grey zone so termed, tax potential and critical national infrastructure, and ensuring we have overall societal buying. it is targeting that and enabling member states have flexibility in the way in which their plight. spain seems to be doing it on its own way, saying it will reach the capability goals that nato has been set. can it pave its way there and have others follow? it sets an interesting precedent. it cuts the code of one of the key conversations that is going on around the summit, which should be focused on a number or the quality of what it is we are buying in terms of military capability? by saying chile are suggesting it will meet capability through its own sovereign pathway, and we saw this change of letters, what we're seeing is a really hedging a flexibility on the national level

will not up their defence capability unless the ministry of defence signs hard and fast contracts, and the industry knows where the money is going to come from and is going to flow to them. so the ball sits in the government's court, to put more fuel in the tank to fire up this engine, and then will get the dividend of growth that the prime minister talks about. he talks about a defence dividend, or that's an interesting concept, because the last 25 or 30 years, we've had peace dividends, as the defence budget has been rooted. so we've got to get this thing on a proper footing and decide as quickly as possible where the money is coming from, and that we can start to put make progress in terms of material production. two final thoughts. in terms of the rhetoric used by the prime minister today, in terms of wharf writing readiness, do you think there is a danger that it simply alarms people? war fighting residents. so... i don't want to see our young men and women caught up in a war such as previous generations did, and the best way to avoid that is to increase our skills, increasing our

we were hearing from john healey, the defence secretary, at the weekend, that this defence review wasdesigned to be a message to moscow, that gives you a sense of one place they think the threat is coming from but the also think the threat is coming from china. underlying all of this and one reason why the conversation on defence spending has been moving so fast prior to this defence review, is there is a changing attitude in america, from the american government. they may well be our strongest ally and a special relationship and so on, but what is changing thinking in the uk government but also in government win in nato and the west and on the european continent more generally, is the question of what the implications for our defence strategy at defence spending are if we can no longer review rely certainly un-american. thank you. a russian delegation has arrived in istanbul for a second round of peace talks with ukraine. both sides will present documents outlining their ceasefire demands. the meeting is still going ahead despite ukraine destroying or damaging 41 russian bomber plane

we can speak to andrew kinniburgh from make uk defence, a trade association representing the defence supply chain. welcome to bbc news. we saw in that report politicians criticising, saying there is no plan to fund any of this. of course that is what you would expect critics of the government to say, but what do you make of that? because of course, could be good news if it was funded. thank you to stop yes, i think we very much welcome the defence spending increase and of course, we would because we represent many defence manufacturers from bae systems to the top right into lots of small and medium-sized companies, so we very much welcome it. i guess our job is not to decide whether the money is there are not, it is to take the announcement at face value but we very much welcome it and i think we very much a view, like the government and many others, that a really strong defence supply chain is almost as important as having a strong military. you must be able to build the equipment and provide the services that let the armed forces do their business. so we very much welcome at. one o

nato members agree to increase their defence spending to 5% of their gdp within the next decade. president trump calls it a monumental win for the us. something that no-one really thought possible, and they said, "you did it, sir, you did it." well, i don't know if i did it, but i think i did. i'm annita mcveigh in london. our other main headlines... ..before leaving the summit at the hague, president trump says the us will hold talks with iran next week to revive nuclear negotiations. as the cease-fire between israel and iran holds for now, we have our first report from inside iran. it's starting to resume normal rhythms. you may see the traffic flowing on the street -- hear the sounds, around tehran. a man has been found guilty of murdering a 14-year-old boy with a samurai sword in hainault in east london. the labour rebellion continues as the uk government doubles down on controversial plans to reform the welfare system. and thousands begin to gather at worthy farm, as the gates to the world famous glastonbury festival open. we will be there live. welcome to the hague, after t

to be invested in defence. this is a quantum leap, it is ambitious, historic, and fundamental to securing our future. the new defence investment plan is the key deliverable for the summit and it will be decisive to ensuring effective deterrence to threats. the details of our plans are of course classified. but let me give you a few examples of what we will invest in. a five fold increase in air defence capabilities, because we see it russia has deadly tariffs on the skies over ukraine every day, and we must be able to defend ourselves from such attacks. thousands more tanks and armoured vehicles, because even though warfare is changing fast, we still need to be able to protect our soldiers on the battlefield and to manoeuvre. and millions of rounds of artillery ammunition, because it is having these stockpiles that we can deter aggression from any threat. as we invest more it is crucial that we also produce more. at present, there is not nearly enough supply to meet our increased demand on either side of the at

let's speak about defence spending. the baltic states are very vulnerable to the russian threat, it is felt acutely by people every day, you can spending a 3.9% which is high but what are you committing to? we get a 5%? we are not more vulnerable than the uk is right now. it doesn't mean we are on the front line, it means we are a soft part of nato. yes, we are on the edge, they would be some attempts from russia, geographically we are close but as the alliance would be immediately from the first centimetre to the first minute, will be all of us involved. so... your people must feel it more acutely, there must be more support in your country for an increase in defence spending? it is harder to convince people in spain. that is the point, convincing people we are to do this, yes it is easier because we can talk in the language of threat assessment and what are the threats there are when we have the continental part of russia where we see the forces, yes. that is a reason and a difference was the mac. but the very decisio

israel advised us they believe this action was necessary for its self-defence. president trump and the administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with our regional partners. let me be clear, iran should not clear -- target us interest or personal. i believe we have the line back with behnam ben taleblu. thank you for be on with us tonight. getting that statement from the secretary of state marco rubio. it is interesting, that last line, around should not target us interest or personal. we saw the us begin to move personnel out of various countries in the region. does that suggest to you and in that statement as well they think even though the us being very clear tonight they are not involved. is there a worry the us might at some point he dragged into this conflict? apologies for the technical glitch. certainly, it is something us policymakers, defence planners have been thinking about and worrying about for quite some time when much of not just the diplomatic facilities but many of the military bases sons the

rutte has marked like air defence. we get real output from that input. the us remains the most powerful and influential member of nato, their spending and military might outweighs other members, should they not be planning for some kind of us disengagement? step up with further spending but look at different alliances and different ways they can help each other in europe? nato is still strong and the us is still involved. we have extended nuclear deterrence, we have key us capabilities on the ground and forces. we have us generals leading nato formation so that is a strong foundation that european nato allies and canada can build upon. you are right that we need to see burden sharing and some burden shifting within the alliance whereby europeans are providing more of the combat capability, more of the actual forces and systems that are needed to deter and defend. that builds resilience into the nato alliance and makes sure there is not over dependence on one single ally and in particular the us which has competing prio

contributions for the defence of ukraine by nato allies will count against the 5% defence spending - that's very important. of course, russia was fulminating against the decision taken to increase nato spending. and also, regarding american weapons for ukraine, trump said something, i would say, somewhat positive, i don't want to overstate it, in his press conference after the summit. when zelensky raised the need for america patriot batteries, trump acknowledged that need and said he could see what used to recognising there were needs elsewhere as well. so you look at the whole package, ukraine was not badly treated in the hague. john herbst there. at president trump's news conference, he took a question from myroslava petsa, a reporter for the bbc ukrainian service. have a listen to that exchange. where are you from? i'm from ukraine. oh. so my question to you is whether or not the us is ready to sell anti-air missile systems to ukraine. we know that russia has been pounding ukraine really heavily right now. are you living yourself now in ukraine? my husband is there... wow. i can

the new target is made up of 3.5% of gdp spent on core defence like weapons and troops. plus a further 1.5% of gdp on broader defence and security-related investments from bridges and ports to cyber security and protecting energy pipelines. for a look at how defence spending has been rising throughout nato over the past decade, notably since the russian takeover of crimea in 2014, here's jagdip cheema. according to nato estimates, in ten years it rose from $910 billion to nearly 1.2 trillion dollars. that's based on 2015 prices and exchange rates. but the biggest spending increases in that time are by nato members in europe and canada. and four new european members have joined the alliance in recent years. they're montenegro and north macedonia, and since russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, finland and sweden have also joined. despite nato comprising 32 countries, the united states alone covers nearly two thirds of nato's defence spending. in 2014, in europe only greece and the united kingdom spent nato's guideline 2% of their gdp on defence. by 2024, with an even m

europe has to spend more on defence. we have to build a defence industry within the alliance, which is not protectionist, which is the most competitive in the world. and that's what we are here for to agree on. finland is responsible for over half of the entire land border between nato countries and russia. is nato enough of a deterrent right now? well, i wouldn't be so worried about finland because we have always taken our defence and deterrence very seriously. we have one of the largest reservist based armies in the world. we have an army based on conscription. and, well, we finns know what we are protecting - democracy, human rights, equality and the rule of law. and we know that behind that long border, the world looks so different. and that is not something we want to have. that was england's foreign minister speaking to me shortly ago. joining me now is jamie shea, former deputy assistant secretary general for emerging security challenges at nato headquarters a little loud behind me, some of the foreign ministers,

support our defence and security. we can effectively deter aggression. and defend ourselves and each other should anyone make the mistake of attacking. allies recognise the severity of the threats we face. in response, they have come together to agree an ambitious but essential new defence spending commitments. our decision today show from the mediterranean to the arctic, from the west coast of north america to our eastern flank, all allies are united in understanding we need to step up to stay safe. they are acting on it. president trump has been clear, america is committed to nato. he affirmed that again today in no uncertain terms. the same time, he made clear that america expects european allies and canada to contribute more. that is exactly what we see them doing. european allies and canada will do more of the heavy lifting, equalising their spending and taking greater responsibility for our shared security. of course, work doesn't stop here. this is they want. we now shift agreeing on what we need to rolling up

to penetrate the defences. and one of those missiles hit here, this residential neighbourhood in the city of holon, near tel aviv. and the authorities are saying that the missile landed between these two buildings here. you can see that the top section of that four-storey building partially collapsed. the authorities are saying that three people were injured as a result of the attack here. there is some damage in nearby buildings, houses, as well. so i think it shows that iran continues to have the ability to carry out these attacks. we've seen that the latest, you know, attacks by iran hadn't been as intense, which was seen as an indication of the impact of these israeli airstrikes on the iranian military's ability to carry out those attacks. and reflecting that, the israeli authorities yesterday announced that some of the restrictions that had been imposed because of the war were being eased. so, again, what we're seeing here today is that the iranian military continues to have the ability to carry out these

the defence secretary says the government's defence review will prepare britain's armed forces for war. that includes investing billions of pounds in the arms industry, more missiles and drones ready to meet rising threats. it is a world of growing threats, growing russian aggression. it's those daily cyberattacks, it's new nuclear risks and it's increasing tension in other parts of the world as well. there'll be more investment for the front line too. british troops on exercise in estonia are already learning the lessons from the war in ukraine. at this command post, they're testing new technologies to identify targets faster. while in trenches, how to hide from the constant threat of drones. after years of cuts, they're catching up. do you think you'll be ready, or do you think you're ready now? i think we're on the right pathway to being ready. but you're not ready yet? that's a "no comment" from me. estonia's raising its defence spending to more than 5% of its gdp. so is lithuania, which also shares a border with russia. here, the german army's already helping bolster the baltic st

there was this leaked us defence intelligence agency assessment. we should say we haven't seen the full assessment, and it was an early and low confident assessment. donald trump is trying to dismiss this and point to this israeli assessment that suggests the programme was set back by years and not the initial months claim. these facilities were totally obliterated, that's what he said immediately after the strikes. we're seeing some the latest imagery. in terms of what you and others are looking at, to be able to make some sort of assessment, take me through your thinking. satellite assessments only tell you so much. the impact point, the holds where these bunker busters burrowed down. you can see some of the concrete thrown up, but for instance, the mountains haven't collapsed. you can't see from a satellite imagery what's going on in the enrichment buried underneath. we don't know if the bombs penetrated that. it doesn't look like they probably did. we don't know whether the impact of them exploding shook some of the centrifuge machinery. you ne

the rest will go towards defence.ecurity related investments including infrastructure and building industrial capacity. our decisions on defence spending are driven by nato's plans and capability targets. they define what forces and capabilities allies need to provide. and last week nato defence ministers agreed ambitious new targets. the exact details are classified, but we need a 400% increase in the air and missile defence. we see in ukraine how russia deliver terror from above. we will strengthen their shield that protects our skies. our military is also in need of thousand more armoured vehicles and tanks for the millions more artillery shells and we must double our enabling capabilities such as logistics, supply, transportation and medical support. let's speak to our correspondent rich preston who listened to mark rutte at the chatham house. rich, fascinating how open mark ruta was. he made that statement that european partners had to get to 5% of spending in terms of gdp. -- mark rutte. did he give any sort of

, our own deterrence, and ramp up our defence spending. that is not only needed because of the us, it's also needed because we see war on the european continent. we see the threat that russia poses. we see putin not only producing more military materiel and ammunition to use in its war against ukraine, but also putting it aside for the future, maybe to test europe's collective security in the future. and this is important that we now ramp up our defence spending to avoid that putin even thinks of trying to do that. i mean, you need to ramp up your defence spending as well. here in the netherlands, only just over 2% of your gdp is spent. but there are protesters outside. we're here amongst one of the biggest security operations ever launched in the netherlands to protect the summit. but protesters who are not happy about an increase in defence spending, they're not even happy about the expansion of nato. how do you convince dutch people that they have to forego other things in order to give money to defence? i think we already convinced dut

yes we have covered this at length but it is worth a refresher looking at the defences them.we will be able to give you a bit more information, slide. a 3-tiered layer defences system that uses three type of missile interceptors also called kinetic kill vehicles. the missiles have an error range of 2000 forger kilometres and the error of three which is the latest version can be launched into an area of space before it even knows what the target missile is going. then you have that middle system called david's sling going out to about 300 km and then you the intersystem as he said, iron dome which uses the to mirror interceptor missile with a range of 70-40 km but go after smaller unguided rockets in drones but what is important to mention is if we go slide, this tiered layer defence system is being augmented by the us and that there you can see a terminal high altitude defence system that is augmenting the israelis defence systems as a pretty sophisticated system that israel has been at the same time it's not 100% so how many iranian missiles have been getting through? it is

article three says it you asked to invest in your own defence and create defence so that you can come to the aid of your allies. we took three decades off in peace dividends and all of us to include my nation have a ways to come back and that is going to take investment. there were some countries that continue to have reservations about that 5%, for example, spain. of course, it is the same in our country. we have these conversations in our country, too. that we have resolved to move forward because all we have to do is look. we have an enemy, we have mr putin who four times from 2000 forward has a massed his army, marched across internationally recognised borders and invaded his neighbours and so we need to be ready to stop mr putin, a war criminal, is demonstrated that he is willing to invade his neighbours and therefore this you're live with bbc news. coming to you from washington. the united states' top intelligence official - cia director john ratcliffe - says intelligence indicates that iran's nuclear programme has been 'severely damaged' and will take years to rebuild. key trum

they call a total defence. contributing somehow somewhere the other two and if it were russia would just try to invade. and population participate, russia does feel very clear and i just don't know how to feel if the brits would ever be persuaded to feel quite that way. different for germany but russia, i can see why they're saying it and we would like to at least learn from the lessons that the scared navy and finns go through but it's quite a stretch especially after the basic stuff and getting your armed forces and also in the defence review, i was giving a talk the other day. we're discussing this exact issue and is said to the audience, how would you feel if some future british government said we need to rethink the way we have our armed forces and our reservists and we need to have some of mild conscription is something and some mild service, and potentially be able to and willing to send our young men and women off to die in some more. there was a sharp intake of breath that said to myself... i said, loo

the prime minister, defence minister and i explained our approach, the 5% defence spending in dutch parliament was met with a very large majority of votes in the parliament, over 90% of dutch parliament from left to right supported this approach, the 5% commitment. that is what stands for me. there is that challenge for many european countries they have to appeal to the domestic audience and there are lots of them nationalistic parties we don't want to see this kind of money spent on defence and don't believe the threat from russia is as imminent as others do. i don't think that in the netherlands, in the netherlands it is very clear and i believe in other countries that we see this threat from russia, we also see the war underestimated and uncertainty in europe, think of the prices in the middle east, and we fully understand that we cannot take our security for granted and we have therefore to invest more. yes, of course there will be discussion in many european capitals how to finance this commitment, how to finance that all and how we're going to do that, that is specially countries with co

the annual gathering of the nato defence alliance begins today, with a new defence investment plan to be agreed. i'm lucy hockings at the nato summit in the hague, where global leaders are due to gather with an eye on global defence and security - and with the hope that an agreement can de reached over an increase in defence spending within the group. and i'm mark lowen in tel aviv, where hours after a ceasefire between isreal and iran came into effect, both sides have accused each other of firing rockets after the deadline for a cessation of hostilities. overnight, american prisdent donald trump took to social media to state, "the ceasefire is now in effect. please do not violate it." president trump's ceasefire announcement came just a few hours after iran launched missiles at a us airbase in qatar in response to american strikes on its nuclear sites at the weekend. a statement by iran said that six missiles were launched, the same number used in the american attack on its nuclear site in fordo. israel defense forces says six runs of strikes in the country in a two time span. we got

but some of those countries haven't yet reached the 2% defence spending agreed in 2014. president trump has singled out spain and canada in particular for what he says is freeloading on the us's contributions. president trump took questions on his way to the summit on whether he belives in honouring the alliance's mutual defence pact - article five in the nato treaty. take a listen. that depends on your definition. there's numerous definitions of article five. you know that, right? but i'm committed to being their friend. you know, i've become friends with many of those leaders. i'm committed to helping them. nato sec general rutte said believes the us president is indeed committed to nato's article five principle. let's bring in ian brzezinski, senior fellow at the atlantic council and former us deputy assistant secretary of defence for europe and nato policy. thank you very much for being with us. when president trump talks about several different definitions of this article five, and it's not just any article, is it? it's the absolute cornerstone of what nato is, defe

we are trying to create the best possible defence, with various strata and dimensions of defence. and we have managed to actually reduce, but unfortunately there were still people who were wounded and there were those killed as well. the home front command rescue unit, together with all the other authorities and all first responders, have tried to give and meet the needs as quickly as possible. please, adhere to all our instructions. it truly is a life-saver. but do not publish or publicise any of the actual places where the missiles hit. this is in parallel to other arenas where we are fighting. we are talking about the idf forces still fighting in gaza, and the intelligence is still trying to do the utmost in order to find the hostages and bring them home as quickly as possible. they are always in our heart and in our eyes. please continue conducting yourselves with long-winded resilience and continue, after all, these are very strong people and we will continue being strong, and we will continue to update you on every stage. translation: are they considering evacuating civilian

we will go to finland and we are all racing defence expenditure towards at least 3.5%. so is northern europe pulling its weight? it is. we will not have the biggest problems with this new target of 5%. is there partly because society is on board, they feel the threat? yes. we do in terms of cyber threat and we have what we call total defence approach to this which means every citizen has to pull its weight if there is a war or crisis. what do you mean by that? the hybrid threats for instance we had the sabotage of the suborder infrastructure in the baltic sea. we have had cyber attacks and a lot of disinformation campaigns. so we have felt in the region. weaponisation of migrants for instance is also huge problem. how disappointed are some of these northern european countries about the fact that countries like spain say they are not going to meet the 5% target? i think we will realise we various positions are not everyone is close to the border with russia. the ambition to go up to 5% by 2035 is important for all to try and meet. president trump has been instrumental in

it's absolutely right that we invest more in defence.t's good that there's this commitment to 2.5%. i think we should go further. we want to see 3% reach in this parliament. nine years is a long time to wait. if you think the country should be on a war footing, as the prime minister has said. there is no firm commitment from the treasury. and you've got rachel reeves, a chancellor who has broken promise after promise after promise over the last nine months. so why would we trust her to keep a promise that's nine years away? so robert jenrick there saying the government needs to go further. i think it's worth putting all this in context. if the government did hit that ambition that they have to spend 3% of our gdp, the overall value of our goods and services on defence, that would cost an extra £17 billion by 2030. so these are vast sums, and it's all in the context of other government departments, other government ministers, trying to haggle and negotiate with the treasury over how much they will have for their departments and the areas

earlier we heard from nato secretary-general who told member states to increase their defence spending. with my colleagues at the table that given the threat from the russia and the international security situation there is no alternative we have to do this. the uk is to purchase 12 new fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons to bolster nato's capability. as prime minister of the uk, the support we play an integral part because this security of the uk is my first duty of the prime minister and i take that extremely seriously. this is the scene live at the summit. we will bring you all the latest as they come in. i'm mark lowen in tel aviv. also coming up... the ceasefire in the israel iran war is holding. president trump rejects a leaked intelligence report that says us strikes on iran did not destroy its nuclear programme. the un's has strongly criticised calling that a distribution system ludicrous as 46 people were reportedly shot dead by the israeli army while waiting for food. i'm sarah campbell in london. later in the programme... a bbc investigation finds evidence of ex

prime minister, you're here at defence, spending billions of pounds more on defence, but you're facing an insurrection back home, mutiny from your own mps, the biggest challenge to your authority since you became prime minister. your benefits plans are doomed, aren't they, in their current form? in so far as we have already committed to increase our defence spending, we've accounted for that through the overseas development aid budget, and therefore we're not taking that money from welfare. but it is important that we press on and reform the welfare system because it doesn't work for anyone. so no backing down? it leaves people trapped within the system. that's not progressive, that's not labour. you'll have that vote next week and there won't be any concessions? we've got to press on with these reforms. the current system isn't working. in the end, it's a stark choice. you either remain with a system which is broken and isn't working and traps people, or we reform it and make sure that it's fit for the future, that it properly protects people who do need protection. that's why we're g

for a big step up in defence spending. president trump attends his first meeting in over five years. we take a look at a danish drone producer as more and more investment goes into this battlefield technology. navigating risk on the high seas - maritime security is booming as shipping companies react to changing dynamics in the gulf. has the price of oil stabilised? we get the inside track on black gold as traders nervously watch the israel-iran ceasefire. i am suranjana tewari in tianjin, china and the economic meeting dubbed summer davos. we have just heard from china's premier who is called full cooperation on trade. live from london this is business today, i'm sally bundock. we start in the netherlands, where leaders of the 32 members of the nato alliance are gathered in the hague for a two day summit, with president trump attending for the first time since his previous presidency in 2019. he's been highly critical of the alliance, characterising it as a way for europe to 'freeload' off america rather than pay for its

all wars seem to spawn a new era in defence technology. how has the war in ukraine changed technology, and specifically the area of drones, in which you work? the pace of innovation in ukraine is unheard of. so they're working on, it's said, a three-to-four-development life cycle where they'll deploy some equipment, the front line will give them some feedback. they'll adjust the software, adjust the hardware, redeploy it again. and so what it means is that what might be cutting edge today could be completely useless and as useful as a brick in a month's time. and so defence is completely unused to being able to operate with that fast an innovation life cycle. and that's why it's especially important for some of the slower-moving companies. the ukrainians are adapting constantly and doing things like using ai to try and automate the intelligence-gathering process, or they're putting tens of thousands of kilometres' worth of fibre optics on the drones so that their drones become completely impervious to any enemy interference. so they can...

the message from the us defence secretary is that you cannot just rely on america for your defences,you are going to have to spend 5% of gdp on defence. that message does not... it is essentially to europe, not to america, which spends 3.4% of its gdp on defence. but that is the deal that america wants at the summit and this is the deal mark rutte has been working on behind the scenes and is discussing with nato defence ministers. essentially, what they are meant to be discussing is capability - in other words, the hardware, military hardware, they need to invest in, and that is meant to drive the spending costs. but really the person who set the spending target is donald trump and the compromise mark rutte nato secretary general has come up with is spending 3.5% of gdp on military and 1.5 on defence-related expenditure. that could mean building roads, bridges, ports. it is a pretty vague description. jonathan beale there. the us defence secretary speaking at the nato conference in brussels has sat in the last hour or so they believe there are countries exceeding 2% and he said we th