From home for good. Let me know if you think Working Practices have changed for ever and if so, whether thats a good thing or not on twitter, its Annita Mcveigh or bbcyourquestions. Also coming up this hour. Out of this world four amateur astronauts, including a billionaire will spend the next three days circling the earth in the latest milestone for space tourism. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. The uk, the us and australia have launched a new Security Partnership with plans to develop a fleet of Nuclear Powered submarines. The pact, to be known as aukus, will also cover artificial intelligence, cyber and quantum technologies. The uk Prime Minister, borisjohnson, says the project will be crucial for the protection of their shared interests in the indo pacific Region But China has accused them of having a Cold War mentality. Our Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale reports. Britains decision to send its Aircraft Carrier hms Queen Elizabeth and other
And how it may evolve. because the future of each of our nations and indeed the world depends on a free and open indo pacific enduring and flourishing in the decades ahead. as a start, britain and america will help australia build a new fleet of nuclear powered, but not nuclear armed, submarines. australia had originally asked france to help modernise its submarines, but that deal is now dead. it s not yet clear how the work will be shared, but britain hopes it will boost its defence industry. bae systems already builds the royal navy submarines and rolls royce the nuclear reactors. though british officials insist this defence partnership is not a response to any one country, but about stability and security in the indo pacific, it will not be welcomed by china. jonathan beale, bbc news. in the past few hours, china has hit back, saying australia is in breach of nonproliferation treaties.
Show how precarious international stability can be. new challenges can emerge, and issues in far away corners of the globe can quickly turn into threats at home, so labour welcomes increased cooperation with our allies. australia and america are two of our closest security partners, and sharing resources and intelligence with them, and enhancing capabilities makes them safer, makes britain safe, and makes the world safer. the lessons of the past few weeks is that britain must look after our most important relationships, or our influence and security quickly declines. so, mr speaker, while labour welcomes this announcement, but can i ask the prime minister to outline and a bit more detail what the agreement means in practice? the strategic review identify china as a systemic
Deputy prime minister, a title not given out since 2015. it was a good day for former health ministers. reporter: are you happy with that, are you happy? | very. nadine dorries, very happy to be the new culture secretary. also smiling, nadhim zahawi, who led the vaccine roll out, now in charge of education. the former education secretary gavin williamson was among those to be sacked from the government completely. a widely expected move after he was heavily criticised for his handling of exams and schools during the pandemic. and michael gove, a minister known for getting things done, replaced robertjenrick at housing and communities, a department that will play a key role in the levelling up promise. borisjohnson has said he wants to get on with the job, but there are a few more roles to fill first. helen catt, bbc news, westminster. the headlines on bbc news: britain, the united states and australia have agreed a new defence and security partnership to counter china s
Question to boris johnson from question to borisjohnson from theresa may, his predecessor, who asked what would the implications be of the step with australia if china were to invade taiwan. when questioned about china and the uk s position with china s assertiveness, borisjohnson position with china s assertiveness, boris johnson skated position with china s assertiveness, borisjohnson skated around boris johnson skated around questions. borisjohnson skated around questions. to that when he simply said at the uk would uphold international law. i think what was interesting here was that he was talking about the importance of working with partners, like minded partners, countries that wanted to defend democracy, that wanted to defend democracy, that wanted to defend open trading nature of the indo pacific region, the vital sort of security and trade interests there. in the context of afghanistan, talking about here the importance of maintaining some of those values. he was then asked if