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chief says turkeys president erdogan has now agreed to support swedens bid tojoin nato. that was a priority for us presidentjoe biden, who touched down in vilnius on the eve of the summit. its clears the last major hurdle for swedens accession. lets take a listen to what the nato secretary general — jens stoltenberg, had to say. i think what we did today builds and we did in madrid because they agreed to invite finland and sweden to become members and the ratification process has bee...

five pm eastern. american voices with alicia menendez starts right now. >> thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello everyone, im alicia menendez. breaking news as we come on the air tonight. air force one is touching down about an hour ago, the presidents arrival kicking off a week of high stakes talks in lithuania. you are looking at new video of the president in london just moments ago. it really starts tomorrow, where we are told he will take a full day of meetings with a sit dow...

president volodymyr zelenskyy taking his fight for membership directly to the summit and calling the uncertain timeline for ukraines entry "absurd." also, a grand jury just selected in georgia to consider potential indictments against donald trump and others. the investigation of 2020 leaf interference heating up as the donald trump legal team seeks to delay the former presidents trial in the federal classified documents case. cnn on the scene of catastrophic flooding in the capita...

aged 20 , has claimed via a lawyer that —— nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place, and that the claims that first emerged in the sun newspaper are "rubbish", and an invasion of their privacy. the sun says it stands by its story. meanwhile, the metropolitan police say they are making further inquiries — but there is currently no investigation under way. the male presenter, who has been suspended, has not been named. heres our media editor katie razzall. for the first ti...

ping up goodbye to one area another one will ping up out of nowhere to move back across the uk. it is that repeating pattern we will see over the next few days and its exactly why the weather is this damage was all so preventable. this programme continues on bbc one. for sexually explicit pictures. tonight, lawyers for the individual say the claims in the newspaper are "rubbish". the bbc has been on the back foot for days, the sun is standing by its story, the high profile star remains...

earlier, he met prime minister rishi sunak at downing street, with the war in ukraine high on the agenda. during the meeting — the president described the us—uk relationship as �*rock solid — with rishi sunak adding that the two countries were the �*firmest allies�*. both leaders are travelling to that nato summit tomorrow. but that meeting with the king is still on going at windsor — and my colleague maryam moshiri is there now. yes, the helicopter on marine one left win...

lots to get into this evening including new information concerning the allegations that the bbc present presenter paid a teenager hundreds of thousands of pounds for inappropriate images. the victim claims nothing has taken place. we will get reaction to all that is evening. we will get reaction to all that. joe biden in the uk today en route to a nato summit in lithuania. the president says relations with the uk are rock solid but there are disagreements over ukraine. floods in north ...

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by 11 of the 31 members of the alliance. uk prime minister rishi sunak is expected to urge nato allies to learn the lessons from russias invasion of ukraine and invest more in defence. joining me now is hugo brennan, research director at the risk intelligence company verisk maplecroft. good morning to you, hugo. so, just talk us through the level of defence spending going on at the moment. because this has been a contentious issue for years within nato, hasnt it? it very much has been,...

rule it out in advance. certainly, within the transatlantic community, were divided on some issues. not concerning the strategy, but certainly the tactics. ok, im going to press you on this, because you say poland at least has a schedule for this? i would say it is better to think about the conditions that are to be met, rather than to set a concrete date. but you are pressing me now? i am pressing you, because i also want to say, if the conditions are to be met, does that mean a great...