Afternoon briefing Tuesday 17th June

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0:36Welcome to the Times Afternoon Briefing on Tuesday the 17th of June. Donald Trump says he wants a real end to the problem posed by Iran's nuclear program. Speaking to reporters as he returned to Washington from the G7 meeting in Canada, he said he wants Tehran to give up entirely on nuclear weapons. The Israeli military says it's killed the head of Iran's armed forces, Ali Shudmani. Israel's concerned about the possibility of Iran developing a nuclear weapon. But IDF spokesperson Captain Masha Mickelson has told Times Radio it's more than that. It's not just the nuclear program. Even without the nuclear warheads, Iran's ballistic missile arsenal is an existential threat to Israel in and of itself.

1:15We are seeing, unfortunately, nightly hits to civilian population centers in Israel. And that's just ballistic missiles. If any of those missiles had a nuclear warhead, the damage would be unimaginable. There have been more explosions in Israel and Iran. Asylum seekers and foreign nationals are involved in a significant proportion of live police investigations into child sex grooming gangs. That's according to the official report by Baroness Casey. Conservative MP Katie Lamb says anyone who turned a blind eye to the rape gangs must be investigated by the National Crime Agency. There has to be a unit in the NCA that is tasked specifically with investigating officials, both elected and civil service officials, police officers, social workers, everybody who was involved in covering this up, everybody who knew and did nothing to protect these children.

2:07MPs will debate and vote on decriminalising abortion later. Pro-choice campaigners argue the legislation will remove the threat of investigation, arrest and imprisonment. But opponents say unborn babies will have their remaining protections stripped away. Conservative MP Rebecca Paul has told Times Radio that more time is needed. This should be properly debated. There should be consultations. We should be doing this off the back of evidence and facts. Instead, we are all scrambling to understand the ramifications of this. And all of a sudden, there could potentially be a vote on this today. And the impact is so massive, it really will set us backwards.

2:48Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer have completed a UK-US trade deal at the G7 summit in Canada. America has removed 10 % tariffs on aerospace items. Times Radio's business correspondent Dominic O 'Connell says UK motor manufacturers have got a useful deal. Tariffs will go from 27.5 % on UK exports to 10 % just for the first 100 ,000 cars, but that's roughly the level of exports now, so that's good. It gives UK car makers quite a big cost advantage really over German and Italian-made rivals, and for Jaguar Land Rover, that's the ones I'm worried about. There's been no final agreement on steel tariffs, which remain at 25%.

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