Daily briefing Saturday 10th October

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1:22This is Times Radio's Daily Briefing on Saturday the 10th of October. President Zelensky says a deal to import Russian diesel into the United States is an investment in a war that must be ended and a gift to Vladimir Putin. It's after President Trump said Russia had agreed to the immediate release of 300 ,000 tons of diesel amid pressure on the Republicans to bring down fuel prices in the US ahead of next month's midterm elections. Sybil Browder is a billionaire financier turned activist, as well as a critic of President Putin. He says any such deal by Trump to import Russian diesel would have ugly implications on the war in Ukraine.

2:01As a result of this, President Trump will say to President Zelensky, you are now bombing oil refineries that are helping us, you're hurting American interests. And he will then have an argument to Zelensky to stop bombing Russian oil refineries. And that's been one of the huge bits of leverage that Ukraine has. The Prime Minister has rejected a request from the Health Secretary for more money to fund NHS pay rises. The Times has learned that Yvette Cooper wants hundreds of millions of pounds in extra funding for a nurse's pay deal and to free up resources for frontline care. Andy Burnham has, however, told her that any request will have to be funded from within the NHS's existing budget.

2:44The Times policy editor Oliver Wright says the health secretary is trapped in a bind created by her predecessor. West Streeting obviously did this deal to see off the junior doctors' stride. But if you look at how much junior doctors have got in comparison to the other staff in the NHS, then you see the problem because she has to find that money from somewhere. Hospitals don't have a huge amount of money. Waiting lists are going in the wrong direction. and, you know, frankly, there aren't really the resources available. The US Vice President J.D. Vance has cast doubt on plans to live-stream the execution of a former US Army major.

3:21And the United Nations says plans to broadcast the death by firing squad of Nidal Hassan at the Ford Hood military base in Texas could violate prohibitions against torture. Hassan killed 13 US personnel at the base in 2009. Lord Saul Leofreund is a Labour peer and the co-executive director of the Death Penalty Project. Speaking to Times Radio, he said the United States would be violating international law by staging a public execution. At the moment, it just seems like this is a brutal spectacle or even entertainment. We in the UK, we abolished a death penalty in 1965, but we abolished public executions as far away as 1868 for the same reason that it became a spectacle, it became entertainment for the general public and it became abhorrent.

4:11And the consumer watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority, is being asked to investigate drop-off fees at airports. A recent study found prices have increased by a third since last summer to an average of£7 for a short stay. There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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