Daily briefing Saturday 17th October

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1:21This is Times Radio's Daily Briefing on Saturday the 17th of October. President Trump has blocked numerous sanctions on Russia that were passed by the US Congress only last month. The legislation was scheduled to come into effect on Sunday, but after signing an executive order, Trump said he had acted in the national interests. It comes days after Trump said the United States would import Russian diesel in an attempt to reduce domestic energy prices. Hundreds of British military personnel will be deployed to Poland next month to rehearse a post-war peacekeeping mission in Ukraine. They will team up with troops from France and Germany in a so-called war game drill, which is aimed at ensuring NATO forces are ready to provide Ukraine with security guarantees once the war is over.

2:06The Times defence editor Larissa Brown says the exercise will also serve as a direct warning to Moscow. The message I think they want to send is that if there is a peace deal, which obviously they hope there will be, that they are ready to protect, to defend Ukraine in the long run. They're not going to abandon Ukraine after a peace deal. They're going to make sure that Russia doesn't come back for more. And I think that's the huge concern. The wife of the National Security Advisor has been criticised for a statement in which she appeared to express support for a prescribed terrorist organisation.

2:40Sarah Helm, an author and journalist who is married to Jonathan Powell, suggested in a social media post that she backed Palestine action. Widespread protests will take place in France this weekend with demonstrators targeting the rising cost of living, low wages and farming conditions. An estimated 140 ,000 are expected in Paris where they will join high school and university students who've already been leading large-scale demonstrations over the French education system. Adam Sage is the Times Paris correspondent. He says the authorities are anticipating large-scale disorder amid a collective anger at President Macron and the government.

3:17There is this idea in France of what they call the convergence des luttes, so the convergence of struggles is that all these separate protests and separate sources of anger will come together into a great river that will sweep the capitalist society away and bring in a revolution back to 1789. I don't think that will happen today, but there's certainly a lot of anger around. A man convicted of arson attacks targeting Sir Keir Starmer has been deported. Stanislav Karpiuk, who's from Romania, had already been sentenced to two years in prison after properties and a car connected to the former prime minister were set alight last year.

3:55He was acting on the orders of a Russian-speaking telegram handler known as El Money, a second man who's from Ukraine was jailed for seven years. And sales director of rugby Alex Sanderson says everybody at the club is devastated by the sudden death of their former player, Hyron Andrews. The 31-year-old who was playing for Johannesburg Lions died after a fall at the team's hotel before their Champions Cup match at La Rochelle. There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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