Daily briefing Saturday 19th September

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0:41Donald Trump says the agreement will give the US permanent control over security there. The Prime Minister of Denmark says the deal strengthens security in the Arctic and the North Atlantic area, but didn't give specifics of the deal. Former US Colonel Cedric Leighton, who's also a member of the Joint Staff for the Pentagon and military analyst for CNN, told Times Radio what he finds interesting. The U.S. had actually withdrawn much of its true presence from Greenland in the decades prior to this. So now that the Arctic has become more interesting because of climate change in part and because of strategic interests from, let's say, China and Russia, that is something that has, I think, actually affected the way the U.S.

1:25is looking at it, at least the way Donald Trump is looking at it. Meanwhile, Donald Trump says he's banning three major news outlets from the White House for reporting fake news. He posted on his platform Truth Social that CNN, MSNOW and Politico will no longer be welcome and hinted that other organisations could join them. Labour's looking at dropping the threshold for paying mansion tax to£1.5 million. The move would target 300 ,000 homes across the UK and help Chancellor John Healey raise£800 million in the budget. However, critics are warning that middle-class families will be hit. Our political reporter Alaraz Manji has been following this.

2:03At 149 ,000 of those homes would come from London, 62 ,000 would come from the southeast, and only 19 ,000 of those homes would come from other parts of the country. So this is a deliberate tax targeting London homeowners. And you've got to understand the politics behind this is quite dangerous because you'd assume that people in London particularly are the Labour voters. This has got to backtrack which is going to hurt them electorally if it goes through because these are people that potentially are voting Labour anyway. The fallout's continuing from claims made by the brother of Princess Diana in his new book.

2:34Earl Spencer insists he's telling the truth that the king, who was then Prince Charles, was elated after his sister's death. Critics say he's only trying to create headlines to sell copies of his book. Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams thinks it's been done in poor taste. What he should be wanting to do is to keep his sister's memory alive to those who do remember what a remarkable person she was. But Spencer is giving a view. That view is so obviously biased and it is so obviously nasty. And it appears that very possible that he's after sensation. But this is a cruel and destructive way of doing it.

3:14Billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who co-owns Manchester United, is urging Andy Burnham to take on popular decisions like he did with the football club and cut costs to improve Britain. Referencing the welfare budget and immigration issues, the 73-year-old says the UK is on a slippery slope. For more stories like these, listen to Times Radio throughout the day.

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