Evening briefing Monday 12th October

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1:23This is the Times Radio evening briefing for Monday the 12th of October. I'm Will Hobbs. Andy Burnham's told MPs it would be a dereliction of duty to turn down a closer relationship with the EU. If we are serious about promoting growth, controlling immigration, upholding our values and security, it is a conversation we must have. sticking with the status quo is not good enough for Britain. Worse, it would be a major dereliction of duty to turn away. We need to take a calm, clear-eyed, rational look at the world as it is today to consider what is best for our country. He says Britain should set up a serious dialogue about the future of the EU relationship and at every stage the British public will be the boss.

2:15Here's Kemi Badenow. His exact words earlier this year were, the last thing we should do right now is rerun those arguments. And yet here he is, unpicking the deal this country signed with the EU a decade after the referendum. He is not going to get a better deal. The EU are tough negotiators. The UK-EU summit will take place on November 20. A series of deals are on the table, including on trade of food and drinks, linking energy systems and coordinating on immigration. Burnham says these agreements could add the equivalent of£10 billion per year to the economy by 2040. The UK's AI minister said it's inevitable that Britain will be hacked by an autonomous AI agent, Gon Roge.

3:00Kanishka and Orion said the UK was at a critical moment and that hacks by open AI agents like those on the Australian government should concern us. Meanwhile, the managing director of the IMF has described rollout of AI as a slow-moving tsunami. for the world economy and the global jobs market. President Zelensky said that Ukraine needs to feel the same unity from America as from its European allies. It follows President Trump's call for a new Ukrainian president yesterday and an announced plan to import Russian diesel into the US. Brigadier General Steven Anderson is the former chief logistician for coalition forces during the Iraq war.

3:38If you don't like his foreign policy, wait 10 minutes because it's probably going to change. But now he's making an effort to somehow fund Russia's war with Ukraine in hopes of lowering gas prices, diesel prices in the United States. It's not going to have an impact. It's not that much diesel to begin with. And now we're sending a message to the Russians that we want to support them in their fight against Ukraine. Russell Brands left court after jury selection began in his trial on rape and sexual assault charges. Times Radio's Olly Cole was at Southwark Crown Court. We ended up with 20 jurors.

4:16They'll all be back tomorrow when it'll be whittled down to a jury of 12. And it's those 12 people then who will hear all that evidence in the coming weeks and decide the fate of Russell Brand. Of course, he denies all the charges. You can hear more of these stories throughout the evening on Times Radio.