Evening briefing Monday 14th July

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0:45It follows a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter at the White House. Trump confirmed the United States will send Ukraine a significant number of offensive weapons, along with Patriot air defense missiles. So in a nutshell, we're going to make top-of-the-line weapons and they'll be sent to NATO. NATO may choose to have certain of them sent to other countries where we can get a little additional speed, where the country will release something and it will be mostly in the form of a replacement. The NATO chief Mark Rutte says President Trump has made a decision for Ukraine to be able to maintain its defences against Russia and he also confirmed that European nations will pay for the programme.

1:24This is again Europeans stepping up. So I've been in contact with many countries, I can tell you at this moment, Germany massively, but also Finland and Denmark and Sweden and Norway, the Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, they all want to be part of this. And this is only the first wave. There will be more. Trump also warned Russia that the United States will impose so-called secondary tariffs of 100 % in 50 days if no Ukraine peace deal is agreed in that time. The aristocrat Constance Martin and her partner Mark Gordon have been found guilty of killing their newborn baby Victoria. A jury at the Old Bailey found them guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence.

2:02The couple went missing in January of 2023 after their car caught fire on a motorway in Greater Manchester. Victoria's decomposed body was found in a shopping bag in an allotment near Brighton two months later. Times Radio's Deputy Head of News Alex Dibble has been following the case and can now disclose some of the details of Gordon's violent past. In Florida in 1989, Mark Gordon, who was 14 years old at the time, held a woman against her will for more than four hours and raped her. He was sentenced to 40 years in jail and served 22 years. After being released and moving back to the UK, he was then convicted of assaulting two female police officers at a maternity unit in Wales.

2:46This was where Constance Martin gave birth to their first child. The couple will be sentenced in September. Four people are known to have died after a medical transport plane crashed at London's Southend Airport on Sunday. The aircraft was being operated by a Dutch firm, Zoysch Aviation, and was scheduled to fly to Lellestad Airport in the Netherlands. Essex police say all four victims are believed to be foreign nationals. A report into the conduct of Greg Wallace says the Masterchef presenter's return to the BBC is untenable. A seven-month inquiry conducted by a law firm on behalf of the programme's production company spoke to 78 witnesses in its examination of 83 complaints.

3:2745 were upheld. The Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has welcomed the BBC's acknowledgement of its failures. And England have won the third test against India at Lourdes by 22 runs. England now lead the five-match series 2-1. You can follow the Times News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online.

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