Evening briefing Thursday 26th June

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1:20Welcome to the Times evening briefing on Thursday the 26th of June. The Prime Minister has indicated he may be prepared to compromise on proposed changes to disability benefits. Concerns about making it harder to claim personal independence payments have led to a potential revolt for more than 120 Labour MPs. The Prime Minister has told them the benefits system is broken. I know colleagues across the House are eager to start fixing that. and so am I, and that all colleagues want to get this right, and so do I. We want to see reform implemented with Labour values of fairness. That conversation will continue in the coming days so we can begin making change together on Tuesday.

2:06A vote is due to be held indeed on Tuesday. The Conservative leader, Kelly Badenock, says the PM needs to think about the national finances. With 126 of his own MPs all openly undermining his authority, his government is incapable of making even the smallest changes to bring down the cost of our ever-expanding welfare bill. There is no way they're going to be able to pay for our defence. This is a government that is paralysed by its own legal advice, paralysed by its rebellious backbenchers, and paralysed by the fear of being found out for having no real vision for this country. Iran's supreme leader says his country has slapped America in the face.

2:44In a video address, Ayatollah Hamini said Donald Trump has exaggerated what happened at the weekend and the US couldn't achieve much when it struck Iran's nuclear site. The Ayatollah also said the attacks on three facilities could be subject to a criminal prosecution in international courts. And he says the Islamic Republic won. Times correspondent Richard Spencer says his words cannot be completely dismissed. The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said this morning that Iran can start to rebuild its nuclear program if it chooses to do so. In that sense, if you look at it in the context of Americans talking about regime change, Israeli ministers talking about regime change, saying that the Ayatollah was going to be killed, there is a sense in which he hasn't come out too badly.

3:32Iran has approved plans to shut out the UN's nuclear watchdog. And James Bond movies are getting a new director. Denis Villeneuve is a French-Canadian best known for sci-fi films, including Blade Runner 2049, Arrival and Dune. His episode of 007 will be the first since Amazon took over the franchise. Charlie Higson, who wrote the Young Bond series of novels, has told Times Radio it suggests a new creative direction. One of the reasons he would have taken this on is because he is now in a position to help shape what the new James Bond is. and perhaps that can only be done this way without the old guard who'd been making it for so long and Amazon and Villeneuve between them will be forging a new James Bond.

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