Morning briefing Monday 27th July

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0:34This is the Times morning briefing on Monday 27th July. The suspect in Saturday's mass stabbing and van attack at Berlin Pride has been killed. Police said that the 21-year-old German-born man, who's of Lebanese descent, was tracked to the northwest of the capital in what was likely to be an Islamist terror attack. Ben Miller is a writer and historian based in Berlin. Last year, when asked about it, the Chancellor, Fritjic Merz, when asked about flying the flag on Pride, said that Parliament is, and I quote, not a circus tent. And so it makes me pretty angry when these people are now suddenly pretending to be our best friends, when they can barely say who this attack targeted.

1:13They seem to me to be a little bit too excited about the ability to try to use this to create more division and so more hate. Germany's Chancellor has promised to defend freedom, openness and liberalism. The Ukrainian president will visit Downing Street later today as Andy Burnham's first official international visitor. The Prime Minister will host Volodymyr Zelensky exactly a week after taking office. Downing Street says he'll continue the UK's unwavering support for Ukraine both through the war with Russia and beyond. Cormac Smith is a former special advisor for Ukraine's foreign minister. When it comes to the league table of spending in NATO in terms of percentage of GDP, Britain is now in last place.

1:57The only country that's behind us is Iceland and they don't have an army. I am really hoping and expecting that Andy Burnham with his Chancellor John Healy are going to seriously address this. The two leaders will visit a naval base where hundreds of Ukrainian military personnel have spent weeks training. A huge wildfire is still moving towards the French city of Bordeaux but a decision on whether to fully evacuate the city hasn't been taken yet. An area four times the size of Paris is estimated to have burned in the region already. In central Spain, more than 75 ,000 people left their homes, while 30 ,000 people have been ordered to shelter where they are because of fires there.

2:40Jorge Manuel Gomez coordinates Virtual Operations Support Team for Wildfire Relief. We are now dealing with fires that go beyond the suppression capacity. And so what we have to do is that we have to identify immediately the villages that might be on its path, the vulnerable populations that might be on the path of that fire, and immediately start evacuating and immediately start protecting the villages. So that's why sometimes you see that the forest is burning and there are probably no firefighters there. A fourth heat wave is on the way for parts of the UK. Temperatures in the southeast of England are expected to reach 30 degrees Celsius this week.

3:20Forecasters say the hot weather will continue until Thursday And there's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio

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