Morning briefing Tuesday 12th August

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0:34This is your Times News Briefing for the morning of Tuesday, the 12th of August. President Trump says Ukraine must accept redrawn borders to achieve peace ahead of talks with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. He called for land swapping while criticizing President Zelensky for refusing to give up territory. Mr. Trump added that he would try to get back some of Ukraine's oceanfront property from Russia. Alessandro Minuto Ruzzo is a former deputy NATO Secretary-General. He told Times Radio that the talks will strengthen Russia's position. It looks like Mr. Putin is on the winning side because he is not giving away anything so far.

1:11And he got a meeting face-to-face with the President of the United States in a bilateral symbolic place, which is the United States, very close to Russia. Downing Street warned President Trump not to trust Vladimir Putin to stick to a Ukraine ceasefire deal. Number 10 says Putin cannot be trusted as far as he could throw him and is pushing for safeguards to stop Russia using any pause in fighting to regroup. European leaders have also urged President Trump to include Ukraine in Friday's peace summit talks. The UN's Human Rights Office has condemned an Israeli airstrike in Gaza that killed six journalists, calling it a grave breach of international law.

1:51Five of the dead worked for Al Jazeera, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who Israel accused of leading a Hamas sell, a claim he denied. Media groups in countries, including Qatar, have joined in condemning the attack. Sarah Baxter from the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting said Israel needed to let external journalists into Gaza. Any journalists who were reporting on food drops might have been allowed on planes to witness food drops, but were specifically forbidden from taking aerial photographs of Gaza that would show the extent of the devastation. So all we are hearing from is from reporters who are Gazans, who are actually funneling vital and urgent news from Gaza to the rest of the world.

2:35The US and China have extended their trade truce until 10th of November, hours before steep tariff hikes were due to take effect. Both sides will suspend planned increases with Washington delaying 145 % tariffs on Chinese goods and Beijing pausing 125 % duties on US imports. Talks last month were described as constructive by negotiators from both countries. President Trump said both nations were cooperating. We'll see what happens. China's been, we've been dealing very nicely with China, as you probably have heard. They have tremendous tariffs that they're paying to the United States of America.

3:12And we'll see what happens. They've been dealing quite nicely. The relationship is very good with president with president she and myself. One of the most detailed studies of vegetarian diets suggested people who avoid meat are less likely to develop a range of cancers. The research followed nearly 80 ,000 members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, many of whom followed plant-based diets for an average of almost eight years each. Overall, the results showed the vegetarians had a 12 % lower risk of developing cancer than meat eaters in the same community. Official figures are expected to confirm later today that more than 50 ,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats since Sikir Starmer took office.

3:53The most recent Home Office data showed that 49 ,797 people had arrived by small boats since Labour won the general election in July last year. That total is expected to rise after a further 430 migrants made the journey from France on Monday. And ministers are preparing to relax Britain's nuclear safety rules after a reports blamed gold plating and risk aversion for costly delays. The government says it will cut needless bureaucracy to speed up size we'll see and a new generation of small modular reactors. A task force for the Prime Minister found nuclear regulation had become overly complex, inconsistent and lacking proportionality.

4:29And that's your Times News Briefing.

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