Morning Briefing Tuesday 17th June

0:00Ever wondered if you have what it takes to be a Formula One driver? I'm Andy Jay and in our final episode of The Business of F1, 2009 world champion Jenson Button shares his insights from the cockpit. How is trust built within a team? How do you cultivate the resilience required to make race winning decisions at speed? Find out what business can learn from the high pressure of the track by listening to The Business of Formula One, brought to you by PwC.

0:28Good morning. Donald Trump has cut short his G7 visit over the Middle East crisis. Earlier on social media, he told everyone to evacuate Tehran. Soon after, Iranian state media reported explosions and heavy air defense fire in Tehran. Meanwhile, Iran's Revolutionary Guard unloaded a fresh wave of strikes against Israel overnight. Donald Trump claims Iran would be foolish not to sign a deal with the US. But Jasmine El-Gamal, a former Middle East advisor to the Pentagon, told Times Radio there's a problem around trust. If you put yourselves in the Iranians' shoes, they're going to say, we already were in these discussions, we got bombed.

1:09The Israelis over the last year and a half haven't shown that they enter into negotiations and abide by them in, or sorry, agreements in good faith. Look at Lebanon and the violations of the ceasefire agreement there and the violations of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas. So the Iranians don't see at the moment any reason to trust the Americans and that trust deficit is what really is the problem. Donald Trump says a trade deal between the UK and the US is signed and done. It was agreed last month but wasn't implemented as the White House pressed ahead with its sweeping global tariffs. Sir Keir Starmer says the agreement to cut import taxes on cars and aerospace at the American border is really important.

1:51Global News Ottawa Bureau Chief Mercedes Stevenson told Times Radio it may not be a deal set in stone. President Trump will do what he thinks will get the best deal in the best moment, that he is not afraid to go back on things he said and change his mind two or three times. That obviously makes for a more difficult trading environment because trade and businesses are so reliant on being able to plan things. So we'll see if this signature with Sir Keir Starmer and President Donald Trump leads to something more secure. I would say that the Canadian warning is we had a full-blown trade agreement that got blown up that was negotiated by this administration.

2:27Ethnicity was brushed aside in the grooming gang inquiries. Baroness Case's landmark report has revealed a disproportionate number of Asian men were responsible for child sex grooming gangs, but successive governments and authorities failed to address their crimes for fear of being branded racist or raising tensions. Sammy Woodhouse was abused as a child in Rotherham and is now a campaigner on behalf of other victims of exploitation. She told Times Radio victims are often forced to participate in criminal activity. For my 15th birthday, I took my first armed robbery. Now that never made its way onto my criminal record because I didn't get done for that But what did was an ABH charge.

3:10And I was also found half naked in bed with my rapist. And I had a police function in my bag. So they arrested me, but not him. Splits have opened up in the G7 approach to Russia after Donald Trump signalled his reluctance to impose more US sanctions on Moscow, despite a European push to heap further pressure on Vladimir Putin. The U.S. president said he wanted to see whether or not a deal is done over the Ukraine war before targeting the Kremlin with further measures. You know, sanctions cost us a lot of money. When I sanction a country, that costs the U.S. a lot of money, a tremendous amount of money.

3:50It's not just, let's sign a document. You're talking about billions and billions of dollars. Sanctions are not that easy. It's not just a one-way street. Pro-choice campaigners are urging MPs to vote to decriminalise abortion in a debate in Parliament today. It's part of amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill. Those against a change in the law have warned unborn babies will have any remaining protection stripped away. And a doctor accused of supplying ketamine to Matthew Perry before the actor's death from an overdose has agreed to plead guilty, according to the court filings. feelings. Salvador Plasencia was one of five people charged in relation to the Friendstar's death in 2023.

4:32He faces up to 40 years behind bars. Don't forget you can set the Times News briefing as your flash briefing on Alexa.

4:55insights from the cockpit. How is trust built within a team? How do you cultivate the resilience required to make race-winning decisions at speed? Find out what business can learn from the high pressure of the track by listening to The Business of Formula One, brought to you by PwC.