Morning briefing Tuesday 22nd September

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0:35This is Times Radio's morning briefing on Tuesday, the 22nd of September. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has agreed to deploy RAF support to Saudi Arabia following Houthi drone attacks on its major oil pipelines. Speaking ahead of his meeting with President Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly, Mr Burnham confirmed RAF Voyager aircraft will offer defensive refueling for Saudi strikes. He defended the time-limited intervention as necessary to protect global shipping corridors and shield British households from rising fuel and energy costs. Former NATO official Nicholas Williams told Times Radio that Burnham's announcement will strengthen transatlantic ties ahead of his meeting with President Trump.

1:18It is a card that Burnham can play that, yes, we are helping the great allies of the United States in the form of Saudi Arabia. So it's a means of deflecting Trump's anger towards the UK in terms of not helping him out, as he thinks, in the initial stages of the Iran conflict. The two leaders are expected to have a 30-minute sit-down at the UN in New York. Major news organisations in the US are refusing to broadcast coverage of the president's events. This comes as Donald Trump banned three news outlets from the White House after he accused him of reporting fake news. Sarah Baxter is the director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting and told us that the boycott is taking effect.

2:06At the White House earlier today, Donald Trump was cutting the ribbon at a new helipad on the White House lawn and there was no sound there to relay his words and you could see pictures of the president at a distance We couldn't hear what he was saying because all of the pool have joined in a boycott in solidarity with CNN, MS Now and Politico. And that includes Fox News, NBC and ABC, which are the TV pool cameras. The Times is reporting that most prisoners freed under the government's expanded early release scheme next month will not be fitted with electronic tags before leaving jail. Ministers admitted capacity shortages mean many offenders will only be tagged once back in the community.

2:53Richard Garside is the director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and told us that the vast majority of prisoners are not tagged immediately upon release anyway. The question is are they going to be tagged in the community and at the moment about two-thirds of those who should be tagged in the community are being tagged by the second visit of the tagging company. I just wonder whether what we're seeing here is that there's going to be a bit of a pressure on the system for sure. I suspect that a lot of these prisoners, even if they're not actually tagged on release, as it were, will be tagged once they're released.

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