Newscast6 Mar 2025

Summit To Talk About

Today, we discuss the emergency EU summit taking place in Brussels.

Adam catches up with Europe editor Katya Adler about the discussions taking place about how the EU can bolster their defence spending, as well as supporting Ukraine in the face of uncertainty with the US. And Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse dials in to discuss how Zelensky is approaching the summit, and how Ukrainians are feeling a week on from the heated exchange in the Oval Office.

And Chris Mason drops in to discuss the Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood taking on the independent Sentencing Council over new guidance which would make the ethnicity or faith of an offender a bigger factor when deciding whether to jail them.

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