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Welcome to Navarra Live. I'm Michael Walker. And on this Wednesday evening, I'm joined by Helena, No Justice MTG. A pleasure to be joined by you on the show. Yeah, it's really good to be here. I have just landed in the UK as well. So I am quite jet-lanked, but it's always good to be with you on Navarra Live. And good to be back in Blighty, where it's actually warmer than it was in America. Well, what were you doing in America? I mean,

I was playing Magic at the Gathering. I mean, it is, I mean, I know it has MTV

in my name, but sometimes I do actually play Magic at the Gathering sometimes. You know,

it was pretty good weekend, so. Amazing. Oh, that sounds excellent. We've got a great show lined up. I'll be talking with

Helena about Ukraine signing a minerals deal, energy bills being hiked. Trump's bizarre AI video

about Gaza, which I imagine you will have seen, and Jeff Bezos dictating what can be written

in the opinion section of the paper he bought. Before that, though, I'm going to speak to

former government or former cabinet minister, Claire Short, about Kirstama's recent decisions.

Let's go straight into our first story. As you know, yesterday, Kirstama made the surprise decision to increase Britain's defense decisions. Let's go straight into our first story. As you know, yesterday, Kirstama made the surprise

decision to increase Britain's defence budget and slash its spending on aid. Now, the move is

widely seen as an attempt to get on Donald Trump's good side before a meeting with the president

tomorrow, but it goes against Labor's manifesto, which had pledged to restore the aid budget to the

target of 0.7% of GDP when fiscal conditions allowed. That's what the manifesto said. Instead,

they're slashing it from its current level of 0.5% to 0.3% of GDP. The move also goes against what cabinet ministers have been saying more recently

than in the manifesto. So earlier this month, the Foreign Secretary David Lamy said Donald Trump's

own cuts to foreign aid could be a big strategic mistake. But less than three weeks later,

the same David Lammmy was in The Guardian saying

the UK making cuts to aid was in fact necessary. There's a terrible idea when Trump did it.

Good idea when we're doing it only three weeks in between. As you will imagine, development NGOs

have reacted in horror to the move by Kirstama, as has former Secretary of State for International Development,

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