NATO summit tensions and ITV business deal

This episode of the Times Radio News briefing is sponsored by PWC. Staying competitive means getting ahead, not just keeping up So how do business leaders cut through the noise and focus on what really matters? PWC takes you further with tech, fromom optimizing the systems that put your data to work, to scaling AI from proof of concept to competitive edge. PWC helps you meet tomorrow's tech demands so you can compete at a speed that rewrites the rules. Discover more at pwc. com d C. Uk Welcome to the Times Radio afternoon briefing on Monday, the sixth of July England are into the World Cup quarter fininals after beating Mexico three to seven thousand feet above sea level In comes the corners and in swing of pigford Rey blow you whistol Judes Bellingham scored two goals in less than two minutes in the first half before Mexico pulled one back a few minutes later. England were then down to ten men for the majority of the second half after Gerald Qanza was sent off for a rash challenge Harry Kane scored both a penalty and conceded one in the second half But England's held on for the win Captain Canaine was a little hose at the end. Yeah, it was a crazy game had We had to f it We had to find something. Yeah, I've just been sitting there, I can't really talk the occasion, the team, everything against us We found a way. They next face Norway on Saturday. The royal family is denying reports that Prince Harry will be staying at Buckingham Palace during his visit to Britain this week. The Palar says he's missed a deadline to accept the king's invitation. Times Radio' Ollie Cole has the background on this. Just twenty four hours before Prince Harry's trip gets underway, there seems to have been a breakdown in communication between him and the king. It's understood that Charles offered accommodation to Harry at the palace, but the response was that this was not suitable. Harry's previously turned down and offered to stay there on the grounds that it wasn't secure enough A request was received later that day to accept the offer, but the hospitality and staffing provision was no longer available. The palace says Harry's missed the deadline to accept the king's invitation Sakkist Am is preparing to face down a possible rebuke from Donald Trump on defense spending at the NATO summit beginning tomorrow The U.S. Ambassador to NATO says the President expects Allies to step up immediately on defense funding Seating is alphabetical, so Starmer will be next to Trump Pic Times is Mark Urban says the UK has been plummeting down the defence spending league table. To go back to the twenty fourteen NATO summit, which was held in Wales, in fact, I went along to that And that was a moment where David Cameron, because of what was going on in Crimea and Ukraine, was trying to get the Allies to go up to two percent of their economic output. Now at that stage, I think Britain was number three. There were only four countries in all of NATO that spent that sort of money on defence Well now Britain is number twelve And Sky is buying ITV's terrestrial TV channels and its streaming platform in a deal worth up to one point six billion pounds