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This will definitely end with our victory. It will be on our terms. That is certainly what the Kremlin wants. Steve Rosenberg there's been no let up by the US President on criticizing Europe and its leaders. Last week he unveiled a new national security strategy document which suggested Europe was facing a civilization erasure and blamed the EU for blocking US Efforts to end the conflict in Ukraine. Now, speaking to Politico, he's doubled down. Most European nations, they're, they're decaying. They're decaying. You can imagine some leaders in Europe are a little freaked out by what your posture is and your they should be freaked out by what they're doing to their countries. They're destroying their country. He also said Europe couldn't control immigration. There are people I like. I get along with them, you know that. But they can't let this happen. And it gets to a point where you can't really correct it. It will mean that they're no longer going to be strong nations. Does that mean they won't be allies or they'll be? Well, it depends. You know, it depends. They'll change their ideology, obviously, because the people coming in have a totally different ideology, but it's going to make them much weaker. European leaders, understandably, are not very happy. Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany particularly criticized the national security strateg and its suggestion the US Would help save European democracy. Michael Galler echoed that view. He's a member of the European Parliament and on the Foreign Affairs Committee. We do not need any lecturing from the US as far as the state of our democracy is concerned. We are, as a European Union, a democratic union. We are democratically elected. We are legitimate. We should not try to keep an erratic president happy only to find out in the next moment that he is much closer to Putin than, for instance, to us or for Ukraine. So what is Donald Trump's game plan? Our North America correspondent is David Willis. It's classic Donald Trump, I think, Charlotte, isn't it? We previously heard similar criticism from the US Vice President J.D. vance. Donald Trump is particularly unimpressed by Europe's immigration policies. He's making no secret of that. And he's taken a tough line on the issue here, of course, because he believes that European governments are weak in the way that they have dealt with that issue, and as a result, they have seen their cities disfigured by the influx of migrants. He described cities such as London and Paris as creaking under the burden of migration from the Middle east and Africa, and added that without a change in border policy, some European states will not be viable countries any longer. And he singled out Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim to become of London, as a disaster, directly linking his election, that's the election of Mr. Khan, to the influx of migrants from other countries. It is, of course, a controversial view and widely at odds with those in Europe. I mean, has there been any pushback at all? I mean, imagine a lot of Democrats aren't happy with what he said about these traditional allies. But are people within his own party unhappy about this? Little so far, I have to say, and I think we are seeing muted pushback from European leaders as well. Britain's Prime Minister, Sakir Starmer, rejected the suggestion that Europe talked about Ukraine, for example, but didn't produce anything, while the German Chancellor, Frederick Mertz, who said he saw no need for the Americans to want to save democracy in Europe. We can manage that on our own, said Mr. Mertz. But like Republicans in Congress, Charlotte, European leaders have to tread a careful line between responding to this harsh language on the part of the American president whilst avoiding alienating their strongest ally. Friedrich Mertz summed it up, saying, the question of what this means for our security cooperation is obviously the most important question. It confirms my assessment, said Mr. Mertz, that we in Europe, Europe must become much more independent from the US in terms of security policy going forward. That was David Willis. Every five years or so, the UN works with hundreds of scientists to publish a report analyzing major threats to the environment. This year warns of a dire future unless there's a rapid move away from coal, oil and gas and fossil fuel subsidies. But it's the first time the report has been published without a politically negotiated summary. After some government representatives refused to accept its conclusions, a senior UN official told the BBC the report had been hijacked by the US and other rich countries. Our environment correspondent, Matt McGrath, has been reading the report. It's a weighty tome stretching to 1100 pages, and it says that the world is suffering from these severe and interlinked environmental crisis, climate change, land degradation, pollution and so on. And it says they've become more than just environmental crisis. There are now security concerns, they're now economic crises. There are human health issues as well. And tackling them will require really big political courage and big resources. The key thing, you know, in these reports, these UN reports, these big weighty things, is this summary because it signifies that governments are rowing in behind the science, they're accepting the recommendations and they will put into practice what the report says. That hasn't happened with this report because the United States and Saudi Arabia, Russia and other countries objected to the issue of fossil fuels being phased out or phased down. As has been said in many other negotiation forums, the end of plastics and this major economic transformation and this idea of transformation moving economies away from this kind of, you know, GDP and the, the way economies work to a kind of a type of economy that doesn't necessarily measure things in that way or doesn't use fossil fuels in the same way and reduces fossil fuel subsidies was a major point for these countries and they objected to going along with it. And as a result, there was no summary for policymakers and the report is somewhat weakened as a result. Matt McGrath Four Afghan men have been arrested for posting videos wearing outfits inspired by the BBC TV series Peaky Blinders, which is set in England after the First World War. The Taliban said the men were spread foreign culture. Azadeh Mushiri has the details in videos on social media. The four men are dressed in flat caps and three piece suits adorned with golden chains like those attached to pocket watches. They're posing and some of them are dangling cigars. The Taliban government told the BBC their clothing was in conflict with Afghan and Islamic values. A spokesman said even jeans would have been acceptable, but argued the values in Peaky Blinders were against Afghan culture. After they were called into the ministry, local media aired an interview in which the men thanked officials for their advice. The BBC could not verify under what circumstances this interview was recorded. Since the Taliban seized power more than four years ago, they've imposed a number of restrictions on daily life, including on social media content. Azadeh Mashiri.
