{"id":249358,"date":"2025-06-03T00:04:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T23:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/has-the-threat-of-russia-and-china-convinced-the-uk-to-invest-billions-more-in-defence-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T00:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T23:04:59","slug":"has-the-threat-of-russia-and-china-convinced-the-uk-to-invest-billions-more-in-defence-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/has-the-threat-of-russia-and-china-convinced-the-uk-to-invest-billions-more-in-defence-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the threat of Russia and China convinced the UK to invest billions more in defence? | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/4t1GHNSBkqE\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Has the threat of Russia and China convinced the UK to invest billions more in defence? | BBC News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4t1GHNSBkqE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Today, the Prime Minister says the UK military is moving to \u201cwar-fighting readiness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The government is setting out the aims of its strategic defence review, or more simply how Britain should get ready for war. Starmer told the BBC that the world has changed and &quot;if you want to deter conflict, then the best way to do that is to prepare for conflict.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Adam speaks to Chris, and goes over the details of the plan with co-author Dr Fiona Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, James Waterhouse, the BBC\u2019s Ukraine correspondent, discusses a massive drone attack in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Prime Minister says the UK military is moving to \u201cwar-fighting readiness\u201d. The government is setting out the aims of its strategic defence review, or more simply how Britain should get ready for war. Starmer told the BBC that the world has changed and &quot;if you want to deter conflict, then the best way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":249359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128810],"tags":[129006,129005,129284],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-249358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbc-news","tag-minister","tag-prime","tag-today"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Has the threat of Russia and China convinced the UK to invest billions more in defence? | BBC News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Has the threat of Russia and China convinced the UK to invest billions more in defence? | BBC News for free, here on News ISC. 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