and a swathe of other countries remember nato and gavin williamson's point is that france and germany should be aiming to meet their two percent g.d.p. target of defense spending on nato before they start thinking about forming any alternative armies now france at the moment spends about one point eight percent g.d.p. on defense and germany spends about one point two and the e.u. is very much part of nato in fact just today the top diplomat for. she met with the secretary general of nato in brussels and reaffirmed how important the military alliances take a listen population with nato that is strengthening i would be pleased to welcome or to go to general stoltenberg again this morning with us and our cooperation with nato is the strongest ever so disagreement over an e.u. army maybe but there is one thing that all these countries agree on the u.s. the e.u. the u.k. is part of it still all agree on the need to defend themselves against russia said it when making this e.u. army proposal and nato officials repeat it like a mantra that there is growing russian military activity and they

and a swathe of other countries remember nato and gavin williamson's point is that france and germany should be aiming to meet their two percent g.d.p. target of defense spending on nato before they start thinking about forming any alternative armies now france at the moment spends about one point eight percent g.d.p. on defense and germany spends about one point two and the e.u. is very much part of nato in fact just today the e.u.'s top diplomat. she met with the secretary general of nato in brussels and reaffirmed how. the military alliances take a listen corp with nato that is strengthening i would be pleased to welcome to the regional stoltenberg again this morning with us and our cooperation with nato is the strongest ever so disagreement over and e.u. army maybe but there is one thing that all of these countries agree on the u.s. the e.u. the u.k. is part of it still all agree on the need to defend themselves against russia said it when making this e.u. army proposal and nato officials repeat it like a mantra that there is growing russian military activity and they need to be a

and a swathe of other countries remember nato and gavin williamson's point is that france and germany should be aiming to meet their two percent g.d.p. target of defense spending on nato before they start thinking about forming any alternative armies now france at the moment spends about one point eight percent g.d.p. on defense and germany spends about one point two and the e.u. is very much part of nato in fact just today the e.u.'s top diplomat. she met with the secretary general of nato in brussels and reaffirmed how important the military alliances take a listen corp with nato that is strengthening i would be pleased to welcome to get the general stoltenberg again this morning with us in our cooperation with nato and strongest ever so disagreement over an e.u. army maybe but there is one thing that all these countries agree on the u.s. the e.u. the u.k. is part of it still all agree on the need to defend themselves against russia said it when making this e.u. army proposal and nato officials repeat it like a mantra that there is growing russian military activity and they need to

and a swathe of other countries remember nato and gavin williamson's point is that france and germany should be aiming to meet their two percent g.d.p. target of defense spending on nato before they start thinking about forming any alternative armies now france at the moment spends about one point eight percent g.d.p. on defense and germany spends about one point two and the e.u. is very much part of nato in fact just today the e.u.'s top diplomat. she met with the secretary general of nato in brussels and reaffirmed how important the military alliances take a listen cooperation with nato that is strengthening i would be pleased to welcome or to go to the general stoltenberg again this morning with us and our cooperation with nato and strongest ever so disagreement over an e.u. army maybe but there is one thing that all these countries agree on the u.s. the e.u. the u.k. is part of it still all agree on the need to defend themselves against russia said it when making this e.u. army proposal and nato officials repeated like a mantra that there is growing russian military activity and t

and a swathe of other countries remember nato and gavin williamson's point is that france and germany should be aiming to meet their two percent g.d.p. target of defense spending on nato before they start thinking about forming any alternative armies now france at the moment spends about one point eight percent g.d.p. on defense and germany spends about one point two and the e.u. is very much part of nato in fact just today the e.u.'s top. she met with the secretary general of nato in brussels and reaffirmed how important the military alliances take a listen cooperation with nato that is strengthening i would be pleased to welcome to go to general stoltenberg again this morning with us and our cooperation with nato and as strong as ever so disagreement over an e.u. army maybe but there is one thing that all of these countries agree on the u.s. the e.u. the u.k. is part of it still all agree on the need to defend themselves against russia said it when making this e.u. army proposal and nato officials repeated like a mantra that there is growing russian military activity and they need t

and a swathe of other countries remember nato and gavin williamson's point is that france and germany should be aiming to meet their two percent g.d.p. target of defense spending on nato before they start thinking about forming any alternative armies now france at the moment spends about one point eight percent g.d.p. on defense and germany spends about one point two and the e.u. is very much part of nato in fact just today the e.u.'s top diplomat for. she met with the secretary general of nato in brussels and reaffirmed how important the military alliances take a listen corp with nato that is strengthening i would be pleased to welcome to the journal stoltenberg again this morning with us and our cooperation with nato and strongest ever so disagreement over an e.u. army maybe but there is one thing that all these countries agree on the u.s. the e.u. the u.k. is part of it still all agree on the need to defend themselves against russia said it when making this e.u. army proposal and nato officials repeat it like a mantra that there is growing russian military activity and they need to

either gavin williamson similarly forceful in his words saying he said he's told a u.k. newspaper that an army certainly won't be happening on his watch take a listen it is an absolutely crazy idea nato has delivered european security for the last seventy years and we should feel very proud of it should we undermine not by forming a separate military force absolutely not you can absolutely rest assured that britain will never become part of the european army on my watch while some might question gavin williamson having an opinion or troll on any. endeavors given that the u.k. isn't planning to be part of them they are leaving the european union nevertheless the idea for an army has been floated in the past by several leaders but it's always kind of been a taboo subject but all that changed last week when angela merkel and emmanuel microland both expressed their support for the idea as part of the world war one centenary commemorations take a listen to what each of the leaders had to say that. we need to show that europe is moving forward on social economic issues reinfor

either gavin williamson similarly forceful in his words saying he said he told the u.k. newspaper that an army certainly won't be happening on his watch take a listen it is an absolutely crazy idea nato has delivered european security for the last seventy years and we should feel very proud of it should we undermine not by forming a separate military force absolutely not you can absolutely rest assured that britain will never become part of the european army on my watch while some might question gavin williamson having an opinion at all and any few e.u. endeavors given that the u.k. isn't planning to be part of them they are leaving the european union nevertheless the idea for an army has been floated in the past by several leaders but it's always kind of been a taboo subject but all that changed last week when angela merkel and emmanuel microland both expressed their support for the idea as part of the world war one centenary commemorations take a listen to what each of the leaders had to say that. we need to show that europe is moving forward on social economic issues

and a swathe of other countries remember nato and gavin williamson's point is that france and germany should be aiming to meet their two percent g.d.p. target of defense spending on nato before they start thinking about forming any alternative armies now france at the moment spends about one point eight percent g.d.p. on defense and germany spends about one point two and the e.u. is very much part of nato in fact just today the e.u.'s top diplomat. she met with the secretary general of nato in brussels and reaffirmed how important the military alliances take a listen cooperation with nato that is strengthening i would be pleased to welcome to go to general stoltenberg again this morning with us and our cooperation with nato and strongest ever so disagreement over an e.u. army maybe but there is one thing that all these countries agree on the u.s. the e.u. the u.k. is part of it still all agree on the need to defend themselves against russia said it when making this e.u. army proposal and nato officials repeat it like a mantra that there is growing russian military activity and they ne

s ability to retaliate the idea has already been supported by defense secretary gavin williamson journalist john white thinks the government is doing all it can to divert attention from drugs. this is redolent of up there to political establishment that is in deep and unremitting crisis over the keogh said has wrought but it's mishandling of rex it. but more importantly all the social pressures that harvard law where it's implementation over said it to you over the last three years it's the not the andrew test waste of british taxpayers' money at a time as i say when so many people at the fest of the entire fallacious or suffer the good info verty and their own up to christmas this is a ruling class that says holding on to the past like a journeyman onto a way for us because that is only have in order to sustain their position there are always enemies to be vanquished and countries too recently in russia is a traditional enemy of the british ruling class that it is by no means the traditional enemy of the british people did it to be at the very people who are telling them that russia should

she is next to gavin williamson who is still taking defence questions. we will be back there are just defence questions. we will be back there arejust a defence questions. we will be back there are just a moment. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. many others have had a dry day today but across eastern coasts of england and scotland we have seen showers. they are not moving far inland because there is no wind to push the men. through the evening and overnight showers can get heavy. some snow on the hills, things could get slippery front line. and a chilly night, temperatures down into low single figures widely. a band of rain approaching south—west towards the end of the night. the wet weather will make its presence felt through the day on tuesday. i have the weather front, still cool air. but turning much milder in the south—west through the day. this is the scene in the house of commons. the atmosphere building, because very shortly the prime minister will address mps as she begins a long week trying to persuade people of

her husband behind her there and with heather secretary of state for defence, gavin williamson. the durham light infantry. we are now made into that part of that is made up of the battalions. the rifles regiment association. many of them now amalgamated as a we leave for a moment let's just cast up on the latest weather forecast. hello, sunday's weather continues where saturday left off. another day of sunshine and heavy, thundery showers. some heavy rain around the london area. this cloud was spotted in twickenham. it wasn'tjust london that saw heavy rain, the strap of cloud just passing across the twickenham area and into northern ireland. some heavy rain this morning. it's kind of split into two pieces, one across wales and england, and another across east anglia and lincolnshire. that's going to continue to push its way northwards. it will be quite wet for a time. the sunshine follows brit then we see further showers. particularly in the south east. the show was would be most frequent there today. it could be quite u nsettled. there today. it could be quite unsettled. the ra