Keir Starmer to meet Joe Biden and 'quad' leaders for Ukraine and Gaza talks

The situation successful the Middle East and the warfare successful Ukraine are expected to beryllium apical of the docket successful Berlin today, wherever Keir Starmer volition conscionable US, German and French leaders

Keir Starmer volition conscionable with the leaders of the US, Germany, and France successful Berlin connected Friday.

The situation successful the Middle East and the warfare successful Ukraine are expected to beryllium apical of the docket astatine the gathering of the "Quad" radical of nations.

US President Joe Biden was forced to postpone the gathering with the Prime Minister, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, past week arsenic the White House monitored the interaction of Hurricane Milton connected Florida.

Mr Starmer volition property for an contiguous ceasefire and the merchandise of each hostages, arsenic good arsenic urgent enactment to extremity the humanitarian situation successful Gaza, No10 said. The PM volition telephone connected each sides to measurement backmost from the brink and travel to the array to find a diplomatic solution to the devastating conflict.

The UK continues to enactment Israel's close to aforesaid defence but it indispensable comply with planetary humanitarian law, including allowing the travel of assistance into Gaza, Downing Street said.

The leaders volition besides clasp talks connected the warfare successful Ukraine, including President Volodymyr Zelensky's triumph program which includes calls for Kyiv to beryllium permitted to occurrence long-range missiles into Russia.

The UK has truthful acold refused to hold to allowing Ukraine to usage Storm Shadow missiles and different Western-supplied weapons into Russian territory.

It comes arsenic the UK announced a caller circular of sanctions against Russian lipid tankers and liquified state tankers.

The Foreign Office said connected Thursday greeting that it had sanctioned 18 lipid tankers, 4 liquified state tankers, and the Russian state institution Rusgazdobycha JSC. It brings the full fig of lipid tankers sanctioned to 43.

Foreign Secretary, David Lammy said: "We indispensable combat malign Russian enactment astatine each turn, whether illicit tactics to bolster Putin's warfare chest, their usage of cyber attacks oregon barbarism connected the beforehand enactment successful Ukraine.

"The UK is starring the complaint against Putin's hopeless and unsafe attempts to cling connected to his vigor revenues, with his shadiness fleet placing coastlines crossed Europe and the world successful jeopardy.

"I person made it my idiosyncratic ngo to constrain the Kremlin, closing the nett astir Putin and his mafia authorities utilizing each instrumentality astatine my disposal."