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Speaker 1: And Devin Gray are UK correspondents with US ay Kevin Hi.

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Speaker 1: So the spending on defense is going to go up

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Speaker 1: by quite a burst, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's what has apparently been agreed. This is not

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Speaker 2: being confirmed, but this is diplomatic sources talking to Sky

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Speaker 2: News are saying that UK and NATO allies have agreed

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Speaker 2: to increase spending on defense and related areas to five

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Speaker 2: percent of GDP. Now that is a massive, massive increase.

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Speaker 2: The current goal of two percent of GDP is as

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Speaker 2: much about keeping the US president, I think, on side

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Speaker 2: as it is frankly about talking about what the allies

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Speaker 2: need in the growing threat from Russia and the challenge

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Speaker 2: post by China. Now it's thought that this new target

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Speaker 2: will be rubber stamped probably Tuesday or Wednesday later on

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Speaker 2: this week, so all rushing through. Really it's an ambitious

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Speaker 2: spending goal and secure following a big, big campaign by

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Speaker 2: the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter. And it looks like

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Speaker 2: it's sort of broken down into three and a half

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Speaker 2: percent of GDP spent on pure defense, one and a

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Speaker 2: half percent of GDP spent on related areas that can

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Speaker 2: include cybersecurity, big infrastructure that sort of thing. Apparently everyone

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Speaker 2: had agreed except Spain. Spain was the last to agree.

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Speaker 2: But as I said, this is all unconfirmed at the moment.

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Speaker 2: We're waiting for some kind of announcement and five percent

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Speaker 2: spending will certainly please Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: I see you guys like us are sending a plane

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Speaker 1: over to get people out of the Middle East. But

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Speaker 1: how's the plane going to get to them?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like they're liaising with the Israeli government

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Speaker 2: over opening the airport for a specific few hours and

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Speaker 2: then trying to evacuate people in that time. So Britain's

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Speaker 2: are being asked to register in the flight via online

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Speaker 2: forms and they've been told not to travel to the

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Speaker 2: airport unless told to do so. And this is all

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Speaker 2: effectively about trying to get out those that want to

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Speaker 2: leave Israel. There will be plenty. I suspect you don't

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Speaker 2: want to leave, but there will be also others who do.

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Speaker 2: And we are slightly behind the curve here. Heather Austria's

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Speaker 2: Foreign ministry is set Around one hundred and twenty people,

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Speaker 2: including citizens of partner countries, have been evacuated from Iran

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Speaker 2: and Israel, with Israel temporarily reopening the airspace for six

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Speaker 2: hours yesterday in a scheme to repatriate citizens stranded under

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Speaker 2: its Operation Safe Return scheme. This is all for Tel

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Speaker 2: Aviv at the moment, the Chinese ambassador thought to be

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Speaker 2: doing something else. Around four hundred Chinese citizens evacuated at

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Speaker 2: the weekend, including students, and so I'm afraid that Europe

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Speaker 2: sort of seeming to leave it a bit late. But

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Speaker 2: that's what we're looking at here, and of course New

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Speaker 2: Zealand the same and trying to get that agreement from

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Speaker 2: the Israeli government on a timing to land those planes

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Speaker 2: and get people out.

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Speaker 1: Are we all moving to space then? Are we?

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Speaker 2: Well, it seems a little unlikely, but this is the

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Speaker 2: latest from the European Space Agency of the EESA. They

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Speaker 2: are saying that by twenty forty they fully expect that

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Speaker 2: humans could be living in quote self sustaining space oases.

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Speaker 2: What do they mean, Well, they believe that actually expanding

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Speaker 2: into space, according to this report quote is not a

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Speaker 2: luxury but a necessity. Space is no longer a frontier,

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Speaker 2: it's a territory and it unlocks unknown reserves. And I

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Speaker 2: think it's that unknown reserves which are what Europe getting

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Speaker 2: so excited about here. So what they're saying is no

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Speaker 2: longer will the buildings in space be limited by what

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Speaker 2: you can put in a rocket. Instead, they believe, and

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Speaker 2: I had to reread this, that communities will be capable

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Speaker 2: of being crafted by three D printers and then assembled

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Speaker 2: in space. It all sounds a bit far fetched to me,

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Speaker 2: particularly when you consider we are only talking fifteen years ago,

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Speaker 2: but they are now calling on European leaders to get

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Speaker 2: behind this drive and to get people into space soon.

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Speaker 1: Gevin probably wouldn't be You know, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: look at the situation right now in the Middle East

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Speaker 1: and think maybe space is not that bad. So thank

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Speaker 1: you for that. I appreciate it. Kevin, UK, correspondent.

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