British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been called to intervene in the dispute between Donald Trump and the BBC after the US president stepped up his threats to sue the corporation.
In a conversation with reporters on board Air Force One on Friday night, Donald Trump said he would sue the corporation for “between $1 billion and $5 billion, probably sometime next week“ after the BBC apologized for editing his speech on the “Panorama“ program. Trump also said that Starmer had asked to speak to him and that he would do so over the weekend, but they had not yet spoken.
However, the leader of the British Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, urged Keir Starmer to insist that Donald Trump "withdraw his ridiculous claim and stop interfering in the affairs of the country by standing up for Britain". Support for the BBC came somewhat surprisingly from Keir Starmer's predecessor - Rishi Sunak. In a letter to the “The Times” the former prime minister wrote that when he was in office the BBC often drove him crazy.
However, he said that factionalism should not be allowed in the media. “For all my disappointments with the BBC, it is still an extremely valuable national institution that strengthens the position and attractiveness of this country. Across the world, people know and love to talk about three things that define Britain: the royal family, the Premier League and the BBC,” Rishi Sunak wrote in The Times. He added that in an increasingly divided society, the BBC has the ability to unite the nation in the best way possible.
Forty percent of young women in the US would like to leave the country forever, but only 19% of young men would do so.
Since 2007, when the Gallup pollster began conducting these surveys worldwide, no other country has recorded a difference of 20 or more points between younger men and women in their willingness to emigrate.
Compared to last year, the number of young women willing to emigrate from the United States has now decreased from 44 to 40 percent, but two years ago, only 29 percent were willing to emigrate. The question asked the participants in the survey was: "Ideally, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move permanently to another country or would you prefer to continue living in this country?". Overall, approximately one in five Americans surveyed said they would consider leaving the United States.
40 percent of women aged 15 to 44 voted "yes" leaving, but men in the same age range are only 19%. Among older people, the percentages are significantly lower. Women over 45 are ready to move to live somewhere else, and men - only 8 percent.
However, "Gallup" notes that the desire to leave does not mean that it will be an actual departure. But according to the survey analysis, the 21 percentage point gap between younger men (19%) and women (40%) who want to leave the US is the largest ever recorded by the pollster on this trend.
Since the beginning of the year, Canadian visits to the US have continued to decline, as Canadians boycott US President Donald Trump's policies.
Air travel from Canada to the US has decreased by 24%, and car travel by more than 30% compared to the same period last year. Since January, following the strained relations between the two countries, more and more Canadians have preferred to travel and vacation not in the US, but in their own country or somewhere else.
First, Donald Trump's numerous comments that Canada should become the "51st state" of the US angered Canadians. Then came the trade war, which has further inflamed the neighbors' resentment. Canada currently faces 35% tariffs on its goods - although most are exempt from them under the existing North American Free Trade Agreement - as well as individual levies targeting specific industries such as autos and steel.
According to the American Travel Association, visitors from Canada used to make up nearly a quarter of all international visits to the United States, spending more than $20 billion a year, and now Americans are left hoping to replace the missing Canadian visitors with tourists expected to come for major events in the coming years, such as the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.