Global News Podcast - US soldier arrested in UK on suspicion of spying for Russia

A senior American soldier is in custody at a London police station after being arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia. The 41-year-old man was held during a counter-terrorism operation involving the US military and the FBI, and is understood to have been stationed at Imjin Barracks in Gloucestershire - the headquarters of NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. Also: US Republicans block efforts to impeach the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth. Anti-homosexuality laws are overturned in Trinidad and Tobago - we hear from the man behind the 11-year legal battle. We meet the "Peaky Blinders" drone unit fighting in Ukraine's front line city of Sloviansk. A federal judge in Florida rules that Donald Trump's 10 billion dollar defamation lawsuit against the BBC for misleading editing can proceed. One of the last surviving heroes of the French Resistance, Solange Alexandre, has died. And fury and amusement over Kim Kardashian's Skims advent calender.

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Photo: Imjin Barracks, Innsworth, Gloucestershire. Home of ARRC - Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
Credit: BBC