World leaders gather for Nato summit in the Netherlands
World leaders have gathered in the Netherlands for the start of a historic two-day Nato summit, with big defence spending pledges expected.
Sir Keir Starmer is set to commit to defence spending of 5% of GDP by 2035, in an announcement at the summit.
France and Germany have already committed to the 5% goal, and the Netherlands is also on board.
The target, expected to be formally agreed by the 32-nation military alliance at a summit in The Hague this week, includes spending 3.5% on 'core defence' and another 1.5% on 'resilience and security'.
It represents a significant jump from the current 2% Nato target, and from the UK Government's aim of spending 2.5% of GDP on defence from 2027 and 3% at some point after the next election.
But the figure is in line with the demands of US President Donald Trump, who has called for Nato allies to shoulder more of the burden of European defence.
Spain however has said it cannot, calling the target "unreasonable", while Trump has said the US should not have to.
Israel accused Iran of breaking a ceasefire deal hours after it came into effect, while Iran has denied firing missiles after the agreed deadline.
Israel says it will "respond forcefully" to Iran's "violation" of the ceasefire deal.
All eyes will be on President Donald Trump, who is making his first appearance at Nato since returning to the White House.
His arrival was supposed to centre on how the US secured the historic military spending pledge from other members of the alliance.
However, the spotlight instead will now be on the Middle-East.
The President on Tuesday morning expressed his fury at the ceasefire between Israel and Iran failing, saying he was "not happy" and that he thought "they both violated it".
Sir Keir Starmer has insisted Israel and Iran must "get back" to the ceasefire they had agreed, as he travelled to the summit.
The Prime Minister told reporters: "I want the ceasefire to continue, and therefore, obviously, the sooner we get back to that the better, and that's the message that I'm discussing with other leaders today.
"We've got a ceasefire. We need to get back to that ceasefire, which is consistent with what I've been saying about de-escalation for quite some time now."
Ukraine has suffered as a result of the conflict in the Middle-East.
It has created a need for weapons and ammunition that Kyiv desperately wants, and shifted the world's attention away from what is happening in Ukraine.
Past Nato summits have focused almost entirely on the war in Ukraine, now in its fourth year.
Still, the Secretary General of Nato Mark Rutte insists that Ukraine remains a vital issue for the security alliance, and that the allies can manage more than one conflict.
'If we would not be able to deal with ... the Middle East, which is very big and commanding all the headlines, and Ukraine at the same time, we should not be in the business of politics and military at all," he said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in The Hague, but is not expected to be around the Nato table.
He instead will attend a series of meetings.
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