Marco Rubio says US and Europe ‘belong together’

Political leaders and defence officials are in Germany for the annual Munich Security Conference. Marco Rubio began his address by saying the US and Europe 'belong together', highlighting that the fate of the European continent will 'never be irrelevant to our own.'

Also in today's programme:The BBC speaks to Gisèle Pelicot, the woman at the centre of the largest rape trial in French history; and the taco vendor who took part in the American Super Bowl's widely watched half-time show, alongside Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny.

Presenter Krupa Padhy is joined by Daisy Fancourt, an award-winning scientist and Professor of Psychobiology and Epidemiology at University College London, and Kenneth Roth, a US attorney, writer, and human rights activist based in New York.

(Photo:U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026. Credit: Alex Brandon/ Reuters)