BBC -The US presidential jet is getting a new paint design that will include one of President Donald Trump’s preferred colour choices for the White House and his hotels, gold.

Air Force One and other planes used by high level US officials, including First Lady Melania Trump, are being repainted gold, deep red and navy blue as they undergo scheduled repairs and maintenance, according to the US Air Force.

The colours will also feature on a new luxury 747-8i Boeing plane donated to the presidential fleet by Qatar, an Air Force spokesperson told CBS.

The white, blue and robin’s egg blue associated with the presidential jet have been in use since the 1960s, when John F Kennedy was president.

Trump has called for updates to the executive fleet since his first term. His successor, former President Joe Biden, cancelled a broad makeover Trump had initially planned.

The new colours have already been spotted on model aircraft seen at the White House, where Trump is also making his aesthetic imprint, from the large-scale plans for a new ballroom to the more subtle installation of signs in a curling font in gold.

The private plane Trump travelled on during his 2024 campaign, sometimes called “Trump Force One”, used the same colour palette that will be given to the presidential fleet.

While it is not clear how much the paint jobs will cost, the US Air Force, which operates the executive planes, said in a statement to the BBC that the new colour requirements were “not expected to result in additional delays or costs to the program.”

It added that it was implementing the new colour scheme on the Boeing VC-25B (a variation of the Boeing 747) currently used to transport the president, as well as four C-32 jets often used as “Air Force Two” for the vice-president, and the jet donated by Qatar. Painting has been completed on of the C-32 aircraft.

Preparations began last summer for the Pentagon to refit the Qatari jumbo jet that is expected to serve as Air Force One. The Boeing aircraft – valued at $400m (£300m) – was donated by Qatar as an “unconditional” gift, with any necessary retrofitting costs being borne by the US government.

While any plane where the president is a passenger is called “Air Force One”, the holder of the highest office in the country most often flies on a specialised jet that includes an office, a bedroom suite, two kitchen galleys that can prepare 100 meals, office space and a medical facility, according to Boeing.

BBC -On Tuesday, it was announced six Russian and four Belarusian athletes will compete in alpine skiing, cross-country skiing and snowboarding at the Milan-Cortina Games, which start on 6 March.

In September, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) lifted its ban on athletes from the two countries competing at the Games.

However, the IPC does not govern the six sports contested at the Paralympics and despite the individual bodies – including the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) – refusing to lift their own bans, Russia and Belarus won an appeal to the Court of Arbitration of Sport (Cas) against FIS.

As a result, athletes have been able to return to FIS competitions and the 10 athletes have been awarded bipartite commission invitations to compete at the Paralympics.

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky said the decision was “awful”.

“It’s a dirty decision, absolutely, not respectable and not European from the point of values,” he said on Piers Morgan Uncensored.

“I think this is not a just decision, so we will react.”

European Commissioner for Sport Glenn Micallef said he would also not attend the opening ceremony and called on others to “take the same stand”.

Both countries were suspended from Paralympic competition after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with Belarus a close ally of Russia.

A partial ban – allowing athletes to compete as neutrals – was introduced in 2023.

Earlier on Wednesday, Johan Eliasch, the president of the FIS, told BBC Sport the decision to award bipartite places had “not been easy”.

“What we’re dealing with here is an issue that is divisive, where people have different feelings depending on where they come from. It’s something that we have to respect,” he said.

“Athletes can’t choose where they were born. On the other hand, they can’t be used for PR purposes in their home countries to promote the war.

“It’s our duty to make sure that athletes are not weaponised for political purposes.”

Bipartite commission invites are granted to individual athletes, rather than their international federation, and allow the participation of top athletes “who may not have had the opportunity to qualify through other methods due to extraordinary circumstances”, among other factors.

The IPC, with the support of international federations – in this case FIS – decides who receives the bipartite slots after receiving recommendations from the federation.

Ukraine has also been awarded bipartite slots in three sports.

BBC -The commercial for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 featured fake officers at an airport security check – as the real ones were too busy playing the game.

Viewers complained the video, which included a man being told to strip down while an officer put on gloves and said “time for the puppet show”, was “irresponsible and offensive”.

Gaming company Activision Blizzard UK Ltd said the ad promoted the 18-rated video game and was therefore targeted at adult audiences only, who had a higher tolerance for irreverent or exaggerated humour.

The spot ran on YouTube and video on demand services, including ITV and Channel 5, in November 2025.

It was one of several used to promote the latest game in the Call of Duty series.

The campaign featured the idea that replacements had to step into different job roles, because the original staff were playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 instead.

The ad in question featured an airport security setting, with one actor explaining they were the “replacers”.

A man was then told he had been randomly selected “to be manhandled” before being told to remove his clothes down to “everything but the shoes”, while the female officer put on a pair of gloves.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received complaints from nine viewers who believed the ad trivialised sexual violence.

Activision Blizzard UK Ltd said the ad had been reviewed by Clearcast, which provides pre-clearance of TV advertising, and had been approved with an “ex-kids” timing restriction.

It added it was not broadcast during or around children’s programming or content likely to appeal to under-16s.

The company claimed it depicted a deliberately implausible, parodic scenario that bore no resemblance to real airport security procedures.

According to the firm, the ad in question did not sexualise the act of performing searches – and that the humour referred to discomfort rather than sex.

It added that even if some viewers inferred innuendo, it did not contain explicit content or objectifying imagery.

‘Irresponsible and offensive’

The ASA said the story included a non-consensual, invasive search of a man passing through airport security.

However, it acknowledged the video did not include explicit imagery and the man remained clothed for its duration.

But the watchdog noted the humour was “generated by the humiliation and implied threat of painful, non-consensual penetration of the man”.

The ASA concluded that the advert trivialised sexual violence and was therefore irresponsible and offensive.

It therefore ruled the ad must not appear again in its current form.

Two further complainants also questioned whether the ad encouraged or condoned drug use, due to a scene where the replacement officers picked up a prescription medication container and winked.

This complaint was not upheld by the ASA.

It is not the first time an advert for the video game series has been banned.

In 2012 an advert for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 which showed armed men firing at a lorry was given a daytime ban by the ASA for scenes of violence and destruction which were “inappropriate” for young children.