Can Starmer Bridge the Gap Between Trump and Europe?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today, Victoria and Paddy are joined by Newsnight political editor Nicholas Watt to discuss the latest developments between the UK, US and EU. The UK government has set out a road map to increase defence spending from 2.3% to 2.5% of GDP, as Starmer seeks to build a “bridge” between Trump and Europe. An emergency summit is being planned by Europe‘s leaders, as the US and Russia prepare for separate peace talks in Saudi Arabia next week.
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| 0:04.8 | So we're underway with Victoria Derbyshire here, thank heavens. |
| 0:08.4 | Vic, I've been trying to describe it as a news narmie at the moment. |
| 0:11.5 | A news arm, what? |
| 0:12.8 | News what? |
| 0:13.8 | News nami. |
| 0:13.8 | Okay. |
| 0:14.4 | It's like a news tsunami. |
| 0:16.2 | Yeah, but it's difficult. |
| 0:17.1 | It's obviously not the right word, but can you remember a time like it? |
| 0:21.8 | President Trump's first term, COVID? I mean, this is nonstop right now. Every single day, |
| 0:29.8 | we are overwhelmed with new lines, particularly from the US administration. And it's, and, |
| 0:35.4 | and maybe we're still adjusting to, to this new reality like everybody is, actually. |
| 0:41.0 | As you will hear on this edition of Sunday's newscast. |
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| 0:49.7 | Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. |
| 0:52.1 | That is not the agenda. |
| 0:53.4 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
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