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Hello, it's day four of the US and Israel's war against Iran, although lots of the news stories

today have been related to the UK. So we will discuss what's going on in this latest episode

of Newscast, which was streamed live on YouTube and IPlayer on Tuesday, T-time. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tappletail in the class. Can I have an apology, please? I trust almost nobody. That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu.

Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And Panorama filmmaker Jane Corbyn is here again. Hello, Jane. Hello, Adam. It's good to be here. I'm glad you are here because you're a real expert in this region. so I've been relying on you

ever since this military action started.

Also, BBC's Deputy Economics Editor,

Darsini. Hi, Adam. Thank you for letting me back. No, thanks for coming back. And also, we had this situation where you've obviously got the dramatic events unfolding in the Middle East. And then we had a quite sort of traditional Westminster event, which was the Chancellor doing her spring economic statement, which felt almost a bit like it was in a parallel universe, didn't it? It felt very normal, considering the abnormal world that we're in. It felt quite surreal, didn't it? It almost felt like, you know, on these days normally, you have traders gripped to the screen watching the Chancellor's speech. And not the corner of their eye, people are watching the markets. This time it's the other way around. Everyone's watching the markets and out the corner of their eye thinking, oh, she's doing something there. Unfortunately, and you've got to feel really sorry for the Chancellor. Is she jinxed? It felt like it was out of date before she even stood up. It may not be. Things could be okay. but even so, it was a really unfortunate set of circumstances. Do you know what? We'll come on to the spring statement in a minute. Because it's worth looking at the numbers, even though it's kind of a little bit out of date in terms of what's happening in the world now. But Jane, just before we started making this episode, Donald Trump was in the Oval Office. He was with the German Chancellor Friedrich

Merz. That was a pre-planned trip that the German Chancellor was going to make. And everyone

was kind of glued to it, because this was the first chance we'd had to see Donald Trump

answering questions from journalists about his military action in Iran. And rather than the

subject being what, I don't know, what targets

the US had hit or what his objectives were, so much of it ended up being about the UK. So let's

have a listen because this is Donald Trump having a massive go at Kirstarmer. And this was over

Kier-Starmer's initial reluctance to let the U.S. military use British military bases.

By the way, I'm not happy with the UK either. That island that you read about, the lease,

okay, he made it for whatever reason he made a lease of the island. Somebody came and took it away from him.

And it's taken three, four days for us to work out where we can land there.

It would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours.

So we are very surprised.

This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with.

And Chris is at Westminster.

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