European leaders meet for Ukraine summit in London
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 2 March 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is hosting a meeting of European leaders to find a path towards ending the conflict in Ukraine while ensuring the continued support of the United States. We ask what prospects there are for real progress.
Also on the programme: Israel cuts off humanitarian aid to Gaza in a stand-off with Hamas over a proposal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire; and a private spacecraft known as Blue Ghost lands on the moon.
Photo: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer greets French President Emmanuel Macron as he arrives for a summit on Ukraine in London Credit: Christophe Ena/POOL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.3 | Coming to you live from our studios in central London. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Julian Marshall. |
| 0:12.6 | And we begin here in London with the Prime Minister, Sakeir Stama, |
| 0:15.4 | is hosting a meeting of European leaders to chart a way forward |
| 0:19.6 | on ending the conflict in Ukraine while maintaining |
| 0:22.9 | the support of the United States. President Trump has begun unilateral negotiations with Russia |
| 0:29.3 | to the exclusion of Ukraine and Europe and has been refusing to offer any US security guarantees |
| 0:36.4 | to deter further Russian aggression in the event of an |
| 0:39.9 | agreement, saying that's up to Europe. Mr. Trump also sees President Zelensky as an obstacle |
| 0:46.0 | to the kind of agreement he's seeking with Russia and a meeting between the two men at the |
| 0:50.9 | White House on Friday descended into a bad-tempered shouting match. |
| 0:56.5 | Sakeh Stama had been at the White House earlier in the week for a more cordial meeting, |
| 1:01.4 | so my colleague Laura Kunsberg asked him what he'd said to President Trump |
| 1:06.6 | when he spoke to him about that meltdown in the Oval Office. |
| 1:10.6 | Well, I spoke to President Trump, I spoke to President Zelensky. |
| 1:13.3 | Obviously, we then had President Zelenskyy to Downing Street yesterday, |
| 1:16.9 | and I spoke to President Macron after that and then to President Trump. |
| 1:20.7 | And the purpose, or my driving purpose, has been to bridge this, if you like, |
| 1:26.2 | and get us back to the central focus. And as a result of the |
| 1:31.1 | meeting yesterday, we had quite a long time with President Zelensky, then President |
| 1:36.1 | Macron and President Trump on the phone. We've now agreed that the United Kingdom, along with |
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