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Is Starmer Risking Escalation with Putin?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today, we discuss the Prime Minister’s visit to the White House to discuss the US and UK’s support for Ukraine.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said Russia had started the war in Ukraine and could end it "straight away”. Adam is joined by Chris Mason, who is in Washington with the Prime Minister ahead of his meeting with President Joe Biden.

We also speak to Emily Thornberry, the new Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. In her first interview since becoming Chair, she speaks about how she plans to use her new role, the UK’s support for Ukraine, and why she’d like more MPs to be ‘internationalists’.

You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Frank McWeeny. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:04.7

London calling Washington, D.C.

0:06.8

Oh, hello.

0:07.8

How's it going?

0:09.8

It's fine. I have just been to a kind of bagel place around the corner from the BBC

0:14.9

building here in here in Washington you can probably hit a bit of crinkle of the old

0:18.8

paper and this bagel is unbelievable it must be about three or four inches tall and it's got cream cheese and

0:26.2

tomato and onion and cucumber and salmon and oh it's fantastic and then this

0:30.9

massive bowl of coffee which given I spent a long time on an

0:34.3

over plane yesterday is very valuable. Well and according to this photo of the

0:38.3

traveling press pack and Kirstarmer I'm taken by legendary photographer Stephen Russo. The only thing you ate on the flight

0:45.2

over was your pen. Well, you're chewing your pen. Well, so the thing is, I'm going to be, I'm going to be really, I'm going to be really honest with newscasters here so we have this thing called the

0:55.4

Huddle and if you've seen the pictures you're the right to call the huddle where we all huddle

0:58.8

around the Prime Minister done it for years and years with different Prime Ministers

1:02.2

on foreign trips.

1:03.6

The pain goes in the mouth because it helps me A,

1:06.5

concentrate because it's quite hard to hear when you're on a plane.

1:10.0

Secondly, we are recording it so that we can transcribe the quote.

1:13.3

So I don't have to write too much done in my notebook.

1:15.0

And also I kind of think that way I don't find myself gafforing and it all looking like it's a bit kind of

1:20.8

of chummy.

1:21.8

Yeah.

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