King Charles welcomes Trump at Windsor Castle
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
US President Donald Trump is welcomed at Windsor Castle with an elaborate ceremony during his second state visit to Britain. Also: the Israeli army says it’s struck more than 150 targets in Gaza City, a day after launching a major ground offensive there; the widow of the Russian human rights campaigner Alexei Navalny says new scientific evidence shows her husband was poisoned; and giraffe conservation gets a boost from AI.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Celia Hatton, and at 17 hours GMT on Wednesday, the 17th of September, |
| 0:16.3 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.3 | The US president gets royal treatment at Windsor Castle as he meets with |
| 0:22.7 | King Charles and members of his family at the start of his state visit to the UK. Israeli forces |
| 0:29.4 | say they've struck more than 150 targets in Gaza City since Tuesday's ground incursion began. |
| 0:37.1 | Thousands of Palestinians are struggling to escape the assault. |
| 0:42.2 | Also in this podcast, the wife of the Russian dissident Alexei Navalny says new forensic evidence |
| 0:48.7 | has emerged that proves he had been poisoned. |
| 0:51.6 | He died in prison last year. |
| 0:53.8 | And Ben and Jerry's ice cream might need to shorten its name after Jerry resigns, |
| 0:59.9 | accusing parent company Unilever of trying to silence the brand's activism. |
| 1:07.3 | Today in the UK... |
| 1:19.8 | A military band played the American national anthem after President Trump's arrival at Windsor Castle. |
| 1:29.3 | The U.S. President is on his second state visit to Britain. His host, King Charles, accompanied him in an elaborate golden carriage through the grounds of the castle. They went on to inspect a guard of honor and watch a large military parade. |
| 1:40.3 | As we record this podcast, Mr. Trump is shortly due to watch a fly pass by the Red |
| 1:46.2 | Arrows, the Royal Air Force Aerobatics Team. And later, he'll be attending a state banquet |
| 1:52.0 | with 160 guests. Britain has never hosted any other U.S. president for two state visits. |
| 1:59.1 | Our UK political correspondent, Rob Watson is at Windsor Castle, |
| 2:02.8 | and he told us it was meant to be a grand affair. It certainly was a stunning spectacle and very |
| 2:09.3 | much carefully planned to be exactly that. You described some of it. There were 1,300 troops, |
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