Starmers and Stripes

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today we look at the meeting of world leaders including Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the NATO summit in Washington.

Adam is joined by Chris from Washington and Americast host Justin Webb to talk about the prime minister’s first day at the gathering. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is coming under pressure to stand down as the Democratic presidential candidate in the 2024 US election.

And the former head of the Diplomatic Service, Sir Simon Fraser, talks about how Sir Keir Starmer will have been preparing for his first international meeting as prime minister.

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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 Sam McLaren, Gemma Roper and Elliot Ryder. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, the NATO Summit is underway in Washington as we speak,
0:08.4	Kirst Armour's first big moment on the world stage,
0:11.7	so I thought we would recreate Thursday mornings or
0:14.5	preview Thursday mornings 810 slot in the today program because Chris Mason is
0:19.2	here well he's there hello Chris hello Chris and also the host of AmeriCast
0:23.0	and presents with the today program,
0:24.0	Justin Webb is here.
0:25.0	Hello, Justin.
0:26.0	Hello.
0:27.0	So don't mind me as you to just preview what you're going to do on the radio
0:30.0	on Thursday morning.
0:31.0	But anyway, let's see what we can discuss with this big moment in the news on this episode of newscast.
0:36.4	Newscast.
0:37.4	Newscast from the BBC.
0:39.4	Hello, it's Adam in the studio and as I said, Chris is in Washington and Justin is down the line.
0:48.0	So Chris, we're recording at 11 minutes past 6, what is happening at the Native Summit? How is happening at the NATO summit?
0:54.0	How is Prime Minister Kieur-Stormer doing?
0:56.0	Yeah, hello to you Adam, from the main press centre at the NATO summit here in Washington.
1:01.5	I'm a fairly rare visitor to the United States and to be
1:05.0	in Washington in the summer I've discovered it's quite hot. I mean particularly
1:09.6	when you've flown from the UK which is well you know wet and soggy and feels like February
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