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Hello, the king and queen are in mid-air as we're recording this episode of newscast,

but we'll be touching down in Washington probably by the time you are listening to it.

And we wanted to look at this state visit to the USA from all the different angles, whether it's British politics, whether it's royal diplomacy, or whether it's American politics.

So throughout this episode of newscast, we will be joined by people from both sides of the Atlantic looking at the state visit from all those different angles.

And because people are in all sorts of places and there's all sorts of time difference issues, I'm not exactly sure who will pop up when. But by the end of the episode, you'll be fully covered. So that's a little hint of what's coming up in this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Humanity's next great voyage begins. We are in the midst of a rupture. Nostalgia will not bring back the old order. Six-seven. Yeah. It's supposed to be me as a doctor. There he has also a special connotation. Ooh-la-la-law. Thinking about it like a panto helped. Do we play music now, or what do we do? Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. It's Joe

Pike in Westminster. Do you know what? I feel a bit lonely sat here on my own without an audience of

200 newscasters sat around the place watching. But let's increase the number of people here because

we're also joined from the US by the BBC's Royal Correspondent. Sean Coughlin, hello, Sean.

Hello, lovely to hear from you. So we're recording this bit of this episode at 6.30 on Monday evening. What time is it where you are,

Sean? It is now coming up to half past one here. And when do we expect the king and queen to

actually land on American soil? Well, in a couple of hours, they'll be descending from a blue sky and landing into a political

storm. So we're looking out for them and we're looking forward to their arrival.

And Sean, the security story that's unfolded around the president over the weekend,

has that interacted or impacted on the royal story that we're about to start

covering? Well, I think it was already going to be a pretty complicated trip with all the

political backdrop to it. And this adds another layer of difficulty and possibly raising the

stakes even higher. And I imagine what would have been intense security

will now be raised or whatever a notch higher.

And that the bubble that they will operate inside

the security bubble will be made of some sort of reinforced

titanium or something to keep everybody out.

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