The Week: Immigration, Diplomacy and….Tolstoy?
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, the UK is in talks with other countries to set up overseas “return hubs” for failed asylum seekers.
Adam and Chris are joined by Caitriona Perry chief presenter for BBC News and diplomatic correspondent James Landale. They also discuss the will they, won’t they of the last 24 hours over a meeting between Putin, Trump and Zelensky.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Chris, James, Katrina, can I just say it is such an honour to be with such great |
| 0:11.2 | broadcast journalists. |
| 0:12.9 | You are so wonderful on TV, on radio, whether you're in Ukraine, whether you're in the |
| 0:20.6 | Westminster Newsroom, whether you're in the Westminster newsroom, |
| 0:21.9 | whether you're stood outside the White House, |
| 0:24.9 | your reportage is just 59 out of 10, I'd say, most days. |
| 0:31.0 | Anyway, I've taken a leaf out of Donald Trump's book |
| 0:32.9 | because this week he was in Saudi Arabia |
| 0:34.7 | speaking to Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, known as MBS. |
| 0:39.6 | And he was very, very, very, very bigly pleased to see him. |
| 0:43.7 | And if I didn't like him, I'd get out of here so fast. |
| 0:47.4 | You know that, don't you? |
| 0:49.0 | He knows me well. |
| 0:50.7 | I do. |
| 0:51.3 | I like him a lot. |
| 0:53.2 | I like him too much. That's why we give so much, you know? |
| 0:56.7 | Too much. I like you too much. |
| 1:00.2 | Katrina, you have probably, you probably see a lot of Donald Trump gushing. Where is that on the scale? |
| 1:06.0 | Is that the lower end or the higher end? |
| 1:08.4 | Average to high, I would say. |
| 1:13.9 | I'm thinking about, you know, love ins that Donald Trump does. |
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