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Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.

I'm Tim Franks, and I'm speaking to you unusually not looking at my computer screen or looking at my

script, but looking at a bank of television monitors because we're expecting any moment now

for there to be a joint news conference between Donald Trump and Kirstama at the end of

Donald Trump's second state visit to the United Kingdom, state visit,

because his host has been King Charles and he's had all the pageantry and pomp and

flummery and partying, which goes along with that. That happened by and large yesterday

and culminated in a glittering banquet at Windsor Castle.

Today has been more about the politics and he's been at the Prime Minister's country residence, not far from Windsor Castle,

to discuss some of what you might imagine to be maybe the more gnarly issues such as Ukraine, Gaza, of course,

as well as trade deals and trade wars.

There has been a trade deal that has been announced today.

The British Prime Minister hailed it as the biggest deal, I should say, that has ever been signed of its nature between the two countries,

$250 billion worth he reckoned he'd valued it at.

But we're waiting now for what could be the more freewheeling, the more freewheeling bit of the visit, which is

the conference, the news conference with journalists and there are British and American

journalists waiting to lob those questions.

Our political correspondent Rob Watson is at Chequers at the Prime Minister's country residence.

And Rob, I suppose the thing to say is that we don't quite know what will come up, but there's plenty that could.

Plenty that could and a Downing Street official told me that they thought that they might

last for as long as 40, 50 minutes, so plenty of opportunity for all sorts of areas to be explored.

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