Trump ends UK trip with little progress on international issues
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer have spoken of the enduring friendship between Britain and America, on the final day of the US president’s state visit to the UK. At a joint news conference the two leaders addressed a range of issues, including Ukraine, Gaza and illegal migration which Mr Trump suggested Britain could solve by calling in the military.
Also in the programme: A day of protests over planned budget cuts in France and we hear from Brazil's president, Lula da Silva, on his relationship with his US counterpart.
(Picture: US President Donald J. Trump (L)and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R). Credit: Photo by NEIL HALL/POOL/EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello and welcome to Newsout from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.0 | We're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:16.4 | State visits to the UK are more often than not about the style rather than the substance. This time |
| 0:22.2 | yesterday President Trump was preparing to sit down to a sumptuous banquet at Windsor Castle in the |
| 0:27.1 | company of King Charles and dozens of leading lights of politics and business from both sides of the |
| 0:31.9 | Atlantic. The speeches were long on platitudes and short on policy. Today though though, there was more of a window for some diplomacy. |
| 0:40.3 | Mr Trump travelled from Windsor to the Chilton Hills, |
| 0:43.4 | a little further out from London, |
| 0:45.1 | where the Prime Minister, Sakeir Stama, |
| 0:47.0 | has his official country residence called Chequers, |
| 0:49.9 | a chance for some talks and a news conference |
| 0:53.2 | with journalist's questions afterwards. |
| 0:56.1 | President Trump was asked about the lack of progress towards a ceasefire in Ukraine |
| 1:00.1 | and President Putin's continued attacks on the country. |
| 1:03.8 | He has led me down. I mean, he's killing many people and he's losing more people than he's, you know, than he's killing. |
| 1:10.9 | I mean, frankly, that Russia soldiers are being killed at a higher rate than the Ukrainian soldiers. |
| 1:17.1 | But, yeah, he said, let me down. |
| 1:19.5 | He also dropped in one unexpected curveball announcing a plan to get back the Bagram air base in Afghanistan, |
| 1:25.8 | which the U.S. gave up when it pulled out of the |
| 1:28.0 | country in 2021, and the Taliban took over. We were going to keep Bagram, the big air base, |
| 1:33.9 | that one of the biggest air bases in the world. We gave it to them for nothing. We're trying to |
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