Welcome to the News Hour. British Prime Minister Kier Starmour continued a week of Oval Office

diplomacy today, arriving at the White House for meetings with President Donald Trump and his team.

Starmer is the second of three critical European allies to meet with the president this week.

French President Macron was here on Monday, and Ukraine's president arrives tomorrow.

On the agenda today, as with all three leaders, the brutal war in Ukraine, and President Trump's efforts to make a deal with the invader, Russia's Vladimir Putin.

Lisa Desjardin reports.

As UK Prime Minister Kier Starmor pulled up to the White House today,

President Trump, can you get a peace deal done on Ukraine?

Ukraine was top of mind before he and President Trump even got inside.

In the Oval Office, we're going to be discussing many things today.

Starmor, the Labor Party leader, made his pitch for the U.S. to include Ukraine and all of

Europe in negotiations.

We want to work with you to make sure that peace deal is enduring that it lasts, that it's

a deal that goes down as a historic deal that nobody breaches.

But for his tougher asks, Starmor brought a sweetener, a letter direct from King Charles,

inviting Trump for a historic second state visit seven years after his first.

The answer is yes.

On behalf of our wonderful first lady, Malani and myself, the answer is yes.

From there, Trump gave a show of confidence that a peace deal between Kiev and Moscow would hold.

Starmor, as well as French President Emmanuel Macron, have both agreed to send troops to the region to keep the peace if a deal is reached.

The U.S., on the other hand...

I don't think we're going to even be necessary, but I don't think there'll be any problem

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