Trump’s Big Middle East Trip (Continued)

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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Today, what is President Trump achieving with his tour of the Middle East?

On Wednesday President Trump met with the leaders of Syria and Qatar on his first major foreign trip as President. James is joined by the BBC’s diplomatic correspondent James Landale and BBC’s chief presenter in Washington Caitriona Perry to discuss Also, James and Alex explain today’s the announcement by the Justice Secretary today that prisons are at 99% capacity, and what the government say they are going to do to address it.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.7	So Donald Trump is meeting all sorts of people in the Middle East this week, mostly talking business with them.
0:10.5	But as we sit here on Wednesday afternoon in the newscast studio, we still do not know for sure whether President Trump is going to meet President Putin of Russia and or President Zelensky
0:23.4	of Ukraine in Turkey for peace talks on Thursday. It's a big unknown. We're going to be talking
0:29.9	about that and a lot more about Donald Trump's trip to the Middle East on this episode of
0:34.5	newscast. Newscast from the BBC.
0:37.9	He has just compared me to the fat controller.
0:40.9	Did I say that?
0:42.3	I can't believe I said that.
0:43.8	Next question?
0:44.6	This is R for the benefit of Earth.
0:47.1	I'm not personally a huge Sabrina carpenter fam.
0:50.1	I don't think I'm being rude.
0:51.5	I like landscapes.
0:52.6	Take me down to Downey Street.
0:55.8	Let's go have a tour.
0:56.5	Blimey.
0:58.6	Hello, it's James in the studio.
1:00.9	And Donald Trump is still in the Middle East.
1:04.6	Yesterday, we were talking about his visit to Saudi Arabia.
1:08.3	And this limited business-focused tour of the Gulf continues.
1:09.3	He's in Qatar.
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