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The News Agents

Zelenskyy wants wings: Will Rishi grant his request for fighter jets?

The News Agents

Global

Politics, Daily News, Government, News

4.15.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

With a mere couple of hours notice that Ukraine's President Zelensky was in town, The News Agents dropped everything to get to Westminster Hall to hear him address both houses of Parliament.

A speech that began with gracious tributes quickly got to its blunt point: A request for 'wings' - fighter jets - which the US and UK previously turned down.

So will this historic demand change the minds of the world leaders? In the hall were both the PM and former PM Boris Johnson. Zelensky paid thanks to both.

But The News Agents heard murmurings that Boris Johnson was muttering - all the way through the speech - about Rishi. We're sure it was all good thoughts...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.

0:08.0

This is a global player original podcast.

0:12.1

A British Parliament, two years ago, I thanked you for delicious English tea.

0:23.7

And I will be living the Parliament today,

0:29.0

thanking all of you in advance

0:31.6

for powerful English planes.

0:39.2

That was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

0:43.6

addressing the houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall.

0:49.5

A historic moment the first time that he's been to the UK since that invasion of Ukraine

0:57.6

by Russia last year, only the second time that he's left Ukraine since the beginning of the

1:04.2

wall, the first to address the houses of Congress in the US. And whilst there was a great sense of the stateliness, the pomp, the ceremony of

1:17.0

this occasion, at the heart of everything he said was this massive, unambiguous request for help.

1:27.2

It has been the Zelensky trademark.

1:30.3

I don't want a ride.

1:32.2

I want help.

1:33.8

And this time he's asking for fighter jets.

1:36.8

Just three days ago, the US and UK had ruled out giving fighter jets.

1:42.5

I wonder whether this moment will have turned the tide.

1:46.9

Welcome to the newsagents.

1:51.6

The news agents. This is Emily. And this is Lewis. And I have just hop footed back down

1:58.4

Whitehall from the address from Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the

2:02.5

Palace of Westminster, where none of us, until we woke up this morning, actually knew, because

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