00:00Well, that is clearly going to be one of the items that they're going to discuss.
00:03I think they want to discuss Ukraine in the round.
00:05I think they want to understand where the conflict has got to.
00:09They want to try and understand the behavior of President Putin.
00:12He's increasingly erratic.
00:15His volatility is causing huge instability, not just in Ukraine and the immediate region,
00:20but around the world as well.
00:21I know that the two leaders are going to want to get together and talk about that, but also
00:25all of the big things that are happening in the world at the moment.
00:27These are two very significant powers.
00:29When America and the UK work together, then we can be a positive force in the world.
00:35And I think you'll see with Keir Starmer, Prime Minister, and with President Biden,
00:39you see a president who want to add up to a relationship that can be a positive force
00:43in the world.
00:44So they want to talk about the issue of long-range missiles being used by Ukraine, but will they
00:49make a decision today, and if not, when?
00:51Well, I imagine it will be on discussion simply because President Zelensky has asked for that
00:56to be discussed, and we have worked very closely with President Zelensky to be the
00:59partner that he needs in order to defeat Russia and make sure that Ukraine can be returned
01:05to a sovereign country that is secure, and then we can have a continent of Europe which
01:09again feels safe and secure under the threats posed by President Putin.
01:13So you can't tell me when that decision will come?
01:15Well, that is something that they are discussing actually today, so I can't pre-empt a discussion
01:19that hasn't taken place yet.
01:20But I know that it's something that they want to discuss in the round with the entire Ukraine
01:24situation.
01:25In response to this, President Putin has warned that NATO would be at war with Russia if this
01:29approval is given for the use of long-range missiles.
01:33How worried should we be by that threat?
01:36Well, President Putin has continually made threats, but the bottom line has never changed
01:41in this.
01:42If this war could end quickly, it could do so because of President Putin, who could decide
01:46to end this war straight away.
01:47He started the war, he did so in an illegal way, he did so in an unprovoked way.
01:52He could end the war by just turning off the aggression that he's shown consistently
01:56since the very beginning and return this continent to peace.
02:00I urge him to do so.
02:01You say that he's made these threats before.
02:03Is this situation different?
02:05President Putin says that the use of these long-range missiles, he suggests they can
02:09only be guided by satellite technology supplied by NATO.
02:15So he, as a result, says that would constitute direct participation by Western countries.
02:21Do you agree it does require greater involvement, the use of long-range missiles by the West?
02:26If President Putin wants to remove the threat of retaliation from Ukraine and President
02:33Zelensky in response to his aggression, he can do so straight away by ending the war.
02:38He has the power to do so.
02:40We urge him to do so.
02:41It is the swiftest way to bring this to a conclusion.
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