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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has met with President Biden at the White House to disucss conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Mr. President, what do you say to Vladimir Putin's threat of war?
00:09I say you be quiet while I speak, okay?
00:12That's what I say.
00:13Good idea?
00:14What do you say to Vladimir Putin's threat of war, sir?
00:17It's a serious threat.
00:18All right, all right.
00:19You got to be quiet and I'm going to make a statement, okay?
00:22All right.
00:23Anyway, Mr. Prime Minister, welcome.
00:25Welcome back to the White House.
00:27As the President has often said, there's no issue of global consequence when the United
00:30States and the United Kingdom can't work together.
00:33And we'll discuss some of these things right now.
00:36First, Ukraine.
00:38I want to thank you for the UK leadership in this country.
00:43The United States is proud to stand with you.
00:45The second thing is it's a country against which there's no slow regression.
00:49And it's clear that Putin will not make it through.
00:52Putin will not prevail.
00:53There's war and people will be in pain.
00:56Second, Middle East.
00:58Today, we'll discuss our work to secure a deal in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean
01:03hostage issue with the government run by Hamas.
01:06We need to cease fire and increase the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
01:10And thirdly, we're going to be talking about the Indo-Pacific, knowing how important our
01:15future is.
01:16And I'm so proud to be part of this partnership with Australia and with the Middle Eastern
01:22the last three years, we've made the region more free, open, and secure.
01:25Mr. Prime Minister, thank you very much for being here.
01:28And I look forward to the rest of the conversation.
01:31Mr. President, thank you very much for those words.
01:33Thank you for the invitation to be back here just two months after our last meeting here.
01:38And it's really important with great allies, that special relationship, to have this time
01:44to talk about the global issues you have just identified, starting of course with Ukraine,
01:49where I think the next few weeks and months will be crucial, very, very important.
01:55We support Ukraine in this fight for freedom.
02:00And so I look forward to discussing that with you.
02:03The Middle East, of course, again, vital in the coming weeks and months and elsewhere
02:08in the world.
02:09I think that historically, we've shown the strength of our relationship, that we are
02:14strategically aligned.
02:16We have common cause on these global issues.
02:18And therefore, it's very important for us to have this opportunity to talk them through,
02:23not just as a matter of tactics, but also the wider strategy that underpins them.
02:28So thank you for the invitation.
02:30It's very good to be here again.
02:31What do you say to Vladimir Putin's threat of war, Mr. President?
02:35I don't think much about Vladimir Putin.
02:38Do you take that threat seriously?
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