00:00We sat here last night for the best part of two hours with the president.
00:06I put out a G7 statement very shortly afterwards, which was clear about the nuclear threat in relation to Iran,
00:14absolutely clear about Israel's right to self-defense, and also the need to de-escalate across the region,
00:20including in Gaza, which obviously is linked to the conflict.
00:24So that statement really, I think, speaks for its own. I've been absolutely clear that de-escalation is what is needed here.
00:32So Israel was wrong to bomb?
00:33No, the risk of escalation is huge here, and that is a risk to the region, it's a risk to Gaza,
00:42and of course it's a risk to our economy, as we've already seen.
00:45So that's why I've been absolutely clear about the need to de-escalate what is a fast-moving situation.
00:50It's a fast-moving situation. I've been absolutely clear about Israel's right to self-defense,
00:56but my focus has been and remains on the need to de-escalate the situation.
01:01And if in doing so we can also bring about a ceasefire in Gaza, that is a good thing,
01:08and that is what I've absolutely focused on.
01:11It's what we discussed for the best part of two hours with the president last night.
01:14The arrangement we had was that we would discuss the conflict in the Middle East and Ukraine
01:21in the two-hour session that we had over dinner last night.
01:24The president took the decision to leave, but then also took the decision to stay for that discussion.
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