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Speaker 1: Devon Gray are UK correspondents with US Elogevin. So after

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Speaker 1: the chat on the phone, how are things between Sir

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Speaker 1: Kia and Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they're very much better. We don't know

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Speaker 2: really the content of the call. I would love to

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Speaker 2: have been listening in, that's for sure. I'm sure lots

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Speaker 2: of advisors to our Prime Minister were listening in. This

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Speaker 2: is the first call, the first time that the two leaders,

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Speaker 2: Trump and Starmer have spoken since the very growing and

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Speaker 2: rather nasty spat has developed between them. I say developed

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Speaker 2: between them. Really it's the US President angrily criticizing the

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Speaker 2: UK's Iran response, rather than Sekir star were responding with

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Speaker 2: anything offensive or rather objectionable his way. So it has

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Speaker 2: been rather one way traffic. But we learn from Downing

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Speaker 2: Street the pair have had a phone call and this

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Speaker 2: was the very short, terse statement. The leaders began by

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Speaker 2: discussing the latest situation in the Middle East and the

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Speaker 2: military cooperation between the UK and US through the use

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Speaker 2: of RAF bases in support of the collective to self

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Speaker 2: defense of partners. The Prime Minister also shared his heartfelt

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Speaker 2: condolence with President Trump following the death of six US

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Speaker 2: soldiers they looked forward to speaking again soon. In other words,

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Speaker 2: I imagine there's an awful lot of content in there

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Speaker 2: that we simply don't know, and I can't imagine that

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Speaker 2: it was particularly plused call Fort Sekir Starmer with his

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Speaker 2: ear being bent as it were by President Trump. Either way,

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Speaker 2: the UK is said to be considering sending an air

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Speaker 2: force an aircraft carrier rather to the region to strengthen

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Speaker 2: its defenses there, and this ship that's supposed to be

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Speaker 2: going to protect Cypress still hasn't left port, a rather

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Speaker 2: embarrassing thing, I think for the UK, which makes it

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Speaker 2: look rather unprepared.

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Speaker 1: Do we'd have any understanding as to why it is

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Speaker 1: that various members of Sirkia Stamer's cabinet felt it was

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Speaker 1: necessary to say no to that US request.

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Speaker 2: I think that it was something as well kiss Arma

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Speaker 2: felt strongly about, and that is that this should have

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Speaker 2: gone to be discussed whether it's legal under international law

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Speaker 2: or not. He hasn't said it isn't within international law,

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Speaker 2: but obviously by not saying that refusing to answer it,

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Speaker 2: he feels it is. This is a man who is

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Speaker 2: a lawyer by trade, and he wants everything to be

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Speaker 2: done by the book. It's quite clear that they don't

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Speaker 2: believe this is done by the book. He said, we

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Speaker 2: don't believe in regime change from the skies, I think

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Speaker 2: is his most telling phrase. And after all the sort

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Speaker 2: of various words that have been said in anger and

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Speaker 2: opposition MPs and MPs from his own party having a

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Speaker 2: bit of a go at him, I think he feels

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Speaker 2: squashed between these very tough decisions. Most recently the former

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Speaker 2: Labour Prime Minister, in other words, from the same party,

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Speaker 2: Sir Tony Blair, who led the UK into the Iraq

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Speaker 2: War in two thousand and three, has been telling people

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Speaker 2: privately that the UK should have backed the strikes from

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Speaker 2: the beginning.

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Speaker 1: And now, what do we know about the some terrorism

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Speaker 1: in Oslo?

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Speaker 2: Well, we don't have it one hundred percent confirmed. But

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Speaker 2: overnight at the weekend the Norwegian capital embassy building, the

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Speaker 2: US embassy building, sustained minor damage after an explosion in

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Speaker 2: the early hours of Sunday. No one was injured. The

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Speaker 2: Norwegian authorities say they're in contact with the US diplomats

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Speaker 2: and investigation is underway. US diplomats, though have not commented.

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Speaker 2: It is the second attack that we know about on

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Speaker 2: an US embassy. Another one was in Iraq, but they

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Speaker 2: do believe, yep, this could have been an act of terrorism.

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Speaker 2: That's one of the lines of the investigation they're working

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Speaker 2: on and they're asking for anyone with information to come forward.

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Speaker 1: And what's the fire in Glasgow? Huge?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely huge and to an iconic building. It's very very

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Speaker 2: sad because really it's it's partially collapsed and I think

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Speaker 2: it's going to be pretty much unusable now. The fire

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Speaker 2: started in a vape shop on Sunday afternoon, with the

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Speaker 2: iconic and Victorian building of the Glasgow Central Station next

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Speaker 2: to it, and after a few hours in the flames,

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Speaker 2: much of that building has collapsed. Now it's Scotland's busiest

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Speaker 2: train station and now all trains to and from that

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Speaker 2: what's called the High Level there have been canceled and

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Speaker 2: will be closed. The station will be closed until further noticed.

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Speaker 2: So this is going to cause massive disruption. Many people

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Speaker 2: are being told the best way really to get anywhere

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Speaker 2: by train, particularly back down south into England, is probably

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Speaker 2: to go across to Edinburgh and then down. It's that

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Speaker 2: lad at least an hour onto their journey. It's also

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Speaker 2: a very long way round Hi.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Devin. We'll talk to you in

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Speaker 1: a couple of days. Devin Gray Ore UK corresponding.

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