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Speaker 1: And Gavin Gray are UK europe correspondent given welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show.

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Speaker 2: Hither run.

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Speaker 1: So Kirs Starmer's come out and basically joined the French

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Speaker 1: saying to Israel, if you don't sort out a ceasefire

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Speaker 1: by September by this UN meeting, then we'll recognize Palestinian state.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is quite a change of tactic here by

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Speaker 2: the British and buy Indeed, Sirkir Starmer himself, who has

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Speaker 2: really shrugged off demands from his own MPs and others,

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Speaker 2: saying the situation in Gaza is so bad now we

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Speaker 2: really need to demand a two state solution to this.

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Speaker 2: Just a few days ago, two hundred and twenty one

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Speaker 2: MPs from nine parties urged the recognition of a Palestinian state,

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Speaker 2: many of them from the Labor Government, Sakir Starmer's own

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Speaker 2: Labor party. So what they're saying is unless Israel meets

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Speaker 2: certain conditions, and those conditions are substantive steps to end

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Speaker 2: the appalling situation in Gaza, including a ceasefire and the

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Speaker 2: commitment of long term peace process to then the UK

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Speaker 2: will officially at the UN meeting, along with France, basically

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Speaker 2: recognize Palestinian state. So France was going to be the

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Speaker 2: first G seven country to do it. Now it's looking

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Speaker 2: like the first and second will do it at the

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Speaker 2: same time. This, as I said, is a huge U turn,

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Speaker 2: but amid huge pressure as well and terrible, terrible headlines.

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Speaker 2: Sixty thousand now killed in Gaza, it's been estimated during

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Speaker 2: the Israeli action there, the UN Agency saying famine is

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Speaker 2: now playing out on a wide scale. Israel says no starvation,

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Speaker 2: and of the UK's latest move, Israel says it rejects

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Speaker 2: the statement it's rewarding hammers for the October twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: three attack, and also says that the British move harms

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Speaker 2: efforts for a ceasefar.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Trump's wrapping up his trip to Scotland golf tru.

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Speaker 2: Yes on his way on his way back home after

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Speaker 2: four days here in the UK in what I can

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Speaker 2: only describe as a sort of private trip and a

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Speaker 2: business trip but funded by the American taxpayer. The visiting

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Speaker 2: of two golf courses, okay, the long discussion of course

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Speaker 2: with the UK Prime Minister Sekleir Starmer, the announcement of

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Speaker 2: the trade deal with the EU, and today a conversation

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Speaker 2: that was said to be up to about fifteen to

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Speaker 2: twenty minutes with John Swinney, the First Minister of Scotland.

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Speaker 2: The main thing was discussing whiskey tariffs. John Swinney is

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Speaker 2: desperate that this business, worth one point nine billion New

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Speaker 2: Zealand dollars last year, is going to be hit by

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Speaker 2: the ten percent tariffs that Donald Trump has imposed. Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump said he didn't realize that tariffs were going to

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Speaker 2: affect the industry so much. So maybe, just maybe John

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Speaker 2: Swinney's words might get the tax break for the whiskey industry,

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Speaker 2: but I wouldn't hold your breath. Donald Trump apparently not

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Speaker 2: a big whiskey fan.

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Speaker 1: No, doesn't drink at all. Appreciate Thatkevin Gray, you correspondent.

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