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Speaker 1: Now let's get de Vincent mcavinie in the UK for us,

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Speaker 1: then some good morning, good morning. Now over in the

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Speaker 1: Ival Office, we've heard Mertz meeting with Trump. Did anything

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Speaker 1: come of the meeting?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Fredrich Mertz, the new Chancellor of Germany, made that

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Speaker 2: path that some leaders have fallen down on to the

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Speaker 2: Oval Office in recent months. It seems to have gone

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Speaker 2: off the public side pretty much without a hitch. He

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Speaker 2: presented Donald Trump with a gift, which was his German

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Speaker 2: grandfather's original birth certificate, which seemed to go down quite

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Speaker 2: well with the President. When it came to their meeting.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we were told that he had sort of

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Speaker 2: gamed out scenarios. He would have likely have talked to

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Speaker 2: Mark Carney and Keir Starmer, the Canadian and British prime

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Speaker 2: ministers who had successful visits, not so much the South

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Speaker 2: African president, and of course Vladimir Zelenski. The questions, though,

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Speaker 2: seem to have highlighted some of the rift, particularly when

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Speaker 2: it comes to Ukraine. Germany a big support of Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: It's thought, with some strategic ambiguity at the moment they

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Speaker 2: won't confirm this. Germany has given permission to Ukraine to

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Speaker 2: use long range missiles that they're provising to strike further

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Speaker 2: into Russia. But Donald Trump is essentially saying, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's like he's compared in this meeting to two children

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Speaker 2: fighting in a park. He had a two hour long

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Speaker 2: conversation with Vladimir Putin and he said that you've got

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Speaker 2: to let them fight for a while, and he thinks

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Speaker 2: he knows when will be the right moment to step in,

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Speaker 2: but won't say what that is. So they're now meeting

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Speaker 2: behind closed doors. Of course, Germany trying to get a

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Speaker 2: deal like the UK has to get out of these tariffs.

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Speaker 2: Their manufacturing industry hit very hard. But they are just

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Speaker 2: part of the EU when it comes to that, so

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Speaker 2: they're part of a kind of multi pronged approach.

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Speaker 1: Interesting and Vincent well have today. That's Vincent Mecha any

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