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Gavin Gray: UK Correspondent on France hosting a summit to discuss the Ukraine war and European security. · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: First to the Europe we go, Gavin, great, good morning
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got the emergency summit on the war in
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine tomorrow or in days in France.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it hasn't all formerly been announced, but it looks
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  Speaker 2: like very little in Europe happens quickly. But it does
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  Speaker 2: look like this is going to happen pretty quickly. And
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  Speaker 2: that's because the Europeans are now pretty terrified frankly, about
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  Speaker 2: being left out of the negotiations about ending the war
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  Speaker 2: in Ukraine, which is on the doorstep of Europe. They
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  Speaker 2: fear that this is going to be put together by
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  Speaker 2: America and Russia without even Ukraine being involved, let alone
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  Speaker 2: anybody from Europe, and so they want to attend this
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  Speaker 2: summit in Paris, going to be hosted by Emmanuel Macron.
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  Speaker 2: Sekire Starmer is likely to go, and interestingly, Sakire Starma
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  Speaker 2: already then has a meeting with US President Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: at the White House at the end of this month,
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  Speaker 2: so it looks like there is some sort of a
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  Speaker 2: schedule for this. But of course I say the end
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  Speaker 2: of this month or two weeks away. Donald Trump doesn't
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  Speaker 2: tend to wait two weeks to announce things. So there
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  Speaker 2: is this real fear that in some way Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: and Vladimir Putin are going to agree something which neither
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine nor Europe agree with. And I think that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be very difficult. So there are not going to
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  Speaker 2: be calls. President Zelenski has started this for the creation
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  Speaker 2: of an army of Europe amid the rising concern that
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  Speaker 2: the US may no longer come to the continent's aid.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and there's an army outside of NATO, another army,
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  Speaker 1: another sort of organization. So some are for and some
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  Speaker 1: are against. That's what they'll be discussing as this emergency summit.
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  Speaker 1: Kids underway tell me about commuter cat.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, Well, I love this story. So there is this
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  Speaker 2: cat from a village show, small town outside London, and
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  Speaker 2: it was just turned up at somebody's door and it
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  Speaker 2: turns out that these people have adopted it. It's a
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  Speaker 2: family cat now, so to speak. And this cat is
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  Speaker 2: incredibly adventurous. He's already gone on buses and managed to
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  Speaker 2: find his way home. He's actually ended up going behind
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  Speaker 2: the bar at the local pub and just sort of
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  Speaker 2: sitting there for lunch and so forth. But I think
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  Speaker 2: the biggest shot came quite recently when the owners had
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  Speaker 2: a call from Waterloo Railway Station, which is a London terminus.
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  Speaker 2: The cat had got on the coach on the train carriage, rather,
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  Speaker 2: had got on the train carriage at Weybridge and conducted
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  Speaker 2: a thirty kilometer trip right into the heart of London, unaccompanied,
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  Speaker 2: completely unannounced. Who knows how he got to the station,
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  Speaker 2: Who knows how he got on the train. But the
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  Speaker 2: owner said, I was absolutely stunned when somebody from the
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  Speaker 2: ticket office at Waterloo station said your cat is here.
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  Speaker 2: It's got your labor on. He said, what the hell
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  Speaker 2: is my cat doing in Waterloo getting on the trains
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  Speaker 2: and going for a ride. What a good question.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, if he doesn't watch out the cat, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to some pancras before he knows that. He get a
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  Speaker 1: call from France. We got your care here, Kevin or
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  Speaker 1: the best. Thank you so much for your time today.
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