Today, we discuss the Prime Minister’s visit to the White House to discuss the US and UK’s support for Ukraine. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said Russia had started the war in Ukraine and could end it "straight away”. Adam is joined by Chris Mason, who is in Washington with the Prime Minister ahead of his meeting with President Joe Biden. We also speak to Emily Thornberry, the new Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. In her first interview since becoming Chair, she speaks about how she plans to use her new role, the UK’s support for Ukraine, and why she’d like more MPs to be ‘internationalists’. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Frank McWeeny. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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I have just been to a kind of bagel place around the corner from the BBC building here in Washington.
You can probably hear that.
A bit of crinkle of the old paper.
And this bagel is unbelievable.
It must be about three or four inches tall, and it's got cream cheese and tomato and onion and cucumber and salmon and.
Oh, it's fantastic.
And then this massive bowl of coffee, which, given I spent a long time on an airplane yesterday, is very valuable.
Well, and according to this photo of the traveling press pack and Kirstarmer taken by legendary photographer Stefan Russo, the only thing you ate on the flight over was your pen.
Well, you're chewing your pen.
Well.
So the thing is, I'm gonna be.
I'm gonna be really.
I'm gonna be really honest with newscasters here.
So we have this thing called the huddle, and if you've seen the pictures, you'll know why it's called the huddle, where we all huddle around.