Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on Prime Minister Keir Starmer arriving in Egypt to sign Gaza peace deal

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has just arrived in Gaza to sign off on the latest peace deal.

Starmer is one of approximately 20 world leaders set to attend a peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh in the coming hours.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says the UK Government is set to play a key role in the peace deal, with more details to be revealed soon.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now Gavin Gray, UK correspondents with US Now, Hello, Gevin, Hi,
that s Stamer's off to Egypt. Yeah, he's there and
ready to bask in the reflected glory of Donald Trump.
And plenty of people, however, are saying, why is a
secure Starmer going to this ceremony when this is a
deal done between Israel and Gaza and Hamas and the US.

(00:25):
And really we can't quite work out what the role
of the British government is, but we are told that
the UK government played a key role in the Guards
of Peace plan. The question is what. Well, in the
weekend interviews at the television, one cabinet minister said, yep,
it was a key role we played. We're really done

(00:46):
behind the scenes here in shaping this deal and it
was the right thing to do because it's in all
our interests. However, the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee
has reposted her comments and put the tag I'm sure,
I assure you she's delusional. She can thank Donald Trump anytime,

(01:06):
just to set the records straight. And this is, you know,
a feeling of some of our opposition MPs were saying, look,
there's so much to do here in this country. Why
is our prime minister swaning off abroad declaim glory for
something which we can't really work out what glory that is.
And indeed, in some instances back in August to mister Huckerbye,

(01:28):
the ambassador again said that the UK and other European
nations who were declaring a Palestinian state say they are
having counterproductive effects and more than they were probably thinking. Indeed,
Israel's deputy Foreign Affairs minister said that the UK had
the opposite of a key role in the piece deal. Anyway,
he's there, We're going to look to see what it's

(01:50):
said and what that key role is. But people are
still pushing to find out exactly the role the UK
is supposed to have played. How I'm fascinated by diesel Gate.
This is kicking off today, is it? Yes? It is?
It starts today. Don't hold your breath, however, because it
looks like we won't get a judgment for at least
well nine ten months or so. It's looking like, and

(02:11):
this is all about five leading car makers accused of
cheating on emission tests. The trial is this big, big
chapter in what's become known as diesel Gate, with the
companies facing allegations that they used software in order to
allow their cars to reduce emissions of harmful gases under
test conditions. In other words, allegations these companies were simply

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lying about how environmentally friendly their cars were. This is
the largest class action in England and Wales legal history
and could eventually involve one point six million car owners.
The manufacturers are Mercedes Ford, Pergio, Citron, Reno and Nissan
Pergio Citron, part of the same group. They all deny

(02:54):
the accusations and the five have chosen been chosen by
the court as lead defendants to each first because the
case is so big and it's really going to be
interesting to see how this goes. The scandal first emerged
back in twenty fifteen when the US Environmental Protection Agency
accused Volkswagen of installing the so called defeat devices, but

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since then the Volkswagen has had to settle roughly nearly
sixty billion New Zealand dollars over the scandal. Jaece, Kevin,
thank you very much looking forward, even if it's nineteen
months and by the way, it's lovely to heavy back
on the program. Kevin Gray UK, corresponding for more from
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