Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Europe asking Trump to deploy US fighter jets to protect Ukraine

Europe is calling on US President Donald Trump to deploy fighter jets in Romania in order to protect Ukraine, according to new reports.

Military leaders from the U.K., Germany, France, Finland, and Italy have urged US officials to provide additional support to Ukraine as the conflict continues.

UK correspondent Enda Brady explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK correspondence with US Hallo, Inda.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, heaven great speak to again.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
So Europe wants the US jets and Romania doesn't.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, this is the latest idea about Ukrainian security. And
also the people of Romania have recent history with what
was the Soviet Union invading They don't want to be reinvaded. Now. NATO,
it turns out, is building its largest airbase in Romania.
And after all of these zoom calls and meetings of

(00:30):
the Coalition of the Willing this week, the latest idea
they're proposing for the Americans to get involved with is Okay.
They're not categorically not going to put American troops on
the ground in Ukraine. However, would you like to send
over some very sophisticated jets that we could put at
this airbase we're building in Romania and that would provide

(00:51):
security for the Ukrainians and also be very much welcomed
by the Romanians. JD Vance, however, has weighed in and said,
whatever happens, Europe will be paying for it. So that's
not a no, it's not a no, but it's interestingly
we haven't heard from Trump yet on this, but Vance
for someone who professes to love Europe and was on

(01:13):
holidays in England just last week. He certainly never weighs
in with anything positive to say about Europe, or its people,
or its leaders, or its security. But perhaps the Americans
do have a point that everyone in Europe needs to
start stepping up in pain for the continent's defense.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, well, that certainly seems to be a running theme there,
doesn't it. Now you guys have had a little surge
in your inflation. What's caused it?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Would you believe? It increases to airfares, chocolate, coffee and
other food items. So we've gone up to three point
eight percent in the UK. Now with inflation, it's worrying
because the Bank of England always sets a target of
two percent, and we're now pushing towards four. They reckon
we'll hit four percent sometimes late September, and this is

(01:59):
going to have a impact on anyone with a mortgage
because the Bank of England had been cutting interest rates
and the feeling now is that if inflation hits four percent,
they won't be able to get away with another interest
rate cut before Christmas.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
So is the feeling that the interest rate surge is
not a short lived thing. This is actually sticky.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I think it is sticky. With inflation, it's not good.
But look when the whole Ukraine War happened and Russia's
illegal invasion, inflation went up to eleven percent. So we
have got it under control. It's not as bad as
what it was three and a half years ago.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, well that's good. Okay, what's going wrong with this dolphin?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
So, Reggie the dolphin has popped up off the coast
of Dorset, a place called Lime Bay. And on the
face of it, when you see the social media videos
and the pictures and the world we live in now,
everyone is going to Line Bay to swim with a dolphin. However,
marine wildlife charities and experts have come out and said
that they are quite concerned about how close people are

(03:00):
getting to the dolphin, reminding them that you know, they
can grow to thirteen feet in length, they can weigh
five hundred kilos, and they're a wild animal. They've also
noticed some scarring on the dolphins body, which they believe
was called because years ago by a propeller from a boat.
And they're just saying that people don't get in the
water with the dolphin, don't swim with it. I don't know.

(03:20):
Part of me thinks they're being killed joys and then
it's like basic commons.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
When have you ever heard of a dolphin hurting someone exactly?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Their charities are saying that they believe the dolphin has
been targeting women in wet suits and deliberately smashing into them.
Bus Yeah. Look, I haven't seen any video evidence of this.
All I've seen is lots of playful pictures of dolphins.
I mean, we were out on a boat yesterday off
the west coast of Ireland and we saw dolphins off

(03:49):
in Ish Boffin, one of the Irish islands off Galway,
and everyone, you know, just the joy a dolphin in
the sea brings to people amazing, amazing. And by the way,
we ran into a keywig earl yesterday in the bar
working in the pub on in Ish Boffin, a girl
from Rota Rua having her absolute best summer ever. She said, so,

(04:12):
what's your name? I didn't catch her name, but she's
traveling around. She's got an English boyfriend and they absolutely
love traveling and working on remote islands. They've done some
time on the Silly Islands, silly islands off Cornwall. And
then and if you go on Google Maps, find in
Ish Boffin. It's it looks like it should be pronounced
Innisboffin I n i s is the Irish word for island.

(04:34):
Ini Ish Boffin bow Fion light cow, the island of
the light colored cow. And there you go go from
Rota Ru working up there.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh well, shout out to her, Hey, thank you very
much in the look after yourself into Brady UK corresponding.
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