Gavin Gray: UK Correspondent on an emergency summit over US-Russia peace talks, and the cat that travelled to Waterloo station

European leaders are set to gather this week for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine.

This comes as concerns are growing that the US is moving ahead with Russia on peace talks that will lock out the continent. 

UK PM Sir Keir Starmer says it is a "once-in-a-generation moment for our national security." 

UK Correspondent Gavin Gray joins the show to discuss the summit, as well as the adventurous cat that had to be collected from London Waterloo station after tripping 30km away. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
First to the Europe we go, Gavin, great, good morning
to you.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
So we've got the emergency summit on the war in
Ukraine tomorrow or in days in France.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yes, it hasn't all formerly been announced, but it looks
like very little in Europe happens quickly. But it does
look like this is going to happen pretty quickly. And
that's because the Europeans are now pretty terrified frankly, about
being left out of the negotiations about ending the war
in Ukraine, which is on the doorstep of Europe. They
fear that this is going to be put together by

(00:34):
America and Russia without even Ukraine being involved, let alone
anybody from Europe, and so they want to attend this
summit in Paris, going to be hosted by Emmanuel Macron.
Sekire Starmer is likely to go, and interestingly, Sakire Starma
already then has a meeting with US President Donald Trump
at the White House at the end of this month,

(00:55):
so it looks like there is some sort of a
schedule for this. But of course I say the end
of this month or two weeks away. Donald Trump doesn't
tend to wait two weeks to announce things. So there
is this real fear that in some way Donald Trump
and Vladimir Putin are going to agree something which neither
Ukraine nor Europe agree with. And I think that's going
to be very difficult. So there are not going to

(01:16):
be calls. President Zelenski has started this for the creation
of an army of Europe amid the rising concern that
the US may no longer come to the continent's aid.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yes, and there's an army outside of NATO, another army,
another sort of organization. So some are for and some
are against. That's what they'll be discussing as this emergency summit.
Kids underway tell me about commuter cat.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Ah, Well, I love this story. So there is this
cat from a village show, small town outside London, and
it was just turned up at somebody's door and it
turns out that these people have adopted it. It's a
family cat now, so to speak. And this cat is
incredibly adventurous. He's already gone on buses and managed to

(01:58):
find his way home. He's actually ended up going behind
the bar at the local pub and just sort of
sitting there for lunch and so forth. But I think
the biggest shot came quite recently when the owners had
a call from Waterloo Railway Station, which is a London terminus.
The cat had got on the coach on the train carriage, rather,

(02:20):
had got on the train carriage at Weybridge and conducted
a thirty kilometer trip right into the heart of London, unaccompanied,
completely unannounced. Who knows how he got to the station,
Who knows how he got on the train. But the
owner said, I was absolutely stunned when somebody from the
ticket office at Waterloo station said your cat is here.
It's got your labor on. He said, what the hell

(02:43):
is my cat doing in Waterloo getting on the trains
and going for a ride. What a good question.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Absolutely, if he doesn't watch out the cat, we'll get
to some pancras before he knows that. He get a
call from France. We got your care here, Kevin or
the best. Thank you so much for your time today.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
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