joining me now, gb views political editor, christopher hope. christopher. good afternoon. hi, nana. well, the 16 world leaders have gone inside, along with the nato secretary—general, the european commission president, and of course, european council leader. they've gone in, i should say, as well as eu leaders here. we've got trudeau from canada has flown in, and also the foreign minister of turkey. a real moment here behind me though, the coldstream guards have gone in now. they were saluting everyone as they arrived, clicking their heels, the helicopter overhead, a real feeling of tension. the summit has released what they call a family photograph. that's all. family photograph. that�*s all. the photograph. photos of the leaders standing together. they look stern, they look nervous. i think because they are facing a new world order, with the us apparently withdrawing or threatening to withdraw from providing a security backstop, is now the time for these all these leaders on the continent of europe to step up now leading the way is sir keir starmer and emmanuel macron. s

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hope that you'll some questions now, as i'm sure must have them at. all. right. hi. hi. i just sort of you professional comment on why you think christophight have defected to the french if he actually believed where his province. i'm really glad that you ask this because i for reasons of time, left out part of the story. and that is pretty important actually, which has to do with whenever i said to send you your tour was going to suffer for that but somebody else close to christoph suffered he another son whose name was francois fontenelle who was born the year of emancipation in 1794. it's one year after krzysztof in mali that we get married just toussaint louverture had previously sent his sons to be educated in france. christophe sent his son there and he sent his son right after he defected to the french. it was probably an agreement. he really wanted his son to have a french education. but the french were only letting certain people in. it was kind of a favoritism system. so i think that had something to do with it. and then i think the reason it takes him, he doesn't read effect until october about 1802, but i don't. but if you l

this evening, our political editor, christopher hope, good evening to you. bring us up to speed.*t followed the days going. >> on, listening there to the pm there saying, as you'd expect, we'll play a leading role, that is a debate. now, why are we playing a leading role? why are other countries not doing their heavy lifting? why is germany spending less than 2% of their gdp on defence? they�*re much more on the line of fire than russia. why are we doing this? that�*s a question being talked about a lot. we hear from the government today, £128 about a lot. we hear from the government today, £12.8 billion government today, £128 billion given in grants and loans by the uk to ukraine in the past three years. no conditions asked for a trump asked asking for shares of mineral rights. why are we not doing that now? we're told by the government today that ukraine securities are. is uk security. defending ukraine is absolutely critical to our uk national security, but this is a case i think the government needs to make more of this week. john healey, he flies to america meeting with pete

gb news political editor, christopher hope, was at that press conference for us. at can you tell us? >> that's right. listening back again to those words from the prime minister, nana a crossroads in history. and also fascinating. i think they talked about us strong us backing, but no mention there of military support. now, i've been in washington for that 36 hours there and back trip with the prime minister. back then it was all the talk was a military backstop and how it might be supportive. and us military being used to provide almost like a dome, like the physical iron dome, but some kind of protection over the continent of europe. he simply said, there are strong us backing, and i wonder whether that is evidence that the uk and maybe the is that the uk and maybe the 15 other countries have met behind me in lancaster house in central london, are thinking we can't even guarantee the basics. we can't even guarantee that the us will provide that support. long, long—range jet support or radar support for a uk or uk or european peacekeeping force on the ground in uk

live to gb news political editor christopher hope, who is on downing street for us with more.chris, thank you very much for managing to get to us this afternoon. chris, what is going on? how many of the leaders are turning up many of the leaders are turning up there, and how long can we expect it to go on for, and what are we expecting to get out of it? >> i. >> i. >> hi, tonya, welcome to the central london location. we can't say exactly where we are, but you'll see behind me there securing our future. they�*ve got securing our future. they've got this branding of this major event here. it's the biggest peace conference about the future of europe. many say since the second world war, a big moment. i�*m ticking off the leaders as they arrive. we're leaders as they arrive. we�*re expecting 16 leaders, plus the leaders of the european commission and the council of europe. so far, i've ticked off france's president macron, poland's donald tusk arriving with what looked like a broken leg, hobbling in. and also there's nato secretary general mark rutte. it's a very, very big day he

well, dame priti patel spoke to our political editor christopher hope earlier today and she insists it'sal that britain plays a leading role in achieving that peace. >> this matters to us as a country. it matters to our own security here domestically. i cannot emphasise that enough. look at who the aggressor is in this conflict. it's russia. it's the same russia that committed poisonings in our own country not that long ago. you remember salisbury? we had politicians in that very chamber that i've sat in this afternoon who would not even acknowledge russian influence. >> well, it comes after zelenskyy's heated oval office zelenskyy�*s heated oval office exchange with donald trump and jd vance. and tonight, donald trump has again criticised the ukrainian president, calling his recent comments on the war the worst statement that could have been made. it follows zelenskyy saying the conflict with russia is still very, very far away from ending. in a new statement tonight, zelenskyy says ukraine is counting on american support, though, describing peace as the country's highest priority. he s