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What is President Trump's agenda during his Scotland visit?
Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump is expected to play some golf today. He's in Scotland this weekend to visit his two golf courses and to talk trade with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Union officials, telling reporters upon landing in Scotland that he thinks there's a fifty-fifty chance at concluding a trade deal with the EU.
And that would be actually the biggest deal of them all if we make
Trump's visit to Scotland is being overshadowed by his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump dismissed the idea of a pardon for Epstein's imprisoned former girlfriend Glenn Maxwell. Her attorney says she has completed a second day of interviews with Deputy Attorney General Tom Blanche. And although she would welcome relief, he says there have been no discussions about a pardon. Florida's governor says deportation flights had begun from an immigration detention center in southern Florida.
How are Florida's deportation flights and detention center lawsuits unfolding?
MPR's Greg Allen reports that elected officials and lawyers for detainees have filed lawsuits after being denied access to the facility.
Governor Ron DeSantis says a hundred detainees who had final removal orders have been deported from the facility, located at an airport in the heart of the Everglades.
This provides an ability uh to enhance the mission to increase the number and frequency of deportations.
DeSantis says hundreds more have been flown from the facility to other locations in the US before being deported. Several lawsuits are challenging operations at the facility, including one filed by attorneys who've been denied access to their clients. Florida's emergency management director says the lawyers weren't allowed to speak to their clients for technology issues, but that on site representation will be possible by Monday. Greg Allen in PR News, Miami.
says airdrops might help but would be insufficient and ceasefire talks appear to have hit a standstill. The US and Israel recalled their negotiating teams this week.
Why is France's recognition of a Palestinian state reshaping Middle‑East diplomacy?
Meanwhile, France has announced it plans to recognize a Palestinian state, the first G seven member to do so as part of a larger diplomatic peace strategy, and Pierre Eleanor Beardsley reports.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Macron's decision to recognize a Palestinian state quote a reward for terror. Israeli Ofra Bronstein doesn't get that reasoning. The longtime peace activist who advises President Macron on Israeli-Palestinian relations says sovereignty forces responsibility. He doesn't believe the October seventh attacks would have happened if there had been a Palestinian state. I have no doubt about it. The best way to find terrorism is to have a responsibility by the Palestinian. When the Palestinian state could be created, it will guarantee the security of Israel. He says Netanyahu has given no plan for after the war.
What caused the Southwest Airlines near‑midair collision and what are the safety implications?
He believes other European and G seven nations will support the peace plan put forward by France and Saudi Arabia next week at the UN in
This is M PR. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a Southwest Airlines passenger jet had to dive to avoid a midair collision. The incident happened shortly after takeoff from Burbank, California. The online flight tracking service, Flight Radar twenty-four, identified the other aircraft as a British built Hawker Hunter fighter jet. The Southwest flight continued on to Las Vegas without further incident. No injuries among passengers were reported. But Southwest says two flight attendants were hurt. A similar incident involving an Air Force B 52 bomber happened in North Dakota earlier this week.
How are M23 rebels and the Congolese government negotiating a new peace settlement?
In Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda backed M twenty three rebels say that a final peace settlement will occur only under a different central government. Emmett Livingston reports on the troubling side for the U.S. backed peace talks between the rebels and the Congolese government.
The chief negotiator for the M23 Rebel Group announced that for peace to return to Congo, a new central government will be needed in the capital, Kinshasa.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is President Trump's agenda during his Scotland visit?
0:00–0:54
2
How are Florida's deportation flights and detention center lawsuits unfolding?
0:54–2:00
3
Why is France's recognition of a Palestinian state reshaping Middle‑East diplomacy?
2:00–2:50
4
What caused the Southwest Airlines near‑midair collision and what are the safety implications?
2:50–3:36
5
How are M23 rebels and the Congolese government negotiating a new peace settlement?
3:36–4:39