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Hello, and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
In 30 minutes,
we'll be joining my colleague James Kamarasamy in Berlin for his reflections
with a panel of guests on the German elections on Sunday.
Big changes wrought there,
but we're beginning in Washington because among French and British political classes,
certainly for several days now, there's been one overriding question.
How should the country's respective leaders, when they arrive this week at the White House,
try to persuade Donald Trump to take more heed of Europe and