Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
Coming to you live from London, I'm Rajini Vaidyanathan.
Well,
this was the moment the President of the United States called the BBC's chief North America correspondent,
Gary O'Donoghue.
I'm here with the President.
Here you go.
Mr President.
Hi Gary, how are you?
I'm very well, sir.
Thank you very much for sparing some time.
Good.
You covered us very fairly.
Well, what was supposed to be just a five-minute chat turned into a much longer conversation.
A wide-ranging interview which covered the war in Ukraine,
relationships between Donald Trump and world leaders like Vladimir Putin and Sekir Starmer,
and the attempt on the president's life a year ago at an election rally in Pennsylvania,
which Gary himself reported from.
Well, I wanted to ask you briefly about that to start with.
I know it's not a topic you like talking about very much, but I wanted to ask you,