UK PM visits Rome, says he's 'very worried' about suspected assassination attempt on Trump

(16 Sep 2024)
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Rome - 16 September 2024
1. UK PM Keir Starmer entering Italy’s Ministry of Interior with Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantadosi
2. Mid of screen inside Italy’s National coordination center for migration
3. Mid of Starmer and Piantadosi inside center
4. Wide of Starmer and officials looking at monitors showing boats in the Mediterranean
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Keir Starmer, UK Prime Minister:
"I was very worried by the news about this attempt. It looks like an assassination attempt. Very, very worried about it. Obviously, there's now an investigation going on, so I won't say much more about the details. But I think it is really important that we're all very, very clear that violence has no part to play at all in any political process. So deeply troubled. Let the investigation take its place. But absolute clarity, violence, no place in political discussion at all, anywhere."
6. Computer screen with graphic on migrant arrivals in Italy
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Keir Starmer, UK Prime Minister:
"I'm here to have discussions, here at this coordination center and with the Prime Minister, about how we deal with unlawful migration. And here there's been some quite dramatic reductions. So I want to understand how that came about. It looks as though that's down to the upstream work that's being done in some of the countries where people are coming from. I've long believed, by the way, that prevention and stopping people traveling in the first place is one of the best ways to deal with this particular issue. So I'm very interested to know how the upstream work went. Looking, of course, at other schemes, looking forward to my bilateral with the Prime Minister this afternoon. But we've already got a shared intent to work together on this trade, this vile trade of pushing people across borders."
8. Close of monitors with drone view, pull out to show map of and boat locations in Mediterranean
9. Wide of official explaining what the monitor is showing to Starmer
10. Official explaining to Starmer UPSOUND (English): “To be identified, irregular migrants don’t send any signal, we have to find them with sightings, with phones calls from the boats, or with direct interception at sea.”
11. Tilt-down monitor
12. Starmer looking at monitors
13. Wide of Starmer walking out, pan to monitors
STORYLINE:
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was “deeply troubled” by the news of a second apparent assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump.

Speaking on a visit to an Italian government center for the monitoring of migrant arrivals on Monday, Starmer said: “I think it is really important that we're all very, very clear that violence has no part to play at all in any political process."

Turning to the question of migration, expected to be a central part of his conversation with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni later Monday, Starmer said that he wanted to learn from the Italians how they managed to slow migration “upstream.”

“I've long believed, by the way, that prevention and stopping people traveling in the first place is one of the best ways to deal with this particular issue, So I'm very interested to know how the upstream work went," said Starmer.

The U.K. Prime Minister's meeting with Meloni will see the two very different politicians seeking a common cause to curb migrants reaching their shores by boat.


Meloni pledged a crackdown on migration after taking office in 2022, aiming to deter would-be refugees from paying smugglers to make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to Italy.










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