Another Trump Ukraine Peace Plan
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today, after President Trump hints at “big process” in Ukraine talks, are we actually any closer to peace?
The US and Ukraine have held weekend talks in Geneva over a possible peace plan. European leaders criticised the 28-point peace plan when it emerged last week, saying it was too favourable to Russia. Since then the US has said “revisions and clarifications” were made. Adam is joined by diplomatic correspondent James Landale and chief presenter Caitriona Perry.
And, just days before the budget Adam speaks to president of the British Polling Council Professor Jane Green about what the link is between public attitudes towards the economy and immigration.
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| 1:25.5 | And the first half of this episode in Newscast is going to be about the immense amount of diplomatic activity around Ukraine and Russia over the last few days. At the end of last week, we saw the emergence of this US 28 point peace plan to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, which many people say bore all the fingerprints of Russia. |
| 1:36.7 | Then we saw a very dramatic address to the Ukrainian people by Volodymyr Zelensky at the end of last week. |
| 1:42.8 | Then there was a whole load of European |
| 1:44.2 | leaders meeting on the fringes of the G20 summit in South Africa, working at how to respond. |
| 1:50.1 | Then over the weekend, there were meetings between the US and Ukraine in Geneva, in Switzerland. |
| 1:57.5 | And all throughout this process, we saw what appeared to be, or hints of, or briefings that there had been a watering down of this plan, which had been so initially unwelcome for the Ukrainians. |
| 2:11.2 | So where have we got to and what can we work out about what might be happening next? Two people who can help us brainstorm that are with us now. James Landale is the BBC's diplomatic correspondent and he's |
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