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🗓️ 16 August 2025
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0:00.0 | Tonight on PBS News Weekend, President Trump abruptly splits from Ukraine and European allies and aligns with Russia, saying a sweeping peace deal, not a ceasefire, should be the next step in ending the war. |
0:18.4 | Then a White House plan to overturn a landmark climate change policy could |
0:22.8 | threaten the health of millions of children. And why AI-generated models are shaking up the |
0:29.6 | fashion industry and raising new questions about unrealistic standards of beauty. Right now we're at a point |
0:36.3 | where we can create the same level of quality, |
0:40.3 | of beauty, of compositions. So why not utilize it? Good evening. I'm John Yang. Peace efforts in the war between Russia and Ukraine |
1:01.1 | shift to the White House next week when President Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodomir |
1:05.6 | Zelensky. Their talks come as Mr. Trump has now aligned himself with Russian President |
1:10.6 | Vladimir Putin, |
1:12.0 | dropping his demand for a ceasefire and backing a comprehensive agreement to end the war instead. |
1:17.9 | Hours after meeting with Putin and Alaska, Mr. Trump announced his sudden reversal on truth social. |
1:22.9 | It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine |
1:28.7 | is to go directly to a peace agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere ceasefire |
1:34.0 | agreement. |
1:35.0 | Earlier, the president had told Fox News' Sean Hannity that the responsibility is now |
1:39.8 | on others. |
1:40.8 | Now it's really up to President Zelensky to get it done. And I would also say the |
1:46.6 | European nations, they have to get involved a little bit. And now for analysis of all of this, |
1:52.3 | Andrea Kendall Taylor, she's a former senior intelligence officer. She's now a senior fellow |
1:57.6 | at the Center for a New American Security. Andrea, in addition to sort of |
2:02.4 | flip-flopping, you're changing his position on the ceasefire, there are now reports that he's |
2:06.7 | told European leaders that he now supports Russia's demand for territory for peace. Where does this |
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