Hey, it's Al Franken here. You know, I'm a big fan of the BBC, and they've asked me to share

their new Daily News podcast with you. And we can see that the world is changing. Decisions

made in the U.S. and by the Second Trump administration are accelerating that change, but they are

also a symptom of it.

The global story focuses on this intersection where the world and America meet.

The show is backed by the BBC's International Newsroom, and it's hosted by Asma Khalid in D.C. You might know her as a former NPR White House correspondent,

and Tristan Redman in London. Together, they're trying to make sense of a world in flux with new

episodes every weekday. I want to play you a bit of one of their recent episodes. It's called

Nukes for Nothing, the deal that broke Ukraine's trust. It's about the moment in history that's

been giving Zelensky a bit of deja vu in his recent meetings with world leaders. Back in 1994, Ukraine surrendered the world's third largest nuclear arsenal, and in exchange,

they got security assurances from the U.S., the U.K., and Russia.

If you like what you hear, find the global story wherever you get your podcast.

Over to Tristan Redmond.

In all the peace talks about Ukraine, there's one phrase which keeps coming up again and again.

We will talk about many important topics.

The first one is security guarantees. Security guarantees, so important.

Security guarantees. Security guarantees. Because when we speak about security guarantees,

we speak about the whole security of the European continent. On Thursday this week, most of the

major Western powers met with the Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky,

to work out what this phrase even means.

The question is, if Russia attacks again, who will actually show up to help Ukraine?

It's one of the biggest things standing in the way of peace right now.

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