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🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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In a special episode recorded just minutes after the summit in Alaska between Presidents Putin and Trump, we discuss what it was like in the room, and the ramifications of a meeting which leaves more questions than answers. What happens next?
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Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph |
| 0:05.0 | I'd like to hope that the agreement that we've reached together will help us bring closer that goal and will pave the path towards peace in Ukraine. |
| 0:16.0 | We had an extremely productive meeting and many points were agreed to. |
| 0:22.5 | There are just a very few that are left. |
| 0:26.1 | Some are not that significant. |
| 0:28.0 | One is probably the most significant, but we have a very good chance of getting there. |
| 0:32.9 | We didn't get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there. |
| 0:35.7 | Well, you join us just minutes after that press conference between Putin and Trump in Alaska. |
| 0:43.3 | Just to bring you up to date of how we got to this point. |
| 0:46.3 | So earlier on, a few hours ago, Trump and Putin disembarked aircraft at the same time. |
| 0:52.3 | Both of them had red carpet rolled out. |
| 0:55.3 | At one point, there were uniforms U.S. soldiers literally on their hands and knees rolling out |
| 1:00.1 | the red carpet for Vladimir Putin. The Russian president looked pretty jovial. |
| 1:06.4 | And as he walked up to President Trump, Trump applauded him and they shook hands and seemed to be |
| 1:13.3 | pretty warm with each other. |
| 1:14.9 | A journalist, he cried out, President Putin, will you stop killing civilians? |
| 1:19.9 | And Putin gestured pretending that he didn't understand before the two got into the presidential |
| 1:25.0 | limo before a meeting that lasted about two hours, 45 minutes. |
| 1:31.1 | Dom, what happened next? |
| 1:32.7 | Well, hi, Francis. |
| 1:33.5 | It was quite extraordinary, mainly because of the brevity of the press conference. |
| 1:38.9 | So we thought the talks had ended early. |
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