Could the War in Ukraine be About to End?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at President Donald Trump’s claim that there’s a “good possibility” that the Ukraine war could be about to end.
He spoke to Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during separate phone calls. Chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet and Russia editor Steve Rosenberg talk through what we know.
Chris is on to talk about stories regarding the Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s CV, and her expenses when she was working for a bank in a previous job.
And, the CEO of BBC News Deborah Turness is warning about the “threat” AI poses to people using it to access news.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, there are social media posts from Donald Trump that provoke a reaction. |
| 0:09.7 | And then there are social media posts from Donald Trump that provoke a reaction. |
| 0:14.6 | That happened on Wednesday night, just after we published the previous episode of newscast, |
| 0:19.8 | where Donald Trump said he'd had a phone call with Vladimir Putin, that basically the two of them were kind of restarting the relationship between their two countries, and that they were going to start negotiations about the future of Ukraine. |
| 0:34.2 | And then his call to President Zelensky of Ukraine came after that. |
| 0:39.1 | And there were lots of anguished statements from other leaders, particularly across Europe, |
| 0:43.6 | about whether they were going to be involved in this. |
| 0:45.8 | So what is a situation now as we publish this new episode of Newscast? |
| 0:50.4 | And what does it all mean? |
| 0:51.7 | We'll discuss that on this episode of Newscast. |
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| 1:01.7 | That is not the agenda. It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 1:05.2 | The star is born. Elon. |
| 1:07.2 | Soul hurts that a miracle with us happening. Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. |
| 1:11.1 | Take me down to Downing Street. |
| 1:12.9 | Let's go have it to work. |
| 1:14.5 | Blimey. |
| 1:16.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, and we're recording the first half of this episode of |
| 1:19.9 | newscast at quarter past seven on Thursday evening. |
| 1:23.2 | And all day, there have been events, reactions, comments about what Donald Trump said to Vladimir Putin in their phone call on Wednesday night, when the two of them seemed to agree that they would start negotiations about what will happen to Ukraine. |
| 1:38.3 | Negotiations that didn't necessarily seem to involve Ukraine itself. |
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