European leaders hopeful after Trump call before Putin summit
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
European leaders appeared cautiously optimistic after holding a virtual meeting with Donald Trump on Wednesday, before he meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. He reportedly said his goal for the summit was to obtain a ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv. We also take a look at the strange history of Alaska. Plus: we report on the devastating hunger crisis in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher; the plusses and minuses of artificial intelligence -- enabling your glasses to help you hear better, but perhaps also leading doctors to being de-skilled; why hundreds of Peruvian military and police officers are being pardoned; Iran tries to help its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon; and why the British foreign secretary is in a spot of hot water over a fishing trip with the vice-president of the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Julia McFarlane and in the early hours of Thursday the 14th of August, these are our main stories. |
| 0:12.5 | European leaders have given a positive account of their talks with President Trump |
| 0:16.7 | ahead of Friday's meeting with Vladimir Putin as they seek to influence the terms of any ceasefire in Ukraine. |
| 0:23.7 | The Peruvian president has signed a law, |
| 0:25.9 | pardoning military and police officers, |
| 0:28.1 | who are accused of human rights abuses during a bitter conflict with leftist rebels. |
| 0:33.4 | And Lebanon's president has warned a visiting Iranian security official against interference |
| 0:38.0 | as the government moves towards disarming Hezbollah. |
| 0:43.7 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:45.8 | Please have mass you know us. |
| 0:47.4 | Our suffering is worse than you can imagine. |
| 0:49.9 | Help us in any way possible, especially the children. |
| 0:53.3 | They are innocent in all this and they are dying before our eyes. |
| 0:57.3 | The crisis intensifies in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher. |
| 1:06.5 | On Wednesday, just two days before Vladimir Putin is welcomed back onto American soil, |
| 1:12.8 | Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders spoke to Donald Trump |
| 1:17.8 | to make clear their red lines in any negotiations with the Russian president. |
| 1:22.8 | Neither Mr. Zelensky nor his allies in Europe have been invited to the U.S. Russia summit in Alaska. |
| 1:28.4 | But President Trump took a call from Berlin. |
| 1:31.3 | The German Chancellor Friedrich Mears told him that he and other European leaders, |
| 1:35.6 | some of whom were also on the call, would never recognize a land grab by Russia. |
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