European leaders meet ahead of Trump's summit with Putin
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Europe's leaders warn the US against making concessions to Russia, saying that Ukraine's borders must not be changed by force. Donald Trump joins a virtual meeting with his European counterparts ahead of his Friday summit with Vladimir Putin. Also: there have been intense Israeli strikes in Gaza before a planned offensive to take over the territory's main city. The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 13th of August. |
| 0:11.3 | European leaders meet to voice support for Ukraine ahead of the Trump-Putin summit. |
| 0:16.1 | Intense Israeli strikes hit Gaza before a new planned offensive to take over the territory, and the |
| 0:21.8 | US puts a $5 million bounty on a notorious gang leader in Haiti. Also in the podcast, people expressing |
| 0:30.6 | their irritation, some saying that people are using one seat for hours after only buying a very |
| 0:35.9 | cheap drink, free- free loading on the electricity, |
| 0:38.6 | commenting about people's bad manners, certainly generating a lot of online debate. |
| 0:42.4 | How Starbucks in South Korea is dealing with laptop squatters. |
| 0:51.5 | When Donald Trump met Vladimir Putin in 2018, he sided with the former KGB agent instead of his own intelligence agencies on the question of Russian election interference. |
| 1:02.9 | Ukraine and its allies fear a similar outcome at the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska on Friday. |
| 1:08.4 | So European nations have spent the past few days trying to |
| 1:11.6 | persuade the US President to take Ukraine's views into account in any discussion of the war on its |
| 1:17.4 | territory. There are a series of virtual meetings today hosted by Germany with Ukrainian President |
| 1:23.3 | Vladimir Zelensky in attendance. But the British defence analyst, Paul Moorcraft, is not optimistic |
| 1:28.9 | European leaders will be able to influence President Trump's thinking. |
| 1:32.8 | President Trump is very keen to get out and concentrate on the Far East. So really what the Europeans |
| 1:39.1 | are saying carries very little weight. There won't be a coalition of the willing peacekeepers. The Russians |
| 1:45.6 | won't allow that. So there's very little role for the Europeans. I asked our diplomatic |
| 1:52.4 | correspondent Paul Adams, what the Europeans can realistically hope to achieve. They know that they |
| 1:57.8 | have got a difficult job here. They've heard the language coming out of the White House ahead of the Alaska summit. They've been alarmed, as have the Ukrainians, by talk of territorial swaps, clearly an idea that Steve Whitkoff, the Trump's envoy and Vladimir Putin talked about when they met in Moscow last week. The White House has kind of slightly |
| 2:18.2 | lowered expectations in the last 24 hours or so, saying this is a listening exercise. But still, |
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