Summary
The UK Defence Secretary says Putin has made a mistake... Simon Smith, former British Ambassador to Ukraine (when Russia annexed Crimea and Russian-backed rebels took over parts of the Donbas region), and the BBC’s Carrie Davies in Rostov-on-Don (near the Ukrainian border) join Adam to discuss the twisting of history, sanctions and the latest in Ukraine. And.. What is the Metaverse? Bloomberg’s Naomi Nix envisions a life in virtual reality... Today’s Newscast was made by John Murphy with Tim Walklate, Natalie Ktena, Molly Lynch and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Ash Taylor and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.4 | Hello, I thought I was a pretty successful Europe correspondent when I was doing that job. |
| 0:09.4 | Then I heard this guy, Philip Crowther, who works for AP and reports in many, many languages. |
| 0:15.8 | English. |
| 0:16.8 | There's been a war with Russian-backed forces in the East, the Donbass region for eight years now. |
| 0:22.2 | Luxembourgish. |
| 0:23.2 | The war has already won a war against the Russian-backed forces. |
| 0:27.2 | Spanish. |
| 0:28.2 | The president of France, today in Moscow, with the president of Russia on the ground. |
| 0:32.2 | Portuguese. |
| 0:33.2 | For a factory, Carlos Porto Moussidentio style, the state's state of affairs. |
| 0:37.2 | French. |
| 0:38.2 | As a state, the war seems probable. |
| 0:40.2 | It's also similar to that. |
| 0:41.2 | But there's still this small horror that diplomacy can stop a Russian invasion. |
| 0:46.2 | And German. |
| 0:47.2 | This information, closed the war against a foreign-fuerot country in Ukraine, is too much. |
| 0:52.2 | And that was Philip talking about the Ukraine crisis on a whole load of news channels from around the world, |
| 0:57.2 | from a rooftop in Kiev. |
| 0:59.2 | And he's with us now in English. |
| 1:01.2 | Hello, Philip. |
| 1:02.2 | Hello there. |
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