Has the Ukraine conflict reached a turning point?
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Ukrainian authorities say Kyiv has reached a common understanding with the United States on the key terms of a peace agreement with Russia. Moscow says it has yet to see the amended version of an earlier draft, which included many of the Kremlin's demands. Also: there's been heavy criticism of the Nigerian authorities after hundreds of students were abducted from a school last week. The US Government tells holidaymakers to dress properly at airports. And what's more important? A billion dollars' worth of shipwreck treasure or the preservation of an important underwater archaeological site?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Alex Ritson, and at 18 hours GMT on Tuesday the 25th of November, these are our main stories. |
| 0:19.5 | US officials tell the BBC, Ukraine is ready to sign a peace deal, but Russia signals it could |
| 0:25.4 | reject a modified plan. |
| 0:27.4 | The bishop in charge of the latest Nigerian kidnap school says the authorities have done |
| 0:32.4 | little to rescue his missing students. |
| 0:35.1 | UN figures suggest a woman or girl is killed by a partner or family member somewhere |
| 0:39.8 | in the world every 10 minutes. |
| 0:43.5 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:45.3 | Air travel is a miracle of American ingenuity. |
| 0:50.4 | The US government tells holiday travelers to dress and behave properly at airports. |
| 1:00.3 | Could we be at a turning point with the war in Ukraine? President Trump has already said he's optimistic, |
| 1:07.3 | and US officials are now suggesting Ukraine could be ready to sign a peace deal. |
| 1:12.3 | That leaves Russia. Can Moscow be persuaded to agree? Or will this latest diplomatic effort |
| 1:18.9 | falter as others have done before? I spoke to our diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams, |
| 1:24.7 | who began by explaining how we got to this point. |
| 1:27.9 | Well, it is a confusing picture, Alex, and I think listeners can be forgiven for wondering what on earth is going on. |
| 1:34.9 | You had this plan unveiled in a rather clumsy fashion, leaked late last week, an American proposal, |
| 1:41.9 | which many people really saw as a Russian wish list, possibly |
| 1:46.1 | even drafted by the Russians. That led to a sort of sense of panic among Ukraine's European |
| 1:52.3 | backers. We had a flurry of activity over the weekend. And by the end of yesterday, |
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