Kremlin: Russia is a real bear
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Russia hits back at the US President Donald Trump, after he called the nation a 'paper tiger'. The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said 'Russia is generally associated with a bear. There are no paper bears. Russia is a real bear.' We unpack the importance of words in the US-Russia relationship and whether President Trump’s comments will have any impact on the ground in Ukraine. As Syria’s interim President, Ahmed Al Sharaa, addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Syrians in Damascus give us their opinion. Also: Super Typhoon Ragasa causes chaos in southern China, a landmark deal to slash the price of injectable HIV prevention drugs, and a breakthrough in treating Huntington’s disease. Plus: Denmark’s prime minister apologises to the victims of a forced contraceptive programme in Greenland and Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show returns to our screens, after being suspended by ABC.
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| 0:07.6 | American politics can sometimes feel like a different language. |
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| 0:13.3 | Make sense of what's happening in the US, |
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| 0:21.1 | This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm Nick Miles, and at 17 hours GMT on Wednesday the 24th of September, these are our main |
| 0:31.2 | stories. Russia has dismissed claims by Donald Trump that it is a paper tiger and that a real |
| 0:37.4 | military power would have beaten Ukraine in a week. |
| 0:41.0 | Syria's interim leader, Ahmed al-Shara, will address the United Nations General Assembly, |
| 0:46.2 | making him the first Syrian president to speak at the UN since 1967. |
| 0:53.0 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:54.6 | This gene therapy news is really the first time in the history of Huntington's disease |
| 1:00.3 | that we have convincingly slowed the progression of Huntington's disease. |
| 1:04.7 | How one of the cruelest genetic disorders has been successfully treated for the first time |
| 1:09.6 | and a landmark deal to make a highly |
| 1:12.0 | effective new HIV prevention drug available to poorer countries at a fraction of the price. |
| 1:20.9 | When it comes to the world's two largest nuclear powers, it's always better if they trade |
| 1:25.9 | metaphorical blows rather than real ones. |
| 1:28.6 | And that is thankfully what the US and Russia have been doing. In an animal-themed war of words, |
| 1:35.5 | the Kremlin's spokesman Dmitri Peskov said that Russia is a real bear. It was in response to |
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