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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kurova Coleman. White House envoy Steve Whitkoff is in Moscow today for another round of talks focused on Ukraine. He's expected to present a U.S.-backed peace plan. President Trump is insisting the U.S. is closing in on a deal to end the war. NPR's Charles Mainz has more from Moscow. |
| 0:17.6 | This is Whitkoff's fourth visit to Russia since the Trump administration began negotiations |
| 0:22.1 | aimed at ending the war. And while details of the U.S. peace plan are not publicly known, |
| 0:27.1 | administration officials indicate it involves acknowledging Russia's rightful hold over territories |
| 0:31.8 | seized from Ukraine by force. That includes the Crimean Peninsula, illegally annexed by Russia |
| 0:37.1 | back in 2014. |
| 0:38.9 | Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, has publicly rejected the idea, angering President Trump in the process. |
| 0:45.1 | Yet Trump has also expressed frustration with Russia over its continued attacks on Ukrainian cities, |
| 0:50.5 | including strikes on the capital key of Thursday that left at least a dozen people dead and scores more injured. |
| 0:56.2 | Charles Main's NPR News, Moscow. |
| 0:58.5 | This morning, Time magazine is published an interview with President Trump. |
| 1:02.0 | In it, Trump says that Crimea will stay with Russia. |
| 1:06.1 | The Vatican says more than 125,000 mourners have passed by the casket of Pope Francis. He's been lying in |
| 1:12.3 | state in St. Peter's Basilica ahead of tomorrow's papal funeral. Scores of nations are sending |
| 1:17.5 | representatives. President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are leaving this morning for Rome. Trump says |
| 1:23.4 | he expects to get pulled aside there by other officials who want to talk about tariffs. |
| 1:28.7 | Many of them there, and they all want to meet, and they want to mean about trade. |
| 1:33.2 | And we are making some great inroads and great deals. |
| 1:37.4 | Trump claims dozens of nations are moving to open trade talks with the U.S., |
| 1:41.2 | but it's not clear if China is among them. |
| 1:43.9 | Trump insists the U.S. is talking's not clear if China is among them. Trump insists the U.S. |
| 1:45.1 | is talking with China, but the Chinese government said flatly yesterday, any report of any trade |
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