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🗓️ 28 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky met in Florida today |
| 0:07.9 | over a revised 20-point ceasefire deal in Russia's nearly four-year-old war. Trump says they have the |
| 0:15.1 | makings of a deal. You can say 95 percent, but I don't like to say percentages. I just think we're doing |
| 0:20.5 | very well. We're very, |
| 0:22.2 | we could be very close. There are one or two very thorny issues, very tough issues, but I think |
| 0:27.3 | we're doing very well. We've made a lot of progress today, but really we've made it over the last |
| 0:30.9 | month. Zolensky says the U.S. wants the U.S. to agree to security guarantees against further |
| 0:37.4 | Russian aggression, and says progress |
| 0:39.9 | was made to that end. |
| 0:41.2 | We agreed that our teams will meet in upcoming weeks to finalize all discussed matters. |
| 0:48.0 | And we agreed with President Trump that he will host us and maybe in Washington, European leaders and Ukrainian delegation. |
| 0:57.2 | Yes, in January, and Ukraine is ready for peace. |
| 1:00.7 | Both men spoke to European leaders after the call and Trump spoke to Russian President Putin |
| 1:06.1 | before meeting with Zelensky. |
| 1:08.7 | Somalia has called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting tomorrow |
| 1:12.0 | after Israel decided to formally recognize the breakaway region of Somalian land. And peers, Michelle |
| 1:18.3 | Kellerman has more. More than 20 Arab and African states have joined Somalia in condemning the move, |
| 1:24.2 | calling Israel's recognition a blatant disregard to international law. There are fears in |
| 1:29.8 | the region that the Israelis want to move Palestinians in Gaza to Somaliland, though authorities in |
| 1:35.4 | Somaliland say Gaza was not part of the talks on establishing relations. Somaliland plans to |
| 1:41.5 | join the Abraham Accords, the normalization deals with Israel that started |
| 1:46.0 | during the first Trump administration. It's a topic that could come up in Trump's talks with |
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