'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says alongside Trump
Newshour
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has said the cost and burden of securing peace in Ukraine must be borne by the nations of Europe, following talks with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, at the White House. President Macron said Europeans were committed to taking part in such security guarantees in Ukraine, and more fairly sharing the burden for wider European security. But he stressed that any peace needed to be lasting, and could not constitute a surrender by Ukraine. We'll hear a US response to Europe's concerns. Also on the programme: On the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a psychologist and mother tells us what war has done to her; and farewell to a music legend: we'll look back at the life and career of Roberta Flack.
(Photo: US President Trump meets French President Macron at the White House, Washington, 24 Feb 2025. Credit: SHAWN THEW/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock )
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Tim Franks. In 30 minutes, we'll be joining my colleague James Kamara Sami in Berlin for his reflections with a panel of guests on the German elections on Sunday. |
| 0:20.9 | Big changes wrought there. |
| 0:23.8 | But we're beginning in Washington, because among French and British political classes, certainly for several days now, |
| 0:32.1 | there's been one overriding question. |
| 0:34.9 | How should the country's respective leaders, when they arrive this week at the White House |
| 0:39.3 | try to persuade Donald Trump to take more heed of Europe and Ukraine when it comes to ending Russia's war inside Ukraine? |
| 0:47.6 | The British Prime Minister Kirstarmer is going to have his go on Thursday. |
| 0:51.4 | Today, on the third anniversary, the day tens of thousands of Russian troops |
| 0:56.1 | poured over the border into Ukraine, it was the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who turned |
| 1:01.6 | up at the White House, and the two men spoke a couple of times to the press. First, a little more |
| 1:09.4 | informally before they retired for lunch. |
| 1:11.8 | The two men sat knee to knee in the Oval Office to answer questions shouted at them by the assembled throng of reporters. |
| 1:18.7 | First, we know that President Trump is keen to see this war end as quickly as possible. |
| 1:23.7 | How quickly does he think a deal can be done? |
| 1:27.2 | Within weeks? |
| 1:28.6 | Weeks? |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.7 | I think so. |
| 1:30.6 | Right? |
| 1:31.1 | Don't you think so? |
| 1:31.9 | I'd like to ask have you. |
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