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Russia reacts cautiously to Trump's reelection

The World

PRX

News, Lethaldissent

4.6884 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Officially, the Kremlin is keeping quiet about the reelection of Donald Trump. But Vladimir Putin might be looking forward to new opportunities with a second Trump administration. Also, Israel has carried out thousands of air strikes in Gaza and Lebanon -- there are serious ethical and legal questions about some of those attacks. And, in global health news: the WHO says it tracked 8 million cases of tuberculosis last year — that's the highest ever.

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0:00.0

Israel is under scrutiny for allegedly using a military tactic in Gaza known as a double-tap strike.

0:12.2

One bomb was dropped, and as soon as people gathered to rescue whoever might have survived the first bomb, two more bombs were dropped.

0:20.4

Critics say it's unethical and may also constitute a war crime. Our reporter investigates.

0:26.9

I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wurman. Also today, how Moscow is reacting to the re-election of Donald Trump.

0:36.0

This host on Russian State TV said, America is enemy, so it doesn't matter who's president.

0:41.2

The Kremlin's take on Trump's second term, along with reaction from U.S. allies in Asia.

0:46.9

There's been a lot of initial anxiety, I guess, in terms of a return of Trump presidency.

0:53.0

Those stories and more today, here on the world.

0:58.5

Donald Trump's inauguration is more than two months away, but governments across Europe

1:02.6

are already paying close attention to clues about how his administration will approach

1:07.1

the war between Russia and Ukraine.

1:09.4

In his victory speech after Tuesday's election, Trump did not go into any details, but he did say this.

1:14.8

But we had no wars.

1:16.2

They said, he will start a war.

1:17.7

I'm not going to start a war.

1:18.6

I'm going to stop wars.

1:20.1

Turns out Vladimir Putin was paying attention to.

1:23.3

Today, the Russian leader congratulated Trump on his re-election, praised him for, quote, acting like a man during the assassination attempt this past summer and said Trump's statements about improving ties between Russia and Ukraine deserve attention.

1:37.5

The world's Daniel Offman reports.

1:39.2

When it became clear that Trump would win the election, Ukrainian president Volodemir Zelensky didn't hesitate.

1:46.2

Zelensky, I think, was one of the first leaders who congratulated Trump for his victory.

1:52.9

This is Maria Avdiva, a Ukrainian security expert based in Kharkiv. She says that Ukraine's approach to

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