Russia talks: President Trump says 'great progress' has been made
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The United States is imposing an extra twenty-five percent tariff on imports from India because Delhi continues to buy Russian oil. President Trump is using this to increase pressure for a ceasefire in Ukraine. Delhi's called it 'unfair'. The executive order came after the US envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Also on the programme: As dozens are injured and killed in Gaza when four aid trucks tipped over, we take a look at how the crisis is being reported in Israel and whether public opinion is changing; Italy plans the longest suspension bridge in the world; and the new research that shows how female gorillas form strong friendships with each other that last years.
(Photo: Russian President Putin meets U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow Credit: Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/via REUTERS)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHara live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Rebecca Kesb. |
| 0:09.4 | On the programme today, Italy plans the world's longest suspension bridge |
| 0:13.9 | to connect the island of Sicily with the mainland. |
| 0:17.1 | I think it's going to be very attractive. |
| 0:19.3 | It's going to have three lanes on either side for |
| 0:23.0 | traffic going to and coming from Sicily and then it's going to have a railway in between those |
| 0:29.8 | lanes in the middle. It's going to look really good. And in Rwanda, new research shows that |
| 0:35.5 | female guerrillas form relationships that are basically just like human friendships. |
| 0:41.3 | All that to come. |
| 0:42.5 | But we begin the program with this question. |
| 0:45.3 | Is President Trump going to get the Russian ceasefire in Ukraine he wants by the deadline he set this Friday? |
| 0:53.1 | The clock is ticking and the eyes of the world are watching. |
| 0:56.3 | Mr Trump reduced his 50-day deadline to just 10 days last month after he said he didn't think |
| 1:02.0 | Russia was serious about ending the war. His envoy, Steve Whitkoff, had a three-hour meeting in |
| 1:08.1 | Moscow with President Putin today, which Mr Trump said on social media had made great progress. |
| 1:14.3 | President Trump is threatening more sanctions on Russia |
| 1:17.1 | if he doesn't get the deal he wants and secondary sanctions on third-party countries, |
| 1:22.5 | specifically those who buy Russian oil. |
| 1:25.4 | And today Mr Trump signed an executive order to slap an additional 25% on US tariffs for India, |
| 1:32.7 | which has increased its imports of Russian oil in the past three years, |
| 1:36.1 | and we'll have the details on that in a moment. |
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