Russia warns Ukraine to reach deal or lose more territory

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The US has handed Ukraine a draft peace plan which reportedly reflects many of Moscow's demands, like giving up land. Ukraine's president has held a call with the leaders of Germany, France and Britain. Berlin says the three leaders welcomed US efforts but stressed the need to safeguard European and Ukrainian interests. Also: officials in Nigeria say dozens of pupils and staff have been abducted from a Catholic school - the third mass kidnapping in a week; The United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, says almost seventy children in Gaza have been killed in conflict-related incidents since Israel's US-brokered ceasefire with Hamas took effect last month; A growing number of women in South Africa learn to use guns to protect themselves against gender-based violence; The UN climate summit in Brazil is heading for a showdown over a draft text proposed by the hosts that fails to refer to the phasing out of fossil fuels; In a dramatic development - Mexico's Fatima Bosch, who walked out on organisers after she was publicly berated, is crowned Miss Universe; And how artificial intelligence is helping scientists differentiate between different lion roars.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.7	This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:10.4	I'm Jean-Aul, and at 16 hours GMT on Friday the 21st of November, these are our main stories.
0:16.8	The Kremlin urges Ukraine to agree quickly to a US.S. peace plan that appears to favor many of Russia's
0:22.3	demands. The UN says nearly 70 children have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire there
0:28.5	came into effect last month. Officials in Nigeria say dozens of pupils and staff have been
0:35.1	abducted from a Catholic school, the third mass kidnapping in a week.
0:40.9	Also in this podcast, what we've been able to do is use very specific features of these
0:46.5	wars and get an AI model to basically say, I think these are full-throated drawers, I think these are
0:52.7	intermediary roles, I think these are grunts.
0:54.5	How artificial intelligence is helping scientists differentiate between different lion roars.
1:05.8	Russia has warned that Ukraine will lose more territory on the battlefield
1:10.5	unless it reaches a deal on
1:12.7	ending the war immediately. The US handed President Zelensky a draft peace plan on Thursday,
1:19.7	which reportedly reflects many of Moscow's demands, such as giving up large tracks of land
1:25.4	and substantially reducing the size of the Ukrainian army,
1:29.3	demands that Ukraine has long rejected.
1:32.1	The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, said Russian advances have left Mr. Zelensky with less room to negotiate.
1:41.2	The effective work of the Russian armed forces should convince both Zelensky and his regime that it is better to negotiate and do it now, and it is better to do it now than later.
1:52.6	The room for freedom of decision-making for him is shrinking, as the territory is lost during the offensive actions of the Russian armed forces.
2:01.3	Neither Ukraine nor other European nations were consulted about the draft peace plan.
2:06.5	Mr Zelensky has given a guarded response to the proposals saying he's ready to work with
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