Talking About Talking About Peace Talks
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today, delegates from the US and Russia are meeting for another round of talks on the war in Ukraine.
The meeting follows Witkoff’s comments on Tucker Carson’s podcast over the weekend where he said President Putin is “not a bad guy” and questioned Ukraine’s claims to parts of its own country.
Adam is joined by North America editor Sarah Smith and diplomatic correspondent James Landale.
Plus, David Dimbleby tells Adam all about the free market revolution ahead of the release of his new podcast ‘Invisible Hands’.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, thank you to James and Alex for keeping the newscast seat warm while I was off on, sorry, another holiday. |
| 0:11.4 | And also thank you to Paddy for reintroducing into the British political discourse, the idea of Silla and Churibdis, the rock and a hard place analogy from Greek mythology, which I |
| 0:22.6 | often use, and it quite often gets a blank look. So I'm glad that Paddy is popularising that |
| 0:29.1 | again. And in terms of wise broadcasters, we're going to be joined by like the apex one |
| 0:35.4 | in the second half of this episode of newscast because David |
| 0:38.5 | Dimbleby is back in the newscast studio because he's got another podcast series out and this is |
| 0:43.3 | about the big ideas that animate the modern economy and that's a perfect kind of conversation |
| 0:49.9 | to have as we sit and wait for Rachel Reeves's spring statement later this week. |
| 0:55.1 | But first of all, we'll get the latest on some world news on this episode of Newscast. |
| 1:00.7 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:03.1 | I like landscapes. |
| 1:04.0 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 1:05.3 | Japping. Unemployed people who are overweight. |
| 1:07.8 | That is not the agenda. |
| 1:09.1 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 1:11.3 | The star is born, Elon. |
| 1:13.3 | So hurt that a miracle let us happen. Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. |
| 1:17.2 | Take me down to Downing Street. Let's go have it to work. |
| 1:20.6 | Blimey. |
| 1:21.7 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, and it's great to be back as always. And it's great that we'll be joined in a few minutes by David Dimbleby to talk about his new podcast series, which is available on BBC Sounds. After you've listened to this podcast, of course. The first thing we're going to talk about is that these negotiations that are underway in Saudi Arabia between the US, Ukraine and Russia. And they are still ongoing as as we record this episode of newscast at about 4pm on Monday, the 24th of March. |
| 1:50.6 | And there's a little bit of confusion about what these negotiations are actually about. |
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