The summit of its parts: Ukraine, Trump and Putin
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🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
What is on the table for the meeting in Alaska? What are the red lines? What chance Ukraine would accept what is agreed, especially if its president is not even in the room? Many world cities would like to become the Detroit of electric vehicles; our correspondent visits China’s contenders. And treatments improve for even the worst cases of allergies.
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| 0:56.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:05.0 | Nowhere on the planet was more associated with the car than Detroit was. Now that it's in a petrol-fueled past, |
| 1:13.6 | what city will end up being the Detroit of electric vehicles? |
| 1:17.6 | And more people than ever have allergies. |
| 1:22.6 | Luckily, more treatments than ever exist for them. |
| 1:25.6 | We look at how science is taming even the most dangerous cases. |
| 1:42.2 | But first... Nearly 160 years ago, the Russian Tsar Alexander II sold Alaska to America for the bargain price of $7.2 million, around $170 million today. |
| 2:04.0 | The money helped, but the deal was partly to undermine the British, who had designs on it. |
| 2:09.5 | On Friday, history could repeat, or rhyme, anyway. |
| 2:13.4 | In Alaska, a Russian leader may again strike a bargain with America and squeeze Europeans |
| 2:18.7 | aside. |
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