The Trump-Putin Summit: Tactics and Trolling?
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, all eyes are on Alaska where American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet.
Face-to-face for the first time in six years and joined only by their translators, President Trump says he'll know within minutes if there is a deal to be done to end the war in Ukraine.
Adam is joined by Lord Kim Darroch, the former UK Ambassador to the United States and former National Security Advisor, and Catherine Belton, Russia reporter for the Washington Post and author of Putin’s People. They discuss who’s in each president’s delegation, how the summit is being discussed in Russia and what the most likely outcomes could be.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | Hello, the big meeting in Alaska between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is at 8pm |
| 0:10.9 | UK time because of the time difference and because Alaska is so far west, where it will then be |
| 0:17.0 | 11 o'clock local time in the morning. They're going to have a one-to-one meeting joined by |
| 0:22.4 | interpreters and then they've both brought quite big delegations with them because it sounds like |
| 0:26.9 | they're going to discuss so much more than just what's happening in Ukraine. Anyway, that's their |
| 0:32.6 | timetable. This is our timetable. On Saturday morning, bright and early, me and Victoria Derbyshire from |
| 0:39.6 | Ukrainecast will be joined by Vitaly from Ukrainecast and Sarah Smith from Americast, both of whom are in |
| 0:46.2 | Anchorage in Alaska where the summit is happening and we will bring you right up to date with |
| 0:51.0 | what we know then. But what we're going to do now is give you all you need to know |
| 0:56.3 | to understand what is going to happen in the next few hours. So that's what you will get on this |
| 1:01.7 | episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. He has just compared me to the fat controller. |
| 1:09.1 | Did I say that? I can't believe I said that. Next question. This is R for the benefit of Earth. I'm not personally a huge Sabrina carpenter fam. I don't think I'm being rude. I like landscapes. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio and we are going to give you everything you need to know |
| 1:30.3 | to understand what might go down in Alaska in the next few hours where Donald Trump is meeting |
| 1:36.3 | Vladimir Putin. |
| 1:37.3 | It's the first time a Russian president has met an American president on U.S. soil for something like 18 years. |
| 1:45.8 | And of course, the issues at stake are huge. |
| 1:48.1 | What happens with Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine? |
| 1:51.7 | So I've invited two people into the studio who know so much about the two men who are meeting and the issues at stake. |
| 1:59.4 | Please welcome back to the newscast studio, Russia |
| 2:01.8 | reporter for the Washington Post. Catherine Belton. Hi, Catherine. |
| 2:05.2 | Hi, thanks for having me. Should we do a little plug for our old newscast about the rise |
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