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Today in Focus

The Trump-Putin summit

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Guardian journalist Shaun Walker and the former British ambassador to Russia Laurie Bristow talk through Friday’s impending summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska and discuss where it will leave the war in Ukraine. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:08.2

Today, why are Trump and Putin meeting in Alaska?

0:17.8

Today in focus is supported by UK for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

0:24.6

Do you ever think about how much suffering goes unreported?

0:29.6

And if you don't know, how can you ever choose to do something about it?

0:34.6

Right now, Sudan is experiencing one of the largest and fastest growing humanitarian

0:42.3

crises in the world, but it's not dominating headlines.

0:47.3

Ongoing conflict and violence has forced millions of people to flee their homes,

0:53.3

and over 25 million are in urgent need of help,

0:57.0

lacking food, water, medicine and shelter. But there is something we can do. UNHCR is the

1:07.0

UN Refugee Agency and protects people fleeing conflict and persecution around the world.

1:13.6

It has teams on the ground right now in Sudan and in neighbouring countries delivering

1:20.6

life-saving aid to families searching for safety.

1:24.6

They're providing thermal blankets, clean water and emergency shelter,

1:30.3

and they need your help to keep delivering. Your donation today could make a massive difference

1:37.3

to someone who's been forced to flee their home in Sudan. Search UNHCR Sudan appeal and donate to help deliver vital,

1:48.4

life-saving aid and protection to refugees and displaced people.

2:06.8

So I spent the last couple of weeks in Kiev,

2:10.8

and I think what we've seen over the last few months is Russia really ramping up the number of drones,

2:14.4

the number of missiles is able to send into Ukraine. The capital, Kiev was once

2:21.0

reasonably safe, had very much stronger air defences than other cities and you could feel

2:28.3

in the centre of Kiev more or less safe. That's been less so in recent months. The Guardian's Sean Walker has just returned from a reporting trip to Ukraine,

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