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🗓️ 4 March 2025
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The US President says he won't tolerate President Zelensky's position on a ceasefire, but denies reports he may end military support for Ukraine. Also, two people are killed after a car drives into a crowd in Germany.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:04.9 | I'm Andrew Peach, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 4th of March, these are our main stories. |
0:10.6 | Donald Trump again accuses the Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, of not wanting peace with Russia. |
0:16.6 | Two people die after a car hits a crowd of people in the German city of Mannheim. |
0:21.4 | Concerns mounting that the ceasefire in Gaza could collapse. |
0:26.8 | Also in this podcast, the Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, whose best known work is The Singing Butler has died. |
0:33.3 | And... |
0:33.8 | There was a jury and a council and suddenly we were in a real court. And there I was |
0:38.9 | passing the death penalty and the oxygen was just sucked out of the room. You could hear |
0:44.4 | pin drop. The actor Nigel Habers on playing his own grandfather, the judge who sentenced the |
0:49.9 | last women to hang in the UK. |
0:59.2 | The fallout continues after last week's bad-tempered meeting at the White House between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky. |
1:01.6 | Today, the U.S. President has once again hit out at his Ukrainian counterpart. |
1:06.1 | Here's what he had to say when he was asked about his stance on a ceasefire in Ukraine. |
1:10.8 | I don't want to see this go on for years and years. |
1:13.8 | Now, President Zelensky supposedly made a statement today in AP. |
1:18.8 | I'm not a big fan of AP, so maybe it was an incorrect statement, |
1:21.7 | but he said he thinks the war's going to go on for a long time. |
1:26.3 | And he better not be right about that. That's all I'm saying. |
1:29.9 | A little earlier, Mr. Trump, said in a post on social media that the United States wouldn't put up |
1:34.9 | with Mr Zelensky's position on a ceasefire for much longer. Our North America correspondent, |
1:40.3 | Nomi Ikbal, is in Washington. Nomi has been telling me the president's comments didn't come as a surprise. |
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