Trump and Putin, Call Me Maybe?

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Today, we look at the relationship between President-elect Donald Trump and the Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin has denied media reports that Donald Trump held a call with Vladimir Putin, in which he is said to have warned Putin against escalating the war in Ukraine. Adam speaks to Christopher Steele, the former head of the Russia Desk at MI6, Author of “Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy” and a director of Orbis Business Intelligence about what Trump’s election means for the US-Russia relationship. And, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is facing pressure to resign due to a review which found that he did not follow up rigorously enough on reports of abuse of young boys and men by a man associated with the Church of England. Mr Welby acknowledged he should have more rigorously followed up the details and said last week he had considered resigning, but decided to stay in his role.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.9	Hello, I'm back in the UK after a very interesting trip to the United States to cover the election.
0:10.1	And the best welcome home present you could give me is to subscribe to this podcast on BBC Sounds
0:15.5	and then check in your phone notifications to make sure you've got notifications for BBC sounds turned on, because then
0:22.5	that means you and I will get to meet every day that there's a new episode of newscast almost
0:27.3	automatically because you'll be notified. Does that make sense? Right, on with today's episode
0:31.7	of newscast, and in the second half, we're going to be talking about the pressure on the Archbishop
0:35.9	Canterbury, Justin Welby,
0:37.9	over how he dealt with cases of sexual abuse in the church.
0:43.2	So there may be some issues there that we discuss that you might find disturbing.
0:48.0	That's just to let you know what's coming up in the second half of this episode of Newscast.
0:52.1	Newscast from the BBC.
0:59.6	Hello, it's Adam here in the newscast studio.
1:03.0	And only days after Donald Trump was elected or re-elected as president of the US.
1:07.8	And still several months, though, before he actually takes up the office on the 20th of January, we've got a steady stream of Trump-related news stories. And
1:17.2	today's is a really intriguing one, because on Sunday, the Washington Post reported that on
1:22.9	Thursday, the president-elect, or re-elect, we have to call him, had had a private phone call
1:29.6	with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Then today, the Kremlin very, very strenuously denied
1:36.0	that any call had taken place. So, what an earth is going on? Somebody who might know is
1:42.8	Christopher Steele, former head of the Russia desk at MI6,
1:46.5	Britain's Foreign Intelligence Service. He's also the author of a book called Unredacted,
1:50.7	Russia, Trump, and the Fight for Democracy. And he's also the director of Orbis Business
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