Trump and Putin’s crucial phone call
The News Agents
Global
4.2 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke for an hour and a half today - could they bring the Ukraine conflict and closer to a sustainable peace? Or is the Russian president only interested in carving up Ukraine and taking the West for a ride?
While a ceasefire in Ukraine does appear to be edging ever so slightly closer, the fragile cessation in Gaza collapsed overnight. More than 400 Gazans were killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, as Israel launched a series of airstrikes on the strip. The White House confirmed that Washington had been consulted on the offensive. Trump's press secretary told reporters that: "All those who seek to terrorise not just Israel but the US, will see a price to pay, and all hell will break loose." Is Trump giving Benjamin Netanyahu licence to act with impunity in Gaza? And why is the British government contradicting itself on whether Israel is committing war crimes?
Later, Labour MPs have spent the afternoon voicing their unease at the welfare changes outline today by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall. How much trouble is actually building on the backbenches?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | Well, the Trump administration and the White House were consulted by the Israelis on their attacks in Gaza tonight. |
| 0:20.6 | And as President Trump has made it clear, Hamas, the who. assaulted by the Israelis on their attacks in Gaza tonight. |
| 0:27.6 | And as President Trump has made it clear, Hamas, the Houthis, Iran, all those who seek to terrorize, not just Israel, but also the United States of America, will see a price |
| 0:33.5 | to pay. |
| 0:34.2 | All hell will break loose. |
| 0:36.3 | It has been yet another massive 24 hours in world politics. |
| 0:42.2 | News overnight that the Gaza-Israel ceasefire in which so much hope was rested has all but disintegrated, |
| 0:50.3 | with Israeli airstrikes killing more than 400 people, according to local health officials. |
| 0:57.1 | And the ceasefire had been negotiated with the help of the United States. |
| 1:02.4 | And with the United States support, it looks like it's ending. |
| 1:06.6 | Just as President Trump is hoping that today he can negotiate another ceasefire, this time, |
| 1:15.2 | between Russia and Ukraine. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:22.1 | The newsagents. It's John. It's Lewis. And it was always going to be difficult to get to phase two in the ceasefire plan. |
| 1:30.5 | But last night it more or less came to an end. |
| 1:33.6 | It's hard to say that a ceasefire is in place, given the intensity of the Israeli airstrikes, |
| 1:40.1 | which were targeting Hamas officials, and apparently a number have been killed, but also an |
| 1:45.5 | awful lot of women and children as well. Hamas so far giving a restrained response, but it looks |
| 1:55.3 | as though the prospects of peace are dismal, the prospects for the remaining hostages being held who were taken |
| 2:02.9 | after October the 7th, equally dismal, and the prospect for Garzans are starting to rebuild |
| 2:10.1 | their lives and trying to get back to something that looks like a livelihood again dismal. |
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