Trump: arrangements under way for Putin Zelensky meeting
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
President Zelensky says work has already started on security guarantees for Ukraine after talks in Washington about how to end the war. European leaders have been meeting to discuss their next steps to protect Ukraine from President Putin's Russia. Also: Hamas says it has accepted a peace plan to end the war with Gaza; we're still waiting for Israel's response; the very old men who want to go home to North Korea; the US says it's made Britain drop its secret demand for access to Apple users' data worldwide; why President Maduro of Venezuela wants to mobilise millions of people against the United States; the Ketamine Queen pleads guilty; and a huge operation is taking place in northern Sweden to move a church five kilometres, to save it from subsidence. The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Ankara Dissai and at 1300 GMT on Tuesday |
| 0:06.6 | the 19th of August. These are our main stories. President Trump says he's begun arrangements for a meeting |
| 0:12.2 | between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine after talks in Washington on how to end the war. He's also said |
| 0:18.1 | it will be European nations putting boots on the ground to defend |
| 0:21.4 | Ukraine in future. A Los Angeles drug dealer known as the Queen of Ketamine has admitted |
| 0:26.7 | supplying the narcotics that killed the Friends actor Matthew Perry, and a huge operation |
| 0:31.8 | is taking place in Sweden to move a church five kilometers. Also in this podcast, it's like a book of history. |
| 0:39.6 | What was living in the seas, what is living now in the seas, and the hour human beings. |
| 0:43.9 | I better like you get at the back of the bridge. |
| 0:45.5 | Yes. |
| 0:47.6 | Why scientists are digging up mud from the Antarctic seabed. |
| 0:55.2 | Donald Trump says he has begun work to arrange a face-to-face meeting between President Zelensky |
| 1:00.6 | and President Putin to try to end the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:04.3 | He described Monday's Day of Diplomacy at the White House, which also included several European |
| 1:08.6 | leaders as a very good step towards peace. |
| 1:12.1 | Europeans were also overwhelmingly positive while stressing the need to maintain support |
| 1:16.8 | for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. President Trump also told Fox News he thought |
| 1:22.2 | Vladimir Putin would most likely move towards ending the war in Ukraine because he said he thought |
| 1:27.4 | he must be tired of it. |
| 1:29.2 | He also said it would be European nations putting boots on the ground to defend Ukraine in future |
| 1:33.6 | and that Ukraine would not join NATO. Although the fighting has continued, Ukrainians have given |
| 1:40.1 | a cautious welcome to the outcome of the talks in Washington. Lisa Yasko is an MP in President Zelensky's party and a member of the Ukrainian Parliament's |
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