Trump criticises Putin as his UK state visit ends

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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US President Donald Trump says his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin "let me down" at a news conference at the end of his historic state visit to the UK. The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, says the visit has renewed the special relationship for a new era. Also; in France, hundreds of thousands of people protest against the government’s plans to cut spending; Australia announces a plan to cut its greenhouse gas emissions further; how AI is changing journalism in newsrooms across the world; and we look at research showing that chimpanzees consume the equivalent of a bottle of beer a day.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.5	This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:10.8	I'm Valerie Sanderson, and at 17 hours GMT on Thursday, the 18th of September, these are our main stories.
0:17.8	President Trump says again that he's disappointed in Vladimir Putin as he completes
0:22.3	his state visit to the UK. Ukraine says it's attacked two refineries in Russia, bringing operations
0:28.5	at one of them to a complete halt. Hundreds of thousands of people are on strike in France
0:33.2	in protest at the government's austerity plans.
0:45.1	And a laager a day, the alcohol intake enjoyed by wild chimpanzees, and why it matters to humans.
0:55.7	This sort of supports the drunken monkey hypothesis, which basically says that human attraction to alcohol today originated from this evolutionary exposure to ethanol.
1:07.2	It has been a whirlwind two days in the UK for President Trump on an unprecedented second state visit.
1:12.0	Wednesday saw a day of pageantry when he was welcomed by King Charles at Windsor Castle for a glittering event with guests who all sat down to the best food and wine the UK can offer.
1:18.1	Today, Mr Trump's destination was Chequers, the official country residence of the British Prime Minister,
1:23.3	for talks. It has been a flawlessly choreographed and tightly controlled trip, with the
1:28.9	greatest moment of possible danger left to the end, the news conference when both leaders would
1:34.0	be questioned by journalists from the UK and the US. In his opening remarks, the British Prime
1:40.0	Minister, Kier Starrmer, said the country's special relationship had been renewed for a new era.
1:45.8	The United Kingdom and the United States stand together today as first partners on defence, first partners in trade, with the groundbreaking deal we struck in May, and now with the new agreement that we've just signed this afternoon.
2:05.0	We're confirming our status as the first partners in science and technology,
2:11.6	ready to define this century together, just as we did the last.
2:16.7	President Trump was asked whether peace talks on Ukraine have come to the end of the road,
2:21.7	and if President Putin has let him down.
2:24.8	He has let me down.
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