Trump to Call Putin
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today, President Trump has been speaking to journalists ahead of his phone call with Russia’s President Putin on Tuesday.
Trump told reporters that the two men will discuss land and powerplants. James and Alex speak to BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale in Kyiv where Ukrainian officials will be waiting to hear if the phone call brings Russia any closer to agreeing to a 30 day ceasefire deal outlined with the US last week.
Plus, as the government prepares to announce changes to the welfare system, James and Alex speak to Faisal Islam, BBC Economics editor about the underlying causes driving up welfare claims and what it has meant for the economy.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello. Well, for the last week or so, Adam has been assembling the newscast playlist. |
| 0:11.0 | There's been a lot of news, but this has been arguably more important. |
| 0:14.5 | And we have been given the job of finishing it while he's off. |
| 0:18.4 | It's been inspired by the King because he launched his own playlist and we will not be outdone. |
| 0:23.3 | No, although I have to confess, I haven't actually listened to the King's playlist yet, but it's on my to-do list. |
| 0:28.4 | So I feel I actually felt a little bit stitched up by Adam on this, right? |
| 0:31.9 | Because when he was putting together this playlist, we were recording an episode of newscast and just right at the end of the |
| 0:38.1 | episode, he went, so, what's your playlist song? I know I heard it. I know. You had no chance. |
| 0:42.5 | Genuinely. It was a good, you had any prior notice. Well, I know, I know. I mean, don't get |
| 0:47.1 | wrong. So I pick Bree Springsteenborn to run, which I do stand by because I do think it's a bit of a classic song but I don't know I don't know I maybe would have liked a little bit of time to consider anyway have you picked yours so the flip |
| 0:57.8 | to that is I've spent all week worrying about it so maybe it would have been better I think maybe |
| 1:02.7 | because I was like well we don't have any Beyonce we don't have any Taylor Swift oh my god do you |
| 1:09.4 | looked at the list and then worked out |
| 1:11.0 | where they're like holes in the genre. All week through, and I've been listening to newscast and I've |
| 1:14.9 | heard various people, you know, coming up with their various, very interesting. Faisal's was really good. |
| 1:20.5 | I didn't know Faisal's tune and it was lovely, really good tune. But anyway, I was thinking, right, who are the big names? Who are we missing? I like all |
| 1:28.1 | these old jazz singers. I like Ella Fitzgerald and Etta James and Billy Holiday and all these. |
| 1:32.2 | You know, you could have had a classic from someone like that. You could have had something |
| 1:35.2 | from the early days. I'm literally loving how much thought you've put into it. You could have |
| 1:38.5 | had like Johnny Be Good or something or you could have had a pop classic. You could have had, I don't know, will you love me tomorrow or be my baby? |
| 1:44.7 | These are old, right? |
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