Trump v Zelensky?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at what looks like an increasingly hostile relationship between President Trump and President Zelensky.

In a press conference on Monday evening, US President Donald Trump has appeared to accuse Ukraine of being responsible for the war with Russia. In response President Zelensky has accused Trump of living in “disinformation space”.

Adam is joined in the studio by the former armed forces minister, and Conservative MP, James Heappey for an in depth interview on the state of the negotiations, and how we got here.

Plus, the Treasury has warned of a “bumpy” road to lower inflation after an unexpected jump to 3%. Adam and Alex speak to Claer Barret, Consumer Editor of the Financial Times and host of the Money Clinic podcast.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, we've got a bumper episode of newscast for you today.
0:07.3	And the reason it's so bumper is the first kind of two-thirds is going to be a really interesting interview
0:12.0	with the former Armed Forces Minister in the previous government, James Heepie.
0:16.9	He is interesting for a number of reasons.
0:19.1	Reason number one, he was an Armed Forces Minister, so responsible for our armed forces and defence,
0:25.3	at the point at which Russia invaded Ukraine, and that is a point which Donald Trump is sort of rewriting today in his utterances about Russia and Ukraine.
0:35.7	And second of all, James Heapy was one of those ministers that
0:39.0	quite often got put out on the morning round. So do you remember when I was a political correspondent
0:43.5	and I'd be writing down everything that minister said when they were on breakfast news, five live,
0:48.4	the today program. He had a reputation for doing that and being a bit of a straight talker
0:53.2	rather than just reading
0:54.5	out what you've been told to say. So he's an interesting communicator as well as having some
0:58.7	interesting insight to communicate. So that is the first thing you will hear on this episode
1:02.6	of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. I like landscape. I don't think I'm being rude.
1:08.5	Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. That is not the
1:11.7	agenda. It's the fun police working overtime. The star is born, Elon.
1:16.4	Soul hurt that a miracle with us happening. Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. Take me down to
1:21.3	Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast Studio and we are recording this episode of Newscast
1:29.6	mid-afternoon on Wednesday, the 19th of February.
1:33.1	As I said on a previous episode, I think at the moment where the world is changing every
1:37.0	hour, it's important for me to tell you when we are recording so you know what we know.
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