Trump vs Zelensky In The Oval Office
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky have clashed in an extraordinary exchange at the White House, with Trump telling the Ukrainian president to "make a deal or we're out"
James and Laura dissect what happened.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.4 | What just happened? |
| 0:06.1 | It looks like, well, it was, that Donald Trump and Volodymyel Zelensky have just had a blazing row in front of the entire world, Lano. |
| 0:14.8 | I think that's one way of describing it. |
| 0:16.8 | The other way of describing it is that it puts the entire relatively new efforts to find an end to the terrible war in Ukraine up in the air with what happens next, completely unknown. |
| 0:29.6 | And, James, it completely reshapes all of the discussion and conversation that's been going on in Washington in the last few days. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm just back from there. |
| 0:38.0 | The Prime Minister was there yesterday, President of France there just a few days before, |
| 0:43.2 | and all of that now looks up in the air. |
| 0:45.9 | Yeah, and that is what we're going to be talking about on this emergency episode of Newscast. |
| 0:52.7 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:55.0 | I like landscapes. |
| 0:56.0 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 0:57.3 | Japping. |
| 0:58.0 | Unemployed people who are overweight. |
| 0:59.8 | That is not the agenda. |
| 1:01.1 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 1:03.3 | The star is born. |
| 1:04.4 | Elon. |
| 1:05.3 | So hurt that a miracle let us happen. |
| 1:07.4 | Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. |
| 1:09.2 | Take me down to Downing Street. |
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