Ukraine and US negotiators to meet following Moscow talks
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
US special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is set to meet Ukrainian negotiators in Florida following talks with President Putin in Moscow. Mr Putin - who's visiting India - has already said some of the proposals for peace in Ukraine are unacceptable. The war is also on the agenda in Beijing, where the French President, Emmanuel Macron, is meeting the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping. Also: the family of Colombian fisherman killed in a US "drug boat" strike files a legal complaint, alleging he was murdered. An LA doctor who supplied ketamine to Matthew Perry, the late star of the TV show Friends, is sent to jail for 30 months. And in Scotland, the remains of a deep-water creature have washed up on a beach -- and, no, it's not the Loch Ness monster.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Celia Hatton, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 4th of December, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.6 | The back-and-forth negotiations on the U.S.-backed peace plan for Ukraine will continue |
| 0:22.3 | on Thursday with talks between Washington and Kiev. The doctor who sold the drug |
| 0:27.5 | cadamine to the friend star Matthew Perry weeks before his fatal overdose has been sentenced |
| 0:33.1 | to 30 months in prison. Also in this podcast, India prepares to welcome President Putin. |
| 0:40.4 | On the agenda now is everything from new defense deals to a rethink of energy ties with |
| 0:46.9 | Moscow, all while India tries to walk their diplomatic tightrope with the U.S. |
| 0:52.9 | We look at the geopolitics behind the visit. |
| 0:59.0 | The last few weeks have seen a flurry of diplomatic activity as the Trump administration |
| 1:04.6 | tries to secure backing for its latest plan to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. |
| 1:13.4 | On Thursday, all eyes will be on Florida, |
| 1:20.0 | where the U.S. Special Envoy, Steve Whitkoff, will meet Ukraine's top negotiator, Rustam Umorov. |
| 1:25.4 | They'll discuss the outcome of Tuesday's meeting in Moscow between President Putin, Mr. Whitkoff, |
| 1:28.1 | and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. |
| 1:34.0 | Those talks failed to produce any breakthrough, although the Kremlin described them as productive. |
| 1:39.4 | Speaking at the Oval Office, here was Donald Trump's assessment of those Moscow talks. |
| 2:03.8 | I don't know what the Kremlin's doing. I can tell you that they had a reasonably good meeting with President Putin. We're going to find out. It's a war that should have never been started. It's in war. If I were president, we had a rigged election. If I were president, that war would have never happened. It's a terrible thing. But I thought they had a very good meeting with President Putin. We'll see what happens. David Petraeus is a retired U.S. Army General and former director of the CIA. He told the BBC's Evan Davis, it's not surprising President Putin has so |
| 2:10.7 | far not agreed to a deal. It was predictable and predicted, in fact, widely, that Putin would not |
| 2:16.8 | accept anything less than his |
| 2:18.8 | stated core objectives, which are to replace President Zelensky through an election, |
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