Ukraine battles on ahead of Trump's inauguration
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4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
During Donald Trump's election campaign, he claimed he could end the war in Ukraine in a single day. As his inauguration nears, the goal widens. Amid growing speculation that negotiations will happen, our Senior International Correspondent, Orla Guerin, reports on a dark mood in Ukraine.
Also in the programme: US Tik Tok ban is upheld; and an amazing bathhouse in Pompeii revealed.
(Picture: Aftermath of a Russian missile strike in Kryvyi Rih. Credit: Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. My name's Paul Henley. |
| 0:10.5 | Coming up on the program today, the latest on the ceasefire in Gaza, a valuable archaeological find in Pompeii, |
| 0:17.6 | and the response to a decision taken by the US SupremeS. Supreme Court to uphold a ban on TikTok. |
| 0:24.0 | And to the U.S. government, I'm never forgiving you for this. And I'm never going to trust you ever again |
| 0:29.5 | because you just like that took away millions of people's income and livelihood. And who does that? |
| 0:36.2 | So I'm never trusting you ever again with anything. |
| 0:39.7 | Emotions are high, as the app is likely to be banned in the US from Sunday, despite TikTok's |
| 0:45.0 | CEO, attending Monday's presidential inauguration. We'll have more on that later. The street parade, |
| 0:51.4 | having been cancelled now, and the ceremony moved indoors because of freezing temperatures predicted for Washington on the day. |
| 0:58.1 | We'll hear from a veteran White House correspondent about the historical precedent which led to the change of venue. |
| 1:05.1 | First, during Donald Trump's election campaign, he claimed he could end the war in Ukraine in a single day. |
| 1:12.5 | As his inauguration nears, the goal widens the president-elect's envoy to Ukraine now says |
| 1:17.5 | the war could be finished within 100 days of Mr. Trump taking office. |
| 1:22.3 | Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 22, and three years on, it controls almost a fifth of its |
| 1:30.3 | neighbours' territory, including very recent gains and including the Crimean Peninsula, captured |
| 1:36.2 | a decade ago. And if there are peace talks, few expect a return to 2014 borders now. In fact, |
| 1:43.5 | Ukraine's President Zelensky recently made it clear that |
| 1:46.3 | land could be given up temporarily, as he put it, in exchange for Ukraine joining NATO. |
| 1:52.3 | Amid growing speculation that negotiations will soon happen, our senior international correspondent |
| 1:58.2 | Ola Gerin reports from the eastern city of Pukrovsk, |
| 2:02.1 | on an increasingly dark mood in Ukraine. |
| 2:06.4 | We're making our way along a bumpy, rural road, heading for the front line in eastern Ukraine. |
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