US and Ukraine signal peace plan progress after Geneva talks
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4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Negotiations on a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine are continuing after the United States said progress had been made on Sunday. Moscow says it's not been informed of changes to a draft widely seen as favouring Russia.
Also on the programme: a three year old boy from California suffering from a rare, genetic disorder called Hunter syndrome, has become the first person in the world to be treated with a gene therapy developed in England; and Jimmy Cliff, the musician credited with introducing Jamaican reggae to the world, has died aged 81.
(Photo: Russian missile and drone assaults on Ukraine continue as its leaders hold talks with the US on a potential peace deal. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.4 | Hello and welcome to News Hour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London. I'm Tim Frags. |
| 0:16.6 | Coming up on the programme, we've got a wonderful story of astounding medical progress and the hope embodied in one irresistible three-year-old kid. |
| 0:25.8 | He's doing great. |
| 0:26.9 | I mean, his speech has gotten exponentially better. |
| 0:30.1 | His mobility has gotten better. |
| 0:31.5 | His agility, his cognitive, everything. |
| 0:34.3 | So, like, no more medication, no more infusions, like as close to a normal life as we can |
| 0:38.5 | give them at this point. A world leading gene therapy to tell you about, that's coming up in |
| 0:44.7 | about 30 minutes. First, though, is an end to Russia's war in Ukraine within sight, within |
| 0:51.0 | grasp? Put to one side for the moment the bigger swings in mood and language |
| 0:55.3 | we've had from President Trump over the prospects, listen instead to the words of his rather |
| 0:59.7 | more cautious top diplomat Marco Rubio. We've made tremendous progress, he said, after talks on |
| 1:06.3 | Sunday in Geneva with Ukrainians. To put this in context, the US Secretary of State's meeting followed the |
| 1:11.6 | leaking of a peace plan, apparently drawn up by Russian and US officials that had widely been seen |
| 1:16.8 | as delivering pretty much all of Moscow's demands. So it was striking that Mr. Rubio declared that |
| 1:21.9 | there had been not just tremendous progress, but that there were now, after his talks with his Ukrainian counterparts, |
| 1:30.0 | just a couple of issues to be resolved. So what can we pick out from where we are? |
| 1:35.7 | The Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, has indicated where he thought one of the key |
| 1:39.4 | sticking points was today in an address he gave to the Swedish parliament. And that, he said, was Vladimir Putin's demand for legal recognition of the territory |
| 1:48.3 | the Russians had captured, or in Mr. Zelensky's word, stolen. |
| 1:53.9 | Putin wants legal recognition for what he has stolen |
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