US and Ukraine strike mineral deal
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Ukraine and the US reach a deal on mineral resources. Donald Trump says it’ll help repay US military aid. Also: New investigations into war atrocities in the DRC and a Chinese animation breaks box office records.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 26th of February, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.3 | Ukrainian officials say a deal's been reached between Kiev and Washington on the joint |
| 0:15.7 | exploitation of Ukraine's mineral resources. Britain is to fast-track planned increases in defence spending |
| 0:22.0 | two days before Prime Minister Keistama meets President Trump in Washington. |
| 0:28.7 | Also in this podcast, we hear from survivors of a prison fire in the city of Goma in eastern Congo. |
| 0:34.9 | We were walking from our sleep by a fire in the middle of the night. We started |
| 0:39.4 | to scream, fire, help, but there was no one there and the doors were padlocked shut. |
| 0:50.1 | Ukrainian officials say a deal's been reached between Kiev and Washington on the joint exploitation of Ukraine's mineral resources. |
| 0:57.8 | At the time of recording this podcast, the details haven't been made public. |
| 1:01.7 | But reports suggest the US has dropped some of its more drastic demands. |
| 1:06.2 | Rare earths, titanium, graphite and lithium would be hugely lucrative for investors and for Mr. Trump. |
| 1:12.3 | Speaking from the Oval Office, he said they could be a way of recouping hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. military aid to Ukraine |
| 1:18.6 | since Russia's full-scale invasion three years ago. |
| 1:22.2 | Lots of equipment, military equipment, and the right to fight on, and originally the right to fight. Look, Ukraine, I will |
| 1:31.3 | say they're very brave and they're good soldiers, but without the United States and its money |
| 1:36.2 | and its military equipment, this war would have been over in a very short period of time. |
| 1:41.2 | Officials in Kiev say the terms of a deal have been reached and President |
| 1:44.7 | Zelensky will fly to Washington on Friday, just a week after Mr. Trump called him a dictator. |
| 1:50.6 | For more on this, I've been speaking to our correspondent in Washington, Bernard Busman, but first, |
| 1:55.0 | Abdul Jalil Abdu Rasulov in Kiev. We have spoken to Ukrainian officials in the presidential office here and on the condition of anonymity. |
| 2:03.4 | They did confirm that terms have been agreed. |
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