US delegation meets Vladimir Putin
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
President Vladimir Putin has accused European countries of being on the side of war and putting forward proposals to end the conflict in Ukraine that they knew would be unacceptable. He added that Russia was ready for a wider war with Europe if that's what they wanted. Mr Putin was speaking shortly before he started talks with President Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner in Moscow.
Also in the programme: a rising death toll after floods in Indonesia; and a Faberge egg sells for millions at auction.
(Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin, presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev and foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov attend a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, December 2, 2025. CREDIT: Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via REUTERS)
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| 0:09.2 | Hello and welcome to Newsare. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:13.4 | Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. Sensitive negotiations in Moscow over Ukraine. |
| 0:20.4 | That's our top story this hour. We'll also, |
| 0:23.0 | though, be hearing about one of Donald Trump's most controversial, even, and potentially |
| 0:28.7 | consequential pardons of the former president of Honduras and convicted narco-trafficker. |
| 0:35.2 | He's now walked free from U prison. And our correspondent in the |
| 0:39.5 | Honduran capital has been speaking to the former president's wife. We'll bring you an excerpt from |
| 0:45.8 | that interview in about 45 minutes. Why the British government wants to limit trial by jury. |
| 0:53.3 | And we'll hear about a song that was about |
| 0:55.0 | to hit the charts before being taken down after accusations that it had used AI to simulate a |
| 1:02.1 | real singer's voice. But do most listeners these days care? |
| 1:06.3 | Streaming has disconnected us from who is making music, where it is coming from. It all seems to come |
| 1:11.7 | down like one single pipe. If you're not that engaged and you don't really care where |
| 1:15.4 | stuff is coming from, it all kind of looks the same. So I do think that there is a large |
| 1:20.5 | audience there to be taken advantage of and maybe naysayers may become in the minority. |
| 1:27.2 | That story in about 20 minutes. |
| 1:29.3 | We're beginning, though, with the question, |
| 1:31.0 | which will win out in Ukraine? |
| 1:33.1 | Will it be diplomacy or will it be war? |
| 1:35.9 | The Russian president has been appearing to spread his bets today, |
| 1:39.0 | at least in public. |
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