US hails 'tremendous' progress at Ukraine talks
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has given an upbeat assessment of talks with Ukrainian officials about how to end the war with Russia. Mr Rubio said sticking points which remained were "not insurmountable". US, Ukrainian and European officials have been meeting in Geneva in Switzerland to discuss a peace plan that US negotiators devised with their Russian counterparts. It has been widely criticised as sympathetic to Moscow's aims.
Also: a BBC investigation has exposed people in Sierra Leone who claim to supply human body parts for ritual ceremonies. More than 50 of the 300 pupils abducted by gunmen in Nigeria have escaped their captors, but parents are voicing their frustration over the lack of security at schools. Hezbollah confirms its chief of staff has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. A three-year-old boy from California has astounded doctors with his progress after becoming the first person in the world with Hunter syndrome to receive a ground-breaking gene therapy. A daughter of the former South African President Jacob Zuma is accused of recruiting citizens to fight in Ukraine. And an Argentinian writer recalls the moment she learned her childhood nanny was actually a KGB agent.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.7 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 430 GMT. |
| 0:15.4 | The United States and Ukraine say they've had positive talks on ending the war with Russia. |
| 0:20.6 | More than 50 of the 300 schoolchildren kidnapped in Nigeria last week have escaped. |
| 0:26.2 | And we have a special investigation in Sierra Leone into the people who kill in order to sell body parts. |
| 0:34.0 | Also in the podcast, despite a ceasefire, Israel kills Hezbollah's chief of staff in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. |
| 0:42.2 | And later... |
| 0:42.9 | Our nanny. |
| 0:44.0 | She was a KGB spy who participated in Trotsky murder. |
| 0:50.5 | Wow. |
| 0:51.5 | The Argentinian author who discovered the dark past of her former nanny. |
| 1:01.6 | Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Ukraine has been seen as favoring Russia. |
| 1:07.0 | But at a swiftly arranged summit in Geneva, |
| 1:09.6 | Ukrainian and European officials have been trying to change that. |
| 1:13.4 | And they appear to have made some progress, despite the US president once again lashing out at Ukraine, |
| 1:19.2 | accusing it of expressing zero gratitude. |
| 1:22.4 | A few hours after his Truth Social Post, the White House issued a statement saying talks with Ukraine had been |
| 1:28.4 | highly productive. The U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who led the American delegation, |
| 1:33.7 | spoke to reporters late on Sunday. We arrived here today with one goal, and the goal was to take, |
| 1:39.0 | you know, what, you know, 28 points or 26 points, depending on which version has it continued to evolve, |
| 1:45.1 | and try to narrow the ones that were open items. And we have achieved that today in a very substantial |
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