US shelves plan for Trump-Putin talks

Global News Podcast

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Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.2 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

President Trump has said he doesn't want a "wasted meeting" after plans for a summit on Ukraine with Vladimir Putin in Bucharest were put on hold. Also: a court in Colombia overturns two convictions against the former president, Alvaro Uribe; the US vice-president JD Vance says he's optimistic that the Gaza peace plan will work, despite the killings of dozens of Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers on Sunday; the tech company OpenAI launches a new AI-powered web browser called ChatGPT Atlas; and a 33-year-old socialist is leading the race for mayor of New York City.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.6	This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:11.2	I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 22nd of October,
0:16.6	these are our main stories. Donald Trump puts on hold a plan for face-to-face talks with
0:22.3	Vladimir Putin on Ukraine, saying he doesn't want a wasted meeting. In Colombia, a high court has overturned
0:30.1	criminal convictions against the former president, Alvaro Aribi. Also, in this podcast, the young socialist who's leading the race to be New York City's new
0:42.5	mayor.
0:43.3	If New York truly is the city that never sleeps, we deserve a mayor who fights for those of us
0:50.3	who labor at every single hour of the day.
0:53.7	How a new AI-powered web browser says it will use the internet for you.
0:59.2	And the German man who stumbled across a life-changing family secret after watching a
1:05.2	documentary about the Nazis.
1:10.2	First, talks between President Trump and Vladimir Putin were penciled in for next month in Budapest,
1:16.8	raising hopes the Russian president might be ready to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.
1:21.9	But those talks have now been put on hold, with Mr Trump saying he doesn't want a wasted meeting with the Russian leader.
1:28.3	Mr. Trump implied that a refusal to freeze the fighting in Ukraine along current battle lines
1:33.7	was a sticking point. His comments came after a phone call between the U.S. Secretary of State
1:39.3	and Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, who rejected the proposal outright.
1:47.9	Now, when we hear from Washington, that we must stop immediately and that we must not discuss
1:53.7	anything further, stop and let history judge. If we simply stop, that will mean forgetting
1:59.7	about the rude causes of the conflict, which Donald Trump's administration has clearly understood and voiced.
2:06.7	Our State Department correspondent, Tom Bateman, has more.
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