What Does The US-Ukraine Minerals Deal Mean For The War?
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Today, we look at what’s in the deal struck between the United States and Ukraine that will give Washington access to some of the war-torn country's natural resources.
International editor Jeremy Bowen also explains what it could mean for the conflict.
And the Football Association has banned transgender women from playing in women’s matches in England. Legal correspondent Dominic Casciani and sports journalist Jane Dougall put the decision into context.
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| 0:04.9 | Hello, we've had the first big departure from the Trump administration. |
| 0:10.0 | The National Security Advisor, Mike Wals, has left the White House. |
| 0:14.5 | And now you might know him because he was the person that set up the signal chat that also included the editor of the Atlantic |
| 0:23.5 | magazine and where the Defence Secretary Pete Hegeseth shared some quite sensitive details |
| 0:29.1 | about military operations against the Houthis in Yemen. Now, his deputy, the principal deputy |
| 0:36.1 | national security adviser Alex Wong, is also reported to be leaving the administration as well, which is interesting because I interviewed Alex Wong on news night on Wednesday night as part of the coverage of Trump's 100 days in office. So it looks like that was Alex Wong's last interview. And I did ask him |
| 0:55.8 | about the signal chat thing and he was pretty unrepentant about it. But the thing that really |
| 1:00.8 | stuck out to people watching Newsnight was this kind of conversational tick that he had of using my |
| 1:06.9 | name in every single answer. And to just prove to you what that was like, we've now done |
| 1:12.4 | a supercut of every time he said my name in that interview, which wasn't even that long. |
| 1:17.8 | Well, I think that's indisputable, Adam. Well, Adam, what's clear in the Red Sea, Adam? |
| 1:22.9 | Well, when President Trump came into office, Adam, Adam, Adam, we are moving forward. |
| 1:28.4 | As we've spoken about, Adam, we are moving. |
| 1:31.0 | Well, Adam, we are moving forward on a program, again, to secure America. |
| 1:35.6 | We'll see. |
| 1:36.3 | I've enjoyed the conversation, Adam, and I think we're going to have many more wins in the next hundred days, |
| 1:40.1 | and in the remaining time here, the President Trump's term. |
| 1:42.7 | And it turns out his remaining time was about 12 hours. |
| 1:46.6 | So that's Alex Wong and Mike Waltz, the deputy and the national security advisor, who have left the Trump administration. |
| 1:53.2 | Also, ironically, one of the questions I asked at the end of news night to one of the experts was, |
| 1:57.3 | oh, isn't it interesting? Donald Trump hasn't fired anyone yet. |
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