What’s going on between Russia and Trump?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
As far as the west is concerned, Russia hasn’t been playing by the rules for a while now. Accusations of meddling in the US elections, the Salisbury poison attack, and now seizing Ukrainian ships and sailors. But President Trump has a more complicated relationship with Russia than his predecessors and although he’s said he might cancel a meeting with President Putin over the dispute with Ukraine, there are questions about how close he is to the Russians. Questions that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller may soon answer as he enters the endgame of his investigation into Russian interference in Donald Trump’s election, and what those close to the now-president knew about it. Vitaliy Shevchenko in Moscow and Tara McKelvey and Anthony Zurcher in Washington prepare us for the upcoming flurry of news headlines.
Producers: Harriet Noble and Georgia Coan Editor: John Shields
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Matthew Price. |
| 0:08.2 | This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4, |
| 0:10.6 | where we ask one big question of one big news story every weekday. |
| 0:14.1 | Today what is going on between Russia and Trump? Hi Matthew, you're coming through loud and clear. |
| 0:34.4 | Excellent, good. |
| 0:35.4 | Greetings from a very snowy Moscow. |
| 0:37.3 | A few hours ago I spoke to Vitali Shevchenco who works for BBC monitoring. |
| 0:41.5 | Now part of his job is to keep an eye on stories |
| 0:44.0 | and how they're being covered in Russia. And there's one story that's been |
| 0:47.5 | dominating both Russian and Ukrainian news for a few days now. |
| 0:51.6 | Three Ukrainian naval ships tried to enter the Sea of Azov. |
| 0:58.0 | They were stopped by the Russians. |
| 1:00.0 | At least one of the Ukrainian ships was rammed by the Russian border guard. |
| 1:07.0 | Then apparently the Russians opened fire wounding at least three Ukrainians. They captured the Ukrainian ships. They took |
| 1:16.6 | them to a port they control and the next morning... |
| 1:21.8 | So this is Russian military intercepting the Ukrainian Navy. |
| 1:27.0 | Absolutely, that's the case. |
| 1:28.0 | What the Russian television is calling confessions made by the captured Ukrainians. |
| 1:34.9 | They make for painful viewing to some in Ukraine as well |
| 1:38.0 | because one of them looks at a piece of paper on the table |
| 1:41.9 | and Ukrainian officials are saying look it looks very |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.