Zelensky (Almost) Says Sorry
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today, we discuss President Zelensky saying that Ukraine is "ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership" to negotiate a peace deal. This comes after the US announced it would pause military aid to Ukraine, which has caused alarm across Europe. Adam speaks to the BBC’s chief presenter, Caitriona Perry and BBC international editor, Jeremy Bowen. And, the US and European stock markets fell after President Trump's 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico began. Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said the tariffs are "a very dumb thing to do". We speak to the BBC’s economics editor, Faisal Islam.
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| 0:04.8 | Hello, I've noticed a lot of people and more people than usual saying that at the moment they're finding the news quite stressful because there's just so much of it and it's about really big stuff like war and peace in the continent of Europe. |
| 0:17.4 | And I always find in situations like this where there's a danger of kind of information |
| 0:22.9 | and emotional overload, the best thing to do is to sit down with the people who know what |
| 0:29.0 | they're talking about and can interpret what's going on in a really smart but really calm way. |
| 0:34.8 | Kind of like the news version of like a problem shared as a problem solved. |
| 0:38.7 | So that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:40.2 | Like we do every day here on Newscast, |
| 0:42.0 | take the big stories and discuss them with our friends. |
| 0:44.9 | So have a listen to the latest episode of Newscast. |
| 0:48.2 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:50.5 | I like landscapes. |
| 0:51.5 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 0:52.8 | Japping. |
| 0:53.5 | Unemployed people who are overweight. That is not the agenda. |
| 0:56.6 | It's the fun police working overtime. The star is born. Elon. |
| 1:00.8 | So, perked that a miracle with us happening. Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. |
| 1:04.7 | Take me down to Downing Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. |
| 1:08.9 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, and today's episode is going to be dominated by decisions made by |
| 1:14.3 | U.S. President Donald Trump. |
| 1:16.5 | The second half of the podcast is going to be economic and trade-focused because he has gone ahead |
| 1:21.2 | with those big tariffs, those taxes on imports from abroad, on Canada, Mexico, and China. And that's big economic news, |
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