Zelensky and US Ukraine envoy's news conference cancelled
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The news conference with General Keith Kellogg and President Volodymyr Zelensky was due to take place in Kyiv, where they met on Thursday; the cancellation followed a heated exchange between the Ukrainian leader and President Trump. Also on the programme: Spain's former football federation boss Luis Rubiales has said he'll appeal after a court found him guilty of sexual assault for kissing football player Jenni Hermoso without her consent; and we hear from Martin Campbell, the director of two James Bond films, about Amazon taking full creative control of the franchise. (Photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the US chief envoy for Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg, attend their meeting in Kyiv Ukraine on 20 February 2025. Credit: SERGEY DOLZHENKO/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from London with me, Sean Lay. |
| 0:09.4 | And coming up in just over 10 minutes, the most recent Bond movie was called No Time to Die, |
| 0:15.4 | and it looks like he's not dying just yet, because it will be the last of the franchise to be overseen by the Broccoli |
| 0:21.5 | family, but was announced today that Creative Control is to be taken over by Amazon MGM. |
| 0:27.7 | I've been speaking to Bond Director, Martin Campbell. |
| 0:31.0 | But before that, Donald Trump's point man on Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg, has been in |
| 0:35.5 | Kiev today meeting President Volodymya Zelensky. |
| 0:38.3 | There was scheduled news conference between the two men failed to take place. |
| 0:41.6 | Camera operators and their equipment were briefly let into the room before being ushered out again. |
| 0:46.3 | More on the possible reasons behind that in a moment. |
| 0:48.9 | Ahead of those talks on Air Force One on Wednesday evening, President Trump told the BBC the stark reality, |
| 0:55.1 | and doubtless a reality General Kellogg repeated today to his host, that, quote, Russia has the cards, |
| 1:00.8 | because they've taken a lot of territory. And on social media, he again repeated his characterisation |
| 1:06.5 | of President Zelensky as a dictator. Stefan de Kiermmer is a spokesman for the European Union. |
| 1:13.4 | He challenged the White House's view of both parties in the war. |
| 1:16.6 | I think we have a fairly straightforward and clear position on this. |
| 1:21.2 | President Zelensky was legitimately elected in free, fair and democratic elections. Ukraine is a democracy. Putin's Russia is not. |
| 1:32.7 | Well, Washington is brushing aside the European view, piling the pressure on Kiev, |
| 1:36.7 | demanding its signs an agreement that would give the US access to Ukraine's natural resources. |
| 1:41.7 | Mr Zelensky has already refused, saying that it provides no security |
| 1:45.6 | guarantees. In a news conference in the past couple of hours, President Trump's national security |
| 1:49.9 | advisor, Mike Walts, said that Mr. Trump was obviously very frustrated with President Zelensky. |
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