Zelensky In Turkey, But Where’s Putin?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at talks between world leaders and their officials in Turkey, where a breakthrough on peace in Ukraine was hoped for.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the country's capital Ankara, but Russian President Vladimir Putin stayed away despite having proposed talks.

Russia editor Steve Rosenberg joins to discuss what Putin’s thinking is, as does former MI6 officer Christopher Steele.

And - positive news for the UK’s economy. It’s grew more than expected at the start of the year. Deputy economics editor Dharshini David tells Adam whether it’s expected to continue to grow.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	Hello, it's great to be back in the newscast studio,
0:07.2	and thank you very much to James and everyone else
0:09.1	who kept the studio nice and warm while I was away.
0:12.7	Now, very smart people who work in the city
0:16.2	in, like, hedge funds and law firms and things,
0:19.1	talk about surprises that are on the upside
0:21.7	and surprises that are on the downside. In other words, things that go better than you might
0:26.2	expect and things that go worse than you might expect. And today we've got examples of each
0:30.7	because the news about the UK economy has surprised on the upside. But the news about
0:37.1	talks between Russia and Ukraine about the conflict in
0:39.8	Ukraine have surprised on the downside. So if you now want to impress people with your knowledge
0:45.6	of international affairs and the UK economy, say there's been a surprise on the upside in one
0:50.4	and a surprise on the downside on the other. And we will explain what's going on those ups and downs
0:54.7	on this episode of Newscast.
0:56.9	Newscast from the BBC.
0:59.2	He has just compared me to the fat controller.
1:02.2	Did I say that?
1:03.6	I can't believe I said that.
1:05.0	Next question.
1:05.8	This is R for the benefit of Earth.
1:08.4	I'm not personally a huge Sabrina carpenter fan.
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