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🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is ready to join talks in Hungary with Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin if invited. It comes after a tense meeting with his US counterpart in the White House which, according to reports, descended into a 'shouting match'. Also: the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continues in Gaza after both sides accuse each other of breaches. We hear about the medical breakthrough that may help some blind people see again.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Nick Miles, and at 17 hours GMT on Monday the 20th of October, these are our main stories. |
| 0:16.7 | Donald Trump says the best way to end the war in Ukraine is to leave Russia with the territory |
| 0:21.3 | it currently occupies. We assess the mood in Kiev. Myanmar's military regime has raided a |
| 0:28.1 | notorious cyber scam centre. A group of blind patients in Britain can read again after being fitted |
| 0:34.9 | with a life-changing implant at the back of the eye. |
| 0:40.2 | Also in this podcast, how people in India, one of the world's largest gold markets, are reacting |
| 0:46.3 | to the rise in the metals price. |
| 0:48.5 | My budget this time was low. |
| 0:50.4 | Earlier I was buying gold more than 10, 15 grams. |
| 0:54.5 | This time I purchased for platinum, which is comparatively cheaper. |
| 1:01.7 | But first, last week, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, |
| 1:06.2 | appeared to come back from his third visit to the White House this year, empty-handed. |
| 1:12.6 | No Tomahawk missiles were forthcoming from Donald Trump. But there was no indication that Mr Trump had suggested ways of |
| 1:18.0 | ending the conflict that were totally unacceptable to Keeve. Now, though, speaking to reporters on Air Force One, |
| 1:25.0 | Donald Trump has said the best way to resolve the war would be to cut |
| 1:28.8 | up the country's Donbass region in the West as things are now. That would leave most of it under |
| 1:34.8 | Russian control. What they should do is just stop at the lines where they are, the battle lines. |
| 1:39.6 | You have a battle line right now. The rest is very tough to negotiate. If you're going to say, |
| 1:43.8 | you take this, |
| 1:44.4 | we take that, you know, there's so many different permutation. So what I say is they should |
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