Zelensky's crucial meeting with Trump in Washington
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
President Zelensky of Ukraine is in Washington ahead of crucial talks with Donald Trump. He's expected to press for long-range Tomahawk missiles to strike Russia. Also: China's ruling Communist Party expels nine senior military officials. New Yorkers are preparing to vote for a new mayor, as a Muslim candidate emerges as the clear frontrunner. The state funeral of a revered opposition leader in Kenya. Spotify develops its own AI music tools. And the EU's top court rules that pets can be classified as 'luggage' on flights.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts. This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm Will Chalk and at 18 hours GMT on the 17th of October, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.7 | Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are meeting face to face again. It's been fiery |
| 0:22.5 | in the past, so what does today have in store? A fraud case in China leads to grave consequences |
| 0:29.5 | for some top military officials. As two very different candidates face off to be New York's next |
| 0:35.8 | mayor, it looks like Gen Z's votes |
| 0:37.8 | will be crucial. |
| 0:41.6 | Also in this podcast, some of the biggest companies in music say they're working together |
| 0:46.3 | on their own AI tools. What does songwriters think? |
| 0:50.1 | What happens when we can sort of photocopy an artist a million times and make a million versions of their music? |
| 0:56.5 | You know, it's the slippery slope. |
| 0:59.4 | And an EU ruling about pets on planes that's got some owners angry. |
| 1:09.2 | For the third time this year, President Zelensky of Ukraine is in Washington for talks with President Trump. |
| 1:16.0 | The first meeting couldn't have gone worse, with Mr Zelensky being publicly humiliated in the Oval Office. |
| 1:22.5 | The second was far more convivial, so what is in store this time around? |
| 1:27.0 | Mr Zelensky wants Donald Trump to agree to send |
| 1:29.6 | American long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. |
| 1:33.4 | Marco Rubio is going to be meeting with his counterpart, as you know, Labrov, and they'll be meeting |
| 1:39.7 | pretty soon. They're going to set up a time and a place very shortly. Maybe it's already set up. |
| 1:45.5 | But I'll be meeting with President Putin and we'll make a determination. |
| 1:51.0 | Tomorrow I'm meeting with President Zelensky and I'll be telling them about the call. |
| 1:56.5 | I mean, we have a problem. They don't get along too well, those two. And it's sometimes tough to have meetings, |
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