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Global News Podcast · NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine · 14 Feb 2025
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Thursday the 13th of February, these are our main stories. There's been a flurry of initiatives from the United States on the war in Ukraine, with Donald Trump holding separate phone calls with Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky.
The new US Defence Secretary has ruled out Ukrainian membership of NATO. Egypt and Qatar say they're stepping up diplomatic efforts to save the ceasefire deal in Gaza. Hundreds of people who'd been working in scam centres in Myanmar have crossed into Thailand after attempts to shut down the operations.
So why did a group of Russians floating on a shrinking block of ice not want to be rescued? Find out later. Before returning to the White House, Donald Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine in just one day. Now there seems to be the first concrete action towards achieving that, albeit belated, goal.
He's spoken to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and a short time later to his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. In his nightly address, President Zelensky said the talks had been positive.
President Trump said he'd had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with the Russian president during which they'd agreed to work closely to end the conflict. He said both of them believed strongly that the killing must stop. A short time later in the Oval Office of the White House, President Trump had this to say.
Our North America editor, Sarah Smith, has this assessment of President Trump's telephone conversation with President Putin.
So what's been the reaction in Moscow? Steve Rosenberg is the BBC's Russia editor.
Steve Rosenberg in Moscow. The news of Donald Trump's conversation with Vladimir Putin came after the US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, spoke in Brussels to a group of more than 50 nations who've been supporting Ukraine during the conflict. He said that there would be no return to Ukraine's original 2014 borders.
In other words, Kiev should forget about reasserting its control over Crimea and other areas occupied by Russia or Russian-backed forces.
Our correspondent in Kiev is James Waterhouse. He gave his reaction to the developments regarding Ukraine.
James Waterhouse in Ukraine. For more on the comments by President Trump and his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, I spoke to our defence correspondent, Jonathan Beale, who was at the meeting in Brussels, where Mr Hegseth made the address.
And Jonathan, there was a clear indication that European nations will be expected to police any ceasefire deal in Ukraine, if and when it comes, and provide much of the aid. Is there the ability and the will amongst European leaders to do that?
Now to other news. Egypt and Qatar are said to be intensifying mediation efforts to try to save the troubled Gaza ceasefire agreement. President Trump has warned that unless all the remaining hostages held by Hamas are released on Saturday, the war will resume. The position of Israel's Prime Minister on the issue isn't as clear as our correspondent in Jerusalem, Wira Davis, explains.
We're at Davis in Jerusalem. Now, catching fish in your spare time with a rod and line is normally done from the safety of a riverbank or beach. That's not how they do it in the freezing Russian winters, though. They venture out onto the ice and that can cause real problems.
The emergency services in Russia have just had to rescue more than 100 fishermen stranded on a slab of ice drifting in the North Pacific. Rachel Wright has more details.
Still to come in an office block in London.
We look at the wonders below the ground.
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