Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
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What are Trump and Putin discussing about Ukraine?
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Andrew Peach and at 14 hours GMT on Monday the 17th of March, these are our main stories. As Donald Trump prepares for talks with Vladimir Putin, the European Union warns Russia isn't interested in peace in Ukraine. Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney has broken with tradition by making his first overseas trip to Europe rather than the United States. Also in this podcast, as the authorities in North Macedonia question numerous suspects over the deadly nightclub fire, what kind of help is being offered to the survivors and their families?
Our staff and our volunteers were offering first ecological support, first aid and other material support.
The Kremlin has confirmed that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will talk tomorrow about ending the war in Ukraine. Its spokesman Dmitry Peskov wouldn't say exactly what the two presidents would be talking about, although President Trump suggested that dividing land and power plants was now part of the conversation.
I think we'll be talking about land. It's a lot different than it was before the wars, you know. We'll be talking about power plants. because that's a big question. But I think we have a lot of it already discussed very much by both sides, Ukraine and Russia. We're already talking about that, dividing up certain assets, and they've been working on that.
Donald Trump speaking on board Air Force One. Our diplomatic correspondent James Landale is in Kiev. I asked James if he was any the wiser about the conversation to come between President Trump and President Putin.
How is North Macedonia coping with the nightclub tragedy?
I think the way it's being portrayed, I think, by diplomats is that this will be a conversation designed not to sign off any deal, but to maintain momentum and maintain US pressure on the Russian side. If you think about it, Donald Trump has not spoken to Vladimir Putin for just over a month now. But since then, in the last few days, there's been quite a flurry of diplomacy. President Trump's envoy spoke to Mr Putin in Moscow on Thursday. Russian diplomats have been contacting their counterparts over the weekend. And at the moment, the Americans are putting up a sort of determinedly, resolutely positive signals about the prospects of getting a ceasefire deal. But As far as we know, the Russians are still sticking hard to their guns.
This morning, the Deputy Foreign Minister, Alexander Grishko, was very clear in saying that, you know, as part of a deal, they want Ukraine to be utterly neutral and completely outside of the NATO military alliance. Well, you know, neutrality is something that Ukraine has made very clear they are not going to accept. So at the moment... There is still a tension and a disagreement between the Americans who are saying, let's have a fast, quick ceasefire and then talk about the difficult stuff long term, and the Russians who are saying, no, we need to talk about all the difficult stuff in the round.
The messages from the EU are almost the opposite, resolutely negative, talking about, you know, they don't really think that Russia wants peace and therefore this is all a bit of a sham.
I think, yeah, their view is, it's not so much that it's a sham, but at the moment that it's going to be very, very hard to get a deal agreed. Because at the moment, if you think about it, Vladimir Putin has failed in his war aims. His war aims were to achieve a Ukraine that was subordinate to Russia. He's failed to do that.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are Trump and Putin discussing about Ukraine?
0:37–2:24
2
How is North Macedonia coping with the nightclub tragedy?
2:24–5:23
3
What is the status of Trump's potential deal with Iran?
5:23–10:15
4
What changes are occurring at Voice of America?
10:15–14:03
5
Can DNA from endangered species be used to save them?
14:03–17:17
6
What recent success has Newcastle United achieved?
17:17–33:22
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Steve Rosenberg 2 min
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Lise Doucette 1 min
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John Morgan 1 min
Mark Lowen 1 min
Hostage Family Representative 1 min
Paul Moss
Donald Trump
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Victoria Gill