Global News Podcast
Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
Sat, 25 Jan
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Vladimir Putin has said he's ready to discuss an end to the Ukraine war with Donald Trump. Also: new sensations for a quadriplegic man with a robotic arm, and the strange sounds coming from Georgia's bus ticket machines.
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Saturday, the 25th of January. Vladimir Putin says he's ready for talks on ending the war in Ukraine, but dismisses Donald Trump's threat to use economic pressure on Russia.
UN peacekeepers in Congo say they're engaged in intense combat with M23 rebels threatening the eastern city of Goma. And Hamas has given Israel the names of four female hostages due to be released as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal.
Also in the podcast... And I reach out with the robotic arm and hand and I grab Lisa's hand. I felt this warmth of touch that was just unbelievable.
The paralysed man who's discovered new sensations with a robotic arm. Donald Trump has had a complicated relationship with Vladimir Putin. But since his return to the White House, he's been urging the Russian leader to agree a peace deal with Ukraine, saying otherwise the US would increase sanctions, tariffs and taxes on Russia.
On Friday, Mr Putin gave his first public response, attempting to flatter the US president by repeating the lie that Mr Trump had actually won the 2020 election and suggesting that Russia's invasion of Ukraine might never have happened if, quote, that victory hadn't been stolen. On a visit to North Carolina, Mr Trump repeated his call for oil prices to be lowered to force Russia to end the war.
It's crazy. It's a crazy war. Now, one way to stop it quickly is for OPEC to stop making so much money and to drop the price of oil because they have it nice and high. And if you have it high, that war is not going to end so easily. So OPEC ought to get on the ball and they ought to drop the price of oil. And that war will stop right away.
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