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🗓️ 27 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Tonight on PBS News Weekend, Russia launches a barrage of drones into Ukraine just hours after President Trump raises doubts about Putin's commitment to peace. |
0:16.0 | Then as President Trump's second term approaches day 100, we examine the most controversial and consequential |
0:22.9 | moments and how global warming may be endangering a treasure trove of cultural artifacts |
0:29.3 | in remote Alaska. |
0:30.4 | The objects we're finding are important not just to local folks in their heritage, but to our collective heritage as humans. |
0:51.7 | Good evening. I'm John Yang. Russia continues its deadly assaults on Ukraine, overnight launching a sweeping drone attack that killed at least four people. |
1:01.2 | It comes a day after President Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodemar Zelensky at the Vatican before Pope Francis's funeral. |
1:08.2 | Both described the discussion in positive terms. After that meeting, |
1:12.1 | Mr. Trump took to social media to criticize Russian leader Vladimir Putin. There was no reason |
1:17.8 | for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities, and towns. It makes me think that |
1:23.0 | maybe he doesn't want to stop the war. He's just tapping me along. |
1:31.3 | William Taylor is a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center. |
1:36.2 | He was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine under George W. Bush and the temporary head of mission there in the first Trump administration, later testifying in Mr. Trump's impeachment. |
1:40.9 | Mr. Taylor, what do you make of that social media post saying that maybe Putin is just tapping |
1:44.7 | him along? |
1:45.7 | So, John, I think the president is realizing after that evidence of these attacks and other |
1:54.3 | attacks on religious holidays, we know two weeks ago, three weeks ago now. |
1:59.6 | And we know actually the discussion that President |
2:02.5 | Trump had with President Zelensky, for the first time a direct, unfiltered conversation |
2:08.1 | between the two presidents, that President Trump is realizing that President Putin may not be |
2:14.6 | serious about this negotiation, about stopping this war. I believe that Putin is not |
2:20.3 | serious about stopping this war, but I think the president may be coming to that same conclusion. |
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