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Radio 4,19 Feb 2025,45 mins

President Trump calls President Zelensky a "dictator"

The World Tonight

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Sir Keir Starmer spoke to President Zelensky on the phone on Wednesday evening and said it was "perfectly reasonable" for Ukraine to "suspend elections during war time as the UK did during World War II", Downing Street said. We hear from Conservative MP and former security minister Tom Tugendhat about where he believes President Trump's comments leave the UK's cooperation with Washington over Ukraine. Scotland's health secretary has admitted that more needs to be done to reduce deaths from drugs in rural areas. We report from the west coast town of Oban. Egyptologists have discovered the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun's was uncovered more than 100 years ago.

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