17 Aug 2025

News from the UK with Jamie Tahana

From Sunday Morning, 8:14 am on 17 August 2025

London-based freelance journalist and former RNZ reporter Jamie Tahana is with us to talk about the news of the week in the UK and Europe, including reaction to the Trump Ukraine summit, the European heatwave, and pioneering Māori scholar, Mākereti Papakura, who will receive a posthumous degree from the University of Oxford nearly 100 years after she began her studies.

President Donald Trump said he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, but that the conversation would not yield an immediate end to the war in Ukraine
President Donald Trump said he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, but that the conversation would not yield an immediate end to the war in Ukraine

President Donald Trump said he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, but that the conversation would not yield an immediate end to the war in Ukraine. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool/AFP/Getty Images via CNN Newsource

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