2025-09-11
26 分钟Donald Trump wants to make two big diplomatic deals, Gaza and Ukraine.
And this week, both of them are on the rocks.
On Tuesday,
Trump's Middle East plan took a big hit when Israel targeted the Hamas negotiators in Qatar.
That's America's closest Middle East ally, firing missiles into its second-closest Middle East ally.
On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin was testing the boundaries of NATO.
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has confirmed that Russian drones were shot down in Polish airspace overnight.
Polish and NATO jets were scrambled to shoot down Russian drones that violated its airspace.
Poland's Prime Minister says his country is the closest it's been to open conflict
since World War II.
The incursion by Russian drones into Polish airspace was another big hit for Trump.
You can, I think,
quite convincingly argue right now that not only has he been played by President Putin,
he's also been played by Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, President Trump.
His ambitions to be this Nobel Peace Prize-winning Ender of Wars appears to be,
you know, hitting another roadblock.
And at the center of all of this is the man Donald Trump asked to solve these two wars for him.
His best friend, somebody with zero diplomatic experience, Steve Wittkoff.
From the BBC, I'm Tristan Redmond, and this is The Global Story.
On today's episode, who is Steve Wittkoff, Trump's envoy for everything?