James Menendez
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Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
Aber dann kam ein drittes Dokument, das von der Kremlin veröffentlicht wurde, das die Wälder zerstörte. Es sagte, dass der Black Sea Ceasefire nur in Form kommen würde, wenn Sanktionen auf russische Banken, Versicherer, Unternehmen, Ports und Schiffe eröffnet würden. Das würde es ermöglichen, mehr Landwirtschaft und Fertilisierungen zu exportieren.
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Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
Das könnte ein bisschen Zeit dauern und vielleicht nicht ganz in den Geschenken der USA sein. Der Kremlin hat auch gesagt, dass der 30-Tage-Pause auf Energie-Strikes zu Beginn des 18. März zurückgelegt werden würde und könnte verabschiedet werden, wenn eine Seite den Deal verweigert.
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Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
In anderen Worten, was verabschiedet worden ist, ist ein fragiles Schritt in Richtung einer Diminution der Kämpfe in der Ukraine. but with no guarantee of success amid an atmosphere of mutual distrust. Even if today's agreement were to survive, it's still a long way from the comprehensive countrywide ceasefire the US originally wanted.
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Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017 und die Verwendung von Verbraucherschiffen für militärische Ziele im Black Sea zu vermeiden. Sie haben auch beschlossen, Maßnahmen zu entwickeln, um das Vertrauen gegen Energieanbieter von Russland und Ukraine zu verbieten.
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Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
Präsident Zelenskyy hat es regrettiert, dass es keine explizite Verbrechung von Angriffen auf zivilistische Infrastruktur gab, aber er war breit und glücklich.
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
The inescapable fact for Ukraine and Europe is that it needs America still. As European allies look to increase defence spending, as Ukraine tries to portray its vision for a post-ceasefire existence, it still needs America to be there. if the fighting was to break out once more, if Russia was to try and invade Ukraine again.
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
And I think that's why we've seen Kyiv continue to engage, despite the very maximalist openings from Donald Trump in terms of wanting access to $500 billion worth of these natural minerals. What struck me was the reported lack of a security guarantee in return in this agreement, because this is what President Zelensky has called for for a long time –
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
the idea that America would help prop up Ukraine once the war ends. But I think there's a real hope here that this will pave the way for future cooperation with America.
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
After a fortnight where insults have been aimed at Kiev, where there's been a warming between Washington and Moscow, just maybe this could be the start of Ukraine forging the relationship it needs to survive and exist as a sovereign country, even with Russia continuing to occupy a fifth of it.
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
It's a contradictory term. I think the impression we get here is that this is still part of a broader peace endeavour. Donald Trump still wants this war to end quickly. He wants to engage with Russia to do that, as well as Ukraine, and he wants to get some kind of commercial return. He is very much in transaction mode, and I suspect he is referring to...
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
military provisions that will be given to Ukraine as part of European peacekeeping forces, for example, to allow a ceasefire to be enforced. I don't think there is the appetite from either America for this war to drag on, nor Ukraine either, because of course people here want peace. There are growing divisions over mobilisation and how soldiers are called up, and of course there's war fatigue.
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
This is what full-scale conflicts do. And Russia's invasion has been full scale for more than three years now. So I think these forces are driving the parties to an end. But for Ukrainians, it's about the terms. A ceasefire, in the eyes of many, would not mean peace.
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
And if Donald Trump was to rush through an unacceptable peace deal that Ukraine wouldn't accept, it would keep fighting, but it wouldn't assure its future.
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US and Ukraine strike mineral deal
In the House of Commons this afternoon, the Foreign Secretary David Lammy told MPs he was proud of the UK's development work. Moments later, the UK Prime Minister announced a massive cut in, yes, Britain's development budget. The reduction from 0.5% of national income to 0.3% means $7.5 billion less will be spent on foreign aid by the UK each year.
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US and Ukraine strike mineral deal
Given that billions of this budget still pays for asylum seekers' hotels in the UK, the actual amount of money spent on aid overseas will be about 0.15%. The Prime Minister said the UK would use this money to help Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza tackle climate change and support multinational efforts on global health. AIDS charities were stunned.
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US and Ukraine strike mineral deal
Save the Children said it was a betrayal of the world's most vulnerable children. The One campaign said it would create huge problems for the delivery of vital humanitarian assistance. All this after Donald Trump froze America's development spending arm, USAID. By cutting foreign aid, the UK government has broken a manifesto commitment to protect the budget.
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US and Ukraine strike mineral deal
It has also damaged its policy of using aid to engage more closely with countries in the global south. David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee and former Labour Foreign Secretary, said the cut was a blow to Britain's proud reputation as a global humanitarian and development leader.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
According to President Zelensky, there were a number of drone strikes across the country. And as a result of that, there have been reports of a hospital in the town of Sumy being hit. There's also been reports of an attack on a rail power station in Dnipropetrovsk. directly in contradiction to Mr Putin's promises that he wouldn't target energy.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
And so in response to that, you know, Mr Zelensky is saying, well, look, the offer of a partial ceasefire is clearly positive. It's better than nothing. It was something that this idea of reducing the amount of tax on energy infrastructure was part of his original plan.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
But equally, the fact that the Russians have ignored and broken their promise already, he says, shows that Russia is not ready to finish the fighting. So there is some scepticism, I think, in Kiev about the promises that Mr Putin has made to Mr Trump.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
Yeah, that's right. I mean, when Mr. Zelensky gave his briefing yesterday after the telephone call between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin, he made it very clear that if Russia attacked Ukraine, particularly energy infrastructure, then Ukraine would hit back. He said, look, we're not going to stop doing this unless the Russians stop doing it. In other words, it has to be something that is mutual.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
Therefore, the fighting continues as it is. A lot of analysts here have been saying, look, energy infrastructure is not the thing anymore because we're coming out of the winter. We're heading into the spring when Ukraine is warmer, when the focus on energy is is less critical. What Mr. Putin is offering to give up is actually something that he might benefit from more than Ukraine.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
Yeah, I mean, they say that is a red line for them. They say Mr. Zelensky insisted that he had confidence that partners would continue to provide aid and intelligence to Ukraine. I mean, the problem is, is that as we've learned in recent weeks, the U.S. is prepared to suspend that aid because it's done it on its own without having any request from Russia.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
So I think it is quite natural and expected for Russia to make that request simply because the Americans are willing to contemplate it. I think there's also a distinction being drawn between the fact that the United States said to Ukraine, you need to sign up to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire across the whole of Ukraine, the air, the sea and on the front line.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
Russia has refused to do that, and yet instead of being given threats by the Americans, Mr Trump has put out a statement overnight saying that good progress was made. So I think there's very much a sense here that Ukraine is being treated differently to Russia.
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Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator'
Not many people say no to Donald Trump. President Zelensky has, and now he's paying the price. At the heart of Mr Trump's fury is a row over Ukraine's critical minerals. Mr Zelensky floated the idea last year as part of his so-called peace plan that Ukraine might offer American firms access to its rare earth deposits in return for continued US military support.
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Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator'
Last weekend at a conference in Munich, Mr Trump's team laid down an ultimatum. Ukraine should, it was reported, sign over 50% not only of its mineral wealth but also its oil and gas reserves and infrastructure. Mr Trump claims inaccurately that America is owed $500 billion for its previous assistance to Ukraine. Critics accuse Mr Trump of seeking war reparations from the wrong side.
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Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator'
Well, Mr. Zelensky rejected this US demand out of hand, saying any deal had to be linked to post-war security guarantees. This is not a serious conversation, he said today. I am defending Ukraine. I cannot sell my country. There is much at stake. Ukraine has vast reserves of mineral deposits. How much is not clear, but some estimates value them at more than $11 trillion.
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Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator'
They include things like lithium, graphite, cobalt and titanium, which are used in everything from mobile phones and renewable energy to missiles and superconductors. But these minerals are rare and China dominates the market. Donald Trump may say he wants peace in Ukraine, but he also wants a peace of Ukraine. And right now, President Zelensky is not playing ball.
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
As two major powers discussed the future of his country elsewhere, in Turkey a visibly irritated President Zelensky highlighted what he saw as the flaws with his country's exclusion from this first stage of talks.
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Ukraines Leader said he would never legally recognize the territory Russia had seized and called for, in the likely absence of NATO membership, a strong Ukrainian military, possibly backed by foreign troops in a post-ceasefire existence. For Dymko, a soldier we caught up with in Kiev, America's approach has been damaging to morale.
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Mr. Zelensky was scheduled to travel to Saudi Arabia after visiting his Turkish counterpart, President Erdogan, but he said he had now postponed the trip so not to add legitimacy to the early negotiations to which he was not invited.
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EU retaliates as Trump tariffs expand globally
And that laser flight, it looks like it may well be on its way, but it's been an extraordinary long wait for those astronauts in space. What will that have been like for them, do you think?
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EU retaliates as Trump tariffs expand globally
Talk us through then what's going to happen next, how they will be brought back down to Earth.
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EU retaliates as Trump tariffs expand globally
I read also that you are involved in a program to produce food in both the US and Nigeria as a precursor to growing food in space. Tell us about that.
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EU retaliates as Trump tariffs expand globally
Yeah. What are the particular challenges then? Why is it not as easy as doing it where we are right now?
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EU retaliates as Trump tariffs expand globally
Right. But this is all presumably building towards a possibility of us being able to sustain ourselves somewhere other than on Earth. Is that correct?
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
Well, President Zelensky has thanked Donald Trump directly in his evening address for enabling these constructive talks. And it seems like Ukraine's leader feels like he has been listened to. He didn't take part in today's discussions. But I think this joint statement after hours of negotiations in Jeddah reflects a restoring of Ukraine and America's relationship.
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
And I think just hearing the words that the ball is now in Russia's court will be music to Kyiv's ears, because finally we're seeing an America apply some kind of pressure on Russia, and finally it seems to be siding with Ukraine for the first time since Donald Trump took office. But whilst this is a diplomatic breakthrough for Kyiv, there is a huge but. It all hinges on...
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
on how the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, will view this proposal, or as the delegation put it today, whether he will both accept it and immediately implement this proposed month-long ceasefire along the current front lines.
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
It'll be instantaneous. I mean, the impression we got from officers on the front line, it was that it was like fighting blind. It is shared intelligence by America primarily that enables Ukraine to trace missiles, detect the buildup of Russian troops, to plan assaults, to get a sense of terrain, to use satellite imagery.
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
That has now been restored and it allows, it sort of creates inertia once more on a creaking front line in some areas. It does not solve Ukraine's problems. You know, the Ukrainian troops are being encircled in some areas of the fighting, but it keeps it in the fight. I think America's withdrawal of support in this way was effectively like fading down Ukraine's life support machine.
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
It's plugged back in, but Ukraine is still very much fighting for its life.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
We're in a transactional phase, shall we say, of Russia's full-scale invasion. In the past, it was about President Zelensky pleading for what he saw as being right, helping a democratic country, a sovereign nation, stand up against a larger aggressor. Now he is having to sell Russia.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
uh the commercial benefits it's as simple as that really it seems for america to continue supporting it so we he'd always said this surprise attack into russia's kursk region wasn't about long-term occupation the hundreds of square kilometers they've seized are a relative sliver compared with what russia has taken the other way but now for the first time he's being clearer he's saying we're going to use this as political leverage
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
for a potential peace negotiation. If Russia wants what we've taken back, you'll have to give back what you currently occupy inside Ukraine because there is also an operational reality here in that his forces have been unable to shift Russian troops or even hold them back in many parts of the front line in the east. So I think this is what President Zelensky is shifting himself towards now.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
He's gearing up, as you said, for the Munich Security Conference where he is meeting a US vice president who's been extremely critical of American support for Ukraine. The White House has its eyes on Ukraine's natural resources. It wants to invest in them as a kind of return on the billions it's given. And so this is this kind of transactional tone we are starting to see from Ukraine's leader.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
That may well materialise down the line. At the moment, the Kremlin is just repeating its demands, really, these really quite extreme demands of complete control of the four Ukrainian territories it occupies territory in. That would involve Ukraine surrendering entire cities. have yet to fall. And it wants the complete demilitarization of Ukraine.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
And it's repeated that false claim that Ukraine is run by a Nazi government. So Russia is standing firm. But if you look at the language from Washington... It's looking to appease Moscow already. We're already seeing the conversation shift to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
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Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
And President Zelensky is just fighting to keep himself in that conversation because what he's said time and time again is that there can be no talks about Ukraine without Ukraine, but that's materialising.
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Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
It is the first kind of claim. I mean, for President Zelensky, he is certainly looking to frame this as... Why? Well, he wants to reiterate what he sees as the widening geopolitical footprint of Russia's invasion. He wants to say to America, and he did so in a press conference, you need to pay attention to what is happening.
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Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
You need to consider your response if Beijing is now helping Moscow in its invasion. But... There is no evidence, according to western officials, that Beijing is directly helping Russian troops. And we don't know what those Chinese soldiers may have been doing. They might have been in Ukraine in a mercenary role or they could have simply been mobilized from inside Russia. So there are a lot of...
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Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
unanswered questions, but Zelensky did post a video showing an Asian soldier in a Russian uniform, handcuffed, talking to his captors.
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Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
So it's a sizable, significant accusation, but at the moment we wait to hear to see what Beijing and Washington say in response, but there's no further evidence, despite Kiev saying there is, and that there may well be more Chinese soldiers fighting on Ukrainian soil.
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Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
Well, they have always stopped short of condemning the invasion, but nor have they spoken publicly in support. Now, before the full-scale invasion, Beijing and Moscow, President Xi and Vielen Dank. Das ist ein Verhältnis, das sich verändert, aber es wird immer mehr für beide bedeutend.
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Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
So, for this relationship to spill into direct military involvement like we've seen with North Korea, I don't think there is enough evidence to say that at this stage. And in the case of North Korea, yes, a few thousand troops were deployed, but it was the provision of ammunition which proved to be significant in some areas of the battlefield.
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Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
So, of course it would be significant if this was more. And I think what's interesting is how President Zelensky is framing this. He is trying to generate that urgency to keep the pressure on America...
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
For starters, none of this is going to actually happen. We're a constitutional democracy. Trump isn't a dictator. And even if he were, these are totally off the wall things. There's two questions here. To what extent is he trying to send a signal to our partners and allies around the world? and to his own base? And to what extent is he becoming more irrational?
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
I mean, we just had, you know, an unpleasant experience with Joe Biden. And Trump is pretty old. I mean, I can say that because I'm the same age. So every time he does something like this, we have to suck in our breath a bit and see what happens. But again, we're not going to march into Greenland. We're not going to march into Canada. We're not going to seize the Panama Canal.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
The basic question is, how will this be assessed? Not by our partners. They will be shocked, outraged and probably shrug it off. I'm looking at Berlin. I'm looking at Paris. I'm looking at London. I'm worried a little bit about how the Putins and the Zs of the world will assess this, because this seems to be a bit more than his usual irrational self, which they're used to.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
But, I mean, in defense of him, the charm of Trump is they're really afraid of him. I mean, that picture of him taking a bullet and pumping his fist in the ear, this didn't impress, you know, the cocktail circuit in Brussels. But believe me, I've spent a lot of time with thuggish leaders, including Putin, and it makes a big impression on them.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
So that's a good thing that you have a leader that others, that bad people fear. What I don't want is a leader that bad people don't take seriously.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
After last week's rupture in the Oval Office, the diplomatic dust has begun to settle. President Trump told Congress he appreciated the letter he received from President Zelensky, which praised his leadership and welcomed a proposed minerals deal. In his nightly address, Mr. Zelensky said there had been positive movement and his chief of staff said both sides had agreed to hold talks soon.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
The US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said he'd had good talks with his Ukrainian counterpart about the location, delegations and substance of any discussions. And he suggested that if there were progress, the US might end the pause on military aid to Ukraine, it announced earlier this week.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
But for now, that military aid remains suspended. And it was confirmed today that it includes a ban on the sharing of intelligence with Ukraine. That will have an immediate impact on the battlefield, with Ukraine finding it harder to track incoming missiles and glide bombs or attack Russian targets behind its front lines.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
The CIA director, John Ratcliffe, said this was making President Zelensky think again.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
So, for all the conciliatory noises and reduction intentions, the essentials remain. Donald Trump is still putting huge pressure on a supposed ally to agree a surrender ceasefire on his terms, one that cedes territory to Russia and mineral resources to the US, without guarantees to ensure Ukraine's future security.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
And all the while it remains unclear whether President Putin is ready to talk, as Mr. Trump insists he is. The Kremlin said today merely it would react positively to the latest developments.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
It's central to Ukraine's survival, really. I mean, in the early battle of Kiev, it was shared intelligence from America, which allowed Ukraine to repel Russian forces in a way that many didn't expect. It is shared American intelligence that alerts your mobile phone if there is an airstrike, which happens most nights.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
They allow Ukrainian troops to identify the locations of invading Russian soldiers and to launch long-range missile strikes. The Das Ziel dieser Pause ist noch nicht klar, wie man erwartet. Aber das ist ein amerikanischer Ansatz, der weniger eine unpopuläre Maßnahme ist, um die Ukraine zu fordern, um zu negotieren, sondern mehr ein rechnerischer Wandel mit der Zukunft der Ukraine.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
Und man wundert sich, wie weit Donald Trump bereit ist, weil Wladimir Putin die Ukraine sieht, er sieht sie nicht als ein sovereignes Staat. Er sieht die Ukrainer und die Russen als das Gleiche. Und es gibt keine Beweise, dass er eine andere Sicht hat. Präsident Zelenskyy sagt, er wird ein Meeting haben.
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Trump and Zelensky agree to future talks
Er erwartet, dass er die Ergebnisse mit Washington nächste Woche eröffnen wird, nach einer Verbesserung in den Verhältnissen. Und er braucht diese Ergebnisse schnell, so wie die Hilfe aus Amerika jetzt ausgeliefert wird.
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Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
Well, it sounds pretty great, right? I'm from County Kerry and I would have grown up knowing about the island, its history, kind of as a bit of a cultural landmark and about its beauty. Yeah, I suppose when they started advertising this job, it was on my radar.
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Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
Myself and my wife started talking about it and thought, you know, this could be just a great bit of an adventure really for us at an important time in our lives.
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Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
Yeah, there is a small amount of connection out there because there's a mast on the mainland. So we will be able to keep in touch. And there's a small wind turbine to charge phones. Detached but connected in some ways as well.
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Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
Yeah, well, I suppose you just sort of make provision for kind of storms coming in. Last year, we were told that a storm came in that lasted for 12 days. So there will be times when we're on our own, but I think that's kind of all part of the experience.
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Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
So for him... I'm a landscape painter, a figurative painter. So I suppose, and in knowing about the island a long time, I would love the opportunity to go out there and spend some significant time. And hopefully it'll provide inspiration for lots of work when we get back off the island.
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Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
Yes, there's a few things we've been tipped off to. Also head torches, a good stash of head torches at various points around the island, given the lack of electricity is a big one. So we have a few little insider tricks. It's all a bit abstract now, but when we get out there, I'm sure we'll figure it out.
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Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
You could look at this as to be expected after the pausing of American aid as Ukraine is strong-armed into Donald Trump's vision of peace. Or you could look at it as a really concerning denial of intelligence Ukraine has used to significant effect so far
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Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
In this war, if you look at the reports as to what this could mean, it seems to have been a selective measure in that this is intelligence to do with targets inside Russian territory and not Russian occupied territory. But either way, this severely hampers Ukraine's ability to sustain its fight because... This war is not just about fighting in the trenches. It is about targeting supply lines.
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Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
It's about stopping the gathering of troops further back in an attempt to relieve pressure on the cities and towns where people still live. And I think the most concerning thing... We are talking about a Ukraine that has yet to secure any security guarantees. We are talking about a Ukraine that has only received pressure from America.
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Trump tells Congress he's 'just getting started'
And as for the Russian advances, which continue, let's be under no illusion, there have been no new announcements from Washington to hinder their progress as they try to take Ukrainian territory.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
This whole project works on two key thoughts. By making a horn slightly radioactive, we make it less desirable for the people who want to own a rhino horn, who want to use it for traditional medicine. And the second is the level of radioactive material in the horn makes these horns significantly easier to detect as they are moved.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
By making a horn slightly radioactive, we make it less desirable for the people who want to own a rhino horn, who want to use it for traditional medicine.
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
There may be ceasefire talks in Saudi Arabia, but on the ground in Ukraine, the firing continues without cease. Today it was the turn of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine. It's long been the subject of Russian attacks. It's just over the border from the Kursk region of Russia, occupied by Ukraine last year. But the missile strike that laid waste to parts of the city this afternoon was exceptional.
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
The authorities said a school, hospital and apartment blocks were damaged. Scores were injured, including children. So far, there have been no reports of any deaths. Ukraine's foreign minister, Andrei Subir, asked how Moscow could speak of peace while carrying out such brutal strikes.
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Erdogan calls Turkey protests 'evil' as unrest continues
Instead of making hollow statements about peace, he said, Russia must stop bombing our cities and end its war on civilians. For its part, Ukraine destroyed four Russian attack helicopters in a missile attack on the Belgorod region. And Russia's defence ministry accused Ukraine of targeting energy infrastructure in the Krasnodar region. For now, the fighting goes on.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
Donald Trump is bent on keeping the diplomatic ball moving. He wants an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin says yes, maybe, but first let's discuss Russia's terms and conditions. In the face of what some see as stalling tactics, President Trump will call his Russian counterpart to maintain momentum in the negotiations.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
Speaking on a rather noisy Air Force One, he claimed there was a very good chance of peace.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
So what might that mean? It's not entirely clear, but it's thought there are discussions about how best to draw up a ceasefire line in areas where the frontline bisects towns and villages. The President was also referring to the future of the massive nuclear power plant at Zaporizhia and a neighbouring town, all currently under Russian control.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
But President Putin says any ceasefire must not only address questions of detail such as this, but also what he sees as the root causes of the war, namely an expanding NATO and a sovereign Ukraine. All this is making European leaders cautious, including the EU Foreign Affairs Chief, Kaya Callas.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
As for Ukraine, they too have red lines, as set out by Oleksandr Merezhko, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Ukrainian parliament, in an interview with the BBC.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
So much now depends on the call between the two leaders. Will Mr Putin dig in or give ground? Will Mr Trump threaten consequences or offer concessions? For the people here in Ukraine, much will be at stake.
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Trump halts military aid to Ukraine
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Trump halts military aid to Ukraine
It's a devastating blow to Ukraine's ability to defend itself. America is its single biggest military donor. It provides the scale and speed of military support that Ukraine needs to sustain its fight. We're talking about sophisticated missile launcher systems, armoured vehicles, ammunition.
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Trump halts military aid to Ukraine
When you're near the Western border, it's not uncommon to see military convoys under police escort coming in. It's like an artery. It's much needed armor and ammunition for exhausted troops on the front line. And other Western allies to this point have been unable to plug the gap when American aid has slowed in the past, when it's happened in the past through political disagreements in the U.S.
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Trump halts military aid to Ukraine
Congress. President Zelensky says Ukraine has lost land and lives as a direct result. And I remember the eastern once fortress town of Avdiivka falling early last year because you had troops there that were dug in, but they just ran out of kit. And this as a political lever puts enormous pressure on President Zelensky to play ball with Washington.
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Trump halts military aid to Ukraine
And it challenges that existential belief that if Ukraine stops fighting, then it'll succumb to Russia forever. because without American help, things could probably go south very quickly.
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Trump halts military aid to Ukraine
Very much so. There are a string of towns and cities in the eastern Donetsk region which come under increasing artillery fire that are sitting very uncomfortably as Russian forces target major supply lines. Now, Ukraine had been launching counter-offensives in some areas, pushing back... But the Russian forces are advancing slowly, albeit in several other areas.
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Trump halts military aid to Ukraine
And how that is perceived, if you look at America warming its relationship with Russia, exploring the relaxation of sanctions whilst putting Ukraine first. under this kind of pressure, in the eyes of some amounts to a switching of sides.
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Trump halts military aid to Ukraine
Equally, there are MPs saying, look, to President Zelensky, go to Washington, sign this minerals deal, say you're sorry, say thank you repeatedly, because that's clearly what they want, if it's for the sake of the future of Ukraine.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
In other words, what, somebody else would take over and then pass the office to them? In other words, J.D. Vance could become elected president and then make way for Donald Trump. Is that it? Exactly. I was reading about another amendment to the Constitution, which suggests that anyone who's not eligible for a third term cannot become vice president. Is that right?
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
Right. Constitutional change, though, is the other way. What needs to happen?
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
Right. So that's not going to happen. So, I mean, so what do we make of the comments then? I mean, should we take them seriously?
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
It was President Zelensky who first pitched trading Ukraine's natural resources for American security guarantees. But Donald Trump has so far resisted, insisting the mere presence of US companies would put Russia off from breaking a future ceasefire. Nevertheless, Kiev was willing to sign an agreement. Until now, it seems.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
Volodymyr Zelensky claims America's latest draft proposal includes demands that have either been undiscussed or previously rejected. In a leaked copy seen by the BBC, it seems the White House has toughened its stance further, with demands that Kiev would have to open its government books for inspection and that the US would get first refusal on all future investments.
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Myanmar declares week of mourning as death toll rises following earthquake
That would be in breach of the European Union's strict competition laws, and with Kiev still ruling out any compromises on its potential path to EU membership, this rare-earths agreement looks likely to remain unsigned.
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US senators question Robert F Kennedy Jr at heated confirmation hearing
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US senators question Robert F Kennedy Jr at heated confirmation hearing
It's smaller, isn't it, than a commercial jet would need to be to carry lots of passengers. So has the technology got a bit of a way to go?
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US senators question Robert F Kennedy Jr at heated confirmation hearing
And what about the airport? Is that in M23 hands too, do you know?
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US senators question Robert F Kennedy Jr at heated confirmation hearing
And if that is the case, what are the implications for delivery of humanitarian aid in the days to come?
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US senators question Robert F Kennedy Jr at heated confirmation hearing
Well, I was going to ask you, how bad is the situation? What do people need right now?
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US senators question Robert F Kennedy Jr at heated confirmation hearing
Have you had any direct contact yourself with the rebels?
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Trump officials accuse journalist of lying after Signal app leak published in full
Does that include the use of emojis? I mean, I'm just looking at some of them now. There's a fist pump, there's the flame emoji. And what did you make of that?
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Trump officials accuse journalist of lying after Signal app leak published in full
Well, that brings me on to my next question. Have they got reason to celebrate? Has the bombing campaign, and these strikes weren't the first, I mean, there's been quite a few in recent months, has this series of airstrikes had any major impact on the Houthis and their ability to carry out attacks?
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Trump officials accuse journalist of lying after Signal app leak published in full
Does it boost their popularity?
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
I think it's only been Ukraine, really, that has felt the pressure in what's been a bruising opening salvo from America in terms of how it sees lasting peace in this war.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
And I think privately, the long-held fears that Ukraine wouldn't be involved in the negotiations sufficiently are being realized when you look at the warm language between Washington and Moscow, when you look at the proposed meeting in Saudi Arabia, when you hear Donald Trump say it's interesting on the question of whether Ukraine is an equal partner, because we are ultimately talking about the future of a country.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
That said, the missing detail on Ukraine... being free with Russia within its borders, the very question of how a conflict line would be policed by foreign troops, there is missing detail. America said it's nothing to do with us, but Ukraine, I think, politically still has plenty to play for.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
This is now the diplomatic challenge because at the moment it's hard to see how.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
if you have a summit in Saudi Arabia, where you see Donald Trump with Vladimir Putin, who will be delighted that he is able to bypass Ukraine in these negotiations, a country he denies the existence of, it'll be very hard for President Zelensky to then get his elbows up and get to the table and start asserting his wants and needs for a ceasefire. And I think
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
It is a reflection of geopolitics where superpowers wield the influence they do because of Ukraine's reliance on American aid, notably because of the scale and speed it can be provided. America is therefore able to impose its terms on Ukraine more easily. The US is still going after Ukraine's natural resources in a deal in exchange for continued So it's really quite difficult.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
I guess the only positive from yesterday for Ukraine is that this is the start of a very complicated path to peace. And when you've been in a full scale invasion, when you're on the tail end of 11 years of war, people do want peace. Of course they do. People are tired of worrying whether their sons and husbands will come home.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
They're tired of wondering whether they'll survive the night under artillery. So, of course, peace is desired, but it's the terms of that peace which is so crucial for Ukraine.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
A little more than that, other than that this is, you know, in the scale of things, it's a larger attack than normal, but it's still something that Russia sustains. The night before there were ballistic missiles landing here in Kiev, the week before 14 people were killed on a missile strike, this missile and drone strike on the central region of Poltava. This is what happens.
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Concern in Europe after Trump and Putin agree to start Ukraine talks
And so it is true that there is a heightened talk of peace, but Russia... You know, you cannot see it from within Ukraine as Russia continues to act out its invasion.
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Trump says he expects to meet Putin in Saudi Arabia
Rest assured, today has been a political body blow for Ukraine. I think it has long been known that the Trump administration would have a different approach to its predecessors. It would perhaps be seen here as a less sympathetic approach. We've certainly seen a more transactional attitude when it's come to American support for Ukraine.
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Trump says he expects to meet Putin in Saudi Arabia
I think President Zelensky has been very much in pitching and negotiating mode. But still, to hear Pete Hegseth there give this speech in Brussels... where he talked about NATO membership for Ukraine being off the table, where he talked about any foreign intervention troop-wise after a ceasefire not involving American troops. There's ambiguity on that.
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Trump says he expects to meet Putin in Saudi Arabia
He's putting the onus on Europe, which thus far has struggled to fill any gap left by America. President Zelensky said any security guarantees without America don't amount to much. The view that Ukraine can't repel Russia to its original borders, I think there are... battlefield realities Ukraine is having to accept.
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Trump says he expects to meet Putin in Saudi Arabia
But nevertheless, for the country's biggest ally to be saying things like that, you can only imagine that Moscow will be happier with what has been going on. And then you have this phone call, a phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. A seemingly warm exchange, if you look at Donald Trump's post, where many topics were discussed.
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Trump says he expects to meet Putin in Saudi Arabia
It comes back to this, this Ukrainian fear that there will be talks about Ukraine's future, this country's future, without Ukraine being at the table. And we are seeing that play out now. Now, there is a long way to go in terms of what will be agreed, what compromises will be made, and how Ukraine can... exist and live with Russian forces on its soil.
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Trump says he expects to meet Putin in Saudi Arabia
But for now, that road is looking incredibly uncertain. It's looking complicated and far from smooth. And I think we've seen America really lay out its position as it looks to engage Russia more than Ukraine.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
This is a test and it's not looking for any signs of cancer inside the human body. Instead, it's making an assessment of how likely it is that your body is prone, genetically programmed to developing prostate cancer. So it's looking for 130 different mutations that are in men's DNA. adding up which mutations you have, which mutations you don't, to come up with an overall risk score.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
And then what they have done in this study is they've taken the top 10%, so the 10% of men that have the highest risk of developing prostate cancer at some point in their lives. And then it has taken those men and offered them either, well, a combination of MRI scans of the area and prostate biopsies to see if there are any prostate cancers there when these men are aged between 55 and 69.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
And that's what they've done in this study. So it's not looking for cancer. It's looking for the people that are most likely to get it. So it's a screening program, if you like. It is because the starting point of this is that all of the men appear outwardly completely healthy.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
And that's the whole point of screening programs to try to get cancer at a stage before they're symptomatic at an earlier point when in theory they are easier to treat. And that has always been really problematic with prostate cancer because
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
At the moment, the main tool that we have for understanding what's the state of a prostate cancer growing in the human body is looking for a marker in the blood, something called prostate-specific antigen or PSA. You may have heard of the PSA test. The problem is if you just… look at the blood of completely healthy people with no other signs or symptoms.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
The danger and the reason we don't have prostate screening in the UK is the assessment is that that causes more harm than it does good in terms of the numbers of cancers it's detecting and the types of cancers it's detecting. So there's a huge amount of medical research going on to try to figure out what is the best way of screening for prostate cancer.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
And this is a relatively new idea in this field about helping to profile and figure out who are the people most at risk and therefore who are the people that you could target screening at the highest risk people rather than the whole population.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
This is something that's happening in all of our bodies all the time and nobody knew basically before yesterday. So what's happening is in every cell, what normally happens is old, spent, tired proteins in your body get broken down so the body can use the components to build new ones. But something called the proteasome is what does that process.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
When it detects that a bacteria has entered the cell that it's living in, well... It switches modes, starts chopping up proteins and basically makes these what have been termed natural antibiotics that then go off and kill the bacteria. So they've discovered this process that's actually happening in all of us for the first time.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
Well, one of the big problems has been trying to find new antibiotics that can actually treat these infections. And so traditionally, scientists have gone looking in the natural environment. Digging in soil has been a rich vein of finding antibiotics in the past.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
The big dream of this now is now that this has been discovered to be happening inside the human body, well, maybe we can look inside all of us.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
Not really. This is one of those things that the tools that scientists can use have been advancing, allowing you to look in much more detail. So that is what really has allowed the technological revolution to look inside what's happening inside our cells in far more detail than ever before.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
And only by being able to do that, we are actually able to see that actually the structures inside the cell are changing in response to a bacterial infection, that modes are being switched from recycling to producing antibiotics. And so it's just we're getting an unprecedented view really on what's happening inside our bodies. And that's allowing these discoveries to happen.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
The big question now is whether these can be truly harnessed. They've been discovered. They've been tested in the laboratory, shown that they can actually kill bacteria. But it's going to take the next advance to actually turn those into drugs that can be used.
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President Trump announces sweeping tariffs on US imports
Tell us about some of the objects that people can see. And going back all the way to the sort of very start of the security service, I think a shriveled lemon is there. Tell us about that.
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President Trump announces sweeping tariffs on US imports
Gosh. Moving on a few years, tell us about another very famous British traitor, a member of the Cambridge Five, who were spying for Moscow towards the beginning of the Cold War. Because there's a briefcase belonging to one of them. Tell us about that.
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President Trump announces sweeping tariffs on US imports
I mean, a piece of history, but a dark bit of history for MI5. Presumably, the documents that were in the case, they're not on show, are they?
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President Trump announces sweeping tariffs on US imports
Tell us about another aspect of the early days of the security service. The organisation took a rather dim view of women, didn't it? I certainly didn't think they were fit for espionage or counter-espionage.
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Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
It's almost out of the blue. We had one remark from Mr Trump last week where he told a news agency in the United States that he felt that Russia was possibly dragging its feet and said that that's what he would do in their place because that's the sort of thing that he sometimes did in deals when he was still in business dealing in property and elsewhere.
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Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
So that was the first time we heard a slight criticism from Mr. Trump. This is now much further and a proper threat from the Americans because they've Mr. Trump is now saying, look to Vladimir Putin, if there is no deal over the Ukraine ceasefire within a month, then he and he believes that it's Russia's fault that there's no deal.
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Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
Then he is threatening to target Russia's economy specifically by imposing sanctions. 50% tariffs on goods entering the United States from countries buying Russian oil, and that's largely China and India. So the question now is how Russia responds.
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Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
Well, look, Russia's economy is not strong at the moment. And the cheap energy that is being bought by China and India is doing a huge amount to fuel Russia's economy and its war effort at the moment. You've got to remember that we're talking, you know, 30, 40 percent of the economy is now devoted entirely to fighting this war in Ukraine. So as a war economy, it needs to be able to sell goods.
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Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
its fuel and its energy overseas so it can buy foreign currency so that it can then trade in other goods, especially weapons and dual-use items such as drones that are so vital in this war. So it's possible Mr Putin will have to respond to this, but, you know, we shall see.
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Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
That is the thing that is worrying a lot of people here in Kiev, because their fear is that if the Americans find this whole thing grinds into the sand... And just a couple of days ago, one of the chief Russian negotiators said publicly... that he thought that these talks could drag well on into next year. If that's the case, then the fear in Ukraine is that the Americans will just lose interest.
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Trump 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine
And in that circumstance, then potentially Ukraine will find itself abandoned by the United States, having to rely entirely on support from Europe, which may not be enough to allow it to hold off the Russian war machine.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
But nothing yet from the Syrian authorities on this particular group. Have they said anything more generally about what justice might look like for people who are found to have been involved in the Assad regime?
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
And as for Lebanon, a country which has been under a great deal of strain in a great deal of ways for all sorts of reasons, are they pretty keen to assist in whatever way they can to return Syria? People who may have been associated with the Assad regime to Syria since they've been shouldering a lot of burden of refugees and others for so many years.
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Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
Steve Witkoff is a property billionaire charged by Donald Trump to end a war that's left hundreds of thousands dead. Ten days ago, he spent several hours with Vladimir Putin. And yet, in his interview, Mr Witkoff revealed himself ignorant of basic facts and willing to repeat false Russian narratives. He was unable to recall the names of the four Ukrainian regions partially occupied by Russia.
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Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
But he nonetheless said their status was the elephant in the room. He said Russia regarded these regions and annexed Crimea as rightfully theirs. He said the key question was whether the world would acknowledge they were Russian territories. He said Russia considered Ukraine to be a false country and this was the root cause of the war.
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Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
This has long been President Putin's excuse for his unprovoked invasion. In what was an extraordinary interview, Mr. Witkoff said Mr. Putin told him he'd prayed for Mr. Trump after the attempt on his life last year.
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Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
As for Sir Keir Starmer's plan to send British and other forces to Ukraine to guarantee its security after the war, Mr Witkoff said this was a posture, an oppose, based on a simplistic notion of European leaders wanting to be like Winston Churchill. Downing Street chose not to comment.
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Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
What may worry European diplomats most is that Mr Witkoff's remarks suggest the US still sees this war as a territorial dispute, not an attempt to end Ukraine's statehood.
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Ukraine talks could see Europeans excluded
Tennis has seen some high-profile doping cases over the past six months or so. The leading female player, Iga Sviontek, accepted a one-month suspension in November after testing positive for a banned substance when she was the world number one. What's the feeling then within the sport about these very high-profile cases? Is it damaging for the sport?
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Ukraine talks could see Europeans excluded
Yes, the former Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios called it a sad day for tennis. The former British number one Tim Henman said the ban was too convenient and believes it will leave tennis fans with a pretty sour taste. So there is that feeling then that maybe the top players are treated a little differently, Charlie.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
It was the turn of the town of Dobropylia to feel the weight of another Russian drone attack. Eight apartment blocks, people's homes were damaged or destroyed. There are casualties and injuries, says Pavlo Dierchenko from the local police. Crews are at the scene extinguishing fires, he says, and dealing with the aftermath of the attack. What was left are shells of a previous existence.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
The country's ability to defend itself has been hampered by America's blocking of its military aid, its intelligence and now satellite imagery. The technology company Maxar has told the BBC that it's suspended some pictures for Ukrainian accounts at the request of the White House. Defending troops had used them to identify Russian positions. One officer says it's now like fighting blind.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
President Trump has threatened large-scale sanctions and tariffs on Russia after its bombardments. But in the same breath, he also suggested that anyone in Vladimir Putin's position would be doing what he's doing. How Russia's invasion ends is dominating political agendas.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
Zakir Starmer is heading to Paris on Tuesday to meet defence chiefs from countries willing to send troops here after a ceasefire is signed. And despite the White House warming to Moscow and being more hostile to Kiev, President Zelensky has been forced to mend his relationship with Donald Trump because of the reality that both Europe and Ukraine still need the military might of America.
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Trump’s demands over nuclear deal rejected by Iran
President Zelensky is due to travel to Saudi Arabia ahead of a meeting of senior Ukrainian and American officials to discuss the terms of a potential truce. Russia's demands have not softened, whereas Ukraine is being forced to compromise.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
It is just a plan at the moment. Essentially, it's an attempt by the British Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, and the French President, Macron, to try and take some ownership of this process. If you think about it...
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
The discussions about a ceasefire in Ukraine have been dominated by US initiatives in recent weeks, primarily begun by a long conversation between President Trump and President Putin. And I think what we've seen today is an attempt by the Europeans to say, look, we need to enter that conversation. We need to agree our own position.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
We need to make our own offer in terms of, you know, this coalition of the willing, of more European countries that are willing to try and deploy their own military forces in principle to guarantee Ukraine's security after some kind of a ceasefire, so that they can take that to the Americans and say, look, this is what we Europeans are prepared to do.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
But we need that, as the Prime Minister said, to come with an American military backstop too. And I think that's the aim, is to get the Americans back on track to that sort of discussion. Because Both in his talks with Mr. Macron and Sir Keir Starmer last week, the U.S. president made it very clear at the moment that he's very reluctant to get involved in talking about a U.S. military backstop.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
No, I think he genuinely believes that the Americans are still biddable on this. That's not a position held by everybody simply because of the scale of the situation. the antipathy expressed towards President Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday night. But clearly, you know, Mr. Sikistama has said explicitly in terms today that he trusts the
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
Mr. Trump's motives, that Mr. Trump, in his view, is still determined to secure a lasting peace in Ukraine. Again, that is not an analysis shared by everybody. Others think that Mr. Trump is too trusting of Mr. Putin, that he's too willing to agree a rushed ceasefire that will not endure, that is to Russia's favor and not in Ukraine's favor.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
But at the moment, what we've seen today is the Europeans saying, we still think we can get the Americans back on side and get a united position on this. So there's an element of optimism about that. We still don't know whether or not that is going to work.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
Yeah, I think Mr. Kirsten was very clear that he wasn't going to make announcements on behalf of other countries. So I think there'll be other countries that will announce that they will join this coalition of the willing, that they'll be willing to put some kind of military chips onto the table as part of a security guarantee going forward.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
I think there'll be other announcements about defence spending contributions. I spoke to the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, earlier this morning, and Finland has made announcements announcements about its own defense spending increases in recent days. So I think we'll see other decisions about that.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission chief, again hinted at the possibility of the Europeans, the European Union, relaxing some of its debt rules to allow extra spending on defense that are currently they can't do. So I think there will be an attempt to put forward something to the Americans saying, look, Europe is stepping up. Again, the question is, will that be enough?
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
Will it happen fast enough? And will it be enough to get the Americans and the Europeans back on the same page?
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
What was that political statement? Was it trying to forge unity or trying to commemorate some sort of unity?
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Is Putin serious about a ceasefire in Ukraine?
You also found that it's causing brain damage in these chicks. What are we talking about?
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Is Putin serious about a ceasefire in Ukraine?
And I guess this isn't exactly your field, but the implications for other creatures, and I guess also for humans, well, it's pretty troubling, isn't it, potentially?
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
And so the brain gets a signal that it's full, but what is the other message that it's sending out?
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
And this message is via what? An opiate endorphin. I mean, I think people know what endorphins are because they make you feel very good indeed. It's a feeling of reward, is it?
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
And it is only sugar, isn't it? It's not other types of food that this happens with?
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
Of course, these days, sugar is everywhere. So could this discovery be used to try and control our sugar intake? Is there a way of inhibiting these brain messages?
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
President Zelensky is facing one of his steepest political challenges in taking on a White House which is warming to Russia. His message? While all sides are looking to win, Ukraine deserves to. The pace of these ceasefire politics is blistering, but no less consequential for a country which doesn't want three years of sacrifice to be for nothing.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
In Kiev, and countless other cities, there is a desire for peace, but the terms are seen as just as important.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
President Zelensky has always said there can be no talks on Ukraine without Ukraine, but this week has been anything but, to the frustration of Alexei, a frontline soldier.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
The fact Ukraine didn't fall to Russia within days, as many expected, is a victory. But three years on, if Ukraine over-compromises and doesn't secure sufficient security guarantees, it could still lose.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
We're also going to be seeing some remakes, aren't we? One that struck us here, the Kiss of the Spider Woman.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
It's a bit like Hairspray, isn't it? Coming a film, then becomes a musical, and then becomes a film again.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
Snow White is pretty familiar, isn't it? And it's getting an interesting remake.
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'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
Ukraine's war effort is becoming more divisive at home and abroad. Next to Kiev's 120-year-old funicular, this cable car on the snowy hillside, a woman complained about drafting officers bundling a man into a car. This woman has a different view.
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'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
For Ukraine, it's an impossible balance. You have the not wanting tens of thousands of deaths to be for nothing versus not wanting the losses to continue. Now US President Donald Trump has turned Western support on its head. His labelling of President Zelensky as a dictator, blaming Ukraine for the war, suggesting Russia has all the cards. They all represent a realignment, firmly with Moscow.
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'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
And Oksana is baffled.
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'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
Pushing his pram is Misha. Now, he's exempt from military service because of his IT job, but still feels disappointed in Donald Trump.
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'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
There is no doubting the yearning for peace in Ukraine. But if Donald Trump does not provide security guarantees to prevent Russia from invading again, then according to soldiers like Dymko, a ceasefire would not mean peace.
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'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
Major cities like Kyiv have kept functioning under the weight of Moscow's invasion, but its air defences have been kept very busy. We're in Boryspil, a Kyiv suburb. I was last here when I first landed in Ukraine. Here is a crater caused by a Russian drone. They are launched every night, designed to put pressure on the population. The blast shattered Zoya's window.
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'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
She's taking us up to her apartment where her sick elderly mother stays. And her anxiety is palpable. But when I ask her about Donald Trump's vision of a quick peace, she says... Our country is our country and it must remain ours.
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'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
Where there is agreement, as Europe and Ukraine work out how to stand up against Russia, is that they still need the support of America.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
I never accepted myself as a hero. Just an actor, that's all. And it's easier that way because then you don't take on a lot of things that you have to face eventually.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
Yankee Doodle. It had everything. A lot of things to do. But then that was all part of my background.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
But unclear at this point whether that coalition will be a two-party one or will have to involve three parties.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
Yeah, very briefly, a sizable AFD vote. You mentioned some of the other parties. The parties on the populist left have also done perhaps better than expected. What does it all tell us, do you think?
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
That's double the previous.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
How can you be so sure they've reached their ceiling when they have advanced considerably from the last general election?
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
I come back to the point that more and more Germans are voting for them, even if you think they have almost reached the ceiling. And given that the other parties are doing worse than them, can they realistically be kept out of power, even if they are continuing to be second?
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
Well, that's the catch-22, isn't it? They have been democratically given around 20% of the vote. Yes. So, clearly, Germans, and perhaps more younger Germans, it would seem, have been deciding that they want them as someone who is not of the establishment. Yes.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
President Zelensky appeared relaxed as he faced questions from the world's media. The subject matter, though, was far more businesslike, with topics covering his problematic relationship with Donald Trump and what it meant for European security. He also said this when asked whether he'd step down to achieve peace.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
On the White House's demands that it gets access to billions of dollars worth of Ukraine's natural minerals in exchange for the military aid it's provided to date and could in the future, Mr Zelensky says America's help so far had been agreed grants, not loans. He said he wouldn't agree to a security deal which, in his words, would be paid off by generation after generation.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
He is meeting Western leaders tomorrow, some in person and some online, as they work out how to provide a post-war security where America won't. If Ukraine's leader rejects a Donald Trump-shaped peace proposal he doesn't agree with, as he suggested today, then it would have lasting consequences for the course of this war.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
We're just seeing people moving out of the central park of Korchani to go for a march around the town. They've just been chanting justice. You might just be able to hear them that chant as they move away there.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
They're chanting for justice for the victims of that nightclub fire because they think that the authorities have let the young people of this town down and in the most horrendous fashion possible that that nightclub wasn't safe
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
for operation, it didn't have fire exits, the sealing material was clearly highly flammable, and as a result 59 young people are dead, more than 150 injured, and this town of fewer than 25,000 people, you've got to say that every family has been affected by this.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
And it had a reputation as being a really good night out, not just a really good night out in Cotcheny, but one of the best nights out in North Macedonia. The owner of the club was very good at getting acts in and putting them on, so DNK, who were playing on the night of the fire, very well known in North Macedonia.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
And the way that it was all set up inside with the lighting and the stage, that was all very well done as well. But clearly what wasn't well done, where the corners had been cut, was in matters of safety. And if there are no fire exits from a nightclub, it's obviously, to use that awful phrase, an accident waiting to happen. And that's what occurred in this case.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
Well, this is because the Pulse nightclub had a license and the Interior Ministry and the Prime Minister, Christian Mistkowski, have described that license as fraudulent or at least fraudulently issued. And they think it shouldn't have had a license to operate as a nightclub at all. And so now they're talking to people who were working at the government administration responsible for doing that.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
Among those being brought in for questioning are current and former government officials. There's one former government minister who's been brought in for questioning. The Prime Minister has said it doesn't matter what political party you're from, what post you hold, what your name and surname is. There'll be no mercy if you're found to be responsible for this.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
I think the way it's being portrayed, I think, by diplomats is that this will be a conversation designed not to sign off any deal, but to maintain momentum and maintain US pressure on the Russian side. If you think about it, Donald Trump has not spoken to Vladimir Putin for just over a month now. But since then, in the last few days, there's been quite a flurry of diplomacy.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
President Trump's envoy spoke to Mr Putin in Moscow on Thursday. Russian diplomats have been contacting their counterparts over the weekend. And at the moment, the Americans are putting up a sort of determinedly, resolutely positive signals about the prospects of getting a ceasefire deal. But As far as we know, the Russians are still sticking hard to their guns.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
This morning, the Deputy Foreign Minister, Alexander Grishko, was very clear in saying that, you know, as part of a deal, they want Ukraine to be utterly neutral and completely outside of the NATO military alliance. Well, you know, neutrality is something that Ukraine has made very clear they are not going to accept. So at the moment...
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
There is still a tension and a disagreement between the Americans who are saying, let's have a fast, quick ceasefire and then talk about the difficult stuff long term, and the Russians who are saying, no, we need to talk about all the difficult stuff in the round.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
I think, yeah, their view is, it's not so much that it's a sham, but at the moment that it's going to be very, very hard to get a deal agreed. Because at the moment, if you think about it, Vladimir Putin has failed in his war aims. His war aims were to achieve a Ukraine that was subordinate to Russia. He's failed to do that.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
Yes, he's taken some land in the east, but it's pretty marginal incremental gains. And so the Americans are trying to say to him, look, you know, the only way you're going to treat some of your aims is by diplomatic political means. That means a ceasefire. So you've got to start talking.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
But at the moment, Vladimir Putin, last week in his press conference with the Belarusian leader, made it very clear that he has substantial differences of views. detail and also of substance that he says should be discussed in painstaking discussions before any agreement can be made over any kind of short-term ceasefire.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
And so that means that the Russians and the Americans are still some way apart. It will take concessions by both sides to get them closer.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
It's not looking good for Ukrainian forces. This is a patch of Western Russian territory that which was seized in a surprise attack last summer, which Ukraine had hoped at the time would force Russia to divert soldiers from other parts of the front line and potentially be used as a bargaining chip in any kind of peace negotiation.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
but Russian forces, with the help of South Korean troops as well as South Korean ammunition, seemingly have almost encircled Ukrainian forces across the border inside Russia. They've even destroyed bridges along the border, making it next to impossible for them to get out. There is a main strip of road in... Ukraine-Sumi region as well, which is used as a major supply route.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
I was there when the attack was first, the offensive was first launched. We understand now that is coming under heavy fire as the Russians now gain air superiority. And it is likely, I would not be surprised if we did see a withdrawal of some kind if troops are able to get out.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
But this is a place where Ukraine had concentrated some of its best personnel and military equipment, and it may yet amount to nothing.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
Well, we've just had Donald Trump suggest that the pausing of military aid has just about been restored. We're not sure just how true that is at the moment. But America is suggesting that Ukraine has come back to the table after quite a tumultuous fortnight, after Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky had quite a public falling out in the Oval Office.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
And as far as Kyiv is concerned, it's Operation Patch-Up. They are trying to mend relations with America because it needs America, along with Europe, to be the military safety net if a ceasefire was to fail. And so he's going to go in there, President Zelensky, propose an initial ceasefire by air and sea. But Russia has said thus far that it would reject that idea.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
But I think this is what it could become for Ukraine in terms of trying to work out what the path to peace could be.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
What the Russians have done is they have identified two mid-ranking diplomats at the embassy, and they have basically suspended these people's credentials. They've been given a couple of weeks to leave the country.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
And as you say, the Russians accused them, A, of providing false information on their visas and application forms when they arrived in Russia, and secondly, showing, quote, signs of intelligence and subversive activity, which can mean a number of things. At the same time, the Russian authorities have summoned what they call a British representative from the embassy to express their concerns.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
And as you say, the Foreign Office in response has said very explicitly this is not the first time that Russia has made what they call malicious and baseless accusations against their staff. So that's what's happened. This comes after, in February, the UK expelled a Russian diplomat in November. Russia expelled a British diplomat. So this is part of a cycle of tit for tat.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
The question, of course, is whether there are any wider significance to this.
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
Have you heard from or have you seen any reaction from the families of the five released today?
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
And not just Americans, but also some Russians. Yep.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
But you're not drawing a parallel between the Trump administration and the old apartheid government, are you?
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
And just to clarify your remarks about Donald Trump, but particularly that the MAGA movement, when you talk about mobilising a supremacism against the incumbency, I mean, what exactly are you trying to say? The MAGA is designed to what, whip up white nationalism, white victimhood in order to take power?
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
What about all the people of colour, perhaps as many as one in three that voted for Donald Trump? I mean, he increased his vote share with black people, with Hispanics in 2024. I think that that may be true.
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Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
Can you understand why, you know, making comments like you did and now explaining them to us? Why? I mean, that is extremely provocative for an ambassador to a country to say. I mean, you can't have been surprised when they declared you persona non grata, can you?
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European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
Yeah, and I'm looking at some of them now. And I mean, you know, it's not a very good photocopy that I have. But on first look, you can't really tell the difference. I mean, why do you think the company's doing it? I mean, the first thought that springs to mind that this is just a way to save money, isn't it?
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European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
Just one final thought. I wonder what consumers will make of it, because there is something strange. If you suspect or you know you're looking at an image, an AI image of a person, I mean, it does create this sort of weird distance sometimes, doesn't it?
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Huge protests in Greece over train crash justice
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Huge protests in Greece over train crash justice
And this year it seems the king is asking people not to buy sheep for sacrifice during the festival. Why?
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Huge protests in Greece over train crash justice
When you look at the factors going into the livestock shortages, is climate change one of the biggest?
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Trump hosts UK's Keir Starmer at the White House
And what about the political dynamics, the context from the Turkish government's point of view and President Erdogan?
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
And this is a part of the capital where people presumably are in desperate need of food, where even local food kitchens are struggling to provide enough for people.
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
Yeah, and I was going to ask about that, the sort of coordination needed, both with big international agencies, United Nations agencies and so on, and also with commanders from the rapid support forces and the Sudanese military, the warring parties on the ground. How do you actually go about making such a journey of food trucks possible?
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
And this convoy, what does it actually contain? What are the sort of items that you have now that are going to keep people going?
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
That's a huge amount of people who are going to be helped. What happens from now? Congratulations on the achievement, but presumably the idea then is to get other convoys coming in, that this won't be the last.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
You have to imagine what it must be like for President Zelensky at the moment in terms of the political position he finds himself in. You have an America which is criticising him for not accepting a deal which would have given it access to half of the country's natural minerals, which Washington says should be used to pay it back for the military aid it's given to date.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
and to pay for future security guarantees. You have European allies scratching their heads as to how they could plug a gap left by America. There is division over whether they will send troops to Ukraine after a ceasefire is signed to enforce that agreement. And of course, you know, overall, you have Washington warming to Russia, warming to Moscow, prioritizing it in a
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
these peace negotiations that President Zelensky is not part of at the moment. So he has a tall order. In the past, he could rely on battlefield success, but that was a long time ago now. And I think the sort of status quo of Russia, both keeping hold of Ukrainian territory and making
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grinding gains, notably in the east of Ukraine, that's fed a fatigue that has now crept into certainly American politics. And I think what we're hearing from the White House goes beyond strategy. This is a change in values which leaves Ukraine very much isolated at this moment in time.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
Some children are affected by blindness from birth because their eyes lack a gene that's essential for normal sight. In its severest form, their sight's limited to seeing light and dark. and they face losing all sight in the first few years of life. This lack of sight at an early age can impair their general development.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
So we found that by providing their eyes with healthy copies of the gene that's otherwise lacking, their sight can improve remarkably, and this seems to affect their health, their normal development.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
So we prepare normal, healthy copies of the gene in the laboratory, are able to package these into virus particles, disabled virus particles, which can be safely injected into the eye and targeted to the retina, to the cells that are needing those genes.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
Absolutely. So these kids would normally expect to see very little, let's say, at light and dark at birth, and they lose that sight very quickly.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
But children like Jace and these other children we've treated have shown really remarkable improvements in sight to the extent where they can navigate safely, they can run around without bumping into things, they can play with their friends, pick up small objects off the floor.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
This is a particularly rare condition, but what's important is that it shows that this approach can help in a condition that's really very, very severe. The hope is that this will give further confidence that this sort of approach, this treatment, can offer hope to people, to children with more common blinding diseases.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
Absolutely. This is a very rare condition. In fact, we already have a genetic treatment for a similar condition, which is less mild. But as I say, this particular condition is more severe. and the improvements are really spectacular.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
Given the impressive changes we've seen so far in these four children and indeed in additional children who have subsequently been treated, we're very hopeful that marketing will be possible and that licensing will enable the treatment to be available to other children very soon.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
Is there a hunger for elections?
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Where does Hamas fit in?
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
So Hamas could be part of the group of parties who rule the Gaza Strip still?
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
So your father himself, he's still in prison. You don't know whether he's likely to be released under this ceasefire deal. Is that correct?
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
Your father has long been spoken about as a potential leader of the Palestinians. Is that still how you see it? Is it how he sees it?
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
President Zelensky, his office has said that radiation levels are normal. He talked about that protective casing being built by Ukraine and its allies in the years following that 1986 nuclear disaster. I remember before the full-scale invasion, it was a popular tourist spot. I sort of planned to go myself.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
When I first arrived in Ukraine in early 2022, and I put it off, and then, of course, when the full-scale invasion happened, it was off-limits, and then Russian soldiers, when they advanced on Kiev, they arrived there and they dug trenches... and disturbing radioactive soil, which is an illustration, really, of why there is still an exclusion zone around the site.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
So it'll be a site well known to many. It was a disaster that sort of marked the beginning of the end when it came to the... Soviet Union and how Ukrainians viewed Moscow in terms of its response to that disaster. So it's at the front of many people's minds, but thankfully the damage seems to be relatively minimal.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
But we've seen this kind of to-ing and fro-ing of accusations between Moscow and Kiev when it comes to nuclear infrastructure being hit. But the fact is this, Russia... does attack nuclear infrastructure. It moved in from the south early in the invasion and seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has six reactors, and it has kept hold of it ever since.
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Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference
A dam it occupies, which provided water to cool those reactors, was destroyed. So it's a statement by the Kremlin that is demonstrably not true, given that it occupies the biggest nuclear power station in Europe, in southern Ukraine.
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NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
And what did you find then?
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NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
And it's not just other insects. This is all sorts of species.
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NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
So collateral damage, if I can use that horrible phrase. How serious then is it for biodiversity? Are things worse than we thought?
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NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
The trouble is, farmers need to use pesticides, don't they, to maximise their yields and make sure that we have the crops that we need to feed ourselves. So is there an easy solution to this?
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2024 warmest year on record
I came down yesterday morning to find out what the process was. I thought that maybe the individual bags may have been sorted and that the actual drive itself may have been put aside into a computer waste bin. But when I arrived yesterday they basically told me that anything that goes into the household scrap bin is compressed and buried. I just wish I could go back in time.
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So things potentially moving pretty fast then. On that point about the Lebanese state having a monopoly on weapons, doesn't that set the scene for what could be a really explosive face-off with Hezbollah?
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That would be a fundamental change for Lebanon, would it not, though?
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2024 warmest year on record
Also in this podcast is time running out for TikTok in the US and... They basically told me that anything that goes into the household scrap bin is compressed and buried. I just wish I could go back in time.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
It is accepted that Ukraine could probably fight on for months, maybe a little bit longer. But that is the reality, such as the quality and quantity of what America does provide. Now, it is true European allies as a whole. have donated more military aid collectively than America.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
Well, Ukraine says it's got around 5% of the world's what are called critical raw materials. So we're talking about graphite, granite, lithium, titanium, things that are used to make electric cars, turbines, electronics, weapons. They're worth a lot of money, billions of dollars.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
President Zelensky himself at the end of last year, as part of a peace proposal, said, look, you know, we could negotiate. We could say to America, you can have a slice of this pie in exchange for some of these critical minerals. What he probably didn't anticipate was Donald Trump saying, OK, great, we want complete access to $500 billion worth and you'll get no security guarantees in return.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
There has been some movement. It was thought President Zelensky was going to sign on that trip to the Oval Office. Of course, that did not happen. And I think as a reflection of the political road he has run out of, he is still willing to sign this deal without any kind of security guarantee by America in return. Kiev is saying there'll be a domino effect of agreements.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
Once you have American companies here drilling, it would give Donald Trump and future presidents a reason to step in and protect their interests. The problem with that is that it wasn't exactly the presence of American companies in Ukraine, which stops Russia from launching its full scale invasion.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
But when we're talking about American intelligence, its quality, the broad scope of it, we're talking about sophisticated long-range missiles like HIMARS, which have been pivotal for Ukraine's war effort. I think without that, and we saw this when there was that big disagreement in the US Congress about a military aid package for Ukraine, when that was delayed,
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
The other complicator from speaking to people in the industry, we were at this enormous graphite quarry. close to the central city of Oman. This is a quarry that was built in 1964. It takes a decade just to work out where to dig. It then takes decades to yield any kind of profit.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
But what was interesting in talking to people there, these hardened workers who work in really difficult conditions, they were saying, look, we need the money. Investors have pulled out because of Russia's invasion. We're not functioning for most of the year. Any money would be gratefully received. Let's worry about the security guarantees down the line.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
So clearly, against the backdrop of hostility, President Zelensky wants to give Donald Trump some kind of win, sign the deal, and then it might allow their relationship to grow even. in some way. But just quickly on that point about Russia, Russia itself is drawing up its own plans, its pitches on critical minerals in both Russia and the territory it occupies in Ukraine.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
So you have this sort of bidding war, these elevator pitches, both from Moscow and Kiev in the direction of Washington.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
It's blurry. I mean, what I know is that some of Ukraine's more valuable minerals are indeed in occupied territory. But the bulk still appear to be, from what I've seen in land, Ukraine still controls. But it is, I mean, the only reports, if we're trying to string these together, the proposal seems to center around this shared pot of money co-owned by America and Ukraine.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
And 50% of Ukraine's profits from natural resources, including oil and gas, will go into this pot of cash. And then they will be reinvested into Ukraine's recovery. But you're both right. I mean, there's so much we don't know. And I really wonder if we're going to see President Zelensky or his officials in Riyadh next week meeting with American counterparts.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
You know, you wonder what is he going to sign? What is he going to subject his country to? And, you know, Vitaly knows more than most. You know, when it comes to international agreements, this is a country that has been stung time after time with its very future being put at peril because of what are seen as deep betrayals here from either the US or, of course, Russia itself.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
Ukraine lost land and lives as a direct result. You know, the eastern town of Avdiivka, it was a fortress at one point. It fell because you had Ukrainians, along with their own manpower issues, run out of kit and be forced from their positions.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
And what Ukrainians do not want is for this mineral deal to amount to a sacrifice of its future wealth and its ultimate capitulation even against Russia if America still doesn't want to step in.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
I think rather than surrender, it may well deteriorate to a point where Ukraine would have to engage in a far less or an even less arguably favourable peace deal where they would have to, for example, meet Russia's continued demands that it would have a shrunk military, that President Zelensky would be forced from power, that any NATO talk would be paused completely and that there would be no foreign troops in Ukraine.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
Well, America's kind of left Ukraine and Europe scrambling to come up with their own proposals. But I think what I will always remember is the sight of Pete Hegsiff, the Defense Secretary of America, in an innocuous meeting in Brussels where he said, right, it's Ukraine. Getting all of its territory back, that is an illusion. Also, any kind of NATO membership, that is a non-starter.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
And it was quite something to hear in these parts, to hear those concessions that America thinks Ukraine will make. As for the practicalities, I mean, we've seen President Zelensky propose an initial ceasefire, which could include a naval pausing of hostilities in the Black Sea, aerial ceasefire where civilian infrastructure wouldn't be targeted by Ukraine anymore.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
as well as large-scale prisoner of war exchanges. But, of course, the dangling question is, dot, dot, dot, if Russia agrees to do the same. Those are the kind of foundations for peace which Ukraine is trying to drum up. As for what would happen on the ground, we're seeing the likes of UK, France, now Turkey, saying they would provide troops.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
America said, you know, we're not up for this, but this is why we're seeing Europe saying, OK, we're willing to do that. We'll have troops there to police a frozen conflict line. But we need you there if fighting was to break out. But it's still hard to imagine. We're talking about a 600 mile long front line.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
We're talking about Russia likely keeping hold of a sizable chunk of Ukrainian territory with all of Ukraine. their military presence and hardware remaining. The country will remain on a war footing. It will look to replenish. There will be sizable troop numbers. You know, what happens if you have 20,000 British troops in one part of Ukraine and then there's a surprise offensive somewhere else?
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
So things really would deteriorate. And even if Europe got its ducks in a row, increased defence spending, channelled more resources to Ukraine, it would likely not happen in time without America.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
Could they be contained? Would America want to step in? You know, these are really important questions that Kiev will want answering as this peace process develops. But as of now, you know, You know, it's also hypothetical and it's the lack of detail which is creating a vacuum, which is causing a lot of concern here.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
That is just unknown. What we've seen from European leaders, a lot of talk over the past week, a lot of pledges. And I remember the European Union setting a target for manufacturing a million artillery shells in a year, and it missed that target. Whereas Russia can manufacture shells three times faster than the whole of Ukraine's Western allies combined. So...
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
Just how Europe can ramp up its production in this way is the crucial question. But we have to imagine the war that Ukraine is fighting, weathering Russia's full-scale invasion. Lise mentioned that slowing of American aid last year. I mean, when you're on the front lines, the only artillery you could hear... was from the Russian side. That's changed in some areas, but it's about suppressing fire.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
It's about targeting supply routes to hinder the sort of relentless Russian assaults you see on so many parts of the front lines. And if Europe is likely to struggle to fill that gap, as America continues to pull the rug as part of this negotiating strategy, there would be a lag.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
And I think you could see, I mean, the status quo is Ukraine's biggest enemy as well here, in that just because the map doesn't change much, just because the front lines move here or there in a in such a big country.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
That's not to say there couldn't be a catastrophic collapse at some point and Russia could break through and suddenly entire highways fall into Russian hands and cities start to sit nervously. So I think there would be a lag, but we just don't know yet what the lead time will be for the likes of Germany and the more hawkish UK and France to step up.
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
Dear Ukrainecast, I am deeply concerned by the desire of the Trump administration to impose a quick peace deal, seemingly irrespective of the consequences. I cannot help but think about the peace deal that was done for Afghanistan by Trump's first administration, that we watched unfold chaotically within a year and a half. Does the spectre of a repeat of such scenes concern the American public?
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
And should supporters of Ukraine be raising the spectre in the American media?
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The Ukraine War: What happens next?
Well, I mean, what any Ukrainian will tell you on a Kiev street is that they would never surrender. I mean, the idea of sticking it down in weapons and allowing Russia to occupy, take over the country, install a puppet regime is, and as always has been, a non-starter. I think when you speak to those in military circles...
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Well, it's a bad one. And when you consider that there is a backdrop of daily Russian missile and drone attacks, they take place all the time. There is occasionally one that stands out. And in KVV, we're talking about a gritty, industrial, vast city where President Zelensky, coincidentally, grew up.
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And what we have seen from footage is a gaping, smouldering chasm in the side of a residential block. which suggests that this was, as the authorities say, a ballistic missile. Next to it, you can see bodies scattered on the pavement in a neighbouring playground, and there are shrapnel marks everywhere. All signs suggest that this was a civilian area.
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And President Zelensky has said that this is a clear demonstration that Russia is not interested in peace. And I think when we consider...
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the ceasefire efforts being led by America at the moment, where the question of just how up for peace Russia is is increasingly being asked, this is something Ukraine is looking to highlight and something that leaves Ukraine in no doubt that Russia is only interested as of now in continuing to wage its full-scale invasion.
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I think it's more of a hope than a sense. I think, you know, you've had European leaders try to impose some kind of timeline as they'd like it on Russia, saying that Vladimir Putin can't obfuscate forever. He can't be adding caveats or demands to America's calls for it to come to the table forever. Most tellingly today, you've had Marco Rubio
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say that Russia will have to make a decision in weeks and not months. And I think that is a reflection, finally, of the impatience Washington has in wanting to get this war ended. I mean, you know, once upon a time, Donald Trump said he wanted it over in a day. And I think what Ukraine will be hoping is that just maybe what we've seen in Krivyi Rih
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And what we've seen with the growing frustration with Moscow, just maybe it might nudge Washington to act on its threats of further sanctions for Russia as it continues to mount this global trade war. But as of now, perhaps the tide is turning.
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But when you're Ukraine, when you're on the receiving end of these attacks, when you're continuing to defend yourself in this war, there is no happy ending. I don't think anyone's under any illusion about that.
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Well, Ukraine continues to launch drone attacks inside Russian territory. It's certainly looking to frustrate Russia's supply lines in that respect. But what Ukraine is also trying to do... These are the spinning plates Ukraine is trying to juggle at the moment. It's also trying to demonstrate that it can adhere to a ceasefire agreed...
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between America, Russia and Ukraine to pause striking infrastructure. So Ukraine is holding off on that for now, and it is claiming that Russia is continually breaking this ceasefire by doing the exact opposite. So Ukraine is actually having to show restraint with these kind of attacks.
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But a like-for-like response is something you rarely see because of the constant nature of these aerial bombardments waged by Russia. James Waterhouse in Kiev.
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What did you feel was so wrong about what Mr. Yoon did?
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Mr. Yoon has said that he has presented his excuses to the South Korean people. I'm so sorry and regretful that I couldn't live up to your expectations, he said in a message delivered via his lawyers. I wonder how you think history will regard him, though.