Sarah Rainsford
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Zelensky says Trump 'living in disinformation space' created by Russia
Well, there was no press statement here in Poland, in fact, but it was certainly a reiteration of the kinds of lines that we've been hearing from Donald Trump and from his team negotiating in Saudi Arabia. And now Keith Kellogg has arrived in Kiev, stepping off the overnight train from here in Poland to say that he was looking forward to having wonderful talks in Ukraine.
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Zelensky says Trump 'living in disinformation space' created by Russia
He did say that he was there to listen. He said that he understood Ukraine's need for security guarantees. die Bedeutung der ukrainischen Gerechtigkeit. Aber natürlich sind diese Worte eher für Kiew unbequem, je nachdem, was Donald Trump über Nacht gesagt hat, nämlich, dass er die Ukraine für die Invasion ihres Territories verurteilt, was ziemlich erstaunlich ist.
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Zelensky says Trump 'living in disinformation space' created by Russia
Nehmen Sie in Erinnerung, dass es nur eine Woche ago war, als Donald Trump und Wladimir Putin eine Telefonrufe hatten. Es scheint, dass Wladimir Putin wirklich Er hat etwas zu Donald Trump erklärt oder etwas zu Donald Trump beschrieben, das er jetzt wiederholt.
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Zelensky says Trump 'living in disinformation space' created by Russia
Denn wenn man zu ihm spricht, klingt es sehr ähnlich, als wenn man zu Wladimir Putin spricht, als er über seine Krieg, seine Invasion in die Ukraine spricht. Es ist ein erstaunlicher Moment für alle. In Ukraine, but also here in Europe, in the wider region, because of course Europe's been such a close ally of Ukraine throughout this full-scale invasion.
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Zelensky says Trump 'living in disinformation space' created by Russia
And now it's having to really reassess how it helps Ukraine going forward and how it protects its own security if the US is going to step back.
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Zelensky says Trump 'living in disinformation space' created by Russia
Quite clearly, yes. It wasn't at the talks, it wasn't informed of the phone call, it hasn't been fully briefed of the entire process. Yes, it's definitely being sidelined and the message is coming from very senior members of Donald Trump's administration. Vielen Dank. Sehr kurz, wird Amerika überhaupt any support to Kyiv? Well, Keith Kellogg is there. They're talking.
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Zelensky says Trump 'living in disinformation space' created by Russia
He says he's going to listen. But certainly all of the optics from that meeting in Saudi Arabia were quite extraordinary. Seeing the Russian foreign minister, who is under US sanctions because of the war on Ukraine, sitting across the table with US officials and those officials essentially already having conceded major things to Moscow.
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Zelensky says Trump 'living in disinformation space' created by Russia
I think, you know, that is pretty difficult for Ukraine's allies in Europe and for Kiev, of course, itself to stomach, frankly.
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
This is clearly a devastating attack. It's one of the biggest attacks of its kind, or one of the most devastating attacks of its kind for several weeks here in Ukraine. It was an attack on the city of Zaporizhia in the southeast of this country, one of the big cities. We know that 13 people so far have lost their lives.
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
We know that dozens of people, according to President Zelensky, have been injured, and they include a teenage girl. According to the local head of the administration, Ivan Fyodorov, he's also said that several of those who are injured are seriously injured. Now, this was an attack that happened in the middle of the afternoon.
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
I've seen dashcam footage from cars at the time of the strike, and those were very busy streets. The local regional head did talk about the initial area that was hit. He talked about industrial infrastructure being targeted, but it's clear that there were also residential buildings there, and much of the damage occurred. is in the main street.
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
So where people were walking, there's a tram with windows blown out. There's at least one, if not two, minibuses that I've seen in the footage from the scene of that missile strike. Totally, windows totally shattered and people just lying scattered in the street amongst the rubble, amongst the glass and amongst pools of blood.
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
So an extremely serious strike on a very big city and one that, as you said, President Zelensky himself has condemned as Russian terror. He said that there is nothing more cruel than launching aerial bombs on a city when you know that civilians will suffer.
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
I think so far until this point, he has been in control. I do think it's quite clear that from a Russian perspective, they've seen Donald Trump and his administration give way to some of their key demands, you know, even ahead of any discussions about a ceasefire. So I think there is a degree to which Russia feels like it's pulling the strings and it can continue. somewhat control this process.
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
But I do think there are some limitations to that because, of course, Donald Trump came into office promising essentially that he was going to resolve this crisis. He has since had to admit that it's become much more complicated than he had anticipated and it is taking time. But I'm not sure how much time and how much he is going to be willing to give Russia.
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
I suspect at some point Russia is going to have to give something back. But for the moment, at least, it does seem that Russia is kind of the one calling the shots. And it is sounding pretty bullish, certainly in all the comments that we've heard so far from Russian officials. It does seem that they believe that their agenda is what's setting Russia the tone for all of the discussions so far.
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
So, yeah, I think at the moment it's going into these talks with maximalist demands still on the table.
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
He has. And I think his role in this entire process, including in those talks in Jeddah, the first conversations between Russian and American officials, his role is quite interesting because he's very close to Vladimir Putin, but he's also very much focused on money, on investment, on the economy. And the very fact that he has been talking about
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
the prospect of working with the United States, even talking about the potential for Russia and Elon Musk to cooperate and to collaborate and fly to Mars together. He's talking about big business deals. He's talking about the potential to entice American firms to Russia, to look for rare earths in Russia, not just in Ukraine or instead of Ukraine. So I think this shows that Russia is very much
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
I think, focused on the idea of normalising relations with the US, getting rid of those sanctions which have been so detrimental to the economy, returning to business as usual and very much business as usual at the heart of all of this. And obviously, you know, that's the goal, whether that's actually reasonable or a possible prospect is another big question.
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Israel launches waves of strikes on Gaza
And it's certainly sticking Ukraine's throat to see Russia kind of parading itself as a possible investor for America at a time when, of course, Russian missiles are still raining down on Ukraine.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
This is an attack in Vilnius, as you say, on an IKEA store there in the city. It was a huge fire. It caused around about half a million euros worth of damage to the store. And now what Lithuanian prosecutors are saying is that there was an explosive device that was planted in the store just before it closed for the evening.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
And they have linked two teenagers to that, what they're categorising a terrorist attack. They say they've got very detailed evidence about how the two operated. They say there was a whole organised group with multiple people involved. They now have one young man who has been detained in Lithuania and one who's been detained here in Poland. Both of them linked children. to this attack.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
And they say that they were travelling back and forth before they bought the materials that they used to carry out the attack, that they filmed the fire afterwards. And the Lithuanian authorities are linking this quite directly, they say, to Russian intelligence. They're saying that the whole operation was run by Russian military intelligence and they're describing...
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
that agency as a serious adversary, which operates without rules. That was the quote from the chief prosecutor who is involved in investigating this particular case.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
No, they were Ukrainian. And that's a kind of curious twist to this whole plot. But it's not the only time when Ukrainians have been involved in this kind of thing. As you said, there has been a surge of sabotage and arson attacks across Eastern Europe, particularly the Baltics and here in Poland. in recent months over the past year or so.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
And in many of those cases, some of the nationals involved have been Ukrainian. Now, in some cases that I've looked into, those have been pro-Russian Ukrainians, particularly one that was just prosecuted in Western Poland a few weeks ago and was given eight years for plotting an act of arson there.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
In other cases, as in this case, what the prosecutors are saying is these are people who are acting for cash. They're saying that the pair are involved in the attack on Ikea were given a BMW afterwards and they were promised €10,000 payment for the attack. So there is this very curious trend of using Ukrainians in particular.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
And I would suggest that probably from the Russian side, that's also about making people across Europe suspicious of Ukrainian nationals and undermining support for helping Ukraine in its war against Russia. It's all, I think, part of what Russia is up to.
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
He was working hand in glove with the Chinese Communist Party, building a censorship tool, working to develop sort of the antithesis of many of the principles that underpin Facebook.
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
My evidence, I have many, many hundreds of documents.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
Ten years ago, he was a remarkably popular, glamorous young leader. Justin Trudeau has been forced out of office with voters unhappy about the high cost of living and internal party disagreements over how to handle the incoming US President Donald Trump. He announced his decision outside the Prime Minister's residence in Ottawa.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
Okay, so are you suggesting that absinthe now is no more potent or dangerous for you than any other spirit? Yes, I'm saying that. We heard there, it's anise, it's aniseed flavour.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
How would you explain the excitement around it? Because there is an excitement around absinthe, isn't there?
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
So when they talked about him mixing the drink, all he'd done was add water to it?
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
But there is no reason that this is more evil than any other one or naughtier.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
His government had been destabilised by a row over how to respond to Donald Trump's threat to level crippling 25% tariffs on Canadian imports. Mr Trudeau rushed to Mar-a-Lago to try to placate the president-elect, but his fate was sealed when his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, resigned, saying Canada needed to push back harder against America-first economic nationalism.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
She's now seen as a front-runner to replace Mr Trudeau, alongside the former governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney. It remains to be seen who will have to deal with the thorny issues of inflation, immigration... and President Trump that Canada is facing.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
One is that I think its contemporary relevance right now is incredibly strong. It's a novel about good faith and bad faith, about how we maintain our hope and our ideals when we're surrounded by people operating with cynicism and ruthless selfishness.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
It's a novel about how we have to hang on to a kind of stubborn refusal to give up on our ideals and to believe that there is something better that we can create, no matter how dark the world is around us.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
Absolutely. Look, people are familiar with the idea that it's critiquing the American dream. I mean, that's a kind of cliche about the novel. It shows that America doesn't allow for upward social mobility. But it's saying something more profound about our need to believe in the possibility of self-improvement, of upward social mobility, of hope.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
even when we are surrounded by power structures that suggest to us that those are impossible and that our hopes are futile and that both have to coexist to show what the novel encapsulates.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
Well, there are, and there are other criticisms we can make of it. I mean, some people like to say that it's a perfect novel. I don't think there's any such thing. But it's pretty close, you know, and we haven't talked about yet the magic of the language, but it is one of the best written novels of the modern era. And these kinds of timeless images stay with us.
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Myanmar remembers earthquake dead with a minute's silence
The green light across the bay, Gadsby's mansion that's lit up but hollow, Dr. Ekelberg's giant eyes looking over the landscape. I mean, these symbols capture these incredibly vivid images of modern life and how we are always struggling to try to find meaning in that world.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
Donald Trump repeatedly brought up the pardons that Joe Biden had given to family members and people who were part of his administration. It was feared that Donald Trump might try to wreak vengeance on people who he blamed for the prosecutions against himself.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
And President Trump kept pointing out that President Biden hadn't pardoned himself, saying that he maybe hadn't realized that family members and other people could now be compelled to testify against him if he was being investigated or prosecuted.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
Now, he'd previously said that he wouldn't go after Joe Biden, but when he was asked about it, he said, I went through four years of hell, so it's hard to say that they shouldn't have to go through that also, which is quite intriguing. He did sign an executive order in the last day or so, which is called ending the weaponisation of the federal government.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
But actually, if you read it, it looks a lot like it would, in fact, empower the Trump administration to go after people who they blame for some of what's happened over the last four years.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
He's signing more and more of these executive decrees that mean that he can, without having to pass a law through Congress, order certain things to happen. and that is more troops going to the border. He's particularly keen that they start constructing more physical barriers.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
And that's probably not the wall, but rather huge metal fences, but a way to stop people from being able to walk over the border into the United States. A lot of refugees who had already been through the system, they had been investigated, their asylum claims had been vetted, and they had been told that they were being granted asylum and could move to the United States.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
They had flights booked, special American flights that were going to bring them here. have been suddenly told that their air tickets are worthless, that they are not welcome in the United States, and that basically their refugee status has been completely rescinded. And then you have tens of thousands of people who had made appointments at the border.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
All of those appointments have been cancelled as well. So President Trump has shut down any means by which any refugees or asylum seekers would try and make it into the country. hasn't happened yet, but we anticipate will soon, are immigration raids against people who are already in America.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
There may be over 10 million undocumented migrants living in America, and Donald Trump has said he wants to deport all of them, which is probably impractical.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
It won't be long, I don't think, before you see immigration officials in some of the big cities that have been particularly welcoming to migrants like Chicago, New York, San Francisco, round up people who are not legally in the country and then presumably detain them before they try to deport them.
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Turkey: thousands protest against Istanbul mayor arrest
We know that they spoke about quite a lot of substantial issues. Firstly, with Donald Trump briefing President Zelensky on the call that he had with Vladimir Putin yesterday and on the limited truce that they agreed on, where there will be no more targeting of energy sites by either side.
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Turkey: thousands protest against Istanbul mayor arrest
But they also discussed what's going on in the Russian region, of course, where Ukrainian soldiers are fighting. And President Zelensky requested more air defence missiles and more equipment to help with their defence. And President Trump said he would talk to European partners about that. So it's
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Turkey: thousands protest against Istanbul mayor arrest
There seems to have been a fairly detailed conversation, and one in which President Zelensky took great care to thank Donald Trump for his involvement, to say that Ukraine really is committed to peace, which they think can be achieved this year, and that that's thanks to Donald Trump's leadership.
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Turkey: thousands protest against Istanbul mayor arrest
That's President Zelensky going out of his way to be incredibly polite and diplomatic to Donald Trump in the way he likes, to avoid a row the like of which we saw, of course, three weeks ago in the Oval Office, where they had that absolutely explosive spat that resulted in Vladimir Zelensky being thrown out of the White House afterwards.
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Turkey: thousands protest against Istanbul mayor arrest
Well, all of the official things we've heard from the White House, whether they're in Donald Trump's social media posts or in official readouts, as they call them, a description of the phone calls, have been very measured and very diplomatic. And of course, if Donald Trump thought he had scored a big success...
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Turkey: thousands protest against Istanbul mayor arrest
we would be seeing more of his usual kind of loud boasts of how terrifically well things are going. There isn't even anything written in all capital letters in any of his social media posts. And that's because he frankly doesn't have a great deal to boast about after this week's diplomacy. He got President Putin to agree to an incredibly limited truce.
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Turkey: thousands protest against Istanbul mayor arrest
not the full ceasefire for 30 days that Ukraine had already agreed to. Vladimir Putin is still insisting that there are various demands and guarantees he's looking for before he'll go towards a full ceasefire, let alone start talking about a peace settlement. So talks are going to begin again between the various American, Ukrainian and Russian teams in the Middle East this week.
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Turkey: thousands protest against Istanbul mayor arrest
But there is an awful lot of work to do combing through the fine detail of these things. And Donald Trump will be finding that enormously frustrating. He insisted this was going to be a swift and straightforward process. At the beginning of this week, White House officials were talking about how a peace deal was within reach and that we've never been closer.
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Turkey: thousands protest against Istanbul mayor arrest
But now it looks as though it's getting bogged down. And frankly, what are the usual details of this kind of shuttle diplomacy? But details Donald Trump thought he was going to be able to skip over, but he clearly hasn't been able to.
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
As Prime Minister, Kyrgyzstan hasn't rushed to Kyiv. It took him six months. But he came here today to say Ukraine and Britain were closer than ever. Allies against what he called Russia's barbaric invasion. And as he and Volodymyr Zelensky held talks, there was a reminder of the daily danger. A Russian drone overhead, then the air defences. The timing of this trip is important.
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
Just before Donald Trump returns to the White House, a man far less clear in his support for Kyiv.
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
President Zelensky stressed today that those security guarantees must include joining NATO. Both men say Ukraine can only consider any peace talks with Russia from a position of strength. That means more time and more aid from its allies. And Donald Trump may not agree with that.
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Trump says he expects to meet Putin in Saudi Arabia
Instead of getting the usual rather dry readout that we get from the White House after these calls, we got Donald Trump's unvarnished take on social media. And that was very positive about what he said was a very productive conversation with Vladimir Putin. And there have been several steps leading up to this to create a positive atmosphere.
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Trump says he expects to meet Putin in Saudi Arabia
One of Trump's very closest allies actually met Vladimir Putin. And then an American who'd been being held prisoner in Russia was released. And Donald Trump was delighted about that. Both Russia and America are going to have teams start negotiating immediately about the situation in Ukraine.
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Trump says he expects to meet Putin in Saudi Arabia
And he's named a very high level team, including the Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the director of the CIA.
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
We're in front of a case now, the new royalty. What's this?
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
Do they feel conflicted as well, given the provenance of some of the jewels, given the wealth?
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
And so then it's just the wealth?
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Higher US tariffs on hold but China trade war grows
Jewels wieder hier. Und wir sind zurück mit Tiaras, vielen Tiaras.
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Multiple wildfires raging in Los Angeles
Well, it's not cash. It's aid in kind. So this is military support. So it's additional missiles for air defence here in Ukraine. It's more ammunition, more air to surface missiles and it's other equipment that will support the F-16 fighter jets. Ukraine now has. So it's military aid. And of course, it's the latest chunk of the aid that the US has agreed to send to Ukraine.
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Multiple wildfires raging in Los Angeles
But it's come this announcement and this meeting at Ramstein at a moment, of course, when there are questions about how sustainable and how committed Ukraine America will be in the future under Donald Trump in supporting Ukraine and sending more aid in the future. And as you mentioned, President Zelensky opened this meeting describing a new chapter starting in 11 days time.
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Multiple wildfires raging in Los Angeles
Of course, when Mr. Trump becomes the new US president. So there are questions about whether these Ramstein meetings will continue. They were set up to try to coordinate aid for Ukraine and to make sure that it could get what it needs in terms of military support as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
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Multiple wildfires raging in Los Angeles
And I think it was interesting to hear President Zelensky saying quite starkly, we've come such a long way, he said, that it would be crazy, as he put it, to drop the ball now and not to keep building on these kind of coalitions, these groups that these mechanisms that are already in place to help his country.
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Multiple wildfires raging in Los Angeles
I think he's been quite careful to try to put a positive spin on it. He did say he was hopeful, he was optimistic. He hoped that the coordination would be better in the future. But I think there are big, big question marks right now in Ukraine. People are in a kind of limbo waiting to see what exactly is going to happen after the 20th of January.
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Multiple wildfires raging in Los Angeles
And of course, the big concerns are about, you know, this continuing support. We just saw yesterday an attack in Zaporizhia, a city in the southeast of Ukraine, in which 13 civilians were killed and more than 100 people were injured there. in the middle of the street in a busy afternoon there in a major city.
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Multiple wildfires raging in Los Angeles
So I think it was, you know, important, I suppose, for President Zelensky to drive home the message that air defences are still important. And to use his words, he was saying that Vladimir Putin's aggression hasn't stopped. So he was really urging the US in particular to continue providing support because he said Vladimir Putin was still intent on destroying Ukraine.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Der Pope Francis hat über seine Gesundheit gefragt. Und die letzte Vatikan-Update ist noch nicht der starkste. Der Pope hatte, was heute als eine verlängerte Respirationskrise beschrieben wird, die Oxygen benötigt hat. Er brauchte auch Bluttransfusionen, sagt der Vatikan, nachdem Tests gezeigt haben, dass er Anämie hat. Die Popes Situation, wie es vorher war, ist beschrieben als kritisch.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Der 88-Jährige ist nicht aus Gefahr, sagt das Statement. Und es sagt, dass er mehr als gestern verletzt ist. Es ist nicht möglich, eine Prognose zu geben. This will all worry Catholics around the world, especially after doctors yesterday said for the first time the Pope was responding to medication. But they also noted that any slight thing risked upsetting a delicate balance.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Even so, Pope Francis is said to remain alert and he spent the day, the Vatican says, in his armchair.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
A military expert inspecting fragments of metal told me they came from a Russian Iskander ballistic missile, one that flies so fast it is very hard to intercept or even sound the alarm. So in the wreckage of a dental clinic, we found a woman trying to salvage anything left intact. When I asked for her thoughts, she shrugged. We're used to it, she said. It's the third year of war.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
Because this is not an escalation by Russia. It's a reminder that the deadly strikes across Ukraine have never stopped.
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Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire
This was an attack with no warning. Two explosions first and then the sirens. By daylight, the destruction was clear, with shattered glass all around, a business centre in ruins, and cars blackened and twisted by fire. Two of the dead were found in one of them. And in the centre of the street was a deep crater.
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Ukraine talks could see Europeans excluded
So many people in L.A. have been out of work for a very long time, between COVID and the downturn in the TV industry, the sort of streaming bubble popping and the strikes and I think the mantra had been for a lot of people, survive until 25. And then, of course, come January 2025, these horrible fires.
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Ukraine talks could see Europeans excluded
We are asking for emergency relief to include uncapping the tax incentive for any production that shoots in L.A. County for the next three years. And then the second... really crucial piece of that is calling upon studios and streamers to increase the amount of production they're doing in LA County for three years by 10%.
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Ukraine talks could see Europeans excluded
And the grander point of all of this is we're trying to sound the alarm and raise awareness that we have to do something to save this industry town and build it back again.
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Ukraine talks could see Europeans excluded
Also in the podcast... We're trying to sound the alarm and raise awareness that we have to do something to save this industry town and build it back again.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Pope Francis is now stable after a sudden breathing crisis, his second since he was taken to hospital. The Vatican says he is still receiving oxygen, but he's had no more lung spasms and he doesn't have a fever. He's said to be alert, not confused, doing breathing exercises and eating normally.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
The Pope's doctors stress that he is not out of danger, but these latest details will reassure those Catholics who watch anxiously for the daily updates and who pray for the Pope each evening outside St Peter's Basilica. Many have come to Rome as pilgrims in a special jubilee year for the Church, one which Pope Francis had planned to be part of.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Next week, though, he won't be able to say Mass at the start of Lent, and he has now been in hospital and out of the public eye for the longest ever period of his papacy.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
A German tank churns up the earth as it thunders into position on a training base. Then inside, the soldiers get ready to load their shells. For years, this country's armed forces have been chronically underfunded. But German troops could soon have new weapons to train and to fight with. Parlament hier has just cleared the way for a massive injection of cash.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
Because Germany believes the threat of Russian aggression goes beyond Ukraine's borders. When I met the country's top general, he warned that Russia could attack NATO territory in as little as four years.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
How much money and how much time do you need in order to feel that Germany is defended against the threat that you've described?
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
General Breuer sagt, dass die Gefahr nicht nur konventionelle Krieg ist. Russlands Hybrid-Attacken auf Europa reichen bereits von Cyber- zu Sabotage. Dann gibt es seine fortschrittliche Militärisierung.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
Und all das, als Donald Trump alte Überraschungen schattert, dass die Vereinigten Staaten auf Europa's Defense fahren werden.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
Aber die Krieg in der Ukraine hat die Gedanken hier verändert. In Berlin, nahe einem Kriegsmemorial, habe ich Charlotte und Ludwig gesprochen.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
Deutschland braucht Soldaten, als auch Waffen. Und bei den Ländern, die nur ein Rekrutierungszentrum haben, bekommen sie nur ein paar Anrufer pro Tag. Der alte Plan war, Truppennummern um 20.000 zu erhöhen. General Breuer sagt, sie brauchen fünfmal das.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
Some form of conscription is necessary for Germany to defend itself.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
That debate has only just started. But at the training base in Münster and from the General's words, the pivot in German thinking is already clear. A country that once insisted on engaging with Russia and on dialogue is now rushing to play catch-up on defence.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
It is still, I think, very troubling for his doctors, certainly still troubling for Vatican officials here, but somewhat, I won't say improved, but somewhat less stark than the quite shocking picture that there was yesterday, which certainly, I think, rattled many people here in Rome who heard that the Pope had had what was described as a respiratory crisis and that he'd had blood transfusion.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
So we've got a little more detail on that just now. We understand that the Pope had two units of blood and that there was some improvement in what had been described as some anemia. So that is slightly improved. But the sort of novelty, I guess, in this kind of clinical picture is that he has some kidney problems, a mild renal insufficiency. But they're saying that is under control.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
I think overall, stepping back from the details, it is clearly still a critical condition. The Pope did go to mass today on Sunday up on the 10th floor apartment where he is being cared for in the hospital here in Rome. He, we're told, is not entirely bedridden. He still does sit in his armchair. He is still alert. He is still talking.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
But clearly he's very, very unwell and his doctors are still working with him very closely and hoping that the treatment that they're giving him can begin to show some results. Sarah Rainsford.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
We have achieved a historic result.
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Starmer warns US backstop needed for Ukraine peace deal
So the only way that this can work is with some sort of integrated force that involves the Americans, even if they haven't actually got boots on the ground.
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
He's offering to swap these two men from North Korea to hand them over to Pyongyang if North Korea can arrange for Ukrainian prisoners of war to be returned to Ukraine. from Russia. So essentially a prisoner swap. But of course, this is with a country that doesn't acknowledge deploying its troops to Russia to fight alongside Russian troops against Ukraine.
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
And Russia also has not actually confirmed that North Korean troops are fighting. And in fact, It looks pretty clear now that Ukraine's claim that these North Korean troops are being deployed with fake Russian military ID is actually true. When these two North Koreans were captured, Ukraine presented a Russian military document and it was in the name of a Russian citizen born in Siberia.
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
But watching a video of the two men who've been taken captive, they are speaking Korean and And they do appear to confirm that they are North Korean professional soldiers. So it does seem that Russia is trying to hide the fact that it's using foreign forces for its war with Ukraine. And is this this new video posted by Kiev? Yes. That's right.
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
I mean, we have to say, first of all, that this is a video that's been filmed by Ukraine's intelligence service. We can't speak to these people freely or independently. They are prisoners of war. One of them, frankly, looks terrified as he's speaking. He winces with pain as he's
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
Under interrogation, essentially, and being filmed, this soldier says that he was involved in a military offensive on the 3rd of January, that he saw soldiers die and then he hid. And a couple of days later, he was taken captive. He says he doesn't know where he is right now. And when he's asked if he wants to go back to North Korea, he actually says no, he wants to stay here. in Ukraine.
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
And he's speaking all the time through an interpreter, which Ukraine's intelligence agency says has been provided by South Korean intelligence. So rather difficult circumstances for anyone to be speaking in. But that is what he has said so far.
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
Yeah, and I think in a way that was kind of somewhat empty words from President Zelensky. It was more, I think, a political point he was trying to make because, of course, Ukraine already has a lot of Russian prisoners of war and Russia and Ukraine do conduct swaps, exchanges of prisoners of war every few weeks, every few months, fairly regularly.
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
So I guess they don't necessarily need to swap the North Koreans in order to get prisoners. the Ukrainian soldiers back. I think he was more making a point that he has these men and showing it as proof. And he was also, I think, trying to underline Ukraine's interpretation of the fact that Russia is using North Koreans.
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
Ukraine is saying that this is a sign of weakness by Russia that is having to resort to using foreign forces to plug the gap in its own ranks that is not able to get enough Russian soldiers to fight this war. Because, of course, Ukraine has come under pressure a lot from its own allies, from the United States in particular, to find more soldiers here in Ukraine to fight.
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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
Ukraine's struggling with a shortage of soldiers right now and low morale. But Ukraine's saying, look, Russia's having problems too.
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Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil
On the road to Naypyidaw, there were numerous cars and trucks loaded with supplies where people in Myanmar are coming together to respond to those who've been affected. And then as you near Naypyidaw, you start to see the road has buckled. Bridges are cracked, huge openings in the earth just gaping open. And as you get into Naypyidaw, you see people camping outside of what was their home.
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As you mentioned, the heat is extremely hot. It's going into the hot season. It's very humid, which makes it feel even hotter. And they're outside and there's no access to running water, to toilets, kitchens, anything like that. Many are under tents. So we've also distributed what we call temporary shelter, which are tents.
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But the thunderstorm Saturday night in Mandalay, the temporary shelters aren't always going to be able to hold up for that. So one of the things that we're looking at now is this race against the clock to the monsoon season, which starts in June when the rains will become very heavy. And we really need to get people out from underneath the tents and into some temporary shelter before then.
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Food distributions are underway by a range of partners, including UNOPS, as well as the World Food Program. And there's so many local groups on the ground. Our teams in Mandalay saw a bonfire where two young women were cooking 600 eggs to distribute with rice and a few other things and plastic baggies for people that don't have a way to cook for themselves.
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Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil
We definitely need to have continued access to all the areas that are affected so that we can continue to provide assistance to those that need it most.
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
He didn't have any evidence for that. But what he has done is sign a memo demanding that this be investigated, that all hiring practices at the Federal Aviation Authority over the last four years, whilst he's been out of power, be investigated. And if there is anybody who has been hired who doesn't meet qualification requirements, then they should be sacked and replaced immediately because.
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
He says he is convinced that it is these diversity policies that have lowered aviation standards.
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
Now, it is being reported here that staffing levels were not normal in the air traffic control tower last night, that jobs would normally be assigned to two different controllers were being done by just one person who by themselves was having to handle all the planes that were landing and taking off, as well as dealing with all the helicopters that were in that airspace. Now,
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Trump blames diversity policies for US air crash
We don't know whether that's routine on occasions, whether that's unusual, but it's definitely something that the air accident investigators are going to have to be looking into along with every other aspect of this crash.
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BBC investigates deadliest single Israeli attack in recent conflict with Hezbollah
When Belarusians go to vote on Sunday, Alexander Lukashenko has no intention of losing control or of allowing mass protests to erupt again, like in 2020. All the key opposition figures from those days are now either in prison or in forced exile. And those opposition supporters still in Belarus have been scared into silence.
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BBC investigates deadliest single Israeli attack in recent conflict with Hezbollah
That's why their leader in exile, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has told the BBC she's not calling on people in the country to protest. But she does want Western allies to reject the results of Sunday's vote and to step up the sanctions and the pressure on Lukashenko.
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BBC investigates deadliest single Israeli attack in recent conflict with Hezbollah
is illegal rule. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya argues that supporting the Belarusian opposition is about more than defending democracy, because Alexander Lukashenko is a key ally of Vladimir Putin, helping him fight his war on Ukraine.
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BBC investigates deadliest single Israeli attack in recent conflict with Hezbollah
In 2020, all of a sudden, huge crowds of Belarusians believe they could change their country. Their desire has gone nowhere. But inside Belarus, instead of hope, activists now talk of their fear and their depression.
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Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
Yeah, he seemed remarkably optimistic about that. He said he thinks that they're very close to getting agreement with Russia and that he's getting very good signals from Moscow, where, of course, his presidential envoy, Steve Witkoff, is there having discussions with the Russians, very serious discussions.
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Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
Donald Trump called them and he even said that he himself would actually love to meet with or talk with Vladimir Putin about this. But there was a there was a kind of hint of a threat there as well, saying that it would be very disappointing for the world if Russia doesn't agree to this ceasefire.
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Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
Because, of course, this process cannot move forward unless Russia, along with Ukraine, both agree to this 30-day ceasefire to allow them to move into the next phase of negotiations. But, yeah, Donald Trump seemed to think that there wouldn't be too much problem getting Vladimir Putin to agree to this, despite some of the things that Putin has been saying today that would suggest that he's not
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Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
entirely sold on this idea. And then really interestingly, President Trump also started talking about what might come next, what a peace deal would look like if they were to start negotiating that. He said there's no point in trying to agree the ceasefire if it doesn't look as though there's a peace deal within reach afterwards.
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Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
And he was even talking about how they've already been discussing what piece of land will belong to whom. There was a power station, he said, we don't know which one, that they were negotiating over who would end up with that in their territory.
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Putin responds to Trump's ceasefire plan
So these conversations are obviously considerably more advanced than we realised about what a final settlement might look like and presumably feed into the optimism that we were seeing from him in the Oval Office today.
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
Das ist das erste, was wir von dem Popen in drei Wochen gehört haben. Und es ist ein kurzes Dankeschön, das er von seinem Krankenhaus geliefert hat. Es ist ein Dankeschön, das er von allen, die auf St. Peters Square gesammelt haben, um seine Gesundheit zu beten, wie sie jeden Abend hier haben. It's just 22 seconds long and Pope Francis struggles for breath even so.
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
But in his native Spanish he thanks Catholics from the bottom of his heart for their prayers and he tells them he's with them. The Vatican says the message was recorded today. It'll be heard by Catholics around the world with a mixture of relief and worry because the Pope sounds so weak.
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As stock markets tumble again, Trump calls for a cut to interest rates
I think it's marvellous. I don't think anyone could wear too much eau sauvage. It projects 1970s power. It's a classic, but it came out in 1966, so it's quite an unusual choice. Napoleon used to wash every day with two litres of cologne. It is a lot. He didn't have a shower, he was out. But I think Macron seems to be carrying on the tradition.