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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
Well, you'd have to ask Vladimir Putin that question. I mean, generally this morning, I get the feeling that Russia is quite pleased with how the telephone conversation went. If we're talking about the Putin-Trump call, it believes, well, according to one pro-Kremlin news site this morning, Russia scored a diplomatic victory here.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
And the reason I think the Russians are pleased with how it went is that Putin and Trump spoke for two hours. At the end of it, Vladimir Putin managed to retain good relations with Donald Trump. The U.S.-Russia reset is still on. The Russians managed to convince the Americans that Moscow is serious about wanting peace, while at the same time...
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
Moscow made no major concessions and basically rejected President Trump's idea of this immediate, unconditional 30-day ceasefire. Instead, President Putin was very clear in laying out, once again, Russia's conditions, that the West must stop arming Ukraine, that the West must stop providing Ukraine with intelligence data, that Ukraine must stop mobilisation, stop recruiting soldiers.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
The kind of conditions that Ukraine is not going to agree to, that Europe agrees, wouldn't agree to if Europe has any say in the matter. And so I think the question now is, will Moscow convince the Americans to basically agree with these conditions? Critics of the Kremlin say what's happening now is that the Kremlin is just playing for time.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
No, I don't. I can't confirm that. But I tell you what's also happening, what the Russians are doing in their conversations with the Americans. The Russians are dangling various economic financial carrots in the face of the Trump administration, basically talking about how wonderful, how mutually profitable the U.S.-Russia relationship will be. when they can finally get to work on joint projects.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
We've already heard Vladimir Putin raise the possibility of joint projects in aluminium, rare earth metals. The message is sinking in. Donald Trump gave an interview to Fox News last night, and he said in that interview, we'd like to have more trade with Russia. They have some very valuable things for us. They have a big chunk of real estate, the biggest in the world.
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Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack
They have things that we could use. I suspect... that Moscow is calculating that for Donald Trump, the prospect of getting a chunk of that, if you like, Russian real estate, is going to Trump getting a good deal for Ukraine when it comes to ending the war.
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
It was the day Russia's capital was reminded of Russia's war in Ukraine. The investigations committee confirmed they'd been a high-profile assassination outside an apartment building. A bomb hidden on a scooter had exploded, killing Lieutenant General Igor Kirilov, head of Russia's nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, and his assistant Ilya Polykarpov.
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
Only yesterday, Ukraine had reportedly charged the general in absentia for allegedly using chemical weapons on the battlefield. Russian state TV blamed the blast on Ukraine. With the attack, it said, President Zelensky had signed his own death sentence. The former Kremlin leader, Dmitry Medvedev, called for the killers to be tracked down in Russia.
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
We must do everything, he said, to destroy the patrons who are in Kiev. Near the crime scene, local residents spoke of their shock. Liza told me, when this kind of thing happens, not just in your hometown or in your own neighbourhood, but in the building opposite, that's scary. Even after nearly three years of war, for many Muscovites, Russia's war in Ukraine is very distant.
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
It's something they see only on TV or on their phones. But the killing of a Russian general here, that is a wake-up call that this war is very real and very close to home.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
We haven't heard from the Russian side. Mark Vogel had been given a 14-year prison sentence. But everything changed when Donald Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, flew to Russia, flew to Moscow, to secure Mark Vogel's release. He was able to do that.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
And later, Donald Trump's National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, said that the Trump administration had negotiated an exchange that serves as a show of good faith in the Russians and a sign we're moving in the right direction to end the war in Ukraine. So, first of all, this talk about an exchange, we have no details whatsoever about for whom or for what Mark Fogel was exchanged.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
But also, it's interesting, isn't it, that the release of a US prisoner and the war in Ukraine... are mentioned in the same paragraph.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
And I think that amid all the talk we're hearing of possible peace talks to end the war in Ukraine, of some kind of imminent US peace plan, I suspect that any sign of a thaw in US-Russian relations, and this kind of language we're seeing, show of good faith in the Russians, moving in the right direction, I suspect that in Ukraine, in Kiev, they'll be pretty wary of that and wondering if that means moving in the right direction for Moscow.
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Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
Ich habe zwei Drawdowns und zwei Drops gemacht, aber ich hatte eine so hohe Kostenbasis, als ich den ersten Tipp gekauft habe, dass ich nicht so hart wie viele andere Leute getroffen habe. Es war ein guter Lick an einem Tag, aber es war ein Tag, während andere Trend-Follower und Swing-Traders, die ich gesehen habe, für mehrere Tage gehalten haben und sich
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Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
Ich habe viele Trauma in der aktiven Handelswelt gesehen, besonders für die langen Bias-Händler, die Stocks kaufen und Stocks für mehrere Tage halten oder die initialen Dips kaufen. Denn das war so traumatisierend, weil es war so, als hätten wir die Deep Seek und wir hatten den AI-Kreis.
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Trump's threats to seize Greenland and Panama Canal
In the early hours of the second day of each month, something very strange happens in the town of Beeston. A plate of up to 20 peeled bananas is left on the corner of Abbey Road and Windsor Avenue, piled up in the same way, sometimes with honey drizzled on them. The culprit? Nobody knows. The phantom fruit lever has never been revealed or left any clues to their identity.
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Trump's threats to seize Greenland and Panama Canal
The bananas appear outside Claire Short's house, a local campaigner for clean streets. She recently put up a sign politely asking those responsible to stop. But come the second of this month, the bananas were back.
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Trump's threats to seize Greenland and Panama Canal
Some residents are upset as the bananas are left to go mouldy and the plates are left behind. But this month, there was an added twist. Taped to the bottom of the plate was a £5 note, a new point of intrigue and mystery in this unappealing saga. Steve Nibbs.
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
which for many people has been a war on television or a war they've looked at on their phones, something that doesn't really concern them. You know, what happened today was a real jolt to the system when you have a top Russian general being assassinated in a residential district of Moscow.
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
It brings it home, certainly to people living around there, that actually the war in Ukraine is not happening... A long way away. It's actually very real and very close to home. And one thing the Russian authorities, I think, have been quite successful at to this point has been to normalise the war so that people think, well, you know, it's going on, but we'll get on with our own lives.
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
As I say, this was a jolt to the system and a reminder that actually it's very close to home.
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
Well, certainly the feeling from Moscow is, yes, Russia is pretty convinced that Ukraine was behind this. Russian officials have been pointing the finger at Ukraine, also at the West, suggesting that somehow Western countries orchestrated this attack. There's almost certain to be a response from Moscow. Retaliation already calls from some quarters for retaliation.
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
It is a very high-profile killing. In Moscow, a very high-ranked lieutenant general. And, as I say, we're still trying to piece together exactly what happened and the circumstances here, but, yeah, I think a sense of shock would be the right way to describe things.
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
Well, it is a blow, certainly, but, I mean, when you look back over the last, what, nearly three years of... what the Kremlin called originally and still calls the special military operation, something that was only going to last a few days or a few weeks maximum and has dragged on for three years. There have been so many blows.
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
This is an operation, a war, which has not gone at all according to plan for Moscow. And even though Vladimir Putin only yesterday, when he was addressing army chiefs, was very upbeat and saying things were going Russia's way and Russia had the strategic initiative in this war...
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
When you look back at what has happened, and so much has happened and so much has gone wrong for the Kremlin in three years, what happened today, early this morning, this bomb attack, is the latest in a long line of incidents that Moscow did not prepare for. when Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops across the border into Ukraine nearly three years ago. Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.
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Russia's chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow bomb blast
I was there earlier this morning, and the apartment block had been cordoned off. There were police lines and Russian investigators outside the entrance, still clearing things away and looking for evidence. Quite a bit of damage to that particular entranceway, clearly, and a lot of shock. I mean, we spoke to residents nearby, and the sense was that, you know, suddenly this war...
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
It was huge. I mean, we've seen drone attacks here before, but not really on this scale. First of all, that the defence ministry issued a statement saying that more than 330, maybe more than 340 now, Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed by Russian air defences targeting 10 Russian regions, including Moscow.
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
and the Moscow mayor announced that the drone attack was the biggest on Moscow ever. But it's the area around Moscow, Moscow region, which seems to have been affected most by this, and the death toll stands at three people, and around 20 people were wounded in the attacks overnight. What are people saying about it?
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
Well, earlier today I went to an apartment block in the south of Moscow, one of the apartment blocks that was damaged by... debris from a drone. And there was a large crowd of people just looking up at the apartment block and the damage and some people filming it on their mobile phones. We got chatting to people in the crowd. One woman said, it's terrifying. You know, they're
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
She'd been woken up, people had been woken up at 5 o'clock in the morning by an explosion. And there was a little argument that started. One woman said, only politicians can sort this out, can resolve this situation after three years of war. And then a man said, no, not the politicians, only the Russian army. can do that.
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
But I think, you know, people, after three years of this, there is a fatigue and people do want to see this over. Although some people say we want this to end with a Russian victory. Other people say, well, let's just have talks. Let the politicians find a way out of this.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
Driving into Tver, the first thing I notice are the soldiers. Oder eher die Bilder davon. Sie sind überall. Auf Billboards, an den Seiten von Gebäuden, an Busstoppen. Porträts mit den Worten »Hero of Russia« und Poster von Truppen mit Kalaschnikow-Rifeln, die den Publikum ermutigen, zu lieben, zu verteidigen und in der Mutterlande zu haben.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
In anderen Worten, sich aufzunehmen und in der Ukraine zu kämpfen. But the front line is hundreds of miles away. And so, even after three years of war, there are many people here, like Mikhail, a teacher, who find it easy not to think about the fighting.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
Sie sagt mir, sie kennt viele Leute, die weggegangen sind, um zu kämpfen, und die nie wieder zurückgekommen sind. Larissa sagt, sie ist für die besondere Militäroperation und würde selbst volunteerieren. Clearly, she hasn't so far. She says she wants Ukraine's capitulation. The police turn up and they want an explanation. What is a team from the BBC doing in this city? How long will you be here?
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
We show them our documents, everything's in order. But they question our driver. They look inside our car and they ask me to make a statement. I have to note everything down, the officer says.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
No one gets in your way, do they? Well, I reply, apart from you and the police next to our car. So, what do people in Tver make of President Trump? Valja sagt mir, dass mit all dem Gespräch über einen möglichen Trump-Putin-Summit sie für ein positives Ergebnis hofft und dass die Kämpfe bald enden werden. Aber Michael, der Lehrer, ist nicht optimistisch.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
And yet, by the end of my trip to Tver, I can't help feeling that for much of the time, Russians too are in the dark. About the war, about Ukraine and about the future. People express hopes, yes, but avoid predictions. Is this a sign of fatalism? Steve Rosenberg, there.
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Trump says he expects to meet Putin in Saudi Arabia
This is exactly what Vladimir Putin wanted. He said before he wants to deal directly with America as far as the war in Ukraine goes. Not with Europe, not even with Ukraine, but with America. And when you think nearly three years ago when Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine... He became an international pariah.
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Trump says he expects to meet Putin in Saudi Arabia
We saw those thousands of sanctions, international sanctions imposed on Russia. He was a pariah. Now he's back on the international stage. And I think the Russians will view this telephone call alone as a diplomatic victory.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
Two people are involved. So the Russians have released Ksenia Karelyna, who is a Russia-US dual national. She's a resident of Los Angeles, an amateur ballerina. Last year, she came back to Russia to visit her family. She was arrested. She was convicted of treason.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
her crime being that she donated around $50 to a US-based charity that supports Ukraine, and she was sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony. So she's been freed. The Russians have freed a Russian-German dual national, Artur Petrov, He was arrested on Cyprus in 2023 at the request of the Americans. He was extradited to America.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
He was accused of conspiring to ship sensitive US microelectronics to Russia. So he's been freed. And I think this adds to the the the. desire by both Moscow and Washington to kind of boost relations, improve the atmosphere between Russia and America. There are talks going on today in Istanbul, diplomatic talks about improving the functioning of diplomatic missions, Russian and American.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
So you can see where this is leading, even though there's been very little progress in terms of ending the war in US and Russia, I think, determined to do what they can to improve their bilateral relations right now. Steve Rosenberg.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
The global order is shaking. Alliances are changing. And so is the language. Living in Russia, there are two phrases I've got used to hearing officials and pro-Kremlin commentators coming out with when they lambast Russia's rivals. The first one is the collective West, a derogatory term normally aimed at America and Europe. The second put down is the Anglo-Saxons.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
That's when Moscow rails collectively against the US and the UK. At least, this is how it was for several years. But in recent weeks, I've been hearing and reading these phrases less and less. Perhaps that's not so surprising, though. After all, with Donald Trump in the White House, labels like Collective West no longer seem to apply.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
Instead, Russian state TV's flagship news show kicked off recently with a big strap across the screen declaring America's doing things differently. As it turns out, very differently. A few days ago, we saw the United States voting with Russia, North Korea and Belarus against a UN resolution that identified Russia as the aggressor in Russia's war in Ukraine.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
Now the Trump administration has paused military aid to Kiev. By contrast, US-Russia relations are on the up. There have been discussions between Moscow and Washington on repairing diplomatic ties and talk of future economic cooperation. This week, one Russian newspaper described America as Russia's partner. It's just one word, but it represents a sea change.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
Not so long ago, Joe Biden was calling Russia the aggressor, and its president, Vladimir Putin, a murderous dictator. Last weekend, I heard something in the news here that brought home to me just how much things have turned around. The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, went on TV and declared that America's new foreign policy configurations are largely aligned with Russia's.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
America and Russia seeing the world through similar eyes? So where does that leave Europe? Potentially quite exposed and certainly receiving most of the abuse. Let me bring you up to date with Russia's new set of labels. European countries that support Ukraine are described here as the old world.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
European leaders who back President Zelensky are referred to as the party of war or the liberal globalists. Russian is a rich, colourful language, and I'm sure many more labels will be hatched soon. But there's one other thing that I've noticed. When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, some headlines in Russia referred to him as Our Donald. Not this time.
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Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
There's a little bit more caution here, just in case things don't work out. And what looks like being the start of a beautiful friendship turns sour.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
According to the Kremlin readout of their conversation, President Putin apologised to President Aliyev for what the Kremlin calls a tragic incident in Russian airspace and expressed condolences to the families of the dead.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
38 people were killed when Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, having failed to land at Grozny Airport in the Russian North Caucasus, was redirected over the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan, where it crash-landed. The Embraer 190 is widely believed to have been damaged by missiles fired by a Russian air defence system.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
In the Kremlin readout, there is no direct admission by Moscow that the plane had indeed been struck by a Russian missile. The Kremlin mentions that at the time the Azerbaijan Airlines plane had been trying to land in Grozny, Russian air defences had been repelling a Ukrainian drone attack. Still, this is the closest Russia has come so far to admitting it was responsible for the disaster.
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Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
He went to his local church and met with his priest and prayed for the president, not because he was the president of the United States, but because he had a friendship with him and he was praying for his friend.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
We have to do this very quickly. We started as the fires were still raging and we have to remove the household hazardous materials so they actually don't impact the ocean.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
We have to do this very quickly. I mean, we started as the fires were still raging and we have to remove the household hazardous materials so they actually don't impact the ocean. If we are delayed, the risk of impacting the ocean goes up. Again, we've done this for 15 plus years. We're the United States Environmental Protection Agencies.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
We're the nation's experts in handling hazardous materials and we're able to do it safely without incident.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
What about all those Teslas and electric cars that were incinerated?
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Where did they go? Lithium-ion batteries are a unique phenomenon in our modern day life. When lithium-ion batteries are damaged, and in this case by high heat and flames, Sie haben die Möglichkeit, Tage, Wochen, Monate zu erneuern, nachdem sie beeinflusst wurden. Wir müssen sie also wie unexplodierte Ordnungen behandeln, oder wie die Militärkommission sagt, UXO.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Wir müssen sie processen, damit sie sicher nach einem Recycling- oder Versorgungsgebiet transportiert werden können.
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
For in Russia today, those the authorities suspect of sympathy for the late opposition leader are in danger of creating problems for themselves. with the police and the courts. Those in power here seem to believe that even after his death, Mr Navalny and his ideas of a democratic Russia are still a danger to them.
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
In and around the cemetery, there were lots of police and security officers and individuals who were clearly not journalists, but who were filming each face, every person visiting this grave. When they arrived, there was applause for Alexei Navalny's parents, Lyudmila and Anatoly. Mr Navalny's mother said she wanted those who had murdered her son to be punished.
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
I am sure, she added, that someday the truth will prevail. The Russian authorities deny that Alexei Navalny was killed and that they had anything to do with his death. As for his memory... The crowds at the cemetery show that some Russians are trying to keep that alive. Our Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg.
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
In Moscow, this was a day for remembering the Kremlin's fiercest critic. After the peeling of church bells, Russians filed through the gates of a cemetery on the edge of the city. They'd come to honour Alexei Navalny, who died exactly one year ago in a remote penal colony and in suspicious circumstances. People laid flowers on his grave. A simple act, but one not without risk.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
Writing on social media tonight, Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president, who is now the deputy head of the Russian Security Council, and someone who's quite close to Vladimir Putin, he wrote this about the London summit. He called it an anti-Trump, anti-Russian coven, in other words, a gathering of witches, and said that those people who were taking part want to continue the war.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
Now, what's interesting about that, I think, is that phrase, anti-Trump. because the Russian government newspaper on its website tonight used the same phrase, anti-Trump, to describe the meeting in London.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
And I think after this, the message from Moscow to the White House will be, dear President Trump, those European leaders who met in London, they are against you, they are against Russia, they are against peace. We know what Russia is against, and that is the idea of European peacekeepers in Ukraine after some kind of deal.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
We know that because Russian officials have made that clear several times over the last few weeks. And in an interview published today, a new interview, the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said this. He said the plan for peacekeepers in Ukraine is a continuation of attempts to egg on the Kiev regime to fight a war with Russia.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
So it seems that Russia's position hasn't changed on European peacekeepers. It's a big no. Russian state television and its big weekly news review show not only criticized the idea of peacekeepers from Europe, it mocked the idea. It said, what troops can they afford to send? You could fit the whole British army into Wembley Stadium and still have room for some of the French.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
In a Minsk arena, at a pro-government patriotic festival, they sing, we'll survive if we're together. The idea is to portray Belarus as a peaceful, friendly, united country. Enter the man who thinks he's the father of... Alexander Lukashenko tells the audience, all of you are my children. And then he calls for a dictatorship of order, justice and respect.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
This from the man who's been accused of rigging elections to keep himself in power for three decades, who holds more than 1,200 political prisoners, and who has jailed or exiled his fiercest opponents and potential rivals. The last time Belarus held a presidential election in 2020, it ended on the streets with hundreds of thousands of people accusing Mr Lukashenko of stealing their votes.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
A brutal police crackdown extinguished the protests, eventually. And Mr Lukashenko held on to power. Now it's election time again. And although his critics call it a sham, the leader of Belarus will be hoping to use the vote to boost his legitimacy. After all, there are multiple candidates. I went to meet one of them. The Communist Party leader, Sergei Serenkov, is running against Mr Lukashenko.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
But oddly, his campaign slogan is, not in place of, but together with Lukashenko. He tells me there is no alternative today to Alexander Lukashenko, a man of the soil who has done everything to make sure that we don't have the kind of chaos they have in Ukraine. With opponents like this, you really can't lose anything.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
I drive four hours northeast of Minsk and discover that this fear of chaos and instability, it's real. It is fueled partly, but not solely, by the war in Ukraine. And it helps explain the reluctance of some people here to want a new leader. In the little town of Oktyabrskaya, Zinaida tells me, the situation today is very tense.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
Maybe there are other people worthy of power, but it'll take a long time for a young leader to get his feet under the desk. God forbid we should end up like Ukraine.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
Sergei, a local welder, tells me, I want a stable salary and a stable country. Other candidates make promises but might not keep them. I want to keep what I've got. There are many different fears today in Belarus. There is fear of the unknown, of instability, of war. And there is fear of the government, fear of speaking out.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
As Alexander Lukashenko seeks to extend his power, all these fears work in his favour.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
South Korea's low birth rate has been described as a national emergency and the government has poured billions of dollars into encouraging people to have more children. Among other measures are cheaper mortgages for parents, tax breaks for family-friendly businesses and more parental leave.
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Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker
The figures just released for 2024 show a 3% rise in the number of births, a small step in the right direction, but nowhere near enough to prevent long-term population decline. A fifth of South Koreans are over 65, and with the number of deaths far surpassing births, the population is projected to halve in size by the end of the century.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
Early on today, no reaction. I would imagine that's going to come. And I don't expect it's going to be, we're sort of quaking in our boots, because traditionally Vladimir Putin doesn't really react well to threats and ultimatums. But what I did see this morning in one of the Russian newspapers, quite interesting actually, one of the leading pro-Kremlin papers today sort of points the finger back
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
Präsident Trump and accuses the US President of not fulfilling his, quote, obligations that he took upon himself to stop Ukraine striking Russian energy infrastructure. The newspaper, Moskowski comes from Moritz, reaches this conclusion, that, quote, all agreements on the level of Trump are only worth a few pennies on market day.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
Now that's quite rare criticism of Donald Trump in the Russian state media. Normally he gets a pretty positive press here. And there's a warning at the end of the article that, quote, if the diplomats cannot move the peace process forward, the military will do the talking. Putin has made his move. Now we wait for Trump's.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
Now, the White House may well consider that with his latest comments critical of Moscow, Donald Trump has made his move and is waiting for Vladimir Putins next move.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
They certainly haven't broken down. I mean, another newspaper, as Vestia was reporting this morning, that the US and Russia are already holding discussions on economic cooperation in the area of rare metals, for example. Some American companies, according to this article, have already expressed interest in doing deals with the Russians.
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French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years
And we've got to be very cautious, because we've seen before that what Donald Trump says one day can change dramatically and diametrically the next. And that makes it, I think, difficult... Das war Steve Rosenberg in Moskau.
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Turkey protests: More than 1,000 people arrested in 5 days
I feel that he wants peace. The president had two very productive calls this week, or last week, I should say, one with President Zelensky, one with President Putin. I sat and listened to both of them. In both conversations, it was all about a lasting peace.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
I was sent a note on February 28th that said I was being suspended with pay while an investigation was to be carried out regarding my social media activity, which had come under some scrutiny. And there was a reference to an executive order that the president of the United States had signed a couple of weeks prior to that.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
And that executive order talked about loyalty of foreign service officers, which I technically am. under the U.S. Agency for Global Media to the president's policies, and those who were deemed not to be sufficiently loyal could be terminated.
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
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Trump and Putin to hold Ukraine peace talks on Tuesday
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First of all, this is a statement released on the Telegram channel of the presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic, purported to be Assad's first comment since he had to flee Syria just over a week ago. So the statement basically amounts to an attempt by Assad to justify his actions in those last few hours. and to deny that he abandoned Syria.
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So, for example, he claims that he remained in Damascus until the early hours of Sunday, the 8th of December, but then moved to the Russian airbase, the Khmeimim airbase in Latakia, to oversee combat operations. But it became clear, he says in the statement, that the last positions of the Syrian army had fallen. And then he claims that the Russian military base itself came under attack
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intensified attack by drone strikes. Interestingly Russia hasn't mentioned anything about that up till now. Anyway according to the statement Moscow then requested that the commanders of the base arranged an immediate evacuation to Russia on the evening of Sunday the 8th of December and he flew to Moscow.
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He adds in the statement that at no point during these events did I consider stepping down or seeking refuge and he adds that he hopes that Syria will once again be free and independent.
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Well, we had very little information from the Russians. But I remember going back to Sunday, the 8th of December, the Russians said that Assad had agreed to step down. Kremlin source said he had come to Moscow. There was no talk about the Russian airbase coming under attack. And actually, Russia had denied at the time taking part in negotiations before Assad's departure.
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So there are various things in this statement that have come out today which don't quite square with what Russia has said. Interestingly, Vladimir Putin has said absolutely nothing publicly about the fall of Assad or events in Syria. What we're now more than a week away.
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After those dramatic events, nothing from the Kremlin leader, even though earlier today, President Putin addressed a meeting of senior military leaders, which was shown live on television, an event I expected him to make some reference to Syria at. There was nothing at all. He spoke mostly about Russia's war in Ukraine, about the alleged threat from NATO, nothing at all about Syria.
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And there could be a couple of reasons for that. For one thing, what has happened in Syria is... a major embarrassment for the Kremlin when you consider that for nine years, the Russians poured resources into trying to make sure that Assad stayed in power. He was the Kremlin's main man. He was the closest ally for the Kremlin in the Middle East.
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But also, you know, some reports suggest that the Russians are in talks with the new Syrian leadership to try to retain their military bases, the two main Russian military bases in Syria.
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European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
The Arctic feels like a world away from the war in Ukraine, but this is a region with its own geopolitical undercurrents and Russian ambitions. At Russia's Arctic Forum, Vladimir Putin warned that geopolitical battles were intensifying. He referenced Donald Trump's plan to annex Greenland. But President Putin claimed that idea was not extravagant and had historical roots.
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European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
He said Russia would stay out of it. What's more, the Russians have an offer for America. In a region packed with natural resources, there are deals to be done. Kirill Dmitriev is President Putin's foreign investment envoy. He's already had meetings with US officials.
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European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
Before deals can be done, the war in Ukraine needs to end, and many people in the West accuse Russia of dragging its feet, of making no concessions or compromises, laying down conditions.
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European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
Moscow is confident it can woo Washington with promises of lucrative deals in the Arctic and across Russia. And that confidence is understandable, considering how senior US officials have been repeating Kremlin talking points about the war in Ukraine and about Europe. In the words of one Russian newspaper headline I saw recently, American and Russian officials are now speaking the same language.
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Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump
So far there's been no comment from Vladimir Putin about what happened in the White House. Then again, President Putin doesn't need to say anything, really, about what happened in the White House. Not right now. He can afford to allow events to play out. You remember Donald Trump a little bit earlier, he said that this is going to be great television.
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Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump
Well, you can just imagine the Kremlin leader sitting in front of the television set and enjoying the spectacle, the spectacle of his fiercest enemy. The leader of the country that Vladimir Putin invaded three years ago being so publicly rebuked by the President of the United States and the Vice President of the United States in front of the world's media. Quite astonishing.
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Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump
So no comment from Vladimir Putin, but we have heard comments from Dmitry Medvedev. He is the former Russian president who is now the deputy head of the Russian Security Council. And he wrote on social media that after what happened, he's calling on America to stop military assistance to Ukraine. Wouldn't the Russians just love that?
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Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump
A seismic shift, absolutely. I mean, just look at what's happened in the last two weeks or so, right? It began with that phone call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, I think on the 12th of February. America bringing the Kremlin leader back in from the cold. We've seen U.S.-Russian talks beginning at a high level.
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Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump
We saw the extraordinary events at the Munich Security Conference with that open schism between America and Europe. And now, after these dramatic events in the Oval Office, we see a breakdown in relations between the United States and Ukraine. All of this is good news for Vladimir Putin. The Russians are very confident now.
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Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump
that they are going to build a new relationship with America, a stronger relationship with the Trump administration, and that they are going to get everything that they want in this war against Ukraine.
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As ever in his speeches, in the comments he makes, he was upbeat in his assessment of Russia's progress in what he still calls the special military operation, Russia's war in Ukraine, saying that the Russian army was taking more and more territory in Ukraine and would soon achieve its preliminary targets. He did, however...
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suggest that he was open to compromise and suggest that he would be willing to meet President-elect Trump at any moment. But you have to ask the question, what is compromise in Vladimir Putin's mind? From everything he has said in recent months, compromise, I think he understands as a deal on Russia's terms, which equals the capitulation of Ukraine.
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Vladimir Putin has been talking about Russia having to keep what it calls new regions, land occupied by Russian troops. Also, he has talked about Western sanctions would have to be scrapped against Russia, and Ukraine would not be able to join NATO, which would add up to pretty much a capitulation by Kiev.
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Yes, he was asked about this. This is Igor Kirillov, who was assassinated this week. He spoke of him in very positive terms and said that this wasn't the first attack of its kind carried out by Ukraine. The main message, I think, from this marathon four and a half hour press conference slash phone-in was... was that, OK, there are some problems in the country, but I'm the man to solve them.
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As far as Syria goes, we heard his first comments on the dramatic events in Syria and the fall of Bashar al-Assad, which is a big blow to Vladimir Putin. Assad was Putin's key ally in the Middle East. But no, he turned that upside down and said this was not a defeat for Russia. So, as I say, the main message, I think, for the Russian people was things are sort of going OK.
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My overriding impression was that Vladimir Putin is someone who refuses to admit any mistakes. You know, the last three years, just look at what's happened. What was supposed to have been a very fast operation in Ukraine that would last days or weeks maximum went completely wrong for Moscow. We had then Putin being forced to declare partial mobilization.
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We saw a mutiny by Russian mercenaries who started marching on Moscow. And yet Vladimir Putin was able to get through all of that and now has the initiative on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine. And that, I think, adds to his sense of confidence, almost his feeling of invincibility.
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And I suppose if you've been in power as long as he has, for 25 years, as president mainly, sometimes as prime minister, then I suppose you do start to feel that you can do anything.
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NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
In Russia, rarely has one telephone call caused so much excitement. The day after the conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, Russian state TV praised America's new approach to Russia as a sharp turn and historic shift. The Kremlin's pleased, too. On a Kremlin conference call, I asked President Putin's spokesman for his assessment of the call.
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NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
It was a very important one, replied Dmitry Peskov. In recent years, he said, Moscow and Washington had had no high-level contacts. He accused the Biden administration of prolonging the war in Ukraine and praised Donald Trump for trying to end it. No mention of the fact that three years of war began with Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighbour.
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NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
To many Western leaders, Vladimir Putin is a pariah. To Donald Trump, he's a potential partner. The US president says he'll work with him to bring hostilities to an end. Thanks to President Trump, the Kremlin leader has already got one thing he wanted, the opportunity to negotiate on Ukraine directly with the United States. potentially cutting out Europe and even Ukraine itself.