Tom Bateman
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Well, the first thing to say is this was a very long call, possibly up to two and a half hours between Presidents Trump and Putin. The sort of tangible outcome is that Mr. Putin has agreed, as you say, to what appears to be an immediate cessation of what is basically long-range missile fire on the power grid in Ukraine. Now, that is not... inconsequential.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
That has been a significant part of his attacks on Ukraine since the full-scale invasion. However, what seems to have happened here is that President Trump has got agreement from now the Ukrainians and the Russians on two completely different ceasefires. So what he had agreed with the Ukrainians last week was an immediate full 30-day ceasefire.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
They said, quote, you know, the ball is now in Russia's court. He's had this call with Vladimir Putin and seems to have significantly retreated on that position. So the language from the White House in the statement they put out after the call makes no mention at all of a full 30-day ceasefire. And instead, you know, we have the clarification from Mr Putin on their statement on the call.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
that there is this agreement or that Mr Putin says he will stop missile strikes on energy infrastructure, although we don't yet know if the Ukrainians will also agree to that far, far lesser form of truce than they said they were ready for with the Americans.
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
Well, there certainly aren't any of the kind of concessions that you might have expected from Russia if there was to be a full 30-day ceasefire and if that was to start immediately. And so I think, you know, the Ukrainians will very much see this as...
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
vladimir putin playing for time while at the same time adding a string of conditions and trying to get mr trump to bend to that position now what we have seen in the statement from the kremlin is that the russian leader is saying that there is a key condition
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
to continue negotiations or to pick up further negotiations over ending the war and that is that there must be an end to all western military and intelligence support for ukraine now that of course is an absolutely existential issue for the ukrainians i think what's happened there is president putin has sort of got a taste for mr trump's readiness to potentially do that to cut off
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Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call
ammunition and arms supplies to the Ukrainians, because he did that a couple of weeks ago to leverage the Ukrainians. And so he's now making that a key condition of ending the war. In effect, to go forward with the negotiations, he said that he says that America has to stop arming Ukraine.
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Hier war die USA, der größte Einzelhändler und Armhändler der Ukraine, sitzend mit ihrem Freundeskrieg. Danach hat die US-Delegation, die von Mr. Rubio geführt wurde, die Diskussionen als aufgeregt beschrieben.
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Die Amerikaner sagten, dass sie vier Prinzipien mit den Russen verabschiedeten, die Gespräche zwischen den Delegationen, die breiteren diplomatischen Verbindungen, die Teams ermöglichen, auf einem Weg zu arbeiten, um den Krieg in der Ukraine zu beenden, and then what the US called historic economic and investment opportunities with Russia. But what of any concessions being demanded of Moscow?
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Mr Rubio wouldn't set any out to reporters after the meeting, saying only that it would be a matter for future talks. Mr Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, made clear European peacekeeping forces were out of the question.
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Pressed on why the US wasn't laying down conditions for Moscow in order to agree a durable peace, Mr Rubio said the two sides would only agree to ending the war on terms they were each happy with. But today's events have so far done little to allay the biggest fears in Ukraine, of being forced to accept and enter the war on Russia's terms, with the peace being carved up.
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Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
Ich weiß nicht, was ich zu denken habe.
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
Well, I think there's two very striking points about the joint statement that has been released by the Americans and the Ukrainians. The first is that the U.S. is going to, it says, immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume its security assistance to Ukraine.
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
and then we have this line about a ceasefire now i need to give you the context first because it's this is why it's so important what we had been led to expect in the run-up to this was that there would be discussions around a ukrainian proposal for a partial early ceasefire which would involve a halt on the firing of long-range missiles onto energy and other critical infrastructure
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
and also a ceasefire at sea. But what the statement talks about is something far broader. It talks about basically a complete ceasefire. So it says Ukraine expressed its readiness to accept a U.S. proposal to enact an immediate interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties. So what they're talking about here is a complete stop to the war.
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
But of course, you've only got one side here. It would have to be agreed by the Russians. So this leads to the next step, which is it's reported Steve Witkoff, Mr. Trump's envoy, is going to travel to Moscow this week. They're going to put all of this to the Russians and see if they can get them on board with this process. One other important detail in the statement is about Ukrainian gratitude.
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
Remember that key moment in the Oval Office statement? where J.D. Vance sat across the room from Vladimir Zelensky and said, you haven't said thank you, say thank you. Now, of course, Mr. Zelensky said thank you dozens of times to the Americans and to the American government and the White House over its support and assistance in Ukraine.
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
But that became really a symbol of how this relationship had fundamentally fractured, of his dressing down by the Trump administration and the White House. And now we have a line... very clearly stating the Ukrainian delegation reiterated the Ukrainian people's strong gratitude to President Trump, the U.S.
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
Congress and the people of the United States for making possible meaningful progress towards peace. You know, we've been expecting these talks to wrap up much sooner. There were moments where we thought they might finish and we were expecting the statement that they lasted a lot longer.
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Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire
I think given the atmosphere that there has been over the last two weeks, that was, you know, seen as a positive sign. And now we do have this very clear joint statement.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
We learned basically that he is fundamentally doubling down on the two things that he has been saying recently.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
First of all, and he was asked extensively about his plan to clean out the Gaza Strip, as he's put it, to empty it of Palestinians, a plan which appears to involve the forcible relocation of some two million people and for the US to become the occupying power of Gaza and to turn it into a Mediterranean resort. He talked about building hotels there, said it would look...
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
And the second was about this noon Saturday deadline that he first revealed on Monday, in which he says that if Hamas doesn't release all of the remaining hostages, that there would be, in his words, hell to pay. The phrase he used today, that all bets would be off if that doesn't take place. So...
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
Sitting next to King Abdullah of Jordan, one of the countries he has said that he expects to take relocated Palestinians, as he puts it in his language, and the Jordanians obviously adamantly opposed this plan, but we didn't hear that kind of opposition, certainly not being voiced publicly in front of the press in the Oval Office.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
Well, I think united he means Arab nations. And what appears to be happening, at least my sense is, that Egypt at the moment is working on an alternative proposal to President Trump's plans. Now, this would involve potentially something like a sort of technocratic administration or governance of Gaza, not drawn from political factions. So that obviously keeps Hamas engaged.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
out of the mix, not clear how they would involve security forces is an absolutely key question. But this is basically, I think, the Arab countries, led at the moment by Egypt, scrambling to come up with an alternative to Mr Trump's plan basically for the US to take possession of the Gaza Strip and to clear out its population.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
Now, what we heard from King Abdullah is that there was an Egyptian proposal kind of in the works that they were going to meet in Riyadh under the sponsorship of the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and formulate this proposition, which they would then discuss with the Americans. So I think that's where the Arab countries are at.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
But this feels like a very sort of quick and putting together at the last minute to desperately try and counter out what Mr. Trump is proposing.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
We just saw a sign there saying they're going to come and clear all of this.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
Along the roadside are America's left behind. Tens of thousands of homeless people are facing a brutal winter on the US East Coast.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
John Sebastian, living in a tiny one-man tent, scrapes by, spending the freezing nights at the shelter, and comes back to guard his spot here during the day. Can you show us your place? Sure. And so you've got inside just a bit to eat and a bit of food, something to drink.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
One of the tents, there's a gas canister outside and one of the burners you get outside restaurants where someone's been obviously using that to try and keep warm. But what there is also here is a sign saying, telling them that they have just around a week left here before these tents are going to be removed and cleared by the city authorities and they'll all be moved on once again.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
Sariya Knight, an aid worker, comes to help. Homelessness in the US hit record levels last year, with hundreds of thousands rough sleeping in American cities. At the complex intersection of factors driving it, soaring rents and the post-pandemic economy... Come out.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
Can we chat to you quickly? G lost his job as a mason's apprentice and has been sleeping rough for two years. What's it like with this snow and cold?
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
We just saw a sign there saying they're going to come and clear all of this.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
So where are you going to go next? Not even sure. Well, I'm standing now next to an expressway. But next to this road, as cars zoom past here, are around another 20 or so tents. One of them looks virtually buried in snow. And you get the sense here that because of the way people are constantly being moved on, that this is a last refuge, a last place that rough sleepers can come.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
Where they won't get moved on again is on the embankment next to the highway. As people have shifted around this city, the soup kitchens mean warmth and continuity and some sanctuary. In this one, hunkering over an empty cup, I meet Angie. She's fled her home state, a survivor of domestic violence, and come to Washington, now facing her first winter on the streets.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
And how long have you been without somewhere to live in D.C. ?
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
There seem to be so many people, it seems to be a problem that's growing.
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Los Angeles wildfires force thousands from their homes
Back out in the ice, we say goodbye to Angie. Her wheelie case and bags are packed and are being dragged along in the slush and snow. She's on the move again in the shadow of the US Capitol building. Fighting the cold is still a daily struggle for many in the world's wealthiest country.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
It's not just the scale of the find, which is unprecedented, but it's the range of materials. So there are actually two deposits, but the largest of the deposit is a mound of vehicle parts, so from chariots and actually also possibly wagons, so 28 iron tyres from the wheels of chariots and wagons.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
A huge amount of horse harness, which is beautifully decorated with coral, with glass inlay, also two vessels, one a cauldron, a wine mixing bowl. So there's an exceptional quality of material that's there, which really tells us about the wealth of the people at that time in North Yorkshire and those who buried it.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
We're really excited by the fact that we've got these four-wheeled wagons, which most people are probably more familiar with the two-wheeled chariots from the Iron Age, but the fact that these four-wheeled vehicles, which are clearly highly decorated with bronze metalwork and other decoration, are not known from Britain, although we do have parallels on the continent.
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Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
So this is really kind of intriguing for us as to why we got them in Yorkshire.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
I think it was an attempt really at a victory lap, a valedictory pronouncement on his four years of foreign policy. But of course, coming against the backdrop that he's in a position he never wanted to be, which is he took over from Donald Trump, thinking of himself as the man both domestically and in terms of its impact on foreign policy that could ensure there would never be another election.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
Trump presidency, and yet here he is acting as effectively the bridge between two Trump terms in the White House. So attempting, I think, to shore up his legacy when it comes to foreign policy, a lot of the focus on that was about support for Ukraine and about policy as they see it of successfully managing competition with China.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
So, you know, a standing ovation among his VIP diplomats and staff here in the very sort of august Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room here in the State Department. Many outside the room, I think, might take a more critical appraisal of his impact. But that was how he wanted to set it out in front of his staff, attempting to define his legacy.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
Yeah. And it was I mean, I think that was one of the areas where his critics might say it felt like he was in the strongest form of denial because he very much portrayed that as a as a success in terms of the withdrawal, not necessarily the operation itself. But he was saying, you know, he was the first American president to hand over.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
to another one in quite some time without American troops still fighting in Afghanistan. But of course, that has been something that his opponents have used as a political stick to beat him with repeatedly about what they have seen as the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. So I think that was perhaps pushing against what many of his opponents would see as the situation there.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
but also more broadly talking about the way that he said the U.S. had rebuilt alliances from the first Trump presidency. And that, he said, was very much a success story, albeit that they had these crises and emergencies that they didn't foresee.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
The big underlying message was that they believe that President Trump's legacy from his first term was to lose the US's friends in the world, to attack their allies and not to keep hold of those multilateral alliances. So I think the big message was that they feel that they have rebuilt them The other one, he said on two points, artificial intelligence and climate change.
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Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
He thought these were the sort of, you know, fundamentals that had to be addressed and protected in order for there not to be, as he put it, an existential threat to humanity and urging the next administration to adopt similar policies as his, basically, when it comes to those areas.
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
On the way in, the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, swept through the lobby of the hotel here on the way to the meeting room along with his delegation. I asked him what his expectations were for the meeting. He gave a thumbs up and said, good. That gives a sense, I think, of how upbeat the Americans have appeared in the run-up to all of this.
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
They're framing this very much as an opportunity, as they see it, to see if the Ukrainians are committed to what President Trump wants. And that is, of course, a quick truce with the Russians. And remember, it is less than a fortnight since that Oval Office meeting where Mr. Zelensky was kicked out, basically told that he was disrespectful and ungrateful.
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
And we then saw that profound deterioration and acrimony with the Americans suspending military and intelligence, some intelligence-sharing support with the Ukrainians. Now, I also asked a top aide to Mr. Zelensky on his way into this meeting, Andrei Yakov, about their expectations.
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
Now, he said that they wanted this to be very constructive, that they were very open towards peace, tried to press him a bit. on things like concessions and whether they were still asking for a US security guarantee. He said, yes, of course they were, but this was much more about finding a path to an immediate ceasefire.
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Pakistan militants attack train in Balochistan
So I think the sense here is that we could be looking at a kind of rapprochement here, what the Americans, I think, would see as some kind of a reprieve for Mr Zelensky, and that could, in the end, see that intelligence and military support being reinstated. But we'll have to see for the outcome of the meeting.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
Last year's Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupation ignited a global movement. This new documentary charts how the protest escalated. A key character in the film is Mahmoud Khalil, a student activist and a lead negotiator with the university administration at the time. Early this month he was taken by federal agents from his New York home. Now in custody, he faces deportation.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
To his supporters he is seen as a target of President Trump's crackdown on students who protested against the war in Gaza. The president maintains that his administration will not tolerate students who engage in what he describes as pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
The creators of this new documentary tell a different story of how they see student activities on college campuses. Rap artist Macklemore was an executive producer of the film.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
Ich bin New Yorkerin, also war es interessant für mich, weil ich in Kolumbien war, während es ging, und dann würde ich auf die TV schalten.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
But peaceful isn't the conclusion that a Columbia University Task Force came to. Last year it found some Jewish and Israeli students on campus were the targets of abuse. The encampments, like other films focusing on the plight of Palestinians, may find it faces big challenges in the US.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
Another documentary, Noah the Land, which details the Israeli military's efforts to forcibly displace Palestinian villagers in the occupied West Bank, won an Oscar earlier this month. It was made by an Israeli-Palestinian collective. Around the world the film has received strong reviews, but struggled to get a proper distribution deal.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
Earlier this month the mayor of Miami Beach, Stephen Miner, moved to cut public funding to a local cinema showing the film, in effect banning it.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
The mayor had second thoughts and later decided not to revoke public funding to the cinema. But the fact remains, the filmmaking community in general is fearful of what will happen to freedom of expression in this new Trump era. New York-based film director Ira Sachs.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
Manche in der Filmindustrie sagen, dass eine Form von resistentem Film in der Trump-Ära entstehen könnte und dass The Encampments Teil davon ist. Kay Pritzker hat The Encampments-Dokumentar gedreht und er hofft, dass andere Filmmacher inspiriert werden.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
In these polarized times and with tensions over the Middle East remaining high, the challenge films like The Encampments face is reaching beyond its expected audience. Opinion on the Israel-Gaza war is so entrenched that for the most part The Encampments may end up just preaching to the converted.
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Putin visits Kursk after Russian advances - Kremlin
Clearly, this is not an outcome we had hoped for. It's one which runs counter to prevailing industrial sentiments in Europe. Sentiments which have been with Norfolk since it was founded. These sentiments include the drive for European battery sovereignty and aspirations to deliver sustainable solutions to support the energy transition.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
Good Night and Good Luck, the movie, was released 20 years ago. It earned six Oscar nominations. Directed and co-written by George Clooney, it starred David Strathairn as the celebrated 1950s US broadcaster and newsman Edward R. Murrow. Good evening. Good evening. Now, Good Night and Good Luck has been transformed into a big Broadway play, ushered in with a splashy opening.
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In the new production, George Clooney plays Murrow. It shows how despite considerable political and corporate pressure not to do so, the celebrated broadcast journalist went up against Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy at the height of the anti-communist witch hunts in the US in the 1950s. Murrow ultimately prevailed.
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The play is a celebration of him and the fearless, vigorous independent journalism he pursued.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
George Clooney's enthusiasm for the play was evident at a pre-opening press conference attended by camera crews and journalists.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
Edward R. Murrow set the standard for American television news journalism in its so-called golden age. At a time when President Trump routinely derides traditional news media as fake news, this play can be seen as taking a stand in favor of objective, fair, balanced, verifiable journalism.
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It also presents audiences with the tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had little respect for due process. It's a period piece that resonates in today's America. Tim Tiemann is senior editor and writer at The Daily Beast.
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Inevitably, comparisons are being made between this Broadway production of Good Night and Good Luck and the original 2005 film. That picture is seen by many people as a great black and white classic. It had excellent cinematography, really strong acting and compelling content. And some people say this Broadway production can't quite match the magic of that.
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While George Clooney has been praised for his portrayal on stage, there has been criticism that some of the other characters are underdeveloped. Clooney's ideological foes may dismiss this play as theatre, which liberals can come to and have their biases confirmed.
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But many of the stars who came to the opening night support him in the belief of having independent journalism for the people, among them actor Pierce Brosnan.
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China says it won't bow to pressure from Trump tariffs
For George Clooney, this new play can be viewed as a career triumph. He was last on stage 40 years ago. Now, at the age of 63, he's made his Broadway debut and succeeded, emerging as a credible leading man on stage. It's a significant milestone.
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
There's been a series of meetings, actually, as Benjamin Netanyahu has been with senior White House officials, including Mike Waltz, the national security adviser. We've also had the press briefing here in the White House. I was sitting inside as Caroline Levitt updated the press on
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
The details of Mr Trump's plan, although I have to say we didn't really learn anything new, but one of the striking things was, astride her she had two big screens where she repeatedly displayed images of the destruction, widespread destruction inside Gaza.
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
Now there will be a very specific irony there felt by Palestinians and rights groups who have repeatedly used such images to show that in their view the destruction by Israel was in breach of international law has gone way beyond its military objectives. And this, of course, is being carried out using American munitions in the vast majority of cases.
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
Now, those images are being used by the Americans themselves as part of a sort of justification for why they say or Mr. Trump says Palestinians should leave Gaza. And, you know, he will rebuild it, as he says, for people of the world, as he puts it, over a period of 15 years. So one of the issues that came up, and I pressed Caroline Levitt.
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
This question was asked repeatedly, particularly by the American journalists in the room, because Donald Trump was asked that question and said that basically he was not ruling anything out, that they would do whatever was necessary in terms of the use of US forces to take over Gaza, as he put it. Now, the reason that is...
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
such a an important issue is because remember donald trump campaigned to become president on a promise of ending so-called forever wars foreign entanglements an america first foreign policy now caroline levitt said that you know nothing was ruled out sort of echoing president trump's words, but that they're not committing to the use of American forces.
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
And one of the reasons for that is even some Republican allies of Mr. Trump on Capitol Hill have questioned the plan, even criticized it because of that very element. They don't want to see American boots on the ground. So that in itself causing problems for Mr. Trump with his own party when it comes to his Gaza plan.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
First of all, I'm calling upon the junta to just stop, stop any of its military operations. This is completely outrageous and unacceptable. Many countries that are coming forward, China, ASEAN in the region, the European Union has stepped forward, Japan, Korea, that's the good news.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
But obviously, if you've got bombs being dropped from the sky while you're trying to rescue people, it's just nothing short of just...
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
Es ist ein riesiges Problem. Ich meine, ich bin auf der Grenze gefahren. Ich habe mit Menschen gesprochen, Physikern, Ärzten. Medical operations that have had to shut down. And it's not just the fact that they've had significant losses of funding from USAID, but it's just the way it's being done. It's just chaotic. They hear one day that things are being shut down.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
The next day that they hear there's going to be, well, you can continue the most urgent operations. 48 hours later, they get another call saying, no, no, all of those are good stuff. Right smack dab in the middle of that, of course, ist dieser Earthquake. Und es ist also eine Katastrophe auf dem Topf eines Desasteres. Und erinnere dich, du hast halb das Land in Poverty, in dem Land.
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Myanmar earthquake deaths surpass 1600
Du hast 20 Millionen Menschen, mehr als ein Drittel des Landes, in Bedürfnis von humanitären Bedürfnissen, vor dem Earthquake. 3,5 Millionen Menschen wurden vor dem Ursprung intern verletzt. Und die Bedingungen, in denen sie leben, sind am besten spät. Also haben Sie ein großes Problem, auch vor dem Ursprung. Jetzt haben Sie einen unglaublichen Desaster.
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
Well, I thought it was particularly striking that after what was a more than three hour long discussion between Mr Netanyahu and Marco Rubio, the language the Israeli prime minister used absolutely echoed that of Donald Trump. He talks about the gates of hell opening if Hamas didn't release all of the hostages.
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
Now, this has been a line almost word for word that Mr. Trump has used when he gave that very dramatic ultimatum earlier in the last week. If all the hostages weren't released and he gave a noon Saturday deadline, then there would be hell to pay or all hell would break loose. He said now that obviously didn't happen. All the hostages weren't released.
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
It was the process, the current ceasefire hostage release process that was ultimately stuck to Mr. Trump effectively took that as a negotiating win. that he believed he had got the process back on track after Hamas, in his view, threatened to derail it. But we're now seeing this very, very strong rhetoric from both the Israeli leader and the American president. So the question then is...
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
is raised. Is this a change of tack from the Israelis and the Americans to try to effectively redraw the current phased ceasefire and hostage release process? Or is this simply rhetoric to sort of dial up the pressure on Hamas?
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
And I think we have to wait to see what comes out of what you just mentioned, Mr Netanyahu saying that, you know, he's engaging in talks around the first phase of the process itself now, and whether they will really stick to the desire to move forward to a second phase.
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
Well, what we have seen over the last week, particularly with a visit by King Abdullah of Jordan to Washington, is I think the Arab nation scrambling to try to come up with their own version of a plan for the future of Gaza. And that is because, as you say, Donald Trump has said that he wants the U.S. to take possession of Gaza after its Palestinian population has been emptied from the Gaza Strip.
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
and given no right to return. I mean, a move that would clearly breach international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention. And I think the Arab nations are now... who receive significant amounts of money, Jordan and Egypt, in terms of financial and military aid from the Americans...
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
scrambling really to come up with their own version of a plan for the future of Gaza to present as an alternative to Mr. Trump's plan. And we have heard Marco Rubio say that his justification for Mr. Trump's plan is it puts the onus on Arab countries to come up with their version to effectively pay and to even provide security forces to establish a future for Gaza.
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
But what all of this does is really create a vacuum of any strategic strategy future for Gaza that is both viable and internationally accepted. And I think that is why, you know, the current ceasefire and hostage release process in terms of its end goal is in quite serious jeopardy now.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
This story of Annie, a sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, a bittersweet tale of doomed romance, really highlights the New York Russian-speaking community of Brighton Beach, which lies 15 miles from Manhattan on the Atlantic Ocean. The film includes images of the Cyclone, the iconic roller coaster nearby Coney Island.
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There's also a memorable scene in a local Russian restaurant on the ocean boardwalk. And it features a huge multi-million dollar mansion where much of the film's action takes place. Ross Grodar was Onora's location manager. He found many of the places where the film was shot.
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Onora is directed by Sean Baker, who grew up in nearby New Jersey. He is a very strong contender to win the Best Director trophy at the Oscars. Critics have praised him for the distinct style of his film. It has a great sense of place. He told me he credits location manager Ross Broda with making that possible.
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Onora has many Russian-speaking characters, so Brighton Beach, with its large Russian-speaking community, worked perfectly as a location. Sean Baker had long been wanting to set a film in this New York neighborhood.
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With Ross Broder, I went to visit Tatyana, the Russian restaurant used in the picture.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Over a beef stroganoff lunch, we looked at sequences from Nora shot at locations that Ross had found.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
He then showed me a scene that meant a lot to him.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
In the film, he has a small part betraying a security guard.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Ross told me it meant a lot to work as part of the cast, albeit in a modest role.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Anora has certainly brought images of New York's Brighton Beach community to an international audience, and people who live there are, for the most part, pleased that the film was shot in the neighbourhood. It's definitely given Brighton Beach some film tourism. On the boardwalk, I came across Russian-born Alina Hughes in California. She'd just arrived in New York. First stop was Brighton Beach.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
If Onora, as oddsmakers predict, does take home some Oscar trophies, it will bring the film to an even wider global audience, adding to the momentum that is making Ross Broder's Brighton Beach locations a growing destination for film tourists from around the world.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
We are thrilled, we are so happy, we are crying all day because Keith is a close friend of mine and he came back after a long, long time. We want all the 79 hostages that left there to come and return home.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
What's up, Stick Nation in Angat, Philippines. Hello, Stick Nation. I'm Max from Belgium. All right, Stick Nation, we are at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. It is a magical sword with healing properties.
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Protesters in Panama City burned effigies of Donald Trump and Marco Rubio. Elsewhere, riot police moved in on a crowd, firing tear gas and wrestling demonstrators away.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
The clashes in the run-up to Mr Rubio's visit were small-scale, some led by a well-known union leader, but the resistance to Mr Trump's sudden policy pronouncements for Panama is broad, including from its conservative president, José Raúl Molino. For weeks now, including at his inauguration, President Trump has said he wants America to take back the Panama Canal.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
He said it was being run by China and falsely claimed Chinese soldiers were operating it and that American ships were unfairly charged more than others. The waterway is in fact owned and operated by the Panamanian government under a neutrality treaty signed with the US decades ago. However, Chinese companies have invested heavily in ports and terminals near the canal.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
The visit by Mr Rubio, the first Hispanic Secretary of State and a China hawk, is meant to signal a growing intolerance to countries soaking up Chinese investment in what the US sees as its own backyard.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
But the muscular approach of President Trump, who when asked by reporters even refused to rule out military action to get the canal back, has aroused strongly patriotic sentiment in this small strategic nation. US officials say Mr Rubio's visit is meant to help reinstate a golden age of the Americas by building economic cooperation and tackling migration. Tom Bateman.
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Erdogan condemns Turkey protests as dozens arrested
If flights have resumed, and they have, in a very small amount of cases, there aren't many of them. A plane is just taking off in front of me, but I've been here for about an hour. I haven't seen anything really take off or land until the one that you can probably hear in the distance taking off. So this is very, very unusual for Heathrow, usually a flight every 45 seconds.
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Erdogan condemns Turkey protests as dozens arrested
There may be knock-on effects, but actually the airport says that by closing today, it hopes to get everything running again. And I think apart from one or two, or perhaps a handful of flights that have been cancelled, that is what is being promised. Passengers are being told, turn up as normal, you don't have to get here early, you should be able to fly.
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Erdogan condemns Turkey protests as dozens arrested
Well, the first thing to say is that the police have said this evening that there's no sign of foul play, any kind of sabotage here so far. That's their investigation. They haven't got evidence of that. But you're right. Questions are being asked about the resilience of Heathrow. I got a chance to grill the chief executive of the company, Thomas Walby, earlier about exactly this.
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Erdogan condemns Turkey protests as dozens arrested
He told me that actually Heathrow has three electricity substations. and a biomass generator, which can also add to the power supply. Now, what happened was the fire affected one of the substations and its backup. Each of the three has its own backup, as well as being, if you like, three power stations to power the airport.
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Erdogan condemns Turkey protests as dozens arrested
Now, the two that remained after the fire could have powered the whole of Heathrow, but they needed to be switched into the system, and that meant... shutting them down, restarting them and then restarting all the systems in the airport and checking they're safe.
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Erdogan condemns Turkey protests as dozens arrested
And we're talking about things like aircraft refuelling systems, we're talking about air bridges, escalators and obviously all the lighting and power supplies in the terminals. And that takes a long time, the airport said. They felt they had got the airport back and running as quickly as they possibly could and they were not unhappy with the response.
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Erdogan condemns Turkey protests as dozens arrested
IATA, the International Airline Association, is not happy. It says there are many questions to be answered here. And also the British government is saying it would like to take a look at what happened too.
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Is Putin serious about a ceasefire in Ukraine?
We've got a variety of sensors on this car. Cameras, and we've got laser guidance systems, and we've got a radar as well. And all of this helps to support the self-driving technology that we're trying to deliver in this car. It's effectively the eyes and ears of the car to allow you to drive.
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Is Putin serious about a ceasefire in Ukraine?
You have on the one hand the demand or the call for an immediate ceasefire. That's what the joint Ukrainian and United States statement says. And then of course we had the statements from Vladimir Putin yesterday which appeared to add a
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Is Putin serious about a ceasefire in Ukraine?
And that has led to some, particularly Europeans, as you were hearing there, suggesting that this is a tactic to sort of string the Americans along or play for time. So I pressed Mr Rubio on that very point.
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Is Putin serious about a ceasefire in Ukraine?
And as you heard him say there, that basically they believe that, first of all, that this process shouldn't be dictated by what is being said in public, but rather the contact, the private contact between the Kremlin and the Americans, which, of course, we had in the form of President Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, traveling to Moscow last night and talking to Vladimir Putin.
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Is Putin serious about a ceasefire in Ukraine?
So there was a sense that they want to kind of study exactly what the Russian president is saying to them before they work out what the response might be. But there you have you do have a sense of sort of inconsistency, because at the same time. The idea is that this should be a fast truce. That's what President Trump has repeatedly characterized this.
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Is Putin serious about a ceasefire in Ukraine?
But at the same time, you heard there from Mr. Rubio, it's going to take some time to establish what the Russians are talking about. You know, I think what they say when they're pressed about this is at least the discussions are about peace. And you heard him say there after the meeting. three years of war.
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Is Putin serious about a ceasefire in Ukraine?
The fear, of course, from some in Europe is what all of this process is doing is basically rewarding the invading power. And that has carries the risk of emboldening Vladimir Putin as he occupies a fifth of Ukraine territory.
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Is Putin serious about a ceasefire in Ukraine?
Well, there were some quite sharp divisions between the Europeans and the Americans. That is because, I mean, Mr Rubio had said he didn't want to see antagonistic language, as he put it, in the joint statement. just at a time when they were trying to draw the Russians to the negotiating table.
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Is Putin serious about a ceasefire in Ukraine?
Now, it is notable that, for example, the G7 foreign minister's statement from their meeting of late last year contained paragraph upon paragraph of condemnation. of Russia, that was all gone. There was no explicit condemnation of the Russians in this statement. What there was, though, was a sense of strong backing for Ukraine.
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Is Putin serious about a ceasefire in Ukraine?
This statement talks about the support for Ukraine's sovereignty, its territorial integrity and its independence. And so, you know, I think that that is a win for the Europeans that they've got that sentiment in the statement. And certainly that's the part of it that they're talking about most.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
If we wanted to make a war film or a film that glorifies combat, we would have been blowing people away from the beginning to the end. It's a film about character, and essentially the end big battle, the adversary is faceless, nameless. The opponent is symbolic of the character and his conflict.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
So here we have Bybit, the exchange, and this represents the theft of funds.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
And so we're seeing the funds... split up and sent out and layered.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
It is, yes. And what they're really trying to do here is confuse the money trail, make it more difficult or to slow down the tracing of these funds, because every minute really matters here. Out of all the illicit actors involved in cryptocurrency, North Korea really are the best at laundering crypto.
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Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump
This thing has completely fallen to pieces. I've just watched President Zelensky leave the Portico entrance of the West Wing. There was no wave goodbye from President Trump after everything that had happened.
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Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump
Instead, President Trump was posting on Truth Social to say that Mr. Zelensky had disrespected the cherished Oval Office, that he said he wasn't ready for peace and that he should come back when he was ready.
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Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump
Extraordinary turn of events on a day in which Mr. Zelensky came here, I think, at a critical juncture, politically, diplomatically, everything weighing on this moment, that he was going to come here, yes, to sign the minerals deal, which now appears to be dead in the water, has not been signed here, but more crucially, he needed to try to leave with some sort of assurance from the United States president that there would be a security guarantee.
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Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump
for Ukraine in the event of Russia breaching any future ceasefire. Now, clearly, he doesn't have that. And instead, what we have is an extraordinary historic moment where the rupture between the United States and not just Ukraine, but the entirety of Europe is now at an extraordinary level and has been played out in this unprecedented moment in front of the world's media and the Oval Office.
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Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump
In terms of the critical minerals that Donald Trump wants American hands on, that deal is, of course, dependent on the wider issue of whether or not Mr Zelensky is prepared to do this ceasefire deal with Donald Trump. Now, that is the card that he does actually hold. That's what Donald Trump was... effectively saying is that he doesn't hold cards, but he does hold that over the US president.
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Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump
The gamble for him, of course, is the existential future of his country if he doesn't cede to that demand. So the stakes have been raised even further. But, you know, in this moment of complete breakdown of relations here, it's very hard to see how it gets built back up any time soon.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
I was just at a big event in Paris with lots of other journalists, lots of other big gaming fans to talk about this console and In amongst the chat of everyone holding these consoles and playing it for the first time and feeling really excited, there were a lot of conversations, I think even bordering on doom and gloom, from people talking about the prices as they were announced.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
This is a very expensive console in the current climate. In the United States, it's going to cost $450 for a Switch 2. Now, to put that in some context for you, you can buy a PlayStation 5 for $400, and then you get down to the cost of the games. Nintendo is suggesting people pay as much as $80 for a physical copy of Mario Kart World.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
Now, $80 for a video game, even if you're not a keen gamer yourself, but your child might be perhaps, are you thinking you would spend that to put a present under the Christmas tree? It just seems like a lot of money to me, and it's definitely going to dampen spirits considerably. Clearly, this is a result of the tariffs.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
That's why these prices have come out just now and at the price point they are. We know for a fact that the tariffs on Japan, where these games are manufactured, are going to be quite significant. So that's having an impact here. But my goodness gracious me, there's no question that the shine and the excitement of this console is being impacted.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
Nintendo has experienced this in the past when it released the 3DS, which was the sequel console to the DS. Nintendo released the 3DS at a very high price point, and it found out very quickly that people weren't willing to pay it. Nintendo simply had to bite the bullet, drop the price significantly, and even apologise to consumers and offered them free games by way of making it up.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
Yes. As time goes on, video games get more expensive. And we keep seeing year on year that number just getting pushed a little bit more. How high can we go? I think that there is definitely a price point where people are going to say, actually, that's just too much money for me. And of course, you would rather sell two games at $60 than one game at $80.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
There is absolutely no question that this is a heck of a piece of technology. When I was there holding it in my hands, the first thing I thought was, wow, it's like the original console, but the screen is larger, the screen is much more vivid, the colours are more vibrant, the graphics, what it's capable of under the hood is far superior to what previous Nintendo consoles have been able to manage.
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Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020
It feels comfortable, it feels like an expensive piece of technology, which it is. Tom Gherkin.
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We already had a diplomatic standoff here between the US and the Panamanian government, and after that two-hour meeting between Mr Rubio and Mr Molino, it only seems to have escalated. A statement that was put out by the State Department directly after or shortly after the meeting, not mincing its words, and we've had Mr Rubio now saying that... The U.S.
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believes that Panama is allowing China's influence and control over the canal and basically says if they don't take immediate measures to change that, that the U.S. will take necessary measures, as they put it, to protect their rights. in a treaty that was signed decades ago between the U.S. and Panama, which basically says control of the Panama Canal by the Panamanians has to remain neutral.
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So language, I think, that will be seen by most Panamanians as being threatening from the U.S. here and really deepening this diplomatic standoff, as I say, between these two countries.
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He's made some concessions over the months, really ever since Donald Trump was elected in November, and it became clear that this may become a point of tension. We've seen the Panamanians start to ease off some of the contracts, or at least the proposed investments that they had from Chinese firms in some infrastructure here in Panama.
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But the bigger issue about what the US alleges is Chinese control over the canal, which the Panamanians completely reject. They say this is a complete misinterpretation of the fact that a Hong Kong-based company has a majority control of two of the five ports close to the canal. They say that the US is basically turning this into an issue, which they say it is not.
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The American position is that Beijing could sort of close the canal in the event of a trade war.