hello, i'm carl nasman. america's top diplomat, marco rubio, is set to meet with russian officials this coming week in saudi arabia for talks on ending the war in ukraine. the us secretary of state spoke to his russian counterpart

sergei lavrov on saturday re—affirming president trump's commitment to finding an end to the conflict. the trump administration is suggesting the upcoming talks could involve some russian territorial concessions, but it also seemed to rule out ukrainejoining nato. it also looks like europe may no longer be invited to the table, according to the us special envoy for ukraine and russia. speaking at the munich security conference on saturday, keith kellogg said previous peace efforts had failed because too many parties were involved — suggesting that only the us, russia and ukraine should be part of negotiations. take a listen. my definition of "at the table," when you're actually sitting down there. you don't — to me, it doesn't mean their interests are not taken part of, they are not considered, they are not used, they are not developed. that means at the table — you have an ability to have input. but when you have those three — well, really, two — engaged partners with — you have russia and you have

ukraine fighting right now — and president trump coming in as differently, to basically be — for lack of a better term — and we only uses it in the english language — going to — to think that he's going to do this alone is wrong. he never said that. it's all a definition of terms. at that same conference on saturday, ukraine's president called for europe to establish its own army, instead of relying on the us for military support. meanwhile, france is arranging an emergency summit of european leaders next week to discuss ukraine. britain's prime minister is expected to attend that gathering, saying on saturday that the uk faces "once in generation moment" in regards to its national security. in a statement sir keir starmer said: the uk will work to ensure we keep the us and europe together. we cannot allow any divisions in the alliance to distract

from the external enemies we face." sir keir is expected to continue this discussion with us president donald trump when he visits the white house in the coming weeks. for more on the situation, our security correspondent, frank gardner sent this report from munich. tight security as western and other world leaders arrived for the second day of this crucial conference. it could help decide europe's future for years to come. this is the ukrainian delegation arriving here at the munich security conference behind me with president zelensky making a strong appeal for a lasting and secure peace for his country that doesn't give away too many concessions to president putin and doesn't allow him to come back in two years�* time and conquer the rest of the country, because that is the fear here in europe and amongst the ukrainian delegation. volodymyr zelensky is a man in a hurry. the clock is ticking towards a us—brokered peace deal that the ukrainian president fears will simply reward the russian

leaderfor his invasion. putin will try to get the us president standing but as a prop in his own performance. applause. we don't need that. we need real success. we need real peace. and for that, he argued, europe needed its own army. i really — i really believe the time has come the armed forces of europe must be created. we must build the armed forces of europe so that europe's future depends only on europeans. but europe's military muscle, like these troops in estonia, lies with nato. everyone here agrees that europe needs to spend more on defence. but, no, says the eu's top diplomat, not a new army. we don't need a separate alternative to nato. we have nato.

we have the armed forces, 27 countries — 2a of them also in nato. new nato member finland has a long land border with russia. here, too, the foreign minister is opposed to a new european army. of course. what we've tried to emphasise is that we need a credible plan to keep russia at bay going forward — notjust in ukraine, but also elsewhere. ..to come to a close. here in munich, the ukrainian president did spend time meeting the us vice presidentjd vance. so now, there are talks about peace talks, but that's still a long way from a deal that's acceptable to both ukraine and to its russian invaders. frank gardner, bbc news, munich. meanwhile, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky said he blocked a draft minerals deal with the us because it the proposed deal would have granted the us access to vast amounts

of ukraine's rare earth on the sidelines of the munich security conference, mr zelensky said he didn't think the deal was good enough to serve his country's interests. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet has analysis. i have to say that ever since i arrived here in munich, everyone has been saying that the mood here is the darkest, the gloomiest in the entire history of this 61—year—old munich security conference and in that darkness, it seemed to have concentrated the minds of european leaders about the risks of what they see as the crumbling of the transatlantic partnership, their valued security relationship with the united states. and the first hint that something was being prepared by president macron in france was when the polish foreign minister radek sikorski

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