a british couple — arrested in iran while on a motorbike tour — are charged with espionage. they were detained in january. drop everything, drop it. come on! passengers scramble to safety as a delta airline plane crash—lands, flipping upside down — all 80 people on board survive. welcome to the programme. the united states and russia have agreed to press ahead at speed with negotiations aimed at ending moscow's war against ukraine, after what they called "constructive talks" in saudi arabia.

they were the first face—to—face such discussions since russia's full—scale invasion three years ago. the us secretary of state, marco rubio, said the goal was a fair, enduring and sustainable end to the war. we've agreed on four principles that i think are important. the first is that we are going to work, we're going to appoint our teams, respectively, to work very quickly to re—establish the functionality of our respective missions in washington and in moscow. for us to be able to continue to move down this road, we need to have diplomatic facilities that are operating and functioning normally. the second point is that we're going to appoint a high level team from our end to help negotiate and work through the end of the conflict in ukraine in a way that's enduring and acceptable to all the parties engaged. the third point is to begin to work at a high level as well, to begin to discuss and think about and examine both the geopolitical and economic cooperation that could result from an end

to the conflict in ukraine. obviously, we'd have to see that conflict come to a successful and enduring end in orderfor that to be possible. and the last thing we agreed to is that while our teams are going to be working on all of this, the four of us who are here today, the the five of us that were here today, are going to remain engaged in this process to make sure that it's moving along in a productive way. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov confirmed that russia and the united states agreed to establish a process for settling the ukraine conflict — but took aim at previous us administrations, blaming president biden and nato expansion for causing the conflict. translation: we explained to our interlocutors today - and we noted that president trump, in several speeches, was the first of western leaders to say that dragging ukraine into nato was one of the main hosts of what is happening. that this was one of biden�*s biggest mistakes and the mistakes of his

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