presidents, with mr trump repeating his comments despite not being invited. "with pleasure" one day. hamas says it's ready to release all its remaining hostages at once if the ceasefire agreement

speaking both on social media and at an event in florida, with russia, and his ukrainian counterpart was a dictator, because he didn't hold elections last year. earlier, president zelensky accused his american counterpart of living in a "disinformation space," a long time ago," to end the war. support for ukraine's president zelensky. sir keir starmer spoke to the ukrainian president democratically elected leader. as "extremely friendly". ukraine wasn't invited. here's our international editorjeremy bowen states at the moment.

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it's appropriate at this point to say, with trump in this one for all — one country's attacked, everybody else piles in to help them out... commitments to america? brought us up to speed with the latest lines dictator comments towards president zelenzky. he called president zelensky a dictator without elections

and repeated those claims in miami at an address at a sovereign wealth fund. that's great, wonderful... he refuses to have elections, he is low in the real ukrainian polls. i mean how can you be high when every city is being demolished? a dictator without elections. going to have a country. move fast, because the war is going on the wrong direction. is going to be able to do. ukraine's president zelensky

is running out of time. as well as those across europe? allies in europe. dangerous and wrong, to deny his democratic legitimacy. was democratically elected in 2019. and to remove ukrainian president from his position. so they will be welcoming this with open arms. we are standing with ukraine.

reasonable for countries to forego elections during world war ii. so you're seeing a show of support from european allies. so that's worth noting. it's a dramatic change in foreign policy, but for what president trump has said, it's very he said on the campaign trail that he would end the war in ukraine, and he has always been very friendly with president putin, so it should

come as no surprise. to negotiate in good faith, saying they want side has "all the cards" because they have "taken remember this is a war launched by vladimir putin, between washington and ukraine. but today, i heard, "oh, well, we weren't invited." well, you've been there for three years. you should've never started it. you could've made a deal.

..leading to a unprecedented response from president zelensky, who accused donald trump of living in a bubble. in this disinformation space. what president zelensky is not is a dictator. the start of the invasion. so, perhaps not a good day for the america's envoy to ukraine, keith kellogg, to visit. to the war with russia, where vladimir putin translation: it is impossible to solve many issues, -

including the ukrainian crisis, without increasing the level of trust between russia and the united states. russian tanks were expected to be in kyiv within days on that morning three years ago, and the fact that they reacts to it means ukraine could still lose this war. translation: if trump i doesn't want to be with us, betraying his voters, betraying america and its ideals, the very ideals we are defending here. translation: for ukraine, everything will be all right. | our guys are not fighting in vain there.

cousin were killed. and it's the same for nearly every family. i russia's aggression. james waterhouse, bbc news, kyiv. as others have said, it's deeply unfortunate. at this moment of entering the highest stakes in negotiations with russia to end this war, we want solidarity so this is being celebrated

in the kremlin for sure. these remarks are almost an intervention in the upcoming some of it is fuelled by russian disinformation, some of it is home—grown maga nativism. it is resonating, what trump is saying. in the upcoming elections.

which we are ignoring as we debate the veracity why do you think he would be doing that? and multicultural for him. is one way of encouraging that. that america is greater with our european allies.

in fact, he'd like to do business with a successor regime in kyiv and looks forward to zelensky�*s to the tune of 500 billion. we will have to see what happens there. where does that leave the european union? how do they rally around behind president zelensky when the us, important and i think accurate today. bubble and all the rest.

he knows his own boss. he is thin—skinned. he seeks revenge. dispute with him. i think our european allies understand this about trump, his bark can be even worse than his bite. and not overreact to everything he says. they don't want to be punished by trump for being seen as betraying him, taking zelensky�*s side.

so they'll support zelensky but trying to walk that fine not a family feud in public. part of the dispute between president trump mineral reserves. a piece of ukraine — namely, some of its valuable mineral resources. it seems, has provoked president trump's fury. as well as oil and gas. some estimates suggest its underground deposits are worth more than $11 trillion. titanium and zirconium and what are called

from mobile phones to electric vehicles, to missiles now, ukraine says that it has about 5% of the world's identified as critical. now, last year — as part of his peace plan — to some of these rare earth deposits in return but mr trump's team have demanded as much as 50% military support.

i cannot sell our country, that is all. i say, ok, let's have something positive. you will write down some guarantees and we will write a memorandum with some percentages. and despite all this diplomatic to and fro, soviet era will be economic to extract. come into production. so for those reasons, the estimates that have been put out there are very much estimates. there needs to be a lot more

work to prove those mineral but right now, volodymyr zelensky is not playing ball. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. inflation jumped sharply injanuary, with prices last month's 3% increase was driven by a rise in air the home secretary has announced laws to restrict who sell knives to children, better age verification, and identity checks.

a huge sinkhole in a street in surrey expanding up to 65 feet, or 20 metres, long. the hole first appeared late monday night. the county council has declared it a major incident, with 30 homes evacuated. you're live with bbc news. the names of hostages whose bodies are due to be released the identities won't be officially revealed until the bodies are identified, but hamas said they are shiri bibas and her children — four—year—old ariel and kfir, aged nine months. a further six living hostages are scheduled to be freed in exchange for hundreds of palestinian prisoners on saturday.

in one single swap, all of the hostages in the second phase of the ceasefire deal, now, israel has said for its part that it would only accept a post—war gaza without the presence of hamas. so even though the negotiations on phase two of the ceasefire now, tomorrow, thursday, is going to be the first day family, whose two sons

were the youngest of those kidnapped on the 7th of october. tomorrow and then on saturday, six living hostages will come back on saturday, hundreds of palestinian prisoners and today, an indictment was filed against five israeli prisoner last year in detention, who was left to his rectal area. added to the pressure on israel over the conduct of the war in gaza.

luiz inacio lula da silva. figure, who hasn't been named. president bolsonaro. presidentjair bolsonaro. on tuesday night, the top prosecutor in brazil

that is when the criminal proceedings will potentially well face a trial. this is the latest barrier to him in hoping to stand he is currently facing a ban of eight years but certainly if he does face trial, even later this year, in the 2026 elections here in brazil. separately, on wednesday, less, 7 w alexandre de moraes, who will be one of the figures who was instrumental

in deciding whether these for free speech. that have been accused of spreading political of threat to democracy. he has continuously defended doing that, saying he doesn't want these sorts of accounts to be threatening democracy by local laws if they want to operate in the country. this was one of the reasons why moraes was in a very public dispute with the x owner

elon musk last year, direct aim now at some of moraes�*s actions to try and clamp down on disinformation on social from mr moraes yet. over a century ago. royal tomb of the 18th egyptian dynasty. that's all for now — stay with bbc news. it's been a pretty cold start

to our week, and in fact, in pateley bridge, north yorkshire, the cold just a maximum afternoon high of two celsius. different story further south and west, though. early morning sunshine in devon. yes, it clouded over into the afternoon, and that's exactly what's happening. into the weekend. first thing on thursday morning, widespread double quite a misty, murky story.

showers to the north—west. of thursday into friday, accompanied by gale—force gusts very windy indeed on those exposed west coasts, maybe with some sunshine, and if we get some sunshine for many through the spine of the country, but it that we see 16 somewhere across south—east england.

pressure arrives on sunday. the winds perhaps even stronger still, so keep watching the forecast for more information on that or download but as you can see, a better day on saturday. some wet weather for the second half of the weekend.

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