repeats his comments about volodymyr zelensky, calling him a dictator. he refuses to have elections. he's low in the real ukrainian polls. is being demolished? zelensky better move fast or he's not going hostages whose bodies will be returned today. await the handover. the parents of a nine—year—old girl who was killed school. people from 30 properties

in a surrey village have been on tariffs and immigration could fuel inflation hello, i'm tadhg enright. president trump has deepened the rift with ukrainian speaking both on social media and at an event in florida, earlier, president zelensky

accused his american with mr trump having claimed kyiv could have "made a deal on wednesday, and stressed the need for everyone to work together, describing him as ukraine's democratically elected leader. diplomacy on the conflict, with vladimir putin describing as "extremely friendly". our north america correspondent merlyn thomas has this report. a deepening rift between the united states and ukraine. it at a conference in florida. he's pretty easy, pretty easy.

to have a country left. in the meantime, we're successfully negotiating an end speaking to reporters on board air force one, so they have the cards. in a phone call with mr zelensky last night, long lasting peace. forget the respect the british people have shown for

we believe that since his legitimacy has come to an end since we do not see how we can negotiate with him elected as the president. so this piece of paper will have not much of value. in 2019 before the war. have been legally postponed. said the us president was living in a disinformation all the support he can get.

but it's clear that it won't be from president trump. merlyn thomas, bbc news, washington. earlier i spoke to merlyn and i asked her how republicans have reacted to the president's comments on ukraine. after president trump spent the day attacking ukraine's apologies, we played the california los angeles, who's published several it's pretty hard to see any strategy in what he's been saying. it really seems to me to be just reactions to events. he's emotional.

he clearly dislikes zelensky. he's disliked him for a long time. supported it, and clearly he likes putin. he dislikes ukraine because the biden administration supported it, and clearly he likes putin. to justify that commitment or that, er his choice to be on that side of the issue. we've all been gauging the reactions of others in his administration, other republicans. but what do you think is happening behind the scenes? what pressure could be upon donald trump to try to rein him in? well, at this point, i think pressure on trump is collapsing. the republicans in congress,

falsehood of president trump's claim that ukraine started the war, but they're really not pushing back and they're not and in a meeting with vice president vance, the issue of trump's actions and comments on ukraine. so i don't see any resistance coming from the republicans. and without that, of course, the democrats are in a minority.

ordinary americans will tolerate the idea that we, europe and the us won't be allies in the same way the us internationally. but the things that his administration has been doing in the last few days, including basically giving up and also defence secretary hegseth has said that they all this drastically weakens the security of the us. including trump's supporters, are going to wake up to this

no longer really does. the us is not trusted in the way it used to be, mineral reserves. support in the war with russia. but mr zelensky says he's asking too much. it seems, has provoked president trump's fury. as you can see from this map from ukraine's geological survey, the country is rich in raw materials

as well as oil and gas. change some estimates suggest its underground deposits are worth more than $11 trillion. this includes critical minerals such as graphite, lithium, titanium and zirconium and what are called from mobile phones to electric vehicles, to missiles and superconductors. mineral resources. titanium and it has 22 out of 3a minerals that the eu has identified as critical. now, last year, as part of his peace plan, president zelensky suggested american firms could get access to some of these rare earth deposits in return for continued us military support. of ukraine's mineral wealth and energy reserves. mr trump claims —

inaccurately — that ukraine military support. mr zelensky says this is not a serious conversation. 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. i was told, "only 50%." isaid, "ok, no." minerals out of the earth. and not all of those resources that have been identified some of those will not be and will never come into production. so for those reasons, the estimates that have

deposits into economic reserves. any cessation of hostilities in this war to provide economic but right now, volodymyr zelensky is not playing ball. we will talk more about the prospects the mineral deal prospects of the mineral deal in coming up at half in business coming up at half past the hour. dead israeli hostages whose bodies will be returned today. they include shiri bibas and her children ariel and kfir.

also to be released is the body of oded lifshitz. meanwhile, hamas has said it is ready to release all the hostages in one go — including those expected to be freed in phase two of the ceasefire agreement. from gaza and an agreement for a permanent end to the war. it is in khan younis where the handover is due to happen being handed �*to being handed �* to the “via ”é" handed a's“ t“ 92; f" "7 ~ ,, ~ 7' cross before to “53 be": brief a; if the 7" ,,, —— ,, —— 7— cr we before to “via ”é" handed a's“ t“ 92; f" "7 ~ ,, ~ 7' cr we do ore to “53 be": brief *2 if the 7" ,,, —— ,, —— 7— cr we do not to “53 be": heht�*et�* a; th the 7" r—e —— e —— 7— cr we do not know to “53 be": “e"flet�* *e t�* the f" ”f " 7 ~ 7, cr we do not know what to israel. we do not know what form the handover will take. many of handovers of live before have "7 " 3&5}? ihaverbe’en because of 77 because of degrading erit�*e�*eee heeeeee “f deefled�*he' w' '7' *' w ' 7 during release treatment during release operations. those are words from the red cross. so we do

know exactly what form not know exactly what form the handover take. we are handover will take. we are stressing we do not know exactly how the members of the bibas family hamas bibas family died. hamas claim it was in an israeli air strike and had no evidencerand that by and had no evidencaahd that by the wasadisguted by therraeli at the we will government at the time. we will have the latest the handover have the latest on the handover from our in a few from our correspondent in a few minutes. in theirfirst broadcast interview since their daughter was killed, the parents of alice aguiar said she was "born to be a star". alice, elsie dot stancombe and bebe king were killed in the southport knife attack lastjuly. both alice and bebe had been pupils at churchtown primary sergio and alex, alice's parents returning to the school she loved, without her, for the first time.

thank you very much for coming in. - on plans for a new playground, which will include a space here, the stage. yeah, definitely. so, yeah, i think she was born to be a star. yeah, yeah. proud of us doing this.

where you do something together, that feeling i of togetherness, of community, of look what i have done, - i'm so proud of this, - i have helped create this. that will bring the - positivity that we need. the london marathon. what do you think of? yeah.

because i always tell her it doesn't matter what happened, try to put your smile — it's the most important. she always had a big smile. yes. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

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us. sinkhole that's opened up in a surrey village. the 65 foot — or 20 metre=long hole — has swallowed much of a main road in godstone. tom symonds reports. then we got a massive knock on the door and the buzzer is it a prank? who is it? to leave immediately in case of an explosion because the pipes were all crossed with each other. and then we just had to get what we could and leave. by this gaping

sinkhole, 65ft long. a whole section of the village is cordoned off and people it's a big hole and it was growing at the time and i think it is no fault of their own that they are in clear event that with a carfull, a partner and a six—year—old. she has been trying to get help from her insurer all day. they have just come back and said that they are going but lots of our other neighbours haven't been able to get any accommodation. most of these people have somewhere to stay tonight but they were told

there was going to be a public meeting to give them more information and so far a councillor arrived and confirmed no meeting tonight, a misunderstanding. the district council has promised help for those turned as for the hole, the reason it appeared hasn't been confirmed. it could take months to repair and reunite godstone's divided halves. an historic us ocean liner has begun its finaljourney sunk to become the world's largest artificial reef. the ss united states left philadelphia under escort from a fleet of tugs for a two—weekjourney

it's good to know she's going to be secure, she's not going to be scrapped. she's going to give life under the sea, be and that is no small task. we're content with that, and i'm content with it. you know, she's been a fixture here, the people of she's been here. it's hoped drinking water could be provided to some of the country amid hopes it offer a solution to climate change induced drought. stay with us here on bbc news.

in pateley bridge, north yorkshire, the cloud thick enough for drizzle and temperatures struggled — just a maximum afternoon high of two celsius. early morning sunshine in devon. yes, it clouded over into the afternoon, and that's exactly what's happening. mild air for this time of year. once the cold front sweeps its way steadily eastwards, something a little less mild, perhaps, as we head into the weekend. digits across the country. yes, a very mild start for most. but there will also be quite a lot of cloud, quite a misty, murky story.

as we go through the day. slowly brightening up with sunny spells and scattered showers to the north—west. quite a lot of cloud across the south and east, be for this time of year, 12—14 degrees. there's more wet weather to come as we move out of winds as the isobars squeeze together. very windy indeed on those exposed west coasts, coming through here, temperatures are likely to respond. will continue to stay mild, 11—15 degrees. that we see 16 somewhere across south—east england.

in proceedings before yet another significant low the forecast for more information on that or download the bbc weather app for more. some wet weather for the second half of the weekend.

as the us and ukrainian presidents trade blows, could a deal be done to use ukrainian minerals to with safety in the spotlight, we look at the newest technology in aviation. is it a liquid, a solid or a gas? generation of computing. live from london, this is business today. thank you �*joining me. that's america's central bank — have suggested that donald trump's new policies

could slow the pace of interest rate cuts.