Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has met JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference, after the US vice president launched a withering attack on European countries. In a hard-hitting speech, Mr Vance said said there was "a new sheriff in town" as he criticised what he called a "retreat of fundamental values" across Europe. Also on the programme: we speak to the Egyptian sportswoman whose pregnancy during the Paris Olympics stunned the world; and the study explaining why so many people feel they have a separate stomach for pudding. (Picture: US vice president JD Vance pictured ahead of the bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Credit: REUTERS/Leah Millis)
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Ukraine is expected to dominate the Munich security conference,
with European leaders trying to make sense of President Trump's peace plan for Ukraine,
which seems to involve Russia keeping the territory it's gained through the invasion of its neighbor
and Ukraine blocked from joining NATO.
So there was a lot of expectation that the US vice president, J.D.
vance,
might give them more details of the American proposals when he made his keynote speech
to the conference earlier on today.