2025-02-18
25 分钟Senior Moscow and Washington diplomats hold their first meeting since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Also: Pope Francis cancels engagements due to hospital stay, and the new Scottish tartan - with a dark past.
This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 14:00 GMT on Tuesday, 18 February, these are our main stories.
The Russians and Americans meet to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
So what's emerged from the talks in Riyadh?
The Pope cancels his weekend engagements and will remain in hospital for some days yet.
Israel pulls out troops from southern Lebanon as part of the truce previously agreed.
But not all of them are going.
Also in this podcast, as we made our descent and made touchdown,
it was just a very forceful event where all of a sudden everything just kind of went sideways
and then next thing I know is kind of a blink and I'm upside down,
still strapped.
In an extraordinary escape for dozens of passengers
after an airplane crashes at Toronto International Airport in Canada.
Discussions on Ukraine between the US
and Russia have finished in Riyadh after four and a half hours.
President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy adviser,
Yuriye Shakhov said the talks on ending the war in Ukraine were successful and
that the two sides discussed arranging a meeting between the Russian leader,
Vladimir Putin, and the US President, Donald Trump.
Speaking after the end of the session, the US Secretary of State,