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I'm Andrew Page and in the early hours of Wednesday 26th February, these are our main stories.
Ukrainian officials say a deal's been reached between Kyiv
and Washington on the joint exploitation of Ukraine's mineral resources.
Britain is to fast track planned increases in defence spending two days
before Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets President Trump in Washington.
Also in this podcast, we hear from survivors of a prison fire in the city of Goma in eastern Congo.
We were woken from our sleep by a fire in the middle of the night.
We started to scream, fire help.
But there was no one there and the doors were padlocked shut.
Ukrainian officials say a deal has been reached between Kyiv