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• Ukraine on the line: Trump-Putin talks over ceasefire

  Much was riding on this Tuesday's phone call between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Trump is wanting movement from Moscow on the US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine. This as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Putin of dragging his heels in responding to the US proposal. Produced by Rebecca Gnignati, Elisa Amiri, Ilayda Habip.

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• Free speech in Trump's America: Drawing up the battlelines

  US President Donald Trump likes to say he's the protector of free speech. Yet, his administration has already threatened Democratic Congress members with investigation for criticising conservatives while withdrawing federal grants that include language it opposes. This as it sanctioned law firms that represent Trump's political opponents and arrested the Palestinian organiser of student protests that Trump criticised as "anti-Semitic, anti-American". The US president is stripping back the government-funded news organisation Voice of America as he accuses it of being "anti-Trump" and "radical". So will free speech survive in America? And are we merely witnessing the opening salvos of a war on so-called wokeism? Produced by Rebecca Gnignati, Elisa Amiri, Ilayda Habip, Juliette Laffont.

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• How to stop the escalation? Trump hits back after EU retaliates against US metal tariffs

  Donald Trump has said it many times: "The most beautiful word in the dictionary to me is tariff." But the tariffs that Trump is imposing on businesses across the borders are having a less than beautiful effect. Trump came to power promising prosperity for the United States, a "new golden age", but now the country is teetering towards recession.  Is this a lose-lose situation where Trump's tariffs provoke a similar response from the penalised countries? Caught in the middle are the consumers who always seem to suffer when the people in power want radical change. Produced by Théophile Vareille, Rebecca Gnignati and Ilayda Habip.

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• All is forgiven? US resumes aid as Ukraine agrees to truce

  Talk about mood swings: is that epic White House bust-up that we are still processing already water under the bridge? Donald Trump’s envoys making that recent dumpster fire of a sitdown with Volodymyr Zelensky sound like a fading memory. The US now unpausing military assistance to Kyiv and talking up the imminence of a rare minerals deal in exchange for Ukraine agreeing to a 30-day truce with Russia. All is forgiven … up to a point.  With the ball now in the Kremlin’s court, Ukraine is still shut out of direct bargaining over its own fate. For now, it is still between Moscow and Washington.We will ask about the dizzying ups and downs of diplomacy à la Trump, and how allies feel about this rollercoaster ride. On that score, special attention to all the huddling we have seen in London and Paris as Europeans figure out how to rewrite their own security strategy on the fly, what with a US-led NATO no longer what it used to be.Produced by Théophile Vareille, Rebecca Gnignati and Ilayda Habip. 

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• The scramble for Greenland: Can Danish dependency resist Trump pressure?

  It's got a population smaller than Paris’ Latin Quarter, but thanks to Donald Trump, the whole world’s watching Greenland. As citizens of the Arctic Danish dependency choose between six main parties, all pro-independence to varying degrees, we’ll ask how locals voting in parliamentary elections feel about the US president promising Congress to get the mineral-rich island “one way or another”. Even if it means taking on traditional allies. Denmark’s an EU and NATO member that equips its military with hardware made in the USA. What does Trump's hard bargaining say about the times we live in? New imperialism, melting polar ice caps, housing and social challenges, we’ll ask how changing times are impacting the life of Greenland’s 56,865 inhabitants and what lessons we can all draw from the global attention they're suddenly getting. Produced by Rebecca Gnignati, Elisa Amiri, Ilayda Habip.

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