Trump and Putin to meet in Alaska to discuss Ukraine war

The meeting between the two presidents Putin and Trump -- to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine -- will take place in Alaska on Friday. The US president suggested a deal was very close, and hinted negotiations would involve some exchange of territory.

Also in the programme: Armenia and Azerbaijan, neighbours in the South Caucuses, signed a peace framework aimed at ending the a bitter, often violent dispute that has raged for decades; and, Jim Lovell, part of the historic Apollo 13 space mission to land humans on the Moon has died. He was 97.

Presenter Shaun Ley is joined by Nelufar Hedayat, a British-Afghan journalist, documentary maker and podcaster and Jonathan Goodman, a social scientist based at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge here in the UK.

Photo: US President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk during the family photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam/ Jorge Silva Reuters.