Zelensky:Ceding territory to Russia against Ukraine's constitution

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Alaska next Friday to discuss an end to the Ukraine war. Tymofiy Mylovanov, former minister of economy in Ukraine ( 2019-2020) says Trump's approach is a departure from Biden's.

Also in the programme: Japan will mark the eightieth anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, the last on which a nuclear weapon was used in war; and, the latest adaptation of 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock was on stage at Sydney Opera House in the spring. Two members of the cast Helen Morse and Jenny Lovell join us.

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: Ukraine's President Zelenskiy speaks during a press briefing, in Kyiv. 19 May 2025/Reuters