Ukraine and Russia agree prisoner exchange

Ukrainian and Russian delegations - not including the countries' leaders - have been meeting in Turkey for the first face-to-face talks in three years.. Both countries have agreed to swap 1,000 prisoners of war. However Ukraine's president Zelensky, has accused Russia of staging an empty process, telling a gathering of European leaders that if the Istanbul talks did not deliver results, the world had to respond strongly. We get reaction and analysis from our regional expert.

We go to Nigeria, where the body which runs the university-entrance exams has admitted to a "technical glitch" which compromised some results of this year's tests, after nearly 80% of students got low grades.

18-year-old Sayat is from Kazakhstan, but he moved to Texas when he was 5 years old. Following his recent viral TikTok video, titled "misconceptions about central Asians", we hear a conversation with Sayat and other central Asians.

We look ahead to this weekend's Eurovision Song Contest which is being held in Basel, the Swiss city that hosted and won the first Eurovision in 1956.

Presenter: Andrew Peach.

(Photo: A drone view shows the ruins of a church and buildings in the abandoned town of Marinka (Maryinka), which was destroyed in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in the Donetsk region, a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine, May 15, 2025. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko)