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Radio 4,24 Feb 2025,45 mins

"Peace must not mean surrender," Macron tells Trump

The World Tonight

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James Coomarasamy reports live from Berlin at a pivotal moment for European security. French President Emmanuel Macron visited Donald Trump in Washington and urged him not to force a peace on Ukraine that would be tantamount to surrender. Meanwhile, after German elections, the Chancellor-in-waiting Freidrich Merz says he'll seek "independence" from the United States, in comments he has since softened. Also on the programme: the man who set a new world record for the fastest marathon while using crutches, though he didn't know it at the time. And has Donald Trump's rapprochement with Russia undermined attempts to seek justice for the invasion and war crimes in Ukraine. On the third anniversary of the invasion, we ask Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk.

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