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Radio 4,13 Mar 2025,45 mins

Putin sets out conditions for Ukraine ceasefire

The World Tonight

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Vladimir Putin says there are many details still to be ironed out before he'll back a ceasefire in his war with Ukraine. It's a blow to Donald Trump's peacemaking efforts. Meetings are still going on in Moscow tonight between President Trump's envoy and the Russian leader - we ask where Vladimir Putin's comments leave the prospects for an end to the fighting. Also on the programme: More money is pledged for frontline health services, as the Government scraps the administrative arm of the NHS in England. We ask what difference it could make for patients. We hear about the incresae in non-fatal strangulation - choking - during sex among younger people. We ask what's behind the rise in cases like this. And a guide to tonight's celestial treat - a rare "blood moon" partial lunar eclipse.

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