Hello, and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We've got a couple of very strong interviews to bring you
in about 30 minutes on the big news out of the Philippines today,
the arrest of the former President Rodrigo Duterte,
charged with crimes against humanity during his brutal war on drugs while he was in office.
First, though,
there was an extraordinarily meaningless news flash
across my computer a little while before we came on air.
It was from from one of the news agencies covering the talks
in the Saudi city of Jeddah between Ukrainian
and U.S. delegations over how to bring the war with Russia to a close and how also perhaps,
to rescue the tattered relations between Washington and Kyiv.
The news agency put out an alert quoting a top Ukrainian official, ukraine wants peace.
They had declared that statement so bland, so unobjectionable,
only seemed to underline how fearful Kyiv is is of saying anything publicly that might further undermine its case
with the White House.
So what can be achieved in these talks today?
Our State Department correspondent, Tom Bateman,