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Hello, I'm Robin Ince.
And I'm Brian Cox.
And we would like to tell you about the new series of the Infinite Monkey Cage.
We're going to have a planet off Jupiter versus Scepter.
It's very well done that, because in the script it does say wrestling voice.
After all of that, it's going to kind of chill out a bit and talk about ice.
And also in this series, we're discussing history,
music recording with Brian Eno and looking at nature's shapes.
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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service in London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're beginning with a war in Ukraine,
a conflict which for a while we've been talking about as a war of attrition.
Grinding, often slow advances counted in large numbers of casualties,
but relatively small gains and losses in territory.
How different then the pace of diplomacy around the war.
Now, Donald Trump appears to be a man in a hurry and he's been expecting a rapid and positive response from the Russian President,