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Punk Tea Hop 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.
So listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And we're going to begin
with those American efforts to try to broker a short initial truce in Ukraine.
If the ball was in Russia's court during yesterday's program,
it's probably now back with the United States because President Trump's special envoy,
Steve Witkoff,
has now left Moscow after late night talks with Vladimir Putin
and armed only with what the Kremlin is describing as information and additional signals for Mr.