This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Jeanette Jalil and at 13 Hours GMT on Thursday, the 17th of April, these are our main stories.
US and European ministers meet to discuss ending the war in Ukraine in their highest level talks in weeks.
A BBC investigation finds that in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol,
thousands of homes have been seized illegally.
Gaza's Hamas-run civil defence agency says the latest Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 37 people.
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For European leaders who've been shaken by the dismissive,
even hostile rhetoric of the Trump administration about the transatlantic alliance that has long ensured peace on their continent,
there's a lot at stake in today's high-level talks in Paris.
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Wittkoff,
are meeting President Macron and ministers from other European nations to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine.
And the Ukrainian foreign and defence ministers have also flown into the French capital.
The Europeans will be looking to see
if the American President is going to get tougher with Russia after it rejected a US ceasefire proposal,