2025-08-14
29 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Julia McFarlane and in the early hours of Thursday the 14th of August,
these are our main stories.
European leaders have given a positive account of their talks with President Trump ahead of Friday's meeting with Vladimir Putin,
as they seek to influence the terms of any ceasefire in Ukraine.
The Peruvian president has signed a law pardoning military and police officers who are accused of human rights abuses during a bitter conflict with leftist rebels.
And Lebanon's president has warned a visiting Iranian security official against interference as the government moves towards disarming Hezbollah.
Please have mercy on us.
Our suffering is worse than you can imagine.
Help us in any way possible, especially the children.
They are innocent in all this and they are dying before our eyes.
The crisis intensifies in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasha.
On Wednesday, just two days before Vladimir Putin is welcomed back onto American soil,
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders spoke to Donald Trump to make clear their red lines in any negotiations with the Russian president.
Neither Mr Zelensky nor his allies in Europe have been invited to the US-Russia summit in Alaska.
But President Trump took a call from Berlin.
The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told him that he and other European leaders,
some of whom were also on the call, would never recognise a land grab by Russia.
His words are spoken by a translator.
A legal recognition of Russian ownership of this territory cannot happen.