Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks and we're beginning with the latest extraordinary scenes out of Washington DC.
Extraordinary because this is Donald Trump doing diplomacy in a way that is frankly remarkable to witness.
It's fast-paced, it's top volume and it's extremely high stakes.
Following his summit on Friday in Alaska with Vladimir Putin,
it was the turn today of Vladimir Zelensky to try to persuade President Trump of the rightness of his cause,
of Ukraine's cause,
and how the peace which the American president so earnestly and impatiently says he's after,
that that peace can only be agreed on what,
as far as Ukraine and indeed the rest of Europe are concerned,
are fair, credible and sustainable terms.
On which point, while the two men were meeting at the West Wing,
just to add to the extraordinariness of the moment,
waiting in another corner of the White House were several European leaders there to show their support for Mr. Zelensky.
There was then a round table that had all those European leaders and Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Trump.
talking to each other in a rather stilted fashion.
We'll bring you some of that in a moment.
But just remember that all this comes after the last time the Ukrainian president was in the Oval Office six months ago when he was completely skewered by Mr. Trump and his vice president,
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