Trump: arrangements under way for Putin Zelensky meeting

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  This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Ankur Desai and at 1300 GMT on Tuesday the 19th of August, these are our main stories.

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  President Trump says he's begun arrangements for a meeting between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine after talks in Washington on how to end the war.

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  Donald Trump says he has begun work to arrange a face-to-face meeting between President Zelensky and President Putin to try to end the war in Ukraine.

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  He described Monday's day of diplomacy at the White House,

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  which also included several European leaders, as a very good step towards peace.

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  Europeans were also overwhelmingly positive

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  while stressing the need to maintain support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.

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  President Trump also told Fox News he thought Vladimir Putin would most likely move towards ending the war in Ukraine

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  because he said he thought he must be tired of it.

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  He also said it would be European nations putting boots on the ground to defend Ukraine in future and that Ukraine would not join NATO.

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  Although the fighting has continued,

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