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I'm Valerie Sanderson and it's 17 hours GMT on Thursday the 18th of September.
These are our main stories.
President Trump says again that he's disappointed in Vladimir Putin
as he completes his state visit to the UK.
Ukraine says it's attacked two refineries in Russia,
bringing operations at one of them to a complete halt.
Hundreds of thousands of people are in strike in France in protest at the government's austerity plans.
And a lager a day, the alcohol intake enjoyed by wild chimpanzees and white matters to humans.
This sort of supports the drunken monkey hypothesis,
which basically says that human attraction to alcohol today originated from this evolutionary exposure to ethanol.
It has been a whirlwind two days in the UK for President Trump on an unprecedented second state visit.
Wednesday saw a day of pageantry when he was welcomed by King Charles at Windsor Castle.
For a glittering event with guests who all sat down to the best food and wine the UK can offer.
Today, Mr Trump's destination was checkers,
the official country residents of the British Prime Minister, for talks.
It has been a flawlessly choreographed and tightly controlled trip,
with the greatest moment of possible danger left to the end,
the news conference when both leaders would be questioned by journalists from the UK and the US.