This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and in the early hours of Wednesday,
the 22nd of October, these are our main stories.
Donald Trump puts on hold a plan for face-to-face talks with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine,
saying he doesn't want a wasted meeting.
In Colombia,
a high court has overturned criminal convictions against the former president, Alvaro Aribe.
Also in this podcast, the young socialist who's leading the race to be New York City's new mayor.
If New York truly is the city that never sleeps,
we deserve a mayor who fights for those of us who labor at every single hour of the day.
How a new AI-powered web browser says it will use the internet for you and the German man who stumbled across a life-changing family secret after watching a documentary about the Nazis.
First, talks between President Trump and Vladimir Putin were penciled in for next month in Budapest,
raising hopes the Russian president might be ready to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.
But those talks have now been put on hold,
with Mr Trump saying he doesn't want a wasted meeting with the Russian leader.
Mr Trump implied that a refusal to freeze the fighting in Ukraine along current battle lines was a sticking point.
His comments came after a phone call between the US Secretary of State and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov,
who rejected the proposal outright.
Now,
when we hear from Washington that we must stop immediately and that we must not discuss anything further,