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Hello, welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm Paul Henley.
Coming up in a few minutes,
we'll get the latest from our correspondent on the death of a senior Hezbollah figure in an Israeli strike on Lebanon.
First,
as international talks began in Switzerland today about President Trump's latest peace plan for Ukraine,
the president accused Ukrainian leaders of showing zero gratitude for his efforts to end the war so far.
Kiev and its European allies have raised concerns about the proposals,
saying they mirror Russia's demands and that work is needed to reflect Ukraine and Europe's needs better.
The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn't want to give details of the discussion,
but he did appear upbeat
while speaking to journalists outside the conference room a short while ago.
So you get input and based on that input,
you make adjustments and then you get more input or you make a counteroffer and you get more adjustments.
That's an ongoing process.
There's a lot more of that to happen.
So I'm not going to speculate or go into the details of any of the specific items in the latest version of the proposal
because,