This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson, and at 69 hours GMT on Tuesday 2nd December, these are our main stories.
The US envoy Steve Wittkopf and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are in Moscow,
meeting President Putin for talks on an amended peace plan to end the war in Ukraine.
We're in Ukraine to gauge the mood of people there, following Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.
Also more than 700 people have died in severe flooding in Indonesia.
Plus, on the final day of his trip to Lebanon,
Pope Leo holds a mass in Beirut and makes this appeal to the region.
The Middle East needs new approaches in order to reject the mindset of revenge and violence.
And...
Why conscious found in Spain may be some of the world's oldest musical instruments.
We start with the war on Ukraine and ongoing international efforts to try to end the fighting there.
following the Russian invasion in February 2022.
As we record this podcast,
President Trump's special envoy Steve Wittkopf is in Moscow for talks with President Putin,
where he's expected to present an amended peace plan after the original 28-point proposal was rejected both by Ukraine and its European partners.
They'd argued it was overly weighted towards Russian demands.
We asked our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg whether Mr Putin is likely to accept This latest peace plan.
unacceptable to Kiev.
And up to this point,