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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're beginning with what might seem like familiar territory, the war in Ukraine,
in all its relentlessness with news of another devastating Russian barrage overnight.
But for all that that might seem familiar...
There's been a jarring split-screen sense to today.
Pictures on TV agency feeds of a smiling Vladimir Putin wishing his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a happy Chinese New Year.
The promise out of the gilded environs of Abu Dhabi of a second round of peace talks between the antagonists brokered by the US.
And, in contrast,