Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service, coming to you live from London. I'm Paul Henley.

Coming up today, why you should be looking up at the sky tonight. And this?

If it gets a bit like the Wild West, then the people who created these copyrights don't benefit.

Paul McCartney talking about the impact of artificial intelligence on musicians,

we'll hear why more than a thousand British musicians have released an album

that mainly sounds like this.

That's right.

No music, just ambient studio sound.

More on that later on in the program.

First, it is clear there is a lot of healing of transatlantic relations to be done after

U.S. peace talks with Russia that excluded Ukraine and Europe.

The French and the U.S. presidents were all wide smiles and clasping of each other's knees

in Washington yesterday. After those talks, President Emmanuel Macron echoed President

Donald Trump's ambition to reach a truce between Ukraine and Russia within weeks,

and he said he was working with Britain on a proposal to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine.

We'll be asking what that might look like later on in the program.

But the story was very different at the United Nations in New York,

where the US sided with Russia on a European motion condemning Moscow's aggression in Ukraine.

And the UK and France abstained on a US-backed resolution.

Barbara Woodward is the permanent representative of the UK to the United Nations.

What, how, and on what terms this war ends can only be decided by negotiations with Ukraine.

No peace will be sustainable without Ukraine's consent.

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