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Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, April 4th.

This is your FT News Briefing.

There's a new tool to detective students are using artificial intelligence to write their essays.

Universities aren't sold though. We'll talk with our Moscow correspondent,

Polina Ivanova, about the detention of her friend, Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkevich.

There is nothing to gain from having Russia a black box and he really believes and

believes that it was important to keep working there for as long as it was possible to do so.

And the EU's calling on Beijing to help end the war in Ukraine.

I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

The President of the European Commission is urging Beijing to play a quote,

constructive role in bringing peace to Ukraine.

Ursula von der Leyen is preparing a visit to China along with France's President Emmanuel Macron.

At an interview with the Financial Times, von der Leyen said that the EU was concerned by China's

friendship with Russia. She said Beijing should use its ties with Moscow to reign in the war.

Last month, President Xi Jinping visited Moscow. von der Leyen pointed out that President Xi

had not yet made a phone call to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

Germany's auditing watchdog yesterday announced an unprecedented penalty on accounting giant

EY. It's for the firm's work with Wirecard. That's the high-flying payments company that

collapsed after revelations of massive accounting fraud. The regulator banned EY from taking

on newly listed clients in Germany for two years. Here's the FT's Frankfurt correspondent Olaf

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