This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

And Valerie Sanderson and at 39 GMT on Thursday, the 1st of June, these are our main stories.

European leaders meeting in Moldova have vowed to remain united in the face of Russian

aggression.

The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passes a debt bill just days before the world's

biggest economy is due to start defaulting on repayments.

In Australia and soldier who's been recognised with military honours has lost a defamation

case against newspapers who accused him of committing war crimes in Afghanistan.

Also in this podcast why China's university graduates are worried about their job prospects,

NASA hosts its first public meeting on UFOs and wetting your appetite, and Israeli company

creates 3D fish fillets in a lab.

We are doing the real deal.

We are collecting real cells.

We proliferate them.

And the end result is a product that is at this point almost exactly the same as the fish.

Scores of European leaders have gathered in Moldova for a summit focusing on the continent's

security.

It comes with the war in Ukraine already having lasted 15 months, and it's being held

just a few kilometres from the Russian-controlled separatist enclave of Transnistria, along with

the Russian invasion of Ukraine, topics on the agenda include action on climate and

energy.

From Moldova itself the stakes are high.

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