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

I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Friday the 14th of February, these are our main stories.

The head of NATO has appealed for the West to stay united as a rift opens up between Europe and the United States on peace negotiations about Ukraine.

Days ahead of German elections, the man tipped to be the country's next leader has said

things must change after an asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd of people.

Riot police in Tehran have prevented a protest demanding the release of people still under

house arrest 13 years after they disputed an election result.

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How will the war in Ukraine end and at what cost to Keeve?

That is the question, dominating the minds of politicians and diplomats across Europe and beyond after Donald Trump's

conversation with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters a day later in the Oval Office,

President Trump was asked if he believed his Russian counterpart wanted peace. I believe he wants peace.

I believe that President Putin, when I spoke to him yesterday, I mean, I know him very well. Yeah, I think he wants peace. I think he would tell me if he didn't. I think I'd like to see peace.

Do you trust President? I believe that, yeah, I believe that he would like to see something happen. I trust him on this subject.

The European Union's foreign policy chief, Kyak Kallas, has accused President Trump of appeasing Russia over Ukraine.

She insisted that European states and Ukraine itself must be part of any peace talks.

It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work.

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