News Wrap: European leaders push Russia for full ceasefire in Ukraine
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🗓️ 10 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight's other news, European allies are backing Ukraine in an effort to ramp up pressure on Russia to reach a ceasefire agreement. |
| 0:08.2 | Leaders from France, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom gathered with President Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev today to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. |
| 0:18.0 | While there, the leaders demanded Russia agree to a full, |
| 0:22.0 | unconditional ceasefire for at least 30 days and threatened to step up sanctions. Zelensky's |
| 0:27.9 | office said after the European leaders spoke with each other, they had a constructive call |
| 0:32.2 | with President Trump. Face-to-face talks between the U.S. and China began today for the first time since President Trump placed new tariffs on Chinese goods. |
| 0:42.2 | Treasury Secretary Scott Besson and the U.S. top trade negotiator, Jameson Greer, met with a Chinese delegation in Switzerland. |
| 0:49.8 | While a major breakthrough wasn't expected for this round of talks, the two countries agreed to |
| 0:54.8 | continue discussions tomorrow. Last month, President Trump raised tariffs on goods coming into the |
| 1:00.1 | country from China to a total 145 percent. In retaliation, China hate U.S. goods being imported |
| 1:06.7 | with a 125 percent tax. A California judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out mass |
| 1:15.0 | firings across the federal workforce. |
| 1:17.4 | Late Friday night, Judge Susan Ilston issued an emergency order in response to a lawsuit |
| 1:22.2 | filed by labor unions representing federal workers. |
| 1:24.8 | The order bars two dozen federal agencies from slashing personnel |
| 1:29.1 | and closing down programs, an effort carried out in large part by Elon Musk's doge. In her order, |
| 1:35.7 | Judge Ilston said, quote, the president has the authority to seek changes to executive branch agencies, |
| 1:41.6 | but he must do so in lawful ways, and in the case of large-scale |
| 1:45.5 | reorganizations with the cooperation of the legislative branch. The mayor of Newark, New |
| 1:52.0 | Jersey is out of jail, but faces charges after he was arrested at an iced detention center |
| 1:57.2 | in his city. Witnesses say Democratic Mayor Raz Baraka and three members of Congress |
| 2:03.0 | attempted to make an unannounced visit to the facility Friday. But when they were told to leave, |
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