Hello and welcome to News Hour, live from the BBC World Service in London.

I'm Rebecca Kesbby.

And we begin with that news of the much-anticipated telephone conversation between President Trump

and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Mr Trump had said that he was hoping for a deal during this call, but in fact, what

he got was an agreement not to attack the energy infrastructure of Ukraine for 30 days, but no

actual ceasefire. Mr. Putin also added to his list of conditions he once met before any

ceasefire. President Zelensky of Ukraine was not invited to take part in that call,

but he has welcomed the suspension of attacks on energy infrastructure.

But he said that President Trump was being manipulated by Mr Putin.

In the next few minutes, we'll get a reaction from Ukraine.

First, though, let's speak to our North America correspondent. Tom

Bateman is on the line live from Washington, D.C. And Tom, Mr. Trump was talking about this

yesterday ahead of the call. Hoping for a deal, he said, on land, power plants, dividing assets.

Doesn't seem as if he got any of that.

Well, he certainly said he hoped to have something to announce at the end of the call.

And it is certainly true that the administration has really been talking up its hopes around making progress on all of this.

I mean, this was around a two and a half hour call between President Trump and Putin.

I think the tangible thing to come out of it, as you've been reporting, is that there is,

so far as the Kremlin is concerned, an agreement on their side to stop long-range missile strikes on Ukraine's power grid. That is not inconsequential. That has been a significant part of its attacks on the

country since its full-scale invasion. We don't yet have a clear sense of if the Ukrainian side will

agree to that, although it seems from what Mr. Zelensky is suggesting that they probably would.

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