You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Saturday the 25th of January.

Vladimir Putin says he's ready for talks on ending the war in Ukraine, but dismisses Donald Trump's

threat to use economic pressure on Russia. UN peacekeepers in Congo say they're engaged in intense combat

with M23 rebels threatening the eastern city of Goma. And Hamas has given Israel the names of four

female hostages due to be released as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. Also in the podcast,

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The paralyzed man who's discovered new sensations with a robotic arm.

Donald Trump has had a complicated relationship with Vladimir Putin.

But since his return to the White House, he's been urging the Russian leader to agree a peace deal with Ukraine,

saying otherwise the US would increase sanctions, tariffs and taxes on Russia.

On Friday, Mr Putin gave his first public response, attempting to flatter the US president by repeating the lie that Mr Trump had

actually won the 2020 election and suggesting that Russia's invasion of Ukraine might never have

happened if, quote, that victory hadn't been stolen. On a visit to North Carolina, Mr. Trump

repeated his call for oil prices to be lowered to force Russia to end the war. It's crazy. It's a crazy

war. Now, one way to stop it quickly is for OPEC to stop making so much money and to drop the price of oil,

because they have it nice and high.

And if you have it high, that war is not going to end so easily.

So OPEC ought to get on the ball and they ought to drop the price of oil,

and that war will stop right away.

But President Putin rejected that logic,

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