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Ukraine's massive drone attack on Russia has stunned the world.

It is truly extraordinary. It appears that Ukraine has been planning this for over a year and a half.

I'm Carolyn Beeler. Today, the upshot of that attack. And Poland's new president says people voted for a normal Poland.

A Poland without immigrants. In Gaza, more deadly chaos at an aid distribution site overwhelmed by hungry people.

Of course they're going to rush to these locations. Of course they're going to stampede. Of course they're just going to grab whatever it is that they can.

And concerns for the well-being of Tibetan students in Chinese residential schools.

Very young children. There's just never a good reason to take them away from their families.

Plus, rescued moths all ahead on the world.

This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. Marco Werman is out this week.

Delegations from Russia and Ukraine met face-to-face in Istanbul today for just the second

time since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. This comes at a moment of utter surprise for watchers of this conflict, as Ukraine

just carried out a drone attack of epic proportions inside Russia. We will have more on that in a

moment. First, we begin today's show with those diplomatic efforts in Turkey. The world's

Dury Bouscaran has our report from Istanbul.

I'm here standing on what is usually the helipad of a five-star hotel on the shores of the

Bosford Street. Today, the garden has been entirely converted into kind of a press center

for delegations from all over the world. We're here waiting on the results of a second round of peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia,

and it comes off the heels of one of the most destructive weekends in the course of the war.

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