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

I'm Jonat Jalil and in the early hours of Friday the 21st of February, these are our main stories.

The White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz tells Ukraine to tone down its criticism of the US

and sign a minerals deal being pushed by President Trump.

A planned news conference between President Zelensky and a visiting US envoy is abruptly cancelled

as a rift between the two countries deepens.

The Mexican army arrests a senior leader of the notorious Sinaloa drugs cartel.

Also in this podcast, Amazon takes over creative control of notorious Sinaloa drugs cartel.

Also in this podcast, Amazon takes over creative control of the James Bond franchise after agreeing a deal with the broccoli family.

They have had their hands on that wheel for a long time, but we are here still talking

about Bond 64 years later and I think they will still be looking over the backseat

at who's driving. We look at what this means for the future of the world's most famous

fictional spy and how a wrong turn saw a cycling race descend into chaos.

A day after Donald Trump called the Ukrainian leader a dictator for daring to say that the US president lived in a Russian disinformation space, an aid to Mr Trump has said that Vladimir Zelensky needs to tone down his criticism of the US and sign a deal for mineral rights to pay for American support in Ukraine's

war against Russia. Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor, told Mr. Zelensky to get over

his reluctance to sign the deal, which he thought could be worth as much as half a trillion

dollars to the U.S. President Trump is obviously very frustrated right now with President Zelensky,

the fact that he hasn't come to the table, that he hasn't been willing to take this opportunity

that we have offered. I think he eventually will get to that point, and I hope so very quickly.

Meanwhile, a U.S. envoy, retired General Keith Kellogg, has been holding talks with Mr.

Zelensky in Kiev. He said he'd come to listen. But a planned joint news conference on Thursday

afternoon was cancelled at the last minute, the Ukrainians say, at the request of the

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