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 Thursday the 1st of May.

Two months after the Oval Office, Rao, the US and Ukraine have finally signed their minerals deal.

As the American economy shrinks for the first time in three years, we hear how President

Trump's

tariffs are going down in China. And Argentina opens up the archives on the Nazis who fled

there after the Second World War. Also in the podcast, it never grows up. It can regrow

any of its limbs. It is also a cultural icon. It's thought to be the brother of an

Aztec god. New hope for the survival of one of the world's most endangered amphibians.

And there is not a single country in the world which has banned cigarettes, but there are several

markets in the world which has banned alternative to cigarettes,

explaining the logic of them.

The head of Marlborough on efforts to reduce smoking.

The last time Ukraine was about to sign a minerals deal with the US,

it was derailed by a row in the Oval Office.

Two months on, relations are slightly warmer. And just before we recorded this podcast, they finally reached an agreement.

The deal creates an investment fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine in exchange for access

to the country's minerals, oil and gas. It will still need to be approved by Parliament in Ukraine,

but the Ukrainian MP, Maria Metzenzeva, welcomed what she said were the improved terms of the

agreement. It's quite a good investment opportunity and a fair deal in the end where no sort of

deaths on military aid are mentioned.

Everything is done in a manner due to Ukrainian constitution

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