Celia Hatton

Kyiv sanoi, että se käsittelee uudistuksia. Se käsittelee paljon uudistuksia energia-infrastruktuurista, mutta uudistukset ovat nyt tapahtuneet. Siksi Viktor Orbán huomioi, kuten sanoin, että ulkoinen pääministeri, että se, mitä hän on laittanut EU-loonille Ukrainiin, on se, että hän on aloittanut sen, koska hän on aiemmin laittanut sen, joka vaikuttaa EU-lehtorille yhdessä Euroopan kansalaisuudessa.

Interesting. I mean, Jessica, you're speaking to me from Kiev right now. How important is this loan to Ukraine?

It's a big chunk of money in the scheme of things for Ukraine. It's been described by senior government officials as a matter of life and death for Kyiv. We're now into the fifth year of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In terms of how that money is going to be divvied up, it's set to be given to Kyiv over the next two years, 2026-2027.

Me ymmärrämme, että 2,3 prosenttia tulee auttamaan ukrainalaisen edistämisestä, ja seuraava vaihe menee ympäristöasioihin Ukrainaan. Uskon, että Ukraina on kuitenkin kuitenkin kuitenkin kuitenkin kuitenkin kuitenkin kuitenkin kuitenkin kuitenkin kuitenkin kuitenkin

Jessica Parker Kiivissä. Katsotaan nyt Hormuzin ristiriitaa. Vaikka säästö on olemassa Iranin ristiriitaan, se on vielä ristiriita. Tämä on Iranian state news report.

Kiitos.

This development comes after Donald Trump announced he was extending the ceasefire with Tehran indefinitely, but continuing the US blockade of Iranian ports until Tehran came up with a unified proposal for peace. Our Middle East analyst Sebastian Usher told me more about the significance of these attacks.

So where are we now? We've been talking about whether the talks will happen. We've also been talking about whether outright conflict will take place again. I mean, Donald Trump says the ceasefire will last until peace talks conclude. But if attacks like these continue in the strait, do you think the ceasefire will hold?

But what about Iran's strategy? What is Iran's strategy? Tehran's been putting off a second round of negotiations. Is time in their favor right now? The Iranians are famous for their use of delay tactics.

Sebastian Ascher, staying with the war, there's been no formal response yet from Iran on the ceasefire extension at the time of this podcast recording. Our chief international correspondent Lise Doucette is in Tehran, where she's been getting reaction to the prospect of further talks with the U.S.,

It's a warm spring day and we've come to Sana'i Street, named after an Iranian poet here in central Tehran. And that's just, here's a shoe shop. Let's go in there. The owner is putting out the awning. Salaam, salaam. Can I ask your first name? I'm Mohammed. Mohammed, and this is your dad? Mustafa. Mustafa, Mustafa. How long have you had this shop? Forty years. Forty years? Wow, family business. Yes.

How is business now? It's not really good, but we are happy right now. You're happy that you can come back to work? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you have many customers? Before many, now not. And why? Bad economy. The bad economy, people don't have money. And what about the ceasefire? We are happy about war.

Oletko isä? Oletko ystävä? Oletko ystävä? Miksi olet onnellinen? En voi sanoa, miksi olen onnellinen. Haluatko, että maa jatkuu? Ekonominen tilanne on pysynyt jatkuvasti ja me olemme todella tyytyväisiä siitä. Joten jotkut luovat, että jos maa jatkuu, ehkä sen jälkeen asiat muuttuvat.

Hei! Mitä nimiä sinulla on? Shala. Ja sinulla on pöytäpöytä, pöytäpöytäpöytä ja listaa. Tässä on sinun kaupungin listasi. Mikä se on kaupungin aikana nyt? Se ei ole kaupungin.

Some of these sentiments may surprise you, but Iranians are exhausted. Exhausted by nuclear negotiations, which have dominated their lives for decades, by international sanctions, by tensions with the wider world. As you've been hearing, they just want to get on with their lives.

Lise Doucette in Tehran. And we'll note, Lise is reporting from inside Iran, on condition that none of her material is used on the BBC's Persian service. Similar restrictions apply to all international media organizations operating there.

To Sudan now, in its continuing civil war. New evidence has emerged about the fall of the key city of Al-Fasher in late October to the RSF, or Rapid Support Forces. Thousands of civilians died in horrific circumstances in the battle for control of that city.

A report by the security analysis organization, the Conflict Insights Group, says the fighters involved in that battle included soldiers for hire from Colombia, who were backed by the United Arab Emirates. The takeover of the city of Al-Fasher followed an 18-month siege that isolated civilians, often depriving them of food, water and humanitarian assistance.

Report says the Emirates and the Colombian soldiers share responsibility for RSF atrocities committed during the takeover, one of the most brutal chapters of Sudan's civil war. Justin Lynch is the co-director of the Conflict Insights Group that produced today's report.

I heard more from our Africa correspondent Barbara Platt-Usher about what the report says about the Colombian mercenaries' involvement in Sudan. Well Celia, the Conflict Insights Group is a data analysis private entity which basically researches conflict.