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President Trump is backing a big broadcast merger.

Bloomberg's Monica Ricks reports.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will discuss the U.S.-Iran negotiations with President Trump in person next week.

The leaders' February 11th meeting in Washington will follow the launch of indirect talks between Trump's envoys and the Iranian foreign minister in Oman, which the U.S.

administration said were focused on capping Tehran's nuclear program.

Israel, with U.S.

reinforcement, bombed Iranian nuclear sites during a 12-day war in June and favors further action to deny its arch foe the means to threaten its existence.

Trump spoke with reporters on Air Force One Friday evening.

Israel sees the current diplomacy launched after Trump threatened Iran's leaders over their bloody crackdown on domestic protests as a chance for more sweeping countermeasures and even regime change.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says the U.S.

is proposing to finish all necessary negotiations to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine in June.

Zelensky said that the next round of peace talks aimed at ending Russia's four-year invasion may happen in about a week amid another proposed energy truce.

Zelensky says the Ukrainian team has already accepted the invitation.

The U.S.

plans to convene the first formal meeting of President Trump's Board of Peace in Washington on February 19th.

The board was a core element of Trump's 20-point plan that helped broker a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas in October.

Trump led the initial gathering of the group's members, about 20 nations including Belarus, Azerbaijan and Hungary, in Davos, Switzerland in January on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.

Initially, the White House described it as a narrow oversight body to help guide Gaza through disarmament and a technocratic transition, and it won U.N.