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I'm Emily Thomas and at 16 hours GMT on Wednesday the 4th of February, these are our main stories. There's little hope of a breakthrough between warring Russia and Ukraine at peace talks in Abu Dhabi. Dozens of people are feared dead and the death toll is still rising after armed gangs attacked a remote village in central Nigeria. And women are for the first time officially allowed to ride motorbikes in Iran.

It's not been the best start to peace talks to try to end the war in Ukraine nearly four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Ukrainian and Russian negotiators are in Abu Dhabi for the US-brokered negotiations, but the Kremlin said that the war will continue until Kiev agrees to Moscow's terms. President Putin wants the land his forces have captured and more. President Zelensky has rejected any withdrawal of Ukrainian forces.

In the meantime, Russia is continuing to attack Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Irina Vovk is a resident in Kiev.

And now I'm thinking that maybe in some days later I must go to the village to my parents, because here in Kiev living is very awful. So what hope is there for the latest talks? General Keith Kellogg was President Trump's envoy to Ukraine until his term ended last month. He said Ukraine might have to give up some land, at least in the short term.

On Wednesday afternoon the regional governor in Donetsk said that at least seven people were killed in Russian attacks in the town of Drivkivka. Vitaly Shevchenko is Russia editor at BBC Monitoring. Alex Ritson asked him what's been happening at the peace talks.

All we've been hearing are rather vague statements, Alex. The Ukrainians are saying that the negotiators are going to divide into two working groups. One presumably, as far as we know, focusing on military issues, i.e. who controls Donbass, and the other group focusing on political issues, such as

whether an election of some sort will be held in Ukraine at some point in the future. But that's guesswork. In terms of what's expected, very little. I've seen leaks in the media suggesting that a prisoner exchange is possible tomorrow. But as we've just heard, it's not a very good beginning to the talks with continued Russian attacks on Ukraine.

Donetsk on Donbassin eteläisessä alueessa, jota Russia haluaa. Mitä olet kuullut tästä viimeisestä sääntöstä?

I'm looking at the latest telegram post by Vadim Filashkin, the head of Donetsk region, which is at the heart of these talks in Abu Dhabi today. He's saying the latest is seven people dead, 15 injured. The demographic of the dead and injured reflects who's still there. The oldest casualty, the person who was killed, is 81 years old. When negotiators are talking about Donbass and Donetsk,