Nick Miles
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African leaders at a summit in Ethiopia have agreed to increase their health budget and taxes to compensate for a freeze on foreign aid by the United States. The latest figures from South Korea indicate that the suicide epidemic among young people is continuing despite efforts to address it. Also in this podcast. Well, if you're familiar with YouTube, you may have heard that video.
Believe it or not, the video sharing platform is 20 years old. The future of Ukraine took centre stage at the International Security Conference in the German city of Munich on Friday. It came after several days of speculation about how President Trump's telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday might be the start of a process that will end the conflict.
On the sidelines of the conference, the US Vice President J.D. Vance told reporters that Washington could impose economic sanctions on Russia if it refuses to agree what he called a good peace deal that guarantees Kyiv's long-term independence. There are economic tools of leverage, he said, and there are, of course, also military tools of leverage the US could use.
Later, he addressed the delegates at the meeting.
So the emphasis there was on American expectations of more military spending by Europe. Well, later in the day, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, met the US vice president at the Munich conference. Mr Zelensky said they'd had a good conversation and that it would not be their last.
He said they needed to prepare a plan on how to stop President Putin and finish the war with Russia and that President Trump was key to making that happen.
The head of the European Commission is Ursula von der Leyen.
Ursula von der Leyen. Our chief international correspondent Lise Doucette is covering the conference. Sumi Sumaskanda asked her what the mood among the delegates in Munich was like.
Lise Doucette in Munich. As President Zelensky prepared for his visit to Munich, the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine was targeted in a drone strike in the early hours of Friday morning. Russia has denied any knowledge of the attack, but Mr Zelensky said it showed President Putin was definitely not preparing for negotiations, but instead continuing to deceive the world.
A protective shelter that covers the remains of a destroyed reactor at the nuclear power plant was damaged. The shield was built to prevent radiation from spreading after the Chernobyl reactor melted down in 1986. The International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, said the explosion caused a fire in the structure, which has since been extinguished.
The radiation levels inside and outside the building were currently normal. With his assessment of how optimistic people in Kiev are feeling about an end to the war, here's our Ukraine correspondent, James Waterhouse.
James Waterhouse in Ukraine. Next to Ethiopia and African Union leaders meeting in Addis Ababa have agreed to increase taxes and government budgets to create alternative health care funds on the continent following the USAID funding freeze by the United States.
Many African countries rely on USAID and other donors to provide billions of dollars for programmes including those tackling malaria and HIV. Will Bain spoke to Dr Jean Kesea, Director General of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, who's at the conference.
Dr Jean Kesea, Director General of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. It was an attack by one man alone. That is the conclusion. Prosecutors in Germany have drawn after an asylum seeker from Afghanistan had driven a car into a crowd in Munich on Thursday.
The prosecutors say the man, identified as Farhad N, had no links to any terrorist groups, but that he appears to have had a religious motivation. At least 36 people have been injured in the attack. Two people, including a two-year-old girl, are in a critical condition. Our Berlin correspondent Damien McGuinness reports.
Damien McGuinness, next to the Democratic Republic of Congo. And there's growing panic among residents of the city of Bukavu as M23 rebels close in on the city. Two nearby towns and the airport serving Bukavo who have been captured by rebel forces. The advance comes as African heads of state are due to discuss the crisis at an AU summit in Ethiopia this weekend.
I got this update from our Africa regional editor, Will Ross.
Meanwhile, Will, the World Health Organization is saying that fighting has caused a number of patients with the Mpox virus to flee hospitals in the eastern part of the DRC. What do we know?
Our Africa regional editor, Will Ross. YouTube is 20 years old. The video sharing platform was created at a time when broadcasting was confined to expensive TV studios. But not many people would have predicted the way it's turned the world of entertainment on its head. This report by Alfie Habersham.
Alfie Habershon reporting. Still to come.
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