Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. European Union leaders are urgently holding meetings to talk about President Trump's latest proposal for peace between Russia and Ukraine. Terry Schultz reports there will be a round of talks including European, U.S., and Ukrainian officials in Geneva tomorrow.
In a joint response to President Trump's 28-point plan to settle Russia's war on Ukraine, the EU, plus several European leaders, Canada and Japan, called the proposal a draft which will require additional work.
Chapter 2: What are the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine peace talks?
The group met on the sidelines of the G20 in Johannesburg. Their statement reiterated the principle that borders must not be changed by force and expresses concern about the Trump plan's proposed limitations on Ukraine's armed forces, which it says would leave Ukraine vulnerable to future attack.
It also emphasizes that any agreement that affects the EU and NATO would require consent from the multinational organizations. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz.
People who buy their own health insurance on healthcare.gov and those who get health insurance through work are facing higher costs next year. And Pierre-Selena Simmons-Duffin has more.
There's a common misconception that insurance company profits are the main driver of rising prices, says Cynthia Cox of the nonpartisan health research organization KFF. Instead, she says it's what doctors and hospitals charge that drives higher costs compared to other countries.
A hospital visit in the United States costs more. A doctor's visit costs more. The same prescription drug costs more.
She says it's not that Americans use more health care.
We have slightly fewer doctor's visits and slightly shorter hospital stays than people in similarly large and wealthy countries do.
Americans just pay more for the care that they do use. Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News.
Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested after a judge ordered his preventative arrest amid suspicions that he was about to flee. The far-right leader, a Trump ally, had been under house arrest since August, waiting for the final appeal stage over his prison sentence for trying to stage a coup. Julio Carneiro has more.
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