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BreakingNews.ie
6 minutes ago
- BreakingNews.ie
Putin and Zelenskiy to meet, Donald Trump says following European leaders summit
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet, Donald Trump has said following a White House summit with European leaders aimed at bringing an end to the war in Ukraine. The US president spoke directly with the Russian president to begin planning a meeting between the two warring leaders, which will then be followed by a three-way meeting involving himself. Advertisement It comes after Mr Trump said Moscow will 'accept' multinational efforts to guarantee Ukraine's security while hosting several European leaders including the Ukrainian President, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and Nato secretary general Mark Rutte. Posting on his Truth Social platform after the meeting, Mr Trump said he and the eight leaders discussed security guarantees before he called the Russian president. He described the meeting as 'very good' and said: 'During the meeting we discussed security guarantees for Ukraine, which guarantees would be provided by the various European countries, with a coordination with the United States of America. 'Everyone is happy about the possibility of PEACE for Russia/Ukraine. Advertisement 'At the conclusion of the meetings, I called president Putin and began arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between president Putin and president Zelenskiy. 'After the meeting takes place, we will have a trilat which would be the two presidents plus myself.' Before the White House talks, the US president said he would 'probably' be able to find common ground with the leaders on a plan to ward off future attacks on Ukraine. He previously met with Mr Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday, where he declared there was 'no deal until there's a deal' to end more than three years of fighting in eastern Europe. Advertisement 'The Alaska summit reinforced my belief that while difficult, peace is within reach and I believe, in a very significant step, President Putin agreed that Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine,' Mr Trump said on Monday. 'And this is one of the key points that we need to consider.' He later said: 'We also need to discuss the possible exchanges of territory taken into consideration the current line of contact.' Mr Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, had suggested measures similar to Nato's article five mutual defence provision – that an attack on one member is an attack on the entire bloc – could be offered by the US without Kyiv joining the alliance. Advertisement 'We were able to win the following concession: that the United States could offer article five-like protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in Nato,' Mr Witkoff told CNN over the weekend, as he spoke about the Alaska summit. Future three-way talks 'have a good chance' of stopping the conflict, the US president claimed. But the president appeared to share conflicting views on whether a ceasefire was necessary to stop the war. 'I don't think you need a ceasefire,' he had originally said, before later explaining that, 'all of us would obviously prefer an immediate ceasefire while we work on a lasting peace'. Advertisement Starmer welcomed plans for a security guarantee, after Mr Trump introduced him at the negotiating table as a 'friend'. The Prime Minister said: 'Your indication of security guarantees, of some sort of article five-style guarantees, fits with what we've been doing with the coalition of the willing which we started some months ago, bringing countries together and showing that we were prepared to step up to the plate when it came to security. United States President Donald J Trump leads European leaders, including Keir Starmer, in the Cross Hall of the White House (Aaron Schwartz/PA) 'With you coming alongside, the US alongside, what we've already developed, I think we could take a really important step forward today – a historic step, actually, could come out of this meeting in terms of security for Ukraine and security in Europe.' Mr Starmer also described potential future trilateral talks as appearing to be a 'sensible next step' and continued: 'So, thank you for being prepared to take that forward, because I think if we can ensure that that is the progress out of this meeting – both security guarantees and some sort of progress on (a) trilateral meeting of some sort to bring some of the difficult issues to a head – then I think today will be seen as a very important day in recent years.' The PA news agency understands the British Prime Minister disrupted his holiday plans over the weekend to join calls, including with Mr Trump and Mr Zelenskiy, before he headed to Washington, as reported in The Times. Mr Zelenskiy, whom Mr Trump greeted at the door of the West Wing with a handshake earlier in the evening, wore a black shirt with buttons and a black blazer to the meeting at the White House. His attire had appeared to become a point of irritation for Mr Trump during a previous meeting in February. Early in the meeting, the Ukrainian described the talks as 'really good', saying they had been 'the best' so far. Mr Zelenskiy said: 'We are very happy with the president that all the leaders are here and security in Ukraine depends on the United States and on you and on those leaders who are with us in our hearts.'
The Guardian
8 minutes ago
- The Guardian
Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy review – the details are so sad … but are we really shocked?
There is a reason the sitcom Friends was so popular from the off and became such a juggernaut so quickly. The writing was brilliant, and the six actors in it were astonishing individually and even better together. Comedy is alchemical, and they transmuted gold into pure joy. Matthew Perry formed one sixth of the troupe as Chandler Bing. Every actor had their particular strength and his was perhaps to be the nimblest, the most alive to the currents crisscrossing any scene he was in. He was the only one of the cast allowed in the writers' room to contribute, and from that maybe we can infer he was the most naturally funny off set too. Certainly his timing, even in the extraordinary company he kept, was immaculate. And now we know that the rumours of addiction that plagued him during the filming and broadcast of later seasons were true. As he put it in the autobiography he published in 2022, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, when Chandler was overweight, Perry was on the booze; when he was skinny, it was pills. But it was almost always something. A year after the book came out, Perry, 54, was found dead – drowned in his pool after suffering the acute effects of ketamine use. Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy, an hour-long documentary imported from the US by ITV, covers this sad story much as you might expect. There is footage from Friends' glory days, plus telling footage of the battery of paparazzi yelling for his attention every time he stepped out in public. There are clips of interviews with his castmates lauding his talents back in the day, and grief-stricken ones from his great friend Hank Azaria and others after his death. Azaria is on the verge of tears as he remembers how Perry would floor his friends with laughter when he was healthy, and how so many of those who loved him felt they had lost him years before to his demons. There are excerpts from the audio version of his book read by Perry himself, which supply glimpses of his inner torment and memories of the aspects of his childhood to which he attributes his vulnerability to addiction; and portions of interviews where you see his charm and some of his pain. There is not much of his work in Friends on display, but such was – and remains – the pervasiveness of the show that perhaps it wasn't felt necessary to remind us. Morgan Fairchild, who played Chandler's mother in the series, contributes some nice and not excessively saccharine memories of him as an actor and of the difficulty in making a difference to someone who is not yet ready to deal with his problems. Still, it feels like the background is being skimped to get to the 'good' stuff: the criminal investigation sparked by his death and the recent charges brought against five people for supplying the ketamine that led to Perry's death. Again, this is covered much as you might expect. Talking heads from the world of entertainment journalism are interwoven with accounts from retired LAPD officers explaining how police procedures work, and the district attorney in charge of the case is on hand in the sharpest of suits to explain how they discovered – and you're hardly going to believe this, I know – a network of suppliers in Los Angeles that were able to get a celebrity as much of his chosen narcotic as he asked for, often at inflated prices. One of the doctors allegedly involved in the chain messages another: 'I wonder how much this moron will pay … Let's find out.' The headshaking at this lack of respect between a man and his cash cow becomes almost comical. Amid the accumulating disingenuousness, the documentary does have the grace to include the name of Cody McLaury, whose death has also been attributed to ketamine supposedly supplied by one of the five suspects in Perry's case, and to include a comment from one of the contributors that it was surely largely because of Perry's fame that a criminal investigation was launched into the actor's death at all. The film ends, however, with unexpected delicacy, closing with the shot of a card left with flowers at his home by one of Perry's many fans. 'Thank you for making me laugh,' it says. 'I'm glad Chandler got the happy ending you deserved.' A grace note Perry surely earned. Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy aired on ITV1 and is on ITVX now. In the US, it is available to stream on Peacock.
The Independent
35 minutes ago
- The Independent
JD Vance's silence during Trump-Zelensky meeting praised online: ‘See how much smoother things go'
U.S. vice president J.D. Vance was notably quiet during a summit with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday — and social media users across the political spectrum are very happy about it. Numerous posts on X (formerly Twitter) and its more liberal rival Bluesky expressed relief or gratitude that Donald Trump's second in command had, in the words of one user, "kept his dumb mouth shut". It was a marked contrast to what happened when Zelensky last visited the White House in March, in which Vance berated the Ukrainian president for not saying 'thank you' more. "Things go a little better when J.V. [sic] keeps his trap shut and doesn't try to act tough," wrote one anti-Trump U.S. conservative on X. "I think they super-glued Vance's mouth shut. But overall that went better than I expected," said another, Trump-supporting user. Democratic influencer Majid Padellan agreed, saying: "What a difference it makes when Trump is hemmed in by the adults in the room and J.D. Vance is sitting at the kids' table instead of trying to ambush Zelensky." Others said they were happy that Vance had 'kept quiet', 'remained silent', 'kept his mouth shut', and refrained from making 'smart-ass 'look at me' comment[s]'. Users from outside the USA also chimed in. "Thank god that Vance wasn't allowed to say anything," said Estonian entrepreneur Alvar Laigna on X. "See how much smoother things go when J.D. Vance stays silent," said another user, seemingly from the UK. One Canadian commented that "Vance is being awfully quiet, like a good little boy", while a Swedish speaker on Bluesky declared: "Any time Vance stays silent is a win for humanity." Monday's meeting was relatively cordial, ending with both Trump and Zelensky expressing willingness to engage in trilateral peace talks with Russia. Trump even refused to rule out sending U.S. troops to the region in order to enforce any peace deal — something Russia has said it would oppose.
