US President Donald Trump insists that Russian leader Vladimir Putin would allow peacekeepers into Ukraine as part of a deal to end the war.

But how would that work and would it be risky having soldiers from European nations on Russia’s doorstep?

Today, Russia expert Matthew Sussex on the three-year anniversary and what version of peace the US and Russian leaders are aiming for. 

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Matthew Sussex, associate professor at the Centre for European Studies at the Australian National University

Labor and the opposition are in furious agreement, each committing to boost funding for Medicare to stop the decline in the number of GPs bulk billing.

But what was behind the fall in the first place and can $8.5 billion fix it? 

Today, health economist Stephen Duckett on how the bulk billing incentive policy could work and whether your GP is about to offer bulk billing. 

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Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor in the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne

You’ve heard of IVF, now scientists are working on the next generation of reproductive technology, called IVG or in vitro gametogenesis. 

It’s technology to produce eggs and sperm in a lab, possibly from just the skin cells of a prospective parent. 

It would, in theory, allow three people to create a baby or even just one person, alone. 

Today, Dr Alexandra Harvey, a senior research scientist with Melbourne IVF on the science behind it and the ethical dilemmas it will bring.

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Dr Alexandra Harvey, senior research scientist at Melbourne IVF

Donald Trump declared Ukraine had started the war with Russia and labelled its leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a dictator. 

Trump’s vice president JD Vance has thrown his support behind far-right parties in Germany.

At the same time, talks on ending the war in Ukraine began with only the US and Moscow at the table. 

It was a week where we saw an extraordinary shift in American foreign policy, which led to European leaders holding crisis talks. 

Today, Samir Puri, director of Chatham House’s centre for global governance and security on how it all unfolded and the consequences that could follow.  

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Dr Samir Puri, Director of the Centre for Global Governance and Security at Chatham House and author of Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing

The RBA’s interest rate cut has been largely welcomed but it won’t make much difference to the family budget. 

So, why is there speculation that the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese might call an early election because of it?

Today, we speak to someone whose life was upended by the 13 interest rate rises and to a pollster about why Labor’s finding it hard to convince voters it’s not to blame for the financial pain.  

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‘Jane’, former home owner

Kos Samaras, former Labor strategist and director of the RedBridge Group

It’s almost three years since the Reserve Bank began the most aggressive cash rate hiking cycle in its history to combat surging inflation.

Now, Australia’s central bank has delivered a slight reprieve to borrowers, taking 25 basis points off the interest rate for mortgages, once the banks pass it on. 

Today, the ABC’s finance expert Alan Kohler on what it means for households and when the next cut might be. 

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Alan Kohler, ABC finance expert

Within hours of its release, the Chinese-owned AI chatbot called DeepSeek became one of the most downloaded apps in the world.

Most commentators say it performs just as well as the market-leader ChatGPT, but should we be wary of it? 

Each time users open it up and type something into that box, the app is gathering information and sending it back to servers in China. 

Today, ABC technology reporter Ange Lavoipierre on why the Australian government has banned it on its devices and whether the rest of us should avoid using it. 

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Ange Lavoipierre, ABC national technology reporter

Emily’s son loved sport, animals, reading and music, but when he turned 16, everything changed. 

He started to get obsessed by politics and thought the country was headed in the wrong direction. 

It wasn’t until his mother saw a photo of her son on the news that she realised he’d joined a neo-Nazi group. 

Emily hopes a deradicalisation program will keep her son safe from extremists, but there’s concern about the availability and quality of the services. 

Today, Four Corners reporter Avani Dias on Emily’s case and a rise in extremism among young Australians.   

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Avani Dias, Four Corners reporter

Donald Trump says negotiations to end the war in Ukraine have begun and both Russia and Ukraine want peace. 

The US president chose to call the instigator of the war Vladimir Putin first to discuss a potential deal, raising fears he’ll push Ukraine to the sidelines. 

The US is already insisting that Ukraine can’t restore its territory to what it had in 2014 and it says Ukraine won’t join the NATO military alliance. 

Today, international relations expert Rajan Menon on what peace might really look like under Trump. 

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Rajan Menon, professor emeritus of international relations at the City College of New York and senior research scholar at Columbia University

Two nurses from a Sydney hospital have been stood down while police and the health department investigate them for making threatening comments about Israelis. 

One says they’ll refuse to treat Israeli patients and the other even claims he’s killed Israeli patients.

NSW Health Minister Ryan Park said the comments made by the pair were "vile, dehumanising and unacceptable".

Today, Deborah Stone from The Jewish Independent news website on the footage and the response to it. 

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Deborah Stone, editor-in-chief of The Jewish Independent