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Four years this week after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has sent a message of defiance, telling the BBC that Ukraine will end the war victorious.

In a special interview to mark the anniversary, President Zelensky said he was against paying the price for a ceasefire deal demanded by President Vladimir Putin, by withdrawing from strategic ground that Russia has failed to capture despite sacrificing tens of thousands of soldiers.

The US President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested that Ukraine has no choice but to give up control of some land in exchange for peace. However Zelensky said that the Russian President Vladimir had started World War Three with his invasion of Ukraine, and the only answer was intense military and economic pressure to force him to step back.

"I believe that Putin has already started it. The question is how much territory he will be able to seize and how to stop him... Russia wants to impose on the world a different way of life and change the lives people have chosen for themselves”, he said.

Asked about Russia's demand for Ukraine to hand over the 20% of the eastern region of Donetsk that it still holds - a line of towns Ukraine calls "fortress cities" - as well as more land in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Zelensky said:

"I don't look at it simply as land. I see it as abandonment - weakening our positions, abandoning hundreds of thousands of our people who live there. That is how I see it. And I am sure that this 'withdrawal' would divide our society."

Ukraine’s president rejected the suggestion that it might be a good price to pay, if it satisfied Russia’s leader and finally ended the war. "It would probably satisfy him for a while... he needs a pause... but once he recovers, our European partners say it could take three to five years. In my opinion, he could recover in no more than a couple of years. Where would he go next? We do not know, but that he would want to continue is a fact.”

Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Jeremy Bowen, in Kyiv.

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Mexico's most wanted man and the leader of the feared Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) drug cartel has been killed during a security operation to arrest him, the defence ministry has said.

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho", died on Sunday as he was being taken to the capital Mexico City, after being seriously injured in clashes between his supporters and the army.

Four CJNG members were killed in the town of Tapalpa, the central-western Jalisco state. Three army personnel were also injured. The US had given Mexico with information that assisted the operation.

CJNG retaliated by setting cars alight, building roadblocks and attacking security forces in eight states.

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo later urged people to remain "calm".

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An armed man has been shot dead after entering the secure perimeter of US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, the Secret Service has said.

The man was carrying a shotgun and fuel can when he was stopped and shot by Secret Service agents and a Sheriff's deputy, authorities said.

The incident happened around 01:30 ET (06:30 GMT) on Sunday morning, when the president was in Washington DC.

The suspect's identity has not been released yet but he was white and in his early 20s, officers said.

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Gordon Brown has reportedly demanded a police investigation into the use of RAF bases.

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Today, we discuss a report in the Sunday Telegraph that Gordon Brown has demanded a police investigation into whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor used taxpayer-funded jets and RAF bases to meet the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The former PM says he’s sent a five-page memorandum to the Metropolitan, Surrey, Sussex Thames Valley and other UK police constabularies.

Laura and Paddy are joined by Henry Zeffman to discuss why he’s turned investigator, what it means for the Royal Family, and whether rules around the line of succession should be changed.

Ahead of the Government’s Schools White Paper on Monday, we also discuss some of Labour’s proposed changes to special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support, as well as Kemi Badenoch’s vow to lower interest on some student loans which she says feel "increasingly feel like a scam".

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Students at several universities in Iran have staged anti-government protests - the first such rallies on this scale since January's deadly crackdown by the authorities.

The BBC has verified footage of demonstrators marching on the campus of the Sharif University of Technology in the capital Tehran on Saturday. They were later seen scuffling with government supporters.

Protests were also reported at other universities in Tehran and elsewhere - with students gathering to honour thousands of those killed by authorities last month.

It comes as the US builds up its military presence near Iran, with President Donald Trump saying he is considering a limited military strike.

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Lego recently announced the release of their smart brick in the hope of bringing their offer into the digital age.

The brick responds to movement with lights and sounds, whilst also knowing where it’s been placed and reacting accordingly.

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The F1 movie's VFX supervisor speaks to BBC Tech Now about their ultimate goal, which was for audiences to walk out of the theatre not having any idea that the effects were there at all.

The Oscar-nominated F1 movie has around 2,500 visual effects shots, including CGI racing cars, tracks and weather conditions.

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The US Supreme Court has ruled to block President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, what happens now?

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Today, Laura and Paddy are joined by Gary O'Donoghue, Chief North America correspondent to discuss the US Supreme Court’s decision and what Donald Trump's 'Plan B' is.

After today's recording, Donald Trump increased tariffs to 15%, one day after a US Supreme Court decision struck down his sweeping import taxes

They also discussed Laura's interview with former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Tony Radakin ahead of the four-year anniversary of the beginning of the full scale invasion of Ukraine. Boris Johnson said the UK and its allies “did not take strong enough action,” and the UK and its allies should deploy non-combat troops to Ukraine right now.

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US President Donald Trump has said that he will impose global tariffs of 15%, as he continued to rail against a Supreme Court ruling that struck down his previous import taxes.

Trump said on Friday that he would replace the tariffs scrapped by the court with a 10% levy on all goods coming into the US.

But on Saturday, he announced on Truth Social that this would be increased to the maximum allowed under a never-used trade law.

These will come into force on Tuesday 24 February and can only stay in place for around five months before the administration must seek congressional approval.

Trump said his administration had reached the decision following a review of the "ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday".

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Reporting for BBC Tech Now, Shiona McCallum speaks to patients, and to the researchers behind the £2m study who say it is the largest trial of brain stimulation and stroke ever conducted.

Exploring the latest 'at home' technology to help stroke survivors regain hand and arm movement.

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