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Putin will avenge destruction of Russian warplanes by Ukraine warns Donald Trump | BBC News

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Vladimir Putin has said he will respond “very strongly” to Ukraine’s major drone attack on Russian airbases, US President Donald Trump has warned.

Speaking after a phone call with the Russian president, Trump said: “President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields.” Moscow said that military options were “on the table”.

Trump also said that his phone call Putin would not “lead to immediate peace” between Russia and Ukraine. Russian state media said Putin told Trump that Ukraine has tried to “disrupt” negotiations and that the government in Kyiv has “essentially turned into a terrorist organisation”.

It was the first conversation between the two leaders since Ukraine launched its surprise attack on Russian military airbases using drones, destroying what it said were nuclear-capable long-range bombers. Trump is reported to have told Putin in the call that the US was not warned in advance of the attack.

A week ago Trump appeared to set a two-week deadline for Putin, threatening to change how the US is responding to Russia if he believed Putin was “tapping” him along on peace efforts in Ukraine. It was one of a string of critical remarks by Trump, who on 26 May said that Putin had gone “absolutely crazy” and was “playing with fire”, after Russia stepped up drone and missile attacks on cities in Ukraine, killing dozens of civilians.

The leaders’ phone call comes days after a second round of direct peace talks in Istanbul between the warring sides ended without a breakthrough, although they agreed to swap more prisoners of war. Ukrainian negotiators said Russia had rejected an “unconditional ceasefire”, a key demand of Kyiv and its Western allies including the US.

Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Paul Adams in Kyiv and Gary O’Donoghue in Washington.

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It’s the latest example of an influencer’s digital persona disintegrating before our eyes. For several years, Angel Victoria Murdock has been portraying a life of self-made success, from real estate deals to a watchalong student experience at Duke University.

She curated hundreds of thousands of followers and even appeared on reality show Temptation Island – only, the majority of her online life appears to have been fabricated.

After being outed by real graduates of the programme she claimed to attend, Murdock’s profile has gone dark. On this episode, we examine her case, and the long line of predecessors who have leveraged a fake identity on social media.

Also this week, as long-time internet provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos cries foul over his deportation from the US, Matt and Marianna consider what his downfall tells us about the state of social media.

A man who forged a career from controversy, they discuss why the splintered conservative community may have united in abandoning him, and how cancel culture is evolving.

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Angel Victoria Murdock Exposed
17:58 Milo Yiannopoulos’s downfall

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A little-known chapter of D-Day history has now become a major film. Three days before the Allied landings, the weather looked …

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Is Gen Z getting less intelligent? | BBC News

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Reading, maths and science scores in PISA, the world’s biggest international test of 15-year-olds, are falling. The downward trend started around 2012 and seems to be accelerating, particularly in reading. Here we explore some of the theories about what’s causing the decline.

00:00 Why are Gen Z’s test scores falling?
00:31 What the PISA test results measure
01:08 Is Covid to blame?
02:00 Did technology change learning?
02:37 The sharp decline in reading skills
03:24 How are screens in classrooms linked to test scores?
04:17 School tech use in Singapore is high, and so are PISA scores
04:28 Schools around the world use tech in different ways
04:55 The unanswered questions about Gen Z and tech
05:33 Do screens affect our attention spans?
06:02 Is this just a Gen Z issue?
06:23 The world is changing and there many factors involved

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