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European leaders will hold 'coalition of the willing' talks on potential security guarantees for Ukraine, following reports that President Trump may back Russia's demand that Kyiv surrender control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as part of a peace deal. Veteran diplomat and former UK National Security Adviser Lord Ricketts tells us how Europe can attempt to influence the negotiations.

Also in the programme: we speak to the woman operating a secret network of girl schools in the Taliban's Afghanistan; and Musician 'Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly' tells us about the need to protect small music venues.

Joining Krupa Padhy is journalist and culture writer Ella Dorn, and Fuad Musallam, assistant professor of social anthropology at the University of Birmingham.

(Picture: France's President Emmanuel Macron, Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer react after a joint press conference following a meeting of the 'Coalition of the willing' at the Mariinskyi Palace, the official residence of the president of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, 10 May 2025; Credit: SERGEY DOLZHENKO/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)