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Trump says '25% chance' Putin summit fails

The US president made the comment ahead of the US-Russia summit in Alaska on Friday.

The White House says President Trump will exhaust all options to end the Ukraine war, ahead of the US-Russia summit in Alaska on Friday. But Trump says there is a '25% chance' it will end in failure. President Putin has praised Trump's "sincere efforts" to end the conflict - with the Kremlin saying the leaders will discuss the situation in "one-on-one" talks. We speak to Ukrainians in America to get their views ahead of the summit.

Israel’s far right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, says his approval of plans to build more than 3000 homes in a West Bank settlement will “bury the idea of a Palestinian state”. We explain more.

And American scientists have used artificial intelligence to design two new potential antibiotics that can kill superbugs. Our health correspondent joins us.

OS presenter: Andrew Peach.

(Photo: Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump talk during a bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. Credit: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo)

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