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Speaker 1: Right now, we're going to Devin Gray, who's our UK correspondent,

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Speaker 1: Gavin good evening either right now. This is on the

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Speaker 1: ceasefire between the deal that apparently the Americans have been

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Speaker 1: trying to broke it between the Ukraine and Russia. The

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Speaker 1: UK has also been working behind the scenes in this.

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Speaker 2: That's what the government here has now revealed. It's saying

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Speaker 2: it's been really instrumental in trying to get the Americans

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Speaker 2: and the Ukrainians back in good favor with one another

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Speaker 2: after that disastrous press conference at the White House with

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Speaker 2: President Zelenski, jd Vance and Donald Trump, and certainly relations

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Speaker 2: do appear to be better. The BBC is reporting that

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Speaker 2: one of its sources has said that over the past

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Speaker 2: week there's been a concerted European effort led by Sekia

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Speaker 2: Stama to get America and Ukraine back in good favor.

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Speaker 2: So that potentially has been the background to what we're

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Speaker 2: now seeing with very much the focus and particular the

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Speaker 2: advice coming out of Europe that it's time to put

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Speaker 2: Russia on the back foot, and in effect, that is

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Speaker 2: what this announcement about a ceasefire has done, because now

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Speaker 2: what's Russia going to say, because if it refuses it,

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Speaker 2: then might that jeopardize its growing friendship as it were

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Speaker 2: with Donald Trump Mighty be so angry with them that

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Speaker 2: all his previous good words will be burnt. Or are

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Speaker 2: they going to sort of feel that they have to

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Speaker 2: accept it, in which case, at least we've got this

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Speaker 2: peace for thirty days, and in which case perhaps the

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Speaker 2: negotiations might continue afoot. No news from Russia yet. We

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Speaker 2: do know that on Saturday this weekend, Kirstama Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: will host a phone call of leaders. He's dubbed it

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Speaker 2: the Coalition of the Willing, and that is all about

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Speaker 2: this thought about peacekeeping efforts once peace is given in Ukraine,

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Speaker 2: and those efforts aimed at deterring the Russian president from

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Speaker 2: launching further incursions into Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Gevin, what more do we know about the man

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Speaker 1: who's been arrested over this ship collision.

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Speaker 2: Well, we know he's a fifty nine year old man.

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Speaker 2: Police are saying very little, but it's been reported that

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Speaker 2: he is the captain of the cargo ship that was

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Speaker 2: one of the two ships involved in the collision. The

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Speaker 2: Portuguese flagged So Long cargo ship collided with the US

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Speaker 2: registered Stena Immaculate in the North Sea early Monday morning

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Speaker 2: our time, and the US registered Stena Immaculate was anchored

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Speaker 2: at the time in other words, stationary, and the cargo

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Speaker 2: ship plowed into it at quite high speed, and it

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Speaker 2: was daylight, as I mentioned, ten in the morning. There

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Speaker 2: were pretty good conditions in terms of visibility. So the

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Speaker 2: question is how come and the captain we are hearing

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Speaker 2: has been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter, and

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Speaker 2: that is because there is one person still missing from

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Speaker 2: both crews. More than thirty were rescued, but one still missing,

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Speaker 2: and that person is now presumed dead. So the questioning continues.

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Speaker 2: The captain has been detained in custody and no doubt

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Speaker 2: still being questioned about what's been going on. Plus, of

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Speaker 2: course the analysis I dare say, of the various sort

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Speaker 2: of devices and black box type recordings that will be

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Speaker 2: on both ships at that time, but suffice to stay

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Speaker 2: still really concerning that one of the ships or both

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Speaker 2: the ships may sink. It is thought they are going

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Speaker 2: to try and slowly tug them using tugboats tow them

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Speaker 2: back into land. But yeah, big concern over what are

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Speaker 2: very very good fishing grounds and shellfish stocks and of

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Speaker 2: course all the BirdLife that uses that for breeding at

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Speaker 2: this particular time of year. So very very great dangers

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Speaker 2: of the environment at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely now, no one would need really around the world

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Speaker 1: wouldbed an island at Greenland's election. But we are all

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Speaker 1: paying attention. We've got results due out soon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have. So the voting finished about eight hours ago,

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Speaker 2: so eleven hours in total of voting at seventy two

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Speaker 2: polling stations and as you say, forty four thousand people

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Speaker 2: eligible vote, and frankly, it rarely gets to the news. It's,

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Speaker 2: like I said, a local council election in terms of size,

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Speaker 2: but because of Donald Trump's repeated interest in acquiring Greenland,

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Speaker 2: it's very much now in the spotlight. We do expect

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Speaker 2: the results soon and this could be really pivotal towards

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Speaker 2: the future direction for the Arctic territory. And the reason

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Speaker 2: is this, five out of the six parties in this

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Speaker 2: general election are all suggesting that basically Greenland becomes independent

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Speaker 2: from Denmark. Denmark has controlled Greenland for about three centuries,

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Speaker 2: and yet there is a distance of nearly three thousand

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Speaker 2: kilometers apart. And really, although it governs its own domestic affairs.

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Speaker 2: Greenland's decisions on foreign defense policies are made in Copenhagen

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Speaker 2: in Denmark, and the five of those six parties that

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Speaker 2: want independence only really differ on how quickly that independence

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Speaker 2: should come about. So a great deal at stake here

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Speaker 2: and as I said, being watched around the world, and

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Speaker 2: Darius it particularly by a certain mister d Trump.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Gevin, thank you very much for that. Devin Gray,

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Speaker 1: our UK correspondent.

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