内容摘要：US President Donald Trump confronted South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday over widely discredited claims that genocide is being committed against white people.

US President Donald Trump confronted South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday over widely discredited claims that genocide is being committed against white people.

The day Witkoff flew to Moscow, on the edge of the city, peace was shattered.A car bomb killed a senior Russian general.

Yaroslav Moskalik was deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff. The Kremlin accused Kyiv of assassinating him.If that's true, it's a sign of how Russia's war in Ukraine has come much closer to home.There is no guarantee that talks between Putin and Witkoff will bring peace. And there will be concern in Kyiv and in Europe that they were not at the table.

What is clear is that Putin and Trump are determined to bring their countries closer - whatever happens with the Ukraine peace process.For Moscow and Washington, now their watchword is co-operation.

On Friday, I attended a ceremony at a Moscow military park symbolising this.

It marked the moment, 80 years ago, when American and Soviet soldiers met on the Elbe River in the dying days of World War Two. That was a time when Russia and America were allies.– plane journeys into the storms as they approach land to inform preparations for landfall.

And scientists have spoken of other reductions in atmospheric observations, such as weather balloon launches, with the Trump administration reportedly attempting to cut anything related to "climate".Hurricane forecasts have generally become more accurate over time, but there are fears that these cuts could put that progress at risk.

"Less data means a worse forecast," warned Matt Lanza, a Houston-based meteorologist."I'm especially concerned about hurricane season because a lot of the steering mechanisms that direct hurricanes are governed by what's happening thousands of feet up," he added.