Trump's envoy meets Putin

Russia has released a 74-year-old American citizen who was jailed for allegedly fighting on behalf of Ukraine, as President Vladimir Putin met US envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg for talks. A US official says President Putin accepted a proposal for a technical level trilateral meeting.

International governments and agencies have urged websites to address two critical cyber-security flaws in a programming language which powers much of the internet. We have the latest.

The BBC has spoken to several tech workers who have either recently resigned from Google's AI company, Google DeepMind, or are in the process of leaving, over concerns with the tech firm's military contracts. We speak to our reporter.

An endangered shark has been successfully guided out of a canal in South Korea where it had been trapped for several weeks. We speak to our reporter.

Phil Haines, husband of MP Helen Haines, confirms she has had to have both legs amputated. Brendan Nugent has been charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury, intentionally causing serious injury, and causing harm to a Commonwealth public official. We speak to three Australian MPs about their security.

Presenter: James Reynolds.

(Phone: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, Russian Federation - 21 Oct 2026. Credit: Kristina Solovyova/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL/EPA)