RT News - August 17 2025 (10:00 MSK)

Handshakes amid hopes for peace. Vladimir Putin hails his historic meeting with Donald Trump as frank and comprehensive, and says both sides are on the same page on many matters. The carnage continues in Gaza. The body count rises in the enclave amid relentless Israeli assaults and increasingly tough living conditions caused by suffocating heat and hunger. Keeping eyes on the spies. Scrutiny mounts on the UK's surveillance missions over Gaza. It follows the IDF's targeted killing of four Al Jazeera journalists in the embattled enclave.