The summit has not been set in stone, but if Russia's Vladimir Putin does go to Budapest to meet US President Trump in the next two weeks, he would need to clear a few hurdles first.

When Putin travelled to Alaska for his Anchorage summit in August, the US granted special permission for the presidential plane - a modified Ilyushin Il-96 airliner dubbed the "Flying Kremlin" that has four engines and is bristling with defence systems.

Russian planes are banned from US air space, and from EU air space too. So if Putin does fly to Budapest he would need special dispensation if he decided to fly over an EU member state.

It is perfectly possible, but landlocked Hungary is not the easiest destination to get to for a Russian president who rarely sets foot abroad and has not travelled to the EU for years.

"For now, of course, it's not clear," says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. "What we do have is the willingness of the presidents to hold such a meeting."

Days after Putin ordered Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the EU froze the assets of both its leader and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

A blanket ban was also imposed on all Russian aircraft flying through the airspace of all 27 EU countries. Hungary and many of its neighbours are Nato member states too.

Putin has also been accused by the International Criminal Court of war crimes of unlawfully deporting and transferring of Ukrainian children to Russia.

So there are complications, although Hungary believes they can all be sorted out. Hungary is in the process of pulling out of the ICC anyway.

Putin and Hungary's Viktor Orban, probably his closest ally in the EU, have already discussed the planned summit over the phone, and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has told reporters "we will of course ensure that he can enter Hungary, hold successful talks here, and then return home".

The EU is unlikely to create obstacles either.

Its executive commission has said any meeting that moves forward "a just and lasting peace for Ukraine" is welcome and it supports President Trump's efforts towards that.

One of the main drivers for its latest proposed sanctions on Russia - the 19th package so far - is to bring the Russians to the negotiating table, it says. And it points out there's no travel ban on Putin, only an asset freeze.

The biggest sticking point is how Russia's leader will fly from Moscow to Budapest. Clearly he will not be buying an Air Serbia ticket to Belgrade and catching the train to Hungary, which may be the most direct route to take.

He will want his Il-96 plane to guarantee his safety, but that will probably mean using the air space of an EU and Nato member state and obtaining permission to break the EU's ban on Russian planes.

European Commission spokeswoman Anitta Hipper said on Friday that "in terms of the direction of travel, member states can give derogations but it must be given by member states individually".

Nato has also referred the issue to respective national authorities, and as Trump is involved they may acquiesce.

Even with dispensation, a look at the map shows Putin may have to take a circuitous route. Ukraine is out of the question, and probably Poland too because of Warsaw's icy relations with Moscow.

Perhaps the most direct route goes via the eastern coast of the Black Sea and Turkey, through Bulgaria and either Serbia or Romania into Hungary.

Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vucic, knows Putin well and Air Serbia has direct flights to Moscow over EU airspace. Serbia is a candidate to join the EU but is not a member.

It is the EU countries, Bulgaria or perhaps Romania, that would need to give consent, and they would have to escort Putin's plane through their airspace.

Romania has what is set to become the biggest Nato base in Europe, and Bulgaria is also building a Nato base as part of efforts to shore up the defensive alliance's eastern flank.

The BBC has approached the foreign ministries of both countries for comment.

If Putin wants to play it even more safely, he could fly via Turkey, around the south coast of Greece and then up through Montenegrin airspace before going over Serbia. But it is a far longer route.

Budapest is not then the easiest of venues, even if it works very well for Viktor Orban, who has long had good relations with both Putin and Donald Trump.

A high-profile international summit will do Orban no harm at all, as he is trailing in the polls before elections next spring.

Within hours of Budapest being named as a venue, Orban was on the phone to Putin and declared on his Facebook page: "Preparations are in full swing!"

Orban has little time for the EU's backing of Ukraine and he was quick to make clear Brussels would have nothing to do with the talks.

"Since the EU is pro-war, it is logical that it will be left out of this peace process," he told Hungarian radio on Friday.

European leaders will have other ideas when they see him at next week's summit in Brussels next week.

John Bolton, Donald Trump's former national security adviser, has arrived at a federal court to surrender to authorities on charges of mishandling classified information.

The 18 charges stem from allegations he shared or retained sensitive materials, including some characterised as top secret.

Bolton served during Trump's first administration but parted with the White House contentiously, and has become one of the president's most vocal public critics.

The indictment makes Bolton, 76, the third of the US president's political opponents to face charges in recent weeks. Bolton has said he would defend his "lawful conduct".

On Friday, Bolton did not respond to shouted questions from reporters as he entered the courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, to surrender to authorities.

He is expected to make an initial appearance before a judge and may have to stop at US Marshals office for "possible" fingerprinting and booking photo, CBS News, the BBC's partner in the US, reported.

Prosecutors have accused Bolton of using personal messaging apps and email to illegally transmit sensitive information.

"These documents revealed intelligence about future attacks, foreign adversaries, and foreign-policy relations," prosecutors wrote.

Responding to the charges, Bolton said he would defend his "lawful conduct."

He added he had "become the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department to charge those he [Trump] deems to be his enemies with charges that were declined before or distort the facts."

The indictment issued this week accused Bolton of sharing "diary-like entries" with two unnamed individuals, and using his personal email account to transmit messages with sensitive materials.

The indictment also states that between 2019 and 2021, Bolton was allegedly the target of a hacking attack from a "cyber actor believed to be associated with the Islamic Repubilc of Iran" gained access to his account, exposing the classified materials.

An indictment in the US justice system is a formal accusation issued by a grand jury - a group of members of the public set up by a prosecutor to review evidence to determine if a case should proceed.

Bolton has been scrutinised for his handling of classified information since 2020, when he sought to publish a book about his time in the first Trump administration.

The Justice Department tried to block the book's release, alleging it could contain classified information.

A federal judge ruled against the government, but rebuked Bolton in his decision, writing he had "gambled with the national security of the United States".

An investigation into Bolton continued into the Joe Biden administration.

Thousands of mourners have gathered at a national stadium in the Kenyan capital for the state funeral of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

Many carried national flags, portraits of the late leader, and wore T-shirts printed with his image to pay their final respects.

Security remains tight in and around the stadium, with police and military officers deployed to prevent a recurrence of the unrest witnessed on Thursday during the body-viewing ceremony.

At least three people died after police fired gunshots and tear gas in an attempt to contain the huge crowds who had turned out to escort Odinga's body from the country's main airport after it arrived from India where he died.

The presidents of Somalia and Ethiopian are among regional leaders attending the funeral service at the Nyayo National Stadium.

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Earlier on Friday morning, Odinga's body was taken to parliament, where MPs and selected dignitaries viewed it.

Odinga, a giant figure on Kenya's political scene, died on Wednesday aged 80 in India, where he had been receiving medical treatment.

Mourners have been carrying branches and palm fronds, a symbol of mourning and grief among the Luo ethnic group to which Odinga belonged.

On Saturday his body will be transported to Kisumu, a city in western Kenya on the shores of Lake Victoria - his political stronghold.

Members of the public will get a chance to view the body before he is buried on Sunday at his farm in Bondo, about 60km (40 miles) west of Kisumu.

According to the family, it was Odinga's wish to be laid to rest within the shortest time possible, ideally within 72 hours.

A seven-day period of mourning has been declared.

He was a towering figure in Kenyan politics and for many years was the country's main opposition leader, losing five presidential campaigns, most recently three years ago.

Odinga repeatedly said he was cheated of victory, citing the manipulation of votes.

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The government has said it is "doing everything in our power" to overturn a ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending a football match in Birmingham and is exploring what additional resources could be required.

On Thursday, Aston Villa said the city's Safety Advisory Group (SAG) decided that fans of the Israeli club should not be permitted to attend the Europa League fixture on 6 November over safety concerns.

Facing mounting pressure to resolve the situation, the government said it was working with police and exploring what additional resources are required.

A meeting of the SAG to discuss the match is expected next week, the Home Office said.

Sir Keir Starmer called the move to block fans attending "wrong", adding "we will "not tolerate antisemitism on our streets", while there has also been criticism from other party leaders.

The SAG - which advises the council on whether to issue safety certificates - will review the decision if West Midlands Police changes its risk assessment for the match, Birmingham City Council said.

On Thursday, West Midlands Police said it had classified the fixture as "high risk" based on current intelligence and previous incidents, including "violent clashes and hate crime offences" between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv fans before a match in Amsterdam in November 2024.

The Home Office was briefed that restrictions on visiting fans might be imposed last week, but the BBC understands officials were not informed about the final decision until Thursday.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the revelation left the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, with "serious questions to answer" about why her department did "nothing" to avert the ban.

She said: "This is a weak government that fails to act when required."

A source close to Mahmood told the BBC that "this is categorically untrue".

"The first time the home secretary knew that the fans were being banned was last night," they added.

Alice Webb thought she'd be home in time for the school run.

In September last year, she had booked a non-surgical Brazilian butt lift (BBL) with Jordan Parke, a self-styled practitioner known as the "Lip King". The procedure typically sees dermal filler injected to make the buttocks bigger.

Hours later she was dead.

The BBC has discovered that while Mr Parke - who was arrested but not charged - is not currently offering Brazilian butt lifts, he is still operating in the cosmetics industry, illegally selling prescription-only weight-loss jabs on social media.

Speaking for the first time since her death, Alice's family say our findings make them "incredibly angry".

The morning had begun like any other. Alice had dropped her five children at school in her pink-and-gold-wheeled car, country music blasting from the speakers.

"I had been in touch with Alice quite a lot that day," recalls her sister April Palmer, "we'd been talking about the children."

A few hours later Alice stopped texting. Several messages and calls went unanswered. April eventually got through but it was a paramedic who picked up and told her Alice was unresponsive and being taken to hospital.

The family got there as quickly as they could, but on arrival doctors explained just how serious the situation was.

"It was probably an hour until she passed," says April, her voice shaking. "And then we spent until the early hours of the morning with Alice.

"We said we loved her, we held her hand, stroked her hair."

Alice passed away before her children awoke that morning. April and the girls' fathers faced the heartbreaking task of telling her five daughters.

Ben recalled: "We all met at the house at about half past six, we wanted to tell them before they got up for school. We didn't want them getting ready. It was awful."

Mr Parke was arrested on suspicion of her manslaughter last September. He is still on bail but hasn't been charged.

While it appears Mr Parke is not currently offering BBLs, our investigation has uncovered that he is still operating in the cosmetics industry. We have now found him illegally selling prescription-only weight-loss jabs on social media.

This isn't anything new - in 2023, another woman told the BBC she had ended up in A&E vomiting blood after taking weight-loss jabs from him.

After that incident, and in the wake of Alice's death, we investigated whether it was still possible to purchase jabs from him.

After a quick Instagram exchange and a payment of over £200 our order went through.

The kits were delivered by post. We opened the unlabelled white envelope and found needles, mixing agents and a vial of unlabelled white powder. There were no instructions in the package.

Lab tests by Dr Stephen Childs at the University of Sunderland confirmed it was semaglutide, which is also found in the diabetes drug Ozempic and the weight-loss drug Wegovy.

When prescribed by a professional, the medication can be self-administered as weekly injections via pre-filled pens. People must have at least one existing weight-related health condition, such as high blood pressure, and be obese to qualify.

This medication is carefully controlled and Mr Parke is not legally allowed to prescribe it.

In 2023, Maddy, then 32, says she bought similar jabs from him. After her first injection she says she became extremely ill, bed-bound and vomiting. Mr Parke said it would pass and advised anti-sickness tablets.

But when she tried the same jabs again weeks later, Maddy says the reaction was worse.

"It was bad," she told the BBC. "I was throwing up all night, to the point where I was throwing up stomach acid, blood, white foam."

When we told Maddy that Mr Parke was still selling weight-loss jabs, she said it gave her "goosebumps".

"I'm honestly disgusted. I remember being in A&E and wanting to die because I was suffering that much. It was horrendous."

Dr Sophie Shooter, an experienced aesthetic doctor, said it was "shocking" Mr Parke could sell weight-loss jabs in this way. She warned that when not prescribed correctly semaglutide can lead to serious medical conditions, including thyroid problems and pancreatitis, which can be life-threatening.

Dr Shooter said preparing drugs for injection was something she was specially trained to do as an anaesthetist and not something the customer should be doing at home, without training.

"You could give yourself more or less than intended and that is fraught with danger," explaining that usually, weight-loss jabs come already mixed and measured.

"The fact that Jordan Parke is able to do this is an embarrassment," she said. "We're the laughing stock of the rest of the world, because I don't know a single other country where this would be allowed to happen."

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is responsible for investigating claims involving the unlicensed distribution or sale of prescription-only medicines.

Police said selling weight-loss jabs without a prescription wouldn't breach Mr Parke's bail conditions.

Alice's family are furious that Jordan Parke is illegally selling weight-loss drugs.

"He shouldn't be [selling them]," says Ben, the father of Alice's eldest daughter Delsie. "It's as simple as that. I don't know how he sleeps at night."

The family say every milestone and occasion is marked by the shadow of her absence. The day one of her children learnt to ride a bike didn't feel right without her. Neither did buying Delsie a dress for school prom.

In Gloucestershire, Alice's mother Rachael is turning preserved funeral blooms into wreaths for friends and family - a small talisman to mark the one-year anniversary.

"She was special to a lot of people," Rachael says.

For the family, the anniversary is a moment to both grieve and reflect - but the ongoing police investigation hangs over them.

The BBC approached Jordan Parke for comment and to offer him a chance to speak but he did not respond.

Gloucestershire Police told us: "Alice's death is believed to have been the first death of this kind in the United Kingdom, and there are numerous complexities for the team to investigate."

"We understand and appreciate that Alice's family want answers and we are actively investigating her death and working with medical specialists in order to determine what happened in order to provide those answers."

Following her death, Alice's family, together with safer cosmetics charity Save Face, launched a campaign calling for a ban on liquid BBLs from high-street beauty clinics.

And in August the government announced plans to strengthen regulation of the cosmetics industry.

Only qualified surgeons will be able to carry out non-surgical BBLs and clinics will need to meet strict rules to obtain licences to offer fillers and Botox.

A Department for Health and Social Care spokesperson said: "This government is taking action to root out dangerous treatments, with tough new measures to make sure only qualified healthcare professionals will be able to perform the highest-risk procedures."

"For anyone considering a cosmetic procedure, please check the provider's qualifications and insurance - and avoid treatments that appear suspiciously cheap."

There's no clear date for implementation yet. Until then, oversight sits with local authorities – who say they lack the powers to control the industry.

There have been more than 1,800 complaints about practitioners since 2022, according to freedom of information data we requested from councils. Of those, 799 providers have been investigated and 85 shut down.

There are also 156 councils in the dataset which have had more than one complaint made but not carried out inspections in the year of the complaint.

The Local Government Association - which represents local authorities - say they welcome government plans for a licensing scheme but argue more funding is needed.

Victor Ktorakis, from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, says they are pressing for urgent action.

"My fear is we're going to get to a point where there are so many premises and practitioners operating, that it is going to be very, very difficult to manage it from a public safety point of view - which is why we need something in place as soon as possible.

"And we do need time scales, and we need clarity."

US actors Danielle Deadwyler, Natasha Lyonne and Eli Roth will join the cast of Euphoria when it returns for its third season next year.

The hugely popular series will be broadcast in the spring of 2026 after a nearly four-year break, broadcaster HBO confirmed on Friday.

The new stars join the previously announced returning cast including Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, Hunter Schafer and Colman Domingo.

Euphoria follows a group of young students as they navigate issues such as love, friendship, drugs, sex, trauma and social media.

The third season of the Emmy-winning show went into production earlier this year in Los Angeles, and will consist of eight episodes.

According to reports, the new series will feature a time jump that moves the show's younger characters out of high school.

The second season concluded with Zendaya's character Rue getting sober, but with several storylines unresolved.

It's taken several years for the show to return, partly because showrunner Sam Levinson has been working on other projects.

But the show also made huge stars of its young cast, who have become major Hollywood stars since the show launched and appeared in a string of other projects in the intervening years.

Storm Reid, who played Zendaya's onscreen sister, is not returning for series three.

Actor Angus Cloud, who played drug dealer Fezco, died aged 25 after season two, which ended on a major cliff-hanger involving his character.

Details of the new characters and their plot lines have not yet been announced.

Who is joining Euphoria for season three?

The 18 newly announced cast members include Danielle Deadwyler, who has been nominated for several major awards for her performance in films such as Till and The Piano Lesson.

Natasha Lyonne, who has starred in Orange is the New Black, American Pie and His Three Daughters will also join for season three.

American Hustle and Apocalypse Now star Colleen Camp, Hostel star and creator Eli Roth, and singer and YouTuber Trisha Paytas have also joined the cast.

Other actors to join include The Wire's Kwame Patterson, Ozark's Madison Thompson, True Blood's Sam Trammell, The Unit's Rebecca Pidgeon, and NFL star-turned-actor Matthew Willig.

Cailyn Rice, of Yellowstone spin-off 1923 and Bella Podaras, known for Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love will also star, alongside Gideon Adlon, who appeared in Netflix's The Society and Jessica Blair Herman of American Crime Story.

The new cast is rounded out by Bill Bodner, Jack Topalian, known for General Hospital, Hemky Madera, who has appeared in Spider-Man: Homecoming and Netflix series Kaleidoscope, and Homer Gere, son of actor Richard Gere.

Who else will appear in the series?

Sharon Stone and Rosalía are among the other cast members who were previously confirmed to be joining the show this year.

Other new actors announced earlier include Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Toby Wallace, Marshawn Lynch, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Kadeem Hardison, Priscilla Delgado, James Landry Hébert, Anna Van Patten and Asante Blackk.

The show's principal starts set to return include Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Eric Dane, Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow, Colman Domingo, Martha Kelly and Chloe Cherry.

A mother whose stillborn baby was discovered in a Hull undertakers almost two years after his funeral says she is trying to forgive the man responsible.

Jasmine Beverley gave birth to her son, Sunny Beverley-Conlin, prematurely in May 2022. They held a funeral and were given ashes.

But two years later they discovered the ashes were not his - and police later found their son's body, still at the funeral home.

On Wednesday, former undertaker Robert Bush appeared at Hull Crown Court after an investigation into human remains found at his premises. He pleaded guilty to 35 counts of fraud by false representation, one of which related to Mrs Beverley. He faces a trial on other charges in October 2026.

"I am trying to forgive him," said Mrs Beverley, "but I am finding it hard, there must be some reason why he did this."

She described Sunny's original funeral service in June 2022 as "beautiful". It was held in an on-site chapel at Legacy's headquarters.

Following the ceremony, her family were presented with an urn of ashes. They were informed by police in March 2024 they were the remains of an unidentified stranger.

Jasmine and her husband Ben Conlin returned those ashes to police. She said she had polished the urn daily and "whoever was in there, was loved like they were my own baby."

Mr Bush also admitted deceiving three other women into thinking ashes he gave them were those of their unborn babies.

Humberside Police began investigating Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in March 2024 after they received a "call of concern for the deceased". They announced at the time 35 bodies and the ashes of at least 163 people were recovered from the firm's headquarters.

Sunny was the only stillborn baby found at the premises.

Mrs Beverley received the call that Sunny had been found whilst she was pregnant with her fifth child. She said it "ruined" the final months of her pregnancy and plunged her into a depression. At times she said she had suicidal thoughts.

Mrs Beverley said it had highlighted to her how pregnancy loss was still a taboo subject and reliving Sunny's birth had added "further distress".

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The family held a second funeral before Sunny was buried alongside his great-grandparents, Mrs Beverley said she was "happy that he is finally home".

Reflecting on Mr Bush's guilty plea in relation to her family, she said she felt "mixed emotions" because other families were "playing a waiting game" for next year's trial.

Mr Bush denied 30 counts of preventing lawful and decent burials and one charge of stealing money from charity collection boxes, during Wednesday's hearing at Hull Crown Court.

He was bailed until his next court appearance and will be sentenced after the conclusion of his trial.

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The UK's stock market has fallen sharply after a warning from two US banks sparked a widespread sell-off in global shares.

Two US regional lenders, Western Alliance Bank and Zions Bank, said on Thursday that they had been hit by either bad or fraudulent loans, sparking fears that other banks may be exposed.

Some of the UK's biggest banks, including Barclays and Standard Chartered saw their share prices fall more than 5%, taking the FTSE 100 index of leading shares down about 1.5% at one point.

Stock market indexes around the world, including Germany's Dax and the Cac 40 in France, also fell.

On Thursday, Zions Bank said it would write off a $50m loss on two loans, while Western Alliance disclosed it had started a lawsuit alleging fraud.

"Pockets of the US banking sector including regional banks have given the market cause for concern," said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.

"Investors have started to question why there have been a plethora of issues in a short space of time and whether this points to poor risk management and loose lending standards."

"Investors have been spooked," he added, saying that while there was no evidence of any issues with UK-listed banks, "investors often have a knee-jerk reaction when problems appear anywhere in the sector".

Investors have also been nervous following the failure of two high-profile US firms, car loan company Tricolor and car parts maker First Brands.

These failures have raised questions about the quality of deals in what is known as the private credit market - where companies arrange loans from non-bank lenders.

In addition, there have also been warnings that the surge in artificial intelligence investment has produced a bubble in the US stock market - including from Jamie Dimon, the boss of America's biggest bank, JP Morgan - leading to fears that shares are overvalued.

The market turbulence on Friday saw the price of gold reach a fresh record high of $4,380 per ounce, as investors looked for safe havens for their money.

Another closely watched measure of market nerves, the VIX volatility index sometimes called the "Fear Index", hit its highest level since April.

The BBC has confirmed it will go ahead with broadcasting the latest series of Celebrity MasterChef, featuring sacked co-presenter John Torode.

Torode was sacked in the summer after an allegation against him using "an extremely offensive racist term" was upheld. He has said he has "no recollection" of it.

In a statement on Friday, the BBC said it had not been a "straightforward decision" but that all of the celebrities, contestants and guests involved had confirmed they were happy for the shows to be aired.

Two Christmas specials will also be aired, the corporation confirmed on Friday.

The latest series of Celebrity MasterChef was recorded earlier this year.

It was fronted by Torode and food critic Grace Dent, who stepped in after BBC News first revealed separate allegations against former host Gregg Wallace.

Wallace has said he was "deeply sorry for any distress" he caused but that "none of the serious allegations against me were upheld" by a report conducted by production company Banijay.

The same report also upheld a claim against Torode of using a severely offensive racist term.

Both presenters were sacked in July.

The BBC decided to go ahead and still show this year's amateur series of MasterChef, with both Wallace and Torode in it, for the sake of the chefs who had taken part in it.

The corporation has now confirmed that Celebrity MasterChef, featuring 15 stars, will also be aired from this autumn.

Those taking part include rugby star Alun Wyn Jones, TV personality Chris Hughes, author and broadcaster Dawn O'Porter, gladiator Jodie Ounsley, and pop star Michelle Heaton.

"Banijay UK has consulted the celebrities, contestants and guests featured and all have confirmed that they are happy for the shows to be aired," a BBC spokesperson said.

"As we have said previously, these are not straightforward decisions. We have approached this with care and consideration for all involved and we appreciate not everyone will agree with us."

The summit has not been set in stone, but if Russia's Vladimir Putin does go to Budapest to meet US President Trump in the next two weeks, he would need to clear a few hurdles first.

When Putin travelled to Alaska for his Anchorage summit in August, the US granted special permission for the presidential plane - a modified Ilyushin Il-96 airliner dubbed the "Flying Kremlin" that has four engines and is bristling with defence systems.

Russian planes are banned from US air space, and from EU air space too. So if Putin does fly to Budapest he would need special dispensation if he decided to fly over an EU member state.

It is perfectly possible, but landlocked Hungary is not the easiest destination to get to for a Russian president who rarely sets foot abroad and has not travelled to the EU for years.

"For now, of course, it's not clear," says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. "What we do have is the willingness of the presidents to hold such a meeting."

Days after Putin ordered Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the EU froze the assets of both its leader and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

A blanket ban was also imposed on all Russian aircraft flying through the airspace of all 27 EU countries. Hungary and many of its neighbours are Nato member states too.

Putin has also been accused by the International Criminal Court of war crimes of unlawfully deporting and transferring of Ukrainian children to Russia.

So there are complications, although Hungary believes they can all be sorted out. Hungary is in the process of pulling out of the ICC anyway.

Putin and Hungary's Viktor Orban, probably his closest ally in the EU, have already discussed the planned summit over the phone, and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has told reporters "we will of course ensure that he can enter Hungary, hold successful talks here, and then return home".

The EU is unlikely to create obstacles either.

Its executive commission has said any meeting that moves forward "a just and lasting peace for Ukraine" is welcome and it supports President Trump's efforts towards that.

One of the main drivers for its latest proposed sanctions on Russia - the 19th package so far - is to bring the Russians to the negotiating table, it says. And it points out there's no travel ban on Putin, only an asset freeze.

The biggest sticking point is how Russia's leader will fly from Moscow to Budapest. Clearly he will not be buying an Air Serbia ticket to Belgrade and catching the train to Hungary, which may be the most direct route to take.

He will want his Il-96 plane to guarantee his safety, but that will probably mean using the air space of an EU and Nato member state and obtaining permission to break the EU's ban on Russian planes.

European Commission spokeswoman Anitta Hipper said on Friday that "in terms of the direction of travel, member states can give derogations but it must be given by member states individually".

Nato has also referred the issue to respective national authorities, and as Trump is involved they may acquiesce.

Even with dispensation, a look at the map shows Putin may have to take a circuitous route. Ukraine is out of the question, and probably Poland too because of Warsaw's icy relations with Moscow.

Perhaps the most direct route goes via the eastern coast of the Black Sea and Turkey, through Bulgaria and either Serbia or Romania into Hungary.

Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vucic, knows Putin well and Air Serbia has direct flights to Moscow over EU airspace. Serbia is a candidate to join the EU but is not a member.

It is the EU countries, Bulgaria or perhaps Romania, that would need to give consent, and they would have to escort Putin's plane through their airspace.

Romania has what is set to become the biggest Nato base in Europe, and Bulgaria is also building a Nato base as part of efforts to shore up the defensive alliance's eastern flank.

The BBC has approached the foreign ministries of both countries for comment.

If Putin wants to play it even more safely, he could fly via Turkey, around the south coast of Greece and then up through Montenegrin airspace before going over Serbia. But it is a far longer route.

Budapest is not then the easiest of venues, even if it works very well for Viktor Orban, who has long had good relations with both Putin and Donald Trump.

A high-profile international summit will do Orban no harm at all, as he is trailing in the polls before elections next spring.

Within hours of Budapest being named as a venue, Orban was on the phone to Putin and declared on his Facebook page: "Preparations are in full swing!"

Orban has little time for the EU's backing of Ukraine and he was quick to make clear Brussels would have nothing to do with the talks.

"Since the EU is pro-war, it is logical that it will be left out of this peace process," he told Hungarian radio on Friday.

European leaders will have other ideas when they see him at next week's summit in Brussels next week.

A landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions has been abandoned after Saudi Arabia and the US succeeded in ending the talks.

More than 100 countries had gathered in London to approve a deal first agreed in April, which would have seen shipping become the world's first industry to adopt internationally mandated targets to reduce emissions.

But President Trump had called the plan a "green scam" and representatives of the US administration had threatened countries all week with tariffs if they had voted in favour.

Reflecting the pressure countries faced, the Secretary General of the Internatiobal Maritime Organisation issued a "plea" for this not to be repeated.

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China has warned the UK of "consequences" amid an escalating row over its delayed application to build a mega-embassy in London.

It comes after the government confirmed it had pushed back a decision on the controversial site for a second time, to 10 December.

On Friday, Beijing's foreign affairs ministry said the delay went "entirely against the UK's commitments and previous remarks about improving China-UK relations".

Downing Street said it did not "recognise any claims of commitments or assurances".

Beijing's application for the embassy was initially rejected by Tower Hamlets Council in 2022 over safety and security concerns.

However, it was taken over by the UK government housing department last year, after China resubmitted an application one month after Labour came to power.

Asked about the latest delay on Friday, Beijing's ministry of foreign affairs accused the UK of "constantly complicating and politicizing the matter".

Spokesman Lin Jian said the UK had "repeatedly put off the approval of the project citing various excuses and linked the project with other issues".

"That goes entirely against the UK's commitments and previous remarks about improving China-UK relations," he added.

"We once again call on the UK to fulfil its obligation and honour its commitments at once, otherwise the consequences arising therefrom shall be borne by the UK side".

Downing Street hit back at Mr Jian's comments, saying: "We do not recognise any claims of assurances, and I can't explain the statement they've set out."

The PM's official spokesman added: "Protecting the UK's national security is our first duty.

"In terms of the planning process, as set out yesterday, this is a decision that is independent of the rest of government."

He added it would not be "appropriate for me to comment further" on a decision being made by the housing department.

China bought the site of the proposed new embassy, at Royal Mint Court near the Tower of London, for £255m in 2018. At 20,000 square metres, the proposed complex would be the biggest embassy in Europe if it goes ahead.

The pending decision on whether to approve the new embassy has attracted close scrutiny because of concerns about the security implications of the plan, including the location, size and design of the building.

There are concerns held by some opponents that the site could allow China to infiltrate the UK's financial system by tapping into nearby fibre optic cables carrying sensitive data for firms in the City of London.

Some residents nearby also fear it would pose a security risk to them and attract large protests.

The proposed complex would include offices, a large basement area, housing for 200 staff, and a new tunnel to connect the Embassy House to a separate building on the embassy grounds.

Sir Keir Starmer said last year that Chinese President Xi Jinping had raised the embassy issue during their first leaders' phone call in August.

Speaking in November, the prime minister told China's leader "you raised the Chinese embassy building when we spoke on the telephone, and we have since taken action by calling in that application".

"Now we have to follow the legal process and timeline," Sir Keir added.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have urged the government to throw out China's application.

A murder trial without a body which transfixed France has ended with 38-year-old painter-decorator Cédric Jubillar convicted of killing his wife.

Throughout the four-week trial, Jubillar maintained his innocence but was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to 30 years in jail.

In four weeks of hearings in the southern town of Albi, the defence argued that because the body of his wife Delphine had never been found there was no certainty a crime had been committed.

But the jury of six civilians and three magistrates decided that even in the absence of a body there was enough circumstantial evidence to conclude that Jubillar was guilty of murder.

Prosecutors had called for a 30-year sentence, and Jubillar's lawyers have said they will appeal.

"We respect the jury's decision," said defence lawyer Alexandre Martin. "Of course we're disappointed, but we knew there would be a second battle, and we will get back to work on this appeal.

"Delphine was killed by her husband's hands," said Laurent Boguet, acting for the couple's two children. It was now for Jubillar to "tell us where his wife's remains are and return them to the family".

With its central mystery of his wife's missing body, the case has been hotly followed across news and social media since it broke five years ago. Amateur detectives proliferated online, much to the annoyance of police and families, with theories of what happened.

It was on the night of 15-16 December 2020, in the middle of the Covid pandemic, that 33-year-old Delphine Jubillar disappeared from the house in Cagnac-les-Mines where the couple lived with their two children aged six and 18 months.

Cédric Jubillar contacted police at around 04:00 on 16 December to say he had been woken up by the crying of the younger child and discovered that his wife had gone missing.

Police and neighbours conducted extensive searches in the local area – including in its many abandoned mines – but no body was ever found.

The court heard during the trial how Cédric and Delphine's relationship had turned sour. She had asked for a divorce, and was beginning an affair with a man she met over a chatline.

According to the prosecution, on the evening of her disappearance she had told Cédric Jubillar for the first time that she had taken a lover. This led to a row – during which Delphine's screams were heard by a neighbour – and then he killed her, probably by strangling.

Jubillar was then said to have disposed of her body somewhere in the countryside nearby, which he knew well.

A key piece of evidence was that Delphine's car on the street outside was facing in the opposite direction from the way she normally parked it, suggesting he had used it on the night.

Other key elements were:

• a broken pair of Delphine's glasses in the sitting-room
• the lack of steps recorded on Jubillar's phone pedometer, even though he claimed to have been out searching for his wife
• and a statement by their son Louis about an argument between his parents taking place "between the sofa and the Christmas tree".

• France transfixed by murder trial without a body

Psychological assessments presented Jubillar as a feckless character with a rough childhood, who smoked marijuana every day, had difficulty holding down a job and thought of little but his personal gratification.

He was said to have shown little concern over the disappearance of Delphine – drawing money from her bank account a short time later, for example.

And there was crucial evidence from Cédric Jubillar's mother, who recalled him telling her when he first heard that Delphine wanted a divorce: "I've had enough. I'm going to kill her and bury her, and they'll never find her."

Jubillar's defence lawyer Emmanuelle Franck said none of this amounted to more than speculation – and that the accused's habits and attitudes could not be taken as signs of criminal responsibility.

"Courts do not convict bad characters. They convict the guilty," she said.

According to the defence, there were alternative explanations for all the circumstantial clues. They said witnesses had been coached by investigators, in order to corroborate the theory of guilt.

They argued that in any normal crime of passion, there were tell-tale signs left at the scene – blood, or evidence of a clean-up. But all this was absent from the Jubillar home.

His lawyers said that details told in court of Cédric Jubillar's behaviour were all irrelevant: his use of pornography, a pair of panda pyjamas with ears and tail that he was wearing when police came, and making his son Louis sit on Lego bricks as a punishment.

"Either [Cédric] is a criminal genius, or he is a bit of an idiot – you have got to decide," said Emmanuelle Franck.

The defence offered no alternative explanation for Delphine's disappearance.

Convictions for murder without a body are rare because of the difficulty of proving the existence of a crime. But they do happen, with jurisdictions in many countries concluding that circumstantial evidence alone can constitute proof.

For a guilty verdict in France, jurors need to have an "intimate conviction" that a crime has been committed – a concept that is left vague in law. If more than two of the nine jurors dissent, then the accused is found not guilty.

The UK's stock market has fallen sharply after a warning from two US banks sparked a widespread sell-off in global shares.

Two US regional lenders, Western Alliance Bank and Zions Bank, said on Thursday that they had been hit by either bad or fraudulent loans, sparking fears that other banks may be exposed.

Some of the UK's biggest banks, including Barclays and Standard Chartered saw their share prices fall more than 5%, taking the FTSE 100 index of leading shares down about 1.5% at one point.

Stock market indexes around the world, including Germany's Dax and the Cac 40 in France, also fell.

On Thursday, Zions Bank said it would write off a $50m loss on two loans, while Western Alliance disclosed it had started a lawsuit alleging fraud.

"Pockets of the US banking sector including regional banks have given the market cause for concern," said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.

"Investors have started to question why there have been a plethora of issues in a short space of time and whether this points to poor risk management and loose lending standards."

"Investors have been spooked," he added, saying that while there was no evidence of any issues with UK-listed banks, "investors often have a knee-jerk reaction when problems appear anywhere in the sector".

Investors have also been nervous following the failure of two high-profile US firms, car loan company Tricolor and car parts maker First Brands.

These failures have raised questions about the quality of deals in what is known as the private credit market - where companies arrange loans from non-bank lenders.

In addition, there have also been warnings that the surge in artificial intelligence investment has produced a bubble in the US stock market - including from Jamie Dimon, the boss of America's biggest bank, JP Morgan - leading to fears that shares are overvalued.

The market turbulence on Friday saw the price of gold reach a fresh record high of $4,380 per ounce, as investors looked for safe havens for their money.

Another closely watched measure of market nerves, the VIX volatility index sometimes called the "Fear Index", hit its highest level since April.

Baek Se-hee, the South Korean author of the bestselling memoir I Want to Die but I Want To Eat Tteokbokki has died at the age of 35.

Her 2018 book, a compilation of conversations with her psychiatrist about her depression, was a cultural phenomenon with its themes of mental health resonating with readers across the world.

Originally written in Korean, it found international acclaim after its English translation was published in 2022.

The details surrounding her death are unclear.

Baek donated her organs - her heart, lungs, liver and kidneys - which have helped to save five lives, the Korean Organ Donation Agency said in a statement on Friday.

The statement also included comments from her sister, which said that Baek had wanted to "share her heart with others through her work, and to inspire hope".

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, published in 2018, has sold more than a million copies worldwide and been translated in 25 countries.

The runaway bestseller was celebrated for normalising mental health conversations and its nuanced take on inner struggles - most notably, the author's personal conflict between depressive thoughts and her appreciation for simple joys.

"The human heart, even when it wants to die, quite often wants at the same time to eat some tteokbokki, too," goes the book's most famous line.

Born in 1990, Baek Se-hee took creative writing in university and worked for five years at a publishing house, according to her short biography on Bloomsbury Publishing, which produced the English version of her 2018 memoir.

For a decade she received treatment for dysthymia, a mild but long-lasting type of depression, which formed the basis of her bestseller, said her Bloomsbury bio.

A sequel, I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki, was published in Korean in 2019. Its English translation was published in 2024.

A list of organisations in the UK offering support and information with some of the issues in this story is available at BBC Action Line. If you are outside of the UK, you can visit the Befrienders website.