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Not clear if these two threats were sent by the same group.

A senior fellow at a think tank in Brussels says that the threats were stress testing how European governments and airport officials respond and whether their responses were coordinated.

The idea behind the threats appears to be, according to this think tank, to sow chaos and uncertainty about the reliability of air traffic across Europe.

And it could have cascading effects like economic damage and costs related to inspection, investigation, and cleaning aircraft.

U.S. President Trump says a deal to end the war in Ukraine could be in prospect after talks at the White House with Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev.

Meanwhile, the U.S. delegation, led by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, says it held productive and substantive talks in Brussels with representatives of NATO, Ukraine and the EU.

Next week, working groups from Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. will meet in Abu Dhabi.

The last talks in this format took place in Geneva in February.

Okay, Adel Halim in Doha, thank you very much.

Talks aimed at bringing about an end to hostilities in Ukraine will continue next week in Abu Dhabi following technical discussions here in Brussels.

Let's bring in our NATO correspondent Shona Murray who is in Helsinki.

Good morning, Shona.

path we're on is unsustainable.

He talks about living in Brussels back when The Euro was released and everybody was celebrating.

The European Union, we've got our common currency.

We're looking ahead to so much prosperity and unity and peace and power.

Because the path we're on is unsustainable.

He talks about living in Brussels back when...

The Euro was released and everybody was celebrating.

The European Union, we've got our common currency.

I mean, I am thinking in my Padel teacher, I'm jumping completely the topic, but it's the same comment that Padel, it's been practiced.

There is a little boom now in at least in the cities that I am like recording in Brussels and in Ghent.

stockholm and the the teachers say the practice is changing because people are practicing and it's like so beautiful so it's getting better the sport is getting better and it's changing just because people are doing it more and more and and com coming back to what you said sorry um yari you wanted to say something

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And the price of energy will go up as a result of being part of the carbon tax Eurozone area.

We'll be paying more financial contribution back into Brussels.

I think we've forgotten sort of how lucky we are that we don't have hundreds of Brussels correspondents on our news every night telling us about... telling us about the latest impasse in Brussels and the additional begging bowl that's being passed around.

Look, I'm pragmatic.

I was a Brexiteer.

Well, that hasn't happened.

That hasn't happened.

Now we've got another Labour prime minister in it going, offering all sorts of goodies on a plate to Brussels, potentially free places at UK universities, more competition for those young people who are trying to get jobs from people from Europe, all sorts of things.

And it's like I remember like even like, OK, I remember one show we played in Belgium.

We played Brussels, Belgium.

And it's true to this day.

Sometimes you can play a show and it's quality over quantity.

And it was like 18 people at the show in Brussels, Belgium.

Right.

But when we were done playing, every single person bought like a shirt or a record or both.

unsustainable.

He talks about living in Brussels back when the Euro was released, and everybody was celebrating.

The European Union, we've got our common currency.

We're looking ahead to so much prosperity and unity and peace and power.