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Today, Putin has no plans to slow down in Ukraine as Trump ramps up the pressure.

European allies figure out how to get more weapons to Kiev.

Americans start to feel the effects of tariffs at the till.

The UK secretly relocates thousands of Afghans following a huge data leak.

And who made the cut the Emmy nominations are in?

This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, every weekday.

I'm Kim Van Al and Wanganui, New Zealand.

Russia's president has no plans to pull back in the wake of US President Donald Trump's attempts to pressure him into a ceasefire in Ukraine.

That's according to three sources close to the Kremlin.

They say President Vladimir Putin may demand even more territory from Ukraine.

Guy Falkenbridge is one of the reporters on this exclusive Reuters story.

So Putin is basically in a place where he spent a lot of treasure and blood on a war.

And he doesn't think that anybody's really engaged with him over his demands for peace and his demands in the war.

And if he keeps on fighting, Russia is a very big country.

It will continue to advance into other parts of Ukraine.

And then his territorial ambitions may get bigger.

So one source said to us, the appetite comes with eating.

Where does this leave the US-Russia relationship?

So where it leaves it is that the US president has basically thrown down an ultimatum to the Russian president.

The sources say that they think that there will be a period of escalation over the coming months.

Trump has threatened to put secondary tariffs on people who purchase Russian oil.

That's essentially China, India and Turkey.

I think it would be difficult for them to stop buying Russian oil.

What it means is we get to a bit of a crisis over the next couple of months.

Staying with Ukraine, and one of the ways Trump is trying to ramp up the pressure on Putin.

When do you think the first Patriot missiles, some of these weapons that our allies will buy?

Donald Trump with reporters at Andrews Air Force Base.

But his plan to sell them to NATO countries so they can give theirs to Ukraine has yet to be ironed out.

While he sounds confident the weapons are already on their way, allies need to agree on who will actually give up their prized systems while they wait on replacements.

Reporter Graham Slattery is in Washington.

Germany is one of the countries that is considered a great candidate to send Patriots.

They've indicated some willingness to do so in the past.

And they said that it's going to take some months for the Patriots to get there.

They have to hash out these negotiations with the US.

That's going to take days, weeks if they get there.

And, you know, that's a little bit of an issue for a number of reasons.

One is that the summer months tend to be the most kinetic and the most tactically important.

And the times when Ukraine is really fighting off the most aggressive Russian offensives.

Homeland Security says a deportation flight carrying immigrants from different countries has landed in Africa's Eswatini.

It follows the Supreme Court's recent ruling lifting limits on deporting migrants in the US to countries they're not from, and doing so without offering them a chance to show the harms they could face.

A Homeland Security spokesperson says the flight was for, quote, individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back.

Syrian soldiers shoot into the air as they enter the city of Suwayda.

That's where sectarian clashes between Druze armed groups and Bedouin tribal fighters has erupted.

Their arrival is raising fears of attacks against the minority group.

There are also concerns it could cause Israel to launch further attacks in Syria.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on a visit to a military base in the Jordan Valley, says the country must keep the area demilitarised as it borders Israel.

And he says they should protect the Druze, who are a religious minority in Israel as well as in Syria.

The US has struck a tariff deal with Indonesia, the latest nation to lock in a deal before President Trump's August 1st deadline.

But back home, economists say Trump's tariffs are already beginning to bite.

Americans are paying more for coffee, audio equipment and other goods, according to the latest Consumer Price Index.

Howard, with this new data showing inflation is rising, how are officials likely to respond?

The thing that's hard to keep a handle on here is that this process has become so unpredictable that it's hard to imagine the Fed going too far in terms of forward guidance about rate cuts or approving rate cuts until there's something very dispositive to kind of grab a hold of.

Either we know the final tariff rates now and we can kind of model this out and talk to businesses and see what they're saying and come to some comfort level that it's going to be a temporary price shock and inflation will fall, or the labor market and growth takes a turn and they see the unemployment rate rising and they say, OK, well, we've got to keep a grip on that.

In this environment that they've been dealing with now, really since January and the first rounds of tariffs come out, it's been hard for them to say we can really say with certainty, and they never have certainty.

Britain has set up a secret scheme to bring thousands of Afghans to the UK after a massive data breach led to their personal details being shared online.

The leak happened in 2022 and led to fears that they could be targeted by the Taliban.

A secret relocation program was then created.

But the details of that scheme and the leak only emerged this week after an unprecedented court order was lifted.

Our UK politics reporter Andrew McCaskill is covering this.

It began in 2022 when someone working for the Ministry of Defence accidentally sent emails with the personal details of about 19,000 Afghans who had worked with the British government.

This information was sent to somebody who we believe was an Afghan national, and then nobody really thought about it for more than a year.

And then the leak was discovered when screenshots of the database was published online.

Why is this all coming under scrutiny now?

In Britain, we don't have what you have in the United States with the First Amendment, the right to free speech.

So the courts were able to kind of gag the press for more than three years.

This is called what we call in Britain a super injunction, but it's usually used by celebrities to hide details of their private lives.

It's extraordinary that the government was able to sort of use this.

It's that time of year when we find out whether our favourite TV shows made it into the awards shortlist.

Here's entertainment reporter Lisa Richwine.

The most nominated show is Severance, which is a psychological thriller on Apple TV+.

The premise is that you can undergo a procedure so you can separate your work life and your home life, if you can imagine such a thing.

And the star, Adam Scott, was nominated for Best Actor, and he said he was thrilled by the nominations in part because when they made the show, they thought it was so weird that people might not respond to it.

Another show with many nominations was The Penguin, which is on HBO.

There's Hacks, there is The White Lotus, the murder mystery that is set at a fancy resort, and The Pit, which is an emergency room drama, and it stars Noah Wiley.

One of the biggest omissions was Squid Game, the popular Netflix show, the Korean drama, that is really a worldwide phenomenon.

The Handmaid's Tale had won Best Drama several years ago, it aired its final season, it got only one nomination today.

And there's a few nominations to show it's never too late to hit your stride, right?

Harrison Ford is 83, and he's getting his first Emmy nomination.

He's on a show called Shrinking, where he plays a grumpy psychiatrist.

And Kathy Bates, who is 77, was nominated for Best Actress for her starring role on Matlock, which is a reboot of a show from a couple decades ago.

And for today's recommended read, the vanishing wetlands, which support fisheries, agriculture, and flood control.

A report says the destruction could mean a $39 trillion loss.