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Ukrainian leadership on April 8 hailed the two-week ceasefire reached between the U.S. and Iran but stressed it is time to pressure Russia to end its war in Ukraine as well. Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen, Peter Zalmayev, Founder and Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, says that the reluctance of Donald Trump to strongarm Russia into ending the war raises questions about the nature of the relationship between Trump and Vladimir Putin.
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Ukrainian leadership on April 8 hailed the two-week ceasefire reached between the U.S. and Iran but stressed it is time to pressure Russia to end its war in Ukraine as well. Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen, Peter Zalmayev, Founder and Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, says that the reluctance of Donald Trump to strongarm Russia into ending the war raises questions about the nature of the relationship between Trump and Vladimir Putin.
The Artemis II, and the four astronauts aboard the Orion space capsule, has splashed down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Nasa has confirmed.
The spacecraft touched down at 5.07pm (1.07am BST) after a 10-day journey around the moon and back. The Orion spacecraft has traveled 694,481 miles (1,117,659km), Nasa said.
Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Koch of Nasa, and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, have just become the first humans to travel to the moon, and return to Earth safely, since the crew of Apollo 17 in December 1970.
They join an exclusive club of just 24 other humans who have travelled to the moon and returned safely to Earth.
As the Orion capsule descended below 17,000 miles from the planet’s surface, Wiseman gave a description of the Earth as it came into view. “There’s a great blue hue to it. It’s beautiful,” he said.
The Artemis II Orion capsule splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, on Friday, 10 April 2026. Photograph: AP
After landing in the Pacific Ocean, a recovery crew from the USS John P Murtha stands ready to retrieve the Artemis crew, using boats that will pull up to an inflatable “porch” attached to Orion’s hatch. Crew members will be transferred to the navy ship by helicopter.
Nasa has proven it can once again send humans safely to and from cislunar space, the void between Earth and its nearest celestial body, and will build on the knowledge gained to further propel the Artemis program towards a scheduled crewed moon landing in 2028, 56 years after the last.
The rest of humanity, meanwhile, has received memories of a week and a half in which the world appeared to come together for a rare moment of unity to enjoy stunning video footage and high-resolution images of the lunar surface – and Earth from afar – as well as some profound and heartfelt words from usually unsentimental astronauts as they described what they were seeing.
“I just had an overwhelming sense of being moved by looking at the moon,” the Nasa astronaut Christina Koch said of her first impressions of Orion’s closest approach on Monday, 4,067 miles (6,545km) above the lunar surface.
“It lasted just a second or two and I actually couldn’t even make it happen again, but something just threw me in suddenly to the lunar landscape and it became real.
“The moon really is its own unique body in the universe. When we have that perspective and we compare it to our home of the Earth, it just reminds us how much we have in common. Everything we need, the Earth provides, and that, in and of itself, is somewhat of a miracle.”
The Artemis II crew capsule is shown at Nasa’s mission control center during a maneuver ahead of its re‑entry to Earth, following the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. Photograph: Nasa/Reuters
Koch became the only woman to have travelled to the moon and back during a mission of firsts. Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency became the first non-American. Victor Glover, the Artemis II pilot, became the first person of color to do so.
Collectively, with the mission commander, Reid Wiseman, the four travelled farther from Earth than any human before them, reaching 252,756 miles, more than 4,000 beyond the previous record set by the Apollo 13 crew in April 1970.
It was not all plain sailing during their 695,000-mile voyage. Orion’s glitchy toilet in a capsule the size of a small camper van malfunctioned more than once, necessitating the temporary deployment of urine collection bags and inflight repairs from Koch in her alternative role of plumber.
There were moments of fun. The crew enjoyed an egg hunt of sorts on Easter Sunday, trying to find packets of dehydrated scrambled eggs hidden around the spacecraft. A plushie named Rise – the mission’s official mascot designed by eight-year-old California second-grader Lucas Ye, appeared regularly on camera during crew press conferences.
The Artemis II crew capsule after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. Photograph: Nasa/Reuters
Probably the most emotional episode came on Monday, when the crew proposed dedicating a previously unnamed moon crater to Carroll Taylor Wiseman, wife of the Artemis II commander and mother of their daughters, Katey and Ellie, who died of cancer in 2020. Hansen struggled to get the words out, prompting tears and hugs among the four.
During the “business” side of the mission, the astronauts evaluated Orion’s life support systems, radiation detectors, next-generation spacesuits and tested other operations that will be crucial to future deep-space missions and Nasa’s longer-term plans for the Artemis program, including an ambitious $20bn moon base to be built within a decade.
The agency sees the first splashdown of a returning moon crew in more than five decades as an important next step. Although not as visually mesmerizing as the fiery 1 April launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center that sent Artemis II into the heavens, the landing still required a similar level of intricate planning, precision and execution.
Changes to the heat shield after anomalies arose on the uncrewed Artemis I mission of November 2022 gave Nasa confidence that Orion would withstand temperatures up to 5,000F (2,760C) at its 25,000mph re-entry to Earth’s atmosphere; and mission managers selected a steeper, direct path of re-entry to reduce heat stress.
A succession of deployments of Orion’s 11 parachutes at various altitudes was designed to slow the spacecraft to 325mph, then 130mph, before the three main chutes, their canopies stretching a combined 80 yards (73 meters), release for a further deceleration to a 17mph splashdown.
Coast Guard and Nasa recovery crews were positioned to cover a landing zone about 550 miles in diameter. After medical checks following hatch opening and a brief stopover at a San Diego military base, the crew’s next destination is Houston’s Johnson Space Center, which they last saw on 27 March, and a reunion with their families.
The four join only 24 other astronauts, all American men, who travelled to the moon and back during nine staffed Apollo missions between December 1968 and December 1972.
Nicky Fox, associate administrator of Nasa’s science mission directorate, summed up the importance and impact of the mission in a briefing with reporters this week.
“Our four Artemis II astronauts, Reid, Victor, Christina and Jeremy, took humanity on an incredible journey around the moon and brought back images so exquisite and brimming with science, they will inspire generations to come,” she said.
A report on the July 2024 attack by the judge Sir Adrian Fulford, to be released on Monday, is expected to strongly criticise failings by a series of agencies, including the counter-terrorism programme Prevent.
The killer, Axel Rudakubana, was referred three times to Prevent but concerns were dismissed, partly because he did not express a clear ideology.
Counter-terrorism officials have since promised that those who are not clearly motivated by jihadism or other beliefs will now pass through Prevent if they have a clear obsession with extreme violence, like Rudakubana.
However, a Guardian analysis has found that barely one in 10 of the 3,400 cases highlighting these concerns in children and teenagers went on to receive anti-radicalisation support in the year to March 2025.
Chris Walker, the solicitor for the families of the three murdered girls – Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine – said the system was “not fit for purpose and must undergo fundamental changes to reduce serious risks to society.”
He said: “It seems to us that those with an ideological component to their crimes are treated more severely – and monitored more closely with greater involvement from state agencies.
“And those without an ideology component to their violence or intended violence are given lesser sentences despite their clear meticulous planning and mass murder fantasies.”
Official figures show there were nearly 300 Prevent referrals of children of primary school age who, like Rudakubana, had an intense interest in brutality but no clear ideology.
A further 3,000 referrals over the same concerns were made about teenagers in the year to March 2025. The vast majority of these 3,300 referrals related to under 17s with multiple, unclear or no ideology, while 336 related to an obsession with extreme violence.
However, only 11% of these were deemed suitable for further work with the counter-radicalisation programme Channel. By comparison, Channel took on 34% of those referred for right-wing extremism and 26% for Islamist extremism.
Britain’s top counter-terror officer, Laurence Taylor, warned in the Guardian last week that Prevent was being “overwhelmed” by referrals for those interested in violence but where no ideology was involved.
Last month, a 17-year-old who was “obsessed” with Rudakubana avoided jail after being convicted of planning to carry out a copycat attack. The teenager had been referred to Prevent twice, including as recently as last May, but had no clear ideology such as jihadism or right-wing extremism.
Walker, of the law firm Bond Turner, said the Southport inquiry had been assured that those who had unclear ideologies but a fascination with extreme violence “would now pass through the Prevent gateway to more stringent state intervention”.
“But what we’re seeing with these statistics and evidence in the attempted copycat case is that these supposed changes have not been filtered down to the people on the frontline dealing with referrals,” he added.
Nicola Ryan-Donnelly, a of the law firm Fletchers which represents the physically and psychologically injured children, said the inquiry showed the need for a “serious shake up in our system to ensure that a lack of ideology does not protect perpetrators over their victims”.
She said Britain faced an increasing threat from violence-obsessed individuals with muddled beliefs – as well as those who express a misogynistic hatred of women and girls: “Until we begin to properly manage these evolving threats, dangerous individuals without clear motives will continue to fall through the cracks.”
Nicola Brook, a solicitor for three adult survivors of the Southport attack, said the state was failing to tackle those who “do not fit the terrorist mould”.
She said: “It has been proven time and time again that the Prevent programme is not fit for purpose but we are also gravely concerned that it is the wrong mechanism to use for individuals who have an obsession with extreme violence.”
Brook, of the law firm Broudie Jackson Canter, represents the dance teacher Leanne Lucas, businessman John Hayes and the teaching assistant Heidi Liddle. Lucas and Hayes suffered life-threatening injuries in the attack while Liddle shielded one young girl from the attacker by barricading themselves in a toilet.
She said Prevent was “not equipped to deal with dangerous young people, such as Rudakubana, who did not commit a terrorist attack but did pose a catastrophic risk to society – a risk that was missed multiple times”.
Brook said: “Not only is the state failing to learn lessons from these harrowing attacks but it also has yet to acknowledge the imperative need to provide another system that can effectively deal with these dangerous individuals who do not fit the terrorist mould.”
A Home Office spokesperson said: “Our thoughts remain with the families of Bebe, Elsie, Alice and all those who were harmed by the horrific attack that took place in Southport on 29 July 2024.
“Prevent remains a vital tool for keeping us safe from those who would do us harm. We will continue to ensure the programme has the capabilities it needs to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.”
