Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
Coming to you live from London, I'm James Kamarasamy.
And coming up later on in the programme,
Russia is being urged to agree to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine.
And this was the British Prime Minister, Sakhir Starmer,
speaking today during a symbolic visit to Kiev with other European leaders.
What's happened today is there's been great unity around the proposal that there should be a 30-day unconditional ceasefire.
So you saw five leaders here, France, UK, Germany and Poland,
standing alongside the Ukrainian president and then many other world leaders on the virtual meeting that we had,
aligned with the US position, saying this should be an unconditional 30-day ceasefire.
we will hear what the Kremlin's response has been.
But we're going to begin in South Asia, and today...
which has swerved between hopes for peace and fears of war.
It began with the sense that the four-day military confrontation between India and Pakistan was about to spiral out of control after overnight missile,
drone and artillery attacks targeted military air bases on both sides of the border,
a concerning development in a nuclear-armed neighbourhood.
And then, in the early evening local time,
a social media post from Donald Trump announced that the two countries had,
in his words, used common sense and...
and great intelligence and had agreed to a full and immediate ceasefire.