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Welcome to the BBC World Service Debate.
I'm Lise Doucet.
And we're here in the Radio Theatre of Broadcasting House with a live audience.
And events are moving quickly.
We are recording this discussion at 18 hours GMT on Friday the 13th of June.
And it is a moment where tensions are escalating dangerously in the Middle East and beyond.
Israel is attacking Iran and Iran is retaliating.
And yet President Trump promised when he began his second term that he would be a peacemaker,
a unifier.
Can he stop this growing confrontation?
Will he?
He's also put peace talks on the table in many parts of the world,
including Gaza, and Ukraine.
And he's also pushed his allies to do much more in many regions to take responsibility for their own security.
But his critics say that his kind of diplomacy and peacemaking is chaotic and reckless.
And they say that the world's dealmaker in chief still hasn't delivered a deal.
So our question in this world service debate is Has President Trump made the world a safer or a more dangerous place?
We have a very distinguished panel with us here in Broadcasting House to discuss this question.