Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
In 30 minutes,
we're going to bring you the latest from Gaza
because a double strike on the main hospital in the south of the enclave is reported to have killed at least 20 people,
including several journalists.
We'll bring you the testimony of one of those who witnessed the attack.
Before that, we're heading to the front line of another war.
Because Donbass in eastern Ukraine is a prize that Russia has long wanted.
Only about a third of it is still under Ukrainian control, and Vladimir Putin wants the rest.
As President Trump has made his latest push for peace,
there's been a suggestion out of that that Donbass could be swapped by the Ukrainians for land that the Russian military has seized elsewhere,
along with a freezing of the conflict along current front lines.
Western intelligence acknowledges that the Russians are making slow progress in their efforts to take Donbass by force,
but it's painfully slow.
The latest estimates say that at the current rate,
a complete conquest of the region would take the Russian military about four years at the cost of more than two million casualties.
But Ukraine is also under pressure,
with the fighting in the Donbass especially fierce and exacting a toll on civilians as well as soldiers.