This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.
Innovation has always kept the world moving forward, but it also comes with risk.
As technology and AI evolve, Axa XL is facing into risk.
As a leading global insurer, we constantly push the boundaries to protect your data and network from cyber risks.
AXA XL, facing into risk for a future to be imagined.
This advertisement doesn't constitute an offer or solicitation, nor a description of any products or services of AXA XL.
Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're broadcasting live from London.
I'm Sean Lay.
With explosions and sustained gunfire in Mali's capital Bamako on Saturday.
We'll have the latest.
That's in half an hour's time here on NewsHour.
But first, it was on a Saturday, a fortnight ago,
that representatives from Iran and the United States met in Islamabad, Pakistan, to discuss ways of ending the war.
Since then, though, the pace of progress has been glacial.
Tuesday's planned meeting was cancelled because of Iran's objection to the US blockade of Iranian ports
intended to force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to international trade.
Iran's Foreign Minister Aras Irakji is in Pakistan's capital.
President Trump's foreign policy advisors,
his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and his old friend Steve Witkoff are travelling later Saturday.