Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the World Service of the BBC coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett-Jones.
There were some important uncertainties about today's Iran-US talks in Islamabad.
Would Iran turn up?
It did.
Would the two talks talk directly?
Again, they did.
Would they achieve anything?
Well.
That's not clear, but there are indications that something may be happening.
Lise Doucette is in Islamabad for us, our chief international correspondent.
We were just speaking a few moments ago, Lise, before we came on air, and it sounds like things may be happening.
What have you got?
What we're seeing, Owen, is something we've never seen before in the recent years.
In fact, any of the years since the 2015 nuclear negotiations.
First of all, the high level of the two delegations, the Iranian and the Americans.
And there was this question, first of all, whether or not the talks would happen at all.
And then at the beginning of the day, there was constant speculation.
Would the two delegations meet?
Would they meet face to face?