Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm Leila Nathu.
We will start the programme in Lebanon, where Israel's war
against the Iran-backed group Hezbollah shows no sign of abating.
Israel says its campaign is not part of the two-week ceasefire agreed between the US and Iran to allow for talks,
which failed to result in any agreement.
Meanwhile, though, Lebanon and Israel's ambassadors to Washington will sit down for discussions of their own today.
In a rare face-to-face meeting between representatives off the two sides.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also expected to be there, but the outlook is bleak.
The Lebanese government is seeking a ceasefire.
Israel says it won't discuss one, and Hezbollah says the talks shouldn't be happening at all.
Since March, more than 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon,
according to the government there, and more than a million people have fled their homes,
particularly in the south of the country, where Israel has sent in troops
and says it intends to set up a long-term buffer zone.
Our Middle East correspondent, Hugo Boshega, spent several days with emergency services in the southern city of Nabatea.
Another day of war.
The Lebanese are desperate for it to stop.
The talks in the US, there may hope for a ceasefire.