Hello.
As far as I see today, there's one big story, which is the conflict in the Middle East.
But there are three strands to it.
There's the British political strand because Keir Starmer did a news conference in Downing Street.
There's a Donald Trump strand because he's been saying a few things since we last recorded an episode of Newscast.
He's also preparing to do a big statement to the American people on Thursday night.
And then there 's just what 's happening in the global economy as more and more consequences of the conflict
are being felt in various parts of the world.
So we will draw those three different strands together for you on this episode of Newscast.
Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast studio.
Hello, it's Henry Zephman here in Westminster.
And this is Lise Doucette.
I'm in London.
And we're also joined by Michelle Veazey-Bochman, who is the Senior Maritime Intelligence Analyst at WinWords.
Hello again, Michelle.
Hi, Adam.
So we've got a maritime expert, an international diplomacy expert and a political expert.
And those are the three big strands that we 're going to pull apart,
but also then probably tie back up together on this episode of Newscast.
Lise, first of all, we should say we're recording this episode of Newscast on Wednesday afternoon, just after lunchtime.