Jane Corbyn

You mean in terms of Iran?

Yes.

There's optimism, I think, that J.D.

Vance again will become involved with the Iranians at a high level and those talks will resume.

And as Gary said, in order to get that ceasefire to extend and to talk about the nitty gritty issues like the nuclear issue and the Straits of Hormuz,

They had to sort out this continuing exchange of rocket and drone fire between Hezbollah and Israel.

So it looks as if that's happened with a 10-day ceasefire.

And it looks as if Hezbollah is going to abide by it.

I mean, they've actually been hammered very, very hard.

in the last day or so in one of their strongholds in southern Lebanon by Israel in Bint Jebel.

And the last remaining bridge that connects north and south Lebanon has been destroyed.

So they're really in a tight corner.

But it remains to be seen whether they will agree to this in the long term if Israel, as they've said tonight, is not prepared to withdraw out of Lebanon but to retain this 10-kilometre security zone, which is effectively a buffer zone for Israel.

And more than 2,000 people dead.

In this, the latest round of fighting, as you said, there's always poor Lebanon's always stuck in the middle.

BBC Verify is reporting that at least 1,400 buildings have been destroyed in southern Lebanon.

You know, this is effectively a wasteland.

And Lebanon is once again in the crosshairs.

It's not a subplot.

It's very, very important for the people of Lebanon and very important, I think, for the president himself, because Trump had hoped to get them to get,