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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the World Service of the BBC.
Coming live from London, this is Owen Bennett Jones.
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in London today for talks with Arab leaders about how to de escalate the Middle east conflict.
He's meeting foreign ministers from Jordan and the UAE and the Lebanese Prime Minister.
He's been trying to get a ceasefire for many, many months now with strikingly little progress.
Is that about to change?
This is what he had to say before the meetings in London began.
We've had very good and important conversations this week, including this morning on ending the war in Gaza and charting a path for what comes next.
And those conversations will continue.
But I think this is a moment.
Of importance and urgency that we're working to seize.
We've got a report from Gaza itself in just a moment.