Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez.

A window now exists within the next two weeks to achieve a diplomatic solution. The words of Britain's

Foreign Secretary David Lammy ahead of a crucial meeting in Geneva today about the Israel-Iran conflict.

That'll be between Mr. Lamy, the French and German foreign ministers, and their Iranian

counterpart, Abasarachi. And it comes after President Trump said on Thursday that he would make

a decision about whether the U.S. would join Israel's offensive in that same timeline, two weeks.

So with the war now into its second week and with both sides continuing to attack each other,

is there a deal to be done?

Let's head live to Geneva to speak to our chief international correspondent,

Lee's Doucette.

Lee, is very good to have you with us on the program.

What is the message the Europeans

want to convey to Iran, do you think? They will convey a message from the United States,

and it is also, it seems, the message of the European foreign ministers who will meet

the Iranian foreign minister Abbas Arakshi here in Geneva in a very short time.

That is that there is only one deal on the table.

It is the U.S. proposal for a new Iran nuclear deal.

And I have to say, James, it will not seem like negotiations to Tehran.

The Iranians will be told they have to come

down to zero enrichment. This is something that Mr. Arachi has repeatedly said is a red line

for Iran that it violates its sovereign right to enrich uranium, a civilian nuclear program.

There was also another proposal that had been on the table before Israel began its strikes,

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