Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

Coming to you live from London, I'm James Kamara Sami.

And coming up later on in the programme, Russia is being urged to agree to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine.

And this was the British Prime Minister, Sarkia Stama, speaking today during a symbolic

visit to Kiev with other European leaders.

What's happened today is there's been great unity around the proposal that there should be

a 30-day unconditional ceasefire. So you saw five leaders here, France, UK, Germany and Poland standing alongside the Ukrainian president,

and then many other world leaders on the virtual meeting that we had, aligned with the US position,

saying this should be an unconditional 30-day ceasefire.

We will hear what the Kremlin's response has been. But we're going to begin in

South Asia and a day which has swerved between hopes for peace and fears of war. It began with a

sense that the four-day military confrontation between India and Pakistan was about to spiral out

of control after overnight missile, drone and artillery attacks

targeted military air bases on both sides of the border,

a concerning development in a nuclear-armed neighbourhood.

And then, in the early evening local time, a social media post from Donald Trump

announced that the two countries had, in his words, used common sense and great intelligence

and had agreed to a full and immediate ceasefire.

Well, there was more immediacy to the Pakistani confirmation of that than the Indian one,

but both sides did acknowledge that agreement.

But an hour or so after the ceasefire was scheduled to come into effect,

reports began to emerge of explosions in Indian-administered Kashmir, the region where last month's deadly attack on Indian tourists, which India blames on Pakistan, had set off this latest round of tit-for-tat violence.

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