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President Trump is yet again warning Iran that the clock is ticking.

On Sunday, he posted on his truth social platform, quote,

they better get moving fast or there won't be anything left of them. Time is of the essence,

end quote. Talks to end the war in Iran have stalled with multiple sticking points and one of them

is another country altogether. Iran has reportedly insisted on an end to the war in Lebanon before

talks can continue with the U.S. about Iran.

In Lebanon, there's a ceasefire, but fighting continues.

And though there have been talks, there's not much progress.

From the BBC, I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C.

And I'm Tristan Redmond in London.

And today on The Global Story, why is the war in Lebanon so hard to end?

And why could it hold the key for a deal between the United States and Iran?

I'm Hugo Meshager and I am a BBC Middle East correspondent based in Beirut.

Great to see you again, Hugo. Thanks for joining us.

Good to be back. Good to see you.

Hugo, last Friday, the U.S. State Department announced that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to extend this shaky ceasefire for another 45 days.

But we've seen reports just in the last couple of days that the fighting has continued in southern Lebanon.

And so I want to ask you here at the outset, is there actually a ceasefire in place?

Yeah, this is very interesting because the way I've been framing it is this is a ceasefire in name only because it hasn't really stopped the war here.

So you have Israeli airstrikes every day with many people being killed. More than 400 people

have been killed since the beginning of this so-called ceasefire.

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