Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. Coming to you live from London,

I'm Celia Hatton. We're starting this edition of News Hour in Geneva, where a team from Iran has been meeting with European foreign ministers.

Their talks lasted several hours, and they marked the first face-to-face dialogue

between Tehran and Western governments since Israel first attacked Iran a week ago. Iran's foreign

minister Abbas Arachchi is meeting his counterparts from the UK, the European Union, France, and

Germany.

The talks have been billed as negotiations by some, including the US President Donald Trump.

But others are describing the meeting as a clear chance to deliver a message to Iran.

In the last couple of hours, Britain's Foreign Minister David Lamy spoke to reporters in Geneva. We were clear. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. We are keen to continue ongoing discussions and negotiations with Iran.

And we urge Iran to continue their talks with the United States.

This is a perilous moment, and it is hugely important that we don't see regional escalation

of this conflict.

At the same time today, the UN Security Council has been discussing the Israel-Iran

conflict. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had this to say.

There are moments when the choices before us are not just consequential. They are defining.

Moments when the direction taken will shape not only the fate of nations, but potentially

our collective future. This is such a moment. To the parties to the conflict, the potential parties to the conflict,

and to the Security Council as the representative of the international community,

I have a simple and clear message, gave peace a chance.

Well, as the talks took place in Geneva, Iran and Israel continued to long strikes against

one another. We'll examine what's been happening on the ground a little later in the

program. But for now, let's focus in on those talks. Let's speak with our chief international

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