Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service, live from London. This is Owen Bennett Jones.

And later on, we'll be hearing about that new evidence of a giant gas planet in Earth's neighbourhood, relatively speaking.

And we'll look back at the life of the NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who's died at the age of 97.

But we begin with Armenia and Azerbaijan, because never the most bashful of politicians.

President Trump this week is promoting himself as a peacemaker and in that area too.

With his eye, many believe on a Nobel Peace Prize.

Seasfires in Ukraine and Gaza have proved elusive. But last month standing beside Secretary

of State Marco Rubio, President Trump said his administration was making progress on a series of

international disputes. Look, we did a job with India and Pakistan and Serbia, Kosovo,

and Rwanda and the Congo.

And this was all over the last three weeks or so, Marco, right?

We did, and others that were ready to fight.

So in that vein, he is hosting the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia in the White House

today with a view to signing a peace deal.

The tensions between the two countries are really complex by any standards.

They both won independence from the Soviet Union back in 1991, and then their dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh broke into a full-scale

war. It's a mountainous region in Azerbaijan with a mostly ethnic Armenian population. So with the

support of Armenia, it broke away from Azerbaijan, but then in 2023, Azerbaijan took back control, prompting almost all of

the territories 100,000 Armenians to flee. One of them was 15-year-old Massis.

At around 2 p.m., we finished lessons at school. I was on my way home with a friend. We heard loud

banging at first. I thought it was a military exercise. Then the explosion started to happen

one after another. We ran to the nearby police station to hide in the basement to save our lives.

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