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Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. I'm Rebecca Kesb.

Coming up later in the programme, some good news from the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo

because an endangered gorilla has given birth to twins, which is very rare.

So can she cope with two babies?

Guerrilla mothers are adapted to raise one infant at a time.

They carry them constantly and they have to invest a huge amount of energy.

Now, guerrillas also walk on all fours,

so carrying two babies at one time can be quite challenging and physically demanding.

More on that to come, but first, as the war in the Middle East continues to claim lives across the region,

there does seem to be momentum, however limited, for discussions that we're told, are happening behind the region. There does seem to be momentum, however limited, for discussions that we're told,

are happening behind the scenes, if not towards peace talks, perhaps towards talks about possible

peace talks. Well, speaking within the past couple of hours, President Trump admitted

it was difficult to know how to start any negotiations given the damage, he says, his forces have done

to the regime in Tehran.

They have no Navy left. They have no Air Force left. They have no anti-aircraft equipment left,

no radar left, no leaders left. The leaders are all gone. Nobody knows who to talk to. But we're

actually talking to the right people and they want to make a deal so badly. You have no idea how

badly they want to make a deal. Well, as we reported yesterday, Pakistan is being floated as a

potential broker to facilitate discussions. Today on social media, the Prime Minister of Pakistan,

Shebaashirif, volunteered his country as a possible venue for peace talks between Iran and the US.

We voiced up his comment.

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