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Hello and welcome to NewsAff.

From the BBC World Service, we're coming to you live from London.

I'm James Menendez.

And coming up, we'll be getting reaction from one family in Lebanon

to the news that the ceasefire between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah has been extended for another three weeks.

You know, it feels like good and bad news at the same time.

You know, it's good news because we know that hopefully, hopefully nothing will happen in Beirut

and Dahlia, so we will not be hearing some bombs.

So at the same time, what's happening in the

South, they are still bombing in the South, they are levelling the grounds in the South.

That's coming up in half an hour. But we are going to start today talking about NATO.

It's no secret the relations between the United States and the alliances European

members have been badly strained in recent months. First over President Trump's ambition

to take over Greenland and now over America and Israel's war in Iran. A number of European

countries have reportedly refused to allow American aircraft involved in the conflict

to use bases on their

territory or even use their airspace, including France, Italy and most notably Spain, which

plays host to two major U.S. air bases. The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, has been

an outspoken critic of the war, calling it a violation of international law.

Now it's emerged from an internal email seen by the Reuters News Agency

that the US Defence Department is drawing up possible ways to retaliate,

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