US negotiators say they co-ordinated a proposal for a three-week ceasefire in Lebanon with Israel
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The US says a call for a twenty-one day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was coordinated with Israel, despite its government's apparent rejection of the proposal. We get reaction and hear about people fleeing from Lebanon to Syria. In Washington, Volodymir Zelensky presents his plan for victory in Ukraine's war with Russia. And Baroness Sayeeda Warsi resigns from the Conservative Party in the House of Lords, saying the party has moved to the far right.
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