victoria nash i thank you so much. victoria nash there, director of the oxford internet institute. to send a delegation to a new round of talks on a possible ceasefire with hamas that would also see remaining hostages released. the united states, egypt and qatar have issued a joint call for talks to resume next week in either cairo or doha, but hamas has yet to respond. fears have been growing that the gaza war will escalate into a wider conflict after the killing of the hamas leader, ismail haniyeh, in iran. let's talk with dr lina khatib. she is the director of the soas middle east institute. thank you for being with us. we have had so many efforts at talks and a breakthrough on a ceasefire and a hostage release deal. do you have any more optimism now than we have had in the last few weeks that this could, we could see a breakthrough? it is very difficult to predict what will happen, of course, however one thing is clear, knew hamas nor israel have been able to overwhelm the other militarily in this conflict. —— neither hamas. this means the only way out of this conflict is throu