concerned. the potential for it still escalating obviously exists. the reason this has flared up most recently again is what's happened in gaza, because lebanon and all these countries are fighting on behalf of the palestinians and believe that the only solution is an official palestinian state. >> alex, thank you for all your reporting there. that's our alex crawford reporting and offering her analysis from beirut. as we've been saying we're expecting u.s. secretary of state antony blinken to speak from the g7 foreign ministers meeting. all week we've heard from global leaders, ministers, foreign ministers urging for restrantd. the u.k. government this morning urging both israel and iran to de-escalate the situation. let's just have a little listen. >> we do think the deescalation is absolutely key now, and our message to all in the region