00:00The luxury Burgenstock resort in Switzerland has long enjoyed a high profile, but today
00:05it has the attention of the whole world.
00:07Talks underway here could lift the Middle East out of war and put the world economy
00:11on the path to recovery, or they could see a fragile ceasefire fail and plunge the world
00:16into a prolonged oil crisis.
00:19Day one of talks started with hopes that decades of antagonism between combatants,
00:23U.S. and Iran, could finally come to an end.
00:26What the president has asked us to do is turn over a new leaf to transform our relationship
00:31with the people of Iran and to extend an outstretched hand that says to the people of Iran that if
00:37your leadership is willing to give up being a driver of regional instability, if they are
00:42willing to give up nuclear weapons ambitions for the long term, then the United States is
00:47willing to fundamentally transform our relationship with that country.
00:50But Iran and the U.S. are not the only ones fighting in this war.
00:55Iran-aligned militia Hezbollah has been exchanging attacks with Israel from its base in Lebanon,
01:00and the death toll on both sides is mounting.
01:03Iran has demanded that fighting must end on this second front, or talks with the U.S. will not go
01:08ahead.
01:10Naturally, if with regard to Lebanon, which is one of the principal fronts where the end of the war must
01:15be declared,
01:16this does not happen, then the subsequent issues will certainly not be negotiated.
01:21But for Lebanon and Israel, peace looks elusive.
01:25Sunday was a quiet day in terms of fighting, but there was an outpouring of mourning on both sides,
01:30as they buried their recent dead. On a beach in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, mourners remembered
01:36sea turtle conservationist Mona Khalil, two days after she was killed at home in an Israeli strike.
01:42While in the Israeli city of Herzliya, flag-waving Israelis remembered Staff Sergeant Yoav Klein, one of four
01:48soldiers killed in an attack on an IDF tank in southern Lebanon. One major sticking point is that Hezbollah
01:54demands Israel withdraw from Lebanon.
01:58Let the Israelis and everyone else understand this. Remaining on Lebanese territory is impossible.
02:05There will be no Israeli security zones on Lebanese soil.
02:09While Israel says it's not going anywhere, for the sake of its own security.
02:14We have achieved extraordinary successes, and we will not relinquish them. We will remain in the
02:20security zone in southern Lebanon for as long as necessary to protect the cherished residents of
02:25the north and all the citizens of Israel. Iran is displeased. It says it has closed the oil and gas
02:32choke point to its south, the Strait of Hormuz, until a ceasefire in Lebanon is respected. Despite the
02:38announcement, the U.S. says ships have kept passing through, but marine analysts say their numbers have
02:44dropped. Yet back in Switzerland, the U.S. and Iran are still talking, despite deep mistrust, despite
02:51continued fighting in Lebanon, despite the unclear situation in the Strait of Hormuz, and even despite
02:56a new threat by U.S. President Donald Trump to strike Iran again. And so, the world's eyes are still
03:03on
03:03this Swiss resort, waiting to see if peace has a chance. Justin Wu and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus.
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