Paul Moss

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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Paul Moss, and in the early hours of Sunday the 21st of June, these are our main stories.

J.D.

Vance heads to Switzerland for U.S.-Iran peace talks.

But what's with the contradictory claims about the Strait of Hormuz?

After more deadly Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, we hear from eyewitnesses on the ground.

And Colombians are preparing to elect a new president, the contest defined by the country's ongoing and brutal conflict.

We go inside the annual CrimeCon event to find out why true crime content is spiking in popularity and the problems that come with that.

Let's start with those contradictory signals emanating from the Middle East.

We may have become accustomed to mixed messages around peace talks within the region, but even by those recent standards, it's been a particularly difficult 24 hours for anyone trying to figure out what is actually going on.

On the one hand, Iran says it's once again closed the Strait of Hormuz.

And yet the United States insists plenty of ships have been passing through.

And despite this situation in the Strait, both the US Vice President J.D.

Vance and the Iranian Foreign Minister are due to sit down together in Switzerland on Sunday to try to thrash out a deal.

And all of this against a background of the ongoing conflict in Lebanon, something Iran insists must end if a peace agreement is to be possible.

Israeli strikes are reported to have killed more than 20 people in southern Lebanon on Saturday.

This man, Qasim, showed people around the home where an Israeli missile killed his family.

So with this kind of suffering in Lebanon continuing, what are the prospects of US-Iran peace negotiations even going ahead, let alone succeeding?

I spoke about this to our correspondent Joe Inwood and asked him first what to make of those contradictory claims about the Strait of Hormuz.