Leaders in war crisis meeting

US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair will hold a crisis meeting tomorrowok in an effort to convince the UN to back a war on Iraq.

They will join Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in the Azores as hopes fade for approval of a UN resolution.

And in an effort to secure support from the Middle East, President Bush and Mr Blair said a new “road map” to peace in the region could lead to a comprehensive settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by 2005.