funes, there he is, romero funes, activist and commentator who was joining us live from los angeles. thank you very much to both of you gentlemen for joining us on this edition of the spotlight, now the daily assault on the human dignity of palestinians is creating a crisis that is undermining credibility of the international community in general, the entire world seems to be... silent, mr. salam from tehran. what do you have to comment on this one? the latest massacres are absolutely barbaric. it's incredible to just see what's coming out. it's not just for example in the ones that we've seen in the past where they kill a bunch of people flat out. this time they're resorting to very sadistic acts of torture and revenge, specifically in the siege of al-shifah hospital. they the we've all seen the reports about how... they've been raping women, raping pregnant women, beating pregnant women and then killing some of their victims and forcing the men to watch it, that's uh, you know, while being, it's one thing when they kill people, which is obviously brutal, but to leave people alive a