d. c. phil, this rally shows you to be under way in about an hour's time. what kind of turn out is expected? well, they're expecting officially 700 people. now that's according to the authorities, the number of pilots that people have applied for organized to say they've had about 500 people apply to attend. so fairly low numbers compared to what could be expected. but then again, it's not those people who are bay the rule to apply for private thought. the authorities necessarily need to be concerned about it flows that come with their own attention. those who do not follow the let me show you what's happening right now. so this is the capital here, there is almost them. i hasten to play a festival atmosphere, but there is music playing. it's all very good natured. there is a handful of demonstrate this past so far. here we're here for this event. i mean, at the moment it's probably more journalists than protest. now obviously we are about an hour 45 minutes away from the protest beginning properly. so those numbers all likely to increase regardless barrier

but again, phil laval, in washington, d. c. for walkie thomas. while we've just heard from the americans, it's not an apology, but it's probably the nearest that piracy is going to get towards that direction. anyway, the american saying that they regret this decision by the french and they will engage in the coming days to resolve differences. clearly they are aware just how lifted president micron is here. they're trying to lower the temperature somewhat. that's probably a more muted response compared to some of the language we've heard out of paris over the last few hours last day or so. where it's like and i quote here, betrayed, tried, awful partnerships, ruins, dab in the bag, lack of coherence, angry and bitter. and then the real punch hair towards joe biden, the foreign minister of foreign minister saying this brutal and unilateral decision resembles a lot of what trump is doing. of course, nobody here in washington dc in the white house wanting to be competitive in any way to the former president of the united states. but we know here the