john fitz, being prospecting, so many people here in terms of budgets in terms of just having a functioning governments. and that is now likely to take place the assembly due to sit here in belfast on saturday. once the final i's dotted and t's, crossed in one split in westminster on thursday to us defense secretary lloyd austin has apologize for concealing his recent hospitalization and his 1st press conference since his recent cancer diagnosis. he also said the us is ready to respond to attacks on american basis, often added that this was a dangerous moment in the middle east, but the us would work to avoid a wider conflict. this particular attack was egregious and that it was, you know, the attack was on at the sleeping area of one of, of, of our base and, and again, uh, we have, uh, we've kotob hezbollah and, and other elements continue to attack our troops. uh and uh, and again, i think at this point uh we, we should, uh, it's time to, to take away even more capabilities that we've taken in the past. and in terms of the use of term escalation, we've not described what are what our resp