and thank you so much for that as arraf and hadi a spokesman for the indonesian red cross joining us from lombok thank you so very much it's two around now with that country's government has announced major steps to ease foreign exchange transactions and allow rein ins to bring in currency and gold now that's to combat the expected effects of the new u.s. sanctions are due to start this week but with an increasingly angry population and the economy just limping along and may all be too little too late. for sixty days in a row now arrhenius have taken to the street in protest in cities across the country they're angry about high prices and the government. the use iran's politicians of leading the country into ruin with mismanagement and corruption. the misery is plain to see even among people who aren't marching his son is certain that his life won't get better anytime soon. jim and even then i don't know what the aim of the u.s. sanctions is shit. all i know is that for iranians everything is getting worse the sanctions just hit alternately people who are poor anyway like mean the ri

that's all your business for now turning to gaza where the fighting continues but just arraf thank you so much christophe we're going to have bare indeed because the u.n. is mideast envoy says that he is deeply alarmed about the latest escalation of hostilities in the gaza strip between israel and hamas three palestinians died in an exchange of hundreds of mortars and airstrikes overnight over a dozen more have reportedly been injured in israeli airstrikes today despite international attempts to mediate the funerals for two of the victims of pregnant woman and her one year old daughter was killed in gaza this afternoon authorities say that a hamas fighter was also killed the u.n. envoy warned of devastating consequences if the current situation is not contained . well the exchange of fire in gaza comes at a time when it is becoming increasingly difficult for gazans to live their daily lives that's in part due to cuts in u.s. funding for the united nations agency responsible for some five million palestinian refugees us president donald trump has questioned its value after the state dep