correct ballot information the system then separates the voter identity from the votes in order to ashar ensure anonymity and stores the votes on the distributed ledger so all of this is very ambitious and given the current changes that are happening over at u.s.p.s. the complaints of packages getting held up for weeks if not months going missing are undelivered it's very unlikely that research building testing and implementation will be done in a couple of months prior to elections given that u.s.p.s. is already are already facing issues with staffing as well as compensation issue is so i think it's very coincidental that they're rolling this out now especially when the new postmaster joy is being asked to appear in from the house oversight committee to answer for all of these internal problems and seems like he's trying to deliver a solution a little too little too late but what's your take on the situation. agree it's too little too late there's no way that's going to happen in time for a november election absolutely not i mean at this point it's impossible if you look at what the sta

well a prominent member of the palestinian liberation organization has responded to the move on dr ashar way said israel was rewarded for not openly declaring what it's been doing to palestine u.a.e. has now revealed its secret dealings with israel please don't do us a favor we're nobody's fig leaf. well a formal reaction i believe we have our correspondent need it for him on the phone from ramallah needed one other reaction have we had from the palestinian camp so far. so the pulse opinion that 'd those office or the palestinian government is not big so far about this but we have been speaking with bells been in officials over the past few weeks namely because that they that was announced by the israeli government to go forward with is on the with its annexation was in july and. palestinian officials have told those that they're worried that israel will be rewarded for suspending lines of annexing parts of the occupied west bank which is illegal under international law and 1st time i assume that this is the feeling now that israel has been through war that's not for ending it's a contin

ball lapse sheance sheet i underappreciated people leverage up and do stock buybacks for a penny asharet's an expensive penny i takes away the optionalty in times of crisis. interestingly i was look agent the five or six tech companies we consider driving the whole economy right now with 25 % of the market value there's no debt on those interestingly, that $5 trillion of market cap, they don't have one cent of debt which is kind of goes against the whole idea that you have to maximize your balance sheet and leverage so really your answer for us was we've been preparing we didn't know when a crisis would hit. but to be -- we have no debt we have excess capital and we believe these are moments in time like 13 years ago where you can create enormous value if you have the optionalty to do it you need the flexibility to do it >> right right. well, you mentioned debt, and there are plenty of companies that have too much debt and not enough sales right now i know you expect that there's going to be an up tick in m&a. is that going to come along with continued activity and restructuring or at t