so much for having me and my name is ashley nichol place and i am ice chair of the island palestine solidarity campaign. and we've been active since 2002. and it's, it's really basically here. thank you. right to have him. all right, so if you are watching right now on youtube, you can be part of this conversation. island and palestine working together. i know surveys in conversation, right. jump into the comments section. be part of the today show, john, i've got to start with you. this motion where island is saying, that's what israel is doing. a palestinian land is de facto annexation. how did that motion come about and your involvement in it? most pose. it's been a long time. come on. it's taking a long number months to pull together. it demotion, we worked with a large number of n jose non governmental organizations and in developing the motion and it really came about was last year. when you may remember, israel made a declaration that they were going to move ahead and annex large parts of the west . bank and under some international pressure de, backed away from the opposition publicly.

to prime minister nichol passion and has held on to his grip on power. months after defeat in a conflict with us or by john that prompted mass protest demanding his resignation . ashley and has one sunday snack parliament reelection, not tens of thousands of his supporters rallied in the company out of them as passion, yet pledge to build what he called a new armenia. really challenge reports from the capital the in the end, it wasn't even close with a much bigger victory than pre election polls predicted. nicole pasheti and it's celebrating, it's a radi and central yerevan on monday night. he thanked the country and talked of work to be done. i mean, the political crisis that stuff is not, i mean, yeah, november 9th. and over the republic off, i mean, i gave a mandate to our government and this political team to establish a dictatorship of low and right. the people in advantage. and i don't have a notion so jubilation for the prime minister and his supporters. but although winning 54 percent of the votes from a turn out of not quite 50 percent, is a solid mandate. it's hardly a ringing national endorsement of the man. it was a large hon cuz on the side advice, is th