claudia grisales, npr _ on the campaign trail. take action, after last weekend's attacks by iran. leaders from the european union have agreed to impose new sanctions on iran's drone and missile producers over tehran's unprecedented weekend attack on israel. it comes one day after the us announced its own sanctions on iran. but allies are also urging israel to exercise restraint in its response — as the british foreign secretary david cameron stressed during a meeting with israel's prime minister on wednesday. we wanted to demonstrate our solidarity with israel because it was an appalling attack by iran, but to be clear, we have repeated our view that any response should be smart and designed in a way that is going to limit and try to de—escalate this conflict. nobody wants to see this conflict grow and spread, qatar's prime minister says his country is re—assessing its role as a mediator between israel and hamas, saying his country had been exploited and abused. he said qatar's efforts were being undermined by politicians seeking

npr's congressional correspondent claudia grisales told me what's causing the turmoil on capitol hill were also sounding the alarm that they are running out of time to provide aid for ukraine. one of those are just recently of the house of foreign affairs committee, the texas republican who said this really needs to be taken up soon. we know that democrats also have been moving for this to happen but there is a very vocal wing of the house republican party that has been pushing against this plan and so it is unclear if house republicans can get there but we heard tonight from former president trump, who stood alongside house speaker mikejohnson and said it was possible we could come together on a plan, perhaps it would be based on the line of some kind, in order to provide this aid. so if republicans are on board, that really gives the potential a lot of hope that perhaps congress could indeed work on a plan. the minimum age limit for children using whatsapp in the uk has been lowered from 16 to 13. the technology company meta, which owns whatsapp, says it's bringing the app into line