, _ remain that way. joe buccino and dana stroul, thank- remain that way. joe buccino and dana stroulber. in a largely symbolic move, more than 140 countries voted in support, with nine voting against including the us and israel. in a heated debate, the israeli ambassador, gilad erdan, called the vote a "travesty" — producing a mini—shredder into which he fed a pocket sized un charter. the palestinian representative can now fully take part in debates and propose agenda items, though it still won't have voting rights — something only the un security council has the power to confer. following the council's vote, palestinian president mahmoud abbas said the territory �*will continue its endeavour to obtain full membership'. our north america correspondentjohn sudworth recaps the day's events. we ought to say that the general assembly does not have the power to confer the membership on a new state. so in soina so in a way this resulted passed overwhelmingly today is largely symbolic but it does do a couple of things. first of all it reiterates that call for full membership and asks the se

and dana stroul, former us deputy assistant secretary of defence for the middle east.na will not provide russia with weapons to use against ukraine. emmanuel macron is a chinese influence on moscow to patricia de mike bushell rushcutter and the war in europe. during talks about the israel—gaza war the leaders said they share the same goal of achieving an immediate ceasefire, release of hostages, protecting populations and providing humanitarian aid. our paris correspondent, hugh schofield, has more. at the end of a very long day we've had one of those press conferences which aren't really press conferences but state m e nts press conferences but statements by the two leaders full of honeyed demonic words, very difficult to get beyond the verbiage but if you listened to the content and analyse the words, you could see that they were still differences between the two sides one for example president xi talked about the ukrainian war, he talked about not war but the crisis, he said repeated his position that china is not part of the crisis and that we should not be putting

spoke about the report and the israel—gaza war with former us centcom spokesmanjoe buccino and dana stroulistant secretary of defense for the middle east and seniorfellow at the washington institute. the report doesn't call for the halting of weapons or the withholding of weapons but yet we've seen president biden in the last week dojust that. do you think he'll use this report to continue with the supply? yes. so i think these are two separate issues which is a hard needle to thread. so when it comes to this report it's about whether — if the report had said that we have determined in a definitive manner that israel has violated international humanitarian law in its obligations to minimise civilian harm and it's not taking remediation practices in a genuine and meaningful way then it would trigger, under us law, obligations to stop transferring military equipment to israel. and the report did not do that which opens the door to continuing to transfer military equipment. but what the president announced he was holding this week were two types of munitions — 2000 pound bombs and 500 pound b