i spoke to the former us deputy assistant secretary of defense for the middle east, dana stroul abouthis kind of reaction. lets start with some new comments from the arab league denouncing trump s proposals as ethnic cleansing. just explain why this is prompting that kind of reaction. walk us through why the almost off—the—cuff remarks from donald trump are prompting that reaction? it feeds a narrative that palestinians in the arab world have long suspected about israel's motivations and americans intention, which is there is not credible commitment to in eventual palestinian state, living side by side with israel. but actually feeding this narrative that palestinians should be exiles and somebody are. two, the estimates for gaza reconstruction are over $80 billion and will take decades, talking about generations. something like saying palestinian should relocate, even on a temporary basis tojordan and egypt is generations displaced from their homes. and those are their homes. we know and we see pictures now of the gaza strip which has just been mostly destroyed. more than half the bu

joining me live dana stroul, former deputy assistant joining me live is white house bureau chief at thepost — toluse olorunnipa. a big moment forjoe biden before this was announced, setting out his farewell address tonight, can we expect he will mention this front and centre? i he will mention this front and centre? ., , . , ., centre? i do expect this to be a big part _ centre? i do expect this to be a big part of _ centre? i do expect this to be a big part of the _ centre? i do expect this to be a big part of the speech. - centre? i do expect this to be a big part of the speech. he l a big part of the speech. he wants to talk about his legacy on domestic policy and foreign policy and leading the speech with a little bit of news is usually a good way to get people's attention and show that you are active, even in the final days of your presidency, so i do expect president biden to take another bite of the apple and get more remarks about this deal that has come together in the final days of his presidency. he is going to want to show that his presidency was one that was always working

dana stroul, thank you.phone conversation with donald trump since the president's inauguration. downing street says the leaders stressed the importance of the close ties between their two countries — and they agreed to meet soon. joining me live from london is our political correspondent iain watson. what should we make of what the two leaders had to say in this phone call? i think it's quite positive from keir starmer as point of view. it's within a week of the inauguration, he was not the inauguration. he had already spoken to president elect trump after the november election. that went in trump tower quite well in september. i say quite well because of course donald trumps close ally elon musk has been denouncing keir starmer and his labour government on social media. it doesn't look like that was anything like the tone of this conversation. i'm told it was warm and personal. it does look as though both men went out of their way to try to find points of agreement rather than points of difference. a few ex