hezbollah's secretary general hossam nasr allah is the man they look to for decades he's been the head of the party and the armed militia it's been years since now israel has appeared in public due to the risk of assassination the list of not all as enemies as long as israel regards him as a chief terrorist. on this occasion his supporters only get to see him on a big screen he sent a video message from a hiding place in the mountains. we have precision missiles capable of hitting all essential targets in the zionist entity. and hezbollah doesn't just make empty threats over the years it's carried out attacks in many parts of the world targeting u.s. french and above all israeli interests the u.s. and israel have designated hezbollah a terrorist organization in. some european countries have completely banned the group. called the european union only calls hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization i owe. i. hezbollah has mounted numerous attacks on northern israel near the border with lebanon ducting soldiers targeting and killing civilians firing rockets and using suicide bomb

so how big a deal is this state you know vali nasr is professor of middle east studies and international affairs at johns hopkins university he joins us from washington d.c. welcome to g.w. professor let's start with the point that we heard at the end of that report how likely do you think arab countries are to follow suit. not immediately at least not in the way that the trump administration would like for them to be in washington in september for a signing ceremony and the reason is that other countries don't necessarily have. already the relationships that u.a.e. had with israel they don't have necessarily the incentive that u.a.e. has for signing the deal at this point in time and also most of them have much larger populations that they have to listen to the u.a.e. has a very small indigenous population and it can contain any kind of adverse reaction that the population may have had the leaderships move at this point in time very successfully other countries don't have that calculation but but nevertheless i do think it creates momentum for additional countries to come forward over t

with us is the founder and chief onomist at nasr sadidi and associates.clear they're buy bug in the enough to keep up with the pace agreed on in january. i think they have to buy another $130 billion in the second half of the year. it's a little suspect when the u.s. trade respective said they're satisfied with this progress. with this type of pace is it just me -- does this just mean phase two is off the table for now? >> i think two things. obviously when the forecast was made how much china would import we were in a different world, this was precovid. expectations on greth in the u.s. and china were much higher than what we actually got. it's not surprising that you're not going to be able to meet all the expectations. what is surprising is that china has kept its commitments quite well particularly on the agricultural side. i think the timing of this new thing is again related to the november elections. we're seeing more moves by the u.s. administration to show that we've had some successes, particularly on china, and this is one of them. i think show

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we're looking at another media story that's on our radar now with one of our producers tarek nasr targets in the u.s. a video full of debunked theories on call that 19 goes viral in a big way with the help of president trump eventually it gets taken down 1st of all who produced the video in question. a group that calls itself america's front line doctor they put together a press conference that was live streamed by the right wing media outlets bright spot and they stood on the steps of the supreme court and essentially told americans they're being lighter there are many thousands of physicians who have been silenced print telling the american people the good news about the situation that we can manage the virus some mind boggling conspiracy theories and misinformation have exploded during this pandemic and this video brought up $20000000.00 views in just a few hours before being taken down by facebook twitter where donald trump and his son also posted this video they removed it too but it's all over the place now and once again hydroxide chloroquine was made out to be some kind of cure fo

like the former al nasr cinema. most of gaza's movie theaters were shut down in the late 1980 s. often due to political considerations they were seen as having a liberal influence. a number of historic buildings that were no longer used have been torn down like the former train station. here marwan is visiting the site of the railroad that once operated between gaza and egypt. for them was almost. thought of almost. how it was one. of the. other the. other ones among the largest of the. last. year we're going to look at the money. and some fact that the days of train travel in gaza and long gone over the years restrictions on the movements of local residents have increased only specific groups of people such as those who are ill or are on business can apply for a permit to travel by israel but the application process as long and complicated. the rather border crossing between gaza and egypt has been frequently shut down in recent years usually due to political tensions. those who want to travel to egypt have to get permits from the hamas authorities and the egyptian. when the fam