we want to pull the now ralph hodge the regional spokesman for the international committee of the red cross in the middle east he joins us tonight from beirut and mr hodges good to have you on the show your organization released a statement today saying that it's impossible to bring in a humanitarian convoy in only five hours so what framework needs to be in place if you are able if you want to be able to do your job in eastern guta. absolutely five hours are definitely not enough to bring in humanitarian aid of or over four hundred thousand people who have been living in istanbul was of the very few access to medicine food water and all the basic necessities today what is needed is the government of syria and the armed groups a lot of fighting all the all the parties fighting and east. come to an agreement to to allow humanitarian organizations the safe and repeated access into eastern going to first so that we are able to assess the humanitarian needs and devise our plan accordingly even if we are allowed in once into some good that will definitely not be enough and we would have to