down the funds by hand which can take anywhere from 10 days to two weeks for the money to get to ramallah for safety and other matters? >> we are on site at ramada and we were there yesterday to work on a plan we call a snapshot plan to try to excavate the issues you are talking about. we have also been to our regional office additional employees to ensure that we can address the issues i'm trying to expedite the drawdowns of ramada. i understand. >> miss, if they comply in this way what is left to be done so we can understand what is outstanding with mark. >> we are in the final steps of a verification process. >> you expect in a few months, you expect by the end of the year? when do you expect ramada will be able to access its funds the way in a normal fashion rather than by hand? >> in this last step if we see that the documentation is verified we should be able to i think have a targeted lifting of restricted drawdown in certain areas. there is some of the older stuff i believe that will still be there but we can work with them in terms of addressing targeted and focus areas to let th

in the west bank city of ramallah, residents re-enacted the movement of refugees, carrying suitcases and baskets. in bethlehem, demonstrators created a mock train bearing the names of cities where palestinians lost their homes. israeli soldiers fired tear gas and stun grenades at the train and its accompanying marchers. and those are some of the headlines. this democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we're on the road here in new york, then on today to canada, to madison, wisconsin, and then to toronto, canada. the "new york times" is reporting president obama has just passed a little-noticed milestone. he has now been at war longer than any president in u.s. history -- longer than george w. bush, longer than franklin d. roosevelt, longer than abraham lincoln. obama has taken military action in at least seven countries -- iraq, afghanistan, libya, syria, pakistan, yemen, and somalia. just last month, president obama announced the deployment of 250 more special operations troops to syria in a move that nearly doubles the official u.s. presence in t

meantime, manuel valls is visiting ramallah this tuesday, and meeting with the palestinian leadership. unlike the israelis, the palestinians have called for meetings. let's take a listen to what the french prime minister had to say. it is in the interest of all israel is to see this initiative succeed. , andtations are high everyone knows that if the situation doesn't change, tensions will continue to rise. that is why this extremism. annette: in paris, hundreds of plaintiffs are attending an extraordinary hearing over the next three days. they are the survivors and families of victims of the paris attacks last november. it will be their very first .ontact let's go to claire williams, who is covering the hearing. what are they going to say to the judge? we are notl, expecting the judges to be able to tell them an awful lot because the judges want to jeopardize -- do not want to jeopardize their own investigation. what the family members want to know is first of all, they want access to the autopsy reports that were done at the time. it has been months that they are waiting for the acc