islamic resistance of iraq issued a statement in line with tadawul. confronting the occupiers and responding to the zionist regime's crimes against palestinian civilians , the resistance forces targeted several vital targets in the occupied city of birseb with advanced aqrab cruise missiles . lebanon's hezbollah also announced that in retaliation for the zionist regime's airstrikes on residential areas in southern lebanon, the building where the regime's soldiers are stationed zionist

she spoke to bloomberg as the exchange hosts the capital markets forum in partnership with saudi tadawulan is at the event and joins us for more. some of the headlines out of that interview you did? yvonne: she was very optimistic trade in fact, bonnie chan, the hong kong exchange ceo is behind me in a panel right now talking about the collaborations she sees with the middle east. but first and foremost, this is a time one hong kong needs new listings. and they need more investors. in particular when it comes to two weeks ago when we heard from the chinese regulator initiating support measures for the ipo market. basically encouraging industry-leading names to list here in hong kong. she says it brings her a lot of hope. and they have gotten a lot of inquiries. she mentioned about a hundred applications on the ipo pipeline so far. here is more from our conversation with bonnie chan. >> i think what we want to focus on at hkex is first of all to play to our china strength grade really build on it. that is our trump card definitely. and then surrounding it, really three strategic imperativ