u. s. bravo seems to have a better looking outlook for the other neighbors. closer to home for indonesia, russia and china. i have always been considered important partners. in fact, defense cooperation, both multilateral and bi lateral, has been well established for many years. this type of cooperation aligns with any show for august own national interest. but it's principle, quote, free and after foreign policy. in the course of looking after his nations, he has taken aim at the european union for bands plays on in the nation at sports lemming. the blog in the process for the deforestation that cut down large watts offering for us to quench western appetites. please pass on to your you'd have been people and you've been leaders that it was the pens. ok, multiple items and forced us to plug the coffee, the rubber schools. and now you're saying we are the photo. we have destroyed all foreigners you use like are 4 days before. now the question remains, is there really? yes, that's a democracy. whe

officials say that they cannot back any offensive and bravo without careful consideration for the more than 1000000 palestinians taking refuge there. the u. s. president has also criticized israel's campaign and gaza. let's have a listen. i'm of the view. as you know, that the conduct of the response in gaza in the gaza strip has been um over the top. we talked to bb to open the gate other as really so i've been pushing really hard, really hard to get any manager and assistance in to guys. there are a lot of innocent people are starving, not innocent people who are in trouble. don scott, to stop and let's get some context now with frank ludovic. she is a senior lecturer and strategic studies at portsmouth university at a former british military intelligence officer. he joins us from oxford. frank, welcome to back to the program. we've heard criticism coming from the us regarding reports that israel plans to expand it's offensive to rough up. and operation has not started. do we have a sense of what might be being considered here? is it likely to be a wide scale assault or something different? spoken, monique server, i think it's important t