u. s. presidential biden blamed run back to militants for the attack and has vowed to respond. ron denies any involvement. and a short while ago, i spoke with middle east channel as daniel garr, last editor in chief of the magazine senate, which focuses on the arab and islamic world. we discussed the strikes potential for further escalation and whether or ron was strategically involved in strikes on iranian linked groups have looks as well, i think, uh iran is involved in structuring and motivating this uh, a lions this plus the rough militias, mostly she, uh, oriented militias, in the region 5, i think uh these groups also work at their own behest and have their own time table . and i think that is also the plausible deniability for the radians is also essential here. so this is more, it's a financial, it is a logistic, it's an ideological support. but as we have seen in the past, i don't not think that iran is coordinating every individual strikes. it is not in the strategic just to teach an interest of the rain is to do that and they see how that these groups. and these mili

u. s. strong. flying in the area as presidential biden has blamed ron back militants for the attack, though iran denies being involved. a national security council spokesman john kirby's of the us is still pondering as the response. we are not looking for a war with iran or not. so you can in conflict with the regime in the military way . and as i said in the, in the opening, we're not, we're not looking to escalate here. this attack over the weekend was that school, the tory make no mistake about. and it requires a response, make no mistake about that. i will not get ahead of the president's decision making well, as you, as president joe biden laws america's response to the attack. and jordan pressure is growing in washington to strike a blow directly at iran. for decades. iran has on the militant groups targeting the us and its allies across the middle east, with more than a 150 attacks on us forces stationed in the region. since the start of the war in gauze on october, missiles fly towards the red sea targeting ships and from lebanon into israel, and from a rack into jordan. all fired b

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they, they, the presidential biden of the u. s. s i just issued a quick quote saying that they are the us is not supporting taiwan independence. are we likely to see any change in the relationship between ty, out and taiwan and the us? so is this going to be a continuation of the stance that we've seen in the past in the, you know, actually in the past 8 years priced into ties. policy has been to brenda, self defense. and that has been done in cooperation with the us and other countries . so this is important for us to keep the peace and it is not going to change. we will also continue just friends and economic and trade cooperation with the front of the countries in order to reduce our exposure to chinese economic pressure and auto race. thank you very much indeed. we appreciate that that's call us to talk or talking to us from taipei. thank you very much indeed for your time. thank you. uh the still ahead on this i'll just even use are clinging to his memories. we speak to one palestinian grandfather who lost 9 members of his fam