un security— sides. we know there is going to be un security council meeting, but you know, _ un security council meetingty council meeting, but you know, it was touched on there, and i think— know, it was touched on there, and i think the _ know, it was touched on there, and i think the observer still says that there _ think the observer still says that there were eight young cousins gathered for ee and a particular set that they— gathered for ee and a particular set that they are talking about, one man has lost _ that they are talking about, one man has lost his— that they are talking about, one man has lost his wife and five sons in their— has lost his wife and five sons in their home _ has lost his wife and five sons in their home and then a five—month—old baby survived. so it is these kinds of stories— baby survived. so it is these kinds of stories of— baby survived. so it is these kinds of stories of the people caught up in this— of stories of the people caught up in this which absolutely break my heart _ in this which absolutely break my heart. sorry suppose, you know, i don't _ heart. sorry suppo

un security _ possible. and the efforts by the un security council- possible. il to get something out have faltered so far, and i think there has been a suggestion, a feeling, that they focus on damage to gaza rather than damage also being reciprocated and coming into israel. but do you think, that is a real issue in terms of a public pronouncement? or, actually, there is this point about a confrontation taking place which will need to run its course in any case? i think the sticking — its course in any case? i think the sticking point, _ the sticking point, particularly for the united states, which has now vetoed the resolution three times and is likely to do so for a fourth time either today or tomorrow, is that the resolution in its current form we have seen has not mentioned any mention of the over 3000 rockets fired into territorial israel by hamas. but the rest of the resolution, as you mention, i think goals for the kind of reconciliation we hope to see from both parties, citing civilian casualties and damage, damage to civilian property on both sides, th

by the end of the weekend, they realised that by blocking the initiative to have a un security councils do something like the egyptian suggestion for thursday morning, the united states probably will support the un security council resolution, and i think israel would stop the war before that happened. figs would stop the war before that happened-— happened. as you know very well, happened. as you know very well. joe _ happened. as you know very well, joe biden's _ happened. as you know very well, joe biden's essential. well, joe biden�*s essential position for a very long time has been pro— israel, as you would act, that makes perfect sense. have you been surprised and do you think he has been surprised by the level of readiness of a good number of democrats to say it�*s time to pay more attention to the palestinians.— pay more attention to the palestinians. , , ., �* palestinians. this is what i'm in b a palestinians. this is what i'm in by a learning _ palestinians. this is what i'm in by a learning curve. - palestinians. this is what i'm in by a learning curve. we . in by a learning

the un has summoned the security council for an emergency meeting later.dent helena wilkinson reports. within seconds, this building in gaza is reduced to rubble. it was home to journalists from the associated press and al jazeera tv. an hour earlier, they had been told to evacuate. israel says the building was a target because of links to hamas, the militant group that rules gaza. israel is doing everything possible to protect our civilians and keep palestinian civilians out of harm's way. we demonstrated this yet again today when we warned civilians to vacate the building used by the hamas terror intelligence. they vacated the premises before the target was destroyed, and that's why you don't hear of casualties from these collapsing terror towers. there have, though, been civilian casualties on both sides. early this morning, israel targeted a house in gaza that it says belonged to a hamas leader. palestinian health officials say that at least three people died and many others were injured. in an earlier israeli attack, mohammed al—hadidi lost his wife a

so far, the americans have blocked any effort to issue a statement by the un security council.gine there would be some words at the end of today's meeting, but i don't think it will move the dial very much. all attention is what is going on here in the region. the american envoy met the israeli defence minister this morning. interestingly, he had a meeting with israeli arabs yesterday, which was a bit of a departure. but, of course, the americans don't have any direct contact with hamas, an organisation which they, like israel, and many other countries, regard as a terrorist organisation. they will be very dependent on the good offices of countries like egypt to try and mediate and find a way out. it is a complicated diplomatic set of communication and it may take some time before they yield any results. as i said earlier, it really will come either when hamas decides to stop firing rockets, or when israel feels it has done enough damage to stop this happening again for many years. there is no peace process at the moment. yesterday evening i went over to eastjerusalem to sheikj

the bombardment of gaza as you mentioned china norway and had asked for a 3rd meeting of the un security council thought emergency meeting of the un security council but this time an open session the previous 2 had been closed session and the us just in the last 45 minutes we understand we started reporting we got said no where you know we'll continue to work on this but this was a this is a process that's been going on since monday there have been 2 close sessions and each time a statement wasn't even able to be put out on the conflict 14 members of the security council each time said they wanted a statement to be released the u.s. each time it was the holdouts and now that the u.s. doesn't even want to have a meeting on the situation in gaza or actually we did get some details as to what was in that drive straight to propose statement it called on israel to see settlement activities demolitions and evictions including in east jerusalem in line with its obligations under international humanitarian law and refrain from to do that steps that exacerbate tensions and undermine the viability of the

i believe all of a solid of the un security council is set to hold an emergency meeting on the crisis in molly, on wednesday. that's out for a military officer who's also a member of the transitional government seized power. for the 2nd time, colonel athena go to detained. the interim president and prime minister, they'd been tasked with steering the country back to civilian rule after occurred last august. that go to himself, engineered the do the streets of bomber court seem calm. the situation remains henry valley's vice president. i see me going to defend it. the rest of the president and the prime minister accusing them of sabotaging ongoing democratic process. the transitional vice president had no choice but to intervene in order to protect the transitional charter and different the republic they had to push aside the president and his prime minister as well as the people indicated in the situation that he came to us . yes, you know, president dow and prime minister mocked a wanna reportedly being held at a military base outside the capital. the 2 men have been leading the proc

now the un security council will meet on sunday to discuss the israeli palestine conflict a proposal to meet on friday was rejected by the united states earlier president biden called for a significant reduction in rocket attacks but he said the israeli response was not an overreaction the u.n. secretary general antonio terror is calling for an immediate deescalation and suspension of hostilities also in jordan reports from washington d.c. . after 4 days of deadly violence between the palestinians and the israelis u.s. president joe biden is sticking with his calls for both sides to hold their fire the question is how. how we get to a point where they get to a point where there is a significant reduction in the attacks particularly the rocket attacks that are indiscriminately fired into population centers the biden administration had not made the israeli palestinian matter a top foreign policy concern mainly because of the cold at 1000 pandemic and the resulting economic slowdown analysts saying that was a mistake the team has not fully stepped out on the middle east it's adopted thi

security council the closed door meeting so on that day. i had the chance to speak with the in the dead then the president of the un security council and the. so in that. year was the president of the schools are going to hear some of the origin story yes. you know i express you know i disappointment with the move the military coup because since then i make it clear that i wear it not disappoint the people. i think the 1st time you spoke publicly was a few weeks later on the 26 of february that's when you spoke in the u.n. general assembly now some of your fellow ambassadors tell me they didn't know what you were going to say and whether you're going to subpoena speak in support of the generals i was watching your speech we were carrying it live on al-jazeera we heard you condemn the coup condemn what is what was happening in the country and we heard your voice cracking with emotion what was going through your mind as you address the general assembly of cause you know this big this is the you know quite difficult i should say difficult time because you know i have to think of myself my future and that as we're in the future my family member

the un security council stresses that israel and the palestinians should fully adhere to the ceasefire as the pause in violence enters a third day. the queen visits the royal navy flagship hms queen elizabeth as it begins its first major deployment. and nil points for great britain at eurovision, as italy wins the big prize. hello and welcome to bbc news. iam i am sorry for the sound issues and i am sorry for the sound issues and i hope you can hear me now. both the pfizer and astrazeneca coronavirus vaccines, the two main jabs used in the uk's rollout, are highly effective against the indian variant of the disease — according to a study by public health england. the health secretary matt hancock described the findings as �*ground—breaking' and said he was "increasingly confident" the government is on track for the final stage of its roadmap out of lockdown. here's our health correspondentjim reed. back up a little bit more there, fella, if you will. in places like rochdale in greater manchester, vaccinations are now being offered to younger age groups. all those over 18 can get a jab

the un security council discusses the political future of syria for presidential election is set to consolidate the president power . it's completely krokus that someone like me should have been in edge famous with crackers. the pers johnson was in the choice of the last election was going bad decisions. and the chaotic response form a top advisors, the u. k. prime minister accuses the government of failing to handle cobit ah, america's top diplomat is in jordan to cement, to seize 5 between israel and hamas in gaza. us secretary of state anthony blinking has been touring the regents of balls to support for the front job truce, which ended 11 days of conflict. he's met jordan's king abdullah, the 2nd who welcome the biden administration's decision to reopen. it's considered an occupied east, jerusalem for palestinians. lincoln though, says it will take some time. and i'm on my conversation with his majesty touched on again, a range of topics including the urgent work we need to do together to meet event attorney and reconstruction needs and gaza while ensuring that the palestinian people not mo

the un security council is meeting as we speak. i think you heard the ambassador call for end to violence. so, again, i think we have got to do everything that we can too deescalate crisis if the united states is an honest bobbinger and we have to call for an end to this violence and condemn the loss of life on both sides particularly of civilians and, of course, condemn strongly the activities of a terrorist organization hamas. mike: i want to squeeze domestic matter, we have seen outrage of spending packages, do you think they'll be bipartisanship on an item like infrastructure or do you think democrats will go it alone? congressman: well, i hope there will be. i know that president biden hopes there will be too. after the meeting with the leaders of the republican leaders in the house and senate and the democratic leaders, mitch mcconnell said he thought the prospects were bipartisan agreement was there, kevin mccarthy described the meeting as very productive. so i hope that our republican colleagues will join us in rebuilding t

katty: what do you make of the united states voing a call for the cease-fire at the un security councilks like biden is not prepared to use the leverage he has over the israeli government. why not? >> it is difficult to understand. if you think about the last couple of weeks, at any point, the administration could have called out israel and said stop your provocative activities in jerusalem, stop the evictions, the forced displacement of palestinian families. the administration chose to talk about what was happening in jerusalem and you hear from president biden, things like wanting sustained calm. you hear secretary blinken talk about ending violence. you do not hear explicit language about a cease-fire. in the security council, even a statement calling for a cease-fire was blocked by the u.s. it is hard to square this idea the u.s. wants to see an end to the violence when it will not support a simple cease-fire statement from the un security council. katty: right. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. katty: president biden announced his administration is sending 20 millio

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the un security council is going _ unconditional love. ut of that meeting. we shall see how that goes. during the trump administrationjared the trump administration jared kushner the trump administrationjared kushner had close ties with the government in tel aviv with the benjamin netanyahu government. what's your understanding of the biden administration? you talked about them having the channels open, they can have those discussions, who's talking to whom, and who in the israeli government trusts people in the biden administration to look out for their interests? goad out for their interests? good question- — out for their interests? good question. there has - out for their interests? good question. there has been i out for their interests? (limp. question. there has been mistrusted so far between the israeli government and the biden administration. i think it's misplaced. i would argue that because i work directly for the obama administration and had... i witnessed first—hand these open communications, these dialogues, these check ins w

barbara: you mentioned the involvement, we know the un security council has been discussing the situationt would you say the global reaction has been? nicolas: there has been threats of sanctions. the united nations security council came out with a statement condemning the arrest of the president and the prime minister, asking for their unconditional release, saying this has had a negative impact on the counterterrorism efforts that are happening in the north in the center of the country. if you step back, this is quite an astounding situation. there is a coup within a coup, as president macron describes it, in a country where you have 14,000 u.n. peacekeepers, 4000 french troops, troops from the u.k., european troops from germany. and get the military in this country have organized a coup and are detaining power. this is not going down well. the united states has already come out and said that it has submit -- severed its military support to the malian forces. we suspect there will be more threats of sanctions. care were sanctions put in place earlier when there was a coup in auction in

i'm a un security council planning and emergency meeting to discuss molly on wednesday after what phones described as a coup with a coon, the entry and vice president, colonel, se me, greater will lead last year, military take over, ousted the transitional president and prime minister and all the arrests, but going to insist selections will take place next year as planned. for those who are the headlines, the news continues here now to 0 off the witness statement that's watching by phone . oh ok. oh the me in the in the in the the because i don't want to get the confirmation make. i'm again i michelle hotel or the bottom golfer at this level thing vocal the nico pushes the mother to phone me. oh i, i, i the, the the, the, the the the the with the tell much more that need to verify the next longer the modem or any because they said no, they knew that all the new one the you for that and then the last one has been cancelled because she said mom or i the but her me with them give me we'll get this but i really me going to make it and then they got the hotel as it was only that i was calling

but this is actually a regularly scheduled meeting of the un security council. they have them every month on the situation in the occupied palestinian territories. because this is one of the most longest standing conflicts and agenda items for the security council. and we are hearing in the remarks today reference to the long standing issues that underlie the most recent conflict for venice law. the special coordinator for the middle east for the secretary general, gave his briefing and he described a tense cease fire. one that he felt he stressed that the pressure from the international community was crucial and bringing about. and he made an appeal for continued pressure on some of the underlying issues that led to attention. he described simmering tensions on both issues around religious sites in jerusalem. he talked about forest evictions. he talks about inflammatory comments on both sides of the fight there that lead to the hostilities the most recent bombardments. and he said that it would be a mistake to go forward business as usual without addressing some

i think there needs to be a lot more engagement by the un security council. tes has been blocking a statement from the un security council. the us has to show some leadership here. it — the new demonstration does not want to get too involved in israel—palestine peacemaking. but there is open conflict, and there will be yet more loss of life, i'm afraid. i don't see it wrapping up anytime soon. so i really think the engagement has to come from the us. there needs to be much more us leadership here. za ha hassan there. having one more look over gaza city, and it is six o'clock in the morning and daylight is breaking and that is not a cloud, that is smoke that has emerged from what we understand is an israeli air strike in the last ten minutes or so on the city. it has been a very active night across gaza and across much of israel as well. moving on to other issues now. at least seven children and two adults have been killed in a shooting at a school in russia. more than 20 others were injured, many seriously. some childrenjumped out of third floor windows to try

in new york, the latest meeting of the un security council has failed to reach consensus.he migrants either swam around the border fences thatjut out into the sea or walked across at low tide. spain's prime minister has vowed to restore order.

security council for their unifying bice's but at the same time again we need really need to strangle you know the decisive action from the indonesian a community. in particular the un security council which will go you know ambassador the countries that are opposing tougher action they are china and they are russia china is one of your neighbors russia even sent its deputy defense minister to attend the armed forces day on march the 26th the day that saw the highest number of protesters killed at any point what do you make of china and russia and we cannot ignore the rule of china because they are the. china is in neighboring countries and they have a lot of investment in myanmar so at the same time we cannot ignore the perception of the people. of east china because you know the the people near ma one of our you talk about china people there mark think that china supporting the military but china saying that you know they want the new country in a stable and prosperous. nation of myanmar that is what we really appreciate it but at the same time they should respect the desire of the people this is the best time the best opportunity for china to make it clear that t

he's calling for an urgent un security council meeting, and what appears to be the beginning of another crisis of leadership in molly nicholas hawk al jazeera on ella mater on his head of the hail program of the institute security studies. she says what's happening, molly shows power was never really in the hands of his transitional leaders. since the beginning of the transition, 9 months ago, there are have been quite some strong tensions within the governments. and we've been ruling elite on the one side with the civilians. and with the military forces, what we're seeing right now, i think, is the results of that the result of these unresolved tensions which the, the pressure that the international community initially puts on, on monday to, to move to was a civilian transition. did not actually address that deeper issue in terms of governance in terms of power sharing in terms of pretty well beyond the prosad. really making sure that the power was resting with you in some right. now we do have the, the proof that it wasn't, we should keep in mind. i think it's the lesson from 9 years

he's calling for an urgent un security council meeting, and what appears to be the beginning of another crisis of leadership in molly nicholas park al jazeera, thousands of civilians have fled their homes in ethiopia to gray region around the town of ox. soon as part of a continuation of attacks on rural villages that began on friday, witnesses say the violence is being carried out by a retreat and soldiers. mach web has more from not ready recording to multiple testimonies that people we've spoken to in the last few hours, who are in the town of acts and many to say that tax began on friday in rural areas on villages. the tax that many people say directed against civilians. they named the people who spoke to more than a dozen villages all of them to the southwest of them. people blamed eritrea and troops, and they say that this is displaced thousands of people. many of them have complained of indiscriminate shelling, other people that we've spoken to reported that men and boys have been targeted and killed in other cases, they've been arrested and taken away survivors. a very worried a

my call is calling for an urgent un security council meeting on molly. you comes a day off, tamale's prime minister and presidents were removed from office in the military coup. the inter and vice president, colonel, i see me going to says they're being held in the military facility near by amaco micron says the european union is prepared to take sanctions against those responsible nicholas hock is following developments from senegal. council dot com critics of what's happening say it looked like the men that organize a cool 9 months ago. we're talking here about vice president. i see me go to our colonel in the special forces of the 1000000 army has organized the 2nd crude months later. and dismissing the civilian government that he had himself put into it put in place when president weaver ca, kate, the former president was taken off of power. but in a statement made on national television, signed by himself and made by a members of the military. he said that essentially that the prime minister was incompetent. he said that prime minister one was incap

the un security council is set to hold an emergency meeting on a growing crisis. in molly, the move comes after the countries transitional president and prime minister was stripped of their powers by the military. the 2 ladies had been tasked with steering the country back to civilian rule after a qu last august, but the military accused them of trying to sabotage the process. though the streets of bomber caught seen come, the situation remains, hence, values vice president. i see me going to defend it. the rest of the president and the prime minister accusing them of sabotaging ongoing democratic process. the transitional vice president had no choice but to intervene in order to protect the transitional charter and different republic. we do may had to push aside the president and his prime minister as well as the people indicated in the situation that it became dollars. yes. you know, president dow and prime minister mocked a wanna of reportedly being held at the military base outside the capital. one to the 2 men had been leading the process of returning molly t

its ally israel to agree to a cease fire on sunday washington again blocked efforts of the un security council to come up with a joint statement on the violence. khaled abu siobhan is a humanitarian worker and palestinian citizen he reacted to washington's decision to block a joint un statement. for me as a palestinian it it hurts me a lot to learn that the united states is blocking our misery here every night here in gaza it's apocalypse it's hell is unleashed on us and unfortunately as gazans we have to go 3 through this over and over again for the lurker of the of the strong will to tackled the root causes of what we are going through to tackle the actual causes of of of why this exists collision actually has to take place every time which is the occupation and the human ization of us and everyone is only seems to be concerned about israel's right to defend itself but no one seems to care. even a bit about our right to defend ourselves against the demonization and the persecution and the occupation that we have to go through everything a single day of our lives here every day is apocalypse

international pressure is mounting in response the un security council is planning to discuss the situation later on monday. at least 215 people have been wounded in the latest outbreak of violence in and around the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem. israeli security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at palestinian protesters from hold storms and other objects in return already simmering tensions are being further inflamed by planned march later on monday by right wing israeli nationalists for an event they call jerusalem day. my i quote of also been explosions of stun grenades and tear gas inside. so understood that people were staging a sit in process and security forces attempted to clear them. they wanted to guard the mosque ahead of the nationalist march or the palestinian red crescent says its team has been prevented from reaching the compounds with aids 88 p. . will have been taken to hospital 5 nights a hairy fall since he joins us from there. seen those rather alarming pictures of the israeli forces storming the al aqsa mosque just talk us through this mornin

reactive tactical crisis management posture the white house has agreed to join an emergency un security council meeting on the crisis on sunday in the meantime it has sent a state department official to tell of eve to urge israeli and palestinian officials to declare a cease fire a point underscored thursday by u.s. secretary of state tony blinken but we are deeply concerned with the loss of life. among civilians especially among among children. the palestinians have a right to live in security and to live in peace just as israelis do and so. we are working hard to encourage all sides to stand down meanwhile in congress strong bipartisan support for israel but from democrats a show of support too for palestinians caught in the fighting there is a respect for meeting the needs of the palestinians but there is a palestinian have struggle and this is about how mosque so i wouldn't just label it palestinian i would say hamas and hamas is. threatening the security of people and israel israel has a right to defend itself from republicans accusations the u.s. has indirectly endangered israelis by tryi

the un security council is due to meet to discuss the violence. of more than sixty people — mostly young girls, who were killed in a militant attack outside a school in kabul. over a thousand migrants have landed on the italian island of lampedusa, within a 2k hour period. 0ne boat alone was carrying almost 400 men, women and children. lampedusa is one of the main arrival ports for people wanting to reach europe more boats have been spotted off the coast of nearby malta.

the bite and white house is also blocked, the un security council resolution criticizing israel for the hostilities. 3 separate times. there's been harsh criticism of israel not only by progressive members of congress and even centrist like foreign relations committee, chairman senator bob minette, as are now demanding that by do more, some american see a change in the dynamic of the palestine. israel issue in the united states, but are things really changing. today we speak the university of michigan history, professor juan cole, who's influential blog on u. s. foreign policy in the middle east, turns 20 years old. next year. it's called informed comment, and it's a must read blog on this crisis. professor called before we begin, i had a chance to ask senator chris murphy about the biden administration stance on the bloodshed in palestine and israel. do we have tools in our tool kit that can help the u. s. b in flu all this time because we seem to have been in this episode again and again and again. and the question is, do we have more latitude today after the abraham accords? do we ha

the un security council has also been discussing bella bruce, the us and european allies, have called for investigation into the diversion of a plane that was flying over by the race. the arrest of a dissident on board. its president, though insist that he said lawfully and russia says there's no reason to doubt his version. if events, nadine baba reports venetia in the better russian president finally commenting on events last weekend. it's alex on the lucas shanker claims. he didn't know an opposition of logo was on board a plane that was diverted to the capital court and he depicted international reaction as part of what he calls a hybrid war. nothing. it is your lunch, it is near oh, ill which is outside and inside the country have changed the methods of attacking the state them across numerous red lines and also the limits of reason and morale was just accost. maxine lucas, shank, his orders, belarus and fighter jet, was sent to school to ryan, a flight minutes before it was due to land in vilnius in neighbouring the way all the passengers were taken off supposedly because of a b

the un security council is due to meet to discuss the violence.f more than 60 people, mostly schoolgirls, who were killed in a militant attack outside a school in kabul. the leader of britain's opposition labour party has reshuffleed his shadow cabinet after the party's disappointing election results. among the changes made by sir keir starmer — rachel reeves has replaced anneliese dodds as the shadow chancellor and angela rayner has been sacked as the party's campaigns coordinator. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk with zeinab badawi. this interview was recorded last thursday, before

or some members of the un security council expressed fears of an escalation of the fighting between israel and gaza efforts to bring it to an end of falling on deaf ears because not all are expressing a common view on it the us has blocked for instance for the 3rd time in a week a joint statement from the un security council calling for an instant ceasefire at the same time as joe biden himself reiterated support for an end still as he's in a phone call he had with his israeli counterpart and at the same time stressing israel's right to defend itself there was a car via washington facing internal scrutiny too over its role in the conflict with democrats split over a planned arms sale to israel worth millions one of the 1st muslim women elected to congress illinois martin has called that sale appalling saying it's going to provoke the situation i'm an independent consultant on u.s. foreign policy claims biden is team knew what was coming yet still nonetheless went ahead with the deal. if there is even a float if there is even a bill introduced in congress it would be historic it would be a

in new york, the latest meeting of the un security council has failed to reach consensus.nish territory of ceuta from morocco this week. moroccan guards have reportedly begun closing the border again after more than a day in which they turned a blind eye to the crossings. now on bbc news — can tech turn back time?

and indeed, france pushed for a resolution under the un security council.pt and jordan and the ceasefire. of course, europe is very concerned. every time there is tension in the middle east, we can see pro—palestinian protests in the streets of paris, berlin or london, as we've seen last week, turning ugly. the interior minister in france had to ban protests, which took place anyway. we saw some very anti—semitic slogans, but also attacks. and this is becoming more and more recurrent in europe, and that's a great concern. now, the problem is the two—state solution is dead. i think that's the next step for world diplomacy — what next? something that struck me which is very sad is that only a couple weeks ago, three weeks ago, there were talks of a new government in israel with, for the first time, the participation of a new independent arab party. now, this is also dead in the water. we are going to have netanyahu who is here to stay. there have been four elections in the last two years. there might be another one. israeli democracy is in tatters. really, wh

i think there needs to be a i lot more engagement by the un security council. nately, we are seeing that the united states has been blocking a statement from the un security council. the us has to show some leadership here. it - it's - to show some leadership here. it — it's — the new demonstration does not want to get too involved in israel— palestine peacemaking. but there is open conflict and there is open conflict and there will be at more loss of life, i am afraid. there will be at more loss of life, iam afraid. i there will be at more loss of life, i am afraid. i don't said wrapping up anytime soon. sol really think the engagement has to come from the us. there needs to be much more us leadership here.— needs to be much more us leadership here. right. we will see if that _ leadership here. right. we will see if that happens. _ leadership here. right. we will see if that happens. thank - leadership here. right. we will see if that happens. thank you | see if that happens. thank you very much forjoining us. a prominent damascus family that's kept an ancient