the role united services institute for defense and security studies that said, let them until the be alone, pink task. a format is ready to come at who also served as an advisor to the full. but it's really president shimon peres. and in karachi and focused on eyeball shaheed ahmed, a senior diplomatic correspondent huff post. he's coming like watching a book on the by the administration, and garza, thank you all of you for joining us. let's go to athens 1st ha. from what you've read, what you can see, what you're hearing, how close are we to a deal? well, thank you very much chance for having me on the program. i think we're close to getting through phase one of this deal. i do caution people from thinking that phase one automatically leads to phase 2 automatically is the phase 3 that that'd be a withdrawal of the idea from gaza. so i'm very cautious about calling this a ceasefire deal. i think we're still in the phase where this is a hostage negotiation because really i'm quite cynical about the notion that we're going to see a withdrawal of the idea of from gaza, which would make

for the region, let's speak to talal mohammad in kuwait, an associate fellow at the royal united services institutedo you think his presidency will mean for the middle east? i think basically stepping forward from the end of the biden presidency which was seen what you might call a lame duck and taking a more proactive role. trump does not want to see boots on the ground in syria, he would want to take a proactive step with the iran nuclear deal, carrying on from the back foot of iran and hezbollah in the region and strengthening israel's presence and security basically. haifa strengthening israel's presence and security basically.— and security basically. how key is that? we _ and security basically. how key is that? we have _ and security basically. how key is that? we have heard - and security basically. how key is that? we have heard him - and security basically. how key| is that? we have heard him talk about iran and what he does with iran, because it is central to a lot of the issues in that region.— in that region. the iranians signalled — in that region. the iranians signalled they _ in tha

as far as some of the romani, here's my associate fellow at the royal united services institution. also a minute treat in june political unless the joins us now live from london, say some of those things as a pretty stall comp. they can you perhaps focus through a little bit more about how the death and devastation and goals are compared to actual conflicts around the world as well. yes, definitely. that's a very high low casualties. this fits into about our subset, which shows that the guys a population of around 2100000 as defined by about 6 percent. 100000 people have exam refugees and about 50000 you say that have died. so in terms of proportions and percentages as a higher amount of what we've been seeing, for example, even in the russian invasion of ukraine, which has been silver because then targeting civilians as comparable to what we've been seeing in protracted civil wars in subsaharan africa. and in the middle east, and what about the type of weapons that we're seeing used to be this is one of the most densely populated places on us and yet, booms that way, nearly a 1000

at the immigrant family services institute in boston, williams and his family arrived just days after crossing the southern border of the united states. and just days before donald trump took office, as haitians clean the violence in their country, they are eligible for what's known as temporary protective status or t p. s to stay in the country legally, but that could soon change under the new administration. let's keep what i heard about donald trump being elected president. i was worried even lost sleep, but i knew we had no other choice but to come here. boston lake new york and chicago is one of several so called sanctuary. cities that i've seen huge searches of migrants under the biden administration, in massachusetts state funded shelters, hit capacity at 7500 families. as of 2023. new york is housing 51000 immigrants. but trump has promised to en gps boston's mayor has vowed not to cooperate with efforts that she says threatened the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear. but the new borders are. tom homan has warned her and other local officials to quote, get out of the way uh, of the us constitution assigns re

to save lives from overdoses we have more than 260 affiliations of institutions across 50 states from the united states postal serviceo airlines in school systems and others. just in l.a. school districts for example have begun to use, they have uses several times in the. so imagine there can be no larger greater tragedy than children dying because naloxone was not available paid that's that's what weare trying to maks naloxone becomes more available. we have asked each of the cabinet secretaries to consider placing and federal government buildings as well. it's really important on this issue to be able to walk the talk. we went to make sure we are doing the same it. i carry naloxone with me. the fact today is today is no different than having a life saving tool. because often times death comes in a way people not even expecting. they could be ordering what they think is adderall online or oxycontin or xanax and it turns out between five -- seven over this 10 pills have been ordered online have potential lethal dose of fentanyl. that's the part where naloxone is important. >> thank you on the expanded treatment a cou

united states postal service. prior to joining kevin worked at the institute vice president of policy vice president of research partnerships and senior fellow director of the governance project or i am also a privilege to work for a time. he is the author and editor congress overwhelmed the decline in congressionalon capacity and for many years he worked at the congressional research service. he is a longtime hill veteran. before us now is to think about what comes next? we had our discussions of all the things troubling the one 18th . we were going to think about what are the prospects for the 119. different political configuration of course of democrats to longer control the senate. republicans have taken control there. we have a new majority leader for the first time in many years, senator john thune. where does that leave us? let's turn back to the house to start with. in the house and the 118th starting count i believe was 22. in this congress, check me if i get this right as of today, 219 -- 215 there's probably going to go 2 down in a couple f weeks to 217 -- 215. just the narrowest of narrow margins. the first ques

united states. after 50 years of public service, i give you my word, i still believe in the idea for which this nation stands. the nation where the strength of our institutionsndure. now it's your turn to stand guard. may you will be the keeper of the flame. may you keep the faith. i love america. you love it too. earlier, i spoke to jonah blank, professor at the national university of singapore. he also worked as a staffer for joe biden when he was chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. he told me what he took away from biden�*s speech. i would say there were about, of a 17 minute speech, about five minutes they were really important. the beginning and the end were pretty standard. nothing that would surprise most people, but for five minutes, joe biden channelled another us president, ike eisenhower, and he mentioned specifically by name. this is where he gave warnings about the future. just as president eisenhower had warned of the military—industrial complex, joe biden warned of what he termed the tech industrial complex. he referred to tech billionaires and referred by many specifically to robber barons of previous gilded age. he warned of

this before, church, religious institution attendance in the united states falling over the decades. 42% of u.s. adults back in 2000 said they attended religious serviceseekly or near every week. by 2023, it was down to 30%, a 12 percentage point drop. a steady decline. why do you think that is in this country? why is there a decline in church attendance or religious attendance? caller: i think families today, a lot of families are one parent families. that is one thing. two is schools are socialism itself. another thing is there are some people in the pew that are not truly christians. they are christians in name only and not in their hearts. if you are a christian, people that are not christian should see a difference between a christian and a non-christian, how they live, how they treat other people. i think you are seeing that decline because a lot of christians put a face mask inside the building but when they go out, they are different, they are not what they should be. people can pick it up very quickly. so i want to thank you for your time. i appreciate it. have a good rest of your day. host: the dispatch with a recent column, beauty, truth, an

this before, church, religious institution attendance in the united states falling over the decades. 42% of u.s. adults back in 2000 said they attended religious serviceseekly or near every week. by 2023, it was down to 30%, a 12 percentage point drop. a steady decline. why do you think that is in this country? why is there a decline in church attendance or religious attendance? caller: i think families today, a lot of families are one parent families. that is one thing. two is schools are socialism itself. another thing is there are some people in the pew that are not truly christians. they are christians in name only and not in their hearts. if you are a christian, people that are not christian should see a difference between a christian and a non-christian, how they live, how they treat other people. i think you are seeing that decline because a lot of christians put a face mask inside the building but when they go out, they are different, they are not what they should be. people can pick it up very quickly. so i want to thank you for your time. i appreciate it. have a good rest of your day. host: the dispatch with a recent column, beauty, truth, an

joining me now is dr karin von hippel — distinguished fellow at the royal united services institute.ation's director general. thank you for being with us. i wonder if you have heard of this latest snag in the ceasefire talks, that the israelis are accusing hamas of reneging on part of the deal. what do you make of that and how common do you think it is in these kinds of extremely tense negotiations for obstacles to come at the 59th minute of the 11th hour? i “ust heard it right i minute of the 11th hour? i “ust heard it right before i minute of the 11th hour? i “ust heard it right before the h minute of the 11th hour? ijust| heard it right before the show. the cabinet is supposed to approve of it today in israel. there will be immense pressure for them to approve. thanks for the first time a long time by purchasing us pressure as well as many other sides and partners in the region, europeans and others. i hope that type of pressure pushes them over the line and then the ceasefire would start on sunday. but these conversations are incredibly fraught and we have been there before many