joining us is richard wright, director of unrwa, its mission to help people in jordan, israel israel, west bank. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> everyone have described conditions as abysmal. how far behind is gaza's recovery from what you expected six months on? >> well, i think the situation now is certainly worse than it was before the war. there's no doubt about that. and i mean the big problem now to be perfectly honest is the fact that, you know, we have been unable for the last three weeks to get any assistance to beleaguered palestine refugee population, what we call transitional shelter assistance, cash payments for refugees to begin repair of their homes. >> you've been unable to do that because you've run out of money? >> we've run out of money. so basically within this total requirement of about $5.4 billion which was pledged in cairo, at the beginning of october, our part of it is around $720 million. we have had pledges of about $135 million so we're missing or if you like what we haven't received is $585 million wii is about 85%. >> and why not? >> well becau

the palestinian organization, called unrwa is broke. >> robert serry leads the u.n. effort to reconstruct gaza. the authorities haven't paid up because of the bad blood. >> there is a lot of bad blood you have two strands of civil administration in gaza. that of course needs to be resolved. >> until it is, there are no plans to rebuild. nick schifrin, al jazeera gaza. >> much more to come on the program. cyber attacks latest leaks from the spy cables. and stretching the goal posts the hoo heat goes back on fifa, for qatar's 2022 world cup. >> sunday, the parents of captured american reporter austin tice. >> austin went missing in syria. >> campaigning for his release and maintaining hope. >> austin tice is alive. >> find him and get him home. >> a special "talk to al jazeera". sunday, 5:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> you're watching al jazeera. a reminder of our top stories. the u.n. special envoy is in juniors, steven de masturis says the government has agreed to suspend shelling on the capital for two weeks. >>> the secretary of state john kerry says ru