yusef delani and to ron is nikki. the studio here in moscow, just want to check that you can hear me. okay. yes, okay, we seem to have some problems with this on that. we'll get that connection fixed and we'll come back to you stuff later in the program. okay, moving on now. the is way the economy has taken a nose dive for the 1st time, and yes, i made a record high governments, spend it on the wall in gaza. the pumpkin symbol in areas where it is a being hit. hawes is on middle east bureau chief, but we have some notion of reports. the floors are expensive. these really offensive and gas is not an exception. in january bank of a 0 estimate to the 3 months of fighting against him. of course, these really national economy, about $60000000000.00 making are in sort of the most expensive military campaign in the country's history. and the war has raised on for another 2 months since that's right for which was published. government spending is skyrocketing, not only to pay for bullets and bonds, but also for repairing civi