the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is in israel for a historic summit with four arab countries. the meeting at a venue in the negev desert is the first that israel has hosted with senior officials from so many arab governments. it follows the signing in recent years of us—brokered deals to normalise ties. well, antony blinken has said that the united states has no plans to bring about regime change in russia. his comments come a day after president biden said his russian counterpart, vladimir putin, should not to be allowed to remain in power. speaking injerusalem, mr blinken said any decision about whether president putin should remain in office was in the hands of the russian people. with regards to the president's incredibly powerful speech yesterday, i think the president, the white house, made the point last night that, quite simply, president putin cannot be empowered — to wage war or engage