u f. f. faith ah, hello there, i m associate, hey, this is al jazeera life and doha also coming elite is gather in here for a summit, pledging more support, but no fast tracked process, the ukraine to join the union assigned to new u. s. job numbers that while the economy struggles with high inflation and rising interest rates plus let s take you straight to a briefing at the pentagon, where general patrick riders, spokesman, is speaking to the media. let s this not available. so for those who have had to call and we apologize for the inconvenience, however, and we will aim to get our briefing transcripts in the audio up as quickly as possible for reporting purposes. will also aim to answer your questions through our d o. d press desk when you send them to us moving forward, we ll look at ways to improve our briefing operations in the facilitation and expect that our regular press briefings will resume back in the press briefing room and middle to late may. so again, we appre