At least 50 palestinians, including dozens of children and pregnant women, were killed in the rain in the center of the gaza strip. Unicef warning about doubling the number of malnourished children in northern gaza compared to a month ago. More than a thousand hospitals with 100,000 doctors and 70,000 doctors are ready during nowruz , the minister of health, medical education and more than 21,000 emergency experts. They are ready to serve in 3000 bases, and the antitrafficking headquarters has intensified its efforts to deal with the supply of smuggled clothes and to identify the smuggled clothes worth 100 billion tomans. Only in one month. In the name of allah, the most merciful, the most merciful, may god bless muhammad and the family of muhammad, and hasten their fate, ladies and gentlemen, dear viewers, greetings to you , welcome to this news section, the construction of housing for the armed forces has been put into operation. The president , during the opening ceremony, built 14,
A country which is useful at this time might suddenly be a place receiving 20,000 refugees in three days or Something Like that. One of the things that we are already doing and have to do more of is theable to surge staff between posts and also between functions within the Foreign Office in london so that we have a more flexible structure is that can respond to reseissly sh reseissly the reality that priorities can change and change rapidly and we need to respond in a way that is appropriately agile. Can i ask you about another area of your budget. At the present there is still an fco grant to the British Council. Is that one of the areas that you may well be getting rid of, and what are the implications to you do, for the branding of the British Council and the sense of its identity with the soft power of our country. Well the British Council plays a vitally Important Role in projecting the u. K. Soft power. But it has been generating an increasing proportion of the resources it needs
Different way. We would not regard success by a al nusra as a satisfactory or acceptable outcome. If i was put on the spot of ranking control i would have to think quite hard about that. Both would be unacceptable to us. We have made that clear to any of your partners in the coalition who have ever been inclined to think otherwise. It includes al musra but other parties as well. We recognize the situation on the ground is not as we would like it to be. It is complex. Sometimes compromises do have to be made on the ground, tactical compromises. You know, the history of warfare is you have to make tactical compromises. The complexity, for example, is everyone. Isnt this an area where british diplomatic capability, the capacity to coordinate in a sense combined with our unlimited hard power actually cant make difference in isolation. Soft power diplomacy is where the nations main effort in trying to bring others together. Thats where our main effort ought to be focused, isnt it . Its part