welcome back. israel s president delivered a speech to congress yesterday focusing on the relationship between israel and the united states and the sacred bond the two nations share. he touched on his country s own domestic issues describing a lasting peace between israelis and palestinians as this deep yearning, but he did not offer any specific policy proposals to achieve that. he warned the greatest challenge for both israel and the united states at this time is the iranian nuclear program to express confidence in thastrength of their relationship telling congress this, america is irreplaceable to israel and israel is irreplaceable to america. let s turn now to the war in ukraine which has enter adnew phase following russia s exit from its black sea grain deal. that deal had allowed ukraine to export grain through its ports