Hostages. But doha is now also questioning whether the talks can succeed. The qatari leader saying efforts are being undermined, causing his country to reassess its role as mediator. Take a listen. Translation unfortunately, i mean, we have seen that theres been an abuse of this mediation in favour of narrow political interests. This means that the state of qatar has called for a comprehensive evaluation of this role. Were now at this stage to evaluate mediation and also evaluate how parties engage in this mediation. Tensions in the region remain high, with israels Prime Minister insisting his country will make its own decisions about how to respond to irans drone and missile attack. Israels western allies fear striking back against iran could trigger a broader war. With me is mohamed taha from bbc arabic. Thank you for coming along. What kind of response when it comes to what you ranted to israel is israel considering . Apparently israel is about to strike on iran directly on monday,
neighbouring countries. apparently, the west managed to convince them to go to the sanctions route, and as the eu announced, they will sanction the producers of drones and missiles stop and this might have a little impact on the uranian side as they are selling these two russia and china. , , ., ., selling these two russia and china. , ., ., ., ., china. just to turn to gaza and the long-awaited china. just to turn to gaza and the long-awaited negotiated l the long awaited negotiated ceasefire which is really the only way to end that conflict, it seems to be slipping further away now? it seems to be slipping further awa now? ,, ., ., , away now? indeed, the qatari s are considering away now? indeed, the qatari s are considering their away now? indeed, the qatari s are considering their position, . are considering their position, now each party is accusing the other party of the responsibility of not reaching the deal, hamas accusing the us for supporting israel, and the qata
should be returned to the us and that moscow will take all possible measures, i mjust that moscow will take all possible measures, i m just reading this as they come, to prevent the appearance of nuclear weapons in ukraine and he has also said that old soviet nuclear technology is still remaining in ukraine and that poses an unacceptable risk for moscow. he said the west must not build any military facilities in any countries of the former soviet union. i suppose this does not come as much of a surprise, this has always been the russian position, certainly of late, that the expansion of nato is a risk to moscow, and that the whole european security architecture is something it finds completely unacceptable. it is also quite interesting that he has said that the eu chose the sanctions route over continuing dialogue with russia. that is interesting because of course the eu had been making
though the united states is not necessarily willing to put troops on the ground and defend ukraine, we have other means of deterring and stopping these kinds of actions, including cyber, which is dangerous in and of itself, but certainly more sanctions and more sanctions will definitely hurt putin himself. the people around him, and russia, lindsay. joel, on that note. do you think, though, that there would be support from the american people in terms of, again, we are a ways away from this, but potential american boots on the ground? you know, lindsay, i don t think anyone at this stage wants to contemplate that action. certainly, that s not something that the american people have been spoken to about. but i think what the general is pointing to, the sanctions route is one that is very powerful. and we have to remember that vladimir putin got involved in our election in 2016, largely because he wanted to find a way to get sanctions off of his
i think the president is trying to continue to engage north korea, and he has got advisors that are going to give him the best available information. he strained to build a relationship to do something that no other president has been able to do, and that s to denuclearize north korea and get to a more solid relationship going forward. harris: i just traveled over the holiday weekend, talked with a lot of viewers, and the pressing comment was, what is the risk of trying something new? and i know you, and the senate on the armed services committee, you look at this issue very clearly. if he doesn t accomplish what he sets out to, is risky? i don t think so. i think there s really only upside. we can go down the sanctions route, work with our partners in the region. if the relationship takes a turn, but i want to give the president a lot of leeway to do something like i said. he is engaging in a way than with the president has. under the obama and mister, he got more dangerous. a