hello. i m anna foster. let s start in the middle east, where israel s opposition leader has urged the prime minister to accept a proposal unveiled by president biden aimed at securing a permanent ceasefire in gaza. yair lapid says if right wing members of benjamin netanyahu s coalition resigned in protest, his party would continue to support the government. it is unclear what that would mean in practice. it comes as mr netanyahu says israel will continue to focus on the destruction of hamas and the freeing of all hostages. he was responding to a three phase proposalfrom presidentjoe biden who says hamas is no longer capable of launching another october the seventh style attack on israel. meanwhile, egyptian state linked tv is reporting a meeting between egyptian, us and israeli officials will take place on sunday to discuss the re opening of the rafah crossing. a short time ago, i spoke with the uk s foreign secretary, lord cameron. i began by asking him what this deal conta
a permanent peace and ultimately settlement of this problem. one of the things that has changed that as a potential positive is that the arab states are leaning in and prepared to help and support this process, in ways that i have not seen before, and i think an incredibly positive contribution being played by egypt, jordan and qatar are, to bring this about. that is testament to that. and there is the other pricier, or what people refer to as normalisation but countries like saudi arabia, as part of this process, recognising israel, having proper relations with israel, as two normal countries should. that is an enormous price for israel and also i would argue for saudi arabia also. by adding in some of these extra elements, you make that movement from poster ceasefire, to settlement, more likely. i5