Hello everyone and welcome to Amunfor. Here's what's coming up.

Strikes in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and now Pakistan. All as Israel's war on Gaza continues and fears of a wider

war intensified. Prince Turkey al-Faisal joins me the former Saudi

Intelligence Chief. Then as Barbie Mania hits award season,

actress America Ferreira on its blockbusting impact.

Also ahead, former Deputy National Security

Advisor Matt Pottinger tells Walter

Isakson how Taiwan's recent election could transform US-China relations. actions. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Kristiana Montpur in London and we start in the Middle East where the crisis may intensify as the US

redesignates Yemen's Hutis as a global terrorist entity. Of course all roads lead back to Gaza and Israel.

According to the health ministry in Gaza, more than 1% of the enclave's population has

been killed since the war began, including more than 10,000 children.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos,

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin described it as heartbreaking.

What we're seeing every single day in Gaza is gut-wrenching.

And the suffering we're seeing among innocent men, women and children

breaks my heart. The question is

what is to be done. We've made judgments about how we thought we could be most effective in

trying to shape this in ways to get more humanitarian assistance to people, to get better protections and

minimize civilian casualties.

Blinkin also talked about after the war about the Arab world normalizing relations with Israel.

But he insisted that Palestinian statehood is now crucial to quote a genuine integration,

a point that was hammered home at different events in

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