This is CBSI in the world.

I'm John Batchel with Malcolm Hohen, my colleague,

and we go immediately to a meeting between the Saudi officials and French officials.

To what end, Malcolm?

Well, France and Saudi Arabia have been talking for a long time about convening a meeting,

which will take place this week at the UN.

Originally, it was talking about recognition of a Palestinian state.

Now they say that they want to discuss the conditions necessary for creating a Palestinian state.

They know that the opposition was very strong. America was very opposed to Israel reacted very negatively to it. And there are conditions that have to be

creative first. And what they should be meeting about is getting the hostages back and getting

the situation under control instead of giving the rewarding October 7th,

a massacre on October 7th, by saying we're going to give them a Palestinian state.

So that meeting is to convene, but I think the agenda has been modified.

We go from the French-Saudi meeting to the question of Russia and China joining the Human

Rights Council.

Why do they want on it, Malcolm?

Because it's long been discredited as a catch-all for bullies.

Well, that's why they went on because they fit the definition so well. But the fact is that they

got elected to the ICC, to the Human Rights Council. And this is China and Russia and

others that are the worst violators of the human rights record and of the you know the the standards that

were supposed to be upheld by the human rights council so russia turkey win seats on the

this is on the seat on the council that oversees human rights at the body and to see that the 54 nation Ikosak Council, the top

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