is facing mounting pressure from within his own cabinet, from the israeli public, and from the relatives of the hostages, who over the weekend stormed a parliamentary session injerusalem to demand more action to secure the release of their loved ones. live now to doha nawaf al thani is qatar s former director of defence intelligence operations and defence attache to the united states. hejoins me now. thank you for being here with us. what are you hearing about the framework of some sort of new deal? thank you for having me. i think first there are two parts of this. the first is the qatari statements in the past days and weeks that they have continued their efforts to restart negotiations and have not stopped their efforts. but the second part of this is also, at least from the qatari perspective, they ve played very close to the vest when it comes to negotiations, it s very sensitive and they don t talk a lot about it before it happens, but all reports indicates we are hea