Its 1300 hours james a little after 9 am in new york where the United Nations Security Council is about to hold its open session on the Israeli Palestinian conflict the issue though is the land specifically israels plans to an excess palestinian territory in the occupied west Bank Something the United Nations is urging israel to a band so we got special coverage on this news and analysis of course of the Security Council meeting with correspondents in west jerusalem and the Jordan Valley as well as of course the United Nations in new york a diplomatic editor james bays is there for us james take us through whats expected today. Well it will start we think in the next few minutes what we know is that this meeting is the regular monthly meeting of the u. N. Security council on the israeli and palestinian issue however its been upgraded this month because of the issue of an exception so ministers can take part and we know that ministers from a number of the Security Council countries will
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