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alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament's foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can't say, "well, we only "have bandwidth to focus on one conflict," because unfortunately we don't have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we're not doing enough to stop conflict popping up in other places. so until we are doing that, we don't get to say, "well, we can only focus on israel and gaza for "the next month," or, "we can only focus on ukraine." we have to find a way to do both, and that means more multilateral working, more leaning on one another, more dividing and conquering in terms of our assets and what we're focusing on. and yet such is the humanitarian catastrophe