00:00Gemma, as we've heard, President al-Sharah has now said security is in the hands of the religious elders and the local factions as well.
00:07What do we know about this? Is this sustainable as a plan?
00:10I agree with Michael. This is a confident move, isn't it?
00:13And he's come across as very calm and very measured.
00:16So there is confidence in his plan, which I think in turn will give confidence to the people enacting it.
00:22So, yeah, he said the sort of responsibility for the security in the region will be handed to religious elders and some factions based on the supreme national interest.
00:34Now, he hasn't clarified who that will be. We don't have any names yet.
00:38And we also don't know if it waits in favour of if it's representative, you know, of the different groups, how many from each group.
00:46We don't know that at the moment. But I'm I think it's a good thing to have local people dealing with local community problems,
00:56as opposed to bringing in outsiders who perhaps don't understand the neighbourhoods, don't understand the situation.
01:01But I'm also reminded of the very famous saying, which is who watches the watchers.
01:06So I was wondering if some kind of external oversight might have been, you know, appropriate in this case.
01:14But again, you don't want to inflame tensions already, both internally and externally.
