diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1ac8b7da..91f7a5ef 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ CodiumAI PR-Agent aims to help efficiently review and handle pull requests, by p
   
 ## News and Updates
 
+### April 14, 2024
+You can now ask questions about images that appear in the comment, where the entire PR is considered as the context.
+see [here](https://pr-agent-docs.codium.ai/tools/ask/#ask-on-images-using-the-pr-code-as-context).
+![Ask image5](https://codium.ai/images/pr_agent/ask_images5.png){width=512}
+
 ### March 24, 2024
 PR-Agent is now available for easy installation via [pip](https://pr-agent-docs.codium.ai/installation/locally/#using-pip-package).
 
diff --git a/pr_agent/algo/ai_handlers/litellm_ai_handler.py b/pr_agent/algo/ai_handlers/litellm_ai_handler.py
index a547d956..4acd55ea 100644
--- a/pr_agent/algo/ai_handlers/litellm_ai_handler.py
+++ b/pr_agent/algo/ai_handlers/litellm_ai_handler.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import os
-
+import requests
 import boto3
 import litellm
 import openai
@@ -110,12 +110,16 @@ class LiteLLMAIHandler(BaseAiHandler):
                 model = 'azure/' + model
             messages = [{"role": "system", "content": system}, {"role": "user", "content": user}]
             if img_path:
-                import requests
-                r = requests.get(img_path, allow_redirects=True)
-                if r.status_code == 404:
-                    error_msg = f"The image link is not [alive](img_path).\nPlease repost the original image as a comment, and send the question again with 'quote reply' (see [instructions](https://pr-agent-docs.codium.ai/tools/ask/#ask-on-images-using-the-pr-code-as-context))."
-                    get_logger().error(error_msg)
-                    return f"{error_msg}", "error"
+                try:
+                    # check if the image link is alive
+                    r = requests.head(img_path, allow_redirects=True)
+                    if r.status_code == 404:
+                        error_msg = f"The image link is not [alive](img_path).\nPlease repost the original image as a comment, and send the question again with 'quote reply' (see [instructions](https://pr-agent-docs.codium.ai/tools/ask/#ask-on-images-using-the-pr-code-as-context))."
+                        get_logger().error(error_msg)
+                        return f"{error_msg}", "error"
+                except Exception as e:
+                    get_logger().error(f"Error fetching image: {img_path}", e)
+                    return f"Error fetching image: {img_path}", "error"
                 messages[1]["content"] = [{"type": "text", "text": messages[1]["content"]},
                                           {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": img_path}}]