he knows the middle east is intractable. there's very little a u.s. present can do. certainly his presidency up until now has been focused on domestic concerns but this was, indeed, the first foreign policy crisis of his administration and it is that experience, the long experience andrea was talking about as chairman of the foreign relations committee, as vice president, that guided him through this and it could have gone either way and can go either way. the ceasefire is holding at this hour and there is reason to think it will going forward but the president does not want the middle east to dominate his foreign policy agenda. he's focused on china and russia and everything herat home but this is all happening as he's about to step on to the world stage, traveling next month for the first time as president, overseas, to meet with world leaders at nato, g-7 and likely summit with vladimir putin so he was eager to get this behind him, on the back burner. it did take that quiet, intense diplomacy, as he's calling it, the beginning of the biden doctrine. we'll see how

ally, peace in the middle east. the trump administration (the biden which must more peaceful stable and hopeful middle east and it was left by the obama administration yet joe biden was only 122 days in office, we are not seen the worst outbreak of violence against israel in decades. u.s. israel relations are extremely strained, positive piece you and president trump left for president biden dissipated so quickly, what must president biden do to restore peace and stability in the middle east? >> there's multiple pieces to this but it gets more where we entered into thousand 17, you rumor ice is controlled a significant piece, barack obama walked away from his redline there, that's sent a real message to weakness in the middle east. we have begun try to restore confidence and build alliances the so we wouldn't have to send our young kids to fight and die there. there are three pieces. three large pieces but the first, you hinted at this, we made clear israel had the right to defend itself every day and always do what

he knows the middle east is intractable. there's very little a u.s. present can do. certainly his presidency up until now has been focused on domestic concerns but this was, indeed, the first foreign policy crisis of his administration and it is that experience, the long experience andrea was talking about as chairman of the foreign relations committee, as vice president, that guided him through this and it could have gone either way and can go either way. the ceasefire is holding at this hour and there is reason to think it will going forward but the president does not want the middle east to dominate his foreign policy agenda. he's focused on china and russia and everything here at home but this is all happening as he's about to step on to the world stage, traveling next month for the first time as president, overseas, to meet with world leaders at nato, g-7 and likely summit with vladimir putin so he was eager to get this behind him, on the back burner. it did take that quiet, intense diplomacy, as he's calling it, the beginning of the biden doctrine. we'll see ho

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east israel working together to keep the middle east more prosperous and secure. second, we work the force with, in fact, we were the sixth administration to acknowledge that iran is a terrorist regime. so we made clear we were going respond that in a forceful way and develop a a campaign of pressure on the regime that changed the outlook for countries all across the region they knew that the united states was beginning to work tirelessly to deny the iranian regime the money and to always needed to fuel not only its nuclear program but its terror campaign around the world and capacity to fire ballistic missiles at range with accuracy. all of the elements of power were beginning to be denied to iranian regime until they informed to a series of conditions that we laid out for them and part of that was walking away from the jcpoa that wasn't worth paper that it was written on last that question built out ultimately became abraham accord with peace in the middle east including path forward for the palestinian i'm sure spend a lot of time talking about today.h and says

east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. and create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains of the iranian from and back to the century as a as a affront to britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was rejected by the bunch i wish the older wiser heads said you know that why work your. way into line 1915 the debunks in committee recommended dividing the ottoman empire into several provinces over which britain would seek influence rather than exercise direct control. but when sykes was sent to the middle east and india he began to revert to his original idea of a british cordon from the mediterranean to iraq. so so mark from your knowledge of the other question. where would you say that a legion slot between us and the french. practically all arabs approach. not exactly anti french but frightened of financial exploitation and they are frightened of french colonial methods. but there are many christians in syria

east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. and create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains of the iranian from and back to the century as a as a affront to britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was rejected by the bunch i wish the older wiser heads said you know that why work your. way into line 1915 the debunks in committee recommended dividing the ottoman empire into several provinces over which britain would seek influence rather than exercise direct control. but when sykes was sent to the middle east and india he began to revert to his original idea of a british cordon from the mediterranean to iraq. so mark from your knowledge of the air out of the question. where would you say that a legion slot. between us and the french. practically all arabs approach . not exactly anti french but frightened of financial exploitation and they are frightened of french colonial methods. but there are many christians

plus, violence in the middle east again. and whether the abraham accords are now in jeopardy with rockets firing at israel in another night of unrest in the middle east. all that and more and we look ahead on sunday morning futures. ♪ ♪ maria: and first this morning, the new face of gop leadership with house republicans reporting for new york congresswoman elise stefanik to replace liz cheney on friday. elise stefanik, fourth-term congresswoman from upstate new york joins me right now to discuss conferences and her own priorities. congresswoman, congratulations to you. so nice to have you here this morning. >> thank you so much, great to be with you, maria. maria: so tell us what the new role for you means for the house republicans and for the gop agenda. >> republicans are unified to expose radical agenda of joe biden and speaker pelosi. we want to focus on exposing the border crisis, national security crisis in the middle east because it's having an impact on everyday americans lives. our focus is on safely reopening t

i’m because of his long history in the middle east?— middle east? i'm going to say something — middle east? i'm going to say something other _ middle east? i'm going to say something other the - middle east? i'm going to say - something other the controversial... this would not have happened if dominic was still president, and so i do think that hamas and mcnicol collation to launch those rockets and to really escalate the violence, they are responsible for trying to capitalise on the crumbling of the palestinian elections before they even happened, when they were cancelled, they have been whipping up cancelled, they have been whipping up anger in palestinians and us bank to transfer themselves as the true protectors of islam injerusalem the holy sites, i think all of this is partly because they saw an opportunity there, notjust of course from the us site and also they an opportunity with the week... they have cancelled the elections, thinking mahmoud abbas will be able to review his term... is thinking mahmoud abbas will be able to review his ter

east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. and create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains of the iranian from and back to the century as a as a affront to britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was rejected by the bunch i wish the older wiser said you know that why work your. way into line 1915 the debunks in committee recommended dividing the ottoman empire into several provinces over which britain would seek influence rather than exercise direct control. but when sykes was sent to the middle east and india he began to revert to his original idea of a british cordon from the mediterranean to iraq. so so mark from your knowledge of the air out of the question. where would you say that a legion slot between us and the french. tragically all arabs approach . not exactly anti french but frightened of financial exploitation and they are frightened of french colonial methods. but there are many christians in sy

the middle east was drenched in blood. now we have our own terrorists here, aoc, omar, all organizing what i consider terrorist attacks against jewish people in america. what i want to know is why is that not being brought up? hamas is the one that is promoting all of this. host: go ahead and respond martin. guest: let me just say those have some things that not accurate. let's be careful about throwing around the world -- word terrorism. we are not seeing terrorism of the ice age we are seeing communal violence. in a separate -- it is separate from the anti-semitism in recent years that has been growing. intercommunal violence in the streets of new york in particular are a ripple effect of the conflict in the region. hamas is a terrorist organization. decidedly so. it is on the state department terrorism list because in support of its objectives which is illumination of the state of israel -- elimination of the state of israel, not all jews, the tactic is indiscriminate violence against civilians. firing rockets indiscrim

was to create a quarter of across the middle east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. and create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains on the iranian from and back to the century as a as a affront to britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was rejected by the bunch i wish the older wiser heads know that why work your. way into line 1915 the debunks in committee recommended dividing the ottoman empire into several provinces over which britain would seek influence rather than exercise direct control. but when sykes was sent to the middle east and india he began to revert to his original idea of a british cordon from the mediterranean to iraq. so so mark from your knowledge of the air out of the question. where would you say that a legion slot between us and the french. practically all arabs approach . not exactly anti french but. frightened of financial exploitation and they are frightened of french colonial methods. but there are ma

it's bad for the broader middle east. these policies are completely 180 degrees out of the things that we know. maria, i'll give one more example. they said this would happen if we moved the u.s. embassy to jerusalem, they said there would be war. we've moved the embassy, none of that happened. when this administration refused to allow the israelis to do the things they need to do to defend themselves, that's when you get conflict between israel and the palestinians. maria: we're going to show a graphic of the statement by president trump about all of this, he said when i was in office we were known as the peace presidency because israel's adversaries knew the united states stood strongly with israel and there would be swift retribution if israel was attacked. under biden the world is more unstable because of biden's weakness and lack support for israel is leading to attacks on heour allies. these attacks are happening one month after economic aid is sent to the palestinian authority. ted cruz and marco rubio warned the s

every democracy in thed middle east with the diplomatic strategy of the free world remaining quiet. and then does are in retrospect. and then with a predictable consequence with lidia. with yemen and iraq and syria and ukraine leading from behind has been nothing but harm. i hope this serves as a wake-up call for president biden of the dangers quiet and intensive diplomacy is one of one of our closest allies internationally recognized terrorist organization. with the country behind the curtain the silent financier of the conflict is iran the number one state-sponsored international terrorism. and with that prolific state-sponsored. and those in recent years. the trump administration with the iran nuclear deal with hundreds of businesses and individuals to finance the illicitst activities and no question in those were largely responsible for those countries to come together the biden administration to revive the iran deal to negotiate better terms these as well as the ballistic missilehu development and removing them now essentially unilaterally and then to signal their intent the bi

is there much interest in what happens in the middle east in your region? there is a rising - amount of interest. let's look— at the role of china. china's foreign minister played a visit to the middle east - earlier this year, and, - crucially, really tried to take the middle ground —j visited saudi arabia, then went to iran and signed a 25 —year investment deal. with iran — so china's trying i to start playing more of a role in the middle east. they even offered to broker talks between the israelis l and palestinians later this year. i however, as soon as the - violence broke out in the past week, beijing really called - on the united states and said, "joe biden is not doing enough, | they are ignoring the suffering | of muslims, particularly with the palestinians," i which is interesting... because of the treatment of the uighurs in china. exactly, so when it comes down to it, i think the impulse - in beijing, and frankly. among a lot of countries in the region, is to instantly- look to washington and wonder what is going on. yes. and unfortunate

an uneasy p takes hold in the middle east. and gas have people take up the pieces of their homes and lies to monetary and aid is on its way. but the devastation will take years to rebuild and efforts are underway to secure a more and permanent piece. also coming up more shots in more arms, world leaders commit to wrapping up access to corrode a virus fact. as some countries still struggle with the surgeon cases, vaccine makers pledge billions of doses. ah i'm the spice are welcome to the program. the cease fire between israel and hamis lead palestinian militants and gas continues to hold on the 2nd day after it came into effect. egyptian mediators are in israel and the palestinian territory to continue talks on firming up as far deal and securing a long term come thousands of displace palestinians are now starting to return to their homes as guys and take stock. a groups warned that the damage after 11 days of air strikes, could take years to repair the before rebuilding homes and businesses, the arduous work of cleaning up re

president biden is attempting to shift the focus from the middle east to east asia today and the growing threat he sees from china but obviously he's still balling this very fragile situation in the middle east. >> this is something brought to the forefront of his foreign policy agenda this week. it's not planned to be at the forefront. not made it a priority and in the three months that followed. this, of course, is something that happened when you are in the presidency and now he'll face questions, of course, about what his tactic is going forward here but when this has exposed is that it's not just a fragile cease-fire which the white house has said so far that right now they are confident that this is going to hold based on the conversations that he had with

he was the trump envoy for the middle east. this is the scene as dawn breaks in gaza city as the ceasefire appears to be holding. the first quiet dawn for gaza, the gaza strip, for the last 12 days. 0vernight people have been celebrating on the streets and cars have been driving around blowing their horns, one in itself is declaring this ceasefire a victory for what they have achieved —— hamas. israel has pushed hard, though, against them, as you can see there, just from the skyline, so many buildings, so much of the infrastructure has been knocked out by those air strikes over, what, just coming up strikes over, what, just coming up to two weeks of conflict between hamas, who fired 4000 rockets, we'rejust between hamas, who fired 4000 rockets, we're just hearing, israel itself. so has the ceasefire really changed anything? rula jebreal, a visiting professor of international relations, says none of the underlying issues are closer to being resolved. the cessation of aerial offensive is critical and very important. however,

cotton: just four short months ago, hopes were running high in the middle east. isis was wiped off the map. the iran regime was in retreat. israel was forging historic peace deals with its neighbors. all along the way, the united states was instrumental in its progress, but in just a few months, the biden administration has dashed those hopes with a policy of weakness and appeasement. the forces of terror are again on the march. pillars of smoke and fire are rising from tel aviv and the holy city of jerusalem. the assault on israel by terrorist groups like hamas and palestinian islamic jihad is the latest and most concrete evidence yet the middle east is spiraling toward chaos. but instead of standing firm with israel, the biden administration's policy of endless accommodation is fanning the flames of conflict. the president should show strength. instead, he's broadcasting indecision and weakness. our greatest ally in the middle east is under attack, yet the democratic party refuses to say we stand with israel. the night sky over the jewish state blazes with the

the biden administration has tried to deal with the middle east and deal with other issues in the middle east on the back burner. but the middle east always has an ability to draw american administration into the region evenif administration into the region even if they don't want to. and now, the burden is on the biden administration to stop this. is going to be the united states and egypt that will ultimately construct a ceasefire. but in this particular case, in this particular incident, you have extremists on both sides, both on the jewish extremists on both sides, both on thejewish side, i'm not saying the israeli side, the jewish side. but also on the hamas side that contributed to that. there is a way in which governments and the israeli governments and the israeli government should be able to separate itself from its own extremists. it hasn't done it until now but this is a chance for the biden administration to push very, very hard. and you also have a government crisis, also have a government crisis, a prime minister who is really not the prime minister anymore. so everything i

we have relative peace in the middle east right now. because we withdrew from the jcpoa and implemented a campaign of c maximum pressure on iran. that made them poorer weaker less influential than they've beenle in last several decades d it's -- it's will as if the biden administration is so intent on tryingnt to prove trump wrong tt they're going prove him right they've done that at the border and took policies that were working on border security and immigration. and they reversed them for no reason and now we have crisis. and i fear that they're going to be doing that in -- in the middle east and particularly with regard to iran. as you pointed out we left biden administration playing full hand a full house if you will -- and they're managing to lose to iranians who are playing pair of threes. o listen, if returning to nuclear talks with iran -- returning to the jcpoa was really going to bring peace to middle east, why would the country that cared most about that and has most at stake israel why would they that i can action this week

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good luck, captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: tonight, a fragile cease-fire in the middle east, but with clashes in captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: tonight, a fragile cease-fire in the middle east, but with clashes in jerusalem, how long will it last as anti- semitic incidents here in theree u.s. are on the rise. we go inside gaza for the first time to streets filled with rubble. >> reporter: 22 people were killed in this building. >> o'donnell: and meet survivors, including five-month-old omar. plus, what president biden is saying tonight about the 11-day crisis. anti-semitic attacks-- jews targeted as incidents skyrocket during the conflict in the middle east. what synagogues are doing to beef up security. mask battles: tempers rage as towns debate mask requirements. plus the biden administration wants people to swipe right on the covid vaccine by teaming up with dating apps. >> we have finally found the one thing that makes us all more attractive: a vaccination. >> o'donnell: mental health struggles: the stunning revelation tonight from lady gaga as prince harry ta

is there much interest in what happens in the middle east in your region? there is a rising - amount of interest. let's look at the role of china. china's foreign minister played a visit to the middle east - earlier this year, and, crucially, really tried to take _ the middle ground —j visited saudi arabia, then went to iran and signed a 25 —year investment deal with iran — i so china's trying to start playing i more of a role in the middle east. they even offered to broker talks between the israelis _ and palestinians later this year. however, as soon as the violence broke out in the past week, - beijing really called _ on the united states and said, "joe biden is not doing enough, | they are ignoring the suffering | "of muslims, particularly with the palestinians," l which is interesting... because of the treatment of the uighurs in china. exactly, so when it comes down to it, i think- the impulse in beijing, _ and frankly among a lot of countries in the region, is to - instantly look to washington and wonder what is going on. yes. i and unfortunate

was to create a quarter of across the middle east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. and create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains on the iranian from and back to the century as a as a affront to britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was rejected by the defense i wish the older wiser heads said you know that why work your. way into line 1915 the debunks in committee recommended dividing the ottoman empire into several provinces over which britain would seek influence rather than exercise direct control. but when sykes was sent to the middle east and india he began to revert to his original idea of a british cordon from the mediterranean to iraq. so so mark from your knowledge of the air out of the question. where would you say that a legion slot was between us and the french. tragically all arabs approach . not exactly anti french but frightened of financial exploitation and they are frightened of french colonial methods. but

america's foreign policy in the middle east moscow and iran with the maximum pressure economic campaign iran's activities maligned activities in the region were constrained since taking office the biden astray she has released upwards of 6000000000 dollars to the iranian regime now why would the iranians do this while frankly the dynamic over the last during the trip administration the middle east has been where it's becoming it's no longer so much about the arab israeli conflict or the palestinian question it's everybody versus it's iran versus everybody else and iran desperately needed to change the dynamic and have it revert back to the palestinian issue becoming coming to the forefront because that creates pull internal political pressure inside these arab countries and force them to back away from israel so iran wanted to make sure that hamas was in a position to put to attack israel so israel would counterattack and we'd have this type of conflict and as a result. the emphasis on iran would be iran would be deemphasized as the focal point and center of gravity of the middle east b

was to create a quarter of across the middle east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. and create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains on the iranian from and back to the century as a as a affront to britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was rejected by the defense i wish the older wiser heads said you know that why work your. way into line 1915 the debunks in committee recommended dividing the ottoman empire into several provinces over which britain would seek influence rather than exercise direct control. but when sykes was sent to the middle east and india he began to revert to his original idea of a british cordon from the mediterranean to iraq. so so mark from your knowledge of the air out of the question. where would you say that a legion slot between us and the french. practically all arabs approach . not exactly empty french but. frightened of financial exploitation and they are frightened of french colonial methods. but

is there much interest in what happens in the middle east in your region? there is a rising - amount of interest. let's look— at the role of china. china's foreign minister played a visit to the middle east - earlier this year, and, - crucially, really tried to take the middle ground —j visited saudi arabia, then went to iran and signed a 25 —year investment deal. with iran — so china's trying i to start playing more of a role in the middle east. they even offered to broker talks between the israelis l however, as soon as the - violence broke out in the past week, beijing really called - on the united states and said, "joe biden is not doing enough, | they are ignoring the suffering | "of muslims, particularly with the palestinians," l which is interesting... because of the treatment of the uighurs in china. exactly, so when it comes down to it, i think the impulse - in beijing, and frankly. among a lot of countries in the region, is to instantly- look to washington and wonder what is going on. yes. and unfortunately, i think many people have been d

the middle east directly into europe the north south route which also passes through iran and goes down to the south that might by parcel as well where lines into pakistan looking pakistan into the road and belts. a whole exercise in expanding trade through infrastructure through pipelines through railway lines very soon will be a 4th cargo line are a rail line going straight from machine shown province in china through europe is the moment it's not a high speed but soon it will be high speed that will cut the cost of transport a shim are and will make it cheaper than actually using container ships for the transportation this part of the exercise in the old the expression of actually moving away from the rim or maritime. states on the atlantic and around the world which is where america and britain strengthens and to focus on a land based network from europe right through to china which of the 8 the need for all these choke points to pass through the checkpoints which basically the west mostly control bubble manda almost straight all of the straits which they controlled by the west for

and now the middle east is on fire. and it is only wednesday but according to sleepy joe, it's all going to be fine, man. >> folks, who are having trouble we are getting them out -- they are coming around. this has to be a burden shared across the spectrum. kennedy: while. thanks buddy tell that to a small business owner who has to close because he or she cannot find employees. or single mom pulling your hair out dealing with work and home schooling. anybody with a brain realizes the country is in fact on fire including some republican lawmakers, watch. >> the weight that they've handled any crisis in this country is just disastrous birds. the biden administration needs to take this seriously, this is important infrastructure for country it can impact our economy greatly if they do not respond. fizzle a bit like the 70s and faxed its artsy see gas lines. subjective concern of what's happened incentivizing people not to work in america. need to get people back to work, back-to-school, back to health and back to normal. >

you're talking about the border, the crisis in the middle east, supply issues right now. are you satisfied with the leadership? >> look, i thought the meeting today was productive, i know he wanted to have the meeting on infrastructure and i wanted to take an opportunity to talk about the concerns i'm hearing around the country. the portability, the price of gas and crisis at the border coming every single day, the ability to get people to go back to work. and of the schools. the millions of kids that are not back at school, i took the opportunity to raise those with the president, the president engaged on those topics. i'd like to have more and see some action on that. i'm very concerned on what's happening in israel, the president did touch on that the beginning, he brought that up. i come in the president his comments yesterday, israel's ability to defend themselves and they should be. >> let me add just one thing, on the issues of inflation and getting people back to work. what i did last week was to have roundtables with businesses of all size, including hospitals to

we're seeing in the middle east. there's something interesting if i may add about the case of iran because clubhouse i feel like it's occupying, or it's carving a space between broadcast media which is television, radio or even more traditional media and social media. what happened on iran, social media, or persian social media, twitter, facebook, where especially twitter, where it was supposed to be hosting the national dialogue, that it's become very much weaponized by various various political groups, interest groups. you see massive, massive troll armies by supported by their on, in government, by the saudi government, israeli group. and also the u. s. data apartment funds of some of these groups. and it really years the conversation away from organic dialogue among citizens, to the point that it's become very radicalized very toxic and ordinary people. when you talk about president twitter, it's just something that people don't want to get involved and they may go on to read. but everyone talks about how to talk

speaking to lynn hastings she's deputy special coordinator for the middle east peace process and united nations resident coordinator for the occupied palestinian territory she joins us from jerusalem thanks for being with us ms hastings 1st of all give us your assessment of the situation there right. thanks terry generally speaking i think most of the videos have spoken for that very question but the situation is very alarming and i use that word purposefully because it is something that the world needs to be paying attention to finally that the situation here is going in the wrong direction this latest escalation shows the depth of the problems between the palestinians and the israelis your office at the u.n. has warned that this conflict could turn into all out war what would that look like . well that's a good question. obviously the situation right now some could call it to be war what we are concerned about in addition to the situation in gaza is the spillover as your reporter has described into israel that we're seeing clashes all over israel and we are concerned about the regiona

do worrying to see what's happening in the middle east right now.— the middle east right now. do you think we have _ the middle east right now. do you think we have become _ the middle east right now. do you think we have become a - the middle east right now. do you think we have become a bit - think we have become a bit complacent in countries like ours about what is happening in the middle east? we have the last big violent uprising seven years ago. we haven't really had significant violence in israel in the occupied territories in that period. obviously individual instance, some of them quite bad, but nothing that has built up momentum. in some ways, we have kind of got used to it, it sort of the status quo. but we have kind of got used to it, it sort of the status quo._ sort of the status quo. but does an one sort of the status quo. but does anyone really — sort of the status quo. but does anyone really think _ sort of the status quo. but does anyone really think it's - sort of the status quo. but does anyone really think it's going i sort of the status quo. but does - a

greater eurasia it is about opening up the east west trade groups across the north of the middle east directly into europe the north south route which also passes through iran and goes down to the south that might bypass who is rome where lines into pakistan looking pakistan into the road in belts. a whole exercise in expanding trade through infrastructure through pipelines through railway lines very soon will be a 4th line a rail line going straight from machine shown province in china through europe is the moment it's not high speed but soon it'll be high speed that'll cut the costs of transport asia are and will make it cheaper than actually using container ships for the transportation this part of the exercise in the old expression of actually moving away from the really maritime. space on the atlantic and around the world which is where america and britain strengthens and to focus on a land based network from europe right through to china which of the 8 the need for all these choke points to pass from the choke points which basically the west mostly control bob amanda almost stra

east, but the middle east cares about you. rick, you care about the middle east. you have deep contacts there. what do you think the u.s.' position is in the region there. shannon was alluding to the jared kushner effort to end the conflict there in the last few years, that obviously didn't happen. what's our role there? what should it be? >> garrett, it's a good question. i think what we're seeing is a kind of first thing's first, back to basics diplomacy. they don't want to get involved. as shannon mentioned, the trump people boasted on day one about the grand bargain and the idea that biden and blinken are looking at us and let's do the things that we can do and let's settle the things down that need to be settled. we don't need to do some grand bargain. we need to just make sure that people are stable. in fact, that was the phrase that biden used about the relationship with russia. we want a stable, predictable relationship. i mean, again, between the line, that is absolutely the opposite of what the previous administratio

east and iraq and syria and lebanon and yemen and gaza virtually anywhere you look in the middle east where there is terrorism instability, ironic behind it, israel believes it would be extremely dangerous to return to the nuclear deal with iran, we were very grateful that the previous administration made a decision to withdraw from the deal and restore sanction, a lot of people in washington are saying the reason why were returning to the nuclear deal with iran we have to prevent tehran from developing a bomb and they were closer today than they were then, i asked those people is there any country on the planet that has a greater interest in israel to prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon, obviously not ironic isn't it regime and vows to destroy israel and works every day to destroy israel, if there was a deal on the table that would prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon it would be the first country to support it, the reason why we oppose the deal in 2015 and why we oppose the return to the deal in 2021 deal does not do that, it paves iran's path to a nuclear arsenal

ros: next, we turn to the middle east. america's top diplomat, antony blinken, is heading to the region, four days into a cease-fire between hamas and israel. here is mr. blinken leaving the u.s. his first meeting is in jerusalem with israel's president and the prime minister benjamin netanyahu. his next up will be ramallah, to meet the palestinian authority's president. then he goes to egypt to meet president sisi, a crucial player in the region. then he ends his trip in georgia where he will meet king abdullah. let's hear from press secretary jen psaki. >> the president asked secretary blinken to trave to the region to meet with israeli and palestinian leaders, additional leaders in the region, to discuss a couple of things. one is creating sustainable conditions for a ceaseire. yes, it is holding, we are continuing to watch it, but there is recognition we need to continue to discuss and have conversations with our key partners in the region. ros: bear in mind those 11 days of fighting between israel and the palestinians

he could bring peace to the middle east. biden does not suffer from that illusion. he would describe it i think if he was being candid, not something that's realistic. on the oer hand, the u.s. has a role in the -- in the middle east that is undeniable. the united states is being sucked into this terribl conflict that we see between the israelis and the palestinians. not the fight that biden would like to be having. yamiche: uh-huh. kasie, in the last 30 seconds here, how is this -- these conflicts being seen on capitol hill? kasie: well, i think that there is a lot of nervousness, yamiche, particularly because this conflict seems to have come inside israeli borders. and involved -- and arab-israeli citizens. and that's some of the violence that you're seeg in the streets of israel. and that is something that i think has a lot of people on edge, especially those who've always in congress been staunch supporters of israel just because that is something that has the potential to be particularly incendiary. yamiche: uh-huh. eug

the united states has already reduced its reliance on middle east oil thanks to the development of shale oil and gas fields if there was any doubt priorities are changing president biden is pulling troops out of afghanistan and shifting his administration's policies to the pacific and in particular to china mr biden also certain new goals to cross emissions and has received commitments from other world leaders that the oil producers on notice and there have been more warnings u.k. energy joint b.p. forecasting a peak in oil demand within the next few years as the world transitions to clean a fuels that is backed up by analysis from energy consultancy wood mackenzie says consumption would begin a steep drop as early as 2023 it went further to say global oil prices could drop to around $40.00 a barrel by 2030 if governments push to reduce fuel consumption in step with un backed plans to limit global warming that will be a huge shock to the budgets of the oil producing nations revenues have already been falling in 2019 oil revenue in the middle east half to 5 175000000000 dollars from more

kimmy is home to the largest palestinian community outside of the middle east. they began my grading here in the early 1900 hundred's day. they're extremely influential comically. and politically they even have their own football team will not get the say. the thing in arabic does not become what that means to my way, those palestinian blood people. i'm actually in the water, but we will never renounce origin which we must fight for homeland on the palette. sitting association is asking the kids to do just the violence thinking they think that they're asking if the government actually israel and they point out that it's not a problem that they back here in this country. they have very good relations with the jewish community, but rather one turn all the in chile, palestinian self determination and a 2 state solution that respects borders established in 1967. how strong bipartisan support give it to the conservative sen, francisco, which one of palestinian origin says international pressure must increase industrial killer. just as the largest opener, prison on ea

the animals are shipped across the mediterranean to the middle east mostly to the ports of beirut haifa and gaza. german cattle usually end up in arab countries and what happens there. are shown footage of how transporters and meat workers treat the animals in these countries we see upsetting images of animal cruelty the likes of which we've never seen before. some of the pictures are too disturbing to show in their entirety. i. but here they're even children watching the moon is a bit like an affair. i. first the cattle are tied off and then restrained by force i. i kicked slapped pushed over the i was. close. to losing. and then brutally winched on to a truck. there's no respect no sympathy for the maltreated that i. had to subjected to poor violence. a much more workers stand in a pool of blood while they slashed the cows throats. for neither stun nor anesthetized beforehand. i receive pictures from gaza beirut and the west bank. it all over to. be good when we meet the filmmakers who took this put it together dividing and polish from animals international what's their main take away

and any representative d, w journalist covering the middle east join me now in the studio. thanks for being here sending. you know, the region very well help us understand this guy's a israel conflict in context over the years. i think the 1st one was in 2006. they recur every few years. what's different this time? well, we'll have to see. i mean, so far as you said, we've seen these recurring clashes and ended up always in the same place. hamas regaining power. israel every once in a while decide to be met by bombing it and so on. and the idea now when we see that also within israeli ranks like people like benny guns, the minister of defense, but also from the american perspective. dia, now is to use this opportunity to leverage the situation and bring a long lasting solution that will break that pattern. and this is the attempt now will many size were not yet sure when a 10 year who stands on that and how capable he will be due to the political configuration and israel to act on that. but that's definitely something that many forces are for, are pushing towards now. and a

we're seeing in the middle east. there's something interesting if i may add about the case of iran because clubhouse i feel like it's occupying, or it's carving a space between broadcast media which is television, radio or even more traditional media and social media. what happened on iran, social media, or persian social media, twitter, facebook, where especially twitter, where it was supposed to be hosting the national dialogue, that it's become very much weaponized by various various political groups, interest groups. you see massive, massive troll armies by supported by the iranian government, by the saudi government, israeli group. and also the us state department funds of some of these a groups. and it really years the conversation away from organic dialogue among citizens, to the point that it's become very radical lies very toxic and ordinary people. when you talk about person twitter, it's just something that people don't want to get involved and they may go on to read. but everyone talks about how to talk.

near east or in the middle east anything that would be illegal in european union the reason this is happening is that there are no laws in those countries to protect d.n.a. markers and the anymore is are being seen as objects and not as a living beings its moments when they anymore is losing its dignity because the anyone can smell death and anyone can see death it's all or all these and she knows what's coming there is a single reason why nor matter how many anymore i was die all those they all died this is the love it would be things it simply because of the price in the destination concrete is sometimes even then by more than european union business built on the suffering of animals deemed a waste product by germany's dairy industry. we asked professor about the role of the german veterinary authority after all they're aware the animals are being transported destined for the middle east. if the veterinarian knows the transport will very probably result in the conditions we've just described he should like the issue of transport permits. and says responsibility to stop it in accordance with

the un pleads for peace in the middle east conflict, on the deadliest day since the latest hostilities began. civilian casualties continue to rise, with children and the elderly among those killed and injured. previous wars between israel and hamas have ended with mediation — generally with egypt involved — leading to a cease—fire. now contacts have been made, but it's a difficult process. questions for india, after the death from coronavirus of up to 1,600 teachers instructed to help with last month's elections. 140 million doses short — the international covax scheme, to ensure equal access to covid—19 vaccines is interrupted, as the serious outbreak in india stops large—scale exports. and fears of a covid—i9 outbreak at a hotel in rotterdam force four teams to withdraw from the opening ceremony of the eurovision song contest. hello, and welcome. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has brushed off international appeals for an immediate ceasefire in gaza, saying it will take time to restore calm. he says the military operation against palestinian militants wi

. >>> we start with the cease-fire and what it means for the middle east. here to discuss it is richard engel and from tel aviv, erin mclaughlin. in the united states, nbc news white house reporter shannon pettypiece. i know the area has been closed off. what have you been hearing and seeing? >> reporter: well, we he came through this morning. it had been closed. we had been coming down every single day hoping there would be an opening and the israelis who control the border between israel and gaza would open it up. they did. you go through the israeli side and then the hamas side. there were procedures. we got through and then we were driving through and walking through gaza city today. there is a lot of destruction. 8,000 homes were destroyed. more than is 150 buildings destroyed. many people out sweeping up. it is a city still functioning. the infrastructure has been set back a very long way. this was a they will need to do a lot of rebuilding here. that's the physical damage. on the political or emotional side, spirits are pretty good. this is not a cit