secretary of state tony blinken arrives in israel. israel has killed at least 35 palestinians since the beginning of january. on friday, a palestinian man shot dead seven people at his synagogue in an israeli settlement in occupied east jerusalem. settlers carried out scores of attacks over the weekend. we will speak to columbia professor rashid khalidi and the israeli journalist and activist orly noy. in protests continue in memphis and across the country after the release of police body cam footage showing the fatal police beating of tyre nichols, an unarmed 29-year-old black man who was pulled over in a traffic stop next to his home. >> we want equal justice under the law. tyre deserves it. all of our children. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. tensions between israel and the occupied palestinian territories are reaching a boiling point following a spate of recent attacks, which have escalated since israeli forces raided the jenin refugee camp

tony blinken is there in israel to try to ease the tensions after a spike in violence that has killed hundreds in the last few weeks. sylvia, what more are you learning about this mosque attack? >> reporter: kate, we know that the pakistani taliban have claimed attack for this mosque, and the number of dead have been climbing, and so hundreds have been trapped under the rubble. the attack took place in the afternoon during afternoon prayers and more people are being are rescued. this took place in the northwest of pakistan and the taliban who had a cease-fire with the pakistan government and army until november of last year, and that fell apart, and there is an increase of attacks in the northern part of the country since then, and general increase of militant attacks since the fall of kabul in 2021, and pakistan has accused the taliban of providing havens for the taliban to carry out these attacks in taliban. it is a depressing sense of deja vu in this city who have seen many attacks for decades in that city. there are about 27 people who were just buried in a mass funeral as rescue

as we start today, i want to acknowledge tony blinken, our secretary of state and my colleague in the administration, with whom it has been a great honor to serve. and i want to congratulate my friend may or she be for her extraordinary -- mayor sheedy for her extraordinary leadership and for sharing the task force on mental health. and i want to thank my friend mayor suarez for his introduction, leadership at the conference of the last year. today, i would like to talk about the well-being of america. where we are and where we must go in the days ahead. for me, the story starts with my parents. like generations of immigrants, they were inspired by what america stood for, at the chance to dream big, to work hard and make dreams come true. the chance to be treated fairly, regardless of background or skin color, and the opportunity to live in a community where people looked at for each other and shared common hopes about the future. my parents knew those ideals did not yet represent reality for everyone, but they wanted to live in a society where these ideals were the moral compass. thi

as we start today, i want to acknowledge tony blinken, our secretary of state and my colleague in the ministration with whom it has been a great honor to serve. i also want to congratulate my friend mayor sheedy for her star neri leadership for being the next president -- extraordinary leadership for being the next president of the conference of mayors and sharing the task force on mental health. i am so grateful for her. i want to thank my friend and fellow miami native mayor suarez for his kind introduction, leadership of the conference of mayors over the last year. today i would like to talk about the well-being of america, where we are, and where we must go in the days ahead. for me, this story starts with my parents. my parents, like generations of immigrants who were inspired by what america stood for, the chance to dream big, the chance to work hard and make those dreams come true, the chance to be treated fairly regardless of your background or skin color, and the opportunity to live in a community for people looked out for each other and shared common hopes about the future.

as we start today, i want to acknowledge tony blinken, our secretary of state and my colleague in the administration, about the well-being of america. where we are and where we must go in the days ahead. for me, the story starts with my parents. like generations of immigrants, they were inspired by what america stood for, at the chance to dream big, to work hard and make dreams come true. the chance to be treated fairly, regardless of background or skin color, and the opportunity to live in a community where people looked at for each other and shared common hopes about the future. my parents knew those ideals did not yet represent reality for everyone, but they wanted to live in a society where these ideals were the moral compass. this vision of america has fueled hope for millions over the last nearly 250 years and the belief in our ability to make progress toward those ideals has inspired so many people, like all of us, the public servants. yet in recent decades, optimism and camaraderie have come to feel more scarce. as i traveled the communities across america, people tell me, as

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i have faith with tony blinken, and the president to make sure we are tough. to make it clear that the armed invasion of taiwan will not stand, but that we affirm the one china policy, talk about economic rebalancing. this is a time for statesmanship, and i believe statesmanship will prevail. >> congressman ro khanna, thanks as always for being with us. we appreciate it. >> and secretary of state antony blinken reaffirmed his call for a two state solution in israel as he stood alongside prime minister netanyahu. it's the first time they met set netanyahu returned to power. the return comes after the deadliest attack in decades. 17 people were killed, including a 14-year-old boy when a palestinian gunman opened fire on sabbath worshippers on friday. a palestinian teen shot an israeli father and son in a palestinian neighborhood in east jerusalem last week. the israeli military killed ten people in a raid on the occupied west bank. seven of whom the israeli government said were militants. nbc news foreign correspondent kelly cobiella has more from israel. >> rep

the west bank raid coincided with an announcement that secretary of state tony blinken will travel to israel and the west bank next week. nick schifrin looks at u.s. policy priorities, and the tense holy land he'll soon visit. nick: in the west bank's most volatileity, a most violent day. palestinians carried out gunshot victims. th chanted the names of those killed in a fierce battle and rare daytime israeli raid into jenin's refugee camp. a massive show of israeli force left a building that israel says was full of militants plotting an imminent attack, a charred, destroyed wreck. palestinians say one of the victims was an elderly woman. the fury quickly followed. thousands filled the streets to mourn the dead. and the militant group hamas, which ru gaza, vowed revenge. >> the resistance will always be ready to defend its people everywhere. nick: the fallout was also political. the palestinian authority said it would refer the raid to the u.n., and cut off security coordination with israel. >> in light of the repeated aggression against our people, we consider that security coordinat

. >> and tony blinken, the secretary of state told me in no uncertain terms that everything we did was based on a fatally flawed intelligence assessment that the afghan government would last for 18 months. this was news to cia director bill burns when i sat down with him and talked to him at length about it. he said, look, if you pulled out two legs of the stool, as he put it, american forces and contractors, we predicted that that could collapse very quickly. so, afghanistan, and i also have this wonderful story that, i mean, joe biden shared with me what it was like on the worst day of his presidency, what he called the hardest of the hard days when 13 service members were killed by the suicide bombing in kabul. afterwards, biden had to confront -- had to try to console the families of those fallen soldiers. some of them blamed him. some of them were upset because he invoked his son beau. this was personally really wrenching for joe biden. and it's, i think, a great insight into him. >> it's a compelling -- it's a compelling book. thank you very much. >> thanks so much, margaret. >>

the west bank raid coincided with an announcement that secretary of state tony blinken will travel to israel and the west bank next week. nick schifrin looks at u.s. policy priorities and the tense holy land he will soon visit. nick: in the west bank's most volatile city, a most violent day. palestinians carried out gunshot victims. they chanted the names of those killed in a fierce battle and rare daytime israeli raid into jenin's refugee camp. a massive show of israeli force left a building that israel says was full of militants plotting an imminent attack a charred, destroyed wreck. palestinians say one of the victims was an elderly woman. the fury quickly followed. thousands filled the streets to mourn the dead. and the militant group hamas, which runs gaza, vowed revenge. ham: the resistance will always be ready to defend its people everywhere. nick: the fallout was also political. the palestinian authority said it would refer the raid to the u.n. and cut off security coordination with israel. nabil: in light of the repeated aggression against our people, we consider that securit

blinken: good to see you. pm netanyahu: good to see you, tony. sec. blinken: you as well. nick: the u.s. now downplays any chance of diplomacy with iran. that helps align the two countries' regional goals. for that to continue, the u.s. has to manage any disagreements and try and ensure that this violence doesn't erupt any further. for the "pbs nshour," i'm nick schifrin. amna: prices have risen for lots of foods, but the cost of eggs climbed the most in the last year. and nsumers and businesses have scrambled to keep up. what's behind so-called eggflation? economics correspondent paul solman takes a look. paul: breakfast time at in a pickle in waltham, massachusetts, which means egg tim: i would say 70% of our menu either has eggs in it or revolves around eggs or is egg-centric in some way. so, omelets, scrambles. it's in our pancake mix, in our waffle mix, in the french toast mix. people even put eggs on hamburgers too, so it even crosses over to lunch. we have hard-boiled eggs in our salads. just a lot of eggs. paul: eggs that, says chef owner tim burke, have -- yeah, y

blinken, who will be arriving there in two days' time. graphic footage has been released of police officers in the us city of memphis, beating a black motorist who died three days later. the video dating back to the 7th of january shows 29—year—old tyre nichols being repeatedly kicked, punched and pepper—sprayed as he lay on the ground, calling out for his mother less than 100 yards from her home. five black officers are facing murder charges. a warning — you may find the footage in nada tawfik�*s report distressing. video of the incident is disturbing, right from the start. everything about the officers' approach is aggressive in this initial traffic stop. taken aback, tyre nichols is heard protesting his innocence. i didn't do anything! turn around! all right, all right, all right, all right. after officers wrestle him to the ground, he seems to comply with their commands. all right, i'm on the ground. lay down! but as this encounter continues, mr nichols breaks away and flees. the next videos capture the moment five black off

the tony blinken is interested in albania. the biden team and energy congolmerates working under biden have an interests in albania and george soros had an interest in albania. interesting how it's tied together. >> one of the unfortunate realities of albania. i talked to politicians in albania. when soros started getting active in that country. he did the pr strategy of escobar building hospitals, and they quickly wised up. he was trying to extoll influence over them. one of the people implicated in this fbi drug scandal is one of his biggest political opponents. dan: pretty strange the biden administration has been strangely toll rants to narco trafficking in albania. the sinaloa cartel on our southern border has an interests in, too. just peered, i'm sure. thanks for your time. if you are watching the doomsday clock, the experts say we are seconds away from annihilation. but how serious should we take this? joining us, cyber-security export morgan wright. you saw the doomsday clock. they did it so somberly. is this just ano

you had tony blinken, by the way the managing director of the biden center. then he became the secretary of state. other people in the biden center had big offices in the state department of the white house after biden got elected. it is -- >> todd: focus on the level of this peer at the white house inadvertently misplaced and the facts don't support that but even if they did, that is no defense because standard of care under the law is gross negligence. >> carley: the president sa said -- >> todd: gross negligence so why do they keep putting forward inadvertently displaced while the lawyers have to know what the law is? >> they know what the law is. and biden knows what the law is and so does his post peer they tried to dodge it sagging, he didn't intentionally do this. but then he says, everybody knows how i take classified documents seriously. that is laughable. how do you take it seriously when six years you had these classified documents and other presidential records, by the way? even if they are not classified, they still have to have possession of tho

tony blinken is going to be going to china next month. can we start to chip away at easing that relationship? it really needs china, it really needs to come back to that market. it is a huge market and will continue to be a huge market. at the moment, they're kind of out of it. that really needs to turn around. they have had a huge history buying boeing planes but not recently. for them to kind of take part in this global recovery, boeing needs that to change. tom: fantastic. really looking forward to that exclusive interview with dave calhoun tomorrow. that is tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. here's what we are watching today, semiconductors, the importance of the chip sector and pressures. president biden speaking in baltimore about the impacts the bipartisan infrastructure laws having. that is as we head into his state of the union address next week. alix: coming up, paul will be joining balance of power with david westin and on radio. join me for a bloomberg's radio cable at the top of the hour. another quick check here markets. the nasdaq 100 r

i'll be meeting my opposite number, tony blinken, later on today, and some other people in the administration, and to continue to make sure that our close working relationship is as close as ever, is as effective as ever. and i'm very happy to be here to be grilled by you. kylie: great. sec. cleverly: that last bit is not true. no, i am. i'm very grateful. kylie: wonderful. so, you mentioned the tanks, and big news over the weekend with the u.k. government saying that you guys are moving ahead to provide these tanks to ukraine. i wonder if you can take us inside that decision-making a little bit. what was the tipping point? because the ukrainians have, obviously, been asking for these tanks for a long time. so why now, and when are they going to get there, and what impact do you see them having on the battlefield? sec. cleverly: well, we have always worked very, very closely with the ukrainians and, of course, our nato allies and the u.s. in terms of assessing what the ukrainians need at various stages of this conflict. quite famously in the early days of the conflicts when kyiv and other cit

secretary of state tony blinken is due to arrive in the region soon. and of course, there are fears that these tensions may escalate further in the coming days. back to you, nora vladimir putin is not giving up the fight despite ukraine's remarkable resistance , moscow reportedly planning a major new offensive against ukraine by february 24th. that's the one year anniversary of russia's invasion. this is, according to a top ukrainian security official. ukrainian and western officials have repeatedly warned russia was gearing up for a fresh assault. to try and turn the tide in the war, laura and the biden administration has finally agreed to send state of the art tanks to ukraine. that's a dramatic reversal of policy and a change in u. s aid from defensive to offensive gear. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin explains. on tuesday, the pentagon defended its decision not to send in one abrams tanks to ukraine, in one is a complex weapons system that is challenging to maintain as we've talked about that was true yesterday. it's true tod

it was tony blinken's office in the interim during the trump years did. he have any foreign visitors there. we need to get to the bottom of this and they need to take it seriously. >> mike: who did hunter have over the house. >> exactly. >> mike: stef your thoughts on the white house and how they are handling this crisis. >> an issue that has become very politicized. it matters if there are classified documents inappropriately handled and justice department is looking into it is important to remember there are special counsels who are looking in to both the current potentially mishandling of documents and the former president that is one across the board is something that is being investigated of course it's tough to hear from white house saying that, you know, making excuses it isn't that big of a deal when they have the president himself has very clearly criticized the former president for his handling of documents but then, you know, there is also on the right suddenly there is outrage over documents being held inappropriately where before there was mo

. >>> secretary of state tony blinken is wrapping up a critical visit in a time of crisis for israel in the west bank. blinken met with palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas after meeting with israel's president benjamin netanyahu. hadas is with us there. and the goal is to bring down the tension, and what are you hearing? >> secretary blinken in the last half hour or so wrapped up a press conference and the first time that the press has been able to ask him any questions since he started the tour here in israel and then in the west b bank. essentially he reiterated the u.s. support to a two-state solution, and he wanted to bring down the tension before they can look at a longer term solution, but he did not make any announcannounce annou announcements of a major agreement. he wanted to hopefully announce some sort of communication or calm between israel and the palestinian authority. but he did ask senior members of the staff to stay here to continue with the dialogue, and that is to hopefully in the next few days we will hear some actual announcements about something that i

blinken, who now is very senior official in the biden administration. one of the lawyers comes across a locked closet. mind you come this is based on what the biden have said so we had to take with a grain of salt because people in pow mislead and lie and all these things. i taking them at their word, the narrative is they discover a manila envelope marked "personal" and inside this envelope was a document containing classification markings. so they continue to search and find other documents that appear to be classified. the biden people of the white house are then informed and biden does not widely share this information with people in his administration. instead, they gather an informal wo council and among the people in this council to y to determine how to handle this -- mind you, they know immediately how incendiary this is. they have gone to town on donald trump over his mishandling of classified information and midterms are just days away. so the biden gather an informal war council the very famous democrat power lawyer and his wife. anita dunn,

let's get back to secretary of state tony blinken's visit. i want you to update our viewers on what we know so far. >> reporter: he made a security commitment, ironclad security commitment to the people of israel. his message, his real message here was to try to reduce tensions that are speaking at the moment. >> urging all sides now to take urgent steps to restore calm, to deescalate. we want to make sure there's an environment in which we can i hope at some point create the conditions where we can start to restore a sense of security for israelis and palestinians alike which is sorely lacking. >> reporter: he said the most important thing was to keep alive the idea of a two-state solution. he says any moves that moved away from that will show the international community, show the world that israel perhaps losing some of its democratic values, and that i think a hint that prime minister's netanyahu's government, it is a far right government, the message there, stick to democratic values, wolf. >> nic robertson in jerusalem, thank you very mu

tony blinken, our current secretary of state, he was managing director there for a little while. was he responsible? there are so many dots that have not been connected, conveniently, but, nonetheless, there the president was at this summit and what is the one thing printed out in front of him? about the top secret documents. that's very, very curious. >> brian: three times in three days asked this question and not by a fox reporter. keep in mind when they talk about transparency. he may think this is great way to handle discovered november 2nd if we tore believe their story and immediately contact the national archives and the stories and got the documents and going through them. handed over to u.s. attorney by donald trump. the only reason we found out about them now cbs got the story and went forward and wrote the story and everybody followed on cbs's heals. they didn't come out and say now that it's january let me tell you this, now that the president is out of the country. no, no. it wasn't coincidence. they prefer us never get this story. number one, i don't necessarily bel

blinken became the latest high-ranking american official to travel to israel. he landed today for consultations with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. as nick schifrin reports, blinken is trying to keep a lid on further bloodshed, and coordinate u.s./israeli cooperation on israel's nemesis to the east, iran. nick: iwas supposed to be a trip to coordinate with a newly elected allied government, but violence created a crisis. today palestinians buried naseem abu fouda, the 35th palestinian they say was killed by israelis this month, mostly fighting israeli soldiers. last week in jenin, israel launched the deadliest raid in the occupied west bank in years. and this weekend, israelis buried rafael ben eliyahu, a victim of an attack on an east jerusalem synagogue, one of the worst against israelis in years, that the us labeled terrorism. and now, another explosion -- a publicly unattributed strike near an iranian military factory. sec. blinken: as you can see, i've just landed in israel at what is a pivotal moment. nick: secretary of state antony blinken went from

tony blinken, the secretary of state, told me in no uncertain terms that everything they did was based on a fatally flawed intelligence assessment that the afghan government would last for 18 months. this was news to cia director bill burns when i went over and spoke with him at cia headquarters. and he said, no, look, we were clear-eyed about the fragility of the afghan government. and if you remove two legs of the stool, the military -- u.s. military and contractors, we thought things could collapse very fast. so, there was a lot of drama, a lot of finger-pointing in the immediate aftermath of that unfortunate event. amna: what about the approach to russia's war in ukraine? you write a great deal about the secret trip that cia director bill burns made to kyiv before the war even started, a trip that vice president harris made weeks later, in which you had this chilling line in there as she left the meeting with zelenskyy. you wrote, as zelenskyy departed, harris had a chilling thought. there was a good chance she would never see him alive again. you talked about drama in the white ho

secretary of state and tony blinken arrived in the middle east is a short time ago for the start of a three-day visit to the region. he's going to head to jerusalem on monday where tensions are incredibly high following a series of deadly attacks. nbc's cal eagle bay is following out of jerusalem. kelly, good to talk to. you first, if you will, kelly, bring us up to speed on what's happened over the last 24 hours or so. >> so, israel is on its highest state of alert. police around 12 hour shifts, israeli soldiers are on the streets, especially here in jerusalem. the two attacks took place. the first one friday night. the worst attack on israeli civilians since 2008. palestinian gunmen, 21 years, old got out of a car in the evening, opened fire on a synagogue just before coming out after prayer on the sabbath. seven people were killed, including a 14-year-old boy. three more injured. it sounds as though those three will make it. their conditions aren't not critical anymore from what we understand. and then just a few hours later, a shooting saturday morning also in jerusalem in the pre

blinken sent a cable to all embassies yesterday directing staff to switch from times new roman font to calibri, while president biden will continue to speak in wing dings. [ laughter ] georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene was assigned yesterday to the house committee on homeland security well, she does seem to know about attacks before they happen [ laughter ] the treasury department said that tomorrow, it will begin using extraordinary measures to keep the federal government running, which explains this new ebay listing [ laughter ] i think they made a terrible mistake adding free shipping [ laughter ] according to a new report, republican congressman george santos allegedly stole $3,000 from a gofundme campaign for a dying service dog that belonged to a disabled veteran, and then get this, he used the money to buy dog poison. [ light laughter ] now, again, halfway through that joke, i started thinking, "how do i think this is going to go?" [ laughter ] it's a bad joke, but is it as bad as what he did [ laughter ] still seems like you guys might think it's a tie [ laughter

here you had tony blinken who worked at that biden penn center, they had decades and decades of government experience, and yet they were so busy kissing up to these doj lawyers that they created a credibility gap. >> these are supposed to be the adults in the room, that's what they tell us about themselves in a self-congratulatory way, and here we have this drip, drip, drip of their own making because of their own ineptitude i and incompetence on 207 of the potential -- on top of the potential illegal conduct here. to call it a bad look, i think, is an understatement. and you're right, this is a man singularly, the president of the united states, who has been at the highest levels of our federal government for the better part of half a century. if anyone knows what you and cannot do or should know with type of material the, it ought to be joe biden which in some ways makes this worse for him. there's no ignorance excuse that's viable. howard: laura, for six days i watched biden not engage with reporters because he didn't want to take questions on this, and i'm glad that he finally read tha

blinken as well. it's important to note, the white house obviously is very closely monitoring that very recent brazilian election between president lula and the former president jair bolsonaro. the u.s. was careful, biden administration -- clear preference in the election. but there was very real concerns about the anti democratic nature of bolsonaro. his criticisms, his questioning of the election results. when he emerged as the victor, they were quick to make a call, president biden to congratulate. adam they had a delegation recently to attend is an operation last week. it's a situation that the biden administration's gonna be keeping very close tabs on. as he heads here now to mexico city. the focus on the merica's broadly's been one the administration has been focused on. and particularly supporting democratic institutions across the board. >> we understand that president biden is still there in el paso. and you will be boarding air force one shortly. you can see it there. it has for the presiden

. >>> secretary of state tony blinken meeting with the new israeli government after the backdrop of more violence in the region. a mass shooting outside the synagogue in jerusalem on friday, an attack that left seven dead. a day after an israeli force killed ten in the occupied west bank. all taking place in the first week of benjamin netanyahu's right wing government which has taken a hard line against the palestinians. nbc news correspondent kelly cobiella is in jerusalem with the latest. >> reporter: israel is still on its highest state of alert today. police are on 12-hour shifts. there is an extra security presence throughout jerusalem, and this is because of that attack at the synagogue on friday night. now, this topic has moved straight to the top of the agenda for the secretary of state. he was talking about it twice today when he first stepped off the plane here in israel and stepped up to the podium, calling on both sides to take steps to stop what he called a his rising tide of violence, and israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu says president biden was committed to them

. >>> right now secretary of state tony blinken is in israel urging prime minister benjamin netanyahu and palestinian leaders to ease tensions after a sharp escalation in violence that's killed more than a dozen people in the last week. >> this is blinken's first visit to israel under the new netanyahu government. he will also meet with palestinian leaders tomorrow for another round of high-stakes talks aimed at bringing calm to the region. cnn's hadas gold is in jerusalem. so hadas, what happened at today's joint press conference? >> reporter: well, alisyn, this visit was possibly going to be prickly even before the latest round of violence because benjamin netanyahu, while a familiar face, he has a new very right-wing government that the americans have said they're going to deal with them on their policies and not necessarily on the personalities. then the events of the last few days brought definitely a new sense of urgency here and a big hope that secretary blinken could at least help dial the temperature down on the ground because after the events of the laugh few days it really

nick: that's a great question because the other thing you have is secretary of state tony blinken traveling to china in just about a week as part of the biden administration's effort to maintain this balance. on the one hand, they say they want to put a floor under the relationship, they want to get back to normal procedure. at the same time, they are clamping down and doing things like controls and limits, seeking to limit the sales for some of these advanced chip production technologies to china. so it is a real question whether the administration is going to be able to do that, both clampdown on china and try to create some normalcy in the relationship. china will have a say in how that goes. haidi: bloomberg's senior foreign policy reporter there with the latest. let's get back to the markets -- our next guest is looking at china and sees china is the only region set for earnings growth. david long is the senior investment strategist at miles bernstein. i'm curious how you get that because the failure to reach market yesterday felt to me like traders and market participants are looking

tony blinken told me that they relied on a flawed intelligence assessment of 18 months to do that. this was news to bill burns when i talked to him. he said we were clear-eyed about the fragility of the afghan armed forces and thought it could collapse quickly. there's finger pointing. >> you mentioned things turn around with the leadership of ukraine and based on intelligence that was correct. >> they knew he was going in. february 24, 2022, was the turning point of the presidency in my view. joe biden uniquely qualified to face down putin and defend ukraine. i tell the untold story of how kamala harris met with zelenskyy on the eve of the invasion and said not only are they coming for ukraine but you and your family personally. he was still skeptical. she turned to aide leaving that meeting she said i wonder if that's the last time we see him alive. >> chris, this is gene robinson. what have you learned about the relationship between president biden and vice president harris? the relations can be complicated and sometimes be extremely fruitful. >> it's a fascinating, complicated

blinken has been talking about again while he's been there. there are who openly reject that two-state solution so there isn't very much pressure that the americans can put on the israelis at the moment. you have this terrible violence. two dozen people killed on both sides in the past week. increasing frustrations from a young unemployed palestinian youth who don't see a future for themselves. it is very difficult but blinken has to try to triage and the priority for washington is ukraine and trying to get israel on board with western efforts. >> on that very complicated note we turn to the war this ukraine where the united states will not be sending f-16 fighter jets. president biden telling reporters no when asked what other military assets are already on the way. as the war in ukraine nears a year a new documents from pbs of "putin and the presidents" explores the dynamic between u.s. leader, the russian president and arriving at this moment. >> vladimir putin is as cold blooded as any foreign leader i have ever seen. >> mistruth after mis

blinken along with him, they held together the coalition. >> it does. >> i think you will be seeing historians writing about joe biden the same way historians wrote about harry truman after world war ii, and underestimated at the time but as they looked back they were surprised by the remarkable touch he had domestically and across the globe. i would guess that when you were in the state department, elise, you could have never imagined a day like this where the germans getting as involved as they are militarily and building up their military budgets and not relying on the united states and others for their defense. >> joe, i have been critical about the way the biden administration mismanaged the withdrawal from afghanistan, but in contrast they have done a good job holding this coalition together, and not getting in too deep but not allowing the russians to just do whatever they want. it's been an example that alliances matter, diplomacy matters. we need to have strong relations with our closest allies, and joe biden has forged that alliance successfully. >> to mike's point about t

so, tony will have several priorities. first of all, he will aim to reduce tensions on both sides of the palestinians and the israelis, which he is customary to doing, but he has also got another challenge on his hands, which is the interference in the judicial system that the bibi netanyahu government that has just taken office has just proposed. now, this seems to be a sort of revenge, appeasing his far—right government partners, because, of course, hejust sacked one of the ministers at the request of the supreme court recently, but looming over all of this is the fresh strength that the israelis engaged in in iran, and that is something that, ironically, is helpful to ukraine, something we can discuss further. it's been reported that a late—night missile attack has hit a residential building in ukraine's second largest city — kharkiv. that's according to local officials who say one person has been killed. others are reported to have been injured but it's not yet clear how many. it follows intense fighting in the k

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the recent violence is not the only political issue facing secretary blinken. there's also a government proposal to reform the judicial system. the plan would reduce the supreme court's power to revoke laws passed in parliament. with just a simple majority the government would be able to overturn any supreme court rulings. if approved, the government would have greater influence over who gets to be a judge. and there's also regional issues. have a look at this wall streetjournal headline. the article cites unnnamed us officials, suggest israeli forces were behind this drone strike on an iranian defence facility on the weekend. let's cross to ian lesser — he's the vice president of the american thinktank, the german marshall fund. thanks for coming on programme. good to be with yom — thanks for coming on programme. good to be with you. let's _ thanks for coming on programme. good to be with you. let's go _ thanks for coming on programme. good to be with you. let's go back— thanks for coming on programme. good to be with you. let's go back to - thanks for c