speaking of abbas there is this historical fact. former israeli prime minister, omir, to this day he says he negotiated a deal that would have delivered to the palestinian much of what they want and abbas saysly take it back and then they didn't accept it. and that was one more example of, you know, camp david was as other things have where in the end the palestinians would not accept what many people thought was a reasonable solution. >> that is partially accurate. what happened to prime minister olmert, he was deposed from the position of premiere, premiership, had he stayed longer, then there would have been a better chance of continuing the discussions between him and president abbas and perhaps reaching an agreement. >> rose: i thought they reached an agreement. >> he suggested construct if the ideas. >> rose: all of the on all the issues of contention. >> but when the two leeshdz meet and they have a discussion and you draw something like this and you say that this is perhaps the borders and put it on a piece possess paper lik

.- in a president abbas was in cairo a few days ago. he will be in morocco. for the first time since and 96, 1996,mmittees -- since the committee has made positive steps toward an agreement. >> you are speaking of positive steps. benjamin netanyahu is competing with hard-line nationalists in his coalition. how much room does he have a mobile room for negotiating? >> he has plenty of room. ofis the prime minister israel and can negotiate whatever he wants. he can reach an agreement with and when itnt abbas is going to be brought to the people with a referendum. i am strongly convinced that a referendum will be brought to the israelis and to the and will have 60% to 70% of the population on both sides supporting. i have no doubt. he has a political possibility to change his coalition. he is going to be backed by the labor party, backed by the opposition. he can come together with other coalitions in the next few weeks or months without any problem. he can continue to be prime minister and continue to bring a peace agreement to israel. thomas is getting weaker a

the meeting with president abbas. many palestinians took to be supermom and chanting go home protesting anything to deal with charisma. skepticism is also rampant in use for half the city's meeting israeli prime minister benjamin and tanya who accused abbas of increasing quote as hero unfortunately given the chosen words palestinian leaders. there's no doubt in his room the palestinians are committed to it. cherry is scheduled to meet again on saturday with both president abbas and prime minister netanyahu in africa to contain the bridging gaps between the sides. during meetings with palestinian and israeli leaders secretary of state kerry is true to keep the peace negotiations momentum moving you are here it's going to get. regardless the secretary of state maintains that achieve the peace deal is not a mission impossible impossible now. but it will be difficult stephanie fried cctv from mama. one shows here in our danish and norwegian cargo ships and once again failed to was the syrian poet of attack yet from cypres

welcome back, i'm del walters, and john kerry is there to speak with mahmoud abbas. this is his 10th trip to the region as secretary of state. >>> the obama administration is opting not to give exception to contraceptives. >> . >> a federal judge meeting today with lawyers at a california hospital for a braindead girl. the two sides are in a legal dispute over the care of jahai, she wen.>>> gazing at a winter wonderland in china. in the northern part of the country, a dazzling array of ice sculptures. >> reporter: putting the finishing touches to this year's winter collection. local sculptures with the increasing fame of this ice festival in the northern city means competition from overseas is getting tougher. the standard has been improving a lot because people have been using more sophisticated tools. e growing extensively, the last few years have been seeing the festival boom, 25% in the last year alone. >> as the economy keeps growing, people have more money to travel and they want to go to more interesting pleases >> reporter: it's after dark that the festival c

he will also meet palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas later today. to propose a framework for a lasting peace deal between israel and the palestinians. ian lee joins us now live in jerusalem. and ian, certainly john kerry has been coming to this region several times over the past few months. he really wants something to break through. >> reporter: well, that's right, natalie. if you just look at yesterday, he met with the prime minister benjamin netanyahu for five hours in total. and before the meeting, the prime minister gave a grim outlook at talks especially with his negotiating partner, palestinian president mahmoud abbas. take a listen to this. >> a few days ago in ramallah, president abbas embraced terrorist terrorists to glorify the murders of innocent women and men as heroes is an outrage. how can president abbas say -- how can he say that he stands against terrorism when he embraces the perpetrators of terrorism and glorifies them as heroes? >> as you can see, natalie, john kerry has his work cut out for him. he has acknowledged that both si

he says that mahmoud abbas does not represent all palestinians. there is in control of certain areas. when we stop working with hamas, they tell us that mahood abbas as part of his government -- hamas people will not negotiate with them. if we are separated, we do not represent all the palestinians. if we are united, -- you have hamas as part of your political system. >> there's this historical fact. the former israeli prime minister, to this day he says that he negotiated a deal that would have delivered to the palestinians, much of what they want and abbas said that he will take it back and that he did not accept it. that is one more example of camp david and other things were in the end, the palestinians would not accept what many people thought was a reasonable solution. >> that is partially accurate. what happened then is that the prime minister was deposed from the position of premier. if he had been in power, there would have been a better chance of continuing the discussion. we might have reached an agreement. he suggested constructive ide

. >>> secretary of state john kerry arrived in ramala to talk with palestinian president mahmood abbas. >>> will the new 777 x jetliner be built in the seattle area? >> the snow has stopped falling across the northeast. now freezing cold has set in. the storm that dropped several inches of snow across the region is blamed for 13 deaths and thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed, stranding thousands at airports. we go to richelle carey at columbus circle in new york. look, this cold is nothing to play with. we're talking about a dangerous chill at this point. >> we are, and it's actually getting colder. since we've been out here today. at the park, just in the lat few minutes it dropped to 14 degrees. that's without the wind chill, you know what that means. it's well below zero. of course when the northeast sneezes if you will the entire country feels it. when a snowstorm like this hits the northeast it effects huge population centers. >> almost two feet of snow in parts of massachusetts, up to 18 inches in new york, and parts of vermont the wind chill made it feel 25 below.

kerry went to meet with mahmood abbas.ick schrifrin has more. >> reporter: secretary kerry is trying to get both sides to make compromises to admit they have to make hard choice notice weeks and months to come if this peace talk is ever going to succeed. what kerry is trying to do, not solve everything right now but get both sides to agree on the framework of what they're going to discuss in the further. this is not about solving everything. this is simply about getting both sides to agree on a piece of paper that says this is where we start. this is where we're going to launch or peace talks. mahmood abbas said israelis have to start negotiations based on the 1967 borders. that means no west bank. no gaza. that is the heart of the palestinian state. that is not something that president netanyahu has ever greed on. then kerry goes to the israelis and says what do you want? they want the palestinians could acknowledge them as a jewish state. they say israel has no problem living side by side with the palestinian state but t

this is what he said. >> a few days ago, president abbas embraced terrorists as heroes.ers of innoce women and men is an outrage. how can he say that he stands against terrorism when he embraces the perpetrators of terrorism and glorifies them as heroes? >> reporter: john kerry a due to meet with the palestinian president later on friday, but he has said that both leaders here have really got some tough decisions to make right now. >> the time is soon arriving where leaders are going to have to make different decisions. we are close to that time, if not at it. and i think we understand the circumstances within which we are working. >> reporter: so the mechanism that secretary of state kerry has brought with him to help these leaders make the compromises. he calls it a framework agreement that should should show the leaders where they are at right now, where they are going in terms of the final result. it will address all the core issues here, but expectations really are frankly be played down at the mom, jake. >> what can you tell us about the health of former prime mini

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kerry will travel to the wang to meet with mahmoud abbas. >> a 648 foot cargo ship is being outfitted with new technology to destroy some of syria's chemical weapons. >> the ncpk is undergoing work at a shipp yard before it travels to the mediterranean in two weeks. >> toronto mayor rob ford put his name on the ballot for re-election. toronto voters will go to the polls in october. those are the headlines. "consider this" is up next on al jazeera. and you can get the latest online at aljazeera.com. >> a critical point for miseast peace talks as the spring deadline approaches. an israeli demand may be a deal breaker for palestinians. "consider this". dwawrn edward snowden gets a plea deal. and sex abuse for priests is out of jail. and the lord of the piracy rings. check the most illegally downloaded entertainment of 2013. hello o&m sheila macvicar sitting in for antonio mora. looming deadline for yet another u.s. brokered deal to resolve the conflict twin israelis and palestinians. secretary of state john kerry is in israeli to meet prime minister benjamin netanyahu. secretary of state

. >> next up, secretary kerry will sit down with palestinian president ma humidity abbas -- mahmoud abbas in the west bank. >>> doctors say ariel sharon is in critical condition with his family by his side. he has been in a coma for the past eight years. today, doctors said function of several vital organs has declined. the former hard-line military leader was a prominent backer of settlements. but he has begun to support withdrawal of the gaza strip when he suffered a stroke. >>> the editorial of the new york times is urging the obama administration to treat edward snowden as a whittle blower and offer him clemen ski. it's acknowledged that he stole documents but the paper says he's done a great service to the country by exposing the government's lack of respect for privacy. the white house has rejected a clemency plea saying he should return to the u.s. to face trial. >>> the dozens of people stuck in the ice in antarctica since christmas eve have been rescued. a helicopter ferried the 52 scientists and tourists to an australian ship today. but their journey home is just getting started

this afternoon kerry is meeting with palestine president mahmoud abbas.ahmoud abbas is expecting one thing to kerry, that the israelis are willing to make concessions. what john kerry is doing is talking to both sides saying, "we don't need to solve everything", what we need to do is decide on what we are going to talk about, deciding the par am fers from which we are -- parameters from which we are going to start the talks. kerry says, "we need to make hard decisions, both of you need to make concessions." the israelis ask the palestinians to accept it as a jewish state. it's hard to do. it takes away a right to return. it negates 20% of people living in israel who are arab. for abas, he's told that he has to accept the fact that israel will become a jewish state. in return he says israel has to negotiate based on a 1967 borders. no west bank and no gaza. that is something prime minister benyamin netanyahu has never been willing to accept. something that his allies say they will not support him on. the two sides are far apart and kerry is trying to get t

it's really great to have you on our program today a palestinian foreign minister welcome so mahmoud abbas has said recently that good progress has been made in negotiations with israel and there's a possibility of prolonging the talks so what have the palestinian negotiators minutes to get from these right side at this point. well first of all the person who is in charge how to sponsor will to declare if there isn't a progress in the negotiations is secure that it carry nobody else says. we cannot talk about throw to us or lack of progress. are we going to perspire to prolong and no one is talking about prolonging the. already allocated time for the negotiations which is really nine months we have rated it it. clearly that we are sticking to the. original dates which should end by the twenty ninth of. april this month this year and so i mean talk about prolonging the negotiations or little oaks is. premature. and lacks of course knowledge of the status of the negotiations if we reach a stage worth it what is needed is an extra day to arrive at an agreement that needs to be signed maybe we

president abbas is committed to negotiation.failure will only embolden extremists and empower hard- liners, at the expense of the moderates who have been committed to a nonviolent tracked to try to find peace. what would happen in the west bank without that commitment to nonviolence? the israeli and palestinian members breaking the initiative who are here today know what is at stake. israel's economic juggernaut is a wonder. prime minister netanyahu was able to talk to you about it today. but a deteriorating security environment and the growing isolation that could come with it, could put that prosperity at risk. meanwhile, if this fails, palestinians will be no closer to the sovereignty they seek, no closer to their ability to be masters of their own fate, no closer to the ability to grow their own economy, no closer to solving the problem that has been allowed to fester for decades. if they fail to achieve statehood now, there is no guarantee another opportunity will follow any time soon. this issue cannot be resolved at the u

towards it is pretty frightening is that they intended to kill him and palestinian president mahmoud abbas kerry said that signs were working with great intensity and serious purpose in all its result the conflict that in fact he has it means trustees may increase as difficult and complicated. kerry is trying to nudge israeli and palestinian leaders plates that these crimes that would establish a city states can set a framework to guide books for a final settlement in speech kerry said he will return to the man later this month the fed meeting . i do the boulevard we wanted to find out from some of the pedestrians. they will remember the legacy of ariel sharon. as bad he is fighting throughout and his conquests in his army as well as the next and then to the land's use of concrete. i will remember in two ways of him from his early career but also is the man who does real out of places that didn't want to live anymore. it was responsible for getting out of the un against his own voters. it was fun. i am and are you missing three key than as a strong and high tea dance from the happy news an

concession in ongoing peace talks with the israelis in an interview with the palestinian news agency abbas said israeli troops could stay on palestinian territory for a transitional period of up to two years abbas also said that nato or other international organizations could take over security along the israeli palestinian border in the jordan valley. israel has controlled that order since nineteen sixty seven meanwhile israel's two supreme court is hearing arguments over plans to build a separation barrier in the palestinian west bank that would cut off an ancient village from its water supply the high court is considering the face of the unit off the tee and we testing center for the costs four thousand years people there say that the paint on a romanian recommendation system towards the midfield they say the separation fence would destroy that system possibly two nights on these rainy carry trade. now israel's military insists that the security barrier which has been under construction since the palestinian uprising in two thousand to is essential for israel's security the new religion

towards it is pretty frightening is that they intended to kill him and palestinian president mahmoud abbas kerry said that signs were working with great intensity and serious purpose in all its result the conflict that in fact he's in his trusty taken place as difficult and complicated. kerry is trying to nudge israeli and palestinian leaders placed two of these crimes that would establish a city states can set a framework to guide books for a final settlement in the decades long speech kerry said you were ten to be done later this month the fed meeting . i know the boulevard we wanted to find out from some of the pedestrians. they will remember the legacy of our real sharon. as bad he is fighting throughout and his conquests in his army as well as the next and then to the land's use of concrete. i will remember him to a slump from his early career but also is the man who does real out of places that it didn't want to live anymore. it was responsible for getting out of gaza. he went against his own voters. it was fun. i am and are using three d than as a strong and high tea dance from the

after meeting with palestinian president, abbas.s trying to broker a deal to create a palestinian state alongside israel. the secretary said he is plowing through today'ser use and history. this is hard work. there are narrative issues. difficult, complicated, years of mistrust that have been built up. all of which has to be, worked through and undone. >> kerry says both abbas and israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu are working with intensity and purpose to solve the problem. >> another entertainer, thinking of moving into politics. steven segal is kconsidering running for governor of arizona. segal starts as a lawman in his own reality series based in maricopa county. new york joining the mar to legalize medical marijuana. according to "the new york times," governor cuomo will unveil an initiative next week during his state of the state speech. it will allow limited number of hospitals to dispense marijuana for certain ailments. quo mope the 21st state to allow medical use of marijuana. >> an amateur photographer in england

. >> but after president boost -- abbas celebrated the return of palestinian prisoners, committed to peace? >> a few days alert in ramallah, president abbas, to glory the murders of innocent women and men as zeros is an outrage. >> joining me from washington, d.c, ambassador thomas pickering pickering, a veteran diplomat. and hussein ibish. ambassador let me begin with you. the u.s. is hoping for a peace agreement by the end of april and here is what secretary kerry had to say about that on thursday. >> the time is soon arriving where leaders are going to have to make difficult decisions. we are close to that time, if not at it. and i think we understand the circumstances within which we are working. >> ambassador, leaders on all sides of these questions have void making these -- voided have void making these decisions. to operate in a way that does not blow out of the water what it is that secretary kerry has been trying to achieve. he just announced that he wants a framework agreement which to mean makes good sense. it follows the pattern that was followed in many camp david, you g

were praised by the palestinians upon their release with the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas as calling them heroes the comments prompted netanyahu to respond to that of murderers are not heroes and that while israel was making painful sacrifices in the quest for peace. top palestinian leaders were still praising the murderous anti israeli actions of criminals speaking of two sweetly sung by blessing and the fact that puts francaise announced he would traveldd w k comes time to nicole took place in nineteen sixty knowing. this may be assessed this is as head of the conflict to score an rei but goatee i was previously visited israel in nineteen seventeen on the web but his first visit was upbeat on as he arrived at the very start of the yom kippur war. he has a long and strong toys which and judaism was going to close friendships with people he grew up with that in this night to argentina. a senior palestinian diplomat has to know what the clients of the weapons discovered in the palace on embassy complex in pollock will really cool till ringer idea when to be in debt to pales

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. >> john kerry after spending saturday meeting with president mahmoud abbas heads to jordan tomorrow. after jordan, john kerry moves to saudi arabia. it's its 10th trip to the region. >> peace talks between south sudan may be tomorrow. both sides failed to agree on an agenda. hundreds have been killed in ethnic fighting since december. 200,000 people are believed to have been displaced. those are the headlines this saturday tonight. "america tonight" is up next. remember, you can get us online. just head to aljazeera.com. hope you have a good night and a great weekend. good evening, everyone. thanks for joining us. joie chen is on assignment. i'm adam may and you are watch "america tonight weekend edition", more than 3 million americans suffer from hep c. we meet a family nearly destroyed by the virus and we are shown a drug targetting the poison in their bodies. >> when clyde opens the door to his beloved backyard toolshed, his eyes twinkle with delight. >> i love to work on wood. i have worked on wood since the 7th grade. it's the last bastion of my mann hood that is left. >> this

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those poets for talks with palestinian president abbas west bank city of . but he says that he is of mistrust is complicating the prices for diesel said the team is ready promise has been no interest in steven segal is not to vote on kerry had to step up for it. we are working where. reagan had read. with her in forever with a commitment to trying to recall the conflict that has gone on for many years to drawing. i am weird. i think now with the possibility of trying to find a framework agreement. with good really layout. the endgame. lay out the framework of the major issues to guide negotiations with the boy for work. the us to see joan kennedy speaking to in other news an attempted assassination on the judicial to the news of the woods of the turkish prime minister recep top one is that the meeting on tuesday once again the corruption prayer which is already trying to amend his government. one of repeats it has a theory that groups in turkey and the oldest man to be a us based scottish parents are old tossing to oust him from power. he went on to say that

he'll travel to roou manneda to meet mahmoud abbas. al jazeera is demanding the release of three staff members held in custody. the company is condemning the rest of the journalist. the award-winning correspondent peter crest on the right, face further -- peter greste, on the right. face further questioning. they were aarrested with baher mohamed. egypt's prosecutor says they were arrested for joining a terrorist group and spreading lies. al jazeera says the allegations are fabricated. >> a u.n. official said rebel forces fighting to over throw the president is marching on juba. all nonessential staff are being evacuated on the city. this comes as peace negotiations begins. more on those developments as soon as we get it. the prime minister says he'll step down offer general elections in may. manmohan singh says he'll resign whether his party remains. si manmohan singh, who is 81, made the announcement at a rare conference. >> friends, i have emore or less confidence in our ability to deal with challenges at home. in a few months time,

talks with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and also he will meet with palestinian president mahmoud abbas live for us. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry is coming along here to push along the talks. five months and they began at the end of july last year. due to run to the end of april this year. he is bringing what senior state department officials describe as a framework agreement with him that is designed to bridge the gaps that exist over the past 20 -- more than 20 sort of peace talk meetings held here, of which kerry is president at eight of them. this is his ninth visit here. this is an effort to bridge the gaps and understanding. a framework agreement that will lay out the road work, the map, if you will, to get to a permanent status solution. it is described as senior state department official as taking both leaders to the top of the hill, if you l so they can look down and see what the permanent state of solution will look like. we are told no specific details but we are told this is designed to be completed by the end of april, that it will address all of the core issu

the high council of judges and prosecutors handed out by justice minister bikie abbas tag says the chief prosecution and seven of his deputies in istanbul are among the case has been reassigned these changes come in day out of the government tightened its grip on the panel that appoints all judges and prosecute as agile as they see one of the biggest crises of his team ethic he is and how lah. a huge corruption investigation became in mid december with a string of high profile the rest including the sons of two cabinet ministers. meadow was called to prayer but foreign stars and is staying on democracy. egypt more than ninety percent of referendum petition said yes to the new constitution for the country according to state media it's been put forward by the mitre backed government that stand in palisades to oust of the zionist president by having more see him tonight. the vote came amid violence and employee caught by some supporters of policy and the muslim brotherhood movement on that state least one test was killed and dozens more intense in taxis at cairo university. security forces

by the way, why not add one more in abbas? there has been a recent spate of terrorist activity against israel, and rather than act like a true leader should who seeks peace and a partner in a negotiated peace settlement, abbas was deafeningly silent when it came to denounce these acts of terror. but the powers at unesco don't seem to mind this at all. not us, mr. speaker, we are better than that. we are not about to trade in our credibility and our principles as a country for this platitude and for this circumvention. we know that if we concede to unesco, if we restore any funding, we would be making a grave mistake and also wasting hundreds of millions of dollars of our constituent dollars on this anti-u.s. agenda. i will continue to fight this push to restore funding to unesco in any way, and i will continue to rally my colleagues to join me in this fight. thank you very much for the time, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. m

and that is why away the light that and on that to have on the probe into the midst of vaseline over abbas geek who stood representatives of moscow high paid coronation commission on economic and cultural cooperation to talk to as above the state of bilateral relations between russia and taiwan will come to the program is that bilbo was key. hello everybody montreal that can all go to war. thank you for waking me up conversation with a few folk of me on the probe and the pleasure is ours and theirs to start off the program was to build lost the windmill. the russian has always being of the reported regional international player billion year yourself you know economics political and also military. k you can tell it's a little bit about the state of your country since many of the scene taiwan. nope not much of all you are beautiful country packed with pleasure. yes but it's difficult to speak in one word about pressure because it's as if you wish to carry it teaches the long history and rich culture news and much tomato resources of you may know you. and that with a vague developed country o

secretary of state john kerry ended the day with palestinian president mahmoud abbas in ramallah after spending the morning with israeli officials in jerusalem. he is attempting to get the two parties to agree to a framework or piece deal negotiations. visit to theh region since march last year. >> i know that there are many who are ethical of whether or not the two parties can achieve peace, but i will tell you that i have personally learned power of about the reconciliation. >> israeli media reports some details of the framework may be released as early as saturday morning. that has not stopped both camps from accusing each other of sabotaging peace talks. >> i know i am committed to peace, but unfortunately, given the actions and words of palestinian leaders, there is growing doubt in israel that the palestinians are committed to peace. thesraeli settlements in west bank remain a major obstacle for the palestinians. other key issues likely to be on the table -- security, refugees, and the police -- the release of political prisoners. around 300 protesters marched through ramallah on

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. >>> secretary of state john kerry arrived in ramala to talk with palestinian president mahmood abbas. >>> will the new

he made the comments after meeting mahmoud abbas for the second time in two days. he is due to hold more talks with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he is trying to reach agreement on a framework that would outline a final peace deal. he says he will continue on to saudi arabia tomorrow. at least 60 polling booths have been set on fire in the latest violence ahead of the election in bangladesh. or than 100 people have been killed in the run-up to the people- more than 100 have been killed in the run-up to the polls, which the main opposition party is boycotting. >> the mood is tense in the bangladeshi capital, dhaka. the opposition says the election is a farce and has launched a strike in protest. scores of polling stations were set alight overnight. security is tight as preparations for sunday's elections continue. here to collect ballot boxes, ballot papers, and other accessories for the national election with the help of government officials and law enforcement. >> the protests began after the government refused to appoint a caretaker at ministration t

. >> today secretary kerry meets with palestinian president, mahmoud abbas. >>> former defense secretary robert gates actually suffered a fractured vertebrae after falling in his home new year's day. he'll be sporting a neck brace on his upcoming book tour. >>> it seems like the stock market has a new year's hangover, if you will. after hitting record after record in 2013, u.s. stocks slumped on the first day of 2014 trading on thursday. the dow jones industrials lost 135 points to close at 16441. >>> general mills says it's begun manufacturing its original flavored cheerios without genetically modified ingredients. the change does not apply to any other cheerios flavors. >>> and marijuana sales in colorado, they were so brisk during the first days of legalized recreational smoking, that the famous ice cream team of ben and jerry's tweeted out this image with the message, breaking news, we're hearing of stores selling out of ben and jerry's in colorado. what's up with that? i think you know what's up with that. got the munchies, huh? >>> the "daily beast" has compiled a list of the happi

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100 palestinians took to the streets of ramallah before the meeting with palestine president mahmoud abbas. the secretary is on his 10th visit, hoping to craft a peace treaty. while secretary of state john kerry was in the region israel carried out a missile test over the mediterranean. it was designed to intercept blastic threat from hezbollah -- ballistic threat from hezbollah, lebanon and syria. >> israel sees a threat above all others - missiles. short-term by militants in gala, hezbollah in lebanon, and long-range by local go. . it's those that israel hopes to target with a new missile defense system it tested. it's called the aero-3, designed to target missiles that have nuclear, biological and chemical agents. >> it flies hard, fast and tries to intercept the missiles. the idea is you use ates, chemical, biological and nuclear that can't get to earth and harm any intended targets. it is partially funded and benyamin netanyahu thanked u.s. senators who have been helpful in funding the aero-3. >> we need a lot of protection in this area because there are bad regimes led by iran and te

abbas welcomed them and made a promise. >> we will not sign a final peace deal with israel until allthe prisoners are released. >> the peace talks, revived this summer by u.s. secretary of have sincekerry, stalled. john kerry is due in jerusalem for more talks later in the week, to press both sides to agree on a framework peace deal, but a major sticking point remains. to build more homes for settlers in the west bank and in east jerusalem. >> on the first day of 2014, latvia became the 18th country to join the euro zone. their prime minister was the first to withdraw a fresh 10 euro note from a latvian atm. >> 2014 is a really historical latvia, becoming the 18th member of the eurozone. it is a path that started maybe 10 years ago, when latvia joined the eu. tothere were video messages congratulate latvia, but many are wary of the new currency and are uncertain about the security measures imposed in response to the debt crisis of 2008. financial experts, however, remain optimistic, forecasting growth of over four percent this year. alreadyado was celebrating at the start of the new

. >>> secretary of state john kerry is meetin meeting with palestinian president mahmood abbas. he's there to broker a peace deal. but hundreds of protesters sa sy he is biased to israeli demands. we have "inside story" next on al jazeera. [♪ music ] >> the u.s. left iraq in 2011 eight years after the invasion. the deep divisions inside the society are flaring into horrifying violence. iraq today and the rough road ahead are the inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. iraq's president saddam hussein used a mix of police surveillance, terror and murder. when iraqis removed his head from his shoulders, the shia took power that it had long been denied. the united states left the country in 2011. the new government has struggled in the year since to run all of iraq in the interests of and to the satisfaction of all iraqis. recent weeks has brought resurgence in conflict. >> reporter: american forces are gone. and in their absence iraqi you's violence escalating by the day. suicide-bomb eggs killed 14 iraqis and wounded another 34. united nations said 7,800 civilians were killed in 2

prime minister benyamin netanyahu and is scheduled to hold talks with the palestine president mahmoud abbas on friday. >> security concerns remained a key issue. training exercises carried out by the israeli army posed a threat. as simon mcgregor-wood reports, the mock raids have residents living in fear. >> in this village in the occupied west bank all is quiet. on 5 november hundreds of israeli soldiers walked into town. photos taken by locals document their arrival. near the mosque young palestinians threw stones and soldiers fired tear gas. 15 soldiers entered this home. his 3-year-old daughter was terrified. the soldiers took up position on the roof. as night fell, they left without saying a word. >> the whole thing turned out to be a training exercise. >> translation: they didn't only disturb my routine, there's a sense that they command our lives. whenever they want, they can break into my home in whichever way they like. >> what happened here is happening all over the west bank. palestinians villages and town used for training. this was an evacuation exercise in august. also in hebr

secretary of state john kerry traveled to the west bank and meted with palestinian president mahmood abbaspart of efforts to broker a palestinian-israeli peace deal. >>> as many in south sudan try to find a safe haven from the fighting, americans are told to leave the country. more than a thousand people have died in three weeks of fighting. "real money" is next with david shuster, who is in for ali velshi. this is al jazeera america. >> a new report shows sales reach a six-year high. we'll take a look at the road for consumers. and raising the price of natural gas. what will that mean for millions of americans who use gas to heat their homes. and an historic gamble on football. the impact could be huge. i'm david shuster in for ali velshi, and this is "real money." >> this is "real money," and you are the most important part of the show. join us atwittering, and also facebook. facebook. >>> we've seen sales near in the slow lane. cold weather may have kept crowds from the auto lots, nevertheless they have the strongest sales in years. gm sales jumped as well as ford and chrysler. over all

secretary of state john kerry in the west bank meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas.e arrived in israeli thursday to create a middle east peace deal he says is not mission impossible. he had dinner with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. who says there is growing doubt in israel the palestinians want peace. hard words for kerry's tenth trip to the region. >> the time is soon arriving where leaders are going to have to make difficult decisions. we are close to that time, if not at it, and i think we understand the circumstances within which we are working. >> kerry vowing to work to narrow the differences on a framework that addresses core issues including borders between israel and a future palestinian state. >>> a california man has been arrested for the murder of a beloved catholic priest. police say this man gary lee bullock killed father eric freed during a violent struggle inside a church rectory. freed's body was discovered wednesday morning by parishio r parishioners in eureka. they say he died from blood forced trauma and no word on a possible motive y